Heroes Return

"..." Seeing Liu the Double-Blades' appearance, the third person to step forward suddenly produced two huge pistols. This was a blond, blue-eyed man. Without any unnecessary words, he directly pointed the guns at Lin Jie and his group.

"As one of the world's best marksmen, no one can dodge my bullets." With that, he pulled the trigger.

then……

The bullets did hit, but Lin Jie blocked them all with his spiked club. Before the opponent could react, Lin Jie had already knocked him away with the club.

Upon witnessing this, the fourth person darted onto the roof.

"The green hills remain unchanged, the clear waters flow forever!" With that, he ran off into the distance. Then, his buttocks were smashed solidly by an icicle. As he landed, a chill ran through his backside, and then his buttocks were frozen solid to the ground.

"Alright, now we have a lead." Seeing this, Lin Jie finally smiled, but Xiao Zhan suddenly pulled him back. At the same time, Lin Jie's gaze finally fell on the bespectacled man and Xiao Zhan's group. Only then did Lin Jie realize that Dong Xue'er's expression wasn't very good when she froze the person.

"Haven't you noticed yet?" Xiao Zhan whispered to Lin Jie, his gaze sweeping over the surrounding crowd. Some were whispering, some seemed to be on their phones, and some were staring at them coldly. Their expressions weren't those of someone expecting to see a hero defeat terrorists; rather, they seemed to be watching a friend being beaten down.

"Ah! You're saying that! That is indeed very strange!!" Hearing Xiao Zhan's words, Lin Jie finally realized what was going on.

"It's not convenient to talk here, let's find somewhere else." Xiao Zhan said, pulling Lin Jie into a side alley. Almost simultaneously, Dong Xue'er and the others followed. This time, however, the crowd actually followed them. But when they reached the alley entrance, they saw only an ice wall.

The shop owner, sitting on the ground, finally breathed a sigh of relief. The crowd below dispersed, and many of them even began to help the Salvation Army soldiers deal with the situation.

……

"With your intelligence, you should have noticed it too, right?" Xiao Zhan, who was watching this scene from a rooftop not far away, couldn't help but say to Lin Jie, "No wonder this town has a strange feel to it."

"It seems that Bai Yu and the others have not only gone missing, but they may have already encountered some trouble," Dong Xue'er said with a cold expression.

"Is it really that bad?" Lin Jie shook his head in confusion upon hearing the other person's words.

"Damn! Didn't you already figure it out?" Xiao Zhan couldn't help but ask.

"Speaking of which, what exactly did you figure out?" the bespectacled man couldn't help but ask, puzzled. "Why didn't you interrogate those Salvation Army members?"

"Don't interrupt when adults are speaking," Xiao Zhan interrupted the man with glasses.

"Of course I noticed!" Lin Jie retorted, unconvinced. "This place is called Zhao Town! But we haven't encountered a single person with the surname Zhao here!"

"Your focus is completely off!!!" Xiao Zhan was speechless after hearing Lin Jie's words!

"Huh? Isn't that what makes it seem strange?" Lin Jie was somewhat surprised to hear Xiao Zhan's words.

"Of course not! The townspeople here are clearly in cahoots with the Salvation Army!!" Xiao Zhan finally couldn't hold back any longer: "The entire town is the Salvation Army!!"

"Damn it!" Hearing their words, Lin Jie finally realized, "Damn it, no wonder they were rescuing those people! If that's the case, then we have to kill everyone in the town! It'll take a little while, wait for me! It should only take about half an hour."

"Hey, are you planning to kill all the ordinary people too?" Dong Xiaoye said to Lin Jie with dissatisfaction. "It's obvious that the people in this town have been influenced by the Salvation Army, but we can't kill the whole town! They're just ordinary people who have been deceived! The key is to capture their leader."

"...This is really troublesome!! That Zhao Lei." Understanding their words, Lin Jie scratched his head in annoyance: "Is Zhao Lei the only thing you guys look like?"

By now, Lin Jie had decided to let Zhao Lei go. In the blink of an eye, Lin Jie's divine sense began to spread throughout the entire town.

“This is the person.” Dong Xue’er pulled up a photo from her hero handbook.

After watching for a few minutes, everyone unanimously came to the same conclusion.

"Yeah, I have the same persona as the guy with glasses." (Xiao Zhan)

"I have the same persona as the guy with glasses." (Lin Jie)

"It looks a lot like glasses." (Dong Xueer)

"Hey, Glasses, this person has the same character setting as you." (Dong Xiaoye)

"What do you guys think of me?! Apologize to me! Hey! And what did you mean by telling me not to interrupt?! I'm your teammate, you know! Believe me or not, I'll teach you a lesson right now!" The bespectacled guy on the side finally couldn't take it anymore.

Chapter 17

"How about we lock up the guy with glasses first?" Lin Jie couldn't help but say, looking at the guy with glasses.

