"Felicia is pregnant?"
"Yes."
"I'm going to be a father?"
"That's right."
"Felicia…"
"That's enough."
Hawk looked at Peter, who had been sitting dumbfounded on the chair like a broken record ever since Felicia left, and decisively chose to interrupt. He looked at Peter and asked with some curiosity, "How did you and Felicia get together?"
Felicia had gone out to inquire with the Ivi Race about the suspected Adamantium and where it was obtained from.
He was also quite curious about Peter and Felicia's story.
Now that he had free time, he thought about going with Felicia, but he couldn't stand the Ivi Race's gaze, which looked at him as if he were their ancestor. Moreover, he wasn't familiar with the Ivi Race, so he asked Felicia to help him out.
Peter, hearing Hawk's somewhat gossipy tone, snapped back to reality and met Hawk's equally gossipy eyes, his mouth twitching.
"I don't want to talk about it."
"Alright."
Hawk responded very straightforwardly, then looked at Peter: "When Mary calls you a scumbag, don't expect Gwen to explain for you."
Peter froze.
"Call me a scumbag? Why would she call me a scumbag? Mary already called me to break up."
"That's right, but let me ask you, how many months pregnant is Felicia?"
"Four months."
"Not counting your time on Skull Island, how many months ago did Mary break up with you?"
"Three months ago."
"See."
Hawk smiled and spread his hands: "Mary only broke up with you three months ago, and Felicia is already four months pregnant. Think about it, really think about it!"
Peter's pupils visibly widened at Hawk's words.
The next second, Peter, realizing, explained to Hawk: "But the time flow on Skull Island is different from outside."
Hawk looked at Peter with a strange expression.
"Right, that's exactly what you should tell Mary then. See if she believes you."
"But it's the truth."
"Will she believe it?"
"She…"
Peter opened his mouth, trying to give a positive answer, but under Hawk's gaze, he completely gave up. Then he looked away and quietly began to tell Hawk the story of how he and Felicia got together.
He had no choice.
Mary was not only his ex-girlfriend but also his neighbor.
So…
Peter knew Mary very well.
If he were to explain to Mary why Felicia was four months pregnant when they broke up three months ago, Mary would definitely scold him for being a two-timer and for making such a 'fresh and refined' excuse.
And a time difference, no less.
Although it was indeed the truth, the effect of this explanation coming from his mouth would be different from it coming from Gwen.
So, in order for Hawk and Gwen to vouch for him, Peter could only tell the story of him and Felicia as Hawk requested.
"Actually, when I first arrived on the island, my abilities suddenly started to cut out."
"It seemed like there was a mysterious pressure on this island, but it also seemed related to my depressed mood after hearing Mary break up with me."
"I don't understand it, but my abilities were intermittent, sometimes working, sometimes not."
"Skull Island is full of dangers. If an ordinary person came here, they might not even survive one night."
"On the first day we arrived, the security team responsible for protecting Felicia was completely wiped out, leaving only me and Felicia."
"Felicia also saw that I wasn't in a good state, but she didn't blame me. Instead, she acted as a psychological counselor, comforting me while we walked through the dangerous rainforest."
"But we still encountered danger."
"The day before we were about to leave the rainforest, I got sick. This was the first time I had been sick since my mutation."
"I was shivering all over and very cold."
"It was Felicia. Felicia warmed me with her own body."
"It's strange to say…"
"After that night, my abilities returned again, finally no longer intermittent. Then Felicia and I found the Ivi Race here, and after that, we settled down."
After finishing, Peter felt relieved, then looked at the attentively listening Hawk: "Now you know, you have to help me explain then."
Hawk got the gossip he wanted, nodded, and gave Peter a positive answer. Then he looked at Peter and exclaimed, "That's the power of love."
Love can hurt people, just as Peter said, his abilities became intermittent after Mary's phone breakup.
But love can also make a man pick himself up again and become stronger.
Just as Peter himself said, after he and Felicia 'combined' in the stormy cave, his superpowers returned.
Hawk thought, met Peter's gaze, and nodded again.
"That's great."
"What?"
"Felicia."
Hawk smiled slightly and said to Peter, "I'm very happy to see you find love again, and even have the fruit of love. Really, buddy, I'm happy for you."
