American comics: Something is wrong with this superhero world

Chapter 125 Are You Being a Little Outrageous?
When Pennywise heard what Xiao Xian said, he was full of questions. I'm threatening you, and you told me you'd show me the movie? Can you still have some basic respect? I'm scaring you, okay?

After being interrupted by Xiao Xian, not only was Xiao Xian scared, but even Pennywise, who was scary, almost lost his form. The scary atmosphere was gone.

If it weren't for the fact that Xiao Xian's fear tasted particularly delicious and intoxicated Pennywise, such a taste of fear was extremely rare even in Pennywise's long life as a god, and on Earth it was even more so like scorpion poop - the only one of its kind. Pennywise would have wanted to kill Xiao Xian directly.

"Oh, isn't this the Stone Man? Is he dead?" Xiao Xian flew to the giant tower and asked cynically while using the SHIELD equipment that Natasha got for him to scan the terrain, looking for the cave passage leading to Pennywise's lair.

"Not yet, but if no one saves him, death is only a matter of time. Even if he doesn't starve to death, he will suffer a mental breakdown from the torture of endless fantasies." Pennywise smiled sinisterly.

"What kind of illusion did you create for him?" Xiao Xian flew up, looked at the stone man curiously, and slapped them both. Facts proved that with the ability to fly, although Xiao Xian's strengthened hands could penetrate steel, they still could not break the stone man's defense.

This guy is indeed quite capable, but unfortunately, no matter how strong his physical defense is, he has no magic resistance at all, and was killed by Pennywise's control skill.

"In his dream, he was disgraced and kicked out of the Fantastic Four. All the bad things he had done in the past were exposed. He was locked up in a small, dark cell until his death. In my fantasy, he had been locked up for forty years."

Pennywise slowed down his tone and spoke in a ghost story tone. Pennywise could see the most fearful things in the other person's heart, and his illusion was constructed from this. The thing that the Stone Man was most worried about was being kicked out of the Fantastic Four, and that the bad things he had done in the past would be exposed and put in prison.

The illusion of the stone man is considered to be above average among Pennywise's works. The key is that he and Xiao Xian are both superheroes, and the fear of the two is
Pennywise looked at Xiao Xian expectantly, hoping that Xiao Xian would be frightened by the stone man's experience. However, Xiao Xian just curled his lips in disdain, with an expression that said "that's it".

If it were an ordinary person, he would still comfort himself that Xiao Xian was just pretending to be calm, but Pennywise did not sense any increase in fear from Xiao Xian. He knew that Xiao Xian was really not afraid at all.

This was a bit disrespectful to the fruits of his labor. Pennywise looked at Xiao Xian with great dissatisfaction. He didn't dare to say anything else, but he was still very confident in making others feel terrified.

"You seem disdainful?" Pennywise said sinisterly, "The Thing has almost gone crazy in this illusion. He even tried to commit suicide many times, but he couldn't do it because of his super strong defense."

"Not bad." Xiao Xian shrugged. Pennywise could see the fear in other people's hearts and could construct the illusions that people feared the most, but that was all. After all, the things that most frightened people in their hearts were just average. After all, the things that people feared were limited by many factors such as their imagination, knowledge, and moral integrity, and might not be that scary.

Just like Superman, what he fears most now is being attacked online by fans, but if Xiao Xian is asked to design the illusion, he can design a lot of illusions that are more terrifying than online attacks, leaving Superman with a lifelong psychological shadow, such as making him lose his superpowers in the illusion, and then being ravaged by seven Doomsdays for several months, which will ensure that Superman will feel a pain in his butt even if he sees Doomsday after leaving the illusion. Similarly, what the Stone Man fears now is being kicked out of the Fantastic Four, his bad deeds being exposed, and being put in prison, but if Xiao Xian is asked to design it, Xiao Xian will directly turn him into the women tortured by him and Daredevil, and resurrect him when he is about to die and continue, and also give him multiple playable characters such as the Hulk, the Abomination, and Killer Croc, who will appear in turn or together, and then add some giant buffs to them.

By then, the Stoneman might think that being locked in the cell in Pennywise's fantasy world is heaven.

"found it."

At this time, according to the exploration of the SHIELD instrument, Xiao Xian flew into a small cave. The spider-like Pennywise looked at Xiao Xian who flew to his nest, stood up and looked at Xiao Xian who took the initiative to fly to his nest and said
"You are the first human to come here on your own initiative since the birth of human civilization. You are so brave that you don't seem like a human. To be honest, I am really curious about why you are afraid of me. You always have a hint of fear when facing me. Unfortunately, I can't read your heart."

"I'm not wearing my anti-telepathy helmet now. Haven't you tried reading it?" Xiao Xian took the initiative to ask. The best way to overcome fear is to face it head-on.

Beverly's words made Xiao Xian understand that not being afraid of Pennywise was not the key to defeating Pennywise. The key was to overcome his fear of Pennywise. And the greater the fear that was overcome, the more obvious the effect of weakening Pennywise would be.

So in order to overcome his fear and to make Pennywise understand what he is afraid of so that he can take targeted actions against himself and amplify the fear in his heart, Xiao Xian decided to remind Pennywise to read his mind. If Pennywise still can't read it, Xiao Xian also plans to tell Pennywise directly.

"You are very courageous, young man, but you will regret it. You have no idea how terrifying Pennywise is!" Pennywise looked at Xiao Xian and once again felt that his professional qualities were despised by Xiao Xian. He was a professional scarer!
But if Xiao Xian hadn't told her, Pennywise really wouldn't have known that the reason she couldn't read Xiao Xian's mind before was because Xiao Xian was wearing a telepathic helmet.

Originally, Pennywise could read other people's fear directly, but Xiao Xian's fear was too faint, so faint that unless Pennywise took the initiative to read it, to taste and listen carefully to the voice of this fear, he could not read Xiao Xian's heart.

The reason why he didn't take the initiative to do so before was that Pennywise thought that Xiao Xian was special and couldn't read minds. But now that Xiao Xian has pointed it out himself, Pennywise naturally won't be polite. As long as he knows what Xiao Xian fears, he can take targeted actions, change his appearance, change the illusion, and infinitely magnify the fear in Xiao Xian's heart!
"Your audacity will be your downfall."

Pennywise smugly mocked Xiao Xian, but after reading the fear in Xiao Xian's heart and listening to the things Xiao Xian was afraid of, Pennywise was stunned. It must be said that Xiao Xian refreshed Pennywise's understanding of human beings.
"Isn't your fear a bit too much?" After a moment's silence, Pennywise put away his spider appearance, changed into a clown appearance and looked at Xiao Xiandao.

(End of this chapter)