Just as he had said, the insects diving from the sky never even got a chance to fire. Strangle pulled more than a dozen heavy Boltguns from his host's waist pack and sprayed the sky with bullets.
A few seconds later, every enemy within several kilometers, as far as the eye could see, had been wiped out.
Jessica dug at her ears. Not only were those guns enormous, their reports were terrifyingly loud. She felt like she was about to go deaf.
The sight of insects being blasted into clumps of goo midair, along with the shadowy creature on Deathstroke's body that seemed to have come alive, left her utterly dumbfounded.
After quite a while, she finally remembered the question she had heard earlier. Embarrassed, she turned to look at the ruins by the street. "I was terrified then. I only knew I had to run."
"Do you know you've gained superpowers?" Su Ming had Strangle put away the weapons and asked again.
The girl took a deep breath and let it out, her blue-and-white hospital gown rising and falling over her chest. "I'm very strong, and I can float for a while. I discovered it when I woke up from my coma, but I'd rather not have any of this. I want my family to be alive."
At the mention of her family, she lowered her head and cried silently.
The change in her hair color had made her think she had become a Mutant. Combined with the heavily biased news coverage, it had left her with severe feelings of inferiority. She did not even dare make a sound while crying.
To her, superpowers were more like a curse than a blessing.
Knowing what weighed on her heart, Su Ming naturally knew what to say. "I know what you're