Lu Mingfei doesn't want to be a superhero

Lying in his bedroom, Lu Mingfei felt for the first time that his room was small and cramped.

No, even this home is very small.

In another universe, Lu Mingfei originally wanted to buy a house, but Tony directly gifted him a small estate under his own name, complete with workers to take care of it, so Lu Mingfei didn't need to buy a house.

Lu Mingfei initially didn't want to accept it, but Tony said that he had never lived in the manor since he bought it, and he never intended to live there when he bought it, so it was just sitting empty anyway, and he might as well give it to Lu Mingfei.

At the time, Lu Mingfei naively asked Tony why he didn't plan to live there and instead wanted to buy it. Tony replied that it was because the estate was expensive enough.

It took Lu Mingfei a long time to come to his senses.

Thinking about his own estate and comparing it to the size of his house, Lu Mingfei sighed – even the servants' quarters were twice the size of his house.

Indeed, humans are inherently insatiable creatures; once they get used to living in a big house, it's hard for them to get used to living in a small one.

To be honest, after not seeing each other for three months, Lu Mingfei initially missed his uncle and aunt, as well as the big fat guy Lu Mingze. After all, they had lived together for more than ten years. Although his uncle and aunt blatantly treated him and Lu Mingze differently, they did not mistreat him, so they were not completely without feelings for him.

But later, as Tony took him around to play, and Tony gave him shares, cars and houses, he gradually began to have a thought—were his uncle and aunt not treating him well enough?

Lu Mingfei knew, of course, that Tony was kind to him because they had been through thick and thin together, and that he had saved Tony's life.

He saved Tony's life, and his uncle and aunt were largely responsible for raising him—after all, he was sent to be raised when he was just a few years old.

But his uncle and aunt at least receive child support sent by his parents, so why would they hesitate to spend his pocket money on a bottle of energy drink?

I wonder if I can ever go back to that world? How can I get back? Lu Mingfei thought subconsciously.

Almost at the same moment this thought arose, Lu Mingfei suddenly had a strange feeling, as if some power within his body suddenly became clear in his perception.

At the same time, a piece of information suddenly flooded my mind.

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a long time before he finally let out a long sigh of relief and muttered to himself, "Thank goodness, I can go back."

The power he suddenly felt within his body was the reason he could travel between the two worlds.

This power connects his own world to another world. By consuming this power, he can travel to another world, the world where Tony exists.

Aside from consuming a portion of his time travel power initially, he will continuously consume this power in that world. Once it is exhausted, he will forcibly return to this world, where the time travel power will gradually recover.

It's somewhat similar to a taxi, where you pay a fixed starting fare, and then the fare is calculated per kilometer for the rest of the journey.

Of course, he could also return before his strength was exhausted.

However, the flow of time is different in the two worlds, and both are constantly changing.

Because this world is his "main world," under the influence of this force, no matter how long he stays in another world, he will only experience one fixed day when he returns to this world.

But once he returns to this world, the timelines of the two worlds will derail, each moving forward at an ever-changing pace.

This means that when he re-enters another world, although the time will certainly be after the point when he left last time, it is impossible to predict how long it will be.

Moreover, this power that allows him to travel between worlds can only recover naturally over time, but its "time" is affected by both worlds simultaneously, so its recovery speed is also fluctuating.

The only thing Lu Mingfei was certain of was that, at least for now, he didn't have enough energy to go back to that world again.

Of course, even if he could go, he wouldn't go immediately.

Otherwise, how would he explain disappearing for another day?

Was he photographed in his home?

Once he was certain that he only needed to wait a while before returning to another world, Lu Mingfei felt completely at ease and gradually fell asleep.

……

Meanwhile, on the other side of the city.

Chu Zihang, who is currently on winter vacation at home, has already gone to sleep according to his biological clock.

The phone rang with a peculiar, crisp sound, and Chu Zihang immediately opened his eyes, his reaction so swift that it was as if he hadn't been sleeping but rather resting with his eyes closed.

However, the truth is that Chu Zihang was indeed woken up, and he couldn't help but feel a little emotional—he was just serious and rigid, not a robot. It would be strange if he didn't feel anything when his peaceful sleep was disturbed in the middle of the night.

But this was the special ringtone he set for Norma; when this ringtone sounded, it meant that the school needed to contact him.

Perhaps he needs to be assigned a task, or perhaps he needs to write a report or self-criticism about the buildings damaged during the task.

Chu Zihang never lets his personal emotions get into business, so when he answered the phone, his tone showed no trace of being woken up: "Norma, what's up?"

Of course, Norma is an artificial intelligence, so there's no point in getting angry with her.

"Commissioner Chu Zihang, I'm sorry to have woken you up so early in the morning. The school has assigned you an urgent task, and it would be best if you could complete it by tomorrow," Norma said.

"What mission?" Chu Zihang immediately got into the zone.

“Contact one of your high school classmates. Given the special nature of this mission, you are the best candidate,” Norma said. “The specific details of the mission have been sent to your private email address.”

Chu Zihang immediately got up, turned on the light, opened his computer, and checked his emails.

Sure enough, there was a new email. When I opened it, it was a form that looked like a newly created information sheet. In the upper right corner was a headshot of the target person. He was a fairly good-looking high school student, but his eyes and shoulders were drooping, making him look a bit listless, or rather, unwell.

"It's him?"

Chu Zihang's face showed a rare look of surprise.

Chapter 10 Senior Brother Chu?

As dawn broke, faint sunlight streamed through the window into the bedroom, revealing neat sheets and a perfectly folded quilt.

Chu Zihang closed his laptop.

He never expected that the target of this mission would be Lu Mingfei.

