The Truth of the Past

"Are you willing to trust me?" the old man of the Spider Tribe asked Cathy Weber.

Having come all the way to this savage land in search of answers, Cathy Weber looked somewhat helpless. "I don't know if I have any other choice."

Without warning, the man shoved Cathy!

Then an unbelievable scene unfolded before everyone. Cathy Weber had only swayed slightly and remained standing stiffly where she was, yet they could see another Cathy being pushed into the pool.

However, the one still standing seemed to have lost consciousness, her eyes staring fixedly at the empty space before her.

The three girls immediately dropped to their knees on the rocks beside the pool, their gazes constantly shifting between the bottom of the water and the person standing nearby. They babbled incoherently, no one knowing what they were saying. At the same time, they occasionally glanced at the unmoving Henry, their confusion obvious.

Henry wanted to explain that this was a trial Cathy had to overcome if she wished to transform. But he could not explain how he knew that. Still, the real reason Henry did nothing was that quite a few members of the Spider Tribe had entered the cave and were watching him in an encircling formation. In fact, it was only by following Henry's gaze that the three girls noticed the others. Like the black spiders that had chased them before, they stood upside down along the upper edge of the cave or clung to the rock walls.

The difference was that these people were not dressed in black bodysuits. Instead, they had covered themselves in various paints dominated by red, then wrapped themselves in vines.

Their appearance was extremely strange, but from a distance, they felt more like that friendly neighborhood Spider-Man from the streets of