In the dark night, a bright moon hung high in the sky, and the cold light reflected the cold light from the wooden window lattice illuminated by the moonlight, and a middle-aged man with glasses sat in front of the window reading a press release, and said to the other side with a phone in one hand.

"Rest assured, the New York Times is not one of those little-known tabloids, our online media has strong enough influence, since its launch, it has more than 2 million subscribers, the largest number of subscribers to the official account of traditional media, and the radiation area is as high as 20 states."

"In the next issue of the e-newsletter, we have two current affairs commentators debating the topic of 'how ordinary people can protect themselves in a world full of superheroes'."

"One of the commentators will lash out at the gun ban, arguing that guns are for ordinary people and that people must have more firepower to escape from superheroes, while criticizing the candidate as a one-sided force restriction faction that is not responsible for the safety of people's lives......"

"But I think we can further intensify the conflict between ordinary people and superheroes, after all, if everyone shoots when they see a superhero, then the bullets will sell better."

"By the way, there is also a group of food preservative sellers who advocate apocalypticism, if we can contact them, we can also put an issue on topics such as how ordinary people should establish a stronghold if superheroes take over the world with hegemony......"

At this moment, the middle-aged man suddenly found that the scratch paper on his desk flashed with a burst of red light,

He was startled, his hand shook, his phone fell to the ground, and when he turned around, he saw a portal that glowed red.

A dark figure walked out of the portal, raised his gun, shot, and shot himself in the head, turned around and walked back to the portal, all in one go, leaving no trace.

On the other side of the portal is the large and bright hall of the Spider Legion, and a dumbfounded Spider-Man standing next to him.

"You just killed him?! Shadow Spider-Man, that's too ...... It's too ......" Spider-Man's hand waved in the air for a long time, as if he didn't know how to describe it.

"Go find your Stark, don't follow me." Shadow Spider-Man waved his hand impatiently and said, "Or you can go to the airport and watch the plane take off, you should like that." ”

"How do you know...... I mean, Mr. Stark left with Eddie, saying he was going to get some documentary, and I saw that you've been summoning portals here, so I'm going to come and see, you ...... You ......"

"Don't get in the way of my mission." Shadow Spider-Man walked past him, glanced at the list in his hand, opened a portal again, and walked inside, and returned with a bloody aura after a while.

And George, who hurried to the police station that night, found that eight murders with almost identical modus operandi were in front of him, and the dead were more important than the other.

The victims of the first three cases were all media workers, who had some social prestige but were not yet important figures, the next three were from the military, and the last two were heavyweights, one of whom was a congressman and the other was the president of the New York state of the energy giant Roxon & Co.

The New York Police Department received at least a thousand phone calls in six hours, and everyone was asking who did it, but George couldn't answer that they were Spider-Man's ghosts.

In all fairness, George doesn't hate Spider-Man, but this attitude is also because in addition to the immature little spider who made some trouble in the early days of his debut, the Spider-Man of this universe has been a street hero for a short time, and he was caught working in the laboratory before the streets were full of crime.

So the conflict between him and George did not intensify to the point of irreconcilability, and the reason why George's attitude towards him was worse than that of other superheroes was that Spider-Man was younger at first sight, and George thought that he set a bad example for other young people, including his daughter.

In his conscience, George also felt a little sorry for the death of the first generation of Spider-Man, thinking that it might be a young man about the same age as his daughter, thinking that there might be relatives at home waiting for him to come home, but he could never go back, George sighed for this tragedy like everyone else.

But after his death, Spider-Man did not get hero-like treatment, the reviews were good and bad, and his successor's reputation was even worse, and even for a long time, Spider-Man became synonymous with hypocrisy, pompousness and artificiality, and he was almost catching up with the rats crossing the street.

George sometimes wonders if Spider-Man's failure to come forward to clarify and argue is also due to weakness, but it is also possible that he is gathering strength to carry out the final ruling.

According to George's experience, it is possible for one or two murders with the same method to leave no trace, but now there are ten murders in total, and the crime scene is exactly the same, and there is no trace, how can this not remind him of occult reasons?

As the chief of the New York Police Department, George has a certain understanding of the occult world, because there have been some mages who have caused some chaos because they don't understand the rules of ordinary society, and he has also seen the magic of magic when he went to deal with it.

