Being an otaku in the world of American comics

#429 - Subway Chronicles

As dusk approached, Liang Yue, after parting ways with Peter and Sam, didn't immediately teleport home. Instead, he took the subway, a rare occurrence, heading towards his home in northern New York City.

The northern part of New York City is considered a low-income area, and the closer to the city's edge, the more complex and disordered the residents become.

However, somewhat frustratingly, the Xavier Institute that Liang Yue bought is actually located on the very edge of northern New York, and going further up would already be within the jurisdiction of another city.

Therefore, compared to those more traditional wealthy areas and luxury villa districts, the cultural environment where his home is located isn't particularly outstanding.

Fortunately, the geographical environment there is quite good.

Large expanses of pristine forest and flowing streams surround the manor.

Furthermore, during Christmas last year, Tony Stark bought over three thousand acres of land north of the Xavier Institute and gave it to him as a Christmas gift.

The man can now be described as having leaped into the landlord class.

If he wanted to, Liang Yue could completely change the environment and terrain around the manor, creating an independent kingdom isolated from New York City.

Of course, he personally wasn't too interested in those low-income areas not far from the manor, and he didn't have any thoughts of benefiting the people nearby.

After all, this is America, and he has no obligation to help this country's lower class obtain benefits.

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During the ride, Liang Yue was sitting quietly in the subway car.

The surrounding crowd was a bit crowded, the air was somewhat noisy, and faintly permeated with a mixture of sweat, foot odor, body odor, and even the smell of urine.

This smell wasn't too obvious, as it was masked by a stronger disinfectant scent.

But Liang Yue, as a being whose five senses far exceeded those of ordinary people, was able to keenly distinguish the difference.

Inadvertently, he frowned slightly because of this.

However, the people around him didn't seem to care, appearing calm and accustomed to it.

Not far away, several black youths dressed in bizarre clothing, covered in iron rings and chains, were gesticulating and chatting happily among themselves, occasionally glancing in his direction.

Liang Yue ignored them, with his current strength, he naturally wouldn't be disturbed by the gaze of a few small-time gangsters.

At this moment, he was still in the adjustment period after returning from the Naruto world.

The reason why he had been wandering around New York City and not being very active in leveling up recently was simply because Liang Yue wanted to integrate into real society more quickly.

After all, the life in the ninja world for more than ten years had greatly changed Liang Yue's own temperament.

Years of combat had greatly increased his combat power, but it had also caused a deviation in his mentality.

Similar to when he returned from the Hobbit world before.

With Liang Yue's current state of mind, although he wouldn't develop any war-related syndromes.

But as someone with the grand goal of conquering the heavens, he couldn't allow any mistakes to occur in these details concerning his own foundation.

Of course, Liang Yue at this moment wasn't just observing the people and things in the car.

While adjusting and smoothing his emotions, Liang Yue was actually multitasking, secretly cultivating the "Eye Meridian Sutra" that he had obtained from the system before at a low intensity!

Relying on his already vastly improved spiritual power control skills and the cover of the DNF fashion, everything was proceeding silently.

As time passed, the people in the car gradually decreased.

Soon, even the black guys who had been watching him for a long time had all gotten off the subway.

Just when Liang Yue thought he would be sitting alone until the last stop, a woman with a scholarly aura walked into the adjacent car.

She had a good appearance, wore gold-rimmed glasses, and had a dignified and gentle feeling of an elegant lady, her dress was more inclined towards a university teacher.

After glancing at Liang Yue, who was Asian and had a friendly face, she obviously breathed a sigh of relief. After tightening the well-made coat on her body, she quickly sat down on a chair not far from him across the aisle.

Liang Yue glanced at this woman with some surprise, feeling a bit strange in his heart.

Because, according to the current location of the subway line, the car seemed to have already entered the low-income area, and this woman didn't seem to belong here.

However, it couldn't be ruled out that the other party had some other purpose.

It's just that with the time already being 8:20 in the evening, it didn't seem like a wise choice for such a single woman to run into a low-income community.

Of course, Liang Yue's thoughts at this moment were just fleeting.

Like a strand of scattered thoughts that lingered in his heart every moment, it quickly disappeared.

After all, the other party had nothing to do with him.

"Speaking of which, shouldn't I go see Betty? After sending her to Stark Industries before, other than sending a gift during Christmas, it seems like I haven't seen her much..."

For no reason, Liang Yue suddenly thought of that familiar figure at this moment, and the corners of his originally pursed lips unconsciously curved up.

"Could it be that some large company has recently opened in the vicinity?"

These people seemed to be coming for this woman. Taking advantage of their drunkenness, they stood in front of her, loudly saying some flirtatious and teasing words.

Before long, one of the men's hands had begun to play with the woman's hair, and the others were also looking excited and unable to control themselves.

Like a group of bulls in heat.

It seemed that they wanted to take advantage of the situation and drag the other party to a secluded place for an intense group fight.

However, this woman obviously didn't have this idea, trying to avoid the other party's physical teasing and refusing in a low voice, and then looked towards Liang Yue for help.

"Hehe ~"

Liang Yue seemed to find it difficult to continue to watch.

Psst~~

So, after a light whistle, this guy simply and neatly turned his hand over and took out a handgun that he hadn't used for a long time from his storage backpack.

With two "ka-ka" sounds, he pointed the gun at the men not far away.

Coincidentally, these people who were drunk were also attracted by the whistling sound, and they all looked at him with some slow reactions.

Faced with the sudden appearance of the gun, the few people subconsciously shivered and took a few steps back.

But after seeing that the person holding the gun was just an Asian, one of them immediately perked up, pointed at Liang Yue with his finger, stepped forward, and scolded him.

"You! Yellow-skinned monkey! How dare you point a gun at me!? Believe it or not, my lawyer tomorrow..."

"Bang~ Bang~ Bang~ Bang!"

Without hesitation, four shots in a row, the bullets directly hit the other party's shoulders and knees.

Relying on his superb marksmanship, Liang Yue skillfully avoided the blood vessels in the man's vital points, but he really embedded the bullets into the other party's bones.

Immediately afterwards, amid the woman's screams, the remaining men, seeing that the situation was not good, turned around and fled to another car at the first moment.

During the process, they stumbled and fell several times, but they didn't dare to slow down.

Afterwards, Liang Yue ignored the man's slightly miserable wailing sound after being shot, as well as the woman who had shrunk into a ball in fright across from him, and put away the pistol.

In his heart, he couldn't help but feel a trace of confusion.

"It seems that I still have a bit of post-traumatic stress disorder."

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