This was Spider-Man.
When he saw Felicia and sensed that Felicia was pregnant with a little Spider-Man, his heart fluttered.
After all…
Hawk truly considered Peter his friend.
Peter had always upheld the oath of 'with great power comes great responsibility,' and he never gave up that belief, no matter how hard things got.
So Peter deserved a better life.
Besides…
Isn't that the meaning of a transmigrator?
To fix the regrets of the original timeline.
Hawk smiled as he looked at Peter.
"Congratulations, buddy, you're going to be a father."
"Thank you!"
Peter finally returned to his slightly simple and honest Spider-Man self, grinning and scratching his head as he accepted Hawk's blessing.
The next second, Hawk's eyes lit up as he thought of something, and he looked at Peter.
"Oh, by the way, Mary also has a new boyfriend. You know him, Lightning Thompson."
…
Peter's honest smile instantly froze.
Hawk was beaming.
What makes a true friend?
A true friend can genuinely and wholeheartedly be happy for your happiness.
At the same time…
A true friend will never miss an opportunity to tease you.
That's what a true friend is!
Just then, Felicia came back from outside.
She first looked at the very happy Hawk, then at the frozen Peter, a little curious.
"What are you two talking about?"
"Nothing."
Peter instantly snapped back to attention.
He wasn't an idiot; besides, even an idiot would know that you absolutely should not talk about your ex-girlfriend in front of your current girlfriend.
This was a taboo topic, and even a slight misstep could turn his current girlfriend into an unspeakable horror of the Cthulhu system.
Hawk received the silent signal from Peter, smiled inwardly, and said to Felicia, "So, did you find out?"
Felicia looked at Peter with some suspicion, but after hearing Hawk ask about serious matters, she sat down next to Peter. While allowing Peter to hold her hand, she told Hawk what she had just learned from the Ivi Race's High Priest.
"The High Priest said that all these metals were left to them by their ancestors."
"Initially, the Ivi Race did not live here. According to the High Priest, they did not used to live on this island."
"And they weren't so weak at first either."
"It is said that their people, in the beginning, also possessed various mysterious and unpredictable abilities."
"Some could breathe Fire, some could fly."
"But everything changed after a great catastrophe. That was a terrifying creature even more dreadful than the Skull Crawler."
"They were forced to leave their ancestral land, and these metals were brought with them when they left their ancestral land."
"…brought with them."
Hawk listened to Felicia's narration, caught the keyword, and instinctively looked at Felicia: "You mean, they came from…"
Felicia nodded: "Yes, underground. According to the High Priest, they climbed out of that cave in the canyon, but that place has already been occupied by terrifying monsters. Therefore, each High Priest, before dying, tells the story of the ancestral land passed down through generations to the new High Priest, but they are absolutely forbidden from telling other tribe members, because they can no longer return."
Peter, who was beside them, frowned and said, "Why didn't the High Priest say anything when we asked last time?"
He remembered that he and Felicia had also asked the High Priest about the origin of the Ivi Race.
But the High Priest remained silent, as if in meditation.
Felicia first glanced at the thoughtful Hawk, then smiled and looked at Peter.
"Can you fly?"
"No."
"Can you pull that Swamp Giant Squid out of the lake?"
"I can do that."
Peter's eyes lit up, and he earnestly told Felicia, "Although I haven't tested my strength limits, I feel like I can stop a train moving at full speed."
Felicia hummed: "But can you pull the Swamp Giant Squid out of the air?"
Peter shook his head honestly.
"No."
"Hawk can."
Felicia finished her explanation, then looked at Hawk beside her and said to Peter, "Perhaps in the High Priest's eyes, even if he told us, we wouldn't be able to help them reclaim their ancestral land. But Hawk can help them reclaim their ancestral land, because in their eyes, Hawk is a god, a god like their ancestors."
Hawk smiled at that but didn't refute the point.
If the ancestral land of the Ivi Race truly had Adamantium, he wouldn't mind reclaiming the ancestral land for the Ivi Race as his reward.
However…
Hawk frowned, looking at Felicia.
"A creature more terrifying than the Skull Crawler, what is that? Did the High Priest say?"
"Yes, it's a terrifying existence that the High Priest calls a 'mutated species'."
…
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