Being an otaku in the world of American comics

#204 - Continental Hotel

“Crack, crack~!”

Just then, accompanied by the groaning, moaning, and collapsing sounds of the walls, a floor slab directly above Liang Yue's head suddenly couldn't withstand the weight after being burned and collapsed with a bang!

Liang Yue heard the sound and looked up, his lips pursing in a flash of lightning.

Then, with just a wave of his hand, the floor slab was immediately sent flying.

“Clang~” A sound.

The concrete slab shattered the already incomplete glass and rolled directly out of the courtyard.

Scanning his surroundings, Liang Yue quickly went to his bedroom.

However, his sleeping place, which he usually used as a facade, had already disappeared, completely erased from the second floor of the house.

The outer walls had collapsed, and the steel bars were twisted and deformed.

“Looks like this is where the center of the explosion was.”

Scanning the empty ruins, Liang Yue found a piece of metal debris on the charred floor.

If he wasn't mistaken, this should be a fragment from an ammunition explosion.

But he clearly remembered that he had not left any ammunition with such power, not even a bullet, in reality!

“So someone came to attack me?”

Thinking of this, Liang Yue's lips curled into a smile devoid of any warmth.

His gaze shifted, and he subconsciously looked at the position of the bedroom closet, which was now empty, leaving only a patch of dark, molten fabric.

“The three handmade suits I just finished are gone like that.”

Then, he moved his feet, and in a flash, he came to another room, his eyes lingering on a cabinet that had been completely burned to white ash.

“Hmm~ Now, the watch Elizabeth bought me is also gone.”

With each breath, the hot, smoky air entered his nasal cavity and throat, carrying a hint of burning acridity.

This caused his mood to become increasingly irritable.

Unconsciously, Liang Yue slowly raised his eyebrows, and with a light leap, he crossed the burned-out stairs and arrived in the equally devastated living room.

His gaze swept over the display shelf, and the baseball signed by a certain star that Coulson had given him was now burned to only a shell.

“Not bad, it's all been destroyed cleanly, and it just so happens to clear away my worries.”

After a glance, Liang Yue's eyes instantly became calm, but deep within them, there seemed to be a hidden storm.

“Bang~!”

Kicking open the door in front of him, Liang Yue slowly walked out.

With a thought, he instantly changed into a loose, cyan-black robe.

This was clothing, or rather equipment, that he had synthesized through his Forty-Nine Grid Toolbox when he had nothing to do.

The style was somewhat similar to a Taoist robe and Hanfu, a mixed and unmatched product.

The fabric of the entire robe was made of dyed cotton and the mutated silk from the Shaolin Five Ancestors world.

Now, his house had obviously been burning for a while, but not a single police officer or firefighter had come to the street in front of his house.

As a residential area located in a middle-class boutique community in Brooklyn, this was obviously extremely abnormal.

“That is to say, the person who attacked me should be very powerful, and even some official personnel have to compromise?”

With this judgment, Liang Yue immediately flipped his sleeve and took out his mobile phone from his storage space, quickly finding Aunt Liu's number in the phone book.

A moment later, the call connected.

“Hello, Aunt Liu?”

“Liang… Yue, is that you? You… are you okay? That's great~”

“Aunt Liu! What's wrong with you? Your voice sounds very weak, are you sick?”

“Well… I'm not doing very well right now…”

“Then I'll come see you right now, where are you? Aunt Liu!”

“I'm at the hospital.”

“Hospital!? Is it the one you run?”

“Yes.”

“Okay, I'll come over right now!”

……

After hanging up the phone, Liang Yue's face suddenly became gloomy, and he subconsciously looked at the location of the garage.

It had now completely collapsed, not to mention his Hummer, even his mother's Beetle was probably in dire straits.

Seeing this, Liang Yue subconsciously took a few deep breaths.

Then, without saying much, he slowly walked onto the street leading to the road.

New York in November had already begun to enter winter, so the morning sun had just risen, and the streets of the city still seemed somewhat dim.

Liang Yue's footsteps seemed very light, like an ordinary person jogging and exercising by the roadside, but a faint murderous aura was permeating his body at this moment.

Causing his robes to flutter and his hair to surge.

In his heart, a storm was brewing.

Patches of dark clouds had already begun to gather and take shape there, and strands of electricity were surging, eagerly awaiting an outburst.

“XX Hospital.”

"The one in the Colin block?"

"Yes."

