Bang!

  With a crisp sound, Scott colpsed to the ground.

  "That’s how we do it, baby!” Harley excimed, as she watched Scott fall.

  “Let's go, Harley.” Reid ignored Scott, his gaze shifting to Harley, who was twirling her bat with a satisfied grin.

  Harley pouted, tapping the bat against her palm. “Aww, but I was just getting warmed up—”

  “Now.” Reid interrupted her sharply.

  With that, he quickly took off his charred jacket, which had been scorched by the ser beam, and hurriedly left the restroom with her.

  He had sidered taking advantage of the moment when Harley knocked Scott down to finish him off, but decided against it. After all, he had no problem killing people who posed no threat, like Gordon's wife. Naturally, he wouldn't spare Scott just because he was Cyclops.

  However, after thinking carefully, he decided that he couldn't allow his Reid identity to kill people.

  Reid could be a victim, and he could be ily ected to various superhumans, but Reid couldn't show any capability of killing them. Whether by ce or strength, Reid was certain that if he killed a superpowered person, he'd be targeted by various forces. This would cause unnecessary trouble and affect his future pns.

  So, he left the restroom.

  However, Scott clearly wasn't willing to let Reid go so easily.

  After taking a hit to the back of his head from the metal bat, Scott fell to the ground, his blood staining the restroom floor. Without cheg, he knew he had likely suffered a cussion.

  Logically, the best choice would be to leave quickly ao his wounds.

  But the education he'd received from a young age made him deeply look down on all humans. He didn't think someone like Reid, a regur human, could pose any threat to him.

  Even though he had just been hit by Harley, it was only because he had been careless.

  He could easily kill Reid and then leave to get treatment.

  After all, this time he had secretly left the academy. If he just left now, killing that damn human, Reid, would be a problem he wouldn't be able to solve for a long time.

  With that thought, Scott immediately ran out of the restroom. His excellent vision quickly locked onto Reid, who was about to run into the crowd.

  "Don't even think about running!"

  Not g whether his attack would actally hurt any i bystanders, Scott unleashed a deadly ser at Reid in the crowd. After pierg through a few ordinary people in his path, the ser finally closed in on Reid.

  "Move, Harley!"

  With a warning Reid swiftly sidestepped, while Harley did a flip to dodge the ser. However, while both of them mao escape unharmed, the i bystanders who had no idea what was happening up ahead were not so lucky.

  The crimson ser cut through the crowd, taking dozens of lives in the process.

  "Quick! Run!"

  "Terrorist attack! Run!"

  Reid yelled loudly, causing panic to spread throughout the crowd.

  In an instant, the ordinary people in the mall began to scatter in all dires, fleeing in a frenzy.

  In such chaos, even though Scott’s vision was sharp, it became difficult for him to keep track of Reid as he moved further away in the crowd.

  What’s more, Reid had already pulled out Luthor's character card. As the panig crowd cealed his figure, Reid quickly merged the card into his body. In just a moment, he transformed into a bald man in a suit—Lex Luthor.

  Losing Reid as his target, Scott shifted his focus to Harley, Reid’s sidekick.

  It was this woman who had hit him the baseball bat. If it hadn't been for her, he would have killed Reid by now.

  Therefore, his hatred for her was just as intense.

  But this wasn’t the small restroom anymore. Harley was agile and skilled, and with her preparations, no matter how Scott unleashed his ser attacks, she was always able to dodge with various acrobatic moves.

  “Damn it!"

  Seeing that Harley was not only avoiding the attacks but also getting farther away, Scott relutly started moving his feet, heading toward the crowd.

  What Scott didn’t notice was that among the crowd, there was a bald man walking toward him calmly. Along the way, he picked up various small items from nearby stores, assembling something in his hands.

  The moment Scott brushed past Reid, who was now pying the role of Lex Luthor, he grabbed his shoulder firmly.

  ‘Such strength!’ Scott was taken aback.

  Although Luthor’s strength didn’t reach the level of a superhuman, as a human, he was close to being the best. The differeween him and Batman was mostly in their fighting skills. In terms of physical ability, Luthor and Batman were quite simir.

  This was normal. If Luthor hadn’t achieved the peak of human strength, he wouldn’t have had the ce to challehe mighty Son of Krypton.

  But Scott didn’t know any of this. He was just surprised that this human dared to stop him.

  Immediately, he po turn around and fire a ser at this foolish human.

  However, as he turned his head, Reid had already aimed a nail gun directly at his forehead.

  “What?!” fag the nail gun, Scott let out a surprised cry.

  Without saying anything, Reid pulled the trigger, and the steel nail shot toward Scott’s forehead.

  "Let go!"

  Feeling the threat of death, Scott immediately released all his ser power, melting the steel nail that was ing toward him in an instant. But with Luthor's physical abilities, bined with the bat skills from the Joker and Alfred, Reid quickly crouched down and dodged the attack.

  Seizing the moment while Scott was still reag, Reid nded an uppercut to his , sending Scott flying backward and crashing to the ground.

  After knog Scott down, Reid quickly moved forward and kicked him as he tried to get up, sending him back to the ground, then followed up with a relentless series of punches and kicks.

  "Do you have any idea who you're attag? Who do you think you are?"

  As Reid spoke, he adopted Luthor's proud tone.

  "Let me tell you exactly who you’ve messed with! I’m Lex Luthor, the smartest man oh!"

  "Y-You... damn you!"

  Scott kept trying to rise, but Reid's seemingly wild punches and kided precisely where Scott was trying to push himself up, preventing him from standing.

  "Get off me!!"

  With a roar, Scott unleashed another burst of sers, pushing Reid bad buying himself a ce to stand up.

  "You're still standing? Iing. Let's see how long that sts."

  Seeing Scott ba his feet, Reid showed no signs of retreat, tinuing to take up a bat stand quickly closing the distaween them.

  Now, Scott's weakness in trolling his powers became apparent.

  With the red crystal gsses being the only means to trol his abilities, every time he used the ser, he had to adjust the gsses. In close-quarters bat at this distance, he had no anipute the red crystal gsses.

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