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Chapter 702: U: Infinite Event (18)

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"Traveled through time? I traveled through time?" Peter Parker was even more incredulous. He said, "Oh, wait a minute, I just looked at the calendar, now it's December..."

"What are you talking about? It's clearly early October now. Have you forgotten that you just started college?" Stark said to him.

"So, I... I came to the future? But how could this happen? I clearly..."

Peter said very confusedly. The images in his mind returned to the moment of Schiller's death.

Indescribable sorrow swallowed him. Sadness, grief, anxiety, guilt, regret—all kinds of emotions surrounded him. But the biggest question he was thinking about in his heart was that he could have had a chance to reverse all of this.

Before he left his universe, Stark, Strange, and Schiller had given him a lot of magic energy, enough to feed a cosmic demon god. However, that kind of energy was just stored in Peter's body, and he didn't know how to use it at all.

Peter admitted that he didn't like occultism very much and wasn't interested in those philosophical explanations full of metaphors, so he hadn't thought that he would have a time when he would need such power.

Therefore, when seeing the scene of Schiller's death, his first thought was, why didn't I study magic properly?

Why didn't I learn how to use this energy? Otherwise, maybe I could have saved Dr. Schiller.

This kind of thought was actually somewhat extreme, but Peter at that time was dominated by all kinds of negative emotions and simply couldn't get rid of this thought.

However, Peter indeed had no understanding of magic. Therefore, when the thought of learning magic arose, he only remembered one sentence, which was what everyone had told him when they asked him to bring the magic energy core to Stark—"The secret of magic is that wishes come true."

Peter could of course understand this sentence. He didn't expect that magic really made his wish come true. And at that time, the only thing he thought about was saving Schiller and letting him live again.

But what made Peter somewhat unclear was, he wanted Schiller to be resurrected, so why was it traveling to the future? To let a dead person be resurrected, shouldn't it be traveling to the past and changing the past?

Peter didn't understand what was going on at all, but Stark's voice sounded again. He said, "Peter, modifying the timeline is a very dangerous thing. We cannot intervene in time at will, otherwise, it might cause very terrible consequences."

"I have no way to go over and help you now, but you can find the Stark on this timeline, find a phone, and then call him..."

After Stark's voice disappeared, Peter looked left and right, and at top speed, rushed toward the neighbor's house. Peter Parker was well-liked, so the neighbor didn't hesitate much and lent him the phone.

"Hello? Mr. Stark? Yes, it's me..."

Stark's voice on the other side was somewhat surprised. He said, "What's wrong? Peter, did you get home so fast? Didn't I remind you not to drive too fast?"

"Um, I... no... I mean, that... on the way, I met two friends, one of whom is injured... it's a very heavy injury, he probably needs emergency treatment now..."

"Then you should call an ambulance... forget it, you wait."

Hanging up the phone, Peter walked back to the Amazing Spider-Man and said, "Wait a moment, Mr. Stark will be over immediately."

Soon, with a "whoosh," Iron Man wearing armor landed in front of Peter. He just wanted to open his mouth, but saw another person standing beside Peter whose battle suit color was somewhat similar to his.

"Is this your friend?" Stark asked, "Is he your imitator?"

"Um, sort of. That, Mr. Stark, you'd better save him first." Peter pointed to Otto Octavius and said. Looking at the familiar spider lines on Otto Octavius's suit, Stark shook his head, called over two mechs, and said, "I didn't expect you to have so many fans. You're almost catching up to me."

Peter smiled somewhat awkwardly, and then also activated the Iron Spider suit on his uniform. Suddenly, Stark's gaze became surprised. He looked at Peter and said, "Good heavens, did you make this yourself?"

"This isn't you..." Peter looked at Stark very confusedly. The mechanical devices on this battle suit were all made by Stark for him before he left.

"Alright, kid, don't be humble. I know I didn't misjudge you. I know that one day you will surpass me, but I didn't expect this day to come so soon." Stark walked up and patted Peter on the shoulder and said.

There was some complexity on his face, but more of it was gratification. Peter, however, was confused. The Stark of the future actually didn't know about this battle suit. What was going on?

Logically speaking, if this was the future of his universe, Stark must have already experienced the multiverse journey of Spider-Man. It had only been more than a month; he couldn't have forgotten about this, could he?

Looking at the armor on Stark's body, Peter confirmed that this was indeed his universe, because the armor worn by Stark in this universe had many models, not just the classic gold-red color scheme; there were silver and blue ones, and also ink-green ones. Peter had never heard other Spider-Men say that the Iron Man of their world had such armor.

