What's it like to be stronger than Saitama?

"Hot and Sour Noodles Superman! I love you!!!"

The crowd erupted in thunderous cheers once again!

"You are safe now!"

The hot and sour noodles superhero rotated his hands 180 degrees with his body, pointing his radish-thick fingers at the fans, perfectly "revealing a smile," his neat and clean teeth flashing a streak of light.

"Because all dangers will be crushed under my iron fist!!!"

After the iconic opening declaration, Hot and Sour Noodles Superman suddenly flipped over and landed steadily at the bottom of the steps on a giant upside-down "Old Tan Hot and Sour Noodles" instant noodle bowl, using strength ten times greater than that of an ordinary person.

Ahem, this meet-and-greet was also sponsored by Lao Tan Hot and Sour Noodles.

"Waaaaaahh ...

The fans went wild and rushed onto the stage.

Poor Yang Xi was pushed and shoved by a group of middle-aged men, surging towards the stands like a rootless duckweed.

The Japanese assistant responsible for maintaining order was tackled to the ground right from the start.

Fortunately, the hot and sour noodles superhero was powerful enough to calm the restless crowd. He took out a tissue from his breast pocket, wiped the sweat from his face, and said with his signature smile, "Everyone, don't rush, let's start with the first fan handshake..."

He pulled his Japanese assistant, whose face was bruised and swollen from being trampled, out of the crowd.

After the crowd's initial excitement subsided, they gradually began to shake hands and sign autographs according to the order on their name tags.

When it was Yang Xi's turn, Hot and Sour Noodle Superman had already returned to his normal form, since he could only maintain his transformation for fifteen minutes.

"Hello, you must be Yang Xi."

Hot and Sour Noodles Superman warmly shook Yang Xi's hand.

"Hello, Hot and Sour Noodles Superman, I'm your fan."

Yang Xi tried his best to maintain the excited yet restrained expression of his fans, and secretly put an unactivated superpower bead into the body of the Hot and Sour Noodle Superman.

046 Doll

Hot and Sour Noodles Superman arrived at his van. His recent schedule had been too packed, and this was one of the few places where he could finally get some rest.

He took the hand sanitizer from his assistant and began to disinfect his hands carefully. Shaking hands and taking photos with so many people had really exhausted him; it was more tiring than fighting monsters.

"You all go eat, I'm going to take a nap first. I have to go to the recording of 'Happy Home Run' tonight, right?"

The assistant with the ramen-noodle hair pulled out a schedule and flipped through it. "After recording 'Happy Home Run,' you still have to shoot an advertisement for an underwear brand. The time is a bit tight. You estimate you only have half an hour of rest left. Can you still manage, boss?"

The hot and sour noodles superman nodded helplessly, "I have to persevere even if I can't. Remember to make time for next weekend. It's my daughter's birthday, and I have to be with her."

After his assistant closed the car door, Suanlafen Chao let out a soft sigh. The increased income had made the debt collectors from the casino much more "amiable," but the debt was still a bottomless pit, and he needed to make a large sum of money all at once to completely plug the hole.

"Should we take another gamble?"

"No, no, no, I'll never touch gambling again!"

The hot and sour noodle superhero covered his face and ran his fingers through his hair, a gesture that relieved a lot of his stress.

A husky voice sounded behind him: "Isn't living like this exhausting?"

Hot and Sour Noodles Superman froze instantly. In the rearview mirror, he saw a black-robed man wearing a platinum mask sitting in the back row.

The car door was never opened, so how did he get in?

Yang Xi placed a special power bead on Hot and Sour Noodle Superman, which allowed him to easily locate him and enter the van with ease. Under the illusion of puppet control, he sat in the back seat from the beginning, watching Hot and Sour Noodle Superman clean his hands that had been in contact with the fans with a hint of disgust.

I didn't realize this guy had a slight germaphobia, so this fan meeting was really a bit of a challenge for him.

"You...you are that person?"

Hot and Sour Noodles Superman dared not act rashly. As the pillar of Red Sky Company, he could not possibly be unaware of the major events that had recently occurred in the world of heroes in Lucheng.

The person sitting behind him was a terrifying existence who had defeated two A-level heroes, the Wandering Swordsman and the Demon Dragon. He had no chance of winning against him at all.

At the same time, he had heard Yan Die mention this person before, and had even reported on his situation.

—Is that why he found himself?

"Let me explain. Although I reported your situation, it was only out of a hero's duty. I didn't mean to target you."

Huh? This guy even reported me?

Yang Xi felt somewhat fortunate, probably because he was still in the early stages when he only had two superpowers. Luckily, he used an alias when he did things, otherwise he might have been taken advantage of by this guy.

"I've come to see you today for something else."

Yang Xi patted him on the shoulder and put the power bead back, sensing that the guy didn't offer any resistance whatsoever.

Yang Xi originally thought that dealing with a guy who could unleash ten times the physical strength of a human in a short time would be quite troublesome, but he never expected that this idiot would use up his transformation time in advance.

He sat down next to the hot and sour noodles superman and said, "Relax, I'm not here to settle scores with you."

