Chapter 69: I Bet Your Gun Is Empty
Lan Xingyu brought Obsidian and Coral to Gwen's room. Gwen happened to be awake and was chatting with Pepper Potts. Icarus was also accompanying her nearby.
As soon as Gwen saw Lan Xingyu walk in, she greeted him happily, looking quite spirited.
"Xingyu, you're here! Look, look. I can control fire, oh!" As she spoke, a ball of fire appeared in Gwen's hand.
"And also, also. There's ice too!" Saying this, ice appeared in her other hand.
"And I can glow now too! Isn't it amazing!" Gwen was like a child who had just received a new toy, sharing her joy with Lan Xingyu.
"Mm, Gwen is the most amazing." Seeing Gwen like this, Lan Xingyu felt much more relieved. After all, no matter who it was, they would be scared if they suddenly discovered they had so many strange abilities.
But seeing Pepper Potts secretly winking at him, Lan Xingyu knew this must be Sister Potts' doing.
"Gwen, let me introduce you. These two little cuties are the combat partners I just summoned, Obsidian and Coral. Take them with you when you go home. They can protect Mr. Stacy and Mrs. Stacy."
"Hello, Gwen," said Obsidian.
"Please take care of us from now on!" Coral also said.
When Gwen saw such cute little turtles and snakes, she immediately hugged them into her arms.
"Wow! So cute! You can even talk, that's amazing," Gwen said happily.
"I can talk too," Amber said at this moment.
"Wow! Amber! You can talk too! Hmph! You actually hid it from me, after I treated you so well. I am Life Qi." Gwen said to Amber.
"Gwen, don't blame Amber. You didn't have superpowers before, so I asked Amber and the others to hide their abilities," Lan Xingyu explained.
"Fine, considering you saved me, I won't hold it against you. Come here, Amber, let me hug you too!" Gwen was just teasing Amber. She went to hug Amber again.
"Xingyu, do you know? Now I feel like I have so much strength! But I'm still not as amazing as Sister Icarus. Sister Icarus actually has wings, just like an angel!" Gwen said enviously.
After all, girls at this age like beautiful things, not to mention that Icarus was not only beautiful, but with her wings spread, she really looked exactly like an angel.
Lan Xingyu realized why Pepper Potts had brought Icarus along. Any child who had just obtained extraordinary powers would be afraid. But if someone like themselves appeared who also possessed extraordinary powers, they would feel much more at ease. Coupled with Icarus's angel persona, it put the Little Loli at ease.
However, Gwen couldn't stay cool for more than three seconds. The flame in her left hand suddenly seemed to go out of control, grew larger, and then extinguished.
It blackened the Little Loli's face, which had become fairer and more tender after being strengthened.
Seeing this scene, Lan Xingyu and Pepper Potts both laughed, making the Little Loli feel embarrassed.
Seeing the Little Loli's shy appearance, Lan Xingyu stopped teasing her. A magic circle appeared in his hand, and he cleaned the stains off Gwen.
Gwen was still shy, but then she saw something like a magic circle from a game appear in Lan Xingyu's hand. Then the stains on her body all disappeared. This startled the Little Loli again.
"Lan Xingyu, do you have special powers too?" the Little Loli asked regretfully.
"Mm, otherwise how could I have saved you? You little silly," Lan Xingyu extended two fingers and tapped Gwen's little head.
After tapping the Little Loli's head, Lan Xingyu thought about whether to say: "Sorry everyone, next time?" But before Lan Xingyu could decide, Gwen acted coquettishly towards Pepper Potts.
"You're not allowed to tap my forehead! Sister Potts, look! Lan Xingyu is bullying me!" Gwen covered her forehead with both hands, her face pouting. Both Lan Xingyu and Pepper Potts were charmed by her.
Just as Pepper Potts was about to comfort the Little Loli, Jarvis reported: "Ms. Potts, Young Miss Gwen's parents are here to see Young Miss Gwen."
"Mm, open the door! From now on, whenever they come to our house, just help them open the door." Then she said to Gwen:
"Let's go, let's go see your mom and dad. They are very worried about you too."
"Mm, mm, mm." Gwen nodded repeatedly. She jumped off the bed, but she jumped too high and didn't react in time. Lan Xingyu had to flash over to catch her.
"Gwen, slow down. You still can't control your body well right now. You need to adapt for a while," Lan Xingyu said gently to Gwen.
Gwen, in Lan Xingyu's arms, had her face turned red to the roots of her ears. She responded perfunctorily and then ran out of Lan Xingyu's arms in embarrassment.
Subsequently, Lan Xingyu and his group went down the stairs to the hall. When Gwen's mother saw that her precious daughter was fine, she immediately came to Gwen and touched her all over with both hands, worried about whether she was injured anywhere.
If she wasn't close to her due date, she would have hugged her daughter, who had almost left her, in her arms.
Afterwards, Lan Xingyu explained Gwen's current situation, and Gwen's parents agreed to let Gwen go to Kamar-Taj to learn to control her power. However, it would be tomorrow. They wanted to have a meal at home with Gwen before she left, and then help Gwen pack the things she needed.
