Friendly neighbors are villains

After hearing that the world he was in was constructed by a game, Eric fell into a long meditation. For such a short time, he felt humiliated by his IQ.

Guess whether Amy is deceiving herself in order to achieve some unknown purpose.

After all, as far as Magneto’s life experience is concerned, what he encountered was more persecution from ordinary humans and obstacles from the X-Men. He rarely confronted groups other than mutants head-on, and magicians were at most slightly I've heard about it, but haven't paid too much attention to it.

Eric is not interested in them.

Suddenly got the news that the magician intends to turn the whole world into a game and treat them as companions with superpowers. Eric thinks this is simply a fantasy. Even though he often has the idea of ​​destroying human beings, Eric It was still difficult for Ke to connect the truth of the whole thing with the game for a while.

But he did guess one thing right.

Amy was used by someone with a heart to become a "Duke".

Of course, this is indeed the case, but there are great deviations in details.

Fortunately, Eric figured it out without doubting it for too long.

Since both Hannibal and Spider-Man are adding explanations to Amy's statement, and Eric really has doubts about the current world, so he tentatively believes Amy's statement.

The thought of his secret being fully grasped by another stranger, he refers to the magician named Borg, made Eric feel uncomfortable.

But he quickly shifted his focus to Amy. If Eric no longer doubts that the world is fake, then the fact that Amy is his daughter is even more real.

Although there is no similarity between them in terms of appearance, Eric is still willing to regard this accident, which has no blood relationship with him, as a "gift from God".

This would also explain why Eric felt a sense of comic intimacy when he first saw Amy.

Maybe it's just a psychological effect, but anyway, all the secrets that were once hidden have become clear, and what Eric has to do now is to ensure that Amy stays away from danger.

He was also a little unhappy about Amy's relationship with Spider-Man.

the other side--

Peter was lying on a simple sofa. His body hadn't recovered yet, and his complexion was still unsightly. Fortunately, it didn't continue to deteriorate, and his eyes were no longer congested and red.

Hannibal did basic treatment for Peter, speeding up his metabolism, so that Peter could fight against the parasitic plants spreading in his body, and slowly clean up the toxins through perspiration and vomiting.

Naturally, this process will not be easy. Peter's body temperature is almost to the point of boiling his brain, and his consciousness is half asleep, calling Amy's name from time to time, and sometimes calling Aunt May.

Amy wiped his face and neck back and forth with a wet towel soaked in water, hoping to ease Peter's high fever.

"Let me come." Harry didn't know when he came to Amy. He sat on the coffee table and said to Amy, "You'd better rest for a while." He pointed to Amy's eyes, "You look very Tired, trying to save the world like you are doomed to fail."

"Are you sure you don't want to assassinate him?" Amy's voice was full of distrust, "The timing is just right now."

Because apart from Amy, in this safe house, there is no second person who cares about Peter's life or death.

"Do you understand me as 'stupid', Miss Amy." Harry said in his mind, "I will not be the first to deal with the enemy's enemy."

Harry also felt that Amy was lying and even teasing at first, but he didn't feel offended by it, probably because Amy's negligible evil value was working.Or maybe, Harry's nature is not a bastard full of bad things. He was only blinded by desire, so he did extreme behavior.

In short, Harry now believes that he is trapped in the game, because there is a message in his subconscious that his father died in prison a long time ago. In this vague message, his father's death is related to Peter's death. It didn't matter, it was caused by Norman Osborn's heart and lung failure caused by excessive use of force. As for Harry, he had already inherited the family property and became the CEO of Osborn Enterprises.

rather than a high school student.

Harry has never understood why he has such conscious information, as if the memory system in his brain has been cut off by something, making him think it might just be his expectation for the future.

The moment Harry saw Peter in Midtown High School, the hatred was actually not that strong, but a voice kept telling Harry that he should hate Peter and must put him to death.

Now Harry knows the reason. The memories of everyone here have been tampered with or reset. Because it is very close to his own experience, it is not easy to detect, but things in the subconscious will always appear inadvertently, like a kind of vigilance.

