Chapter 186 Rango: “We… are the real heroes!!!” (asking for monthly tickets) (Ch 186)

“Hehe…Hehe…”
The Homelander’s stiff facial muscles barely managed a twisted smile. He did not rush forward in anger as Rango had expected. Instead, he looked the other person up and down with his razor-sharp eyes.
“Wow…”
Rango felt the pressure, smiled playfully, and said provocatively: “Super perspective ah? Come on, cloaked man, how about giving me a comprehensive physical examination?”
He opened his arms calmly and presented himself fearlessly to his fellow countrymen. He even turned around leisurely and stood with his back to them, not caring about possible raids.
Homelander’s expression gradually became solemn. He tried to use his ability of perspective to see through Rango, but was surprised to find an invisible barrier blocking his sight. Although he didn’t know the specific strength, his perspective could not penetrate this shield-like barrier.
“So…”
Rango leisurely fiddled with the cloud beside him that looked like a soaked sponge, and said lightly: “You are always so sissy before taking action, right? You have to use perspective to measure the opponent’s strength?”
Homelander’s brows were furrowed, and his voice was filled with displeasure: “You are very brave, no one has ever dared to talk to me like this.”
“That’s because you’re just a spoiled baby. A superhero? The embodiment of justice?” Rango’s lips curled up in a sneer, his words full of disdain.
As soon as these words were spoken, Homelander’s eyes instantly glowed red, a sign of his anger, and the blazing laser beams were already gathering momentum.
“Hmm? You want to fight me?”
Rango was not afraid at all. Instead, he opened his arms, stared at the blond cloaked man in front of him, and said with an excited smile: “Try me!!”
“Don’t push me, Rango. You’re looking for death!”
“Don’t talk like a sissy here! Try me!!! NOW!”
Homelander gritted his teeth, his eyes glowing red, but he thought about how he hadn’t been able to see through the other party’s defenses before, and that there were so many citizens below. If they fought, they would definitely alarm these people. It would be fine if he won, but what if… what if he lost…
As soon as he thought of this, the red light in his eyes gradually faded, and a fake smile appeared on his face, “Dude…”
“Shut the f*ck up!!!”
Rango interrupted him rudely, and just as he finished speaking, a deafening sonic boom sounded in the sky.
He was too lazy to listen to this guy’s whining anymore. According to the information he had obtained from Butcher, the guy in front of him with the American flag draped over his body was the highest fighting force known in the world.
He wants to try this guy’s level himself!
boom–!
Under Yumi’s powerful amplification, Rango’s punch gathered unprecedented power and speed, like a falling star, instantly tearing the sky apart. A violent airflow burst out, knocking Homelander down from the clouds, penetrating through layers of roofs, and finally lying down in a mess in the depths of the ruins.
Rango’s perception ability brought by [Dragon Body] was enhanced to the extreme. He stared at the collapsed house.
The next second, two blazing red lights suddenly shot out from the ruins, like the gaze of the god of death, pointing directly at Rango above the clouds.
Sizzle——!
The shield given by Yuumi appeared instantly and turned into a solid barrier. However, this shield, which was enough to withstand Queen Maeve’s attack, seemed fragile under the high-temperature cutting of the laser and shattered in an instant!
But at this moment, a crisp “meow” pierced the sky, and Yumi used her magic again. A thicker, golden circular shield appeared out of thin air, tightly wrapping Rango, making it invulnerable.
Below, Homelander roared as he rose into the air from the ruins, the laser beams in his eyes bombarding the golden shield frantically, but could only cause ripples without penetrating it at all.
Seeing this, Rango curled up a faint smile, calmly took out a cigarette box from his pocket, took out a cigarette, and lit it leisurely, as if the fierce battle in front of him had nothing to do with him.
“Dude….”
Rango exhaled a puff of smoke and looked at the Homelander who was still gritting his teeth at him with laser eyes in front of him. “Can you be faster? I’m in a hurry to go home for dinner.”
“ah!!!”
Upon hearing this, Homelander became extremely angry. After a deafening roar, he flashed and disappeared from the spot in an instant, leaving behind a series of sonic boom echoes.
When he reappeared, he had appeared in front of Rango like a ghost, his fist packed with the power of a storm, determined to hit him with one blow.
