Alien invasion? Luckily, I'm Superman.

"Looks like it's been so long, it's about time they came out."

Su Mo looked at the black man hiding in the ruins in the distance, spying on them, and spoke slowly. His voice was extremely penetrating, ensuring the other person could hear him.

"Damn it, what kind of monster is this?"

Hiding in the distance, Angstrom Levy was sweating profusely. He had seen Su Mo punch through Conqueror's stomach and kick Anissa unconscious—even the evil Mark from other universes couldn't have done that. His hands trembled, and with a thought, a green portal silently opened beneath his feet.

"I told you to come out, why won't you listen?"

Levi heard Su Mo's voice coming from behind him. Right behind him, inches away. His pupils contracted sharply, his mind raced, and the portal beneath his feet moved rapidly upwards, as if trying to swallow him whole.

Su Mo reached into the portal. Just as Levi's body was about to enter, he grabbed him by the back of his collar and pulled him out of the green vortex like a fish being pulled from water.

Levi's body stiffened, his eyes widened, and cold sweat streamed down his forehead.

Looking at Levi's nervous expression, Su Mo said helplessly, "Why are you avoiding me? Am I that scary? I'm not going to kill you."

Levi took a deep breath. He faced reality. He spread his hands, his tone carrying a resigned acceptance of whatever was going on.

"Okay, you've got me. You're too powerful, isn't it normal to be scared? And you've got the Global Defense Agency looking for me all this time, of course I'm going to stay away from you."

Su Mo did not deny it. He gently tapped Levi's head, controlling the force with extreme precision. It only caused him a slight stinging pain.

"Alright, I know your plan. You want to gather the memories of yourselves from other worlds to benefit humanity. The idea is good. But perhaps your abilities are too strong, so you're unlucky." He paused, looking into Levi's eyes, "If I weren't here, your plan would fail, and you would become a madman with confused memories."

Levi frowned, pondered for a moment, and asked, "My plan is going to fail... is there a problem with the design?"

"No. It was just bad luck. Your plan was going well, but some superheroes mistook you for a criminal and tried to stop you."

"So? It was the superheroes who ruined my plans?" Levi's tone changed, now tinged with resentment and anger.

"No." Su Mo shrugged and told Levi the cruel truth, "The superhero who came to stop you was almost killed by your own bodyguard. Then you took off the memory-transferring helmet yourself. Then the helmet exploded, and that was it."

Levi's expression shifted from blankness to disbelief. His lips moved several times before he finally managed to utter, "So, it's my own fault?"

"I told you, it was just bad luck." Su Mo patted Levi's shoulder, his eyes filled with sympathy. "If you had succeeded—the plot wouldn't have been so good, no. If you had succeeded, then... never mind, anyway, your plan was too good, so it failed."

"What a pity. It's precisely because you're too strong that the author banned you."

Su Mo thought to himself.

Levi was silent for a few seconds, then looked up, his eyes gleaming with anticipation: "Then can you help me complete the plan?"

"No way." Su Mo refused decisively. "It's too dangerous." He added, "You have plenty of time, why are you in such a hurry?"

Levi opened his mouth, wanting to refute, but couldn't find a reason.

"Okay, you're right." His shoulders slumped. "So you're here to recruit me into the Global Defense Agency?"

"No. Join my organization." Su Mo decisively denied it. "Your superpowers can still be helpful to me. In return, I will help you achieve your dreams."

"Indeed, the old saying is true. Fortune and misfortune are intertwined. If I hadn't accidentally ended up in this world, how could I have found such an overpowered superhuman? I can go anywhere in the Marvel and DC universes without any cost, and I can easily have this person do my work, transporting materials and resources between different worlds."

Su Mo thought to herself with delight, and the corners of her mouth unconsciously turned up.

Looking at the smile on Su Mo's face, Levi suddenly felt a chill run down his spine, as if he had some ominous premonition. He looked around, then suspiciously at Su Mo. But he couldn't see anything, and his mind was in turmoil for a long time.

"Okay, I agree."

When Levi said those words, he had no idea what kind of pirate ship he had boarded.

Su Mo nodded in satisfaction and patted Levi's shoulder. The moment his palm touched Levi's body, a tiny amount of Pudding's splitting symbiote silently seeped out from Su Mo's palm and quietly burrowed into Levi's skin.

With this split entity, Su Mo can locate and control Levi at any time. Of course, this is only possible within the same universe. In other universes, Su Mo can only rely on the split entity's questionable intelligence.

"Work hard with me, and I won't treat you unfairly." Su Mo withdrew his hand, his smile full of sincerity. "Let's go, to the Global Defense Bureau. You should know where it is, right?"

