#766 - The Origin of Fear The Spider of Despair

With the help of the rope, Peter quickly reached the vicinity of the top floor.

Why not just take it to the top floor? Good question. First of all, the unidentified object that fell from the sky turned the top floor into a sea of fire, and secondly, the elevators in Parker Industries Tower don't go directly to the top floor.

This was specially designed to prevent people from breaking into the confidential areas of the building. If you want to reach the top floor, you have to transfer elevators.

It's just that the elevator that can reach the top floor is definitely out of service now, so Peter can only hope that the building's emergency stairs are still usable.

Opening the safety door of the elevator, a cloud of smoke rushed towards him. Fortunately, Peter had put on a protective mask in advance, otherwise this mouthful of smoke could have killed him.

Peter scanned the interior environment through the eyepiece. Fortunately, the fire wasn't as bad as he had expected. He just didn't know why the building's fire sprinklers hadn't been activated, otherwise the fire wouldn't have spread.

Peter roughly calculated that, based on the integrity of the building, the thing that fell from the sky shouldn't have been very big itself.

It must have landed on something flammable and explosive, which caused the fire. In that case, relying on the suit he developed for Cindy and her own physical fitness, as long as Cindy doesn't get too close to the explosives, she won't be seriously injured.

Feeling a little more at ease, Peter stepped into the floor, just as he was about to walk to the emergency stairs according to his memory, he heard a whooshing sound behind him.

Before Peter could turn around, something hit him in the lower back. Although this thing hit hard, it was soft in texture, and it didn't hurt when it hit him.

The next second, Peter could feel the thing burst open on his lower back, and then a mass of white substance instantly wrapped him up, leaving only his head and a hand holding a tool exposed.

His legs were blocked, causing Peter to lose his balance, and his body involuntarily fell forward, eventually slamming onto the ground.

"Ouch!"

Peter cried out in pain, and he looked down at the thing that was binding him and was immediately surprised, because Peter recognized the thing that was binding him.

What was binding Peter was the web grenade he had developed, which was also one of the main attack modes carried in the web shooter he had developed to help Cindy, with the aim of trapping enemies without hurting them.

Peter really didn't expect that one day he would be bound by his own invention.

Peter struggled to raise his head, and with the help of the constantly swaying firelight, he saw a slender black shadow in the dim elevator shaft. The more he looked at this shadow, the more familiar it seemed.

"Cindy?" Peter asked tentatively.

"Is that you, Cindy? Stop it! Hurry up and untie me, we have to get out of here quickly, it might be more dangerous later!"

Peter's shouting, besides its questioning purpose, also served to embolden himself. After all, although the other party was slender and leaned against the wall in a very unscientific posture without falling, in this world full of all kinds of superhumans, this couldn't be used as a basis.

For example, the Spider-Woman that Cindy admired had the same superpowers as Cindy.

Perhaps annoyed by Peter's shouting, the black shadow hidden in the elevator shaft leaned forward until her whole body left the wall, and finally stood in the air without relying on anything, floating out of the elevator shaft.

"Cin…dy?" Peter's eyes widened. What appeared in front of him was a familiar yet unfamiliar figure.

Familiar because the person was indeed Cindy, but unfamiliar because her clothes and temperament were completely different from the little girl in his memory.

Cindy was no longer wearing the close-fitting suit he had made for her, but a Viking-style armor. Most of her body was covered in an unknown material that looked like cloth, while her arms and thighs were covered in armor made of a flexible material that revealed a metallic luster.

In the very center of her chest was a huge spider symbol that was constantly emitting a red light. The scarlet light, combined with the surrounding firelight, allowed Peter to clearly see the several scars on Cindy's face.

That originally cute face was now destroyed by hideous scars.

"Your face? What happened, Cindy?"

Peter struggled, wriggling his body like a caterpillar, which represented his concern for Cindy.

"Hypocrite," Cindy interrupted Peter's movements in a cold voice, the latter revealing a surprised expression, obviously not understanding what the former meant.

"What do you mean? What exactly happened, Cindy?"

Cindy didn't speak, but stretched out her right hand. Just as Peter didn't understand what she was doing, a sharp whooshing sound came from behind him.

"Whoosh!"

By the time Peter came back to his senses, a huge thing had stopped directly above him, and he screamed in fright when he saw what it was.

Peter didn't know what the huge thing was because he couldn't see its full appearance, but Peter could see clearly what was hanging on the huge thing.

That was… Cindy?

That's right, besides the Cindy floating outside the elevator door, there was another Cindy, but this Cindy was already dead. There was a big hole in her stomach, and a sharp cone had pierced through her abdomen.

This Cindy looked like she had been dead for a long time, because the blood in her abdomen had already solidified, and not a single drop of blood was flowing out even though she was suspended above Peter.

Because what was happening in front of him was too shocking, Peter couldn't say anything besides screaming.

"Want to know what happened?" Scarface Cindy said coldly.

"Okay, then I'll tell you. I was replaced by this guy a week ago. In this week, she has been torturing me constantly! Prying out everything she wants to know from my mouth!"

"I have been praying in my heart, I hope my brother can discover that her sister has been replaced, I hope you can expose this impostor and then come to save me, but the reality is the increasing scars on my face!"

Speaking of this, Cindy's emotions obviously became agitated, and as soon as she finished speaking, a scarlet aura burst out from her body at the same time, sending Peter, who was lying on the ground, flying several meters.

"Ugh!" Peter cried out in pain, and finally broke free from his shock.

"Another you? How is this possible? How could this kind of thing happen?"

A hint of imperceptible disappointment flashed in Cindy's cold eyes, and she said coldly again.

"Looks like you never noticed anything wrong, in that case…"

Before she finished speaking, Cindy stretched out her right hand again, and the object hanging the corpse of the other Cindy immediately flew into her hand, and Peter was finally able to see the full picture of the thing.

It was a huge hammer, as tall as a person, with one end pointed and the other flat.