Kamen Rider ZZZ from the American comic book world

Peter turned around and punched through a robot made of gold-titanium alloy, then temporarily ended the training and used a spider silk to quickly close the distance between him and Li Ai.

Peter mimicked the gesture from the movie, gave a military salute, raised his head, and said mischievously:

"Private Spider-Man awaits your orders, Commander ZZZ!"

Li Ai chuckled softly, briefly introduced the situation of the Massimov siblings, and then said:

“Spider-Man, I have a mission for you: when Mr. Pietro wants to leave the Avengers base, you must stay by his side.”

Wanda's designated hunter is Li Ai, and Pietro's designated hunter is Peter, but when the two go out together, the hunter can only be Li Ai.

"Are you really not afraid I'll run away?" Pietro raised an eyebrow, completely disbelieving that Peter had any ability to catch him.

Seeing this, Li Ai shook her head, squinted her eyes, and said, "You'll know once you try."

After saying that, Li Ai pressed a few buttons on the control panel, and the gravity field disappeared. The numerous training robots also stopped moving, and the cleaning drone entered the field to push the damaged training robots to the recycling station.

"This is going to be interesting." Jessica noticed that Peter was walking towards the center of the training field with a strange silver-haired man.

"That is?"

Daisy, who was cleaning up the lickers in the parking lot at the time, had never met the Massimov siblings, so Li Ai had to explain again.

Daisy glanced at Wanda, who was wearing a hospital gown, and murmured, "She needs the captain to accompany her to leave the base? Just how amazing is she..."

“Yes, she looks delicate, but she must be very strong inside.” Nancy couldn’t help but take another look at Wanda. She knew that the person who could make Li Ai make this choice must not be a kind person.

Wanda felt a little uncomfortable under everyone's gaze, so she turned her attention to the two people in the middle of the training field and asked Li Ai, who had proposed the test:

"You really trust that guy in the spider-like bodysuit that much?"

“When Spider-Man is ready, even Death won’t come for him.” Li Ai, hands behind his back, cleared his throat and shouted to Pietro and Peter:

"You will not be subject to any restrictions. The game ends if either of you remains on the ground for more than ten seconds. Now... begin!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Pietro activated his super speed. Although he lost the speed that the Extremis virus had forcibly boosted to Mach 20, he still possessed a top speed of Mach 2.

Pietro believed he could easily defeat Peter.

But Peter simply turned slightly to the side and dodged Pietro's cannonball-like fist, and even almost stuck Pietro's wrist with his spider silk.

Pietro stood several dozen meters away, saying in disbelief:

How did you do that?

“To be honest, Captain ZZZ used Mach 10 when he trained me. Yours is at most Mach 2, which is too slow for me…” Peter carefully chose his words to avoid offending Pietro.

"Too slow?" Pietro couldn't help but glance back at Li Ai in the audience, wondering just how powerful this man was.

"This isn't the time to think about that," Pietro shook his head, then charged at Peter again.

Peter used his spider-sense to dodge Pietro's attacks, firing several webs along the way, but Pietro dodged them all, and Peter landed on the floor.

"Kid, are you planning to wear me down until I'm exhausted?" Pietro couldn't help but ask, feeling a bit impatient because neither of them could gain the upper hand.

“What you said makes sense,” Peter said, his eyes lighting up. “Anyway, Commander ZZZ didn’t set any other rules.”

"Shut up! I'll make sure you can't talk with this punch!" Unable to stand Peter's incessant chatter, Pietro mustered his strength and launched one last charge at Peter.

Peter, as before, dodged Pietro's punch by sidestepping, while taking advantage of Pietro's impatience and placing his elbow in the path Pietro would inevitably take to adjust his direction.

Pietro, having failed in his first strike, tried again, but his growing impatience caused him to ignore the surrounding factors and collide directly with Peter's elbow.

Peter seized the opportunity to knock Pietro to the ground and finished him off with several webs.

The ten-second countdown ended quickly, and Pietro lost to Peter.

"Now you know why Spider-Man is your supervisor, right?" Li Ai shouted at Pietro.

"Okay, okay, can you at least tear these spider webs apart for me first!" Pietro shouted impatiently.

“I’m sorry, sir, spider silk is more resilient than steel bars. Unless you burn it, it will take an hour and a half for the spider silk to decompose naturally,” Peter explained patiently.

