Chapter 1

"Mr. Li An, could you please explain how you fell from the 18th floor and emerged completely unscathed?"

Li An smiled and said, "There were many awnings in mid-air that slowed my descent.

Moreover, I wasn't completely unscathed; my head still gets dizzy from time to time..."

"Can you explain this then?"

The host raised a remote control and lightly pressed a button.

A video of Li An punching a Chitauri soldier suddenly played on the large screen in the studio.

Li An chuckled, "Modern PS technology is indeed advanced!"

"Do you deny it then?"

Li An nodded, "I am definitely not the Superman everyone talks about! I swear it with my life!"

He then showed the back of his hand, "Everyone, look, the cut from slicing vegetables yesterday is still there."

"Phew... I am not Superman... it's all just internet rumors..."

After leaving the program center, Li An sat in his used pickup truck and muttered,

"Superman? I'm just a 'do whatever I want' patriot..."

He spread his hand, and a golden card appeared in it.

On the card was a 3D illustration of the major villain from American comics, [Patriot].

"Five-star card [Patriot], I didn't expect it to cause so much trouble...

But if it weren't for this card, I would have died from the Chitauri soldier's attack..."

Li An, a 20-year-old youth, was struck by lightning after a terrible car accident in his hometown.

Thus, he followed the trend of crossing over and arrived in the world of American comics.

By chance, he activated the [Heavenly Cards System] and also encountered the event of Chitauri soldiers invading New York.

[Ding!]

A familiar voice sounded, and Li An knew that the 'Heavenly Cards System' had issued a new task.

[Task: Find the Asgardian 'Liet'!]

[Task Details: An Asgardian warrior has come to Earth for some reason, and with his prejudice against Earthlings, he is like a time bomb ready to explode.]

[Reward: 1-star Prop Card * 3!]

"Asgardians are three times stronger than Earthlings. This guy will definitely cause some trouble when he first arrives on Earth. I need to check the news on various newspapers or the internet..."

"The reward is another 1-star card, but... it's a prop card, which is quite rare."

The used Ford pickup truck turned to the side, and Li An changed his route to head to his secret base.

After all, this 'Heavenly Cards System' doesn't provide a guiding marker like in games after assigning a task.

Instead, Li An has to find the task target himself, and there are no restrictions on completing the task.

The system can also be quite mischievous, and sometimes the tasks are rather whimsical.

The last time, the system assigned a task to eliminate 100 'Chitauri' soldiers, which is why people captured the video.

Just as Li An was driving away from the program center,

a woman with flowing red hair, dressed in a sexy and tight combat suit, slowly emerged from the shadows of an alley.

She took out her phone and dialed a number, saying,

"Based on Li An's performance on the show, he doesn't have any superpowers, and the mutant detector didn't react, so he's not a mutant."

The voice on the other end of the phone said, "Damn! But the video of him defeating the Chitauri soldier, after inspection, is not photoshopped but real..."

The red-haired beauty nodded, "It seems the other party is still hiding something."

"You follow him closely for the next few days and see what's really going on!"

"Understood!"

...

An hour later, Li An, who had bought a large number of newspapers, drove the used pickup truck to a small house made of shipping containers near the port and parked it outside.

Unlike the bustling and noisy other districts, this place was relatively quiet, with only the sea breeze and the cries of seagulls.

Li An liked this environment; he hated the noisy city.

Looking at the numerous newspapers, he shook his head, "My deduction skills are not enough to infer the Asgardian's information from scattered information. I need to use the power of a character card."

He spread his hand, and a semi-transparent box appeared before his eyes.

A dozen cards were lined up in a row.

"The Patriot card is very powerful, but its deduction ability is lacking..."

Ignoring the only golden card, his gaze fell on a three-star blue card.

[Character Card: ★★★]

[Name: Luke Cage]

[Race: Human]

[Abilities: Can lift 25 tons, regular caliber bullets cannot penetrate his skin, recovery ability three times that of a normal human, and explosive strength.]

"Seems to be more of a fighter..."

The rest of the cards were 1-star and 2-star cards, and Li An didn't have any 4-star cards.

After selecting for a while, he chose a 1-star card.

[Character Card: ★]

[Name: Walter Kovacs (Rorschach)]

[Race: Human]

[Abilities: Top-notch observational skills, super-strong combat techniques, proficient in using cold weapons, and top-level detective perception.]

On the card, a man wearing a strange mask and detective clothes stood in the icy and snowy landscape.

Even in thin clothing, the piercing cold wind did not stop this man from moving forward.

"Rorschach..."

"It's you..."

He lightly tapped the semi-transparent screen.

The Rorschach card was taken out and appeared in Li An's hand.

With a thought, the Rorschach card disappeared, and a surge of power instantly flowed into Li An's body.

[Current Card Slot: 1/1.]

[System Level: lv1.]

[Experience Progress: 34%.]

Li An speculated that after upgrading, the card slot might increase.

Then, he might be able to use the abilities of two character cards simultaneously, combining them to create... an invincible super detective, or... a superman with magical attacks?

Of course, this was just a guess. Even if it were true, upgrading was not something he could consider at the moment, as the system's experience points accumulated very slowly.

After the abilities of the Rorschach card were 100% replicated into Li An's body,

he quickly picked up the newspapers and started flipping through them, easily recording the key information on each page at a glance.

Even so, it took him 40 minutes to read through the stack of newspapers.

Li An rubbed his hands, "There are three anomalies in total. The keyword 'rainbow' appears twice, and one news article describes a person with extraordinary strength."

He opened his computer and searched for these locations, sorting them by different time lines.

"March 28th last year, a rainbow appeared outside a small town in the suburbs of San Francisco. People described it as very intense and fast... similar to the method of the Bifrost Bridge, but there were no residual magical array marks on the ground..."

"January 11th this year, someone saw a strange rainbow fall in a scenic area in northern New York, but the description is unclear..."

"April this year, in Elm Street in the southwestern part of Kangcheng, a very powerful humanoid warrior appeared..."

Elm Street? This place name sounds familiar...

"Hmm?" Li An looked out the window.

In the distant darkness, it seemed that a pair of eyes was watching him.

"I've had the feeling of being followed since before I got home, thinking it was just an illusion. But after using the character card, this feeling has become even stronger..."

"Could someone really be watching me?"

On the other side, Black Widow, hiding under a tree and using surveillance equipment to observe Li An from a few hundred meters away, pouted and looked troubled.

"This guy doesn't pull the curtains when he showers... so disgusting..."