Chapter 208 - 190: Hijack the Car? (Happy New Year)

Sitting in the car, Peter felt somewhat sentimental.

He was just one step away from truly falling into the abyss.

If what Professor Ethan said was true, the Osborne Group had committed many crimes.

Firstly, the harm seemed not so severe, but Peter was deeply involved:

Many results from the lab were organized and published by Harry, who then used these achievements to enter Empire University.

Peter’s feelings were complex.

Harry was one of his best friends, and even when he injected himself with the Lizard Potion, he thought of using it to cure Harry one day.

But... now, after this matter was exposed, their friendship seemed a bit different.

The father of his friend, his friend’s family business, now became his roadblock.

The second matter: Professor Ethan revealed an important detail—Osborne Group was the last to take the pharmaceuticals that night.

At that time, Peter had dug through the house, and the student on duty had run away on the spot.

Ethan had told the student on the phone not to panic, not to run, and those who had run to return immediately to monitor the equipment and data.

And it was during that unmanned period that the pharmaceuticals had been loaded into the Canary Device.

But overall, the Osborne Group probably hadn’t anticipated that the Canary Device already had problems; otherwise, a few students turning into lizards wouldn’t have died so suddenly.

Did this still count as the understaff not acting as required?

Peter kept comparing the situation in Lab Three with his own circumstances.

Overall, Ethan seemed to have also learned dubious practices from Norman Osborne, which led him to act recklessly.

This recklessness caused the device to malfunction and led to a major accident at the crucial moment, the time they planned to secretly conduct human experiments.

Then both parties started to shirk responsibility and became enemies—

If Lille hadn’t fished him out, would their side have ended up like that?

"...Peter, I’m going to tell you again," from the front seat, Matt, as the lawyer, reiterated to Peter his obligations and rights, and Peter was gathering his emotions to prepare for the court appearance.

In another car, Lille was very clear-headed: if he had sold out Peter at that time—

Honestly, Peter might have, out of fear and fright, taken Osborne’s help to give false testimonies blaming the lab for existing issues...

After all, he was not Spider-Man, but rather a somewhat self-conscious and introverted teenager.

"Gwen?"

This car was Martin’s limousine.

NYPD and the prosecutor’s vehicle quickly formed a convoy, with the witness transportation vehicle in the center, all heading toward the courthouse—

Martin said, "If everything goes smoothly... we could make Osborne Group face a huge loss, no... Norman Osborne will go to prison."

Lille seized the moment to ask, "You hold a grudge against him—I can tell."

"Yes, a big, big grudge, Lille. I should thank you for giving me this opportunity to see him going to jail."

"If it’s convenient, I would love to hear what kind of grudge you have with him."

Martin stared ahead, sighed, and said, "Maybe one day..."

Bang...

The ground suddenly shook.

Lille’s heart sounded alarms—

"Spider-Girl? You better find a place to get off and change."

"Already working on it!"

Martin also felt the tremor and solemnly tapped the driver, "Slow down, something’s not right."

The entire convoy felt the vibration.

The source... came from the sewer pipes!

Right under the vehicle transporting Ethan—

Bang!

A green tail suddenly shot out, piercing straight through the vehicle, flipping it over like a toy!

Such outrageous strength!

A man in a green armor battle suit crawled out like a Scorpion with limbs touching the ground!

His movements were not at all human!

The NYPD officers were stupefied; they had never seen this thing before, but the last monster that crawled out from the sewer had left a deep impression!

The Scorpion’s tail fiercely swept around, slicing the nearby vehicles open like cutting tofu!

His eyes scanned the people inside the vehicles as if searching for a target—

Bang!

The tail also swept toward Lille’s vehicle!

The vehicle was struck sideways and thrown several meters!

The Scorpion frantically crawled on the ground, his steps sounding like a real scorpion rustling quickly, moving swiftly between the overturned vehicles—

"Don’t just stand there; shoot! Shoot!"

George drew his pistol, yelling as he pulled the trigger!

Bang bang bang!

The revolver bullets didn’t even leave a scratch on that green battle suit!

The bullets caught the Scorpion’s attention, and his deadly tail quickly swung toward George!

Hiss—!

Gwen shot out spider silk, gripping the Scorpion’s tail tightly!

"This tail... is heavier than I thought!"

Bang!

The Scorpion violently twisted his body and tail, pulling Gwen off the wall!

However, Gwen promptly adjusted her posture with the spider silk, avoiding the following attacks, and then the Scorpion began to violently swing his tail to attack!

"I knew it... I just knew—"

Inside the vehicle, Lille heard Martin muttering, seemingly extremely resentful.

His neck—If someone had a digital camera capable of detecting spectrum changes to some extent, they would notice a strange change in Martin’s hue—

His skin was shifting toward black and white shades.

"Martin—help out!"

Lille called out, snapping Martin out of it—just as Lille had already jumped out of the vehicle, running toward the one carrying Ethan.

The car door was jammed and somewhat deformed; Lille forcefully pulled at the jammed door, trying to open it to check the inside.

Martin also came to his senses: keeping the witness safe was crucial!

Click!