"What? An hour and a half?" Pietro cried out in despair.

A burst of laughter came from the audience. Gwen handed Li Ai a bottle of energy drink and said:

"Captain, this is for you."

"Thanks." Li Ai, who hadn't actually finished her daily training, took the drink bottle.

At this moment, Wanda also turned her gaze away from Pietro, looked at Li Ai, and asked:

"So we have to write reports when we go out, and then we see when you choose the time?"

“Theoretically speaking, you can go out every day…” Li Ai stroked her chin and said calmly:

"But you'll have to wait for us to get out of school."

Chapter 177 New Umbrella

"School's out?" Wanda frowned slightly, her gaze shifting between the group of young Avengers, and said in disbelief:

"You guys have such a strict daily schedule, are you high school students?"

“You’re right.” Wanda found Li Ai’s words hard to believe.

Wanda brushed her long brown hair aside, her gaze darting back and forth across the walls. "So, a high school student saved the city? That's just too much..."

"Don't say that, I'm already choosing a university," Li Ai explained, spreading her hands.

"Furthermore, from a legal age perspective, you two siblings were born in early 1989, so you're not much older than me in terms of legal age."

“But we didn’t go to college; we started working right after graduating from high school,” Wanda said, smoothing her hair.

“Then you could try reading more books in the base’s living quarters. We Avengers aren’t those terrorists,” Li Ai suggested.

“You really didn’t damage any of these spider silks?” Pietro cried out in despair. “Do you really want me to lie here for an hour and a half?”

Peter squatted down next to Pietro and said mischievously, "I can go get the flamethrower, but it will be a little painful."

"A flamethrower?" Pietro swallowed hard, imagining a ruthless figure in a heat-resistant suit spraying flames into a trench.

“Then I’ll just wait patiently…” Pietro made a compromise decision.

“After all, I usually just wait for the spider silk to degrade naturally, but I can also mix a degradation agent on-site, which is at least faster than waiting for it to degrade naturally,” Peter said with a smile.

Peter's antics left Pietro exasperated. He said helplessly, "Let's use the degradation agent. It's better than a flamethrower and slow melting."

"Wait a moment." Peter then got up and went to prepare the degradation agent.

Watching Pietro quickly become acquainted with Peter, Wanda let out a silvery laugh. Suddenly remembering something else, she said:

"By the way, you mentioned earlier that you want us to participate in the operation as combat personnel. Does that mean you'll provide us with combat uniforms?"

“It depends on your individual needs,” Li Ai said, looking into Wanda's eyes.

"The Avengers will provide you with a combat uniform that guarantees basic bulletproof protection. You can also submit your own designs. By the way, why are you asking this?"

“I just don’t want to go out wearing an ugly outfit,” Wanda said, avoiding Li Ai’s gaze.

Upon hearing this, Li Ai laughed, "It seems you care a lot about your image. Don't worry, this request is nothing. Besides, the missions you participate in will all be related to the fight against Hydra. You will find out the truth about the Sokovia bombing yourself."

Upon hearing the news of the 'Sokovia bombing,' Wanda immediately became alert. She gritted her teeth and said:

"Don't worry, I'm willing to do it even without pay, as long as I can find the truth."

"Looks like I won't even need to find someone to give you psychological counseling." Li Ai sighed, turned to look at the other young Avengers, and said:

“You guys continue training. I’ll show this aspiring Avenger and her brother around the places they can go.”

Shortly after, Peter sprinkled the degradation agent prepared on-site on Pietro's hands and feet, helping him free himself from the spider silk.

Pietro flexed his wrists and exclaimed, "It feels so good to be free again."

“Come here, Mr. Pietro, I need to tell you where you can go and where you can’t go,” Li Ai said, beckoning to Pietro.

Afterwards, Li Ai gave the Massimov siblings a brief tour of the Avengers base, showing them which areas were accessible and which were restricted areas.

First, only the first training ground in the underground area is open to the Massimov siblings; attempting to enter the experimental area on the second underground level will trigger an alarm.

Apart from the rooms with designated privacy levels, the Massimov siblings have free access to all areas above ground.

After a brief stroll, the three sat down in a pavilion by the river, which was part of a rest area near a harbor where several fishing boats were stored.

