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Chapter 69 Happy Birthday
At seven o'clock, Gwen Groveney sat up from the bed on time.She stretched, got out of bed, and went to the bathroom to wash up.She combed her hair carefully in front of the mirror in the bathroom, put on a black butterfly hairpin, and then picked out a set of her favorite outfit from the pile of name tags in the closet that she couldn't name.

At seven twenty, with a homemade sandwich in her mouth, Gwen left the house and walked towards the nearest subway station with her backpack on her shoulders.

A new day has begun, but this one is different.

This day is her birthday.

In addition, it is necessary to emphasize that this is not just a random birthday, it is the first birthday of Gwen's life after being born into this world as a clone.

After today, she will officially be one year old. Well, it's really weird to say that.

Standing on the subway heading towards the school, Gwen subconsciously took out her phone and clicked on her empty contact list.There are only two lonely contacts in her mobile phone, one is Elizabeth Betty, the secretary who arranged her residence and school, and the other is Elizabeth's boss Michael.It's just that the latter's number is an unknown number pre-stored, and it can only be that he actively calls in and sends a message, not the other way around.

And he hasn't received any message yet.

Gwen took a quick glance, then locked the screen again and put the phone back in her pocket.

She didn't know what she was expecting.Maybe wish he'd greeted himself with a polite "Happy Birthday"?Don't be stupid, even she herself feels a little stupid about this idea.

Although it is true that he has arranged a new life for himself, he did promise to recruit her into a special team in the future when she is ready, but that is all.

Gwen knew that he had a large international corporation to manage, and that he was busy researching armor, developing weapons, and delving into occultism all day long, and then he seemed to be in charge of some mysterious world security maintenance organization, presumably he should It's a super busy person who manages a lot of things every day.

Maybe he simply forgot about the existence of such a cloned little spider after that cloning incident?Thinking about it carefully, Gwen felt that she might not be that important, and there was nothing to look forward to.

But no matter what, looking at this clean message box, I always feel that my heart is still a little empty.

Life at school went on as usual, and sure enough, nothing was different because it was her birthday.Every class was as rigid and monotonous as she remembered it, and she, as always, found it difficult to fit into other people's circles.

She can pretend to be interested in topics that everyone likes to talk about, but it is a fake after all, and she will get tired if she pretends for a long time.

She has complete memories of Gwen Stacy, but no interests, hobbies, or emotions of hers.

Gwen knew what she looked like to other people—beautiful, rich, and well-educated. It felt like a typical standard or even uncreative girl template from a TV show.But that's not her intention, she's here to be more normal.

It may also be because, after all, most of the classmates around her are 17-year-old uncles and aunts, and theoretically speaking, she just turned one year old today, maybe this is the so-called generation gap.She jokes about it to herself sometimes.

The ringing of the school bell heralds the end of the day, which is so uneventful.

No, it should be said that it is almost over for most students.But for Gwen?Her birthday has just begun.

At night, seven o'clock sharp.

A figure crouched on the statue adorning the outside of the building, showing a thin and slender silhouette under the bright moonlight.She was slightly arched, like a white rabbit ready to go.

Gwen is wearing black and white tights and a wide white hood with a slightly girly pink inside.

This is a uniform she made herself.She had a lot of time to kill last time during the long vacation, so she bought materials online and taught herself online, and customized such a Spiderman-style uniform for herself.The end result was better than she expected.

Yes, she remembered, Elizabeth told her that Mr. Passo didn't want her to use superpowers outside of training.

But whatever, he doesn't seem too concerned anyway.

Gwen took a deep breath.She jumped up, facing the moonlight, and jumped high from the edge of the building.She clasped her hands to her sides, diving downward like a free-falling diver.

After falling tens of meters, she curled up, wrapped her arms around her knees, and turned over several times in a row.She raised her right arm and pressed the button of the silk spinner on her wrist, and the milky white spider silk shot out with a "chi" and hit the balcony outside a certain house.

Gwen Stacy used to be Spider-Man's girlfriend. In fact, she also helped Spider-Man solve several cases. She knew very well the ingredients of Spider-Man's spider silk capsules. As her clone, Gwen naturally also clear.She concocted spider webs for the first time in the school's laboratory two months ago, sticking to the drawer of the laboratory bench from the inside.

Fortunately, the teacher in the experimental class was dozing in a chair with a magazine on her face, and no one noticed her little experimental accident.

