A Marine Admiral in the Marvel Universe

Cao Gui rolled his eyes. You might as well thank Sai Sai Tiwai, Tieling Tiwai would be better.

"Sister, take a picture of me quickly... Wait, I need to take off my mask first, take the picture after I take it off, hahaha..."

"Me too, me too, I want to film too."

……

Half an hour later, the four returned to the ship with some of the gold. Looking at the gleaming, heavy gold nuggets, Helen couldn't help but exclaim in surprise:

"My God, so much gold?"

Hearing their mother's exclamation, the two little boys felt relieved: "This is nothing, there's a whole ship full of them on the sunken ship."

duang! uang!

Helen gave them two slaps on the head without any hesitation.

"Ouch, why did you hit me?"

"That's right, and like Cao, he likes to start fights?" the boys said, looking aggrieved.

Helen said irritably, "What are you so smug about? Cao located the shipwreck. All you found was a cannon, a few guns, and a dagger."

Cao Gui nodded silently. See, our mother-in-law is the most sensible one. She knows whose credit it is.

"Ahem, let's think about how to bring this gold up. There's quite a lot of it." Cao Gui coughed lightly, changing the subject.

“Cao is right,” Gwen said. “I just did a rough calculation, and this gold weighs about ten tons and is worth six hundred million US dollars, which is no small sum.”

Upon hearing this, Helen George was thrilled. This treasure was enormous! There was so much of it! But what should she do with ten tons of gold? What a wonderful dilemma!

Three days later, Cao Gui and Gwen's family boarded a plane back to the United States. As for the gold treasure... it had already been dealt with.

Cao Gui contacted Sitwell, and through Sitwell's connections, they found a treasure hunter. After some negotiations, they agreed on a deal for $600 million. The treasure would go entirely to the wealthy man, while Cao Gui and the Gwen family would leave with the $600 million.

They came empty-handed and left with $60,000. This level of gain was unbelievable to Helen and George, especially George, who had only ever seen $600 million in the underground vault of the Federal Reserve Bank, when he accompanied his superiors on a visit.

This world is truly somewhat magical.

……

Osborne Villa.

Harry stretched and slowly sat up in bed: "Ugh, damn it, I feel like my bones are rusting... Hmm?"

Before he could finish speaking, his right hand suddenly began to tremble slightly involuntarily.

Harry's expression changed slightly, not understanding what was going on. He had always been healthy and had never experienced anything like this before.

"Could it be that I haven't exercised in too long?" Harry shook his hand, ignoring his trembling right hand. He didn't care; maybe it would be fine in a little while?

He slowly got out of bed. School starts tomorrow, and today is his last leisurely holiday. He is grateful to Sykes Enterprises for giving him an extra seven days off.

With that thought in mind, he went to the living room, intending to go to the gym to work out.

But when they arrived in the living room, they were surprised to find their father lying on the living room floor.

“Dad, what’s wrong?” Harry quickly went over and gently patted Norman Osborn awake.

"Dad, why are you lying in the living room?"

Seeing his father wake up, Harry couldn't help but ask.

“Harry? Oh, it’s nothing. I was just a little sleepy last night and dozed off. It’s alright.” Norman Osborn rubbed his eyes, patted Harry’s hand, and then went back into his room.

But what Harry didn't notice was that his father's right hand was trembling slightly, just like his own. Moreover, there was a patch on his neck covered by his clothes where the skin had a color that was neither green nor blue... in short, it didn't look like the color of human skin at all.

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The pandemic has started, I need to take a day off.

An outbreak has started in my area, and I spent the whole day out shopping and stockpiling supplies. I didn't write a single word...

There's no other way but to take leave. Dear readers, I didn't want this to happen either.

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Chapter 188 Cao, your girlfriend is terrifying!

Nighttime, inside a villa on New York's Upper East Side.

"You're so heavy, get off me!" Beth said with disgust, kicking Cao Gui with her heel and pushing him off her.

Cao Gui rolled his eyes. He was so eager to see me beforehand, but afterwards he kicked me out because he thought I was ugly. It's outrageous! I'm so angry. When will I, Cao Gui, ever be able to stand up again?

Seeing Beth still breathing slightly and with a flushed face, Cao Gui wrapped his arms around her and pulled her into his embrace.

"Damn it, you haven't come to see me in so long." Beth leaned on Cao Gui's shoulder, her slender white fingers tracing the lines of his muscles.

“Cough…I’ve been in the Bahamas lately.” Cao Gui stroked her soft black hair; he had indeed neglected her during this time.

"Hmph! I know." Beth snorted. "Sometimes I really want to find you ten or eight women. If I can't have them, neither can Gwen."

"No!" Cao Gui was speechless. "I'm easily tempted by women."

"I know, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get my hands on you so easily," Beth said irritably.

"Good to know." Cao Gui bounced her little pert bottom: "Just think about it, Gwen will kill you."

"You think I'm afraid of her?" Beth puffed out her chest immediately. "I've trained, I've been training for a while now, it's not certain who will beat whom."

Cao Gui chuckled: "Do you know about the chaos in front of Sykes Building?"

“Yes, I know. Quite a few people know about the three superheroes fighting Frankenstein’s monster.” Beth nodded.