“Oh wow…..this is more like that, isn’t it?”
Rango quickly dodged the guy’s punch by leaning sideways, and at the same time, he swung out his right fist, which had been waiting for a long time, and hit Homelander’s waist accurately.
However, this time Homelander was not knocked away as easily as before. He just staggered slightly and then fought back with a more ferocious attitude.
In the sky, sonic booms sounded one after another. Two figures were like two flashes of lightning, shuttling back and forth between the clouds. Every collision was accompanied by a deafening roar.
The surrounding clouds were torn into pieces by their fierce battle, and even raindrops and hail began to fall!
At this moment, on the ground, Butcher and his team were hiding on the rooftop of a restaurant, watching the fierce battle above the clouds through telescopes.
“Jesus F*cking Christ!!!”
Frankie roared excitedly, his mouth wide open in shock, the telescope in his hand almost pressed against his eyes, staring at every detail in the sky.
“Butch… where the hell did you find this bastard?”
He put down the telescope and excitedly shook the arm of the rough guy beside him, “Did you see that? That guy was able to fight the Chinese to a draw! Shit, it’s hard to imagine that this guy would be our teammate!”
Butcher also looked up at the sky, a smug smile on his face, “What do you think I’ve been doing these past few years? Now, we have the ultimate weapon against Homelander in our hands!”
“Uh… Sorry, I have to correct some of your mistakes. Generally speaking, the weapon that appears last is called the ultimate weapon.”
The black man named MM interrupted. He put down the telescope and looked at the teddy bear who was sitting leisurely on the fence for a moment. Then he lowered his voice and said to Butcher, “Don’t forget what the colonel and our purpose was in the beginning. To overthrow Vought Company! To eliminate all the super-powered people! But you…you…”
As he spoke, he patted Butcher’s arm vigorously, his tone full of doubt and dissatisfaction, “You actually found a second-generation Homelander for our team! Even if we deal with Walter by then, how do we deal with Rango? Huh?”
After hearing this, Butcher turned his head and looked at MM expressionlessly, and cursed unhappily: “You are as talented as ‘Rain Man’ in your ability to ruin other people’s moods!”
Seeing that MM wanted to argue a few more words, he pushed the guy away and said angrily: “Don’t ask me those long-term problems. I just want to enjoy watching my countrymen get beaten up!”
After saying that, he raised the telescope again and observed the battle intently, sighing regretfully, “Damn! If there was a fried onion ring with whiskey now, it would be perfect!”
At the same time, the people on the ground were also attracted by the sonic booms in the sky. They stopped and raised their mobile phones to record this incredible scene.
The blond man wearing the Stars and Stripes was easy to recognize. They could tell at a glance that he was the big star Homelander, but they were confused about the other man in the black leather jacket. They had never seen any reports about this superhuman on TV.
The emotions in the crowd were mixed. This guy had actually been able to fight the invincible Homelander for so many rounds. Could he be a superhuman criminal?
“Fuck, fuck, fuck——!”
At this moment, in Water Company, in the seven-member team command center on the top floor, President Madeline looked at the images they captured with the satellite and, contrary to her usual behavior, started cursing.
Her repeated warnings to her fellow countrymen in the past two days seemed to have fallen on deaf ears. This giant baby-like bastard actually went and provoked Rango!
Behind her, Queen Maeve, Starlight, Deep Sea and others from the Super Seven were also staring at the screen with bated breath.
Although they are all people with super powers, the battle before them is far beyond their understanding.
It’s not just because each of these two people’s punches can produce the power and speed of a sonic boom, but more importantly, it’s the hopeless defense.
If the attacks launched by the two people in the picture fell on their heads, except for Maeve who could resist for a while, the others would be beaten into a pulp without any surprise.
But whether it was Homelander or Rango, they acted as if nothing had happened after being hit. They just shook their bodies and continued to fight back.
The people of my country are easy to understand, but where the hell did this Rango come from? !
“Ma’am, there is one thing that might be considered good news.”
Ashley, the HR director of the superhero department, reported hurriedly. She held her phone and showed the blurry videos uploaded by the citizens. “Because the attack speed of Homelander and Rango was too fast, these videos could not capture the specific details of the battle. All we could see were the interweaving of light and shadows between the clouds and the deafening sonic boom.”
