Volume 4 Chapter 36: King of Vectors

The infrasound waves spread out silently and finally collided with the eight wind vortices.

A clear sound came from the rapidly spinning wind vortices, as if someone had plucked a tight string. The infrasound waves passed through the wind vortices without any resistance and seemed to have no effect on the Octagonal Killing Array.

“Now!” Joey flipped upside down in mid-air, his facial features bleeding, but the light in his eyes was terrifyingly bright. His knuckles gripping the FN-500 were pale and bloodless. Although his internal organs were twitching and his blood felt boiling, his gun-holding hand remained steady and calm.

Bang! The muzzle of the FN-500 simulated the smoke of a Luger Pistol. A disordered cluster of light-energy scattergun shots flashed briefly in the air and reappeared right in front of David. This cluster of light-energy scattergun shots completely ignored the three defensive whirlwinds in front of the old man, as if passing through a short tunnel in space-time, appearing directly before the old man’s face.

The pointer in Dean David’s pupils jumped violently. He threw his head back and fell down as expected. His body was thrown several meters by the powerful impact of the light-energy scattergun shots, flying out of the carriage and hanging halfway between two carriages, nearly falling off the tracks.

Crash! Just as Dean David was struck down, the eight wind vortices in the carriage finally lost control. They suddenly swelled and shrank before bursting like balloons, tearing the entire carriage apart like a storm scattering clouds.

After emitting the infrasound, Leo had already turned back and held his wife in his arms, using his sturdy body to block the flying debris. Joey also fell onto the carriage floor from the air. He felt as if a sharp blade was churning all his internal organs into a mess. This was the resonance damage caused by the infrasound.

Joey curled up his body and couldn’t help but open his mouth wide. Blood mixed with small, unknown meat-like substances gushed out of his mouth, spilling onto the floor. Dr. Leo’s infrasound did not distinguish between friend and foe; even his wife, Dr. Keller, could only rely on medication to reduce the damage from the infrasound.

However, both Joey and Leo actually felt a slight sense of relief. The giant’s infrasound had lethal effects on ordinary people, but for superhumans like them with strong constitutions, it only caused temporary damage. At least they had managed to break Dean David’s seemingly certain killing wind vortex array this time.

Bang! Joey sprang up from the floor, wiped the blood from his mouth, and discarded a thumb-sized crystal vial with his left hand. This was his last remaining three drops of World Tree Dew. This item contained life essence, not only restoring health points but also nourishing severely damaged internal organs.

After standing up, Joey did not check his injuries. Instead, he stared intently at the connection point outside the carriage, a trace of caution flashing in his eyes.

“Cough, cough, I’m old and useless!” Dean David pushed himself up from the carriage connection point, two streams of blood flowing down from his temples.

Among the world’s top superpowered beings, David had a nickname called “King of Vectors.” He and another, “Magneto” Eric, were known as the two kings of force fields.

However, David was actually stronger than Eric. He could control the vector movements of all understandable objects in daily life and endow them with gravitational and repulsive forces. Of course, David’s ability was not without flaws. This ability required extensive mental calculations; he had to fully understand the physical properties and laws of the controlled objects.

In other words, Dean David could not control things he did not understand or objects limited by his own scientific knowledge. This included things in the realm of advanced physics such as light and waves.

Although in this era, Albert Einstein had already proposed wave-particle duality, Dean David was, after all, not a top scientist and could not understand it. Even if he could understand it, his brain could not perform such high-precision calculations. He was destined to be unable to restrict attacks like infrasound and light-energy scattergun shots.

The light-energy scattergun shots from the FN-500 could not break through the force field defense on his body’s surface, but the previous infrasound had caused a temporary disruption in the power within him. Dean David had rich combat experience; this kind of internal power turmoil and disorder was still within his control.

However, the Octagonal Killing Array was a superpower with extremely strong destructive power and difficulty to control. If Dean David were still at his peak, he could completely maintain the Octagonal Killing Array while keeping his own defensive energy intact.

Unfortunately, he was now just an old man. Since he wanted to continue controlling the Octagonal Killing Array, he had to allow the temporary disorder of his internal power, weakening the defense on his body’s surface. Eventually, he was injured by the light-energy scattergun shots and completely lost control of the Octagonal Killing Array.

“Old man, your control doesn’t seem as strong as imagined!” Joey grinned at the old man, but a flash of regret passed through his heart.

The serial killer was brutal and cruel, but that did not mean he was unclear-headed. He already understood that he and Leo were no match for the old man; even defending against Dean David’s attacks was a struggle. This old man was not on the same level as them as a superhuman; even the Queen of Sandstorm, Monica, might not be able to handle him.

“You’re right, I am indeed old and have to admit it!” Dean David looked at his wrinkled palm and sighed slightly, then raised his head and stared expressionlessly at the two. “However, it’s enough to kill both of you!”

