Doesn't Like Too Much Experience

"Tony Stark?"

Li Chen was caught off guard, but on second thought, it made sense.

The Hellfire Club catered to the true 'elite.' Given Tony Stark's fame and abilities, he naturally counted among humanity's elite, so it was perfectly normal for him to have joined.

He just wasn't a Mutant and had no superpowers, so he was only a senior member.

"Can't you find him with your telepathy too?"

Li Chen asked.

White Queen Emma Frost brought out some red wine and poured each of them a glass. She picked hers up, parted her blue lips, and took a sip. "Why would I look for him?"

Simply put, he was just a senior member. How could he possibly warrant the White Queen going out herself?

This was just a 'test' for Li Chen, meant to show the other members of the Hellfire Club what he could do.

Only then did Li Chen realize.

To him, Tony Stark was the 'protagonist' of the Marvel Universe, but that was because of the movies and television shows he had seen in his previous life.

In everyone else's eyes, Tony Stark was just a man with a bit of money, at most.

Naturally, the Mutants wouldn't go out of their way to help find him because of that.

"No problem."

Once Li Chen understood, he agreed.

But there was no rush. Just as the Mutants didn't care about Tony Stark, he wouldn't care about the Mutants' attitude either.

That was how the strong treated the weak.

He picked up his glass too. They clinked glasses, then each took a sip.

Westerners didn't knock back every kind of alcohol in one gulp like Chinese people did. Red wine was meant to be savored slowly.

Li Chen put down his glass. "In that case, I should get going."

"Mr. Li, you really are a good man who cares about his family."

Emma Frost said.

Li Chen shrugged. His little maid was still waiting for him at home.

When he stepped outside, the bunny girl was already waiting for him. The White Queen had used her telepathy to notify her in advance.

"Sir, would you like me to take you home? I can fulfill any request you have."

The bunny girl smiled coyly at Li Chen.

Li Chen said, "Sorry, I don't like women with too much experience."

The bunny girl gave him a resentful look.

The next day, Li Chen slept until he woke naturally.

Then he keenly sensed that something was wrong. He opened his eyes to find an impassive face looking at him, with only one eye visible. The other was hidden beneath blue bangs.

"Master, it's time to get up and wash. Breakfast is ready."

Rem was kneeling beside him. When she saw him open his eyes, she immediately spoke in a cold tone.

Li Chen, who had still been a little sleepy, was instantly wide awake.

"Rem..."

This was Rem's maid service. Even after several days, Li Chen still wasn't used to it.

As a maid, Rem had everything ready before her master woke up, then quietly watched Li Chen sleep from the side, taking care not to disturb him.

Though when Li Chen first saw it, he had found it a little creepy.

Especially when he opened his eyes and saw a cold blue eye staring straight at him. It was terrifying!

Then there were those scenes where a maid held a knife, scissors, or something similar, threatening to cut off her master's...

Ahem. Too scary.

Fortunately, though Rem was rather 'cold,' she wasn't crazy.

But Li Chen felt that if he didn't bring her sister over soon, Rem was going to go crazy.

He took the warm towel Rem handed him, washed his face, and then went to brush his teeth.

Once he had finished taking care of himself, he went downstairs.

"Noodles?"

Li Chen glanced at the breakfast on the table and immediately smiled.

A bowl of thin noodles and a cup of soy milk. Simple as it was, it gave Li Chen a warm feeling.

He really couldn't get used to eating bread, sandwiches, and the like in the morning. Noodles and rice noodles were more to his taste.

He had to admit that Rem was truly gifted at cooking. The food tasted very good.

Then, under the gaze of Rem's one visible eye, Li Chen quickly finished his noodles and hurried off to the company.

Rem's gaze put him under a lot of pressure, so he could only turn himself into a nuclear-powered workhorse, work hard on his projects, and harvest reputation points.

But whatever the project, it would take a long time to run.

A commercial film generally took at least half a year to shoot. After filming, there was editing and scoring, and if the results weren't satisfactory, there might even have to be reshoots, and so on.

So it was perfectly normal for some movies to take years to reach theaters.

Comics, meanwhile, had to be serialized.

Take Pirate King, for example. It had been serialized for who knew how many years, and just thinking about it filled Li Chen with regret.

If a series ran that long, how could he start new projects?

After some painful reflection, he decided he couldn't keep making things with such long cycles. They had to be short and quick.

He would finish one season, put it aside, and move on to something new. The audience could wait.

He could do that with "Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World." Given more time, its potential could be unleashed even better, rather than developing one season after another.

Of course, the benefit was obvious too: it brought in a great many reputation points.

Especially now that they were already working on a dedicated publication.

DC Comics had decided to put both comics in one publication because the pace was still too slow. Even with the animation department working overtime, they couldn't draw much in a week.

With no other choice, Li Chen went to inspect things, wondering whether he should make some improvements.

But when he saw that everyone was working hard and no one was slacking off, he felt too awkward to bring it up.

He didn't even go inside. Instead, he stood outside and took a look with his super vision.

It felt a little like when he was in school and the homeroom teacher would always lurk at the window, spying on the class.

Even when he wasn't there, no one was slacking off. Everyone was enthusiastic.

That was only natural. The comics they were making had become huge hits across America. Any ordinary person with a bit of ambition wouldn't slack off at a time like this.

All he could do was wait patiently.

As for games, there was even less to say. Although Li Chen kept sending people to urge them on, production couldn't go much faster.

"I need patience."

Li Chen realized there was nothing for him to do, so he transformed.

He went up to the roof and changed into his Superman suit in a flash.

He was so fast that the change appeared instantaneous.

Then, with a whoosh, he flew straight above the white clouds. After getting his bearings in the sky, he headed toward the Middle East.

For Li Chen, finding one person was incredibly easy.

Once again, he experienced the feeling of flying freely, becoming a little absorbed in that power.

In a very short time, he crossed the Pacific Ocean and arrived above a barren land.

Perhaps this place had once been prosperous too, but once the American empire came, nothing was bound to grow here.

The ambitious got what they wanted, and in the end, it was only ordinary people who suffered.

Li Chen floated calmly in the air, tilted his head slightly, and closed his eyes.

A gentle breeze blew against him, making the cape behind him billow. Sunlight shone on him, leaving only a black dot on the earth below.