Lu Mingfei doesn’t want to be a superhero

Lu Mingfei was at home.

Because his hands have not recovered yet, and because of the psychological shadow caused by the car accident, Strange is afraid to drive now and can only come by taxi.

The taxi drove into the manor and stopped at the end of the road.

Strange in the car couldn't help but glance at the palace-like building in front of him and licked his lips - even though he was a top surgeon before the car accident, he was undoubtedly an elite in the United States, but such a luxurious This was also the first time he saw a private building in reality.

Strange stepped out of the taxi and stood in front of the steps. Perhaps it was due to the change in his mentality after his hands were injured and he could no longer hold the scalpel. He, who had always been proud and self-sufficient, was now a little concerned about gains and losses.

Is it really appropriate to ask the owner of the building for help? I just performed an operation on his friend. Will he help me, a person I only met once?

Just when Strange was worried, the door of the building was pushed open from the inside, and Lu Mingfei strode out: "Dr. Strange, you are here, come in and talk!"

Strange nodded and followed Lu Mingfei up the steps.

"Sir! You haven't paid yet!" the taxi driver ran out and shouted.

Strange stumbled on the steps.

…

inside the house.

Sol was watching TV and drinking iced Coke, while Lu Mingfei and Strange were sitting on the sofa.

"Dr. Strange, I roughly understand your situation. There was a car accident not long ago. Your hands were fractured in many places in the car accident, and the nerves were scratched by broken glass. Although you saved your hands, your hands were damaged. I'll be shaking uncontrollably all the time, so it's impossible to have another surgery, right?" Lu Mingfei asked.

Strange smiled bitterly and nodded: "I have read my examination report. There is no technology that can cure me in the modern medical knowledge I know, so I thought of your magical Eastern witchcraft."

Lu Mingfei said: "Well... Although saying this may make me look a bit amateurish, although your hands are injured, your knowledge and learning ability are not affected. Why don't you consider transferring to a scientific research position? While waiting for you to come, I checked your information, and your academic resume is very dazzling. With your learning ability and knowledge reserve, it shouldn’t be a problem to transfer to a scientific research position. Although the income will definitely be less, it shouldn’t be impossible to survive.”

Strange shook his head and looked firmly: "This is indeed okay, but... this is not what I want. I want to heal my hand! No matter how much it costs!"

Is this the tip of a genius? Lu Mingfei twitched his lips.

"I'm sorry. Although I do have some special abilities, I'm not sure I can cure you." Lu Mingfei shook his head with regret.

"As long as it is possible to cure me, no matter how small the possibility is, you can try it on me. I will pay any amount." Strange said eagerly.

Lu Mingfei looked troubled.

He had indeed cured Ethan and Peter's uncles, but the former was cured by the spirit of speech when he was in a dying state. In that state, his power was not very controlled. It was fine for fighting, but it was difficult to save people if it was used for healing. There would be no accident, so he didn't use this method to remove the shrapnel from Tony's body.

The latter is a free gift package given by the little devil. Although he did not pay any price, the little devil may not be willing to give him another free gift package. Moreover, the gift given by the devil and the gift asked from the devil are completely different concepts. Accept it. Free gifts, as long as you restrain your greed, at least there will be no danger. Asking for gifts from the devil is just like jumping into a pit.

Of course, in addition to the above two unreliable methods, Lu Mingfei also has two more realistic plans.

The first is the lizard potion studied by Dr. Connors. It can grow even severed limbs. It is easy to cure Strange's hand. The problem is that there is still a problem with the potion. It will turn people into lizards. And spawned another personality, and after being injected with the reducing agent invented by Tony, the person will return to the person he was before injecting the lizard potion, and the pain restored by the lizard potion will reappear in the user. For example, Dr. Connors becomes... After returning, his restored hand became a broken arm again.

Moreover, the current reducing agent cannot completely eliminate the side effects of the lizard medicine. It only temporarily suppresses the lizard's transformation into a beast. Hasn't Dr. Connors already transformed into a lizard and escaped from prison?

Unless Tony can rely on Dr. Connors' research data to develop an improved version of the medicine without side effects.

Of course, in addition to the lizard potion, there is another potion that may also be useful - the potion that Tony researched using his blood to turn people into hybrids.

Although the regenerative ability of hybrids cannot be exaggerated to the point of regenerating severed limbs, the recovery ability of high-level hybrids is also very impressive. As long as vital parts such as the heart or brain are not destroyed, they can survive for a while even if they are bleeding heavily, even if their body is Even if the blood reserve is less than one-third, it can last for a long time.

