American comics: You're asked to fish, but you catch a Superman template?

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"Earthquake! It's an earthquake!"

Chapter 685 Sufficient Reasons

"OMG ran away."

"Lie down and hide."

"Why would there be a compelling reason for an earthquake to strike New York City?"

Chaos reigned inside the Hydra building. They stared at the cracks forming in the ground, and violent tremors emanated from beneath their feet.

Not only Hydra, but everyone nearby was struck by the sudden jolt.

No matter what they thought, they couldn't know that this wasn't caused by an anticipated natural disaster, but simply by the Hulk's hand.

Staring ahead, he kept banging on the roof of the laboratory, even forgetting about his Hulk.

Xu Fu was almost certain that, in Hulk's form, the other party had no reason whatsoever; all his actions were driven by emotion.

That's why, halfway through the battle, the attention of all the other beings was suddenly drawn to him.

With his exceptional hearing, Xu Fu can already hear the vibrations on the road and the chaos caused by cars colliding with each other.

"Now is not the time to be distracted."

Amidst the chaos, panic, and even shouts, Xu Fu gently reminded the Hulk standing in front of him. The next second, with a flash, he was behind the gigantic figure.

"Good baby, don't move around."

Xu Fu waved his hand, and his fist slammed into the Hulk's head, instantly giving him a large bump.

However, upon seeing this scene, Xu Fu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

"The power has increased."

Feeling the power emanating from his fist, Xu Fu couldn't help but mutter to himself.

If that's the case, then what the opponent displayed in the battle with the Hulk was still just immense power, similar to the power of the Black Iron Layer.

However, the power emanating from the Hulk at this moment is clearly much greater than before, and in some ways it has even approached the level of a bronze-level superpower.

Although the improvement in strength was only close to that of a super strong person at the Bronze level, and not real, the speed of improvement still surprised Xu Fu slightly.

As he pondered, Xu Fu opened his eyes again with his heat vision and stared at the Hulk sitting opposite him.

However, the heat beam that had just successfully pierced the Hulk's body, leaving a hole in his flesh, began to lose its power after only piercing the surface of the Hulk's skin.

Furthermore, no amount of heat vision emitted from Xu Fu's eyes could cause the Hulk any further damage. Typically, his heat vision was blocked by regenerated muscles before it could penetrate them.

"This level of power enhancement is like a cheat-like ability."

When Xu Fu saw this, he twitched his lips and said breathlessly.

At this rate of fighting, I believe it won't be long before the Hulk's power equals his own.

"Fortunately, you're not the only one capable of cheating."

However, the next second, Xu Fu's twitching lips turned into a barely perceptible smile.

He stopped his heat vision attack and slowly closed his still slightly glowing red eyes. Hulk watched him from across the room.

The excessive speed slows everything around you down.

The Hulk's roar and the footsteps beside him grew slower and slower, Xu Fu's consciousness began to decline, and his eyes were squeezed shut.

Finally, he entered another world shrouded in countless green lights.

At that moment, Xu Fu opened his eyes.

I turned on the bedside radio, and the morning broadcast reported the latest developments in the kidnapping case.

“We still cannot find the missing child, Charles Lindbergh, who is only 20 months old. He was kidnapped a week ago. The kidnapper initially left a note in the window demanding a ransom of $5, but recently he left a new note increasing the amount to $7. He is a greedy and cold-blooded person.”

The kidnapper's father, Charles Lindbergh, was a renowned pilot who, in 1927, flew from New York to Paris in 33.5 hours aboard the single-engine Spirit of St. Louis without landing.

For this, he received the Otero Award and became a celebrity.

Furthermore, it was Charles Lindbergh's celebrity status that made this kidnapping case particularly high-profile.

Even radio and television followed the entire event in real time, explicitly calling the kidnapping a crime of the century.

Not only because Charles Lindbergh was a celebrity, but also because this was the first crime to be reported live on the radio. In the past, such reports were usually made through the news, and therefore, even though they were fast, they were still delayed and much less timely than those broadcast on the radio.

The massive broadcast of Eucalyptus Tree's kidnapping pulled Xu Fu's thoughts away from the battle between the Antiworld and the Hulk and back to the positive world he inhabited.

"Unfortunately, this eucalyptus tree kidnapping case was destined to be a tragedy from the beginning, a complete fraud."

After organizing his thoughts with his superhuman abilities, Xu Fu regained consciousness and sympathetically told Charles Lindbergh about the victims reported on Broadcast 150.

In his memory, Charles was brutally murdered and tortured by his kidnappers on the very day he was abducted. After all, a child who was only 20 months old seemed too suspicious to be taken anywhere, and the greedy kidnappers had no intention of keeping the child for themselves.

Therefore, from the very beginning, the other party had no intention of returning the child to the Charles Lindbergh family.

Ultimately, after Charles Lindbergh raised the ransom, he was met with the child's body.

