Chapter 468 Exploding Antique Shop

Hell's Kitchen, located near the edge of West Midtown.

A little black boy looked at the figure passing by and immediately shouted excitedly to his mother beside him.

"Mommy, you are a defender!"

He shouted excitedly while pointing at the swaying petite figure in front of him.

"Hey Jamie, what I taught you!"

However, in contrast to the excited child, a black woman with an obviously horizontal body shape on the side nervously pulled the child into her arms, and activated her racial talent and said in a rap-like tone: "Don't have anything to do with these superheroes. relationship, they are not good guys."

"But, Mom, the Defenders protected Hell's Kitchen?"

"No, they bring more threats to Hell's Kitchen, you forget what your damn brother is in jail for, these defenders."

"Defenders, get out of Hell's Kitchen!"

Before the black woman could finish her words, a decadent white man dressed in poverty on the side of the road cursed.

"Hell's Kitchen doesn't need protection from you clowns!"

Bang!

However, before the white man could finish his words, he saw a petite figure waving his fist, leaving a clear fist mark on the lamppost next to him.

Sizzling——

With a heavy blow, the dim light of the street lamp flickered and suddenly turned on.

"..."

It is so simple and crude, but it has undoubtedly achieved great results.

Looking at the clearly visible fist marks on the metal street light pole, both the white man who cursed and the black woman who complained not far away wisely chose to shut up and fled from the figure as if running away.

"snort."

Turning her head to look at the escaping guys, and then scanning the surrounding pedestrians who were all bowing their heads and keeping quiet, Jessica pouted her lips with a clear expression of disdain on her face.

For Hell's Kitchen,

Defenders exist and are loved by all.

Although the vast majority of residents are very grateful to the superheroes who can protect them from the oppression of criminal organizations, there is always a small group of people who are not interested in the existence of the defenders and believe that it is because of their existence that they are facing hell. The kitchen was in chaos.

Many people even miss the posthumous rule of Kingpin.

Matt's approach to these stubborn nuisances is to face them with a tolerant attitude, but Jessica obviously cannot do this.

It was the highest limit of her endurance that she could achieve without beating them until they crawled to the ground and looked for their teeth.

"Bully the weak and fear the strong."

With a cold snort in her mouth, Jessica raised the wine bottle in her hand and took a sip into her mouth.

The life of a superhero is not as beautiful as imagined, especially the defenders are not a well-known superhero organization like the Avengers, and there is no billionaire like Tony Stark as a source of financial resources. With Danny's death, the situation is even more... This has plunged everyone into a certain degree of economic crisis, and in order to cope with this situation, Luke Cage, a member of the Defenders, has come up with the idea of ​​establishing a company for hiring heroes.

Although it hasn't reached this level yet, it's not much different.

If her status as a member of the Defenders hadn't made her famous for her private detective work, she might have followed Luke Cage in founding the Heroes for Hire Company.

Thoughts came to mind, and Jessica habitually picked up the bottle of wine in her hand and took another sip. However, for her who was so drunk, a bottle of wine was not enough for a few steps. Before she could get there, The wine bottle in the destination's hand is already empty.

"Shit~"

After shaking the empty wine bottle in her hand, Jessica couldn't help but curse in a low voice.

While scolding her, he took steps and continued walking in the direction in front of him.

"Um?"

Seeing that the target building was right in front of her, Jessica instinctively quickened her pace. However, the wheelchair passing by made her eyes follow it subconsciously.

"There is such an old guy living here in Hell's Kitchen?"

Looking at the skinny old man in the wheelchair with raised eyebrows, a trace of doubt flashed through Jessica's heart. However, she retracted her gaze towards the old man and the silver-haired man pushing the wheelchair, and Jessica returned her attention to the distance in front of her. At an antique shop not far from me.

She just received a case not long ago. She was in trouble because of a small problem and needed information about Li Ran in the antique shop.

boom--

However, before Jessica could get closer.

Accompanied by a huge explosion, a large amount of red mist emerged from the antique store as Jessica watched, instantly tearing the entire antique store to pieces.

"James!"

The huge explosion knocked Jessica's petite figure into the air. She controlled her body to stabilize. Jessica looked at the ruined antique shop in front of her, and the drunken expression on her face instantly turned into a sober look. , without any hesitation, she controlled her body and flew into the antique shop.

"James!"

"James!"

Because of the explosion, the entire antique store was in a mess, a large amount of smoke and dust obscured everything, and the ground was covered with the remains of antiques collected by Li Ran.

Calling Li Ran's English name, the moment Jessica rushed into the antique store, she seemed to see a figure covered in red mist flash past. However, before she could think more, a collapsed door in the antique store Li Ran's figure was found under the shelf in the ruins.

"James!"

With an exclamation in her mouth, Jessica flew to the shelf and landed. She stretched out her hand and easily removed the heavy iron frame from Li Ran's body. What was revealed when she removed the shelf was that she was lying unconscious underneath. Li Ran woke up.

…

"How's the situation?"

Hell's Kitchen, hospital emergency room.

Matt, who came after hearing the news, took a deep breath to calm down his rapid breathing due to the rapid running, and then turned his neck and asked the defender who came first.

"I don't know the specific situation."

Faced with Matt's inquiry, Luke Cage also shook his head in confusion, pointed at Jessica's position, and then realized that Matt in front of him could not see his movements, and then said: " I also rushed over after receiving a call from Jessica. The guy in the emergency room seems to have connections with people from the Assassin Brotherhood."

The rest of the Defenders don't know much about the relationship between Jessica and Li Ran.

