Volume 3: The Nameless Chapter 36: The Devil Knight's Doomsday Chronicle
After obtaining the necessary intrusion program, remote support from Doctor Octopus, and figuring out the specific situation in Osborn Tower, Team K's needs for entering the underground were all met, so they did not stay too long and returned to the shelter.
Mason's two sets of armor were left with Dr. Otto, who made subsequent modifications and maintenance, as if it were some kind of promised "mission reward."
"You just said you knew why the Green Goblin hated the world?"
While flushing into the tunnel below the shelter, Mason whispered to the middle-aged Spider-Man beside him:
"I guess it's because of his son?"
"Um."
Since he decided to work with Team K, Peter Parker no longer concealed the information he knew. He said:
"And my former good friend Harry Osborn, he had a complicated past but we eventually made peace and even teamed up to try to cure his father's 'condition'.
But in the final battle, he...
Alas, that day I lost not only my comrades and my city, but also my best friend. Norman Osborn witnessed the scene.
But it was an accident.
The building that was destroyed by the SHIELD spacecraft fell on Harry, and he and Mary Jane were trying to pull me out of the dead body with my severe injuries. "
"Yes, I understand."
Mason nodded and said:
"So, in addition to complaining about your fucked-up life, you've also been feeling guilty about your good brother during your drunken life these past few years?"
Spider-Man remained silent and did not answer.
But the answer could be seen from his gloomy expression.
“Spider-Man that day wanted to save the whole world, but Peter Parker that day didn’t save a single person.
He couldn’t even save himself.”
After several seconds, he whispered something and took out another cigarette and put it in his lips. Mason cooperated by rubbing his fingers to create a ball of magic fire to help him light it.
Ertong beside him also raised his hand and patted the shoulder of the outdated superhero, seeming to empathize with him.
In order to stop provoking Spider-Man, Mason turned around and discussed the planned itinerary with Barbara. He looked at the dark tunnel around him and said to Batgirl who was adjusting the communication frequency with Dr. Otto:
"We have to send someone down to negotiate with these underground people. When we enter the Osborne Tower to carry out the decapitation operation, the entire Osborne Group's minions will also need someone to deal with them.
There are enough lizardmen living here and they are quite strong. Their fast regeneration and cold-blooded habits make them natural warriors with almost no practice.
They can also quietly approach the coastal city through the underground sewers. If we are trapped in a tough battle in Osborne Tower and need reinforcements, there is no better fighter than them."
"Let Captain Jack come."
Barbara brushed her hair and said:
"He's good at talking, and it's said that the pirates there are the best at negotiation. With Dr. Connors backing him up, the underground Lizardmen tribes will give him some face."
"Don't tell anyone in the shelter about our actions, especially Mary and Jameson."
Spider-Man, holding a cigarette butt in his mouth, said to Mason and Barbara:
“Mary is a hardliner, and Jameson’s bad temper hasn’t changed much since the apocalypse. Once they know we’re going to Osborne Tower, they’ll definitely bring the adults in the shelter to help us.
But I don’t want to see these people who have lost everything die in vain for a duty they shouldn’t have to take on.”
"I don't think so."
Mason pouted, but he glanced at Spider-Man and said:
"But if you can make the decision for them, then let's do as you say. We'll rest for four hours after we get up there, and we'll set off after nightfall.
This has to be done tonight!"
"Mason, there is one very important question you haven't asked."
Ertong asked:
"What about the liquidators who are said to be stationed on the small islands off the coast? If they want to intervene in this operation..."
"Mr. Hunter has said hello."
Mason shook his head and said:
"I also have the execution order of the Star Society. This is their official document. With this thing, I can make the cleaners stand aside and watch.
Besides, according to what Mr. Hunter said, their organization is now busy dealing with the "impact" and has no time to deal with these trivial matters.
Well, speaking of impact."
Captain K looked at Peter Parker and asked:
"It's been several years since the end of this world. Haven't you ever seen the impact happen with your own eyes? According to the time I know now, it should have happened at least once."
"We live underground, Mason."
Peter flicked away the cigarette butt, put on his hood, and said:
“We won’t go to the surface unless it’s necessary. And the zombie virus that permeated the surface only began to dissipate a year ago. Before that, the ground was a restricted area for us.
Closing our eyes and ears may sound bad, but it does protect us.
But your peers have certainly said similar things back and forth over the years, calling our world the 'safe world'.
It seems that this place is protected by the Star Society and the Cleaners and will not be affected by those disasters."
"I don't think they are that capable. I think it's more of a scam."
Mason snorted and didn't continue the topic. Instead, he climbed up the ladder and opened the sewer entrance of the shelter. The people behind him followed him to the ground.
