The only player in the Marvel universe.

It was a dark and windy night, inside a secluded manor.

The master bedroom door slowly opened, and a figure swaggered in.

This person was wearing a thick floral cotton-padded jacket, but on the bottom he wore a pair of bright pink shorts and a pair of yellowish-brown Crocs.

This outfit isn't exactly ugly, but it's uniquely ugly.

What's most eye-catching is the huge yellow dog head mask he's wearing, with a cheeky expression that exudes a strange sense of mockery.

The kobold walked straight to the desk, turned on the computer, took out a USB drive from his pocket, plugged it in, and a progress bar immediately appeared on the screen.

While waiting, he felt his phone vibrate in his pocket.

"crooked?"

"Du Mu, this is Nick Fury. What's your current status?"

"Infiltrated the target location and are retrieving mission items."

"Did no one find out?"

Just as Du Mu was about to answer, the bathroom door in the master bedroom suddenly clicked open, and a bearded man wrapped in a bathrobe stared at him in horror.

"Damn it! Who are you? How did you get in?!"

"Where are the bodyguards?! Bodyguards! Bodyguards...!"

boom!

A gunshot rang out crisply and cleanly.

The kobold calmly holstered his pistol and said into his phone, "Don't worry, no one will notice."

"..."

Nick Fury was silent for a few seconds on the other end of the phone, then his voice deepened: "After the mission is over, go back to headquarters."

"OK!"

Du Mu hung up the phone, and just as the loading bar on the computer screen finished, he deftly unplugged the USB drive.

The next moment, a cold, mechanical voice rang in his mind.

[Daily mission "Steal Important Intelligence" completed!]

[Rewards: 500 experience points, 10 S.H.I.E.L.D. reputation, 1 C4 bomb]

"Tsk, another piece of trashy reward."

Du Mu curled his lips, his gaze sweeping over the corpses on the ground, and couldn't help but sigh, "But this game is really well made. Look at the death reactions of these NPCs, they're just like the real thing. I don't believe the game planners haven't killed anyone."

In fact, he was immersed in a holographic virtual game called "Marvel World".

By 2065, holographic virtual game technology will be widespread, allowing players to experience a virtual world that is almost 100% realistic.

As a hardcore gamer with millions of fans, Du Mu has completed countless games and is quite well-known in the international gaming community.

Two months ago, a game company under Marvel approached him, inviting him to test their new game, which was touted as having "unprecedentedly high freedom," and promised him a multi-million dollar reward if he could complete the game on his first try.

Du Mu knew nothing about Marvel, and was completely ignorant of its plot.

After all, by his time, the Marvel story had gone through countless generations of updates, and the original characters had long since disappeared.

The most popular superhero right now is the seventh Iron Man, a Black single mother with gender dysphoria, severe alcoholism, obesity, multiple transgender history, three divorces, and five children.

He forms a family with the eighth-generation Captain America, who is gay, a vegetarian animal rights activist, a pioneer of the feminist movement, a Catholic, and has one-eighth Native American ancestry, and shouts "family" every day.

This combination of superheroes with all the political correctness buffs is something that people across the ocean find fascinating, but Du Mu simply couldn't muster any interest in.

Even so, Du Mu signed the agreement without saying a word and lay down in the top-of-the-line virtual gaming pod provided by the other party.

no way.

They gave us so much!

At the start of the game, the system offers several identity options: Hydra spy, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, Stark Industries employee, Hell's Kitchen resident, and Midtown High School student.

Du Mu casually clicked on an option and started the game.

After two months of playing, Du Mu had to admit that the game's degree of freedom was indeed ridiculously high.

There is no tutorial or guidance; players must figure out all the operations and storylines on their own.

The most outrageous thing is that so many days have passed and he hasn't even seen a trace of the main quest!

If the game system hadn't repeatedly assured him that there was a main storyline, Du Mu would have suspected he was playing a spy simulation game.

"Speaking of which, this game doesn't seem to have an exit button," Du Mu said, puzzled.

The system's voice sounded at the opportune moment:

We sincerely apologize, there was a minor issue at the start of the game that caused a system bug. We are currently working hard to fix it.

