Kamen Rider ZZZ from the American comic book world

“Don’t sound so resentful, Leon,” Ada Wong teased, setting down her wine glass and asking instead:

What would you like to drink?

Manhattan.

Lyon watched the woman in the red dress mixing cocktails, his emotions a jumbled mess, until a saucer-shaped glass filled with amber liquid was pushed in front of him, bringing him back to his senses.

“The Cocktail Queen has arrived,” Ida Wong said softly.

"How is that child?" Leon didn't touch the cocktail, but instead asked someone else.

Raccoon City changed his perceptions, including the rate at which children develop.

Lyon only learned he had a son after the Wolf Valley incident in Spain in 2004. However, he had been on missions for the past few years, and given Li Ai's somewhat sensitive identity, he had no choice but to leave the child to be raised by Ada Wong alone.

Although he didn't raise her personally, it doesn't mean that Leon had no feelings for Li Ai.

Lyon is a very responsible man, and he knows how to face the choices he made back then.

"That's great, excellent grades, and good health." Ida placed a photo on the table.

This is a photo of Li Ai during a campus event in Chunmu Town.

Lyon picked it up and examined it closely. Looking at the boy's appearance in the photo, he sighed with mixed feelings:

“He looks just like you, Ida.”

“Don’t say you didn’t feel involved at all,” Ada Wong said while mixing her drink.

“Look closely, his eyes are exactly the same as yours.”

Lyon's eyes are blue-green, a trait that Li Ai inherited, and is one of the few mixed-race features in the latter.

"I hope he can grow up safely," Lyon said with mixed emotions.

Just then, Ida finished mixing her own Margaret. She swirled her glass, reluctant to shatter her child's father's hopes.

"I really don't know how to explain this to you. If nothing had happened, I wouldn't have had to move and transfer schools with him," Ada said in an ambiguous tone.

Upon hearing this, Leon immediately sensed that Ada's words had a hidden meaning. He frowned and said with concern:

"Is someone watching him?"

"I can't say for sure."

"For you to say something like that, it seems the problem troubling that child is quite serious." Leon put down the photo, but the fact that Ada could speak to him calmly meant the child was still safe.

Ada recalled what she knew about the Springwood incident and said, "I think he encountered a supernatural event and managed to solve something bad that no one else could see by relying on his own power."

"Can Umbrella's things really allow people to master magic?" Leon was puzzled, but relieved that Li Ai had the power to protect him.

“I don’t think it has anything to do with his constitution, which perfectly integrates the T-virus.” Ada shook her head, denying it.

“When Li Ai was just born, I also collected some information and was able to confirm that the T virus only affects the physical body.”

"Interesting. So this kid has a mysterious superpower hidden within him?" Leon felt a sense of relief.

“But he doesn’t want to confront me yet,” Ada said helplessly.

Leon smiled and spread his hands, saying, "It's normal for kids to go through a rebellious phase, especially since his situation is special. I think he might have a lot on his mind that he can't tell you."

"Then why don't you try to make up for the lack of fatherly love he has?" Ada asked pointedly.

After hearing this, Lyon remained silent for a moment.

“His legal and biological age will be eighteen this summer. Are you going to stay away from him forever?” Ada asked again.

"I need to take care of some work-related matters to prevent certain forces from discovering his existence."

Lyon said in a low voice that after working for the Federal Secret Service for so long, he had vaguely sensed that someone in America was still developing biological weapons, so he would not allow Li Ai's identity to be exposed because of him.

As a perfect fusion of the T-virus, Li Ai is not infectious, and ordinary testing methods cannot detect anything unusual about him. But it is precisely for this reason that his existence needs to be kept secret.

"The reunion of father and son must be a very heartwarming scene." Although Ada spoke with a smile, Leon seized upon the opportunity and asked:

"Aren't you going to have a meal together?"

“There have been frequent appearances of biological weapons in New York City recently. I finally found some clues and am preparing to continue the investigation. You don’t need to worry about my work. You should think about what kind of gift to prepare for our meeting and coming-of-age ceremony.”

Ada Wong downed her cocktail in one gulp, then quickly left the bar, pushed open the door before Leon could catch up with her, and disappeared into the city.

"They still come and go without a trace, just like before."

Looking around and finding nothing, Leon smiled helplessly, only to find a piece of paper slowly floating down. He caught it, opened it, and found a phone number and address written on it.

"Alright, at least I know where to look for him now."

