The Great Demon Lord of the American Comics World

Chapter 93, Prison Island's Demon Cave, The Invisible Heroine
Although he had decided to launch a reverse erosion, Li Xingzhou did not immediately turn back to find Cipher.

Cipher will stay at the Continental Hotel for two more nights, leaving her out for a day and a night, and he can go find her tomorrow night.

So Li Xingzhou drove to the MASA headquarters in the Yashida Building, processed some company documents, interviewed some job applicants, and then called Emma when it was time to leave work in the afternoon before driving to Prison Island.

By the time we arrived at Prison Island, it was already getting dark.

As soon as Li Xingzhou's Lincoln Navigator came to a stop in front of Building One, Emma, ​​who had been waiting there, came over with tiny, cat-like steps, opened the car door for him, offered a sweet smile, and said softly:

"Boss, dinner is ready."

Li Xingzhou nodded, got out of the car, put his arm around Emma's waist, and went into the building to eat at the restaurant first.

"Is this all you ate for dinner?"

Inside the restaurant, Li Xingzhou asked while cutting the steak.

Sitting across from him, Emma had only a plate of vegetables in front of her, without even salad dressing, so plain that Li Xingzhou found it hard to swallow at first glance.

Emma picked up half a cherry tomato with her fork and said with a smile:
"I eat enough calories for breakfast and lunch, but I only eat like that for dinner to avoid accumulating too much fat."

Li Xingzhou reminded him:

"Pay attention to a balanced diet, and don't make yourself skin and bones. I don't like women like that."

He enjoys looking at slender women and touching women with fleshy curves.

Even if a woman is as thin as a reed stick, he would still find her an eyesore if he looked at her for too long.

Emma had been with him for a while now, so she knew his preferences and obediently replied:
"Boss, please rest assured, your little pet will not turn into that."

Li Xingzhou nodded, chewing on his tender and juicy steak as he inquired about the "whip cord":
How has Ivan Vanko performed since he joined?

"He came in and immediately fell asleep, seemingly unconcerned about his situation."

Li Xingzhou chuckled softly:
"Of course he's not worried about his situation. A genius like him would be coveted by any power. I bet it won't be long before a military-industrial complex comes to us demanding his man."

Emma said worriedly:
"Although Stark Industries has withdrawn from the defense industry, America's defense conglomerate still wields considerable power. If they demand our personnel... how should we respond?"

Li Xingzhou said slowly and deliberately:

“If it’s just the military-industrial complex that’s involved, then we won’t hand over the person. If the military sends a representative to negotiate, then I will negotiate with them.”

Had dinner.

Accompanied by Emma, ​​Li Xingzhou went to the basement of Building No. 1. After passing through multiple layers of intelligent defense systems, he arrived at the door of a VIP cell.

The Death Walker guarding the door quickly stood up and knelt on one knee before Li Xingzhou as if welcoming a king.

Li Xingzhou nodded slightly, signaling the other party to get up. After the Death Walker opened the cell door, he and Emma stepped into the VIP cell, which was 30 square meters in size, fully equipped with a bathroom, and had a large bookshelf.

"Whiplash" Ivanvanko lay on the bed with his hands behind his head, humming a Russian tune with his eyes closed, and did not react at all when he heard the two people enter.

Li Xingzhou didn't mind, looking at Ivan Vanko and saying with a smile:
“Ivan Vanko, I am Leonard Victor, the warden of Rex Prison.”

He paused, then said meaningfully:

"I asked His Excellency the Chief Justice to help send you to Rex Prison."

Upon hearing this, Ivan Vanko finally opened his eyes, sat up, looked at Li Xingzhou, and asked in heavily accented Russian English:
"So... what do you want me to do for you?"

Li Xingzhou smiled, a ghostly light flashing in his eyes, and his voice became ethereal and eerie:

“Great, I love dealing with smart people. I think… we might be able to make a deal…”

Half an hour later.

Li Xingzhou led Emma out of the cell and whispered the instructions:

“Provide him with all the experimental and manufacturing prototypes he needs, and satisfy his desires as much as possible. If it is not readily available, order it from Stark Industries.”

Emma nodded in agreement, then asked:
"Will he create Iron Man suits for us?"

Li Xingzhou shook his head:

“Ivan Vanko doesn’t possess Tony Stark’s genius for invention and innovation. Without a ready-made Iron Man suit as a model, he can’t build one. However, in terms of manufacturing ability alone, he’s no less capable than Tony. He can integrate and improve the Skull Warrior Type 1 exoskeleton with his own Whiplash exoskeleton system. Although the Skull Warrior Type 1 is rudimentary, it was also created by Tony and contains his creative wisdom, which should give him a lot of inspiration.”

Emma nodded, hesitated for a moment, and asked:

"Boss, I have a feeling that Ivan Vanko is very cunning... Could he be plotting something behind the scenes, waiting for an opportunity to betray us?"