So after this incident, George also considered Jameson's statement, so he contacted the New York Temple as soon as possible, but strangely, the New York Temple, which had been responsive in the past, did not reply this time, which made George even more strange.

He didn't know that the temples around the world were now busy looking for their long-lost Supreme Mage without saying goodbye, but he felt that the temple's attitude was ambiguous, and there might really be some hidden secrets in it.

With this in mind, George still conducted the investigation step by step, and after so many years as the police chief, he also knew that in the face of tremendous pressure, the police must be fully mobilized and act like everyone has something to do, so as not to be blamed.

However, George himself did not follow most of the police officers to investigate various crime scenes or face the cross-examination of energy giants, but came to the Clarion Daily office alone.

A few months ago, the Daily Clarion was closed, so now that the office was empty and there were no employees working there, George easily entered the Daily Clarion building and managed to find Jameson's office.

He knew how cautious Jameson was about Spider-Man's problems, so he didn't look at the exposed filing cabinets, but went straight to the file room next to the editor-in-chief's office to find the locked filing cabinets, and skillfully opened them with a gun.

It wasn't long before George found the evidence about Spider-Man that Jameson had mentioned Huggie had given him in a locked filing cabinet.

Evidence includes audio backups of underground gym attendants, clues in the sewers, and information about Spider-Man's whereabouts that Jameson did not mention.

Looking through these materials, George found that most of the information recorded in them was located in Hell's Kitchen, where Spider-Man made his early debut, and George guessed that Huji and the organization behind it should have a stronghold in Hell's Kitchen.

George put the information he got on the table for a quick comparison, and through the scope of the information revealed, George determined the approximate range of the stronghold, and then he drove to the target street.

When the cold wind of late autumn passed through the street, George looked down at the information in his hand, the fragile paper made a "rattle" sound under the strong wind, Schiller's notebook turned a page, he pointed to a message on it.

"After Hu Ji's death, investigators will definitely find out that there is an organization behind him that specializes in discrediting Spider-Man, which is quite professional, and every clue about Spider-Man is quite detailed and reliable."

"The people I sent to do it will not leave any clues, so the investigators can only focus on the organization behind Huji, I deliberately disclosed some information about my whereabouts, and professionals can determine the approximate location of the stronghold by collecting information on their whereabouts - Hell's Kitchen Harlinder Avenue A32C, which is a small house two blocks away from my clinic."

"I laid out some clues there in advance, and the investigators will soon find out that this is the work of Hydra again, and it also involves the energy giant Roxon, which has been funding S.H.I.E.L.D., and is also linked to Hydra in S.H.I.E.L.D."

"Roxon couldn't compete with Stark Group in the heavy arms space, so they shifted their focus to civilian arms a few years ago."

"About a year ago, they contacted Hydra in S.H.I.E.L.D. and asked them to investigate the superheroes in New York, mainly to dig up their black material, and then bribe the media and writers to distort or distort the evidence and publish it."

"This is to create an atmosphere where superheroes can go crazy and hurt ordinary people at any time, so that ordinary people have to buy weapons to protect themselves, so as to fight the gun ban faction and increase civilian arms sales."

"But I understand that Hydra agents are already very busy, and I happen to know Spider-Man very well, especially Spider-Man in the early days of his debut, so I simply provided them with some evidence, such as Spider-Man often haunts various illegal places, and has also played black boxing and the like."

"Investigators will just find evidence in that room that Roxon contacted Hydra to dig up superhero black material, regardless of the investigators' attitude, the evidence will eventually be released after several changes of hands, and the public will find out who is fooling them, and the superhero threat theory will be self-defeating."

"What's more, the business focus of Roxon is civilian, once it is caught in a public opinion turmoil, it is inevitable to find a way to save the brand image, Hydra is unreliable, they can only rely on S.H.I.E.L.D., and S.H.I.E.L.D. happens to lack a financial ...... to establish a new superhero team system"

Schiller smiled and said, "Once the truth about Spider-Man being seriously and maliciously smeared spreads, people will inevitably re-examine this young superhero." ”

"And if George has been prejudiced against Spider-Man because of public opinion, then with his personality, when Spider-Man reveals his identity to him, his first reaction will not be anger, but guilt, so that Peter's problem will be solved."

