American comics: Starting with Luke the Maker

"Heavens, where did these monsters come from?"

Little Spider Peter nimbly navigated the city, constantly shooting out strands of web. By the time he stopped on the window of a tall building, a series of white silk cocoons had appeared behind him. These cocoons hung in the gaps of the tall buildings, crisscrossing each other like bells hanging from a giant web.

The creatures inside, of course, wouldn't obediently surrender. Instead, they struggled fiercely within the cocoons. From the outside, it looked like creatures swaying back and forth on a web, trying to break free.

But Little Spider was no longer the same as before. His girlfriend, Gwen, as a key trainee intern in Hebron's biology department, often came into contact with and learned about cutting-edge biological knowledge. With the company's permission, she also used her newly acquired research skills to upgrade her boyfriend's equipment.

Little Spider also had a good relationship with Stark, Dr. Banner, and others. As the youngest and most favored member of the team, and with a remarkably clever mind, he received some help from Stark and the others, despite being a bit of a chatterbox.

For example, Stark had specially set up a custom battle suit production line for Little Spider, distinct from his Mark series, and named it the Spider series. Although the update frequency wasn't as high as Stark's own Mark series, Stark didn't mind helping Peter update whenever new technology appeared that was suitable for him.

Only Peter had enjoyed this treatment so far. Dr. Banner, who had a set of Hulkbuster armor specifically designed to counter the Hulk, and James Rhodes, a good friend supported by Tony with a customized suit, together only counted as half.

Even if Little Spider lost his spider abilities now, he could still maintain his identity as an extraordinary hero with just the suit he was wearing.

The spider silk he was currently using was specially made for him by his girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, specifically to deal with powerful creatures or monsters. It was sufficiently tough, extremely elastic, and contained a special substance mixed with something that only Hebron could extract. This substance had powerful anesthetic properties; just a milligram dose was enough to drown a whale.

In addition, there were other types of spider silk, such as those that were more durable, or contained a volatile toxin. Just as Stark had developed many Mark suits for different occasions, Gwen and Little Spider were the same, except their focus was on spider silk for different uses.

Little Spider's current suit was barely a hybrid combination of some of Stark's, Hebron's, and his own technologies. With the Hebron space chip device, he didn't need to worry about the spider silk being quickly used up, and could rely on physical mode for output.

Looking at the white cocoons frantically struggling on the web, Little Spider gently breathed a sigh of relief. He wasn't worried that the monsters could break free; the anesthetic toxins on the spider silk were enough to give most of the creatures inside a good dose. In Gwen's words, these toxins came from extraterrestrial sources, and Hebron had spent a certain amount of manpower and time to replicate them, allowing for small-scale mass production.

In addition to their salaries, each researcher at Hebron also received a certain amount of work points based on their contributions. These points were similar to a new currency, but could only be circulated within Hebron. They could be used to exchange for all of Hebron's technological products.

The work points she accumulated in the laboratory, without being used in large quantities, were enough to satisfy Quiet's appetite and supply Peter's consumption.

Sure enough, soon, the creatures that had just been wrapped into cocoons calmed down, and the frequency of the white cocoons shaking gradually became lighter and lighter.

But soon, Little Spider, who was bouncing around in the city, attracted the attention of a hunter from the sky. A strange bird, like an ancient pterosaur with a long, sharp beak, swooped straight towards Little Spider.

"Whoa." The moment the strange bird locked onto him, Little Spider's spider-sense began to frantically alert him. He almost nimbly jumped away from the spot, avoiding being caught by the strange bird's claws.

"Gwen!" Little Spider swung in the air with his web, feeling the crisis still looming, and immediately shouted to his girlfriend Gwen. Their division of labor was very clear: he was responsible for solving most of the problems, while Gwen was responsible for cleaning up the tricky ones. In Peter's opinion, he wasn't unable to deal with the big bird in front of him, but it wasn't as fast as letting his girlfriend handle it. So, he summoned his girlfriend on the other side without any psychological pressure.

"I'm Quiet! How many times do I have to say it!" An impolite female voice came from not far away, followed by a black shadow flashing back and forth between the city's buildings. Before the end of the voice landed, the black shadow appeared behind the strange bird that Peter had lured down, and its arm turned into a huge black axe, chopping down without hesitation.

Clang!

The axe and the strange bird's neck made a metallic collision sound. However, as Quiet increased her strength, the strange bird, with most of its head cut off, immediately screamed, spraying blood and spinning as it fell to the ground.

Little Spider threw out a web at the bottom at the right time, just catching the falling strange bird. The spider silk fell towards the ground like a bungee jump, and finally eliminated all the impact before touching the ground, bouncing up.

"It was Gwen just now." Peter touched his head. He wasn't lying; he really had been communicating with Gwen all along.

"I just don't like your greasy flirting." Quiet curled her lips, about to rush to the next spot, when Peter suddenly raised his head. His voice suddenly became astonished: "Oops, we seem to be in trouble."

Quiet, who was falling from mid-air, ejected a black, spider-silk-like liquid to stabilize her constantly falling body, and followed Peter's gaze to look at the sky.

A group of identical strange birds emitted sharp howls, approaching from far away, circling above the two of them.

"That's why I hate your mouth." Quiet muttered and complained, and then whispered in her mind: "I haven't eaten this kind of strange bird from the Nine Realms before. I wonder if it's delicious."

Gwen, who had handed over control of her body, subconsciously rolled her eyes when she heard this sentence in her mind. What was even more terrifying was that after such a long time, she had also begun to transform towards Quiet's gluttonous direction. The moment she saw those monsters, her brainwaves were especially consistent with Quiet's brainwaves.

"What should we do?"

