American Comics: BOSS Invasion

Chaos erupted in the advanced laboratory.

Even with her extraordinary achievements in biology and medicine, Catherine couldn't bring the dead back to life.

Black Eyes, trained in an assassination squad, considered a one-hit kill the most basic requirement.

In her view, anyone who turned their swords against their own was an enemy, and enemies had to be eradicated.

With her dagger plunged into his throat, Wally only struggled for a few seconds before suffocating as blood from the aorta entered his lungs.

Outside the medical room, Flash stared blankly, stunned.

Looking at his two companions on the beds inside the room, Harry had narrowly escaped death but hadn't recovered, while Wally was already dead.

It was too sudden; no one had expected him to be attacked so fatally in this situation.

Caitlin looked grief-stricken as she gently covered Wally's face with a sheet, unsure how to break the news to Joe.

Jesse sat expressionlessly to the side, her hair disheveled and obscuring her face.

She and Wally had just begun, past the hazy stage of infatuation, and were about to take a big step into a passionate romance.

This sudden bereavement filled her with some grief, but mostly with bewilderment.

She suddenly felt a pang of resentment towards Flash for saving the murderer just moments ago.

Cisco walked up to Flash and placed a tablet in his hand.

"Dude, now is not the time to be depressed. These people are treating the city center like a battlefield, recklessly disregarding the consequences.

The iceberg had unknowingly spread into an ice field, covering several nearby blocks, and countless people were about to be buried beneath it.

Under the high-definition camera, Flash could even see the panicked expressions on people's faces.

Seeing that he wasn't speaking, Cisco assumed he was immersed in the shock.

He softly advised, "Barry, you have to pull yourself together. You're Flash! Central City needs you!"

Flash forced a smile and said, "Maybe it needed me before, but does it still need me now?"

He turned the tablet around to show Cisco.

In the scene, the three members of the Hunter Squad had somehow disengaged from the battlefield and were heading in three different directions to rescue civilians.

Some support personnel dressed in tactical gear, holding non-lethal weapons, and resembling SWAT teams, emerged from somewhere and quickly followed behind the Hunter Squad, performing supportive tasks.

Their vehicles seemed to be equipped with very advanced medical equipment, fully automated to handle minor and major injuries, and after treatment, they quickly transferred the injured to other vehicles heading to the hospital.

The process was as streamlined as an assembly line, remarkably professional.

The two were silent for a long while.

Compared to the professional personnel, their ability to use superpowers to rescue people point-to-point, though faster, rarely allowed them to take care of the follow-up situation.

Usually, they would just leave the victims in a safe area and let them call for help themselves.

They hadn't noticed anything wrong before.

But seeing the scene before them, they couldn't help but compare in their minds.

"Barry, there's no time to hesitate. That newly appeared person has been sealed in a giant iceberg by the blue-haired woman and could die at any moment. We need to immediately…"

Cisco hadn't finished speaking when his eyes suddenly widened to the size of light bulbs, and he exclaimed, "Oh! My God!"

On the screen, the ice field suddenly underwent an earth-shattering explosion.

A figure suddenly appeared in mid-air, followed by a massive laser wave crashing down. The smoke and dust from the explosion blotted out the sky, and the screen turned completely white.

Rewind three minutes.

Just after the massive ice field had sealed Qishan inside, Esdeath stood calmly in place, without the slightest intention of pursuing.

Having conquered north and south by controlling the power of ice, ice was Esdeath's body's extension.

Even without seeing it with her own eyes, she could sense that Qishan hadn't died.

"That's an amazing body defense ability! If this were the Empire, I might have chosen to recruit you into my ranks. With you joining the Jaegers, we might have been able to annihilate Night Raid without any injuries.

But now, since you've already stood on the opposite side of me, then what awaits you is certainly death."

She suddenly stretched out her right hand and clenched her fist tightly.

The ice field beneath her feet made a bang, suddenly compressing towards the core, and the color of the ice crystals gradually became more and more transparent, as if turning into clear crystal under high pressure.

Esdeath lowered her eyelids slightly and calmly looked at the location where Qishan was sealed.

Suddenly, she raised an eyebrow.

Without any warning, the ice field underwent a violent explosion.

Qishan's figure flashed and appeared directly in mid-air.

In the strong wind pressure, his windbreaker fluttered, Qishan maintained a calm expression from beginning to end, only gently extending one hand and flicking a finger at Esdeath below.

A violent buzzing sound erupted, followed by a huge shockwave with a diameter of tens of meters instantly engulfing the entire area below.

After a few seconds of silence, the ground suddenly exploded with a bang.

The terrifying white light blotted out the sky, causing all monitoring equipment to malfunction simultaneously, and a large amount of noise and shockwaves swept in all directions, a nuclear-bomb-like explosion raged in the city center.

The resulting consequences were immeasurable, almost instantly destroying several nearby blocks.

The huge mushroom cloud, the shocking black smoke, and the ground trembling wildly as if struck by electricity, all told people that a world-shattering disaster had occurred here.

Qishan, deep in the center of the explosion, floated quietly in mid-air, whether it was the shockwave, the flames, or the flying gravel.

None of it could make Qishan tremble in the slightest.

In his perception, the light spot representing Esdeath was still kind, indicating that the other party had not suffered any harm in his attack.

"Interesting, as expected of the Ice Queen!"

Qishan's lips curled slightly, he took a step, and the space made a soft popping sound, and his figure disappeared.

When he reappeared, in front of him was a crystal-clear iceberg.

Esdeath seemed to be a sleeping beauty sealed in crystal, with her hands gently crossed over her chest, her light blue long hair spread out, stunningly beautiful.

Esdeath's face was flushed, and her face clearly showed a smile, as if she was enjoying this feeling of being evenly matched.

The moment Qishan appeared, a large number of ice cones suddenly shot out from the smooth surface of the iceberg, piercing over with overwhelming force.

Qishan did not dodge or evade, his eyes were calm, watching the ice cones hit his body, the shining spikes could not penetrate an inch, the kinetic energy on the ice cones disappeared, and they fell to the ground with a crackling sound.

"The defense is indeed good, your ice has an amazing hardness, breaking it would take some effort! Unfortunately, I don't need to bother so much!"

Qishan flashed and appeared above the iceberg, gently placing his palm on the smooth ice surface, and faintly uttered a word: "收! (Shōu!)" (Absorb!)

唰! (Shuā!) (Whoosh!)

The iceberg instantly disappeared.