I'm just trying to ride the wave of popularity!

Chapter 259 It seems we missed a masterpiece...

In Spider-Man, the kind Aunt May becomes a behind-the-scenes spy.

All of my memories of Uncle Ben are false.

He wasn't a superhero who mutated from being bitten, but rather someone who was injected with a serum...

The heroic and righteous Spider-Man in the movie has become a puppet controlled by capital...

The global superhero movie "Spider-Man" has now been completely overturned.

……

The screen dimmed.

An eerie silence fell over the screening room.

The dim reflections shone on each frozen face.

Those moviegoers who had just finished watching "Spider-Man" had mixed feelings, and at one point felt a complex sense that the superhero fairy tale had been shattered.

But ironically, this movie was made in a way that seemed quite convincing!

When the screen lights up again, the entire film's color palette seems to be infused with a vibrant life force.

Sunlight streamed through the glass curtain walls of the high-rise buildings, bathing the streets of "New Gotham" in a warm, golden glow.

The bright red uniforms in the picture are so vibrant they almost leap off the screen, creating a striking visual contrast with the azure sky.

Every shot is like a carefully colored comic book cover, even the shadows have a translucent quality, completely different from the cold and oppressive feeling of the previous laboratory scenes.

Film critic Liu Jiasheng sat in a corner seat in the last row, silently watching the movie...

He found the use of lighting to be exquisite; as Pad Pico swung between the skyscrapers, the lights outlined his agile silhouette, and the spider silk shimmered with a crystalline luster in the sunlight.

Even during nighttime scenes, the director cleverly used neon lights and streetlights to create a dreamlike color palette, with the city lights shining like stars under the deep blue night sky.

This bright and cheerful visual style is exactly the same as that of Spider-Man...

When Liu Jiasheng saw all this, he couldn't help but admire it. Compared to the roughness of "The Reboot", "Black Robe Alliance" was rendered to the extreme in terms of lighting, scenery and the details of capturing the characters' movements.

However, despite its filming techniques being exactly the same as "Spider-Man," it gives people a strange sense of unreality, vaguely carrying a chill...

It was a magical sensory experience. After briefly recalling the series of events he had just witnessed, Liu Jiasheng was slightly stunned.

The film's details seem exceptionally well done. For instance, when the camera pans across the TD company's billboard, the oversaturated colors subtly reveal Photoshopped gore. The director appears to use this "overly vibrant" plot to gradually extract the unease deep within the viewer, subtly building up a sense of "hypocritical absurdity"...

In particular, upon closer reflection, when Paddy Peek swings between skyscrapers in his red bodysuit, the camera pans down to a holographic billboard of TD Corporation behind him—the slogan "With great power comes great responsibility" playing clips of Superman distributing bread to children in the slums…

It seems to be filled with an "absurd reality"...

In the movie!
"I did it! Auntie Mei!"

Liu Jiasheng saw Pad Pike excitedly smashing through the apartment window, clutching the letter of appointment from the Daily Horn in his hand. The front page of the newspaper was a photo he had "accidentally" taken the night before: himself heroically binding a bank robber with spider silk.

The old woman took the newspaper with trembling hands, and out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of a red surveillance camera dot flashing through the gap in the curtains.

She forced a smile: "Uncle Ben will be proud of you in heaven."

"Ding!"

Just then, Pad Picker's phone suddenly popped up with an interview notification from TD Corporation, the superhero company he had always dreamed of joining!
Paddy Pike excitedly slid down to Aunt Mei, but didn't notice the old woman's slight change in an instant. The camera switched to show her hand, hidden under her apron, frantically pressing the alarm.

Upon seeing this familiar scene, Liu Jiasheng immediately frowned.

If he remembers correctly, there seems to be a similar scene in the original Spider-Man movie!
He then tried hard to recall scenes from the original Spider-Man movie.

In the original Spider-Man movie, there was also a scene where the protagonist ran over.

At that time, Aunt Mei also had a kind smile on her face, and she seemed to be slightly bowing her head, her hands busy with something.

The original Spider-Man movie didn't explain this detail at all; it seemed to be just a normal cooking scene, a trivial action and expression...

However, when the film magnified those "seemingly heartwarming details" from the original Spider-Man, Liu Jiasheng's pupils suddenly contracted!

