One of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s senior officials was Natasha Romanoff, better known as Black Widow. She was one of Director Nick Fury's most capable agents, an Avenger, and an elite operative. Then there was Daisy Johnson, known as Quake, a current Avenger and elite S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who was even said to be able to shake the Earth apart. The two stern-faced, cold-eyed agents drove to a wealthy neighborhood beside Pelham Bay Park today, accompanied by several male agents. They stopped at the house at number 0309.
That was right: this was where Tang the Young Monk and his Uncle Monkey, two true Buddhas, had gone into seclusion. It was also the strange place where S.H.I.E.L.D. agents had gone to the trouble of hiring people to transplant several leafy trees, only for every last one of them to die!
"Amitabha!"
"Your visit is a great honor, and your presence truly brightens my humble home. I'm deeply grateful... Come, come, Natasha, Daisy, it's been days since we last met, and you've both grown even more beautiful. Might we have a hug?"
Tang the Young Monk had clearly expected—or perhaps foreseen—the arrival of Black Widow and Quake.
So he didn't wait for the two familiar women to knock or ring the bell. Instead, he opened the door with a beaming smile and eagerly held out his arms, apparently intending to follow the customs of these foreign barbarians and greet them with a hug and a kiss on the cheek.
For Tang the Young Monk, many of the customs and habits of these foreign barbarian nations were intolerable to a true Buddha from the great Celestial Empire! But other customs, he was happy to embrace. For example, when he saw a beautiful woman he'd never met before, he could hug and kiss her under the pretext