The instant the trait loaded!
"Yaaah!!!" Lu Wen roared!
He tanked the Heat Vision and delivered a heavy headbutt to Homelander!
He put tremendous force into it! The impact left Homelander dazed for a moment!
Seizing that moment, Lu Wen quickly put some distance between himself and Homelander.
The red glow on his face had yet to fade, but his usually placid gaze had now been replaced by an intense fighting spirit!
"Enjoy these sixty seconds."
After saying that softly to Homelander, Lu Wen threw a punch from an extremely tricky angle!
Perhaps Vought had trained Homelander in combat techniques over the years, but he probably rarely used them. Compared with the Winter Soldier's fighting skills, honed in blood and fire, his were certainly inferior.
If his stats fell short, technique would make up the difference!
Every move Lu Wen made targeted a vital spot, and he unleashed all sorts of tricky techniques on Homelander! In these sixty seconds, he was going to beat the hell out of this Home... uh, fellow countryman!
In that instant, Homelander felt as though the bastard in front of him had become an entirely different person!
His punches were no longer wild swings. Instead, he used highly professional techniques to attack the gaps in Homelander's defenses!
For a time, he was beaten so badly he could not fight back! When he tried to unleash his Heat Vision, his opponent jabbed his eyeballs with several tons of finger strength!
Fuck! This was the first time anyone had beaten him so frustratingly!
In his extreme fury, Homelander's strength actually surged a little further!
Homelander rose into the air, caught Lu Wen's fists in his hands, and carried him upward. After spinning him around several times in midair, he hurled him down!
Lu Wen slammed into the ground, half his body embedded in it, with a vast web of cracks spreading around him!
Knowing his Heat Vision could not penetrate Lu Wen's defenses, Homelander simply shot straight into the sky! Once he reached a certain altitude, he turned and dived! He was going to try smashing Lu Wen to death with the kinetic energy of a high-speed fall!
Lu Wen slowly turned onto his side and climbed out of the crater, seemingly oblivious to Homelander diving toward him!
Just as Homelander raised both fists and was about to hit the ground, Lu Wen stood up and thrust out his chest!
The Nuclear Chest Cannon in his chest was fully charged. He tilted his head up slightly as orange light lit up his chest, compressed, focused, and then shot straight out.
Homelander's eyes widened a little at that moment. He pulled back his outstretched fists and crossed his arms in front of himself.
The beam struck his arms with a dull boom, gradually canceling out the kinetic energy of his high-speed descent. When he was less than two meters from Lu Wen, that energy vanished entirely! The force of the blast then pushed him rapidly back into the sky!
"Yaaaah!!!"
Lu Wen roared, unleashing his Nuclear Blast at full power! His chest cannon lacked Soldier Boy's special properties, but its attack power was somewhat greater!
This blast was several times stronger than the one he had used against the Chitauri Leviathan! It also lasted several times longer!
At last, the unusually powerful charge was spent, followed by an even greater feeling of weakness.
But he did not stay to rest. There was no telling when Homelander would return, so he had to leave quickly! With his setup still at starter-zone level, he might not die, but he really could not win either! Homelander's stats were clearly far above his!
Just wait. The next time he came, he would definitely kill that bastard!
After pausing for only a few seconds, Lu Wen forced his somewhat weakened body to move and quickly left in the opposite direction! The one-minute temporary trait had already disappeared, and he pushed the speed trait from Black Panther to its limit!
Two minutes after Lu Wen left, Homelander flew back at a pace slower than his usual speed.
His meticulously slicked-back hair was now disheveled, his hands were shaking, and the sleeves of his uniform had been burned clean away! The skin on his arms had also been burned until it glowed faintly red, with... a trace of scorching.
"Where the fuck did that guy come from?!" Homelander cursed! He stamped his foot hard and flew out of the area.
He did not choose to pursue Lu Wen. Once his body had been injured, he had grown somewhat wary. He did not know whether Lu Wen had anything else up his sleeve, so he dared not recklessly give chase!
Besides, there was still something to do in Vermont. He had to hurry back and change clothes. Taking care of business came first!
