Lu Mingfei doesn't want to be a superhero

Without any formal training or instruction, she figured out how to astral projection by relying on her own experiences of taking her soul out of her body a few times.

Holy crap! You're cheating! Does being a king mean you can disregard science?!

Lu Mingfei's eye twitched, feeling as if he had been dealt a critical blow in terms of his talent.

Dr. Banner and he practiced astral projection together, and he succeeded in a short time. He only achieved astral projection after being given a push by the Ancient One, which was already a bit discouraging.

Now another unparalleled genius has appeared. However, after only being guided by him a few times, he actually learned how to astral projection on his own.

You don't understand anything, how could you possibly learn it! Are you going to memorize it with your body?!

Lu Mingfei was completely baffled, especially as he watched Erii's spirit leave her body and become visibly stable, on the verge of completing the astral projection. His facial features twitched slightly – jealousy was making him unrecognizable.

Until a certain moment, Erii's spirit completely broke free from the constraints of her body and floated in the air as usual—the only difference being that this time she did not rely on Lu Mingfei's power.

Putting aside his jealousy, Lu Mingfei was also a little happy for Erii. This girl, who had been under house arrest since childhood, had her range of activities expanded from one room to an entire block. Although she was still not free, she should not be so repressed anymore, right?

"Congratulations, Erii! From now on, you can go out and have fun on your own," Lu Mingfei congratulated her.

Erii paused for a moment, not responding to Lu Mingfei's congratulations, but instead, to Lu Mingfei's surprise, she rushed straight towards him and hugged him tightly.

Spirits can collide with each other. Lu Mingfei was tackled to the ground by Erii, but he didn't feel any pain.

Even after falling to the ground, Erii remained clinging to Lu Mingfei, holding him tightly. Her face was buried in Lu Mingfei's chest, and it took her a while before she looked up at him, revealing a pretty face with faint tear stains.

Her dark red hair stood messily on Erii's face, and her semi-transparent bangs hung down, unable to conceal her deep rose-colored eyes.

Lu Mingfei had never seen such brilliance in the eyes of this quiet, somewhat melancholic girl. Her beautiful eyes were ignited by intense emotions, like a field of burning roses. Hot tears streamed down her cheeks, but she still wore a radiant smile.

This was a fervent smile that Lu Mingfei had never seen before, flamboyant and unrestrained, like a colorful bird taking flight, as if it wanted to make up for all the emotions it had lacked in the first eighteen years of its life.

Erii's smile illuminated the dry landscape-like room, instantly transforming it into a vibrant sea of ​​flowers, as if a hundred flowers were in full bloom.

Erii nestled against Lu Mingfei's chest, her voice as light and cheerful as a wind chime: "Arigato, Ghost-san. (Thank you, Mr. Ghost.)"

……

After saying goodbye to Senior Brother Yuan and the others, Lu Mingfei and Su Jiannan took a plane back to China.

Su Jiannan was completely dumbfounded. Even if he was slow to realize it, he should have figured it out by now. The reason why Genji Heavy Industries treated them differently was entirely because Lu Mingfei held a special position in Genji Heavy Industries.

In other words, the forces behind Lu Mingfei can even influence overseas.

On the plane, Su Jiannan couldn't figure it out for a long time. Why would someone like Lu Mingfei live in their small town? Was he really a hermit in the city?

Lu Mingfei had no idea what Su Jiannan was thinking. In any case, the successful completion of the negotiations was a good thing. He politely declined Su Jiannan's invitation at the airport and had his driver take him home—he had to go back to find Su Xiaoqiang.

Because Su Xiaoqiang had mentioned that she had never been to Japan, Lu Mingfei not only helped his colleagues in the equipment department purchase items in Akihabara, but also bought a lot of gifts to bring back to Xiaotiannv. However, since he wasn't sure what she liked, Lu Mingfei bought one of each type of gift.

This led to Lu Mingfei returning home carrying large bags of things, making it seem to outsiders that he was on a major shopping spree, and that the villa was actually his warehouse.

"Why buy so many unnecessary things! Just pick something nice as a gift! Don't you know what I like? Humph, I don't lack anything, as long as your intentions are there, it's enough. Don't make it seem like I'm the one who needs your little gift."

While Su Xiaoqiang stood with her hands on her hips scolding Lu Mingfei, she helped him move all the things into her bedroom, leaving only an oversized calico cat figurine in the living room.