After the incident, S.H.I.E.L.D., in conjunction with the NYPD, blocked all roads and airspace, prohibited media coverage, and subsequently deleted all relevant video materials from the internet.

The fact that all of New York City was given a holiday was also described as a drill in response to a major crisis.

However, the matter was so significant that S.H.I.E.L.D. couldn't possibly eliminate it all; anyone with a bit of power and connections knew about it.

Unfortunately, Beth is the kind of person who has both ability and connections.

"Hmm, Gwen is the man in black with the stick," Cao Gui said, mimicking Beth's hum.

Σ(っ°Д°;)っ

"What?" Beth's almond-shaped eyes widened in disbelief.

"So, you just said who hit whom?" Cao Gui chuckled. "Also, don't lay a hand on me in front of her in the future. Gwen's senses are very sharp."

"Cao, your girlfriend is terrifying!" Upon hearing this, Beth was immediately frightened and kept burrowing into Cao Gui's arms.

"Cao, if your girlfriend finds out you're hugging me like this, won't she be angry? Won't she beat me up? That's scary."

"Unlike me, I only feel heartache for you, my dear."

Cao Gui: -_-||

"Huh? Wait a minute, how did you know that? And you still dared to go out and fool around?" Beth suddenly paused, realizing the crux of the matter.

But she quickly realized what was going on:

"Oh God, you...you're that Iron Man...no, no, you're a repressed pervert, not a show-off, you wouldn't be so arrogant, so you're that man in black with a white mask?"

"Who's the repressed pervert? Explain yourself!" Cao Gui was speechless and immediately took action.

"Oh, honey, I was wrong... hahaha~"

……

"Welcome back to the classroom," the middle-aged female teacher said slowly, scanning the entire class.

"After a week away, you must be finding it hard to adjust to classes today. So, the school has thoughtfully prepared a visit for all teachers and students to see the products of a high-tech company, which will help you get back into study mode as soon as possible."

“Ms. Rhett,” a student asked, “aren’t they afraid of another orc incident like the Sykes Corporation’s, where we’re sent to a high-tech company?”

"Byce, you've been reading too many urban legends," the middle-aged teacher said irritably.

"We must believe in science. There are no orcs that have sprung up from high-tech companies in this world, nor are there any superheroes. We all know that Captain America was just a figure promoted during wartime to boost morale. He also doesn't have superpowers; he's just an ordinary person."

The student, after being harshly reprimanded, could only lower his head and admit his mistake.

"Alright, now line up and head to the Osborne Building. We are honored to have the opportunity to visit the Osborne Group; it's much better than students visiting a museum," the middle-aged female teacher said.

"But teacher, I heard that everything in that museum is alive—living dinosaur fossils, living ancient humans, living Roman legions..."

"Alright, Byce, stop talking about those boring urban legends in class. If it happens again, I'll have to talk to your parents..."

“Yes, Ms. Rhett, I was wrong.”

"Line up now!"

Following the female teacher's words, the students in the class lined up in an orderly manner and boarded the special bus to the Osborne Building. In addition to Cao Gui's class, students from several other classes also came to the Osborne Building together.

As a high-tech company, Osborne has many new technologies to offer for visitors. If all else fails... a PowerPoint presentation will do. It's just a visit, not a presentation to investors.

However, thanks to Gwen, the intern, and Harry Osborn, their class directly gained the opportunity to visit Dr. Curtina Connors' research project.

"Welcome to the Osborne Building. I'm now the team leader for Dr. Connors' interns," Gwen, dressed in a white lab coat, said slowly.

"During the visit, you all have to follow me. Wherever I go, you go. Don't wander off, understand?"

"Okay, I understand," Cao Gui said with a smile.

Gwen wrinkled her nose, glared at Cao Gui with annoyance, and then led everyone into the laboratory.

"Welcome." In the center of the laboratory, a refined-looking middle-aged man smiled and said, "I am Dr. Curtina Connors."

Cao Gui had met him once before. When he came to recruit interns, Dr. Connors was rather thin and had a broken right arm. It was hard to associate him with the hideous, ugly, and strong Dr. Lizard.

However… without Peter Parker's decay rate formula, his research would remain stalled, and he wouldn't have the technological support to become Dr. Lizard.

As things stand, the external conditions for becoming Dr. Lizard no longer exist.

"As you can probably tell, I'm left-handed, so even though I only have one arm, it doesn't stop me from being a scientist," Dr. Connors said, shaking his amputated arm and cracking a lighthearted joke.

“Because of my body, I’ve always had a dream: I want to create a world without flaws,” Dr. Connors continued.

"For example, my severed arm, or a Parkinson's patient helplessly watching their body go out of control, or a patient whose macular degeneration is worsening."

"What I've pursued all my life is the hope that no disease will ever appear in the human body again..."

Dr. Connors began to explain his research in detail. His research topic was actually the inheritance of traits across species... or rather, the transfer. Simply put, it was about using genetic engineering to mutate the superior abilities of other organisms in humans, so that humans could also have the same abilities.

Unfortunately, because of Richard Parker, his research on spiders was stuck for several years, and he only recently turned to lizard research.