It's none of my business. I'm just a lunch box seller.

Denise: "I'm planning to enroll my two children in art classes. Why are you unhappy?"

Boss Cheng: "I..."

Boss Cheng didn't say anything. After all, he was also a disgrace.

As for why Boss Cheng has MA5B, Warthog, and Falcon but not Pelican, it is actually not difficult to understand.

Because there is nothing in the mall of the competitive world - not only are there no finished products, there are not even blueprints.

The mall’s explanation for not having the Pelican is also very direct: the competitive world does not include the relevant items and information.

After Boss Cheng established contact with the project team on the other side of the system, the programmer also gave a more precise explanation. He told Boss Cheng that whether it was the MA5B rifle, the Warthog, the Falcon, or other things like Boss Cheng's world, they did not come directly from a certain world. These things were brought into the competitive world by all kinds of contestants from different worlds.

For example, when Boss Cheng was resurrected to the competitive world, he brought with him the semi-powered optical stealth infiltration armor that was currently on sale in the mall. The MA5B rifle, ODST armor, and combat daggers that were also sold in the mall, as well as the combat daggers that were given to every participant for free, were all brought into the competitive world by Boss Cheng's predecessors.

This also shows that Boss Cheng is not the only one who was chosen in the Human-Covenant War World. There were at least 3 or 4 people who were resurrected before him. It's a pity that it's hard to find their traces among the vast number of contestants. Even these predecessors of Boss Cheng may have sacrificed themselves forever in the competition because they didn't have enough points to pay the insurance money.

Let's stop discussing the Pelican and the competitive world for now. Let's turn our attention to Nick Fury, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Today, Nick had promised Captain Rogers that he would take him to the Tech Lab to see the newly recolored Captain Night Sentinel armor. Before the Captain disappeared, Nick had already started to have the Tech Lab create Captain America's new Super Kevlar hero uniform.

But when Captain Rogers disappears and reappears, his Night Sentry armor makes the Super Kevlar uniform look like shit.

So Nick decisively stopped the development of the captain's uniform and instead helped the captain transform the sci-fi and magical armor. By the way, under the slogan of transformation, he took a good look at this magical armor that even a 105mm caliber smoothbore cannon could not penetrate.

Then the SHIELD's technology laboratory discovered that they couldn't understand the armor at all. They couldn't even understand the material that the armor was made of.

As for the transformation...

The armor was repainted with a layer of blue primer, and then the silver-white stripes representing the national flag and the bright silver five-pointed star on the chest were sprayed on. The mask on the helmet, which could have been hidden, was hidden, and finally the small bull horns on the top of the helmet, which served as both a communication antenna and a decoration, were removed.

This is the best modification the lab can do. As for the horn antenna that was originally fixed to the helmet with a buckle, it was quietly put away by the lab for material research.

But just at this point, Nick Fury, who had clearly agreed to take Captain Rogers to try on the "new" armor, suddenly stood him up.

At NASA's Space Radiation Research Center and SHIELD's Particle Accelerator Experiment Center, a large number of staff were hastily evacuating. Only Nick Fury and his assistants Coulson and Hill walked against the crowd.

"How bad is it now?" Nick asked.

"That's the problem, Boss," Coulson replied. "It's so bad that we don't know anything. Dr. Servigo found that the Cosmic Cube had energy changes four hours ago."

Nick asked Coulson: "Has NASA approved Dr. Servigo to conduct testing on the Cosmic Cube?"

"But according to Dr. Servigo's description, the equipment was running automatically, without his presence. And the energy level of the Cosmic Cube is still increasing. I had no choice but to issue an evacuation order for the base."

"There's nothing wrong with your order, Coulson." After confirming his subordinate's decisive action, Nick asked him, "How long will it take for everyone to evacuate?"

“In half an hour at most, the park staff can clear it all.”

"But not fast enough. Coulson, order them to evacuate faster."

"Okay, boss."

In the deepest underground of the experimental center, Nick is asking the doctor how to turn off the energy generator of the Cosmic Cube. But the doctor tells Nick that the machine is now completely out of control, and even if the energy of the entire base is forcibly cut off, the Cosmic Cube will reverse the energy generator.

