"Looks like things are going smoothly?"
Lux walked in, carrying a bulging kraft paper bag.
The enticing aroma of grilled meat and grease from Burger King instantly filled the entire Inventory.
She set the paper bag on an empty iron table and clapped her hands. "Everyone, stop working for a moment. It's midnight snack time."
Although developing the Vulture Suit had everyone in a state of high excitement, people still need to eat to keep going.
As soon as Mason and the others smelled it, the gluttons in their stomachs were immediately hooked. They cheered "Long live Miss Lux!" and swarmed over like starving wolves, each grabbing a burger and munching away with expressions of pure bliss.
Lux ignored the bunch of grown men acting like starving ghosts and strolled straight over to Jinx.
"Congratulations, Powder. The development of the Vulture Suit is going so smoothly."
Jinx took off her goggles and chuckled, revealing two small fangs.
Then, Lux lowered her voice and glanced over at Toomes' team, who were currently wolfing down their food. She teased, "Do you still think they're useless?"
Jinx followed her gaze to the noisy group of workers, couldn't help but curl her lip, and muttered stubbornly.
"I still think I could have done it by myself."
Seeing the girl acting like she didn't mean what she said, Lux smiled and reached out to smooth down her messy blue hair, which had been blown about by the shockwave.
"Alright, alright, you're the best~"
Seemingly comforted by being petted, Jinx suddenly remembered something. Her eyes darted around, and she tilted her head up to ask, "Are you free this weekend?"
Lux was stunned upon hearing this. Is this girl asking her out?
"I am," Lux looked at her suspiciously, "What are you up to?"
"Just to relax, go out and have some fun." Jinx let out a long sigh, slumped onto the workbench like a pile of soft mud, and played dead. "Being cooped up in this crappy Inventory drawing blueprints every day, I'm about to grow mushrooms from boredom."
"I suppose I can, but..." Lux sighed and mercilessly exposed her. "You haven't actually decided where to go yet, have you?"
After all, they were all incarnations, and their thoughts were inherently connected.
Lux clearly knew that, given Jinx's personality, she never had any meticulous plans.
She said she wanted to ask someone out for the weekend, but in reality, she hadn't even decided on a destination.
Being seen through, Jinx wasn't embarrassed. Instead, she shamelessly leaned in, tugged on Lux's sleeve, and acted coquettishly. "Oh, you're just so smart. Just tell me if you'll come with me or not."
"Fine, fine, fine." Lux agreed, looking helpless. "As long as you don't take me to some strange and bizarre places."
"The Ancient One is watching me; I'm not allowed to run around."
"Don't worry!" Jinx patted her flat chest and smiled brightly. "Am I that kind of person?"
Lux shrugged, reserving her opinion on that.
Night fell. Late at night, Toomes and the others said goodbye to Jinx one after another and finished work.
In the vast underground space, only Jinx remained.
She put her goggles and noise-canceling headphones back on, turned the volume to the max, and amidst the deafening heavy metal drum beats of "Get Jinxed," she bobbed her head and tirelessly tinkered with Shocker's suit at the workbench.
Cute goggles
I don't know how much time passed, but Jinx, who was immersed in the rhythm of smithing, suddenly felt goosebumps rise on her arms.
Why is this Inventory a bit drafty?
However, being in a state of extreme excitement with inspiration bursting forth, she didn't take it to heart at all. She mumbled the lyrics incoherently along with the melody in her headphones, tossed a wrench aside, picked up an electric drill, and continued drilling.
She didn't notice at all.
The massive roof hatch leading to the surface had been silently opened by someone at some point.
In the night sky, an alien spaceship with a rugged design was hovering.
The spaceship's hull was covered in scars from weathering and meteoroid impacts, and it was crudely pieced together from various irregular metal armor plates.
Overall, it looked like a rusty, winged insect made of steel.
Spaceship
The hatch on the ship's belly was wide open, lowering a pale blue tractor beam.
This thing was like a silent vacuum cleaner with the power turned all the way up, shining down on the mountain of Chitauri wreckage piled in the corner.
It sucked those pieces of scrap metal up into the sky, batch by batch.
As the little boss of the Inventory, Jinx was currently facing away from the "crime scene." With her noise-canceling headphones on, she was following the chorus, shaking her blue twin-tails wildly, while the welding torch in her hand spat out sparks. She had absolutely no idea that her home was being robbed.
It seemed because there was just too much scrap inventory in the Inventory.
After the spaceship filled a hold, it actually wobbled as it flew away.
Not long after, it returned, familiar with the route, and continued to diligently "restock."
During this time, Jinx changed positions several times while drawing blueprints, yet she never once turned her head back.
Just like that, this strange, moving-style theft continued until almost dawn.
Having stayed up all night, Jinx finally couldn't take it anymore. Wearing her headphones with half a blueprint still in her hand, her head tilted to the side, and she fell asleep instantly on the workbench, even starting to snore lightly.
The spaceship in the sky seemed to be reaching the end of its loading.
The tractor beam swept across the empty Inventory and finally landed right in the center.
A flash of blue light.
Hum—
The fast-asleep Jinx, along with the messy workbench, was slowly sucked up toward the spaceship in the sky.
The next morning, when Toomes and his men pushed open the door to the Underground Room, the few old men collectively turned to stone.
"What the... where's all the stuff?" Herman rubbed his eyes, his voice drifting.
The scene before them left all these grown men completely dumbfounded.
The entire Inventory was so empty that they could hear an echo.
The previously mountain-like pile of Chitauri wreckage was gone, the newly finished Vulture Suit was gone, the workbench was gone, and even more absurdly, even the trash can filled with Burger King wrappers from late last night that hadn't been dumped yet had vanished into thin air.
Even if they really had been robbed, what kind of desperate thief would lick the floor clean?
The most critical thing was—where was the boss?
Usually, Jinx was the last to leave and the first to arrive; how come there was no sign of her today?
Toomes' heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly pulled out his phone to dial Jinx's number.
There was only a dead, hollow sound in the receiver; it wouldn't go through.
With no other choice, he had to bite the bullet and call Lux to explain the situation.
Not long after, accompanied by a flash of white-gold sparks, Lux stepped through a portal and arrived at the scene.
But when she saw the Inventory, which was cleaner than a face, she was also dumbfounded.
"This... what's going on?" Lux looked around blankly. "...Where's Powder?"
Toomes and the others looked at each other, suddenly realizing what had happened.
Good grief, this thief is quite brazen!
Not only did they steal their stuff, how did they manage to steal the boss along with it?!
Oh, damn, there are thieves like this?
Far away on the other side, Su Modie was also completely bewildered.
Right, where is Jinx?
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