A cornered beast fighting for its life was a terrifying thing.
With no way out, Doctor Octopus could only fight to the death.
A snarl tore from his twisted face as his four mechanical arms sprang back to life, flailing wildly once more.
From the looks of it, their power hadn’t diminished at all—it had actually increased.
The mechanical arms possessed a consciousness of their own, driven by an instinct to protect their master.
“I will become the world’s greatest scientist!” “The Nobel Prize isn’t even fit to be my stepping stone!” “No one!
Can stop me!” The four thrashing arms, paired with Doctor Octopus’s roars, perfectly fit the image of a mad scientist.
Gwen tensed her body, preparing for battle.
Even though the situation favored their side—and Four Arms could likely handle it alone—Gwen still understood that even a lion gives its all when hunting a rabbit.
Besides, for safety’s sake, she couldn’t entirely leave the situation in Four Arms’s hands.
After all, who was to say Four Arms wouldn’t expose some weakness that the enemy could exploit for a turnaround?
Just as Wildvine was afraid of fire and had a limit to his self-healing speed…
Who knew if this big guy had some hidden vulnerability?
Whether for duty or personal safety, it was better to be cautious.
Plenty of people had already died today; there didn’t need to be any more corpses added to the count.
Once he made up his mind, Owen Vance naturally wouldn’t hand the initiative over to his opponent.
While Gwen remained on high alert, Four Arms had already lunged forward.
*Thump!
Thump!
Thump!* With every step his massive frame took, the ground shuddered beneath him.
“Ah—!” Seeing this, Doctor Octopus’s eyes turned bloodshot, teetering on the edge of madness.
“You damned thing!” Unleashing his only method of attack, the mechanical arms shot toward Four Arms once again.
This time, however, Four Arms didn’t block or strike back.
Instead, he grabbed the mechanical arms firmly with his massive hands.
Four against four—a perfect match.
With his mechanical arms restrained, Doctor Octopus naturally tried to tear them free.
He strained with every ounce of his strength, his face contorting until it went pale, but those four mechanical arms couldn’t budge an inch!
His failed attempts sent Doctor Octopus’s heart sinking into an abyss, horror leaking from his eyes.
32 tons!
That was the number that suddenly popped into his head.
One of his mechanical arms could unleash eight tons of force, which meant four arms equaled thirty-two tons!
Could Four Arms actually resist thirty-two tons of explosive force?
As if realizing something, Doctor Octopus’s pupils shrank, and he immediately denied his own thought.
No!
To suppress them so completely, Four Arms’s strength had to be far greater than thirty-two tons!
First an unkillable plant creature, and now an impossibly strong Four Arms…
Doctor Octopus desperately wanted to ask: what kind of monster was this Owen Vance?
Of course, there was another, far more pressing question for him to consider right now.
What did Four Arms intend to do to him?
Having firmly seized the four mechanical arms, Four Arms felt the remaining force resisting his grip.
Borrowing that momentum, Four Arms pivoted and slammed downward with immense force!
Driven by pure brute strength, the four mechanical arms were forcibly flipped 180 degrees into the air.
Doctor Octopus’s face went completely deathly pale at the other end.
After a silent cry of panic in his heart, he felt his body completely lose control, hoisted straight into the air.
Taking the maximum reach of the mechanical arms as the impact point, his body smashed through a massive load-bearing pillar and a concrete wall.
Like a falling meteor, Doctor Octopus hit the ground with a deafening *crash*, smashing a gaping crater into the stairs outside the door.
Dust and debris billowed up from the hole, swallowing Doctor Octopus whole.
It all happened in a split second, leaving Gwen blinking in utter shock.
Before she could regain her composure, Four Arms grabbed those four mechanical arms once more and slammed them back in the opposite direction.
Without any resisting force from the arms, Four Arms didn’t even need to turn.
He replicated the strike using nothing but his own strength.
*Bang!* A massive pit exploded into the floor of the hall.
Then came the stairs, and then the hall again.
*Bang!
Bang!* The impacts came so fast that the sounds of flesh colliding with concrete almost overlapped.
More than a dozen slams later, Four Arms finally stopped, leaving Doctor Octopus’s face utterly disfigured and bleeding from his eyes, nose, and mouth.
