Godslayer in the Marvel Universe

Chapter 41 Split Screen

How crazy can a person go to in an attempt to survive when they are about to die?

Harry Osborn perfectly embodied this idea for the world.

However, no one knew that he had sold his soul to more than one demon...

It was a dark and stormy night.

Even the dazzling lights of New York City, the city that never sleeps, cannot illuminate every corner of the city.

The sky was covered with dark clouds, so there was no moonlight.

A high-tech devil glider is soaring through the sky; the glider, capable of lifting 400 pounds, flies by almost silently.

Inheriting his father's Green Goblin suit, Harry Osborn's helmet features a pair of yellow electronic eyes with extremely strong enemy detection capabilities.

"Found you!"

On the villa terrace below, Liz was having a long phone conversation with Peter.

Since that party, the two have been together. Liz was quite proud to have snatched the title of "Peter Parker's girlfriend" amidst all the beautiful women surrounding Peter.

Women are strange like that; some women only like to stay with one man, while others only like to compete for the men that most women compete for.

This gave Liz a surreal feeling, as if she had snatched the crown of a beauty pageant.

"Peter, I miss you."

"Me too……"

Just as Peter, who was at home, took out his love note and was about to make a good impression, a gasp came from the other end of the phone.

"Ah—who are you?"

Liz's voice, distorted by extreme fear, was unlikely to be an act, and upon hearing this, Peter's nerves tightened to the extreme.

He didn't need to guess; a hoarse and menacing male voice came from the other end of the phone: "Peter Parker! Or you should call me... Spider-Man."

"Wait! Are you kidding me? I'm not Spider-Man!"

"Oh? Is that so? You can deny it, but my partner and I have already caught your aunt and uncle, all your women, including Mary, Gwen, Michelle, and..." The other side rattled off several names, making Peter's heart nearly leap out of his chest.

He rushed out of the house like a madman, only to find it completely empty. Even the coffee next to the rocking chair by the window was still warm. Uncle Ben and Aunt May were gone.

"What...what are you going to do?"

"Tonight at midnight, at the top of the Empire State Building. If you're late, we'll drop one of your family members or girlfriends every five minutes."

Peter was completely stunned, as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over his head in the dead of winter.

Just as the other party hung up the phone, an urgent news report came on TV—

The beautiful reporter on the front lines said in an almost mournful tone, "The 'Electroman' who should have been arrested has reappeared before the world. He has taken over New York City's newest power station. Oh my god! The voltage is unstable, and all the patients in the hospital will be affected. Oh, and breaking news, due to the power failure, the airport control tower has malfunctioned, and we may witness a tragic plane crash."

After the television screen was magnified several times, everyone could finally see a terrifying figure teeming with countless lightning bolts among the several huge power poles in the power station.

Max, who was once predominantly blue, now resembles an over-voltage incandescent light bulb, his entire body displaying an unusual white-gold hue.

"Spider-Man! Spider-Man, where are you? Come out! If you don't come, I'll destroy this city." Electro seemed even more powerful this time.

The scene shifts again, this time back to the reporter, who loudly appeals, "Where's Spider-Man? Where's Iron Man? And where's that mysterious bald giant who defeated Dr. Lizard? Anyone! New York needs you!"

Peter was caught in a deep dilemma at that moment.

Should one save their family and loved ones, or save New York City, which is in dire straits?

This is similar to the cruel trolley problem: a runaway train, and you hold the handle to change the track. Do you let the train run over a few of your loved ones, or do you let it run over more innocent people?

For the first time in his life, Peter found himself in such a terrible moral paradox.

Just then, Peter's phone rang again. He didn't care about anything else and answered the call, which had no caller ID.

The voice on the other end of the phone wasn't too unfamiliar to him.

"I am Kratos. That humanoid electric eel is mine."

"Okay." Peter was deeply impressed by the opponent's formidable strength. In any case, with even Gwen not knowing why she had been captured, having a theoretical ally was a stroke of luck. Peter agreed almost without hesitation.

The other party hung up the phone.

But then Peter suddenly realized, "Wait! How did he know I'm Spider-Man?!"

The truth about Spider-Man's real identity...

The enemy knows.

The allies know.

Why am I, Peter, the only one who doesn't know where I slipped up?

Sigh! Peter's inner turmoil is truly heartbreaking.

Among so many masked superheroes, Spider-Man's defining characteristic is that he's a "sieve," revealing his true identity to his classmates, his girlfriend, his enemies... As a high school student, he has far too many flaws.

However, he was lucky.

At least this time, Ang will cover for him.

At that moment, a thunderstorm was raging across half of New York.

In the sky, terrifying bolts of lightning, several meters or even more than ten meters wide, flashed across the night sky time and time again, striking magnificent skyscrapers and crashing into cars on the road.

A section of a building wall weighing several tons peeled off and exploded in mid-air, turning into a deadly downpour that caused panic and forced residents to flee.

Similarly, cars were blown up by lightning, a bus was easily overturned, and the citizens inside were tumbling around, their fates unknown.

Police and special forces arrived at the scene as ordered, but were quickly overwhelmed.

The electric man was too powerful. Having taken over the entire new power plant, he was now like Thor, the god of thunder in Norse mythology, who could summon raging waves of lightning.

A casual strike can send terrifying bolts of lightning spreading hundreds of meters.

Police cars and heavily armored vehicles were easily destroyed before they even got close to the power plant, and countless police officers were killed on the spot and turned into charred remains.

Amidst this terrifying, hellish situation, a reporter sitting in a helicopter covering the scene suddenly spotted a burly figure on an abandoned tower opposite the power plant.

"Look over there!" The reporter's scream immediately drew the helicopter's searchlight.

This is perhaps a very impolite act.

But just when the citizens of New York needed a hero to step forward the most, the mysterious bald giant who killed Dr. Lizard appeared.

"Ah! It's that mysterious bald hero!" the reporter shouted excitedly into the microphone.

At that very moment, the television station received another message:

"Breaking News! The top floor of the Empire State Building has been suddenly occupied by a group of mysterious figures. They have killed several building guards and appear to have taken some women and children hostage. Our reporter has witnessed Spider-Man heading to the Empire State Building to rescue the hostages. Good heavens! What's going on tonight? How could two groups of villains suddenly appear?"

Electro-humans are rampaging.

The Empire State Building was occupied.

These would be headline news events at any time. The fact that two major events happened simultaneously gave the TV director a strange, frustrating "happy dilemma."

As a last resort, several television stations had to use a simultaneous screen display to broadcast the battle situation on both sides.

Meanwhile, Max the Electro was clearly very unhappy to see Kratos arrive.

"The person I want to see is Spider-Man! Not you, bald guy!"

Ang smiled, and when that gesture was placed inside Kratos's suit, it became a cruel smile.

"Die!"

Without a word, Ang displayed the terrifying physical abilities he had repeatedly plundered. He suddenly fell forward, and the instant his body was completely parallel to the ground, he kicked his legs back with a powerful thrust.

With a deafening "thud!", he transformed into a black shadow, like a cannonball from the Age of Exploration, traversing a hundred meters in the blink of an eye and arriving before Max...

(End of this chapter)