Volume 1: Welcoming Gotham Chapter 15 Hey, Potter, this thing is much more useful than a wand!
In front of the endless Forbidden Forest of the ruins of Hogwarts, not far from Hagrid's hut, the zombie Fang seemed to be completely dead.
But in fact, only its claws were chopped off and its stomach was blown up. The zombie's vitality is not that fragile.
Against the backdrop of all these things, Old K was holding a tattered school cap in his hand, waiting for Mason's answer.
The cunning old hunter also took the time to glance at the golden bomb remote control in his hand. The red dot representing Mason was right in front of him, exactly the same as Mason's current position.
The bomb is still in him.
very good.
"I have been convincing myself that maybe starting a business with you is a good choice."
Mason leaned on his explosive shotgun named "Old K". He stared at the old hunter and ignored the bomb girl behind him with an indifferent look on her face. He said:
“But unfortunately, I still can’t convince myself until now, maybe because I don’t like being invited by someone in such a unique way by planting a bomb.
I'm quitting your team, Old K."
The young man did not hide anything, nor did he delay anything.
He said very directly:
"I have no interest in the damn Star Club. I want to leave this damn world and go back to Gotham to live the new life I just earned for myself."
Old K suddenly stopped playing with the school cap.
He raised his head, and the pipe at the corner of his mouth moved and blew out a puff of smoke:
"Do you know what you're saying? You were high, too? I thought you'd be more reasonable."
"We can part ways amicably and still be friends after this."
Mason said helplessly:
"The hat in your hand may be the most valuable thing here. It is enough to repay the favor I owe you."
"it's a pity."
Old K discerned Mason's expression.
After confirming that the young man was not joking, the light in his eyes turned cold, and he sighed and said:
"I really think highly of you, Mason, but there's no such thing as 'quit' in this business. You either die or keep going. You made the wrong choice.
May your death please the dark stars and light our way forward."
"Snapped"
After the old hunter finished reading the eulogy, he pressed the explosion button on the remote control in his hand. With a muffled bang, a cloud of black smoke and a shrill scream rose in Mason's arms.
As Old K's expression changed slightly, the bird cage ornament emitting black smoke in the young man's arms fell to the ground. The zombie tiger cat kept inside had its intestines pierced and its entire body was blown apart, almost breaking into two pieces .
"boom"
Mason fell forward and pressed the tiny remote control hidden in his hand.
Two engineering bombs hidden underground behind him exploded instantly, knocking the bomb girl who was raising her crossbow to shoot away.
There was a sharp gunshot, and Old K, who had swung his sword and dodged in front of Mason, was forced back by the hot steel balls fired by the double-barreled hand cannon in three consecutive shots, but he dodged to the side of the young man the next moment.
The one-handed sword with a golden handle in his hand flashed with arc light and chopped down. The young man covered by the arc light was like being hit by a flash bomb.
I lost my vision in an instant and felt like I was going blind.
But at the same time, he also activated the intracranial jammer of Count Vertigo tied to his wrist, and the electromagnetic waves that destroyed the senses spread in all directions, causing Old K's sword that was about to chop off Mason's neck to deflect and hit the young man's shoulder.
The sharp sword left a bloody mark, causing Mason to scream. He pinched an engineering bomb from his pocket and threw it out, while crawling out, he twisted open the last swallow potion and poured it into his mouth.
There's something strange about the sword!
The flash it produces when it is swung can temporarily blind people.
However, the relics left by Count Vertigo are quite useful. Old K, who was caught off guard and ambushed, felt dizzy, just like the feeling of motion sickness.
The cautious hunter did not rush forward but stayed where he was, took out a small bottle of potion and poured it into his mouth, instantly soothing the uncomfortable dizziness.
Mason's blindness was restored after a few seconds.
He got up covered in dust and put his pistol on his back and took the Penguin's armed umbrella in his hand. Just then, the explosive girl jumped up with her hair flying, grabbed a crossbow and shot two arrows at him.
The armed umbrella opened to that side.
The moment the crossbow arrow was deflected by the umbrella, the energy injected into it exploded, blowing Mason away with the umbrella. When she saw Old K flashing towards Mason with a sword, there was not much anger on her embarrassed face.
There was no deep hatred between her and Mason, except that the latter used her as bait to attract zombies at the station and almost shot her to death on the magic platform.
Of course Mason also saved her from the zombie cat.
So it was enough for her to do this far and she didn't go forward to finish off the opponent.
Betty Susie thought she was a person who could distinguish between gratitude and grudges. Besides, Old K would finish the rest of the work.
But just as the bomber put down her crossbow and prepared to watch the moment of Mason Cooper's death, a breeze suddenly blew behind her, causing the girl to move her body uncomfortably.
She didn't feel anything was wrong.
But Old K, who was walking towards Mason with a sword in hand, ready to execute the traitorous young man, suddenly stopped at this moment.
The old hunter's nose twitched.
While swinging his sword to shatter Mason's bullets, he suddenly turned back to look at the explosive girl and shouted to her:
"Hide! There's something behind you!"
"Um?"
