Peter forced himself to walk up to Yang Bo, wearing a smile that looked worse than tears.
At that moment, he suddenly understood how the Flash from the Justice League felt when facing Superman.
How did this suddenly turn into a nightmare right from the start?
"Yang..."
He had barely spoken before Yang Bo cut him off. This time, Yang Bo did not keep him guessing. A single sentence drained all the color from Peter's face.
"Peter, Norman sent someone to kill your parents."
Peter staggered back several steps in disbelief. That single sentence hit him no less hard than Gwen Stacy's death had.
"That's impossible. Why? That can't be true. You're lying to me."
"There's nothing impossible about it. I imagine you've seen your father's research on spiders. Norman Osborn hired your father to lead his genetic research back then, mainly to cure the Osborn family's hereditary disease."
"But who knows what got into your father? After spending vast amounts of Osborn Enterprises' money and manpower, he suddenly 'found his conscience' and decided the super spiders he'd developed posed an enormous threat to the entire world."
"He destroyed all the finished specimens and research materials, sent you to your aunt's house, and prepared to wash his hands of it all and leave."
As Yang Bo explained, he looked at Norman Osborn lying on the floor and continued, "Norman had never suffered such a huge loss in his life, so he sent someone after your parents' plane, hoping to bring them back."
"But an unexpected gunfight broke out, and your parents' plane crashed. Everyone aboard, including the killer, died in the crash."
Norman Osborn, who had still been struggling, lay motionless on the floor after hearing Yang Bo speak as though he had witnessed everything himself.
His eyes were filled