Vol.3 - Chapter 32 – Mary Jane's 'Spider Trap', only those who use it know!

The K team followed the sewer from the shelter all the way down. Soon, the three team members realized that it was absolutely the right choice for Mason to find a guide.

Because the underground sewer system, about one hundred meters below, was not only absurdly built but also very chaotic. It was like a specially arranged "three-dimensional maze". Without a guide, the result of randomly going down would definitely not be good.

And not all of these sewers were disguised traps.

Some of the pipes did indeed connect to the underground shelter's sewage treatment. Putting aside the question of whether or not they could get out once they entered, the smell alone was enough to be nauseating.

"When S.H.I.E.L.D. was still around, they definitely had a reason to build such a large underground base below Manhattan. I guess they should be researching some 'dangerous things' that cannot be moved here."

Mason held a tactical rifle and used the tactical flashlight attached to the front to illuminate the front as he said, "Perhaps Miss Mary can answer our doubts?"

"Phew."

In response to Mason's question, Mary, who had already awakened, gave a very direct answer. She did not spit in Mason's face, which already showed that she had good self-control.

Faced with this direct answer, Mason was not surprised.

While signaling Barbara to release the bat drones to scout and scan the entire area, he asked himself and answered, "Actually, when I followed Peter into the underground base earlier, I was already guessing. The shape of this underground shelter and its three-layered structure reminded me of something.

This shouldn't be a place specifically for shelter. I guess this should be a secret dock set up by S.H.I.E.L.D. for their aircraft carrier?

But it seems that it hasn't been completed, at least there is no opening left for the carrier to leave.

You were able to escape here with the help of Spider-Man's authority in S.H.I.E.L.D., and you also took advantage of the perfect construction and military-grade ventilation system here to survive the most dangerous initial outbreak of the zombie virus."

In response to Mason's speculation, Mary Jane, whose hands were locked with a bat lock, had a cold face and did not answer. But Captain Jack immediately became interested when he heard the word "carrier".

While holding a star-shaped pistol and randomly aiming around, he asked, "Mason, did you just say it's a ship? Is it as powerful as my Black Pearl?"

"Well, it depends on how you compare it."

Mason was a bit embarrassed and answered skillfully, "If it's swimming in the water, the speed of the aircraft carrier definitely can't compare to the Black Pearl, which can surge forward along the ocean currents. Your magical ship is the fastest in that era.

But the advantage of the aircraft carrier is that it can fly, and its design itself is a super arsenal ship.

The weapons and equipment it stores belong to the kind that can destroy a country."

"Sounds impressive."

Captain Jack was very interested in anything that could be called a "ship". He rubbed his chin and said, "So, you mean, is that powerful ship still in this world?"

Mason couldn't give a specific answer to this question.

His understanding of this place was limited to comics, animations, and movies. This world had already experienced doomsday, and no one knew what the situation was now...

But just a dozen seconds later, Mary Jane, who had been silent, took the initiative to speak up:

"It's still here!"

"Huh?"

Mason and Captain Jack became interested at the same time. Then they heard Mary Jane sneer a few times and say, "It's in the hands of your cold-blooded compatriots. It is docked near the island where their base is located in the open sea.

That day, Peter and the other Avengers fought to the death on it.

After it sank, it was salvaged by Osborn and repaired to become a proof of his and his collaborators' military and ruling power."

"Is that so?"

Mason squinted his eyes and looked up and down at Captain Jack with a strange look. He said, "Captain Jack, I originally thought you didn't have a chance to 'return to your old profession'. But now it seems that your precarious career can still be salvaged."

After hearing Mason's words, the quick-witted Jack Sparrow grinned. Although his iconic pirate gold tooth had been replaced with a more upscale denture, his charming smile remained.

He flicked his finger lightly on his forehead and pretended to bow forward, saying in elegant French with an accent, "My ship will always fight for you, Commander!"

"Hush!"

Just as Mason and Jack were acting, the two barrels in front suddenly made a gesture of silence. It seemed that the cylindrical helmet had captured some sound.

One of the barrels made a hand gesture, and Barbara immediately controlled the silent bat drones to rush forward and investigate in the darkness. After a few seconds, Barbara said in a puzzled low voice, "There is no response in the detection of biological signals and thermal imaging... Did you hear wrong?"

"No! They are lizards, cold-blooded animals! Idiot!"

Mary Jane had already realized that something was wrong. She pushed Jack aside and ran towards the back, but was quickly tackled to the ground by the quick-witted Barbara.

Mason and the barrel reacted quickly. The two raised their guns, with the barrel using excellent tactical instincts to capture the targets in the dark, while Mason took out three cat eye potions and threw them to his companions. He himself activated the combat assistance and the long-lost free-floating reticle began to quickly search for enemies in the dark.

"Bang!"

A flash of light appeared on the flame suppressor installed on the Widowmaker, and a heavy object from the top of the tunnel behind made a mournful cry as it fell.