After memorizing the information on the note, Leon destroyed it and left the place.

Chapter 55 New Capsule and Two-Star Impact

After the attack on the first day, nothing exciting happened again on the trip, and everyone ended the field trip safely, returning home on the afternoon of the third day.

Most parents wait near the school in advance so they can pick up their children and take them home as soon as they arrive.

"No one's picking you up either?" Jessica asked, looking at Li Ai who was preparing to go home alone.

“My family is probably busy with work again,” Li Ai said casually. He glanced at Jessica and asked in return:

Are you also planning to go home by yourself?

"Pretty much," Jessica said nonchalantly. "Actually, this school trip conflicted a bit with my family's plans. My parents had taken annual leave to take my brother and me to an amusement park, but I didn't think the amusement park we were going to was interesting, so I decided to go on this school trip instead."

Upon hearing this, Li Ai recalled Jessica's experience of gaining superpowers. He vaguely remembered that Jessica and her brother had started arguing in the car at the end of their family amusement park trip, which distracted Jessica's father who was driving, ultimately leading to an accident.

This accident led to the destruction of Jessica's family. Although she gained superpowers, she also lost her family and later encountered very painful events.

"Did you have a fight with your family?" Li Ai asked casually.

“No, our family is quite harmonious,” Jessica denied. “It’s just that my brother is very noisy, and spending too much time with him makes me feel inexplicably irritable. He also likes to bring home things he finds outside, and they always get dirty.”

“Is that so…” Li Ai replied, “Is this the trouble of having siblings?”

“Maybe it’s because of my brother.” At that moment, Jessica looked down at her phone, saw a text message, and said anxiously:

"They're already home. I have to hurry back, or my brother will steal my dinner again. Bye-bye."

"Goodbye."

After saying goodbye to Jessica, Li Ai returned to his residence in Queens. He pushed open the door, pressed a few buttons on the light switch panel in the entryway to turn on all the chandeliers on the first floor, and called out to the inside.

"mom?"

After receiving no response, Li Ai realized that his mother had gone to do something else. He casually put his luggage and backpack in the living room and then found a note held in place by a magnetic clip on the large-capacity refrigerator.

I'll be away for a while, so please take good care of yourself as usual. The groceries are all in the fridge. If you need money, just open the first drawer of the shoe cabinet; there's a bank card there. The PIN is...

Li Ai took the note, which contained similar content that he had seen many times before. Just as he was about to destroy the note, he noticed that there was another line of text at the end.

If someone driving a black Porsche Cayenne comes to see you, you can get a ride in his car; you might get some answers from him.

"A black Porsche Cayenne?"

After memorizing this key feature, Li Ai destroyed the note. He opened the refrigerator, which was full of food, found some ingredients, and cooked a simple meal to meet his energy needs.

Afterwards, Li Ai went to the living room, picked up his backpack and suitcase, and headed to his room. He decided to leave the dishes and chopsticks for tomorrow, as he had other things to do.

I've taken a lot of photos these past few days, and I'm waiting for him to categorize and edit them one by one.

Assignments should ideally be categorized. Next are the photos I took for my temporary roommate Flynn. The most time-consuming are the personal requests, which require him to look through each photo individually to confirm whose picture it is before moving them to a subfolder.

After categorizing the photos, the next step is the time-consuming photo editing.

The repaired image cannot be directly overwritten; it must be saved separately before being sent out together with the original image.

"The photos are all processed, now I can go do some of my own things."

Li Ai stretched after pressing the send button for the last time. He copied the photos he needed to print into his personal USB drive, planning to print them tomorrow.

After the computer screen went dark, Li Ai, who had been busy all day but was full of energy, got up, walked to the wardrobe door, pulled the handle, entered the war room, went straight to the gashapon machine, and turned the knob three times in a row.

Three dream capsules fell down, and Li Ai placed them on the table. Her gaze first fell on the black prop capsule.

Li Ai picked up the prop capsule, turned it gently, and a second Dream Eater Claw appeared in his hand.

Li Ai looked at the weapon in her hand and said, "Now we have two weapons."

Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind, and he remembered something.

In the previous battles, Li Ai mostly used 'Impact Annihilation' to kill enemies, but he actually has another skill, which is the more powerful but also more dangerous 'Impact Overload Annihilation'.

This move, Impact Overload Annihilation, appeared in the Kamen Rider ZZZ series. Manzumo used it when he encountered an extremely difficult enemy, and he directly used it to lay the foundation for his victory.

