Chapter 483: Universe Superhero League (USL)
“During a fight with a supervillain, I was forcibly transported.” Brother Jue voiced out the spiel that he had ford in the few minutes he was left inside the room. “When I recovered... I have already appeared inside this piece of desert.” Hearing that, He He He He was silent for a few seconds. His eyes appeared to wonder to the mirror behind Brother Jue. After a while, he opened his mouth to speak, “Do you think I will believe sothing like that?”
“It is not important whether you believe or not.” Feng Bujue used his finger to point at the mirror behind him. “As long as the people behind that mirror behind , I’m good.”
He He He He’s facial expression shifted obviously in that mont. Seeing that Brother Jue confird his suspicion further so he continue, “You are not so ‘Lieutenant General’ are you... based on my observation, your ranking is probably even lower than that colonel, Ku Ku Ku Ku that I encountered earlier.” He scratched his chin and continued, “taking aside the performance issue... from your body fra, your presence and habitual mannerism, you are quite possibly a security captain attached to a high ranking officer...” Feng Bujue titled his head and looked at the mirror behind him. “Of course, if I am that high ranking officer, I would have done the sa choice...” At this point, he stood up.
He He He He reacted at the sa ti. He bolted up from his seat and assud the offensive pose imdiately.
“Relax.” Feng Bujue said. “The chair was uncomfortable, I just wanted to stand up for a walk.” He smiled. “After all, this is an interrogation, I couldn’t have asked you to get a sofa in here for , could i?”
“You better don’t push your luck...” He He He He warned severely. He seed like he was ready to apprehend Brother Jue, looks like Brother Jue’s talent to attract ire worked at every single corner of the universe.
“from the mont I ran into your ‘Unit 1’ until I was sent into this interrogation room...” Feng Bujue ignored the man’s warning and continued his analysis. “Throughout this whole process, there is no one that ca to search my body.” He paced back and forth before the mirror. “At least back on earth... that will be highly illogical and unreasonable. What if I carry so kind of highly powerful explosive on , wouldn’t it be very dangerous to bring back to the base?” He chuckled. “Even though I have many theories for that, like your species is generally not that clever or the concept of ‘death’ on this planet is different from that on Earth and so on... but the most logical supposition is undeniably... you people believe fully that I do not carry any dangerous object on .” Brother Jue licked his lips and looked into the mirror. He fixed his hair that was beco dishevelled from the sweat. “I believe... on your large robots, at the corners of the bases, and...” he used his hand to knock lightly on the glass before him, “...behind this single-sided mirror, there is a very advanced tal detector.”
At this point, he turned around to address He He He He, “But... even though you guys knew that I have nothing too dangerous on other than so magazines, you did not put your guard down. So you have this soldier who is physically capable to co in acting as a lieutenant general to co to talk to . Even if I do sothing sudden and dangerous, the real lieutenant general would not be hard in any way.”
Buzz Buzz Buzz—
As Feng Bujue finished, a buzzing like bees suddenly appeared. The ‘mirror’ in the room started to change and in two seconds, it turned into clear glass. Brother Jue turned to look and another room appeared on the other side of the glass. The size of the other room was slightly bigger than this interrogation room and it was loaded with many devices. At that mont, the real lieutenant General He He He He was standing on the other side of the glass, staring at Feng Bujue.
...
“You can co back now, Ji Ji Ji Ji.” The general said, his voice travelled clearly into the interrogation room.
“Yes, sir.” The officer who called himself ‘he he he he’ but was really ‘ji ji ji ji’ answered before he moved to the door. When the electronic doors opened, he walked out.
“Earthling, you appear to be too clever for your own good...” The general on the opposite of the glass told Brother Jue. “But I am no three years old child either. Even if I admit you’re clever, and can co up with reasonable analysis.... But things have not changed really.” He paused. “You said you are a superhero from Earth, sure why not... But talk is cheap, I need evidence to support that.”
Without saying a word, Feng Bujue snapped his finger flashly and the next second, a golden shiny poker card appeared in his fingers.
“Hmph...” The general responded with a scoff. “That at most can prove that you are a magician.”
His smile though soon froze on his face.
Tsk—
An extrely disgusting sound echoed through the room. Brother Jue used the Death Poker to cut at the glass and thus the sound of nails scratching on glass reverberated through the room.
“How is this possible!” General He quickly retreated. The officers who manned the machines all stood up and retreated to the wall. Ji Ji Ji Ji who just returned to the other side and the soldiers who were already in the other room all raised their weapons to point at the glass and ready to fire.
