The track of dawn in the world of American manga

Chapter 8 8. Self-cultivation of qualified cannon fodder

Mason landed on his feet and appeared in a terrible smelly place. What appeared in front of him was a post-war ruins-like scene.

The three-story platform in front of me had obviously been attacked by some kind of explosive that fell from the sky. Even the main body of this large train station had been blown up to the point where it didn't look like it.

Mason felt like he had stepped into the battlefield of World War II.

He looked around, and he couldn't even find any trace of life in this ruins full of wreckage, which looked as desolate as it had been abandoned for decades.

"Olechet!"

The only woman in the team screamed in surprise when she saw the tragic scene in front of her. She was chewing gum to try to relax. Her defenses were completely broken at this moment.

This Caucasian girl with short black hair, a thin waist and long legs, and a very capable white girl looked at Old K who was inspecting the crossbow in an aggressive manner, and she roared angrily:

"That's not what you said when you recruited me! This is a different world full of power? Shit! This is obviously a ruin, a wasteland! This place is worse than the battlefield in Afghanistan. I feel like I'm back in a nightmare again.

"

"Calm down, Ms. Betty."

Old K ignored her at all and said casually:

"Believe me, this is already a quite peaceful world according to the records and evaluations of the Star Club, and it is very suitable for novices to explore freely.

In fact, if my old team members hadn't all died in another damn chaotic world, I wouldn't bring you 'good babies' here again."

After saying that, the mysterious guy coughed and said loudly to the four people beside him, including Mason:

"I have been here many times, and my onboarding test was completed here. I guarantee that as long as you obey, there will be no problem.

Our expedition target this time is a magic academy that has been destroyed and abandoned in the apocalypse, huh? Why do you have such an expression?

Isn’t it normal for there to be a magic academy in another world?”

Old K showed that disgusting condescending expression as if he was talking to a fool. He took out an arrow box and loaded his hand crossbow, and said slowly:

"There is a magic inheritance in this world, but it is very weak.

There used to be many magic academies here, but most of them have been looted, ahem, I mean, 'explored' by my colleagues.

The last one left to us is also the most dangerous one.

There are many good things in the ruins there, and our mission this time is to find one of them and hand it over to the organization, so as to realize the reorganization of Team K.

I promise, everyone, as long as you can live to the end, everyone will get benefits you can't even imagine.

The lucky ones will officially join my team and become E-class personnel of the Star Club. I will take you to the world I am conquering, and we can do great things together!"

"Does 'doing great things' mean being abandoned by you in another world like your previous team members?"

Another tall and thin man next to the hot-tempered girl Betty asked coldly, which made Old K's expression suddenly turn ugly.

The guy who was choking was wearing a black tights with a red spiral logo on the chest, and a thick black cloak lined with green patterns.

He has blond hair but wears a strange half-covered mask covering the upper half of his face, and speaks in a very gloomy tone.

Mason thinks this guy is weird.

Because every time he looked at him, he would feel his head suddenly dizzy, as if there was some kind of special force field surrounding this guy.

"Shut up, Lord Count."

Old K sneered and said:

"You weren't that talkative when I broke you out of Amanda Waller's prison.

Finding a strange object called the "Philosopher's Stone" in the ruins of the abandoned Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is the highest-paying and medium-difficulty task in this C-level world.

Now I'll give you some time to get acquainted with each other, and we'll set off when I come back from my investigation.

Out of goodwill, I would like to remind you that the micro bomb will explode immediately when it leaves the sensing range of the remote control. This range is three kilometers.

So if you want to run, I suggest you go faster."

After saying that, Old K turned and left.

Probably to intimidate the team members, this guy showed off his "power" while walking.

After taking three steps, the figure suddenly flashed and appeared strangely ten meters away. After taking a few steps, it flashed again, causing the four cannon fodder to frown.

"Uh, um, hello everyone, my name is Charles, you can call me 'Kite Man'. I'm from Gotham and was taken out of Blackgate Prison by Old K.

what about you?"

The most talkative member of the team takes the initiative to speak.

He wore a green jumpsuit, carried a special brown backpack on his back, and wore flight goggles.

Although he is tall, he always reaches out and touches his head unconsciously when talking, which makes this guy feel very unconfident.

"Save it, I know you, Kite Man, were a former member of the Clown Gang. After the Clown was captured in Arkham, you guys fell into disarray.

Everyone who has the ability has gone to seek refuge with others, and no one wants you.

Being reduced to robbing a bakery and then being caught by Gordon's own hands, I actually doubt you did it on purpose and then went to enjoy a big bowl of delicious prison food."

