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Chapter 2738

~11 min read 2,090 words

Sophia pressed her eyebrows with a headache. She said: "There are not many media paying attention to you now. Everyone wants to know who the two guys who became expressions are. Even if they find you, they must be to let you talk about this. You'd better be prepared."

"This is impossible!" Beck shouted with an increased tone, "Why should they care about those two monsters? Shouldn't they care more about me who defeated them?"

"Maybe because they are interesting." The Chinese scientist sat on the chair and shrugged his shoulders: "No reason, just interesting."

"Simply absurd!" Beck hammered the table and said: "Even the newspaper we invited went to report on those two damn monsters..."

"But their reports are very popular." Sophia emphasized: "They want to do an exclusive interview with you this afternoon to talk about that night. You must meet their requirements as much as possible. There are many audiences waiting."

"I can't accept an exclusive interview, I am Mysterio!" Beck pointed to himself and said: "It should be them chasing behind my butt to find my traces, how can I take the initiative to accept their interview?"

"But if you don't do this, you won't have the opportunity to disclose Stark's conspiracy." Sophia said earnestly: "You must first win over the media, otherwise you can't make the jury change their view of you."

Once the jury was mentioned, Beck's heart skipped a beat. He took off his helmet and let out a long sigh. The emotions between his eyebrows were depressed one moment and irritable the next.

After a long while, he still said: "When will the reporter come?"

"About two hours later, you relax first, think about how to deal with their questions later."

Coulson took a few newspapers and a magazine into Schiller's office, put the things on his desk and said: "That woman named Sophia and the boss of the Daily Bugle have capital dealings. It seems they want to use the Daily Bugle to promote Mysterio. Do you want to send someone to interfere?"

Schiller raised his eyebrows and said: "Doesn't the Daily Bugle like to find trouble with Spider-Man? Why change the target?"

"Because Spider-Man hasn't come out for too long." Coulson shook his head and said: "Don't you forget? Peter has been buried in the laboratory for almost half a year, and the fan loss is very serious. The newspaper also depends on hot spots to eat."

"So they set their sights on this emerging superhero?"

"Yes, initially, they want to find a new cash cow. That boss still has some skills, so I asked you if you want to interfere."

"Of course not, I know the style of this newspaper." Schiller didn't even look at the magazines and newspapers Coulson brought. He said: "How do you think they hype hot spots?"

Coulson actually didn't look at these things, but he had dealt with many media, so he said: "Anyway, it's all kinds of blowing, exaggerating, if it doesn't work, graft, or even rumors..."

Schiller shook his head and said: "The Daily Bugle is different. When others are keen on creating gods, he is keen on pulling people off the altar. Even if the other party is not even a god yet, he must drag others down. This is the secret of their boss."

Coulson seemed a bit unbelieving, so he picked up the magazine on the table. This issue of the magazine was published when Spider-Man was still active. He picked it up and looked at it. The big words on it wrote a headline: "Spider-Man appeared in the Bronx for the first time this month. Does this mean he will fall off the altar?".

Coulson read it twice and didn't read the causal relationship between the two sentences, so he couldn't help repeating: "Why does Spider-Man's appearance mean he will fall off the altar?"

"Because this Jameson's logic is like this. He believes that all superheroes are clowns in strange clothes, only bringing trouble to ordinary people, so as long as they appear, they will inevitably fall off the altar." Schiller smiled and said: "Beck is quite good at picking people. Peter is almost annoyed by him."

Coulson couldn't help laughing, and said: "If this is the case, Beck can be considered to have lifted a stone and hit his own feet."

"But it's far more than that. If Jameson is a person with strong stereotypical prejudice, Peter will not be annoyed by him, but will ignore him."

"Oh?" Coulson leaned forward with some interest. Schiller pointed to the magazine on the desktop to signal him to look again. Coulson picked up the magazine and browsed it quickly, then widened his eyes slightly.

At least in this article, Jameson is quite reasonable. He even inferred that he might come from Queens through the scope of Spider-Man's activities, and almost locked the scope of the high school Peter attended. Moreover, the whole article is written with well-founded, clear logic, and makes people easy to read.

This proves that he is not a useless person who only knows how to engage in gimmicks, but a truly excellent reporter and writer.

"This is the problem." Schiller said: "Peter even treats him as an evenly matched opponent. Every time he appears as Spider-Man, he has to be careful, for fear of being caught by him."

"But Jameson is a powerful character. Peter almost revealed his identity before, but George Bureau Chief covered it up."

"Is he that powerful?" Coulson re-examined Jameson with interest and said: "This time he set his sights on Mysterio?"

"He will of course set his sights on Mysterio, because the script directed by Beck is full of loopholes. Any smart person who collects all the information and analyzes it will find something wrong."

"You mean..."

"First of all, the technical level is not perfect." Schiller grabbed a newspaper and said while reading: "The fire nuclear weapon attack he made is too stiff. Many industry insiders stood up to analyze it before."

