[Zhongyingmei] It's not a slime!

The icy moonlight poured down on the sparkling river, and the biting wind kept blowing in, colder than the moonlight, as if to coat the abandoned factory full of rubble with a layer of frost.

For a while, except for the sound of the wind and the rush of the river, everything was silent.

In the end, it was Ruby who broke the tranquility.

"Peter..." She canceled the possession state, lazily protruding a small head from Peter's head, and said in her usual coquettish tone, "Let's go, it's so dark here, have you forgotten Your program isn't finished yet."

Peter was startled: "Ah, yes, my program..."

He stood up, straightened his messy clothes, and said with some annoyance: "Wait, now is not the time to think about these things, Uncle Ben..."

Ruby said, "The phone in your pocket has been ringing just now, why don't you take a look?"

Peter quickly took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and looked at the several missed calls from Aunt May displayed on it.

He took a deep breath and dialed back.

"Hello, Aunt May?"

"Peter!" Aunt Mei's voice came from over there, and there was a hint of anxious crying in her voice, "Great, you're fine...you haven't answered the phone, I'm worried to death, your uncle Ben ..."

"I know, I know, how is Uncle Ben doing now?" Peter asked eagerly.

"Still in operation." Aunt Mei said, "I don't know, he was just pushed into the emergency room..."

"I'll be right over!" Peter said, he hung up the phone, glanced at the murderer who fell on the ground and passed out, and was about to call the police when he suddenly heard footsteps nearby.

Ruby, who was lying on his head, narrowed her eyes, and looked in the direction of the footsteps with Peter.

A black figure walked into the abandoned building against the moonlight. The upper half of his face was hidden in the shadow and he couldn't see clearly. Only the lower half of his face could be seen, with a grin full of murderous intent. Holding a gun in his hand, the metal material glowed coldly, colder than the howling wind.

Ruby sees his character panel:

【Anderson Duke (Class B)】

Bewitching degree: 100%

Fit: 0%

[-]% bewitching?

Ruby was in a daze for a moment, her mind turned quickly, and she immediately realized what was going on in front of her eyes.

She must have been seen on the stage by this B-level with some brain problems just now, and because of this chilling bewitching speed, he has been following them all the way to this place!

In normal times, a mere B-level human Ruby wouldn't pay attention at all, even if she had a gun, it would be useless, she was invulnerable, but this person was a little different.

Ruby clearly remembered that there was an ultrasonic device hidden in this guy's throat, which was specially used for cunning.The most disgusting thing for her is that the symbiont she fears nothing and fears nothing is afraid of ultrasound.Once she was out of combat, Peter would surely die in this situation.Even if she surrendered to the enemy on the spot, it would be useless to possess this guy.

——Once she is out of possession, this guy will know Peter's true identity, and he will not let Peter go.

Her brain completed all the thinking in just half a second, and then turned on the possessed state without hesitation, wrapped Peter's whole body in the silver-white symbiosis body, and went to the building as quickly as possible. Running wildly outside the abandoned building——

"Peter, run!" she yelled in Peter's ear.

At this moment, Peter immediately understood what he should do. He knew that in this extremely urgent situation, he would not even be left in a daze.

Duke sneered, took the device out of his throat, and pressed the switch in Peter's direction.

"Uh——!" Ruby was almost blown up on the spot by the sudden ultrasonic wave. She resisted the strong dizziness and numbness, knowing that she couldn't last long, so she could only jump up several floors in a row, breaking open. wall, sending Peter into the upper room.

The penetrating power of ultrasonic waves can easily break through the shackles of walls and the ground. Even though Ruby's tolerance to super-energy waves has been strengthened many times compared to when she first came to Earth, she still cannot resist the long-term high-intensity ultrasonic waves. Shock, she could only desperately send Peter into the most hidden location she could find in a short time, and then disintegrated under the continuous ultrasonic shocks, and suddenly collapsed from Peter's body.

"Ruby!" Peter grabbed Ruby who fell out of him.

At this time, the little slime was lying in his palm miserably, as if his hair had exploded, with a pair of beautiful ruby-like eyes drooping, with small tears hanging from the corners of his eyes, as if he would die on the spot in a second.

"Hey..." Ruby was hurt a bit by the ultrasonic wave, and she didn't even have the strength to parasitize for a while, so she could only complain to the system, "When I have energy, the first thing I have to do is Increase the ultrasonic resistance to the highest level!"

The system showed her the energy required for this skill very intimately:

[Ultrasonic Resistance (Unlocked)]: The moment you lose your nature and weakness, you become another person—increase your resistance to ultrasonic waves.The price is 5000 energy.

And her current energy is a rounded smooth zero.

System: You are getting further and further away from the goal of becoming a human, do you know that?

Ruby: ...Thanks for the reminder.

Peter huddled in a corner, hugging Ruby tightly into his arms.

His eyes were fixed on the outside of the house.

Obviously that person didn't give up looking for himself, the influence of the ultrasound was getting bigger and bigger, that guy didn't mean to stop the ultrasound at all!

