Hell's Kitchen, near the edge of Midtown West.

A little black boy looked at the figure passing in front of him, and immediately shouted excitedly to his mother on the side.

"Mommy, it's the defender!"

He shouted with excitement as he pointed to the rickety back in front of him.

"Hey, Jamie, how did I teach you!"

However, in contrast to the excited child, the black woman on the side with an obvious horizontal development of body size pulled the child into her arms nervously, and said in a rap-like tone: "Don't have anything to do with these superheroes, they're not good guys." ”

"But, Mom, the defenders protected Hell's Kitchen?"

"No, they pose more of a threat to Hell's Kitchen, you forgot what your damn brother went to jail for, it's these defenders."

"Defenders, get out of Hell's Kitchen!"

Before the black woman could finish speaking, a decadent white man in poor clothes on the side of the road let out an expletive.

"Hell's Kitchen doesn't need you clowns to protect you!"

Boom!

However, before the white man could finish his words, he saw the petite figure swing his fist and leave a clear fist mark directly on the lamppost next to him.

Zizi –

With a heavy blow, the dim light of the street lamp flickered for a moment, and suddenly lit up.

“……”

Such a simple and crude huge, but undoubtedly achieved great results.

Looking at the clearly visible fist prints on the metal lamp pole, both the white man who opened his mouth and the black woman who complained not far away wisely chose to shut up and leave in front of the figure as if fleeing.

"Hmph."

Turning her head to look at the fleeing guys, and then sweeping the quiet pedestrians around her, Jessica pursed her lips with a clear look of disdain on her face.

For Hell's Kitchen, the defenders exist and are loved by all.

While the vast majority of the inhabitants are grateful to the superheroes who kept them safe from being bullied by criminal organizations, there is always a small group of people who are not interested in the presence of the defenders, believing that their presence has led to the chaos with Hell's Kitchen.

Even, there are many people who miss the death that was once ruled by Jinhe.

Matt's approach to these stubborn nuisances is to face them with a tolerant mindset, and Jessica obviously can't do that.

Not beating them to the ground and searching for teeth was already the highest limit of patience she could do.

"Bully the soft and fear the hard."

With a cold snort coming out of her mouth, Jessica lifted the bottle in her hand and poured it into her mouth.

The life of a superhero is not as good as imagined, especially since the defenders are not a household name like the Avengers, and there is no billionaire like Tony Stark behind the superhero organization, with the death of Danny, everyone has fallen into a certain degree of economic crisis, and even in order to cope with this situation, Luke Cage, a member of the defenders, has started the idea of setting up a company to hire heroes.

Although it has not yet reached this level, it is not much different.

If it weren't for her status as a member of the Defenders, she would have made a name for herself as a private detective, and perhaps she would have followed Luke Cage to start the company that hired heroes.

The thought came to her mind, and Jessica habitually picked up the wine bottle in her hand and took another sip, but a mere bottle of wine was not enough for her to drink like a fat, and the bottle in her hand was empty before she reached her destination.

"Shit~"

Shaking the empty bottle in her hand, Jessica couldn't help but curse in a low voice.

While scolding her, he took a step and continued to walk in the direction in front of him.

"Huh?"

Seeing that the building where the target was located was in front of her, Jessica instinctively quickened her pace, but the wheelchair passing by made her eyes subconsciously chase after her.

"Hell's Kitchen still has such an old guy living here?"

Looking at the scrawny old man in the wheelchair with raised eyebrows, Jessica's heart flashed with a hint of doubt, but retracting her gaze at the old man and the silver-haired man pushing the wheelchair, Jessica refocused her attention on the antique shop not far from her.

Not long ago, she just received a case and was in trouble because of a small problem, and she needed information about Li Ran in the antique store.

Boom –

However, before Jessica could get closer.

With a huge explosion, a large amount of red mist emerged from the antique shop under Jessica's gaze, tearing the entire antique shop apart in an instant.

"James!"

The huge explosion impact knocked Jessica's petite figure into the air, controlling her body to stabilize, Jessica looked at the antique shop in front of her that turned into ruins, the originally drunk expression on her face instantly turned into a sober color, and without the slightest hesitation, she controlled her body and flew into the antique store.

"James!"

"James!"

Because of the explosion, the entire antique store was messy, a large amount of smoke and dust covered everything, and the ground was full of antique wreckage collected by Li Ran.

Shouting Li Ran's English name, the moment Jessica rushed into the antique store, she seemed to see a figure covered in red mist flashing, but before she could think about it more, she found Li Ran's figure pressed under the shelf from a collapsed ruin in the antique store.

"James!"

With an exclamation in her mouth, Jessica flew to the shelf and fell, stretched out her hand and easily removed the heavy iron frame from Li Ran's body, and what was revealed by removing the shelf was Li Ran, who was unconscious below.

……

"How's it going?"

Hell's Kitchen, outside the hospital emergency room.

Matt, who had rushed to hear the news, took a deep breath to calm down his rapid breathing from running at a rapid pace, and then turned his neck to ask the defender who had arrived first.

"I don't know exactly what happened."

In the face of Matt's inquiry, Luke Cage also shook his head a little dazedly, stretched out his hand and pointed to Jessica's location, and then reacted that Matt in front of him couldn't see his movements, and then said: "I also received a call from Jessica, and the one in the emergency room seems to have a connection with someone from the Assassin Brotherhood." ”

As for Jessica's relationship with Li Ran, the rest of the defenders are not very clear.