However, the cost is the destruction of the ZZZ driver, which even the recovery capsule cannot restore. If Li Ai were to use this method, the result would probably be the same.

However, the appearance of the second Dream Eater Claw opened up new avenues for Li Ai's thinking.

What if we modified the Dream Eater Claw to make its ultimate move 'Overload Dream Eater Slash'? Anyway, weapons can appear in multiple forms, so we can just pull out another one later without feeling bad.

Li Ai kept this idea firmly in mind, then picked up the blue capsule and used the ZZZ phone to read its abilities.

[Surging: A capsule containing the power to manipulate the atmosphere]

This is Li Ai's first technology-based capsule, which focuses on enhancing reflexes and improving the ability to respond quickly to situations.

It also grants Li Ai the ability to freely manipulate airflow, making it a very useful control ability.

"This fills the gap in the lack of wide-range control." Li Ai accepted the capsule with satisfaction, then turned her attention to the last red capsule.

This capsule is not what Li Ai is currently lacking; in fact, it is exactly the same as the impact capsule he had from the beginning.

But this doesn't mean Li Ai wasted a chance to draw; in fact, a smile even appeared on his face.

He placed the two capsules together, and then the two identical capsules began to resonate.

After a faint red light flashed, the color and pattern of the second impact capsule disappeared completely, and its power was completely integrated into the first impact capsule, ultimately becoming a blank capsule without any power.

This is one of the mechanisms of Kamen Rider ZZZ: when two identical capsules are placed together, they fuse together, ultimately doubling their power.

Because the process is similar to the star-up effect of combining multiple low-level pieces into a high-level piece in an auto chess game, Li Ai liked to call this situation 'two-star capsule' when she was watching TV series in her previous life.

Li Ai gripped the two-star impact capsule tightly, a hint of joy flashing in her eyes, and said happily:

"It feels so good to become stronger."

Chapter 56 Black Egg's Deduction (Seeking monthly votes and continued reading)

S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters

Agent Coulson is briefing Director Nick Fury on the investigation report of the Storm King Arts Center incident.

"After on-site investigation and preliminary verification, it was confirmed that the incident occurred at the site where No. 7 engaged in a fierce battle with another unidentified creature that had a clear intention to attack students on campus."

Investigators discovered a pair of large bat-wing-like remains with metallic coatings in a riverbank area where high-energy reactions were detected.

However, there were no eyewitnesses to this battle. Based on the analysis of traces left at the scene and residual energy, it is preliminarily determined that Number Seven emerged victorious in this battle.

After listening to Coulson's report, Nick Fury pondered for a moment, then asked, "What did the student who was attacked by the unknown creature say?"

“She said that when she was attacked by the unknown creature, Number Seven appeared very quickly. Another witness also saw Number Seven use a pistol first, and after a brief exchange with the unknown creature, she used her ability,” Coulson said.

Upon hearing this, Nick Fury's icy black face suddenly broke into a smile, revealing a set of white teeth, and he affirmed:

"It seems that he was in that hotel on the 7th, which is why he was able to arrive at the scene so quickly when the attack occurred."

Coulson understood the chief's intentions.

Both the shopping mall incident and the highway incident involved large crowds, making it impractical to check everyone on-site. But this time is different.

Before the attack, there was a heavy rain in the area, and there were only a few staff members and teachers and students trapped in the hotel by the rain.

Unless Number Seven possesses some kind of sensory ability and instantly teleports to the hotel when the incident occurs, it's highly likely that Number Seven was hiding among the teachers and students and intervened when the unknown creature attacked the students.

“But Number Seven has a very strong counter-surveillance awareness.” Coulson frowned, looking worried.

“All the surveillance cameras in the hotel have been modified, and even the bullet casings found at the scene have been polished. If Number Seven’s usual identity is a teacher or student, would he know about our existence?”

"Possibly," Nick Fury said ambiguously, then changed the subject, asking, "Coulson, how's things going with our great inventor?"

"He's like a completely different person lately. He genuinely wants to change the future with new energy sources, buying land and building skyscrapers in New York, and he even says he wants to open factories and build railroads," Coulson said truthfully.

Upon hearing this, Nick Fury remembered something.

Some of Howard Stark's belongings were actually seized by S.H.I.E.L.D., and he even sent people to study them, but there has been no progress over the years.