Marvel: The Alchemist Just Wants a Peaceful Life

Sherlock, who had just returned home, was not at all surprised to see his empty storeroom. That old scoundrel Zhao Weike was always coming to his house to swindle money for his own stash, and Sherlock had almost gotten used to it.

So after giving his storage room a quick clean, which was almost covered in dust, Sherlock prepared to take Doro to the supermarket for a big shopping spree.

However, when Sherlock opened his garage door, he was completely taken aback.

"Where's my Raptor? w(Д)w Damn it, where did my huge Raptor go?"

Looking at the empty garage, Sherlock, completely bewildered, let out a hysterical roar.

Chapter 167 The Journey to Find the Car (Part 1)

Standing in his empty garage, Sherlock's first thought was to call Zhao Weike. After all, Zhao Weike, that henpecked husband, had emptied his storage room, and Sherlock simply couldn't believe that Zhao Weike would just stand by and watch his car be stolen.

"Zhao Weike! Where's my car? If you don't give me a reasonable explanation, I'll find all your secret stash of money and hand it over to Helen!"

The moment the call connected, Sherlock launched into a tirade. As for the content of his threat, well, anyone who's ever been married knows that Sherlock's threat was no less than detonating a nuclear bomb in the house.

Especially for men in Sichuan province who are henpecked, they have a lot to say about this.

As expected, under Sherlock's threat, Zhao Weike decisively backed down, and even his tone on the phone became cautious.

And the facts proved that Sherlock's car being driven away was indeed related to Zhao Weike, or rather, it was someone close to Zhao Weike who drove it away.

As for who it is, who else could it be besides Anna and Mindy, those two troublemakers?

After learning that Anna and Mindy had driven the car away, Sherlock breathed a sigh of relief, but then a series of questions arose.

No, when did Zhao Weike fall so low that he couldn't even afford to provide a car for the two of them, and they had to secretly borrow my car when I wasn't around?

When faced with Sherlock's question, Zhao Weike hesitated and refused to answer.

This infuriated Sherlock; it was obvious that these two girls hadn't done anything good with his car!

"If you don't tell me, I'll go to the Continental Hotel and ask myself! I'm sure Winston will be happy to tell me!"

As soon as Sherlock finished speaking, he hung up the phone, not even giving Zhao Weike a chance to stop him.

Hearing the busy tone from his phone, Zhao Weike looked at the phone in his hand with a complicated expression. In the end, all his unspoken words turned into a somewhat distorted and complex expression.

"May God protect you from getting high blood pressure after visiting the mainland hotel!"

After offering a prayer for Sherlock with the last vestige of his conscience, Zhao Weike happily turned around and went to play with Helen.

As for Sherlock, after hanging up the phone with Zhao Weike, he immediately took out the Anywhere Door and opened it in an empty alley near the Continental Hotel.

Then, with the doro logo on his head, he walked confidently toward the mainland hotel.

After pushing open the doors of the Continental Hotel in New York with a touch of rudeness, Sherlock almost immediately spotted Charon standing behind the front desk.

To Sherlock's utter surprise, the moment Charon saw him, the refined smile on his face froze instantly. Then, as if he couldn't see her at all, Charon turned and walked behind the bar.

Sherlock clearly saw Charon, who never used a cell phone at work, take out his old-fashioned cell phone and make a call using the speed dial.

Upon seeing this, Sherlock turned around and ran towards Winston's office at the highest point of the hotel almost without hesitation.

As it turned out, Sherlock's guess was completely correct.

When Sherlock, panting heavily, pushed open Winston's office door, the old man was preparing to close the door to the safe house inside his office, which had been converted from a bank vault.

"If you dare close the door, I'll definitely tear this vault door down!"

Seeing that the door was about to close, Sherlock didn't care about anything else and immediately yelled at Winston.

Upon hearing Sherlock's statement, Winston awkwardly pushed open the door again, his eyes darting around as if he had just seen Sherlock, and spoke to him.

