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Chapter 638

What Is a Hero (Request Subscription, Request Tickets)

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What was a hero? Someone who sacrificed themselves to protect others was called a hero.

And what was a superhero? Someone who fought Super Criminals every day, walking the line between life and death to protect ordinary people.

Moreover, after being a superhero for too long, people would take superheroes fighting criminals for granted. Once a superhero made a mistake, they would also receive people's merciless blame. The prestige accumulated from saving the world ten times could be completely destroyed by accidentally killing just one person. That was a superhero—more like a super miserable bastard.

Xiao Xie admired what Spider-Man did, but he did not agree with it.

Spider-Man had clearly gained extraordinary abilities, yet because he chose to be a superhero, his girlfriend misunderstood him. And because he was a superhero, he had no steady job. He could only take pictures of himself dressed as Spider-Man and sell them to newspapers in exchange for a meager income.

Being a superhero was fine, but someone like Spider-Man was miserable to the extreme. His own life was already a complete mess, yet he was busy saving the world. Wasn't that ridiculous?

Peter was actually very smart. He could have casually invented something, like Super Spider Silk, applied for a patent, and made a fortune. But this guy only cared about saving the world. In the end, he was still a poor loser. It was truly a waste of his brains and superpowers.

The kind of superhero Xiao Xie preferred was Iron Man. Tony Stark had a vast fortune. To him, being Iron Man might have been nothing more than a side job, something that better satisfied his vanity. Compared to Spider-Man, Iron Man was practically the rich, handsome superstar among superheroes.

Iron Man wore Iron Man Armor, while Spider-Man could only

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