Upon hearing this, Madeline quickly took the phone and checked it carefully. After confirming that everything was correct, she immediately issued an order: “Notify the public relations department immediately and prepare a crisis public relations plan. Push all of this to the new movie that Water Company recently shot, and then greet our media friends. I don’t want to see these videos appear on any mainstream media platform.”
“clear.”
After Ashley left in a hurry, Madeline looked at the two people fighting back and forth in slow motion.
Every fight between them was thrilling, and both of them had scars of varying degrees on their bodies.
The shield that originally protected Rango had been shattered in countless confrontations, but unexpectedly, this guy’s physical defense was also ridiculously strong. After being hit by Homelander’s laser beam, he only suffered burns, and the laser beam did not pierce his body.
But what puzzled her was that although Homelander was equal to Rango in strength, speed, and defense, he always seemed to be at a disadvantage in some subtle way.
In the sky, the two figures temporarily separated after another fierce collision and stood facing each other, as if accumulating strength for the upcoming decisive battle.
Rango wiped the blood off his face, forcibly reset his twisted shoulder blade, and said sincerely: “I have to admit that this is the most enjoyable fight I’ve had in a long time. Man, you’re really strong.”
The Homelander on the other side was also in a bad state. His limbs were twisted by the opponent at incredible angles many times, and his internal organs also ached. Although they were equally strong, Rango could always find a unique angle to exert force and lock his joints. This feeling of powerlessness made him extremely uncomfortable.
The two men stared at each other in the air, and the atmosphere of the fierce battle suddenly cooled.
“Going for a drink?”
“Um?”
The Homelander was slightly stunned, as if doubting whether he had heard it wrong, and asked with a frown: “You…what did you say?”
Rango shrugged casually: “There’s no point in fighting anymore. Why don’t we find a place to sit down and talk? I’m quite curious about you.”
Homelander was silent for a moment, carefully examining Rango, and finally nodded slowly: “Where to?”
“Buddy, this is your territory.”
Rango spread his hands and smiled at him: “The location should be decided by you.”
“……”
A moment later, in the astonished eyes of the crowd watching on the ground, the two men who were fighting fiercely suddenly stopped. After talking for a few words, they disappeared from everyone’s sight like two supersonic lightning bolts.
“Watfake?!”
Butcher, who was watching the show, looked at the two guys beside him in confusion, “Where are they doing?”
“Shit, are they shaking hands and making peace?” MM looked worried.
However, Butcher shook his head immediately after hearing this and said, “You don’t know Rango, but you also don’t know Homelander. Do you think he is the kind of person who will easily compromise given his personality?”
“So where do you think they went?”
MM asked back, “Rango is a superhuman, Homelander is also a superhuman, they are our own people! Fuck, they might be planning to go to a bar right now, and then discuss how to get drunk and wipe out all of us ordinary people who are targeting superhumans!”
Butcher still didn’t quite believe it after hearing this. Although he had known Rango for a day or two, from his feeling, this guy shouldn’t be the kind of person who would go back on his promise.
But what MM said did make some sense. After thinking for a moment, he nodded and said, “Let’s retreat first and don’t go back to the previous gathering point.”
As he said this, he quietly walked behind the teddy bear. This teddy bear, who had always followed Rango and treated him as a brother, was still pointing a telescope at the sky and chattering about the childish attire of his fellow countrymen.
But in the next second, his entire bear body was lifted up, and by the time he reacted, he was already caught between Butcher’s arms.
“Fuck, you’re fucking hurting me, asshole!”
“Relax man, I’ll apologize to Rango personally when he gets back.”
Butcher soothed, taking the binoculars from Teddy and motioning to MM and Frankie, “Let’s get out of here first, and then we can find a solution.”
“Where can we go? If Rango really cooperates with Homelander, they can cover the entire city in half an hour!”
“I don’t know, use your imagination!”
“…….”
……….
……….
Water Building.
The rooftop terrace.
Rango stood on the supporting wall, his eyes penetrating the steel forest and the bustling crowd below. He couldn’t help but shook his head helplessly and said, “I find that you people here don’t seem to know what ‘a good chat’ means.”