He recalled the slight sway of Aunt Meryl Streep's apron when she bowed her head in the original Spider-Man movie...

What was initially perceived as a benevolent act of busy work has now become Morse code for transmitting surveillance signals…

As Parker excitedly showed off his contract with the Daily Bugle, a news report flashed briefly on the background television screen: "Osborn Industries stock price plummets."

What was a regular economic report in the original version is highlighted here as evidence of TD Corporation's conspiracy to eliminate competitors...

What terrified him most was the fire hydrant that "accidentally" got stuck when Peter Parker first spun on his web in the original version...

At this moment, the screen clearly shows that the TD company's logo is engraved on the threaded part of the plug. The gushing water column is not an accident at all, but a stage effect set up for filming "Hero's Entrance".

“All the ‘coincidences’ are part of the script… He rewrote all the content of the original Spider-Man…” Liu Jiasheng clenched his fists slightly!

Damn it, how many times have these insane guys at [Xuan Shi Entertainment] watched Spider-Man to make those "normal" details in the movie seem so terrifying upon closer inspection?

Just then, the camera suddenly shifted slightly.

They switched to the other side.

In the archives of the New Gotham Police Department.

The old surveillance screen flickered with static, and the more than twenty split screens were all filled with footage of Pad Piek's life.

His mouth turns up 32 degrees when he sleeps, his favorite lollipop is strawberry flavored, and he even precisely records the duration of each of his sexual encounters.

"Subject 1000's socialization progress is 97%." The researcher in the white coat suddenly paused, pointing to the red figure on the screen helping an old lady cross the street. "Damn it! He's arbitrarily increasing behavioral parameters again!"

The camera cuts to the database, where countless "abnormal behaviors" are highlighted in red:
[Day 148] Helping a homeless man who had fallen (Unauthorized)
[Day 203] Stop the convenience store robbery (preset event not triggered)

[Day 271] Delivering sandwiches to the homeless (significantly deviating from the script)
"Initiate the correction program." The man in the suit in the shadows pressed a button. "Keep letting the Green Goblin smash that convenience store, but before that, let's do some advertising..."

Liu Jiasheng was slightly taken aback upon seeing this!
Next!

When Pad Pike excitedly waved the TD Corporation acceptance letter and shouted to Aunt Mei, "They're going to livestream my heroic daily life!" the camera suddenly shook violently like a surveillance camera, focusing on Aunt Mei's pale face.

Suddenly, as if seeing a ghost, the camera zoomed in on Aunt Mei's face, and the scene instantly switched to the vertical screen mode of the live stream!

live streaming!

It actually started a long time ago!

Or rather, the moment Spider-Man received his acceptance letter from TD...

The live stream has started!

And in the movie, the most outrageous scene for countless viewers also appeared!
Aunt Mei suddenly turned around and took out a burnt apple pie from the oven. The camera zoomed in on the "anti-scalding smart gloves" specially supplied by [Good Aunt Brand Company] on her wrist.

"Using the [Good Auntie] kitchen three-piece set, even Uncle Ben can bake a perfect pie!" Auntie Mei's smile suddenly became as exaggerated as a shopping channel host. She held up the pie, which was belching black smoke. "Look! The carbonization level just meets the national food safety standards!"

The refrigerator door popped open automatically, revealing "nutritious milk" inside, labeled with the "Niu Niu Milk Yogurt" logo.

Then, in the live stream, Aunt Mei smiled and said, "Child, you're growing... drink more [Niu Niu Yogurt] to make your body healthier..."

After affectionately patting Padpik, Aunt Mei suddenly turned to the non-existent camera, as if she'd seen a ghost, and flashed a smile: "Buy one box of [Niu Niu Milk Yogurt] now and get one free! Plus, you'll receive a lucky draw prize with your order..."

The scene of Aunt Mei chopping chicken with a cleaver was initially heartwarming, but after Paddy Pick left, Aunt Mei suddenly flashed a bright smile, facing the camera: "[Jinzheng Brand Felt Board], a superhero co-branded brand! Exclusive patent, a leading global brand..."

As Aunt Mei opened the refrigerator, she paused slightly in front of the camera: "Chuangdu refrigerators, equipped with a world-leading temperature controller, keep your food fresh forever..."