Li Xingzhou smiled and said leisurely:

"The moment I saw him, I knew he was an arrogant, intelligent, and unruly man; he certainly wouldn't submit to anyone. But..."

Li Xingzhou simply never believed in so-called loyalty.

He only believed in prohibitions, and... the demonic thoughts he personally implanted in the hearts of others.

After a while.

Li Xingzhou then led Emma to the entrance of a basement guarded by two Death Walkers.

When the two Death Walkers opened the heavy door that resembled a bank vault, Li Xingzhou and Emma stepped inside and found themselves in a spacious underground hall. In the center of the hall was a huge pool of blood with a diameter of twenty meters.

In the center of the blood pool, three coffins floated.

Around the coffin, hundreds of blood-red bodies floated, their skin melted away, their muscles and tendons exposed.

An invisible aura continuously converged from above the blood pool, merging into it and causing the blood to churn and froth. The hundreds of bloodied bodies twitched occasionally under the influence of this aura, making them look particularly terrifying.

The invisible energy is the excessive blood and energy of all the prisoners in the prison, as well as their violent emotions that had nowhere to be vented.

The "Blood Sea Burial God Array" has taken initial shape and can operate on its own, continuously drawing upon the blood and spiritual energy of tens of thousands of prisoners to strengthen the power of the blood pool and temper the "Blood God Child" and the three coffins inside.

The prisoners, whose vital energy and spirit had been drained, became increasingly peaceful and easily satisfied.

Before Li Xingzhou took over, there were more than 9,000 violent conflicts among prisoners in Rex Prison every year, averaging nearly 30 per day.

After Li Xingzhou took over, especially after he brought the Blood Sea Formation, the number of conflicts among the prisoners dropped dramatically. Today, only one violent incident occurred in the entire prison, namely Emma's brutal beating of those ten serious offenders...

Therefore, Li Xingzhou genuinely felt that he was seriously reforming the prisoners.

Although this may gradually make prisoners become taciturn and slow-witted, and shorten their lifespan to some extent, it can at least ensure that they complete their rehabilitation, start anew after release, and never commit crimes again.

Of course, those serious offenders who will serve their sentences for life without parole don't need to worry about the future.

Furthermore, the reason why Li Xingzhou was not afraid of demons possessing him and causing trouble in his prison was precisely because of the existence of the Blood Sea Array.

Before low-level demons have harvested enough souls and become powerful enough, they cannot manifest a physical body in the real world. They can only exist as spiritual entities, residing in the bodies of living beings such as humans. And these spiritual entities are precisely what the Blood Sea Array counters.

Any low-level demon without a physical body that dares to approach Prison Island will be captured by the Blood Sea Array before it can even possess it, and will be forcibly absorbed into the array, becoming its nourishment.

High-level demons with physical forms will not be captured by the current Blood Sea Array.

But high-ranking demons are very shrewd. The outside world not only has a huge number of souls, but also countless pleasures that cannot be enjoyed in hell. Why bother coming to a boring place like a prison?

Li Xingzhou checked the operation of the Blood Sea Formation.

Emma watched her boss intently at his work, her eyes filled with fascination.

She didn't find the hellish environment terrifying at all; on the contrary, she quite liked its cruel beauty. And the Great Demon King Boss who created all this, with his evil and ruthlessness far surpassing her own, captivated her completely.

After inspecting the Blood Sea Formation, Li Xingzhou took Emma to a small hall next to the Blood Pool Hall.

There is also a formation here, which collects the life force and various negative emotions of living people.

At each node of the array, which was inscribed with blood, were placed numerous black crystals containing hellish elements, while at the center of the array was an altar built of bones.

On the altar, there are two naked bodies.

The two figures, one white and one black, one female and one male, were Jessica Jones and Luke Cage.

They are undergoing genuine Dao soldier refining. Once completed, they will gain even greater abilities than before, but at the same time, they will completely lose their free will and become Li Xingzhou's combat puppets.

Li Xingzhou sat cross-legged before the altar, forming hand seals and activating the magic array to imprint dense, blood-red runes on Jessica Jones and Luke Cage.

Half an hour later.

Li Xingzhou and Emma went to another room, took out the "Secret Demon Banner", and inserted it into the center of the room's array, on the altar made of werewolf flesh and blood.

Around the altar, there were also five skeletal dolls, each about the size of a little finger, which were the "White Bone Mighty Demon" undergoing upgrades.

Li Xingzhou sat down in front of the magic array, made hand seals, and activated the array to absorb the various negative emotions permeating the prison and inject them into the Secret Demon Banner to feed the eighteen Secret Demons inside.

The Mind Image Demon feeds on emotions, spirit, and soul; the more it devours, the faster it grows.