"Because the Rubik's Cube itself is a huge source of energy, Chief."

At this moment, Nick suddenly remembered the powerful boss Cheng, so when he dialed a number, a middle-aged man who sat on a public bench in the south of Manhattan Central Park and read newspapers every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning immediately took out his mobile phone and answered the call. Then, the middle-aged man held the phone and hurriedly ran to the lunch box 1 meters away.

This is the quickest way Nick can think of to get in touch with Boss Cheng. After all, strictly speaking, Boss Cheng's store is in another world in 2024. Even if you pull a telephone line from Central Park into Boss Cheng's store, you can't guarantee that the call will be connected.

The phone call can only be properly intervened when Boss Cheng fixes the view outside the window to Central Park.

So when the agent in charge of squatting found Boss Cheng, he took Boss Cheng back to Central Park and called back the number that had just called. This allowed Nick Fury to get in touch with Boss Cheng.

"What the hell? Cosmic Cube? I can't get there!"

"Boss, don't you know the Cosmic Cube?" Nick on the other end of the phone asked in surprise.

"Why do you know that? I can't play with the Rubik's Cube."

"But the Cosmic Cube is not a Rubik's Cube!"

"Why is it called the Rubik's Cube if it's not a Rubik's Cube? The guy who named it has a problem with his head!"

"What the hell!"

At this time, a grim-looking man suddenly slid down from the top of the underground laboratory via a zipline. He took the phone from Nick and said to Boss Cheng on the other end of the phone: "The Cosmic Cube is not a Rubik's Cube, but a door that can connect to the other side of the universe. I think that's probably the case. But if it is really a door, it means that the person on the other side of the door can also open it."

"Fuck!" Boss Cheng cursed subconsciously and sincerely: "It's another portal, it's not going to end yet!"

Nick asked: "Then Boss Cheng, do you have any reasonable suggestions for us?"

"Yes! Prepare a hydrogen bomb with a yield of 1000 million tons! The moment the portal opens, push the hydrogen bomb through the portal to the other side and then detonate it. No matter what kind of idiot is on the other side, make a loud noise first!"

Although Nick wanted to refute something, he had to admit that the advice given to him by Boss Cheng was very reasonable and constructive.

The only problem was that time was running out. It was so tight that before Nick could hang up the phone, the Cosmic Cube was fully activated. Then, a portal to the other side of the universe literally exploded in the underground laboratory.

The next moment, the space gate disappeared, and a man wearing a golden goat-horned helmet, holding a jeweled scepter, and with blue flames all over his body appeared in the laboratory.

0129 Go to Hell and Kill Again

"Sir, please put down the glowing stick in your hand."

"Boom!"

"Da da da~~"

"Uh... cough..."

"Patton, don't go, Ohh fxxk!"

"I am Loki, from Asgard, and I have a glorious mission."

"We never messed with Asgard!"

"Ants haven't messed with boots either."

"Bang~bang~bang~"

Shortly after……

"Damn it, my ribs are broken again."

"Run, run! This place is about to be swallowed by the space energy!"

On the other side of the phone, Boss Cheng listened to Nick's roar on the other end of the phone. He quickly told the SHIELD agent beside him: "Your boss may have encountered some troubles. He just said that the base is about to be swallowed by space energy. It seems quite dangerous."

"Holy shit!"

The agent snatched the phone from Boss Cheng and reported the emergency to the SHIELD headquarters in Washington. In an instant, the headquarters was in a state of emergency, and all agents canceled their vacations. All staff members in the headquarters who did not have clear work tasks boarded the ship and headed to the particle accelerator experimental center in the west.

When they arrived at the experimental center, they found that the location where the buildings should have been had been replaced by a huge pit. Surrounding the pit were large areas of collapsed buildings leaning inward, and the survivors were rescuing the wounded and other survivors from the rubble.

Meanwhile, Nick Fury, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., was leaning against a sideways helicopter with a broken propeller, gasping for breath while holding his broken ribs.

