Lu Mingfei doesn't want to be a superhero

Lu Mingfei felt extremely uncomfortable under Su Xiaoqiang's piercing gaze.

Fortunately, the waiter came to serve the food at that moment, and the food immediately caught Su Xiaoqiang's attention.

She didn't care about being ladylike anymore, quickly picked up a skewer of roasted mutton and stuffed it into her mouth, then her expression changed.

"Hot, hot, hot..." She had already taken a bite, and even if she had no ladylike manners, Su Xiaoqiang couldn't spit it out in front of Lu Mingfei.

By the time she struggled to swallow the meat, two tears had already welled up in the corners of her eyes from the burn.

"Here you go." Lu Mingfei immediately handed over a glass of water.

Su Xiaoqiang downed her drink in one gulp, glanced at him, and said, "You're quite perceptive."

"You make it sound like I'm some kind of servant serving you," Lu Mingfei said, pursing his lips.

"Have you forgotten that you still owe me five thousand yuan?" Although Su Xiaoqiang was shorter than Lu Mingfei, at this moment his eyes seemed to be looking down on him.

"Miss, is there anything else I can do for you? Should I massage your shoulders or legs? Or should I blow on these skewers to cool them down?" Lu Mingfei asked with a fawning expression.

Su Xiaoqiang rolled her eyes.

She admired Lu Mingfei's shamelessness; he could provoke her into a rage with just a few words, leaving her with nowhere to vent her anger.

So he simply stopped talking to Lu Mingfei and focused on eating the skewers on the table. Having learned from his previous experience, he was more careful and avoided getting burned.

Watching Su Xiaoqiang devour her food, her lips smeared with oil, Lu Mingfei suddenly became curious and cautiously asked a question.

"Little Heavenly Maiden, how long have you been waiting?"

“Not long,” Su Xiaoqiang looked up at him and sneered, “It’s just that the planned dinner was changed to a late-night snack. It’s only a few hours, not long at all.”

As she spoke the last two words, Su Xiaoqiang ground a piece of meat between her back teeth, her manner suggesting that what she was eating wasn't mutton, but Lu Mingfei's flesh.

"Holy crap! I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry!" Lu Mingfei quickly clasped his hands together in apology. "I was sleeping so soundly, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry!"

Su Xiaoqiang paused for a moment, then, as if struck by a sudden thought, her previously raised eyebrows softened considerably. She gave a soft snort: "I can forgive you, but as punishment, you're paying for this meal!"

"Okay, okay, no problem!" Lu Mingfei patted his chest to assure him.

"Here are your drinks, gentlemen," the waiter said, walking over with two bottles of beer. "Would you like us to open them for you?"

"Let's open one bottle first," Su Xiaoqiang said.

Although theoretically alcohol shouldn't be sold to minors, many things are not strictly regulated in small cities like this. Besides, Lu Mingfei and Su Xiaoqiang are both senior high school students, and it's hard to tell whether they are adults or not just by looking at them.

"You ordered alcohol?" Su Xiaoqiang had been ordering the food before, and Lu Mingfei hadn't paid attention to what she had ordered. But when he saw that there was alcohol, his heart skipped a beat.

Uncle Li is still outside. If he sees me drinking with you late at night, and he reports it to your father, he'll probably send me to play the real-life version of Gold Miner.

“It’s nothing, just two bottles of beer,” Su Xiaoqiang said, resting her chin on her hand and glancing at Lu Mingfei provocatively. “You can’t even handle this?”

Lu Mingfei felt as if he had been looked down upon.

"No, I... I don't drink alcohol," Lu Mingfei made up a reason.

"You even recognize the wines from Screaming Eagle Winery?" Su Xiaoqiang narrowed her eyes.

"I heard it from a friend!" Lu Mingfei insisted stubbornly.

He was confident because he had heard Chen Wenwen say in his first year of high school that "men who act crazy when drunk are scary." He never drank in front of anyone throughout high school, and being led astray by Tony was a completely different story.

So even though he drinks, Su Xiaoqiang definitely hasn't seen him drink. As long as he stubbornly denies it, then...

"It's okay, I won't drink, just a little bit." Su Xiaoqiang looked like a devil, gently tempting people to commit crimes.

However, considering her face, she looks more like a succubus.

Before Lu Mingfei could refuse, Su Xiaoqiang had already poured a glass for both of them.

"Just one drink!" Su Xiaoqiang said sincerely.

"Alright." Lu Mingfei had no choice but to comply.

……

"Let's have another drink," Su Xiaoqiang said.

“You can’t drink anymore,” Lu Mingfei said. “It’s not good to get drunk.”

"This is beer! How could you possibly get drunk from just two glasses?" Su Xiaoqiang poured two more glasses.

……

"One more...one more cup." Su Xiaoqiang's eyes were glazed over.

"You've already had four bottles, maybe you shouldn't drink anymore, your face is all red," Lu Mingfei reminded him.

"Nonsense! How could two people get drunk after drinking four bottles of beer?" Su Xiaoqiang's cheeks flushed red.

"It wasn't four bottles for two people, it was four bottles for you and four bottles for me. You're already so drunk you can't count?" Lu Mingfei said in surprise. "I thought you could hold your liquor."

“My dad doesn’t let me drink, so I rarely drink…” Su Xiaoqiang said as she got up and sat down next to Lu Mingfei.

There were benches on both sides of the table, and Lu Mingfei quickly moved to the side to get away from Su Xiaoqiang.

"You... how come you're not drunk?" Su Xiaoqiang poked Lu Mingfei's face.

"I...I...I'm drunk!" Lu Mingfei felt that if he dared to say he wasn't drunk, Su Xiaoqiang would definitely make him drink more.

