Exposing the Plumber Identity

Ten-year-old Xiaowen stared wide-eyed at the beautiful older sister in front of her.

"Little Wen looked at Gwen's black and white battle suit with curiosity, then looked at herself. "You look so cool."

Gwen smiled and pinched Wen's cheek. "If you ever run into trouble, you can always ask your big sister for help."

"Cough cough."

Grandpa Max coughed twice, and although the atmosphere eased considerably, he didn't completely let his guard down. He pulled the two children to his side, his gaze sharply fixed on Jiang Li.

"Young people, thank you for saving Ben. But I'd like to know, who was that strange person you froze? And what about you...?"

"Relax, Grandpa Max. Or should I call you... Magister Tennyson, the legendary commander of the Plumbers."

Jiang Li, with his hands in his trench coat pockets, calmly uttered those words.

Upon hearing this statement...

Max, who had been relatively calm, instantly changed his expression. He instinctively reached for his waist, where he had hidden his high-tech electromagnetic weapon under his Hawaii shirt.

"How do you know about the Plumbers? Who are you?" Max was on high alert. The Plumbers was a top-level secret police officer in the universe; practically no one on Earth knew about him!

"As I said, I'm just a helpful citizen passing by."

Jiang Li pointed to the ice sculpture next to him, which contained the small Nega Ben, and said, "As for that guy, he's an assassin from another timeline. His target is the watch on your grandson's wrist."

Max turned to look at Ben's left wrist.

At this moment, ten-year-old Ben was still desperately pulling at the green watch.

"Grandpa, this thing is like it's growing into my flesh, I can't pull it out at all!" Ben was sweating profusely with anxiety.

Jiang Li stepped forward.

Max wanted to stop him, but he couldn't sense any hostility from Jiang Li. After hesitating for a moment, he stepped aside.

"Don't waste your energy. It's already bound to your DNA."

Jiang Li crouched down, looking at this legendary hero who would save the entire universe countless times in the future.

He extended his left hand, revealing the exquisitely crafted [Omnitrix] on his wrist, radiating an eerie green light.

"Wow! You have one too!" Ben's eyes lit up. "So you used this to transform just now?"

"Yes, this is a fully leveled, official account. Yours is considered beginner gear, still in the testing phase."

Jiang Li smiled, stretched out his finger, and gently tapped the edge of the Ben watch face twice.

Buzz.

As Jiang Li touched it, a faint but extremely advanced low-level code flowed from Jiang Li's fingertip into the first-generation watch of the Ben.

The watch strap, which had been tightly constricting Ben's wrist, suddenly made a soft mechanical sound and became extremely comfortable and snug.

Jiang Li casually turned the dial for him.

With a "snap," the core of the dial popped up, revealing a "Heatblast" pattern composed of green light and shadow.

"Press it, and you'll turn into that fire-breathing guy from before."

Jiang Li looked at Ben's trembling hands with excitement, stood up, and spoke with a hint of expectation in his voice.

"This watch has the power to change the universe. How you use it determines what kind of person you will become. Have a good summer vacation, little hero."

Hearing Jiang Li's encouragement, the ten-year- Ben nodded vigorously, his face full of longing for superheroes.

After calming the Ben down, Jiang Li turned around and walked towards the huge ice sculpture.

"Are you leaving?" Grandpa Max asked, now completely convinced that Jiang Li was on their side.

"There's still one rat hiding in the Time Stream we haven't dealt with."

Jiang Li up to the ice sculpture. "Since that guy dared to send people to destroy the very beginning, if we don't completely eliminate him, you won't have a peaceful life from now on."

"Do you need me to contact the Plumbers headquarters for help?" Max asked seriously.

"No need. Dealing with these time-manipulating thieves, having too many people will only get in the way."

Jiang Li extended his left hand, and a thin green beam of light shot out from the Omnitrix on his wrist, penetrating directly through the thick ice layer and connecting to the black watch of the Nega Ben, which was frozen inside.

Eon, the Clockwork, is an extremely cunning fellow. He doesn't have fixed cosmic coordinates; instead, he hides in the cracks of the Time Stream year-round.

But whenever he sends someone out, he will always leave a "time anchor".

"Hacking into the target watch face..."

"Extracting residual cross-dimensional low-level code..."

"Reverse tracing the time coordinates..."

Jiang Li closed his eyes, and the powerful Galvan knowledge base and the computing power of the dial began to operate at full speed. In less than ten seconds, a cold smile appeared on his lips.

"Found it. The End of Time, the Void Outpost."

Jiang Li opened his eyes and withdrew the green beam of light.

"Gwen." Jiang Li tilted his head.

"Ready?" Gwen stepped forward and stood beside Jiang Li with perfect understanding.

Jiang Li turned to look at Grandpa Max, Ben, and Xiao Wen.

"Leave the rest to me. You guys go and enjoy this perfect road trip."

After saying that, Jiang Li pressed down hard on the space knob with his left thumb.

Boom!

A silvery-white spatial rift, unlike ordinary teleportation, suddenly tore open in the forest. Countless fragments of images flickered within this rift, reflections of the river of time.

Jiang Li, holding Gwen's hand, stepped directly into the unknown turbulent flow of time without any hesitation.

The silvery-white crack closed instantly, as if it had never existed.

The forest returned to peace.

"Grandpa..." The ten-year- Ben looked at the spot where Jiang Li had disappeared, touched the green watch on his wrist, and asked, "Who exactly is he?"

Max looked up at the night sky, let out a long breath, and his eyes were filled with awe.

"I don't know. But without a doubt, he is the most powerful guardian in this universe... no, in all universes."

at the same time.

At the end of the river of time, Void Outpost.

There is no sky, no earth. All around are turbulent, colorful currents of time, twisted like the aurora borealis.

A massive fortress, reminiscent of ancient clock gears, floats silently in the void.

On the throne of the fortress.

A man dressed in a purplish-black battle suit and wearing a black mask resembling a helmet was dozing with his eyes closed.

Eon, the Clockwork.

Once a variant of Ben Tennyson, it got lost during a long time travel and became the mortal enemy of all Ben variants in the Multiverse.

Suddenly, the Clockwork opened his eyes wide.

A rare glimpse of shock and panic appeared in his eyes beneath the mask.

"What happened? The life signals of the Nega Ben have disappeared? And..."

The Clockwork suddenly stood up, looking at the once calm time turbulence outside the fortress.

At this moment, the turbulent flow of time outside was like boiling water, being forcibly torn apart by some extremely terrifying force!

"Someone is tracing my timeline backwards?! That's impossible! In this Omniverse, no one can pinpoint my exact location within the Time Stream!"

Boom--!

The Clockwork had barely finished speaking.

The fortress's incredibly heavy bronze gate was shattered from the outside by a terrifying, overwhelming force!

Amidst the flying bronze fragments and the turbulent flow of time.

Jiang Li, holding Gwen's hand, calmly walked into the throne room at the end of time, stepping over the ruins.

Is it difficult to define your position?

Jiang Li stood with his hands in his trench coat pockets, his eyes coldly fixed on the Clockwork on the throne.

"I can smell your stench even from across universes."