American comics: Today’s big news Chapter 213

“Connors？”

Gwen heard this name and subconsciously thought of the man she had brought home last night.

“Last night, while I was sleeping, he ran into the city and caused havoc?”

“But we clearly introduced ourselves to each other before going to bed, and he seemed to have goodwill towards me…”

“But the fact is in front of me, Connors, the Lizardman, and the pizza shop must have some connection!”

Gwen walked through the devastated pizza shop and crawled out through the hole in the back wall.

She carefully identified the traces of destruction here, and then raised her hand to launch spider silk diagonally upwards.

She was going back to her rented apartment to confront Connors face to face.

The pizza shop was not close to her apartment, and it required crossing an entire block.

But Spider-Gwen relied on her spider silk to swing, and after a few minutes, she hung by the window of the apartment.

“If he really is the culprit who destroyed the pizza shop… doesn’t that mean he’s actually a Lizardman?”

Just as she was about to open the window and flip in, Gwen’s movements suddenly stopped:

“If I anger him here, will he become angry and destroy this entire apartment?”

Whether it was destroying the landlord’s apartment or considering the other residents living here, Gwen felt a little constrained.

“Maybe I should talk to him first and find a chance to lure him away from the crowd and the apartment.”

She quickly found a way and planned to appease Connors’ emotions first.

Click.

The faint sound of the window latch opening rang out, and Gwen flipped into the bedroom.

She tried to control her emotions and pretended to be in a very cheerful tone:

“Great! The pizza shop needs to be renovated today, so the boss gave me a day off… with pay!”

No one responded to her, the bedroom was empty.

“Are you watching TV in the living room? I think you should be hungry, would you like something to eat?”

Gwen’s heart was pounding, she continued to speak in a relaxed tone, and slowly paced towards the living room.

There was no one in the living room or the bathroom.

Gwen quickly checked all the windows and doors in the apartment and found that they remained locked from the inside.

In other words, Connors had mysteriously disappeared from the apartment without opening any windows or doors.

Gwen’s heart jumped to her throat.

A guy who was likely a Lizardman knew her name, address, and workplace and then disappeared, she was instinctively a little panicked.

“Whether it’s for the safety of New York or for my personal information, I have to find…”

Gwen clenched her fists and made up her mind, but she couldn’t finish her words, a figure appeared from nothing, slowly outlining in the air.

“Connors?” Gwen exclaimed in astonishment, the guy who appeared out of thin air in the apartment was unexpectedly the “Lizardman” she thought had run away.

The Omega Effect is quite useful… Connors satisfactorily evaluated his newly acquired “Omega Effect” ability.

Before he could even stand firm, he saw Spider-Gwen looking at him in astonishment.

“The previous evaluation is withdrawn, the ‘Omega Effect’ cannot do ‘teleportation’ to know in advance whether there are people near the destination…”

He used “teleportation” to return to Earth-Zero while Spider-Gwen was at work.

There, “Superman”, “Lord Superman”, “Flash”, and “Lord Flash” were holding a relay race from Earth to Mars.

“Justice Society’s” “Velocity” was the referee, and other superheroes who were temporarily free from events due to Connors’ departure were watching the race.

When Connors went back, the race was already in its final stages, so he quickly came to Spider-Gwen’s universe again.

He used “teleportation” when going back, and Connors wanted to try the ability of the “Omega Effect” when coming over, which resulted in the scene before him.

“How did you do that… no, what I care about shouldn’t be this.”

Gwen said in surprise, interrupting herself halfway:

“The spider silk trick you showed yesterday didn’t have this ability to appear out of thin air, and why is ‘Mister Fantastic’ wanted you?”

“… No, no, what I really want to ask is, how did you know my shift was gone? Is the pizza shop being eaten by the Lizardman related to you?”

Gwen went around in circles two or three times before finally asking her real question.

“No,” Connors said with a strange expression, “but I have some special abilities…”

“This special ability helped me discover the Lizardman eating the pizza shop as soon as it happened last night.”

The “special ability” Connors was talking about was just the super senses under the activation of “photosynthesis”.

“Special ability? Driving the Lizardman?” Gwen asked in confusion.

She thought of the pizza shop owner saying “the police’s response was that it seemed to be related to Connors”. In Gwen’s opinion, there seemed to be some special connection between Connors and the Lizardman.

“Where did you hear that…” Connors knew at once that Gwen had misunderstood, “I haven’t even seen a Lizardman.”

The only one he had seen similar to a Lizardman was “Copperhead” in the “Secret Society of Super Villains”.

“I learned from special channels that the Lizardman is related to you…”

Gwen slowly approached Connors, she planned to appease Connors first as she had planned before, and then lead him to another place.

“Related to me?” Connors felt a black pot fall from the sky and land on his head.

But he wouldn’t take the blame so easily, the thinking speed brought by “human body limit” allowed him not to ignore the relevant clues:

“Spider, Lizardman, me… the connection between the three? It’s easier to replace ‘me’ with ‘Connors’… that biology PhD.” Connors muttered to himself.

Among the Marvel villains, Connors had a special liking for “Doctor Lizard”, which was why he used “Connors” as his name when he first arrived in Gotham.

“Biology PhD? You mean… another person named ‘Connors’?” Gwen wasn’t stupid either, and quickly understood when listening to Connors’ muttering.

“Yes.” Connors nodded, his ears twitched, and he heard the sound of a TV broadcasting news in another building hundreds of meters away:

“Biology PhD” Curtis. Curt. Connors went missing last night…

Connors didn’t continue listening, but quickly walked a few steps to the living room, turned on the TV in Gwen’s apartment, and found the news channel:

“His wife came to Connors’ university, and learned that the doctor had entered the laboratory last night and never came out again.”

“Some students came to the doctor’s laboratory and found that the doctor was not there either, only a hole was found on the laboratory floor, suspected to be left by some kind of reptile.”

“Currently, the school is closed to the public, and the people of New York are panicked, waiting for the police to find the reptile monster and rescue Doctor Connors.”

“Passerby interview: I can’t wait to see the ‘Spider-Man’ and ‘Lizardman’ in the city fight – of course it’s the Lizard, that’s what they all say.”

“Passerby interview: Doctor Connors has always been compassionate and extremely responsible to his students, I hope the police can rescue him as soon as possible.”

“Passerby interview: I’m a little worried, that monster got into the ground… will it lurk in a sewer and drag the innocent into the ground again?”

“Passerby interview: The police in New York only point guns at ordinary people and order them to shut up – where is Spider-Man? We need her!”

In the news, the reporter obviously regarded this incident as a stepping stone to promotion and salary increase, and kept interviewing passers-by on the street to increase the ratings.

Gwen looked at the pictures on the TV seriously, she walked to the window, leaned out half of her body, and said to Connors:

“I’m going to Empire State University.”

She was going to observe the scene in Doctor Connors’ laboratory.