"Ah! Mr. Sherlock Flamel, it's been a long time! Your presence greatly honors the Continental Hotel!"

Hearing Winston's aria-like tone, Sherlock's lips twitched in annoyance. Ignoring Winston's odd behavior, he directly explained his purpose to Winston.

"Tell me where those two brats, Mindy and Anna, have gone?"

Upon hearing Sherlock utter the names Mindy and Anna, Winston's eyelids twitched almost uncontrollably, and his expression became incredibly stiff.

“Mr. Sherlock, as you know, the Continental Hotel has its own rules…”

Before Winston could finish speaking, Sherlock interrupted him with something he pulled out of his four-dimensional pocket.

A brick, a brick made entirely of gold! What shocked Winston even more was that the brick had the Chinese character '德' (De) written on it in both Chinese and English on all six sides!

Looking at the gold brick that Sherlock had slammed onto his desk, which must have weighed at least ten kilograms, even Winston, with his composure, couldn't help but twitch his lips.

Sherlock's meaning was simple: either tell him where the two girls were and take the gold bricks, or Sherlock would try to persuade him with virtue.

Faced with Sherlock's blatant threat, Winston decisively backed down, quickly putting away the gold brick on his desk and then taking a document from his drawer and handing it to Sherlock.

Sherlock took the document Winston handed him with some confusion and looked at it. After reading it, a huge question mark slowly appeared above Sherlock's head.

"What is this thing?"

"Information on the mortal enemy of the person Anna and Mindy are protecting."

Winston's tone was unusually calm, as if it were a habit, but Sherlock was not happy after hearing Winston's words. He kept recalling the ideas he had taught the two girls out of a perverse sense of humor.

'Faced with the enemy's threat, if I first eliminate their stronghold along with them, ensuring they pose no threat to my VIPs, wouldn't that count as a successful protection?'

When those words popped into Sherlock's mind, he instantly understood why Zhao Weike had been so stammering when questioned.

Good heavens, who would have thought that these two girls would actually go so far as to carry out the bodyguard duties according to their own wishes?

Wait a minute! Given how irritable these two girls are right now...

"Damn it! My beloved car!!!"

Upon realizing what was happening, Sherlock let out a desperate roar in Winston's office. Then, under Winston's incredulous gaze, he pulled out the Anywhere Door from his four-dimensional pocket, opened it, and left.

It wasn't until quite some time after Sherlock left that Charon knocked on Winston's office door, and Winston finally reacted.

"Sir, are you still alive?"

"Come in alive, Charon!"

When Charon entered Winston's office and didn't see Sherlock, he asked Winston with some confusion.

"Sir, where is Mr. Sherlock? I didn't see Mr. Sherlock leave at the front desk."

When faced with Charon's question, Winston pondered for a while before answering Charon.

"Charon, delete all the recordings of Sherlock from the moment he entered the hotel. Don't leave any trace!"

Upon hearing Winston's words, Charon's playful expression vanished, and he reverted to his serious self. He nodded to Winston, then turned and left to attend to his business.

Only after the office door closed again did Winston sit down in his chair with a solemn expression, turn around and look at the bustling street outside. After a while, a sigh appeared on his face, and he muttered to himself with a touch of melancholy.

"You said it wasn't the right time to cooperate. I initially thought you looked down on mainland hotels, but it turns out you were trying to protect them. I really am not qualified to cooperate with you right now."

Chapter 168 The Journey to Find the Car (Part 2)

Winston's words were not unfounded, but based on facts. Winston originally thought that Sherlock could only create some small gadgets at most, and even the things on Mindy and Anna could not affect the balance of the assassin world.

But Sherlock's pink door just now clearly shattered Winston's preconceived notions.

The existence of the Anywhere Door means that there is no place in this world that is absolutely safe. If the Anywhere Door's strategic delivery capability is combined with Zhao Weike's top-notch combat ability...

The rules governing hotels in mainland China will change dramatically in an instant.

