American Comics: Something's Wrong with This Superhero World

Chapter 85 The Gift

Not long after rising from the embrace of the starlight, Xiao Xian's chest wound had completely healed, but his eyes still gleamed with a cold light.

"Starlight, could you please find some suitable clothes?"

Xiao Xian said to Xingguang that the following scene was not convenient for Xingguang to see, but it would not be good to make Xingguang avoid it directly. It would be good to use the excuse of looking for clothes to send Xingguang away.

"Okay." Starlight nodded. Her uniform was specially made by the Osborn Group and would not get stained with blood. The White Queen also did not get stained with blood thanks to her diamond-like ability. Xiao Xian was different. Because Shi Shuaigen had ripped his heart and lungs out, Xiao Xian's clothes were not only covered in blood, but also had large holes in the front and back.

After the starlight faded into the distance, Xiao Xian looked at Shi Shuaigen and pulled out two daggers, coldly pinning Shi Shuaigen's hands to the ground, preventing him from performing the "hand dance." When Shi Shuaigen performed the "hand dance," his hands were harder than steel, but when he didn't, he was no different from an ordinary person.

"Ahhh~" The nail pierced through the back of his hand, and the intense pain made Shi Shuaigen scream like a pig being slaughtered.

"Shut up!"

He slapped Shi Shuaigen hard across the face, making Shi Shuaigen's head buzz. Xiao Xian then pulled out a pistol, pointed it at Shi Shuaigen, and said...

"If you shout again, I'll shoot. What are you shouting for in the middle of the night? Don't the neighbors need to sleep? Don't you have any sense of public decency?"

Under the combined effect of being slapped and threatened by his younger brother, Shi Shuaigen wisely stopped wailing and looked at Xiao Xian with fearful eyes. As the saying goes, a great man can bend and stretch. If he doesn't bend now, Shi Shuaigen is afraid that he won't be able to stretch in the future.

This guy is clearly a superhero, so why did he point a gun at someone's brother right away? And he nailed a knife into someone's hand without even blinking, as if he were nailing a chicken instead of a person.

Furthermore, when Tony assigned him the mission, he directly installed a locator on him, threatening to blow him up if he didn't comply. Shi Shuaigen suddenly felt that his superhero filter for this world had shattered.

"Speak, Shi Shuaigen," Xiao Xian said coldly. "Who sent you to kill me? And how did you know my location?"

Xiao Xian learned through the mission system that Tony had sent people to kill him, but he didn't want to expose this.

"It was Tony Stark! He sent me your live address!" Shi Shuaigen replied without hesitation. "I was forced into it. Please, have mercy on me! I'll never do it again!"

Xiao Xian glanced at the White Empress and saw her nod, then curled his lip.

Although Osborn Corporation is a top-tier technology company, it wouldn't be difficult for Tony to hack into it. Reverse monitoring Xiao Xian's location and changing the address of Shi Shuaigen sent by Osborn Corporation would be very easy.

This company is no good. They need to strengthen their firewall. Also, it's a good thing that core secrets like the Super Serum are physically disconnected from the internet. Otherwise, if Tony had hacked in, he would have seen everything. These are all my assets, currently just stored with Harry.

Xiao Xian, who had already tacitly accepted that the entire Osborn was his, was extremely dissatisfied with the company's performance. It seemed he needed to find a beautiful hacker to join him. Which characters in the story had hacking skills?

As for why she's a female hacker, it's because of her super charm; Xiao Xian basically doesn't have to worry about being betrayed.

As for why it has to be a beautiful female hacker, it's because Xiao Xian didn't want to compromise himself too much. Even if he had to sacrifice his looks, it had to be a beautiful woman.

Finally, the reason it has to be a character from the storyline, and not other top hackers, is because in Marvel DC, the hacking skills of a normal top hacker and a character from the storyline who provides technical support to superheroes are completely different things.