He knew Lu Mingfei and was deeply impressed by him.

When he was fifteen, which was his third year of junior high school, a typhoon swept through the city. The typhoon brought torrential rain, like a river pouring down from the sky, or like the small city being submerged in a waterfall.

Most parents at the school drive luxury cars or have their drivers pick up their children from school, but some parents end up with no one to pick them up.

That day, he watched Lu Mingfei rush into the rain and regretted not calling out to him—maybe he could have given Lu Mingfei a ride?

Looking back now, Chu Zihang feels fortunate that he didn't call Lu Mingfei along, otherwise Lu Mingfei's fate would be uncertain.

He had just looked at the information Norma had sent him.

Lu Mingfei is the offspring of a mixed-race couple with very high bloodlines. Because his parents' bloodlines are so high, Lu Mingfei may very well have been born a Deadpool.

Chu Zihang didn't understand why the Secret Party would allow two mixed-race individuals with exceptionally high bloodlines to marry. Logically speaking, marriages between A-grade and above mixed-race individuals should require application and approval, and an application for a marriage that could potentially produce a Deadpool would certainly be rejected.

There must be some reason for this, but it wasn't written in the file, and Chu Zihang wasn't particularly curious.

Anyway, according to the information Norma provided, although Lu Mingfei's bloodline has not yet awakened, it is only a matter of time. And the fact that he is a human now does not mean that he will not go out of control and degenerate into a Deadpool after his bloodline awakens.

Therefore, the school would send someone to observe Lu Mingfei every now and then to see if he showed any signs of awakening or transforming. When he was about to graduate from high school, the academy would come to recruit him.

If Lu Mingfei falls into the trap of becoming a Death Servant after his bloodline awakens, the Academy will eliminate him.

If he doesn't fall into depravity after awakening, the academy will admit him, thus creating another genius student with extremely high bloodline.

Deadpool or a genius...?

Chu Zihang's impression of Lu Mingfei was still that rainy night. He found it hard to imagine that the boy who wrapped his head in his coat and ran wildly into the rain like a stray dog ​​would become a Deadpool.

The file says that Lu Mingfei has been acting strangely recently—his uncle and aunt said he was missing for a day.

The Secret Party's observation of Lu Mingfei was intermittent, about once every half month to once a month. After all, on this ancient and mysterious land, the Secret Party did not dare to be too arrogant.

During Lu Mingfei's "disappearance," the Secret Party did not monitor him. They only learned of his disappearance by having Norma monitor his uncle and aunt's cell phones.

Norma's task for him was to contact Lu Mingfei, investigate the reason for his disappearance, what happened during his disappearance, carefully observe his every move, and then write a report as detailed as possible to help the higher-ups determine whether Lu Mingfei had shown signs of awakening.

Of course, given that Lu Mingfei is about to graduate and the academy will soon recruit him, the mission allows Chu Zihang to reveal some minor details to Lu Mingfei, as long as it doesn't directly involve dragons, hybrids, or Deadpool.

Silently reviewing the files and mission details to confirm there were no errors or omissions, Chu Zihang took out a small box from the table.

Inside the box was a pair of black contact lenses.

Chu Zihang turned on the light and awkwardly put on his colored contact lenses.

Perhaps due to the side effects of the Bloodlust, his bloodline has become increasingly unstable recently. Sometimes, his golden eyes would light up unintentionally without his knowledge.

So outside the academy, he started wearing black contact lenses so that even if he accidentally activated his golden eyes, he wouldn't be noticed.

Next, we went to pay a visit to Lu Mingfei's home.

Chu Zihang suddenly fell into deep thought—how should one conduct a simple home visit?

Chu Zihang didn't have this knowledge in his own database, so he chose to "ask others" over "searching online".

Dial the number of his female assistant, whom he had only recently met, and say, "Susie..."

……

Eight in the morning.

Considering it's winter break, Lu Mingfei woke up very early.

Normally, he would lie in bed until the sun was high in the sky, and only when his aunt roared at him would he crawl out of his warm bed to face the biting cold wind.

Auntie always criticizes Lu Mingfei for being lazy, but turns a deaf ear to Lu Mingze's snoring.

Lu Mingfei himself didn't feel ashamed at all. Back then, in order to pursue Chen Wenwen, he took the lead in joining the literary society. Although his intentions were not pure and his true intentions were not what they seemed, he still managed to read a couple of books.

He really liked a quote from the brilliant philosopher Bertrand Russell—

"Don't feel guilty for sleeping in, because you won't create any value even if you get up. If you can find enjoyment in wasting time, then it's not a waste of time."

This statement was very rational, which encouraged Lu Mingfei to sleep in without any psychological burden throughout high school, and he slept very soundly.

Lu Mingfei always felt that his biggest gain from joining the literary society was being able to spend every day with Chen Wenwen, and his second biggest gain was this sentence.

Unfortunately, ever since that day at the terrorist base, Lu Mingfei has found it difficult to sleep in.

Perhaps it was a side effect of his "awakening" that he not only became stronger and stronger, but also more and more energetic. He would often feel refreshed and full of energy after sleeping for six or seven hours, and he couldn't fall asleep even if he wanted to.

As Lu Mingfei got out of bed and dressed, he glanced at the untouched winter break homework that his father had left on the table.

Then I forced myself to look away.

I can't write it anyway, so don't bother reading it; it'll only make you sad.

He reminded himself of this.

As Lu Mingfei pushed open the bedroom door, he was immediately greeted by Lu Mingze's deafening snoring.

Lu Mingfei had read a book called *The Travels of Lao Can*, in which tigers were mentioned, and it was said that tigers possessed "tiger might"—