Lan Yu watched Asuka walk away in a huff. After receiving her answer, he instead felt a weight lift from his heart.
Grandpa's youth is back!
No matter what happened in the theatrical films, this real Asuka who appeared in front of him did not like Kensuke Aida.
That damn hooligan—he died well! I was one of the people who wanted to stab him too!
"Sister Cyan, is there any news from Iron Man's side?" Lan Yu looked toward Cyan who was standing in front of the window.
"Mm. Tomorrow we will go to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier together with Iron Man Tony Stark." Cyan turned around, leaned her back against the wall, and looked at Lan Yu. "Tomorrow, there may be danger on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. When the time comes, don't stray too far from us, and don't do anything irrational."
Looking at the unrestrained ecstasy on Lan Yu's face, Cyan warned him once.
Cyan would not do anything that violated the deal. However, if Lan Yu insisted on doing something that would get himself killed, she could not stop him, and she would not put herself in danger just to protect him.
"Mm. I understand, Sister Cyan. I won't do anything stupid."
Lan Yu nodded. He understood the meaning in Cyan's words. The other party had agreed to protect him, that was true, but that did not mean the other party would protect him when he was courting death. He still had that bit of self-awareness.
After Lan Yu left, Asuka, who had finished brushing her teeth, walked out of the bathroom wiping her face with a towel.
"Has that annoying kid left?"
"Knock knock knock!"
The sound of knocking rang out. Asuka impatiently threw the towel onto the floor.
"Again?!"
Asuka stormed over and opened the door. Seeing Nishi and Unabi standing at the doorway, she deflated like a balloon that had been pricked by a needle.
"Xiangxiang~!"
Little Black, standing on Unabi's shoulder, raised a hand and greeted Asuka.
"You're back. What did you buy?"
Asuka looked at the grinning Nishi and glanced at the food she was carrying in her hands.
It was so late already, yet she still insisted on going out to buy snacks. Who knew what she was thinking.
"I bought potato chips, cake, delicious sticks, chocolate wafers, cream puffs… and ice cream~!"
Nishi counted on her fingers how many kinds of snacks she had bought, then took out an ice cream and asked, "Ice cream—want some?"
"I'll pass."
Asuka thought of how she had just finished brushing her teeth and shook her head. After they walked into the room, she closed the door.
"Master~!"
Little Black leaped up from Unabi's shoulder. The little one flashed with faint golden lightning in midair, stepped on the ceiling, and smashed toward Cyan like a cannonball.
"That's dangerous." Cyan saw Little Black's action and stretched out a hand to catch her.
"It's not dangerous at all. Master will catch me~!"
Little Black laughed happily. Her spider legs kicked as she flipped over in Cyan's arms.
"Master."
Unabi walked over next to Cyan and habitually rubbed her head against Cyan's arm.
"Mm."
Cyan stroked Unabi's hair.
Unabi, who had been patted on the head by Cyan, satisfactorily walked toward the bag Nishi was carrying, rummaged around, took out a bag of potato chips, and began eating them. She then walked to the refrigerator, took out a can of cola, opened it, and took a sip.
Ever since turning into a human and tasting snacks, Unabi had also begun to fall. She was gradually developing toward becoming a fat otaku. If not for practicing Ripple Qigong, her figure would probably have already begun developing horizontally.
"Master~! Come eat snacks~!"
Nishi tore open a bag of cream puffs and began eating happily. The strawberry cream puff filled her mouth. That slightly sour sweet and greasy taste made her unable to stop. One bag of cream puffs was quickly finished by her.
"Be careful with your weight. Later, if you turn into a fat person, Cyan will look down on you, you know~!"
Asuka glanced at Nishi's lower abdomen and always felt that with this way of eating, it would not be long before her weight began rising in a straight line, turning her into a several-hundred-jin fat person.
"I properly work out every day~!"
Nishi waved her hand dismissively, took out a bag of chocolate wafers, opened it, and took a bite.
"I want ice cream!"