Harry guessed that because he did resent Peter for a while and did harm to Peter, this memory was so deep that it was used by the enemy.

Even if he didn't recover his memory now, he still hated Peter very much, but he would definitely not take advantage of others.

"Do you think Peter is a selfish man?" Amy asked Harry.

She didn't feel any fatigue, which is not a good omen, it means that she can't learn about health warnings through physical discomfort. If there is no reminder from others, Amy may have been in a state of hyperactivity and sleepless nights until her energy is completely exhausted. energy, and then dies of exhaustion.

Amy is well aware of this.

If even Harry could see that Amy's condition was not right, it meant that her body was beyond the normal load range, but Amy was not at all at ease to hand Peter over to any of the three of them.

"I hope he is," Harry said. "That way, he won't be lying around talking nonsense, and the flood of sympathy will only bring him pain."

"Then at the beginning, he refused to use his spider genes to provide you with research and treatment, not because Peter was worried that you would become stronger than him after you got those powers." Amy looked at Harry and said, "You are friends, you It should be very clear how much he values ​​feelings, Peter wouldn't want to see his best friend have a problem with his spider gene, he probably didn't expect the first result to be worse than your illness."

"Are you teaching me?" Harry stared at Amy with great interest. "I remember that 'Duke' doesn't like to talk very much. It seems that wearing a mask can make people go against their own nature." He meant something He glanced at Peter, this extremely unconfident boy, but he was full of confidence when playing Spider-Man.

"I don't intend to teach you a lesson, but I just think your hatred for Peter is unfair." Amy shrugged, "I'm his girlfriend, of course I have to fight for him, as for me pretending to be a duke, it's the source Because the villain dies because of talking too much."

There was a smile on Harry's face: "Remember." He remembered the reason why he failed to kidnap Amy.

Amy said: "Thank you very much for not becoming Borg's subordinate, Mr. Osborne, if Peter meets his friend, no matter whether you hate him or not, it will be difficult for him to be serious, but at least this time, you will be together Front, all along, he lacked people who could really understand him."

"Isn't an Avenger enough to understand him?" Harry said.

"There are indeed very few people who are willing to listen to him," Amy said.

Harry took the wet towel that hadn't been wrung out from Amy's hand, and tried to wipe Peter's sweat that was constantly secreting from his pores in a somewhat rusty way: "Just call me Harry."

After leaving the beast's lair, Hannibal took everyone to the outskirts far away from the urban area. A two-story villa stood in the middle of the woods. This was the place where Hannibal used to live. A safe house was set up for them to hide in.

Eric used metal to simply reinforce the walls outside the villa.

Although the villa has been demanded and has not been used, Hannibal still provided Amy with a comfortable rest area to the greatest extent. He and Eric seemed to be planning to discuss something, and Amy was not involved.

The last words the two villains with very different styles said to the girl were:

"You should go to bed."

To be honest, the scene where these two people can reach a consensus is already weird enough, and coupled with the scene where Harry takes care of Peter, Amy feels more and more redundant.

Amy was tossing and turning on the bed in the bedroom, not because she was superfluous, but because she was too stressed to fall asleep. She thought that Harry's teasing about saving the world before was really ridiculous.

She had trouble even saving Peter.

The villain's headquarters should have discovered that Peter was rescued at this time, and they don't know what the fake duke will do next. Amy has no idea how to proceed in the future. She feels like she has been in this world for several years. As long as a month, in fact, it is only 48 hours.

Amy is desperate to get the message across to all the superheroes, but she has no way of knowing their hidden whereabouts.

But how to fight against the powerful Borg next, Amy has no hope at all.

On the other hand, the others looked calm and aloof from the world, as if they were very calm.

The only fortunate thing is that Amy is not alone, and the only remaining allies (if they regard themselves as a win-win cooperation object) finally believe in the seemingly absurd but extremely real truth.

At least one step forward.

Amy got out of bed and walked to the window. The wooden window frame exudes a unique smell of damp and mildew, which is surprisingly not unpleasant.

She noticed that Hannibal was carrying a wooden barrel to a well not far away. The villa was not connected to electricity and water. Eric and Harry solved the problem of using electricity, and they could only rely on well water for water.

