My family runs an adventurer's guild.

However, before they could catch their breath, the Chitauri mechanical soldiers, who had finished sweeping away the civilians on the street, noticed the survivors gathered at the clothing store. So they all turned their guns and concentrated their fire on the clothing store!

Unfortunately, the clothing store's thin walls and glass windows were no match for the enemy's barrage of fire. A single shot created a hole the size of a football, and almost instantly, the entire store was riddled with bullets. The humans hiding inside, who thought they had escaped, found themselves in hell. Even hiding behind thick sofas and counters couldn't withstand the alien weapons' penetrating fire!

In an instant, the small clothing store became a slaughterhouse; all the dozen or so people who had sought refuge there were either dead or injured, none survived. A woman with a scraped arm stumbled along, screaming, trying to escape through the back door, only to discover that the clothing store didn't have a back door at all…

As a result, just as the woman was trapped against the wall, unable to move forward or backward, she was shot in the back of the head, half of her skull was blown off, and various red and white unidentified viscous substances were splashed down, even splattering onto Phil's tail.

Among the cats of Totoro Town, there was also a victim—the unlucky mottled cat Fao, who, despite constantly darting around the shop, was shot in the head by a Chitauri and instantly turned into countless dazzling spots of light, disappearing without leaving a trace in this world.

At this point, only Cuenca, the retired official from Totoro Town, remained unharmed by Phili's side, though he was trembling like a leaf in a corner.

Fortunately, just when the clothing store was turning into a bloodbath, Marvel superheroes came to the rescue.

"...Oh oh oh oh oh! Hulk!"

With a deafening shout, the firing of the Chitauri mechanical soldiers outside the shop ceased. Firi, mustering her courage, cast a magical shield on herself and peered through the hole in the wall. She immediately saw a huge, muscular monster with a green head charging towards her!

Phil recognized the large, green-bodied creature; it was one of the most well-known superheroes in the Marvel universe.

The Hulk. His real name is Robert Bruce Banner, a brilliant nuclear physicist, but in an accident, he was contaminated by radiation while protecting his colleagues, and his body mutated. Whenever his emotions fluctuate violently, he becomes the Hulk, a mindless monster.

This is the usual formula in the Marvel universe: the rich rely on technology, and the poor rely on mutation—it's the only way to gain power.

In addition, the Hulk's pants are also a famous meme, a true marvel of materials science in the Marvel universe...

Before Phil could think further, the Hulk casually swept away the Chitauri mechanical soldiers on the street with a few punches. Their gunshots were nothing more than a tickle to him. Then he grabbed a car and threw it at the alien landing craft parked in front of him.

With a loud "boom," the alien landing craft that had just taken off instantly burst into smoke and crashed to the ground. But the car that the Hulk had thrown out like a discus to smash the alien landing craft bounced back and, by sheer coincidence, smashed into the clothing store where Phil and his friends were hiding!

—During the collision, the car's fuel tank had already ruptured. When it crashed into the clothing store, the sparks from the friction caused the gasoline inside to explode, and a deadly heatwave instantly engulfed the store, burning all the injured inside to a crisp.

However, being an agile feline, Firi managed to escape unscathed, even managing to kick Cuenca's rear end and carry her last companion up the stairs to the second floor of the clothing store, thus avoiding the initial damage from the car explosion... but the situation was still far from optimistic.

It's easy to imagine that, being a clothing store, it was filled with flammable materials—clothes, furniture, fabrics, etc.—and after being violently set on fire, it naturally caught fire immediately. Thick smoke and waves of heat shot up from the ground floor all the way to the second floor!

"...It's over, it's all over, meow... It seems like there's no other way out of this house, meow!"

After circling around the second floor of the clothing store, the fat cat Kunka suddenly jumped up and down in a panic, "...Am I going to be burned to death here?"

"...Don't give up on your life so easily, Grandpa Cuenca! If there's no door, why don't you just jump out the window?"

