Chapter 1515: New York's Annoyance (Part I)

With a "bang," the door of the clinic was knocked open, and a figure stumbled in, shouting at the same time.

"Doctor, Doctor, hurry and let me hide. Gwen's dad is chasing me from behind. Hurry and find a place for me to hide!"

Schiller was walking down from the second floor. He was stunned when he saw Peter rushing in, but he still pointed to the kitchen for him. Peter flew through it quickly and then hid behind the island. Schiller walked to the door and looked outside, finding that Sheriff George was leading a team of police running past the door.

Waiting until George's figure disappeared at the other end of the street, Peter crawled out from behind the island, let out a long breath, and sat on the sofa with a thud.

Schiller walked over, poured him a glass of water, placed it in front of him, and then asked: "What's wrong? Why would you be chased by Sheriff George?"

Peter drank all the water in the glass in big gulps, reached out to wipe his mouth, sighed long, and said: "It was rare to have some free time today, so I was patrolling in Spider-Man's uniform to earn credits. When I was about to finish, I planned to find a place to change clothes. Just after I changed and walked out of the alley, I found someone chasing a thief."

"I didn't think too much, used full speed to catch the thief, but I didn't expect that the person who was stolen from had already called the police. From a long distance away, I saw Sheriff George running toward this side, so I started running."

"He might have thought I was the thief, so he started chasing me. I was afraid he would see who I was, so I had to run faster and keep a certain distance from him. Look, running and running, I ran here."

Schiller sat opposite him, looked into his eyes, and asked: "Why did you run when you saw Sheriff George coming over?"

"Because I was afraid he would find out..." Peter revealed a worried expression and said: "I feel I can't explain to him how I ran so fast, and how I pressed the thief who was much stronger than me to the ground."

"You know this is actually very easy to explain." Schiller drank some water and said: "You are doing good deeds, he won't doubt too much."

"I always feel he has already suspected, so I don't dare to face him at all." Peter scratched his hair irritably, slumped on the sofa, and said helplessly: "I behave like a bookworm who is lazy and silent in front of him. He feels Peter Parker is such a person, which makes him feel very relieved, while Spider-Man is another extreme."

"George really doesn't like Spider-Man. He even thinks that the parents who taught Spider-Man should be sentenced because they let a child who should be studying wander outside."

"You know, he is that kind of most traditional parent, thinking that what age should do what things, young people should follow the rules, learn from elders, instead of making a fancy tight suit and swinging around in the sky of New York."

"Have you talked to Gwen about this problem?" Schiller asked.

"Gwen of course couldn't tell me her dad is bad. She is not that kind of person. I can understand Sheriff George, so I can only hide from him, because if he finds out my true identity now, the consequences will be very serious, because I lied to him."

Peter covered his face with some breakdown and said: "I have never told such a big lie in my life. I am really going crazy!"

Schiller could clearly see many limb expressions on Peter under pressure, such as tense upper arm muscles, arms always wrapping around the body, and the speed of speech being much faster than usual when talking. Obviously, anxiety had drowned him.

"Do you think you should confess to George?"

"There will be a day."

"Then does Gwen feel you two should confess to George?"

Peter turned his head to one side and said: "I don't know, and I can't ask her this question so directly, because this is equivalent to putting pressure on her. If we confess, and her father speaks harshly to me, Gwen will feel this is her responsibility."

"And if a worse situation occurs, for example, for example, one day we two really become enemies, or one party hurts the other, then the damage Gwen will receive will be double."

"But in the future I imagine, once George knows my Spider-Man identity, he definitely won't give me any good look, and even if he knows I and Gwen have been hiding it from him for so long, he will definitely feel sad for his daughter helping an outsider, and then hate me even more."

"By that time, Gwen will be like the filling in a pie." Peter reached out and gestured, saying: "If I don't leave her, George will be sad. If I leave her, I will be sad. But she doesn't want any of us to be sad."

Schiller thought for a while and asked again: "Then do you regret hiding it from George with Gwen before?"

Peter was stunned, as if he didn't expect Schiller to ask this. He thought about it carefully, and then said: "Actually, I didn't think of any good timing to open my mouth. I think no matter when he knows about this, the result is about the same."

"If he knew at the beginning that his daughter went to date Spider-Man, his anger wouldn't be much less than it is now, and he might add another worry, worrying every day whether his daughter would get into danger because of Spider-Man."

"Since that's the case, your and Gwen's deception can be called a white lie, and you don't have to blame yourself too much for this."

Peter nodded, but Schiller could see he was just perfunctory, and there were still countless logical knots circulating in his heart.

After being silent for a while, Peter still looked at Schiller with a pleading look. Schiller smiled, stood up from the sofa, and walked to the second floor. During this period, Peter's eyes followed him. When Schiller went upstairs, he even wanted to stand up and follow him up, just like a stray animal with no sense of security at all.

Schiller signaled him to be calm. After a while, he took out a pot of flowers from the bedroom on the second floor. It was not accurate to say it was a flower; it was a cabbage.

Schiller put the cabbage on the table. Peter stared at the cabbage and asked strangely: "Is this a new variety of bonsai? But why does it look so much like a vegetable?"

"That's right, this is a cabbage."

