"It's really not what you think!" Tandy hurriedly explained, "He's just... just a friend of mine."
"Okay, okay. But then again, why spend the most romantic day of the year with a 'normal friend'?"
Tandy gritted his teeth and snorted, "Because the person I want to date is a complete coward!"
Peter was stunned. "Ah?!"
Tandy was startled by his reaction. Peter coughed quickly to hide his embarrassment. "Uh... I mean, how could this happen?"
"That guy... I suspect that he didn't come to school for a whole week just to avoid me!" Tandy complained aggrievedly and angrily, "There's no way he doesn't know that I like him, and he's not a fool! But he actually disappeared like that for a whole week, not even giving others a chance to confess to him!"
Peter touched his nose and asked tentatively, "What if... he has something serious to do? For example, to attend some academic conference or something?"
"He did say that, but I suspect he is lying!" Tandy said angrily, "I asked his friends, and they said that his ex-girlfriend broke up with him not long ago, and he is still obsessed with her and is not ready to start a new relationship at all."
Peter's eyes under the mask blinked.
Liz and Mary. Is this what Jane thinks? Do you think he is still immersed in the shadow of breaking up with Felicia?
Although... it does have some influence, in fact, the person who frequently appears in his dreams these days is clearly Qin Grey...
Peter sighed secretly in his heart, retracted his thoughts and said, "Anyway, maybe you should find a chance to ask him directly."
"I don't want it!" Tandy snorted, "That guy is simply driving you crazy! He is usually the gentlest and nicest person in the world, but as long as you want to get closer, he will immediately build a high wall to shut you in. Outside. There is no room for negotiation! I lived in his house for a while before, but as soon as I moved out, he seemed to have lost contact! One second it was 'I will lend you my bed to sleep on', and the next second it was 'Goodbye'! It's simply unreasonable!"
Peter laughed twice, almost breaking out in cold sweat. "Sounds like... he is indeed a very complicated guy."
As they spoke, the energy line they were pursuing began to become thicker and thicker, and its direction suddenly turned upward.
Peter suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Tandy asked.
Peter raised his head along the hairspring. More than ten meters above them, a ferocious gap opened in the space. What was reflected on the other end of the gap was the familiar sky and trees - Central Park.
"The exit is over there." Peter pointed to the crack above.
Tandy was extremely excited. "That's New York! We can get out! But... it's too high and we can't reach it at all!"
"It's not difficult for me, just hold on tight--"
The sense of crisis instantly interrupted Peter's words!
"Be careful!"
Peter grabbed Tandy's waist and rolled violently to the side. The next second, a thick shadow whip hit the place where they were standing like thunder, creating a deep pit in the ground.
The two stood up quickly. Peter protected Tandy with one hand, and the other hand drew a Magic halo of sparks in the air. Several Wand of Watoomb roared out, volleying and cutting the approaching shadow into pieces!
However, the surrounding darkness seemed to be irritated, and a steady stream of shadow tentacles emerged from all directions. Peter gritted his teeth and wielded his light whip to cut wildly, but the tentacles were generated much faster than his destruction speed.
In the blink of an eye, a shadow penetrated the defense line from the blind corner of the field of vision and headed straight for Tandy!
Spider-Sense is ringing wildly in my mind. If Peter dodges, Tandy will be penetrated instantly.
Without any hesitation, Peter pushed Tandy away, and he withstood the blow!
The huge shadow hit his waist like a high-speed heavy truck. Peter flew backwards and fell heavily to the ground, rolling and sliding more than ten meters.
"Spider-Man!" Tandy screamed.
Peter resisted the severe pain and stood up, swinging the claw blade forward wildly. However, this time, without Tandy's Lightforce attached, the claw blade cut through the shadows like cutting through the air, with no effect!
"Damn it!"
The shadow wrapped around his legs like a giant python. Peter tried to open Magic's protective shield, but the weird darkness directly swallowed up Magic's energy. Like being trapped in quicksand, the more Peter resisted, the faster the darkness spread.
In the blink of an eye, the shadow had spread over his waist, forcing him to kneel on the ground.
The dark tide spread to his chest.
Peter turned his head with difficulty and looked at the frightened Tandy not far away, and then at the space crack above her that was within reach.
He knew he had to make a choice.
"Sassy! Release the suit! Authorize Tandy Bowen to use all the functions of the suit!"
Peter roared angrily, stretched out his claw blade, and cut off the upper body of the suit with an extremely decisive knife along the waist - the boundary where the darkness has not yet spread!
The upper body suit that was freed from restraints quickly and automatically expanded. Peter pulled off the helmet and jacket from his body and threw it towards Tandy with all his strength!
"Put it on!" Peter's voice was drowned in the black tide, and the shadows began to crazily eat away at his naked torso and arms, "Put it on and fly out! With Repulsor Cannon in your palm, the helmet will automatically teach you how to use it! Hurry!!"
Tandy caught the suit, and the moment he saw Peter's true appearance, his whole body felt as if he had been struck by lightning, and his mind went blank. "That...Peter?!"
"Tandy! Put on the suit!" Peter's arm has been tightly held by the shadow, unable to move, "Fly! Leave me alone!"
Darkness covered his cheeks, submerged his eyes, and completely engulfed him in boundless nothingness.
The vitality is being rapidly withdrawn. Peter can feel that this darkness has a strange parasitic and devouring characteristic.
That's fine too...
Maybe this is the comeuppance he deserves.
He is a self-righteous fool... He rewrote the fate of others and caused all this... He deserves to die--
"Peter!!"
Boom!
A dazzling holy light that cannot be described in words exploded from the depths of darkness!
The shadow wrapped around Peter instantly disintegrated and melted like ice and snow meeting the blazing sun.
In Peter's blurry vision, Tandy stood in the void like an angel of light who had descended from the world, with a heaven-destroying brilliance blooming all over her body. At her feet, was the cut-out battle suit and helmet.
The next second, the bright light suddenly converged, and Tandy fell backwards as if without any force.
"Tandy!"
Peter ignored her naked upper body and stumbled over to catch her, holding her tightly in his arms. "How are you? Are you okay?"