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As he spoke, Benedict realized something was wrong and asked, "By the way, what exactly did you hit? Why is there blood in the air?"

Upon hearing this, Depp took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, took a comfortable drag, and said, "You used to be the heir to Nickelodeon, and you couldn't even guess this?"

"Once? No, I am still the first in line to inherit Nickelodeon!" Benedict pondered for a moment, then slapped the steering wheel and said, "Wasn't there a guy with stealth abilities standing there just now, like the Invisible Man from the original Seven?"

Depp nodded, rolled down the car window to let out the secondhand smoke: "Looks like your brain still has some use, but it took you so long to figure it out, so I don't think your brain is any important organ."

"You have a sharp tongue!" Benedict asked, sounding aggrieved. "But how did you find them? In my knowledge, even the most advanced anti-stealth radar from Nickelodeon and the military can't detect these kinds of superhumans!"

Haha, can you please stop trying to challenge the functionality of my system with your crappy technology and broken superpowers?

Depp thought to himself that with the Mirror of Concealment, no one could hide from him, no matter how invisible they were.

Even Loki's illusions were useless, let alone the Invisible Man from the Boys universe.

"I've said it before, I have eyes that can see through the essence of things."

Okay, I was just kidding. What I actually saw was a pair of glasses that could see through everything!

Depp thought this to himself, but his expression was one of utmost sincerity.

But when Benedict heard that sentence a second time and witnessed Depp's abilities, he couldn't help but imagine it.

"Oh right... you're also a superpowered user who uses Compound V! And besides your heat rays, you also have eyes that can see through everything? My god, I thought you were just a human self-propelled cannon, but I didn't expect you to be a radar too!"

Upon hearing Benedict's assessment of him, Depp surprisingly found it quite apt.

Depp said, "It's not very polite of you to say it, but it seems to be true. Thanks for the compliment, Nick."

"Call me Bennini, or Bennini, not Little Nick!" Bennini said angrily. "That's not fair! Others might have one or two superpowers at most, but you have even more than Homelander. That's not fair!"

Depp chuckled and patted Benedict's head, saying, "There's no such thing as fairness from the moment you're born. Some people are born orphans, while others are born into wealthy families. Don't you agree, Nicole?"

Bennini was initially silent upon hearing this.

After all, Depp is right, for example, he was born as the eldest son and heir of the Nick family.

He grew up in luxury and never had to worry about money. Later, by chance, Nickelodeon discovered a way to clone Homelander and almost unified the world.

And some people... don't even live past half a day after they're born.

This is also why Benedict wanted to break away from the Nick family.

Kind-hearted, he couldn't accept the cruel and sordid things his family had done to people in other countries, so he chose to leave and met his goddess... Starlight.

But Depp's last sentence completely broke this kind-hearted sycophant.

“Little Nicole?” Benedict said, somewhat angrily, “Can’t you show a little respect for others?”

Depp chuckled mischievously, "I respect you a lot, Nicole. You're one of the few people with a conscience I've met in this world. I just think the nickname 'Nicole' is cute. Isn't it, Nicole!"

"you!!!"

Benedict was really eager to fight Depp, but considering Depp's fighting prowess, he rationally restrained this inappropriate impulse.

After all, staying alive is more important than holding a grudge.

The guy in front of him was a man who could blow up Homelander with a single glance!

We can't afford to mess with them! We can't afford to mess with them!

Bennini simply put on his headphones and stopped listening to what Depp was saying.

Seeing this, Depp stopped teasing the guy.

If you were to ask why Depp treated Benedict Cumberbatch this way, firstly, his family had made a mess of the world and his own family, and secondly, Depp had an innate aversion to sycophants; he couldn't stand not to disgust them!

Of course, those who lick their own boots are an exception.

Soon, Benedict's car stopped outside an abandoned factory.

He took out a ten-year-old access card and swiped it across the old, rusty iron gate.

Drop~

After the sound subsided, the iron gate slowly opened. Benedict looked around warily, then started the car and drove inside.

The iron gate slowly closed, and silence returned to the factory, as if no one had ever been there.

"Is the starlight right here?"

"Depp asked."

Bennini shook his head, his eyes filled with sorrow.

“If she can live here, that would be enough happiness for her.” Benedict led Depp into the factory and said, “She can’t appear on the surface. As soon as he does, the Nickelodeon will immediately send people to kill her, so she can only live underground.”