All they knew was that the injured person in the emergency room was Jessica's liaison to the Assassin Brotherhood.

Hearing Luke Cage's answer, Matt turned his head in Jessica's direction.

Although he couldn't see Jessica's expression at the moment, through the keen touch enlarged by the ripples, Matt could still clearly feel the restlessness and worry in his heart at the moment.

Matt was silent for a moment, then reached out and touched the wall outside the emergency room.

Touching the wall, relying on the power of ripples to amplify his super senses, Matt clearly sensed the situation of Li Ran in the wall.

"Whew~"

Releasing his palm from the wall, Matt took a deep breath and said to Jessica, "Everything is stable in the emergency room, so Jessica, you don't need to worry too much. ”

"Really?"

Hearing Matt's words, Jessica, who was originally sitting outside the emergency room, subconsciously raised her head, looked at the blind lawyer in front of her, and said in a hesitant tone.

"Of course."

In response, Matt nodded affirmatively, he turned his head sideways to hear the sound from the emergency room, and then said silently: "Actually, for the specific situation, you can ask Claire who is inside." ”

Because of her relationship with the defenders, Jessica took her directly to Claire, the hospital where Nurse Midnight was, after discovering that Li Ran had been attacked.

Coming out of the emergency room, Claire looked at the defenders standing at the door, and greeted Matt without any surprise on her face, and then made a relieved expression and said: "Although the specific situation is not clear, but because of Jessica's timely escort, the injuries on the patient's body are not serious, and those injured parts look serious, but in fact they are only some superficial wounds, which only need to be bandaged and recuperated for a period of time to recover, but compared to these, I am more concerned about the mental condition of the injured." , he seemed to have suffered a huge blow, and his whole mind was in a state of instability. ”

"Claire, can you get us to meet James?"

Everything found in the antique store has always been Jessica's concern, and now that she knows Li Ran's situation, she immediately made an inquiry.

“……”

Hearing Jessica's request, Claire turned her head to look at the defenders in front of her again, and was silent for a moment before moving to the side, and at the same time reminded: "You try to shorten the time, the patient needs to rest." ”

"Thank you, Claire."

Matt knew that Claire's request to meet with Jessica was entirely due to her relationship with the defender, so he stopped and thanked the midnight nurse before entering the emergency room.

"Matt, the injuries on the patient's body are not simple at first glance, if there is any real danger, you must be careful."

In the face of Matt's thanks, Claire straightened her expression and then reminded him.

As a midnight nurse, Claire has seen Matt and the defenders scarred more than once, and it is precisely because she knows what these superheroes have done to protect Hell's Kitchen that she willingly helps them and others to do what she can.

……

"James."

Walking into the emergency room, Jessica looked at Li Ran, who was lying on the hospital bed with straps wrapped up and down, and her voice subconsciously became a little smaller.

He looked at the frail figure on the bed, unable to relate it to the guy he knew in the past.

"Ahem, you're here Jessica......"

On the hospital bed, slowly turning his neck, Li Ran looked at Jessica and the defenders and others who appeared in the ward, and deliberately said in a weak tone.

In order to be able to draw out the role of [Guo Haihuang], Li Ran can be regarded as fighting.

Directly blew up his antique store, just to make everything seem real.

And, in this way, pulling yourself into the incident as an introduction, you can not only achieve the effect of harvesting legends, but also reasonably erase the suspicion on yourself. Rationalize one's identity in a way that doesn't have a high sense of presence, one that feels physically involved but not too conspicuous.

To put it simply, it is an NPC, the existence of a task trigger.

As for the triggers, it looks like the defenders in front of them, but in fact they have vaguely turned against the more powerful Avengers.

After all, when [Guo Haihuang] said that Wanda and Quicksilver, who have a strong hatred for the Avengers, cooperated, it already meant that they and the Avengers were destined to have a battle.

It's just that in order to make everything more intense, Li Ran led by example and pulled the defenders into it.

After all, if you are serious about it, the defenders were also one of the important participants in the exit of the Fire Cloud Evil God.

As the ontology of various doppelgangers, with many acting skills in one, Li Ran's acting skills are naturally to the point of perfection. Especially under the control power of the [Ultimate Creature] over the level of body cells, the simulated real injuries cooperated, and the defenders couldn't see a single flaw in it.

Even Matt, who had the sense of ripple amplification, thought that what Li Ran had suffered was a real injury.

"James, what the hell is going on, why is the antique shop ......"

Because of the tie, Jessica couldn't see Li Ran's expression, but she could still feel his unusual tone from the tone.

"The Assassin Brotherhood is over."

Turning his gaze and sweeping over the defenders in front of him, Li Ran threw out an explosive speech without the slightest emotion in a tone that was more sad than death.

"What?!"

Sure enough, the moment they heard the message from his mouth, both Jessica and Matt couldn't help but show shocked looks.

Unlike Li Ran, who is hidden underneath and only has contact with Jessica, on the surface, he has the experience of fighting side by side as a clone and defender of the Assassin Brotherhood.

Therefore, when they heard the news of the collapse of the mysterious Assassin Brotherhood of their former comrades and their organization, the defenders immediately showed shocked expressions.

"But why, how?"

Perhaps because the news was too shocking, Luke Cage didn't know how to react for a while.

"That explosion, the explosion in the antique store, must have something to do with the destruction of the Assassin Brotherhood!"

Just when everyone was shocked by the news, Jessica immediately thought of the explosion of the antique store, the attack on Li Ran, and the flashing figure she had seen in the antique store.