Reborn with Steve Stand - Chapter 516: Xiao Yao (5)
“Uh…”
With a soft moan, the girl slowly opened her eyes.
She first lazily stretched, extending her fair arms out from the wool blanket. A soft “Hmm” came from her nose as she stretched. But then she suddenly turned over, curling up like a cat that hadn’t slept enough, her eyes that had barely opened closed once again.
It was clear that this little ancestor planned to sleep in again, completely unaware of the seriousness of the situation.
“This is…”
After witnessing this scene, the people around exchanged looks, also confused about the current situation.
Yes, because the power of the Infinity Gauntlet and the Stand had ceased, the white light that filled the Milano had also disappeared. The Avengers were also confused about what had happened. They only knew that Fang Mo said he was going to bring someone over, and after a snap of his fingers, there was an extra girl covered with a blanket in front of everyone. But why… did she seem to have just woken up?
“So he succeeded?”
Seeing this, Stark also lowered his voice and quietly asked Captain America next to him.
“It seems so.”
Captain America also seemed a bit perplexed, subconsciously touching his head: “But this girl… isn’t she too young? If you told me she was Fang Mo’s daughter, I would believe it.”
“What can we do about it? Do you think the FBI could be his opponent?” Stark spread his hands.
“Hey, hey, don’t think I can’t hear you just because you’re whispering.”
Fang Mo, having consumed so many essence berries, had keen hearing and naturally heard the conversation of the people around him. Feeling indescribably awkward, he quickly patted the girl in front of him: “Hey, hey, big sister, stop sleeping. Can we wake up, please?”
“Uh… stop bothering me…”
However, the girl had no intention of waking up, directly humming through her nose: “Let me sleep a little longer, I’m having a lucid dream…”
“Ah, damn it, please don’t…”
Hearing this, Fang Mo immediately became anxious and shook her vigorously: “Get up for me now!”
“Uh uh uh… Hey! What are you doing!”
Fang Mo used quite a bit of force, shaking the girl’s head like a rattle drum. It was clear that she was also awakened, but she got up with morning crankiness, suddenly sitting up from the ground.
“The blanket! My blanket!”
Fang Mo reacted quickly, instantly activating the Void Ring to keep the anti-gravity blanket on her, of course, not forgetting to remind her.
“…Huh?”
However, after suddenly sitting up, the girl seemed to also notice the people all over the ship, her sleepy face first froze for a moment, then she immediately became fully awake: “What the heck is this!?”
“You’re awake?”
Seeing her awake, Fang Mo immediately smiled: “The operation was a failure, you have been soul transferred to another world.”
“This…”
The girl was clearly a bit slow to respond, she looked around in astonishment, then back at Fang Mo.
In just a moment, her pretty face showed a range of emotions: confusion, stupefaction, and incomprehension. She seemed completely at a loss, turning her head and blinking several times, looking completely baffled: “Huh???”
“It’s rare to see you with such an expression.”
Seeing the girl’s bewildered face, Fang Mo couldn’t help but laugh: “How about it, do you want to pinch yourself to check?”
“Huh?”
Fang Mo’s words seemed to remind her, so in the next second, the girl didn’t say anything and suddenly bit her arm.
She bit down hard.
Two rows of purple bite marks instantly appeared on her fair arm.
“Damn, did you have to bite that hard?”
Seeing this, Fang Mo couldn’t help but comment, then with a thought, he was about to take out a regeneration potion. But at that moment, he faintly heard a “snap”.
He had heard this sound many times before, it was the sound of his Stand, Steve, getting hurt.
And indeed, as he instinctively looked up, behind the girl, a burst of purple-black psychic energy flared up like flames. Subsequently, a cube-shaped humanoid figure slowly emerged from it.
Though they were all cube people as Stands.
However, the counterpart’s Stand and Fang Mo’s Steve were somewhat different.
Fang Mo’s Stand, Steve, wore a cyan coat, blue trousers, and had short, black-brown square-shaped hair.
On the other hand, the awakened square-man Stand of the counterpart had bright orange hair, wore a green shirt on the upper body, a belt around the waist, brown trousers, and a pair of dark gray long boots. It looked more refined than Steve.
However, its arms were thinner than Steve’s.
At the same time, its shoulders seemed a bit lower.
“Damn! Alex?”
Fang Mo was obviously a bit surprised by this scene.
Indeed, the counterpart’s Stand was Alex, the original female skin added in MC version 1.8. As it was added later, its model was indeed a bit more refined than Steve’s.
Of course, Fang Mo was not surprised by Alex herself, but that the counterpart also awakened the concept of “Stand.” Originally, when Fang Mo snapped his fingers, he hadn’t thought so much and thought the counterpart was just a type “possessing MC abilities” on their own. Unexpectedly, it was the same type of Stand as himself.
Of course, it’s the same type of ability as his own.
But in fact, Fang Mo knew in his heart that his control over the MC dimension was nearly absolute.
When Steve was previously hit by an insect arrow and awakened into the Requiem Stand, Fang Mo had a vague sense of this.
If the MC dimension were compared to a server.
Then he was the only server owner.
With permissions and commands, Fang Mo could arbitrarily kick out, ban, teleport, or even kill any other players.
But the problem is that there are only two players in this world now, Fang Mo himself and his partner, Xiao Yao… That means it’s quite obvious, he actually holds the great power of life and death over her.
Thinking of this…
It seems quite similar to the relationship with the entities in the Cthulhu Mythos.
“Damn, Nyarlathotep’s freaking mouth…” Thinking of this, Fang Mo couldn’t help but hold his forehead: “It’s really TM accurate.”
