American Comics: Starting from the Invincible Young Hero

Chapter 17 Soldier Boy Awakens
The other party knew so much that it was useless for Mallory to hide it.

"You look like you're only in high school. How do you know the top secrets of the last century?"

"Tell me, otherwise the people around me will be happy to find a way for you to speak." Ignoring Mallory's question, Russell said lightly.

This is what the butcher is for, and he didn't want to dirty his hands, so he brought the butcher along.

"How did the Russians do it? Did they drop a hydrogen bomb on Nicaragua? No, that kind of thing couldn't have been hidden from anyone else."

The butcher next to him was spinning around excitedly.

He didn't care about the soldier boy. He only cared about one thing: if a soldier boy as powerful as Homelander could be subdued and captured, then could the same method be used against Homelander?
When the butcher heard Russell point his name, he immediately stepped forward. Feeling betrayed, he pointed at Mallory's nose and cursed.

"Mallory, this is very unkind of you.

You know full well that I've been searching for a way to deal with my countrymen, yet you haven't mentioned a single clue in this regard. Do you think it's fun to watch me fret all day long?"

"Tell me and the person next to me everything I want to know.

Otherwise, I can’t guarantee what I can do!”

The butcher has this kind of personality. He was born in the year of the dog and can change his face at any time. He will do anything to help him deal with his countrymen.

What's more, Russell now knows the whereabouts of his wife Becca!

"I'll never tell." Mallory was not afraid of the threat.

This lady in front of me, who has experienced the vicissitudes of life, is actually quite admirable in a sense. She experienced World War II and fought guerrilla warfare on the Allied front, surviving many dangers and not blinking an eye when bullets flew past her scalp.

All my family members are dead and I am left alone.

Russell really had no way to deal with or threaten her.

But the butcher is different.

He's good at backstabbing and knows Mallory well.

Only those who know you best can stab you in the most vulnerable and fatal place.

"Do you know the safe in your house? I'm not talking about the one on the outside, but the one hidden in the wall behind the photo of George H.W. Bush. I was curious about what top-secret information you hid in there.

Later, I saw a list of agents stationed in various places. If that list were to be leaked, how long do you think they and their other family members would survive?"

"Butcher!"

Mallory couldn't help the color changing on his face.

"I didn't tell you because I was afraid the hatred in your heart would consume you. Those were dozens of innocent people and families."

"I don't care! I can do it, so you'd better be obedient..." The butcher grabbed her collar.

Mallory was embarrassed and angry.

In the end, she told Russell what he wanted to know: the coordinates of the military base where the soldier boy was being held.

“We made a deal.

Your wife lives in an isolated area secretly arranged by Vought International.

As for where it is, you can find it yourself."

Having gotten what he wanted, Russell did not hesitate to ask the butcher about the whereabouts of his wife. I believe his expression would be very interesting when he saw his wife giving birth to the little countryman.

After that, a gust of wind blew by.

Russell disappeared on the spot.

As for the butcher pressing Mallory to tell him how the soldier boy was subdued, he was not interested.

The soldier boy was domineering and didn't care what you thought. He only cared about what he thought. His male chauvinism made people feel suffocated. He felt that Water International, who was a little out of control of him, secretly signaled his lover and teammates to stab him in the back.

The others were responsible for the attack. Psionic Storm controlled his mind for a moment, and the soldier boy was attacked from behind by his lover, Scarlet Duchess, who was caught off guard and anesthetized and knocked unconscious with the world's most toxic nerve gas 'Novichok'.

"Perhaps this method could be considered for use on Homelander. I wonder if he's immune to the same poison gas that took down Soldier Boy."

I'm just afraid that hope is lost.

Quickly crossing the ocean, with the wind whistling in his ears, Russell's figure was like thunder and lightning and stepped onto Russian territory in a short time.

"The Butcher learned that Novichok could take down Soldier Boy, and if there was a one percent chance that it could take down Homelander, he would definitely try it.

If nerve gas works on Homelander when he gets out of control, President Edgar will definitely try to use it again."

Unfortunately not.

It's very likely that Homelander's resistance to Novichok was tested during the experiments he underwent as a child.

The reason why Vought International replaced Soldier Boy with Homelander was that Homelander was better than Soldier Boy, and this "better" might also include resistance to toxins.

"But we have to give it a try anyway. But for now, let's get the Soldier Boy template first."

Following the coordinates provided by Mallory, Russell arrived at the place where the soldier boy was imprisoned.

Whoosh!

A concrete military base lies on the ground like an old giant beast.

The rusty barbed wire made a sharp whimper in the cold wind, like the wail of some dying creature.

There were several tanks parked in the yard, and fully armed soldiers wearing helmets were patrolling with guns, but their expressions were casual.

With the disintegration of that huge empire, the project of weaponizing Soldier Boys seems to have been semi-shelved after decades, and it is obvious that it is no longer particularly valued.

"It makes no difference."

No matter how elite the troops stationed there were for defense, Russell could just take a step over them. When he came into the base building, all the equipment and furnishings had a sense of age.

Even some piggy banks filled with chemicals seemed to be left over from the last century.

Russell used his extreme speed to arrive in front of an iron can at the deepest part of the building.

This is a cylindrical metal cage more than two meters high, with a special steel shell as thick as the bulkhead of a nuclear submarine.

Twelve sets of hydraulic locking devices act like spider limbs, fastening the iron door firmly to the tank body. Next to it is a warning in red paint in Russian: "Keep away/Highly dangerous."

Russell touched his chin through the explosion-proof observation window on the cabin door. Through the dense fog-like high-concentration halothane anesthetic gas, he could vaguely see a tall, naked figure with a thick beard.

Special restraints were used to bind the soldier boy's body, keeping him in a standing position while he was unconscious.

"Can't I just take a look?"

After taking a look, Russell reached out and grabbed the hatch.

In fact, the soldier boy's current state is no different from being dead, and he is also unable to move. Russell thought that he could copy the soldier boy's ability template just by taking a look.

Unfortunately, it didn't work out.

When the body of the Eternal Man is separated or seriously injured, he will enter a state of suspended animation that is neither dead nor alive. If no one helps to put the two parts together, he will always be an immobile "corpse".

"The soldier boy's condition isn't that bad, so the system can't easily include him in the template?"

You still have to take action.

Cluck...squeak!

There was a teeth-grinding sound of metal deforming, and the heavy hatch was deformed and dismantled alive by the terrifying force and thrown aside.

Just a puff of halothane gas, which could knock down an elephant, drifted out like thick white smoke after a fire, revealing a tall and strong figure. A pair of eyes that had not seen the light for a long time slowly opened.

Soldier Boy wakes up.

(End of this chapter)