Peter stood in place and scratched his head, but subsequently still followed Stark.

Arriving at the familiar laboratory, Peter took advantage of Stark not being there to look through the experimental records. Seeing the data he had been unable to calculate until now written clearly on the experimental results, Peter finally confirmed that this was indeed the future of their universe.

Because he knew that in other universes, Dr. Connors was the Lizard, their enemy. But now, these experimental documents clearly stated that the person in charge of the project was Connors.

And, before Peter left, he was doing these experiments. He was very familiar with every piece of data. Seeing that the details were completely no different from his memory, he confirmed that this couldn't be another universe.

But what confused him the most was that Stark seemed not to know that he had gone to the multiverse. What was going on with this? Could it be that Stark had amnesia?

Just as Peter was thinking about the cause and effect, Stark, who had taken off his armor, walked in. He said, "What's wrong with those two friends of yours? Forgive me for speaking bluntly, are they a bit obsessed? Not just the battle suit, even their voices and appearance are very similar to yours. I thought they were your relatives."

"They... they are indeed my fans, maybe... because they've been imitating for a long time, so they became relatively similar..." Peter tried hard to explain. After all, he couldn't tell Stark that these two were also Spider-Men.

Stark said somewhat sourly, "I don't even have such fanatical imitators. I've been a bit busy recently and haven't had time to fly over New York. It seems the citizens of New York have almost forgotten the powerful Iron Man."

After speaking, Stark left. Just as Peter intended to investigate what was going on, a portal suddenly lit up in mid-air.

Strange walked out from the portal, saying as he walked, "Stark, hasn't Schiller come back yet? I have an order here... Oh, Peter, you're here. I thought you had gone to class."

"I'm here, of course. Wait a minute... what did you just say? Schiller???"

Strange was stunned by his tone. He looked Peter up and down and said, "Schiller? What's wrong with Schiller?"

Suddenly, Strange seemed to react. He said, "Schiller didn't say anything to you, did he? No matter what he said, just pretend you didn't hear it..."

"Schiller... Dr. Schiller... where is he now?!" Peter asked very excitedly. But subsequently, he froze there again, muttering to himself, "No, impossible. Isn't he already..."

Strange looked at Spider-Man with a strange look, and Peter continued to pursue the question: "Dr. Schiller, is he not dead? Where is he now?"

"How could he be dead? Isn't he on vacation again? Just like before, he's been gone for more than a month..."

Peter was completely confused. Logically speaking, the timeline he was in now was the future. If Schiller didn't die in the future, it proved he had never died.

This sounded a bit like nonsense, but a person couldn't be dead in the past and still be alive in the future. If he was alive in the future, it meant he hadn't died in the past. However, Peter had clearly seen with his own eyes that Schiller had already died.

And Strange's attitude looked strange. They seemed to have something they were hiding from others. Peter wanted to pursue the question, but Strange ran away like his butt was on fire.

Peter was baffled. But at this moment, the Amazing Spider-Man found him and said, "I really can't believe that the robots created by the Iron Man of this world... My god, are those robots really controllable? I saw them lift the Superior Spider-Man into a strange medical pod. Can that really cure illness?"

Peter appeared somewhat absent-minded. The Amazing Spider-Man also knew that he had just received a great shock, because he had also experienced all of this, so he knew how to comfort the other party.

He walked over, put his arm around Peter's shoulder, and said, "Stop thinking about those bad things. Take me to see your universe. It seems very different here."

"Oh, yes, because... maybe because of Dr. Schiller." Peter shook his head, looked out the floor-to-ceiling window, and said, "He did a lot and brought many changes. He is a great person, he shouldn't..."

"Alright, let's go for a spin over New York and see if there's anyone who needs help. You've been in the universe for so long, maybe there are some criminals running rampant in New York City again?"

The Amazing Spider-Man tried hard to divert Peter's attention. Peter was put around by him and walked to the window. The Amazing Spider-Man first shot a strand of spider silk, then swung. Peter subconsciously followed his movements and also swung out of the window.

The sky of New York was still very blue, and the evening breeze of late autumn blew gently on Peter's face, but it made him feel bone-chilling cold. Until the Amazing Spider-Man let out an exclamation, his attention finally returned to reality.

"Good heavens, what is that?"

Peter looked in the direction of his gaze. He saw a tiny human figure jumping between high-rise buildings. The difference was that he wasn't using spider silk, but four mechanical tentacles behind him. At this moment, the Amazing Spider-Man shouted:

"Doctor Octopus!

Stop!

!" ===== CHAPTER 703 =====

Stop!

!"

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