"Ding! The'S.H.I.E.L.D. Recruit' mission is complete. Rewards have been issued. Please check your inbox."
Just as Leon stepped out of Coulson's office, before he could fully recover from the excitement of joining S.H.I.E.L.D., a mechanical voice in his mind stopped him in his tracks.
Mission complete?
Calming himself, Leon walked towards his department without looking sideways, while opening his system interface in his mind.
A transparent light screen, formed by his own imagination, suddenly appeared in Leon's mind.
He didn't feel surprised or astonished at all; he simply clicked on a panel named "Missions." The interface jumped, revealing a plethora of text, similar to what one often sees in games:
"Mission Name: S.H.I.E.L.D. Recruit (5/5)"
"Mission Content: Join the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division (S.H.I.E.L.D.) within three years."
"Mission Status: Complete"
"Reward: 10,000 Experience Points"
After reading the mission completion notification, Leon muttered, "Three years, finally..." and once again opened another panel on his system interface, named "Character":
"Character Name: Leon Coulson"
"Age: 20 years old"
"Skills: Firearms Mastery (Excellent), Combat Mastery (Excellent), Medical Mastery (Normal), Vehicle Mastery (Excellent)..."
"Experience: 10350"
Looking at the ten thousand experience points that had already arrived on the panel, a smile involuntarily appeared on Leon's handsome face. "Phew... Finally, I can learn new skills after so long!"
This game-like system in Leon's mind was actually a "survival guide" that he brought with him when he transmigrated.
He, Leon Coulson, was no longer the original Leon Coulson.
At this moment, the soul residing in his body was that of a 21st-century Chinese youth named "Li Ang," from another parallel dimension.
It all began three years ago... Three years ago, 17-year-old Leon Coulson, to alleviate the stress of the upcoming American SAT exam, decided to go on a pleasant road trip with a few friends to a beach resort in New Jersey.
Who knew that the few impetuous young men would accidentally get into a car accident during a night drive?
Everyone in the group suffered injuries, minor or major. Among them, Leon Coulson's injuries were the most severe.
Due to his head hitting the steering wheel directly during the impact, he was already in a coma, brain-dead, when he was admitted to the hospital.
At the same moment in a different timeline and dimension, another disembodied soul, for some unknown reason, suddenly attached itself to Leon Coulson's body, which was lying in the intensive care unit of the hospital.
This soul had a name identical to the body's original owner, Li Ang(leon)... Li Ang, an ordinary young man living in another parallel dimension, addicted to web novels and single-player games.
At that time, he was sitting intently in front of his computer, frantically clicking his mouse, and struggling with a newly released wuxia management game called "Taiwu Scroll."
Who knew that a sudden power outage in the building would cause the computer to short-circuit? The immense current instantly caused this unlucky young man, who was gripping the mouse, to lose his vital signs, and his soul subsequently departed.
Perhaps it was fate's arrangement; by a strange coincidence, Li Ang thus became Leon.
When Leon Coulson (Li Ang) awoke in the ICU bed, even having read countless web novels, it took him a full week to accept the harsh reality that he had transmigrated to another world.
After all, reading about others transmigrating is one thing,
but transmigrating oneself is another...
His situation, explained in terms of web novels, was simply transmigration, and specifically, soul transmigration.
What surprised him even more was that accompanying his soul transmigration was a favorability system from "Taiwu Scroll."
However, before he could figure out the function of this confounded system, his attention was completely drawn by two uninvited guests who suddenly came to visit him.
A bald black man with an eye patch on his left eye, wearing a black trench coat, and a white man in a black suit with a kind smile, looking like an ordinary office worker.
When Leon recognized their faces, he instantly understood which world he had arrived in.
Because the two people standing before him, asking him, "How are you feeling?" were none other than S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury, a crucial character in the Marvel movies!
And S.H.I.E.L.D. Commander, Phil Coulson!
This was the Marvel world!
Not only that, from the memories he inherited, he discovered a surprising fact: he, Leon Coulson, was Phil Coulson's nephew!
This was quite interesting.
Although he wasn't a die-hard Marvel fan, he had watched almost all the Marvel movies.
After all, superhero movies have been incredibly popular in recent years...
However, no movie mentioned that Phil Coulson had a nephew.
Of course, just because it wasn't mentioned in the movies doesn't mean such a person doesn't exist in this world of the movies.
The movies are merely a microcosm of this world... Leon didn't resist this suddenly acquired identity; instead, he felt somewhat fortunate.
Not to mention solving his identity problem, the most important thing was that he had a channel to access S.H.I.E.L.D.
It's easier to get things done when you have connections, isn't it?
In fact, from the moment he saw the two, Leon understood one thing: this was a world teeming with superheroes and periodically invaded by aliens. To survive in this world, he had to become stronger!
And the two people in front of him made him think: S.H.I.E.L.D. might be a good choice...
However, even if he was Coulson's nephew, Nick Fury wouldn't let him join S.H.I.E.L.D. at the age of 17.
Unless he demonstrated abilities sufficient to handle various dangerous S.H.I.E.L.D. missions...
Just as he was thinking about how to express his "ability" to know the plot's development to the two S.H.I.E.L.D. bigwigs, he suddenly saw a health bar-like display appear above Nick Fury's head, similar to those in fighting games. Below the health bar, the words "Favorability: Indifferent" were clearly written.
This strange phenomenon shocked Leon.
He seemed to have realized something and immediately shifted his gaze to his uncle—Phil Coulson.
Sure enough, as he expected, there was also such a health bar above Phil Coulson's head. However, unlike Nick Fury's, Coulson's health bar had "Favorability: Intimate" written below it.
Not only that, but several colored orbs were also floating and rotating around Coulson's body. Upon closer inspection, each orb had its own name:
"Firearms Mastery (Excellent)"
"Combat Mastery (Excellent)"
"Spanish Mastery (Normal)"
When he focused his gaze on one of them, a white orb named "Spanish Mastery (Normal)," the orb changed again, with several words floating on it:
"Learn