Lu Mingfei doesn't want to be a superhero

He roared a few words in a language that Lu Mingfei couldn't understand, his face contorted with rage. Then, the men around him opened fire on Tony's unprotected head, and more than a dozen bullets flew toward Tony.

The Iron Man suit weighs several hundred kilograms, and Tony is completely immobilized when the power program is not activated; he's just a sitting duck.

Some of the bullets went astray, hitting the steel suits and scattering blinding sparks.

Some shots hit their mark, heading straight for Tony's head, but Tony was not hit.

A figure that wasn't particularly tall lunged forward, blocking Tony's path, and six bullets pierced his chest.

At such close range, the bullets should have pierced his body, but they all remained inside him strangely, as if the bullets had not penetrated the fragile human tissue, but some kind of high-density fibrous mass.

Lu Mingfei fell heavily to the ground, feeling as if he had been punched several times. It didn't hurt much, but he was a little out of breath.

"Am I going to die?" Lu Mingfei opened his mouth to inhale, only to feel the excruciating pain in his body, which made him convulse.

Lu Mingfei had no idea why he had pounced on him. By the time he realized what was happening, he was already lying on the ground.

Why did you have to show off? What were you trying to do, act like a hero? Are you even cut out for this? Now you're going to lose your life, aren't you? He cursed himself inwardly.

Why did you rush at him? You've only known Tony for a few days. Is it worth risking your life for him?

All he did was save your life, offer you a multi-million dollar job, buy you a private jet and supercars, find you beautiful women who could grace magazine covers, and protect you in times of danger. Is it really worth risking your life for him?

Anyway, I guess I've... played the hero for once? Lu Mingfei's vision gradually darkened.

Tony's shouts rang in my ears: "Mingfei! Mingfei! How are you!"

“Tony,” Lu Mingfei looked at Tony, using his last bit of strength, his pale lips trembling as he spoke, “Does the March cover girl thing still count? And… the December twins…”

"Fine! Fine! I'll find you one if you escape!" Tony roared.

Lu Mingfei could no longer hear anything. His eyes were completely closed, his vision went completely black, the sounds around him faded away, and his consciousness gradually dissipated.

In a daze, he seemed to hear the voice of a little boy.

"Brother, you're being too reckless..."

I'm dying, and the voice I'm hallucinating is a man's. If only it were Chen Wenwen...

……

After Lu Mingfei was shot, the leader's men suddenly stopped firing. It wasn't that they were moved by his selfless spirit of saving others, but rather that a strange chill suddenly rose from the bottom of their hearts, making it difficult for them to even move their fingers.

They only returned to normal after Lu Mingfei closed his eyes.

The leader, his face filled with terror, shouted "Shoot!" and he and a dozen other gunmen pulled the triggers together.

Bullets flew toward Lu Mingfei and Tony. The power program's progress bar was still a little over halfway through. Tony sighed with relief and calmly faced his death.

He could almost see the bullet spinning as it shot out of the muzzle, flying through a burst of flame, leaving ripples in the air as it slowly flew towards him.

So the rumor that time slows down before you die is true, Tony thought.

But why is the bullet flying slower and slower?

Wait, the bullets have stopped!

To Tony's disbelief, the dozen or so bullets aimed at him and Lu Mingfei seemed to penetrate into some kind of viscous gel in the air, their kinetic energy being continuously dissipated. Finally, they slowly stopped spinning and moving forward a meter in front of Lu Mingfei, hovering in the air as if frozen in a piece of transparent glass.

Lu Mingfei, who was lying on the ground, had opened his eyes at some point, revealing a pair of eyes as bright as molten gold, illuminating half of the cave and shining like the sun!

He stood up straight from the ground without any exertion or fulcrum, as if an invisible force was supporting him.

The leader shouted in terror and his men kept firing. Every bullet stopped a meter in front of Lu Mingfei, all the bullets stopping on a vertical plane, like specimens neatly arranged in a display case.

Tony doesn't believe in God, but the scene before him subconsciously reminded him of the Book of Job in the Bible.