Betty, a hot-tempered girl, chewed gum and put her hands on her hips, not caring that the various explosives inside her coat were seen by others.

She dismissed Kite Man and casually told his embarrassing story. Then she looked at the other two people amidst Kite Man's awkward laughter. She looked up and down at the man who was choking with Old K just now and said:

"Are you from the Suicide Squad? Not bad, man, what are your abilities? Please don't tell me you can do tricks. We already have a useless Kite Man as our group favorite."

"I know you too, Betty Susie."

The man who looked the most powerful glanced at the girl and said:

"I heard that you have undergone human body modification and can make everything you touch explode. After you retired, you joined a Canadian terrorist organization. People in your circle call you the 'Bomb Girl'.

Amanda Waller is paying attention to you, and that's not a good thing."

"Bomber, thank you!"

Betty puffed up her chest proudly, corrected the man's statement and stared at him again.

The latter hesitated for a moment and introduced himself:

"My code name in Suicide Squad is 'Vertigo', but people in the circle call me 'Count'. To clarify, they are right. I do have noble blood.

As for my abilities.

I can put all creatures in sight into an uncontrollable dazed state, and if necessary, I can interfere with electronic equipment."

"Cool! You'd be a great partner."

Bombshell Betty seems to have regarded herself as the leader of this four-person gang, and neither Count Dizzy nor Kite Man has any objections to this.

Then the three people looked at Mason, who had remained silent.

The young man didn't care at all about their stares and had no interest in introducing himself. Just kidding, he came here to save himself and not to make friends!

He will be thinking about the information that Old K just said.

"Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? Philosopher's Stone?"

Mason raised his head and looked at the "King's Cross Station" sign floating in the wind above the blasted crack in the ruins. He felt that his guess was probably close to ten.

A feeling of joy and doubt came to my mind at the same time. Fortunately, I knew something about the world, which might become a hidden advantage.

What is puzzling is, what happened in this world that caused the station in London to be bombed like this? Did the counterattack that the dark wizards had been planning succeed?

A world war broke out between wizards and humans, which directly led to the fall of London?

No way?

"Hey, kid! Everyone is waiting for you to introduce yourself."

Bomb Girl Betty felt that Mason was contemptuous of the "majesty" she was trying to establish, so she spoke rudely. Mason glanced back at her and shrugged when he saw her menacing look.

He pointed at his mouth and waved his hand, making a helpless expression.

"Ah, it turns out he is mute."

Betty was a little embarrassed.

She glared at Mason angrily and asked again:

"What are your abilities?"

"Shua"

The critical shotgun "Old K" used for precise sniping was pulled out from behind by Mason, and he put it in his hand and made an aiming motion.

This action made Betty immediately lose interest in this tall, thin young man with black hair and yellow skin.

Hey, it turned out to be a gun player.

In the world of super villains, this kind of ability is extremely inferior.

Unless he has super shooting skills and super gun control like Deadshot or Bloodsport, simple bullets pose no threat to his own explosive ability.

Betty lost interest in Mason and turned around to chat with Earl Dizzy, the only person she liked. However, the despised Kite Man took the initiative to come over and patted Mason on the shoulder in a familiar manner.

The guy whispered to Mason:

"Ignore freaks like them, these bastards always think that ability comes with power, but they have no idea what real power is.

When I followed the Joker, I knew these things very well.

They regard us as a burden, and when something happens they will definitely ask us to step in. I have seen this kind of thing too many times, so we have to help each other."

Faced with Kite Man's overtures, Mason pretended to be mute to avoid communicating too much with other people and gave him a polite but distant smile.

Mason then took out a flying bomb assembled from a drone and engineering bombs as well as a control tablet from his backpack.

After a simple operation, the thing flew into the ruins in front of him as a scout.

This move made the onlooker Kite Man blink his eyes. As a villain who had followed the Joker and seen the big world, he immediately knew that this low-key mute young man was more powerful than Bomb Girl imagined.

But a few seconds later, the picture returned from the reconnaissance tablet in Mason's hand made Kite Man's eyes widen and he almost screamed.

He covered his mouth fiercely and looked at the surveillance screen with his heart pounding.

The engineering bomb flew through the dark tunnel below, which was a large pit formed by the collapse of the platform stairs leading to the parking lot from the underground platform. It was filled with a group of wandering "people".

them

No, they hide in the shadows outside the area where the sun shines above their heads, and some guys don't even have their lower bodies and just use their upper bodies to crawl on the ground.