"..."

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"My grass!"

"Zhou Yang, have you no shame?"

"Dry!"

"This is absolutely outrageous! They've inserted so many ads all at once!"

"Nima!"

"..."

In the screening room, some people couldn't help but start cursing.

But then...

After they finished cursing, they were suddenly overwhelmed by a wave of sorrow!
These seemingly blatant product placements appear to perfectly blend into the film's tone that "all the heartwarming moments are scripted"!

Instead of breaking the immersion, it intensified the sense of sorrow in the film, highlighting the protagonist's manipulation.
In fact...

What made all the viewers feel the most sorrowful scene was what came later, to the point that it was even impossible for them to watch the original Spider-Man movie the same way anymore.

The story on the screen continues to unfold.

The brief scene bears some resemblance to the original Spider-Man.

The protagonist encounters the Green Goblin...

then……

Paddy Peek's agonizing screams echoed through the screening room.

Liu Jun saw on the screen the young man in the red uniform being choked by the Green Goblin and slammed into a convenience store shelf, his mask covered in shards of glass and ketchup.

The composition of this shot is exactly the same as a classic scene from Spider-Man—except that in the original, when Peter Parker was being beaten up, what fell from the shelf was some unknown breakfast cereal, and there wasn't even a close-up of it. But now, the shelf is piled high with posters that say "Fragrant Delicious Cereal"...

……

The protagonist is on screen, struggling for his life against the "Green Goblin"!

And during the scene change...

But the excited children and parents were waving their fists and watching the "battle live" on camera.

Meanwhile, the live stream page was constantly bombarded with outrageous advertisements...

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Product placement in movies.

They are usually very annoying!
but……

The product placement in this film, "The Black Robe Alliance," didn't feel offensive...

On the contrary, strangely enough, it brought the sorrowful atmosphere of the movie to its extreme!

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Liu Jiasheng stared blankly at the movie.

In the movie!
He saw, in the shadows of the shelf, Pad Pike's twitching fingers suddenly touch a cold metal can, and in a close-up shot, the pull tab of that "Bull Power Drink" was pointing directly at the web-shooter on his wrist...

The moment the Green Goblin raised its power claws—

"boom!"

The sound of a beverage can being torn open by spider silk and the Green Goblin's scream rang out at the same time.

Carbonated foam was sprayed onto the power armor's circuit boards, triggering a series of short-circuit sparks.

Pad Pik seized the opportunity to flip and leap into the air, only to hear a familiar electronic voice coming from inside the Green Goblin mask: "CUT! That was a good take! Proceed to the next step, go outside..."

A spectacular fight scene reminiscent of "Spider-Man" was presented on screen. As Padrick Picker was being beaten bloody by the Green Goblin in an alleyway battle, a holographic advertisement suddenly popped up on his hip armor: "[Still troubled by constipation? [Qiangniu Biotechnology]'s latest miracle drug for constipation, clinical trials show it can make 99% of constipated users have a bowel movement...]"

The camera cuts to a convenience store shelf, where a package of laxatives, printed with Paddy Piek's pained expression, reads: "Superhero Formula, Experience the Thrill of Superhero Spraying!"

Before Green Goblin was sent flying by Padpik and crashed into a gas station, a close-up of an advertisement for "Qinzhou G1 Automobile" suddenly appeared out of the camera's view, lasting for nearly ten seconds before the scene of Green Goblin fighting Padpik was cut off...

even!

What left Liu Jiasheng even more dumbfounded was!
Whenever a passerby is killed in the fighting, a mysteriously glowing billboard always appears in the ruins:

Jiangcheng Funeral Services: Professionally Handling Superhero Battle Endgames! Book now and receive a free superhero-themed certificate! Second tombstone half price!

"My grass!"

"damn it!"

"That bastard Zhou Yang has gone mad!"

"They even accept these kinds of ads!"

"Nima?"

"..."

In the screening room...

Everyone who saw the funeral service was chilled to the bone and gasped!
At this moment, they no longer knew how to describe this insane movie!

But then...

The screening room fell silent once again!

They saw it on the screen!