"Will I be alright?"

Du Mu's heart skipped a beat.

[Players can rest assured that the game's virtual pod monitors players' vital signs 24 hours a day, and will immediately force them to wake up if any abnormalities are detected.]

[Additional Note: The game's time flow ratio is 362:1 compared to real time. The top-tier virtual pod and highly efficient nutrient solution you use can ensure that your body's basal metabolic rate remains stable for more than ten years. There are no concerns about time or safety.]

[If a player insists on leaving the game, they can do so at any time, but will permanently forfeit their eligibility for the one-time completion bonus.]

[Does the player want to log out of the game?]

"Don't quit!"

Du Mu resolutely refused.

Are you kidding me? He absolutely will not quit the game until he beats it and wins the millions in prize money!

Just then, a series of rapid footsteps came from outside the door, clearly indicating that the gunshots had alerted the manor's bodyguards.

Du Mu dispelled his doubts, quickly brought up the game map, and locked onto the coordinates of "S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters".

Click to go!

When the bodyguards arrived, there was only a cold corpse and a C4 bomb ticking in the master bedroom.

"Shower the monkey!"

Bang! ! !

......

The Tri-wing Building, Director's Office.

At this moment, Nick Fury was sitting behind his large desk, reviewing a thick stack of documents.

"A report on the allocation of S.H.I.E.L.D. funds?"

A voice suddenly rang out.

Nick Fury looked up sharply and saw a huge yellow dog's head approaching the document.

Du Mu: (乛ᴥ乛)

"OMG Fuck!"

Nick Fury shuddered and instinctively shouted.

But he quickly recognized the other person's identity and said with a dark face, "Du Mu! How many times have I told you! Dress normally at headquarters, at least look like a human being!"

Du Mu was immediately displeased upon hearing this: "This combination is clearly very cool, and the strength is not low either."

Nick Fury's lips twitched.

Did you leave your aesthetic sense in the embryo when you were born?

He was about to explode when Du Mu suddenly pointed to a spot in the document.

"Chief, something's not right with this report. There are several large, unexplained expenditures. Could it be... someone in the bureau is embezzling public funds?"

"Cough cough cough!"

Nick Fury suddenly coughed violently a few times, slammed the file shut and stuffed it into the drawer, saying in a serious tone, "This is top secret. I'm handling it personally. It's not something a Level 5 agent like you should be concerned with."

"oh."

Nick Fury, with a stern face, forcefully changed the subject: "Now I have an important task for you."

As he spoke, he took a file from another drawer and pushed it in front of Du Mu.

The first page of the profile features a photo of a flamboyant man with a small mustache, with his name and identity listed below.

Tony Stark, Chairman of Stark Industries.

Three months ago, Tony Stark was attacked by unidentified armed men in the Middle East, and his fate remains unknown.

"I need you to go to Afghanistan immediately, find out Tony Stark's whereabouts, and if he's still alive, bring him back safely."

As Nick Fury finished speaking, the system's voice sounded simultaneously.

NPC Nick Fury has given you a new mission.

[Mission: The Birth of Iron Man]

Objective: To travel to the Middle East, locate Tony Stark, and bring him back safely.

[The player has triggered the main storyline quest! Upon completion, the player will receive generous rewards!]

Main quest!?

Du Mu's eyes widened in excitement.

coming!

The main quest he'd been waiting for has finally arrived!

"Iron Man? That sounds like a superhero's title. Could he be an important character?" Du Mu guessed.

Although he knew very little about Marvel, he did know that it was a superhero comic book company, and its core focus was naturally on superheroes.

However, Du Mu has never heard of any superheroes, let alone seen any, in all his games so far.

Nick Fury, on the other hand, has a bit of a superhero vibe.

What is his hero title?

One-Eyed Man?

Or is it Mama's Fuck?

"Du Mu! Are you even listening?!"

Nick Fury stared at the dazed Du Mu and felt his blood pressure rising.

Du Mu snapped out of his daze: "Sir, what did you just say?"

I said...

"Never mind, it's not important, let's skip the plot!"

Nick Fury: 눈灬●