In the Hell's Kitchen cabin, George threw aside the shocking secrets about Hydra and Roxon, and was stunned with a report on the appearance and disappearance of Spider-Man that had been dug up in the corner.

The information is very detailed, complete and smooth, which can completely refute the outrageous arguments in some news that Spider-Man gambles at certain times or slaughters stray dogs.

What stunned George was that the time period when Spider-Man disappeared from Hell's Kitchen, excluding the possible time to rest or school, was exactly the same as the time when his daughter Gwen said she was going out to see the exhibition?

As a single father and a seasoned detective who climbed to a high position with his own ability, George knows very well the truth of being careful to sail a ship of ten thousand years, and he knows how many people's targets will be the only daughter of a police chief, so he asks Gwen to report to him no matter who he hangs out with, and tell him when to go out and go home.

Gwen was a fairly obedient child, doing it every time, and she wasn't a big fan of going out to party, going out very few times in the past two years, and George remembered every time she went out and came home.

George didn't believe that there was such a coincidence in this world, even if he was conservative, he would not think that the timeline of a man and a woman disappearing in the eyes of everyone just coincided, and they would simply be interested in a certain exhibition.

He looked at the information in his hand again and confirmed that this was the information on the whereabouts of a generation of Spider-Man when he first debuted, so Gwen and a generation of Spider-Man were in love?!

And when he came to this conclusion, George's first thought was, it's good that a generation of Spider-Man is dead, otherwise how much danger would he have to bring to Gwen?

Wait, is he dead? Or is he dead now?

In an instant, George broke out in a cold sweat, and Jameson's words kept echoing in his ears, and he had no time to think, so he instinctively rushed out of the house, got into the car and returned home as fast as he could.

With a "bang", George opened the door, rushed in and looked at Gwen who was making cakes in front of the island, and asked.

"You've been in a relationship with Spider-Man?!"

Gwen was stunned, she knew her father very well, if George asked, then he must have proof, Gwen turned her head and stopped talking after the initial shock.

She was already waiting for George to be angry, but she didn't expect George to rush up in a panic, grabbed her arm, and said, "Quick, Gwen, you have to get out of New York!" ”

George wasn't sure if the mysterious killer was Spider-Man's ghost, but even one in 10,000 chance, he couldn't let Gwen take the risk, Gwen was all his spiritual support, and nothing in this world was more important than Gwen's safety.

Gwen was so confused by his actions that she didn't know why, and finally pushed George away, looked at him and said, "Daddy, what's wrong with you?" Why should I leave New York? Tomorrow is your birthday, and I still have to celebrate my birthday with you. ”

Seeing the sincere expression on his daughter's face, George sighed helplessly and said.

"Do you understand, Gwen, a generation of Spider-Man is dead, but now he may be back!"

George was actually referring to the fact that a generation of Spider-Man might come back from the dead and become a ghost, but Gwen misunderstood, she thought that George could find out that she and Spider-Man were in a relationship, that is, she already knew that Spider-Man was Peter, but she was not sure that one generation and three generations of Spider-Man were the same thing.

Anyway, the love affair has been exposed, and there is no point in hiding it any longer, so Gwen nodded and said, "Yes, of course he is back, didn't you see Peter a few days ago?" ”

George was stunned, his thoughts were like electricity, he looked at Gwen and said, "Peter? You mean, Peter Parker is Spider-Man?! ”

Gwen nodded, lowered her head with some guilt, and said, "We didn't mean to hide it from you, but Peter has some social difficulties, and you know that he doesn't speak very well, so I really don't know how to explain it to you......"

"So your current boyfriend is also Spider-Man? You've been in Spider-Man for two?! Oh my God, what's so good about him?! George held his forehead as if he was about to faint.

Gwen stood there with her head bowed like a child making a mistake, but instead of the scolding she imagined, George just said a little anxiously, "What are you still standing here?" Go call Peter and get him back! ”

"Uh...... Are you going to scold him to his face? ”

"I thank him! If he weren't Spider-Man, how could he protect you from another Spider-Man?! Go and get him back, and you'd better stay together twenty-four hours for the next two months, and don't give that Soul Slayer a chance!" ”

George looked left and right and said, "No, no, living together before marriage is still too out of line...... Why don't you tie the knot first? ”

"Huh?"

Schiller: Huh?

(End of chapter)