Vulture's Lair

Peter used the old method, finding a car to hitchhike.

However, before he could arrive, he received a call from Daredevil.

"Spider-Boy, be careful, I saw Adrian Toomes!" Daredevil's voice sounded a bit breathless, as if a great battle had just occurred.

"Huh? Mr. Daredevil, are you okay?" Peter asked, concerned.

Daredevil replied, "I'm fine. Not long after you left, the police officers arrived and took Herman and Bryce away. But their car hadn't gone far before it was attacked by Toomes. Toomes has a flight device, it looks like giant metal wings and is equipped with some weapons."

"I guess they should be heading in your direction now. Do you need any help?"

Peter refused, "Thank you, Mr. Daredevil, but I'm fine. I think I can handle it."

He hadn't expected Daredevil to be so kind-hearted.

"Alright then, good luck, Spider-Man," Daredevil said without being pretentious.

After hanging up the phone, Peter looked down.

While he was on the phone, he had actually arrived near Toomes's weapons processing plant.

With Karen's help, he wouldn't get lost, nor would he waste too much time finding the way.

"Karen, activate enhanced reconnaissance mode," Peter said.

"Enhanced reconnaissance mode activated." Karen's voice sounded, and at the same time, the spider symbol on his suit's chest transformed into a miniature spider drone and flew out.

The images detected by the spider drone were all displayed on his suit's lenses.

With the help of the spider drone, Peter quickly got a clear picture of the situation inside the factory.

The factory was only one story high, but it contained quite a few high-tech creations. Some were combined with conventional human weapons, likely ready but not yet sold; others were still in their original state, perhaps newly acquired and not yet modified.

Peter saw many familiar things inside.

For example, energy cannons and energy guns from Chitauri soldiers, and even a large piece of a Chitauri soldier's corpse—Chitauri soldiers' skin was mechanically augmented, perhaps they intended to use it to research exoskeleton armor.

However, the scale of the factory surprised Peter a bit.

He had expected there to be many people here.

But he was surprised to find only four or five people in the factory in total.

Two of them were engaged in research work, while the others were organizing goods.

Peter had gotten information about those responsible for research and modification from Herman.

One was a fat man named Phineas Mason, wearing goggles and busy at a table filled with high-tech materials.

It was clear that he played the role of the "waste utilization" technician.

Being able to combine these alien scraps with human technology and modify them into practical tools, he had to admit, was quite a talent.

It was just that his abilities were being used in the wrong way.

The other was a man with long blonde hair named Randy Vale, who was Phineas Mason's right-hand man.

"Since Toomes hasn't returned yet, let's finish this quickly and wait for him to come back!"

Peter made up his mind, had Karen quickly formulate an infiltration plan, and launched an attack on the weapons processing plant.

He first infiltrated through the ceiling, hanging up those organizing goods one by one and sticking them with webbing.

Then, he went to Phineas Mason and Randy Vale, doing the same, and capturing them.

His excellent stealth abilities allowed him to move freely under the cover of night.

It wasn't until they were captured that they realized what was happening.

Interestingly, these guys clearly knew Peter was coming.

After capturing them, Peter found weapons meant to deal with him near their hands.

It was just that they hadn't expected Peter to arrive so silently and act so quickly; before they could even spot him, they had all been caught one by one.

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Meanwhile.

Adrian Toomes's mood was as bad as it could possibly get.

A few years ago, due to his company's bankruptcy, he became utterly disillusioned with society and developed the idea of retaliating against the Avengers and Iron Man.

Therefore, he did not hand over the several truckloads of Chitauri army scrap he had collected. Instead, he persuaded his employees Phineas Mason, Herman Schultz, Jackson Bryce, and Randy Vale, among others, to form a weapons processing workshop. They used the Chitauri army scrap to develop high-tech weapons and sell them on the black market.

After using up the initial scrap, he repeatedly infiltrated Damage Control's transport vehicles and stole a considerable amount of other high-tech scrap.

For example, Chitauri army scrap after the Battle of New York, Ultron army scrap after the Battle of Sokovia, and scrap from the Hydra base after its destruction, and so on.

Due to the internal mismanagement of Damage Control and their sophisticated methods, there had been no incidents for eight years.

Toomes had thus earned a large fortune, and everyone in the team lived a wealthy life because of it.

This gave Toomes a sense of accomplishment.

However, wealth and power can make some people arrogant.

Unlike the cautious Toomes and the others, Jackson Bryce, a member of the team, was an arrogant and conceited fellow.

As his wealth grew, coupled with the power boost from his high-tech gear, his ambition also began to swell.

This guy would often do outrageous things from time to time.

For example, when selling weapons, testing them, could such a powerful energy cannon be used recklessly in the city?

If the Avengers saw it, wouldn't it be game over?

For these matters, Toomes had lost his temper with Bryce more than once.

But this guy always acted completely indifferent.

And now, something had finally happened!

They were being targeted by Spider-Man, Daredevil, and The Punisher all at once!

Spider-Man was not something Toomes took seriously. The main reason was that Spider-Man had appeared for a short time and only did trivial things, with no significant achievements to speak of (the Avengers Civil War would certainly not be known to outsiders).

But Daredevil and The Punisher were figures very familiar to Toomes, who had long been active in New York's underground black market.

One was the "Devil of Hell's Kitchen."

The other was the "Dark Judge who hates evil."

Being targeted by these two meant, at best, losing a layer of skin, and at worst, dropping dead!

Thinking of this, Toomes's mood turned even worse.

He was currently wearing his Vulture suit, and on his feet were a pair of "talons" modified from Ultron's robot soldier bodies. Each talon held one of his two useless subordinates.

If it weren't for the fact that he needed people right now, he would have really wanted to throw them down from here and kill them!

After flying for a while, the Vulture finally returned near his workshop with his two subordinates!