"Die, Green Goblin!"
Shocker kept darting around inside the factory. Every time he raised his arm, high-frequency shockwaves blasted out like invisible air cannons!
The sheer impact was enough to punch the factory ceiling full of holes.
Harry rode his glider and dodged again and again, but he was still hit several times. If not for the armor's impressive defensive power, the force of those shockwaves would have already pulverized his internal organs!
"Bring him down!"
Rhino had all the strength in the world and nowhere to use it, so all he could do was roar in fury.
To him, Harry was like some disgusting flying bug, endlessly annoying.
He could hardly wait to crush the other man to paste with his own body!
After all, his body was special. Because he had been injected with enhancement compounds and had armor layered over his skin, his defense was astonishing. He had taken a pumpkin bomb head-on and survived.
But surviving did not mean he had not felt pain!
After hearing Rhino shout that, Shocker did not react much, but Bullseye suddenly understood and thought of a perfect solution.
His physical abilities were inferior to the others here, and his bullets were useless against the Green Goblin armor, but he still had his own role to play.
At that moment, he raised his gun and fired. His target was not Green Goblin himself, but the glider under Harry's feet.
Bang!
The bullet shot out and instantly hit the glider's turbine, jamming it on the spot.
"Ah!"
In that instant, Harry completely lost his balance and came crashing down like a kite with broken wings.
The first to react was Kraven.
With the instincts he had honed through years of hunting, he instantly judged where Harry would land. In the next moment, he drew his blade and lunged toward Green Goblin.
The chipped dagger looked crude, but in truth, its material was anything but ordinary. Combined with Kraven's powerful physique, he was confident he could pierce the Green Goblin armor and slit Harry's throat.
Buzz!
Just as the attack was about to hit, a violent tremor suddenly sounded in the air.
It was a terrifying roar, like the spinning blades of a helicopter.
In the next instant, a dangerous sensation crashed down on him. Beast-like instinct made every hair on Kraven's body stand on end. He twisted midair at the waist, and then saw a thick green smear reeking of foul stench brush past his cheek.
Kraven: ???
Kraven landed lightly, catlike and silent, all four limbs touching down without the slightest sound.
But his eyes were full of shock.
Because right there in his sight, a bizarre giant bug was flying toward him, its dragonfly-like translucent wings vibrating at high speed like a gunship helicopter.
What the hell was that thing?
From the moment Harry appeared, Kraven had focused all his attention on Green Goblin. He had no idea where this creature had come from.
And it was not just him.
The others were the same.
Everyone had been fully focused on dealing with Green Goblin. No one had spared any attention for the two "ordinary people."
In their eyes, even if Bant and Peter ran, how far could they really get?
Kill Green Goblin first, then grab the two of them again. That would only take a few minutes.
Who could have guessed that those two seemingly harmless kids were actually the most dangerous people here?
At that moment, even Bant was a little surprised that Kraven had dodged his slime attack.
But before he could think any further, Shocker had already raised his fist and aimed at his back.
"Where'd this freak bug come from? Die!"
Boom!
The invisible attack blasted in from behind Bant in an instant. Shocker had no sense of fair play whatsoever. He came in with a sneak attack right away, intending to blow Bant's body apart in one shot!
But his wish was doomed to fail.
After transforming into Stinkfly, none of his abilities were particularly outstanding in any one area, but the four feelers extending from both sides of Stinkfly's head could move freely, allowing Bant to observe everything around him in full 360-degree awareness.
So the instant Shocker raised his arm to attack, Bant had already noticed.
He shot straight upward, hovering out of the way.
Then he spun in midair. The feelers on both sides of his head rose upright like pipes, channeling the slime in his body upward.
Ptoo! Ptoo! Ptoo!
In an instant, the four feelers turned into four barrels, spraying streams of thick goo even stickier than spider silk.
"Phlegm machine gun, rat-a-tat-tat!"
Though Bant had found Stinkfly disgusting even during the transformation, once he really started using it, he was having the time of his life.
More importantly, even if he still could not be sure what kind of destructive power the slime had, the gross-out factor alone was enough to make any enemy flee in disgust.
A broom dipped in filth, and even Lu Bu returns to life!
Who still dared say Stinkfly lacked combat power now?
What, you said it?
Then dare you take one spitball from me?
Ptooey!
Forget the villains, even Peter and Harry were staring in stunned silence.
Harry had only just managed to dig the bullet out of his glider's turbine. The moment he saw that huge green bug spraying slime everywhere, he nearly threw up inside his mask.
"Urgh, what the hell is that thing, ohhh..."
All right, now he really had thrown up.