This was like a "war" signal. In the next instant, the wide and well-connected underground tunnel resounded with the sound of hissing, as well as the strange footsteps and collisions.

"Jack! Protect the girls!"

Mason shouted and rushed back a few steps, while the barrel silently rushed into the darkness. Soon, the sound of assault rifles echoed in the underground tunnel, but the barrel quickly discovered that small-caliber bullets had little effect on these strange creatures that were half-human and half-lizard moving in the dark.The scales covering their bodies and the strong bones underneath give them incredible resistance, and the most deadly thing is that these guys also have self-healing abilities.

Er Tong chopped off the long tail that was sweeping towards him with two barrels, but the guy with the severed tail just screamed and escaped back into the darkness....

Helpless, Er Tong dropped the rifle in his hand and grabbed the two new weapons given to him by Mason with both hands.

Holding two large-caliber kinetic energy revolvers, "Archangel," in his hands, and relying on his excellent skills in blind combat in the dark, Er Tong opened his "Deadly Dance" under the siege of many lizardmen.

To be honest, it was very much like a scene from a certain death god's release.

The crawling creatures that pounced on Er Tong from the darkness would often be shot by Er Tong with a kinetic energy bullet before their teeth could bite, and the power of this thing when fired at close range was enough to blow up the entire head of the approaching lizardman.

Just like the terrifying scene of being hit by a sniper bullet.

And when the distance was too close to shoot, he would use the rotational kinetic energy of his body to smash the heavy weapon in his hand like a war hammer or a dagger.

Only flashes of fire could be seen, and more and more half-lizardmen fell in the darkness.

Er Tong went crazy with killing again.

As for Mason guarding behind, there was no problem.

Although the young man was not as sharp as Er Tong in marksmanship and combat, he was not only a shooter, but with the assistance of combat and his precise rifle, he had extremely strong long-range destructive power. Even if the half-lizardmen barely got close, they would be forced to retreat under the attack of alchemical potions or bombs thrown by Mason.

Most importantly, when the high-tech rifle was fully charged, it could easily penetrate a palm-thick steel plate!

This thing came with the "wall-piercing attachment" that didn't follow the rules of martial arts. Coupled with Mason's even more rule-breaking "auto-aim + wallhack," even if the lizardmen hid around the corner of the tunnel, bullets would come flying to blow up their eyes.

The two of them guarded the sides of the passage, but lizardmen quickly climbed up from above and were fiercely repelled by Captain Jack, who held a gun in one hand and a knife in the other.

It's just that the legendary pirate had some confidence. If it were an ordinary pirate, they would have had their morale collapse and run away when they saw these enemies that seemed like monsters from legends.

"Mary!"

While changing the magazine, Mason threw a petrification potion forward and said without looking back, "You are so familiar with the underground, you must have some relationship with the leaders of these half-lizardmen, right? Why don't you let them retreat and invite the leaders of these 'underground people' to talk slowly?"

"It's useless!"

Mary, protected by Barbara with a gun, sat on the ground with a mixture of fear and despair and said, "The route I'm taking you through is a place where the underground people rarely come. From here, you can go directly to Dr. Conners' laboratory.

But it has been occupied here, and we can't get through!"

"What do you mean?"

Mason was stunned for a moment and asked, "Isn't Lizard Doctor their leader? Aren't these servants transformed by lizard potions?"

"Don't use the word 'they'! It's impolite."

Even Mary Jane, who was brought over by the K Squad, couldn't care about the small matter of being held hostage. She quickly explained, "These people are not Dr. Conners' servants. They are New York citizens who escaped into the underground when the disaster happened. They voluntarily asked Dr. Conners to inject them with gene modification agents in order to survive in the toxic environment.

But Dr. Conners didn't want to get involved in politics.

So these underground people formed their own clans and tribes deep underground. They see Dr. Conners as a symbol of redemption after doomsday, but they don't obey his orders...."

"In that case, there's nothing to worry about."

After listening to the cause and effect, Mason's face turned cold.

He beckoned for Er Tong to retreat and gathered with Mary Jane. Barbara took out masks from her bag and distributed them to everyone. She set up two devices similar to mortars, one in front and one behind, and shouted towards the dark environment nearby, "If you can understand! Everyone, stop attacking immediately! This is the last warning!"

The increasingly dense low growls nearby represented the response of the half-lizardmen.

Mason nodded after activating the mask respirator.

Barbara sighed and activated the devices. Four specially made fear gas shells were fired into the darkness, causing a muffled sound, and then a large amount of green smoke quickly expanded and erupted.

These things were filled with highly concentrated fear gas, with a concentration so high that it was terrifying. As long as the half-lizardmen still needed to breathe, they would not be exempt from the chaos caused by the fear gas.

After about ten seconds, hysterical screams began to sound, as if a herd of animals had suddenly become chaotic.

