Daredevil and The Punisher

Judging a person from another world by the standards of this world seems a bit prejudiced.

However, this "old acquaintance," especially one with a "criminal record," was enough for Peter to investigate thoroughly.

After all, he was the only one with a high enough suspicion level in his line of reasoning!

"Karen, help me look up this guy named Adrian Toomes," Peter said.

"Okay."

Perhaps as a test, Iron Man gave Peter as much autonomy as possible, including some permissions.

Like checking on people now, this was not a permission Peter should have had.

But it was granted to him.

There wasn't much information in this guy's resume.

Adrian Toomes' parents died when he was very young. After that, he was raised by his older brother, Marcus, and performed excellently in school.

But later, his brother Marcus was in a car accident. Toomes dropped out of school to take care of his brother, but unfortunately, he couldn't save his brother's life.

After lying in bed for a few years, Marcus still died.

As an adult, Toomes, with his early studies and his own efforts, became an outstanding electrical engineer and inventor. He founded a scrap metal recycling company—Batesman Salvage.

In fact, while collecting scrap, he had always been collecting and repairing some usable tools from the scrap, then reusing them to make some cheap but easily sellable "90% new" appliances.

Until 2012, after the Battle of New York, Batesman Salvage received a commission from the city council.

Toomes thought this was his chance to rise. For this, he bought new trucks, hired many new workers, and even took on huge loans.

But unexpectedly, the federal government and Stark Industries also set their sights on this lucrative opportunity—for Earth, the Chitauri army's high technology was indeed a lucrative opportunity.

Moreover, they were actually considering safety.

After all, this alien technology was of great importance. It was safer to keep it in their own hands rather than hand it over to civilian organizations.

Under the powerful forces, Toomes had no chance to resist.

In the end, Batesman Salvage went bankrupt and was liquidated.

What surprised Peter was that in the following years, Toomes didn't fall into despair because of this. Instead, he quickly paid off his debts and lived a good life.

Uh, it wasn't that Peter was jealous or anything.

It's just that this didn't make sense.

Setting aside how Toomes repaid the huge debt, he didn't even have a company under his name. Where did his money come from?

If there were a suspect index, then in Peter's mind, Toomes' suspect index had risen from 30 to 70!

Previously, he wanted to investigate him just to find clues.

Now, he wanted to investigate him to find evidence!

However, Peter couldn't find more information about Toomes.

This guy was clearly deliberately hiding something.

This caused his suspicion index to rise again, but at the same time, it also caused trouble for Peter's investigation.

At this moment, the bus Peter had boarded had unknowingly reached Queens and was heading in a direction away from Peter's home.

Peter snapped back to reality and immediately got off the bus.

For the next few days, Peter returned to his routine of "home—street—school."

However, his extracurricular activities were no longer focused on scientific research, but on tracking down Adrian Toomes.

Unfortunately, the progress was very slow.

Firstly, although Peter often zoned out in class, there were many inconveniences with too many people around at school, and it was difficult to talk to Karen there.

Secondly, this guy was very cautious in his actions, perhaps even possessing strong counter-surveillance awareness, which resulted in Peter not finding much information about him despite his deliberate investigation.

Peter even went to the dark alleys in chaotic areas at night to gather intelligence from some thugs.

As a result, although the progress was slow, it wasn't entirely without results.

A week later, the weekend arrived again.

Peter sneaked out and took a bus to Manhattan.

His target was a block in Manhattan, roughly located between 34th and 57th Streets, and from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River.

The thug he had caught and interrogated called it: Hell's Kitchen.

From that thug, he also learned that many gang forces from different countries had once been entrenched in Hell's Kitchen.

The most famous among them were: the Hellhounds, the Irish Kitchen, and the Mexican Cartel.

And a few months ago, these gang forces had suffered devastating blows.

First, a masked vigilante named Daredevil defeated Wilson Fisk, the leader chosen by these criminal organizations.

Then, a lone gunman known as The Punisher took measures to permanently eliminate most of the criminal organizations.

However, even a dying centipede still has its legs.

Even now, there are still many ambitious individuals in Hell's Kitchen.

After their leader was arrested and several major crime syndicates were disbanded, the remaining smaller gangs and factions began fighting for control of the area.

According to the information from that thug, he had heard about gang shootouts using energy weapons in Hell's Kitchen multiple times, and the other party clearly had a stable channel for obtaining these weapons.

Furthermore, some intelligence gathered by the special agents also pointed to Hell's Kitchen.

Therefore, Peter decided to try his luck in Hell's Kitchen.

Hell's Kitchen.

Peter wasn't actually very familiar with this place, as he had never been here before.

Fortunately, he had the Suit's intelligent assistant, Miss Karen.

Not only was she beautiful and had a sweet voice, but she also possessed navigation capabilities, allowing her to quickly find his target and plan suitable routes.

She even knew clearly which car nearby he could hitch a ride with.

With Miss Karen's help, he moved quickly between buildings until he reached the top of a building.

Here, he saw two people.

One was wearing a somewhat rough high-molecular fiber suit, bound by chains to a chimney.

Standing beside him was another person, wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying many weapons.

Peter was slightly stunned and quickly crouched down.

"Karen, is the one tied up that Daredevil?" Peter asked doubtfully.

"Yes, Daredevil, also known as the Devil of Hell's Kitchen."

A picture popped up, showing photos of Daredevil taken by the media.

"Then who is the other person?" Peter felt the other one looked somewhat familiar too.

Another picture popped up: "After comparison, the probability that this is The Punisher, another violent individual active in Hell's Kitchen, is as high as 90%."

"The Punisher?"

Peter was a little surprised.

He didn't expect to meet the two famous vigilantes of Hell's Kitchen so soon.

It was just that the way they met was somewhat unexpected.