A typical top-tier hacker, with top-notch skills, diligent study, specialization in one or a few areas, control of top-tier equipment, and adherence to normal rules, would need to either hire a cleaning lady through social sciences or slowly search for firewall vulnerabilities to infiltrate a top-tier black technology company like Osborne. Spending six months to a year preparing is common, and even then, success is not guaranteed.

After all, even top hackers are human. Some hack into big companies, while others succumb to the allure of money and work for Osborne. Even if their skills are lacking, they have a large number of people, a lot of good equipment, and advanced technology, so blocking attacks is not a difficult task.

The characters who provide technical support in the story spend their days joking around with the protagonist, having romantic relationships, and occasionally getting kidnapped by the supervillain. They don't really do much technical work, but their hacking skills are so high that even a high school student who goes to class every day can easily hack into Osborne with a second-hand phone. The Pentagon system is a daily routine for them.

Without even needing on-site control, simply writing code to a USB drive was enough to successfully infiltrate Osborn without alerting the top hackers hired by Osborn.

The most outrageous thing is that this kind of technically supported character is very knowledgeable, depending entirely on the needs of the plot. She understands mainframe systems, personal computers, and mobile phones. As for highly confidential military aircraft control systems, missile control systems, and rocket systems, she handles them all with ease.

What? A normal person might never know what the control systems of those airplanes and missiles look like until they die? That's a limitation for ordinary people. For characters in the story, let alone these things, they can even hack into systems from other worlds, aliens, or future worlds.

Even if the language barrier is not a problem, it is still easy to hack into a system that has changed from binary to ternary or decimal.

It can hack into various systems, create a website, write an app, or even write an assignment system—that's not difficult at all. Its main selling point is its versatility.

"Why did Tony want to kill me?"

Having mentally planned out the recruitment needs for Osborn, Xiao Xian then asked, "I don't think I've ever offended Tony Stark. No, it's not that I haven't offended him, it's that I've never even met him. What's wrong with Tony that he wants to kill me?"

"I'm not really sure either, I just heard Tony say he was going to prepare a gift for Harry," Stoneman pleaded. "I had no choice, Tony said he would kill me if I didn't lay a hand on you, and I really don't want to kill you."

"He's lying. He'd love to kill you right now. Besides, he doesn't object at all to Tony messing with you; he just says it's fine as long as you pay him." The White Queen read Shi Shuaigen's mind.

"Tony's exact words were, 'Kill that ugly bastard and give the video of burying you alive as a gift to that idiot in the Osborne family.'"

"???" You have mind-reading abilities, right? Then why are you asking me? Shi Shuaigen looked at the White Queen in shock. This person had already demonstrated three superpowers: diamondization, self-control, and mind-reading. No, the latter two seemed to be the same as Professor X's, two different applications of telepathy.

"Is there anything else? Do you know any other secrets? Or anything of value?"

Xiao Xian nodded, then asked, "So Tony is jealous of my good looks, and since I'm a superhero under Osborn's management, he's planning to use my head to disgust Osborn?"

Fine, fine, you rich kids are just being petty and treating my life, a mere laborer, like a toy, huh? So you really are the elite military-industrial complex who don't treat their subordinates like human beings anymore?

Originally, I planned to back down and see the bigger picture, but instead, I was met with relentless pressure. Tony, if you keep doing this, don't blame me for being inhuman.

"He recalled images of Xavier's Institute conducting human experiments on mutant prisoners, as well as the password to the Swiss bank account where he had stored the six million dollars he had stolen."

The White Queen sneered. Xavier's Institute was indeed no good. On the surface, they were fighting for the cause of mutants, but behind the scenes, they were conducting all sorts of inhumane experiments on mutants.

"this one?"

Xiao Xian was not surprised at all upon hearing this. Given the nature of this world, he wouldn't be surprised if Professor X used X College students for experiments. Then, he turned around and slashed Shi Shuaigen's neck with a knife.

He opened his mouth in pain, but only managed to make a hissing sound with his vocal cords leaking air. Shi Shuaigen tried to cover his neck with his hands, but his hands were firmly pinned to the ground, and he could only let the blood gushing out.

(End of this chapter)