American comics: Starting with gaining Spider-Man's abilities

Chapter 57 Upgrade in Progress

"Yes, are you taking a shower?"

"Hmm~, do you want me to take a picture of you?"

Hearing her younger sister's lively and slightly happy voice, Li Buying relaxed both physically and mentally, silently listening to the sound of water from her side.

Lorna seemed to sense her boyfriend's hesitation and exhaustion, and immediately tensed up. She leaned closer to the phone and asked seriously, "What's wrong? Have those guys come again?"

"No, it's just that I suddenly felt that my efforts were meaningful. By the way, when are you coming back? I have something to tell you."

Lying on the sofa, Li Buying asked softly, already determined to confront Lorna as quickly as possible, just in case something went wrong later.

Is it really that important to say things face-to-face?

Lorna could tell from her brother's tone that nothing was wrong, and the slightly floating metal objects around them slowly fell back down.

She raised her hand and drew circles on the water's surface, wondering what important matter Li Buying had to do. After calculating the time, she said, "How about the 5th of next month? I should be able to come back around that time."

"No problem, nothing serious should happen to you at school, but you still need to be careful. I saw online that there seems to be a group of mutants causing trouble in Westchester County. Don't go outside the school unless necessary, okay?"

Li Buying reminded him again, and even though he knew his sister was a mutant, he couldn't help but mutter to himself.

After all, he didn't know what Lorna's abilities were yet. If it was something like permanent physical enhancement, that would be fine, but if not, then mutants would still be vulnerable.

"Okay, okay, I won't go out. I'll hide immediately if there's any danger."

The two had a normal and warm conversation. Li Buying hung up first, looked at the water glass and slightly raised her hand to draw it into her own, pondered her future goals, and then went back into the basement.

He was going to send messages to Nick Fury and Professor X, informing them of S.H.I.E.L.D. and some updates on X-Men 2, respectively.

In X-Men 2, a colonel whose name he has forgotten creates a series of problems by using his son, Master Illusion, in order to kill all mutants.

In the storyline, Professor X nearly killed all mutants with his brainwave control device, then Magneto changed the situation, causing the professor to almost kill all humans.

In short, none of these are good things. He needs to use some confusing but insightful statements to make Professor X sense the danger in advance.

That being said, it's still uncertain whether the story of X-Men 2 will actually happen, since the original plot has been changed a lot, and most importantly, Magneto wasn't imprisoned.

As for S.H.I.E.L.D., it's well known that S.H.I.E.L.D. is also known as a division of Hydra. Nick Fury may have been aware of this, but he would never have known that most of the people under him were actually Hydra.

"Ai, make the information I'm about to say as obscure and difficult to understand as possible, and then find a way to send it to Nick Fury and Professor X. Hopefully, you can find a secret information channel."

"Yes, please go ahead."

The faceless puppet sitting upright in the chair turned its head to "look" at Li Buying in response, noted down the two sets of information, and then reconstructed them with a charlatan-like explanation. It then began to send messages to the two of them through the internet.

After tilting its head slightly back, it lowered it again and said, "Message transmission complete. I've also located some notorious gang leaders. Would you like me to inform you?"

"Let's talk about it in a few days. Make the gangs involved in drug trafficking your primary targets. When I go out on operations, remember to dress as me. And in normal circumstances, there's no need to hack the cameras to prevent you from being discovered."

After thinking about it, Li Buying decided to rest for a few days.

……

"Homage to the magnificent jigsaw puzzle!"

In a brightly lit upscale bar, the Puzzle Man and his underlings are raising their glasses in a private room to celebrate.

After Kingpin's death, the underground empire he founded quickly disintegrated, creating a scene resembling a "whale fall" for the Mafia.

When the giant whale died and sank to the bottom of the sea, all the fish and shrimp quickly surrounded it and devoured it.

Although New York has many gangs, Kingpin's body was still enough to feed everyone, with the big ones eating meat and the small ones drinking soup.

As one of the big bosses in New York, Puzzleman naturally received a huge share of the spoils, which made his gang even stronger.

"Hehehe—"

Puzzle grinned menacingly at his scarred face as he imagined a wonderful future.

He turned to look at the smooth wall, but the grotesque face on it quickly extinguished his joy, and the atmosphere became incredibly heavy again.

He whirled around to look at his smiling underling: "Have you found the Punisher?"

The feud between the Puzzleman and the Punisher dates back a long time. Over the years, while evading the Punisher's pursuit, he has also been trying to kill the Punisher completely to eliminate any future threat.

Fortunately, the Punisher has always been a lone wolf, otherwise the Puzzle Man would have been dead long ago.

Seeing the jigsaw puzzle man's cold expression, the previously smiling henchman immediately became serious: "He's on his way to New York, apparently preparing to return."

That's wonderful!

Upon hearing this "good news," the Puzzle Man revealed his extremely ferocious smile once again, drank the beer in his glass, smashed the glass, and stood up, with his henchmen naturally following suit.

"Go and prepare. This time, we must kill the Punisher completely!"

The puzzle man roared and walked toward the door of the private room, but before he could touch the doorknob, his heart suddenly pounded.

"Well!--"

Suddenly clutching his left chest, the scarred jigsaw puzzle figure began to gasp for breath. His heart pounded violently, showing no sign of stopping. The numbness in his limbs intensified, and his eyes bulged outward as he struggled to breathe.

Seeing that things were not going well, the henchmen immediately rushed to help him up, but they, along with the bar hostesses, also clutched their chests, all feeling the same intense pain that the puzzle man was experiencing.

Just as they collapsed, the door to the private room slowly opened, and a pair of black sneakers stepped into the room.

He stepped on the arms of the jigsaw puzzle figure, walked to several hostesses, squatted down, and dripped a few drops of an unknown liquid into their mouths. The women, who had been in so much pain that they were about to faint, gradually regained their breath.

"Who are you!?"

The puzzle figure, who was not completely dead yet, struggled to look up and saw a person in a black hoodie appear in his field of vision.

In the moments before he was inexplicably poisoned to death, he finally saw the person who killed him: a black spider on a white hood, its mouth open as if constantly sneering at him.

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The puzzle man is dead, and the Spider-Man-like ability has been upgraded: increased skeletal strength.

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Seeing the prompt in the task bar, Li Buying, who had successfully poisoned the puzzle player and the gang leader, walked outside the room, considerately closed the door, pulled down her hood, entered the densely packed bar crowd, and quietly left through the back door.

This is the first one tonight.

(End of this chapter)