The explosive girl shuddered and subconsciously took a step forward to run and take another look.
There was nothing behind her...
"puff"
At this moment, the sudden and severe pain surged into Betty Susie's heart along with the sound of sharp claws entering the flesh.
The running explosive girl seemed to be stabbed in the heart by an invisible ghost from behind. The ghost came silently and crushed the blonde's heart before she felt the pain.
Large mouthfuls of blood gushed out from Betty's plump chest.
Her eyes were blank, as if she was back on the battlefield in Afghanistan with artillery fire everywhere. She knew that she would die somewhere, but she didn't expect death to come so suddenly.
At the end of her life, the anger and resentment caused by death made the explosive woman decide to make her death more "passionate".
As Old K and Mason stared with wide eyes, a chaotic and dangerous energy began to beat in Betty Susie's body. It was her superpower that was to come to an end at the moment of death.
Old K flashed out with a whoosh, and Mason turned around and rushed forward with all his strength.
There was a loud bang.
A small mushroom cloud exploded on the spot.
The Explosive Girl can make anything she touches explode and this time she chose to detonate herself with such force that she burned almost everything within 50 meters.
Mason was blown several meters away by the shock wave. When he landed, his eyes went dark, as if a heavy hammer had hit his chest, making it difficult for him to breathe.
But at least I survived.
On the other side, Old K appeared on the trunk of a tree, holding double blades and looking indifferently at the burning pit left behind after the explosion. His eyes turned into a strange yellow color, and his cat pupils were still emitting a faint light. His nose was constantly moving, and it was obvious that he was searching for the enemy in a large area.
"Mason, that thing is still there!"
A few seconds later, Old K shouted from the tree trunk to the young man who was trying to run below:
"It can be invisible. No, it's worse than that. It's a very sophisticated aura concealment! It's probably a magical effect. Even my hunter senses can't find it.
You can run.
But if I die here, you'll be next.
I don't think it will let go of any fresh flesh and blood, and I am absolutely sure that I will be the last one to die among the three of us. Do you want to take a gamble?"
"An explosion of that power couldn't kill it?"
Mason stopped walking with an idea in his mind, looked back at the old hunter on the tree trunk, and said:
"You're kidding, right?"
"It was injured, but it died a long time ago. It was a 'magic zombie'. God knows what strange abilities it has."
Old K’s expression was also extremely ugly.
He hid on the tree trunk and looked around, which suddenly became full of dangers, and said:
"That thing... I can't yet identify what it is, but I believe it is one of the most dangerous creatures in these ruins. I need your help, Mason."
The old hunter said:
"After we work together to hunt this thing down, we may be able to discuss the conditions for your leaving the team."
"When you say 'cooperation', do you mean letting me be cannon fodder to lure it out?"
The young man held the combat shotgun, looked around vigilantly, and reloaded the magazine in his hand. He said:
"I'm a shooter, Lao K. If we really need to choose the bait, shouldn't you, the swordsman, be the one to do it?"
"You're a shit shooter."
Old K sheathed his two swords disdainfully, took out his huge hunter crossbow from his back and aimed it at the tree. He said in a cold tone:
“In our place, a fellow like you can’t even pass the first level of the Green Grass Trial.
Go be the bait!
Otherwise I will shoot you to death right now. Unless you can run 300 meters away in one go, my arrow will perform a skull surgery on you in the next second."
Mason took a deep breath and walked towards the scene in front of him.
He didn't believe anything Old K said, but the fact that the old hunter suggested an alliance even though he had the upper hand showed that the invisible guy who killed the bomb girl in seconds was indeed difficult to deal with.
God knows when that guy showed up.
Perhaps when this team reached the ruins of Hogwarts, the "magic zombie" was already watching nearby.
Mason walked forward, watching the aiming frame in front of him moving constantly and unable to lock onto the target. He was so nervous that any movement would make him alert.
But as Mason walked, he suddenly discovered something strange.
He looked forward, stopped where he was, and shouted to Old K, who was aiming with a crossbow behind him:
"Old K, can you still sense that voodoo bird cage you gave me?"
"What do you mean?"
Old K asked with a frown.
"The birdcage!"
Mason pointed to the place where the three men had just confronted each other.
He stared at the ground covered with blood and flesh and shouted:
"The birdcage with Professor McGonagall in it is gone! I swear it was just there! It might have been picked up by that magic zombie... Wait!
I think I know who the attacker is.
It's not here specifically to kill us!
You hurt Professor McGonagall with the bomb and angered it. It still has its own thoughts and has not completely lost its mind. Mr. Potter?
is it you?"
"What are you talking about? Professor McGonagall? Mr. Potter? Are you cursed?"
Old K was completely confused. He couldn't understand what Mason was saying at all.
But the clue provided by the young man was a clue, and the old hunter took out a weird and dirty voodoo doll from his arms and held it in his hand.
The next moment his face changed, and he instantly turned the crossbow and shot three arrows at a place 5 meters to the side of Mason.
Two arrows were shot at the monster, and the last arrow was left for Mason .
Obviously intending to kill two birds with one stone!