The falling momentum pulls the spider silk straight, and the elastic potential energy is accumulated to the maximum.Gwen jumped up following the drag of the spider silk, turned around beautifully and gracefully, and then spun the silk again, sticking to a huge electronic billboard.

She dives, swings, rises and falls with the help of constantly changing spider threads.The temperature tonight is quite pleasant, and the cool wind mixed with the breath of night blows towards the face, making people intoxicated.

Gwen felt rejuvenated.

It seems that she found herself only when she put on the uniform and wandered through the urban jungle built of steel and concrete by spider silk.

The slight sting of the spider sensed it, reminding her of the crime going on at the soles of her feet.She is like a spider entrenched in the center of the web. Every criminal is a bug breaking into the web. Their actions will pull the spider's thread and arouse the vigilance of the hunter.

It was a nondescript highway robbery case, in which three tall and burly men tried to rob a passing lady in an alley with a knife in their hands.If you were to rate the difficulty of street superhero daily missions on a scale from A to D, Gwen felt that this should be rated D minus.It is estimated that the only thing that can be simpler than this is "rescue the kitten that climbed the tree" or something.

She flew down, dismissed a few hopeless gangsters cleanly, and finally packed them up firmly with spider webs and hung them under the lamppost.

It felt good -- it would have been perfect without the little bit of interaction with the victim at the end.

"Your bag, ma'am." She used the spider silk to grab the stolen handbag into her hand, and handed it back to the lady.

"Thank you, Spider-Man," the lady expressed her doubts while being grateful, "but I always thought that Spider-Man was a man. I didn't expect..." She looked Gwen up and down, ".It's a girl."

"What? No I'm not Spider-Man, and I'm a girl bah, I mean a woman."

Gwen let out a long breath.

"Anyway, have a nice evening." She swung away.

Eleven forty-three.

Gwen leaned against the Empire State Building with her feet attached to the outer wall of the top floor, looking out at Manhattan at night.New York probably really is a city that never sleeps, even though it is only 1 minute before midnight, the city is still brightly lit.

She doesn't want to go back yet.Anyway, when she went back, she would only have a terribly quiet suite to spend her birthday with, but it made her feel more at ease here.

In 1 minute, the first birthday of her life is coming to an end.

Gwen took out the phone again and glanced at the inbox, the interface was still empty.

It doesn't matter, it was expected anyway.

That's what I said, but there will still be such a small loss, right?
Even if it's just a clone, even if it really doesn't matter, she still has a little, little expectation.

Even if there is only one person in the whole world, she hopes that at least she can be remembered on this special day.

The time of the electronic clock on the mobile phone has changed to zero o'clock, and a new day has begun.

Gwen locked the screen and put away the phone.

It's almost time to go back.Tomorrow is not the weekend, as usual, she still has to get up early and go to school.
The sharp piercing sound stopped her just as she was about to jump, and Gwen paused, seeing beams of dazzling firelight piercing into the night sky like retrograde meteors.They exploded in the sky one after another, like flowers competing for splendor, red, blue, purple and green. Hundreds of fireworks filled the entire sky in a short moment, reflecting the sky like daytime Just as bright.

At the climax of the gorgeous light effect, a flame that seemed to occupy a leading position cut through the light curtain and exploded colorfully.The colorful light spelled out huge letters one after another.

"Happy Birthday, Gwen!"

Gwen was dumbfounded, the colored light illuminating the eyepatch of her mask.

She gently took off the hood, pulled off the mask, and wiped her eyes with her sleeves.

"Thank you." She murmured towards the direction of the fireworks.

***
Michael dialed the number of his secretary, Miss.

"Elizabeth?"

"It's me, boss."

"The fireworks in Manhattan just now," he said, "was that the one with 'Happy Birthday' at the end that you arranged?"

"It's my own idea, sir," Elizabeth admitted. "I think Miss Groveney might want this."

"Today is her birthday?"

"The record you gave me shows that she was born on this day last year." Elizabeth said, then paused, "Do you have any dissatisfaction?"

"No, no. Well done."

"Just doing my job."

"There is nothing else, go to bed early. Good night."

"You too, sir."

(Thanks to the book friend Naruto for the reward of 500 starting coins, and book friend Er and others for the 100 starting coins rewarded by Guan Wukun!)

(End of this chapter)