: A Miracle Called Poison, A Dance Seven Years Late

Congratulations, your good luck has arrived.

Li Ang's eyes lit up; he hadn't expected the other party to actually produce such good goods.

The crisp sound of the gashapon shattering was particularly jarring in the quiet shop.

Steve opened his palm, where a red and white capsule lay quietly.

It looked like some kind of readily available cold medicine, but Li Ang's explanation hit Captain America's fragile nerves hard.

【APTX4869 (Rejuvenation Optimized Version)】

[Description: A poison originating from the world of a certain elementary school Bleach character. It can cause the user's bodily functions to regress to childhood or adolescence, while retaining their original memories.]

"poison……"

Before the introduction was even finished, Steve was already chewing on those two words, his slightly trembling eyes revealing his excitement.

Is the so-called miracle a poison?

"Are you kidding me, manager?!"

Steve's voice trembled; the fall from hope to despair had made him somewhat lose his mind.

"Peggy...she's lying in a hospital bed, unable to move! You're giving me this so I can kill her with my own hands?!"

hum! !

Chakra mixed with the blood energy of the super soldier, forming a visible shockwave around him.

Steve took a step forward, causing the ground to tremble, and grabbed directly at Li Ang's collar.

He wasn't trying to attack; he just needed an explanation.

"Captain! Calm down!"

Coulson was terrified. He wasn't afraid that something would happen to Li Ang, but rather that Captain America would cause trouble.

"snort."

A cold snort rang out.

Before Steve could even touch Li Ang, a burly figure appeared like a ghost blocking the counter.

Dr. Banner pushed up his glasses on the bridge of his nose with one hand, and steadily supported Steve's wrist with the other.

"Although I admire you, Captain Rogers."

"But resorting to violence in a store is not gentlemanly behavior."

Banner's voice was calm yet carried a warning. He hadn't transformed, but the Fahai template and Hulk's soul made his words carry a strong sense of oppression.

"And... could you please let Li finish what he has to say?"

Li Ang sat in the rocking chair, not even lifting his eyelids, still elegantly sipping the black tea in his cup.

"Fury, is this the backbone of S.H.I.E.L.D."

Li Ang put down his teacup, his tone carrying a hint of casual mockery, "Instead of thinking first, you resort to your fists when faced with a problem."

"It seems that the seventy years of freezing not only froze his body, but also damaged the circuitry in his brain."

"Steve, tell me, what is Agent Carter's biggest enemy right now?"

Steve shook off Banner's hand, and the mention of Carter dissipated the anger in his heart.

"It's aging! It's time! Her body has reached its limit..."

"Bingo!" Li Ang snapped his fingers and pointed to the red and white capsule in Steve's hand.

"What if there were a poison that could reverse the aging process of an elderly person's cells, forcibly rejuvenating their bodily functions..."

"Would you let her eat it?"

The entire room fell silent.

Even Jane and Darcy, who had been watching the show the whole time, stared wide-eyed at the tiny capsule.

"Rejuvenation?"

Steve froze, his tense muscles relaxing as he stared in disbelief at the pill in his hand.

"This stuff is indeed a poison used to kill people. It will most likely make the victim disappear, leaving only their clothes behind."

Li Ang shrugged. "But here, it only has the effect of rejuvenating. For a centenarian lying in a hospital bed... it's a gift from God."

"It is called poison, but it is actually an antidote."

"After taking this pill, she will no longer be the frail and elderly Agent Carter, but the Peggy who can dance that dance with you on the dance floor."

Li Ang looked into Steve's eyes.

Clang.

The vibranium shield in Steve's hand slipped to the ground with a crisp sound.

The man, who had never flinched in the face of Hydra's army, had tears welling up in his eyes.

Seventy years.

He slept under the ice for seventy years, and when he awoke, everything had changed, and people were no longer the same.

He thought that date would always be a regret, and that he could only watch his lover wither away with time.

But now, the miracle is in his hands.

"Really... is it okay?" Steve's voice sounded like that of a helpless child.

Li Ang said calmly, "Believe it or not, it's up to you. Anyway, the money and goods are exchanged, and I take no responsibility."

Steve took a deep breath, his trembling hand gripping the capsule tightly.

He didn't ask another pointless question about the scientific principles, bent down to pick up the shield, and put it back on his back.

Then, he bowed deeply to the young Asian man behind the counter.

This bow is for the life that was lost and then regained.

"I'm sorry, manager, it was my fault for offending you."

Steve straightened up, the confusion in his eyes vanishing.

"Frey! I need to see her!"

Steve turned to the burly, dark-skinned bureau chief. "Now! Immediately! Get your fastest plane over here!"

"Fuck..." Fury looked at the Captain America who had come back to life, his lips twitched, but a trace of relief flashed in his eyes.

However, the plot was a little different from what he had imagined.

He originally intended to use Leon to persuade Steve to join S.H.I.E.L.D. and become a member of the Avengers.

But how did the other party end up on Li Ang's pirate ship?

However, Fury didn't think much of it. After all, Carter was the founder of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Captain America could never break free from his ties with S.H.I.E.L.D.

"Coulson, prepare the vehicle! Have the Quinjet fighters stand by!"

Fury waved his hand, and his black trench coat rustled.

"Yes, sir!" Coulson was also quite excited.