The hot and sour noodles superhero stammered, "Then... then how can I help you?"

Yang Xi said, "Don't be so reserved, we'll be on the same side soon."

A-level control ability activated.

After a moment of blankness, Hot and Sour Noodles Superman found himself in a world of endless darkness, which made him panic. He began to desperately search for an exit, but no matter how hard he tried, the darkness around him did not change at all, and he slowly lost his sense of space and time.

He didn't know how much time had passed, until he had almost forgotten his own name, when a light finally appeared in the world.

Within the light, a masked deity gazed upon him with compassionate eyes.

The hot and sour noodle superhero stared blankly at the masked god's hand, where there was a distorted ball of light. The light suddenly surged and then completely engulfed him.

"Master." Hot and Sour Noodles Superman knelt on one knee and humbly bowed to Yang Xi.

Fortunately, he is not in his transformed state, otherwise he would not be able to complete this action in such a small space.

A symbol resembling a "W" with a horizontal line drawn in the middle flashed briefly between his eyebrows.

Yang Xi accepted his loyalty, and if Hot and Sour Noodle Superman hadn't died, he would have been Yang Xi's most loyal subordinate for the next ten years.

"Okay, get up first."

Yang Xi let the hot and sour noodles superman return to his seat.

Hot and Sour Noodles Superman respectfully stood up, but because Yang Xi was beside him, he only dared to sit on half of his buttocks, and tried his best to straighten his back, always on alert for any situation that might threaten his master.

As the master, Yang Xi can directly read the doll's memories.

However, Yang Xi couldn't possibly read through all of Hot and Sour Noodles Superman's memories of over forty years in detail, since he only had less than half an hour left to spend in the car.

Yang Xi kept increasing the speed at which the memory fragments played.

The joy of the hot and sour noodle superhero awakening his superpowers for the first time...

Through tireless efforts, he was admitted to the Heroes Department of Yenching University...

He was eliminated by Kunlun Entertainment during his trainee period...

After working hard, he secured a contract with Red Sky Brokerage...

The first official battle against a monster...

The fear of a teammate dying in battle...

During the rising phase of their careers, they gradually become capable of handling things independently...

Company executives sexually harass female heroes...

My own dating, marriage, the birth of my daughter...

His career hit a plateau, and he became addicted to gambling...

A wife, clutching her daughter, hides in a closet, terrified, while being chased by a casino's supernatural debtors...

A mysterious person appeared carrying a blue pill...

"This is it!"

Yang Xi suppressed his excitement and tried to see the mysterious man's face clearly.

No matter how hard Yang Xi tried to adjust the angle or zoom in, the face of this mysterious man in a suit and top hat was always shrouded in mystery.

This is way more sophisticated than Yang Xi wearing a mask; I wonder if it's a superpower or high technology.

Yang Xi then browsed through Hot and Sour Noodle Superman's memories. Hot and Sour Noodle Superman was very cautious in the face of the olive branch extended by the mysterious person, but the man in the top hat did not say much, only leaving behind a few blue pills.

Hot and Sour Noodles Superman initially wanted to throw away these pills of unknown origin, but considering his situation, he ultimately kept them.

In the final battle against the One-Eyed Hunter, in order to save his career, Hot and Sour Noodle Superman took a desperate gamble and used the blue pill given to him by the man in the top hat, which greatly increased his strength and instantly killed the alien beast.

However, there were quite a few side effects. Hot and Sour Noodles Superman began to become more aggressive, and his power went out of control many times, but the feeling of his power skyrocketing made him unable to stop.

So they met a second time, but this time, the man in the top hat made his long-planned request.

047 Liu Shao is a D-level student.

In the memories of the Hot and Sour Noodles Superman...

"We need information to exchange." The man in the top hat spoke in a strange tone, probably through voice alteration.

Hot and Sour Noodles Superman asked, "What information?"

"Secrets about some of your company's heroes."

Although he didn't know why the other party wanted such strange information, Hot and Sour Noodles Superman still casually mentioned a few things.

After all, he had worked at Red Sky Company for so long, and he knew about some of the heroes' dark past.

Unexpectedly, the gossip he casually made up actually earned him a few blue pills from the man in the top hat.

After each meeting, the man in the top hat would inform the hot and sour noodles superman of the time and place for the next meeting.

It is worth noting that during the fourth transaction, the boy in the top hat specifically asked about some information regarding Yang Xi's alias "Rooster".

"It turns out that they had already started to notice me even before I found them."

After reading through these memories, Yang Xi gained a vague impression of the forces behind the blue pill. The seemingly irrelevant information that the man in the top hat needed was actually the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of some heroes. With this information, he could control those heroes and ultimately corrupt them with the blue pill.

It's just unknown what this force's purpose is in secretly controlling so many heroes.

"The next meeting is next weekend, which happens to be the evening of the hot and sour noodles superhero's daughter's birthday. No wonder he specifically told his assistant to make time for it. The real reason is to make a deal with the top hat man."

Yang Xi opened his eyes and took another blue pill from the hot and sour noodles superhero. "Continue your journey. I should descend into your body once before you meet the top hat man."

"Yes, Master."