Seeing that Nishi had already started eating, Little Black jumped over from Cyan's arms, burrowed into the bag, and found a small box-packaged ice cream.
Before sleeping, Little Black looked timidly at the toothbrush in Cyan's hand and took a step back.
"Master, can I not brush my teeth?"
"No. If you don't brush your teeth you'll get cavities. When that time comes, the teeth in your mouth will have to be pulled out." Cyan seriously looked at Little Black and explained to her the bad points of not brushing teeth.
"I don't want to have my teeth pulled!"
The moment Little Black thought of the teeth in her mouth being pulled out, she was so scared she obediently opened her mouth.
Cyan squeezed a bit of toothpaste onto the children's toothbrush and gently brushed Little Black's neat little teeth in her mouth.
After finishing brushing, Little Black held a mouthful of water and gargled with glugging sounds, then spat the water out. She jumped onto Cyan's shoulder, looked in the mirror, bared her teeth to check her clean white little teeth, and nodded satisfactorily, thinking: This way I won't need to have my teeth pulled, right?
From this it could be seen that Little Black was truly very afraid of having her teeth pulled.
The next day, early morning.
Can't move… so uncomfortable…
Cyan uncomfortably opened her eyes. The pajamas on her body had been hooked onto herself by Little Black's spider legs, causing her to sleep with her belly exposed. On the left was Nishi, whose sleeping posture was like a koala—both legs wrapped around her waist, arms hugging her arm, sleeping in a very tiring posture (the one being hugged was the tired one).
On the right was Unabi, hugging her arm and sleeping curled up.
Somehow, Asuka was sleeping with her head facing downward, and her feet were right above Cyan's head.
Perhaps sleeping separately would be better…
Cyan looked at the several people who were currently putting on clothes and asked, "Eat food from the Golden Holy Grail, or go to the restaurant to eat?"
"Let's go to the restaurant. It's better to save the Golden Holy Grail's food. Something might happen when we go to the S.H.I.E.L.D. carrier."
Asuka thought for a moment and said, "Currently we still don't know what S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attitude toward us is. The food produced by the Golden Holy Grail has a certain probability of having buff effects, lasting at most two hours. Using it now would be too wasteful."
"Indeed. What Asuka said makes sense."
Nishi scratched her slightly messy hair and rather agreed with Asuka's words. The buff food produced by the Golden Holy Grail was still very effective. Eating it as breakfast would be too wasteful.
After resolving the food problem in the hotel restaurant, Cyan's group arrived at Stark Tower and met Tony on the rooftop of Stark Tower.
A living Tony Shitstark!
The moment Lan Yu saw Tony he nearly screamed out in excitement.
"Um… Iron Man, Mr. Stark, can you give me an autograph? I'm your fan!" Lan Yu walked over holding a signature board, looking at Tony with excitement and reverence.
"Hm?"
Tony looked at Lan Yu, who completely looked like a fanatical little fan, and glanced at Cyan with a trace of confusion in his eyes.
"Why did you bring one of my fans?"
"He will go with us onto the S.H.I.E.L.D. carrier. He is not an ordinary person. The average of his physical qualities is twice that of ordinary humans. If you don't believe it you can test it."
"Twice?"
Hearing Cyan's words, Tony looked at Lan Yu suspiciously, took a pen, and wrote his own name on the signature board. He had originally planned to fly to the Helicarrier using the Iron Man armor. Now that Cyan's group was accompanying him, he had no choice but to change his plan and have S.H.I.E.L.D. send a plane to pick them up.
Of course, before the plane came to pick them up, Tony used various methods to test Lan Yu's abilities. Looking at the results, Cyan had not deceived him. Lan Yu's qualities in all aspects of the body had indeed reached twice that of ordinary people. In particular, the activity of the cerebral cortex had reached more than three times that of ordinary people.
Looking at Lan Yu's thin and small appearance, it was hard for people to believe he actually possessed physical qualities exceeding twice that of ordinary people.