"puff"
The sound of the sharp arrow entering the body sounded so terrifying in Mason's ears at that moment.
The young man who was shot by an arrow slid to a distance and pulled out the arrow stuck in his back while enduring the pain. He opened the high-level blood tonic in his hand and poured it into his mouth to pull himself back from the brink of serious injury.
He looked back.
The magic arrow shot by Old K hit the chest of the invisible "magic zombie". The arrow head burst out with dazzling lightning, knocking the guy out of the hidden state obscured by his breath.
Amid the flashes of lightning, Mason could still clearly see the guy's completely zombie-like face and sunken eye sockets.
His hands transformed into zombie claws.
His left paw was holding a broken heart, and his right paw was tightly grasping the birdcage containing Professor McGonagall. His short, withered hair could not hide the unique lightning symbol on his forehead.
It's really him!
Harry Potter.
The former savior of this wizarding world...
He was fixed in place by the power of Lao K's magic arrow and could not move. He was wearing a retro black trench coat and suit, and a very large silver-gray magic cloak.
When Mason saw this thing, his heart immediately started beating wildly.
But Old K doesn't know this guy.
Seeing that the magic arrow really revealed the hidden man, the old hunter flashed to the ground, drew out his two swords, rushed up, and pierced Mr. Potter's body with a few slashes, and then crossed his two swords to give him the final blow.
Mason also rushed forward bravely.
But he did not do this to help Mr. Potter. Instead, he grabbed the invisibility cloak on Potter, untied the strap around his chest, and pulled it off with all his might.
Under Old K's astonished gaze, he covered himself with the silver-gray cloak and made a "bye-bye" gesture to Old K.
The next moment, Mason's figure and breath completely disappeared from the spot. Old K was so angry that he wanted to swing his sword and chop this bastard with black equipment into meat paste on the spot.
Obviously, Mason already knew the usefulness of this cloak.
"boom"
Mr. Porter, who was still struggling to fight back, was knocked down by Old K's superb swordsmanship, and the next blow would be a thunderous execution.
But at this moment, there was a muffled sound, and a sniper bullet flying from an invisible source shattered the head of Mr. Porter who had fallen to the ground before Old K.
Watching the zombie's head explode in front of his eyes, the old hunter's whole body froze in place, an indescribable anger surged in his heart.
It’s fine if they just stole the treasure, but now they’re even stealing people’s heads?
This young man...
No moral ethics!
That's a provocation, right?
This must be a provocation!
"MASON COOPER!!! BETS THE CAT'S HONOR! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"
The incompetent and furious Old K kicked the corpse away, intending to find a way to get rid of Mason, the increasingly outrageous traitor.
But after a few seconds, Old K frowned and looked in the direction of the forbidden forest.
An increasingly clear sense of danger was surging in that direction, as if something terrible was rushing out of the dark forest.
Old K grabbed his crossbow and loaded it with a precious magic arrow. Then he saw the terrified kite man screaming and flying out of the forbidden forest, flying towards him screaming.
The old hunter sneered and then aimed at Mason's accomplice.
But before he could pull the trigger, Old K's face changed drastically and he aimed the arrow at the entrance to the forbidden forest ahead.
As the ground shook, a black monster about five or six meters tall rushed out of the darkness, violently smashing the trees. It had a body as big as a hill, terrifying claws, and three heads that howled in low voices.
Three-headed dog!
Moreover, looking at the scarlet glowing in the six eyes of that guy and the scars and dirty blood exposed on its black skin, it is not difficult to tell that it is a zombie three-headed dog.
How could there be such a thing in this forest?
Lao K began to retreat and prepared to temporarily leave the battlefield.
To be on the safe side, the old hunter put the crossbow back and grabbed the long sword and hunting knife. But just as he drew his hunting knife, the terrifying three-headed dog that was chasing the kite man and howling suddenly stopped.
As Old K stared in amazement, the guy's three nostrils twitched at the same time, and then six scarlet eyes stared at him in unison.
And behind the three-headed dog, there was an even more terrifying figure that moved its eight spider legs and rushed out of the forbidden forest as fast as a night ghost.
The zombie eight-eyed giant spider, whose head was not much smaller than that of the three-headed dog, also locked onto the old hunter holding Hagrid's hunting knife.
As an excellent hunter, Lao K could understand the angry roars when he saw the two beasts moving forward. Although he didn't know why he had angered them, he had no way to escape.
He was no match for these two beasts in terms of speed.
It would be difficult to win in this unprepared environment. He sighed, regretfully took out a stone engraved with runes from his pocket and threw it at his feet, intending to use magic to temporarily evacuate.
But at the moment when the stone flashed, a bullet suddenly flew over.
With a bang, the rune stone flew up.
The transmitted light also dissipated in the air.
"MASON!!!"
The old hunter gritted his teeth, took out three bottles of strangely colored potions from his belt and drank them down. The next moment, black veins surged from his neck to his cheeks, making him look as hideous as a devil.
He swore!
After killing these two monsters, he must grind that bad guy Mason Cooper to dust!
