Lu Mingfei doesn't want to be a superhero

"What kind of help?" Lu Mingfei asked curiously.

Natasha looked at Peter.

Peter paused for a moment, then a thought struck him. He stood up and said, "Mingfei, I won't bother you any longer. I'm going to the Osborn Group to see Professor Connors tomorrow. If you're coming with me, I'll call you again."

After saying that, Peter disappeared in a flash—and really, in Natasha's eyes, Peter instantly turned into a thin, blurry shadow, followed by the sound of a door closing. This elite agent, who had undergone physical enhancement, couldn't even see how the high school boy left!

Suppressing her shock, Natasha looked at Lu Mingfei: "We found a very important person frozen in the Arctic. Through the ice, our professionals determined that he still has vital signs, but they are extremely weak. If we thaw him rashly, we can't be sure what will happen. His condition might deteriorate rapidly, and he might die on the spot. Therefore, we need your ability to heal the seriously injured last night to ensure that he doesn't die as soon as he's thawed."

"May I ask who it is?" Lu Mingfei asked curiously.

He was genuinely curious: what kind of person could survive being frozen solid? Did they also possess superpowers?

Natasha hesitated for a moment. Lu Mingfei thought she would say she wanted to keep it a secret, but after a moment she spoke up: "Captain America, Steve Rogers."

"Didn't he die more than seventy years ago?" Lu Mingfei was taken aback.

In Tony's world, Captain America, the American hero of World War II, is a household name, and he naturally knows about him as well.

“He was frozen for seventy years,” Natasha said.

“It can’t be saved.” Lu Mingfei shook his head decisively.

His healing ability was a one-time gift from the little devil, and now that he can't use it, he can't very well make a deal with it.

but……

“Although I can’t cure him, I have the ability to freeze things, which can solidify the ice and ensure it doesn’t melt, so he’ll be safe,” Lu Mingfei added sincerely after thinking for a moment.

Natasha: ...

P.S.: I'm still writing the next chapter, so I suggest you read it tomorrow morning, sob sob~

107. Chapter 106: Can I Control Deadpool?

Lu Mingfei is at home, on the sofa.

Looking at Lu Mingfei's face, which was so sincere it couldn't be more sincere, Natasha looked annoyed: "We don't want to freeze him, we want to thaw him. He's Captain America, we need him to come back to life, not become a beautiful ice sculpture exhibit."

"In terms of its nature, it's definitely not an ice sculpture. It's more like amber, except that amber is formed by the mineralization of solidified resin, while this is formed by the solidification of water and has not been mineralized," Lu Mingfei explained.

Natasha covered her face, the wad of paper stuffed in her nose trembling.

"What's wrong? Does your nose still hurt? Should we go to the hospital?" Lu Mingfei asked with concern.

Natasha's eyelids twitched—if it weren't for her mission, she would never have come, even if it meant death.

“No need,” Natasha sighed, shook her head, and then looked at Lu Mingfei, “Why not? Is there some limitation to your healing abilities? Or…”

“From a scientific point of view, he has been frozen for so long, so a large number of cells in his body must have been frozen,” Lu Mingfei explained. “During the freezing process, cells will produce countless tiny ice crystals. These ice crystals are extremely sharp and can easily pierce the cell membrane, causing structural damage to the cell. Once thawed, the cell will die. In a sense, this damage is similar to turning a person into mincemeat.”

“I heard Tony say that Captain America was enhanced with the Super Soldier Serum. Unless his cells are strong enough after the enhancement to not be pierced by ice crystals, or his regenerative ability is extremely strong, the frozen parts cannot be restored,” Lu Mingfei explained.

“That’s why we didn’t thaw him immediately after we found him. If his condition worsens, we’re not sure if the existing treatments will be effective,” Natasha sighed.

“Although I can’t solve the problem of physical recovery, I’ve heard that there’s a Professor Connors at Osborn Industries who is researching the genetic combination of humans and reptiles like lizards to greatly improve human regenerative abilities, and even to rapidly regenerate severed limbs,” Lu Mingfei said. “Why don’t you go and try to find him?”

“Professor Kurt Connors?” Natasha shook her head. “Professor Connors’s file has always been kept in S.H.I.E.L.D. because his research project is very special. From a certain perspective, it has the potential to be developed into a super soldier serum, so we initially paid a lot of attention to him.”

“But later we found that his research was too impractical and there was almost no hope of success. It was more like a science fiction than a research project, so we stopped paying much attention to him,” Natasha said. “It’s better to hope that magic exists in the world than to expect him to develop such a magical technology.”

Lu Mingfei thought to himself, "How did you know?"

“What if he succeeds? Anything is possible,” Lu Mingfei said, considering himself a semi-scientist, and defended Connors. “No one can be sure when a research project will make a breakthrough.”

“S.H.I.E.L.D. has a lot of scientists they follow, including some who are doing ‘multiverse travel’ research. What do you think we should expect from this kind of science fiction research?” Natasha rolled her eyes. “If Professor Connors completes this kind of unrealistic research, I’ll personally grab a lizard and swallow it.”