The Cosmic Cube was stolen by Loki from Asgard. Clint Barton, the most outstanding agent of SHIELD, and Dr. Servigo, the authoritative expert on the Cosmic Cube, defected. The research base that cost billions of dollars to build was razed to the ground... or to be more precise, it was razed to the ground.

Under Loki's sudden attack, SHIELD was completely defeated.

Fortunately, Nick had the experience of breaking his ribs last time, so this time the fractured ribs were just a minor injury for him at best. After all, only one or two ribs were broken this time, not the last time when they were all broken. "

In 2012, at Cheng's Boxed Rice Restaurant in Central Park, New York, after lunch, Nick ate up the remaining sweet and sour pork, put four small chicken wings on the plate, and finally filled the plate with three fresh delicacies. Only then did he return to his seat with satisfaction.

"Boss, you're right. I really regret not preparing a nuclear bomb in advance.

Boss Cheng looked at Nick who was eating heartily and asked him curiously: "Apart from that serious accident, you still have such a good appetite. You are really brave!"

Nick sucked up the root of a little wing in one gulp, and then muttered: "I already regret not preparing a nuclear bomb in advance! Besides, I am taking remedial measures, right?"

"Your remedy is to have a clean plate campaign here?" Boss Cheng brought a stainless steel bowl filled with pickled cabbage and pork and asked Nick, "Do you want some? There's quite a lot of meat in here!"

"Come on, do I look like a Kraut to you?"

"Then I'll leave it to the captain and his master."

Boss Cheng put about three or four spoonfuls of pickled cabbage into a large bowl, and then put the pickled cabbage pork, stir-fried tofu, and stir-fried pork with onions (only onions left) into the warmer to heat up the leftovers. After cleaning up the kitchen, Denise went to the backyard to find Dongfang Bubai and his beloved disciple to come back for dinner.

In order to make it easier to eat and learn skills, Captain Rogers moved from his apartment in Manhattan to Boss Cheng's apartment as soon as he returned from hell, and became neighbors with his master Dongfang Bubai.

Rogers and Master Dongfang were easy to find. They were always near the grove on the playground. But there were more than just the master and apprentice near the grove. Master Dongfang also accepted many children from the refugee camp as his students. So when Denise found the master and apprentice at the old location, they had just finished teaching for the whole afternoon and sent the children from the refugee camp back home for dinner.

"You two, if you don't go back to eat, that black-braised egg will eat up all your food."

When Captain Rogers heard the black-salted egg, he knew that Nick Fury was looking for him. After all, the captain had just been stood up yesterday, and Nick had his ribs broken. And he heard from his boss that Nick had a big problem.

"So you came to me today to apologize for standing me up yesterday?"

Rogers quickly served himself a small bowl of rice before the "glutton girl" from another world finished eating the rice. Then the captain poured half a bowl of pickled cabbage, white meat and pickled cabbage soup into the rice bowl and mixed them together, allowing the fragrant Liuhe rice to fully blend with the pickled cabbage soup. Finally, he picked a few of his favorite dishes from the few leftovers.

Nick looked at Rogers, whose living habits were becoming less and less like those of a New Yorker, and forgot what to say for a moment. Anyway, he just watched Captain Rogers eat a spoonful of rice soaked in sauerkraut soup. Nick even regretted not serving himself a portion of sauerkraut to taste.

At another table of guests three seats away from Nick and Rogers, a white-haired man was whispering to a young man wearing glasses, "Xinbaji, look at that one-eyed guy who's as black as a boiled egg. Does he look like the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. from The Avengers?"

"Hush! Gin-san, keep your voice down!" Shinpachi also lowered his voice and muttered, "Recently, I have been wondering about the identity of that big brother with a perky butt. But there is no need to guess anymore, the answer is obvious, this person must be the first Captain America!"

"Black Sauce Egg just mentioned that the Cosmic Cube was stolen." Ah Yin continued in a low voice: "It seems that the Battle of New York is about to begin! What do you think? If we sneak into New York after the battle, pick up one or two things and sell them on the black market, we won't have to worry about rent in the future!"

"But Gin-san, what if we get targeted by the Shinsengumi? The consequences of reselling weapons from another world are even more serious than reselling weapons from alien planets. It's a serious crime!"

