A certain American comic book's secondary profession master

Why did Chapter 10 suddenly involve saving the world?
“Ugh…” From the bathroom came Li Wei’s earth-shattering, soul-stirring vomiting sound.

In the end, he did it himself.

After a great deal of effort, they managed to pry the bullet out of Frank's flesh.

The result was that he became pale, his face turned as white as paper, and he vomited incessantly.

My mind was filled with the sticky sensation of blood and muscle tissue.

Meanwhile, in the living room, Frank, who had lost too much blood, gulped down the medicine that Levi had prepared beforehand, looking utterly bewildered.

It seems like he was the one who suffered repeated cuts and stabs to his wounds, had his muscles torn and turned over, and almost bled to death.
Even the time he was tortured after failing a mission back then wasn't as bad as what he's going through today.

Why does this kid look like he's half-dead?

We absolutely must not let that kid do it next time, or he might die young!
But this kid's medicine is actually quite effective...

As the treatment potion took effect, Frank could clearly feel his weakness, which had been caused by blood loss, gradually diminishing.

At the same time, the three gunshot wounds also started to itch – a sign that the wounds were healing.

This further increased Frank's already near-perfect trust in Levi.

"Sit down and let's chat?" After Levi finished vomiting in the bathroom, he saw that Frank had already opened two bottles of beer and was chugging them.

Although Li Wei couldn't buy alcohol, there was actually some at home, though it belonged to his cheap father.

"We can chat, but no alcohol. I'm not old enough to drink!" Li Wei shook his head as he looked at the beer. It wasn't that he had a strong sense of law, but rather that both the original Li Wei and the Li Wei before his transmigration were teetotalers.

So he took a can of cola out of the refrigerator.

He gulped down a mouthful of iced cola, instantly suppressing the discomfort he felt from "operating" on Frank.

Transparent.

"What do you want to know?" Li Wei burped and then asked.

Without a doubt, Frank's "let's chat" didn't mean asking about today's vegetable prices.

"How about you tell me about some major future events that will happen, except for me?" Frank asked.

Predicting the future, who wouldn't be curious?

Frank wasn't as hypocritical as some intelligence chiefs who would beat around the bush if they wanted to ask something; he always got straight to the point.

"Hmm... Superheroes flying all over the world and the world being destroyed?" As soon as Li Wei opened his mouth, Frank's hand, which wouldn't even tremble when he lit a cigarette with C4, almost dropped the bottle he was holding.

"Are you serious?" Frank looked at Levi with disbelief.

"Pretty much. Fifteen years from now, an alien named Thanos snapped his fingers, and half of all life in the universe was wiped out," Li Wei shrugged. He was known for his honesty.

Goodness, Frank, who originally thought Earth was in turmoil, has now lost half of his grief over the death of his family.

Half of all life in the universe is gone? Is future history really that wild?

"So... aliens really exist?" Frank felt his worldview crumbling.

Compared to what Levi said, what is Kandahar? What is the CIA? What is the Department of Homeland Security?
"Of course they exist. There are countless civilizations in the universe, and even on Earth there are quite a few," Li Wei said. "Extraterrestrials have been coming to Earth since the prehistoric era. Over the years, various extraterrestrials have come many times. If it weren't for Kamar-Taj and some other guardians that I mentioned before, given Earth's current level, it would be like their own home to extraterrestrials who have mastered interstellar travel. They could come and go as they pleased. Hmm, let me think, the most recent extraterrestrial visit to Earth, I think it was in 95?"

"...Didn't you say that what you saw was the future?" Frank couldn't help but interrupt Levi and ask.

"...I meant I saw things in the future, not that I didn't see things in the past..." Li Wei's eyes were full of clarity.

"...Okay...What happened in '95?" Frank asked. In '95, which was eight years ago, he was just a lowly soldier.

"I think it's Los Angeles. Two opposing alien groups crash-land on Earth, and with the help of S.H.I.E.L.D., one group defeats the other—and everyone's happy, that's it..." Levi shrugged, giving a very cursory summary of Captain Marvel's plot.

"...S.H.I.E.L.D.? What's that?" Frank suddenly felt as if he was only now truly getting to know the world he lived in.

"Huh? You don't know S.H.I.E.L.D." This surprised Levi. Aren't the Punisher and Nick Fury always working together?

"Why would I know about S.H.I.E.L.D." Frank didn't understand either.

"Do you know Nick Fury?" Levi asked again.

“Nick Fury, you mean that guy with the eye patch?” Frank recalled for a moment and asked, “Isn’t he from the CIA? He was my temporary commander during one operation.”

“I see. He did work for the CIA, but he joined S.H.I.E.L.D. in the 80s… But thinking about it, it’s not surprising. S.H.I.E.L.D.’s favorite thing to do is impersonate other intelligence agencies, after all, it’s a special and classified unit directly under the Security Council.” Hearing Frank’s words, Levi nodded. That’s true. Nick Fury and the Punisher in the movie universe are not from the same era, so it’s normal that they don’t interact much.

The two were friends and comrades-in-arms, back in the early days of the main comic book universe, when Nick Fury was still white.

However, Levi still gave Frank a brief introduction to the history of S.H.I.E.L.D.... well, starting with Captain America.

Frank said he had learned something new after listening to this.

Captain America is his idol, and he never expected there to be so many secrets behind this.

"Was there no way to prevent that catastrophe 15 years later?" Frank brought the topic back to the snapping of his fingers.

“Of course there is. After all, I don’t want to be one of the missing half, and besides, I’m already doing it, aren’t I?” Li Wei said.

Although he has no compassionate heart to save the world, he can't avoid snapping his fingers, so he definitely has to plan ahead.

"What are you doing? What are you doing?" Frank was completely confused.

Then he saw Li Wei staring intently at him.

"...You said you were doing it, but you didn't mention saving me, did you?" Frank said somewhat hoarsely.

"Otherwise what? You can't expect a college student like me to save the world, can you?" Li Wei said matter-of-factly.

"We can report it..." Frank said with a dark expression... He just wanted to get revenge, how did it turn into saving the world? This kid thinks too highly of him, doesn't he?

He suddenly felt a pang of resentment towards his own curiosity... He wasn't this curious when he was a secret agent!

"...This country can't even protect your wife and children, a war hero, how can you expect it to save the world?" Li Wei said with a look of disdain.

Frank was speechless for a moment...

(End of this chapter)