Chapter 152: The Emperor's New Clothes? Skye: I can take it off for you to see

"Cough... Skye... do you remember what I told you on the call."

Ye Li chose to change the subject and immediately got to the point. "I came here for this."

"You mean... taking me to see the spaceship?"

Skye had a bit of ice cream on the corner of her mouth, looking cute. "If it weren't for you saying it, I wouldn't believe it... moving the club headquarters to outer space~ just thinking about it is great!"

"Spaceship? Going to outer space?"

Barbara also widened her eyes and asked curiously, "How did you do it? Ye Li, did you capture the ship from alien enemies?"

"Mm... something like that..."

Ye Li thought about it; the Ghost-Spider was indeed rewarded by the system after defeating the alien Malekith.

Skye: "Ye Li, then how are we supposed to travel back and forth to the headquarters outside Earth?"

Ye Li nodded: "Good question."

To travel back and forth simply and quickly, spatial means like teleportation and portals are the most suitable.

Options include—

The space-time portal of the Fate Web.

The teleportation of the Snake Charm.

The teleportation of the Space Stone.

Gwen's shadow-jump ability.

The anchor-tracking function of the Knight Spider suit.

Among them, the most suitable is the space-time portal of the Fate Web, which has a wide range and allows continuous passage.

And Ye Li, who is familiar with weaving magic, only needs to split the threads of fate to allow others to have the ability to open space-time portals.

Of course, it requires permission from him, the controller.

"Come, Skye, I'll weave a set of clothes for you too.

Through the fate-silk suit, you can open a space portal and enter the new headquarters."

After Ye Li decided, he used weaving magic on Skye and Barbara—

Skye: "Hm?"

Barbara: "What?"

Poof~~

Poof~~

Before the two beauties could react, their clothes turned into threads and collapsed all over the floor...

"Waaaah~!"

Skye quickly covered her chest and crossed her legs, asking urgently, "What's going on? Did you do this, Ye Li? Magic?"

"Is this clothes-stripping magic?"

Barbara also had a strange expression. "...Ye Li, you really didn't learn any proper magic!"

"Don't be so quick to judge, watch closely, you'll have new clothes to wear in a moment."

Ye Li's expression was serious, and his eyes didn't wander at this time.

Still the same thing.

Everything that could be seen had been seen.

Now he was doing serious business.

He began to call upon the threads of fate,

Preparing to weave for the two girls.

Just...

After calling for a long time.

He found...

No response?

[What's going on?]

Seeing Skye and Barbara's expressions becoming increasingly strange, Ye Li was also a bit anxious.

If this were really misunderstood as a perverted mage who only learned clothes-stripping magic...

His reputation for this lifetime would be ruined.

After sensing carefully for a while.

Ye Li finally realized where the problem lay.

It turned out that the Web of Fate had no extra threads to produce, and forcing it would cause damage.

He could only wait until there was extra production in the future to use it again...

This was also his fault for freezing the Marvel 001 world before, which damaged many threads of the Web of Fate.

Now Ye Li was embarrassed.

Barbara teased him at the right time, "Is this... the Emperor's New Clothes?"

Skye's face was a bit flushed; it was the first time she had been seen like this by Ye Li. "Ye Li... if you want to see... I can take it off for you to see... no need for this..."

"..."

In the end, Ye Li was thick-skinned enough...

"Hoo~"

He exhaled, waved his hand as if nothing had happened—

The threads scattered at the girls' feet wove back into clothes on them, and he even changed them into a more fashionable and beautiful style.

It was also thanks to Ye Li being an artist that he could improvise clothing designs using weaving magic.

But.

Barbara didn't seem to buy it...

"En!———!!"

She tried for a while—

—And nothing came of it...

Barbara: "Hm? ...Where's the door? Where's the space portal?"

Skye also wondered: "Ye Li, you aren't trying to fool us, are you?"

"Uh... there was a slight accident, let's talk about it later."

Ye Li took out the Snake Charm and tossed it lightly to Skye: "Skye, you use this for now."

He now had the Space Stone, which could also achieve teleportation, and the suit could also achieve absolute stealth.

The Snake Charm's ability was completely redundant for him, so it was better to give it to Skye, who had no means of self-defense.

Slap.

Skye caught it and examined the charm, thinking to herself: [...How do I use this?]

"Huh? Where's mine?"

Barbara leaned her head toward Ye Li, her blue eyes hopeful. "Don't I get one?"

Ye Li blinked, his expression unchanged.

"Barbara, I'm going to spend time with Skye these few days, you don't need to help protect her anymore, you can take a few days off."

"What————"

The blonde beauty drew out a long sound, grabbed his shoulders and shook him, pouting, "Are you trying to burn bridges? You heartless man!"

"..."

Ye Li reached out and pinched her Q-bouncy face. "Where did you learn those words? ...I've prepared a room for you at Sunnival, you can stay there for these few days, and come play with Gwen and the others at night~"

"Ah... so... that's it, you're inviting me to be a guest..."

Barbara's eyes lit up, her expression changed, and she pretended to be coy. "...Then I can't refuse, can I~"

Her white sneakers jumped lightly, and in a few blinks, she was at the door. "I'm going to pack my luggage!"

Before leaving, one could hear Barbara whispering in celebration, "Heng~ I won, Seeing Seeing Natasha~"

Seeing her interesting demeanor, Ye Li couldn't help but laugh.

No matter how excellent or talented a female agent is, in the end, she's just a girl in her early twenties, and she's very different from Seeing Seeing Natasha in many ways.

As for why he didn't enhance Barbara...

It wasn't that Ye Li was treating her differently.

It was just that Barbara still refused to confess her identity as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, which meant there was still a shackle in her heart...

He had no intention of interfering forcefully; he would just wait slowly.

Jessica is similar, just borrowing some original settings, but her appearance and personality are quite different from the original.

— Author's Notes —

PS: In this book's setting, Barbara is a young and tender version.