While Fang Mo was thinking about these miscellaneous things, the girl opposite fell into complete bewilderment. She looked dazedly at Alex beside her, her mouth slightly open, as if she wanted to say something, but she didn’t know what to say at the moment.
And the scary bite marks on her arm.
They disappeared quickly as Alex’s full satiety naturally regenerated her health.
However, the girl seemed not to believe what was happening before her eyes. After a brief moment of being dazed, she suddenly bit down on her arm again, not believing it.
This time.
A large hand directly blocked her.
“Wait a minute.”
After blocking the girl’s action, Fang Mo finally couldn’t help but speak: “I went through a lot of trouble to craft a body for you, not for you to bite yourself for fun… cough cough, not for you to bite yourself for fun.”
“But this…”
Hearing this, the girl slowly put down her arm, but her expression still seemed a bit incredulous: “What’s going on with my dream today, is this a dream within a dream?”
“I’ve already said this isn’t a dream.”
Upon hearing this, Fang Mo immediately rolled his eyes: “Can your dreams be this logical?”
“But…”
“When people are dreaming, they cannot conjure up images they have never seen before.”
Seeing that the other party was skeptical, Fang Mo used the same argument he had used on Fang Xin: “Look at the surroundings. This is the Marvel Universe, on Star-Lord’s spaceship Milano. There are many details here not shown in the movies. Just take a glance and you’ll know you’re not dreaming.”
“The Marvel Universe? The Milano spaceship?”
The girl blinked, instinctively looking around: “So, are they… really the Avengers? Alive?”
“Genuine as can be.”
Fang Mo shrugged and said, “By the way, they’re all my buddies now.”
“Uh…”
Upon hearing this, the girl immediately stood up from the ground. Of course, the blanket on her also shook. Fang Mo saw this and immediately restrained her in place.
“Change your clothes first.”
Fang Mo, pressing on her shoulders, nagged like a mother: “Quickly use your little brain and think about it. Our bodies have been digitalized now, without a specific form to speak of. Just use Steve’s custom ability, and you can transform at will.”
“Uh…”
The girl frowned, seemingly trying. However, this was one of Alex’s stand abilities, almost instinctual, so she quickly learned how to do it.
In a flash of white light.
The girl was now wearing a light beige long sweatshirt.
After sorting out her clothes, the girl broke free from Fang Mo’s grasp and then went to the Avengers to watch them.
At first, she behaved normally, closely observing Hawkeye, Natasha, Mantis, Drax, and Strange, seemingly to discern whether she was dreaming, seriously examining their faces and the props on them.
But before long, her antics started to get ridiculous.
She first touched Rocket Raccoon’s ears a couple of times, then ran in front of Captain America, and like a curious child, knocked on his shield, making a thudding sound.
Then she suddenly teleported behind Captain America, raising her hand intending to slap his butt.
“Hey! Hey! Lady!”
Luckily, Captain America was quick to react, hastily raising his hand to stop her action: “That is not a ladylike behavior, please stop.”
“Uh…”
Seeing her plan foiled, the girl didn’t get discouraged. She turned around and ran towards Stark, then tiptoed attempting to touch the reactor on his chest.
Of course, Stark remained calm. In fact, he even proudly puffed out his chest, provocatively looking towards Captain America, the challenge clear in his gaze. But before he could gloat for long, the little hand in mid-air suddenly paused, then the girl suddenly turned to look at Fang Mo.
“Iron Man should have used the new element by now, right?”
The girl cautiously asked Fang Mo: “You didn’t cause any butterfly effect, did you? Does his reactor still contain palladium?”
“!!!”
Hearing this, Stark’s previously smug face instantly turned sour.
“Hahahahaha!!!!!!”
Fang Mo burst into laughter upon hearing this, proud of his partner, perfectly in sync: “Don’t worry, I’ve operated on him. He’s not playing with palladium anymore.”
“Oh, that’s good.”
The girl breathed a sigh of relief, and then touched Stark’s chest reactor.
However, after this episode, Stark was somewhat displeased, and he started to speak to Fang Mo: “I’m saying you guys…”
But before he could finish, the girl’s voice suddenly rang out.
“Uh, so this thing is hot?” She touched the Arc Reactor with her fingertips, subconsciously muttering: “No wonder… Tony has a warm heart.”
“…”
This unexpected remark left Stark momentarily speechless, the words he wanted to complain with stuck in his throat. After a while, he shrugged nonchalantly: “Okay, I take back what I said. Kid, you’re much more normal than Fang Mo.”
“I’m more normal?”
Hearing this, the girl blinked curiously, then turned to look at Fang Mo: “…What have you been doing to them?”
“Healing and saving lives.”
Fang Mo spread his hands with a look of sincerity: “Not to brag, but I’m like a mother to them. You can ask around, there’s not a single person in the Avengers I haven’t saved.”
“If saving people means live dissection, amputating everything below the scalp, blowing people up and then reviving them, persuading the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. to massacre the Congress and become President, causing someone to be unable to shower for life, smashing someone to death with gold, and leveling Sokovia…”
Hearing Fang Mo’s claim, Nick Fury also calmly added: “Then Consultant Fang Mo indeed frequently saves people.”
“6.”
The girl glanced at Fang Mo
from a distance.
“So when he said he wanted to find a girlfriend, we all supported him wholeheartedly. After all, we all hoped that someday someone could somewhat restrain him.”
As Nick Fury said this, he also extended a hand towards the girl: “So… Miss, how may I address you?”
“There’s no need to be so formal.”
The girl reached out and shook his hand, a happy smile appearing on her face: “Just call me the Farmer.”
“…”
Nick Fury’s expression instantly darkened.