"Life, huh!"
Li Qingyuan leaned back on a lounge chair in front of his shop, gazing silently at the sky and sighing.
Spending over a decade in the Caribbean World had given him a deeper understanding of life. He was now in a state of relaxed tranquility.
"Li, young man, sunbathing?"
Seeing him lounging by the door, seemingly doing nothing, the lecherous old man who ran a martial arts school in the back alley tiptoed over with a leering smile.
"Brother Mo, where are you off to?"
Ever since he discovered that Wanda's new friend at school was actually named Chen Ying, Li Qingyuan realized that Chinatown, the place he'd chosen, might not be as safe as he'd thought.
Just take, for example, this old man who looks incredibly sleazy. He's actually Mo Youqian, and he runs a martial arts school in the back alley, teaching people the Mo Family Fist!
"Nice weather today. I'm going to buy some groceries and make hot pot tonight!" Mo Youqian said, carrying a bag.
Logically speaking, this old man could actually be considered a good person. However, his sleazy face and hunched figure made it impossible for people to associate him with goodness.
It can't be helped. Good people definitely have to look like me, with a face full of righteousness. If you have a pervert's face, no one will believe you when you say you're a good person!
However, the hot pot that Mo Youqian mentioned immediately piqued Li Qingyuan's interest. He hadn't eaten authentic Chinese Cuisine for quite some time.
The so-called Chinese restaurants in America were complete nonsense. Who had ever eaten sweet and sour fish?
Even the restaurants in Chinatown had changed their flavors to cater to the general public, resulting in a drastic change in taste. After eating it once, Li Qingyuan fell into a deep state of depression.
This stuff dares to claim to be Chinese cuisine?
Just having him cook was simply asking too much. After all, how many failed writers do you know who can cook?
If he'd had good cooking skills in his previous life, he would have become a chef long ago; who would have bothered writing books?
So, the meals at their house these days were basically all takeout, which made Li Qingyuan's well-pampered stomach ready to revolt.
As the saying goes, food and sex are essential, and eating even comes before women. After eating takeout for several days in a row, he suddenly felt that the quality of his life seemed to be a bit lacking!
Should he find a cook? Preferably one with fair skin, a beautiful face, and long legs. According to some sort of effect, if a person is beautiful, the food they cook is definitely delicious, right?
But before he could consider where to find a cook, he saw the big screen across the street suddenly switch its display.
That big screen had been playing the latest music video of a certain female singer. Her waist and hips were swaying so much that if it weren't for the fact that he'd been an emperor in the Caribbean World for ten years, developing an unruffled state of mind, an ordinary person would have probably stood up immediately!
"Breaking News: Stark Industries CEO Tony Stark has recently gone missing. Tony Stark is considered the most talented arms manufacturer of this century, and he's also a world-renowned philanthropist, entrepreneur, and playboy. What impact his disappearance will have on Stark Industries, please continue to follow the news tracking hotline!"
"Iron Man has started!"
Li Qingyuan murmured to himself as he watched the scene unfold.
Having spent ten years in the Caribbean World, his sense of time had become a little hazy. He wondered how Doctor Strange had managed to overcome this problem after experiencing tens of millions of time loops.
Judging by the fact that the news was already reporting this, Iron Man had been missing for quite some time, perhaps the military and the political circles already thought he was dead.
Otherwise, this kind of news would never be broadcast!
This news report was almost equivalent to announcing Tony Stark's death. It was conceivable that Stark Industries' stock would immediately plummet, with losses of at least nearly a hundred billion US dollars to start.
Years ago, the Fox Virtual Ranking had calculated that Iron Man's personal assets were approximately 12.4 billion US dollars, but when Li Qingyuan came to this world, he realized that that money was actually just Tony Stark's personal fixed assets, which only accounted for a very small portion of Iron Man's total assets.
What Tony Stark was really worth was Stark Industries' shares!
As the dominant arms supplier in the United States, Stark Industries' market value was now close to six hundred billion US dollars, and Tony Stark owned nearly thirty percent of the shares. It was easy to imagine how much money he had.
However, no matter how much money Tony Stark had, Li Qingyuan felt that if he didn't grab some pocket money for himself now, he'd be doing himself a disservice.
As everyone knows, the fastest way to make money in the early days of Marvel was to buy shares in Stark Industries at this time, and then sell them after finding Tony Stark.
Then, after that guy Tony announced the closure of the weapons manufacturing department, he'd buy in large quantities. He wouldn't dare to say how much he'd make, but tripling or quadrupling his assets would be absolutely effortless.
He had certainly brought out a lot of good things from the Caribbean World, but most of them were for his own use. As for the rest, even if he wanted to sell them, he wouldn't be able to find a good buyer for a while. It would be better to make a good profit from Stark Industries.
Anyway, that Iron Man guy was a big shot, and earning him a small fortune wouldn't attract anyone's attention.
"These Westerners, they incite others to fight every day, and now they're suffering the consequences!"
Mo Youqian lamented with indignation after seeing the news of Tony Stark's disappearance.
The report said that Tony had gone missing after traveling to Afghanistan. Although the details weren't reported, anyone with common sense would know that as the world's largest arms supplier, he wouldn't be going to a place like Afghanistan to sell mineral water.
Ignoring the grumbling Mo Youqian, Li Qingyuan turned his head in confusion, only to see Grant Ward walking towards him.
Why is this guy coming to me now?
Judging by his appearance, he seemed to be looking for Li Qingyuan, but he was utterly perplexed.
Although he had agreed to be an unofficial agent under Garrett, they hadn't contacted each other in days, maintaining a tacit agreement to leave each other alone.
In many Marvel fanfics, most protagonists would go to Afghanistan to rescue the big shot of Marvel at this time. But that was because those protagonists were all on the side of justice!
As an outsider temporarily assigned by Hydra to S.H.I.E.L.D., it shouldn't be his job to look for Iron Man!
Besides, finding the missing Iron Man was the job of Phil Coulson, the village chief of the newbie village, and had nothing to do with Grant Ward!
Why was this guy coming to find him at this moment?
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