Ryan casually pressed the answer button, turned on the speaker, and threw the phone onto the table: "Speak."
After Ryan's single word, a voice immediately came from the other end of the phone:
"Mr. Ryan Parker, first, I apologize for the trouble our people caused you. Second, I want to explain that my sending Captain to apply for a job at your company was absolutely not with bad intentions, nor was it to hide anything from you. Otherwise, Captain wouldn't have so blatantly displayed his abnormality..."
As expected, the first thing Pierce did after connecting was not to show HYDRA's toughness or threats, but to show weakness and apologize to Ryan.
This World, after all, is still ruled by the strong...
Ryan wasn't surprised. He said indifferently, "Don't waste my time. Get straight to the point. What's your objective?"
Pierce's voice on the other end was filled with suppressed excitement, yet his tone was heavy: "My objective is singular: to cooperate with you, to work together to change this World corroded by war and squids!"
"I want to... change the unfair fate of all ordinary people born into it!"
Crack——————
"Give up, poor Little Spider. No matter where you flee, your destiny is to become my meal. Instead of struggling fruitlessly, why not obediently accept this fate~"
As a shattering sound exploded in the air, in an alley in New York, a spatial rift shattered like glass, and a slender white figure flew out of it in disarray!
She is... Ghost-Spider, Gwen Stacy!
And from the spatial rift she stumbled out of, a white-haired, red-clad woman stepped out with a long leg, about to emerge completely, under Gwen's terrified gaze.
This white-haired woman is naturally also a member of the Inheritor Family, the sister of Brix, the white-haired, red-clad man previously killed by Deadpool, The Inheritor Bora!
But just as Bora's foot landed, ready to hunt this little female spider, her expression suddenly changed drastically, and she froze in place!
Then she first glanced around with an ugly expression, then glared fiercely at Gwen, gritting her teeth: "Damn it, you actually stumbled into this Universe by mistake. You really hit the jackpot today!!!"
Because this is precisely the special Universe that Morlun currently forbids all members of their Inheritor Family, except for Karn, from entering!
That is... the Universe where the Spider Monarch, who initiated the prophecy of their Inheritor Family's demise, resides!
Before his strength fully recovered, Morlun was unwilling to provoke the other party, let alone her, whose strength was far inferior to Morlun's!
After speaking with unwillingness mixed with subtle fear, under Gwen's bewildered gaze, Bora actually quickly retracted the foot she had stepped out, retreated back into the spatial rift, and directly closed the spatial rift!
Seeing that the terrifying woman who had been hunting her had truly left, Gwen, who was exhausted from fleeing, finally relaxed completely. Leaning against the alley wall, she gasped for breath while recalling her arduous experience.
My name is Gwen Stacy, and as you can see, I am Spider-Man, but... not the Spider-Man of this Universe.
I come from Earth-65. In my Universe, Peter Parker didn't become Spider-Man, but instead, in an accident, turned into a Lizard Man and died because of me...
After Peter's death, I not only lost my only friend, but also had a rift with Chief Stacy, Peter's father, who thought Spider-Man killed Peter, because of my hidden Spider-Man identity...
But I didn't give up my Spider-Man identity. Instead, carrying Peter's last wish, I continued to fight crime in New York as Spider-Man!
Until... one day, a mysterious white-haired, red-clad woman suddenly appeared from a spatial rift during my battle with the supervillain Vulture.
She easily tore Vulture, whom even I found hard to defeat, in half, and ignored my proud Spider-Sense, launching a deadly pursuit against me!
No matter how or where I fled, she always seemed to have a tracker on me, always accurately finding me when I hid!
This was the first time since becoming Spider-Man that I felt such a deep sense of powerlessness and despair...
Finally, I knew I couldn't run anymore, otherwise, it would just be a cat-and-mouse game, and I would eventually be toyed with to death by that hateful cat!
After several chases, I also discovered that every time that woman suddenly appeared from a spatial rift, she would twist a bracelet on her wrist to close the spatial rift behind her.
This gave me a plan!
Therefore, when the white-haired woman appeared before me again, I attacked her proactively for the first time, snatching her bracelet when she wasn't paying attention, and embarked on my Multiverse journey.
I originally thought this would completely get rid of that terrifying woman, but unexpectedly, even when I traveled to other Universes, that terrifying woman still pursued me.
She had more than one Dimensional Travel Bracelet!
It was still that feeling of powerlessness, with nowhere to hide from her...
I tried to find Spider-Man in the Worlds I traveled to for help, but without exception, even when I teamed up with other Spider-Men, we were no match for that terrifying woman.
One after another, Spider-Men died in front of me while protecting me, just to buy me a chance to escape.
After causing the deaths of several Spider-Men, I knew I couldn't implicate other Universe's Spider-Men anymore, so after that, when I traveled to other Universes, I no longer tried to seek help from the local Spider-Man, but simply kept running...
Perhaps... even I myself had lost hope of surviving...
And so, she chased, and I fled, until I, as Spider-Man, was utterly exhausted and couldn't run anymore. I twisted the bracelet and arrived at the next Universe of my journey, which was... the last stop...
I originally thought this because I was truly too tired to run, and didn't want to run anymore...
But to my surprise, this time, the terrifying woman who had chased me to the ends of the Earth didn't pursue me as usual. Instead, just as she was about to succeed, she unexpectedly chose to retreat, and even...
I saw a hint of fear in her eyes, though subtle, it was undeniably real!
She was afraid?
This woman, who had killed several Spider-Men, was actually afraid now!
Someone who could freely travel through Universes and hunt Spider-Men, what could she possibly be afraid of, and why?
"Gwen?"
Just as Gwen's recollection ended and this question filled her mind, she suddenly heard a voice calling her name from behind.
Gwen mechanically turned her head and saw a tall, silver-gray figure almost filling the entire alley entrance at the end of the alley. He had his back to the sun, causing his shadow to stretch and even cover her entire curled-up body...
Inexplicably, under the 'shelter' of this Shadow, Gwen felt an unprecedented sense of security...
Looking at the figure whose face she couldn't see due to the sunlight, she suddenly felt a sourness in her nose, and an overwhelming, uncontrollable feeling of grievance and a desire to cry erupted from within her...