The Mutant God in American Comics.

Chapter 238 Reliable Channels

After hearing Richard's words, Pietro and Wanda didn't say anything and immediately shook their heads.

Although they did not sense any malicious intent from Richard, they still could not trust him.

Never mind that they had never met Richard before.

Just the telepathy and telepathy that Richard just demonstrated.

It would be difficult for the two of them to let down their guard immediately.

"Whether you believe it or not, I am telling the truth."

"As for how I can help you... I'll start by improving your lives."

After saying that, Richard took out a palm-sized gold brick from the system space and placed it in front of Pietro and Wanda.

"I don't have Sokovia's currency, so I'll just give you gold bricks."

"This gold brick should be able to improve your life a lot."

Richard said to Wanda and Pietro.

Looking at the gold bricks on the table, Wanda and Pietro frowned at the same time.

Although they didn't trust Richard very much, their vigilance disappeared a lot after seeing the gold bricks Richard gave them.

In the barren Sokovia, a palm-sized gold brick is enough to change one's destiny, let alone improve one's life.

After looking at each other, Pietro picked up the gold brick.

very heavy!

Although the gold brick didn't look big, it was much heavier than he expected.

This is normal.

The density of gold is 2.443 times that of iron.

If it's not serious, there are only two possibilities.

One is that the gold is fake, and the other is that the gold bricks are hollow.

He took the gold brick and examined it carefully, and even took a bite of it. After confirming that the gold brick in his hand was indeed real, Pietro put it down and said to Richard, "Why are you helping us?"

"there are many reasons."

"Tell me the one thing you can accept the most, which is that I have a crush on Wanda."

"I am a man with normal aesthetics and a healthy body."

"And Wanda happens to be a beautiful woman."

Richard said calmly.

Although they had just met today, he did not intend to hide his interest in Wanda.

This is nothing to hide.

My fair lady, a gentleman is so good!
After hearing his answer, Pietro and Wanda both showed surprised expressions.

“Are you American?”

Pietro asked Richard.

"Strictly speaking, no."

Richard replied.

"Which country are you from?"

Pietro continued to ask.

"If you really care which country I'm from, you can just treat me as someone from the University of Tokyo."

Richard said slowly.

“But you don’t look like someone from the University of East China?”

Pietro obviously didn't believe that Richard, with his light green eyes and silver hair, was from Dongda.

"Skin color and appearance mean nothing."

"You look no different from Americans, but you are not Americans. You are Sokovians."

Richard replied.

After hearing his answer, Pietro did not continue to ask him which country he was from, but instead asked about the superpowers he had just displayed.

Richard did not hide anything from them and briefly introduced the telepathy and teleportation he had just used.

Although they had witnessed him appear out of thin air using teleportation and forcibly manipulate them to sit down using telepathy, they still showed expressions of disbelief after listening to Richard's introduction.

This is indeed the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

But it's not yet to the point where superheroes and supervillains are everywhere.

There is only one well-known superhero now, and that is Captain America Steve Rogers, who destroyed Hydra during World War II.

Apart from him, there are no other superheroes in existence.

After seeing the puzzled expressions on Pietro and Wanda's faces, Richard said slowly: "You don't have to be so surprised. You will awaken your own superpowers in the future."

Can we also awaken super powers?
Pietro and Wanda looked at Richard in surprise.

"Are you telling the truth?"

Pietro asked immediately.

"of course it's true."

"Otherwise, I wouldn't have come to you."

Richard replied.

"So when can we awaken our super powers?"

"Also, what kind of superpowers will we awaken?"

Pietro continued to ask without any hesitation.

Although he knew what kind of super powers Pietro and Wanda would awaken in the future, Richard did not intend to tell them in advance.

Some things are better left a little mysterious.

"You will know exactly when and what kind of superpowers will be awakened."

"Let's not talk about this. I see you just had lunch not long ago."

"How about this, I'll treat you to a meal. I just happen to want to taste the local cuisine of Sokovia."

Richard said to Pietro and the other man.

After hearing his answer, Pietro and Wanda exchanged glances before nodding.

After clearing the unfinished lunch on the table, Pietro and Wanda took Richard out of the apartment.

After coming out of the apartment, Pietro said to Richard, "Let's go and exchange the gold bricks for money first."

"can."

Richard nodded.

"I know a reliable channel. Follow me."

After that, he took Richard and Wanda to the reliable place he mentioned.

Although Pietro is not very old now, he is only in his early twenties.

But his years of life as an orphan allowed him to meet many people from all walks of life.

However, he rarely talked about these people with Wanda before.

As for the reason, it's very simple, because he doesn't want Wanda to come into contact with these people like himself.

Although he had not awakened any superpowers at this time, he was just an ordinary person.

But he still doesn't want Wanda to resolve too many dark issues in society.

In his opinion, this is his duty as an older brother.

Richard didn't know where exactly Pietro went to exchange the gold bricks for Sokovia's currency.

However, he didn't care about it at all.

Even if Pietro was going to make a deal with terrorists or Hydra, he wouldn't take it seriously.

With his current strength, no one on earth can be his opponent.

Not only on Earth, even if the scope is expanded to the entire universe, there are not many people who are qualified to fight him head-on.

Pietro walked in front and led the way.

Richard and Wanda followed him at a leisurely pace. Although Wanda did not speak, she would turn her head to look at Richard from time to time, as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.

"Ask whatever you want."

Richard said to Wanda.

After hearing his answer, Wanda did not answer him immediately, but fell silent.

After a few seconds, Wanda said to him as if she had made up her mind, "You said in the apartment that you liked me, but you had never seen me before."

"Who said I haven't seen you before? I have seen you many times, but you just don't know it."

Richard replied calmly.