"Liar!" Su Xiaoqiang glared at him. Because of her drunkenness, her reason was gradually leaving her. She puffed out her cheeks at Lu Mingfei, revealing an adorable expression she had never shown before, and questioned, "You're drunk... then why aren't you crying?"

“…Crying?” Lu Mingfei was taken aback. “This way of acting crazy when drunk is quite unique.”

“When I’m sad, I get drunk and cry. Crying makes me feel better…” Su Xiaoqiang dipped her finger in the water in her glass and drew a simple, round crying face on the table.

"But I'm not sad."

Lu Mingfei thought to himself, "Little Fairy, your drinking manners are so bad. You doodle on people when you're drunk. Luckily you used water. If you carried a marker with you, the boss would have confiscated our things and made us pay compensation."

"But you were kicked out by your uncle and aunt, how could you not be sad?" Su Xiaoqiang wiped the crying face off the table.

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment.

Then he suddenly realized something, turned to Su Xiaoqiang beside him and asked, "So you asked me out because you thought I was very sad and wanted to get me drunk so I could cry it out and let it all out, so I wouldn't keep suppressing it?"

"Yeah!" The drunk Su Xiaoqiang seemed surprisingly candid, nodding directly. "Keeping sadness inside is really painful. I was once really sad, and I kept holding back my tears, and then I suddenly thought about committing suicide..."

Lu Mingfei stared intently at Su Xiaoqiang.

In this world, apart from his parents who travel the world doing archaeology, it seems that no one ever cares whether he is hurt or not.

"What's wrong with you?" Su Xiaoqiang noticed Lu Mingfei staring at her, and suddenly puffed out her chest, looking smug. "Have you been captivated by my beauty and kindness?"

"No, it's just that there's oil on the tip of your nose," Lu Mingfei reminded him.

"Oh my, really?" Su Xiaoqiang exclaimed in surprise.

It's true. Lu Mingfei didn't dare look at Su Xiaoqiang's face before, so he didn't notice until now.

He subconsciously pulled out a tissue, intending to wipe Su Xiaoqiang's nose, but when the tissue was close to Su Xiaoqiang's nose, he realized that this action was a bit too intimate.

Here's a tissue, wipe it yourself...

Just as Lu Mingfei was about to hand the tissue to Su Xiaoqiang, Su Xiaoqiang leaned forward and rubbed her nose against the tissue.

"Alright!" Su Xiaoqiang said smugly.

Lu Mingfei silently put down the tissue.

Lu Mingfei wondered how much Su Xiaoqiang, when she was sober, would pay to buy back this embarrassing piece of history if that scene had been filmed.

No, we can't stay here any longer. If she gets drunk again, who knows what she might do next.

Thinking of this, Lu Mingfei asked Su Xiaoqiang if she was still hungry. When she shook her head, he quickly raised his hand and called out, "Waiter, the bill."

The waiter came over and said, "Hello sir, the total is two hundred and seven yuan."

Lu Mingfei reached into his pocket.

Oh no! He was in a rush to leave, and Su Xiaoqiang had said she would treat him, so he didn't bring his wallet.

Just as Lu Mingfei was about to ask the waiter if he could call Uncle Li from outside to pay for it, he turned around and saw a fair and delicate hand holding three bright red banknotes and handing them over.

Su Xiaoqiang's face was flushed, and she tilted her head slightly, looking at him with hazy, drunken eyes: "What are you standing there for? Pay the bill."

Chapter 18 Going to Senior Brother Chu's House

In the morning, in Lu Mingfei's room at a budget hotel.

The curtains were drawn tightly shut, without a single gap.

Lu Mingfei held a game magazine he had casually bought on his way back. His golden eyes flashed as he flipped through it at a speed far beyond that of an ordinary person. Anyone who didn't know better would have thought he was reading a comic book.

Although gaming magazines generally have a low information density, Lu Mingfei's reading speed was still ridiculously fast.

After reading the entire magazine in one go, Lu Mingfei frowned slightly.

"Compared to Tony's world, in my own world, my abilities... seem to be suppressed?" Lu Mingfei pondered.

Actually, he had this feeling ever since he came back, but Su Xiaoqiang dragged him out for a late-night snack as soon as he got back, so he didn't have a chance to test it.

Now that he had some free time, he tested it and became even more certain of his feeling.

Although the decline in learning ability and efficiency is not obvious, the suppression of another ability is terrifying.

Lu Mingfei stared at the television on the wall, but no matter how hard he concentrated, he couldn't "see" through its structure from a distance like he could in Tony's world.

After standing up, Lu Mingfei walked to the television, reached out and touched it, then focused his attention on it, and the internal structure of the television gradually unfolded in his mind.

You see, in Tony's world, as long as he's within thirty meters, he can see through the structure of an object simply by staring at it.

But in his own world, he has to touch something with his own hands in order to analyze its components in his mind.

As for disassembling each part in the mental diagram and examining it repeatedly, that requires an even higher level of concentration.

Was my ability suppressed in my own world? Or was it amplified in Tony's world?

Lu Mingfei was puzzled—since acquiring the Mirror Eye and having Tony hired many teachers, he had gradually become accustomed to thinking.

He leans more towards the second of his two guesses.

Firstly, the drug Tony injected him with was meant to stimulate his own power.

Lu Mingfei had no idea why he had this power. He even suspected that his parents, who were always on the go, were the kind of mysterious supernatural beings from anime who stayed away from home all year round to protect their son.

But in any case, unless he underwent a genetic mutation during his journey through different worlds, the power within him must have originated from his own world.