The talkative raven in the world of American comics

Chapter 20: The Monkey Trying to Catch the Moon

"What's the situation now?"

As soon as George Stacy sat in the passenger seat, before even fastening his seatbelt, he hurriedly asked his subordinates about the current situation.

"All citizens on the street near the Osborne Building have been evacuated in an orderly manner. Now, apart from the two lizard monsters, only our colleagues remain on that street," the subordinate reported truthfully.

"Have you found any trace of Spider-Man?" George asked.

Not yet.

George frowned. Knowing this "masked vigilante" as he did, he should have arrived at the scene immediately after such an incident.

Could he be sleeping?

George glanced at his watch; it was only 8 p.m. Who goes to bed this early?

Surely he wasn't on a date?

Unable to figure it out, George stopped thinking about it and picked up the walkie-talkie to begin issuing orders to officers in various departments.

"Ground team, if those two lizard monsters try to spread the damage, open fire immediately to stop them. We must control the situation!"

"Sky Team, keep a close eye on their movements. If they even try to escape, get the lights on!"

"Evacuation team, set up the cordon. Don't let any citizens near the scene, especially those crazy reporters who will stop at nothing for a hot topic..."

"besides......"

George, a seasoned police officer, gave orders at a rapid pace. After arranging most of the matters in no time, he turned to look at his subordinate in the driver's seat.

"It's your turn last, drive even faster!"

Police cars sped up at the sound, leaving a trail of rainbows in the street.

Thanks to the evacuation efforts on the streets, the police car carrying George was able to travel much faster than usual.

A few minutes later, George arrived at the so-called monster site, which was on the street near the Osborne Building.

As soon as he got out of the car, he saw two lizard monsters of significantly different sizes wrestling together.

The smaller lizard was draped in a tattered white cloth, which looked somewhat like a uniform from the Osborn Group.

Meanwhile...

He suddenly couldn't bear to watch anymore. It wasn't the monster's appearance that made him feel nauseous and want to vomit, but rather the fact that the larger lizard had uprooted a street lamp and was swinging it at another lizard, which nimbly dodged it.

It's a minor issue that it dodged, but the streetlight was flying towards them!

"Everyone, lie down!"

Just as George yelled, bracing himself for the sight of a streetlamp smashing their police car.

A faint hissing sound rang out, and the street lamp that was flying towards them was pulled up out of thin air, as if someone had deliberately hoisted it up.

Then another witty remark rang out.

"Guys, you threw a party without inviting me, and then you littered? That's not good!"

When he said "This is not good," his voice became much louder, and then the poor street lamp was flung back and smashed directly onto the two lizard monsters.

"That...Spider-Man! He's one of us!"

"You inferior creature!"

A street lamp struck, eliciting the lizard brothers' unanimous cry.

"Wait—what?"

Spider-Man was stunned, clearly not expecting this outcome.

This morning, when he was dealing with the riot at the Veterans Hospital, those lizard monsters were all mumbling and babbling, unlike the two of them who could speak human language.

"Sir, Spider-Man has appeared."

"I'm not blind!"

"Should we take arrest measures?"

"No, let's wait and see."

The voices of the surrounding police officers reached Spider-Man's ears, causing him to clench his fingers tighter around the web.

But compared to the other two talking lizard brothers, the officers' conversation wasn't so important at this moment.

As Spider-Man leaped in front of the two lizard brothers, he was met head-on by the claw of the larger lizard monster. The other lizard, draped in a white cloth, quickly grabbed Spider-Man's body to stop him from attacking.

"PhD?"

Spider-Man leaned back, dodging the cunning tail of the enormous lizard monster, and then looked at the shrunken version of the lizard man.

"It's me—and I know who you are, but we really need to talk later!"

Connors hugged the lizard that Dara had transformed into, but the latter easily flung him away with one hand.

Dara walked towards Spider-Man. "I didn't come looking for you, but you've come to my door."

"Excuse me, do I know you?"

Spider-Man appears to raise his hands in feigned surrender, but in reality, he takes the opportunity to throw a spiky web at the other person while they are talking.

With his vision briefly obstructed, Dara let out a blood-curdling roar.

He had just reached out and tore away the spider silk in front of him when he was hit by Spider-Man's flying kick. However, the difference in size seemed to suggest that Spider-Man was overestimating himself.

Dara forced himself to take a few steps back, a smile spreading across his ugly face as he said, his mouth stretching to his ears:

"You really are a low-level genetically engineered being."

"We'll talk about that later." Spider-Man pointed behind him. "I suggest you worry about the car behind you instead!"

"car?"

Dara turned his head to look.

Dr. Connors lifted a yellow taxi high and smashed it on him.

boom!

Dara's figure was immediately covered by taxis.

Taking advantage of this brief moment, Spider-Man could no longer contain himself and quickly said:

"Doctor, what exactly is going on? Who is it? And how do you know...?"

"Hold on." Connors was even calmer than Spider-Man appeared. He said, "I really want to explain this to you properly, but right now I need your help."

"What?"

"We have to get to the lab before it does."

Connors turned and ran toward the Osborne Building.

Spider-Senses activated at that moment, and Spider-Man, without pausing, leaped onto Connors' back like a nimble monkey.

The next moment, the taxi was overturned by Dara, who roared and chased after the two.

"Peter, your behavior is very bad, but given the current situation, I choose to forgive you." Connors said without looking up as he felt the weight on him.

"I'm sorry, Doctor, there are no suitable leverage points nearby, and I have no spider webs to pull myself up with."

Spider-Man glanced back, then quickly turned his head back and shouted, "Run, Doctor, it's catching up!"

"You little brat!"

Connors simply switched to using all four limbs, which significantly increased his speed.

He had barely reached the entrance of the Osborne Building when he said, "Peter, have you ever heard of a monkey trying to catch the moon's reflection?"

"What—whoa!!!!!!!!!"

Before Spider-Man could finish speaking, Connors' tail wrapped around his abdomen, and he was then violently thrown upwards onto the floor.

"Spider silk!"

"clear!"

Upon hearing the sound, Spider-Man gripped the floor with one hand, immediately hurled a strand of web at Connors, and then pulled hard!

Connors grasped the spider silk, which was stretched to an extreme thinness in an instant. The powerful stretching and contraction propelled his body upwards, just like Spider-Man had done earlier.

Connors then straightened his tail, giving Spider-Man a new point of leverage to shoot webs.

The two worked together seamlessly, darting back and forth at an incredible speed, covering a distance of tens of meters in the blink of an eye.

Dara, who had just arrived at the foot of the building, saw this scene and roared in fury:

"I'm going to kill you all!!!"

The police officers who had watched the whole thing from a short distance all turned to look at each other.

"Jesus is above..."

"It makes me want to go play..."

One of the police officers muttered something to himself.