"If he were smarter, he should distinguish the special effects animation he used from the special effects animation of the monster attack before. But he might be too confident, feeling that the part he used later was completely different from before, and he made a comprehensive upgrade, so he didn't change the animation type. He still used some fire, water, fog, etc."

"If you just simply participated in the scolding war about monster attacks, you might not associate it with this, but if someone has experienced both things at the same time, it is inevitable not to connect these special effects."

"Jameson is one of them?"

"Yes, and I'm afraid he is the one who reacted the fastest. If he is not sure, he will not touch the target object without authorization."

"Like an agent?"

"He did much better than an agent." Schiller shook his head slightly and said: "He knows his position very well. Unlike an agent, he is a powerful fist, but a flexible tongue."

"People see fists and only think about running away, but seeing a weak tongue, they feel that they have a way to master him, and even use him to seek profit for themselves."

"Weakness tactics?"

"Almost, it can be said that this move is very effective for those with bad intentions. This is also why Jameson finally gave up harassing Peter, because after such a long confrontation, he also found that Spider-Man is almost a selfless person, and has never thought about using him to reverse his reputation. Precisely because Jameson himself is trapped in the vanity fair, he understands how rare it is to endure infamy like Spider-Man but still do things silently."

"Sounds like they will be good friends." Coulson said.

"I think Jameson is very likely to have known that Spider-Man is Peter Parker. Precisely because he admires Spider-Man, he didn't make this public."

"Wait, then Miles isn't..."

"So this is the real test for Miles." Schiller smiled and said: "Peter told me that Miles once confessed that he wanted to be famous, but if his desire overwhelms his conscience, Jameson will make him look good. And if his conscience can really overwhelm his desire, then Jameson will definitely not be stingy about helping him get what he wants."

"It seems he is a fan of Spider-Man, and a very fanatical one." Coulson sat down and smiled and said: "He hopes Spider-Man is better than anyone else."

"Of course, it's no exaggeration to say he's the number one fan." Schiller said: "The reason why Peter dared to hand over such a powerful force to Miles so easily is because he knows that Spider-Man has never been fighting alone. Someone cares about him, and someone supervises him. No matter who this identity and this force fall into, he can only be Spider-Man. If he wants to do something else, too many people will make him look good."

Coulson still couldn't help but sigh: "Peter made a good start. I haven't forgotten what kind of scolding he bore at the beginning. He has paid too much for the identity of Spider-Man, and even shaped this word into a benchmark."

"Exactly." Schiller nodded and said: "That's why he can retire perfectly, without worrying about no one taking responsibility or power being wasted. In fact, if it weren't for Miles being designated, Spider-Man's followers would also follow one after another, and they would all do very well."

"Is this a screening?" Coulson began to think further and said: "Being able to see through the essence of Spider-Man's initial scolding means they are smart and clear enough. Willing to follow Spider-Man means they recognize secular morality and are quite kind. Being able to continue to pay attention to him and supervise him after Spider-Man changes people means they respect the name of Spider-Man, and even develop a kind of Spider-Man spirit."

Coulson used his professional knowledge to judge: "It can be said that anyone who has these qualities can get spider power. Not to mention how well they do, they will definitely play a role, at least they will not waste spider power."

Schiller turned the pen in his hand lightly and said: "Haven't you realized yet? Peter Parker in our universe is more like a spider than any other universe's Spider-Man. He weaves a special web at a specific time and place, only collecting what he needs."

Coulson opened his mouth and said: "So this is not a coincidence."

"Peter has ten thousand ways to clarify the public's misunderstanding of him, but he didn't do so. He didn't need to let Jameson chase him. If he wanted to hide, no one could find him. His time is also very precious. Logically speaking, he should spend all the time playing chase games with fans on research..."

"He didn't want to do it long ago." Coulson said: "This time may be as early as the birth of the so-called third-generation Spider-Man."

"Because of death." Schiller looked at Coulson and said: "Although he didn't really die, the impact of Spider-Man's social death made Peter see the characteristics of this society and the ordinary crowd. This is destined that if he doesn't do anything, Spider-Man will really fall off the altar one day."

"And he established another set of rules." Coulson thought and said: "He makes people feel that it doesn't matter who Spider-Man is, what matters is what he will do. With Jameson as the core, he configured a complete set of perfect supervision mechanisms."

"If you do well, there is a fame reward, maybe you can make money. If you don't do well, there is public opinion punishment. Fans will take the lead in scolding, saying that he lost the face of Spider-Man. Even if he dares to use power to do bad things, Jameson also has the ability to trace his true identity and expose it, making him completely defeated."

"And this will not affect the next Spider-Man. People will only say that the previous person did not do well and damaged Spider-Man's reputation, but still have high hopes for the next one."

"This is more reasonable, isn't it?" Schiller spread his hands and said: "It is the same for all superheroes. Their identity should not just be themselves, but should become a symbol to be passed down. Merit and demerit will be judged by future generations."

Coulson stared at Schiller in a daze and said: "You mean Iron Man, Captain America, Sorcerer Supreme, etc. also..."

"Is there anything wrong with that?"

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