The door was opened, revealing Ethan on the seat, already unconscious—

His lower abdomen was soaked with blood, his left hand exceptionally dark, as if corroded by some high-intensity acid, with the blackened area still spreading—

"A limb must be amputated, and he needs a blood transfusion. That monster’s goal was to silence him; you need to get him out of here..."

Bang!

The tail smashed down, luckily kicked away by Gwen, so it only hit the road a few meters away.

The impact had shattered the road, leaving a deep gash behind.

"Can you handle it?" Lille asked.

"I can—but you..."

"Trust me, I can handle it. Hurry up and get this disgusting old guy to the hospital!"

Martin gave Lille a long look, then hoisted Ethan up. "I underestimated you, be careful on your own."

"Go, hurry!"

Lille watched as Martin carried Ethan away, then picked up a shotgun from the ground—

"Damn, never thought I’d have to shoot a gun."

Lille unlocked the safety and raised the gun next to a car.

Bang.

Looking up, he saw George on the other side, also holding a gun, looking at Lille in shock: "Lille, you’re not trained..."

"This isn’t the time to talk—shoot!"

Bang!

The shotgun fired.

However, Lille’s aim was terribly off, hitting the cement near Scorpion’s feet.

Scorpion didn’t stop the movement of its tail, turning its head to look at Lille—

Bang!

This time, it was George who hit the target. The bullet was powerful enough to make Scorpion’s head jerk.

But it still couldn’t penetrate the armor it wore.

Scorpion just looked in George’s direction, its tail still sweeping towards Gwen—

However, Lille activated the Si Anweisitan. It moved too fast for the naked eye to see, and the swinging scorpion tail spewed some kind of yellow-green liquid!

Lille exerted force under his feet and shoved George, who was behind the car!

Hiss...

The yellow-green liquid splattered on the car and the ground, visibly dissolving the steel and corroding the ground into black pits—

Right where George had just been standing.

Both of them were terrified afterward—

Sometimes, things in the Marvel World just come down to brute force.

This Scorpion looked somewhat abnormal, but the power bursting from its battle suit was outrageous.

Even a slight touch was no small matter.

Guns were useless.

But clearly, Scorpion reacted to the gunfire—which was strange.

Because it really didn’t need to bother with these little toys that couldn’t penetrate its armor.

Lille was more and more convinced that the person inside the Scorpion Battle Suit might be mentally unstable.

"Guns are useless!" George, pressing against a barricade, quickly reloaded his gun.

"Indeed—but I still have this."

Lille showed his Spider Silk Emitter in hand—

George’s mouth fell open.

"You..."

"Keep shooting!" Lille shouted as he dodged sideways out of cover, "Spider-Girl, give us a powerful kick! Smash his tail to pieces!"

Following Lille’s instructions, George ran and fired, drawing Scorpion’s attention.

Lille took advantage of his focus on firing to activate the Si Anweisitan.

Dashing out from behind cover, Lille shot ten strands of spider silk that stuck to Scorpion from different angles, then attached the other ends of the silk to the car!

Scorpion was like a puppet—

The spider silk adhered to its body, its attention diverted, its movements slowed...

Gwen seized the opportunity, put mighty force into her feet, and shot silk from her two arms to the floor on either side of Scorpion, yanking hard!

Bang!

A muffled sound erupted!

Armor that could withstand bullets had a hard time resisting that flying kick.

Spider-Man’s full-powered kick was unimaginably powerful—smashing right at the base of Scorpion’s tail, almost dislocating it!

"Ugh...!"

Scorpion, which had been silent, suddenly let out a painful moan, staggered a few steps, and started trembling on the ground—

Lille raised an eyebrow: it looked like there was a problem with the neural link.

It was an opportunity not to be missed.

"Do you remember that USB drive I gave you!"

"I do!"

"Use the one labeled ’manual operation’!"

The two of them now in sync, both pressed their Spider Silk Emitters!

Gwen secured it in the air, Lille secured it on the ground.

The spider web trapped Scorpion, and silk pulled from various directions restricted its limbs and body, sticking to the floor and car, quickly immobilizing it—

Scorpion tried to struggle, but its movements were sluggish due to intense pain and the issues with the battle suit itself, and its deadly tail even trembled.

Seeing Scorpion trapped in the web, Gwen jumped onto it, took out the USB drive Lille had given her, pressed the button, pulled apart the slightly displaced tail base, and inserted the USB drive...

"Ugh... feels kind of gross."

With sparks flying, Lille accessed the inside of the suit—

Strictly speaking, this suit was a type of neural-linked exoskeleton similar to a Centaur Mecha.

And its defense system...

was strong, but for Lille, breaking through it was a matter of an instant.

It was just prosthetics, after all.

Blurt.

The exoskeleton emitted black smoke.

Scorpion stopped.

Lille breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the now-motionless Scorpion—

After hacking in, he wanted to separate the exoskeleton, but it seemed the person who had equipped this unfortunate fellow hadn’t considered letting him get out at all.

So only the weapons were disarmed, namely that tail.

The tail dispersed, and Lille picked up several components, including the indestructible "Poison Sting."

If it weren’t for that string of USB drives, this would have been really troublesome.

A car hijacking?

Mr. Osborne really screwed things up this time.