It seems that Pad Pike, who had finally managed to drive away the Green Goblin, fell into a coma due to exhaustion.

A group of men in black, who were hiding somewhere, led him into a room and suddenly ripped off his mask. The bright light blinded him, and although he was awake, his consciousness and mind were in a daze.

Through the blurry vision, a man in a European-style suit was speaking to the monitor screen: "The audience loves these kinds of plot twists. Remember to adjust Green Goblin's settings... continue implanting the memory system into him."

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As the screen dimmed and then lit up again...

Liu Jiasheng witnessed the cruelest side!
Everything seems fake!

The rooftop showdown between Green Goblin and Spider-Man in Spider-Man was spectacular!

The same scene on the screen is now deconstructed into a meticulously designed performance, with even the "malfunctioning sparks" from the Green Goblin armor being controlled by the production crew with a remote control...

After witnessing the epic battle with the Green Goblin, despite hearing countless cheers and successfully joining the "TD Seven" to become a true superhero...

However, Pad Pik seemed to realize something, feeling that everything he did was being inexplicably monitored, as if it were all pre-programmed. In the end, filled with fear, unease, and anxiety, he ran home, hoping to see his kind Aunt Mei...

That's my only home!

It must be true!
however!
On the screen!
When Paddy returned to the apartment in a daze, Aunt Mei's apron was stained with fresh blood.

The television was broadcasting news of "Osborn Corporation CEO's Accidental Fall," while a blood-stained green faceplate protruded from a coffee table drawer...

“Child, your performance today…” Aunt Mei’s loving smile suddenly froze on her face as she noticed that Pad Pike was staring at her TD Company employee ID that she had forgotten to remove.

During the ten seconds when the air seemed to freeze, the audience could hear the sound of a pin dropping.

An indescribable sense of cruelty suddenly surged within everyone's hearts!

They saw Pad Pike trembling as he lifted the sofa cushion, revealing a thick stack of mission briefings underneath, each labeled "Experimental Subject No. 1000 Behavioral Correction Record".

The latest page reads: [Day 312] Successfully induced and destroyed the Osborn Corporation (see attached "Green Goblin Script 7.0" for details).
They saw Pad Pike appear somewhat dazed, then suddenly clutch his head and let out a mournful roar…

On the screen, his pupils suddenly went unfocused, and implanted fragments of memory surged forth...

A childhood that was altered, a fictional Aunt Mei, and Uncle Ben's last words that never existed.

But a deeper image suddenly pierced the darkness: the head of an elderly man with silver hair, cut open by a laser on the operating table...

Suddenly, a series of images flooded into his mind...

Then, with bloodshot eyes, Pad Pike stared at his most loving aunt: "Even my anger... you orchestrated it?"

On screen, Pad Pike's voice sounded like it was squeezed out of hell.

Aunt Mei's pupils suddenly turned a mechanical red as she pressed the alarm hidden in her dentures: "Activate the final protocol."

The metal gates of the entire apartment building suddenly slammed shut, and at that moment, Superman's cold face appeared outside the window, along with countless agents hiding in the shadows!

Paddy Picker frantically fired his webs, hoping to break free of the cage, but then he heard Superman say through the megaphone, "Save your energy. Your anal glands are only producing enough to keep you afloat."

"Shut up!" Pad Pike tore open his uniform, revealing a dense network of needle marks around his waist.

He grinned maliciously and pressed a switch, during which six spider-leg-like mechanical arms suddenly exploded from his back: "You think I didn't notice the 'upgrade pack' you secretly installed for me?"

The screen suddenly went dark.

The metallic scraping sound of the Pad Picker robotic arm unfolding echoed in the screening room.

“Click——”

Suddenly, a blinding red light shone in the darkness, precisely targeting Pad Pik's neck, where veins were bulging.

Superman's heat vision scorched the TD logo black on the metal gate, and the high temperature evaporated the blood droplets on Pad Pike's forehead.

"Subject 1000, your resistance program is quite interesting." Superman hovered outside the window, his red cape resembling a sea of ​​blood under the searchlight. "But your combat data was uploaded to the [Superhero 2.0] database three minutes ago, and now, the live stream officially begins. The plot is: you were bewitched, wanting to replace me... and then, you killed Auntie Mei, killed..."

