I Became Spider-Man's Cousin in Anime Crossover

Chapter 251 [Two chapters combined into one] Symbiote: Hiss, have they always been this brave?

It's obvious that these three villains all knew what was going on...

Although Spider-Man's whereabouts are always elusive, and two new members have recently joined the team.

However, any incident related to crimes involving superpowers is considered a crime.

Therefore, Spider-Man would not stand idly by and would definitely go to the scene to investigate!

This self-evident logic gave them an opportunity to exploit!

As for Martin Lee, who on the surface seems to have no grudge against Spider-Man, why would he get involved...?

The answer is simple.

That is, Mr. Negative understood the principle of mutual dependence.

After all, unlike the game's storyline, which changed Mr. Negative to be from Dali, Yunnan, and removed many of his details to help new players quickly understand this villainous character...

In the original comics, Mr. Negative's true identity is not actually "Martin Lee" at all.

Instead, he was an anonymous low-level member of a criminal gang known as "snakeheads" that specialized in illegal immigration.

Consequently, in a shipwreck, as the sole survivor, he took the place of the deceased stowaway, the real "Martin Lee."

They fabricated a tragic story that "a factory owner from Fujian traveled thousands of miles to illegally immigrate to the United States in order to find his unfaithful wife."

While recounting this touching story, he didn't forget to give the auditor, who was in charge of receiving him, a large amount of valuables that he had managed to salvage from the sunken ship before his rescue.

Thus, Mr. Martin Lee, the second-generation figure, not only gained the sympathy of the relevant department's reviewers, but also, while rapidly rummaging through the dazzling array of valuables, sincerely wished that Martin Lee would soon find his non-existent unfaithful wife.

It was only natural that Martin Lee was given the green light all the way. It took almost no time to hand Martin Lee his brand-new green card.

In this way, Martin Lee not only went from being an undocumented immigrant from the lowest rung of society to becoming a legitimate U.S. citizen.

With this passport, his identity as "Martin Lee" was definitively confirmed. It allowed him to completely sever ties with his past life as a lowly criminal, constantly worrying about whether he would see the sun rise the next day!

However, Martin Lee's new life was cut short before he was kidnapped.

The reason was that the boat he was on suddenly sank because the gang members who were supposed to signal from the shore to meet him failed to appear on time. In desperation, Martin Lee, in order to avoid being discovered by the coast guard, forced the captain to move towards the shore without signal guidance, which resulted in the boat hitting a reef and sinking.

So, here's the question...

Why would a partner who is always punctual and has collaborated with him several times be absent at such a crucial moment, almost causing Martin Lee's death?

The answer is simple.

Because of a feud between gangs, the smuggling organization was mercilessly wiped out by Hammerhead, another supervillain from the Spider-Man series, who led his henchmen to their doorstep with guns.

So, upon learning that there were survivors in the shipwreck, Hammerhead promptly sent his men to kidnap Martin Lee.

At this point, a single bullet would have easily ended Martin Lee's life, and none of this would have happened.

Unfortunately……

As we all know, villains all share a common flaw.

That is, even though you could kill the other person directly, you choose to court death and give them a chance to fight back.

The hammerhead is no exception.

After capturing Martin Lee, he was just one step away from easily killing Martin Lee, who was just an ordinary human at the time, and achieving the ruthless feat of wiping out his entire family.

Instead of killing him immediately, Hammerhead summoned Simon Marshall, the gang's mad scientist. Using Martin Lee as a guinea pig, Marshall forcibly injected him with a strange potion codenamed "D-lite."

Although the original intention behind the development of D-lite was to emulate the legendary Super Soldier Serum and attempt to create a super soldier army to strengthen the gang's overall strength, it was deemed a failure by Hammerhead because it lacked an original formula and relied entirely on Dr. Simon Marshall's own experimentation, carrying a 100% fatality rate.

Furthermore, considering the high development costs, abandoning the project would be a greater loss, leading Hammerhead to decide to continue human trials by injecting D-lite into competitors and illegal immigrants.

Even if the result still ends in failure, it can still make the experimental subjects injected with D-lite slowly die in despair and pain, becoming a regular program to please Hammerhead.

After that, with each failure, Hammerhead, gradually becoming numb, naturally regarded D-lite potion as a new type of incurable poison.

