Zombie Marvel? Luckily, I'm Superman!

When Lin Yi was looking for a hotel to stay in, he encountered a familiar situation.

In this highly mechanized city under Stark's control, everything requires online verification for identity and purchases. He doesn't have any identification. But no problem, his little magic works as well as ever.

The room chosen was still Lin Yi's favorite, one with huge floor-to-ceiling windows. Floor-to-ceiling windows allow for a better view of the scenery outside, and Lin Yi is used to gazing at the scenery outside when he is free or thinking; otherwise, he wouldn't have given his little treehouse such a large window.

There was no one else in the room, so the shield was no longer hanging on his chest, and he transformed back into a mechanical lizard, wandering around the room.

"Aren't we going to go find Tony Stark? Or are we going to wait until tomorrow?" Shield asked. "I've noticed you seem to have a bit of a procrastination problem. Always putting things off until tomorrow, like your dad did. Wait a minute..."

The shield tilted its head and continued, "It seems that not only you and your father, but most humans tend to wait when faced with trouble and potential problems?" The shield circled Lin Yi twice in a researching posture, successfully earning Lin Yi's sidelong glance.

"After Peter Parker found me today, the first thing he must have done was check my identity information. Guess if I, this guy with no identity, have even appeared in Tony Stark's sights yet?"

Lin Yi stretched and added, "Also, when I first teleported to this universe today, I didn't deliberately hide my presence. Do you think those satellites labeled Stark Industries detected me?"

Shield rummaged through the carpet, raised its little head, and exclaimed in realization, "Oh! So you had this planned all along, didn't you?"

"Are you going to wait for Tony Stark to come to you?"

"That's not true. Exchanging information is just a matter of time. Before we meet Tony Stark, we might have some other issues to confirm."

"What is it?" Shield asked curiously, but Lin Yi ignored him and turned his gaze back to the window.

On the surface, he was admiring the sunset, but his superhuman eyesight had already traversed kilometers and buildings to lock onto a target: the old lady he had met in the alley earlier that day.

He felt there was something strange about the old woman. Although her behavior throughout the day might seem perfectly normal to others, Lin Yi noticed a peculiar detail.

When Peter descended from the sky and kicked the young black man with the knife away, an unusual look flashed across the old lady's eyes. If she wasn't mistaken, it was a look of regret.

What was she regretting? Was it that she wasn't stabbed by the young black man, or was there some other reason? Lin Yi's sixth sense told him that there was something wrong with this old lady.

Under her superhuman vision, the old lady appeared to be preparing dinner. She lived alone in a two-story house, the rooms of which were exceptionally tidy, even a little deserted. It was still early, but she had already drawn all the curtains, leaving only the kitchen light on.

The old lady's dinner was also very simple. Lin Yi watched as she took a piece of raw meat from the refrigerator and skillfully sliced ​​it thinly on the cutting board. Then she opened the refrigerator again and took out a small glass jar containing a thick, dark red sauce.

Lin Yi's nose twitched as he watched the jar open.

It smells like blood.

The old lady didn't seem to intend to cook. Instead, she took some sauce, spread it on the slices of meat, and carried the plate to the table.

Lin Yi raised an eyebrow. Good heavens, she's going to eat it raw? The old lady is a bit too old-fashioned.

And this meat… Lin Yi looked at the texture of the meat; it didn't resemble the meat of ordinary livestock, and the color was very dark, almost purplish. Lin Yi suddenly remembered the scene he'd seen before: Wanda tearing apart and eating a monster's corpse. This texture… wasn't it exactly the same as the texture of a monster? Was this old woman eating monster meat?

"Heh..." Lin Yi chuckled lightly. This old lady was indeed suspicious. But wasn't it said that those who were corrupted almost never left the corrupted area?

What's going on with this old woman? She ate monster flesh raw and still maintained her sanity. Was she not corrupted, or does she have some special method?

Moreover, that sauce... had a bloody smell, and it wasn't monster blood, because monster blood is purple.

After thinking for a long time, Lin Yi suddenly spoke up: "Didn't Peter say before that he and the old lady had known each other for a long time?"

Shield, who was trying to climb onto a stool, stopped upon hearing this and quickly retrieved the recording. "Yes, it's in the recording. Peter mentioned that the old lady often encountered similar robberies, and the two have known each other for at least a year."

"Why are you suddenly asking about the old lady? Do you think there's something wrong with her?" Shield's tone also carried a hint of curiosity.

Lin Yi stroked his chin, narrowing his eyes—something he habitually did when thinking: "There's a problem, a huge problem. The old lady is eating something terrible right now..."

"No way, brother!" The shield was stunned for a moment, then the entire mechanical lizard turned to Lin Yi, its face full of disbelief: "You're using super vision to watch an old lady's daily life? Are you fucking a pervert?"

"Get out!" Lin Yi clicked his tongue in annoyance. "I think there's something wrong with this old lady. When Peter stopped that young black man today, she seemed disappointed, like... the plot didn't go as she expected. I feel like she would have preferred that young black man to stab her, or rather... get close to her?"

Lin Yi paused, pointed out the window towards the old lady's residence, and continued to explain, "And right now, what the old lady is eating looks a little bit like the monster Wanda was tearing apart that I saw during the day."

Upon hearing this, Shield realized there was indeed a problem. He immediately stopped joking and began to think: "You mean to say that this old lady has also been corrupted? But that's not right. According to the information I've obtained, corrupted life forms, whether they are superhumans or ordinary people who originally lived in that hemisphere, will depend on the special environmental elements of the corrupted area."

"When they leave the eroded area, they experience severe maladjustment, falling into a state of extreme weakness. How could the old lady possibly live in a normal area?"

"That's why I'm so curious, what else did you think?" Lin Yi retorted.

"Peter also said that the old lady has some kind of special constitution that makes her easily attract thugs to harass her. Look at the level of security surveillance outside, this is obviously not normal."

"It seems I need to find Peter first tomorrow and double-check these things."