A few days later, under Lu Mingfei's earnest persuasion, Su Xiaoqiang decided to go home and talk to her parents to try to reconcile.

After all, it's been two or three months already, and it's not good for them to keep "running away from home" all the time.

Although the little fairy is proud, she hasn't seen her parents for two or three months. She ran away from home in a fit of anger, but now her anger has long subsided. She actually misses her parents quite a bit, but she's a little too proud to admit it first.

However, after Lu Mingfei repeatedly persuaded her and even personally drove her back, Xiaotiannv accepted the offer.

After sending the little fairy home, Lu Mingfei breathed a long sigh of relief.

Great! The little fairy is back! Yay!

He can go to Tony's world now.

Lu Mingfei's time-traveling power was almost full, and if he didn't go soon, the excess energy would overflow and be wasted. That's why he hurriedly persuaded Xiaotiannv to go home just a few days after returning from Japan.

……

Standing in the restroom, Lu Mingfei took a deep breath, activated his teleportation power, and disappeared into space.

After a brief moment of distraction, everything before Lu Mingfei's eyes gradually became clear.

A light mist of steam drifted through the pristine white bathroom. A red-haired woman, her back to him, lathered her entire body with a quick shower of foam.

Lu Mingfei looked at the red hair, which was wet and clung to the woman's smooth and curvaceous back.

This scene... hasn't he seen it somewhere recently?

The person taking a shower seemed to sense his presence, suddenly turned around, and charged towards him, twisting his body and swinging his hand to deliver a fierce upward whip punch, which, along with the water vapor and strong wind, struck his carotid artery.

Lu Mingfei raised his hand to block her wrist, and they looked at each other in bewilderment.

“Natasha?” Lu Mingfei scratched his head with his other hand.

"Lu Mingfei?" Natasha's eyes twitched.

145. Chapter 144: S.H.I.E.L.D. Joins the Presidential Election

Natasha at home in Louisiana, USA.

Natasha, wrapped in a bath towel, sat back on the sofa with her long legs crossed, looking at Lu Mingfei expressionlessly.

Lu Mingfei responded with a well-behaved sitting posture.

“Mr. Lu Mingfei, can I call the police and report that you trespassed and spied on me?” Natasha narrowed her eyes. “Do you know that this is Louisiana? According to the fortress principle, I even have the right to pull out my gun and shoot you.”

"If you're really angry, I can let you fire a couple of shots," Lu Mingfei said weakly, "but could you use a smaller caliber?"

Given the strength of his scale armor, small-caliber firearms can't hurt him even if they're fired at point-blank range. But if the caliber is larger, the consequences of being hit at extremely close range are hard to predict. The injury would likely range from a superficial wound to a hole, depending on whether the gun that hit him was an AK47 or a Barrett anti-materiel sniper rifle.

Anyway, Natasha probably doesn't keep Barrett rifles at home all the time, right? Those things are huge, with a caliber of 12.7 mm, and they're specifically designed to take down tanks and helicopters. If an ordinary person gets shot by one, they'll be cut in two.

Just as Lu Mingfei was thinking this, Natasha got up, lifted the sofa, revealing a hollowed-out weapon box underneath, inside which lay a heavy sniper rifle that was 1.8 meters tall.

The Anzio anti-materiel sniper rifle, commonly known as the "Anzio Monster," is 20mm in caliber. While a Barrett might break a person in two at most, this rifle could probably scatter them all over the ground.

"I'm sorry, I was wrong!" Lu Mingfei immediately backed down.

Natasha closed the sofa again, crossed her arms, and sat back down.

"Why do you still keep this kind of thing in your house?" Lu Mingfei wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. "Are you worried that a tank will come and attack you?"

“Better safe than sorry,” Natasha shrugged, her towel trembling. “Actually, there was only an AWM sniper rifle here originally. I just replaced it with this big guy a while ago. To be honest, the reason I replaced it with this gun is actually related to you.”

"In your eyes, am I the kind of person who would break into someone's house and peep at them while they're taking a bath?" Lu Mingfei pointed to his nose, looking as if he had been insulted.

“It wasn’t like that before,” Natasha said, “but now it’s hard to say.”

"It was an accident." Lu Mingfei was momentarily speechless and said dryly.

When he travels to this world, he will randomly appear near things that are related to him. In his previous travels, he either appeared in Tony's laboratory or in Kamar-Taj, all of which were related to him.

