American comics: Starting with gaining Spider-Man's abilities

Chapter 65 Treasure

As she rushed home under cover of night, Li Buying almost bumped into Spider-Man again.

Li Buying hid in the alley, watching Peter Parker fly overhead and the lizardman in the white coat, and took out her phone to ask Ai Yi a question.

[Aiyi, when did Dr. Lizard become like this?]

Just one day ago.

Having received a positive answer, Li Buying felt a little relieved. She pulled down her hood and returned to her courtyard, glancing around near the trees.

It's time to bring out this information, and it's also time to upgrade and replace my own equipment. With Ai Yi here, it's not a big problem.

He raised his hand towards the big tree that he and his parents had planted. As he felt some vibrations, the ground arched up, and a box entangled in the tree roots appeared in front of him.

Li Buying removed the somewhat dirty alloy box from the surrounding tree roots, pressed down the bulging soil to restore it to its original state, and then quietly returned to the room with the box.

Upon entering the basement, he went to the combination lock on the box in front of Ai Yi and set it to his own birthday. The box opened immediately.

Inside were two sheets of paper and a USB drive. Li Buying put the USB drive on the table, picked up the paper, and found two letters: one from his parents and the other for Lorna.

He picked up the letter his parents had written to him, opened it, and read it for a moment. It was full of words of concern for him, and most of them asked about his future. From the tone of his father and mother's letters, it seemed that they had foreseen his death.

There was also a reminder about artificial vibranium. The parents said in the letter that if possible, it would be best to give it to one of the major countries and then move there, whichever one it was.

They were well aware of their son's limitations. Although he was mature by nature, he did not seem to have inherited their scientific research talent, and the chances of him becoming a scientific genius were not very high.

As for business, starting from scratch without any help seemed unlikely to both parents.

So, for their son, this artificial vibranium had only one use: to fetch a good price.

The letter stated that the deceased doctor who researched vibranium, and the parents' teacher, had only instructed them to keep the secret of artificial vibranium. They would die with the secret, but they were not prepared to pass the mission on to their children.

They miscalculated one thing: Li Buying never revealed this fact and pretended that they had left nothing behind, thus passing the years.

Looking at the densely written words on the letter, Li Buying wiped her eyes, burned the letter, then took out Lorna's letter and used her gravity manipulation to completely destroy the metal box and cover up the crime.

After clearing away all the clues, he turned to Ai Yi and asked, "Ai Yi, how's the situation?"

"Entry complete. Should I search for suitable weapon manufacturing methods, Master?"

"You can make it yourself, no, 'create' it?"

When Li Buying heard Ai Yi say that she could make corresponding weapons using artificial vibranium, he was very surprised, because in his opinion, Ai Yi, at least with her current performance, was not capable of making independent inventions.

Ai Yi quickly understood her master's meaning, returned the USB drive to him, and corrected him:

"Master, I am not capable of invention; I am merely combining weapon blueprints available online. You can think of it as [AI drawing]."

"What is suitable for this artificial vibranium? What weapons can be made using the properties of artificial vibranium? What kind of weapon do you need...?"

Ai Yi gave an example, spreading her palms out and then closing them: "By filtering the answers to these questions from the internet, and then combining and eliminating the answers one by one, I can make a weapon suitable for you."

"As for the manufacturing plant and the synthesis of artificial vibranium, and other related processes, I can do it all by myself if you want, but I would need to risk being exposed during the operation in exchange for gaining control within a day..."

Li Buying raised her hand to pause Ai Yi's incessant chatter, and touched her cheek, which had a texture almost like a human's:

"These things can be taken slowly; it's not time for me to rush into using weapons yet."

After listening to Li Buying's instructions, Ai Yi nodded and stopped talking about these things, but still added the weapons information to her task list.

The first batch of high-performance components she purchased with the funds has been placed in the house bought with the fake documents and will be operational soon.

Although these components are not as good as its current body, every little bit helps.

Li Buying lifted the USB drive and turned it into scrap metal as well. After a moment of silence, she said, "Aiyi, there's something important. Raise it to second priority."

"Please speak."

"Calculate the cause of my parents' deaths, and who they might have died because of."

"clear."

Ai Yi nodded, focusing a significant amount of performance on this task; calculations were actually simpler for her than other matters. After a moment, she opened her eyes:

"There's a 50% chance it's Hydra, a 37% chance it's official intervention, and a 13% chance it's other reasons."

Hydra and the authorities...

Li Buying nodded slightly, her serious expression immediately relaxing as she stepped out of the basement, as if nothing had happened.

……

Some time later, Li Buying saw a text message from Ai Yi as soon as he got out of school. The vampires in New York City were making some unusual movements, and many of them were slowly gathering towards the same large company.

In this situation, a group of vampires were approaching Blade's original residence. Upon learning of this, he instructed Ai to quickly send a message to Blade, informing him to prepare.

At the same time, Li Buying quickly entered an abandoned hut, changed into her weaver's clothes, and hurried to meet up with Daofeng.

……

Where is the Punisher?

Upon reaching the designated location, Li Buying gestured to Blade as if he were performing the Punisher. Blade took deep breaths, seemingly engaged in some kind of special exercise.

"He just happened to be dealing with a villain. We'll meet up at the Blood God Ritual site in an hour or two. Whistler and I will be enough to handle the bat-killing operation here."

Blade was beginning to believe that Li Buying possessed prophetic abilities. He and Whistler watched as the vampires gathered and quietly lurked towards the building they had originally purchased, using several surveillance devices they had installed.

How are we going to deal with so many vampires?

"Our female doctor has developed a new 'toxin' for vampires, and I've put those drugs into the house's fire protection system."

"Not only that, the ground is also full of splash-type chemicals that we've set up."

The blade revealed a cruel and bloodthirsty smile, looking somewhat insane:

"If they dare to go in, Whistler or I can just press a button and all these monsters will die."

Li Buying nodded. Although he killed the villain for a reward, he still approved of the Punisher and Blade's actions.

Judge Bao was right: the greedy must be cunning, and the honest must be even more cunning.

Being a hero is the same; if you're no more ruthless than these villains, how can you kill them until they're terrified?

They may not be able to solve the problems, but they can solve the problems of the people who raise them.

(End of this chapter)