They went to meet up with Jack first, but they couldn't find Captain Jack in Mary Jane's office, and that guy didn't leave any message.
But judging by the half a pizza on the table, they seemed to be in a hurry.
"Barbara, contact him."
Mason said and Batgirl immediately activated the comm.
At the same time, there was a noise outside the window. Mason turned his head and saw that the old man Jameson was wearing a helmet and holding a gun, rushing across the street with several adults.
Judging from the way he was cursing and swearing, he must have encountered an emergency.
Spider-Man in the office was startled at this. Without even saying anything to Mason, he punched the glass, breaking it and rushed out like lightning.
He jumped up and down a few times and stood in front of Jameson. As Spider-Man's "number one anti-fan", the old mayor immediately grabbed the gun in his hand and aimed at Peter after seeing Spider-Man falling from the sky.
He shouted:
"Liar! Get lost! Don't interrupt us from doing our business. This is an emergency and I don't want to waste my time arguing with you again."
"Jameson, what happened?"
A feeling of panic shook Peter's heart, and he asked loudly.
"No need to tell you!"
The old man curled his lips in disgust.
But a young man behind him saw Spider-Man and shouted as if he had seen a savior:
"Little Mei ran out of the shelter! Chief Mary Jane chased her out, and there was a strange guy with her. They've been gone for twenty minutes. Mayor Jameson asked us to gather together and go outside to help."
"What?"
Peter was struck by lightning.
This bad news immediately reminded him of the unusual movement of his spider senses in the bar before, which warned him that not only Mary Jane was in danger, but also his daughter was in danger.
"grass!"
The middle-aged Spider-Man, who smoked, drank, and didn't perm his hair, cursed, turned around, swung out spider silk to wrap around the lamppost above his head, and rushed towards the entrance of the shelter.
Team K following behind him also received news about Captain Jack.
"We're in the city! Damn it, Mary Jane's gone crazy and is driving a car through the ghoul-filled streets looking for her daughter !"
Amid the piercing gunfire, Jack screamed:
"There are at least two hundred zombies running wildly behind us. The ghosts here are much more ferocious than those in my hometown! Some of them are so big that I can't even shoot through their skin with a gun.
Come and help! "
"It looks like we have to plan ahead."
Mason stretched his neck, put on his full-face helmet, threw out his small motorcycle, and gestured to Ertong and Barbara.
Ertong jumped into the truck bed and placed his heavy sniper rifle in front. Barbara sat behind Mason and began to locate Jack and Mary Jane.
Under the astonished gaze of the little old man Jameson, the sky blue motorcycle whooshed into the sky and quickly disappeared into the passage at the entrance of the shelter.
But the soldiers in the shelter who were called upon by him to assemble now didn't know whether they should go out or not.
It's dangerous out there, and everyone knows that.
"Why are you all looking at me?"
Mayor Jameson blew out a smoke ring, cursed, and tapped his cane and shouted:
"That liar and his freak friends are out, so are we still going to stay here and pretend that everything is fine? Open the armory!
Bring your guns and bullets!
We'll go too."
——
Annie May Parker now regretted her reckless behavior of sneaking out of the shelter to find her mother. Of course, as an eight-year-old girl, she seemed to have not fully realized the seriousness of the problem at this time .
She was not eaten as bread by the dangerous zombies.
Although they were indeed chased all over the street by a scary monster at the beginning, maybe the cute little girls were lucky.
When she was about to be caught and about to cry loudly with fear, two "weird uncles" wearing majestic armors descended from the sky, killed the zombies and saved her.
But that’s the problem.
As the daughter of Spider-Man, May grew up listening to her father's heroic deeds. Although her father is now disabled, she still knows all the villains in New York City.
When she saw the armor patterns of the two strange uncles who "rescued" her, she knew who she had met.
Rhino, and scorpion!
This is the lackey of the big bad guy Sandman that my mother always complains about.
Xiaomei knew that she had fallen into a situation more terrifying than encountering zombies, so she behaved well and did not cry or make a fuss. She "voluntarily" followed the two strange uncles walking in the city in a very cooperative manner.
Of course the little girl in the black spider costume couldn't walk fast, so Rhino simply put her on top of his cool and brutal steel armor.
This scene doesn't even look like a big villain patrolling the streets and capturing a small prisoner.
If we ignore the foul language and inappropriate discussions between the Rhino and the Scorpion, it would look more like two big guys in strange costumes taking a child out for an outing.
"Scorpion, we have accomplished a great feat by capturing Spider-Man's daughter this time!"
The rhino man, who sacrificed his brain in exchange for muscle and brute strength, proudly controlled his rhino armor and walked on the street.
