A certain American comic book's secondary profession master

Chapter 7 Predicting the Future?

"So, you knew about me through that Eye of Agamotto?" Frank Castle asked.

“Uh… of course not, that’s the Sorcerer Supreme’s treasure. I’m just a half-baked amateur from a wild school of magic… you know alchemists, right? I healed your injuries with an alchemical potion. I only came into contact with another treasure related to time by accident, and that’s how I learned some things about the future, including some things about you… but not much, the Punisher of the Future!” Li Wei said, and then explained about the alchemical potion.

My main abilities are those secondary professions, and in this dangerous world, it's only a matter of time before they're exposed.

So the most crucial thing isn't whether you're exposed or not, but whether you can protect yourself after you're exposed.

This is why he chose to save the Punisher—he is the one in the Marvel Universe who represents the highest level of individual human combat power.

If they can win over the other side, then at least during the pre-Avengers era before the Hulk and Iron Man appear, Levi's safety can be basically guaranteed.

“The Punisher? What’s that?” Castor asked, frowning.

"It's a title given to you by some organizations and individuals in the future... Because of the death of your family, you wear a skull T-shirt in the future, and then use your abilities to carry out a crazy massacre of gangs all over the United States and even the world." Li Wei said cautiously, because the murder of his wife and children was the other party's sore spot, and he didn't know if bringing up this matter would make the other party lose control.

However, if you want to gain the other party's trust, you can't avoid mentioning this.

Frank Carter was even calmer than Levi had expected.

The mention of his wife and children's deaths did not cause him to lose control; instead, he continued to analyze what Li Wei had said.

According to normal procedures, as an FBI agent, Custer believed that even in his current situation, he shouldn't become the Punisher that Levi mentioned.

His top priority, and what he plans to do now, is to return to the FBI and investigate the matter as a federal police officer, rather than, as Levi suggested, taking "lynching" against the gangsters as a punisher.

If that situation truly arises, then there's only one possibility... that the law will fail to bring justice to his family—or even...

And the skull T-shirt… he remembered the T-shirt his son had given him before the attack…

"Tell me everything else!" At this point, he no longer cared whether what Li Wei said was true or false; the deaths of his family members had become his nightmare.

More importantly, while Levi was speaking, Frank was constantly analyzing his expression—he had been more than just a soldier and an FBI agent; he had also worked for special agencies such as the CIA, so he was also very skilled at interrogation.

His conclusion from Li Wei's expression was that he was telling the truth.

"Okay, I haven't seen much about your future experiences, but I happen to know that the deaths of your family members weren't actually caused by the mob, but by Rollins, Billy, and a Homeland Security agent named Carson. They will continue to send people to impersonate the mob and hunt you down, but in reality, those people are either CIA agents or Homeland Security agents!" Because it had been a while, Li Wei's memory of some of the detailed plot of the Punisher series wasn't very deep, but he still remembered these villains.

"That's impossible!" Frank exclaimed, sounding agitated upon hearing Levi's words.

He had never heard of Carson, nor was he familiar with the Department of Homeland Security—after all, the department had only been established for less than a year.

But he was very familiar with Rollins and Billy.

Although there are many people named Rollins and Billy, Frank only really knows two of them—one is his former boss, and the other is his comrade-in-arms. Rollins is out of the question; he doesn't have a good impression of his former boss.

However, Liu Bian was his most trusted comrade-in-arms, like a family member.

He didn't believe Billy would betray him.

“It’s true, otherwise how would I know their names? I’m just a college student, just turned 18, how could I possibly come into contact with people like them? Kandahar, remember?” Facing the somewhat excited Frank, Levi was also a little nervous, and his hand was already tightly gripping something in his pocket.

While he did want to gain Frank's trust, he wasn't entirely naive enough to place all his bets on Frank's rationality.

"Kandahar? You even know about Kandahar?" Frank asked, squinting. Yes, Billy was one thing, but Frank's identity was top secret, and the Kandahar operation was even more top secret. How could this seemingly "innocent" little guy know so much under normal circumstances?

“Um, actually I don’t know what happened in Kandahar, but in the footage I’ve seen, many people have mentioned that it seems Rollins wanted to kill you because of an operation in Kandahar. Since that operation was unauthorized and illegal, he wanted to eliminate everyone who knew about it. Billy and that Carson were his collaborators.” Levi explained—the plot actually contained a detailed description of that operation, but since it was a show from several years before he transmigrated, and he didn’t have any extraordinary memories, he had long forgotten it.

Not to mention the plot, he could only remember the names of the main characters, not their faces.

After all, compared to other Marvel spin-off series, The Punisher wasn't very popular, otherwise it wouldn't have been canceled after only three seasons.

The only two characters that Li Wei could still remember from the entire series were the main character, the Punisher, and Karen Page. He could remember the latter because she was not only a regular character in the Punisher series, but also the female lead in the Daredevil series and an important character in the Defenders. In Marvel spin-off series, she had more screen time than the Punisher.

After listening to Levi's words, Frank quickly recalled everything that had happened in Kandahar back then.

If that operation was indeed illegal, then that explains why Rollins wanted to eliminate him, the person who knew about it.

Because this news was leaked, the fate of Rollins, the mastermind behind it, is predictable.

“…I’ll investigate, and you’d better not be lying!” Frank warned Levi.

Although Li Wei did save him, he wouldn't fully believe it until it was verified.

After all, killing first and then saving people is something that agencies like the CIA are good at.

Suspicion of everything was an instinct he developed as a former secret agent.

Not to mention that he had just suffered the calamity of his entire family being wiped out.

But if everything Li Wei said is true—predicting the future? That would truly be a magical thing.

Despite the strangeness of it all, Frank didn't have any ulterior motives. In fact, if the investigation revealed that everything Levi said was true, then he would truly owe Levi an enormous favor—the kind that he would have to repay with his life.

“Of course, but could you please move aside? My lamb chops are going to burn!” Li Wei said, pointing to the oven behind the other person.

(End of this chapter)