American Comics: The Law of Strength

Chapter 98: Bitter Battle

As the season approaches spring, the weather in New York becomes more erratic, often switching between snow and rain several times as temperatures rise and fall.

But now the temperature has finally stabilized, only the raindrops are ticking down and stopping, stopping and falling.

Peter was sitting in a luxury sedan at this time, debugging his newly equipped armor.

There was a messy ticking sound from the roof, and the tiny raindrops like silk threads were constantly hitting the windows.

However, this small noise is not annoying, but a little reassuring.

"Hum..."

Peter turned on the small computer on his arm, and with the characteristic beeping sound of the electrical appliance, the system of the warframe began to start one by one, and Peter only felt that the armor under his body seemed to come to life, and began to move slowly like breathing.

As the Warframe's system began to operate, its core temperature began to gradually increase, and the icy shell began to condense a series of water droplets, and finally the water droplets turned into a mist.

"Sir... Now that you have arrived at your desired destination, what else do you need? "

Peter took his eyes off the small screen at his wrist and turned his head to look out the window,

Outside the car window, although it is still too early for the sun to set, the thick dark clouds that obscure it fill the sky.

Plastic bags and empty cans are flying around the streets, and pedestrians holding umbrellas are not even visible on the road.

"Wait for me here."

Before the words fell, Peter had already stepped out of the car.

Cold water droplets fell on his battle armor, only to be quickly evaporated, leaving only faint traces of water.

Peter's gaze was always locked on the sewer mouth not far away, which was covered by a large amount of stagnant water, and on the telephone pole not far away, two crows were abnormally braving the rain, staring at the manhole cover that was thrown aside.

It was here that he lost Gwen and Felicia.

Although the crow's monitoring is convenient and discreet, it still has many restrictions.

For example, it is impossible to observe a casino without a single window, and it is impossible to follow into a narrow sewer channel.

This made Peter, who was accustomed to being in control of the position and status of others, somewhat irritated.

After calling the two again, only to get an unanswerable reply, Peter had to search for other entrances to the sewer while guessing what might happen.

The last piece of information he got was that Gwen had followed a lizard-like creature into the sewers, while Felicia followed another person to the sewers.

It's hard to believe it's a coincidence.

Lifting a manhole cover, Peter jumped directly, and then a stinky sour smell spread into his nose, which was the stench of kitchen waste after spoilage.

Peter, who had a strong sense of smell, only felt as if he had been hit hard in the chest, and even his brain almost stopped functioning.

Peter even regretted not wearing the gas mask provided by Alan, but now he couldn't take care of it.

Resisting the stench, Peter amplified his perception and searched for traces of Gwen and Felicia.

Almost instantly, he heard the sound of fierce fighting, smelled Gwen, and a faint smell of blood.

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On the other side, Gwen is also fighting hard, although both Felicia and the woman who calls herself Captain America are each very powerful, but when each of them needs to deal with more than three lizardmen, they will still be beaten.

And the strongest one among the lizardmen made all three have to adopt the tactic of containment.

Although the three reached a temporary cooperative relationship at the moment of discovering a large number of lizardmen besieged, they were very unfamiliar with each other, and the three people who fought together for the first time could not cooperate effectively at all, plus these lizardmen were originally turned into humans, which made Gwen and Captain America more restrained, only Felicia did not care whether the other party was human, but it was still a little tricky to kill the lizardmen whose abilities far exceeded herself.

"Listen!"

Sharon yelled as she coped with a few lizardmen.

"I have a way to deal with them, but the scope is small, it's too empty, we have to put them together!"

"Wow, is it some kind of big move? Similar to that kind of shocking pillar of light? Or the kind that falls from the sky and then blasts the whole audience? Seriously, I want a big trick too, it would be cool! "

Sharon listened to Gwen crackling and talking, but did not feel annoying, but a little intimate, Gwen's appearance of complaining and ridiculing all the time reminded her of a person.

And Gwen was not idle, she lightly rolled over in the air while complaining, and several strands of spider silk instantly blocked the sight of several lizardmen, and she came behind Sharon while drawing her attention to herself.

Felicia silently adjusted her position, and soon the lizardmen were standing in a circle.

Sharon immediately seized the opportunity to throw a container filled with green gas, and the green bottle passed through the barrier of several lizardmen and landed impartially in the middle of them.

"Poof!"