They gradually forgot the most crucial question: what should they do in case of an unexpected event—for example, if someone were to be blessed with protagonist's luck, survive, and, as expected, have their physical functions greatly enhanced, thus becoming a super soldier?

Therefore, the classic within a classic happened.

Martin Lee, who was forcibly kidnapped and also injected with D-lite, was an exception to this accident.

After being injected with D-lite, Martin Lee not only miraculously survived unimaginable agony, breaking the curse of certain death, but also experienced a significant enhancement to his body and successfully awakened superpowers!

They proved with their actions that this potion wasn't actually a failure. It was just that the previous users had poor compatibility with it and were simply unlucky!

And then, as you see now.

With his powers skyrocketing, Martin Lee, along with two fellow inmates—a white woman and a black man who had also awakened superpowers after being injected with D-lite—successfully escaped Hammerhead's territory.

Subsequently, in New York's Chinatown, territory once belonging to human smuggling organizations, he used his superpower to alter people's minds to recruit members and build a new force called the "Devil Gang." He climbed the ranks step by step, eventually becoming the Mr. Negative he is today.

Incidentally, those two cellmates who met by chance did not, like Martin Lee, degenerate into ruthless villains because of their experiences in prison.

He remained true to himself, living in anonymity while constantly practicing and trying to master his superpowers.

Until the time is right, they will become a classic superhero team in the Marvel Universe.

Dagger and cloak.

However, this experience wasn't entirely beneficial for Mr. Negative.

Aside from parting ways with his fellow inmates and failing to recruit them for his own use,

Even now, Martin Lee has awakened superpowers.

But the psychological trauma Martin Lee suffered during his time as a guinea pig, imprisoned by Hammerhead, will never heal.

Instead, it intensified, as if the Tiger Talisman had taken effect, and two opposing extreme personalities emerged within this body.

That is, Martin Lee, who was a purely good person, presented himself as a philanthropist, and founded a homeless shelter.

And Mr. Negative, who leads the Devil Gang, is ambitious and greedy, building his wealth and pleasure on the suffering of the innocent.

Of course, if that's all there is to it, no matter how you look at it, Spider-Man should have no grudge against Mr. Negative. Even if he really wanted revenge, he should have gone after Hammerhead.

However, with the sudden emergence of Spider-Man, life has become increasingly difficult for criminal organizations of all sizes in New York City.

Especially the black Spider-Man, when working with another Spider-Man, he would restrain his temper a bit and put on the appearance of a friendly neighbor.

But when it comes to acting alone, that black Spider-Man is simply a nightmare for all villains!

He doesn't care which gang you belong to.

If caught red-handed, especially for activities like selling rice noodles or child trafficking?

Their fate will undoubtedly be to have every bone in their body broken, barely clinging to their last breath, waiting for the New York police to come and take them in.

Then, in the intensive care unit, with the help of Spider-Man, a "kind person," he was left with total paralysis.

For the rest of his life, he drooled constantly, living a "wonderful life" where he "had no worries about food and drink".

Thus, both good news and bad news appeared before the villains, big and small, of New York City.

The good news is that these Spider-Men all have a no-kill policy.

The bad news is that sometimes, it's better to be dead than alive.

That's why, having once been involved in illegal human smuggling, they now do whatever makes money, including dealing with the devilish gang that's tainted by flour and human trafficking, and have received a lot of attention from Black Spider-Man!

Therefore, after Martin Lee learned that Kingpin had left New York.

Martin Lee foresaw that losing Kingpin, the one who stood at the forefront and bore the pressure, attracting Spider-Man's attention, would inevitably lead to those troublesome and powerful wall-climbing worms coming to cause him trouble sooner or later.

Rather than waiting to die in New York City, it's better to strike first and eliminate this "public nuisance" threat in the eyes of the villains before attracting Spider-Man's attention!

Even Martin Lee, who was usually very dissatisfied with Kingpin, tried more than once to dethrone Kingpin and take the throne of the crime empire himself.

Faced with Spider-Man, a common enemy, Martin Lee, who knew the saying "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," did not mock the down-on-his-luck Kingpin. Instead, he immediately tried to contact Kingpin and offered a proposal for cooperation.

After a secret plot and several months of meticulous preparation...

That's how we ended up with the three forces joining forces to successfully outmaneuver Riley!

Unfortunately, their understanding of "Spider-Man" is still too one-sided.

