Blue Hawk answered without hesitation, "Of course!"
Before his words had even faded, a virtual notification popped up in Li Wei's mind: "Hero Compendium successfully activated. Please review."
Then a phantom figure belonging to Blue Hawk appeared, constantly rotating. The difference was that this little figure held a bow and arrow—this was Blue Hawk in a combat stance.
Codename: Blue Hawk
Type: Power type
Special Ability 1: Hawk Vision. Vision surpassing that of ordinary birds of prey, including both static and dynamic vision. Can be fully copied. Estimated continuous contact required: 6 seconds.
Special Ability 2: Master Archer. Can be fully copied. Estimated continuous contact required: 9 seconds.
Li Wei was immediately very satisfied. He could master an entirely new ability in just a few seconds—this was ridiculously powerful!
He immediately chose to copy Hawk Vision, then stepped forward and threw an arm around the other man's shoulders. With great enthusiasm, he asked, "All right, Blue Hawk, my brother, have you decided where we're going today?"
At the same time, he began to feel the energy in his body being consumed at a remarkably steady rate.
But the rate was like poking a needle into a sack of flour—the loss was practically negligible.
Although the system gave no precise number for his energy, Li Wei felt that he could keep this up for an entire day!
Though Li Wei seemed a little unusual today, Blue Hawk did not think much of it. Everyone had good days and bad days. Still, he believed that once they finished their next activity, Li Wei's mood would definitely turn around.
He chuckled. "I'm planning to follow our usual route and keep patrolling the next street. I'm beating up at least ten people today."
Li Wei immediately understood. Blue Hawk was planning to go beat people up again.
"Then I'll match your number. But you need to watch your strength today. Last time, you pinned someone to the ground and beat him so hard you even smashed the curb. Even if you changed clothes, people could easily connect it to us superheroes."
"You know there are plenty of Black people among us superheroes. If they come looking to cause you trouble over this, it won't be easy for me to step in and help." Li Wei said meaningfully.
In fact, in the original plot, Blue Hawk had clashed with A-Train, one of The Seven, over precisely this matter.
Later, during their conflict, he crippled A-Train's older brother from the waist down. In the end, A-Train dragged him across the road until his face was ground away, and his heart was even "donated" to A-Train. It was truly a miserable end.
Although Blue Hawk was no good person himself, they shared a common hobby. So Li Wei casually gave him a reminder.
"Fine, I get it. That's why I didn't do it in New Jersey. I went to New York instead."
Blue Hawk agreed verbally, but he did not take it seriously at all. As a superhero, how many people would be willing to stand up for ordinary people and quarrel with their colleagues?
Did anyone really believe the stuff shown in movies? That was all meant to scam money from idiots!
Li Wei could tell that Blue Hawk was unconcerned. To be honest, Blue Hawk was at least somewhat clever. Vought International's superheroes were spread across nearly all of America, but New York was the sole exception.
That was because it was their headquarters, with The Seven—the strongest superheroes—stationed there. The New York City government believed there was no need to waste money being suckers.
In truth, nothing major had ever happened there. But petty theft, robberies, murders, and the occasional bank robbery were all common enough. That was what they called darkness beneath the lamp.
So when superheroes from outside New York occasionally came over to have some fun, both Vought and the New York City government knew perfectly well and did not take it to heart.
"Oh, right. I heard this year's The Boys' Summit is happening next week. Are you going?"
Blue Hawk was only asking casually. He had never expected Li Wei to agree.
In his view, Li Wei was practically an oddball among superheroes. He was far too clean-cut and stayed away from everything. He had heard that back at Godolkin University, Li Wei had been incredibly popular, yet had never dated a single girl.
Blue Hawk had even suspected Li Wei was gay. But after they had gone out for The Boys a few times, that suspicion quickly disappeared. Li Wei still liked staring at the breasts and big asses of beautiful women on the street.
But Blue Hawk seriously suspected that Li Wei was still a virgin!
Unexpectedly, Li Wei was interested this time. "Is that the one Soldier Boy founded back then?"
Blue Hawk froze for a moment before instinctively nodding. "That's right. Soldier Boy founded it together with Liberty Belle in 1952. Only superheroes like us can take part. It's held once a year and has continued ever since. This time, it was organized by the TNT Twins from Payback."
Payback was the superhero team Soldier Boy had belonged to, and it had once been the strongest superhero team. Unfortunately, Soldier Boy had supposedly been killed by the russians. After losing their strongest member, Payback was quickly replaced and surpassed by The Seven.
Although the TNT Twins had fallen out of favor by now, they had been glorious in their day. Basically, they were responsible for organizing The Boys' Summit every year.
Li Wei thought it over, then finally nodded. "All right, I'll attend. Don't forget to call me when the time comes."
Most of those willing to attend were third-rate nobodies, but there would be plenty of them. With his status as the New Jersey Guardian, most of them should be willing to give him some face and become his nominal friends.
They might even be overjoyed and rush over to shamelessly ingratiate themselves with him.
Even if each person only gave him 0.1 tons, thirty or fifty of them would be enough to double his strength.
And if there were superheroes among them with special abilities, that would be an even greater surprise.
At that moment, without any prompt from the system, Li Wei felt as if a layer of haze had suddenly been wiped from his eyes. The entire world seemed to brighten.
Then a huge amount of knowledge regarding the use of bows and arrows flooded into his mind. These were precisely Blue Hawk's two superpowers!
And it was not mere rote memorization. He had fully absorbed them, as though he had personally spent more than a decade mastering them from nothing!
This absurdly powerful copying ability truly lived up to being a system. It was simply invincible!
Blue Hawk was delighted as well. Although Li Wei's decision to participate surprised him greatly, he immediately assumed that Li Wei was doing it for his sake.
He immediately patted his chest and promised, "Don't worry, buddy. If you join, you might become the brightest star of this event. I'll definitely have the TNT Twins save a few of the bustiest beauties for you!"
For superheroes, abilities were important, but social circles were just as important. And Li Wei was the thickest thigh Blue Hawk could possibly cling to, so naturally he would do everything he could to flatter him!
"Haha, you really do understand my tastes. Then, to celebrate in advance, I'll have to beat up a few more people today!"
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