Chapter 703: U: Infinite Event (19)
"Doctor Octopus? Who is that?" Peter asked while following the Amazing Spider-Man and swinging over.
"Don't you know? He is a member of the Sinister Six!" The Amazing Spider-Man shot spider silk quickly, shuttling between the buildings of New York, and quickly arrived at the rooftop of a building near Doctor Octopus.
"Sinister Six?" Peter was a bit confused. He asked, "Who are they all? How come I don't know them?"
"You..." The Amazing Spider-Man was choked. He looked at Peter and asked, "How long have you been a Spider-Man?"
"Almost two years, why?"
"Then haven't you encountered Sandman, Electro, Doctor Octopus, or anything like that? Then who have you been dealing with since you debuted? Is there Green Goblin? Or the Lizard?"
Peter pursed his lips. He recalled his nearly two-year career as a superhero, and then discovered that there really weren't many villains he had dealt with independently.
The Lizard was dealt with by him and Stark together. Although he independently caught Bullseye, a subordinate of Kingpin, there was no lack of guidance from several others behind the scenes. To say that from discovery, to investigation, to tracking, to capture, he had completed it all by himself—there really wasn't any.
Peter explained his situation. The Amazing Spider-Man's eyeballs almost fell out in shock. He asked, "Then what on earth have you been doing for these two years?"
Peter recalled again. Thinking of his experience these two years, his mind was full of various experimental data. At the beginning, he joined the research group for the cryogenic project, including the development of some cryogenic weapons, the civilianization of cryogenic devices, cost compression, etc.
Later, he started participating in the Lizard serum research organized by Dr. Connors, mainly researching projects like limb regeneration. Subsequently, he was transferred to the materials group and started developing the new material Melt Steel. By the time the solar system development plan was in full swing, he started doing work related to astronomical observation.
For these two years, cryogenics, biology, physics, chemistry, materials science, astronomy—Peter didn't miss a single one, and was proficient in all of them.
Every day, he shuttled between school, the laboratory, and home, following a three-point-one-line path. Only on the way back and forth would he occasionally patrol, stopping some unknown robbers. To say he had a lot of time to deal with a specific enemy—there really wasn't any.
"Doctor Octopus, Vulture, Electro, Sandman, Mysterio, and Kraven the Hunter—these six people are called the Sinister Six. They are my main enemies. I am on the road to fighting these evil criminals every day. You must remember, if you encounter them, you must do your best to catch them, otherwise, they will definitely endanger the safety of New York." The Amazing Spider-Man exhorted.
Peter nodded half-understandingly, but in fact, he didn't even remember the names of these six people. Seeing him like this, the Amazing Spider-Man shook his head, then shot a strand of spider silk again and swung down.
"Hey! Doctor Octopus! Look here! Spider-Man is here to teach you a lesson!"
After the Amazing Spider-Man swung down, he shuttled under one of Doctor Octopus's giant tentacles, then gave another tentacle a kick from the side.
And at this moment, with a "whoosh," another figure shuttled through under that tentacle. Stark, wearing the Iron Spider suit, shouted loudly: "Peter! What's going on with you? Are your tactical movements rusty again??"
"Hey! Mr. Stark, I'm here!" Peter, who had just come down, shouted somewhat dissatisfiedly.
Iron Man had just swept past that tentacle, turned his head and fired a shot. The tentacle dodged flexibly, but encountered Peter, who was kicking in mid-air. With a "bang," the tentacle was kicked crooked. Iron Man, who had just flown past, made a beautiful aerial maneuver, turned 180 degrees, and smashed an elbow onto that tentacle.
"Beautiful!" Peter shouted.
"Hey! Wait! There's a misunderstanding here!" Another Spider-Man swung over from the edge of the sky.
But at this moment, a tentacle had already swung over. He had to turn and dodge in mid-air. While dodging, he shouted loudly: "Stop fighting! This is a misunderstanding, Dr. Otto! I shouldn't have left early..."
"Doctor Octopus! Your good days are over!" The Amazing Spider-Man shouted, punching the root of the tentacle beside him. After a series of electric sparks, the tentacle started to twitch wildly.
"Mr. Stark! Hit the root of his tentacle!" Peter shouted.
At this moment, Doctor Octopus, who had been hit at the root of the tentacle by the Amazing Spider-Man, went crazy due to the pain, and the tentacles started to twitch wildly.
Iron Man saw this and intended to pull up to observe. But at this moment, the Amazing Spider-Man took advantage of the victory, and a strand of spider silk stuck to the tentacle closest to Iron Man.
The tentacle was pulled toward his side. Seeing the tentacle being controlled, Peter also intended to take advantage of the victory and flew toward the Amazing Spider-Man's direction. But at this moment, the last Spider-Man to arrive seemed to intend to persuade them to stop fighting, and also flew toward the direction of the tentacle.
Stark wanted to leave, but his departure route was blocked by the two Spider-Men rushing over. Doctor Octopus wanted to break free from the Amazing Spider-Man's spider silk and exerted force in the opposite direction with all his might.
As a result, the moment he broke free from the spider silk, the tentacle swung fiercely in the opposite direction, directly slapping Iron Man, who was calculating the flight route, away.
