The Brother Who Finished Killing and Went Home, and the Younger Brother Busy Saving People

Toby made his move.

The taxi driver only heard a rush of wind. When he turned back around, he found that the passenger who had just opened the door had vanished without a trace.

The driver froze, thinking he had run into some YouTube prank. He could not help but curse:

"Motherfucker! If you weren't taking a taxi, why the fuck did you flag one down? Let me catch you again, and I'll smash your damn head in!"

After all, in the land of the free, besides daily shootouts, you never knew what other bizarre freaks you might run into!

So the driver did not think much of it. He shut the door, stepped on the gas, and drove away.

What the driver did not know was that, in a dark alley not far away, a black shadow fell from above and landed lightly at the very end of the alley.

It was Toby, dressed in an all-black combat suit, along with the male secretary whom the driver had just threatened to bash the head of.

At that moment, the male secretary was being held in midair by Toby gripping his cheeks. Other than terrified muffled whimpers, he could not even cry for help!

Toby could not be bothered to waste words on him. Gripping the man's head, he casually slammed it hard against the wall beside them!

Bang—

With an explosive sound like a watermelon bursting, Toby smashed the male secretary's head open against the wall!

Toby casually shook the flesh and blood from his hand. Then, making use of what was available, he wiped his hand on the secretary's respectable-looking suit before picking up the case containing the regeneration serum at his feet.

As for whether Toby killing the secretary like that was too cruel?

Toby could only say: give me a break, bro.

Never mind whether he cared if the man was innocent or not—just the fact that this guy was Norman Osborn's secretary meant he could not possibly be innocent!

When an avalanche came crashing down, not a single snowflake was innocent!

And this male secretary was one of the snowflakes closest to the source of the avalanche, was he not?

Who knew how much dirty work this guy had done for Norman Osborn? No matter how miserably he died, he was not innocent!

After taking out Norman's secretary, Toby opened the case and removed the regeneration serum inside.

After wrapping the serum in webbing, he casually tossed away the case.

The first rule of intercepting someone's prize: do not stupidly take the stolen case home with you.

Who knew whether there might be some tracking chip inside?

Especially when the case belonged to a high-tech company like Osborn Enterprises.

This was a lesson he had learned back when he first started out, from the time Kingpin had hidden a phone in a cash-filled case.

Back then, he had relied heavily on his spider-sense. After sensing no danger inside the case, he had planned to carry the cash case away.

But he had forgotten that some dangers were hidden and did not show themselves on the surface. His spider-sense would not react to them.

Since then, he had never taken away another case that did not belong to him. He only took what was inside.

From killing the secretary to obtaining the regeneration serum and leaving, Toby took less than a minute in total.

When he left, Peter and Lizard Man were still fighting on Manhattan Bridge.

However, their earlier close-quarters brawl had turned into a game of throw-and-catch.

Lizard Man kept throwing cars off the bridge, while Peter continuously caught each vehicle Lizard Man hurled down with his webs.

To be honest, the scene was rather heartwarming. It even looked kind of fun.

If one ignored the screaming passengers inside the cars...

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Toby took one look and shook his head.

Sure enough, although he and Peter were not that far apart in terms of ability, their principles of action were vastly different—practically complete opposites.

Peter's first priority was saving people. Toby's first priority was completing his objective.

For example, if Lizard Man were his target, he absolutely would not care whether the passengers in the cars Lizard Man threw off the bridge lived or died. He would only kill Lizard Man as quickly as possible.

Saving people? The fact that he was not using the cars by the roadside as weapons to smash Lizard Man with already meant he was in a good mood today.

So, seeing Peter busy saving people, Toby had no intention of going over to help.

His top priority now was to return home and safely store the lizard regeneration serum he had just acquired in the underground laboratory.

So Toby merely glanced over as he passed by, then left without a shred of hesitation.

After storing the lizard regeneration serum, Toby even had the leisure to return to the living room and continue watching the news with the old couple.

The news was broadcasting the entire battle between Dinosaur Man and Spandex Hero.

As for when Ben and May asked where Peter was, Toby casually said that he had comforted the "heartbroken" Peter. Peter had cheered up quite a bit and had climbed over the wall to find that girl and ask to get back together.

Ben and May completely believed Toby's offhand lie.

Ben even joked that men needed to be thick-skinned like that. That was how he had managed to win over Toby's mother, May, back in the day.

Ben also complained that Peter was already grown up, so why was he still climbing over walls whenever he went out? Why not just tell them?

That way, he could lend Peter his new Ford Raptor pickup. With the boost from his Raptor, Peter would definitely win her back.

Toby said they might as well take his own Audi R8.

Compared to a Raptor, the kind of truck only real men liked, an R8-style sports coupe was the kind of car most young women would prefer.

May said Toby was right.

However, May also told Ben and Toby to stop giving Peter bad advice.

Campus romance at Peter's age was at its purest, and it shouldn't be influenced by worldly matters like what car he drove.

If the girl truly liked Peter, she would still like him even if he rode there on a skateboard.

But if she didn't like Peter, then even if Peter successfully won her over by driving a luxury car, she would only like Peter's car, not Peter himself.

Just like how she had nearly gone astray back then—after Ben brought her back onto the right path, what she had valued was Ben's kind nature, not that old clunker he used to drive.

Ben and Toby, the father-son pair, nodded solemnly in agreement with May's grand lecture.

But in truth, her words had gone in one ear and out the other. Neither of them had taken in a single word.

It wasn't that they thought May was wrong.

It was just that over the years, they had heard her tell this story more than once. Their ears had practically grown calluses from it.

May naturally saw that neither father nor son had been listening seriously, but there was nothing she could do about it. She merely pinched each of their ears before returning to the news on TV with great interest.

At one point, May teased, "Hey, have you noticed? That masked hero rescuing people on Manhattan Bridge has a pretty similar build to our Peter!"

Toby fell silent.

Was it really that obvious?

He knew that in the comics and movies, many versions of May had discovered Peter's identity as Spider-Man.

But he hadn't expected that May in his universe would instinctively think the very first time she saw Spider-Man that it was Peter!

What kind of spider-sense did he and Peter have? May was the one with the real spider-sense!