313. Chapter 312 Explosion! Soldier Boy Appears!
If, as she said, it required a large amount of time to accumulate and increase the temperature of his flames, and it only increased by a few hundred degrees in two or three years, it was conceivable that the further this superpower progressed, the longer it would take. Unless the upper limit of this superpower was very high, or even limitless, otherwise, even if he managed to fuse it, it would probably just be a burdensome superpower. After all, the high temperature his Blazing Wings could release reached nearly fifteen hundred degrees.
He could easily melt steel into molten iron.
This meant that even if he fused Full Body Ignition and spent time raising it to fifteen hundred degrees, the overall improvement to his strength would be almost negligible.
"Does Golden Boy's flame temperature still have room for improvement? Like reaching over two thousand degrees?" If it could truly reach two thousand degrees, Xia Shang wouldn't be stingy with his Analyze ability. However, if Golden Boy's flame temperature stopped here, or at most below two thousand degrees, he really wouldn't want to waste his energy on Golden Boy.
Indira raised an eyebrow, speaking cryptically, "Hard to say. In my opinion, he still has a lot of room for improvement. Professor Brink once told me that Golden Boy might be greater than Homelander."
"Is that so? It seems the Professor really thinks highly of him."
Xia Shang looked at Golden Boy kissing his girlfriend and chuckled softly, "Based on my understanding of Homelander, he's still too weak compared to Homelander. Even with a few more years, he wouldn't be able to contend with Homelander, let alone surpass him. Unless Golden Boy's flame temperature can significantly increase in a short time, you'd better not let Homelander hear what you just said."
If those words, "greater than Homelander," reached Homelander's ears...
Homelander would probably descend upon Godolkin University tonight, crush Golden Boy's neck with a single slap, and then, while smiling, casually toss the dead-dog-like Golden Boy onto the ground.
As for the subsequent public relations report, Xia Shang had already thought it through.
'Golden Boy, ranked number one at Godolkin University, died accidentally due to an overdose of drugs. To prevent similar incidents from happening again, Vought will collaborate with the School Authorities to implement a cleanup operation targeting drugs, while doing their utmost to resolutely uphold and support the safety and purity of the campus.'
However, since that Professor could make such arrogant remarks, he must have something to rely on. Could it be that the upper limit of Golden Boy's ability is really very high?
"Golden Boy should be in his junior year now, right? He only has one year left. Does Professor Brink really have the confidence to make him a being that surpasses Homelander?" Xia Shang suspected that Indira was hiding something from him. After all, the secret Laboratory underground was enough to prove the point. Clearly, Godolkin University was not simple, and Indira, as the University Principal, was definitely even less simple.
"Perhaps." Indira didn't answer directly, but looked at Golden Boy on the field with a complex gaze, mixed with emotions like expectation and anger.
As expected, she's hiding something from me. Xia Shang noticed that Indira's heart stuttered for a moment just now. It seemed that Golden Boy's flame temperature might not be slowly increasing with the passage of time.
"Is that Golden Boy's girlfriend? She looks good, very much in line with Vought's requirements for Supes. After all, you know that while Vought values strength, image is also essential. This can bring her huge popularity, thereby increasing her own influence. By the way, what's her superpower?" Xia Shang asked.
Golden Boy's girlfriend he mentioned had long, light gold hair, a fair and smooth face, and very delicate features, a standard Western beauty.
"You mean Cate? She is indeed Golden Boy's girlfriend. As for her superpower, I remember it seems to be Manipulation. Sometimes she uses her superpower to prank some classmates, which leads to many people coming to me to complain." Indira smiled, then immediately changed the subject, "Her superpower isn't outstanding, nothing special, so her ranking in the school isn't high either. Oh, I almost forgot to take you to the Vice Principal's office. If there's anything you're not satisfied with, I can have someone rearrange it." Saying this, she stood up and left the gymnasium with Xia Shang.
However, her heart was much more honest than she was. Looking at the smiling Indira beside him, Xia Shang slightly narrowed his eyes. Why was she hiding Cate's true superpower from him? Was she perhaps afraid that he would be on guard after knowing?
...
The scene changed. A scruffy, unkempt man, wearing an old, worn-out sweatsuit, stood on a street in New York. He looked around somewhat lost. Everything around him felt particularly strange. The posters of Homelander, Starlight, and The Deep on the walls, the Vought advertising vehicles driving on the road, and the political campaign ads on the street signs all made the man feel incredibly unfamiliar.
He kept looking around, walking and observing.
Just then, a white person and a black person walked past, arm in arm. Looking at them talking and laughing happily, Soldier Boy suddenly felt a strange sense of things being against the natural order. He couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth, as if mocking himself for what he had missed all these years.
"Finally found him."
Xia Shang hovered in mid-air. Even the glass of the nearby building couldn't reflect his shadow.
To be honest, he only spent half an hour finding Soldier Boy in the sea of people. After all, this wasn't Godolkin University, and the number of Supes wasn't that many, so after eliminating them one by one, he quickly found Soldier Boy.
At this moment, Soldier Boy, walking on the street, suddenly stopped.
A familiar piece of music seemed to awaken his painful memories. Passionate and excited Russian music sounded from a nearby broadcast.
In a trance, Soldier Boy seemed to see himself, at the mercy of others, suffering painful torment.
He reflexively bent down, his expression becoming increasingly ferocious. He emitted bursts of low growls.
"Buddy, are you okay? How about going to the hospital to get checked out?" A passerby, seeing Soldier Boy curled up with his back bent, kindly stepped forward to ask.
Only, he didn't notice the trembling gravel under his feet.
"Didn't expect the plot from the source material would still play out." To prevent being affected by the explosion and thus exposing himself, Xia Shang couldn't help but fly a bit higher.
"Ah!" The next second, Soldier Boy suddenly straightened his back. The red light that lit up on his chest quickly gathered into a fireball, and then, amidst roars, boomed and expanded, instantly swallowing up the building in front of him. Like an exploding sun, it emitted blinding light. In an instant, screams from passersby immediately sounded on both sides of the road. The pillar of fire lasted for two to three seconds. When everything returned to calm, only a mess remained on the spot, like a building bombed by missiles, and Soldier Boy with a painful expression.
(end of chapter)