The era of American comics begins

Chapter 44

As night fell, fine rain began to fall from the sky, and bright lights illuminated every street in New York one after another.The blond-haired girl was running quickly from building to building.

She flew across half of New York City on foot, and came to the outside of a gloomy factory.Like a macaque, she jumped over the three-meter-high iron fence and landed in a half-squat in the dark courtyard.

Gwen took a deep breath, tried to suppress the uneasiness in her heart, and walked forward carefully.

There is no light source in the huge factory, and darkness covers everything silently, packaging the tall factory buildings and buildings into a jagged shape, and the chilly wind passes through the cracks in the doors, chilling people's backs.

Gwen began to withdraw a little bit, and the scorching tingling sensation had not stopped for a moment since she jumped into the warehouse (but she didn't know it was a dangerous warning from the "spider sense").She couldn't explain why, but some intuition seared the address into her mind, like a map marked with GPS directions.

The gate of the factory building was not locked, so she lifted the gate nearly five meters high with all her strength, and got in with a short body.It was a dark mass inside, and it was even more invisible than the outside.The tingling sensation guided her to grope all the way to the entrance of a certain basement, and she lifted the heavy steel plate with the door knocker, revealing a staircase that slanted downward.

Gwen groped down the stairs, a faint white light vaguely illuminating the outline of the stairs.She descended to the bottom and found herself in a dimly lit metal room.A person was sitting in a swivel chair with his back facing the entrance, four limp metal tentacles stretched wildly behind him, and four slender black shadows were cast on the wall by the dim light.

Gwen noticed that her heartbeat was beginning to lose control, and she tried to cover up her uneasiness by asking: "Who are you?"

"I've been waiting for you for a long time. I knew you would come to find me." The man said in a muddy voice, "I just didn't expect that you would be the first to find me. What an unexpected surprise."

The swivel chair slowly turned around, revealing the man's gloomy face.He combed his hair, wore dark green lenses, and wore a decent black suit, with four metal arms swinging behind him like tentacles.

Gwen recognized him.

"Otto Octavius, Doctor Octopus?" she asked in surprise, "Didn't you get caught by Spider-Man?"

"Yes, it's me, your creator." Otto crossed his hands and supported his chin, "I have had some memory problems in the past, and I couldn't connect the fragments in my brain—and that All thanks to the failed Oz experiment in Osborn's lab. The explosion in the lab messed with my sanity, and oh, and stuck this thing on me so I can't get rid of it."

Using his thoughts, he manipulated a tentacle to stretch out in front of him, and the sharp claws "clicked" twice in the air.

"It was very painful at first, the control centers of these four extra arms were fused directly into my spinal cord, and it was so painful," he said. "But soon I learned to control them and live with them. I picked myself up. , trying to build a new laboratory and start my business again...until that nasty Spider-Man appeared and blocked my plan time and time again."

"But you were trying to rob banks and snatch equipment from other people's laboratories." Gwen frowned. "He was just doing good."

"Since ancient times, people who have made big things don't care about small things." Otto said coldly, "I was annoyed by that nasty wall crawler for a long time, but I couldn't remember who he was because of memory problems. But in After being thrown in prison by Spider-Man, I started to have a lot of time to recall and organize my thoughts and then I finally remembered, the accident in Osborn's lab, the Oz serum thing, and the identity of Spider-Man."

He smiled and said, "So you see, in a way it's thanks to Spider-Man. I was the senior director of the Oz serum project when I was working at Osborn, so I know the Oz formula and how it works." It works. So I pitched the CIA, told them the secret of Spider-Man, and promised them that I could build more." He paused and spread his hands, ".So, there are you, I The most perfect works."

Gwen bit her lip and clenched her fist: "You did this to us."

"I created you." Otto corrected, "In other words, I am your creator. Your life and your destiny belong to me, and the meaning of your birth is to serve me."

"No, you're not." Gwen was no longer afraid, and his emerald green eyes shot out like torches, "The meaning of life is created by yourself, it doesn't belong to God, it doesn't belong to anyone, and of course it doesn't belong to a person. Mad scientist daydreaming in his basement."

"Well, interesting." Otto was not angry, but only showed an expression of interest, "It seems that someone has instilled some strange ideas in you. But it doesn't matter, I will do some necessary debugging after I catch you , you will be more than happy to serve me then."

From the direction of the entrance came the sound of steel plates being lifted again, and the sound of multiple footsteps approaching along the stairs.Gwen subconsciously turned her head and found two Spider-Mans with a blue-black uniform and a red cape appearing at the stairs.

The moment they met Gwen's eyes, they froze on the spot like a thunderstorm.

"Gwen?"

"Hi, Peter." Otto sat upright in his chair, chuckling, "Come and meet Gwen Stacy, Spider-Woman, my custom-made clone for you. Isn't it very touching?"

Peter recovered from the shock, clenched his fists, and almost burst into flames when he shot Otto's eyes.

"Otto."

He couldn't bear it anymore, and jumped over Gwen to Otto desperately.

"What have you done!"

The cold air was chasing after him, and the chill and the warning of the spider's sensor tingled the back of his neck.Peter's reaction was amazing, and his figure was wrong, something like a long strip passed by his neck coolly.

Peter didn't have time to think about it, and a new sting followed.He swooped sideways, turned sideways in the air, and changed several positions with agility in an instant.Under the cover of darkness, strangely shaped weapons attacked one after another, and the air currents looked like clubs or spears.Peter evaded several times, and finally he was accidentally hit by a steel arm in his lower abdomen, and the huge force weighing more than ten tons crushed him overwhelmingly, shaking his internal organs almost to pieces.

It was only then that they noticed that there were far more than the four tentacles behind the doctor hiding in the darkness.Countless steel tentacles are like black snakes hidden under the water, swimming silently, waiting for the opportunity to move, intending to launch the most fatal blow to the prey who strayed into the room at any time.

Otto rose slowly from his swivel chair, metal tentacles dancing wildly behind him.

"You see, as I said just now, I have finally gotten used to coexisting with these cold machines." He said with a smile, "In fact, I have even begun to enjoy this feeling. I upgraded Combined with the neural connections in my spinal cord, the amplified signal allows me to command more arms. Now I have... far more than four arms."

(End of this chapter)