As Fury watched Steve dash out of the store, his speed even leaving a blur, he turned back and took a deep look at the young man sitting in the rocking chair.

"Li, S.H.I.E.L.D. will remember this favor."

Fury said something meaningful, then strode away with Coulson and Jane.

Jane didn't want to bother Leon any longer, so she went to S.H.I.E.L.D. to learn from them.

As everyone left, the noisy gashapon shop returned to calm.

"Phew... finally some peace and quiet."

Li Ang stretched, the shrewdness of a businessman dissipating from his body, and he regained his relaxed, all-powerful demeanor.

"System, settle the transaction points and upgrade the gacha shop."

The daily shop hasn't been selling any good items lately, so Li Ang decided to use value points to upgrade the system, hoping that the drop rate would increase.

Moreover, in this Marvel universe, just fooling people isn't enough; you have to maintain a certain image.

The shop is too small now, it doesn't even have a decent waiting area. What if Thanos comes in the future? Are we going to make him sit on a small stool and draw gashapon capsules?

It doesn't seem like it's impossible...

[Store upgrade in progress... Branch under construction...]

[Note: Branch stores around the world will attract potential customers for you.]

hum! ! !

A low, buzzing sound suddenly rang out.

Darcy Louis, who was cleaning, and Banner, who was studying Buddhist scriptures, suddenly felt a blur before their eyes.

The original cramped shop, which was only a few dozen square meters, has begun to expand outwards at an astonishing pace!

No, it's not extending outwards, but inwards!

The walls are stretching, the ceiling is rising.

A spacious and bright hall appeared in the middle of the gashapon shop, with black marble flooring that reflected the starry chandelier that had appeared out of nowhere overhead.

Behind the counter, the staircase that originally led to the second-floor bedroom has now been transformed into a spiral staircase.

In just a few seconds.

This dilapidated little shop on a street corner in New York has been transformed into a luxurious store covering thousands of square meters!

But strangely, looking out the window, the street was still the same street, and pedestrians were still hurrying by, seemingly completely unaware of the earth-shattering changes that had taken place.

"Is this some kind of spatial folding?"

As Jane's assistant, Darcy Lewis was naturally very interested in scientific phenomena.

"Namo Amaterasu".

Banner clasped his hands together, looking at everything before him, a flash of understanding appearing in his eyes.

"The boss is indeed no ordinary person. This is probably what they call... containing Sumeru in a mustard seed."

Thor plopped down on the sofa, stretched, and settled into a more comfortable position.

Li Ang looked at the newly renovated shop with satisfaction.

"That's more like it."

……

Outside the shop, a black SUV had just started up.

Fury, who was sitting in the passenger seat, glanced back as if possessed, feeling as if the shop had just shaken.

"parking!"

Fury suddenly let out a low shout.

"What's wrong, Chief?" Coulson slammed on the brakes.

Fury didn't speak, but just stared intently at the seemingly unremarkable shop window.

From the outside, it looked like an ordinary toy store, with some paint even peeling off the signboard.

But just a moment ago, the green light ring in Fury's hand, which could sense energy, sent him an extremely dangerous signal.

It was a feeling of dread, like facing an abyss.

"Coulson, how big does this store look from the outside?" Fury asked in a deep voice.

"About... sixty square meters? Maybe smaller." Coulson was puzzled.

"Yes, sixty square meters." Fury swallowed hard. The ring's perception told him that the space behind that small storefront was at least a thousand square meters.

A country within a country.

The word popped into Fury's mind.

What exactly does Li Ang, who seems greedy, want to do in New York?

Is it really just watching the show?

I still want to establish an independent dimension...

"Let's go."

Fury suppressed the turmoil in his heart.

The car restarted and merged back into the traffic.

Just as the vehicle drove away from the street corner, a blind man wearing red sunglasses and leaning on a white cane slowly walked along the base of the wall.

He walked very slowly, taking each step carefully.

But as he passed the gashapon shop, the blind man suddenly stopped.

Without visual interference, his senses of hearing, smell, and touch were amplified infinitely.

In his perceived world, the place that should have been a wall now had a doorway.

He heard a heartbeat he had never heard before, and an energy surge that made every cell in his body cheer.

"here……"

Matt Murdoch tilted his head slightly, his unfocused eyes staring directly at the gashapon shop's door.

Just then, Li Ang, who was in a great mood after upgrading his shop, was about to bask in the sun.

Their gazes met in mid-air.

Looking at the blind man before him, Li Ang thought of the name "Daredevil".

Luck really is contagious.

A bureau chief who was blind in one eye just left, and now a lawyer who is completely blind has arrived.

"Sir, I see you have extraordinary bone structure. Although you are blind, you are very perceptive."

Li Ang leaned against the balcony railing, a friendly smile on his face. "Since you're passing by, why not come in and try your luck?"

Matt's grip on his white cane tightened slightly.

He could tell there was no malice in the voice, only a kind of... mockery towards the prey?

"I'm just a lawyer with no money," Matt chuckled self-deprecatingly.

"It's alright." Li Ang gestured for them to proceed. "With me, you can pay for something else, like... your misplaced sense of justice."

Matt, who was about to leave, froze. He slowly turned around to face Li Ang. "Do you know who I am?"

"I'm just someone who sells gashapon toys."

"Want to know more? Come and take a look!"