"Remember to call me when you're swallowing it; I want to watch it live," Lu Mingfei said.

Natasha: ...

“Ahem, getting back to the point, I wasn’t joking about what I just said. I really can freeze Captain America,” Lu Mingfei said. “If something goes wrong when you thaw him and his condition starts to deteriorate, I can freeze him back immediately and make sure he’s frozen even tighter than before. Then you can slowly find a way to solve the problem.”

Natasha was silent for a moment. Although Lu Mingfei's suggestion sounded a bit strange, it did seem to have some feasibility.

After hesitating for a moment, she took out her communicator to report to Nick Fury, and then turned it off a moment later.

Then, she removed the wad of paper from her nostril and smiled at Lu Mingfei: "Thank you for your help, Mr. Lu Mingfei."

“No rush,” Lu Mingfei smiled, “Let’s talk about the labor costs.”

Natasha: ...? ? ?

……

"You want S.H.I.E.L.D.'s internal research data on the Super Soldier Serum?" Natasha shook her head repeatedly. "I can't make that decision."

If she dared to overstep her authority and agree to Lu Mingfei's request, Nick Fury would probably interrogate her as a spy. The "alcohol nasal irrigation" torture she had previously suggested could then be used on herself.

“Why don’t you ask Director Fury? Anyway, Tony said that most of the data is missing, otherwise the military wouldn’t have been unable to replicate a practical super soldier serum for so many years. You must have done similar research, right? Is the progress very slow? So this data is actually of little value to you,” Lu Mingfei tempted. “By exchanging some worthless data for the protection of Captain America’s life, you can at least get a living super soldier, who has the most perfect super soldier serum in history. Natasha, think about it carefully, isn’t this a good deal?”

Natasha was silent.

She wondered if it was just her imagination, but she seemed to see a hint of a shrewd businessman in Lu Mingfei.

Objectively speaking, Lu Mingfei was right. By making a copy of the data and giving it out, they wouldn't actually suffer any real loss. Instead, they would gain an opportunity to save Captain America's life, which was a sure win.

Gritting her teeth, Natasha replied to Lu Mingfei, "Wait for me a moment," and then took out her communicator again to connect with Nick Fury.

After a long while, Natasha put down the communicator: "The director said that he can give you a copy of all the information that S.H.I.E.L.D. has about the Super Soldier Serum, but you must ensure that the information is not leaked outside of Stark Industries. It would be best if only you, Tony, and Dr. Banner knew about it."

“No problem.” Lu Mingfei nodded—even if Fury hadn’t said anything, he wouldn’t have given the information to outsiders so easily, that would be too much of a loss.

Afterwards, Lu Mingfei and Natasha discussed it and decided that two days later, a representative from S.H.I.E.L.D. would come to pick him up and take him to the site where Captain America was thawed.

The documents will be delivered tonight; they are all in paper form. Lu Mingfei had Natasha deliver them directly to Tony's house.

He wanted information on the Super Soldier Serum, firstly to provide some reference for Tony's experiments on dragon blood, and secondly, if he could replicate the ineffective enhancement serum, he and Tony could each receive an injection—he was actually alright, after all, he had a near-death buff and wouldn't actively seek out danger unless necessary.

His main concern was Tony, who aspired to become Iron Man to atone for his past actions of selling weapons and harming others. Every day, he was either running into terrorist hideouts or dealing with some strange things—some people called him a supervillain or something like that.

In this kind of work, encountering danger is commonplace. Although Tony's Iron Man suit is powerful, he is still just flesh and blood. Although he has been training hard, he can't even beat an ordinary professional boxer in hand-to-hand combat, so he can basically be considered to have no fighting ability.

Although Tony was researching a potion to turn ordinary people into "hybrids" after obtaining his consent, Lu Mingfei had asked him recently and found that the research was still progressing very slowly. Adding stable dragon blood to ordinary people was much more difficult than stimulating their bloodline.

Therefore, Lu Mingfei hoped that the information on the super soldier serum could be helpful to Tony—and if Tony could make a serum without side effects, he could also have a vial, since no one would complain about being too strong.

After seeing Natasha off, Lu Mingfei took a helicopter straight to Tony's house. After all, the research data was to be delivered to Tony's house tonight, and he felt it would be better if he were there as well.

……

Lu Mingfei was sitting in the cabin, holding a book, when he heard the captain shout from the front: "Boss, come quick! We're over Mr. Stark's house, and something seems wrong down there!"

Putting down his book, Lu Mingfei strode over: "What's wrong?"

The captain was also specially selected by Tony. No one knows where he recruited her from. Female captains are already rare, and the female captain he found was not only experienced in flying, but also very beautiful. Although she was over thirty years old, she was well-maintained, with a fit figure, heroic features, and a dashing temperament.

Every time Lu Mingfei saw the diverse and highly skilled beauties Tony had found for him, he wondered where Tony had found these talents, and suspected that Tony was trying to build him a harem at home.