"Boom!" Pad Pik's mechanical spider legs suddenly pierced the floor, and the entire apartment building tilted amidst the explosion.

Amidst the flying concrete debris, Liu Jiasheng saw Aunt Mei's scalp suddenly rip open, revealing a metal skull gleaming red!
she!
They're also cyborgs!

"Warning! Personality simulator overload!" The mechanical aunt's pupils turned into a malfunctioning, static screen, yet she still recited the advertising slogan in a loving voice: "[Good Auntie] Smart Home. Buy now and get a free gift. [Sound of something] ...

"Shut up!" Pad Pike cleaved open the mechanical aunt's chest with a kick, and a miniature hard drive rolled out from the flying circuit boards, which read "[Spider-Man Script Final Version, Surveillance Machine]".

Not far away, a live stream suddenly started showing Aunt Mei lying in a pool of blood...

Before the live broadcast, everyone's faces were filled with anger. They seemed shocked by the sudden fall of a superhero!

In the movie!
Superman suddenly smashed through the wall, his steel-like fingers gripping Pad Pike's throat, seemingly locking everything in place!
The screen rapidly switched between close-ups of the two men's ferocious faces: on one side, binary code flowing in Superman's pupils, and on the other, black engine oil spilling from Pad Picker's mouth.

"You think what's awakened is free will?" Superman crushed his mechanical arm, his voice suddenly turning icy: "It's just a pre-programmed plot twist, nothing more!"

"boom!"

In the screening room.

Everyone saw Pad Pik being trampled on the ground.

Then, the sole of Superman's boots ground against Pad Pick's cheek, and the metal mask scraped against the concrete with a screeching sound...

On the screen, the pair of scarlet pupils reflected the entire burning "New Gotham," with each collapsed building illuminated by a TD Corporation holographic advertisement: "Superheroes Protect Your Safety."

“What a perfect script.” Superman bent down to pick up half a charred copy of the Daily Bugle, the headline of which was a photo that Pad Pick had “accidentally” taken yesterday of him saving people. “You saved 83 children, and the ratings broke records.”

Sparks flew from the broken robotic arm of Pad Picker, and oil mixed with blood seeped into the ground.

The tread pattern on the sole of Superman's boots left a bloody mark on Pad Pike's retina.

The audience in the screening room could hear the "crackling" sound of mechanical joints being crushed, mixed with electronic sounds of data streams flooding their nerves.

Sparks flew from the broken robotic arm of Pad Pico, and oil mixed with blood seeped into the ground, carving out the "TD" mark.

“Choose A, continue being the savior.” Superman stomped on his other mechanical arm.

"Or choose B..."

The data cable suddenly pierced the interface at the back of Pad Picker's neck, forcibly playing a fake memory: in Osborn's laboratory, an elderly man with silver hair was injecting green venom into a syringe.

"To become a corpse while carrying the truth."

Pad Pike suddenly began to convulse violently.

In the forced playback of a flood of memories, he saw his entire life dissected into code, endlessly looping in his mind: 1. Childhood bullying = Increases audience empathy! 2. Uncle Ben's death = Enhances character depth! 3. Every act of kindness = Promotes TD merchandise!

The data cable at Superman's fingertip suddenly lit up red, and the implanted chip in Pad Picker's neck began playing a preset scene—a tampered "Auntie's dying scene."

In the holographic projection, the mechanical auntie spoke in a loving voice: "Child, you must believe that TD Company must never go to Osborn... those people are..."

“What a perfect script.” Superman grabbed his hair and forced him to look up at the sky.

The clouds were torn apart by the swarm of drones, and the sunlight shone precisely on the two of them like a stage spotlight: "The audience loves to see heroes fall—" he suddenly lowered his voice, "but they love to see fallen heroes repent even more."

Pad Pike suddenly found his mouth opening on its own.

The muscles in his throat trembled uncontrollably, but he uttered words that were not what he wanted to say: "I was wrong. I was blinded by evil forces, by Osborn's men..."

The sound was amplified throughout New Gotham via TD's loudspeaker system, and countless street screens simultaneously lit up close-ups of his disheveled state, with tears streaming down his face.

He struggled, but to no avail...

Superman stomped hard on the ground and rubbed it repeatedly!

