"Ah?"
Cindy grabbed her hair with both hands. "That's not fair. Why am I the only one who..."
"Is it because you think I'm not pretty?"
She leaned closer to Ye Li and asked suspiciously, "Do you not like me?"
"Oh no, you're very tempting~"
Of course, Ye Li wasn't about to ruin the mood. "I'd also like to have deeper conversations with you. How about we set a time to get to know each other more deeply?"
"Hey! I'm not that kind of girl!"
Cindy defended herself, then looked at Ye Li and guessed, "Let me guess who you are, teacher. Ghost-Spider is a woman, so are you Black Spider?"
Ye Li said indifferently, "Then I think you're Ghost-Spider."
Although Black Spider looked similar to Ghost-Spider, he had never demonstrated the ability to wall-crawl or shoot webs. There was no necessary connection between them.
"I'm not Ghost-Spider. You can call me Web, or Bride."
"Bride?"
"It's just a title!"
Cindy didn't abandon her suspicion that Ye Li was Black Spider just because he had turned the tables on her.
However, her Spider-Sense alerted her that Skye and the others were catching up again, so she began taking off her clothes.
Soon, only a small bandeau and panties remained, exposing large swaths of alluring skin before Ye Li.
Ye Li raised an eyebrow. "What are you doing? Here?"
"Don't get any ideas! Hold these for me."
Cindy stuffed her clothes into his arms, then moved all ten of her slender fingers.
Webs quickly appeared at her fingertips and wrapped around her body, forming a webbed costume.
The way she used Silk was different from Gwen Stacy's Web-Shooters, looking almost like magic.
"I suppose you're taking me with you?"
Ye Li looked over Cindy's new webbed outfit. Mm... somehow it looked even more seductive than wearing nothing.
Cindy wrapped one arm around his waist, shot Silk from her hand, and stuck it to a teaching building, carrying him as she swung through the air. "I have a lot to tell you, and it's important! Our identities are more dangerous than you think!"
Holding her clothes, Ye Li pulled out his phone. "Then I'll let Skye and the others know first. I'll tell them I went out on a date with you so they won't worry?"
"Say... say whatever you want."
Help Him Out! Underlying Currents Surge!
"Damn it! Damn it!"
"I came up with all the company's circuit designs! Why should those guys above me steal all the credit?"
Maxwell "Max" Dillon was an electrical engineer at Osborn Corporation.
He was getting drunk on the roof of a building. Empty beer cans lay scattered everywhere, and he was drifting closer and closer to the edge.
Ever since he was young, Max had believed he was talented with electricity and wanted to become an electrical engineer.
But his single mother believed he wasn't smart enough and could never succeed, so she sent him to work as a wireman in a factory.
After struggling for half his life, Max had finally managed to secure a position as an electrical engineer at Osborn Corporation.
But because of the volatile temper he had developed growing up in a single-parent household, his colleagues disliked him. He was practically invisible at the company.
Then, during a major overhaul of the company's electrical circuits, he seized an opportunity and provided an excellent proposal.
He had thought it would earn him recognition, only for his superiors to take all the credit!
The lack of recognition from those around him, the frustrations at work—
Had driven him up to this rooftop.
He drank to drown his sorrows.
While mindlessly scrolling through the news.
Osborn Corporation's shareholder disputes had thrown the company into chaos. Many unprofitable or low-profit research projects had been halted, and its future direction remained uncertain...
"Heh, good. Let it be a mess."
Latest news on "Green Goblin" Norman Osborn: his body had still not been recovered, and experts suspected he had faked his death to escape punishment...
"Norman? Heh, good riddance. Pop the champagne!"
Tony Stark announced the shutdown of Stark Industries' weapons division, causing an uproar as shareholders dumped their Stark Industries stock...
"That bastard cost me a fortune! Damn capitalist! They should all die!"
Ghost-Spider had recently dismantled several gang hideouts and provided the NYPD with multiple leads. The person behind the gangs was known as "Tombstone"... Fans praised her as the most down-to-earth superhero, though Knightress fans seemed to disagree...
"Superheroes? Can they save my goddamn life?!"
Growing angrier by the moment, Max turned off the screen without looking at the next news report about Black Spider supposedly appearing in Afghanistan.
Feeling that his life held no hope, he walked to the edge of the building under the influence of alcohol, intending to jump.
He failed to notice that, not far away, two people clinging to each other swung over.
"Cindy, your home is so far away. Going to school must be pretty inconvenient."
Ye Li had ulterior motives. "How about moving into my estate? Utilities are free, rent is free, and I can even hire a driver to pick you up and drop you off."
"I'm afraid you'll eat me."
Cindy twisted her body. "Teacher, could you put your hand somewhere more appropriate? Don't grope strange places. Be careful, or I might lose my grip and we'll both fall."
"I was just curious about the material of your Silk. Besides, you don't seem to mind."
"It's all because of that strange attraction!"
Cindy said, "You were so graceful in class, teacher. If Felicia knew you were this lecherous, she'd definitely be disappointed!"
"I think she'd be pretty excited."
Just as Ye Li was about to tease her some more, he heard a notification from the system: Fate Enemy of Gwen Stacy detected, "Electro," Maxwell Max Dillon.
Hm?
Ye Li focused his senses and found Max on the rooftop. He was even the Black version.
Seeing him standing at the edge and preparing to jump, Ye Li considered it for a moment and decided... to help him out.
Max wanted to die anyway. He might as well earn some rewards along the way. He just didn't know whether "lending someone a hand" counted as defeating him.
Although the other party seemed to be an ordinary person right now, so what? Should he wait until his enemy grew stronger and threatened his woman?
Since the system had identified Max as an Enemy of Fate, it meant that as long as Max did not change, he would clash with Gwen in the future.
Of course.
Ye Li had principles too, so he would only make a small move.
If Max could survive, he would let him go this time.
Besides, even if Max became Electro in the future, Ye Li had ways to deal with him. It was simply less effort to act now.
Thus.
Just as Max prepared to leap and end his life, he suddenly felt a powerful gust of wind shove him from behind, as though heaven itself were helping him.
My god, even god wants me dead!?
Is my life really such a failure!?
With those thoughts, he fell from the rooftop.
But to Ye Li's surprise—at that exact moment, Cindy happened to swing by in that direction!
"What is that?! We're going to hit it!"
Cindy instinctively shot out a massive web, catching Max and sticking him to the glass windows of a skyscraper.
"That scared me to death. If you want to die, can't you die farther away?"
Cindy patted her chest in fright.
Her Spider-Sense and speed were even stronger than Gwen's, but her strength and constitution were somewhat inferior.
If she had been hit by him just now, it definitely would not have felt good—especially with Ye Li in her arms.
"Uh..."
Seeing Cindy say something so shocking, as if revealing another side of herself, Ye Li asked strangely, "Aren't you a superhero? Why are you telling people to die farther away?"
"Who told you I was a superhero?"
Cindy reminded him, "Listen, don't go copying Ghost-Spider and becoming a superhero just because you have some abilities. We can barely protect ourselves. I'll explain everything when we get there!"
Ye Li didn't care. It was just the Morlun Family. Of course he knew about them, but he wasn't concerned.
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