He turned his head and looked at his countryman who was looking at him coldly, “You usually go to the rooftop to chat with people? Are you an undercover agent?”
The native looked at Rango coldly, his slightly narrowed eyes revealing his indifference and disdain for Rango’s words.
“I don’t know what you are talking about, and I am not interested in knowing. You’d better make your purpose clear now. Don’t forget, this is the territory of Vought Corporation. At my command, hundreds of superhumans are on standby at any time, enough to overwhelm you.”
“Yeah?”
Rango just smiled calmly upon hearing this, not caring about the threat from his countrymen. “Super Seven? They are just some second-rate bastards.”
A sneer appeared on Homelander’s lips, as if he had seen through Rango’s weakness.
“From the battle between you and me just now, I discovered one thing. Although you are very powerful, unfortunately you lack long-range attack means, your combat mode is single, and you do not have the ability to cause large-scale destruction. For me, a sea of ​​people is useless…”
At this point, his eyes slowly flashed red, as if he had grasped Rango’s weakness, and he said with a smug look on his face: “But for you, as long as someone can control you, I can activate the maximum power laser beam and continuously attack you. Don’t think that your defense can completely ignore my power.”
“Oh…” Rango shrugged casually, “Thank you for speaking so much.”
He looked at Yumi who was still possessed by him, smiled, and said nonchalantly: “Go, call them all out.”
Rango looked at Homelander and smiled, “Just to remind you, like you said, this is your company. If you make me angry, I can do anything.”
Homelander was silent for a long time, and finally took a deep breath, with obvious displeasure in his tone: “What is your purpose! Do you want to replace me?!”
“Ohhh….”
Rango waved his hands quickly, his face full of helplessness of being misunderstood: “Don’t take your identity so seriously, man. I’m not interested in wearing the Stars and Stripes every day and telling everyone I meet, ‘You are the real hero’.”
He pointed at Homelander and said, “I just want to ask you a question.”
After saying that, Rango jumped down from the supporting wall and walked to Homelander. His eyes wandered between his cloak and torn battle suit, and finally asked seriously: “Do you really like your current life?”
Homelander frowned in confusion, clearly surprised by the question: “What do you mean?”
“Just like you do on TV…”
Rango continued, “You perform in front of the public all day long, fight crime, make movies, release records, and accept various interviews. Your life is like a show that never ends. Even when facing someone you don’t like, you have to force yourself to smile in front of the camera and say that bullshit sentence ‘You are the real hero’ to him!”
“……”
The Homelander was silent for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter. That laughter was very hearty: “I know, you envy me. You envy me for being a superhuman who can be loved by everyone, and you envy me for being a big star that is popular all over the world.”
“Oh…..”
Rango smiled helplessly. “Dude, you’re just a mass-produced commodity. Believe me, it won’t be long before you’re no longer young, and Madeline will launch a new, younger, and more powerful superhuman to replace you.”
Homelander’s face, which was originally full of confidence, suddenly turned gloomy after hearing Rango’s words. He retorted in a low voice: “I am the strongest man in the world. No one can surpass me or replace me!”
“Shit, I finally realized that you are a narcissistic egomaniac.”
Rango was speechless. This guy was impossible to communicate with. He would start bragging about himself after just a few words.
He took a deep breath and spoke patiently, “I’ve watched TV, read newspapers, and read the news. I know everything about you. The people in power at the Water Company behind you, Edgar and Madeline, are the real driving force behind your fame. And you are just a pawn in their hands, and you don’t even have the courage to resist.”
The Homelander responded coldly: “It seems that you know nothing about me…”
“Don’t deny it so quickly. I saw it with my own eyes on TV. Edgar can make you obey with just a simple gesture. Your expression at that time was exactly the same as it is now, angry and helpless.”
He took a step closer, looked directly at Homelander, and said in a very serious tone: “Let me ask you a question, why do you abide by the so-called constraints of morality and law?”
The Homelander was slightly stunned, his lips moved, and he hesitated several times, but in the end he couldn’t say it.
Seeing this, Rango said directly: “The reason why ordinary humans abide by moral laws is because they need human society. He alone cannot defeat the entire human society, so he needs to abide by the law and abide by morality.”