But now is not the time to complain. Lu Mingfei looked down through the cabin glass. Below was Tony's house, built on a sea cliff, with no other buildings around it—because Tony didn't like his neighbors.

Fortunately, he had no neighbors, otherwise his neighbors would be in trouble now.

The plane hovered at a low altitude of less than 100 meters. With Lu Mingfei's eyesight, he could clearly see Tony's house below, where Tony was wearing his Iron Man suit and fighting with four humanoid monsters.

The monsters were swift, incredibly strong, and seemed to possess some special abilities. The largest one would unleash a visible shockwave with each attack, shattering and sending surrounding buildings flying.

Of course, everything else was minor; what Lu Mingfei was concerned about was—why were all these monsters' eyes golden?!

Hiss... Could it be...?

A small, humanoid monster seemed to have spotted them. It turned to look at the helicopter in the sky, pulled a steel bar from the ruins of the house, jumped to the highest point of the house, and hurled it at the pilot in the helicopter like a javelin. The steel bar flew backward like a shooting star.

Because it was hovering at low altitude, the helicopter was very close to the ground. Even though the captain instinctively steered the aircraft to a different direction, the aircraft's performance limitations prevented her from avoiding it in time. She could only watch helplessly as the steel bars flew through the air and shattered the cockpit windshield...

A slender, fair hand grasped the steel bar, and the hem of a coat fluttered up, shielding the captain's face and scattering shards of glass.

The captain stared blankly at the steel bar, its sharp, twisted surface just centimeters away from piercing her head.

"Don't be afraid," Lu Mingfei casually tossed the steel bar down, then looked down at the captain, "Can you still fly the plane?"

The captain paused for a moment, then gave a confident smile: "Of course I can, but boss, it's so dangerous, you'll have to give me a bonus when we get back."

“No problem,” Lu Mingfei casually took off his coat and tossed it to the captain. “You’re flying the plane away from here. If the windshield is broken and you feel cold from the wind, put this on. It’s cashmere, so it should keep you warm.”

The captain grabbed the jacket with one hand; it felt soft and thick, and still warm from his body.

She was about to ask Lu Mingfei if he wasn't wearing any when she saw him leap down through the crack in the windshield like a nimble sailfish.

The captain's first reaction was, "Boss, what are you doing? It's just a broken windshield, not an engine explosion. You don't need to jump out to lighten the load, do you?"

However, in the next instant, she saw a huge ice snake emerge from the sea below. Lu Mingfei adjusted his body in mid-air and stood steadily on the snake's head. The giant snake lowered its body and rested its chin on the cliff. Lu Mingfei leisurely walked down from the top of the snake's head.

"I must be dreaming..." The captain pinched himself hard and suddenly yelled.

On the ground, Lu Mingfei stepped off the snake's head. The monster on the roof threw new steel bars at him. Compared to the steel bars that flew dozens of meters into the air before, causing a significant drop in kinetic energy, this close-range attack was several times more powerful. Spiral airflow shapes were vaguely outlined around the steel bars.

Lu Mingfei casually flicked his wrist, and a flash of silver light appeared as the steel bar split in two, each spinning and flying out at an angle.

The Silver Oak Sword was used in actual combat for the first time, but it only managed to cut a steel bar. Lu Mingfei felt he had lost out.

He turned to look at Tony, who was entangled with three monsters in mid-air: "Tony, what's going on?!"

"After the mouse experiments, I started using rhesus monkeys and chimpanzees as test subjects for bloodline transplantation research," Tony shouted. "But they all turned into Deadpools. I underestimated the strength of these test subjects, and they escaped!"

Lu Mingfei had mentioned Deadpool to Tony before, so Tony knew about the concept.

Lu Mingfei looked up and saw that although these monsters were much larger than rhesus monkeys and chimpanzees, they still showed primate characteristics.

"Can't you be a little more reliable! A mad scientist's mutated experimental organism leaking and causing a city crisis or even the end of the world? This is such an old movie plot!" Lu Mingfei was speechless.

But it doesn't matter. He just acquired the Silver Oak Sword, so he'll use these deadly servants to test it out today...

Lu Mingfei instantly entered battle mode. His golden eyes lit up as he focused his mind. He was about to draw his sword and kill the Deadpool in front of him when he saw the Deadpool on the roof, who was about to throw the third steel javelin at him, exchange a glance with him, and then "plop," he knelt down decisively. The steel javelin in his hand rolled down the roof and stuck diagonally into the ground.

Lu Mingfei was full of questions.

He then turned to look at Deadpool, who was fighting Tony. The three Deadpools, one big and two small, met Lu Mingfei's eyes one after the other and knelt down before him without hesitation.

Lu Mingfei: ...

No, get up! I haven't finished testing my sword yet! Even if you're Deadpools, you can't be this spineless!

Suppressing his urge to complain, Lu Mingfei stared at the four Dead Servants and suddenly realized that as long as he made eye contact with them using his Golden Eyes, he could concentrate and give them commands.