[{"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-518":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},1722024,2198,"Chapter 518 518: The Man in the Medical Tank","marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-chapter-518",518,"\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>On the third level of the Goat Cave Valley Laboratory, Abraham Whistler opened his eyes inside a hastily assembled medical recovery tank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because his nose and mouth were covered by a breathing mask, things weren't too bad. But opening one's eyes underwater required a moment of adjustment, even for people capable of doing it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly finding himself in such an environment, the old vampire hunter was understandably alarmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially since his hands, feet, and body were restrained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His first instinct was that he had been captured and imprisoned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Calm down, Whistler. You're inside my medical tank. It helps speed up recovery.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standing outside the glass enclosure, Black Super somehow transmitted his voice into the old man's ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...Or at least, Whistler thought he heard something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black Super tapped on the tank's glass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you want to speak, talk softly. There's a small microphone inside the breathing mask. We can hear you out here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he had already completed a tiger-language brainwave translator, human thought patterns were far more complicated. For now, the brainwave device could only detect emotions, not accurately interpret language.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, Black Super had placed a brainwave sensor on the old hunter anyway, collecting data while he was at it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whistler asked from inside the tank:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where am I? Why am I tied down?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is my secret base. Completely secure.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One hundred and ten meters underground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even nuclear disaster shelters weren't always this deep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this place wasn't safe, then nowhere was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its power came from the same batteries used in the Duck-Leopard Armor, charged at the undersea power station—a Kree technology product.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As for restraining you, that's because I don't want you moving around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your wounds have only been stitched, not healed. Movement won't help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I also treated the old injury in your left leg. That needs rest too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whistler immediately asked about his beloved student.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where's Blade?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Off causing trouble for vampires.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn it. Don't tell me you don't know it's a trap.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Blade said as much. But do you think I could stop him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And you were half dead. Was I supposed to abandon you?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even if I wanted to ditch you and go with Blade, he wouldn't allow it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn it! How much time has passed?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black Super answered casually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Since the moment I jabbed you with that anesthetic needle? About seventeen hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's already the evening of the next day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The surgery was a success. Aside from that foul mouth of yours—which is beyond saving—everything else is fine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He continued:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I gave you two bags of artificial plasma, plus an erythropoietin shot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Right now the IV drip is glucose nutrition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And no, don't think I'm letting you out for dinner.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Black Super... do me a favor.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It already sounds troublesome. Can you not say it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Go help that boy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whistler's tone became serious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He went alone into enemy territory. Too reckless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Especially knowing they set a trap specifically to capture him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black Super sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You still said it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You understand why I don't want direct conflict with vampires, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Changing my appearance isn't enough against creatures with noses like theirs.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vampire smell was bizarre.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn't merely detect body odor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could smell blood itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was why Blade had immediately noticed the plasma Black Super brought earlier was wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because it really was artificial plasma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not the real thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whistler continued:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But there's no one else I can ask.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Other vampire hunters and exorcists—they don't trust Blade. No matter how much that kid's done.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he added:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You're the only one who got close to him without wanting money... and not because you wanted to screw him over his looks or physique.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black Super nearly rolled his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm not asking you to fight beside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just watch his back route.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If it gets dangerous, help him once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't dare ask for more.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black Super walked from one side of the medical tank to the other, using those few steps to think.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the earlier Kree-Skrull war, one major reason he dared stay uninvolved was Captain Marvel's absurd level of power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once that woman went all out, there were very few beings capable of stopping her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing Henry had done was assist a crashing Quinjet on its way down from space, reducing the number of Kree warships chasing it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mostly because Nick Fury had been onboard, and Henry had still hoped the man might clear his name someday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the current situation was different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was foreseeable what came next:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blood God versus Blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did Blade have a guaranteed chance of winning?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would the Blood God be as pathetic as in the movie?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Deacon Frost actually succeeded, it would undoubtedly create even more trouble for Henry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike the Kree and Skrulls, whichever side won would eventually leave Earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At worst, they might blow the planet into cheese first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if the Blood God defeated Blade—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Deacon Frost, or whichever vampire became the Blood God, would become far bolder in attacking the real world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could anyone expect them to kill only the poor and powerless, while sparing the rich and influential?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, it would be the same old story:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Submit and prosper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Resist and perish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And someone like Henry, unwilling to cooperate, had a high chance of becoming the sacrificial chicken used to scare the monkeys.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which meant—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he didn't want a bigger disaster later, he had to stop it now, at this critical moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not stand aside and let events plunge into the abyss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having reached that conclusion, Black Super sighed softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fine. I'll help.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whistler relaxed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thanks.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No need.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black Super reached the control panel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm giving you another shot. Sleep well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hopefully the next time you wake up, I'll have good news.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He added a measured dose of sedative into the tank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the medication's effects, the badly wounded old hunter drifted back into deep sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black Super returned to the laboratory's second level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the original excavated cavern area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike the third level, which had been reinforced with synthetic concrete until it resembled a proper building interior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The makeshift medical tank had required dismantling quite a few components from this floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the disabled systems were mostly unimportant ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He removed the Black Super Kevlar combat suit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Against vampires, that outfit was basically transparent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It couldn't conceal his identity at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blade himself had confirmed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every time Blade recognized him, it wasn't because of the deliberate footsteps Black Super made.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was because of that unique blood scent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So now—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was time to change suits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Duck-Leopard Armor, Duck Form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Green paint scheme.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its most striking feature:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Punjabi-style hat with a circular inner frame, triangular edges—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And a pheasant feather sticking proudly out of the top.\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>",1192,"2026-06-06T15:31:35.574Z",1,"novelbin.me","d1766ece150e18f34dfdd7fbfb39de27c0ec54ef3d10d967f1c68a1eda7e6a67","marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-chapter-519","marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-chapter-517",556,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmarvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-cover.jpg"]