"Let's go, Mathilda, I'll take you to see your cousin."
Ye Li called out to his little sister, who was playing with a ball. With a flick of his hand, the silver meow-meow ball flew over.
"Oh."
The girl saw the ball float away and adorably chased after it in small steps.
As she approached, Ye Li reached out, slid his arm under her knees, and picked her up with a smile, "Got you, little one."
Matilda held onto his shoulder, a little embarrassed by the position.
"I'm not that little anymore, brother. This feels kind of inappropriate..."
"Hmm... yeah, you're not so little anymore..."
Ye Li ruffled her... hair.
"You've grown a bit taller..."
…..
Wuennn...
Click.
Ye Li opened the car door for Mathilda, and the two of them headed into the abandoned old building.
Lewis had been waiting for a while. When she saw them, she smiled excitedly.
"Li, you got here fast. Tell me, what's up with Jane? We detected something here that seems like a wormhole. Do you think it could be...?"
Next to her was a young man in a hoodie and three kids around ten years old.
The guy in the hoodie glanced at Ye Li and his little sister, muttering quietly, "Why is there a kid here...?"
"Hey, what's wrong with kids?" The ten-year-olds beside him weren't happy hearing that.
"Who is he...?"
Ye Li had a vague impression of the intern next to Lewis but couldn't remember his name.
"My intern."
Lewis introduced Ian, her tone carrying a bit of helplessness, "Oh... he's so dumb. He actually dropped the car keys into the wormhole earlier. If you hadn't come, even if Jane hadn't gone missing, we would've had to take the bus back....."
"Hehe....."
Ian scratched his head awkwardly. "Hi, I'm Ian. Are you a doctor too?"
"Hello, Ian. I am a doctor. But in the arts."
Ye Li politely greeted him, then leaned toward Lewis and whispered.
"You hired a male intern...?"
"What's the problem?"
Lewis blinked. "If you don't like it, I can replace him~ He's pretty dumb anyway."
"I'm not that petty. Let's go check on Jane."
Ye Li took the lead, heading upstairs.
Lewis quickly followed behind him, chattering, "Do you know where Jane is? How do you know?"
Ye Li casually responded and turned the question back on her.
"How did I find you guys in New Mexico? And how did I help you find Thor?"
"Ohhh~"
Lewis had a sudden realization. "You mean... that special sense you and Jane talked about! Some kind of amazing intuition?"
As a scientist, she really shouldn't believe in this kind of... vague mystical stuff.
But since it was her favorite man saying it, and he had been right before, she naturally believed him.
After all, if a Norse god like Thor could exist, why not?
Lewis believed.
Ian, however, was skeptical. Is PhD in the arts or mysticism?
Lewis must be blinded by his looks. This is exactly when you're supposed to call the cops...
Even if he was an arts PhD, he didn't seem to fit in with their field...
The Mind Stone on Ye Li's wrist glimmered slightly, picking up Ian's thoughts, and Ye Li smirked to himself:
'Never mind the field—me and your supervisor match quite well.....'
…..
"Move faster!"
"Hurry up!"
"See that monster? If you don't want to die, run!"
"Forget about your stuff!"
Midtown Manhattan Hospital Ruins.
S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and personnel from other government organizations were coordinating the evacuation.
However—
Not everyone was willing to leave—
"No! My house! I was just about to finish paying off the mortgage!"
"I just got a new car!"
"My clothing store!"
"Do you all have a death wish?"
May shouted angrily at the stubborn crowd who didn't understand the danger, "Anything could happen here at any moment! If you're not afraid to die, stay!"
"Ma'am!!"
Just then, a staff member holding a detection device ran over hurriedly. "The readings show that thing is becoming unstable! It could explode any second!"
"How long do we have?"
"Estimated around ninety seconds—its internal energy will reach its peak!"
"What?! So soon?"
May looked at the large number of civilians still not evacuated. She gritted her teeth, then decisively ordered, "Alert all personnel—evacuate immediately!"
Whoosh—!
A figure in black, white, and pink suddenly leapt from the shadow of a building, clinging to the wall across the street.
It was Ghost-Spider.
Gwen swung down with her webs, landing beside Melinda. "Heard this place is about to blow up?"