0p0 Chapter 163 I Have a Friend
Chapter 163 I Have a Friend
Chapter 163 I Have a Friend
"I'm sorry, I'm just communicating with them in a language they can understand. Please don't mistake me for a bad person."
Despite saying that, Joey showed no sincerity in apologizing. He glanced at the three Spider-Men at his feet, who were practically vomiting up the apple pie they had eaten yesterday, and after confirming that they weren't carrying any tracking devices or anything like that, he prepared to leave with the two halves of the corpse.
"etc!"
Seeing this bloody scene, Penny Parker calmly called out to Joey, who was about to leave:
"Can you help us?"
"I'm already helping."
After saying that, Joey waved the half-eaten body in his hand, which made the other three, who hadn't recovered yet, gag again.
He sized up the cold-faced, black-haired little girl in front of him. Of the four Spider-Men present, the only one who wasn't frightened by his heart-wrenching actions was none other than the youngest Spider-Man Unit 1 pilot, Penny Parker.
This made Joey curious about the past experiences of this alternate-time Spider-Man: "It's obvious you've suffered a lot."
"It's alright, it's just part of Spider-Man's daily life."
Penny hates it when people ask about her past.
She is piloting a mech that devoured her father when she was nine years old, and the second unit, "Venom," created from the derivative technology of this Spider Mech, recently killed her classmate and Aunt May.
In Penny's view, only by building a thick wall around her heart can she protect herself from the torment of sadness.
"Let's stop here. We all need to rest."
The person who was most distressed at the scene was probably not the other three spiders who were vomiting and trembling, but Starfire.
An overly strong capacity for emotional perception can sometimes be a burden for her, just like now, when there are simply too many painful emotions present.
"Keep an eye on these spiders, Starfire."
Observing that these Spider-Men from parallel universes all seemed to be full of bitterness and hatred, except for that pig who acted like an optimist, Joey knew he had to speed things up.
He thought he could take his time to think things through, preferring to do nothing rather than make a mistake, until he found the perfect solution at the intersection of the future and the past.
As it stands, I probably don't have that time anymore.
His earlier method of splitting himself in two wouldn't be able to scare away those madmen in the heir family who could regenerate indefinitely; they would come knocking on his door sooner or later.
This universe, like his home universe, is not a safe and comfortable tourist destination; the appearance of the Fantastic Four and the Heirs has already served as a wake-up call.
Just as he said before, it's not impossible that a god from the ancient celestial realm could jump out of the earth tomorrow.
It's better to make a mistake than not to do something at all.
First, Joey looked at the object in his hand that had been torn in two—what exactly was the weakness of the Heir family?
Someone will help him find the answer.
"radiation."
After a simple autopsy, Norman Osborn, who did not become the "Green Goblin" due to the uncontrolled genetic experiments, reached a preliminary conclusion:
"The DNA of this organism is mixed with fragments of various animals, making it extremely chaotic. I estimate that 0.1 roentgens of radiation would be enough to make their cellular structure extremely unstable."
He was working diligently in his secluded private laboratory to produce his first biological reagent sample.
As a researcher in the field of biological sciences, he knew it would be useful from the moment he obtained the biological genetic algorithm.
Now, with just a few final in vivo trials, he will be able to cure his genetic disease and eliminate the curse passed down through generations of his family within a month.
To his surprise, the "friend" he had just sent away that morning with an eight million dollar check had returned, this time using a different identity that had already become famous throughout New York.
superman.
"No need to worry."
Norman's hands, gripping the scalpel, trembled slightly. He couldn't tell if it was due to the physiological reasons of the genetic disease or something else entirely.
"I guarantee, in the name of the Osborn family, that your secret identity will be kept absolutely confidential."
Almost all the 'superheroes' active in the world hide their true identities behind masks.
Whether they are admirers or haters, most want to unveil the mystery of these superheroes and find out their true identities, but Norman Osborn has a completely different view.
These veils aren't just for superheroes to protect themselves; they're also for protecting ordinary people like him.
Like Schrödinger's box, before the identities of these superheroes are revealed, the box contains only a kitten, but once the box is opened, the kitten immediately transforms into a ferocious tiger that will devour anyone who dares to touch it.
Norman is now facing a situation where the box has been opened.
Why would Superman reveal his true identity to himself?
He doesn't know himself, let alone trust himself.
You're overthinking it.
Norman's furrowed brow at the mention of his secret identity made Joey belatedly realize his concerns:
"Don't scare yourself unnecessarily; a secret identity is dispensable to me."
From that night on, no matter which universe he was in, Joey Joseph Kent had nothing left but Superman.
"Phew." Norman finally breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this. Fortunately, Superman only said "overthinking" instead of "knowing too much."
"Is there anything else you want to know...?"
Norman, preparing to conduct a thorough physical examination of Damiens's body, turned around and found that Superman, who had obtained the answer, was nowhere to be seen:
"...right?"
After spending a perfect Christmas Eve with Pepper, Tony didn't get out of bed until late morning. Looking at the mess in his living room, he couldn't help but curse Joey, that bastard, more than three thousand times in his mind.
However, these losses were not entirely without compensation. Looking at the Terminator robot still standing in the center of the living room and that huge pile of vibranium, Iron Man had a new idea.
Remembering how Cyborg had repeatedly tricked him by taking advantage of his superior technology, Tony decided to start working hard from now on.
He has spent far more time in this universe than Cyborg on the other side. When they meet again, he will show him what a technological gap really means!
"Tony."
The sudden noise behind him startled Tony, who was envisioning how he would use more advanced technology to thoroughly humiliate Cyborg in the future.
"Fuck you, Joey! Don't you make a sound when you walk?!"
"No."
Joey isn't Batman, how could he walk so silently? He just lifted his feet off the ground:
"I fly."
Tony didn't realize he was standing behind him simply because he had been grinning like an idiot in front of the Terminator armor that Cyborg had temporarily created for too long, and was too engrossed in it.
"Tony, there's something I need to tell you."
Although she was determined, Joey didn't know where to begin when the words were on the tip of her tongue: "Well, this..."
"Please, Joey, stop making this sound like some CW 8 PM sitcom. Where's the guy who turned on me and yelled at me back then? Just say what you have to say!"
Impatient Tony stared at the stammering Joey, waiting for a long time without him uttering a single word, and immediately made a gesture as if to leave:
"If you really can't say it, how about I avoid the topic for now, and you practice in front of the mirror first?"
"Well, I have a friend."
Screw the timeline paradoxes—now that he's determined to continue building the Amozzo robots, Joey is going to see what kind of paradoxes he'll create and what the future of this universe will look like.
The construction of the Amozzo robot must be put on the agenda, and in order to do so, Joey decides to be open with Tony: perhaps there are no predetermined events in this world?
Tony has the right to know his future, and he can't just quietly plant a backdoor program into the core of Amozzo.
At least Tony isn't destroying Boulder yet; he hasn't done anything. Joey can't just put someone in the past because of a crime they committed in the future.
"My friend is overconfident, arrogant, disdainful of others, and also a bit of a womanizer and vain—basically a megalomaniac. I know he'll get into trouble in the future; should I warn him now?"
Tony immediately became interested upon hearing this, and he leaned closer, his gossip-loving spirit burning brightly:
"You have such an unlucky friend? Tell me who he is and what trouble he's gotten into!"
"Wait a minute, this friend you're talking about, could it be me?!"