“Good suggestion.” Xiao Zhan nodded, then took out the rope from his hand.

"Don't you dare actually pull out the rope! Damn it! Do you have a thing for that?" the bespectacled guy said angrily. "Even though we both wear glasses, we're definitely not the same person, are we?"

"But you're both wearing the same glasses!" Dong Xiaoye suddenly looked at the guy with glasses with some suspicion, and an ice pick appeared in her hand.

"Hey! How do you guys recognize people?! Are you all face-blind?! Holy crap!!!" The bespectacled guy roared again: "Do you think so too, Xiao Ye?"

"Found him." Just as they were arguing, Lin Jie's voice rang out again: "I found Zhao Lei."

"Lin Jie!!! So you didn't recognize me just because of your glasses!" Hearing their words, the guy with glasses looked at Lin Jie with emotion and said.

“Of course, his glasses frames are a different color than yours.” Lin Jie nodded.

"Hey! Aren't we still relying on glasses to recognize people? Am I really one of your companions? Damn it! Why do I feel like you've excluded me?!" The guy with glasses said to Lin Jie and the others, clearly annoyed.

"Actually, it's good that you're like this. Sometimes, being a little naive and knowing less is a blessing," Xiao Zhan said to the bespectacled man, patting him on the shoulder with a serious expression.

"What do you mean by 'a little silly'? And are you implying that you've been hiding something from me?"

"Alright, stop arguing. I'm going to go catch that guy named Zhao Lei. Also, Bai Yu might need your help." Lin Jie's gaze turned to a certain direction not far away: "Speaking of which, the situation in spacetime is a bit strange."

“I’ll go with you to catch Zhao Lei,” the bespectacled man suddenly said after hearing Lin Jie’s words.

"Huh? Why?"

"Need you even ask? I'll teach this guy a lesson! And I'll make him understand that he doesn't deserve to wear the same glasses as me!!" The bespectacled guy declared with high spirits, "For the honor of those who wear glasses, I'm going to teach him a lesson this time!"

"Is the 'glasses persona' being questioned?" Hearing his words, Lin Jie nodded unconsciously: "In that case, let's go!"

With that, Lin Jie leaped up and jumped towards a spot on the edge of the town. Almost the instant Lin Jie left, a loud crash erupted from within the town. Upon seeing the crash, Xiao Zhan and the others were stunned. Recalling Lin Jie's earlier words, they didn't hesitate and rushed towards the direction of the explosion.

Following the sound of the explosion, Xiao Zhan and the others ran all the way to the other edge of the town. There, Bai Yu and the heroes were facing off against a group of people who looked like ordinary people.

"What exactly is going on?"

"Is that Xiao Zhan? Be careful. These people look ordinary, but they are actually all members of the Salvation Army. And what's most frightening is that these people are all quite strong." Bai Yu said seriously to Xiao Zhan and the others who suddenly rushed over.

Almost as soon as he finished speaking, a dense network of ropes appeared around all the Saviors. One hero, controlling the threads, immediately took action. The threads rapidly coiled around the Saviors present.

However, with a flash of cold light, these threads were torn to shreds in the blink of an eye by several sharp swords! On the other side, from the Hero Association's side, a hero whose entire body gleamed with metallic light leaped directly into the Saviors' ranks, accompanied by a deafening roar. The ground trembled involuntarily.

As the town's concrete pavement shattered, a cloud of dust erupted, and the hero was sent flying backward through the dust. He was ultimately caught by another hero with outstretched arms. Meanwhile, dozens of military daggers shot out from the dust towards the heroes.

Bai Yu's figure flashed and disappeared in mid-air, followed by a series of collisions as all the military daggers were knocked to the ground. However, at the same time, Bai Yu unleashed a red and blue energy storm, blasting him away in the blink of an eye.

The other heroes also made their move, and almost simultaneously, the entire Saviors also joined the attack.

Dong Xiaoye and Dong Xue'er also joined the battle immediately. As for the bespectacled man, he had already disappeared with Lin Jie on the other side of the city.

Looking at the sudden battlefield and Lin Jie flying past him, Xiao Zhan couldn't help but scratch his head.

"Damn! We just arrived and they're already fighting? Does it have to be this quick? At least try to get some information out of each other!" Shaking his head helplessly, Xiao Zhan's gaze met a pair of bloodshot glasses. Someone had silently appeared in front of Xiao Zhan without him noticing. If Zhuge Nan wasn't dead, he would definitely recognize this person; after all, this was one of Zhuge Nan's trump cards, and also one of the people who ultimately killed Zhuge Nan.

"Uh..." After a brief eye contact, Xiao Zhan finally couldn't help but speak: "I've seen it in your eyes, you might not be human..."