Harry hurriedly yanked off his mask and wiped his mouth in embarrassment.
Bant even had the leisure to joke, "Harry Potter, looks like your armor still isn't good enough. At the very least, it needs a filter system like Tony Stark's. I'll upgrade it for you later."
His voice was shrill now, but the tone and that trademark nickname made Harry instantly think of Bant.
"Little Bant?"
He rubbed his eyes in shock, nearly thinking he was hallucinating.
This thing was Little Bant?
At that moment, Peter flipped down from above. He had already shed the outer layers of clothing, revealing the Spider-Man suit underneath, though he had not put on the mask yet.
Just as Bant had said.
Now that Harry had become Green Goblin, there was no longer any need to hide certain things from him.
"Peter, you..."
"Yeah, I'm Spider-Man."
Peter copied the way Tony Stark had revealed his identity long ago, speaking in what he clearly thought was an extremely cool tone.
"Sorry, Harry. I've kept it from you for so long."
"It's nothing..."
Harry said weakly.
It was not that he was not shocked. It was just that compared with the fact that Peter was Spider-Man, the thing he found much harder to process was Bant turning into a giant green bug.
He raised a finger, his face full of sympathy.
"So this is... Little Bant's superpower?"
"Turning into a giant green bug?"
Harry had very clearly paused on the words "superpower," because he genuinely could not tell whether this counted as one or not.
Just looking at Stinkfly made Harry feel a wave of physical discomfort, let alone imagining turning into it himself.
Poor Little Bant...
The only thing comforting Harry was that Bant himself looked pretty upbeat about it.
"It's complicated. I'll explain later."
Peter pulled on his mask, then turned his head and fixed his gaze on the criminals.
Bullseye said, "Peter Parker. So you're Spider-Man."
"No wonder you always managed to get pictures of Spider-Man. But now that you've exposed your identity, have you already accepted that you're going to die here?"
Before Bullseye had even finished speaking, the gun in his hand was already aimed at Spider-Man.
But Peter was faster!
Before Bullseye could pull the trigger, Peter had already pressed the web-shooter in his palm.
The web shot out under high pressure, and in terms of speed, it was barely slower than a bullet.
In an instant, the web had already stuck to Bullseye's pistol.
Then Peter gave a light tug of his arm and yanked Bullseye, gun and all, straight toward him.
After that, he spun and kicked Bullseye flying.
"Why not you?"
After doing all that, Peter was already hanging upside down from the factory catwalk, his legs bent like a spider.
But even though he was saying something fierce, every movement he made had been extremely careful.
Otherwise, at the very moment he yanked on Bullseye's gun, he could have ripped the man's arm clean off.
Make no mistake.
This was the kind of strength possessed by Spider-Man, the so-called Little Hulk.
To be honest, in pure combat power, Stinkfly might really not be as strong as Spider-Man without his suit.
Lepidopterrans were not as physically powerful as other insect-like species, but the Stinkfly Bant had transformed into was still giving him a pleasant surprise.
Perhaps because they were both insect-based, unlike his transformations into other alien heroes, his mutated radioactive spider genes had not been completely overwritten after turning into Stinkfly.
Instead, a large portion of them had been retained.
Right now, Bant could feel it clearly.
This body, which should have been soft and insect-like, was now full of power!
And that strength was especially obvious in the sharp exoskeletal blade at the end of his tail!
Ordinary Stinkfly could already tear through sheet metal with ease, but now both its power and toughness had been massively enhanced. His tail was practically an indestructible spear.
"Want to split up the prey?"
Bant beat his wings and slowly hovered between Peter and Harry.
"No problem."
Harry planted a foot on the glider, and it immediately floated in front of him like a board.
"Let's keep it fair. I don't have superpowers, so let me take the bullseye-face and the yellow one."
Harry was referring to Bullseye and Shocker.
None of the three of them had special powers, and like Harry, Shocker also relied on equipment.
Earlier, when he had been fighting against multiple opponents, Harry had not been able to do anything to Shocker. But if Bant and Peter could handle the other two troublemakers, then Harry was confident he could kill those two himself.
"In that case, I'll take the big dumb rhino."
Peter spoke up.
The opponent he chose was Aleksei.
Which meant Kraven naturally belonged to Bant.
Just right.
Bant also had a few small questions he wanted to ask Kraven.
So in the next instant, he shot forward like a helicopter, using his own body as a weapon and charging straight in.
The real Stinkfly could never have made such a reckless move.
But for Bant, whose body had been enhanced by spider powers, this was nothing at all.
You've been buffed. Now deliver yourself.
The only thing he was delivering to Kraven, however, was death.
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