But the potion itself is too sensitive, because the power gained through it has almost no side effects and is relatively controllable. It is easily reminiscent of the "Super Soldier Serum", so he and Tony kept it strictly confidential to avoid ambitions. Everyone put their thoughts on it, and if it were used on Strange, someone with a heart might notice something strange.

Moreover, the medicine Tony is currently researching can only give people blood equivalent to a D-level hybrid.

Although it should be easy for a high-level hybrid to repair his nerve-damaged hands, it is a bit difficult to say with the blood of a D-class hybrid.

But Strange is the doctor who saved Tony after all, and Lu Mingfei really wanted to help him if he could.

After hesitating for a moment, Lu Mingfei said: "Doctor Strange, maybe you have to go to Tony's house with me."

Strange:? ? ?

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Tony's house.

Strange was sitting alone on the sofa in the living room, fidgeting as if the bottom of his butt was not a top-notch sofa made by a master, but a sharp nail board.

Lu Mingfei and Tony were both in the laboratory.

"That's probably the situation," Lu Mingfei spread his hands, "So is there any way Tony can cure Doctor Strange?"

"Connors' medicine is indeed interesting, but his research direction has gone awry from the early stages. It would be too troublesome to use his data to improve medicines without side effects, and it would also require a lot of experiments," Tony said, "As for The hybrid medicine... Unfortunately, even if we don't consider the problems that will be exposed, the current hybrid medicine should not be able to repair Strange's injuries unless I upgrade it one or two more times."

"You can't even do anything?" Lu Mingfei was stunned.

"Who says I can't help it!" Tony immediately raised his eyebrows, "It's a bit troublesome to cure him biologically. I can try it from the perspective of engineering and magic."

"Magic?" Lu Mingfei was stunned, "Tony, you also went to Karma Taj to further your studies."

"No, I'm talking about the Asgardian magic metal sent by Thor," Tony explained. "I smelted those ores into metal. After my research, I found some interesting properties on them. By the way, Combined with the alchemy knowledge you told me before, I came up with some new technologies."

After going to Kassel College for the first time and auditing the Magic Mechanical Design class, Lu Mingfei taught himself some basic knowledge of alchemy. He naturally shared it with Tony after he came to this world last time, but at that time After all, his knowledge was limited, and there wasn't much he could tell Tony. He didn't produce any research results at that time, but he didn't expect that Tony would now combine Asgard's magic metal to make something famous.

Lu Mingfei couldn't help but look at Tony with envy - when would he have such an easy-to-use brain?

"Go get Strange down." Tony said proudly.

…

"So, your solution is to chop off my original hands and install a pair of mechanical prostheses?" In the laboratory, Strange pointed at a pair of metal hands on the table with a strange look on his face.

"You are wrong, this is not a mechanical hand, this is a mechanical glove," Tony shook his head, "It is the same style as my steel suit. The accuracy can reach micron level, which is much more accurate than human hands. It can be used as a substitute for machine tools. "

Strange was a little worried: "Is the machine reliable? What if it malfunctions during the operation or suddenly runs out of power? And this thing looks very heavy, and I can't keep doing it even if I carry it." Surgery, my arms can’t support such weight for a long time.”

"Besides... although such robotic gloves are more accurate, they shouldn't be as flexible as human hands, right?" Strange thought of the robots he saw on TV that moved in a jerky manner.

"Then there is another way," Tony shrugged, "I will help you replace these gloves with embedded ones. Its mechanical structure will be symbiotic with your flesh and blood, and there will be no rejection reaction. And it will be guaranteed when the time comes. It’s more flexible and stable than human hands, but the disadvantage is that it will be difficult to take it off later.”

The mechanical gloves on the table are just accessories removed from the steel suit, but the embedded gloves were made by him using a small amount of Asgardian magic metal and scientific technology, supplemented by the alchemy provided by Lu Mingfei. It is made of a comprehensive material mixed with magic metal, alchemical metal and other earth metals as bones and flesh, and an alchemical matrix is ​​used to simulate human nerves.

After testing, Tony found that its flexibility was no different from that of ordinary people's hands. After testing with the assistance of Dr. Banner, he also found that it has excellent energy conduction properties. In theory, it can even use human physical strength as energy and motivation.

