American comics: Praising the sun, starting from Gotham!

As the golden halo stabilized completely, the salty sea breeze instantly filled Mr. Wayne's cabin.

Immediately following this, you can hear an elegant and refined string quartet.

It looks like the aperture has stabilized inside the mansion.

Even someone as discerning as Afu, who is a connoisseur of classical music, could recognize it as Mendelssohn's "Wedding March".

"Wait a moment?"

As Zatana took her final step, her sensitive magical radar detected something amiss.

"My target keywords should be wealth, beach, and party..."

But this was clearly not an ordinary party.

Perhaps it was due to the excess energy emanating from Shuen, or perhaps it was Zatana's subconscious desire to get married, or perhaps both. The door opened in the very center of a corridor strewn with white rose petals.

You can see hundreds of pairs of eyes focusing on you almost simultaneously, and the pastor's vow, "whether rich or poor," which was just stuck in his throat.

This is the most luxurious open-air resort on Oahu, and right now, it's the wedding of the century between Reed Richards, Mister Fantastic from the Fantastic Four, and Susan Storm, the Invisible Woman.

At the very end of the red carpet in the center, the newlyweds, who were about to exchange rings, were staring at the large golden hole that had suddenly appeared two meters above the priest's head with the same look they had on a lab accident.

Wow.

Xiu En didn't see that the best man, whose entire body seemed to be made of blue rock, had clenched his fists, nor did he care that the young man whose whole body was on fire was trying to take off.

His entire attention was drawn to a whole roasted pig bubbling in a Hawaiian pit oven on one side of the wedding venue.

He sniffed and a wide, radiant smile spread across his face.

"I think I know what the local specialties are now."

He even leaned half his body out of the portal.

"And their buffet looks top-notch. Zatanna, is this the private vacation you were talking about?"

Shuen glanced back at Bruce and Zatana, who were practically petrified.

"I think this is more like a large tasting event, but it's okay, leave it to me, they seem pretty easy to deal with."

If Hugh's focus was on the pigs, then Bruce's focus was entirely on the guests sitting in the front row.

A bald old man in a wheelchair is smiling and raising his glass in this direction.

A man with a full beard, who was even wearing a motorcycle jacket at the wedding, was silently retracting his outstretched adamantium claws.

Not to mention the nice guy in the back wearing a Stars and Stripes uniform.

This is a world where heroes gather.

At this sensitive juncture, this interdimensional portal, which includes several of Gotham's top figures, is brazenly displaying its illegal intrusion.

"Ah Fu".

"Bring out the champagne. All of it, regardless of the vintage."

He took a deep breath, then put on the signature fake smile that Wayne Group chairman could maintain even when caught red-handed at a shareholders' meeting, straightened his tie, and peeked halfway out from the halo.

"Sorry to bother you, this is also part of the surprise segment. I think we're late as special guests?"

"Extraordinary spatial folding technology."

Reed Richards was amazed; even at his wedding, he couldn't suppress the instinctive tremor that comes with facing a new challenge.

His arm stretched out like rubber in an instant, bypassing the dumbfounded priest, and grabbed a tablet computer used for recording data from the table behind him.

"This is an energy spectrum I don't recognize, like some kind of high-density stellar reaction? This is incredible, Susan, can you feel it? This dimensional tension is even more perfect than what we see in the negative zone!"

"Reed."

Wearing a white wedding dress, Susan smiled and twisted the rubber arm that was already wrapped around her waist three times. A dangerous force field began to emanate from her head.

"Today is our wedding. No matter what that thing is, even if it's a demon from the multiverse trying to steal our bride! You're not allowed to make me lose my temper in front of the cameras, understand?"

Zatana is feeling suicidal right now.

But for a top-notch stage magician, controlling the stage is a fundamental skill, even if it's in another world.

She snapped her fingers gracefully, her fingertips drawing an inverted infinity symbol in the air.

A golden halo disintegrated into countless rose petals and harmless cold fireworks, which fluttered down onto the red carpet.

"Since it's a wedding!"

She blew a kiss to the guests below.