"Snap!" Superman suddenly ripped the data cable, and the live broadcast signal was instantly cut off.

Now, state your choice!

"Yes, will he be disciplined by me, persuaded by me, and turn over a new leaf, becoming a hero of the Seven, or... will he be trampled under my feet... becoming a part of my fight for justice! Becoming Osborn's experimental subject?"

"..."

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In the screening room of [Feihe Cinema].

Before the lights came on, the image of Superman trampling Padpik underfoot on the screen froze, and the audience in the shadows was deathly silent.

They're in the movie!

I've witnessed the harsh reality!

The former superhero, Superman, has now become a villain and a cruel thug.

They saw scenes from the movie "Spider-Man," all of which were pre-arranged plots...

They witnessed a tragic, manipulated hero, a life controlled by others...

"Holy crap! This is way more realistic than Spider-Man!"

Just at this time……

From the back row, a voice rose, filled with a mixture of gritted teeth in anger and a hint of excitement.

And on the side
"Zhou Yang is really daring to make this... This isn't just riding the wave of popularity, it's practically tearing Spider-Man's underwear off! No, it's tearing Superman's underwear off too!"

His female companion gripped the popcorn bucket tightly, staring at the screen and muttering, "Auntie is a robot... then what about the burnt apple pie she made in the original? A programming bug?"

He murmured to himself in a dazed voice, as if his worldview had collapsed...

Anger lingered in everyone's hearts when Paddy Pik was forced to play the "confession video".

In the reflection of the screen, Liu Jun saw two film critics in the back row take out their notebooks and excitedly whisper to each other while writing. He could vaguely hear words like "deconstructionism" and "subversive narrative".

The movie is still playing!

In the shot!
Pad Pike saw his twitching fingers suddenly hook onto the corner of Superman's cape...

The badge bearing the title of "Philanthropist of the Year" was embroidered in gold thread, and the edges seemed to still be stained with the ashes of a homeless man whose body had been evaporated by heat vision yesterday.

How ironic!
Facing the towering Superman...

The disheveled Padpik was dazed, his whole body trembling violently, dark red blood constantly flowing from the corner of his mouth. It seemed as if his primal instincts and the implanted consciousness were colliding and tearing each other apart...

"I choose..."

He was trembling, but his voice sounded as if something was choking him.

His Adam's apple bobbed, and his mechanical vocal cords emitted a hoarse, grinding sound, like rusty gears crushing the last piece of flesh.

"Choose C, you motherfucker!"

"boom--!"

Just at this time!
Everyone saw a spider leg, which had not yet been broken, suddenly spring up from where Pad Pike's ribs were broken, piercing the "S" symbol on Superman's chest.

Blue kryptonite powder gushed from the cracks in his armor; it was his last trump card, his last hope, which he had secretly hidden in his anal glands…

As Superman staggered backward, Pad Picker saw the inscription on the back of the badge: [Props No. TD-007, for Act III of The Confessions]

Kryptonite powder exploded into a cloud of dark blue mist on Superman's chest, but the expected collapse did not occur.

Pad Pik's broken robotic arm was still stuck in the crack, but the ear-piercing sound of metal twisting could be heard...

What was exposed beneath Superman's torn suit was not flesh and blood, but rather a precisely arranged hydraulic system and alloy skeleton.

He is also a reformer!

The kryptonite powder flickered twice on the circuit board before being completely removed by the built-in filtration system.

"Kryptonite has no effect on machines, you idiot." Superman's voice suddenly switched to a synthesized electronic tone, and his pupils shrank to two crimson dots.

He grabbed Pad Pike by the neck and lifted him up, tearing the skin on the back of his neck with a "rip" to reveal a titanium alloy spine with the logo "TD-AI 2.0" printed on it.

Viewers in the screening room could clearly see the servo motors rotating at Superman's cervical spine joints, as well as the blue reactor in his chest cavity that replaced his heartbeat!
That was clearly a killing machine disguised in human skin!
"You think I'm one of those inferior clones?" Superman's mechanical finger suddenly grew three inches longer, piercing directly into Pad Pike's abdominal wound and twisting it. "I am the original template for all Supermen, the ultimate weapon created by TD Corporation from Wayne Enterprises' satellite wreckage—"

"Click!"

