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Chapter 248 Illusion? When?!
Cindy stood up, glanced at the older Gwen and Peter, and at their identical white lab coats, and understood what had happened. She just didn't quite understand why there were two Gwen Stacys.

Peter is not here.

Gwen was about to say something when she suddenly understood Cindy's meaning and asked with some curiosity, "Wait, can you also travel through the multiverse?"

"...This is not a parallel universe. This is a pocket universe generated by the Soul Gem based on everyone's thoughts and desires. It is not a new parallel universe."

According to everyone's thoughts and wishes...

and many more?

Realizing something, Gwen opened her mouth to ask something, but Cindy just looked around and added, "I need to find Peter."

Peter must be here too...

Having understood the situation, Gwen decided not to ask about the previous plan. She took a deep breath, transformed Venom into a symbiote suit, and put it on. She then explained to Cindy, who looked somewhat surprised, "Peter sent Venom to protect me."

So, the Peter in this universe doesn't have Venom not because he actually sent Venom back, but because this pocket universe doesn't have Venom? Therefore, there's no Baxter Tower or Avengers Tower here. I've never been to Baxter Tower, only to Avengers Tower once. As for the Osborn Technology Building, I visited it during the Osborn Technology Show.

That said, why didn't Venom enter the world of his dreams?

I feel great right now.

Okay, you can't give a dream to a lazy bum who thinks they have no needs anymore.

After Gwen roughly understood, she scratched her head and looked at the older version of herself and Peter behind her. She wasn't sure if the two of them had understood, but the older Peter took off his white coat, revealing his uniform underneath.

“It sounds like you need help, right?” he asked. “So when do we leave?”

Cindy looked at Gwen, who, after a moment of thought, extended her hand. If this was a dream, then everything would end once she woke up.

The next moment, the entire Manhattan disappeared, and the two appeared on a blank grassy field. The plants here were all ones that Gwen had never seen before, with purple and blue plants that did not look like Earth plants.

"Whose mental universe is this...?"

“Sorcerer Adam, that little golden man, he's the owner of the Soul Stone,” Cindy said, standing on tiptoe and reaching out her hand as if searching for something. Gwen stood by, waiting. If what she had just witnessed was her inner universe, then could her ideal be…?

How can I help Peter? Yes, that's it, that must be it.

You can fool others, but don't fool yourself.

Venom shut up.

Patting her slightly flushed face, Gwen coughed twice and then asked, "Um, can I ask what happened to you, Mu En? You can tell me if you don't want to..."

"Just like you."

Well, their answer was very straightforward.

“I sensed that what was in front of me wasn’t Peter, so I broke through all of this.” Cindy said calmly, then seemed to have grasped something, and like tearing down a curtain, she ripped off the space itself.

Their clothes had changed back to ordinary casual wear, and they reappeared on the streets of Manhattan. Cindy surveyed her surroundings and said with certainty, "Peter is here."

"Okay, it's Manhattan again, but where are we going to find Peter?"

Cindy raised her hand, and Gwen followed her gaze to the advertisement on the big screen.

Parker Industries: Bringing you a better life, innovation, and a brighter tomorrow.

Parker Industries is a high-tech company founded by young entrepreneur and scientist Peter Parker and his high school classmates Harry Osborn and Amadeus Cho. This company has a very peculiar, even unconventional, characteristic: they have made all their patents public to the world and rely solely on more advanced and cheaper products to make a profit, rather than on the patents themselves.

"Making all patents publicly available for free, just like Tesla did with its AC-related patents, is something he would definitely do."

As Gwen spoke, she awkwardly swung on her web, following Cindy to the Parker Industries building, a building she had never seen before, located somewhere in Hell's Kitchen.

They stealthily climbed over the fence and crept forward in the corner. Cindy stopped and tilted her head, looking at the security booth at the entrance. There, a particularly tall security guard was chatting with employees who had driven in, and then letting them drive through.

“That’s Alexei Sisevich.”

Cindy's words startled Gwen, who asked in confusion, "Who is that?"

“Rhino Man, a man with advanced bionic protective skin transplanted into him, Peter dealt with him.”

"And here he is now... working as a doorman/security guard? Hmm~"

The two girls chatted as they slipped into the building. The receptionist was completely unaware that two girls were stuck to the ceiling, and that they had quietly used cobwebs to remove two internship certificates from the desk. Then, each of them stole a white lab coat for the interns and swaggered inside.

"Where are we going? Peter's office?"

"I do not know."

Cindy's answer surprised Gwen, who had been somewhat expectant, and she asked incredulously, "How could you not know? Can't you sense his presence?"

"He is indeed here, but he flickers, like Schrödinger's cat, in a superposition state."

What does it mean that Peter is both here and not here at the same time?

Having no other choice, the two took the elevator to the top floor to the CEO's office. On the way, the elevator was stopped by a black researcher who walked in with a smile, greeted the two, and then left when he reached the floor he needed to leave on.

“That’s Hermann Schulz.”

“Horror?” Gwen tossed her hair. She remembered this person; he was the first supervillain Peter had ever faced.

But like Rhino, he works at Parker Industries?
"I paid attention to the news on my way here. There are superheroes in this world, but no supervillains. Everyone lives a peaceful life. Basically, superheroes have not caused any interference to the world."

“And all the supervillains became ordinary people. They got the lives they wanted. Thriller became a famous scientist, Rhino… I don’t know why he became a villain.” Gwen sighed. “This is the world Peter wanted.”

(End of this chapter)