Lan Xingyu naturally had no problem with that; it wasn't urgent anyway. After sending off Gwen's family and the Obsidian and Coral that Gwen was taking with her, Lan Xingyu planned to go play in New York.
Lan Xingyu told Pepper Potts, then opened a Teleportation Gate and arrived in New York.
He decided not to look for Peter and the others yet, but to go shopping at the supermarket first to buy some gifts, otherwise, it would feel strange to go to someone's house empty-handed.
As a result, before Lan Xingyu could go to the supermarket, he stopped at a game store. Because Lan Xingyu saw a game he was interested in. No need to say more, buy it!
Just as Lan Xingyu was looking for his game disc, a masked gangster rushed into the game store.
As soon as he came in, he fired a shot at the ceiling, which immediately stunned everyone.
"Everyone, put your hands on your heads and squat down, or I'll blow you away." As he said this, he fired two more shots.
Then the gangster pointed the gun at the boss and said: "Put the money in this bag, hurry up."
The boss was also afraid that the gangster would hurt him, so he started slowly putting money into the bag.
The gangster seemed to think the boss was putting the money in too slowly, so he fired two shots near the boss to make him hurry up.
Seeing this scene, Lan Xingyu stopped watching from the side.
He came behind the gangster, took out the straw hat he had bought while shopping with Pepper Potts from his space pocket, and said: "Since you've drawn your gun, you have to bet your life on it."
The gangster heard a sound behind him and immediately turned around. He pointed the gun at Lan Xingyu's head and said impatiently: "You brat! What do you mean!"
"My meaning is, this thing is not a toy for scaring people!" The shadow of Lan Xingyu's straw hat covered one of his eyes. He released some killing intent and a little bit of Haoshoku. For a moment, even that gangster started to feel afraid.
"You brat! Believe it or not, I'll shoot you dead! Damn it!" The gangster started to get agitated, and his hands began to shake. It looked like he was about to shoot at any moment.
"Heh!" Lan Xingyu smiled contemptuously.
"How about this, I bet your gun has no bullets! If I lose, I'll give this to you! If you lose, you give me one dollar!" As Lan Xingyu said this, he took out a pure gold necklace from his pocket—actually from his space.
"You, you, you, since you're courting death!" The gangster's mentality was on the verge of collapse. After speaking, he pulled the trigger.
"Click." No bullet flew out, an empty shot.
Because when Lan Xingyu came behind the gangster, he had used magic "Apport" to transfer away the remaining bullets in his gun.
That was why Lan Xingyu had this moment of showing off.
The gangster was stunned. What was going on? There should have been two or three rounds in the pistol, right? Why was this?
Lan Xingyu didn't give him time to react, directly leaped next to his head, and kicked him. He knocked him out directly.
He walked to the side of the gangster who had been kicked, and found one dollar on him.
"This is what you owe me, now we're even," Lan Xingyu said lightly.
Subsequently, he went to the store owner who was still in a daze, put the game disc he found on the counter, and said: "Boss, aren't you going to call the police?"
"Ah? Oh, oh! Right, call the police!" The boss was awakened by Lan Xingyu's words. He hurriedly took out his phone and started to call the police.
Lan Xingyu waited until the boss finished calling the police before saying: "Boss, don't just stand there, check me out!"
"Oh! Okay, that's 86 dollars. That... thank you, kid. You're really brave." The boss said somewhat ashamed.
"It's nothing, leave the rest to you. Just tell the police the truth. Goodbye!" After saying this, Lan Xingyu left the store.
Upon leaving, he called Coulson: "Coulson? Do you have time?"
When Coulson saw it was Lan Xingyu's call, he immediately picked it up and said: "I have time, what's wrong, Xingyu."
"Nothing much, I just solved a gangster at a game store, can you help me clean it up? Is that okay?"
"Of course, no problem. I'll go take care of it right now."
"Then thank you for your hard work! I'm hanging up, I still have to go back and try the new game. Bye-bye."
"Mm, bye-bye. See you at the training base."
"Mm, see you at the training base, bye-bye."
Lan Xingyu finished handling things here and returned home. After being messed up by that gangster, the interest he originally had in looking for Peter was gone.
He played games at home. Later, he heard that Tony was trying to persuade Dr. Hardy about something. He didn't come back at noon, and Pepper Potts also went to the company. Lan Xingyu didn't want to eat alone.
So he opened a Teleportation Gate and came to Kamar-Taj. When he arrived at the square and saw the Ancient One teaching everyone some magic, Lan Xingyu just flashed over directly.
"Master, I'm back!" With a leap, he landed in the Ancient One's arms.
"You little fellow, you're already this big, and you still want me to catch you when you come back! Don't you know your teacher is already old?" The Ancient One patted Lan Xingyu's head dotingly and said.
"Heehee, Master isn't old at all? Whoever dares to say Master is old, I'll teach them a lesson with one kick." Lan Xingyu said with his hands on his hips. It charmed all the surrounding mages.