Hannibal seemed to have noticed Amy's gaze, he turned his head, looked at the attic window, and smiled at the girl with his thin lips.

Amy walked out of the villa, and the surrounding plants were not as lush as the man-made virgin forest. She quickly came to the well, where Hannibal had just put the barrel down.

The well is/very/deep, looking down at the black hole, it seems to be the mouth of a monster that can swallow people.

"Any plans?" Amy asked Hannibal, pretending to be chatting.

"You should be sleeping," Hannibal said.

Amy smiled and said, "It's been a long time since anyone said that to me."

"I guess the last one was your adoptive mother." Hannibal said, his voice was calm, and his gentle appearance could not make him equal to the "ogre". "You really should have a good sleep, Amy , you haven’t rested for at least 48 hours.”

"I don't feel it," Amy said, shrugging. "Changing the subject, did you and Eric come up with some earth-shattering strategy?"

"You seem to think that just the two of us can do something," Hannibal said.

"I was the one who asked you the question first." Amy was not distracted by him.

Hannibal didn't give an answer, but instead said, "What kind of answer do you hope to get from me?" Annoying mystification has always been his habit of refusing to cooperate.

"An answer that allows me to sleep peacefully." Amy said.

"There's no answer like that," Hannibal said.

"Didn't you discuss it for a long time?" Amy asked.

Hannibal's gaze gradually became gloomy. He fiddled with the thick rope hanging the wooden barrel intentionally or unintentionally, and said slowly: "A long time ago, this well was the place I used to dispose of the bones. The well is very deep. The water is flowing, I just throw those useless parts down, which can be very effectively hidden, and when it rains, the bones will flow along the water to a lake far away from here."

Hannibal's voice was naturally low, like a blade in his throat, always rustling.

Amy realized that she might have offended the other party, Hannibal's tone was calm, unable to hear the emotion, but it seemed to be threatening.

She originally planned to stay away from the wellhead, but after thinking about it, she still stood there calmly: "Thank you for saving Peter." Amy said.

"You are a smart and sensitive girl." Hannibal said, "I don't cooperate with anyone, and neither does your nominal father. We can appear together only because of your relationship."

Amy moved her lips, trying to say something, but couldn't.

"I proposed to Magneto to activate your mutant power, which is the only bargaining chip you can win." Hannibal continued, "But he refused, Magneto thinks that he can succeed in killing the Duke alone, so we will There was a not-so-pleasant exchange about it, and that's the result of what you've seen, we've been talking about for a long time."

Yes, mutant ability, Amy almost forgot about this, she is different from the previous setting, she is a mutant now, but she has not been able to unlock that line of defense.

"I know what to do next." Amy thanked and was going to find Eric.

"I didn't cooperate in the direction you expected, and you seem to have no complaints at all." Hannibal said, he began to slowly pull up the rope, and the wooden barrel filled with water was gradually approaching the mouth of the well.

"Isn't it normal for you to not cooperate?" Amy asked back. This is how you deal with villains. They are moody and difficult to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy.

Hannibal coughed twice unnaturally: "Go to sleep, I don't guarantee that I will have the strength to save you next time." In the second half of the sentence, he said very softly, and Hannibal made sure that Amy didn't listen clear.

Just when Amy wanted to confirm the content of Hannibal's unclear words, the strong and pungent smell was poured into her nostrils along with a gust of cold wind, and Hannibal was faster than the girl. Respond to what the source of this smell comes from.

He changed his previous indifference, pulled/handed/gun out of the holster and stuffed it directly at Amy: "Go back to the house."

In the depths of the dense forest, a huge worm slowly approached Amy and the two. Its wings vibrated slightly from time to time, and its black tentacles kept probing ahead.

Several metal plates quickly flew over from far to near, inserted/inserted into the hard shell of the insect beast, and quickly tore it apart. The green insect pulp was scattered all over the ground, and the shell below the head was still shaking.

"Don't you know that killing a bug will attract more of its henchmen?" Hannibal looked at the pile of disgusting parts with displeasure. The floor near the residence was not to Hannibal's liking either.