"Of course." With a thought, Levi conjured a green portal in front of them. Su Mo followed Levi inside, and the green light closed in behind them and dissipated.

"Have I forgotten something?"

Su Mo frowned, but quickly relaxed.

Mark, in the distance: "..."

One week later.

During this time, Levi and Cecily collaborated intensely. Levi brought in technology from other parallel worlds, including more efficient energy sources, stronger alloy formulas, and more advanced nanobots. Cecily, on the other hand, mobilized resources to research and mass-produce these technologies. The two worked together seamlessly.

When Levi encountered worlds that interested Su Mo, he would casually record them. Su Mo asked him to save all the coordinates. One of them, a Marvel mutant world, particularly interested Su Mo.

Watching the two people busily engaged in their tasks, Su Mo had a lingering question in her mind. Why did Levi insist on going it alone in the anime she watched before her transmigration? She didn't see him having a large following or anything like that. And Mark and the others, why didn't they just listen to Cecilia and be done with it? Why did they have to oppose each other? Was it because of American individualism?

Su Mo couldn't figure it out, so she simply stopped thinking about it. She guessed the author probably didn't think that much about it when creating the plot; they just wrote whatever came to mind.

During this time, Su Mo had been trying to find a way back. Marvel magic didn't work in this world; he couldn't connect at all, and the dimensional portal hadn't been opened. If only Pudding hadn't used up all of Vishanti's white magic power when they drove Dormammu away. Then Strange and the others could have coordinated their location here. Now, he could only wait.

Su Mo deduced that the time flow in the Invincible Young Hero world was different from that in the Marvel universe; it was probably much faster here. He was already prepared to stay here for a long time.

Just as Su Mo was pondering, the communicator on his wrist vibrated. A message from Cissel had arrived:

"A large-scale outbreak of squid dogs capable of parasitizing humans has occurred in Houston. The Global Guardian has been deployed."

Su Mo recalled the plot. The squid dog was the kind of parasite Mark brought back from Mars, which could stick to a person's face and burrow into their body through their mouth and nose to control the host.

It seems that it was in this incident that Mark broke his principle of not killing. Although this principle is rather naive. But Mark is still a child; isn't it good that he's a little innocent? And after becoming emperor, Mark did indeed successfully achieve his ideals.

Following the location sent by Sisel, Su Mo flew to Houston.

From above, the entire city was enveloped in a pale blue energy shield. Cisel activated the city-wide barrier immediately, preventing the large-scale spread of the squid hounds.

The streets of Houston were a dark mass, not asphalt, but squid dogs. They flooded every street like a tide, their slimy black bodies crawling all over the exterior walls of every building. Huge, almost exposed brains throbbed slightly in the sunlight on their heads.

The robot Rudy urgently produced three sonic jammers and a batch of teleportation darts. The sonic jammers could stun squid dogs within three meters, causing them to detach from their hosts. The teleportation darts could directly teleport rescued civilians out of the barrier.

The Global Guard's strategy is: prioritize saving lives, then eliminate the monsters. Once all civilians are rescued, the Squid Dogs will be leaderless and naturally disintegrate.

But this plan has a fatal problem: there are too many squid dogs.

Ever since they came down from Mars, they've been multiplying like crazy in Houston's sewers, and their numbers are now astronomical. The escort team was surrounded the moment they landed. The squid dogs swarmed up like a tide, climbing onto their legs, waists, and shoulders, wrapping them up so tightly they couldn't move.

The dinosaur girl was buried under a pile of squid dogs, with only a green hand visible waving. Black Ginseng's knife was fast, but its cutting speed couldn't keep up with the surging speed. Robot Rudy's flamethrower burned a clearing, only to be filled with new squid dogs in the next second.

The barrier trembled slightly under the squid hound's attack. If it were to break, billions of people worldwide would be parasitized within minutes, but for now, there's no need to worry; the barrier is currently quite strong.

Su Mo hovered in the air, looking down at the city submerged by the black tide. Pudding inside her suddenly stirred, as if it had smelled prey, eager to pounce. It seemed that those squid dogs weren't a threat to Pudding, but food.

Indeed, squid dogs, being parasitic and controlling creatures, are a huge feast for symbiotes that crave brain-eating. Just look at their brains, which take up a third of their bodies. So many squid dogs should be enough for Pudding to have a good meal. Pudding hasn't eaten anything decent since birth, so she's not picky now, but who knows what will happen in the future.

Su Mo was preparing to contact Xisel and have him teleport her into the barrier.

A yellow light shone inside the barrier.

Mark was teleported in. Apparently, they felt the guards were about to collapse and needed his combat strength. The moment Mark landed, he saw the astronaut who had returned from Mars being parasitized by the squid dog. Mark rushed forward, grabbing the astronaut by the neck with one hand.