"Where have you seen me?"

Wanda asked quickly.

"I can see some future scenes, and I have seen you in them."

Richard replied.

At this time, he did not intend to tell Pietro and Wanda that he came from another universe, so he just made up an excuse.

Although she already knew that he was a superhuman, after hearing his answer, an expression of disbelief immediately appeared on Wanda's delicate and fair face.

More than ten minutes later.

Pietro brought Richard and Wanda to a neighborhood with a somewhat bad environment.

Not only are the buildings and sanitation in the neighborhood a bit poor, the public security in this neighborhood is also not very good.

To put it simply, the neighborhood they are in now is similar to the slums and gang-controlled neighborhoods in New York, with gangsters and homeless people everywhere on the street.

Arriving here, Pietro, who was walking in front leading the way, unconsciously slowed down his pace and his expression became serious.

As for Wanda, she said nothing and looked at the situation around her with a vigilant look on her face.

Compared to the two of them, Richard's expression was as calm as ever.

For ordinary people, this neighborhood is indeed not safe.

But to him, the neighborhood was not dangerous at all.

Even if he stood still and allowed the thugs around him to attack him, they would not be able to cause any harm to him.

To be exact, I couldn't even get close to him.

After noticing that the thugs around her were looking her up and down with ill intentions, Wanda unconsciously moved closer to Richard.

Although Richard didn't do anything now, Wanda still felt more secure after being close to him.

Under the gaze of the gangsters, Pietro took Richard and Wanda into an ordinary-looking convenience store.

Judging from the store environment, this is indeed a convenience store.

But unlike ordinary convenience stores, the products here are slightly special.

Common daily necessities, snacks, drinks and so on are also available here.

But in addition to these things, there are some not-so-normal items on the store shelves.

For example, there were pistols and rifles with empty magazines that had passed through countless hands, as well as some bulletproof vests and sabers.

In addition, the salespersons in the store did not look friendly at all. They were big, burly men with flesh on their faces, and there was more than one of them.

In the past, Pietro would never have brought Wanda to a place that looked so unsafe.

But now, because Richard was here, he brought Wanda with him.

After entering the store, Pietro went straight to the counter, took out the gold bricks wrapped in a plastic bag and placed them on the counter.

"Half into US dollars, and the other half into Sokovia dollars."

Pietro said to the big man behind the counter in a sophisticated manner.

Although he tried his best to remain calm, the big man at the counter and other big men in the store recognized at a glance that he was an inexperienced rookie.

They do accept gold and jewelry, but no stranger would come to the store with a gold brick to pay back the money.

The big man behind the counter first looked at Richard and the other two, then picked up the gold bar on the counter, weighed it, and checked its authenticity.

After confirming that there was no problem with the gold bricks, he said, "If you don't have US dollars, you can only exchange them for Sokovia coins, and the maximum you can exchange is 20 Sokovia coins."

what?
After hearing the big man's words, Pietro and Wanda both showed surprised expressions.

Although they were mentally prepared for the price to be lowered, they did not expect the big man to lower the price so harshly.

The gold brick Richard gave them weighed two kilograms.

Even if calculated at 15% of the current market price, it can at least be exchanged for US dollars.

1 US dollar is about 12 Sokovian dollars.

In other words, it can be exchanged for at least 180 million Sokovia coins.

However, now, the big man is only willing to give 20 Sokovian dollars.

This is already a question of whether to lower prices or not.

"Give me back the gold bricks. I won't exchange them!"

Pietro said to the big man behind the counter.

Having said that, he prepared to take back the gold bricks.

However, it turned out that he was a little naive.

Coming to a place like this and showing off his wealth, he can no longer just leave whenever he wants.

More importantly, he is just an ordinary person with no power or influence and no strength.

"It's not up to you to decide whether to change it or not."

The man at the counter replied immediately.

Then, he said to the other big men in the store, "Give this kid 20 Sokovia coins."

After saying that, he took the gold brick and walked towards the room inside the shop.

However, he had only taken a few steps when Richard's voice rang out.

"One more step and you'll die."

After hearing his words, the big man behind the counter stopped walking, turned around to look at him, and said with disdain: "Boy, do you know where this place is..."

Before the other party could finish his words, Richard's eyes flashed red.

Heat ray!
Without any hesitation, he immediately cast the heat ray.

The laser-like high-temperature heat ray instantly hit the big man's chest, easily penetrated his body and ended his life.

When the dead man fell to the ground uncontrollably under the influence of gravity, Richard used his superpower of matter manipulation to make the gold brick in the man's hand fly back to Pietro.

"The place you mentioned is not reliable at all."

Richard said to Pietro.

Pietro was about to say something when he saw the other big men pull out their guns and point them at Richard.

"Small……!"

Just as Pietro was about to remind Richard to be careful, he saw the bodies of those big men quickly decompose and disappear like smoke.

This……

After seeing this scene, both he and Wanda showed expressions of disbelief.

If Richard used heat rays to kill the big man behind the counter, they could more or less understand it.

After all, the heat rays emitted from Richard's eyes look almost like lasers.

Now, the bodies of the other big men were broken down into atoms and disappeared, which was completely beyond their imagination.

"Let's go."

Richard said calmly.

Pietro and Wanda nodded instinctively and left the store.

After coming out of the store, Richard led them out of the neighborhood.

After arriving at the downtown area of ​​the city, he randomly found a gold shop and asked Pietro to hand over the gold bars to the shop for recycling.

While the clerk at the gold shop was preparing US dollars and Sokovia coins, Richard said to Pietro, "When you don't have enough strength, formal channels are better than illegal channels."

"Watch less gangster movies in the future. The real underground world is not that simple."

……

(End of this chapter)