After hailing a taxi, Liang Yue sat in the back seat, placed his phone aside, and sat there in silence.

The driver in the front was an old man with a full head of gray hair. Seeing that he seemed to be in a bad mood, he didn't bother him, but turned on the radio and played a soothing American country ballad.

Perhaps, he wanted to ease the guy's emotions.

Unfortunately, Liang Yue couldn't hear it at all at this time. The restlessness in his eyes became more and more obvious with the passage of time.

With a thought, the system store instantly appeared before his eyes.

Looking at the pair of pistols on the light curtain, priced at a full five thousand points, the guy clicked to buy without hesitation.

"Buzz ~ ~ ~ Buzz ~ ~ ~ Buzz ~ ~ ~"

A vibration rang at this moment. Liang Yue picked up the phone next to him and glanced at the number on the screen. As expected, it was Elizabeth.

"Hello ~"

"Liang Yue! Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, but my aunt seems to be injured. I'm on my way to see her now."

"Oh ~ I'm sorry, Liang Yue, I, I shouldn't have exposed you at that party in the first place, otherwise ~"

"It's okay, Ellie. You did the right thing, and I'm not that invisible. But ~ from what you just said, do you know something?"

"Yes, Liang Yue, I know who did it, but can you please calm down and let me handle this?"

"Tell me his identity information."

"Please, Liang Yue, I will make sure this gets a satisfactory result, please believe me ~"

"The other party's identity is not simple, can't you say it?"

"Don't be like this, calm down a bit ~"

"Forget it, I won't make things difficult for you. Don't worry about this."

......

After hanging up the phone, Liang Yue felt even more agitated.

Sitting in the back seat of the car, he was like a giant dragon about to explode. Even heavy breathing could not suppress the boiling of the blood in his body.

In order not to do anything extreme in the taxi in front of him, Liang Yue had no choice but to open a small space channel in front of him with a thought.

The other side was connected to a bamboo forest in the stronghold world.

In an instant, a large amount of highly oxygenated air filled with the fragrance of bamboo leaves rushed towards his face.

The fresh natural atmosphere was refreshing, as if it had a soothing and broad magic power. Liang Yue closed his eyes slightly and began to immerse himself in it.

Only then did he slowly calm down.

"Buzz ~ ~ ~ Buzz ~ ~ ~ Buzz ~ ~ ~"

At this moment, another vibration rang beside him. Liang Yue reached out and saw that it was Tony Stark calling.

"Hello ~"

"Hey ~ Kid! Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, Mr. Stark, why are you calling?"

"Oh ho ~ Of course, I'm calling to confirm whether my partner is still alive. If you die, then the agreement we signed before will naturally no longer need to be fulfilled.

I have to say, the plan you gave me is indeed feasible. I have already simulated and verified it in the laboratory, and now I am about to let go and do it. On this point, I have to thank you, kid!

Although this is a business, to some extent, you did save my life, although... this plan originally belonged to Stark Group's property."

"Heh heh heh ~ Okay Tony, I wish you success soon. Also, from what you just said, I seem to have heard something. How much do you know about the bombing of my house?"

"Ever since you became my partner, I have been paying attention to you, but I have been busy with experiments recently, and I haven't had time to take care of these things.

Just last night, I heard that someone put a bounty on you at the Continental Hotel, and I wanted to call and ask, but I couldn't get through.

Hey ~ Kid, your phone seems to be harder to get through than mine!"

"Thank you, Tony. You said ~ that Continental Hotel…"

Liang Yue paused at this point, his eyes flickered a few times, and then he continued with a bit of unexpected amusement.

"Wouldn't it be a, killer organization?"

"How about it ~ Kid, are you scared? Do you want to come over and seek the protection of the great Mr. Stark? Don't worry, my fee is not expensive, just give me a few more bottles of that ancient fruit wine.

With someone like Tony Stark, applying some pressure with a phone call will naturally cause the employer behind the scenes to withdraw the bounty ~"

Feeling Tony Stark's smug tone on the other end of the phone, Liang Yue suddenly curved his lips, outlining a cruel smile on his face.

"Thank you, Tony. I will bring you the wine you want when we meet later. As for protection, there's no need. I can handle my own affairs."

"You're talking big. The Continental Hotel is actually backed by a huge organization. They are not easy to mess with. Only big shots like Mr. Stark, who stand at the top, can have an impact on them."

"Thank you, Tony. I forgot to tell you, actually, I'm even harder to mess with ~"