America: A Prodigy of Stereotypes

“Wait a minute, Li Qun, the bonus check…you’ve kept it safe, haven’t you?” Wade asked Li Qun.

"I'll go look for it."

Li Qun turned and walked away, picking up Wade's torn clothes and pants from the corner and carefully rummaging through them.

"It's alright, it's just stained with a little of your blood."

"It's nothing, just a little blood. It won't affect the exchange," Wade said.

Magical runes covered Wade's body, wandering around him, while Dr. Banner observed Wade and the runes' reactions with a serious expression.

"...There are actually no problems." Dr. Banner said with a furrowed brow.

"Is it ready?" Wade sensed a familiar aura from Dr. Banner, an aura he had felt from his father and from some of the legendary healers in the assassin world.

“I’ll untie your straps, but don’t even think about attacking me,” Dr. Banner said to Wade.

"How could I have such a stupid idea? To attack the most powerful magician on Earth?" Wade said to Bruce Banner with a grin.

"It's untied."

Dr. Banner tapped the straps on Wade's feet from a distance, and the straps instantly came off, freeing Wade's body.

“Where is Peter? Isn’t he here?” Wade asked Li Qun.

“This is our secret now, we can’t let Peter know,” Li Qun said to Wade.

"So, Liqun, while Peter was running off to find a cell phone signal, you brought me to the magician to save my life?"

"Dr. Banner is not just a wizard, he is also the greatest scientist on Earth at the end of the 20th century, and one of the most intelligent people in the world."

"Bringing you to Dr. Banner is the only way I can think of to save your life, given that you are in critical condition," Li Qun said earnestly to Wade.

Thank you.

Wade looked down at his body, raised his hands to examine them, and couldn't feel anything special about himself.

Wade bit his palm hard, leaving two rows of teeth marks and drawing blood. The bite wound on his palm healed quickly, but new scars remained.

"Do you really have to try this?" Dr. Banner asked Wade.

"Am I immortal?" Wade looked up at Dr. Banner.

“Then I can prepare holy water, a silver sword, and garlic for you,” Dr. Banner said to Wade.

"Want to give it a try?" Wade's eyes seemed to gleam.

Dr. Banner raised his palm, and a silver longsword slowly appeared in his hand.

"Are you Merlin's apprentice?" Wade asked Dr. Banner curiously.

“The Great Master Merlin was the teacher of us modern sorcerers,” Dr. Banner said.

Dr. Banner tossed the silver longsword to Wade, who caught it and skillfully twirled it in his hand.

Wade was also very careful, only cutting his arm with the blade of his longsword.

Seeing that the wound on his arm had healed, Wade became bolder.

“I want to stab myself with this sword, you guys don’t mind, do you?” Wade asked.

“If you can, you can do it like this.” Dr. Banner walked to Wade’s side and taught him how to “safely” pierce his body without damaging his abdominal organs.

The silver sword pierced through Wade's body. Wade endured the pain and pulled the sword out. The piercing wound healed rapidly, visible to the naked eye.

"Apply some garlic!"

Wade wasn't averse to garlic, but his act of rubbing garlic on his wounds made Li Qun, who was watching from the side, hallucinate the act of applying marinade to barbecued meat.

"I didn't become a vampire..."

"How about we try nailing a wooden stake into your heart?" Dr. Banner stepped forward with a hammer and a wooden stake.

"Could you arrange a cross for me?" Wade asked Banner.

"A cross?" Wade suddenly realized his blind spot.

"and many more?"

Could I be Jesus?

"I have been resurrected..."

"Am I the savior?" Wade muttered to himself.

Bruce Banner sighed, turned to look at Li Qun, and said, "I'm speechless."

“Yes, that’s the only way it makes sense. I am the second son of God.” Wade said, looking at Li Qun with a very holy expression.

“Wade, God already has two sons, you can only be his third son now,” Li Qun said to Wade.

"What? How come I didn't know about this?" Wade's eyes widened, his face filled with disbelief.

“God’s second son is a Cinnamon. If you want to know the details, please go to the library and find the information yourself,” Li Qun said to Wade.

“It’s okay, I don’t mind having two older brothers,” Wade said with a smile.

……

Peter Parker frantically ran back to the accident scene.

He has already called an ambulance, and the police will be on the scene soon.

However, Peter returned to find, to his horror, that both Li Qun and Wade were gone, with only bloodstains on the ground proving that Wade had just been shot.

