What Is Your Dream?

The moment Li Chen closed his eyes, the world seemed to fall silent.

But the next second, the sound of the wind grew louder in his ears, followed by countless voices pouring into his mind.

The voices spoke different languages and seemed to come from all over the world. An ordinary person's brain would probably have exploded.

But Li Chen was like a processor running at high speed. Whatever the language, even if it contained coded messages, he could understand it and pick out useful information.

"Dad, when can we go home?"

"Home? We don't have a home anymore. Your brothers and sisters and your mother are all dead. We have to take revenge and drive out the damned Americans."

"They say we're terrorists, so let's show them."

"Andrei, bring some booze. These terrorists are terrifying."

"Tony, someone's coming..."

Only a few seconds passed, yet it felt like centuries.

Li Chen was still somewhat unaccustomed to operating at such intensity. He shook his head before flying onward.

He had found Tony Stark.

In a place those cutting-edge devices couldn't see, his eyes had spotted Tony Stark.

He flew high above a valley. His super vision pierced straight through the mountain, and the world slowly came apart before his eyes, layer by layer.

At the end of a winding cave, Tony Stark was drenched in sweat, swinging a sledgehammer.

At that moment, Li Chen could have plunged down like a missile and rescued Tony Stark with ease.

But he remembered what the White Queen had said.

Why should I do that?

He was neither family nor friend to Tony Stark, and they had no shared interests. The money he had in the stock market was just pocket change to Li Chen.

Besides, Tony Stark had a terrible personality. He was an obnoxious playboy, and whether he lived or died had little to do with Li Chen.

He only liked beauties, not men!

So Li Chen simply memorized the location and returned to his office a few minutes later.

Night fell.

Li Chen came to the Hellfire Club again, wearing his Batman mask.

Quite a few people were drawn to his mask and glanced at him, but those unfamiliar with him didn't recognize him.

Everyone else wore masquerade masks. Li Chen alone wore a Batman mask, making him look as though he had come to catch criminals.

Didn't that mean he was implying everyone there was a criminal?

No one knew whether there was a hidden meaning, but they were displeased. After all, outside this place, they were successful people admired by all.

Only here, with their masks on, could they shed the hypocritical masks they wore every day and unleash their most primal animal nature.

In some ways, Li Chen didn't consider the Hellfire Club a good place.

Fortunately, he wasn't a good person either.

At least he wasn't a saint.

He went straight to find the White Queen, knowing the way well.

When he reached the hidden room with the red sofa, the White Queen, Emma Frost, was watching a newly released romance film.

"I enjoyed being in the spotlight, so I once dreamed of becoming a movie star."

Emma Frost spoke with a stemmed glass of red wine in her left hand, her long legs crossed.

She wore the same outfit as yesterday, except her blue lipstick had turned a vivid red. It made her look less icy, with a touch of warmth instead.

Without waiting for an invitation, Li Chen sat down beside her. "I still prefer blue."

The White Queen, Emma Frost, was momentarily taken aback, then heard him ask, "So why did you give up on your dream?"

At the mention of her dream, she took a sip of red wine and spent a moment reminiscing.

Her voice was somewhat ethereal. "That was when Julia Roberts was at the height of her fame. She was the first actress in Hollywood to earn twenty million for a role, and everyone loved her romance films."

"I left Boston and came to Los Angeles alone. I entered Hollywood with a dream, but..."

"Right away, I ran into something I couldn't accept. An ugly fat man tried to make me sleep with him for a role, so I kicked him and left him crippled."

Her voice turned cold, making even Li Chen tense up.

Good grief, I felt that.

"Then I joined Hellfire. It showed me that I had the power to change the world."

She gave Li Chen a meaningful look, as though asking him to change the world with her.

Li Chen had no such lofty dream. He only wanted to enjoy life.

So instead of responding to her, he asked, "Do you have any champagne?"

"You don't like red wine?"

"No, we need to celebrate. Tony Stark has been found."

The White Queen's relaxed expression instantly froze.

That fast?

She almost blurted out the question.

She had already overestimated Li Chen's abilities. Since he could resist her telepathy, finding someone should have been easy for him.

But even Professor X couldn't find someone halfway across the world without using an amplifying device.

So to find him, Li Chen would have had to travel there.

Even by plane, a round trip would have taken more than a day, wouldn't it?

The White Queen had therefore expected Li Chen to need at least a few days to find him.

Yet only a day had passed, and Li Chen had found him.

"The location is here."

Li Chen casually handed the White Queen a slip of paper, and she naturally believed him.

No one would joke about something like this.

Of course, they would also send people to check whether the information was accurate, and the US military would confirm it when the time came.

So even with the information, they couldn't act immediately.

"If this is true, you'll be Hellfire's white rook."

The White Queen spoke solemnly, no longer watching the movie.

Even though the movie had reached its most exciting part, where the male and female leads kissed, she found watching Li Chen more interesting.

Her pale blue eyes met Li Chen's, a trace of curiosity in her gaze.

When a woman became interested in a man, it was the beginning of her falling for him.

But the White Queen didn't care. "I thought I could see through every man. I can hear ordinary people's thoughts directly, but you're very mysterious."

"I can't see through you," she said frankly.

Before meeting Li Chen, she had naturally looked into him in detail.

Hollywood was full of profit-hungry vampires, but Li Chen seemed not to care about profit.

Yet he had a staggering number of ideas, and several projects in a row had succeeded, causing considerable discussion in Hollywood at least.

Executives at many other companies were talking about Li Chen, and they all wanted to meet him.

That was because Li Chen had taken a completely different path from DreamWorks. Steven Spielberg and the others had founded DreamWorks, dreaming of becoming Hollywood's seventh major studio, only to come to a dismal end.

Li Chen, on the other hand, had simply bought a major studio, making himself a major player, so no one could hold him by the throat.

"Same here."

Li Chen looked into her eyes. "If we could see through each other, it wouldn't be interesting, would it?"

Emma Frost poured him a glass of champagne. "You're right. It's very interesting."

They clinked glasses. Li Chen was like a mysterious black hole, drawing the White Queen in against her will, then swallowing her and tearing her apart.