But this thing was not the most deadly biochemical weapon in the hands of the K Squad. Barbara's backpack still had five shells of concentrated Joker nerve gas.

"Their spirits have been shattered and they have started to kill each other. The threat is eliminated!"

Barbara quickly concluded through drone observation, and the group relaxed.

But at this moment, a figure suddenly leaped down from the darkness above, as if it had been waiting for the K Squad to relax their vigilance.

When he landed, he violently lifted Mary Jane and threw some kind of "rope" into the sky. In the midst of Mary's screams, the attacker flew up, and Er Tong wanted to stab him with his sword but was kicked hard by him. With a muffled sound, Er Tong flew more than ten meters away and slammed heavily into the wall of the tunnel.

Fortunately, he was wearing a combat helmet, otherwise, even Er Tong would have been knocked unconscious by this impact.

It all depended on Mason at this critical moment.

While the young man was being kicked away, he drew his kinetic energy pistol, "Diamond," from his waist and pointed it at the attacker.

In an instant, the Eye of Death fired a continuous stream of shots, emptying the 11-round magazine, almost hitting the same spot and cutting off the overly tough spider silk rope.

As he fell to the ground, he dropped his rifle and drew out the Penguin Umbrella, swinging it forward fiercely.

The interference waves emitted by the cranial disruptor caused the guy to lose his balance, and the umbrella handle of the Lightning Rod burst out with a dazzling golden lightning, accurately hitting the attacker.

It didn't cause any harm to him, but it paralyzed him. Coupled with the broken spider web, he fell down with Mary Jane in a panic and fell into the tunnel filled with fear gas.

"Don't move!"Barbara grabbed the black shotgun and aimed at the person who had fallen down and tightly held onto Ms. Mary. She shouted, "I've got you in my sights, Peter Parker, you can't escape!"

"I can escape!"

The middle-aged, overweight version of Spider-Man lay on the ground, protecting his ex-wife and shouted, "You can try, little girl! Before you shoot, I can blow your head off! I thought you were different from those outsiders, but it turns out you're all the same!"

"Cough, Barbara, put down the gun. Er, Two-Barrels, put away your throwing knives!"...

Mason rubbed his chest, which had just been kicked by Spider-Man, and struggled to get up. If the pain in his chest wasn't an illusion, he should have broken at least one rib.

This bastard!

Clearly, his body had become so overweight, but why was he still so powerful?

"If we were really the same as others, we wouldn't have to go through all this trouble."

Mason took out a bottle of healing potion and poured it into his mouth. Facing Spider-Man, who was surrounded but fearless, he said, "I have many ways to make you willingly follow us, Peter, but a Spider-Man who doesn't work will only become a trouble.

I don't intend to disturb your life, I just need a temporary teammate.

The fact proves that you are not as indifferent as you claim to be.

When Mary Jane is in danger, you still throw yourself into it, just like when you were young, even though you no longer have the spider senses that you relied on for a living. Coming here alone means you might die here.

But you still came."

"This doesn't prove anything, it just makes me hate you even more."

Spider-Man said coldly.

But Mary Jane, who was protected in his arms and still wearing a gas mask, looked at the middle-aged man in front of her with a very complicated gaze.

It was as if everything had returned to ten years ago.

Every time she was in danger, he would appear first, standing in front of her, isolating all the dangers, just like the scene when they first opened up to each other when they were young.

It was as if the good days would never end.

"Peter..."

In the confrontation between the two sides, Mary Jane said softly,

"You know that the vibrations have already started to affect the main structure of the shelter. If it continues to strengthen, we will be buried alive one day.

Jameson is going crazy because of this.

It can be hard to make great work when its stolen from "p𝑎wread.com".

He concealed the news and mobilized many people to repair the cracks, but it was useless.

I'm willing to come down with them to find out the truth."

Spider-Man pursed his lips. He didn't trust these outsiders, but the next moment, Mary Jane finally stopped using that cold tone and buried her head in his chest, saying softly,

"Peter, help them, help us too. Without this place, we have nowhere to go. Maybe we should have died during the apocalypse, but Little Mason...

What will happen to him in the future?"

"They can't be trusted! You know, they ruined..."

Peter Parker said softly, and Mary Jane shook her head and said,

"They at least cured Matt, they showed kindness that others didn't bother to express. Peter, we have no choice."

Spider-Man fell silent.

He lowered his head and kissed Mary Jane's forehead, saying to her,

"Alright, you convinced me, as always.

You go up first, I'll take them down. Hopefully, Dr. Conners still remembers me."

"Jack, you escort Mary Jane up. It's too dangerous for a lady to go back alone."

Mason also said to the weakest member of the team.

Captain Jack, who had just killed three lizardmen, was exhausted and eager to leave this increasingly absurd place.

These half-lizard creatures had already appeared, who knows what else is down there? Maybe there will be a giant octopus sea monster that preys on people.

It's too dangerous to mix with these guys with his fragile body.

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