When Jehovah created the world, the waves of the sea surged upon the earth without end. Jehovah set boundaries for them, and put gates and bars on them, saying to them, “Go this far, and do not cross over.” And the arrogant waves ceased.

Aren't these bullets stopped at the boundary, like the waves in the Book of Job?

But the next moment Tony shattered his own assumptions.

He saw patches of jet-black scales emerging from Lu Mingfei's exposed skin, with uneven textures, sharp edges, and a menacing appearance like swords.

One bullet after another was pushed out of his wound and fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

Lu Mingfei turned his head slightly to look at Tony, who also saw the scales covering his cheeks and his eyes that looked like molten gold.

The next second, Lu Mingfei turned his head again and looked at the terrorists who had run out of bullets and were standing there with trembling legs.

A sharp whooshing sound suddenly rang out, and all the bullets that were suspended in the air flew back, piercing their bodies and embedding themselves deeply into the rock wall behind them.

The riddled corpse fell to the ground, and Tony instinctively took a step forward, only then realizing that the Iron Man suit's power program had finally started.

"Mingfei... are you alright?" Tony swallowed hard and looked at Lu Mingfei anxiously.

Damn it, no wonder this boy fell from the sky back then. Turns out he's not an ordinary person... no, it's hard to say whether he's even human!

Lu Mingfei didn't say anything. Instead, he grabbed Tony's shoulder with one hand, lifted Tony up along with his Iron Man suit, and strode out the door.

"Ethan! Ethan!" Tony immediately spotted Ethan lying on the ground at the corner of the passage.

Ethan had several bullet holes in his chest, his clothes were mostly stained red with blood, and his breathing was so weak that it was almost invisible.

Lu Mingfei strode over, extended his hand to Ethan, and spoke in a language Tony couldn't understand, which echoed like thunder in the corridor.

Ethan coughed hard, his eyes tightly closed, but he began to breathe heavily.

Tony watched as a bullet was pushed out of Ethan's wound, which healed at a visible speed—the bullet was pushed out by the newly formed wound healing tissue!

Then several other bullets were ejected, and apart from the blood on his body and his closed eyes, Ethan looked almost completely unharmed.

Lu Mingfei grabbed Ethan by the shoulder and led the two men toward the exit.

During this time, the bullets fired by the terrorists who attacked them would stop in front of Lu Mingfei, then return along the same path and pierce their master's throat.

Tony's eyes suddenly lit up. Lu Mingfei led them out of the cave entrance, where terrorists had already set up heavy machine guns and were aiming at them.

Tony instinctively raised his hand, and the missile hidden in his arm armor was launched. The violent explosion engulfed the terrorists at the cave entrance, causing countless deaths and injuries.

Lu Mingfei glanced at Tony. The scales that were originally only on his cheeks had now covered his entire face, like a cast iron mask, making it impossible to see his expression. Only his molten gold eyes were even more intimidating.

Tony, hidden behind the mask, swallowed nervously.

Suddenly, the sound of tearing cloth came from behind Lu Mingfei, and a pair of huge, jet-black membranous wings unfolded from his back.

He... he can't possibly fly, can he? Tony's eyes widened.

The next second, the membrane wings flapped, and the feeling of weightlessness came over Tony, who was forcibly pulled into the air by Lu Mingfei while still in his armor!

Lu Mingfei's membrane wings were exceptionally large, reaching nearly four meters when unfolded. He didn't fly very high, but he flew very fast, like a black arrow in the low sky above the desert, with two passengers hanging below him. The sand beneath him was split open to both sides.

Phew... I'm saved...

Tony breathed a long sigh of relief. Although what had just happened was too surreal, they were saved no matter what.

"Waaaaaaahh ...

A fierce scream rang out. Tony glanced at Ethan instinctively, wondering if he was afraid of heights, but Ethan was still unconscious. Tony then realized that it was Lu Mingfei who was shouting.

Turning his head, Tony saw that all the scales on Lu Mingfei's face had fallen off, revealing his originally handsome face. If it weren't for those bright golden eyes, Tony would have thought that he had turned back into the timid and listless high school boy he used to be.

“Mingfei, you…” Tony hesitated before speaking.