The old man raised his hand again. The debris in the carriage floated in the air once more, slowly gathering into four wind vortices.

“Leo!” Joey’s face darkened. He bent down, picked up the unconscious Dr. Keller, and roared wildly at the giant.

Roar! A trace of madness appeared in Dr. Leo’s eyes. He covered his face with his hands and charged toward Dean David with a roar.

Dean David’s injury was not serious. Controlling only four wind vortices indicated he had strengthened his energy control; the effect of the infrasound was probably within his calculations. As for the FN-500’s instant shot, forget whether it could break his defense again, even the cooldown time hadn’t passed yet.

Joey and Leo were once again in a desperate situation. Their only chance was to break through the encirclement of the wind vortices. After all, there were only four vortices now, and only one wind vortex stood between Dean David and them.

The giant crashed into the wind vortex ahead. His body burst like a squeezed soda can, blood splattering everywhere. In an instant, his entire body was covered in blood. However, the wind vortex had not formed for long, and the debris inside had not accelerated to their peak. Although Leo looked like a blood-drenched gourd, he had only suffered superficial injuries and had not yet lost his combat ability.

The giant spread his arms and pounced fiercely toward Dean David. Dean David’s face was as dark as water. He spread his arms, blocking Leo’s bear hug from left and right, but was forced to retreat repeatedly by the giant’s impact.

Bang! The two collided with the rear carriage like a giant hammer, smashing a large hole in the already dilapidated carriage door and tumbling inside together.

“Leo, hold him off! I’ll take Dr. Keller to meet up with the Lieutenant Colonel. You can jump off the train on your own in five minutes. We’ll find you!”

Joey gave a fierce laugh, leaped up, grabbed the torn carriage roof previously ripped by Leo, flipped over, and stood on the roof. He stepped over the carriage connection point and ran swiftly toward the front carriage.

“Don’t even think about it!” Hearing the footsteps above, anger flashed in David’s eyes. He shook his arms, actually pushing away the astonishingly strong Leo, kicked the giant’s massive body away, leaped up, and punched toward the carriage roof with a single fist.

Bang! The thick carriage roof exploded as if directional explosives had been installed, creating a large hole beneath Joey’s feet. Steel fragments rained down like a storm toward the serial killer’s lower body.

Hmph! A fierce light flashed in Joey’s eyes. Two overlapping Crystal Mirror Magic Arrays suddenly appeared beneath his feet. With a crisp sound of shattering glass, the Crystal Mirror Magic Arrays blocked the steel fragments while allowing Joey to use the force to escape the explosion range.

A strange light flashed briefly in Dean David’s eyes. This German sniper had surprised him for the second time. It wasn’t strange for superpowered beings to possess several combat abilities, but few were both top-tier shooters and close combat masters.

This German sniper’s light-energy scattergun shots and Crystal Mirror Magic Arrays were clearly two completely different types of superpowers. The light-energy scattergun shots were for long-range attacks, while the Crystal Mirror Magic Array seemed to be a close combat technique combining offense and defense.

Moreover, from his usage, it was clear that he was proficient in both superpowers. Probably Kathleen had underestimated him, which was why she died at his hands.

Dean David was about to strike again when he felt his ankle tighten. Leo roared and dragged him down from the air, slamming him heavily onto the floor with a thud.

“Hahaha!” Joey’s unrestrained laughter came from the carriage roof, fading with the wind. Clearly, the sniper had seen the scene below through the hole in the carriage and left swiftly without hesitation amidst his mocking laughter.

“Dr. Leo!” Dean David slowly stood up, his white hair moving without wind. A fourth pointer quietly appeared in his clock-like pupils. “Since you’re so eager to sacrifice yourself for the Nazis, I’ll grant your wish!”

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Now, aside from the last two carriages where Joey and the others were fighting fiercely, the five carriages ahead, except for the tightly protected scientist carriage in the middle, were also immersed in a bloody battle.

From the intelligence in the Team Channel, it was known that Grant was not participating in the battle. He had taken over Captain Bock’s locomotive and was responsible for controlling the military train. The Joker and Joey actually had the weakest abilities in the Gentlemen Alliance. Without specific conditions, they were useless in such chaotic superhuman battles.

Although the Joker possessed a low-level immortal bloodline, his chances of winning against a superpowered being like Indiana Jones, who had low combat ability, were not high. Once the restriction time of “Joker’s Gift” ran out, Jones would still have a hundred ways to wear Grant down. As for Joey killing Kathleen back then, that was entirely due to various coincidences and could not be replicated.

“It should be this carriage ahead!” Joey jumped down from the carriage roof, lowered his right shoulder, and slammed into the rear door of this carriage.