Chapter Summaries

Lin Xiao broke into Obadiah Stane’s mansion while Tony fought Iron Monger, then rescued Tony from Obadiah’s self-destructing armor. The two escaped the explosion, with Lin Xiao carrying away a bag of stolen items as police sirens approached.

• Lin Xiao disguised himself as “Super Earthling,” planted his justice flag outside Obadiah’s mansion, and entered to find the private vault.
• Tony fought Obadiah’s upgraded Iron Monger in the sky, exploiting damage to its armor while warning Obadiah that his vault was being robbed.
• After Obadiah received alarms about the vault, Tony taunted him, but Obadiah chose to keep fighting and activated a nuclear self-destruct device.
• Lin Xiao used the Blink Dagger and his “Electric Light Lone Dragon Drill” to pierce Iron Monger, then carried Tony away from the falling armor.
• Tony and Lin Xiao escaped the explosion and landed at the docks as police sirens approached, while Lin Xiao admitted he had taken unwanted items from Obadiah’s mansion.

After the Iron Monger crisis, Lin Xiao collected his system rewards and valuables, then used the Stand Arrow on Peter, awakening a sand-based Stand called The Fool. Peter fainted in fright, leaving Lin Xiao pleased with his new power.

• George Stacy arrived at the docks, heard Tony Stark’s account of Obadiah Stane’s attack, and took Tony to the station for a statement while Lin Xiao claimed his backpack held recyclable bottles.
• Lin Xiao found Gwen Stacy hiding nearby, vanished with the Blink Dagger, and left her shouting after him at the empty docks.
• Lin Xiao received five free attribute points, the Stand Arrow, the Lightning Summoning Spell, the Flight Technique, a Mark II Armor Blueprint, and additional attribute boosts for completing the Iron Monger storyline.
• Lin Xiao appraised the loot from Obadiah Stane’s vault, finding valuables worth about twenty million dollars and property deeds estimated to be worth at least five hundred million dollars after legalization.
• Lin Xiao tricked Peter into visiting him and pierced Peter’s arm with the Stand Arrow, awakening The Fool, a sand-based Stand that appeared behind him.
• Peter panicked at the sight of The Fool and fainted, while Lin Xiao caught him and admired the Stand.

Peter recorded how Lin Xiao’s golden arrow awakened his Stand, The Fool, and how he began learning to use it while joining Lin Xiao on nighttime crime-fighting jobs. After Lin Xiao gave him a transformation wand, Peter discovered it turned him into a pink, magical-girl-like fighter, and caught Lin Xiao secretly photographing him.

• Lin Xiao stabbed Peter with a golden arrow, awakening The Fool, which Peter first used to terrify Flash Thompson after Flash bullied Ned.
• Peter and Ned tested The Fool’s abilities, discovering it could form a shield, grow large enough to carry Peter, and turn into quicksand that let him travel underground.
• Peter chose the alias Super Fool and began accompanying Lin Xiao on nighttime missions, helping recover money and guard criminals while Lin Xiao handled the fighting.
• Peter reflected that The Fool had made him more confident and eager to protect people, and he looked forward to Lin Xiao’s promised big job.
• Peter secretly tested Lin Xiao’s transformation wand and turned into a pink, bow-covered magical fighter who could produce flames.
• Lin Xiao watched from the fire escape and took pictures, leaving Peter furious and wondering whether the wand’s transformation was the self-defense Lin Xiao had promised.

Lin Xiao learned that Peter had awakened the Stand The Fool and reviewed his B-rank combat assessment before Peter called for help at school. Lin Xiao flew toward the Lizard’s rampage, suspecting Kingpin was involved and wondering whether Gwen had already joined the fight.

• Peter woke beside The Fool, and Lin Xiao explained that the Stand had awakened after he used a Stand Arrow on him.
• Peter objected to Lin Xiao stabbing him and became embarrassed when he realized Aunt May had slept at Lin Xiao’s apartment.
• Lin Xiao checked his attributes and learned that his combat power was B-rank, while Hulk’s base form was A-rank and could reach S-rank when angry.
• Peter called Lin Xiao from school and said Dr. Connors had turned into a giant lizard; The Fool could only restrain him and would not follow Peter’s commands.
• Lin Xiao told Peter to hide, asked whether Gwen was at school, and flew toward the rampage while suspecting Kingpin’s involvement.

Lin Xiao flew over Queens in his masked, flag-bearing persona, alarming residents and infuriating Nick Fury, who ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to manage the fallout. At Midtown High School, a white-suited girl fought Lizard as Lin Xiao arrived, while Scar-Eye watched and tried to report what he had seen.

