Chapter 251 Because I am Gwen Stacy

"Well, it's a little cramped here, but you know, that's how it is here."

Looking at the messy things in the dormitory, Eddie explained to Peter somewhat embarrassedly.

"I see."

Peter understood.

"Let's go get some coffee, this isn't a good place for conversation."

Eddie took Peter and prepared to go to the coffee shop.

Peter naturally wouldn't object.

Although he had no impression of this guy.

“I’m working on some bioengineering projects right now.”

Picking up the coffee, Eddie said to Peter: "The two of us, you and me, we are both little ghost chasers. We have been trying to get our father's approval all our lives."

Peter nodded and said, "I have read some of the information left by my father. If he succeeds in his research, it will definitely change the world."

In fact, he had roughly read what this cheap old man left behind.

I have to say that Richard Parker is a very smart scientist.

If he were still alive, his impact on the world would definitely be significant.

"I believe in what he studies, too, Peter."

Eddie looked a little gloomy. "If I hadn't seen the abandoned biology project for the wrong reasons, I might have misunderstood him."

"What biology project?"

Peter caught the message of his words immediately.

"It's a long story, but I'll tell you all about it if I get a chance, man."

Eddie put down his coffee cup. "That would also be a project that would change the world. Although I am not someone who can change the world yet, I can't even change myself."

"I can't even remember my mother's face recently. Sometimes I'm afraid I've forgotten everything in the past."

Listening to Eddie's words, Peter was silent for a while and put a videotape on the coffee table.

"what is this?"

Eddie was stunned when he saw the video tape that suddenly appeared.

"A videotape with your parents. Here's the one where we had our picnic. I thought you'd want this, so I made a copy."

“Wow, man, this means a lot to me.”

Holding the videotape, Eddie felt mixed emotions.

"Thank you, Peter, thank you, it means a lot to me."

Eddie looked at the precious videotape and finally made a decision in his heart.

He raised his head, looked at Peter, and said in a low voice: "You know what? Peter, I also have something to show you."

Peter looked at the other person's mysterious expression and nodded, "I'm looking forward to it."

He gave the videotape to the other person just to win his favor.

Now that the other party was so sensible, he even felt a flash of shame.

night.

Eddie took Peter outside a building.

"Stark Group Technology Center."

Looking at the name on the building, Peter was a little surprised.

This is Tony's lab.

Eddie swiped his fingerprint at the door and entered the password, and the two came to a place where many experimental instruments were placed.

"This is.?"

Looking at the surrounding furnishings, Peter asked him: "Is this your laboratory?"

"I don't have that much money to build such a large laboratory. I just rented it. It's because of the relationship with the school. Otherwise, I wouldn't even have the money to rent a laboratory."

As he spoke, he walked to an instrument.

"But what I want to show you is not this laboratory, but this"

He pointed to a huge container-like device and said to Peter, "This is what I have been studying."

"check it out."

Eddie opened the container that was emitting cold air, and a mass of black, wriggling substance in the glass container came into Peter's sight.

Staring at the black substance, he said slowly to Peter: "This is - our heritage!"

Peter looked at the black, wriggling mass in front of him with a serious look.

Although he had guessed what it was, he still pretended not to understand.

"I don't understand, Eddie, what this is."

"This is the scientific research project that our parents were working on before they died. This is - their life's work. They originally had the opportunity to do more in-depth research on it."

Eddie stared at the black squirming substance and said, "Now he's just a bunch of raw goo, but with extraordinary power."

As he spoke, he closed the door of the container.

"We don't know where the original body of this thing came from. I saw from my father's notes that they terminated the experiment. Perhaps they saw something uncontrollable, or they may be looking for other ways to activate it."

A worried look appeared on Eddie's face. "So far, there are still a lot of notes that are difficult to decipher. Those notes are either disorganized or missing pages. Maybe your father has relevant information."

He walked to the lab bench and showed Peter what his father had left behind.

"All of my father's stuff is here. I wonder if they took some of the notes on the plane."

Peter listened to Eddie's words and turned his eyes to the container.

That thing is the symbiote.

Although I don't know how it was discovered and studied by Richard Parker and Eddie's father.

Eddie didn't know what was going on in Peter's mind, so he continued:
"It looks like some kind of protoplasmic medical soak, designed to treat certain people with certain DNA conditions, you see? Peter, targeting specific genes.
Well, it's like putting a straitjacket on the patient, which, in theory, temporarily preserves the patient's normal physiological functions."

Eddie explained to Peter the role of the symbiote, "Our father and his team seem to have carried out their research to the second stage. This stage can enhance people's qualities and some abilities, but their research ends here."

"Do you know Trask?"

he suddenly asked Peter.

"It's the company my father used to work for, right?"

Peter had some impression of the company name.

"Yes, this means that this thing invented by our father is likely to be snatched away by this company."

Eddie handed a letter to Peter.

"This is the letter my father left behind."

Peter took it and scanned the text at a glance.

"We were getting more and more worried about the reality. We were being driven out of the lab and we were getting further and further away from our own experimental projects. I knew Richard blamed me for everything I did, and he was right. I made mistakes."

"I dragged him into the deal with Trask. I joined this private company so that I wouldn't have to raise money all day long."

Eddie's face was filled with anger. "Just two days after my father wrote this letter, he had an accident."

"Trask Company, it must be them who did it. They stole our father's achievements!"

Peter put the letter down and asked Eddie, "If they took it all away, how did you keep it?"

"This is what our father left behind without telling the company. My grandfather has kept it all these years, just like my father did. My grandfather kept it frozen and preserved it. He didn't even know what it was."