The gunman who committed the crime has also disappeared, and Gwen's van is still parked in the same spot, not driven away.

"No!"

Chapter 203 Drooling from the Corner of His Eyes

As Peter ran out into the block looking for a cell phone signal, he found a phone booth.

Telephone lines are much more reliable than wireless communication signal stations, and Peter felt he was somewhat lucky.

In a phone booth filled with the stench of urine mixed with lemon and fennel spices, Peter inserted a coin and dialed his first emergency call, stammering out the address where Wade had been shot.

Peter Parker didn't know when the police cars and ambulances would arrive, but when he returned to the scene, he felt like the sky had fallen.

There was no one left. Li Qun, Wade, and the gunman were all gone. The driver's side door of Gwen's car wasn't even locked.

"No!"

Peter felt a tightness in his chest, an urge to release something.

Peter shot a web at the nearest building and instantly stood on its roof.

Peter scanned his surroundings; at that moment, his eyesight was incredibly sharp, allowing him to see every corner of the street clearly under the dim night lights.

Peter's thinking was not calm, but his thought process was rational.

Peter was thinking about where he would run to if he were the shooter and he woke up.

He was not familiar with this area.

Peter is now most familiar with Manhattan, not Queens. He's spent months wandering around Manhattan at night, but not in Queens.

"Could it be over there?"

Peter launched himself out of the air using a spider silk slingshot, and in mid-air, he took out a spider silk mask from his pocket and put it on.

After putting on the mask, the complex emotions on Peter's face disappeared beneath it, and Peter felt frighteningly calm.

One of Li Qun's hobbies was reading the monthly Batman comics. When Peter was bored, he would read Li Qun's Batman comics, and at that moment, Peter felt that he needed to become Batman.

The disappearance of Wade and Li Qun may not be related to the shooter; perhaps Li Qun took Wade to the emergency room.

In Peter's eyes, Li Qun was a very capable person. Although he was not omnipotent, he had never encountered a problem that could stump Li Qun.

Peter firmly believed that Wade would be fine with Li Qun by his side.

Now he's searching for the escaped gunman; he's going to catch him and "avenge" the guy who fired the shot indiscriminately.

Once he finds this person, he's going to give him a good punch in the face.

Regardless of whether I'll kill this person or not, I have to give him a punch to teach him a lesson.

Peter flew quickly through several streets, and he could vaguely hear police sirens and ambulances in the distance. Peter realized that he had spent quite some time looking for this person.

Peter stopped on the roof of the apartment building and looked out at the flashing car lights on the street.

He dared not return to the accident scene because those who needed medical treatment and those who had been arrested had all disappeared.

Back at the scene, Peter felt like he was the one being arrested and put in the ambulance. The police and the paramedics would conclude that the real incident was a hallucination caused by a severe fall.

Peter raised his hand and shot out a spider web, which swung over several buildings before arriving at the rooftop of a building closer to the scene. He then carefully observed the area from the rooftop.

Peter looked down and saw the police officers who had been called to the accident scene write down Gwen's license plate number. The police and paramedics examined the bloodstains Wade had left on the ground.

Police tape was put up, and the traces at the scene of the incident were carefully protected. Police officers from the Queens Police Department were diligently collecting evidence from the shooting scene.

A Glock pistol-compatible bullet was spotted by officers at a distance and picked up and placed in an evidence bag.

The police officers at the scene felt that the incident was nothing to worry about, and the ambulance drove away when it saw that there was no one left to save.

The officers appeared quite relaxed; they even ate a late-night snack next to their police car.

……

"Do you think we should go over and say hello to Peter?" Wade asked Li Qun in a low voice with a wicked grin.

"It's better not to..." Li Qun whispered to Wade.

"What kind of nonsense is this?"

"That Peter kid has a secret too."

"You know his secret, right? But Peter doesn't know yours?"

Wade looked at Li Qun, then turned to look at Peter crouching in the distance. Wade and Li Qun were observing Peter below from the top floor of a higher building.

“The problem we need to think about now is how to get Gwen’s car back, otherwise we’ll have to say goodbye to it. Gwen will kill me and Peter,” Li Qun whispered to Wade.

"Is this difficult? You just need to open the car door, sit in the driver's seat, insert the key, pull the handbrake, shift gears, and step on the gas..." Wade said.

“Go and perform for me,” Li Qun said to Wade.