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously thought of Bucky who was still in the mental ward - Bucky had a mechanical hand, and he didn't know which one was more powerful than the mechanical hand invented by Tony.

Facing Tony's wild suggestion, Strange couldn't help but be stunned for a moment - he was here to treat his hand, so why did he seem to be turning into a biochemically modified person after treating it?

Gritting his teeth, Strange nodded in agreement.

Although the solution was a little different from what he had imagined, his hands were of little value anyway. Taking away the perceptual factors and replacing them with hands like biochemically modified humans, it was not unacceptable if he thought about it carefully.

Just when Strange was about to nod, a portal with swirling stars opened in front of him. Behind the portal, a scene that looked like an ancient building unfolded, and a slightly fat man walked out of it.

"Hey, don't you mages have the awareness to protect other people's privacy?" Tony said from the side.

He had an impression of this circle of sparks, which was a mage portal.

"King?" Lu Mingfei was stunned, "Why are you here?"

"The Supreme Master has something very important and urgent to ask you. Mr. Lu Mingfei, please come with me." Wang said immediately.

Lu Mingfei hesitated for a moment and looked at Strange: "Doctor, can you wait a moment? I'll be back later."

Strange nodded dully - although this was not the first time he saw supernatural power, he still had the feeling that his worldview was shattered again.

Lu Mingfei followed Wang into the portal, and the portal instantly shrank and disappeared.

The stunned Strange woke up, looked at Tony and asked, "Did that person just say the word 'mage'? Is Mr. Lu Mingfei actually a mage?"

"No, he shouldn't be a mage, he just knows a group of mages and their leader." Tony shook his head.

"There are really mages in this world, and mages are organized..." Strange murmured - he felt that his worldview was shattered more evenly.

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Kama Taj.

Lu Mingfei followed Wang.

Wang's pace was long and fast. Although Lu Mingfei could easily keep up, for ordinary people, he would probably be left behind even if he was jogging.

"What happened, Wang? You seem to be in a hurry," Lu Mingfei asked, following behind Wang, "Is it related to Master Gu Yi looking for me?"

Wang turned his head and glanced at Lu Mingfei, nodded, and said in a low voice: "Master Gu Yi said that she...she is almost running out of time."

Lu Mingfei's eyes widened.

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Ancient One's room.

Lu Mingfei pushed the door open and shouted sadly: "Master Gu Yi, can something happen to you... Huh?"

Lu Mingfei, who was halfway howling, looked at Gu Yi, who was sitting on the futon with a normal expression, and was stunned.

Wang brought him to the room where Gu Yi was and stopped without following him. At this moment, only Lu Mingfei and Gu Yi were staring at each other in the room, and the atmosphere was inexplicably awkward.

"Master Gu Yi, aren't you... in trouble?" Lu Mingfei was confused, "But you look quite healthy."

Gu Yi motioned Lu Mingfei to sit down, and then said: "My time is indeed running out. Mingfei, I should have told you that the power of the mage comes from signing contracts with various powerful magic entities. , you have to bear the price, so how to balance the many powers in yourself and the terms of the contract is one of the most important subjects for a mage."

"I borrowed power from many powerful beings. Originally, I borrowed power from different magic entities to balance the cost. However, during the battle with the Phoenix Force, I overdrawn a large amount of money from Emperor Weishan. The borrowed power from my body has caused this balance to be broken, and I may die from this at any time."

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment and thought: "Is this similar to the situation where the balance of mutual repayments among eighteen credit cards has been broken?"

Ancient One:......

After a moment of silence, Gu Yi looked at Lu Mingfei: "Mingfei, do you know why I asked the king to find you?"

Lu Mingfei shook his head blankly at first, and then his eyes lit up: "Is there any way I can save you?"

Gu Yi shook his head: "Life and death are destiny, there is no need to force it too much, especially... I no longer have the need to force it."

"Then...could it be that you left me a legacy?" Lu Mingfei looked touched.

Ancient One:......

After a moment of silence, Gu Yi looked at Lu Mingfei with a slightly complicated look, and took the initiative to say: "Mingfei, do you want to be the Supreme Mage?"

Lu Mingfei:! ! !

I went to the hospital today to change the dressing. The gauze had solidified on the wound. When I took it off, it hurt even more than when I was first injured. It felt like the wound was being torn open again. It was a literal pain. After taking off the gauze, Sometimes I feel pain running along my nerves from my feet to the top of my head... What's even scarier is that the doctor suggested that I also change my dressing tomorrow!