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After charging was complete, a red light appeared on Depp's armor wrist, and he said, "Wayne, lie down!"

Upon hearing this, Wellen immediately grabbed a monster and lunged forward. Then he saw a thin red laser beam erupt from the boss's wrist, accompanied by a piercing laser hiss.

Then Depp twisted his waist and spun around in a very flamboyant way.

The red laser, like a crimson whirlwind of death, cleaved all the monsters within a 20-meter radius in half.

This trick was something Depp learned from Tony.

Seeing his boss take down nearly twenty monsters in an instant, Wellen felt a wave of shame!

"It took me so long to take down just two monsters! I'm so weak!" Wellen stood up and looked at the two monsters he had torn to pieces, saying, "I still need to increase the intensity of my training!"

Depp raised his hand and smashed the head of a monster that was approaching him with his palm cannon, then said to Wellen, "Wellen, don't let your killing intent blind you. Do you remember what I taught you before?"

During the battle just now, Depp discovered that although Wellen was incredibly strong, he was extremely bloodthirsty and enraged in this state, and was only fighting based on some incomplete instinct.

Therefore, there were many ineffective moves during the attack, which is why a warning was issued.

Upon hearing this, Wellen immediately realized the problem. Although his eyes were still bloodshot, he no longer fought solely based on his not-yet-fully-awakened instincts, as before.

Meanwhile, Bruce and Selena arrived late at the toy factory.

Upon seeing the monsters surrounding the factory, Bruce immediately activated the armor's enhancement function.

He is now a triple threat in strength, speed, and defense!

He then used his leg strength to leap heavily onto Depp and the others.

"What are these things?" Bruce asked, punching the monster away.

Seeing Depp and Iron Fist both present, Bruce temporarily abandoned the idea that they were the same person.

“Remember Hugo Strange?” Depp said in a voice as strong as a fist.

He then switched the voice changer to his own voice and said, "Hugo...that psychology professor from Gotham University?! I saw him at Selena's charity gala!"

After Depp's self-questioning and answering, Bruce also recalled the night Maroney was arrested, when the monster that appeared was exactly the same as the one in front of him.

So these monsters were created by Hugo?

Is this the reason Gotham University dismissed him?

The clever Bruce immediately connected all the clues.

But this time...why are there so many?

Seeing that Iron Fist, Depp, and Wellen were all fighting seriously, Bruce didn't ask any more questions and began to seriously deal with these troublesome monsters as well.

Selena sprinted along the wall of the toy factory. Her Catwoman suit, which had the same enhancement system as Bruce's, was already activated.

To be honest, she thoroughly enjoyed the feeling of her power and speed increasing to an incredible level.

Selena thought it would be perfect if these monsters didn't look so disgusting.

Once they were in combat mode, the group refrained from speaking much except when they needed to coordinate with each other.

Meanwhile, at Bruce's suggestion, Iron Fist, Catwoman, Bruce, and Wellen surrounded Depp's illusion back to back.

Bruce said, "Depp is just an ordinary person who knows some magic. We have to protect him so he doesn't get killed by these guys without his armor!"

Upon hearing this, Depp and the other two immediately did as instructed, even though they were struggling to suppress their laughter.

Only Bruce didn't know that the "Depp" he was so carefully protecting was just an illusion.

Moreover, these monsters act on instinct, so illusions and invisibility have no effect on them.

In other words, they will not attack Depp even once from beginning to end.

The monsters kept entering the factory, seemingly endless; a rough estimate puts it at nearly a thousand monsters entering the factory one after another.

Outside the factory, there were clearly many more.

"Why are there more and more of these guys the more we fight them!" Bruce gasped. "Damn it, my reactor is running out of power!"

Depp and Selena Gomez also received a notification that the reactor was running out of power.

They both said at the same time, "Mine too!"

Upon hearing this, Wellen scratched his head and said, "Mine too... reactor? What reactor?"

However, although the reactor's energy was running low, Depp's mental strength remained abundant.

Depp, controlling the illusion, said, "Don't worry, friends, I'm here to recharge you!"

Then, he controlled the illusion to have its eyes roll back, and immediately dark clouds filled the sky and lightning flashed.

A gentle breeze stirred beneath him, and the illusion of Depp slowly rose into the air, then raised his arms high into the sky, his palms facing down towards the crowd.

Three bolts of lightning descended, passing through the illusion of Depp's hand and striking the reactors of the group.

The energy level of the Ark Reactor rose rapidly, but the individuals had differing thoughts.

