Waiting

The next day, Li Si woke up early as promised to pick up Gwen and head to school.

"Huh? When did those guys get mixed up with Spider-Man?"

Arriving at the classroom door with Gwen, Li Si spotted Peter Parker in the corner at a glance, along with a few other familiar figures.

Li Ritian, Ye Xi, and the three male players who had accompanied Li Ritian to buy the battle suits at the very beginning.

It is worth mentioning that Li Ritian was currently wearing the same sh*t-green suit as Kick-Ass, only without the mask, while Ye Xi beside him was wearing the same leather jacket and cape as Hit-Girl.

The two of them were chatting with Peter Parker while pretending to be normal, but their faces were flushed with an unnatural, ecstatic expression that almost made Li Si burst out laughing.

Could it be that after meeting on the Williamsburg Bridge last night, their shared cross-dressing fetish brought them together?

With a strange expression, Li Si watched them from afar and led Gwen to take a detour.

The fact that these people could follow him to school and meet with Peter Parker while not wearing their spandex suits clearly meant that Peter Parker had already revealed his identity to them.

It must be said that this Spider-Man is truly bold; he dares to reveal his identity to anyone he meets on the road wearing a spandex suit.

Although his true identity is not much of a secret to those at a certain level, this is still too reckless. If it weren't for his father's ambiguous relationship with S.H.I.E.L.D., he would have probably been dragged to a laboratory and sliced up hundreds of times by now.

"Those people just now don't seem to be from our school, right? Should we go help Peter?"

After entering the classroom and sitting down with Gwen, Gwen frowned slightly and looked out the window.

"Don't worry, those should just be Peter's friends."

Li Si said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

He naturally knew what Gwen was worried about. Peter Parker had always been a wallflower at school, so it would be perfectly normal for him to encounter school bullying or extortion by social outcasts.

But the current Peter Parker is not the same as before. If those players like Li Ritian really had malicious intent, Spider-Man could take on all five of them without even using one hand. Gwen was purely worrying for nothing.

Peter Parker didn't stay outside for long; when the bell rang for class, he walked in and returned to his seat, taking the opportunity to greet Li Si.

After responding, Li Si opened the task bar and clicked on the faction option.

Side Quest: The Amazing Spider-Man -- Battle of the Reptiles

Type: Faction Opposition

Optional Factions: Spider-Man (Faction Size: 261) vs. Lizard (Faction Size: 153)

"Not bad, the protagonist charm of Spider-Man is truly no joke!"

After checking the number of people who had already accepted the faction quest, Li Si couldn't help but smack his lips and glance at Peter Parker, who had heavy dark circles under his eyes and had slumped down to sleep.

There are probably fewer than five hundred players in all of New York, and yet the vast majority are now in Spider-Man's faction. One must know that other players don't know Spider-Man is the protagonist; this number is already somewhat terrifying.

However, the number of players probably won't affect this plot mission much, as the current players are generally too weak.

The only ones with any real combat capability are those who purchased paid initial templates like soldiers and agents. But while those players enjoy better treatment, they are also constrained by the organizations they belong to, making it basically impossible for them to act independently, let alone come to New York to participate in this mission.

Perhaps those players who bought my battle suits can play a supporting role as cannon fodder?

A thought popped into Li Si's mind, but he then laughed and dismissed it himself.

As for these players who are still feeling their way across the river, apart from those in the military or intelligence agencies, it is rare to find any who have even leveled up their Combat Mastery or Ranged Mastery. Even with the boost from the Electro-Shock Suit, they wouldn't be able to achieve any real effect.

The Electro-Shock Suit he cobbled together is essentially just stimulating muscles to exert power beyond their normal limits.

Current players have no means of enhancement and rely purely on the basic civilian template, which has terrifyingly high experience requirements for leveling up. No matter how much they grind for experience, they won't get very far.

Coupled with the flaw of stiff and rigid movements, a single ordinary special forces soldier could probably easily beat several players, and a monster like the Lizard, with its massive size and strength far beyond the norm, could kill several with a single claw.

Moreover, the boost from the Electro-Shock Suit is not without its limits; the stronger the physical fitness, the lower the boost. Once physical fitness is strong enough to be immune to the weak current emitted by the stun gun, this suit will have no effect at all.

The sweltering summer air held a stillness that felt like a storm was brewing.

However, only Li Si, who understood what was about to happen, could feel it. In school, classes continued as normal, and the students, who had yet to leave their ivory tower, were still playing and laughing without a care in the world.

They say the most terrifying thing is not death, but the period of waiting quietly for death after knowing it is coming. This saying might not be perfectly applicable here, but it is undoubtedly very fitting.

Because he had to prevent the Lizard from attacking the school, Li Si spent the entire day in a state of high alert, and every moment felt like a torment that lasted for years.

Not today?

Until school let out, Midtown School of Science and Technology remained peaceful and calm, which made Li Si's brows knit tightly together. He didn't want to endure this kind of agonizing wait for even a second longer.

The original work didn't make the timeline very clear. He only remembered that not long after the Lizard mutated, he attacked the school to retaliate after discovering Spider-Man's identity, but he didn't know which specific day it was.

It was inconvenient to ask Peter Parker directly to confirm, and he had to be on guard against a sudden attack by the Lizard at all times. As a result, the whole day had been wasted in vain.

Should I just go to the sewers and search for the Lizard?

Thinking that he might have to endure another day like this tomorrow, Li Si hesitated.

But after thinking about it carefully, he gave up on this suicidal idea.

His main body's combat power is currently at the level of trash, and while New York's sewer system isn't exactly narrow, Bumblebee's four-meter-tall frame simply wouldn't have room to maneuver.

On the contrary, the Lizard has inherited the racial characteristics of a lizard and would be like a fish in water in such a damp and narrow environment. If a battle were to really break out in the sewers, Bumblebee might not necessarily be his match.