With a "bang," Iron Man was embedded into the wall. Three Spider-Men screamed and flew toward that building, then stuck to the wall one after another, crawling toward Iron Man like spiders.
Stark shook his head and asked: "Jarvis, what's the situation? Do I have a concussion? How come there are three Spider-Men?"
In his field of vision, three almost identical Spider-Men leaned their heads over, looking at him with a very worried expression. Stark stretched out his hand and waved vigorously before he could drive them away.
He controlled the battle suit and flew out from the wall of the building. Looking at the three Spider-Men surrounding him, he asked very shocked: "Peter, what on earth are you doing? How come you turned into three?"
Peter just wanted to open his mouth to speak, but the last Spider-Man to arrive said somewhat anxiously to Stark: "Wait a minute, I can explain. The situation is like this, Dr. Otto is not..."
But at this moment, Doctor Octopus's tentacle swung over again. Three Spider-Men and one Iron Man scattered in all directions. One of the Spider-Men kept shouting loudly: "Stop quickly! This is a misunderstanding!"
The remaining two Spider-Men, one attacked fiercely, one was full of confusion. Three almost identical figures shuttled between the tentacles. Stark stayed in mid-air and covered his eyes, saying: "Am I hallucinating because I stayed up too late? What on earth is going on?"
"Sir, according to the scan, these three should all be Peter Parker."
"Peter didn't clone himself, did he?" Stark said very surprisedly: "I told him, don't always learn those strange biological technologies from Connors. He actually split himself into three???"
"According to the scan, these three Mr. Peter Parkers are not products of cloning. They are slightly different." Jarvis answered again.
However, Doctor Octopus obviously didn't intend to let go of the Iron Man in mid-air. He controlled a long tentacle and slapped over again. Jarvis said:
"According to the scan, the opponent's tentacles should be connected to the nerves. As long as the main body is subdued, the tentacles can be controlled. The tactical suggestion is to activate the electric shock module..."
Soon, electric light flowed all over Iron Man's body. His arms were received to his sides. He sprinted at full speed, using smooth maneuvering actions to dodge the tentacles flying around in the air. The space around his field of vision became blurry with the full-speed sprint, and only the human figure at the target point became clearer and clearer.
Like a cannonball, Stark flew toward Doctor Octopus. He decelerated the moment he approached him, then stretched out his arms, hugged Doctor Octopus, and electric light flashed all over his body.
In an instant, the four tentacles behind Doctor Octopus stopped working. After a series of violent electric sparks, they hung down one after another, and Doctor Octopus himself started to fall.
And before landing, he was caught by the Spider-Man holding the spider silk and placed on the rooftop of the nearest building again.
Three Spider-Men gathered on the rooftop. Iron Man flew over, put his hands on his hips, scanned them, and then asked: "Now, can you explain what's going on?"
"I am Spider-Man!" Peter stood out first, then his voice weakened a bit, saying: "They might also be..."
The Amazing Spider-Man shrugged and said: "Fine, I am also Spider-Man, but maybe not the Spider-Man you know. Uh, you should also know me... I mean, in my universe, but..."
"Stop! Listen to me first!" Another Spider-Man opened his mouth and said: "Things are not what you think. Dr. Otto is not a bad person, just because..."
And at this moment, Doctor Octopus, who was lying on the ground, coughed twice and woke up. When he slowly sat up from the ground, the Amazing Spider-Man stepped back two steps very vigilantly, assuming a defensive posture.
At this moment, Stark carefully looked at this man full of tentacles behind him. He said somewhat confusedly: "Otto, is it that Otto? Nuclear physicist Otto Octavius?"
"That's right."
"Doctor Octopus? Who is Doctor Octopus? This is Doctor Otto, the head of the joint research team for the Nuclear Physics Project. Um... he just had a little accident..."
Stark landed on the ground, walked up to Otto, and looked him up and down. Otto's face was pale, and he had two large dark circles under his eyes. Stark asked him, "What happened to you? How did you end up like this?"
Otto coughed hard twice and said loudly, "You actually have the nerve to ask me what happened??? Tony Stark!
"
Stark stepped back slightly, eyes wide as he looked at Otto. The resentment in Otto's tone was as if Stark had stolen his girlfriend. Stark recalled that he hadn't been out messing around lately, so what was with this resentful tone from Otto?
"Doctor Otto, please calm down. I know you work very hard, but..." the Spider-Man holding him up tried to persuade him.
"Work very hard..." Doctor Otto muttered this sentence, then suddenly raised his voice and said, "Is that just working very hard??? I'm worked to death!
You bunch of damn busybodies!
! You'd rather swing around over New York than come to the lab to help!
!"
"What on earth is going on here?" Stark looked at Otto and asked. Now he also realized that Otto didn't seem to be out causing trouble on purpose. Judging by his mental state, he seemed clear-headed, and he had no intention of taking revenge on society. After all, his four large tentacles had been swinging over New York for so long, and other than breaking a lot of glass, he hadn't hurt anyone.
Otto sighed deeply. From his tone, the others could hear a near-collapse of helplessness. He began to speak:
"The matter has to start from when the person in charge of a so-called Solar System Development Project team approached me..."
End of Chapter