Amidst the billowing smoke rising from the stairwell, the cat Firi called out, urging Cuenca to jump onto the windowsill.

—This clothing store may not have a back door, but it does have a back window that leads to a dark, deserted alley.

Even on the second floor, the window sill is only about three meters from the ground. That's a height that even a person wouldn't die from, let alone a cat.

"...Look, this alley behind us is relatively calm. There are no rioters or explosions. Anyway, you jump first, and I'll follow behind!"

"...Do I really have to jump out the window? But, but I'm a little afraid of heights!" Standing on the second-floor windowsill, the fat cat Kunka was still a little hesitant.

"...You don't even dare to jump from the second floor? Are you even a cat? No time! Let's go!"

Seeing that the clothes and wallpaper on the second floor were also on fire, Phili impatiently went over and kicked Cuenca hard.

The chubby old cat let out a pitiful "meow" and fell into the alley in a very clumsy manner, but thankfully it was unharmed—with its thick layer of fat, it could almost be used as a ball to kick, and even if it landed face down from that height, it probably wouldn't die.

Then, Phil also gracefully leaped from the second-floor window of the burning clothing store, preparing to jump onto the wall across the alley.

Unfortunately, just as Phil jumped out of the window and soared through the air, an accident suddenly occurred.

"...Boom!!!"

A violent explosion suddenly rang out not far away.

The bright flames, accompanied by a scorching heatwave, struck Firi, who was unfortunately in mid-air, and blew him a considerable distance away...

However, the situation did not seem too serious, since he was only thrown around and was neither burned nor hit by shrapnel.

With that thought in mind, Phili used her feline special abilities to twist her body in mid-air and adjust her posture, preparing to land in a different spot...

Oh! Wait a minute! What's that up ahead? High-voltage power lines!!!

—This was the last thought that popped into Phil's mind during this Marvel adventure.

The next moment, he fell onto several hanging power lines, and with a series of crackling sparks, he turned into a cat-shaped lump of charred remains...

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When Phil was forcibly removed from the Marvel universe and returned to the realm of Hypnos, the cat was still completely bewildered.

Although he was already prepared to die when he entered the Marvel universe—after all, this sleepwalking, alternate-dimensional death-travel format is, from any perspective, similar to a player playing an online game. And what player in this world is afraid of death? If you're really afraid of death, don't come and play!

One of the greatest joys of playing games is showing off and being incredibly reckless (just kidding) in all sorts of ways!

Daily life in the real world is already frustrating enough. If you can't even have some fun in a game, then what's the point of playing games?

But Phil never expected that his death in the Marvel universe would be so frustrating and inexplicable.

In his original view, whether he became a hero who saves the world and sacrifices himself while fighting alongside superheroes, or a great villain who destroys the world and dies a glorious death in a legendary epic in a fateful showdown with heroes, both were acceptable choices.

Players don't care about good or evil; they just want to cause trouble and try their best to be exciting, cool, handsome, and dashing!

But what kind of ghost is it to accidentally get electrocuted by a high-voltage power line while frantically fleeing for one's life?

Even if I'm destined to be electrocuted, at least let it be a duel with Pikachu or Misaka Mikoto, a stylish showdown between masters, before I finally succumb to a 100,000-volt Railgun! So incredibly frustrating…

In short, Phil is in a very bad mood right now, extremely depressed, and filled with a sense of frustration that she can't seem to vent.

So, after he was electrocuted and left the Marvel universe, he immediately went to complain to Hypnos, who was in charge of the backstage operation for this time travel.

"...Respected Lord Hypnos! Sending us to New York is one thing, but why did you have to send us during the Avengers' Battle of New York?" Phil complained to the Dormouse avatar of Lord Hypnos. "...We've only been sightseeing for half a day, and haven't even had a chance to level up, and we're almost all dead! Even in an online game, this isn't fair! Why put us up against the Demon King right from the start?"

