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Chapter 2116

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Coulson stood up slowly in disbelief, because he saw a huge ring of light lit up in the center of the waterfall's flow above his head.

A beam of light suddenly shone on Coulson's face, forcing him to block his upper body with his arms. The next second, a hand grabbed his arm and snapped sunglasses onto his face.

"Thanks! May!" Coulson breathed a sigh of relief; he really felt like his eyes were going to be burned off just now.

After putting on the sunglasses, looking at that patch of light was even stranger; it seemed that something like a camera had grown inside it, scanning everything around it.

Isn't this a magic script? This thing looks like exploration equipment fixed by a robotic arm no matter how you look at it.

Wait, ordinary people say this is a paranormal phenomenon, but in fact, it really might not be. That folklorist said a god fell, but isn't a so-called god just an alien?

Could there be an alien spaceship inside Niagara Falls?

Coulson almost immediately confirmed his speculation, because compared to a god falling to Earth, he had encountered far more alien spaceship crash cases in his life.

To put it bluntly, powerful creatures like the gods of Asgard falling to Earth wouldn't do much; at most, they would crush some Earth creatures to death, but they wouldn't be hurt themselves. They might even just brush the dust off their clothes, stand up, and fly away.

If they really hit the Earth at a speed that could knock parts off their bodies, the Earth would have already rolled out of the galaxy smoothly by now. The physical strength of Asgardians is simply unreasonable.

So it is indeed more likely to be an alien spaceship. And as far as Coulson knows, the civilizations that alien spaceships capable of crashing on Earth come from have impressive mechanical engineering levels, and they basically follow the technological route.

Alien spaceship or not, Coulson thought, it's actually easier to control. If it were really a magic item with some curse placed on it, it would be more troublesome.

Coulson immediately said to May, "This thing should retract. Can your grappling hook hang onto it? Take me up."

"No problem." May nodded.

She walked to Coulson's front, tied the equipment she was holding to her waist, and then tied the other end to a safety harness for Coulson to wear.

Immediately after, she took out the grappling hook and started aiming, but that extended robotic arm was already planning to retract.

At the very last moment, a grappling hook swooped and wrapped around the tail of the robotic arm. May pulled the trigger, the grappling hook retracted, and the two of them were carried by the robotic arm toward the center of the huge waterfall.

He thought they would be directly slapped down by the powerful water flow, but unexpectedly, the water didn't cause them any harm. The impact of the water flow seemed as if it didn't exist, and they passed straight through the waterfall.

Behind the waterfall was not a mountain wall at all, but a huge void unimaginable to humans.

Coulson was completely frozen in place, raising his trembling arm and pointing at the thing in the center of the void, saying.

"... What is that?!!!"

And the minute hand and hour hand of the watch on his wrist merged, and the time pointed to 12:00 AM on November 12th.

Southeast of Lake Ontario, Ontario, Canada, November 12th, 9:30 AM.

Aisha put Bruce down, panting, and then sat down on the tree roots herself.

Flying isn't tiring, and flying with such a burden is just okay. Dodging cannonballs with a burden is slightly strenuous, but the most tiring thing is that this burden is really too fragile. Not to mention being grazed by a cannonball, even if the angle of movement is a bit large, it might shake his brains into a smoothie.

Aisha had to think about how to fly steadily while dodging cannonballs. This short stretch of road consumed quite a bit of her energy.

So, seeing the fog rising again around them, she was really too lazy to run, and reached out to push Bruce, who was still a bit dizzy.

Bruce sighed. He was also too lazy to run, so he stood up, picked up Aisha, and walked toward the place where the fog was thicker. He wanted to see what was there.

A figure appeared at the end of the thick fog again. Bruce paused his steps because he wasn't sure if this was that mysterious Fog Walker or a visitor from another space-time.

When this figure gradually approached and revealed their true face, Bruce was certain it was the latter, because the person who came was a black-haired woman wearing a uniform with white as the main color.

After seeing Bruce, she immediately retreated a few steps in vigilance, but soon revealed a surprised expression, blinked her eyes lightly, and shouted, "Bruce Wei En?"

Bruce found it strange: how are there still so many people who recognize him in this strange universe? What exactly did the Batman of other universes do to be so famous in so many universes?

The woman wearing the white uniform walked up, shook hands with Bruce, and said, "Hello, I am Silk. Uh, you can understand me as a special Spider-Man. I have seen your photo in 'Cat Getan Travelogue', so I recognized you."

Bruce understood. He really wanted to meet this Spider-Man who wrote 'Cat Getan Travelogue' and appreciate his masterpiece.

"We don't have time for small talk." This special Spider-Man called Silk was obviously not as cheerful as the Spider-Man Bruce had encountered before; her temperament and tone were colder.