Pad Pike suddenly bit the data cable on Superman's wrist with his teeth, spraying his face with foul-smelling engine oil.

Taking advantage of the moment of loss of balance, his remaining mechanical leg kicked against Superman's hip, and the sound of shattering parts came from the sparks of metal colliding.

As Superman staggered backward, Pad Pike glimpsed a half-burnt photograph of a child stuck in a crack in the armor on Superman's thigh. The pixelated image was so blurry that it could be identified as the little girl who was rescued in "Far Man: Reboot".

This discovery left him stunned for half a second.

In that half-second, Superman's heat vision was enough to shatter half of his shoulder.

Paddy Pix crashed through three load-bearing walls into the basement. Before the collapsing concrete buried him, he saw Superman hovering at the hole as he swooped down, his chest reactor beginning to overload and recharge.

"boom!!!"

The blast wave lifted the entire apartment building into the sky.

A charred figure flew out from the thick smoke, its mechanical legs scraping sparks hundreds of meters across the road before finally stopping.

As Paddy Pick dragged a trail of blood into the sewers, Superman's electronic voice reported from behind him:

"Subject 1000 has defected!"

"track!"

Just then, the camera suddenly switched...

Next!

The entire event was accompanied by advertisements, videos, and live television broadcasts!
Inside TD Company, the giant LED screen suddenly switched to an emergency broadcast from TD Company.

The female news anchor, with her impeccable makeup, spoke in a cold, mechanical voice: "Special news flash—'Spider-Man' Pad Pick has defected today! An investigation has revealed that this criminal has long been manipulated by the foreign force [Osborn Technology], creating numerous 'hero saves the damsel in distress' scenarios while secretly collecting DNA from the public for illegal experiments! He has been deceiving [TD] Company for a long time. Fortunately, Superman appeared at the last moment, preventing this tragedy!"

The footage flashes distorted surveillance footage: Pad Pik is seen binding homeless people in a cocoon during an urban battle, with the narration emphasizing, "This is what he calls 'saving people'."

The camera cuts to the scene of "Aunt Mei's murder," where "Aunt Mei" in a pool of blood is shown in close-up as "a torn human body."

The scrolling text reads: "[TD Company Statement: We express our deepest condolences to the victim's family and will offer a reward of 500 million to apprehend this inhumane perpetrator.]"

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The camera then switches again.

Pad Pike huddled in the foul-smelling sewage.

He broke off the exposed mechanical bones and hastily stitched up the abdominal opening with spider silk.

In the darkness, he felt the protrusion of the chip on the back of his neck, only to hear the chip suddenly play TD Company's brainwashing voice: "Your life is a perfect performance."

He ripped the chip out along with a piece of nerve, but amidst the static, he heard an encrypted recording: ".Found Osborn. Basement. Ninth."

The buzzing of a swarm of drones came from afar. Pad Pik crushed the chip and crawled deeper into the drainpipe.

The sewage reflected his tattered mask, and the wound on his forehead was no longer oozing blood, but a suspicious pale green liquid...

His consciousness grew increasingly hazy, yet he continued walking forward step by step. Then, just before Pad Pike was plunged into complete darkness at the end of the sewage pipe, he vaguely heard the scraping sound of a metal gate opening...

"Vitality indicators remain at 12%..."

Through his blurred vision, several figures in hazmat suits pried open his mechanical eyelids. In the instant the flashlight beam stung his pupils, he saw the faded Osborn logo on their suits.

"The Green Goblin's serum also mutated in his body..."

"Take him to Laboratory Nine, you must save his life!"

"TD Corporation uses superheroes to manipulate public opinion, and we have been fighting against their lies..."

"But unfortunately, we failed!"

"But as long as he's here, we have hope!"

The metal door at the end of the sewage pipe slowly opened, and the beam of a flashlight from a person in a chemical protective suit pierced the darkness.

Just as Paddy Picker was about to fall into a coma, the elderly man in the lead suddenly pulled off his mask—it was none other than Osborne, the CEO who had been reported in the news to have "fallen to his death"!

His bloodshot eyes stared at Pad Picker: "You think the Green Goblin is the villain? He's my son. The price he paid for infiltrating TD as an undercover agent..."