"But why do you want to plant a cabbage in a flower pot?"

"Let's not talk about this, you poke it."

Peter didn't understand, he blinked suspiciously, but still instinctively followed what Schiller said, leaned his body forward, and reached out his finger to poke the cabbage leaf lightly.

The living room of the clinic was not big, so the distance between the sofa and the coffee table was not far. Peter leaned forward, and the tip of his nose was just above the cabbage. Just heard a "bang," followed by an "ouch" scream, Peter was punched onto the sofa.

Spider-Man's nose was not made of copper and iron walls. After being hit hard at close range, Peter immediately covered his nose and screamed on the sofa, while asking in disbelief.

"How can it hit people?!"

"Now are you still curious why I want to plant cabbage?"

Peter rubbed his nose for a while, his eyes filled with tears, and his voice said aggrievedly: "This is too amazing, where does a cabbage get such great power?"

"Look, when you find that this cabbage can hit people, you won't care why a cabbage appears in the flower pot, because a cabbage hitting people is more amazing than a cabbage appearing in the flower pot of the clinic."

"Human brain capacity and memory are limited. When a more amazing problem appears in front of them, they have no time to deal with other problems... Is Gwen okay recently?"

Schiller's topic change was too sudden. Peter didn't react at all. He covered his nose and asked suspiciously: "Ah?"

"I heard that Spider-Gwen has been pulling her to earn credits. Nick has complained to me several times."

Peter nodded and said: "That's true. When she is not busy, she is helping Spider-Gwen do tasks, either running errands or patrolling."

"So she also wears the same uniform as Spider-Gwen and does the same things as her?"

Peter nodded, and then was stunned. He opened his mouth wide and looked at Schiller and said: "Doctor, you don't want to..."

"You say Gwen dates Spider-Man, George definitely won't agree, but if you say Gwen wants to be Spider-Man herself, then George definitely won't have time to care about who she dates."

"If George finds out his daughter is dating Spider-Man, he will definitely be very angry, but if he finds out his daughter is being Spider-Man, then he will probably feel scared, because Spider-Man has a precedent of sacrifice."

"But, but this..." Peter just wanted to say that it might not be very good to stimulate Sheriff George like this, Schiller continued: "This kind of authoritarian parent, when they find that the child's growth path is different from what they imagined, they will instinctively feel that someone deceived their child, rather than their own education failed."

"If he finds out Gwen is dating Spider-Man, then he will definitely feel that Spider-Man confused her, but if Gwen firmly wants to become Spider-Man, he has no room to shirk responsibility and can only admit that his education has a problem."

"But he will definitely feel very worried." Peter hung his head and said: "Also feel very sad, because Gwen has always been very obedient, she is his pride."

"Peter." Schiller called Peter's name, letting Peter look at him: "Do you think Gwen is very safe when she is not Spider-Man?"

"Of course." Peter answered instinctively: "Where is it not safe to stay in the laboratory?"

"What is she researching in the laboratory?"

"She is recently following Dr. Otto to do artificial sun energy experiments, and occasionally goes to Dr. Connors to help, but I don't know what the specific topic is, maybe it's animal experiments or something."

"Peter, you think she is very safe now because you have professional knowledge. Do you think if you take words like 'artificial sun' or 'animal experiments' to find George to talk about his daughter's work, he will feel she is very safe?"

"But those are just some misunderstandings of ordinary people." Peter explained anxiously: "The experimental process is controllable, and we are not building big bombs or any evil monsters."

"Of course, of course." Schiller comforted and said: "But you can't ask every ordinary person to have the same professional knowledge as you and Gwen. It is normal that they don't understand what you are doing in the laboratory."

"George doesn't understand professional knowledge. He can only listen to Gwen's words that everything is fine in the laboratory, but he understands how Spider-Man works as a vigilante, or rather he thinks he understands, so when judging whether Gwen is safe, he will ignore Gwen's own opinion and judge by his own understanding."

"Many parents are like this. When they think they understand something, they will ignore the child's feelings and make choices for them, or worry about the dangerous scenes that are somewhat absurd in the eyes of professionals."

Peter was silent for a few minutes, as if thinking about how to express it, and then lowered his eyes gently and said.

"George has to do this. He is a single father, and his status is also sensitive. There are too many people who have ideas about his daughter. His rejection of me is just the instinct to protect his daughter that has been cultivated for many years."

"Therefore, I can't stand on a high place and criticize him for being too authoritarian and unreasonable because I know more than him, because it is precisely his authoritarianism that blocked all disasters for her on Gwen's growth path, letting her grow up safely and become an excellent person."

Peter looked up at Schiller. There was always a childlike innocence in his eyes, using gentleness as a prelude and firmness as a tail tone.

"He is a good person. Good people can always understand good people, so he knows Spider-Man is a hero."

"Precisely because of this, he understands how difficult this road is, so he hopes his daughter stays as far away from the identity of a hero as possible and lives a stable and peaceful life."

"I didn't confess my identity to Uncle Ben and Aunt May to make them sad, so how can I ask Gwen to stimulate her father and let George worry?"

Schiller looked at Peter and sighed again: "You have really grown up, Peter." ===== CHAPTER 1516 =====