Releasing the mechanical arms, Four Arms clapped the dust off his hands and cast a contemptuous smirk at the motionless Doctor Octopus on the ground.
“What a weak scientist.” With that done, Four Arms turned and walked toward the exit.
Gwen stared at Doctor Octopus, who was now in a state of unknown life or death, her mind still reeling.
She had personally experienced that thirty-two-ton force before.
To effortlessly overpower thirty-two tons of force and slam the opponent around like a ragdoll…
this was the first time she had ever witnessed such a thing!
Recalling her previous fight against Wildvine, a cold chill ran down Gwen’s spine.
Only now was she truly convinced that Owen Vance really hadn’t wanted to kill her.
Setting everything else aside, she couldn’t even stand up to Four Arms alone!
“Right!” Slapping her forehead, Gwen hurried to catch up.
The moment she stepped out, several gunshots rang out.
The situation she feared most had occurred—the police had mistaken Four Arms for a criminal and opened fire!
“Stop!” Hearing the gunshots grow denser, Gwen yelled in anxiety, quickening her pace.
A familiar voice proved effective.
The moment Spider-Man spoke, the police immediately ceased firing.
Leaping out from the swirling dust and landing beside Four Arms, Gwen quickly explained, “He’s my friend!
The real criminal has been subdued!” The police officers exchanged awkward glances, falling into a silent, embarrassing hush.
So…
they had just been laying into an ally?
*Gasp…* However, the police hadn’t done it on purpose.
Smoke had covered the area, and they could only make out a silhouette.
Seeing that he had four arms, they naturally assumed he was Doctor Octopus.
As for why the gunfire had suddenly grown so intense, the reason was simple.
Every bullet fired at Four Arms had bounced right off!
Furthermore, Four Arms had already stepped out of the smoke by then.
Seeing his strange appearance, many officers had lost their composure and panicked, instinctively spraying bullets.
Some officers were still mechanically pulling the triggers of handguns with empty magazines, panting heavily in shock.
Others held complex expressions, unable to utter a word.
So now…
what were they supposed to do?
Just as the squad leader was about to apologize, Four Arms took a deep breath and spread his four arms wide.
Building up power, his four arms clapped together with immense force.
Before the police in front could understand what he was doing, they were blasted back several meters by a violent gust of wind.
The parked police cars were shoved aside, clearing a path.
This terrified the already shaken officers all over again, making them mutter repeatedly, “That’s…
that’s not human at all.” Even Gwen, who had already witnessed Four Arms’s strength, couldn’t help but twitch her eye at the sight.
Clearing a path purely with the shockwave of a clap…
that really didn’t seem human…
Though, if the shockwave from his clap was that powerful, Four Arms would make an incredible firefighter.
The bullets hadn’t injured him, feeling like nothing more than a tickle.
Considered a fair payback for their mistake, Four Arms bent his knees, preparing to use another move for his exit.
Reading Four Arms’s intention, Gwen focused on the faint dust marks left by the bullets on his skin and sighed sincerely, “You’re probably the strongest mutant I’ve ever seen.” To tank bullets with his bare flesh without even needing to defend…
If this didn’t count as the strongest mutant, Gwen didn’t know what would.
Four Arms’s defense was just as insanely absurd as his strength!
Hearing her words, Four Arms glanced sideways at Gwen, looking as if he wanted to say something but held back.
Gwen didn’t understand, but Owen Vance knew full well.
To the current Gwen, Four Arms might seem top-tier.
However, Owen Vance doubted she would still think so once she encountered the sorcerers or the Asgardians down the road.
In New York, Doctor Octopus was a big shot.
In the grander Marvel universe?
Doctor Octopus was nothing—just a nobody.
Actually, scratch that—in front of Dormammu or the Ancient One, he wasn’t even a nobody.
Thinking of Dormammu, Owen Vance sighed in his heart.
*Could you just not show up?* *I’m so doomed!* Four Arms leaped tens of meters into the air, bounding away in a few rapid jumps.
Left behind, Gwen watched the direction in which he had vanished and let out a long, melancholy sigh.
“Where on earth am I supposed to set up a place for him to stay?”