Seeing Lin Hai simply leave him—the king of spies, a man of special status who held countless secrets of the world—alone in the living room,
even Nick Fury, who had long held a high position and honed his emotional control to perfection, was nearly unable to keep it together. He took a deep breath before calming himself down.
But he could not just sit on the sofa like a guest waiting for dinner. That would be far too passive.
He stood up, cleared his throat, raised his voice slightly, and called toward the kitchen, "Doctor Lin, you do not mind if I look around your home, do you?"
Lin Hai's voice came from the kitchen, accompanied by the sizzling of stir-frying. "You can, but it would be best if you do not enter the bedrooms the few of us use."
Having already removed his sunglasses, Nick Fury blinked his one remaining eye, a trace of surprise crossing his face.
Lin Hai had agreed just like that? Even knowing his identity, Lin Hai had so readily allowed him to move about freely in his home?
If Lin Hai had known what Nick Fury was thinking at that moment, he would have sneered. The reason he did not care about the king of spies "looking around" his house was naturally because he had sufficient confidence and ways to deal with it.
That method was the comprehensive defensive magic array covering the entire villa, which Gwen had previously suggested and Lin Hai had asked Mage Hamil to set up.
This magic array did not pursue offensive power or lethality. Instead, it focused on basic protection, warnings, and a degree of spatial interference. Its primary functions included, but were not limited to, resisting physical and energy-based impacts, as well as warning against and blocking