They only knew that the injured person in the emergency room was Jessica's contact person with the Assassin Brotherhood.

Hearing Luke Cage's answer, Matt turned his head in Jessica's direction.

Although he couldn't see Jessica's expression at the moment, through the keen touch expanded by the ripples, Matt could still clearly feel the restlessness and worry in her heart at the moment.

Faced with this scene, Matt was silent for a moment, and then reached out and touched the wall outside the emergency room.

Touching the wall and relying on the power of the ripples to amplify his super senses, Matt clearly sensed Li Ran's situation across the wall.

"Huh~"

Released his palm on the wall, Matt took a deep breath and said to Jessica: "Everything in the emergency room is stable, so Jessica, you don't need to worry too much."

"real?"

Hearing Matt's words, Jessica, who was sitting outside the emergency room, subconsciously raised her head, looked at the blind lawyer in front of her, and said with some hesitation.

"certainly."

In response, Matt nodded affirmatively. He turned his head and heard the noise coming from the emergency room, and then said silently: "Actually, you can ask Claire inside for the specific situation."

Because of her relationship with the defenders, after Jessica found Li Ran who had been attacked, she took him directly to the hospital where Claire, the midnight nurse, worked.

Coming out of the emergency room, Claire looked at the defenders standing at the door, greeted Matt without any surprise on her face, and then made a relieved expression and said: "Although the specific situation is not clear yet, , but because of Jessica’s timely escort, the patient’s injuries were not serious. Those injured parts looked serious, but in fact they were just superficial wounds. They only needed to be bandaged and recuperated for a period of time to recover. However, "Compared with these, I am more concerned about the mental condition of the injured person. He seemed to have suffered a huge blow and his whole mind was in an unstable state."

"Claire, can you let us meet James?"

Everything found in the antique store has always been a question of concern to Jessica. Now that she knew Li Ran's situation, she immediately made an inquiry.

"..."

After hearing Jessica's request, Claire turned her head and glanced at the defenders in front of her. She was silent for a moment before taking a step to the side. At the same time, she reminded: "You try to shorten the time as much as possible, the patient needs to rest. "

"Thank you, Claire."

Matt knew very well that the reason why Claire agreed to Jessica's request to meet was entirely because of her relationship with the Defenders, so before entering the emergency room, he deliberately stopped in his tracks and thanked the midnight nurse.

"Matt, the injuries on the patient's body are not simple at first glance. If you are really in danger, you must be careful."

Facing Matt's thanks, Claire straightened her expression and then reminded him.

As a midnight nurse, Claire has seen the scarred figures of Matt and the defenders more than once. It is precisely because she knows everything these superheroes have done to protect Hell's Kitchen that she will willingly help them and others and be herself. Do whatever you can.

…

"James."

Entering the emergency room, Jessica looked at Li Ran, who was lying on the hospital bed with straps all over his body, and her voice subconsciously became a little softer.

He looked at the weak figure on the bed and couldn't connect it with the guy he knew well in the past.

"Ahem, you're here Jessica..."

On the hospital bed, slowly turning his neck, Li Ran looked at Jessica and the defenders who appeared in the ward, and spoke feebly in a weak tone.

In order to be able to attract [Guo Haihuang]'s role, Li Ran worked hard.

He directly blew up his own antique store just to make everything look more real.

Moreover, in this way, by drawing oneself into the incident as an introduction, it can not only achieve the effect of gaining legend, but also reasonably eliminate the suspicion on oneself. In a way that does not have a high sense of presence, rationalize one's identity, giving a sense of personal participation but not being too conspicuous.

To put it simply, they are NPCs and task triggerers.

As for the trigger objects, it seems that they are the defenders in front of them, but in fact, they have vaguely turned against the more powerful Avengers.

After all, when [Guo Haihuang] persuaded Wanda and Quicksilver, who had a strong hatred for the Avengers, to cooperate, it already meant that they and the Avengers were destined to have a battle.

However, in order to make everything more intense, Li Ran used his own example to involve the defenders.

After all, to be serious, the defenders were also one of the important participants in the exit of Fire Cloud Evil God.

As the main body of various clones and integrating many acting skills into one, Li Ran's acting skills have naturally reached the level of proficiency. Especially with the use of [Ultimate Creature]'s power to control the body's cell level and the simulated injuries that were more real than real, the defenders were unable to see any flaws in it.

Even Matt, who had ripple-amplified senses, believed that Li Ran's injuries were real.

"James, what happened? Why did the antique store..."

Because of the straps, Jessica couldn't see Li Ran's expression, but she could still feel his unusual tone from his tone.

"The Assassin Brotherhood has fallen."

Turning his eyes and scanning the defenders in front of him, Li Ran made an explosive speech without any emotion in a tone that was filled with grief.

"What?!"

Sure enough, the moment they heard the message from his mouth, both Jessica and Matt couldn't help but look shocked.

Unlike Li Ran, who stayed hidden and only had contact with Jessica, on the surface, he had the experience of fighting side by side as an avatar and defender of the Assassin Brotherhood.

Therefore, when they heard the news that their former comrades and the organization they belonged to, the mysterious Assassin Brotherhood, had been destroyed, the defenders immediately showed a look of shock.

"But why, how?"

Perhaps because the news was too shocking, Luke Cage didn't know how to react for a while.

"That explosion, the explosion in the antique store, must also be related to the destruction of the Assassin Brotherhood!"

Just when everyone was shocked by the news, Jessica immediately thought of the explosion in the antique store, Li Ran's attack and the fleeting figure she had seen in the antique store.

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