CHAPTER 37: First meeting with the Lizard

Inside the underground laboratory in Tony's mansion.

Tony was currently focused on watching a video in front of him, in which a middle-aged man with a mustache explains about his experiments.

Little Tony even ran by during the video.

Tony cannot clearly remember these childhood memories.

He only remembers that Howard's relationship became very bad later on, and that they fought often when he was a teenager.

The last time he saw him alive was also in a fight.

It was during this time that Howard and his mother died in a car accident.

Leaving him an orphan.

"JARVIS, did you get anything else?"

[No sir.]

[The rest of the video materials are an overview of the concept at Stark Expo, and this model also appeared in the video.]

Tony's gaze immediately returned to the place in the corner of the laboratory, more specifically to the table, where the model was.

"Is there really something to this?"

Looking at the model in front of him, Tony couldn't think of anything special he could be hiding.

But he also believed that Arthur didn't need to take such a big turn just to provoke him.

"JARVIS, looks like we're going to be working overtime today."

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New York streets.

In a dark alley, the sound of rats rustled in that place.

It's kind of scary to hear that.

Suddenly, the rats that were looking for food in the trash can or on the floor raised their heads one after another.

They all turned their heads to one side and started to sniff something.

In the next moment, all the rats seemed to be in a panic, running from side to side, looking for holes to hide.

BANG!!

There was a muffled sound in the depths of the sound, and a huge green figure with teeth covered in blood broke the sewer manhole cover and walked out.

He looked around with his reptilian eyes.

His tongue was constantly spit out of his mouth like a snake.

At this moment, it clung to the wall with its sharp claws and deftly climbed up.

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Across the street.

Some thugs in black jackets were standing on the side of the road.

"Damn, we haven't made much money lately."

"People are hardly going out at night. We need to find someone to rob today."

"Boss, what should I do? I can't help it, I need a cigarette."

A thin, trembling gangster begged his boss for a cigarette.

"Damn it, get out you useless!"

"This is my last cigarette, get out of here!"

"Boss, it seems like there's someone there..."

Suddenly, one of the bandits' eyes lit up and he looked at the lamppost not far away.

There was a person lying there.

Some gangsters immediately appeared and looked disgusted.

"You, check if he has any money on her."

The trembling bandit from earlier immediately groped the woman's body and, sure enough, they found some money in her wallet.

"Damn, there's only 20 bucks here."

Just as the leader was about to make a move, the younger brother behind him gave him a tug, "Hey! Boss, why don't we have some fun with this woman."

The leader slapped him straight in the face.

"You idiot, just do whatever you want, I don't give a fuck."

"Hehe~ Thanks boss, then I'll go first..."

What they didn't notice was that, right above their heads, a huge figure was slowly approaching.

Sneaking up to deliver a fatal blow.

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New York City streets.

A hissing engine sound whizzed by.

Gwen looked closely at the monitoring screen on Arthur's laptop, and suddenly, a certain frame on the screen quickly zoomed in.

There are some people in it.

But the people there are not important, what matters is the thing on the wall.

Even though they were very torn, Gwen recognized the clothes at a glance: "Peter!"

Arthur stopped the car abruptly.

The Red Queen also made a voice: [I found it, it's in the back alley of the bar on Sixth Avenue.]

[He appears to be preparing to attack those men.]

"The place isn't too far from here. Gwen, you can use your webs to get there faster."

"I'll drive there."

"OK"

Gwen threw her web out the car window, and her figure flew out the window in the blink of an eye.

She quickly disappeared into the night.

Seeing her exit, Arthur thought of something.

(Now that I see it... It's past midnight, isn't it?)

"System, log in today."

[Ding! Login successfully]

[Host received: 1 month of solar energy]

[Do you want to integrate: 1 month of solar energy?]

[YES NO]

"Finally! Assimilating with the power of Silver Age Superman is taking too long!"

"Even if it's not a huge increase in strength, it will still be very useful."

"Even more so given the current situation..."

"System, you can do the integration."

Right after Arthur said that, a wave of comfortable warmth seemed to spread through his body.

It felt like every cell was dancing with joy.

Arthur could feel his body becoming much stronger.

At the same time, some new knowledge was acquired, such as the ability to fly and the natural mental shield against mental manipulation.

"I can feel it... I'm at least 7 or 8x stronger than before..."

"Damn, now I can't get involved anymore, if I attack Peter Parker, or rather the lizard, I might end up killing him by accident..."

"I'll have to adapt to this later, if I end up killing Peter, Gwen will be super sad."

As his strength increased much more than he imagined, Arthur decided to do nothing unless it was absolutely necessary.

"Red Queen, park the car on the shoulder at the end of the street and wait there."

[Okay, master.]

After Arthur got out of the car, he handed over control of the car to the red queen.

He slowly advanced and somewhat awkwardly flew into the sky.

Seeing the direction Gwen went, he immediately followed her.

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While the bandit was about to take advantage of the woman lying on the ground, one of those who were there suddenly felt something strange dripping onto his body.

It was sticky feeling.

"Boss, is it raining by any chance?"

"Huh? Raining? The fuck are you going crazy? Look up idiot! Do you see any clouds in the sky?"

Seeing that his boss was right, the man reached out, touched the back of his head and found a viscous liquid.

Curious to know what it was, he raised his head.

At that moment, the man froze, shaking all over his body, wanting to tell the surrounding men to look up.

But he was too scared to even move.

At that moment he saw the green monster silently putting his finger in his mouth and made a hissing gesture with a horrible smile plastered on his monstrous face showing his pointy teeth.

"Shiiiii"

Immediately after, he extended his tongue, directly circling the man's neck.

In the next moment, he was pulled up.

The last thing he saw was the reptilian monster's mouth open, as its pointy teeth sank into his head, the next moment with a horrifying sound, his head was bitten and chewed by the monster, leaving now just a headless body. convulsing, spilling blood.

CRACKK!!

SPLASHH~

The sudden sound of something breaking followed by the sound of liquid being spilled immediately attracted the men's attention.

When they looked up.

Their pupils dilate with terror when they see what is happening above their heads.

A green lizard-like monster was holding a headless corpse while slowly chewing on their friend's head.

The monster stared coldly at them, as if it saw nothing but prey.

At that moment, as if they had come to their senses, all the men let out horrified screams accompanied by the sound of skulls being broken.

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Gwen, who was quickly heading in that same direction, heard the terrified screams.

"Damn! I have to go faster!!"

When she arrived, she saw the green monster holding a headless corpse, chewing on something.

(Damn!! I was late!)

"Peter! Stop it!!"

As she shouted this, Gwen immediately fell between the lizard Peter and the gangsters.

"Waaaa!! Spider-woman, save me!"

The smell of urine in the air made Gwen frown.

The thugs behind her were curled up in a ball, and there was a pool of yellow urine on the floor.

But she couldn't blame them, if the situation was different, maybe even she would be like this when she saw this scene.

Who wouldn't pee their pants at the sight of a giant green monster chewing off someone's head?

This scene would terrify anyone.

(End of chapter)

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