Bruce: "The energy is completely full!"

Selena: "Ugh, that place is going to be filled up by Depp again."

Depp stared at the illusion of arms raised high in mid-air: "Holy crap, it's clipping through!"

Chapter 68 Depp's Toy Factory (Part 5)

After that, whenever any of the group's reactors ran out of power, Depp would raise his hand and fire a lightning bolt to recharge it.

However, Depp was particularly careful when using Lightning Strike in conjunction with the illusion, and after that, the clipping issue never occurred again.

Lightning strikes accompanied by bombardment from miniature missiles, and amidst a deafening series of explosions, the number of monsters invading the toy factory began to dwindle.

Finally, after Depp crushed the head of the last monster, the toy factory returned to peace.

The three people besides Wellen were holding their knees, panting heavily.

Although the armor granted them superhuman strength and defense, their physical abilities remained within the realm of humans.

Depp, manipulating the illusion, said with genuine emotion, "Thank you so much, Bruce, you, Iron Fist, and Catwoman saved my life!"

Bruce smiled and said, "It's nothing, we're friends after all!"

Batman's friend...?

Depp seemed to see Bruce's boyish expression beneath his mask.

At that moment, he decided that he would never accept this guy's appearance fee again!

Depp, with a complicated expression, manipulated the illusion and said, "Yes, what can we do? We're friends! But now, I think I should go and talk to the factory owner about the acquisition price."

“I hope that boss is still alive,” Bruce said, panting.

Depp said in a booming voice, "Hopefully he'll be lucky. But now I think we should go check out other parts of the East End. You don't think the toy factory was the only place that got attacked by those monsters, do you?"

Upon hearing this, Bruce immediately straightened up, clenched his fist, and said, "That damned Hugo, we must catch him this time!"

“Then let’s get going now,” Depp said.

Selena nodded: "I'll do whatever you say."

After that, the group rushed over the wall, but only Depp's hallucination entered the office building.

In Gotham's East Side, a rumbling sound came from one direction.

Before any monster attacks occurred, the gangsters, still locked in fierce combat, all turned to look in the direction from which the sound came.

"That place... seems to be a toy factory?"

The gang leaders pondered for a moment, then almost simultaneously announced their retreat.

"Damn it, I've never seen a gang fight involve tanks and missiles before. I'm not playing with you bunch of freaks anymore!"

Under normal circumstances, the heaviest weapon that gangs can use in shootouts is a rocket launcher.

But judging from the frequency and sound of the bombing just now, as well as the smoke and dust rising into the sky, rocket launchers are far from capable of this!

So the gang leader immediately chose to retreat.

There are very few people in Gotham City who can use weapons of this caliber, and he even suspected that it might be the Kane family, a group of guys with military backgrounds, who were causing trouble.

Anyway, no matter who it is, they are not people I can afford to offend, so I should just run away.

Many people shared his thoughts, and almost all of them left the East District without hesitation.

Those who correctly assessed the situation were lucky enough to miss the monsters' sweep and were able to leave the East District alive.

Some of the idiots who got carried away and continued to fight were quickly captured by Hugo's monster army.

In a certain alley, the monsters stood neatly on both sides.

The tall and robust Victor Hugo wore a white coat, carried a medical kit slung across his shoulder, and held an open notebook in his hand.

He inserted a miniature locator into the head of each monster, allowing him to pinpoint their location via computer and issue commands remotely.

Two hours earlier, he had discovered that the monster's signal was rapidly weakening in a certain location in the East District, so he ordered all the monsters in the vicinity to go and provide support.

Now, those monsters are all gathered together and not moving, completely ignoring my commands.

He speculated that this was because there were some jamming signals present, disrupting the positioning and the controller's ability to receive its commands.

This made Hugo very angry!

After all, he didn't believe anyone could kill all of such a large number of monsters.

However, whatever the reason why the monster was uncontrollably staying in place, it gave Hugo a headache.

After Maroni's death, Hugo, who didn't know how to run a gang, was left to live off his savings.

Until yesterday, the last balance in his account was spent.

Without money, his genetic research could not continue.

So he summoned all the employees from Maroni's original businesses and transformed them all into monsters.

Then, he launched a full-scale attack on the chaotic East District, intending to consolidate and control the gangster industries there in order to earn his research funding.

To him, every monster was precious, and the loss of so many at once was hard for him to accept.

He arrived at the side of several gang members who had been killed by monsters but were still relatively intact.

He took a syringe containing an unknown liquid from the first-aid kit and injected it into the necks of these guys one by one.