Facing the angry flock of strange birds, Little Spider subconsciously shouted. The two didn't dare to stay in place, but quickly hid their figures back and forth with the help of the surrounding tall buildings. However, the flock of strange birds, high above, could always capture their traces and were constantly approaching them.

"Of course, we're looking for reinforcements!" Quiet replied without thinking. She could solve all those strange birds, but it would take time and a lot of effort.

"Mr. Stark is on the other side of the city. Can we make it in time?" Little Peter's spider-sense thought of Tony Stark, who had helped him a lot.

"Relying on you guys is not as good as letting me do it myself." Quiet replied violently, using her communication device with Hebron to launch an assistance request to Hebron's intelligent system.

"Okay, I've already sent out the assistance request. Next, we just need to wait…" When Quiet said this, she suddenly saw Little Spider stop, staring blankly at the sky. Somewhat inexplicably, she and Peter lay on the glass of the tall building together, raised their heads to look at the sky, and instantly, her face was completely distorted like a facial expression.

"I'm done! What is this thing? Are we even within the range of the attack?" Quiet looked at the patches of starlight flashing out at the end of the horizon, her heart pounding, and couldn't help but curse.

The intelligent system is unreliable!

The strange birds in the sky also realized the danger from the sky. They squawked and became chaotic, flapping their wings and trying to escape. However, they were always under the white starlight that lit up in the sky.

Those were individual cannons, filled with dazzling and frightening energy. The sun's energy was absorbed with high efficiency by those energy gathering devices orbiting the planet, and then evenly distributed into the chain-type celestial cannons. Because of the absorption of energy, the planet below seemed to enter the night ahead of time, making the energy light condensed in the sky even more conspicuous, dozens of times brighter than the brightest star.

Hebron's intelligent system life form, Titan, was processing massive amounts of data, evenly distributing computing power to be responsible for all the areas covered by its tentacles. The mechanical army running around the city and the Mark series army with interconnected protocols served as its eyes and ears, as well as radar positioning, providing it with first-line data from the battlefield.

Octopus machines even worked together in a short period of time to create several signal enhancement devices to contribute to the map and data of the entire battlefield.

The light shining down from the sky finally poured down, and under the dual coordinate positioning lock of the satellite and the ground, and Titan's data operation, beams of light, like the most brilliant white meteor shower, fell with intoxicating light, as poetic and picturesque, but also contained a fatal crisis.

The strange birds deftly dodged in the sky, but their movements and speed data were all captured and uploaded by a group of octopus machines on the ground using radar. Under Titan's computing power, except for a very few that slipped through the net, the strange bird group was almost completely annihilated. The vital points of their hard bodies were directly pierced by the beams of light, and they fell from the sky like raindrops.

Those strange birds that had escaped fatal injuries were also mostly injured in other parts of their bodies. They were unsteady and trying hard to ascend, but could only barely maintain their bodies from falling rapidly downward.

"Okay, I take back what I said before. Sometimes that broken intelligence is quite reliable." Quiet looked at the clear sky, cracked her mouth, and said somewhat awkwardly.

"Cool!" Little Spider felt a sense of joy at this kind of beautiful violence. His spider-sense had finally calmed down again. Although he knew that as long as the species invasion hadn't ended, the disappearance of this sense was only temporary.

"Chain-type armed satellites?" Stark, who was on the other side of the city, mobilizing a large number of Mark suits to control the situation, also saw the brilliant scene of the rain falling from the sky. He knew that since the Chitauri invasion and the Captain's rise to power, a planet protection bill had been passed through S.H.I.E.L.D. as an intermediary, including various armed machines and weapons, as well as protection measures, and the two main regional contractors were Stark and Hebron. This country, especially the big cities, sky and earth, up and down, left and right, had been built with a lot of new facilities by Stark and Hebron. This huge amount of engineering was tantamount to completely transforming a large city.

At present, the project has only completed a small part. Only the capital and the metropolis have relatively complete construction progress.

As a latecomer, Hebron, which has the strongest extraterrestrial material delivery capability, almost threw materials on it when permitted, or simply used Ming City, which had just been completed not long ago outside the orbit, to carry out a one-stop measure of in-system resource extraction, processing, and manufacturing.

It has to be said that Hebron's participation has indeed made everyone feel a lot easier. Even Nick, who had a gloomy face, relaxed a bit. They also started Hebron's manufacturing plants, and a vast number of mechanical armies helped them reduce a lot of burden and sacrifice. Even the pressure on the Captain's side was reduced.

Information is omniscience.

Distance is safety.

Caliber is justice.

Firepower is truth.

The dual blockade of the sky and the ground and the beam sniping greatly reduced the pressure on the battlefield. As more and more data information of those alien species was uploaded to Titan's database, a complex data model was quickly formed under powerful computing power, and then shared by Titan to the terminals of the octopus machines on the field as connection points and brains.

With the strong support of Hebron's technology library, the octopus machines, with the support of Titan's computing power, almost quickly began to manufacture targeted weapons according to their respective regional situations. For example, sonic weapons to drive away these extraterrestrial creatures, not very lethal, but enough to make them feel uncomfortable, driving them out of the city first, and then slowly cleaning up the situation.

Super dangerous targets were contained and blocked by elites such as the Captain who had mastered new energy, dangerous targets were cleared and injured by chain-type armed satellites. The remaining most numerous extraterrestrial creatures were blocked by massive mechanical creations and military soldiers.

After the initial chaos, at this moment, with the addition of various forces, the situation began to develop strangely towards the good side. The only thing that could not be determined was how long this nine-star alignment would last, and whether the other side would have a way to solve this problem if it lasted for a long time.

PS: Thanks to Tian8xie for the reward