Peter glanced at Ruby who was reacting more and more violently in his arms, watched her disintegrate uncontrollably, slowly condensed and then disintegrated again, his heart seemed to be tightly grasped by some invisible hand, Clenched tightly, the severe pain in his chest made him unable to breathe.

No.

He can't wait in this place, or Ruby will die!

He forced himself to calm down and looked around the environment, and soon found many gas pipes installed indoors that were exposed because of the abandoned buildings.

His eyes lit up, as if he saw a glimmer of hope, he quickly stood up with Ruby in his arms, walked to the dashboard and looked at the parameters on it.

Ruby read it for a long time, but only understood the words "Osborne Industries" written on it, and everything else was bible.

She expressed doubts: Is this really English?

System: Emperor's English.

Ruby: Huh?

System: - English that only smart people can understand.Alas, you are getting stupid, you can't even understand my stalk.

Ruby: ...you don't even care that I'm about to be shocked to death, and you're still mocking me!

System: Being scolded, wronged.

……

"Very good, it can still be used. This place should have been abandoned not long ago..." Peter took a deep breath, forced himself not to think about other problems, and carefully adjusted the device.

At this moment, a spider suddenly landed upside down on the back of his hand. Peter was so focused on precise and high-intensity calculations that he didn't care about the strange spider, so he shook it off casually.

"Aww!" He suddenly felt pain on the back of his hand, couldn't help but screamed, reached out and hit the spider to the ground, and wiped the bitten blood on the back of his hand, "That's terrible."

He accidentally made a sound!

After a pause in the sound of footsteps, they walked towards him, getting closer and closer.

"Damn it... Hurry up, Peter." While adjusting the parameters at the fastest speed, he recalled the relevant knowledge he had learned by himself. Soon, at the moment when the footsteps were about to reach the door, he finally adjusted the parameters. Finish!

"Turn the power to the maximum, and it will be overloaded soon." He calculated the time without distraction, "The explosion caused by the gas leak will blow up the entire building. Before that, my escape time is... nine seconds!"

nine seconds.

Whether it is long or short, it is a big gamble for Peter.

Ruby was dizzy from the ultrasonic shock, but she managed to stay awake a little bit. Seeing Peter complete the whole set of operations, she couldn't speak in astonishment: This, is this the genius physics master...

Normally, Ruby knew that Peter was a very smart kid, but she didn't expect to be so smart!

Ruby: Harvard, I found the person for you, you write the admission letter yourself, hurry up, or the MIT next door will come to snatch you!

Just when Ruby's mind was stunned and she was thinking wildly without reason, the footsteps finally stopped.

The muzzle of the black hole protruded in from outside the door, aiming at Peter.

Peter held Ruby in his arms, protected her firmly, and slowly took two steps back.

He was obviously so scared that his legs were shaking, but he forced himself to calm down, and said in the calmest tone possible: "Don't shoot, I'll give her to you, or none of us will get her."

He retreated while talking, and finally retreated to the window.

seven seconds.

Peter glanced at the dashboard, counting the time.

"Give her to me first." Duke looked at the silver-white symbiote in his arms with greedy and eager eyes.

She is calling me.He thought, with her, I have everything.

Five seconds.

"No, you put away the gun first," Peter said.

The instrument panel has started to emit a current sound, and the indicator light has started to flash a red alarm light.

At this moment, he quickly turned around, jumped onto the window sill, hugged Ruby into his arms, and jumped off without hesitation!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" Behind him, gunshots rang out one after another, but they all fell into the empty space.

three seconds.

Peter looked down at the dark, bottomless river, which seemed to be able to swallow up any life that accidentally fell into its mouth at any time.

The formula of free fall appeared in his mind, and he quickly calculated the time required for himself to fall into the river, the speed and kinetic energy when he fell into the river, calculated how much impact he would bear at that moment, and even Calculate the height from the water surface after falling into the river, and the length of time you need to hold your breath.

very dangerous.

it's fine.

Peter hugged Ruby in his arms tightly, protecting her tightly to prevent her from being affected by the explosion, his eyes were unprecedentedly firm.

—Maybe you never meant it, but I said I would protect you.

— Just half an hour ago, I watched Uncle Ben collapse in front of me.I won't let the same thing happen again.

——I will protect the people I love and never let them suffer even a little harm.Not as Peter Parker who is possessed by aliens and has extraordinary power, but as an ordinary high school student who uses his insignificant power to try to protect others.

He looked down at the little symbiont in his arms who had closed his eyes due to exhaustion, rubbed her soft little head, and a gentle and incredible smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Ruby," he said, "when I bring you home, I'll buy all the ten small cakes I owe you."

"boom--!!"

The flames lit up the night sky at this moment, and dyed the empty shell building behind Peter into a fiery red. The gushing fire was like a giant beast in mythology baring its ferocious fangs, grinding life to pieces. under the teeth.He felt that he was pushed by the scalding heat wave, his back was burned, and his clothes were burned, but before he could feel the pain from the nerve endings, he was swallowed by another feeling.

A cold, dark, bone-drenched suffocation.

He fell into the dark river rushing in the winter night in New York.

He felt cold and hurt too.He looked above the water, the spewing fire snakes burned the entire sky red, like a rising sun hanging in the night sky, scorching hot and dazzling.