The ground of that damn place was stained with dirty and solidified blood, making it look like hell on earth.

As the drone approached, the faces of those "people" were truly revealed. Their skin was ulcerated and their eyes were bulging, their blood-stained teeth were mutated and twisted, and some even had their intestines pierced and dragged withered internal organs.

move.

Anyone who has watched a few B-movies knows what this is.

Zombies!

Massive zombies!

Mason was also full of doubts.

He is not afraid of zombies, but is confused about why a zombie disaster would happen in a world where wizards exist? These two gadgets obviously have different styles of painting!

"The two of them are leaving."

Kite Man suddenly reached out and poked Mason's shoulder and whispered something.

The young man looked back and saw that Bomb Girl and Earl Dizzy seemed to have discussed a plan of action and were walking toward the station exit while laughing and talking, unaware of the danger hidden around them.

He waved his finger at the Kite Man and made a "Follow me" look, and then walked quietly toward the waiting hall of the train station along a safer route detected by the drone.

Platform nine and three-quarters where you can board the Hogwarts Magic Train is right there, and old K should be there too.

That cunning guy's excuse to spend time getting acquainted with each other was just an excuse.

That bastard wanted to give the four newcomers a "showdown", and wait until their legs and feet were so weak from being frightened by the zombies that he would descend from the sky.

He is an old actor.

The funny villain Kite Man in green stood there hesitantly. The direction Mason left was completely opposite to that of Bomb Girl and Earl Dizzy.

It seemed like a choice was before him.

Which direction should we follow?

Is this a male and female duo whose strength on paper surpasses Mason's?

Or this seemingly ordinary 17-year-old high school student?

The kite man didn't hesitate for long.

He decided to trust his super intuition, which he had developed after spending several years in the clown gang, and he caught up with Mason in just a few steps.

The two of them moved forward one after another through the dark and dead ruins, with strange roars heard from time to time. As they followed the drone's guidance into the waiting hall, violent explosions were also heard from behind.

That's Bomb Girl showing off her power.

It seems that she finally discovered the zombies in the station and understood their current situation.

Mason did not stop but instead accelerated his progress. If the zombies were alerted, a wave of zombies would soon form. He must enter the magic platform immediately.

As expected, when he arrived at the September Three-quarters Platform, he saw Old K leaning on a stone pillar smoking a pipe. The latter looked at the silent Mason and the kite following him with admiration.

people.

"not bad."

He grinned, blew out a smoke ring and said slowly:

"I have led many newcomers, and in each batch there are some idiots who think they are invincible and do whatever they want based on their abilities. Their end is usually not good.

The first rule of the Society of Stars is to fight with your brain rather than your fists. It seems that you are born to join us, Mason. You are indeed a young man chosen by Batman.

But we are a team, so leaving your teammates behind is a bad behavior."

The hypocritical old K flicked his fingers, turned around and touched the stone pillar behind him, and said to Mason:

"Those wizards have made a barrier here. I need some time to open it. Your mission is to protect me from being disturbed and save those two idiots.

Any question?"

"Click"

Mason turned on the safety, turned around and made preparatory shooting movements behind him, showing his attitude with practical actions.

He glanced at the nervous kite man next to him, casually threw him an engineering pistol he made during practice last night and motioned for him to take a few steps back.

Don't bother yourself with "gaining experience".

After everything was ready, the young man looked at the images sent back by the engineering bombs monitoring the movement of the corpse tide.

The moment he saw Bomb Girl and Count Dizzy being chased by a large number of zombies, Mason decisively pressed the explosion button.

There was a loud bang.

The broken floor above the only road leading to the waiting hall was blown down by an engineering bomb suspended there. Blocking the zombies' advance, it also blocked the path of the male and female duo until only a narrow space was left to move forward.

Now, no matter whether the man and woman are willing or not, they must fight and retreat with the tide of corpses surging behind them in order to escape.

This move made Old K look back at Mason, but he didn't say anything more and started to break the wizard's barrier on the platform.

Mason moved his shoulders and raised the gun in his hand.

Entering the combat state, combat assistance is online, a large number of free aiming boxes appear in the field of view, the red preset trajectory is also turned on, and the "FPS mode" is activated.

"There are warriors to stop the tide of corpses."

He aimed at the disgusting head of the fastest zombie, and when his finger touched the trigger, he couldn't help but think:

"It's rare to have such a good opportunity to practice shooting. It seems that being kidnapped here is not all bad. By the way, will my shooting skills break through to Level 3 when I leave here with Old K's head?"

(End of chapter)