• Lin Xiao flew above the Van Wyck Expressway dressed as a masked Arab and waved at a girl, prompting frightened residents to report a flying terrorist.
• Nick Fury recognized Lin Xiao on satellite footage, failed to reach him, ordered his bonus docked, and directed Hill to suppress the reports and coordinate a cover story.
• Fury sent Natasha to investigate Lin Xiao's flight and flag, then learned Hawkeye had given Lin Xiao an unusually glowing evaluation and was unavailable on vacation.
• Scar-Eye hid near Midtown High School after Dr. Curt Connors transformed into Lizard and rampaged through the school.
• Scar-Eye photographed a skinny boy whose powers moved sand toward Lizard, then watched a white-suited girl attack the monster.
• Lin Xiao descended onto the school field as Scar-Eye tried to call his boss.

Lin Xiao confronted Bullseye, called Kingpin to provoke him, then stepped into the fight between Gwen Stacy and the Lizard. After rescuing Gwen and correcting Peter’s battlefield mistake, he resumed fighting the Lizard—only for Gwen to recognize him and attack him alongside the Lizard.

• Lin Xiao found Bullseye hiding, broke his knife with his skin, knocked him unconscious, and took his phone.
• Lin Xiao called Kingpin, introduced himself as Super Earthling, and tried to demand ransom for Bullseye before Kingpin hung up.
• Peter warned Gwen Stacy not to hit the Lizard’s head because he was Dr. Connors, and Gwen hesitated long enough for the Lizard to throw her aside.
• Lin Xiao blocked the Lizard’s tail from striking Gwen, then told Peter that his warning had distracted his teammate and could have endangered her.
• Lin Xiao encouraged Peter to learn from his mistake, then slammed the Lizard into a deep pit when the fight resumed.
• Gwen Stacy recognized Lin Xiao and attacked him, teaming up with the recovered Lizard while Lin Xiao fought them both and warned Peter to stay alert around teammates.

Lin Xiao defeated Lizard at school, apologized to Gwen, and took Dr. Connors to an abandoned warehouse. After learning that Connors had developed his serum from a system-made syringe needle now held by General Ross's military, Lin Xiao worried it could threaten Hulk and the future Battle of New York, then offered Connors a place to go.

• Lin Xiao subdued Lizard, tried to make amends with Gwen, and watched her swing away while Peter agreed to stall the police in exchange for dinner.
• Lin Xiao carried the unconscious Dr. Connors from the school to an abandoned warehouse, where Connors woke and learned no students had been injured.
• Connors revealed that the military had given him diluted liquid recovered from a syringe found after a masked man's intervention, allowing him to create the Lizard Serum.
• Lin Xiao realized the syringe's system-made needle could penetrate powerful targets and asked Doupao about the danger it posed to Hulk and the Battle of New York.
• Doupao said Bruce Banner was working with Betty Ross at Culver University, and Lin Xiao asked for Betty's photo before offering Connors a spacious place to stay.

Lin Xiao brought Dr. Connors to S.H.I.E.L.D. and convinced Fury to consider sending him to investigate the military’s research on the syringe needle. He left Fury’s office after requesting a bonus and travel funds, then invited Coulson to hot pot.

• Lin Xiao introduced Dr. Connors to Fury and explained the Lizard Serum research and Kingpin’s pursuit of the doctor.
• Fury arranged temporary residence and protection for Dr. Connors at S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Lin Xiao urged Fury to send a liaison to General Ross’s department to investigate the needle the military had retained.
• Lin Xiao asked Fury for permission, a bonus, and travel funds, then left after Fury angrily dismissed him.
• Lin Xiao invited Coulson to hot pot and described the meal as a Dragon Country specialty.

Lin Xiao settled the Lizard Crisis and discovered that Enma’s immense power drained all his stamina with a single slash. Kingpin learned about Super Earthling and ordered Typhoid Mary to investigate Peter, leaving Lin Xiao unaware that his household was being targeted.

• Tony and Coulson left Lin Xiao’s dinner feeling ill, while Lin Xiao and May teased Peter about his crush on MJ.
• Lin Xiao received Enma as a reward for completing the Lizard Crisis, then collapsed when the sword drained his stamina.
• Lin Xiao learned that the Evil Conspiracy mission was only half complete because Bullseye had acted without Kingpin’s authorization and caused Dr. Connors to transform.
• Kingpin watched footage of Super Earthling, punished Bullseye, and told Typhoid Mary to investigate Peter.

Mary revealed herself as Typhoid Mary and attacked Lin Xiao after tracking Peter to question him about Super Earthling. Lin Xiao resisted her mind control and helped Peter use The Fool to restrain her, leaving Peter to finish the fight.