"Then of course, there will be blessing fireworks from a distant dimension. Please continue, and don't mind our intruding magic troupe."

"It may sound strange, but since we're already here, I won't stand on ceremony."

Xiu En casually grabbed a handful of magic petals from the air and sprinkled them on his empty stomach like salt before pointing to his teammates.

"I'm Xiu En, and my profession is the sun, which isn't exactly professional, or you can call me the top-notch cleaner."

He flicked his thumb backward, pointing at the man in the suit who exuded the gloomy aura unique to Gotham.

"This is Bruce. You can think of him as some rich, depressed guy who likes to dress up as Batman and beat people up at night."

"Xiu En".

Bruce's professional fake smile froze for half a second, and then he had to adjust his tie when Reed cast a curious glance at him.

"I'm Bruce Wayne. You can think of me as a technology consultant."

"That stunningly beautiful woman over there, dressed like she's on a fashion show, is Zatana. She's a magician; she's the one who made that hole."

Shuen continued his account of death, completely ignoring Zatana's glare that seemed to want to make his mouth disappear.

Then he pointed to the butler's location where he had just left.

"The butler who just left was Afu, the most perfect butler."

Finally, he pointed to the glittering sunflower on his left shoulder, which looked rather disdainful.

"As for this, this is our little flower, Ivy. You can think of her as a portable potted plant that left her body because she didn't want to walk."

"If it weren't for being in another world!"

The sunflower's head rotated 180 degrees.

"Your neck is now covered in poisonous vines, Shuen!"

"Well, that's a pretty vivid and engaging team introduction."

Reed Richards pushed up his glasses. Although this combination of magic, technology, plants, and mystery was extremely rare even in Marvel, he quickly composed himself.

"I am Reed Richards. Although the media likes to call me Mr. Fantastic, I am essentially just a researcher interested in unraveling the mysteries of the universe."

He stretched out his hand, his rubbery arm bending at an incredible angle in a friendly manner, pointing to the people around him one by one.

"This is Susan, my new wife, and the most rational of us."

Susan smiled and extinguished an invisible force field sphere.

"That torch head over there that looks like it's smoking is Johnny, my brother-in-law who's always causing trouble."

"And the biggest and fiercest-looking one, but actually asking with his eyes if he can have the cake, is Ben, the Thing."

The self-introduction was brief and effective, but the awkwardness of the unexpected guest still lingered in the air.

Until Afu came out pushing a small cart decorated with ribbons.

It was covered with champagne and a wooden crate.

"I apologize again for our intrusion, Mr. Reed."

Bruce opened the wooden crate lid directly.

Shining with golden light!

The golden luster, almost dazzling in the sunlight, instantly overshadowed the scorching California sun.

A whole box of high-purity gold coins engraved with owl totems.

Xiu En had already eaten all the amber gold coins inside, and now only some ordinary gold coins remained.

"Some building materials and supplies from my hometown."

Bruce said.

"Hopefully this small gift can make up for our mistake of bothering you."

"Oh my God."

The stone man Ben Graeme let out a huge exclamation as his rocky fingers gently picked up a gold coin and then crushed it into gold foil at his fingertips.

"This purity! Reed, your experimental funding is secured! You don't need to sell that patent for those amazing elastic underwear anymore!"

"Book!"

Reed coughed awkwardly, though his eyes were also fixed on the gleaming gold.

"This is too valuable; it could even buy my entire laboratory."

"Take it."

Susan smiled and picked up the conversation. A woman's intuition told her that although this group of people was strange, the tycoon's kindness was genuine.

"After all, on this auspicious day, who would refuse a golden blessing that has traveled from afar?"

She turned to the side, and the invisible force field that had blocked the red carpet transformed into a welcoming staircase.

She glanced at Xiu En, who was practically drooling.

"And that roast pig over there, I think we probably wouldn't have been able to finish it without a certain gentleman's help."

"real?"

Xiu En's eyes instantly lit up like a thousand watts.

"You should have said so earlier! I'm not picky about food, just leave me a little bit of meat!"

Five minutes later, the DC team miraculously found themselves seated at the head table of the Marvel First Family's wedding banquet.