Before he could finish speaking, a dagger was already plunged into Xiao Zhan's neck. The man finally licked his lips with a smile. Upon closer inspection of what he had stabbed, he was surprised to find that he had actually stabbed something ridiculous…

A comical object the size of a human head was hanging from the man's dagger. Before the man could react, a bar of soap appeared at his feet.

A surge of primal urge welled up within the man! An untamed, overwhelming desire erupted within him. This uncontrollable impulse made him instinctively reach for the bar of soap. But the instant he touched the soap, a pixelated, stick-like object was already pointed at him.

A stream of thick, white liquid shot directly towards him. But just as the steaming white liquid was about to hit the man, his figure vanished into thin air.

"Holy crap! Where did that guy go?" Seeing this, Xiao Zhan couldn't help but look around. However, what Xiao Zhan didn't know was that the man was actually floating behind him. And his position would change every time Xiao Zhan turned his head.

Before Xiao Zhan could react, the man's dagger had already pierced through Xiao Zhan's skull. Unfortunately, when the man pulled the dagger out, what remained embedded in it was still a ridiculous object.

Seeing this, the man finally showed a shocked expression.

"A Substitute Technique?" A strange name suddenly popped into the man's mind, but unfortunately, he didn't know that Xiao Zhan wasn't using a Substitute Technique at all, but a much more advanced tool. A Substitute? Ridiculous! If there was any drawback to this thing, it was that the number that could be carried was limited.

Even if we calculate it, Xiao Zhan himself can only bring a few people.

"What a difficult guy!"

'What a difficult guy!'

At that moment, Xiao Zhan and his opponent seemed to be on the same wavelength, thinking the same thing simultaneously. Watching the man disappear again, a small comic book appeared in Xiao Zhan's hand, seemingly out of nowhere. At the same time, he kicked backward with his foot.

"You can't use the same trick on a Saint Seiya twice! Don't you even have that basic common sense?" Xiao Zhan said coldly.

"Hmph," the person beside him snorted coldly, taking a step back. After dodging Xiao Zhan's kick, he suddenly lunged at Xiao Zhan. But he had only taken one step when an indescribable pain shot through his groin.

"This... how is this possible!" The man fell to the ground with an expression of disbelief on his face. He had clearly dodged that kick.

"Hmph! Master Boredom's 'Child-Severing Kick,' such a powerful martial art, how could I slack off in practicing it? Do you really think I'm just slacking off every day?" Turning around abruptly, Xiao Zhan's clothes, though not physically injured, had been slashed open during the initial contact. Beneath his clothes lay a muscular physique, seemingly honed through countless trials.

Without a doubt, Xiao Zhan has never stopped honing his skills. Although it sometimes seems comical, there's no doubt that the training is hellish.

This is also why Xiao Zhan was able to master the basics of the "Childlessness Kick" so quickly.

Seeing the man fall, Xiao Zhan immediately took out the "Qu Bu Bang" in his hand and sprayed him with a sticky, steaming white liquid.

The man, who was covered in the white liquid, was stuck to the ground.

Xiao Zhan's latest compressed super glue releases a terrifying amount of energy the moment it's sprayed out, enough to completely envelop any enemy in front of him.

After several attempts, he still couldn't get rid of the sticky substance. Only then did the man notice that Xiao Zhan was already walking towards him with a stain remover stick.

Without any further ado, the cleaning stick made direct contact with the man's body.

Seeing the enemy lying on the ground, Xiao Zhan finally breathed a sigh of relief. But almost instantly, a short knife had already slashed across Xiao Zhan's neck.

A man carrying a short knife had somehow appeared beside Xiao Zhan.

The moment the knife sliced ​​across Xiao Zhan's neck, the man instinctively wanted to lick it. But the next second, he was surprised to find a comical object stuck in his knife.

At that moment, Xiao Zhan's glue shot directly at the other person.

At this moment, Xiao Zhan was furious, after all, one of his last two stunt double armors had been destroyed! Without a doubt, without the stunt double, he would have died several times over on this battlefield.

"Damn it! Why do you assassins always target me? Does it make me want to assassinate you?" Xiao Zhan asked helplessly.

The man tossed the comical object to the ground and slashed directly at the glue. The powerful blade sliced ​​the glue in two, sending it flying.

"To be honest, you do look like you deserve a beating." The man licked his knife habitually and said to Xiao Zhan in a sinister tone.

Chapter 18

Looking at the person in front of him, Xiao Zhan showed a helpless expression. However, his hands did not stop because of this; on the contrary, Xiao Zhan's movements became even more joyful.

The Seven Star Comical Ball was unleashed instantly, and for a moment, the entire battlefield fell silent under Xiao Zhan's attack. It was simple: a colossal, meteorite-like object tore through the atmosphere and plummeted downwards. Seeing this being so massive it could destroy the entire town and everything around it, everyone present wore expressions of shock.

However, the shock quickly turned into... another incongruous expression.