"May I ask if you have seen the Spider-Man of this universe? Just a moment ago, I discovered that something happened to him, he..."

A look of pain appeared on Silk's face. She and the Amazing Spider-Man once had a relationship, although it was relatively short and didn't have any results, she still couldn't accept the reality.

"I can't feel his vital signs anymore." Silk took a deep breath and said, "Perhaps my sensing is malfunctioning, but I feel this is also impossible. I have no other way, so I want to come and look for him."

Bruce recalled the process of meeting Spider-Man. He thought there was nothing else to do in this mysterious space, so he told Silk about meeting Peter.

But Silk found clues from certain details. She said, "You said you met Spider-Man when you were driving to the suburbs of San Francisco in the early morning, and then you came here immediately. That is to say, it was still morning before you came?"

Bruce and Aisha nodded together. Silk frowned deeply and said, "But it was already noon when I came to this universe."

"The space-time here is chaotic." Bruce sighed and said, "No one knows when the other party we encountered is from."

And Aisha thought that Silk came from the future. She said that Spider-Man was already dead at that time, which is to say, before long, Bruce would still obtain Spider-Man's abilities. Bruce won.

Aisha felt she couldn't hide this from Bruce. He had the right to know everything related to this ability, and then decide whether to obtain it or not, rather than being ignorant and possessing power, only to regret it later.

So Aisha tugged on Bruce's sleeve, leaned into his ear, and said a few words. Bruce slowly widened his eyes.

"Do you have time now?" Bruce said, "I encountered some trouble before, which might be related to you."

Silk nodded and said, "Alright, you also gave me information. We'll trade equally."

So Bruce began to recount what he encountered during the previous time resets, focusing on what he encountered when he first came to this universe, that is, before it was reset.

At first, Silk just listened to it as a story, listening with great interest, but soon she discovered something wrong. She looked at Bruce, somewhat surprised, and said, "You mean after you were bitten by a spider, you suddenly became incredibly strong and also obtained the ability to sense danger?"

"Is that danger sensing?" Bruce said somewhat blankly, "I only feel a nerve jumping in my brain. It gives me a headache and allows me to perform some movements I couldn't do before."

"God, that's Spider-Sense!" Silk muttered in disbelief, "You became Spider-Man? But..."

Silk's expression suddenly froze. Obviously, she realized something. She had just sensed that Spider-Man's vital signs had disappeared, and this Batman from the past said he would obtain Spider-Man's abilities in the future.

Generally speaking, a universe wouldn't have more than one Spider-Man. Even if there were, it wouldn't be through normal means of being chosen by the Spider Totem; it's usually cloning or gene transplantation or something.

Batman from another universe, of course, couldn't have any cloning or genetic connection with Spider-Man. Then there was only one possibility: Spider-Man died, and Bruce Wei En became the new Spider-Man.

When Silk recovered from her thoughts, she found Bruce staring at her with an incredulous gaze. She knew she must have stated her speculation.

"You mean what I obtained are Spider-Man's abilities?" Bruce frowned tightly and said, "I haven't seen many Spider-Men. You..."

"If you obtained this ability after being bitten by a spider, then I'm afraid so." Silk bit her lip. She also couldn't figure out why Spider-Man died.

Silk didn't quite believe that Batman killed Spider-Man. On one hand, it was the good impression that the Dark Knight who faced the darkness alone in 'Cat Getan Travelogue' gave to all Spider-Men, making her feel that Batman couldn't do such a thing.

Secondly, the Spider-Man who wrote 'Cat Getan Travelogue' specifically emphasized that Batman doesn't kill, which was also agreed upon by many Spider-Men, leaving them with an especially deep impression.

Also, not to mention anything else, how would Batman kill Spider-Man? Although Batman is as wise as a god, Spider-Man is not weak either. He can still run away. Even if he really couldn't run away, couldn't he call Nick? The Amazing Spider-Man has the emergency rescue equipment given to him by Nick.

Silk felt her heart go cold. She originally thought it might be her sensing that was wrong. Unexpectedly, the Amazing Spider-Man might really die in the near future.

But Bruce's heart was colder than hers. So it turns out that he obtained superpowers because the original Spider-Man died.

Bruce calculated in his mind that on the timeline where he exists, Spider-Man might already be dead, and the Spider-Man he saw in the Fog Realm is the Spider-Man of the past.

Then as long as he encounters the Spider-Man of the past one more time and tells him the information that he might die, perhaps he could prevent Spider-Man's death.

But this also means he would never be able to obtain the powerful power he dreamed of.

At this very moment, this fledgling Batman encountered the first dilemma of his life.

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