Chapter 155

Ye Li stopped in front of a toy store display window.

On the glass, a large slogan was posted—

[New York Heroes, Now on Sale!]

Inside the window, naturally, were action figures of the various Avengers.

Only the Black Widow figure's spot was marked as out of stock and discontinued.

As for more famous superheroes belonging to the club, like [Lady Knight], there were no figures at all.

Because the Vice President did not authorize their production...

Ye Li also did not want his girlfriend's model to be handled by others, even if it didn't look much like her.

Furthermore.

He even strictly controlled the patents for the club heroes' cosplay costumes; if one wanted to wear a cosplay costume, they could only rent it from a site under the Ghost Spider Club and use it under camera surveillance... and once someone was found making pirated cosplay costumes, lawyers would immediately file a lawsuit.

This was also to prevent certain lecherous guys from playing any tricks...

After all, Ye Li was someone who had been through it in his past life...

While Ye Li and Skye were lingering.

Tap, tap, tap...

Another young black boy with an afro ran over, staring at the display window with hopeful eyes.

Behind him followed a black man, who looked like his father.

Seeing his son seemed to want one, the black man asked, "Ace, which one do you want?"

"I don't want any."

Ace was quite sensible; he knew his dad had just lost his job.

"Heh, Tony is also on limited-time sale..."

Ye Li didn't pay attention to the black father and son, tapping the glass interestingly at one spot; behind the glass was the Iron Man figure.

"Hey!"

The shopkeeper's snobbish voice suddenly came over—

"If you're not buying, don't stand there blocking others from looking!"

Hearing this, Skye frowned slightly.

Even though Li's clothes were unbranded (Destiny Spider-Silk Suit), everything she was wearing was from a famous luxury brand.

Did she look like someone who couldn't afford to buy things?

This shopkeeper really had no eye for people...

"These—"

She adopted the air of a superior, turned to look at the shopkeeper, and pointed at the display window, saying, "I want them all!"

"What?"

The shopkeeper, who had poked her head out of the shop door, was stunned. "You want them all?"

"That's right."

The young lady extended her slender index finger straight, lifting her chin confidently.

"My boyfriend likes action figures; pack all of these up for me, I want to give them to him!"

Ye Li: ???

[How come I feel like I've become the one being kept...]

He leaned close to Skye and whispered, "When did I say I liked these guys' action figures?"

If it were Widow's, he might consider collecting one...

As for Tony, Thor, and the others, forget it...

Skye also whispered, "Li, didn't you hear her looking down on us?"

"Uh..."

Ye Li glanced at the black father and son—

"Hmm?"

Skye understood his meaning and looked over, noticing their clothes were old and clearly not wealthy.

So she had misunderstood... the shopkeeper must have been yelling at them just now... she had been facing away and hadn't noticed...

"Packed up, all packed up!"

At this moment, the shopkeeper, a middle-aged woman, happily pushed a small cart out.

Inside was the full set of male Avenger action figures...

"Hello, customer, the total is..., there's a discount during the event..."

Skye: "..."

Fortunately, she wasn't short of that little bit of money.

After paying readily.

The young lady stuffed several boxes into her boyfriend's arms and said with a cheeky smile, "Here~ consider it a gift from me, even though you definitely won't like them much, hee hee."

Ye Li: "..."

How should he handle this?

Just throwing them in the trash can nearby didn't seem quite right...

While pondering.

He saw the black kid named Ace looking at the armful of superhero figures he held, as if he were about to drool...

Hmm... he probably didn't want to "zero-dollar shop"...

"Do you want one?"

Ye Li smiled gently at Ace, "I can let you pick one~"

Ace was stunned; was he really that nice?

Even Skye was a bit surprised, secretly admiring him in her heart, [I heard people from the Dragon Kingdom don't have a good impression of black people; Li is truly gentle and benevolent~]

Little did she know... Ye Li wasn't actually being kind, but was feeling playful...

"Ace."

Mike Peterson, which was Ace's father, pulled his son, "You can't just take things from others."

"It's fine, it's not for free."

The mischief in Ye Li's eyes was almost impossible to hide as he egged Ace on, "If you follow the music on my phone and sing a Chinese song, I'll let you pick one, how about that?"

Ace asked curiously, "What song?"

"It's a very inspiring song called 'Sunshine Rainbow Little White Pony'..."

...A few seconds later—

"Sunshine rainbow little white pony, di-di-da, di-di-da..."

"...You are the ne-ne-ge-ne-ne-ne-ge-ne-ge-ne!!"

"Ne-ge-ne-ge-ge!! Ni-ge, ni-ge, ni-ge, ni-ge, ni-ge!!"

As the phone music played out loud.

Mike Peterson and Ace both had expressions of unbelievable horror on their faces!!

Skye, the toy store woman, and even passersby were all shocked!

How could there be such an NB song?