This also made Tony believe Cyan's words a bit more. If he was not a person from the Reverse World, could the activity of a normal person's cerebral cortex reach three times that of ordinary people?!
Soon the plane that had come to pick them up arrived.
"Something is approaching."
Cyan warily looked to the side. Her hand rested on the hilt of the Demon Blade. The moment the words left her mouth, a stealth plane deactivated its camouflage and appeared before everyone's eyes.
"Wait. This is a S.H.I.E.L.D. plane."
Seeing Cyan's action, Tony hurriedly grabbed her. Yesterday when she had not used a weapon she had almost punched the chest plate of his Iron Man armor flying. If she used a weapon it would be even worse—she might dismantle this plane on the spot.
"Not an enemy…"
Hearing Tony's words, Cyan released the hilt.
Seeing Cyan release the hilt, Black Widow Natasha Romanoff sitting on the plane let out a breath of relief. Before coming, Nick Fury had specifically instructed her to pay attention to these people who claimed to be from the Reverse World and preferably not conflict with them.
"I didn't expect it to be you coming to pick me up."
The plane's door opened. Tony saw Natasha sitting on the plane, pursed his lips, and had not yet forgotten her previous deception.
"Mr. Stark doesn't want me to pick you up? Fine. Next time I'll have another agent come pick you up."
"A man? Forget about a man. I think you still look more pleasing to the eye."
As Tony spoke he boarded the plane and found a seat to sit down.
Hearing Tony's words, Natasha smiled and said nothing. Looking at Cyan's group boarding the plane, and recalling the mission Nick Fury had assigned her, she thought about how to dig some words out of their mouths.
This is truly not an easy mission…
Natasha attempted to approach Cyan, only to face Nishi tightly hugging Cyan's arm and looking at her with an unfriendly gaze.
"I heard you are from the Reverse World. I wonder how you learned about the matter that occurred this time?"
Natasha asked with feigned curiosity and glanced at Lan Yu who was looking at her with a bit of excitement.
This kid recognizes me? I've never seen him.
"We have our own channels for obtaining information. Don't ask too many questions."
Cyan coldly glanced at Natasha. According to the information obtained from Lan Yu, this woman with the name "Black Widow" was very skilled at digging for information. The best method to prevent her from digging more useful information from their mouths was to refuse—to refuse to communicate with her from the very beginning.
"…"
Natasha's current feeling was extreme awkwardness. She had still wanted to learn about the "Reverse World" that Cyan had spoken of from her mouth. This was great—before it even started it had already ended. The other party refused to speak with her. Even if she had heaven-reaching abilities she could not read what the other party was thinking in her head, let alone obtain the information she wanted to know.
"Pfft!"
Tony saw Natasha suffer a setback and could not help laughing out loud. Noticing Natasha looking over, he put away the smile on his face and said with a straight expression, "Don't mind me. I just thought of a joke I saw before. It was really too funny. I suddenly remembered it and couldn't help laughing. You continue. Don't mind me."
"Is that so, Mr. Stark? When you have time tell me what that joke was and let me laugh too."
Natasha glared at Tony, this guy who was worse than useless at getting things done. She was currently worried about the mission, yet this guy was fine and instead laughed so happily because of her setback. If not for the fact that this matter required him, Nick Fury would absolutely never have called him onto S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarrier!
Soon the plane arrived at the location where the Helicarrier was flying. Cyan raised her head and looked outside.
"It's a very big fellow."
"You can see the Helicarrier?"
Natasha looked at Cyan in surprise. With the background reflection panels activated, the Helicarrier was very difficult to detect. They were still so far from the carrier—how could she see it?
"Mm. The color is a bit strange."
Cyan slightly nodded. She could indeed see that enormous Helicarrier. It was just that the color was a bit strange.
The plane stopped on the deck of the Helicarrier. Under Natasha's lead, Cyan's group and Tony entered the interior of the Helicarrier.
"You are the ones who claim to be from the 'Reverse World'?"
S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury sized up Cyan's group. In front of the precision instruments sat many people continuously looking through surveillance footage from all over the world searching for traces of Loki and Hawkeye.
"Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury."
Cyan looked at Nick Fury's dark head and thought of a type of food called "braised egg."
Captain America! Hulk!
Lan Yu looked around, sizing up the interior of the Helicarrier. He saw Captain America wearing a leather jacket, then saw Bruce Banner wearing glasses and attempting to stay away from the crowd. Seeing these superheroes from the movies appear alive right in front of his eyes, as a fan of Marvel movies, one could imagine just how excited his current mood was.
His heartbeat is too fast. Is he afraid?
Cyan glanced at Lan Yu whose heart rate was climbing higher and higher.
"We came to assist you in resolving this trouble. Loki of Asgard will bring trouble to Earth. Our purpose in coming is to resolve this trouble." Cyan calmly spoke the prepared statement that had been discussed with Nishi, Asuka, and Lan Yu.
Hearing Cyan's words, Nick narrowed his eyes and asked, "Do you know Loki's location?"
"If we knew, why would we come here? Why wouldn't we just go find trouble with Loki directly?"
Nishi planted both hands on her hips and looked at Nick with disdain. According to their current identity setting, if they knew where Loki was they would have already charged over to kill him. Would they still come onto the Helicarrier?
"…"
This single cutting remark from Nishi directly left Nick speechless. He turned to look to the side to relieve the awkwardness in his heart.
Seeing that the boss had suffered a setback, the agents present lowered their heads and each focused on their own work, putting on an appearance of "I'm busy, I didn't hear anything," preventing the Director from giving them a hard time.
"Captain America?"
Tony circled around Steve once, made an exaggerated expression, and pinched the muscles on his arm.
"You look really young. Is this the effect of being frozen?"
"Tony Stark? I heard about you from Nick."
Hearing Tony's words, Steve's brows slightly furrowed. He sized him up, recalling the information about Tony Stark he had learned from Nick.
"Is that so? Looks like I'm quite popular with old people."
Tony walked over to Bruce, shook his hand, and said, "Hi, Professor Banner. I'm your super fan~!"
After chatting with Bruce for a while, Tony took advantage of the moment Nick left, pretended to look at the instruments, and stuck a precision device that looked like a button in a hidden place.
Through this precision device, Jarvis began invading S.H.I.E.L.D.'s classified files.
He only needed to wait for Jarvis to crack the programs, and everything Nick was hiding would be known to him.
In a small inn in an alley, Yi Wenxuan and Xu Bin organized the weapons in their hands, loaded bullets into the magazines, and waited for the invasion of the Chitauri army.
"Brother Yi, what did you do before coming here?"
Xu Bin asked curiously, thinking of how calmly Yi Wenxuan had faced that terrifying Wilson yesterday.
"Guess what I did?"
Yi Wenxuan pushed his glasses up. A smile curled the corner of his mouth as he glanced at Xu Bin and checked the firearm in his hand.
"Brother Yi, you couldn't have been doing this kind of thing, right?" Xu Bin made a gesture.
"No. Before coming here I was considered a high-level executive of a listed company." Yi Wenxuan smiled self-mockingly and shook his head, urging, "Hurry up and finish loading the magazines. Otherwise when the time comes to use them you'll still need to load bullets."
"Got it! I know!"
Xu Bin worked hard struggling with the bullets and magazines, striving to stay alive and return to the real world.
Police Station
Pei Hongwei and the ballet woman were locked up in the police station. Because the ballet woman was crazy and deranged, Pei Hongwei had suffered along with her. The two of them had been locked up by the police.
Unless someone came to bail them out, it would be difficult for them to leave the police station for this period of time.
What to do, what to do… what to do?!
Pei Hongwei watched the countdown tick away second by second. He grew more and more anxious. Having finally obtained a second life, he did not want to leave it here.
Crazy woman, it's all because of you!
Pei Hongwei angrily glared at the ballet woman locked up on the other side.
