American comics: Something is wrong with this superhero world

Chapter 45: Choosing the Villain

"I'll take up some of your training time for a while. We've already coordinated with the relevant departments and will be warming up for your debut soon. You choose a villain to be your opponent."

In the morning, Ike found Xiao Xian with a bag of documents, opened the bag, and took out a stack of information.

"Warm-up?" Xiao Xian took the information with some confusion. The first document on it was a piece of information about a super criminal, Rhino. Xiao Xian knew this super villain, but he did not recognize the content in the information.

"Russian, ten years of experience in Russian theater, played super villains many times, and had a one million dollar appearance fee? Is he an actor or a person with super powers? Why didn't they mention super powers?"

"This is an actor. The bulletproof rhino suit is a special one. He is just an ordinary person with good physical strength and the ability to endure hardships." Ike said as if it was a matter of course.
"I think the scene where the bullets have no effect on him is quite impactful, and the Russian identity is also very suitable for playing a villain. The most important thing is that the budget for him is exactly the upper limit of the budget approved by your boss. I recommend him the most."

"." After all, he is a superpower with real superpowers. How come he is like those traffic stars with no acting skills who rely on fake things to attract attention? Xiao Xian's mouth twitched and said, "Can I see something else?"

"Of course, you can watch me as long as you want, but you have to go to acting class later, right? No problem?" Of course Ike had no problem. Recently, he had been focusing on Xiao Xian's debut.

"It's okay, Chevrolet is easy to talk to." He calmly turned over the next piece of information and looked at it slowly. Xiao Xian's mouth twitched again when he saw the name on the second document. It clearly said "Vulture".

"This vulture is not bad either. Even though he's a newcomer with a stupid nickname and no acting experience, he was just an ordinary electrical engineer. But I think the bird wings he made himself, although a little silly, will be very photogenic. He's a potential super villain. And because he's a newcomer, his price is very cheap, so we can spend more of our budget on publicity and filming."

Ike saw Xiao Xian looking at Vulture's information carefully and explained to Xiao Xian.

"How much does it cost to hire a new actor like him? The salary of an electrical engineer is not low, right? Why did he think of playing a super villain?" Xiao Xian asked curiously.

"Now, his price is $100,000 per scene." Ike said, "His high price is mainly because of his wing equipment. Ordinary newcomers don't actually spend much money."

"Well, that's definitely higher than being a regular electrical engineer."

Xiao Xian shrugged. The fact that Vulture could make a set of vulture wings showed that his level should be quite high. However, if he devoted himself to studying such a strange thing, how much energy he would put into his work was also a question. In the eyes of his boss, he might not be as good as an ordinary engineer.

The key point is that there is absolutely no future for Vulture to research this. This is not an ordinary world, this is a superhero world, a world where DC is mixed with Marvel, and it's a version where everyone is a villain.

Stark's Mark Armor is far better than this thing. Iron Man here doesn't have the awareness that only if he holds the Mark Armor will he not be taken away by evil to do evil. On the contrary, Xiao Xian thinks that the main purpose of Iron Man's activeness is to promote his Mark Armor through live streaming.

At first, the public was very dissatisfied with the Ministry of National Defense spending a lot of money to purchase the Mark Armor, thinking that it was collusion between officials and businessmen, but when Iron Man wore the Mark Armor and easily eliminated a bunch of terrorists and blew up planes and tanks, the questioning voices disappeared, and most people felt that it was worth the money. Some people even thought that the Ministry of National Defense should buy fewer useless planes and tanks and use the budget to buy the Mark Armor, but Xiao Xian felt that this was just the water army hired by the Stark Group.

Scrolling down, Xiao Xian only saw a few familiar super villain faces. The others were mostly fifth-, sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-tier villains who were not very well-known. In any case, Xiao Xian didn't know them.

"Huh? This guy isn't an actor?" Xiao Xian flipped through the information one by one, and suddenly a piece of information caught his attention. Xiao Xian also knew this person. "Maroni? Isn't he a gang leader in Gotham? How did he end up in New York?"

"Oh, this, this is entrusted to us by the IRS. This is indeed not an actor but a target. Maroni was once glorious in Gotham, but later he was squeezed out by Bruce Wayne and could no longer make a living. Those who play with violence are always inferior to those who play with capital, not to mention when capital also plays with violence. Later Maroni left Gotham and went to New York to make a living."

Ike looked at the information Xiao Xian had picked out and explained

"But Maroni obviously didn't understand the rules of New York. Although he had many friends and enough guns and successfully occupied a piece of territory, he didn't pay taxes on the income from robbery, theft, and selling things, which attracted the attention of the IRS."

"Because he has great firepower, ruthless actions, and many friends, the IRS does not want to confront him head-on, so they outsourced the task to a superhero company."

Ike glanced at Xiao Xiandao
"I don't recommend you to take this mission. First, he has more people to rob. Even if you have the ability to regenerate, if you are shot with a tranquilizer gun or something and locked up by him, we may not be able to redeem you. Second, he has many friends. He transfers a lot of benefits to his friends every month, and he will also help his friends deal with things that are inconvenient for his friends to do. Catching him will offend a lot of people. There are some things that Bruce Wayne can do, but it doesn't mean you can do it too. Do you understand what I mean?"

"Ordinary anesthetics have no effect on me. But how high is the highest level of his friend?"

Xiao Xian was somewhat tempted. He picked up Maroni's information and took a look. Acting was indeed safe and risk-free, but the director, photographer, actor, and person in charge of Oscorp, if anyone let the cat out of the bag, then the character would collapse. It would be better to play it real if possible.

At worst, Xiao Xian could install a time bomb in his heart in advance. Even if he was caught by the enemy accidentally, it would not matter. He could just self-destruct and regenerate.

"I guess only Maroni knows this. According to the company's intelligence, it's very high. Anyway, I'm not qualified to check. Maroni was once a powerful figure in Gotham, and Gotham is the darkest city in America. Who are the dignitaries who became friends with Maroni for their own evil desires, and who were caught? No one knows."

Ike was afraid that Xiao Xian would choose Maroney in a fit of anger. On the surface, this mission was assigned by the IRS, but secretly, those dignitaries might be using this as an excuse to kill someone with a borrowed knife, just like they did with Epstein. But this knife had to be hard enough.

Iron Man, Batman, Green Arrow, the masters of capitalist countries can of course capture Maroni at will and nothing will happen. It is no problem for Superman who is beyond his standard. But if it is Xiao Xian, a newcomer who has just debuted, with no capital and background, those people may bring disaster to Xiao Xian even if it is just to show their other dogs and to make the workers not feel discouraged.

"Forget it then." Upon hearing this, Xiao Xian had no intention of challenging Maroni's connections for the time being. If he was strong enough, he could of course ignore these, but now he was not developed enough, and Xiao Xian had no intention of sacrificing his life for the people of America.

(End of this chapter)