While chatting and bragging with his companions, he fired a high-explosive missile and blasted a group of zombies hiding in a distant street corner into pieces.
He laughed and shouted:
“The boss will definitely reward us if he knows about this. Maybe we’ll have the chance to leave this damn world and visit other good places.
I cried with envy when I heard my colleagues bragging that they could sleep with seven elves in one night.
grass!
Look at this damn place, there's not even a decent woman or a place to have fun."
"Just shut up."
The companion who was also wearing the combat scorpion armor was a little smarter than the rhino. He flicked open his green goggles, looked around, and said in a gloomy tone:
"This credit doesn't just belong to the two of us. Vulture is our immediate superior, so that bastard must get a share. Besides, although we are all part of the Hydra team, this pathetic thing called class still exists.
They are already regular members of the team, while we are just reserves.
If you ask me, Sha Ren is not a good leader. If he was really powerful, he wouldn't have destroyed his entire army in other worlds and ran back in disgrace.
This won’t work.”
The gloomy scorpion snorted, swung the armor, and the ferocious mechanical scorpion tail behind it burned to death several zombie dogs running from a distance with rays. He looked around.
He shut down the communication system, glared at May Parker who had her mouth sealed but was eavesdropping on their conversation with her ears perked up, and whispered to the Rhino:
"Mysterio found me a few days ago. He said he had a plan that required our assistance. He also said that after the plan was completed, we would be the vice-captains of the new Hydra team."
"I hate that bad guy."
The rhino man stomped on the ground unhappily, breaking the rocks under his feet and cursing:
"He's just taking advantage... huh? Who's that in front?"
The next moment, the two little villains turned their heads at the same time to look at the street ahead. As they stared in surprise, a strange man wearing a red windbreaker, with his hair neatly combed and his leather shoes polished to a shine, was walking alone along the street.
When they saw that guy, the strange guy also saw them and little May Parker, who was placed on top of the Rhino armor, with her mouth sealed and her hands tied.
Jason Blood, the demon knight who had crossed the abandoned city on foot, looked at the strange pair in front of him with a cold gaze.
He paused, his lips moving slightly but no sound came out.
"Little girl, did these two guys kidnap you?"
His cold voice echoed eerily in little May Parker's heart, causing the bewildered little girl's eyes to widen instantly.
Wow!
magic!
This must be the magical magic that my mother told me about. It is said that before the end of the world, there was a very powerful magician in this city.
Mom and Dad had dinner with him, and the magician also attended their wedding... Tsk, why didn't mom and dad bring her along for such a fun event like this?
"They are big bad guys!"
The brave little girl answered in her heart:
"They want to capture me and bring me to their boss to seek credit and reward. Please help me, black-haired magician uncle!"
"Well, I 'm not some disgusting fellow like a magician."
The Devil Walker answered with some resistance, but as a thousand-year-old knight, he naturally had to follow the ancient chivalric code.
A damsel in distress was asking for his help, and a true knight would never turn a deaf ear to it.
"Buzz"
Jason Blood stretched out his left hand and made a fist.
At the moment when the vigilant Rhino and Scorpion opened the weapon slot of their armor, a burning red knight's two-handed sword jumped into their hands while being burned by the fire of purgatory.
The Demon Knight held the sword with both hands, placed the blade against his forehead, and whispered.
The next moment, the direction where he was was completely covered and annihilated by Rhino's explosive missiles and Scorpion's high-energy rays. However, this stupid attack that even Gotham's third-tier villains could not hit posed no threat to him at all.
Just like a flash of dart, the figure of the demon knight rushed over amid the burning fireworks.
He raised his sword and chopped off the scorpion's tail, then turned around and slashed in an arc, easily cutting through the rhino man's armor that was heavy enough to withstand the bombardment of small missiles.
The rhino wanted to fight back and punched with his clenched fists, but was kicked over by the indifferent demon knight, and a burning and melting footprint immediately appeared on his armor.
Xiaomei was thrown into the air, and as she fell down dancing, Jason Blood reached out and caught her in his hand.
He put away the sword in his hand and helped Xiaomei remove the tape from her mouth. Jason's nose moved, and he smelled the faint scent of the tracking mark he left on this little girl. He whispered:
"Where are your parents? Why did they let you run around in Doomsday City alone?"
"I'm here to look for my mom! She left the shelter with some weird people."
The little girl looked at the powerful uncle in front of her with admiration and said:
"I can't rely on my useless dad. I want to save my mom. Can you help me, uncle?"
"As a knight, I cannot refuse such a request."
Brad raised his head and looked in a certain direction of the city.
He placed Xiaomei on his broad shoulders and said:
"Come on, little girl, let's go meet your mother and her new friends. I have a lot of questions for them after seeing the end of the world."