Camera cut!

(Insert a three-second flashback).

The truth behind the violent editing of surveillance footage has come to light: the real Aunt Mei was executed by TD in the early stages of the experiment, and the "Green Goblin" attack was a massacre orchestrated by TD himself.

In those news clips of the so-called "Green Goblin atrocities," one can vaguely see traces of Superman's heat vision burning.

The screen gradually dimmed, gradually dimmed, and finally plunged into darkness.

About one second.

A ray of dawn appeared on the screen.

A city rooftop at dawn.

Pad Picker ripped his red uniform, revealing the gruesome wound left by the implant. The old man draped a black suit over his shoulders: "TD has been controlling the world with superheroes for too long... But my company has been destroyed, and we are now like shadows living in the darkness, constantly avoiding the 'light' that shines upon us... I plan to form an alliance... An alliance in the darkness, let's call it 'The Black Robe'..."

The old man's trembling hand handed over the chip: "All the victims are here, including the prototype data of the one they transformed into the mechanical Aunt Mei... and Green..."

When the old man abruptly stopped speaking, Pad Pike's pupils contracted!
He saw on the holographic billboard of the TD Building that Superman was standing on the old man's son's head, smiling and claiming that he had solved the "Green Goblin" and would bring the "Spider-Demon" to justice!
Cheers erupted from below, filled with fervor and excitement...

Amid cheers and the morning sunlight, the movie screen gradually dimmed...

Then, the movie ended.

The lights in the screening room slowly came on, and the last line of Chinese subtitles on the screen, "[Black Robe Alliance - To be continued]", gradually faded into darkness.

..............................

An eerie silence fell over the audience.

Everyone stared blankly at the movie...

Just at this time!
"Holy shit... it's just gone?"

A low gasp suddenly came from the corner. He stared at the screen in shock, completely stunned!
"This is what a superhero movie should be!" another voice rang out: "How many years have those 'righteous and glorious' tropes fooled us? I told you some of the lines in 'Spider-Man' were just random nonsense, damn it!"

Whispers spread like wildfire.

Some people lowered their heads and began to discuss whether "TD Company" actually existed;

Some people stared blankly at the words "Zhou Yang's work" and "Directed by Shen Long" in the end credits...

Several students in the audience were arguing at breakneck speed about whether the Osborn chip that Padpik saw at the end was a foreshadowing of a sequel. Their voices grew louder and louder, and they almost started arguing.

Film critic Liu Jiasheng wrote a line in his notebook with his pen. He took a deep breath and stared at what he had written: "[All heroes are puppets of capital]..."

“Sir, please leave…” The cleaner’s voice was drowned out.

The girl in the third row suddenly grabbed her boyfriend's arm: "The bloodstains on Aunt Mei's apron! There was a similar scene in the original Spider-Man when she was cooking, right? Right? There does look like there's some blood? I remember now, oh my god, wait a minute!"

Her nails almost dug into the other person's flesh.

The corridor was packed with people.

Flashes of light went off one after another as people took pictures of the empty screen, as if trying to capture the last frame.

A boy wearing a Superman T-shirt stopped the staff: "Was the TD company's logo your original design?"

His voice trembled with excitement.

In the rest area outside the theater, after watching the movie, the audience gathered in twos and threes. Some people imitated Pad Picker's pose of tearing off his uniform, while others debated whether Superman was an AI or a clone, and where the real Superman was.

In front of the beverage counter, two boys were buying drinks while reviewing the plot, when suddenly they both fell silent...

The Coca-Cola cans they were holding had the exact same packaging as the Bull Power drink that Paddy Peek used to fight back in the movie!
Oh shit!

That bastard Zhou Yang is so damn dedicated to product placement!
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Early in the morning of June 9.

Hollywood.

【Paimon】

There was a sudden knock on the office door.

Immediately afterwards, a hurried voice suddenly rang out!
"Mr. Mark, something's happened!"

"It seems we've missed a masterpiece!"

"..."

(10,000 words, no chapters...)
(After thinking about it, focusing solely on sales figures without detailing the movie's plot would be too simplistic.)
(I got criticized for writing irrelevant content again, so I'll just follow my own ideas.)
(End of this chapter)