The Choice

"What the hell are you talking about?"

Peter turned and kicked.

He didn't need to see who it was; it was Kraven the Hunter, whom he had knocked unconscious.

This guy's physical fitness and willpower were indeed impressive. He had recovered from the dizziness caused by such intense pain in such a short time.

However, all those things were meaningless in the face of overwhelming power; they were useless.

CRASH—

Kraven the Hunter was smashed into a nearby glass container, shattering the glass.

"Aaaah!"

He let out a scream of terror.

The spiders in the container crawled onto him frantically, quickly covering him entirely and injecting him with venom.

In just a moment, Kraven the Hunter stopped moving.

His face, clothes, and possibly even his body were covered in venomous spiders, looking extremely miserable and terrifying.

"Hey, listen, Spider-Boy, I think you should really learn decisiveness from these black widow spiders," J. Jonah said from behind him. "Even though I slander you in the newspaper often, you know, that's my job. I actually admire you, but today, you've truly disappointed me a bit!"

"Mercy is for the good people. Being merciful to villains is an act of violence against the good!"

Peter was silent for a moment, then turned and chased after the Green Goblin.

He wasn't stupid; on the contrary, he was very smart.

He understood the logic J. Jonah was presenting.

He just couldn't accept it for a moment.

Emotionally, he leaned more towards what Aunt May had said before.

But rationally, after merging with Shadow Spider-Man, he knew that J. Jonah was right.

This was the true way to deal with villains!

To prevent good people from being harmed again, villains must be given their due punishment!

Some thoughts gradually took root and began to sprout in Peter's mind.

One day, they would grow into towering trees!

The factory had an underground passage. Although he didn't come here often, Osborn considered himself very familiar with it.

Because his profession was to do some "odd jobs" for various capitalists and even high-ranking government officials.

Like the matter of killing Shadow Spider-Man's uncle.

Ben Parker, to retaliate against Adolphus Crane, the owner of three sweatshops that went bankrupt because Ben Parker helped organize protests, hired the Green Goblin. At the same time, he bribed the NYPD deputy chief to ensure the police wouldn't interfere, and then he paid a sum of money to bribe the Mayor of New York City.

The relationships involved were intricate.

And the Green Goblin, as a kind of "white glove" operator, if one day something went wrong for him, or if some of these people decided to abandon him, he would face a thunderous crackdown.

The Green Goblin anticipated this day and had prepared this escape route for himself in advance.

He never expected that this escape route would be used not for that purpose, but for being chased by Spider-Man.

At this moment, Felicia, who was being held by the Green Goblin, also launched a psychological attack on him with a cold laugh.

"It's useless, Osborn. It's all over!"

"Do you think your partners in City Hall will still protect you after this?"

"No, they won't!"

"Everyone who has been involved with you in the past will silence you forever the moment you expose them!"

"You're dead!"

Felicia's words were sharp, piercing the Green Goblin's heart like knives.

The Green Goblin's face became extremely gloomy: "Shut up, Felicia!"

He was trying to find an exit through the faint light here.

It turned out that although he had memorized the path down here many times before, it was still difficult to find the remembered passage without a light source.

"Felicia, run!"

WHOOSH!

A figure lunged over and, before the Green Goblin could react, grabbed him and pinned him to the ground beside him.

"Surprised?"

Peter sneered coldly.

However, the Green Goblin didn't feel afraid. Instead, he said with a hint of mockery, "So, the cute little spider has caught the big bad wolf and thinks he's won, huh?"

"Then... before we end this farce, why don't we take a look at who's actually under the mask!"

With that, the Green Goblin reached out and grabbed for Peter's mask.

"No!" Peter quickly reached out to block. He didn't want his identity exposed from under his mask, whether in this world or the other, because it could bring unimaginable consequences to his loved ones.

Smack!

In his panic, Peter's hand hit the Green Goblin's face.

Riiip!

The Green Goblin's face made a sound like tearing fabric as it ripped open.

Beneath the tattered skin, an ugly face covered in greenish-blue bumps was revealed!

"What!" Peter was shocked. He didn't understand why the Green Goblin's face was like this.

However, at this moment, the Green Goblin's accurate and swift grab also pulled off Peter's mask.

Looking at Peter's face beneath the mask, he snarled, "So it's Yuri's pathetic little follower?"

"What, kid, never seen a freak show before?"

Peter was still in shock. "Green Goblin. So this is..."

The Green Goblin's eyes revealed intense killing intent and hatred. "My entire life... since I was a child, other kids threw rocks at me. I could only make a living at freak shows, being gawked at like a deformed monster for a bite of black bread."

"But it's different now!"

"When they speak the name Osborn, I hear respect, I hear awe!"

"And the very few who have seen this face... they will know that one of us must die!"

"So, are you ready to die, little Spider?"

The fully unleashed Green Goblin seemed to possess infinite strength, and began to exert force, breaking free from Peter's suppression!

While Peter was stunned, he was shoved away by the Green Goblin and almost fell onto the ground.

Vvvvmmm~

Just then, his spider-sense triggered.

Peter instinctively turned his head.

Bang!

A bullet flew past his head.

The Green Goblin looked at him in shock, seemingly disbelieving that he could dodge a bullet at such close range.

It was as if he had foreseen it!

The gunshot and his spider-sense also jolted Peter awake.

He lunged forward again, binding the Green Goblin with his webs.

"Come on, kill me!" The Green Goblin struggled a few times but couldn't break free from the webs, realizing his situation was dire.

Peter slowly raised the pistol. In his mind, Uncle Ben's body, Yuri's body flashed one by one. Aunt May's and J. Jonah's words echoed in his ears.

"...I don't want to live in a world where people slaughter each other like animals."

"Mercy is for the kind. Showing mercy to villains is an act of violence against the good!"

"What should I do?" Peter muttered to himself, unsure if he was asking his high school self or the owner of the body he had merged with – Shadow Spider-Man.

An idea gradually surfaced in his mind.

It seemed to be an answer from Shadow Spider-Man.

Peter suddenly looked up and lowered the pistol.

Pow pow!

Under the Green Goblin's astonished gaze, Peter delivered lightning-fast punches, breaking all of the Green Goblin's limbs.

Then, he leaned down, looked directly into the Green Goblin's eyes, and said, "You will be interrogated. You will publicly atone for everything you have done!"

"And if they don't kill you, I'll finish you off!"

Peter added the last sentence silently in his heart.