Toby VS Lizard Man

The amusement park's complex terrain and dense crowds meant the police did not dare fire freely, for fear of accidentally injuring the civilians enjoying the park.

Therefore, the pursuit team led by Captain Stacy had no choice but to split up, with some officers evacuating civilians while the rest continued the chase.

With Lizard Man's speed, he had completely vanished from the police's sight within those few chaotic blinks of an eye.

Helplessly, Captain Stacy could only have the pursuing officers split up again, calling for support the moment anyone found Lizard Man.

And as everyone knew, splitting up in a movie plot usually meant that someone was definitely about to get into trouble.

And the person who got into trouble generally would not be some random extra, but someone with enough importance to the plot that their death could elevate the entire story.

Among those present, aside from Toby and Gwen, the only character important enough was Gwen's father, Captain Stacy.

Thus, the haunted house Captain Stacy was assigned to search just so happened to be Lizard Man's hiding place.

Inside the dim haunted house, lit by eerie flickering lights, Captain Stacy cautiously searched deeper with his gun in hand.

But as everyone knew, players in shooting games had one common flaw: they never looked up.

Captain Stacy had clearly made the same mistake this time.

He had stayed alert to what was in front of him, behind him, to his left and right, and even beneath his feet, but he had forgotten to watch the ceiling.

And Lizard Man was lurking right on the ceiling, his cold vertical pupils staring down at the steadily approaching Captain Stacy like a green mantis ready to snatch a cicada at any moment!

The "cicada cocoon" of Captain Stacy's bulletproof vest clearly could not withstand Lizard Man's sharp, sickle-like claws!

But... after the mantis stalked the cicada, there was often another saying: the oriole waited behind!

Lizard Man, who saw himself as the hunter, had clearly not realized that he might now be the oriole's prey!

Toby crouched upside down in a pitch-black corner of the ceiling, his scarlet eyes fixed on Lizard Man's sturdy back, which was poised to strike.

So, just as Lizard Man pounced toward Captain Stacy below him, Toby moved as well!

A foul wind descended from overhead, and Captain Stacy immediately sensed something was wrong. But he only had time to look up; before he could even raise the muzzle of his gun, Lizard Man's hideous green face had already lunged right in front of him!

In that instant, Captain Stacy's entire life flashed before his eyes.

He thought of his wife. If he died, she would have to raise three children all by herself. It would surely be hard on her...

Oh no, how could he have forgotten? Gwen was no longer a child. She had grown up. She was already an adult...

Gwen should be able to take care of herself and this family. After all, his Gwen had always been the most outstanding, and she was his greatest pride...

It was just a pity that he would not be able to witness Gwen walk into the most important marriage of her life, nor would he be able to hold his own grandchild...

But the young man he had seen today, Toby—yes, his name was Toby—Gwen's boyfriend. He was excellent. Captain Stacy believed he could take good care of Gwen...

So he could rest easy...

A relieved smile appeared on Captain Stacy's face as he closed his eyes and waited for death to arrive.

Until...

"Uh, Captain Stacy, this doesn't seem like a good place for an afternoon nap, does it? If you want to sleep, how about going back to your patrol car?"

Toby, who had fired webs from both hands to firmly hold back Lizard Man as he pounced down from the ceiling, could not stop the corner of his mouth from twitching when he saw Captain Stacy freeze in place, then even smile and close his eyes.

Only after hearing Toby's deep, magnetic voice, altered by his suit's voice modulator, did Captain Stacy, who had been peacefully waiting for death with his eyes shut, snap awake and abruptly open them again.

Only then did he see that Lizard Man, who had pounced at him, was being held back by a scarlet figure on the ceiling!

No wonder that life-flashing-before-his-eyes feeling had seemed so long just now...

So it had not been his life flashing before his eyes at all. Someone had saved him!

Seeing Captain Stacy stare at him and blank out again, Toby was utterly speechless.

How had someone this slow-witted been named New York's finest captain?

Already not a particularly patient person, Toby simply used one hand to hold the two webs restraining Lizard Man, freeing the other to shoot a web at Captain Stacy.

Whoosh----

After wrapping Captain Stacy up, Toby tugged his arm and hoisted Captain Stacy's entire body onto the ceiling.

"Sorry, Captain, but I don't have time to play the staring-into-space game with you. So, to keep you from getting flattened, please stay on the ceiling you ignored for a little while, okay?"

"Consider it a lesson for yourself~"

Without waiting for Captain Stacy to say whether he agreed or not, Toby, having cleared the ground, stopped pulling on Lizard Man. Instead, he kicked off the ceiling and shot toward Lizard Man like an arrow, stomping heavily onto his back!

Unlike Peter's agile fighting style, Toby's combat style leaned more toward raw power!

The instant his foot came down, a crisp crack of bone breaking could clearly be heard from Lizard Man's back!

And when Lizard Man crashed into the ground, he directly smashed a shallow human-shaped crater into the floor!

That showed just how much force Toby had used!

If Peter had taken that blow head-on, he probably would have had to lie there for a while before recovering.

But Lizard Man happened to be the type with both an enormous health pool and powerful regeneration!

So even after such a heavy blow, he quickly recovered, opened his bloodthirsty maw, and turned around, intent on making the person who had ambushed him pay a painful price!

But it had barely turned around when a size-47 foot rapidly filled its vision!

The Lizard Man's vertical pupils suddenly contracted. Left with no choice, it abandoned the idea of pressing the attack and crossed its arms to block the heavy, crushing stomp!

It managed to block Toby's foot, but doing so forced the Lizard Man to use every ounce of strength it had. It felt as though what was stepping on it wasn't a human foot, but a damn hundred-ton Optimus Prime!

It was so heavy it simply didn't feel human!

And it was only inevitable that the Lizard Man would be completely suppressed by Toby...

After all, if the Lizard Man was only slightly stronger than Peter, then Toby, with three times Peter's strength, was vastly stronger than the Lizard Man!

As Toby slowly increased the force beneath his foot, the Lizard Man's resisting arms let out the sound of bones grinding under unbearable strain.

The shallow depression in the ground began to crack, deepening into a crater!