“Hmm... So it is indeed an impressive technological product...” Feng Bujue soon cut out an opening that was oval and was big enough for him to pass on the ‘glass’. He looked at the edge of the glass and said, “The thickness is about 3 cm and between the two layers of glass, there are tons of nanobots, this is so high tech gadget...” He was not wrong, the ‘glass’ that partitioned the interrogation room and the control room for people of the Shrugging Planet was a very advanced and very expensive military equipnt. It cost more to produce than a tank. This ‘surveillance board’ could not only transfer and adjust single or double-sided sight and hearing signals, it possessed many other functions like cara lens and tal detectors. Most importantly... it had very high tensile strength, even if soone self-exploded in the interrogation room (it had happened before), it would not affect the people in the next room.
Therefore, when the people of Shrugging Planet saw Feng Bujue used a glowing poker to cut through the glass, the shock was indescribable.
“See, this is the power of a superhero.” Feng Bujue told the people on the other side of the room through the hole that he cut open.
“Do not move! Put down your weapon.” Ji Ji Ji Ji stood at the front with the gun and shouted at Brother Jue through the hole. Feng Bujue smiled and with a wave of his hand, the poker disintegrated, “I told you to relax already...” he tilted his head around to look at the general that was guarded by the layers of soldier. “I do not an any harm and I am not a spy. Honestly, I know basically nothing about people on your planet. You can consider an actual visitor...” he also raised his arms to shrug. “As long as you do not threaten my personal safety or limit my freedom, I have no reason to harm any of you.”
“Put down your gun, Ji Ji Ji Ji.” General He pushed away the soldiers and walked forward. He pressed down on Ji Ji Ji Ji’s gun. “Okay... I believe you.” He fixed his military apparel. “And what would your na be?” When he asked this question, he quickly changed his mind and corrected himself. “Oh, sorry, I forgot, superhero operates in code nas and you are?”
“The Poker.” Feng Bujue said.
“Oh, okay...” General He replied. “Ha... misunderstanding, this is all a misunderstanding...” His tone softened a lot. “Since you are a superhero... how about this, I will help you contact the universe superhero league and I’ll have them escort you back to Earth.”
“What?” Feng Bujue was truly shocked.
“Erm... is there anything wrong with that?” General He asked.
“No... nothing... it’s fine...” Feng Bujue arranged his facial expression swiftly but in his mind, he was thinking, [No way... there is actual superhero in this world? And they are acting at a universe level?]
“I’m sorry but have you not heard of the universe superhero league before?” The shocked tone was too obvious that even though they were from different species, General He could pick up on it so he followed it up with this question.
“Hmm... it’s because I just beca a superhero not too long ago and I’m very new at it...” Seeing the suspicion, Feng Bujue had no choice but to continue to weave his tapestry of lies. “Basically... I am still practically unknown.”
“Oh, that’s why.” General He nodded. “It does not matter... When the people from universe superhero league is here, you can directly ask them more about it.” He said as he turned around to whisper so command to one of the soldiers. Even though Brother Jue stood quite a distance away, he could hear clearly... General He really did order his people to contact this ‘universe superhero league’.
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Long story short... several minutes later, Feng Bujue was invited to wait in a resting room. In the rest of the period, he was sitting on a bed of needles and his heart was worried. [Now things get much complicated... I just wanted to co up with an excuse that they cannot prove and use that cover up the fact that I have suddenly appeared at their planet’s secret military zone... but who knew things would turn out like this...
[Based on that general’s reaction, the superheroes are well respected in this universe, at the people of this planet are friendly towards them... I wonder what kind of superhero I will et in a minute, what if a character like ‘Doctor Manhattan’ ca and exposed as a traveller from another world and viewed as a threat... then things will not be good...]
Based on what General He said, all the official governnt army could connect the universe superhero league in the galaxy alliance. As long as there is a valid reason, they will answer your call. Soone will co within a universe week (about an hour); based on the ergency of the situation, they might arrive sooner than that. But Feng Bujue’s issue was very not an ergency, if one wanted to find an analogy... it was a child who had gotten lost and needed an escort ho.
If Brother Jue was just a normal earthling, after surviving the Shrugging Planet’s strict interrogation and confird that he was not a spy, he would be sent back to Earth (of course, they could just kill him too) but now since he had stated that he was a ‘superhero’ and showed his ‘superhero’, then things changed. Feng Bujue was not wrong, superheroes had a very high status in this universe. They were basically the ‘law enforcent of the universe’. There was a complicated setting behind that one shan’t get into at this mont... and we shall return to the story.