"...Oh, you know...the most exciting part of the Marvel universe is the spectacular and dazzling battles between all the superheroes!"

Princess Dreamy, the sleeping goddess in the form of a dormouse, blinked her perpetually sleepy little eyes and replied to Phil, "...You said before that you wanted to go to New York and take the neighbors to experience the unique charm of that world, so visiting the Battle of New York with the Avengers all out is naturally the most suitable choice, right? Where else in New York City can you see such a grand scene of so many superheroes fighting together at other times?"

If you go to the Marvel universe but don't see the superheroes, wouldn't that be a wasted trip?

Uh, what you said makes so much sense, I'm speechless...

The problem is, it seems like we've been running for our lives the whole time, and apart from the Hulk, we haven't seen any other superheroes...

Speechless, Phil could only sigh helplessly. He looked around and found that, apart from himself who had been electrocuted and forced to leave the scene, the other members of the "Marvel World New York City Tour Group" who had left the scene, such as Roxanne who had been hit by a car, Lazel who had been run over by an alien landing craft, and Fao who had been shot by a laser gun, were now gathered on the floating island in the country of the God of Sleep where the time travel system was located. They were chatting and boasting with a group of curious onlookers, excitedly talking about their previous "sleepwalking" experiences in Marvel World New York City.

"...That city was indeed very beautiful, with magnificent buildings. Even ordinary apartments were ten to over ten stories high. As for the tallest buildings, they were four or five times taller than the tallest mage tower and lighthouse in the royal capital (Thousand Sails City)! The streets were lit up with colorful lights everywhere, even during the day. Every street had metal vehicles running on it, and they didn't need to be pulled by oxen or horses. I don't know how they moved, meow..."

The air in the city was terrible, it smelled awful. At first, it made me cough nonstop... No, it wasn't the smell of poop and pee, it was a much stranger smell coming from the back of those metal vehicles, it was very pungent and smelled awful, meow..."

"...The food in that city is delicious too, even the grilled fish in the small restaurants is loaded with spices, meow..."

"...It's just that the city is too unsafe. A war suddenly breaks out out of nowhere, and enemy troops descend from the sky through teleportation portals, killing people everywhere..."

……

To Phil's surprise, he also spotted Gilda and Lula among the group of guys chatting on the floating island.

These two "disgraceful cats" who were frightened by stray cats on the way and abandoned their companions, fleeing in panic, have actually gone offline and left the scene?

Didn't they get separated and act on their own halfway through? How come they're dead now?

—In fact, Phil was initially disdainful and contemptuous of the two guys' escape, thinking they were too weak and disloyal. To be so frightened by a few wild cats that were fewer in number than their own and lacked intelligence was a disgrace to civilized races.

But after thinking about it carefully, Phil gradually understood their predicament: Neither Gilda nor Lula were the kind of soldiers or adventurers who were used to fighting and killing. They had never even received any training in swordsmanship, magic, or combat. They were just two ordinary citizens living in peaceful times, and they were rather ignorant and unsophisticated bumpkins. Naturally, one could not expect them to fight bravely.

To give a similar example: if office workers in modern metropolises suddenly saw a savage wielding stone tools and yelling as he pounced on them, their first reaction would probably be to run away as far as possible, rather than using their height and strength to swing their briefcases or toolboxes at him, right?

So, after their reunion, Phil didn't complain to them, only asking how they'd escaped. He discovered that these two cowards had actually died even earlier in the Marvel universe than he had, not even surviving until the Chitauri army's invasion—Gilda, after being scared away by wildcats, encountered a pack of even more ferocious wild dogs, was kicked into an open manhole, and drowned miserably in the sewers; Lula, on the other hand, had wandered aimlessly into a construction site, then slipped and fell into a concrete pool…

"...So, if that's the case," Phili pointed at the heads with her cat paw, realizing that almost the entire "Marvel World New York City Tour Group" was here, "...it seems that the only lucky one left who survived that great war and is still in the Marvel World is Grandpa Cumberbatch, meow!"