With a slight explosion, the green gas instantly enveloped each lizardman, and the smoke made the three lose their vision, but judging by the waving limbs of several of the lizardmen, they had apparently returned to their human form.

As the smoke cleared, almost every lizardman turned into a human appearance, but their bodies still retained some of the characteristics of lizards, some with some scales on their faces, and some with pale yellow eyes.

Although the crisis had been resolved, Gwen furrowed her good-looking eyebrows, and she suppressed the conjecture in her heart and asked in a low voice:

"What did you just throw out? An antidote? "

Sharon shook her head.

"This thing is far from an antidote, it is just an inhibitor, this inhibitor can inhibit the transformation of lizardmen, but it cannot bring them back to normal, once human genes combine with lizardman mutagenics, they can never be cured, at least with existing technology can not make this antidote."

"But Peter..."

Gwen subconsciously said Peter's name, obviously the Peter she saw had completely returned to normal, except for the change in those eyes, he was completely the same as ordinary people...

Wait a minute... At least she hadn't seen every part of his body, maybe she would have to check Peter's body when she went back, and if he still had the effects of the Lizardman serum on him, then she would do her best to heal him.

But that's not the focus of her attention at this time, she pointed to the bottle containing the inhibitor and asked:

"So that's what you mean when you say, 'They're the property of the U.S. government?' You developed a serum that can transform people into lizardmen, and then you made inhibitors? So you want to make weapons? "

Then she looked at the original most powerful lizardman, but at this time, lying in the field was just a middle-aged man with broken cloth hanging on his body, and he couldn't see the fierce and violent appearance of half a moment ago.

"Dr. Connors..."

Gwen was familiar with the Doctor, having been a teacher with Peter, who had admitted that he had derived the original recipe for the Lizardman Serum.

"So did you discover the secret weapon that Dr. Connors was researching, or did he work for you in the first place?"

"Peter?"

Sharon raised her eyebrows, then narrowed her eyes as she scanned back and forth between Gwen and Dr. Connors.

"Peter Parker, the high school student you killed, so what does he have to do with this?"

She pondered for a moment, then scratched her head and sighed softly.

"It looks like there are more clues again, but the level of chaos has also increased several times, it looks like we need to talk properly, you don't have to worry about me arresting you for the time being, our way of handling cases is different from those police."

"But you still haven't answered my question!"

Gwen accentuated her tone, her biggest pain was that Peter Parker was killed by her own hands after injecting lizardman serum, and now standing in front of her was likely to be the culprit of the whole incident, and she desperately wanted to know the truth.

However, at this time, the biggest reaction was not Gwen, but Professor Connors, who was lying dying in the field.

His eyes widened when he heard Peter's name, and he looked at the crowd and muttered Peter's name repeatedly.

"He... Get?

Peter uh... I uh... I remember... Peter! "

The strange appearance attracted the attention of several people, a silent Felicia moved the fastest, the hook and claw gun in her hand directly wrapped around Professor Connors' neck, and then the rope tightened suddenly, Felicia pulled the rope desperately, trying to make him faint, but Professor Connors's body gradually expanded, and this time his body was even larger than before, and the original height of less than three meters directly expanded to more than four meters.

"Crash... Bang..."

The rope on Felicia's hand gradually cracked, and Dr. Connors grabbed the rope on her neck with one hand and pulled it violently, and Felicia, who was struggling to support, instantly flew into the air and crashed straight into the wall.

Gwen quickly tried to grab Felicia with spider silk, but the huge force still made her hit the wall hard, and with a muffled "bang", Felicia fell on the cement floor and fell into a coma.

There was no time to entangle the culprit again, Sharon and Gwen immediately joined forces to continue fighting with Dr. Connors, only this time Dr. Connors, who was already more powerful than ordinary lizardmen, was a little stronger than before.

Even the concrete walls shattered like biscuits under his claws, and his tail swept over without being hit, he felt a tightness in his chest, let alone ordinary people, even superhumans like Sharon and Gwen, who are known for their physique, did not dare to face Dr. Connors' attack.

This time the battle was even more difficult than being besieged by many lizardmen before.

In addition to Dr. Connors' soaring combat power, they also had to cautiously lure Dr. Connors away from the ordinary people who were lying nearby at this time and had just lifted their lizardman status.

Because they are too weak to let alone escape, their rusty brains can't even understand where they are at this time.

