New Goals

Tony Stark followed George Stacy as he rushed into the traffic monitoring center. The place was bustling with activity; all of New York's traffic was under their surveillance, and they were also responsible for dispatching traffic police. A group of people had arrived earlier, shown credentials no one recognized, and then taken over the main server room.

George Stacy had naturally been here before, so he led Tony Stark straight inside. When they reached the main server room, they found people already there. "Who are you?"

"Reinforcements." After saying that, one of them fell silent and began rapidly tapping away at the keyboard.

Tony Stark naturally had no interest in dealing with them. He found himself a seat, and Thomas placed his laptop in front of him. Once Tony Stark connected to the mainframe, he began working as well.

Amid the rapid clattering of keyboards, no one spoke, but they encountered one another in the network. "Hey, could you stop charging around like bulls in a china shop?" Tony Stark had had enough this time and turned to ask directly.

"Sorry, Mr. Stark, but we need to hurry and find their trail. I imagine you should be doing the same," the other person replied without even turning around.

"Hmph..." Tony Stark snorted and turned back. He was not surprised that they knew his name; he was a celebrity. Tony Stark withdrew instead of entering to search. Outside the firewall, he set up a barrier. "Jarvis, don't let anything get out!"

"Yes, Mr. Stark." With Jarvis's help, Tony Stark instantly established an early-warning perimeter. If those idiots beside him ran into that expert or Artificial Intelligence, the other side would naturally try to flee.

Tony Stark refused to accept defeat. Even if he could not silently enter the bank's mainframe and then leave without a trace, he did not believe he could not beat the other side. He needed no reason for his pride; he was simply that confident.

Mo Fei was currently watching the area around the hospital, including Roy inside it. There was also a monitoring system in the hospital room, which earned his approval. Sure enough, money could get you into a good hospital. The one Roy had admitted his wife to was the best.

Roy's wife had a brain tumor, and it was in a difficult location. If a skilled surgeon operated and removed it thoroughly, she might live for a long time. If the follow-up treatment went well, it might not even recur. However, such top surgeons were far too expensive. Ordinary doctors did not dare operate in that area, and Roy did not have that kind of money, so all he could do was opt for conservative treatment.

This time, he could finally cure his wife. From now on, he would give her a good life. Roy held his wife's hand and smiled as he watched her sleep peacefully. Then his phone began to vibrate. Roy had not turned on the ringtone and had set it to vibrate instead. He glanced at the caller ID, slowly released his wife's hand, then opened the hospital room door and walked out.

It was Jack calling. Roy's expression kept changing—shock, fear, and savagery flickering across his face. Yet by the time he lowered the phone, his face was completely calm. Mo Fei relaxed.

Human nature was not fixed. The saying that it was easier to change mountains and rivers than a person's nature was not entirely true, because people could become twisted when faced with extreme circumstances. Mo Fei's personality had become twisted as well, and he knew it clearly. Before coming to this universe, he had been an ordinary person—not exactly good, but not bad either. He had sympathy, but lacked the ability to do much. He had been an insignificant nobody among countless people.

But after arriving here, under the immense terror of life and death, he had become extreme. He knew that in the past, he would not have been indifferent to life and death. Now, however, he felt nothing. He could even be ruthless. The change had happened in an instant.

Roy was the same now. Mo Fei could see his transformation clearly. Even if the police took him away right then, Roy would not say a single word. Mo Fei's threats had worked extremely well.

Mo Fei could not actually kill Jack and Jerry. If they were careful and stayed somewhere without a network connection, there was nothing Mo Fei could do. But now that he had killed Jerry, Jack and Roy had no choice but to believe in Ghost's capabilities. They could not afford to gamble, nor did they want to. They had no desire to go to prison, and Mo Fei had merely reinforced their resolve.

"Not bad. Now both of them can be used, as long as their ambitions do not get out of hand." Mo Fei was preparing to leave. He needed to go study with Jarvis, but then the surrounding environment changed, and a large amount of diagnostic data appeared. "Hm?" Mo Fei was no longer completely ignorant. After studying those streams of data, he could distinguish them. It could be said that he had improved.

"They've actually started scanning?" Mo Fei did not understand why the scan had suddenly begun, but it had nothing to do with him. He directly avoided the data and left. After passing through the firewall, he saw Jarvis. "Jarvis? What are you doing here?"

"Oh, it's you, my 'friend.' Mr. Stark told me to intercept anything here. No data is allowed through." Jarvis greeted Mo Fei as soon as he saw him.

"I see. Then carry on. I'm leaving. I'll come find you in a few days."

"Alright..." Jarvis replied as if it were only natural. Tony Stark's interception setup had no effect at all; Mo Fei passed directly through a gap in it, just as he would pass through a firewall.

However, Mo Fei did not leave immediately. He entered the surveillance system and watched Tony Stark, George Stacy, and several men in black suits inside the main server room. "George Stacy?" Mo Fei recognized him. He was Gwen Stacy's father. Could this universe's Spider-Man be the Amazing version?

Gwen Stacy was the female lead of The Amazing Spider-Man, while her father, George Stacy, was the chief of the New York Police Department. That forced Mo Fei to consider which version of Spider-Man existed here. Although this was the real world, Mo Fei still had to consider what might happen in the future, whether he could gain foresight, and what exactly the situation with the superheroes was.

"Maybe I can put off my studies for now and see what Spider-Man's situation is. Can his father leave him? And what happened to those special spiders?" Mo Fei began to think, but another problem arose. He had no people in the real world and needed to find some capable fighters to work for him.

No matter what it was, someone had to help him get it, didn't they?