"...Hahaha, that old bastard Cuenca may not have kicked the bucket, but he's suffering even more than you guys! He'd probably be better off dead!"

A human follower, who was just joining in the fun, laughed and said to Phili, "...Old Kunka is already this old, and he still wants to be a eunuch!"

He pointed to a row of virtual screens not far away, which were showing the current situation of Cuenca, the last survivor of the "Marvel World New York City Tour." Hundreds of viewers from various races were crowded in front of the screens, watching with great interest and amusement.

Upon hearing this, Phil also stared intently, his cat eyes widening in surprise, revealing a strange expression of wanting to laugh but being too embarrassed to laugh out loud.

Author's message

P.S.: Another 100 blades have been added! To thank readers for their support, I'm adding an extra 5000 words tonight. Hopefully, I'll get even more blades to encourage me and pierce Phily Meow to the core! (laughs)

Feline's first Marvel adventure has come to a temporary end. But rest assured, this is just a setback due to insufficient preparation for the first attempt. With everything in order, an even more exciting and thrilling second Marvel adventure awaits.

When players play games, they can't possibly beat the final boss in one go with only one life!

The variety of bizarre ways to die is part of the fun of playing games!

Chapter 102, The Cat Castration Story (4000-word long chapter, guaranteed minimum today)

Cuenca, a retired postmaster in Totoro Town, has been fattening up for many years and is considered a lucky guy.

Not only did the neighbors in Totoro think so, but Cuenca himself also viewed himself that way.

He was originally from a colony village in the western wilderness behind a great cliff on the border of the kingdom. As a child, he got lost in the mountains while playing, but miraculously escaped the massacre of his entire village by bandits. When he finally found his way home, he discovered that he was the sole survivor of the entire village.

Then, although he survived, Cuenca's hometown was burned to the ground. Cuenca, who was still a boy at the time, had no choice but to take some dry food he dug out of the cellar and set off on a journey of wandering alone with a wooden stick... Just when he was about to collapse and die of hunger and thirst by the roadside, he was lucky enough to encounter a caravan. The caravan leader not only saved him, but also took in Cuenca, this seemingly clever little cat-man.

Over the next few years, Cuenca stayed in the caravan. With his intelligence and rare mathematical talent among the cat people, he gradually learned to write and keep accounts, and slowly rose to the position of accountant. It seemed that Cuenca was about to make a name for himself in the caravan and become a small leader.

Unexpectedly, when the caravan passed through Totoro Town, Cuenca was detained by the town hall and forcibly conscripted to do the arduous task of conducting a population and property census. At that time, the Golden Dragon Kingdom was conducting a social survey every fifty years in accordance with the king's decree to count the country's population and property.

On the one hand, the investigation time was compressed to a very short period of time according to the king's decree, and on the other hand, the workload was extremely large. Therefore, the officials in Totoro Town could only recruit people from all over the place to help. Anyone who could write and calculate, as long as they could be found in the town, was forcibly conscripted.

For those conscripted, this was not a welcome promotion, but rather temporary labor, with only food provided and no pay. So, when Cuenca reluctantly left the caravan, his companions looked at him with pity. However, just the next day, the caravan encountered a shipwreck and was almost completely wiped out. Cuenca, who was detained in Totoro Town and forced to work for free, escaped the disaster once again.

Next, a massive corruption scandal broke out in Totoro Town, resulting in the arrest and imprisonment of half the town hall officials, leaving many positions vacant. Cuenca, who was originally just a temporary worker, seized the opportunity to become a permanent postman in the town, and several years later became a postal officer.

In the years that followed, Cuenca was unable to advance further or continue his career, but he also encountered no major setbacks, and his life ended well. Today, Cuenca is retired, and while his family is not extremely wealthy, he lives comfortably with many children and grandchildren, and has almost no troubles.

The only thing that made him a little uncomfortable was that staying in the small town year after year was just too boring...