"Do you still have that inhibitor? Please tell me you have a lot more! "

And Sharon had to smile wryly.

Due to false information, she thought that the Lizardmen were only Dr. Connors, so she only carried a vial of inhibitors, and even if she carried more inhibitors at this time, it may not be effective.

That inhibitor is a precursor to the antidote, basically it is difficult to take effect on the same organism multiple times, her mission this time in addition to the investigation task is to get Dr. Connors's genes after the lizardman state is lifted by the inhibitor, so that the experimental department can conduct further research.

Now they can only rely on themselves...

Gwen sighed, she really couldn't think of how to deal with such a monster with superior strength, defense and resilience.

Now Gwen has exhausted all her means, but the damage to Dr. Connors is almost zero.

If an ordinary attack Dr. Connors didn't even need to be defended, even the electric light emitted by the spear in Sharon's hand could only leave a deep scorch mark on its body, and in less than two minutes, that trace would be restored to its original state.

Such an enemy simply cannot be defeated!

But Gwen looked at the ordinary people lying on the ground and Felicia, who had fallen by the wall and had not yet recovered from her coma, and she really couldn't just leave.

Gritting his teeth, Gwen roared:

"If this continues, we will be defeated sooner or later! We can't continue to fight with him, I will find a way to lure him away, you take these people and evacuate first!" "

Sharon agreed with Gwen after hesitating for two seconds.

And this time Gwen simply repeated the same trick, a spider silk directly pasted Dr. Connors's face, this kind of damage is zero, the extremely insulting move really caught Dr. Connors's attention, and he instinctively rushed towards it.

Gwen uses spider silk to quickly navigate the sewers, but the space she can escape in the narrow space is really limited.

After a while, she was forced into a dead end.

And Gwen immediately brought the stealth ring, which is also the strength of her initiative to ask as bait, as long as she makes good use of the stealth ability, she can play hide-and-seek with Dr. Connors in this sewer for a whole day.

However, Dr. Connors, after transforming into a lizardman, does not only rely on vision, but also the ability to confirm their orientation by sensing temperature.

Although he fell into a brief dazed state after first discovering that Gwen had disappeared, he also mastered the pattern after encountering the same situation twice in a row.

And the consequence of such a monster mastering the law of action was to be swept away by a fierce claw, and Gwen's whole person flew out sideways and hit the wall of the sewer hard.

And Sharon, who was transferring the wounded, saw this and hurried to help Gwen, the surface of the spear in her hand once again gathered a faint light, and this time she directly threw the entire spear, the spear was like a silver snake biting the ankle of Dr. Connors who was about to pursue, Dr. Connors immediately let out a roar of pain, and this time Sharon immediately became Dr. Connors' main target.

Gwen, who was shot away, was also in a very bad state at this time, and the huge pain made Gwen almost faint, and the slippery and warm touch around his abdomen should be spilling blood.

Although it is not clear how much blood loss is made, it will definitely lead to more serious consequences if you continue to fight regardless of your injuries.

"Damn... I just fixed it! "

Gwen tried to rejoin the fight, but she couldn't even stand up steadily, leaning against the wall several times to get up, and slumped to the ground with an ugly butt.

She glanced at Sharon, who was being pursued by Dr. Connors, and since Dr. Connors' pierced ankle had not yet recovered, she could still rely on an indestructible shield to deal with it.

But defeat is only a matter of time...

But they must not back down!

Looking at Felicia, who had not yet been transferred, Gwen forced herself to stand up, she looked at the spear that was nailed to the ground after the lizardman's ankle, she summoned up the strength of her whole body to slowly pull it out, she could feel the blood in her abdomen running down her thigh, but she still did not stop, and after pulling it out completely, she clutched it in her hand...

Gwen breathed slowly, and although her injuries were getting worse, she was surprised to find that she had more control over her body than before.

Remembering the feeling, her eyes became sharp, and she pooled her whole body's strength in her right hand, and she aimed at the wound in Connors' ankle and threw the spear out.

The spear once again impartially pierced the wound in Dr. Connors' ankle, nailing it to place, and Gwen lost her strength and sat down on the ground.

Sharon, on the other hand, takes the opportunity to slam Dr. Connors on the head with her shield.

"I can do this for a day!"

Listening to this classic line that both her father and herself loved, Gwen smiled wryly, and then her eyes widened.

Because a ring is gradually emerging under Dr. Connors' feet...

(End of chapter)