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Chapter 148

Super Brain, Seriously Awesome

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Bang~

In the backyard of a church, Gabriel, with an Ancient One, knocked an angel to the ground.

"I said please, please! Why did your men fire?"

"Of course, it's to... make you fight, hahaha!" The angel lying on the ground grinned, his eyes full of mockery as he looked at Gabriel.

"Why?" Gabriel, puzzled.

"Gabriel, you've been acting in the name of the Lord all this time, even trying to fulfill the prophecy of chapter 17 of the Hell Bible. I can't speak with the Lord, but I can use everything I have to stop you. I won't let you succeed. Go ahead and kill me if you dare, haha, you wouldn't dare!"

Gabriel stared intently at the angel upon hearing this. "I truly dare not kill you, but I will imprison you here. The corrupt human world will surely be reshuffled, and you cannot stop me!"

As he spoke, Gabriel waved his hand, and the floor cracked open, causing the angel to fall in.

"An Old Gods possessing the power of the Lord would be more suited to guide Mammon to the mortal realm, but alas, now we can only wait for the Spear of Longinus to be born."

Constantine and Lin Xu were walking down the street.

"To be honest, following me is a waste of your time."

"I have plenty of time."

Constantine shook his head and continued, "I attempted suicide before and made a pact with Satan to return to Earth. Under normal circumstances, Heaven wouldn't accept me."

"Yes, I know, that's why I said I would find a chance for you to die for the greater good."

What misconception makes you think I'm that kind of person?

As he spoke, John lit another cigarette. "Hiss~ Woo~, all these years, I've been trying to send demons back to Hell, hoping that when I die naturally in the future, I won't Hell."

"But the consequence of your actions is that the demons of Hell desire your soul even more."

As he spoke, Lin Xu snatched the cigarette from John's hand, staring at the name on it with a speechless expression.

"Tsk, Yangtze Brand? I've never even heard of it. Where did you get it from?" (In the movie, it was originally a United Kingdom cigarette brand, but due to copyright issues, it was changed to the fictional Yangtze Brand.)

I bought it at the convenience store in front.

Soon, the two arrived at a convenience store.

John handed the clerk ten dollars. "The usual."

"John, it's only been five days. Sooner or later, you'll die here." The shop assistant handed John a pack of cigarettes, repeatedly warning him.

"Let's talk about it when that day comes." John took the cigarette and turned to leave.

Lin Xu looked at the shop assistant's dark green eyes; clearly, she was also an angel, the winged kind.

The shop assistant also turned his attention to Lin Xu and nodded in a friendly manner.

As I left the convenience store, I bumped into a family of four: two adults and a pair of twin sisters.

As they passed each other, Lin Xu patted John on the shoulder. "Is the job market in Heaven that competitive?"

John clearly knew Lin Xu was referring to the angel shop assistant. "That's a rotating angel; they're impartial and won't interfere with the normal order of the human world."

Even if someone dies in front of him?

"Yes."

Lin Xu nodded. Absolute fairness and respect for the fate of others—perhaps that is true divinity.

But he was different; he was transformed from a human being, and his humanity clearly outweighed his divinity, or rather,... he had no divinity.

However, the warning that man just gave to John foreshadowed that he was no longer just.

Meanwhile, in the convenience store, the twin sisters huddled together while their parents paid.

"Sister, did you see that?"

"... What?"

"That person was glowing, a holy light, and he had three eyes!"

"... No, Isabelle, you must be mistaken."

"You clearly saw it, why are you denying it?"

Although the two spoke softly, their conversation was clearly audible to Lin Xu and the shop assistant.

"A psychic, huh? Interesting."

Kansas.

Tony was tinkering in the warehouse, and Jonathan was helping him.

"Howard, what are we going to do?"

Let's make a precision machine tool first.

"Watt? A hand grinder?"

"What else...?"

Jonathan hesitated, wanting to say something but stopping himself. He was just a farmer who hadn't even gone to college, and now he was going to do this kind of thing?

"I..."

"Jonathan, get me three bricks."

"Oh~"

After a long while, Tony stood up and gave a thumbs-up.

Jonathan, somewhat embarrassed, said, "Ahem, I just helped out by carrying some bricks, you don't deserve this."

Tony was puzzled. What was this person saying?

After gesturing for a while, Tony shook his head.

"What's wrong?"

"Is there something wrong with your floor? Why can't you get the balance right?"

Upon hearing this, Jonathan glanced at the floor beside him, where the Kryptonian Spaceship was hidden, but remembering that Lin Xu wasn't there, he remained silent.

Tony stepped forward and measured the thickness of the three bricks, then his eyes lit up. "Ahem, Jonathan, get me that hammer."

Upon hearing this, Jonathan looked at the location of the brick and said, "This... isn't that a bad idea?"

"It's alright, take it."

Jonathan, recalling Clark's rapid progress over the past two months, sighed, "... Okay."

A few minutes later, with the help of his elderly, illiterate assistant, Tony replaced the brick with Mjolnir. (A tribute to Iron Man 2, Tony used Vibranium Shield model to pad the accelerator pipes.)

The control panel finally became perfectly stable.

Tony circled the area once, then nodded in satisfaction. "Hmm, not bad~"

Just then, Clark returned.

"Teacher, Daddy."

The two immediately went to greet him, and Tony even picked Clark up in his arms. "If I remember correctly, there's an exam today."

"Uh-huh."

How were your grades?

"Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies all received A+, but Mathematics only received an A."

Upon hearing this, Tony immediately put Clark down. He was somewhat incredulous; how could a super brain not get a perfect score in its strongest area, mathematics?

Where were points deducted?

Clark felt a little embarrassed upon hearing this and buried his face in his chest.

Jonathan stepped forward and said, "It's okay to make a mistake. Just correct it next time. Everyone makes mistakes."

Tony knew he was being a bit harsh; after all, the other child was only nine years old. Well, the main reason was that he had always gotten perfect scores in math since he was a child, without exception.

"It's okay, Clark. Tell the teacher which question you got wrong."

Clark looked up at the two of them before saying, "It's a fill-in-the-blank question: What is the circumference of a circle with a diameter of 1 centimeter?"

Now, not only Tony, but even Jonathan was somewhat confused. How could someone get such a simple question wrong?

How much did you fill in?

"3.14159265358979323846264338327"

"Stop, how many digits did you fill in?"

"It's about 158 digits, mainly because there aren't many blank spaces."

"... How much of it can you remember?"

"I only remembered a little over 300,000..."

Tony: Super Brain, truly amazing...

Jonathan:...

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