Yes, he was simply a little busy and had no time for that guy of unknown origins!
If Lu Wen had known what Homelander was thinking, he probably would not have been surprised at all.
Because he had never been a brave man.
That damned orgy in Vermont had been destroyed. Soldier Boy, that old frozen relic, had lost control after all.
Hughie stood outside the ruins in a daze, looking at the scene of horrific casualties, unable to describe what he felt.
"Didn't that old bastard say he wasn't a bad guy?!"
When he saw the Classic Red-and-Blue Color Scheme descend into the villa, Hughie shook the distracting thoughts from his head. He had to go inside and help!
Homelander, descending from the sky, had now shed every trace of his earlier dishevelment! His hair was meticulously combed, and the fabric of his brand-new uniform had an expensive sheen!
Over these two hours, the injuries to his arms had almost healed! No one would know that the skin beneath his sleeves still bore faint traces of burns.
Originally, he had not wanted to come! But it also seemed as though he was hypnotizing himself! If he did not handle things as usual, it would look as though he was scared!
How could he possibly be scared? He was Homelander! He had only been injured because he had let his guard down! That guy was merely a little strong, still nowhere near his level! The next time they met, he only needed to get a little serious, and he could tear him to pieces!
Thinking this, Homelander saw Butcher walking toward him.
The moment he saw the man, he knew who had caused everything here.
Good! Now he had somewhere to vent his anger!
"What the fuck? What the hell?" Struck in the chest by two Golden Lasers from Butcher, Homelander was dumbfounded for a moment.
What was going on???
But Butcher gave him little time to think, raising his fist and swinging it at Homelander's face.
Since both his arms had been injured not long before, even Homelander's powerful healing ability had not fully restored them! This caused his stats to drop a little.
So, under the three men's combined assault, Homelander took quite a few more beatings from his dear old father's fists this time!
When the three pinned him to the ground, Homelander felt the familiar fluctuations coming from Soldier Boy and began to panic!
It's that! No mistake! It's the same kind of energy attack as that guy's! Homelander screamed inwardly, mustering all his strength and struggling desperately!
He could feel it clearly! That guy's attack earlier had injured his arms badly! Now a similar attack was this close to his head! If he stayed put and took the hit, he would definitely die!
No! He could not die here! He could not be killed by a bunch of clowns like this!
The more he thought this, the more frantically Homelander struggled!
It had to be said, Homelander really was powerful! The instant before the chest cannon struck him, he finally broke free of the three men pinning him down and shot straight into the sky, fleeing the scene.
If Soldier Boy's chest cannon had not taken so long to charge, he probably really would have died here this time.
"So you're saying those three couldn't keep Homelander there even with both his hands injured?"
Lu Wen held an ice pack against his face, looking at the exhausted Marvin across from him as he told the story.
"Yes, Homelander ran... wait! What did you say? Both hands injured? How did you know Homelander's hands were injured?"
Marvin suddenly caught on and asked in astonishment.
"Why else do you think I suddenly went out after asking Starlight where Compound V was, then came back with my face all banged up?"
Lu Wen spread his hands. His upper body was bare, and at least a dozen bruises had yet to fade completely.
Marvin's thick lips hung open as his brain worked at high speed.
As for why Lu Wen was so certain Homelander had been injured...
While Homelander had been carrying him through the air, he had secretly been charging up. Since he had been doing it slowly and discreetly, his chest had not glowed!
By the time Homelander flew into the sky to hit him with Comet Strikes Earth, he had charged up a thunderous great chest cannon!
It might not have been enough to burn through Homelander's arms, but thanks to heat conduction, his bones had definitely been heated to rare!
Homelander was not Superman! With a Supe's level of toughness, he could not possibly heal completely that quickly!
What was more, his V1 came from the system, and even the system said his chest cannon was more lethal than Soldier Boy's.
So...
"Those three bitches are fucking useless!"
Having finished processing, Marvin cursed Soldier Boy and the other two.
He had not believed it at first, but after thinking carefully about why they had sought Lu Wen out, he immediately found it reasonable.
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