Shang-Chi's great battle alarmed the entire small town.
In a fit of fury, Odin sent in the Valkyrie Squad and had Shang-Chi, Nick, and Richard arrested.
Those three "arrogant" young men were forced to put on work clothes and labor there until the festivities in town came to an end.
Videos of Shang-Chi's battle with the "Human Torch" were soon shared by media outlets of every kind.
As the videos spread online, so did all sorts of versions of the story.
Battles on this scale drew plenty of attention, but they didn't strike the "worldly-wise" media as particularly unusual. There had simply been too many combat videos online over the years.
Instead, it was the various Aliens who began to see Shang-Chi in a different light.
Some people with an eye for such things also began paying attention to martial artists like Shang-Chi.
Many people hadn't noticed, or simply hadn't realized...
Aside from bathing in Dragon Blood, Shang-Chi had earned his skills through hard work and training.
Shang-Chi hadn't undergone a mutation, nor did he have any superpowers. He'd nearly beaten the formidable "Human Torch" using nothing but his human body.
The full potential of the human body had been laid bare through Shang-Chi!
As a result, the attention wasn't focused on Shang-Chi alone. People also took notice of Lin Shaoqing, who was much like him.
In the eyes of those who were paying attention, they shared the same background and were both highly skilled martial artists. They couldn't get their hands on Shang-Chi, but Lin Shaoqing was still locked up in the Secret Prison Cell beneath the World Security Council building...
Lin Shaoqing was taken from his comfortable cell and strapped into a special chair, locked inside a Transparent Spherical Cage.
A middle-aged man in a suit, holding a