"Run, Ace!".

Mike Peterson couldn't understand the meaning of the Chinese song Ye Li was playing at all.

He thought he had encountered some extreme racist, so he grabbed his son and ran!

"Li, what are you doing? The lyrics to this song are too... it's going to attract the police..."

Skye quickly tapped Ye Li's phone to turn off the music, then grabbed him and prepared to run too.

"What do you mean? This song of mine is very positive and uplifting, don't misunderstand."

Ye Li expressed: It's your prejudice; the lyrics are clearly very normal, it's just that the homophones might make people have a tiny bit of association...

Just then.

Boom!!—!!

A violent explosion echoed through the street.

Fire burst from the top-floor window of a residential building; it looked like a natural gas explosion.

"There are still people up there, right?"

Skye was beautiful and kind-hearted; seeing this accident, she quickly asked her boyfriend in a low voice.

"Should we notify Gwen? Her ability to travel through shadows should allow her to arrive immediately."

"Eh, look over there." Ye Li tilted his head, avoiding the obstruction of the action figure boxes in his arms, and directed his gaze in one direction.

"Oh?"

Skye looked in the direction of his gaze—

She saw Mike Peterson running quickly toward the burning residential building.

"What does he want to do?"

The young lady had just finished speaking.

Mike Peterson had already run to the side wall of the residence, chiseled one hand into the brick wall, and climbed up, one hole at a time...

Clearly, he was not an ordinary person either.

"Wow..."

Seeing this, Skye was no longer in a hurry; she nudged her boyfriend with her elbow and teased, "You just provoked a superhuman, Li."

"I told you, that song is very normal, what's the problem?"

Ye Li spread his hands, "I wanted to give action figures to a kid... seeing his dad down on his luck, I kindly taught him an inspiring song, is there a problem? No problem."

Slap!

Slap!

While someone was still joking with his little girlfriend, Mike Peterson had already climbed to the burning floor's window, put on his hood, and darted inside.

"He went in."

Skye took out her phone and aimed it at the window to record.

"What's there to record, hmm?"

Ye Li brushed through the girl's brown-gold dyed hair and playfully bit her delicate earlobe.

"Ouch~ Teacher, what are you doing~"

Skye shrank her neck from the bite, then affectionately tilted her head and rubbed against her boyfriend's face, "Recording data, the data of these superhumans is valuable."

Ye Li secretly curled his lip, [Just a test subject...]

He had some memory of that black man who climbed up; his impression from his past life wasn't very deep, only remembering that he seemed to be some kind of experimental product.

When he watched the TV series back then, his attention was mainly on Skye...

Thinking this.

He glanced at the mixed-race beauty close at hand.

—[Hmm... understandable, isn't it.]

Bang!!

Mike Peterson jumped down from the window holding a woman, landed on the ground, and smashed spiderweb-like cracks into the concrete.

This caused passersby to raise their phones to record, just like Skye.

Ye Li, meanwhile, rubbed his chin and muttered to himself, "Logically speaking... being carried horizontally from the sixth floor, this woman's neck should have been broken by inertia; it's really illogical."

Seeing himself being surrounded and recorded, Mike Peterson quickly put down the woman he had saved and disappeared rapidly into the crowd.

However.

Just as he took off his coat and walked further and further away with his son Ace.

A figure shrouded under a hat brim quietly followed...

Ye Li saw all of this in his eyes.

After scanning the following figure with his senses, he was a bit surprised—

[Huh? This chip in the brain, isn't this a Fearless-model clone soldier...]

Some detailed memory fragments were quickly excavated and combined.

[Remembered... that black man seems to be called Mike Peterson... he's a Centipede Soldier created by the Deathlok project...]

Ye Li quickly guessed what was going on—

The research institute head mentioned that some data from the Extremis virus sub-project had been copied.

It seems the Hydra Deathlok project department used this to develop that superpowered black man, the [Centipede Soldier] Mike Peterson.

The following clone soldier should be a scout sent by that head in cooperation with Silver Sable Security...

[...(Money's Zhao).. not bad, still quite sharp.]

Ye Li, the principal, nodded with satisfaction.

Since they had already found Mike Peterson, it meant the head had handled things quite reliably.

[By the way...]

In the original trajectory.

Skye's powers seemed to have been developed during these "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." events.

[I can take her to get involved and help her develop her Quake powers...]

Ye Li considered his little girlfriend awakening her bloodline again... but he didn't remember the specific details.

[Anyway, there's nothing going on lately, let's send someone to observe these S.H.I.E.L.D. agents like Coulson first...]

— Author's Notes —

PS: Some people in the comments section said the protagonist is generous and doesn't care about the girls' clothes, so I specifically wrote this section. This should be fine now.

PS: Ahem... those who don't know the meme of "Sunshine Rainbow Little White Pony" can look it up...