The World Gets Fooled From This Moment On (2/4)

But that would be a one-time haul.

Once he had taken them for all they were worth, that would be the end of it.

After all, once he had fleeced them, they wouldn't be stupid enough to let him do it a second time.

If Wu Chen could only play Minato Namikaze, there would be nothing wrong with taking one big haul and leaving.

It was only a matter of reaching one hundred percent role-playing completion, and he would have plenty of chances to do that later.

But Minato Namikaze wasn't the only character Wu Chen could play. Countless powerful figures from Hokage were waiting for him, and there were even powerful figures from the DC Universe and the Dragon Ball Universe.

He was fully capable and qualified to play all of Konoha's powerful figures by himself!

And Konoha's powerful figures alone wouldn't be enough!

The Hokage world had so many charismatic villains, too. If he could play them, Wu Chen wouldn't refuse.

And what was the most famous villainous organization in the Hokage world?

He didn't even have to think about it. One name sprang to mind: the Akatsuki!

The Akatsuki ran through the entire Hokage story, and many Hokage fans liked its villains even more than the two protagonists, Sasuke and Naruto.

Wu Chen liked the Akatsuki too. If he could bring it to Marvel, he would definitely do so.

These were all his ambitions!

So a one-time haul was absolutely out of the question!!

A steady stream was the way to go!

But how could he keep it flowing?

Wu Chen's answer was to strengthen the Marvel Universe's trust in the characters he played!

Once he had earned their trust, a steady stream of commissioned missions was sure to follow. Wouldn't that keep things flowing?

And as things stood, having Konoha show goodwill toward this world was a good way to earn that trust!

Although Konoha in Hokage wasn't entirely on the side of good, Wu Chen's Konoha was a truly righteous organization!

Still, after giving it serious thought, Wu Chen felt that having Konoha show goodwill wasn't enough.

More precisely, it was too slow.

The Hulk storyline had already appeared, and the purple sweet potato was only five or six, perhaps six or seven years away from the Snap.

If he only wanted to show goodwill, that was enough time. But Wu Chen wanted more than just to make the people of Marvel's Earth believe in Konoha. He also wanted to become strong enough in that time, so he had to speed things up!

After some thought, Wu Chen found the answer to how he could speed things up.

A crisis!

To earn their trust faster, a crisis had to occur!

When the people of the Marvel Universe found themselves in a crisis, Wu Chen could play a character from Konoha and save them. Wouldn't that earn their trust?

As for crises, the Marvel Universe already had them, so they wouldn't be hard to arrange.

Besides, even if they were, he could play a villain from the Akatsuki and stir up trouble to create a crisis.

As it happened, clearing out Hell's Kitchen was a perfect opportunity to stir up trouble!

For now, though, he could only play Minato Namikaze, not anyone else, so clearing out Hell's Kitchen would have to wait.

First, he would quietly pray that his second character turned out to be a villain!!

The more Wu Chen thought about it, the more excited he became.

This was his left hand fighting his right, profiteering from war for an enormous return on a tiny investment!

But what if innocent people got hurt?

Wu Chen figured that since he would be fighting himself, he could control his strength. There was no need to worry about that at all.

At this thought, Wu Chen finally saw the light!

He completely abandoned the idea he had racked his brains to come up with not long ago: finding some rich sucker to take over the commission to clear out Hell's Kitchen and make a big haul.

Instead, he decided to start fooling S.H.I.E.L.D. from this moment on!!

And not just S.H.I.E.L.D., but the entire Marvel Universe!

Wu Chen looked up at Natasha, ready to talk nonsense off the top of his head.

"Agent Romanoff, right?"

"I just connected with the village through mind Ninjutsu and asked about your S.H.I.E.L.D."

"According to our intelligence network, things at S.H.I.E.L.D. don't seem very promising at the moment!"

"Still, you're barely trustworthy enough. And you're also the first official organization in the secular world to approach us with goodwill."

"So let me tell you why I came to New York!"

Wu Chen's words came as a shock to Natasha, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s think tank, and even Nick Fury. They had just seen Wu Chen lower his head without any change in expression and thought he was thinking.

They hadn't expected it to be mind Ninjutsu capable of long-distance communication!

If Wu Chen hadn't said anything, they would never have guessed.

As for whether Wu Chen was lying?

Everyone at S.H.I.E.L.D. agreed that was impossible.

The strong had dignity and bearing.

S.H.I.E.L.D.'s think tank had assessed Minato Namikaze as "the most powerful ninja in history, a powerhouse at least two levels above every superhero who has appeared so far!"

Surely someone as powerful as Minato Namikaze would consider lying beneath him!

And he had no need to lie!

This might be modern society, but once someone became powerful enough, they could step beyond the bounds of any law.

As long as they weren't trying to destroy or rule the world, the government wouldn't hold those truly powerful people and superheroes accountable for killing a few ordinary people.

Hulk was one example.