[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman":3,"chapter-marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-chapter-511":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Marvel: A Lazy-Ass Superman",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1722017,2198,"Chapter 511 511: Meeting Up","marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-chapter-511",511,"\u003Cp>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For 40 advanced chapters, visit my Patreon:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Patreon - Twilight_scribe1\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Traveling in broad daylight was, in the end, far less convenient than moving at night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially since Kitty's Duck-Leopard Armor had no stealth system installed yet, and its size wasn't exactly small.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it streaked through the daytime sky over the city, it would be highly conspicuous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no guarantee some nosy citizen wouldn't spot it, tell a tabloid reporter, and create yet another urban legend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So this trip did not go all the way to Stark Pictures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, Reacher was dropped off near the outskirts of the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, Henry had arranged a car overnight using Little Duck—a vehicle Reacher could drive himself into town.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though it took more time, it spared him another full ride of brutal bouncing on the Duck-Leopard Armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reacher naturally had no objections.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vehicle Henry prepared was an old battered pickup truck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When it started, the engine coughed and rattled as if it were about to shake itself apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, all four wheels remained attached, and pressing the gas pedal made it move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Henry:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When you're done with it, just dump it by the roadside. No need to park it anywhere specific.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reacher also didn't leave Goat Valley Laboratory empty-handed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The previous night's vampire briefing had naturally included methods for killing vampires.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crosses were useless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless the cross was made of silver—and you were strong enough to hammer it into a vampire's heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The real tools were garlic extract and silver weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ordinary garlic only triggered instinctive disgust in vampires. It had little killing power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silver, however, worked wonderfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Against werewolves too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The downside was obvious:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Expensive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Traditional silver bullets were indispensable tools of modern vampire hunters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of the heat and speed generated when firing, bullets couldn't simply be silver-plated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The coating would likely burn off during discharge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So traditional hunters had to cast bullets entirely from silver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One could imagine the cost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That expendable ammunition expense was one of the key reasons vampire hunters could not launch large-scale offensives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Very few people could do what Blade did—fight vampires head-on with melee weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Usually, if a hunter had to rely on close combat, it was already the signal to retreat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with silver weapons, they might kill a few vampires—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But not many.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And they themselves would leave wounded or exhausted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The silver nitrate rounds and ultraviolet rounds Black Super had developed were vastly more difficult to manufacture than traditional pure silver bullets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But their cost was dramatically lower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, the equipment Black Super had provided to Abraham Whistler—Blade's quartermaster and mentor—for producing the special rounds had limited output.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others who copied the machines produced flawed ammunition to varying degrees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they discussed this the night before, Reacher had asked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why doesn't anyone just hand these machines to an arms factory and mass-produce the rounds?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even as he asked, Reacher had already thought of the answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he instead asked another question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How effective are these special rounds against ordinary humans?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry replied:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you shoot a person, they'd probably only be slightly worse than rubber bullets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But high-concentration silver nitrate is corrosive to human tissue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And ultraviolet rounds carry mild radiation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So the wounds would be harder to treat than normal gunshot injuries.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reacher nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So factories producing anti-vampire ammunition would simply become targets for vampires.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The best method is still mobile small workshops—basically the current vampire hunter model.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Correct.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing the discussion, Henry still had BB-2 deliver Reacher a standard Beretta M9 pistol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along with it came:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>one magazine loaded with silver nitrate rounds\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>one magazine loaded with ultraviolet rounds\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>one magazine of ordinary ammunition\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Including the magazine already inside the pistol, that was more ammunition than an average patrol officer usually carried.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once he had a weapon in hand, Reacher immediately ejected the standard magazine and loaded the ultraviolet rounds instead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he handed the two standard magazines back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For him, ordinary humans were manageable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vampires were not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So firearms should be optimized for vampires.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry naturally said nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That entire night, Reacher's hunger for vampire knowledge had been intense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared with that, Henry didn't actually have endless intelligence to provide—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless Reacher wanted to hear old folklore and campfire stories about vampires.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, he did not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So the large man who had taken a beating from vampires still managed to get some sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Considering the young master on the East Coast might drive west at some insane speed once notified, Reacher set out at dawn from the Goat Valley wilderness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry, meanwhile, had no choice but to wait for his own plane to land and then return from the airport to Stark Pictures by car.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how urgent things were, speed had limits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had not submitted advance business-clearance requests days earlier, so this sudden trip could not use VIP customs lanes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to queue with everyone else—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just to receive an entry stamp on his passport.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The result:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry and Jack Reacher arrived at Stark Pictures at nearly the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the true owner of the building, Tony Stark, had already been sitting in the CEO's office for who knew how long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Tony saw Henry, he opened fire verbally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How were you contacting me from a plane?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When I got here and couldn't find you, I was one step away from driving to your house and dragging you out of bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then I asked around and found out you were flying back from Sydney. You hadn't even landed this morning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And another thing—your computer files consistently show concern about artificial intelligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You don't seriously think Skynet-style nonsense is easy to build, do you?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Connected to a network and suddenly omnipotent? Distributed nodes impossible to track?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's fantasy written by people who don't understand technology.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just solving data-flow aggregation alone—do they think the human nervous system can all function as a brain?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No… actually maybe they do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Given the size of their brains, a few nerve clusters would be enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And blockchain systems—you know how much computing power and electricity that takes?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If blowing up a power plant can cripple it, why are you afraid of it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment they met, Tony unleashed a torrent of questions and criticism.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry didn't even know where to begin responding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Tony's attitude did not mean he didn't care why he had rushed across the country.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It meant the opposite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The closer he got to the truth, the less he wanted to face it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he distracted himself by obsessing over anything else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry answered none of the questions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, standing in the doorway, he called out:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yulian, three coffees please.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And Mr. Stark and I need to discuss something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So no matter how important anything else is—hold it back for now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, boss.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>🎉 Power Stone Goal Announcement! 🎉\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I'll release one bonus chapter for every 500 Power Stones we hit!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let me know what should I do\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Your support means everything—let's crush these goals together! Keep voting, and let the stones pile up! 🚀\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\u003C\u002Fp>",1179,"2026-06-06T15:31:35.574Z",1,"novelbin.me","90c4e667677ed40653a049e9bfd81d3ca42c00f1ba3dfabad130562446df4f0b","marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-chapter-512","marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-chapter-510",556,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmarvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-cover.jpg"]