Improved Web-Shooter

As a single woman, Aunt May worked at a welfare-oriented rescue organization, and her salary wasn't high.

While their lives weren't exactly destitute, they were just enough to get by.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been collecting trash to build himself a computer.

If he had the ability, he naturally wanted Aunt May to live a better life.

In the past, he wouldn't have thought about these things.

But after his experience as Shadow Spider-Man, he had truly grown up overnight.

The first step in growing up was starting to care about the people around him.

"Then you get ready first. I have some other things to attend to. In the afternoon, my assistant will come to take you to your destination. His name is Happy," Tony said, standing up to leave.

"Okay," Peter nodded and stood up as well.

He needed to prepare more web fluid during this time.

After sending Tony off, Peter dealt with Aunt May, who had been constantly asking him questions.

He took the opportunity to tell her that he had received funding from the September Fund.

This was good news for the family.

Aunt May immediately happily declared they should go out for dinner that night to celebrate.

However, Peter told her Tony's arrangements for him: Tony would send someone in the afternoon to help him finalize some things to ensure he met the September Fund's support standards, and so on.

This was the agreed-upon story between him and Tony regarding this "business trip."

Aunt May was disappointed, but she also knew that business matters were more important.

So she pulled Peter aside and gave him some more advice, telling him some tips on how to get along with others.

Peter's head was spinning, but he had to patiently listen to her.

At this moment, he had a slightly mischievous thought: would Shadow Spider-Man also be lectured like this by his Aunt May?

This was probably what they called "the wisdom of adults."

It was indeed for the benefit of the younger generation.

But the younger generation really didn't like to listen.

After she had been talking for a good half hour, Peter desperately hinted that he had to leave in the afternoon and needed to prepare some things. Only then did Aunt May let him go.

Afterward, she prepared some change of clothes for his trip and then left for work.

Returning to his room, Peter lightly jumped and clung to the ceiling. He pushed open a hidden panel and retrieved several small balls of web fluid from inside.

These were his homemade web fluid.

The formula for the web fluid was something he had naturally learned after being bitten by a spider and gaining his abilities.

It was like how spiders in nature spin silk.

"One, two, three, four... and eight more balls of web fluid. That should be enough, right?" Peter counted the balls of web fluid and stuffed them all into his pocket.

This was an "expedition," so he had to be well-stocked with ammunition.

Then he looked at the web-shooter.

Compared to the web fluid formula, which was an ability add-on, the web-shooter was his true masterpiece.

This was because he wasn't a real spider, and he didn't have any organs within his body that could shoot web fluid like a spider.

So he had to rely on external devices.

To that end, he self-studied biology, material science, and mechanical dynamics.

Biology and material science helped him understand the structure of spider silk and how to materialize it using the formula.

The structure of spider silk was very complex.

It was divided into three levels of structure.

The first level of structure was a hydrogen bond β-chain formed by hydrogen bonds connecting amino acid molecules closely together.

The hydrogen bond β-chain then connected to each other through hydrogen bonds to form the secondary structure of spider silk—hydrogen bond β-sheet nanocrystals.

And when the hydrogen bond β-sheet nanocrystals were embedded in the semi-amorphous β-turn polypeptide chains to form α-helical structures, a protein nanocomposite structure was formed, which was the tertiary structure of spider silk.

Based on this structure, he devised a method.

First, he prepared the material to the tertiary structure of spider silk formation, and then used a subatomic compressor to compress it back to a subatomic state.

In this way, a hundred meters of web fluid could be compressed into a nail-cap-sized solution-like form.

As for the web-shooter, it was a miniaturized subatomic compressor. However, to make it portable, other functions were removed, and only its pressure was retained.

This was because the web fluid solution needed sufficient pressure to be able to stop instantly upon ejection.

If the pressure was insufficient, the web fluid would not stop spraying once it was released.

For these reasons, the materials for the web-shooter were also very particular, and many materials on Earth did not meet his requirements.

Either they were too expensive, or they were too brittle.

Later, he still quietly ran to the center of New York City and found some metal that met his requirements at the site where the Avengers fought aliens a few years ago.

After a period of strenuous smelting and forging, he finally managed to shape it into what he wanted.

At this moment, he couldn't help but envy Shadow Spider-Man, who didn't need to synthesize web fluid artificially but could directly shoot it from his wrists.

He wondered if he would gain such an ability when he possessed other Spider-Men in the future.

But for now, Peter was preparing to modify his web-shooter slightly.

This was inspired by Shadow Spider-Man.

Shadow Spider-Man's web fluid could be changed at will, in various forms like webs, web-balls, or web-whips, suitable for different scenarios.

He didn't ask for that much; such extensive modifications to his web-shooter were beyond his current capabilities.

He planned to add two shooting modes: [web-ball] and [web-net].

In the past, the simple web fluid was just a tool for him to move around and occasionally to tie people up.

But with the web-ball, he could release a large mass of web fluid in an instant, utilizing the web-shooter's momentary kinetic energy to produce an effect similar to a bullet.

Although, given the material of the web fluid and its rapid crystallization upon contact with air, this web-ball wouldn't be fatal, it would certainly disorient anyone hit by it.

This was clearly a good offensive method.

As for the web-net, it was an enhancement of the existing method of using web fluid to tie people up. He would directly shoot the web fluid in a net-like pattern, which not only covered a large area but could also directly entangle enemies, rendering them immobile and instantly incapable of fighting.

To achieve this, Peter consulted a large amount of information, carefully studying similar objects like bullets and fishing nets, observing their movement changes from release to completion.

At the same time, he repeatedly recalled the feeling of being Shadow Spider-Man in his mind.

Finally, before 2 PM, he successfully completed his modifications.

Afterward, he did a brief test of the finished product and found that it completely met his expectations.

A little while later, a message arrived on Peter's phone.

"Hello Peter, this is Happy. Tony should have mentioned me. I'm downstairs."

Peter grabbed the newly tuned web-shooter, checked his equipment, and then picked up the backpack on his bed before heading downstairs.

He knew that what he was about to face was the first superhero in history.

Captain America!