A gentle breeze blew in, and the natural environment, filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers, was a stark contrast to the cold underground laboratory of Project Ouroboros. This put the Massimov siblings in high spirits. Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, Pietro seized the opportunity to ask:

"So what kind of internal discussions did you go through that ultimately led to the decision to make us quasi-Avengers?"

"Actually, our initial plan was to pack you all up and send you to the superpowered prison," Li Ai said, looking at the calm lake surface.

“I have the same thought, after all, you guys were terrorists.”

"So who suggested that we become quasi-Avengers and gave us the opportunity to find out the truth ourselves?" Wanda said, fiddling with a strand of her hair.

"First, there's Tony Stark, whom you all hate the most, and second, there's 'Captain America' Steve Rogers," Li Ai said truthfully.

“Stark? Is he acting out of guilt?” Pietro asked, puzzled.

"Yes, he also didn't want to see two victims of war continue to struggle in the quagmire of sin."

Li Ai picked up a stone, skipped it across the water, and smiled contentedly as she watched the nine splashes that appeared on the surface of the river.

“What about Steve Rogers?” Wanda asked, puzzled. “We have absolutely no connection with him, do we?”

“That’s Steve Rogers. Even if Red Skull were to be resurrected, his moral character still deserves recognition.” Li Ai bent down, picked up the second pebble, and toyed with it in her hand before saying, “That’s Steve Rogers. Even if Red Skull were to be resurrected, his moral character still deserves recognition.”

“He believed that you were initially acting for your country, which was the same idea he had when he first joined the army, so he gave you an opportunity.”

There are many movies and documentaries about Captain America, which Wanda and Pietro have seen before.

“So that’s how it is…” Wanda nodded in realization.

"So, are you guys planning to go out today?" Li Ai asked after throwing the second pebble.

"Today?"

"Correct."

...........................

Meanwhile, in another corner of the world

After Wesker's death, his core legacy was destroyed by the Avengers, but a considerable amount of information still survived.

Information regarding virus research, the palladium-based Arc Reactor, and the Iron Man armor all fell into the hands of a faction called Neo-Umbrella.

In the dimly lit laboratory, a woman wearing a blue dress, whose appearance was indistinguishable from Li Ai's mother, Ida Wong, was examining a document.

However, this document was not a priceless research blueprint, but rather a few photos of women and teenagers entering and leaving social venues.

A woman with a face resembling Ada Wong smiled mysteriously and said:

“Ada Wong, I really want to see what Simmons’s expression is when he knows you even have children, but unfortunately he no longer has that chance, and your time is running out.”

Chapter 178 The Frame-up Against Ada

Li Ai took the Massimov siblings for a short stroll around the city, let them buy some things, and then returned to the Avengers base.

Steve also suggested fostering the daily relationship and knowledge level of the Massimov siblings, hoping they could pursue further education in school.

However, the Massimov siblings are already 21 years old this year, and it would seem a bit strange to send them to high school again. Moreover, the compulsory education in Sokovia is not very good, so the only option is to let them study at an online university first to improve their knowledge level before arranging real university life for them.

“Your rooms are next to each other, and I’ve already told you about your daily life. Is there anything else you want to know?” Li Ai asked, looking at Wanda who was walking around the room.

Just then, Wanda opened a box of aromatherapy diffuser. The refreshing scent seemed to calm the mind. She turned and leaned against the doorframe, smiling at Li Ai as she said:

"That's all, Mr. Regulator."

"Then I'll be going now, Miss Avenger." Li Ai smiled and then went to the second basement level to get her things from Dr. Banner.

As the transparent, explosion-proof glass door opened to both sides, Dr. Banner, who was adjusting the equipment, noticed someone had come to see him. He turned around, saw Li Ai, and his eyes lit up. He asked:

"You've come back to get something from me, right?"

Li Ai once asked Dr. Banner to create a magic potion that enhances mental power, and after a period of research, he finally made a physical version.

Dr. Banner and Li Ai tacitly avoided mentioning the matter because the Massimov siblings, these two 'strangers,' were present.

“Yes, it’s about the mental potion.” Li Ai nodded in response.

"I'll get it for you right away." Dr. Banner adjusted his glasses, turned and went into another room. When he reappeared, he was carrying a small temperature-controlled box.

"This magic potion is called 'Tidal Essence.' One dose a day can continuously enhance mental strength. A person can take a maximum of twenty doses, but it won't be of much use to someone like you."