It was a retro room, with an old-fashioned radio in the corner playing a baseball game.
A man lay on the hospital bed, and even though he was sound asleep, his muscles were visibly bulging, suggesting a strong physique.
Just then, the man's fingers on the bed twitched, indicating he was about to wake up.
"'Nurse,' prepare yourself. Go in and calm him down once he wakes up," Nick Fury instructed into his earpiece... Finally, the man on the bed slowly opened his eyes, sat up, and looked around with a hint of confusion.
Steve Evans' last memory was of himself piloting a plane and crashing into the sea. He woke up here afterward. It was then that Steve slowly noticed the radio playing in the corner and couldn't help but listen intently.
Suddenly, the room door opened, and a "nurse" walked in, asking Steve, "How do you feel?"
"I feel alright. Where am I right now?" Steven asked the female nurse.
"You are in a hospital room in New York," the "nurse" replied.
Steve suddenly felt that the game playing on the radio sounded very familiar.
"Where exactly am I? Who are you?!" Steve demanded of the nurse.
"...I don't understand what you're saying!" The nurse, hearing the captain's questioning, could only equivocate.
"This game is from May 1941, because I was there at the time! So where am I now?"
Seeing that Steve had discovered a fatal flaw, the "nurse," who was actually an agent in disguise, quickly pressed the alarm she held.
Steve saw two armed individuals enter through the door. He swiftly dispatched them, sending them flying and crashing through the room's wall.
Steve burst out of the room, shook off the agents who tried to stop him, and ran directly outside... Steve ran straight out onto the street, looking at the city that was both familiar and strange to him. Various cars he had never seen before drove on the road, skyscrapers stood tall, and pedestrians came and went on the streets, dressed in peculiar clothing, definitely not what he remembered.
Looking at the screens displaying images, something he had never seen before, Steve couldn't help but feel a chilling dread. Where exactly was he?
"That soldier! Don't be nervous!"
"Where am I right now?" Steve asked anxiously, looking at the one-eyed black man slowly walking towards him.
"I'm very sorry about the game earlier. I had intended to let you gradually come to terms with this, but now I have to be frank with you. You've been in a deep sleep and have only just woken up. Most importantly, nearly 70 years have passed," Nick Fury told Steve.
"Are you alright, Captain?" Nick Fury asked worriedly, seeing Steve fall into endless sorrow after hearing his words.
"I missed my date!" Steve exclaimed, his voice filled with sadness, upon first learning of his current situation. He had missed his date with Carter...
Meanwhile, Li Yue and Lois. After Li Yue finished speaking to Lois, before she could react, he directly disappeared with her from their original spot.
Lois wasn't prepared at all when she found the scenery before her had changed. One moment she was at her doorstep, and now she was somewhere unknown.
"Where are we now...?" Lois was about to ask Li Yue, who was holding her hand, where they were, when she felt something light fall on her hair.
Lois instinctively reached up to remove the object from her head and saw a pink petal lying quietly in her palm.
Lois couldn't help but look up, only to see countless pink petals slowly drifting down to the ground. Beautiful, stunning, was the most genuine feeling in Lois's heart at that moment.
"Do you like it?"
"Mm!" Lois heard the gentle voice beside her, nodded, and replied.
Although Lois had long passed the age of a young girl who loved romance, she was still very happy at this moment. This was the first time she had seen such a beautiful scene, and she couldn't help but be a little mesmerized...
Throughout the day, Li Yue used his superpowers to take Lois on a virtual world tour, seeing snow on the Himalayas, having lunch on top of the Egyptian pyramids, strolling through the romantic city of Paris, and tasting delicacies from all over China...
Li Yue couldn't help but feel a little fortunate now that he had obtained this superpower; it was absolutely foolproof for charming girls.
It wasn't until evening that the two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents discovered Li Yue and Lois appearing at Lois's doorstep.
The two agents felt a pang of bitterness. "You had a great time, taking a pretty girl out all day, while we poor souls guarded you here all day. Why is the difference between people so vast?"
"Lois, it's late. Go back and get some rest. I'll pick you up tomorrow morning," Li Yue told Lois.
"Okay, Li Yue, I had a great time with you today. Um... goodnight!"
Lois looked at Li Yue, appearing to have something more to say.
"Lois, I..."
"Ding-a-ling-a-ling..." Just as Li Yue was about to say something, his phone rang, interrupting the courage he had finally mustered.
"Who is it? Not too early, not too late, but precisely at this moment," Li Yue thought, wanting to kill the caller.
However, he still pulled out his phone. This phone was a special one given to him by Nick Fury, designed to prevent eavesdropping. Before he got it, Li Yue thought it would be incredibly advanced, but after receiving it, he realized it was just a basic phone, only capable of making and receiving calls, with no other functions.
"Li Yue, there's something I need to inform you about." Sure enough, it was Nick Fury on the other end, speaking directly as soon as the call connected.
"Director Nick Fury, you'd better have a real emergency. Otherwise, I'm not done with you." Li Yue was interrupted and in a very bad mood. If Nick Fury were beside him right now, he wouldn't hesitate to punch him hard in his remaining eye, to let him know the consequences of interrupting his good time.
"...Li Yue, the Captain has woken up. Your information was accurate. I'll send someone to pick you up tomorrow to fulfill what I promised you." Nick Fury, sensing the change in Li Yue's tone, spoke directly to him and then hung up the phone.
Upon hearing Nick Fury's words, Li Yue's heart instantly brightened. He was finally going to get access to the Tesseract. He wondered if it would really enhance his abilities.
However, Li Yue immediately remembered that he had just promised to accompany Lois tomorrow and couldn't help but feel a headache. Why did it have to be the same day?
"It's okay, Li Yue. If you have something to do tomorrow, go ahead and be busy. I don't mind," Lois said generously to Li Yue, as if she could read his thoughts.
"Thank you, Lois." Seeing Lois so understanding, Li Yue expressed his gratitude for her magnanimity with a hint of apology.
"Li Yue, ever since you saved me that night, I knew you weren't an ordinary person. I've also mentally prepared myself, so you don't need to worry too much about me," Lois told Li Yue.
"Also, I had a great time with you today. This is your reward. Mwah..." Then Lois quickly kissed Li Yue on the cheek and then quickly ran back home.
"Is this what being in love feels like? It feels pretty good," Li Yue mused, touching the spot on his face where he had been kissed.