Those lofty tables could be replaced by ambitious individuals in the blink of an eye, causing an earthquake throughout the entire dark world. At that time, not only would the Continental Hotel, which was attached to the tables, be gone, but even the tables themselves might not be able to survive.

Sherlock's refusal of his two invitations to collaborate was not out of disrespect, but rather to protect himself.

What Winston couldn't understand was that Sherlock never refused, but said that the time was not yet right. Winston couldn't imagine what the world would be like when the time came, so that Sherlock's strategic device, like the Anywhere Door, would become ordinary.

Does that mean we'll be using nuclear bombs instead of bullets?

Winston looked at his so-called 'safe house' and suddenly felt that his 'safe house' was not so safe after all.

Of course, Sherlock was unaware of Winston's ulterior motives at the moment; he was only concerned with what Anna and Mindy had been doing with their beloved car.

Based on the address on the document provided by Winston, Sherlock used the Anywhere Door to travel directly to the Mexican side, and then easily found the target he was looking for in a city near the border.

After all, in this Mexican territory, a manor as luxurious as a 'palace' is simply too conspicuous.

What puzzled Sherlock was that although the manor was heavily guarded, it was incredibly peaceful, not at all like a place where a girl poisoned by his theories had been.

Just as Sherlock was standing not far from the manor, looking at the luxurious estate with some doubt, and even wondering if Winston was lying to him, the roar of an engine successfully attracted Sherlock's attention.

For no other reason than that the engine sound was far too familiar; wasn't that the roar of his own car?

However, what happened next made Sherlock's vision go black, and he finally experienced the helplessness that Zhao Weike had when faced with his own heretical theories.

Their beloved car was seen driving across the desert in the distance, the trail of dust behind it incredibly conspicuous. Most importantly, even though this behavior was already high-profile enough, the people in the car seemed to be afraid that others wouldn't notice them, and they kept honking the horn.

Sure enough, the vehicle was spotted by the manor's security guards before it even arrived. Under Sherlock's incredulous gaze, a 'tin can' just casually popped out of the back of the truck.

What baffled Sherlock even more was that this 'tin can' actually placed a gun that was almost longer than the front of the car and had a full 11 barrels on the roof.

Accompanied by the girl's unique, unrestrained laughter, the enormous thing, which could even be called a close-in weapon system, began to roar.

The spent cartridge cases fell like flowing water, and the eleven barrels spewed out a huge fire dragon that easily smashed through all the obstacles in its path.

If that were all, Sherlock wouldn't be too surprised; it wouldn't be enough to make him suddenly feel dizzy.

What truly made Sherlock feel dizzy was that he watched helplessly as his beloved car drove past him, then crashed through the manor's steel gate without slowing down at all, hurtling towards the buildings inside the manor.

Completely ignoring the landmines buried in the manor for defense, as well as the dense barrage of bullets, they charged forward with the sheer strength of an armored vehicle.

With a deafening roar, Sherlock watched helplessly as his beloved car crashed into the building. Mindy, in the back of the truck, immediately turned his cannon around and transformed into a rogue warrior, sweeping through the entire manor.

Meanwhile, Mindy, sitting in the driver's seat, casually opened the car window, tossed out a talisman, and immediately reversed away.

Braving the countless landmines and bullets inside the manor, Sherlock watched helplessly as his beloved car bounced up and down, was engulfed in flames, and then sped out of the manor amidst sparks and lightning.

The whole thing lasted less than three minutes before the two girls left so casually.

After his car left the manor, an explosion began inside. For a full five minutes, the escalating explosions reduced the entire manor to ruins before finally stopping.

???

Sherlock was completely dumbfounded and full of questions as he watched this scene.

No way, is this fucking right? My own unfounded, heretical theory can actually be put into practice?

No, that's not the point. The point is, damn it, you guys are just messing around my car like this?

Sherlock felt his blood pressure rising. With a dark expression, he began searching in the direction the two girls had left, eventually catching the two audacious girls in a car wash.