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Wu Chen's words left Natasha, Nick Fury, and the others speechless.
He had brawled in the street (fought Hulk), killed someone in the street (killed Abomination), assaulted law enforcement officers in the street (taken down General Ross and his men), and engaged in a group brawl in the street (single-handedly beaten the crap out of a bunch of Hell's Kitchen villains).
If someone like him was a good, law-abiding citizen, wouldn't everyone in the world who obeyed the law qualify as a top-ten citizen?
Snark aside, there was still business to attend to.
After S.H.I.E.L.D.'s think tank discussed Wu Chen's request, it was approved.
A free and powerful helper had come to them of his own accord. They'd be foolish not to make use of him!
Compared with the strength Minato Namikaze had demonstrated, that little bit of mission pay was nothing.
After all, they had already paid the huge sum of ten million. S.H.I.E.L.D. didn't care about this bit of pocket change.
However, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s think tank had some concerns too.
The seal in New York Times Square could be broken by evildoers at any moment, releasing the incomparably powerful Nine-Tailed Demon Fox.
He was the only person who might be able to stop it all from happening, yet instead of immediately searching for clues or working to become stronger, he wanted to earn money for himself.
Bro, what was wrong with him?!
Natasha tactfully conveyed this question to Wu Chen.
"Pfft~ That's what you're worried about?" Wu Chen put on a dismissive expression. "Do you think someone at my level can just get stronger whenever he wants?"
"Since getting stronger is so hard, why bother training? I might as well make money to support my family!"
"Besides, the people who want to break the seal are hidden so well that there's no finding them unless they come out themselves."
"Under these circumstances, I can only follow the slightest clues, and I have to act in secret so I don't alert them."
"That way, I'm working for S.H.I.E.L.D. on the surface, but actually investigating in secret! I thought you'd be able to figure that out, so I didn't mention it, but I didn't expect..."
At once, the members of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s think tank turned red in the face. Only a few old hands remained unflustered.
The ashamed ones grumbled to themselves: That does make sense, but we don't know the specifics of your situation. How could we possibly have thought of that?
But "support his family"? Was Minato Namikaze married?
In the end, Natasha gained another position: Minato Namikaze's personal mission girl.
She was mainly responsible for selecting and finding missions for Minato Namikaze, verifying their completion, and issuing the rewards.
As for the honey trap, the plan changed from an absolute necessity to something that depended on the circumstances.
Clearly, even if the chance was small, S.H.I.E.L.D. didn't want to risk angering Minato Namikaze over it.
S.H.I.E.L.D. really was being humble~
Over the following week, Wu Chen successfully raised Minato Namikaze's Roleplay Progress to fifty percent.
This was how he did it.
First, throughout the week, Wu Chen completed the missions S.H.I.E.L.D. entrusted to him as if he were working a regular job.
Every morning at eight, he appeared beside Natasha on time, and at six in the evening, he left on time and returned to his residence.
Of course, he told Natasha that he had trouble sleeping in unfamiliar beds, so he went back to his home in Konoha to sleep.
In any case, with a bug-level Space-Time Ninjutsu like the Flying Thunder God Technique, S.H.I.E.L.D. could only believe whatever Wu Chen said. How else were they going to expose him?
During his time with Natasha, Wu Chen also showed off his acting skills, pretending to take his missions seriously while secretly investigating, when in fact he really was just taking his missions seriously.
That three-layered operation greatly improved Wu Chen's acting skills.
In the process, Wu Chen gained twelve percent Roleplay Progress.
He completed ten not particularly difficult missions for S.H.I.E.L.D., earning a hundred thousand dollars in pay and ten percent Roleplay Progress.
The remaining two percent showed Wu Chen that missions entrusted by superheroes, or rather famous figures in the Marvel Universe, increased his Roleplay Progress by a different amount than those entrusted by ordinary people!
The Roleplay Progress gained from ordinary people was far less than the Roleplay Progress gained from missions entrusted by famous figures in the Marvel Universe.
These famous figures weren't people who were famous within the Marvel Universe, nor were they celebrities, but superheroes and supervillains!
For an ordinary person, Wu Chen taught a thug who had been bullying him a lesson and received a newspaper as a reward. The process actually gave him only 0.1 percent Roleplay Progress.
By contrast, Wu Chen helped Black Widow teach a thug a lesson and received a dinner as payment. That process actually gave him 1.9 percent Roleplay Progress.
That was a full nineteenfold difference!
So the ten S.H.I.E.L.D. missions had given him only ten percent because those people weren't superheroes or supervillains, just obscure agents or spies.
Wu Chen immediately decided to complete missions entrusted by superheroes or supervillains whenever possible from then on!
With that, added to the 28% he already had, his Roleplay Progress had reached forty percent.
The remaining ten percent Roleplay Progress was likewise accumulated during that week.
It came from Dr. Bruce Banner.