"C-Sis, pull up surveillance footage of anomalous incidents in New York City from this period."
Henry's order concerned footage of Alien creatures appearing on surveillance cameras. It excluded cases involving cars, robberies, street shootouts, and the like. It had previously been used to track Vampires and Werewolves.
But ever since he had driven those two kinds of monsters out of New York City, Henry had stopped using the Looking-Glass System—until today.
He had thought New York City would quiet down somewhat after the Vampires and Werewolves were gone. But Henry had never expected that, even without those two notorious creatures of darkness, New York City's nights and back alleys would still be a stage for the bizarre.
In the footage, Lizard Men could be seen more than once hiding in alleys, eating cats and dogs alive, even swallowing rats whole. Though the footage was rather blurry, the sight was still terrifying.
That showed Curt Connors's Regeneration Gene Serum had gained the ability to transform people into Lizard Men. However, the fact that they could still revert to human form meant the serum was not yet complete.
Was this what he had been busy with lately? Did he want a permanent transformation? Or did he want to eliminate the side effects of turning into a Lizard Man and retain only the limb-regeneration effect?
Besides the Lizard Men, the Looking-Glass System occasionally caught sight of Sandman as well. It was as though Spider-Man had his eye on him—whenever he stayed in one place for too long, Spider-Man would show up and beat him senseless.
Luckily, Sandman could not be broken, and he seemed to grow stronger the more he was beaten. Otherwise, if he had run into Black Spider-Man, one Black Tiger Claws the Heart and he would have been finished. Now,