“Ha!” Felicia sneered contemptuously.
“I didn’t ask Spider-Man to do that kind of dirty work for me.” “After watching him get shot dead by Jameson with my own eyes at Ben Urich’s house, I grabbed a gun, went straight to Jameson’s office, and put a bullet through him!” “I didn’t think I missed…” She turned her head toward Jameson.
“So…
why is he still alive and kicking?” “That was just a dirty imposter!” Jameson struggled to his feet inside the cage and yelled.
“An imposter?” Felicia was stunned.
“Yes,” the Green Goblin’s voice rang out from behind her.
“Unfortunately, that was one of my men.” At that moment, Kraven the Hunter, standing nearby, ground his teeth as he glared at Felicia: “My idiot brother…
killed by a woman!” The Green Goblin reached out and grabbed Felicia: “A pity, my dear.
Truth be told, I deeply valued our relationship, but Chameleon was one of us.
I can’t just let this slide, or I won’t be able to give them an explanation!” “Don’t touch me!” Felicia shoved the Goblin away and slapped him across the face.
Her strength was somewhat startling, largely thanks to years of dedicated training.
However, the next instant, Kraven the Hunter grabbed her by the hair and slammed her to the ground.
“You killed my dear brother.
How do you want to die?” The skin on the Goblin’s face was covered in deep cracks.
Irritated, he clutched the cracked areas and glared at Felicia on the floor: “You’ve angered me!
I wanted to end this quickly and painlessly, but you just keep doing things that set me off…
You know what happens when I get angry!” “Kraven, bring her over here!” Kraven grabbed Felicia by her hair and hauled her up.
The three came before a large glass container swarming with hideous, venomous spiders.
The Goblin grabbed Felicia by the hair and slammed her face against the glass: “You love spiders, don’t you, lady?
Avenging Urich, that little spider?” “Now keep your eyes wide open and watch closely.
Once Vulture brings that Parker kid here, I’ll have him stand right here and watch with his own eyes as you’re tossed to the spiders!” “My apologies, but Vulture only had me deliver his regrets…” A voice rang out right on cue.
Immediately after, Spider-Man Noir dropped from above, shooting webs from both wrists: “…He’s been placed in permanent custody!” *Thwack!* *Thwack!* Two globs of web struck the two nearest thugs, binding them completely.
Peter noticed that this Spider-Man Noir shot webs differently than he did.
He used synthetic web-fluid made with science, whereas Noir shot them directly from his wrists.
The advantage of this was that Noir could shoot his webs purely by force of will, unlike his own, which could only fire in the preset modes of his web-shooters.
Maybe once he went back, he could recalibrate his web-shooters to work like this?
Below, the Goblin and Kraven were caught off guard.
Kraven quickly drew his gun and fired at Peter.
*Buzz~* His Spider-Sense triggered automatically.
Peter dropped to the ground and twisted nimbly, dodging the bullet.
Instinctively, he drew his revolver to counterattack.
Yet as he was about to pull the trigger, he hesitated.
Partly because high-schooler Peter was currently the dominant consciousness, and partly because Aunt May’s words echoed in his head.
“Wow, Spider-Man actually showing mercy?
Now that’s a first!” Kraven mocked.
“You idiot, what are you doing?
Why aren’t you shooting to kill?” Jonah shouted from inside his cage.
The Goblin burst out laughing: “You couldn’t be an fake, could you?” “Hmph!” Peter suddenly reached out, snagged Kraven with a line of webbing, dragged him forward, and slammed a fist directly into his face.
*BANG!* Kraven’s mouth instantly filled with blood; almost all his teeth were knocked out, and his high nose bridge was smashed crooked.
The sheer force left him completely dazed.
Peter threw two more consecutive punches straight into his shoulder blades, shattering them completely.
With the surgical capabilities of this era, even if they somehow managed to piece the bones back together, these hands would never be able to exert real force again.
For a beast tamer, this was a fate worse than death.
This was the compromise reached between “good” Peter and “evil” Peter.
“Evil” Peter advocated killing these scoundrels, while “good” Peter couldn’t bring himself to do it.
So their merged consciousness settled on a middle ground: cripple him.
Peter let go of Kraven, casually tossing him onto the ground beside him.
Kraven lay there limp as a rag, the intense pain triggering his body’s self-defense mechanism and knocking him out cold.
*Clasp, clatter, clatter!* Just then, the sound of heavy chains hitting the floor echoed from the nearby cage.
While Peter was busy dealing with the two henchmen and Kraven, the Green Goblin had taken the opportunity to open the tiger’s cage.
It was a white tiger, nearly four meters long and extraordinarily fierce.
More importantly, the cage didn’t open outward—it opened straight into Jonah’s adjacent cage!
The Goblin sneered sinisterly: “Feeding time!” “AAAHHH!” Jonah screamed in horror, scrambling backward repeatedly.
However, his legs were bound by heavy chains, limiting his movement inside the small cage.
Starved for days, the white tiger was overcome with ravenous hunger.
The moment it saw Jonah, its eyes gleamed with raw savagery as it pounced toward him.
At the critical moment, Peter fired two web-nets, binding the tiger’s upper and lower body simultaneously, and yanked with all his might.
The massive white tiger, weighing easily 400 kilograms, was hauled back by Peter and left dangling upside down at the edge of the cage.
Transferring the left-hand webbing to his right, Peter pulled out his revolver and jammed the barrel straight into the white tiger’s ear canal.
*BANG!
BANG!* Double-tap.
As tough as a white tiger’s skull was, it couldn’t stop bullets fired directly into its ear.
The two high-velocity spinning bullets blasted straight into its head, turning its brain into absolute mush.
*ROAR—* The tiger let out a agonizing death rattle and died on the spot.
“Thanks, but leave me, go save your girlfriend!” Seeing Peter about to enter the cage to free him, Jonah quickly warned.
Peter knew he was referring to Felicia, though Felicia was hardly his girlfriend.
He didn’t bother arguing the point, instead turning to look where the Goblin had just been standing.
The Goblin had opened an underground hatch and was dragging Felicia inside, holding a pistol pressed directly against her head.
“If you dare follow us, I’ll blow her brains out!” Leaving behind a parting threat, the Goblin dropped into the trapdoor with Felicia and vanished.
“Vulture, why didn’t you bite him?!” Just as Peter was about to give chase, his Spider-Sense flared again as a figure pounced toward his back with a loud shout.