Chapter 1114: Father and Son (52)

Walking through the portal at the Multiverse Spider-Army base, the next second, Peter found himself in another narrow space. This was clearly also outer space, but it was completely incomparable to the bright and spacious newly built Spider-Army base.

"Is this a space station?" Peter asked. He looked up and down at the surrounding environment and found that there was no feeling of future technology at all. On the contrary, there were exposed pipelines everywhere, and it even looked like technology had regressed.

"This is a small space station above the New York Sky Island, and it is also the only space station I control." Spider-Man 2099 explained. He led Peter to the living room in the space station with ease.

There was a small window here, just enough to see the Earth.

Peter had just walked over when he was stunned by the scene before him.

Outside the space station, what appeared was not the blue planet Peter was familiar with, but celestial debris that had long since shattered into countless fragments.

Although the Earth maintained a spherical shape as a whole, to be precise, it should be maintaining a radial spherical shape, just like when fireworks explode. Countless fragments were arranged in different orbits, having long since lost their original complete and rounded shape.

Mechanical facilities were embedded on the edges of each fragment, which seemed to be mechanical equipment used to maintain gravity and orbit. It was not difficult to see that these pieces of equipment had multiple styles and should have come from different companies.

Moreover, many fragments were connected by mechanical equipment, but the mechanical devices on the sky island body were physical objects, while the ones used to connect the sky islands were more like energy chains.

The number of energy chains was so large that the naked eye could not distinguish them at all. Many of the abandoned parts were not repaired by anyone. The endless energy chains were like terrible tentacles, constantly waving near the Earth. The entire Earth looked like a piece of meat that had been cut into shreds but was connected by iron wires, terrifying, ugly, and creepy.

And the many small spaceships flying between the fragments were like flies seeing this piece of rotten meat. There was no beauty of order brought by technology. There was only a density that made people feel sick.

Peter was stunned by this scene and stood in place for a long time without saying a word.

Spider-Man 2099 stood beside him, also looking at his hometown through the small window, and said: "I'm sorry, I didn't go directly to your universe to find you, because I was really afraid of seeing a complete Earth."

"From the time I was born, my hometown was like this, until one day, in another universe in the multiverse, I saw what the Earth should have looked like. These greedy big companies destroyed our beautiful mother planet..."

But to his surprise, young Peter did not immerse himself in negative emotions for too long. He turned to look at Spider-Man 2099 and asked: "You said this is your space station?"

"That's right. In this era, space stations are private property. As long as you have money, you can buy all kinds of mansions. The shareholders of big companies live in such space stations. Spacious rooms, beautiful greenhouses, fresh air, they have it all..."

"And the surface, except for the slums, is factories built by big companies. Everything produced in the factories is also to supply the rich on the space station. This is exactly why they planned the conspiracy to blow up the Earth."

Spider-Man 2099 led Peter all the way inside and said: "In the decades before the Earth was blown up, global production activities were in full swing. People thought that all the resources of the Earth should be concentrated and then distributed equally."

"The wealthy conspirators were naturally unwilling to do so, so they established big companies, began to monopolize history, culture, and technology, and finally, used the technological means they possessed to directly blow up the Earth."

"Only they had the ability to build space stations and live on them, while those civilians who didn't have the ability to do so were left on the broken surface. If they wanted to survive, they could only rely on the company."

"As a result, the entire Earth became a huge resource extractor. These big companies held the switches, and resources were continuously transported to company shareholders to enjoy, while the civilians on Earth didn't even have the means to resist. They couldn't reach the high-and-mighty space stations at all."

"However, people didn't give up. Under the high-pressure rule of the company, a group of free people who wanted to reverse the current situation was born. I am one of them."

From Spider-Man 2099's words, Peter keenly discovered some keys, so he asked: "Why were free people born? Shouldn't all the ruled civilians unite to resist?"

Spider-Man 2099 shook his head and said: "You think of all this too simply. Big companies have robots that can completely replace human labor. In other words, they are willing to give civilians a job, which is already mercy... or rather, all the civilians who survive now are actually used for the entertainment of the rich. They are their entertainment projects, not survival necessities."

"Big companies will implant an identity system into civilians. The system will upload all the privacy they possess to the company's database, and shareholders can select the civilians they want to use for entertainment in the database, and then send spaceships to bring them home."

"My daughter died like this..."

Peter felt his heart suddenly sink. He had already guessed why this was. The jaw revealed when Spider-Man 2099 was drinking just now showed that he was actually very handsome, so his daughter might also be very beautiful.

And what surprised Spider-Man 2099 a little was that Peter did not indignantly curse the company, but said something that made Spider-Man 2099 feel a chill down his back.

"What does the space station rely on to fly in the universe?"

"Of course, it's the big company's power system, but you'd better not have any ideas about them. Even the most powerful hacker can't hack into this part of the system..."