Tsk..
The door opened and with General He leading the way, two n in tights walked into the room. The one walking ahead was about 1.8 tres tall and wore a white pantsuit. His color sche was golden and purple, he even wore a similarly colored mask on his face. The man had long black hair, brown skin and no beard. Due to the tight fit of the suit, it could be seen clearly that this person had the body fra of a human and appeared to be a superhero from earth as well.
The person who walked at the back had the sa appearance as the one in front. He was brown-skinned but he had a five o’ clock shadow on his chin and his tights were blue and white in color.
“Let make the introduction.” General He led the two to Brother Jue. Feng Bujue had never been so nervous before, he was sweating bullet. His eyes swept the two and when he saw two justice-filled eyes stare back at him, he thought to himself. [Ah... my skin is crawling... as they say, yin and yang, good and evil should never mix...] For so strange reason, he had aligned himself with the side of ‘evil’.
“This is... the Poker.” General He extended his hand to say.
Feng Bujue stood up from the sofa and forced a smile. “he... he he... nice to et you, I have just arrived here... and actually I just made up a random na, got a not so impressive outfit and ca out to do superhero business. I have not affiliated myself with any organization....”
“Aiz! Don’t sell yourself short, young man.” The leading man added quite openly, “As long as you have a heart after justice, the door of the universe superhero league will be forever for you.”
[Pfft...] Feng Bujue tried to keep himself from laughing that his face was red from holding the breath in. He shouted in his heart. [Hey! What is up with this Indian accent? Is this so kind of joke! It makes the serious sounding content sound so laughable!]
“Hmm, well said.” General He nodded at the superhero who spoke. “This is a superhero from the Planet Cheat Code, and has been proving his might around the northern side of the galaxy recently—Pi Li Dance Hero.”
The introduction... was like a sledgehamr slamd into Brother Jue’s heart.
[Hey!] he almost shouted. Due to extre discomfort, he weakened and collapsed to the sofa. [he has really appeared! This madman has appeared in ga? Isn’t this a character that I randomly made up? He really exists? This does not really matter? No wonder he is Indian! But at the ti, I did not go into this superhero’s details... so the system added them in on its own?] (Please refer to Chapter 232 for more details)
“And this... is his partner.” General He pointed at the man in blue and white tights. “the Tap Monster.”
[Why do I expect anything else?!] Feng Bujue continued to shout in his heart. [This universe is over now! Everything’s over! I better shift to a new world! The desert is not bad now! Let run away in the sun towards the horizon!]
“Oh, I’ve heard all about it, the Poker.” The Tap Monster moved forward and said in the sa Indian accent. “You were dragged into an interdinsional porthole during a fight with a supervillain. And after multiple adventures and trials, you broke through the interdinsional barrier and landed on Shrugging Planet. You tore open an opening in the desert and successfully returned to this world? That’s impressive.”
[That is indeed impressive! Too impressive if you ask ... I never said any of those things. This must be the work of that He fella! Why don’t you just tell them I am Ultraman! At least it will be extra for to round up that lie! I only need to xia xia xia and then things will be over!] Feng Bujue was burning up within. [I want to turn into light! Turn into light... light...]
“Erm... are you okay?” Pi Li Dance Hero asked Brother Jue. “The Poker? Why aren’t you speaking?” When they saw Feng Bujue collapse on the couch with a pale face and said nothing, they thought he was sick.
“he he... it’s fine...” Feng Bujue replied weakly, “I was just... spacing out... a bit...”
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After so brief introduction, Feng Bujue followed the two strange superheroes and left. With the accompanint of General He and so soldiers, they soon arrived at the base’s fourth hangar. There were many chanized robots in the hangar. At that mont, among the robots, was mixed a small spaceship that was obviously different from the others via its shape and color.
The spaceship was about 15 tres long, 8 tres wides, and 6 tres tall, it looked like a shoe without laces. The main color of the ship was sea blue and the second color was orange-yellow. A line of black characters was imprinted on the side. The translation provided by the system told Brother Jue it said, “Universe Superhero League.”
[Hmm... This should be so kind of lingua franca in this universe...] Feng Bujue looked at the untranslated version of the language and thought to himself. [Speaking of which... the worldbuilding of this scenario is more complicated than I thought... I wonder how many allies and different sentient races are there in their ‘galaxy alliance’. How is the diplomatic affairs between the different planet and do they exchange technological advances...]
While Brother Jue was thinking, the group arrived beside the spaceship. By then, General He and the other people from Shrugging Planet stopped. The general said, “Then... this is where we part.” He paused. “The runway has been cleared, you can leave at any mont.”