"Even if it doesn't die, it will send a signal to the outside, and the result is the same." Eric said indifferently, "We have to find another safe house, I just know one, this thing has a high IQ, and they will run after us If the smell catches up, it's better to go to a place with plenty of water, our smell is not so obvious."

Not far away, Harry walked over while supporting Peter, who had a high fever.

Amy looked at the beast thoughtfully: "You don't know yet, do you?"

The two men looked at her.

"Every worm has a crystal in its stomach." Amy paused, "As long as we carry the crystal on our bodies, we will not be attacked." She remembered that this setting was kept secret, and no one who knew it except Amy, there is only Dr. Arnim who bred the insect beast.

The purpose of creating crystals at the beginning was to make up for the instability of controlling insects, at least to ensure that the operator would not become the target of insect attacks during the process of using them.At that time, Amy had basically given up on the Hulk's DNA, and unexpectedly she got it, but this part, which was implanted from the beginning, was not canceled in the end.

Eric said to Amy: "Why do you make such an ugly thing?"

"Aren't all villains like this?" Amy said.

"Not many people are like that," Eric said. "You should learn how to look classy."

Amy laughed: "I don't think it's convincing for you to say this while wearing a magnetic helmet, Magneto, don't you think the shape of the helmet is funny?"

Eric frowned.

"It's a very harmonious scene." Harry said as he came closer, and he said in a sneering tone.

Eric quickly found the piece of emerald green crystals in the middle of the bug's corpse, a bit like glass shards, irregular in shape, only the size of an adult's thumb, and covered with granular substances on the surface.

Amy thought that Eric and Hannibal would have a dispute over the ownership of the crystal. After all, there was only one piece of life-saving thing, but neither of them had the desire to possess it. Eric threw the crystal to Harry directly.

"Don't dawdle," Eric said to Harry.

"I think I'd be faster than you if I didn't have this guy on me, old guy." Harry retorted not to be outdone.

"But we still have to leave here immediately." Eric said, "it will be dawn soon, the Duke can't let the prisoners escape, and he still hopes to use Spider-Man to lure those hiding, superheroes." He said in the last Bite the accent on the word.

"Let me remind you." Harry said, "It's not far without transportation. The previous vehicles have been reimbursed. I hope you haven't forgotten."

The purpose of destroying vehicles is to prevent them from being located by satellites.

Of course Eric can use the magnetic force to take them away, but the release of a large number of mutant abilities will be detected, so no matter where they go, there is no safety.

The Avengers must understand this truth, so their hiding place must not be on the ground, so that the Duke has not been able to find their location so far.

Eric seemed to remember something, he looked at Amy: "Can you get a car?"

Everyone looked at Eric, as if they thought it would be unwise for him to leave the problem behind Amy.

"No." Amy said.

"You got it last time." Eric said, "Do you know what time I said, are you going to hide something? I don't think it's necessary now."

That's also the first time Eric sees Amy in person, at a Spider-Man themed party where he's badly injured, the Duke, and of course Amy helped him get out of there.

Then, Amy bought a big red Lamborghini. At that time, Eric was a little unconscious and thought he had seen hallucinations. After thinking about it, he was sure that he was not that weak.Although this incident seemed strange to him, it would make sense if this was the game world.

Harry mentioned transportation just now, and Eric immediately remembered it.

"I have no money." Amy said helplessly, "It's a game store, and there are all kinds of things for sale in it, but I don't have any money."

"Can I take a credit card?" Harry asked, money was no problem for him.

"Your money is useless. You are not players. Only players can transfer money to each other." Amy said dejectedly, "You have to use the coins in the game."

"Then how did you earn game coins before?" Harry was the only young man among them who could understand "video games".

Amy realized that she was facing another rich man in the United States, she was a little embarrassed: "rob the bank."

Harry blinked his eyes, held back a smile and said, "It's a good idea to make quick money, so you can't grab it now?"

"Where should I go to rob now?" Amy asked, "All the banks in the country have been robbed by my previous account."

Harry smiled: "Have you robbed the Osborne Group's bank?"

The author has something to say: Amy: A villain who made his fortune by robbing banks.