“In other words, if you don’t need human society, or if one person can fight against the entire human society, you can completely ignore any morality and laws.”
“Do whatever you want! Do whatever you want!”
“Ordinary people usually call this kind of thing a God!”
Rango’s tone was full of temptation, as if he was painting a picture of freedom for the people of his homeland.
“You and I are the gods of this human society! With our strength, why should we listen to the words of ordinary humans?”
“I’m telling you, if that black guy named Edgar dares to whine in front of me and tell me what to do and what not to do, I will tear him in half in the next second!”
“We…are the real heroes!”
“…….”
However, Homelander was not easily convinced. After a moment of silence, he said in a complicated tone: “You know nothing about me. I am a global superstar and the embodiment of justice! Countless teenagers across North America regard me as an idol. Among all the superhuman superstars launched by Vought Corporation, my support rate reaches 90%, second only to the Soldier Boy a few decades ago! Before long, I will even join the military’s national defense system and enforce the law in other countries…”
Rango was too lazy to listen to his next words. As he said just now, this Homelander either lacked love since childhood or had a crazy narcissistic personality.
He was talking to him about issues that transcended human society, but this guy told him that he was a big star.
“F*CKing Pussy!!!”
Rango couldn’t stand it anymore and cursed, then turned around and prepared to leave.
But before leaving, he turned his head and looked at the guy, and said solemnly: “I respect you, buddy, even though you don’t deserve it. But promise me, next time when Madeline or Edgar talks to you in a commanding tone again, at least show your anger and tell them that you are not a pawn that can be manipulated by others!”
After saying that, he stretched out his body, and with a roar, he instantly soared into the sky, leaving behind only a trail that cut through the sky and the countrymen on the rooftop who were deep in thought.
Rango looked down at the shrinking Homelander below, a meaningful smile on his face.
He had no good feelings towards this guy, and what he said just now was simply to fool him.
During these two days, he conducted in-depth research on the background of Water Corporation and found that the company was much more deeply rooted in the business and political circles than he had imagined. With only the strength of him and Butcher’s gang, it would be a futile attempt to confront it head-on.
But the existence of his fellow countrymen provided him with a potential opportunity.
If this guy could be moved by his words, become dissatisfied with the status quo, or even go to extremes and kill the president of Water Company with his own hands, then the entire situation would change drastically.
Furthermore, if Homelander really regards himself as a being beyond humanity and as a god as he says, and thus begins to disregard the constraints of morality and law, then this will undoubtedly be a more favorable situation for Rango.
……..
……..
As night fell, a black truck sped past on the empty road. The sounds of fierce fighting and muffled silenced gunshots could be faintly heard from inside the car.
Not long after, the truck stopped at a suburban farm. Butcher jumped out of the car first, followed by Huey and his men. At this time, they all had obvious scars on their faces, and it was obvious that they had just experienced a battle. After looking around to make sure it was safe, they worked together to lift a huge wooden box off the car.
Inside the stable, under dim lights, a special “interrogation” was taking place.
They took turns holding the electric baton and releasing electricity at an empty iron cage. As the current jumped, a transparent figure gradually appeared in the cage, as if the air itself was trembling.
“Fuck, this guy is not an invisible man at all…”
Teddy stood next to the cage and witnessed all this. He was speechless and said, “He just became transparent. I can smell the urine smell on him even when I’m one meter away from him!”
“Yeah… this guy also has a nickname called the Invisible Man.”
Butcher rubbed his palms excitedly. Not long ago, they had planned to send Hughie home to celebrate his feat of successfully installing a bug in the Water Building.
But at this moment, the Invisible Man somehow discovered the bug installed by Huey, followed him all the way, and beat Huey up.
Relying on his invisibility, this guy completely ignored Butcher and the other three. Then he was controlled by these three guys using various bizarre means and imprisoned in this electrified cage.
Shit!
The invisible man looked at the group of excited “interrogators” in front of him and the chilling torture instruments around him. Even though his skin was as hard as alloy, he couldn’t help feeling a chill.
He tried to lighten the mood and suggested, “Hey, even if you guys want to interrogate me, can you go somewhere warmer?”
“Yeah…” Teddy immediately retorted: “We wanted to meet at your mom’s warm house, but it’s so crowded!”
“….”
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