While Li Xingzhou was practicing his cultivation techniques, Emma sat behind him and summoned her own Mind Image Secret Demon to soak up some of the nourishment.

It's approaching midnight.

After completing this round of refining, Li Xingzhou put away the "Secret Demon Banner," and left the underground with Emma, ​​who had fed the Heart Image Secret Demon to her heart's content. They took the elevator back to the warden's office.

This is just a temporary office.

Li Xingzhou felt the original warden's office was too small and requested that several adjacent rooms be combined to create a large office that integrates office, rest, exercise, and entertainment. Due to the large scale of the project, it is currently under urgent construction, and for the time being, a temporary office can only be found to replace it.

Of course, this temporary office also has a separate rest room and bathroom, but they are both very small. The rest room only has a single cot, and the bathroom does not have a bathtub, so you can only take a shower.

"Boss, should we order some late-night snacks from the kitchen?"

As soon as she entered the office, Emma asked her thoughtfully.

Li Xingzhou shook his head:

"No need."

"Shall we take a shower first?"

Li Xingzhou nodded in agreement, and Emma immediately smiled sweetly and stepped forward to help him undress.

With Emma's help, Shushu took a shower. Li Xingzhou changed into a bathrobe and, finding the bedroom too cramped, simply laid a yoga mat on the office floor and sat down to meditate.

Emma, ​​wrapped in a bath towel, went into the bedroom, dried her hair, changed into a specially made outfit, and leaned against the bedroom door, whispering:

"Boss, what do you think of my new outfit?"

Li Xingzhou opened his eyes and a smile flashed across them.

Emma was wearing a three-colored bodysuit similar to Spider-Woman's, completely covering her from the neck down to her fingers and toes, but the three most important areas were completely transparent...

Seeing the smile in the Boss's eyes, Emma was secretly delighted. She walked over with sexy cat steps, swaying her hips, knelt down in front of him, untied the belt of his robe, and leaned down to kiss him.

Li Xingzhou gently stroked Emma's head, wondering when he could make a similar outfit for Gwen...

The next day

Li Xingzhou spent another whole day on Prison Island, reviewing some official documents, inspecting the prisoners' work, living conditions, and meals, and issuing some new rectification instructions. He finally drove away from Prison Island towards Manhattan near dusk.

Upon arriving in Manhattan, he took out his phone, about to dial the number Cipher had given him, when a loud bang suddenly erupted from a nearby building.

He pulled over and looked up to see raging flames and thick black smoke bursting through the glass curtain wall of the building facing the street, like a demon opening its mouth and spewing out flames and smoke.

Countless shards of glass, large and small, fell to the ground like rain.

It was rush hour, and the sidewalk below the building was packed with pedestrians. Faced with this sudden accident, many pedestrians instinctively looked up, staring blankly and in astonishment in the direction from which the explosion came. By the time they saw glass shards raining down on them, it was too late to react. They could only futilely scream or crouch down to protect themselves...

Just as pedestrians were about to be hit by the falling glass, suddenly, an invisible energy wave erupted, spreading rapidly and instantly enveloping all the pedestrians under the shattered glass.

Large and small shards of glass fell onto the inverted bowl-shaped invisible energy shield, creating transparent ripples like waves, before bouncing off towards the building's exterior wall.

No pedestrians on the sidewalk were injured, and no vehicles on the road were hit by a piece of glass.

Having witnessed the entire event, Li Xingzhou followed his spiritual senses and looked towards the origin of the energy fluctuation.

On the sidewalk not far from the building, a blonde woman with tanned skin, a sweet face, and a graceful figure was raising her hands towards the building, as if lifting it up from a distance.

"The Invisible Woman, Susan?"

Li Xingzhou's lips curled up into a smile.

At this moment, Susan, the invisible woman who had resolved the crisis, quickly lowered her hands, looked around, and saw that the surrounding pedestrians were all looking in the direction of the accident, marveling at the danger and miracle just now, and no one had noticed her. She breathed a sigh of relief, put her hands in her pockets, pretended to be an unrelated passerby, and was about to leave the scene.

But after taking only two steps, a sudden gasp erupted from the crowd.

Susan stopped and looked back, and couldn't help but let out a soft "ah".

But from the hole in the curtain wall, which was still emitting black smoke and resembled the gaping maw of a demon, a figure with a pair of black wings flew out. Its thick, deformed lower limbs, resembling eagle claws, were holding two people.

The figure flew out of the hole in the curtain wall, flapping its wings and soaring into the air. Once it was higher than the rooftop of the building, it suddenly released its claws, and the two people it was holding immediately let out heart-wrenching screams, flailing their arms and legs as they plummeted toward the ground.

The Invisible Woman, Susan, sighed helplessly, then raised her hands and aimed them at the two people falling rapidly.

(End of this chapter)