Bruce was discussing with Reed the stability of gold in a transdimensional force field in an extremely restrained manner, mainly to divert Reed's curiosity about Shuen's physical structure.

Zatanna was using a little magic trick to turn the champagne in Johnny's hand into chilled juice, leaving the playboy completely bewildered.

Meanwhile, Ivy's sunflower clone had somehow extended a luminous tendril and was discussing with Susan whether the lily in the bouquet was a bit lacking in nitrogen.

And Xiu En...

Xiu En was intently tearing apart the entire rib of the roasted suckling pig, swallowing mouthfuls of bliss, completely oblivious to his surroundings.

At this strange intersection of parallel universes, heroes from two universes temporarily set aside their bitter and vengeful missions and clinked glasses at a wedding filled with the aroma of gold and roasted meat.

"belch--"

A burp escaped from Shuen's mouth, accompanied by a wisp of stellar heat that hadn't been fully converted, blowing Johnny Storm's meticulously styled hair askew.

Shuen patted his belly contentedly; the whole roasted pig had now transformed into some kind of high-density energy that was driving Reed crazy, churning inside his stomach.

"Seven out of ten!"

Xiu En picked up a napkin and wiped his greasy mouth.

"Although it's missing some of the heavy metal seasoning from Asford, I'll give it a five-star rating considering it's free."

"What did you say? Seven points?"

The orange rock giant sitting opposite him put down a half-eaten pig thigh bone that he was using as a toothpick, and a look of shock and provocation appeared on his cracked rock face.

Ben, nicknamed The Rock, has always been the undisputed champion of both appetite and strength in his family and even in all of New York.

But today, in front of this luminous being from another world, he felt challenged both in terms of his appetite and his dignity as a tough guy.

At least that's how it appears on the surface, but whether it's to test the strength of this strange, luminous being is unclear.

"Dude!"

Ben slammed the rocky hand onto the dining table with a loud thud, sending the fruit plate flying three feet into the air.

"What kind of skill is it to just eat? I don't think you're the type who's all talk and no action. Come on, since it's dessert, let's play some after-dinner games."

He raised his arm in a defiant gesture.

"This is the special edition of 'Flat-Up Time,' dare you take the challenge, you shining brat?"

Xiu En raised an eyebrow and grinned as he placed his hand on top of his.

"Of course, this will not only aid digestion, but also allow us to test whether the quality of this table is truly as Mr. Reed claims, using some kind of super polymer that only you have here."

"I don't recommend doing this..."

Reed's warning was only half-finished.

The powers of the two monsters collided head-on in that split second.

In that instant, the air solidified due to the immense power at its peak.

Immediately afterwards, a sound that sounded like an entire aircraft carrier being snapped in half came from inside the high-strength synthetic stone table in the hands of the two men.

Ben's eyes widened as the relaxed rock face squeezed out bits of gravel due to excessive force.

He felt as if he was holding a hand that didn't feel like a human hand at all.

That hardness, that heat, not only did not deform under his grip, but instead transmitted a high temperature called despair.

"That's it?"

Xiu En maintained that infuriating smile, although only Ivy noticed the golden veins pulsating wildly beneath the skin of Xiu En's forearm.

"Get down here!!"

Accompanied by a roar from the stone man and a violent rumble like the earth shaking.

The most solid shelter that supported the entire wedding banquet, the main table, was completely shattered into the most expensive sand in the Marvel Universe amidst a mournful cry.

Xiu En remained suspended in mid-air.

That's right, because the chair broke, he cheated by using flight.

Ben plopped down in a pile of marble rubble, his huge orange face filled with disbelief.

"Ha ha ha ha!"

The stone man looked very happy and burst into a hearty laugh amidst the ruins, slapping Shuen hard on the shoulder with a resounding thud.

"You're tough! Both your skin and your strength! You're the first guy who can shatter my pride with just his bones, without using superpowers!"

He stretched out his large hand.

"Ben Graeme, next time you come to New York, the best hospitality is on me."

"Xiu En".

Xiu En touched the large hand.

"Next time you go to Gotham, I'll treat you to the best extra-hard baguette."