“Thank you for everything you have done for , general.” Feng Bujue politely thanked He He He He.
“It’s my pleasure, the Poker.” General He replied. “Superheroes are the guardian of the universe, it is normal for us to support you.” After another round of aningless flattery, Brother Jue finally bad farewell to the people of Shrugging Planet and got onto the two superheroes’ spaceship. The interior of the spaceship did not look that weird, it looked straight out of the set of a sci-fi flick. The corridor, the door and the seats, they were all designed according to the human size. The two heroes led Feng Bujue to the cockpit at the front of the spaceship and assigned him the third seat and reminded him to put on the seat belt.
“I have to say you are quite lucky, the Poker.” Pi Li Dance Hero operated the control of the space as he tilted his head to the side to say, “The atmosphere at Shrugging Planet is similar to Earth,” he paused. “If you have landed at a planet with incompatible atmosphere and no sentient lifeform, then you’d be in dangerous situation.”
“Yes...” Feng Bujue replied. “I would be dead if I had landed on a planet with an ozone layer.” That was not wrong but he knew very that... this would not have happened. The system would not drop the player into a sure death situation. Therefore, this was not luck but an inevitability. Or else the company would be prepared to face many complaints from the player base, although with Dream Inc’s previous handling of their Public Relation, it was another issue whether they would answer to the player’s complaint or not.
“By the way, the Poker.” The Tap Monster turned around to ask, “You have not registered with the league, right? That was what you said earlier, yes?”
“Now that you ntion it...” Brother Jue pretended to be shy and asked, “I only just found out about the organization of ‘universe superheroes league’ today...”
“ha ha... looks like you really do not know anything.” The Tap Monster laughed in response. He seed to get a kick out of this.
“Isn’t that a good thing?” Pi Li Dance Hero added, “At least that proves that the Poker beca a hero simply because of his pursuit of justice.” Once he said that, Feng Bujue’s expression shifted slightly. Instantly he caught the underlying aning in Pi Li Dance Hero’s words. [In other words...] Feng Bujue speculated. [So people... did not beco a superhero for the sake of ‘justice’?... Hmm... Looks like there are so benefits involved here...]
Even though he was calculating it inside but on the surface, he appeared unfazed and unaffected. He even managed to reply in an even tone. “Then... is there a requirent to join the league? If possible... I would like to be a part of your group.”
“Hmm, of course, there is a requirent to join.” The Tap Monster replied, “But I do not think you should be worried... Based on what General He He He He told us, you easily cut through their planet’s ‘super tal’ with your superpower. With that command of superpower, it should be no problem for you to obtain the basic ‘right of a superhero’.”
While they spoke, Pi Li Dance Hero had already done everything to prepare to lift off. He picked up a communicator and fixed the frequency before saying, “General He, this is Pi Li Dance Hero. Our spaceship is ready to depart, request for take off.”
“Request accepted. Please use the third runway outside the hanger. The door has been opened and the guiding lights are ready.” General He’s voice soon ca back from the communicator.
“Understood, thank you for your cooperation again, general.”
When they were speaking, the spaceship had lifted off the ground. The buzzing sound echoed in Feng Bujue’s ears, his body could feel directly the giant montum gathering in the propellers. Brother Jue then realized he was going to experience his first space travel in his life. Even though it was in a virtual world, it was still quite exciting.
“Then why don’t you co back to the league with us, the Poker?” Pi Li Dance Hero drove the spaceship at high speed but he was able to split his attention to chat with Brother Jue. “Or... we can drop you back at Earth first, if you need to.”
“That won’t be necessary, I can directly follow you to the league.” Feng Bujue replied.
“Is there really not necessary?” Pi Li Dance Hero said, “With your disappearance, your friends and family back on Earth much be worried, you should return to inform them...”
“There’s no need.” Feng Bujue cut the man off and said in a lancholic tone, “I have no one to report back at ho.”
“Hmm... Understood.” Pi Li Dance Hero appeared to catch sothing. He stopped pressing and focused on his driving. The Tap Monster though turned around and took a good look at brother Jue. There was a complicated look in his eyes.
[Hmph... my acting is so good that... even I have impressed myself...] Feng Bujue thought to himself but the saddened look hung on his face. Obviously, our Brother Jue had gotten into his character... The Poker that he player was undeniably one with a sad background, one that would make good sob stories. And Feng Bujue decided on this background because those who observed normal social cues would not press further and that provided him with a perfect cover, it was one stone that could kill many birds.
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