On the other side, in order to obtain the iridium needed for the instrument, while also buying time for the completion of the instrument and attracting S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attention so that S.H.I.E.L.D. would not discover that the instrument's completion required iridium, Loki planned to become the bait himself and deliberately get captured by S.H.I.E.L.D.
Thus, he appeared in Stuttgart, Germany, in order to obtain the eye needed for verification from Dr. Heinrich Schafer.
At the same time, the team led by Hawkeye attacked the Scheid Physics Research Institute.
Helicarrier
"Clue discovered. Match rate 67%. Wait, 79%."
"What area?"
Coulson walked over next to Sitwell who was sitting in front of the instruments.
"Stuttgart, Germany. 28 Königstraße. He doesn't intend to hide."
As Sitwell spoke, the display showed a head photograph of Loki taken by the surveillance cameras with a match rate of 100%.
Nick clapped his hands and looked at Cyan's group and Captain America Steve Rogers. "Captain, and the people from the Reverse World—it's time for you to make a move. Capture Loki and bring him back."
"I've been ready for a long time."
Nishi stretched her hands and feet as she spoke. There was nothing else to do on the Helicarrier. Staying there was super boring. She could not understand a single bit of the information displayed on those precision instruments.
"When do we depart?" Cyan looked at Nick and asked.
"After the Captain changes into his combat uniform."
Nick had originally wanted to say depart immediately, but seeing that dear Captain America had not yet changed into his combat uniform, he had no choice but to temporarily change his words.
After Steve finished changing into his combat uniform, Cyan's group and he boarded a plane together and headed to Stuttgart, Germany.
At the banquet, Dr. Heinrich Schafer was excitedly giving a speech about his theory.
Standing upstairs, dressed in a suit and leather shoes, Loki glanced at one of the targets of this trip, then leisurely walked down the stairs.
The bodyguards saw this uninvited person and were about to question him when Loki swung his cane and knocked them to the ground. The people who saw this scene let out cries of surprise.
Loki quickly walked toward Heinrich Schafer, swinging him forward as if carrying a little chick, then threw him up and pressed him onto a platform with twisted heads on both sides.
On the other side, Hawkeye, who had entered the Scheid Physics Research Institute and arrived in front of the door of the warehouse storing the iridium, took out a projection device and placed it on the encrypted lock that could only be opened by Heinrich Schafer's eye, then pressed the switch.
The scene returned to the banquet. Loki took a device from his bosom, lightly dropped it to open it, and the metal inside began rotating. Under Heinrich Schafer's terrified gaze, he pressed it onto his left eye.
"Ugh! Aaaaah!!!"
Heinrich Schafer screamed in agony. His body violently trembled.
The surrounding people watched this scene in terror and ran toward the outside. Looking at the people screaming and running outward, an excited, evil smile appeared on Loki's face.
After completing his own work, Loki glanced at Dr. Heinrich Schafer who had fainted from the intense pain, then walked toward the outside. Light shone on his body. His clothes transformed back into his Asgardian attire. He wore a metal helmet with long horns, and the Mind Scepter that had been disguised as a cane revealed its true form.
"All of you, kneel!"
Light formed Loki's clones that surrounded everyone, driving them like driving a flock of sheep, forcing them to gather together.
"I said…"
Loki looked at the terrified people. The scepter in his hand and the scepters in the hands of the clones lit up with light.
"Kneel—!!!"
The terrified people looked at the enraged Loki and slowly knelt.
Looking at the people kneeling on the ground, a satisfied smile appeared on Loki's face.
"Isn't this simple? Aren't you born for this? This is the truth humanity has not yet spoken…"
Just as Loki was proclaiming his dictatorial words, Cyan's group and Captain America Steve arrived here.
Cyan looked at Loki walking among the crowd. The moment the plane's door opened, she pushed off with both feet and disappeared from in front of everyone's eyes.
Such fast speed!
Steve saw Cyan's astonishing speed and was startled in his heart.
Silver-white blade light flashed. The sound of metal clashing rang out. Sensing danger, Loki raised the Mind Scepter and blocked Cyan's attack.