"He just didn't want to throw away his son's belongings."

Peter said nothing, he looked at the machine containing the symbiote.

It seems that the "symbionts" in this universe are not the alien creatures that I knew before.

It seems to have been studied and given different functions by Richard Parker and Eddie's father.

After Peter left the laboratory, he called Helen on his way home.

"I thought you had forgotten about me! Peter, you just threw that guy named Kahn into my hands and didn't care about anything. This is not the behavior of a responsible man." Helen's lazy voice came from the phone.

"He's a good helper. Shouldn't you find it much more convenient?"

Peter said to her casually.

"Maybe, but what I want to say is that I don't know his background, so who knows what he will do!"

Peter stood on the street, watching the cars speeding past.

"He plays a very important role for me, so just keep an eye on him."

After Peter said a few words to her, he asked, "Do you know Trask?"

"Trask?"

Helen was stunned for a moment and said, "Yes, I know. It is a company founded by Bolivar Trask. I heard that they are good at researching war weapons. Today, Tony Stark announced that he would give up the weapons manufacturing department. I think they should be the happiest."

"Can you help me research some information about this company? Especially the relationship between this company and my father."

"Your father?"

Helen said in surprise on the other end of the phone: "Is your father still related to them?"

"Who knows?"

Peter looked at a car speeding past him and said, "That happened a long time ago. I hope there is something left."

"Miss?"

At the convenience store, someone suddenly interrupted Gwen's confused thoughts and dragged her back to the cashier counter in reality.

"Um, what's wrong?" she asked.

"Are you going to sweep that thing or not?"

Gwen looked down and found that she was still holding the can of Del Monte green beans.

"Feel sorry."

Gwen smiled apologetically at the other person.

She looked down at her phone.

Peter hadn't sent himself a message or made a phone call yet.

He was planning to send a copy of the videotape to Eddie, so nothing would go wrong.

But it's already nine o'clock, nothing unexpected will happen, right?!
Gwen couldn't help but have wild thoughts in her mind.

I am such a person. When I think about Peter, I tend to make endless associations.

"what happened to your hand?"

the female cashier asked her, sounding concerned.

Gwen wiggled a finger—a dance of leaping inchworms.

"This? I bumped into it accidentally just now, and I bandaged it up randomly."

Gwen was a little depressed.

Normally she has no superpowers, and when she is injured she has no ability to heal herself, so she becomes just like an ordinary person.

Gwen thought as she glanced at the customer in line behind her.

There were two customers in the queue - a pot-bellied man in a shirt with a parrot pattern, and a young girl with a breast that was oddly raised and enviable.

Well, I'm one of them now, and there's nothing wrong with that.

She held the last bottle of isotope reagent left in her pocket.

This is the last bottle. If I can’t find a way to restore my superpowers after using up this bottle of isotope, I will have to become an ordinary person.

"Ding!"

The door was suddenly pushed open, and a skinny guy wearing sunglasses pushed in a batch of wobbly shopping carts, whistling a tune happily.

Gwen glanced at the man pushing the cart and left the supermarket.

But as soon as she walked out of the supermarket, she heard gunshots coming from inside.

Gwen was shocked and immediately rushed into the convenience store.

At this time, people were crying all over the convenience store. Some people hid in the aisles, and some people rushed out.

Then a thin man cuts his way through the crowd—he's the guy pushing the cart Gwen had seen earlier.

The man was wearing sunglasses, a black V-neck T-shirt, and khaki pants with something stained on them, either food or motor oil.

He raised his pistol, a square Glock, and with a "bang", the bullets hit the shelf, smashing the food on it into pieces.

Then another bullet rushed through the counter like a train.

Everything on the counter was blown into the air.

Gwen didn't hesitate at all when she saw the other party committing the crime.

She immediately put on the Spider-Woman mask she carried with her and took out the isotope.

Looking at the last bottle of reagent, she gritted her teeth and injected it into her body.

Gwen, transformed into Spider-Woman, pounced on the female cashier

Gwen grabbed her wrist and, with a ding, shoved the woman into the cash register at lightning speed.

"Hey, here!"

Then she stood up from behind the counter.

The gunman looked at Gwen in confusion, who had appeared behind the counter at some point.

"Whoosh!"

Gwen shot out spider silk from her wrist, hitting the pistol in the gangster's hand.

With a "bang", the pistol was hit against the wall by the spider web.

Gwen then jumped over the counter and punched the gunman in the head, knocking him down hard.

"Remember, don't point your gun at innocent people."

Gwen spat at the groaning gangster.

The customers who were hiding saw Spider-Woman suddenly appear and easily knock down the gangster, and they all stood up and applauded her.

This feeling is not bad.

Gwen listened to the applause and scratched her head.

But this may be the last time.

Then her expression became gloomy again.

"Whoosh!"

Shooting out spider silk, Gwen pulled herself onto the rooftop of the office building.

Standing on the edge of the rooftop, looking at the night.

She sat down and draped her legs over the outside, removing her mask and staring at the spiderweb patterns on it.

This looks just like Dad's police badge.

Am I going to give up what I have been protecting like my father did?
Gwen's eyes were a little watery.

She pressed the spider mask against her face, wanting to feel the warmth of the mask.

Cindy Moon said that she could no longer create isotopes and that she might never become Spider-Woman.

"You just used up the last bottle of isotope in the supermarket, Gwen, don't you regret it?"

A voice suddenly sounded behind her.

Gwen was stunned when she heard the familiar voice.

"I don't regret it. Even if I were asked to choose a hundred times, I would still do the same thing, because I am Gwen Stacy!"

Gwen turned around.

(End of this chapter)