"Underground?" Depp asked, somewhat puzzled. "You mean, Starlight has been living in the dark underground for years?"

“Yes, thousands of meters underground. And this is just the entrance to the underground. Come with me, Mr. Depp,” Bennini said.

The starlight has been living underground all along!

This was something Depp found hard to believe.

After all, starlight represents light, and this girl, who needs light at all times, has been living for several years underground, several meters deep.

Depp couldn't imagine what kind of torment this must have been for a girl like Starlight.

Soon, Depp followed Benedict's footsteps and arrived outside a wall in the factory.

Benedict turned the plaster sculpture on the wall, and the wall immediately flipped upside down, revealing a dark room to the two of them.

Upon entering the dark room, Depp found it to be quite cramped.

Compared to a darkroom, this place is more like a hastily constructed makeshift elevator, the kind with only steel plates underfoot.

Benedict pressed some kind of mechanism, and the wall flipped up again, while the steel plate the two were standing on began to slowly descend.

Their target is several thousand meters underground.

There are countless secret chambers of the Church of Light's sanctuary.

Inside the secret chamber lived tens of thousands of members of the Church of Light and rebels.

Looking at the dust floating in the air in the cramped space, and the earthy smell that occasionally wafted into his nostrils, Depp's brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

"Is this place really habitable?" Depp couldn't help but ask. "What has Starlight been through all these years?"

Faced with Depp's questioning, Benedict seemed somewhat at a loss, but he ultimately said, "There's nothing we can do, this is the best we could manage. As for what happened to Miss Starlight, let her tell you in person."

After an unknown amount of time, with a loud bang, the elevator finally reached the bottom.

Depp discovers that, unlike the one-way passage above, after the elevator reaches the underground, four different passages appear around him.

Benedict, who was lying on the ground, stood up and brushed the dirt off his body.

He pointed straight ahead and said to Depp, "Miss Starlight is at the end of this passage. You should probably walk..."

Before Bennini could finish speaking, Depp had already vanished from the spot.

In the room at the end of the corridor, Starlight lay on the bed, her body thin and her eyes lifeless.

This girl was already at her wit's end.

Chapter 240: I'm fully revived!

"How long has it been since Benedict last visited Starlight?!"

Depp cursed and hurriedly went to Starlight's bedside, holding the dying girl in his arms.

"Can you hear my voice, Starlight?"

Depp said softly.

Upon hearing Depp's words, Starlight opened her eyes listlessly. Her eyelids felt as heavy as a thousand pounds, and simply opening her eyes took all her strength.

“Brother Depp…”

Starlight spoke weakly, her voice barely audible.

Upon seeing this, Depp felt a pang of heartache for the girl.

The once spirited and radiant star, like a goddess of light, is now skin and bones, and has completely lost its former vitality.

Not only his physical body, but also his mental strength was nearly depleted.

Seeing Depp again five years later, Starlight was filled with emotion.

Besides joy, Xingguang's deepest feeling was shame.

If it weren't for her terrible physical condition, she would have liked to escape from Depp's side immediately.

Because Starlight doesn't want Depp to see himself like this.

But at this moment, as she lay dying, all she could do was lie in Depp's arms.

Starlight was overwhelmed with mixed feelings. The thought of facing death and being unable to avenge his dead friends made him cry.

Seeing Starlight in this state, Depp couldn't bear it.

"Don't worry, you'll be fine."

After Depp finished speaking, he took out a bottle of concentrated life essence from the system space, intending to feed it to Starlight.

Starlight tried to open her mouth several times but failed. Depp simply reached out and, under Starlight's shocked gaze, pried open the girl's mouth and poured the concentrated life essence into it.

"You unlucky girl, revive me at full health!"

The milky white liquid went down the tongue into the throat, and then down the throat into the stomach.

A tremendous amount of life energy and spiritual energy erupted within Starlight's body.

"Well..."

With a soft moan, Starlight felt the burst of energy within her body and the rapid nourishment of her flesh and spirit. She quickly recalled the scene from years ago.

Five years ago, I was close to exploding because I overused the power of the Arc Reactor.

At the time, Mr. Depp used this magical white liquid on himself to save himself from danger.

And at that time, I was lying on the ground, seemingly without even a piece of clothing...

As the concentrated essence of life took effect, the ravaged look on Starlight's face gradually faded, turning into a rosy, healthy complexion.

Soon, a light flashed in Starlight's eyes, and his whole body emitted a soft, pale golden light.