Chapter 284: The Building Collapses
Having that lackey hanging around him only made Harry feel more irritable.
"Peter..." Harry muttered, searing the name into his memory.
After finishing their lunch, Peter and his friends happily returned to their classroom. Harry, on the other hand, stood up with a dark expression and left the cafeteria, followed closely by his group of sycophants.
Go on! Go on! Destroy it all!
In the depths of Harry's mind, a massive seed of malice had quietly sprouted.
Soon, the first day of university registration came to an end.
After the group parted ways at the school gates, Peter and Silas waited for a short while until Ben Parker pulled up in his car.
"Sorry, boys. The traffic was a nightmare. Seems like there are more parents out today than usual," Ben Parker said apologetically.
"It's fine, Uncle Ben. We only just got here," Silas said as he opened the car door. The two brothers climbed into the back seat.
"How was your day, boys? Not too bad, I hope?" Ben glanced at the Parker brothers through the rearview mirror.
"Uh... it was okay, I guess," Peter replied, thinking back to the unpleasantness from earlier.
He had already looked up the identity of that man: Harry Osborn, the current Chairman of Oscorp.
"Just okay? Did something happen today?" Ben noticed the look on Peter's face.
"Nothing, just a minor disagreement," Peter said, not wanting to worry his uncle.
Ben nodded and dropped the subject. The boys were growing up; they had to learn how to solve their own problems.
As time passed, the car slowly pulled into their garage.
"We're home." Ben parked the car and stepped out.
"I'm starving," Peter said, rubbing his stomach.
"Haha, well, your Aunt May cooked up quite a feast tonight," Ben laughed heartily.
"That's great!" Peter's eyes lit up with excitement.
Just as the brothers were about to head inside with Ben, a sound like a jet engine echoed from the horizon.
"What's that?" Ben turned his head in confusion, spotting a green dot appearing in the distance.
"Silas!" Peter shouted.
The two brothers shared a quick look. Silas instantly reached out and slapped a Sleep Talisman onto Ben Parker's back.
Before Ben could even speak, his head began to swim, and he slumped forward. Silas caught him before he hit the ground and quickly carried him into the house.
Peter dove into the garage, retrieving his Spider-Suit from the Shadow Kingdom. He suited up in a flash, the fabric automatically shrinking to fit his physique.
"Spider-Man is on the job!" As soon as the suit was on, Peter leaped out of the garage, firing a web line toward the distant green dot.
Inside the House
"Silas! What happened to Ben?" Aunt May rushed to Silas's side in a panic, seeing him supporting an unconscious Ben. Her eyes were wide with fear, thinking something terrible had happened.
"Uncle Ben is fine, he's just... exhausted," Silas explained.
"Exhausted?" May frowned, clearly not buying the excuse.
Suddenly, a Shadow Ninja rose from the darkness behind her. The ninja pressed a Sleep Talisman onto her back.
"Silas..." May's vision went dark, and she collapsed. The Shadow Ninja caught her before she fell.
"You two should get some proper sleep." Silas laid Ben and May down on the sofa. He didn't want to bother making up excuses for Peter anymore; the Sleep Talismans were more practical and efficient.
Outside
"HAHAHAHA!" A figure wearing a demonic mask was soaring through the sky on a glider, pumpkin bombs hanging from his belt.
"Oh no!" Peter looked up from below and recognized the flier. Isn't that the Green Goblin?!
But the Green Goblin was dead. How could he be here?
Harry, his face contorted with rage, pulled out a pumpkin bomb. Without checking for bystanders, he simply tossed it toward the street below.
Thwip!
"Littering carries a fine, you know! Remember to recycle!" Peter fired a web that caught the falling bomb mid-air, then swung his arm to toss it into the Shadow Kingdom.
"Spider-Man?" Harry brought his glider to a halt in the air above a high-rise. He hadn't expected Spider-Man to show up so soon.
"Uh-huh. Surprised to see me, Mr. Goblin?" Peter leaped onto the roof of the building, looking up at the Green Goblin, who was less than five meters away.
"You know me?" Harry's gaze sharpened. Spider-Man seemed to recognize his father.
"Huh?" Peter realized something was off. This Green Goblin didn't seem to know who he was.
"Tell me! Did you know him!" Harry's intuition screamed that Spider-Man was connected to his father's death.
Peter studied the Goblin. The appearance, the costume, even the glider—everything was identical to the previous one.
"Speak!" Harry snatched another pumpkin bomb from his belt and hurled it at Spider-Man.
Peter leaned slightly to dodge it, then webbed it up and tossed it into the Shadow Kingdom.
"I don't know what to tell you, but I did know a Green Goblin who dressed exactly like you," Peter said, realizing this wasn't the same man. Both were equally manic, but the previous one had definitely felt more like a true lunatic.
"Then do you know how the previous Green Goblin died?" Harry's eyes grew increasingly crazed. He felt he was getting closer to the truth.
"Calm down. I think you're having some kind of mental breakdown; you should really check yourself into a psych ward," Peter said, exasperated. Why was every Green Goblin a raving lunatic?
"Die!" Harry instantly decided that Spider-Man was the one who had killed his father.
Enraged, Harry pulled out two timed explosives, clicked the triggers, and threw them at Peter.
BOOM! BOOM!
The bombs exploded just as they cleared Harry's position.
Rumble...
The top of the building began to tilt and collapse toward the crowded street below, where a large group of people were strolling.
"Not good!" Peter dove into the Shadow Kingdom, reappearing as he swung around the building, frantically firing webs.
"Hey, Gaia! What's the plan?" Peter asked his AI while webbing.
"Current tensile limit of the webbing is twenty tons. Calculating building mass..." Gaia's processors whirred.
Peter created a massive, thick web net between the collapsing building and its neighbor to catch the falling concrete slabs.
"Optimal solution mapped." Gaia projected the data onto Peter's HUD.
"Looks like a tough one." Peter took a deep breath and began firing webs like a madman, wrapping them around every structural pillar he could reach.
"Enjoy your dinner, Spider-Man!" Harry didn't plan on killing Spider-Man just yet. He wanted to uncover the truth about his father's death first.
Harry turned his glider and sped away, leaving Peter alone to deal with the catastrophe.
"I'm gonna need some help here!"
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