Peter didn't say anything, silently letting Spider-Man 2099 unable to see through him, so he said half-jokingly: "I thought only Noir Spider-Man would be so reticent..."

After speaking, he pushed open a door. Behind the door was a small shuttle that looked like a fighter jet, but didn't have such large wings, instead relying on the cosmic thrusters at the rear to work.

Spider-Man 2099 pulled open the cockpit door and sat in. Peter immediately sat in the co-pilot's seat. Accompanied by the roar of the engine, a small plane flew toward one of the celestial fragments.

After landing, the scene here made Peter feel even more surprised. The ground was not very broken, nor was it barren. On the contrary, there was a city that looked quite high-tech, and it was very prosperous.

"Before the Earth was blown up, we already had quite high technological skills. That group of shareholders, in order to paralyze the civilians, claimed that they had withdrawn from the city and given up their property."

"So, many people moved into the buildings in the city center, but all of this was just a scam. People thought they had gotten what they wanted, but the next second, disaster struck."

Spider-Man 2099 pressed a button, and the shuttle disappeared in place. He led Peter into a small alley and said: "Lady Miracle should be in the Nord Building. That's not the territory of the free people. It's a mixed bag, with company employees, mercenaries, and wanderers. We need to trick the identity identification system to mix in, and then we can find her."

"Wait a minute." Peter stopped Spider-Man 2099 and then said: "It's not me who is looking for the female Loki, but another Loki. Since there is already a definite clue, I will call him over now. He is also the God of Mischief, maybe he can help..."

Spider-Man 2099 sighed and said: "If I weren't in a bad state, I wouldn't need others to help. We are all Spider-Men, don't think that only you know how to do research."

Peter reached out and patted Spider-Man 2099 on the shoulder, letting him sit in place to rest for a while. Then he dialed Loki's communication and explained the situation to him.

Soon, with an orange square portal appearing on the ground, Loki, holding Helen, appeared in front of the two Spider-Men.

At this time, she was still in the image of a woman, but after seeing Spider-Man 2099's shocked gaze, he changed back to the male Loki.

But soon, Spider-Man 2099's gaze fell on Helen's face. Before Loki could speak, Spider-Man 2099 looked at him again and asked: "Is this your daughter?"

Loki hadn't answered yet, and Helen shouted first. She held her hand high and said: "That's right, this is my dad, ah, sometimes he's also my mom..."

Spider-Man 2099 just wanted to step forward, but his movements paused, as if he was afraid of scaring Helen. He hesitated for a moment and said: "Don't be afraid, little girl, it's just... you look a bit like my daughter."

Loki was about to say something, but Peter gave him a wink, so he took the initiative to change the subject.

"I heard that you have already found clues about Sylvie. Where is she? I hope to find her soon."

"She is in the Nord Building, but that place is no longer a prosperous commercial center. You can understand that place as a large market, a paradise for brokers. If we want to get in, we must first crack the identity identification system there..."

"That's easy." Loki snapped his fingers and said: "As long as you let me take a look at someone who can get in, I naturally have a way to disguise us."

"Disguise won't work." Spider-Man 2099 shook his head and said: "The chip of the identity identification system is implanted in the human body. Just imitating the appearance won't fool the security system."

"I didn't intend to just imitate the appearance. What I use is not illusion." Loki shook his head and said: "Let's go over first, soon, you will know..."

Spider-Man 2099 didn't seem to approve of Loki doing this. However, Peter stood on Loki's side, and this was their mission, so Spider-Man 2099 led the two through the alley and arrived at an abandoned station.

The transportation here made Peter feel a bit surprised, because it was somewhat similar to the flying shuttles that were in full swing on the Earth in the universe where he was.

"Are you surprised? Actually, there is nothing surprising. The Earth in my universe also once headed toward the sea of stars, but unfortunately..." Spider-Man 2099 shook his head and said: "In the end, all the achievements of human civilization belonged to big companies, and had nothing to do with ordinary people..."

The closer they walked to the depths of the station, the thicker the darkness became. Peter saw traces of countless pedestrians passing by here. Once upon a time, this place was also like his hometown, civilized, prosperous, and full of vitality.

"For whom is development developed?" Peter asked softly. He murmured in a low voice: "If not everyone can enjoy the fruits of civilization development, then what is the meaning of us doing all this?"

Spider-Man 2099 took the lead and walked into the darkness. In the darkness, he looked back at Peter, his eyes filled with the sadness and helplessness that Peter felt.

"Big companies took everything, including my children, and many people's children."

"If I were born in the initial stage of civilization's vigorous development like you, I would also have such doubts like you."

"And after I experienced all this, I can only tell you the answer in my heart—Spider-Man is always born for ordinary people."

"No matter how high or far others fly, I will always be consistent, defend to the death, the interests of ordinary people like me." ===== CHAPTER 1115 =====