The radio station's role in this case was merely to inform the public about the eucalyptus trees and, through detailed descriptions, help Charles Lindbergh's family find the body of their missing child. However, the radio reporters' endless commentary and updates indirectly fueled public excitement about the missing eucalyptus trees. This was the first example of public fascination with a real crime.

Moreover, even after the eucalyptus tree disappearance case was resolved and the kidnappers were sentenced to death, the debate about it did not stop.

Many people even believe that the German immigrant Goffmann, who was later arrested as a kidnapper, was just an unfortunate scapegoat.

British detective Agatha Christie had heard of eucalyptus trees and used them as inspiration for her famous detective work, Murder on the Orient Express.

Chapter 686 Beard

A piece of information about eucalyptus trees being kidnapped flashed through my mind.

Xu Fu collected his thoughts and then focused his attention back on the program content.

In the television program, the reporter in charge of broadcasting repeatedly introduced the details of the eucalyptus tree kidnapping case and reported the latest developments in real time.

Since Charles's abduction, radio has become an active component of news reporting.

Radio can easily attract a large audience because it is a more convenient channel for information dissemination than newspapers.

At the same time, radio stations have become more sophisticated in their news reporting methods, transforming written news information into language that is easier for readers to understand.

As a result, some listeners who were used to reading newspapers began to change their listening habits and switched to listening to the radio to get the latest news.

There is no doubt that this practice by the radio station has negatively impacted the interests of the newspaper industry.

For this reason, The New York Times published a special article about radio.

The report claims that radio possesses "immense, unknown power," and that its existence is dazzling and has a near-anesthetic effect on the mind.

While The New York Times more or less agrees in this article that radio has the power to reunite families, which was especially important during the Great Depression, the overall tone of the article is a clear warning to listeners to be careful not to be influenced by irrational "powers".

This information came not only from The New York Times, but also from what Xu Fu was told.

New York's major newspapers have begun preparing to retaliate against radio stations, protesting their use of newspaper news in an attempt to force stations to compromise and cut off their news channels.

However, as a latecomer to radio, Xu Fu knew that the struggle between the press and radio would ultimately end in the victory of radio.

The newspaper industry's decision to cut off radio news channels has ironically led television stations to develop in a more independent direction.

With the establishment of the Broadcasting News Service, the newspaper industry lost its ability to exert control and was ultimately forced to reach a consensus with the broadcasting era.

Unlike his journalistic colleagues who were resistant, Xu Fu was very open to broadcasting.

This wasn't just because a radio drama aired and brought him profit, whether it was fame or [faith].

Furthermore, Xu Fu clearly understood the course of history; he knew that the rise of the broadcasting era was insurmountable.

Just like the television and internet eras came later.

Therefore, instead of working with newspaper staff to figure out how to stop the development of radio, it would be better to cooperate with radio stations to gain more benefits and advantages.

In any case, The Messenger initially had no special relationship with the newspaper industry.

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At six o'clock in the morning, Xu Fu straightened the corner of his collar in front of the mirror, looked at the increasingly thick stubble on his chin, picked up a razor, and began to shave.

With a sharp metallic clang, the mirror showed that Xu Fu's mustache on his lips and cheeks had not diminished at all, and the razor blade in his hand had become dented.

Seeing this, Xu Fu's face showed a helpless expression.

With the increase of [Super Defense (Bronze)], his defensive capabilities become stronger, but this is not all good, at least when shaving.

Xu Fu casually tossed the razor into the trash can and stroked his seemingly soft but unexpectedly thick beard.

From now on, with a strong beard growing on your face, you can say goodbye to razors.

Xu Fu shook his head helplessly, walked into the kitchen, took out a 12-pound bottle of Coke from the refrigerator, drank it down in one gulp, and enjoyed the light refreshing feeling of the carbonated beverage. He carefully controlled the force in his hand and broke the glass bottle into pieces. Then Xu Fu picked out a piece of suitable size from the pieces.

Holding a shard of broken glass in front of the mirror, Xu Fu stroked the curly hair on his chin, a glint of light flashing in his eyes. Two thin beams of red light instantly left his eyes, landing on the reflection on the surface of the glass shard and enveloping the curly hair around Xu Fu's mouth.

He controlled the power of his thermal vision, brushed away the stubble from his mouth and cheeks, looked at his neat face in the mirror, picked up the hat lying on the table, and put it on his head with some satisfaction.

In fact, Superman's hair problem has long been a headache for the comic book industry.

In 1959, the original story of the old Superman comics featured a bearded Superman trying to decide what to do with his beard. Subsequent comics also featured related storylines to varying degrees, including a 1960 comic featuring a Supergirl and Cretton, a super dog who uses lasers to help Superman shave.

Later, to make the creation easier, the original version simply added a hairless feature to Superman to avoid the irritation of a beard.