American comics: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

"That's why I hate this so-called tipping system..."

Watching Nick Fury take the $5 that should have belonged to him, Colin complained silently in his heart.

[Contact the distorted time node and collect a small amount of time fragments × 2]

[Black Iron Mark (11/10)]

[Faith (272/1000)]

Then he scanned the content displayed on the text, especially the number of [Time Fragments] displayed on the [Black Iron Mark], and felt that his aching heart was somewhat comforted.

From another perspective, at least, the one who took him on this trip was the 're-employed' Nick Fury instead of someone else, otherwise he would have only lost 40 dollars without any other gains.

After silently comforting himself in his heart, Colin reached out and pulled the door handle of the back seat and got out of the taxi.

"By the way, customer."

Watching Colin get out of the car, Nick Fury rolled down the window and handed out a note from inside.

"Next time if you have something urgent and want to take a taxi, you can call this number and I can give you a discount."

After taking the note from Nick Fury, Colin looked down at the number on it and felt a little subtle.

Especially when thinking of Nick Fury's identity, this subtle feeling became more obvious.

The former director of SHIELD has now "fallen" to the point where he needs to leave a number to solicit customers.

Of course, this kind of pity only existed in Colin's heart for a few seconds and was immediately extinguished. After all, this "poor" former director of SHIELD just took away his $35 fare and $5 tip. Especially the $5 tip, Colin felt a little painful when he thought of it.

"Well, be careful on the road, customer, goodbye."

After sending the note with the number, Nick Fury rolled up the window, nodded to Colin outside the car, stepped on the clutch and drove the taxi forward.

If possible, I hope this is the last time we meet, after all, my wallet can't stand such destruction.

Looking at the back of the taxi leaving, Colin wanted to complain in his heart, but the next second the expression on his face suddenly froze.

As Nick Fury pulled the window, Colin saw that a large windbreaker was quietly placed on his co-pilot seat, and the shape was exactly the same as the one he saw in the thick fog before.

So, Nick Fury had appeared at the explosion site!

He was not just driving a taxi past the explosion site as he said...

He came out of the explosion site!

But why did Nick Fury appear at the explosion site? Was he the culprit of this explosion?

The songbird did mention that the criminal who caused the explosion fled from the scene, but unfortunately Colin didn't have much time to interview at the time, and didn't do much about this issue.

Of course, more importantly, judging from the attitudes of the Thunderbolts, even if Colin asked about the details of the explosion, they would probably be vague or simply not answer.

Looking down at the note with the number in his hand, Colin's heart became extremely complicated for a moment.

The water in the opposite world is much deeper than he originally thought.

...

[Black Iron Mark (11/10)]

"Finally, the collection is complete."

Suppressing the emotions in his heart, he returned home.

Colin breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the [Time Fragment] marked with Nick Fury in the text.

To be honest, even Colin himself did not expect that the last two [Time Fragments] would be obtained in this way. In fact, he had already planned to run the Thunder Agents News for a long time, or simply go to the former owner of the Daily Bugle, J. Jonah Jameson, to obtain the last [Time Fragment].

His eyes were withdrawn from the two broken [Time Fragments] of Nick Fury. On the flashing surface of the fragments, Colin could vaguely see Nick Fury wearing a black windbreaker and holding a gun to fight. It was more in line with Colin's impression of the director of SHIELD than the appearance in the taxi just now.

Next, it was the last step.

Shaking his head and sweeping away the chaotic thoughts in his mind, Colin looked at the text (11/10) and took a breath silently.

As his thoughts floated, the text in his eyes began to flicker.

During this period of time, the [Time Fragments] collected by Colin began to emit a faint metallic luster under the wrapping of countless green lights.

As the metallic luster emerged, Colin's back of his hand suddenly felt hot, as if someone was holding a red-hot iron and branding it fiercely on the back of his hand.

"Ah!"

The sudden burning heat made Colin couldn't help but scream in pain.

However, before the pain spread, a cool feeling enveloped the back of his hand in the next second.

Under the contrast of hot and cold, the original scream in Colin's mouth also turned into a kind of comfortable moan.

"So, this is the effect of [Time Fragments]?"

In the room, looking at the mark on the back of his hand that exuded a black metallic luster and kept changing, the look in Colin's eyes flickered slightly.

Through trying the [Black Iron Mark] on his opponent's back, Colin basically understood the function of the mark.

To be precise, the mark that Colin has mastered now is not complete.

At present, he has only completed the first half of the step, that is, the finalization of the mark, and synthesized the outline of the mark by contacting the 10 [Time Fragments] collected by [Twisted Time Node]. If he wants to fully exert the power of the mark, he needs to invest the will of [Faith] in the blank [Black Iron Mark] in front of him to condense the pattern representing power.

This process reminded Colin of the original birth form of primitive religion, which originated from all things in nature.

Primitive people turned all things in nature into totems and believed in them to bless themselves.

However, this is not a primitive society after all, and the [Faith] I have collected so far is not as pure as in the past.

His eyes fell on the text, representing the number [Faith (272/1000)], and Colin's brows frowned.

Before, when he didn't know the specific situation of the mark, he just regarded [Faith] as a simple number and didn't think too much about it. Now looking back, the 272 points of [Faith] represented by the text are obviously not something to be happy about.

The vast majority of these 272 points of [Faith] come from the sales of newspapers in the positive world, and the content of the newspapers published by the Courier for several consecutive weeks is either scolding Hoover or scolding Hoover again.

It is difficult for Colin to imagine what the pattern will be like when he collects enough [Faith] numbers and puts them into the mark.