"Strive for wealth and fortune through risk, and turn a bicycle into a motorcycle!"

But at this moment, the glutton girl who had finished a full bowl of rice suddenly stood up and went to the boss to ask for food. While waiting for the food, she asked the boss: "What is the Cosmic Cube? If Kagura gets it, can I eat fried chicken here every day, Aru?"

then……

Kagura was pulled back by Gin-san and Shin-baji, and while apologizing, they assured that they knew nothing. They assured that they didn't know about S.H.I.E.L.D., nor did they know that Loki had stolen the cube, and they didn't know that the Cosmic Cube would open a huge portal above New York.

Then, the two hurriedly left the restaurant with Kagura, who had not yet eaten. But not long after they left, Gin came back and thanked Boss Cheng profusely, "If New York is invaded by aliens one day, please go to the Yorozuya after you defeat the aliens and inform me."

Ah Yin disappeared, leaving a room full of confused people.

Captain Rogers, who had to compete with Kagura for lunch almost every day, asked his boss: "Did the companion of that glutton girl just now mention the Cosmic Cube?"

Boss Cheng nodded blankly. Captain Rogers, who got a positive answer, also looked at the Director of SHIELD in front of him.

"Why is Hydra's secret weapon in a SHIELD research facility?"

Nick pulled out a document from his briefcase and placed it in front of the captain. He told him, "Howard Stark accidentally fished it out of the seabed when he was looking for you. He thought the same as we did, that the Cosmic Cube is the key to developing unlimited renewable energy, which is what the whole world urgently needs!"

But the boss at the counter asked Nick: "Why don't you develop nuclear fusion technology? The theoretical basis has been perfected, and Tony Stark has already completed a fusion device that can be used for industrial power generation. You don't think that a cosmic cube whose operating principle is unclear is more credible and reliable than nuclear fusion, do you?

"Weapons research is just weapons research. You are a thousand-year-old fox. Who are you playing Liao Zhai with? If singing that song is not likely to cause political ruin, I must sing a few lines for you!"

“Don’t!” Denise quickly stopped Boss Cheng from opening his mouth and warned him, “We are all family, why are you talking so loudly?”

Captain Rogers glanced at Boss Cheng whose mouth was covered by Denise, and then looked at Nick Fury.

"Who stole the Rubik's Cube?" The captain thought about what Yin had just said and asked, "Is it the Loki they were talking about?"

"That's right." Nick nodded, "But Loki is not a local, but from Asgard. If you are going to join my special incident emergency response team, then you still have a lot to learn. After all, the world now... is getting stranger and stranger than the one you remember."

The captain shrugged and said, "I've seen a lot of weird things here, boss. So it doesn't matter where he comes from, even if this Loki is from hell."

Nick also glanced at the boss, and then had to admit that the captain was right. In this small box lunch restaurant, there was no shortage of all kinds of strange people and strange things. Just like the three guys who just said the secret.

"Who are those three strange guys?" Nick asked his boss. "Why do I have the illusion that they know more than me, the supervisor?"

"What if that wasn't an illusion?" Denise told Nick, "Among the three of them, especially the one with the silver curly hair, Yin, he really seemed to know everything. During the time when the boss disappeared, this guy came to eat once and even asked me if the boss had gone to hell to kill demons."

When Boss Cheng heard the news for the first time, he didn't care why A Yin knew these things, but thought of what A Yin had just said!

"So... New York will be invaded by aliens soon?"

In an instant, everyone in the restaurant felt the murderous intent from Boss Cheng!

"Let them come, I promise to send them to hell right here! And then I'll go to hell and kill them again!"

0130 The Spirit of the Past

Somewhere in New York City's sewer network, late April 2012.

Loki, holding the Mind Stone Scepter, is projecting his consciousness to a star field outside the solar system. The Chitauri general, wearing outdated armor (based on the Night Guard armor), asks Loki why the progress of his "game" is slower than planned.

"The Chitauri are getting more and more eager to fight, and we are getting more and more impatient!"

"Then command your men to control themselves," Loki told the Chitauri general. "I will lead your army in an honorable battle."