A certain American comic book's secondary profession master

Chapter 21: I just wanted you to steal something, and you brought me back a submarine?

During Frank's absence from the United States, Levi, as usual, kept a low profile, becoming completely absorbed in leveling up his side job.

He had no idea that Frank had secretly orchestrated a major incident behind his back.

If his university academic advisor hadn't called him, he would have forgotten that this body belonged to a student at NYU's Stern School of Business.

However, after receiving a call from his academic advisor...

It wasn't given much thought.

Li Wei then made the decision to drop out of school.

In a peaceful world, Livy might not have done this.

After all, no matter what country you are in, going to university is of great significance in terms of building connections and improving your self-positioning.

Especially a top-tier institution like NYU Stern—located right next to Wall Street—is enough to demonstrate its status in the business world.

If Li Wei were simply a reincarnated or transmigrated person who wanted to become the world's richest man, Stern Academy would definitely be an ideal starting point.

The problem is, the world Li Wei is currently in is the Marvel Universe.

The people he will be dealing with in the future are destined to be unconventional beings such as superheroes, national intelligence organizations, aliens, and supervillains.

If you attend a university with a science or engineering background, then it can be said that it provides some indirect help in terms of a side career.

But what help can a business school offer Li Wei?
Should I talk to Thanos about Nasdaq? Or should I discuss Earth's economy with Odin?

Even Iron Man, the world's richest man, doesn't care about this kind of thing!

For Tony Stark, Levi estimates that a top-notch business plan is less appealing than a six-compartment tailor bag.

Look, this six-compartment bag allows him to carry six sets of combat gear at once.

What can business planning do?
Would it add a tiny bit more to his already substantial assets?

Therefore, no matter how much his academic advisor tried to persuade him, Li Wei ultimately made the decision to drop out of school, citing "more important things to do."

Well, although the ultimate goal is to avoid snapping his fingers, if he succeeds, it would mean that he has truly saved the world.

Isn't this more important than something as trivial as going to college?
As for the idea that even if Levi does nothing, the Avengers can bring everyone back five years after Thanos snaps his fingers.

Li Wei believed that no mature time traveler would entrust their life to those superheroes who were always causing trouble.

Not to mention, there's also the butterfly effect.

Then, late the night after Li Wei made the decision to drop out of school, he received a call from Frank.

"What is that? A submarine?" Upon hearing Frank's words on the other end, Levi suddenly felt as if he had acted too wildly and was hallucinating.

“Yes, a submarine, a Kilo-class!” Frank replied.

“Okay, I know you got your hands on a submarine, but won’t we be able to eavesdrop on things like this over the phone?” Li Wei asked, rubbing his forehead.

“Don’t worry, I modified your phone before I left. It’s not that easy to eavesdrop on,” Frank said.

"...How come I didn't know you had this trick up your sleeve?" Levi asked in surprise. "...That's not the key point. The key point is how to deal with that submarine and those Hydra crew members now!" Frank emphasized.

"Where are you right now?" Li Wei took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down before asking.

“Saint-Pierre, the submarine is anchored in a deserted fjord on the island. It’s unlikely to attract the attention of the US Navy here, and there are few people around. You need to figure something out quickly, otherwise, I’m afraid the Hydra crew will become suspicious if this goes on for too long,” Frank replied.

"...What is Saint Pierre?" After thinking for a while, Levi couldn't recall such a place in America.

"It's not the United States, it's a French exclave in Canada, a small island about 25 kilometers south of Newfoundland, quite a distance from the U.S. mainland," Frank explained.

"...How many people are on the submarine?" Li Wei asked after thinking for a moment.

"Besides myself and the six Winter Soldiers, there were fifty-eight crew members. Actually, there were originally sixty, but one of the Winter Soldiers went mad and killed two—just like you said, apart from Bucky Barnes, the other five Winter Soldiers were not very stable. If it weren't for the password and Bucky's help, there would probably have been more than two dead," Frank replied.

"Fifty-eight... If it were just you and six Winter Soldiers, could you still operate that submarine?" Li Wei wasn't surprised by the brutality of the five half-finished products, but they were just tools anyway, so being a little brutal wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

"...What do you mean?" Frank immediately understood what Levi meant, but unexpectedly, the kid who could vomit for half a day even when removing a bullet would make such a cold-blooded decision.

But Frank thought this was a good thing, proving that Levi wasn't as weak as he had previously thought.

However, being too weak is not a good thing for a leader.

Indeed, Frank Castle now regards Levi as his leader.

Just as he had initially thought, Li Wei saved him and told him about his enemy, allowing him to take revenge.

Frank, who had no reason to live, simply sold the rest of his life to Levi as a way of repaying him.

“That’s right, just like you think. Get rid of everyone else. Hydra people are a bunch of lunatics. Keeping these unstable elements around will only expose us too soon!” Li Wei said.

He didn't know what Frank was thinking, otherwise he would have said that he wouldn't care about 58 people, or even 580 people.

Because he can't see it.

As long as he can't see it, it's just a string of numbers, not the bloody reality.

As a corporate slave who has been exploited for over a decade in another world, Li Wei is quite adept at self-deception.

Moreover, those Hydra crew members were not ordinary citizens, but soldiers and henchmen of an antisocial organization, a group of truly stateless and ethnically indifferent terrorists!
Li Wei felt no psychological pressure at all when he sentenced these people to death with a single word.

“I understand, I’ll do it, but what about the submarine?” Frank asked.

Kilo-class conventional submarines still have a good market internationally due to their excellent performance.

A stripped-down export version of the Kilo-class submarine costs between $2 million and $3 million.

Not to mention that he brought this ship from a Hydra base, and it was a complete version that Hydra had produced during the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

“I have an idea, but I don’t know if it will work, so I have to go and check it out first! How can I get to that Saint-Pierre?” Levi asked.

"Getting here is easy; there are direct flights from several major cities in eastern Canada to Saint-Pierre!" Frank replied.

“…Take care of those Hydras, and wait for me!” Li Wei said.
(End of this chapter)