So when Frie gathered volunteers in the square, saying that they could travel to a mysterious other world in their dreams, and that staying in their original body in Totoro Town would be absolutely safe and without danger, the old but still young retired postmaster Cuenca excitedly signed up.

Even after being transported to the Marvel universe, retired postal officer Cuenca's good fortune seems to continue.

Although the "Marvel World New York City Tour" was plagued by deaths and injuries almost from the moment they arrived in New York City—being hit by cars, falling into concrete pools and turning into stone statues, drowning in sewers, being crushed by alien spaceships, being shot in the head by laser guns, being electrocuted by high-voltage power lines...

But Cuenca was the only one who persevered to the end, not only surviving the brutal New York battle but also suffering almost no injuries.

After the war ended, Cuenca lost all his companions and had to live as a stray cat in New York for a while. However, by begging for food while being a stray, Cuenca did not go hungry for long, and he did not lose much of his fat.

Next, the chubby cat Kunka, who was squatting outside a fast food restaurant and acting cute every day, was taken home and adopted by a kind old black lady. He lived in a small apartment that was old but still clean and cozy, where he had plenty of milk, cat food and fish every day, as well as a cat tree and balls of yarn to play with. He could just lie there and be petted by the old lady without having to do anything.

However, this leisurely life of eating and sleeping every day hadn't lasted more than a few days when Cuenca was taken to the vet by his elderly black pet owner, looking completely bewildered... He thought it was just a check-up, but instead he was immediately given anesthesia and put on the operating table.

—It turns out that the elderly Black woman was following the usual procedure for adopting a male cat, taking him to the vet for a neutering surgery… that is, to castrate him…

Moreover, after the neutering surgery, the elderly black woman who adopted Cuenca the cat even picked up Cuenca, who was slowly waking up after the surgery, and took a picture with his freshly removed testicles... So, looking at his own freshly removed testicles on the plate next to him, the old cat Cuenca, feeling ashamed and indignant, immediately flew into a rage, rolled his eyes, and fainted.

Upon waking up, unable to endure such humiliation, Cuenca immediately climbed onto the windowsill and jumped from the sixth floor, choosing to commit suicide and log off.

When he successfully committed suicide and exited the Marvel universe, and woke up in the "sleep pod" of the Temple of Hypnos, he almost immediately reached down and touched his crotch, only to find that his two testicles were still there, and finally breathed a slight sigh of relief.

"...What the hell, that damned old dark-skinned woman! I treated you like a scoop of poop, and you want to castrate me..." he muttered.

But then, just as Cuenca stepped out of the Temple of Sleep, rubbing his empty stomach and preparing to go home for dinner, he noticed that everyone who passed by seemed to be smiling at him, and further away, some guys were pointing at him with strange expressions...

Just as he was feeling confused, his little grandson skipped over, waving a piece of drawing paper with a grin, and said something that almost gave Kunka a stroke: "...Grandpa, I heard you were castrated and made a eunuch in another world, is that true?"

"...Wh-what eunuch? How can you slander someone like that? Don't talk nonsense about Grandpa's affairs, meow!"

Kunka growled somewhat guiltily, then leaned close to his grandson's ear and asked, "...Keep your voice down, how did you find out about this?"

"...Everyone in the Kingdom of Sleep watching the show on the screen saw the whole process of how you, Grandpa, became a eunuch, meow!"

The grandson waved the drawing paper in his hand and said to the old cat Kunka, "...Someone even drew it and showed it to those guys who don't believe in the god of sleep!"

The old cat Cuenca quickly snatched the drawing from his grandson's hand and was immediately shocked by the phrase "The Castrated Cat Picture" in the title.

Further down the drawing, the main subject was a vivid, simple sketch: a chubby cat lying lifelessly on the table, tears welling in its eyes. Underneath it was Cuenca's name and identity, and next to it, on a plate, were his two freshly cut, bloody testicles...