Chapter 84: Chapter 84: Journey to Syria (Part 2)
Before long, nearly half an hour had passed.
At the edge of their vision, an armed stronghold came into view, built from abandoned concrete structures, barbed wire, and piles of sandbags.
Several pickup trucks mounted with heavy machine guns were parked at the entrance. A dozen heavily armed terrorists with vicious eyes patrolled back and forth with AKs in hand. Some of them were also carrying rocket launchers.
This was the most dangerous restricted zone in the entire desert.
The camp of Naqib, a Supervillain with the ability to self-detonate.
From the camp ahead came the faint sound of terrorists barking orders in Arabic.
"We’re finally here," Soldier Boy said slowly.
"Stormfront was right, sir. You really are damn good at finding people. Based on our speed, I figured it’d take us at least another three or four days, but I didn’t expect..."
Starlight was confused, but her voice was full of admiration.
The current Starlight was different from the one she would become later. She couldn’t fly yet, and her speed was about the same as an ordinary person’s. As for Soldier Boy, although he had Speed Lv1, he had been walking slowly to accommodate her. free𝑤ebnovel.com
Benjamin stopped.
He turned to look at Annie, who was practically itching to charge in beside him, and said flatly, "Annie, stay right here and don’t move. I’ll handle that bunch of trash up ahead."
Annie froze for a moment, then a flash of defiance crossed her beautiful eyes.
"Sir, I know you’re strong, but I’m still a superhero from The Seven."
Annie lifted her chest slightly, her platinum-colored Supersuit gleaming in the sunlight.
"My Superpowers aren’t weak either. I can fight right alongside you..."
"You sure?"
Benjamin tilted his head slightly, his deep gaze fixed on Annie.
"You want to lose your Superpowers and turn into some delicate woman who can’t even beat a regular strong guy? If that happens, you won’t be able to protect the people you want to protect."
Annie instinctively took half a step back. Looking at Benjamin’s serious expression, which didn’t look like a joke at all, she couldn’t help swallowing hard.
A faint smile tugged at the corner of Benjamin’s mouth as he looked toward the distant camp.
"In a minute, I’m gonna show that little self-detonating brat in there what a real fucking self-detonation looks like."
With that, Benjamin ignored Starlight, who was still standing there in a daze. Carrying the impossibly heavy eagle shield in one hand, he strode forward at an unhurried pace toward the terrorists’ camp.
Left behind, Annie pouted her full red lips helplessly.
As she watched that broad back, a strange feeling suddenly rose in her heart.
She was a superhero of The Seven, an idol to countless teenagers across America, yet following Soldier Boy around now, she felt like some useless little mascot.
Aside from being fucked half to death by this domineering man in bed at night and serving as his bedwarmer, whenever danger actually showed up, there was no need for her to do anything. Benjamin alone could crush every problem like an ant.
Fine, being protected by the person she liked did feel pretty damn good, but Starlight wanted to fight too.
Still, that frustration lasted only a second before it was replaced by intense curiosity.
What exactly was the method Benjamin had mentioned earlier, the one that could strip people of their Superpowers?
He said he was going to show that Supervillain what a real self-detonation looked like...
Could it be that, aside from his freakishly powerful body, he could also trigger some kind of self-detonation that destroyed Superpowers?
Thinking this, Annie obediently pushed all her other thoughts aside and found a relatively safe boulder to use as cover.
She poked half her head out, cupped her hands around her mouth, and shouted at his back like the most fanatical little fangirl.
"Mr. Soldier Boy, kick their ass!"
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As Benjamin kept approaching, the terrorists on the sentry towers around the camp finally spotted him.
In a hellhole like Syria, where people died every single day, these desperate bastards didn’t bother with warnings or small talk.
The moment they saw through their binoculars that a burly man in a vintage Supersuit was swaggering toward them, they didn’t hesitate at all. They immediately pulled the trigger.
"Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat!"
Deafening gunfire tore through the silence of the desert.
A Soviet-made DShK heavy machine gun mounted in the bed of a pickup truck opened fire first. This terrifying weapon, with a caliber of 12.7 millimeters, was normally used against light armored vehicles and armed helicopters. Against an ordinary person, a single round was enough to cut them clean in half.
A dense hail of bullets instantly swallowed the area around Benjamin.
"Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!"
But what happened next nearly made the eyes of every terrorist who had opened fire pop out of their sockets.
Those heavy machine gun rounds, powerful enough to tear through steel plate, struck Benjamin’s dark green Supersuit and even hit his chest and neck, yet all they produced was a crisp series of metallic clangs.
The moment the warheads touched Benjamin’s skin, the sheer force of the rebound flattened them into metal pancakes before they dropped uselessly onto the scorching sand.
Benjamin didn’t even blink.
He simply walked forward against the heavy machine gun fire, keeping the same steady, unhurried pace. freewebnovel.cσ๓
"Fuck! What the hell is that thing?! RPG! Blow him apart with an RPG!"
A terrorist who looked like a leader shouted in panic.
"Whoosh!"
Two militants carrying rocket launchers immediately leaned out. Two RPG rockets, dragging long trails of flame behind them and screaming through the air, slammed toward Benjamin from the left and right.
At the same time, on a high point 800 meters from the camp, a deeply hidden sniper also pulled the trigger of his Barrett heavy sniper rifle.
"Bang!"
An armor-piercing round shot toward Benjamin’s forehead at Supersonic speed.
RPGs. A heavy sniper rifle.
Of course, terrifying as these weapons were, they probably couldn’t even hurt Annie, let alone Soldier Boy.
Facing the rockets already right in front of him, Benjamin didn’t even bother raising his shield.
"Boom! Boom!"
The two RPGs exploded directly against Benjamin’s chest.
Blinding fire and thick black smoke swallowed him in an instant, while the terrifying Shockwave sent sand and dirt flying across more than ten meters around him.
At the same time, the Barrett armor-piercing round struck Benjamin squarely in the forehead amid the flames.
"Hit!"
The sniper shouted in wild excitement from behind his scope.
But when a gust of wind blew the smoke away, everyone’s breath caught.
Benjamin was still standing in the same spot, completely unharmed, without the slightest sign that the barrage had done anything to him.
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