• Mary followed Peter into an alley and confronted him with a dagger, demanding to know where Super Earthling lived.
• Lin Xiao appeared and revealed himself as Super Earthling, but Mary tried to stab him instead of kissing him and identified herself as Typhoid Mary.
• Mary used mind control on Lin Xiao, but he recovered and told Peter to fight her.
• The Fool blocked Mary's dagger, and Peter used Sand Release to bury himself and unleash sand spiders that swarmed her.
• Lin Xiao shocked Mary's freed hand with a small electric arc, giving The Fool time to cover her arm again.
• Peter summoned The Fool and raised sand spikes around Mary as Lin Xiao watched from the streetlight.

Lin Xiao stormed Kingpin’s warehouse and overwhelmed his crew after learning Typhoid Mary had targeted Peter Parker. He broke Kingpin’s arms, threatened his family, and left in a stolen Hummer, while Kingpin told his men to wait before contacting the Brotherhood of Mutants.

• Typhoid Mary told Kingpin that Super Earthling was close to Peter Parker and urged him to let her use Peter as leverage.
• Lin Xiao burst into the warehouse, repelled Bullseye and Mary, and incapacitated Kingpin’s armed men with his attacks and electrical powers.
• Lin Xiao defeated Bullseye, Typhoid Mary, Echo, and Kingpin, then broke both of Kingpin’s arms and warned him against further trouble.
• Lin Xiao claimed he was a Level-six S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, threatened Kingpin’s family, and drove away in a modified Hummer.
• Kingpin’s henchmen treated his injuries and asked whether to contact the Brotherhood of Mutants, but Kingpin told them to wait.

After returning from his fight with Kingpin, Lin Xiao reunited with May, who privately worried that she could not keep up with him and wondered whether he needed another superhuman partner. Lin Xiao announced that they were moving to his renovated Manhattan building, and he and May set off together while Peter stayed behind for school.

• Lin Xiao returned to Forest Hills after taking Kingpin's ruby and Hummer, and May welcomed him with breakfast.
• Lin Xiao carried May to the bedroom, and after three hours she asked him to stop and brought up water.
• May worried about satisfying Lin Xiao and considered Gwen Stacy and his female instructor as possible partners, but decided she would not hurt anyone.
• Lin Xiao told May they were moving to his renovated seven-floor Manhattan building and planned to move Peter's belongings over the weekend.
• Lin Xiao and May loaded their suitcases and daisies into the Hummer and drove toward Manhattan.

Peter discovered that May and Lin Xiao had moved to Manhattan without telling him, then learned they expected him to join them. Meanwhile, Nick Fury arranged to send Lin Xiao to guard Betty Ross’s gamma research at Culver University.

• Peter noticed May and Lin Xiao were missing, searched the neighborhood with The Fool, and learned May had taken leave to move.
• Lin Xiao told Peter they had moved to Manhattan, and May apologized for failing to tell him before they sent him their new address.
• May and Lin Xiao planned to welcome Peter with dinner and prepare a room for him at their new home.
• Nick Fury learned that Betty Ross was researching an unusual superalloy and conducting biochemical work with Dr. Bruce Banner, while refusing military protection.
• Fury arranged for Lin Xiao to replace Carlos Mendes as Betty’s bodyguard, and ordered that Lin Xiao receive full reimbursement and a mission bonus.

Lin Xiao enjoyed his new home with May and Peter before Natasha summoned him to S.H.I.E.L.D. for a mission protecting Betty Ross. He accepted Fury’s assignment with suspiciously sincere obedience, leaving Fury and Hill unsure what he was planning.

• Lin Xiao teased Peter about his new room, shared breakfast with May, and received a call from Natasha summoning him to Fury’s office.
• Natasha told Lin Xiao that Fury had a mission for him, and May’s suspicious presence made Natasha sneeze repeatedly during the call.
• Lin Xiao overheard Hill objecting to assigning him a discreet protection mission for Betty Ross, while Fury defended his record.
• Lin Xiao entered Fury’s office, praised the director, and accepted the mission without bargaining, despite Hill’s doubts about his suitability.
• Fury offered Lin Xiao a thirty-percent pay increase, reimbursed expenses, and a commendation, then sent him outside when his unusual compliance unsettled him.
• Hill suggested they might have misunderstood Lin Xiao, but Fury remained convinced that something was wrong.

Lin Xiao signed a deliberately provocative confidentiality agreement, then traveled to Culver University to protect Betty Ross despite having no bodyguard training. He learned that Bruce Banner’s gamma-ray experiment was nearing completion and that Hulk’s birth was eighty days away, while Mendes worried the assignment would go badly.

• Lin Xiao filled out his confidentiality agreement with jokes, prompting Fury to have Hill prepare a replacement and describe Lin Xiao as “Honest and dependable.”
• At Richmond International Airport, Lin Xiao met Mendes in a flamboyant beach outfit and insisted that his casual appearance was part of his professionalism.
• During the drive, Mendes learned that Lin Xiao had no bodyguard experience or training, but Lin Xiao assured him that his fighting ability qualified him for the job.
• At Culver University, Lin Xiao used Doupao to locate Betty Ross and Bruce Banner in the biophysics laboratory and learned that Hulk’s birth was expected in eighty days.
• That evening, Mendes prayed at Richmond Airport that Lin Xiao would not ruin the assignment or the company’s reputation.

