Entering the grocery store was easy.
Starlight was wearing ordinary casual clothes, and with her hood up, no one could recognize her as the famous Starlight.
Kevin, having learned from yesterday’s lesson, wore not only a baseball cap but also non-prescription black-rimmed glasses.
In such a disguise, let alone ordinary people, even Homelander might not be able to identify him as The Deep without using his X-ray vision.
Two seemingly ordinary people entering a grocery store wouldn’t attract anyone’s attention.
After all, unless you say something, who knows if you came here to buy something or to do something else?
The owner couldn’t possibly stare at the security monitors all the time.
Starlight and Kevin followed the person in front until they saw him enter a basement room and lock the door; only then did they stop.
Looking at the locked door, Starlight pointed at it, then turned her head and asked Kevin, “What should we do?” “…Are you asking me?” ‘Girl, you are the mastermind, I am the accomplice!
You are asking me?’ ‘Wait, why did I just classify myself as a criminal…’ Starlight also realized she had asked a silly question.
The door was locked, and neither of them had lock-picking skills; aside from forcefully breaking the door down, there seemed to be no other way inside.
It was a pity it wasn’t an electronic lock; otherwise, Starlight could have tried using her powers.
“How about this?
I will distract the people outside, and you find a way to break the door down.” Starlight thought for a moment and came up with an idea she found quite plausible.
Kevin, however, rolled his eyes.
“And then you get recognized as Starlight and The Deep, and you both end up in tomorrow’s news headlines?” “Then what do you suggest?
We don’t have a key!” “Tsk, what a hassle.
Wait a minute.” Kevin scratched the back of his head in frustration, and then, taking advantage of the fact that no one was looking, quickly grabbed a bottle of mineral water from a nearby shelf.
Starlight looked at him in confusion.
Kevin didn’t explain; he took the mineral water, led Starlight to the door, and unscrewed the cap.
“What are you…?” “Don’t say a word.
I am just trying something.
If it doesn’t work, we will continue observing and wait for them to move the victims tonight, and then we will make our move.” ‘Although, if that happens, there is a high chance we will run into A-Train or Homelander…’ Kevin muttered under his breath, but his movements were not slow at all.
He used his Water Manipulation ability to control the flow of water from the bottle.
Starlight, watching from the sidelines, widened her eyes.
She had never seen The Deep use such abilities before; the new power Kevin was demonstrating truly shocked her.
Under Kevin’s control, the water flowed into the keyhole.
Kevin closed his eyes, feeling the flow of the water, and let it carry Shape into the keyhole.
Finally, he twisted his right hand slightly, and with a click, the lock opened.
“It opened!” Starlight exclaimed in pleasant surprise, her gaze towards Kevin filled with even more undisguised admiration.
Now, this girl probably liked Kevin even more.
Referring to a fan’s affection for her idol.
Having successfully used his skills to pick the lock, Kevin also breathed a sigh of relief.
His Water Manipulation skill had been upgraded to Level 3.
In addition to a larger range for water control, Kevin could also perform finer manipulations.
For example, shaping water into various sculptural forms, or, as he did just now, allowing water to enter specific places and then shape it as needed.
It was exactly because of this new ability that Kevin wanted to try creating his own master key.
He didn’t expect it to actually work.
Unlocked a new way to use the ability!
“Alright, let’s go in.” Pouring the water that had leaked from the keyhole back into the bottle, Kevin casually pocketed it.
His Water Manipulation ability was great in every way, but it couldn’t create water out of thin air.
Perhaps Level 3 Water Manipulation wasn’t enough for that, so if Kevin wanted to use this ability, it was better to always carry a bottle of water.
Of course, this only applied to ‘infiltration’ type missions.
If it were an open battle, Kevin could easily draw water from underground or from stores on either side.
After all, in a city, water is the least scarce resource.
Even, to put it somewhat disgustingly, the sewers wouldn’t be an exception…
The door to the basement room opened, and Starlight and Kevin sneaked inside.
Entering the underground room…
or rather, the underground warehouse, Kevin and Starlight immediately became alert.
The two of them knew what they were doing; they hadn’t come here to investigate as superheroes, but had infiltrated on their own.
Therefore, unless necessary, they should try not to reveal themselves to anyone, at least until they found the victims or evidence that this group was illegally holding people captive; they needed to remain as stealthy as possible.
Once they found the victims or evidence, it wouldn’t be too late to take action.
That is what Kevin thought; he didn’t want to make too much noise.
Unfortunately, as soon as he and Starlight entered, they bumped into a man who was about to leave.
The man was wearing a yellow t-shirt and holding a half-eaten lunchbox, eating on the go and looking as if he was about to grab something.
And unfortunately, he walked towards the entrance of this basement room and came face to face with Kevin and Starlight, who had just entered.
“WT…” Seeing strangers intruding on his territory, the man instinctively tossed his lunchbox aside and reached for his waist.
There was a gun there.
“!!” Whiz!
But before the man could shoot, a deafening sound erupted.
Kevin felt as if he had been hit by a flashbang; his vision suddenly went white, and then immediately went dark.
A second later, when Kevin’s vision returned, he noticed that the unfortunate man had already been blown away by a single ‘Starlight Blast’ from Starlight.
His chest was charred black; it was clear he wouldn’t survive.
Seeing this, Kevin turned his head to look at Starlight.
This was undoubtedly Starlight’s ability.
Starlight Annie’s superpower was exactly that: she gathered light rays and then released them outwards, somewhat like a severely weakened version of Captain Marvel.
“What?
Why are you looking at me?
I just got scared!
Uh…
is he dead?” Scared by the man and reacting instinctively, Starlight only now realized that she seemed to have used too much force; an enemy hit by her ‘Starlight’ probably wouldn’t survive.
Kevin couldn’t be bothered to complain about why their coordinated stealth investigation had turned into a full-scale assault, because Reality simply didn’t give him a reason to complain.
The noise made by the man killed by Starlight’s blast alerted the others in the basement room.
These people reacted quickly, and their methods were brutal.
They didn’t seem to care what happened; they just charged in, brandishing rifles.
Seeing Kevin and Starlight, they pulled the triggers and unleashed a barrage of fire.
Gunshots rang out, sparks flew, and Kevin immediately grabbed Starlight and hid behind the nearest pillar, unscrewed the cap of the water bottle in his pocket, and, manipulating the water, created three arrows that hovered in the air.
In the dim light of the basement room, the transparent water arrows hanging in the air were invisible, and Kevin’s control speed was incredibly fast.
Before the men could react, the water arrows accurately pierced their throats.
Pfft!
Almost simultaneously, the sound of sharp blades piercing flesh rang out.
In an instant, the gunfire ceased, and the three armed thugs collapsed to the ground.
After eliminating the enemies, Kevin led Starlight out from behind the pillar.
Starlight stared silently at the corpses lying on the ground for a long time.
After a while, she said to Kevin, “You didn’t need to hide me just now; I am not afraid of bullets.” Besides using ‘Starlight’, Starlight’s superpowers also included superhuman physical strength and supernatural defense.
In the original story, Butcher used a sniper rifle to shoot Starlight from very close range, and Starlight was only knocked back by the impact; she herself was unharmed.
Therefore, ordinary rifle bullets were ineffective against Starlight.
They were also ineffective against the current Kevin.
“I know, but do you?
Bullets hitting a superhero and bullets hitting a wall leave different traces.
Don’t you want to remain unnoticed?
Then try not to tell the company about this.” The main thing was to try not to let Homelander find out about this.
Otherwise, if Homelander shot his red eyes at them, they might both be finished.
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