Li Yue quickly considered his options!
The first was to use his superpower and teleport out of the way. No matter how fast the figure was, they couldn't beat Li Yue's instant teleportation.
The second option was to turn Li Yue's entire body into metal. That way, even if the figure slammed into him at full speed, he would be unharmed.
Both choices could ensure that Li Yue would not be harmed. However, after Li Yue sensed the blood on the rushing figure's clothes, Li Yue decided against dodging it.
Li Yue summoned countless lightning to cover his body with a single thought. He clenched his right hand into a fist and smashed it at the figure.
Bang!!
The figure was rushing at extremely high speed, but as expected from Li Yue's God of Thunder form, the figure was sent flying by a single punch.
The figure flew for more than ten meters before hitting the ground with heavy impact, rolling several times before stopping. Li Yue stood where he was, unwavering!
It might be because the figure's body was relatively strong, but the figure didn't suffer much damage even after all that. He was still able to get up from the ground, albeit in a somewhat sorry state.
"You... Who are you?"
The person looked at Li Yue, who was wrapped in countless lightning bolts, with shock in his eyes.
Li Yue finally had a good look at the figure. It was a man in a blue skintight suit, wearing a pair of sunglasses! And the blue suit was stained with blood! The man was carrying a bag with unknown content!
"That clothes? And the blood? Could it be..."
Li Yue had an inkling about the situation in this world—it must be one of the shows he watched in his previous life! But Li Yue was still unsure!
"I can't stop, I can't stop..." the man muttered in a low voice as he looked at Li Yue with fear. He then launched like a bullet at Li Yue!
Li Yue didn't stop the man again this time. This man's presence basically confirmed what world he had arrived in!
"The Boys, huh? This isn't an easy world to live in!" Li Yue complained helplessly in his heart.
This was a Nightmare-difficulty world!
"The Boys" was an American drama that Li Yue had watched in his previous life. It told the story of "superheroes," but these "superheroes" are different from ordinary superheroes!
Unlike DC and Marvel superheroes, the superheroes in this world subverted the common understanding of superheroes. They no longer held the ideal of justice and vanquishing evil in their hearts.
Instead, these superheroes submitted to their dark side and turned into lawless and violent cruel criminals that killed innocent people without a second thought.
A team of public relations experts controlled every piece of information about the superheroes and their actions. Their goal was simply to use the superheroes' influence to make a lot of money.
The basic concept was similar to influencers, internet celebrities, and other such people in Li Yue's previous life! They were packaged and designed by their team, working as an "actor" that represented their company's face!
However, the terrifying part was that these superhero influencers had actual superpowers that went beyond ordinary people's imagination. And the world was swarming with these superheroes: there were more than 200,000 of them!
...
This is the era of superheroes. A company called Vought International would recruit people born with superpowers into their ranks every year.
These superhumans would then be sent to various parts of the world under the guise of maintaining public security. Vought International took extreme advantage of the superhero brands, making hundreds of billions of dollars each year just from the movie contracts and surrounding copyrights.
The most outstanding of the two hundred superhumans under Vought International's management were The Seven, of which six were shown in the series: Homelander, Queen Maeve, Translucent, A-Train, The Deep, and Black Noir.
The other names in that list were easy to deal with, and Li Yue held no fear for them. But Homelander was on a different level, and Li Yue had no way to deal with him!
Homelander was a weakened version of DC's Superman. His physical strength was a far cry from the original Superman, but he still had all the powers, including flight, super strength, super speed, heat vision, and so on.
In short, with Li Yue's current strength, Li Yue had no chance in a head-on confrontation!
The most important distinction between Homelander and Superman was that Superman still had strict moral guides. For example, Superman would not kill anyone with his laser sight!
But Homelander was a cruel murderer and an extremely twisted person. He even had an Oedipus complex due to his early life in a laboratory that deprived him of motherly love! That was also how the upper echelon of Vought controlled him!
There were countless people who died under his laser vision.
...
But the Homelander was already here. Li Yue had no choice but to find a way to increase his strength quickly.
"Dummy, connect to this world's network!"
"Yessir! Connecting to nearby WiFi signal... We are connected to the network of this world!"
Dummy's work was very fast, as expected from Tony.
"Look for all kinds of information about this world—don't put it in a hologram, just send it on my phone! Also, hack into the government system and forge a legal identity for me!"
Li Yue continued to instruct Dummy. This was the main reason why Li Yue had asked Tony to make Dummy. Li Yue did not want to be surrounded by a bunch of police before he could even begin to find out what kind of world he was in. That would just be troublesome!
"Sir. As you instructed, Dummy is currently hacking into the government system. Estimated completion time, 1 hour 21 minutes.
"Latest information about this world has been sent to your phone. Please review it at your leisure!"
Dummy's voice responded. Li Yue took out the phone Tony made for him and checked the situation of this world.
...
It took more than an hour, but Li Yue had a pretty good grasp of this world!
Unlike the show, which focused only on "The Seven," there were many teams of superheroes in this world, including "Teenage Kix" (evil Teen Titans), "The Avenging Squad" (evil Avengers), "G-Men" (evil X-Men), and so on...
However, The Seven had the highest popularity, and the other teams were second-rate teams! And the media was abuzz with the news that Lamplighter (evil Green Lantern) had retired from The Seven!
Therefore, Vought International was searching for the next powerful superhero to replace his seat in The Seven!
Li Yue silently made a decision after grasping the situation.
"Dummy, help me take a video!"
Li Yue ordered Dummy!
(T/N The original title has some sort of color pun that only works with the weird way the Chinese localization of The Boys was titled.)