"Aaaaaahhhhhh—help! I've turned into a monster! Aaaaaahhhhhh—" Lu Mingfei screamed in terror.

Tony remained silent.

He couldn't think of anything to say for a moment, but as Lu Mingfei kept shouting, he started flying unsteadily, practically running around like a wolf or a boar. Tony, who was being held by him, felt more thrilled than riding a roller coaster, and almost vomited up his stomach acid.

Tony could only bite the bullet and say, "Calm down, you're not a monster. Don't you think you're amazing right now?"

This is the truth. Although Lu Mingfei's current appearance is somewhat detached from humanity, Tony hasn't forgotten the scene of him wreaking havoc in the terrorist organization's base. Especially looking at Lu Mingfei now, his mind doesn't seem to have been greatly affected.

"Huh? That's true," Lu Mingfei paused for a moment before realizing what was happening. "Although I was a little dazed when I first turned into this form, I became much more clear-headed after I came out. And I actually look pretty handsome here, Tony, look at my wings!"

Tony curled his lip: "So-so. My suit can actually fly too. So what if it can fly? What's so great about that? Do you think I'm envious? Hmph, it's nothing special."

As he spoke, Tony secretly peered at Lu Mingfei's wings through his mask.

“Ahem, that Tony, no, godfather…” Lu Mingfei suddenly said awkwardly.

"Stop! Just call me Tony!" Tony interrupted quickly.

Lu Mingfei didn't know how to say "godfather" in English, so he was actually saying "godfather" in English, which made Tony feel like he was a mafia boss.

Although he, an arms dealer, is not necessarily any better than a mafia boss.

"Tony, about that multi-million dollar job you mentioned in the cave..." Lu Mingfei asked tentatively.

I can give up anything, but I can't give up a multi-million dollar annual salary!

"That? Forget about it, just pretend I never said anything..." Tony said casually.

Lu Mingfei's hand trembled, and he almost threw Tony down, but luckily Tony managed to say the second half of the sentence in time.

“You’re my savior, Tony Stark. Giving you a job with a ten million dollar annual salary would make my life seem worthless,” Tony said.

"So you want to pay more?" Lu Mingfei's eyes lit up.

“What money?! I’ll give you six percent of Stark Industries!” Tony waved his hand dismissively.

Uncle always talks about stocks at home, and Lu Mingfei also knows a little about stocks. He knows that if a listed company holds more than 5% of the shares, it is considered a major shareholder.

However, if the group's market value is not high, six percent of the shares may not be very valuable, so Lu Mingfei tentatively asked, "Tony, what is the market value of your Stark Group?"

“I don’t quite remember, it should be around four trillion, maybe even a little higher,” Tony said casually, then paused and added, “It’s in US dollars.”

"Four trillion, six percent..." Lu Mingfei did a simple math problem, "...240 billion... Uh! Hiccup!"

He hiccuped, and the wings on his back stopped moving.

Without moving their wings, the people naturally fell. Lu Mingfei, Tony, and Ethan crashed to the ground and rolled a long way.

Fortunately, Lu Mingfei was flying at a low altitude, and there was sand below, so they were not injured.

"Are you alright? Are you hurt? Or has something else happened to your body?" Tony quickly got up and asked with concern.

Lu Mingfei climbed out of the sand, threw his head back and laughed loudly: "Twenty-four hundred billion! Twenty-four hundred billion! Hahahahahahahaha... You'd have to win the lottery two thousand four hundred times to win one hundred million, and that's in US dollars! I have two hundred four hundred billion US dollars! Haha ...

Tony was about to remind him that six percent of the equity could not be equivalent to 240 billion US dollars, that it was not calculated that way, when he saw a spark suddenly pop out of the air behind Lu Mingfei.

Just as Lu Mingfei was laughing wildly, the spark rapidly spun and expanded, transforming into a portal that revealed a completely different view behind it, like being in a snow-capped mountain.

"What is this?" Tony's scientific understanding was challenged once again.

He was about to warn Lu Mingfei to be careful, but before he could even speak, a fair-skinned woman's hand suddenly reached out from the portal and grabbed Lu Mingfei's shoulder.