That's right, Riley is a human being, not a god, and naturally he also has instinctive desires that he tries to suppress.

The problem is...

The core of this conspiracy—Mr. Negative's ability to reverse other people's personalities like a walking Tiger Talisman—is theoretically something that Riley's symbiote also possesses, and has already tried to do so.

The difference is that the symbiote had only just begun its attempt when it was brutally beaten down in Riley's mind by his deep-seated instinctive desires.

The symbiote was so badly beaten that it questioned its existence, believing Riley's nature to be too extreme.

She decisively chose to give up, and to this day, she has been restraining her abilities, for fear that she might accidentally amplify or provoke Riley's emotions.

After all, what symbiotes seek is nothing more than to survive.

Strengthening the host's desires is merely its instinct, not a manifestation of its sense of good and evil.

So much so that if the symbiote knew that someone actually possessed abilities similar to its own, and without any backup plan, impulsively decided to unleash Riley's desires based entirely on personal conjecture?

The symbiote, its height mimicking a hand, gave Mr. Negative and his companions a thumbs-up and exclaimed from the bottom of its heart...

Are Earth's villains always this brave?!

Of course, both sides were thinking about something at that moment.

Just like Riley was caught off guard and successfully ambushed by the Spider Killer robot's rocket, falling awkwardly into the building.

Because this universe contains both righteous and dark energies, one must consider the influence of the balance of yin and yang during actions, and decide on the appropriate level of combat power based on the situation on the ground.

Riley clearly did not weld the twelve talismans directly to his body.

This means that the horse, which was able to ward off external influences, failed to help Riley get rid of Mr. Negative's superpowers immediately.

Along with the various alarm information obtained while wandering around the city, through real-time connections to the New York Police Department's communication channels.

Riley's heart began to undergo a strange transformation.

Riley executed a beautiful aerial somersault, landing gracefully on the top floor of the building. He then gazed down at the seemingly prosperous and peaceful New York City, a place rife with undercurrents of conflict.

Completely oblivious... or rather, no longer caring at this point, Riley, whose all-black battle suit had somehow transformed into a black and white ensemble, felt a surge of inexplicable anger rising within him.

It seems that the punishment itself wasn't severe enough, which allowed these scoundrels to continue harboring a侥幸心理 (a gambler's mentality), believing they wouldn't face Spider-Man's wrath, and choosing to take the risk of committing crimes...

So, in order to protect innocent people who abide by the law...

Rather than waiting until the other party commits a crime and causes harm to others before stepping in to stop them...

Now that I have greatly increased my strength and possess multiple superpowers, why not take a more direct approach?

Just like...

The girl, who is a natural-born hacker, is tasked with infiltrating the network, collecting information on everyone, and conducting real-time monitoring and prediction.

In this scenario, once Silly Girl uses big data to determine that someone has the intention to commit a crime, she will immediately lock down their location and notify Riley.

So that before the crime occurs, Riley can use Xiaoming's dimensional barrier to silently descend upon the suspect and bring him to justice!

And during this time, due to the dimensional barrier's ability to travel through time...

Even if numerous crimes occur simultaneously, and even if the perpetrators are not even located in downtown New York City...

Riley can also single-handedly appear in multiple areas at the same time to stop illegal and criminal activities!

From the root, eliminate all possibilities of tragedy occurring!

At that time, under Spider-Man's real-time surveillance...

Let alone the United States...

The entire Earth will become a utopian world where there is no pain, no sorrow, no crime or bloodshed, and everyone can live and work in peace!

Therefore, with this thought in mind, Riley, whose mindset had already undergone a subtle change, was immediately moved!

But they didn't realize it at all...

If he actually does that...

This essentially transforms the image of "Black Spider-Man" from a friendly neighbor into a dictator. He forcibly suppresses all crime through pure violence and fear!

To put it bluntly, this can be seen as Lai using another method to rule the world!

Indeed, Martin Lee and his team's objective was not compromised.

This success drastically changed Riley's personality, turning him into a true "world-class boss" capable of influencing the world's格局 (geju, a term referring to the overall situation or structure of the world), much like Seele who failed her art exam. He became a "major villain" feared by everyone!

Is this the effect...?

Maybe, probably, perhaps...

Even villains like them, who commit all sorts of evil deeds, would be stunned and think that Riley was a bit too extreme.