Lin Xiao arrived at Culver University as Betty Ross’s new bodyguard, drawing a crowd before Betty rejected him for disrupting the laboratory. After he waited for her and demonstrated his strength, Betty let him accompany her to a military laboratory, where he stayed until she finished and offered to drive her home.

• Lin Xiao caused a commotion in the laboratory lobby, where he bumped into Bruce Banner and met Betty Ross as she cleared the crowd.
• Lin Xiao introduced himself as Betty’s new bodyguard, but Betty rejected him and went back into the laboratory.
• Lin Xiao waited until evening and offered Betty an iced Americano, after which she invited him to accompany her to the military laboratory.
• Lin Xiao rode with Betty to the military facility and crushed a piece of steel to demonstrate his strength, prompting Betty to make that night his first shift.
• Lin Xiao waited in the car until nearly three in the morning, caught Betty when she stumbled, and offered to drive her home.

Lin Xiao waited outside Betty's school, where she promised him dinner after asking him to stay off campus. After a pickpocket stole his wallet, Lin Xiao chased the thief and encountered a silver-haired old man whose strange reaction suggested a connection to him.

• Betty told Lin Xiao to wait outside the school because his presence distracted the students, then offered to buy him dinner; Lin Xiao jokingly requested an extravagant feast before settling on king crab.
• Lin Xiao surveyed the area around campus and saw a boy steal a wallet from an older man, but discovered that the boy had also stolen Lin Xiao's own wallet.
• Lin Xiao pursued the thief and noticed a silver-haired old man watching him with a faint blue sheen on his skin; he asked Doupao to mark the man and continued the chase.
• A hot dog vendor mistook the silver-haired old man for someone romantically interested in Lin Xiao and encouraged him to pursue Lin Xiao.
• The old man hurried away, his ears reddening as another blue sheen spread across his skin.

Lin Xiao tried to stage a robbery so he could impress Betty, but she revealed her combat training and defeated the hired thugs herself. After the two shared a more honest moment, Mystique watched from a rooftop and discovered Lin Xiao had noticed her.

• Lin Xiao waited for Betty at the school gates, then persuaded her to take a quiet walk before dinner.
• Five thugs confronted Lin Xiao and Betty, and Lin Xiao tried to play the hero while Betty prepared to fight.
• Betty revealed her father had taught her military boxing and close-combat skills, then quickly defeated all five thugs.
• The thugs demanded extra pay as they fled, and Betty realized Lin Xiao had hired them to stage a robbery; she laughed and listened as he explained his plan.
• Betty shared that she had learned to rely on herself, and Lin Xiao accepted her confidence without asking for an explanation.
• Mystique watched the encounter from a rooftop, then found Lin Xiao's note inviting her to meet him at a nearby hotel.

Lin Xiao infiltrated the military compound to recover a needle containing a dangerous cell-destroying factor, then escaped after fighting off soldiers as the Lightning Hedgehog. He returned to the hotel and confessed to Betty why he had used her to create an alibi, leaving her to face him as dawn broke.

• Lin Xiao got Betty drunk, carried her to the hotel, and left her a note before flying to the military compound.
• Lin Xiao used Doupao’s security scans to enter the laboratory and retrieve the needle, learning it contained an active cell phagocytic factor.
• Lin Xiao planted a flag and signed the scene as Phantom Thief L, then drew soldiers’ attention by attacking the compound’s power and communications systems with lightning.
• Lin Xiao escaped to a hillside using the Blink Dagger and returned to the hotel an hour later.
• Betty confronted Lin Xiao, who gave her the needle and admitted he had used her to recover it and prevent the military from turning it into a weapon.

Lin Xiao spent the morning with Betty, who told General Ross that the two of them had been together all night, before she returned to Culver University. Lin Xiao went back to the hotel and found Mystique waiting; after she attacked him, he told her he had been looking for her and missed her.

• Betty woke up beside Lin Xiao, and he answered her father General Ross's call while teasing him about her having spent the night with him.
• Betty confirmed to General Ross that she and Lin Xiao had stayed together all night and had not gone to the military base.
• Lin Xiao drove Betty to Culver University, where she told him to leave her alone, but he asked when she would finish work and what they should have for dinner.
• Lin Xiao returned to the hotel and found Mystique waiting in the dark; she lunged at him with two short blades, but he dodged her attacks.
• Mystique asked why Lin Xiao had come from New York, and he said he had been looking for her and missed her.