It wasn't strange that he appeared at Natasha's house. After all, although they weren't exactly best friends, they were at least acquaintances. He just didn't expect it to be such a coincidence that he happened to catch Natasha taking a bath.

He had encountered this awkward situation once before. That day, Tony brought a beautiful woman he had just won over home, and they were about to have an intimate encounter when Tony arrived and interrupted them.

Natasha had an expression that said, "Do you believe me or not?" It was an unexpected surprise.

Given S.H.I.E.L.D.'s intelligence capabilities, they should have found out that he would disappear for a period of time periodically, but Natasha did not pursue the matter, and Lu Mingfei naturally did not want to bring it up, so he changed the subject and said: "Natasha, you still haven't said why your equipment upgrade is related to me."

“To be precise, it’s not you, but people like you with special abilities,” Natasha said. “There are quite a few people in this world with special superpowers, but most of them are not incredibly powerful, and ordinary firearms can still be deadly to them.”

“But there are a very few, such as Mr. Stark, you, and Hulk, Abomination, and even that Thor who calls himself the God of Thunder…” Natasha sighed.

“Thor really is Thor,” Lu Mingfei said instinctively, defending Thor since they were friends. “Although he doesn’t seem very smart, has bad luck, is unreliable, and is a drunkard, he really is Thor.”

“Whether he is Thor or not, his power is undeniable. He’s been going to his girlfriend’s house every few days. We had him do a test to determine his level of danger,” Natasha said.

"Would someone as arrogant as him agree to cooperate with you?" Lu Mingfei was taken aback.

“It was one of my colleagues who went. She said to Saul, ‘We want to see something amazing. Could you demonstrate the power of the gods?’ He happily agreed,” Natasha said.

Lu Mingfei: ...

Very well, that's the kind of thing Thor would do.

“You know him well, so I don’t need to describe his power to you, right? Anyway, after he demonstrated the ‘power of the gods,’ the large military weapons testing ground used for him was completely destroyed and could no longer be used. And according to him, that was just a ‘warm-up’,” Natasha said.

“That’s normal.” Lu Mingfei nodded calmly.

Although Thor is a comedic character, comedic characters can be very strong.

"Not to mention Hulk, S.H.I.E.L.D. secretly helped Dr. Banner, and you guys who took him in stopped many forces interested in Hulk, so they wouldn't keep thinking about dying, saving us the trouble of cleaning up his body."

Natasha's beautiful and charming face showed the weariness of a corporate slave: "Dealing with you superhumans all day long, I don't feel safe without some tough stuff. If one of your enemies gets involved in your revenge, I'd probably get torn to pieces."

Putting everything else aside, just look at that lizardman from a while back; Natasha honestly knew she was definitely not someone she could handle.

"Why would we involve you if our enemies seek revenge?" Lu Mingfei asked, puzzled.

“Once his superhero identity is exposed, every one of his friends and family members will be in danger,” Natasha said, looking puzzled. “Don’t you understand such a simple thing?”

Lu Mingfei was even more puzzled than she was: "You don't mean to say we're friends, do you?"

Natasha: ...

……

The chat was abruptly stopped, and the atmosphere suddenly became less than friendly.

After thinking for a moment, Lu Mingfei decided to take his leave.

“Natasha, could I borrow your phone?” Lu Mingfei asked shamelessly. “I’ll have a helicopter pick me up.”

Natasha shrugged: "Sorry, I only lend things to friends."

"Women are so vengeful," Lu Mingfei thought to himself.

Fortunately, Lu Mingfei noticed a landline phone in the corner of the living room.

Taking advantage of Natasha's momentary lapse in attention, Lu Mingfei leaped off the sofa, ran to the landline, picked up the receiver, and dialed Jarvis's number. To be precise, anyone who dialed this number would be subject to Jarvis's voiceprint verification, and once verified, they would receive Jarvis's services.

"Hello? Jarvis?" Lu Mingfei said immediately after the call connected.

"Good evening, Mr. Lu Mingfei." Jarvis confirmed Lu Mingfei's identity directly through his voiceprint.

"Could you help me contact my family's helicopter pilot and have her come pick me up? The address is..." Lu Mingfei paused for a moment, then turned to look at Natasha with pleading eyes.

“Just tell me my address,” Natasha said irritably. “I bet Mr. Stark has already investigated my background, including my home address.”