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He didn't know when these two had gotten together.
But it didn't matter.
The Mary Jane of this Universe didn't seem like a 'Mary Bitch'; being with Peter should lead to a good ending.
And even if this Universe's Mary Jane wasn't a good woman, the one who would end up wearing the green crown would be Peter, not Ryan himself, right?
Peter is already an adult; he can't just hide behind Ryan like he did when he was a kid and got bullied. He has to bear the corresponding price for his own choices.
Shaking his head, Ryan stopped thinking about Peter's affairs.
Now that Ryan had mostly finished his own business, it was time to handle the matter regarding Dr. Connors.
After all, he couldn't just let Dr. Connors hide in his underground lab forever.
Furthermore, the police were still hunting the Lizard Man, and according to Gwen, Chief Stacy said the police had already begun to suspect that the Lizard Man was related to Dr. Connors.
Although Chief Stacy had previously acquiesced to Ryan taking the Lizard Man away, the fact that Chief Stacy looked the other way didn't mean the New York Police Department would stop investigating.
After all, Chief Stacy was only a Chief and had no authority to interfere with the direct decisions of the New York Police Department's high-level officials.
Therefore, to avoid a potential escalation of the situation, Ryan decided to give the citizens of New York a Christmas surprise after the holiday and completely wrap up the Lizard Man incident!
As for the method, it was simple: find a scapegoat for Dr. Connors~
As long as the Lizard Man appeared once more and was killed by Ryan, leaving the corpse for the police, the suspicion surrounding Dr. Connors would naturally vanish.
Furthermore, the police officers Dr. Connors had killed while transformed into the Lizard Man could also be pinned on this scapegoat.
As for Dr. Connors' whereabouts during this time, that was even easier to solve.
In this World, there was nothing that money couldn't solve!
Ryan would have Kingpin forge proof that Dr. Connors had gone abroad to travel and clear his head because he was in a bad mood after being fired by Osborn Enterprises. It was simply too easy!
After all, Osborn Enterprises really had told Dr. Connors to pack his bags and get lost.
He believed the police wouldn't look too deeply into it in the end.
Finally, there was the choice of the scapegoat, which was actually the simplest part.
An hour later... the location was still the 'land of the gifted,' Hells Kitchen...
Amidst a gang where corpses littered the ground, Riot on Ryan's shoulder let out several consecutive burps and said with a miserable face:
"Brother, I... I really can't eat anymore. I'm too stuffed. I haven't even finished digesting what I ate yesterday..."
Hearing this, Ryan's brow furrowed under his mask, and he said with disgust, "Tsk! You're useless. You can't even eat this much, and yet you claim to be the strongest of the Symbiote race!"
Looking at the hundred or so headless corpses in the gang's hideout, Riot twitched his hideous mouth:
"Brother... I am the strongest Symbiote, that's true, but I'm not the strongest stomach. I just ate dozens of brains yesterday. Today we only took out these small fry without any high-intensity combat, so I've barely consumed any energy. I really can't eat that much more..."
"I'm too full now. I need to go into dormancy and digest for a while..."
Hearing this, Ryan waved his hand impatiently. "Fine, shut up, you useless waste. Get lost."
Seeing this, Riot let out a long sigh of relief, and his head immediately retracted into Ryan's body, becoming silent.
This host was too terrifying!
It felt like it was almost unable to suppress this host's killing intent...
In the past, it was always Riot urging the host to hunt and calling them a waste. Now, it was actually the host dragging it out to hunt and calling it a waste!
The key was that it couldn't even talk back!
Symbiosis is truly unpredictable; one evil is always stronger than the next...
After Riot's consciousness went dormant, Ryan ignored the headless horsemen all over the floor and walked step by step toward the only guy in the gang whose head was still on his shoulders.
This guy was a scientist trained by this unlucky gang specifically to manufacture and sell drugs for them. He seemed to be called 'Heisenberg' or something.
He was the perfect scapegoat Ryan had chosen.
He was a scientist, had a criminal record, and spent his years wandering in the dark underworld.
For such a guy with an anti-social personality, having an accident during a scientific experiment that turned him into a Lizard Man, and then taking revenge on society by killing several police officers—that was very reasonable, right?
Mhm, Ryan thought it was very reasonable!
Now that the scapegoat was found, he had to think about where would be appropriate to dump this guy...
It should be somewhere that could quickly attract the attention of the police to avoid wasting too much time, while also maximizing the benefits of this matter...
Ryan thought for a tenth of a second, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
Aha! Got it!
The New York Police Department!
What place could attract the attention of the police more than the New York Police Department itself?
Moreover, he remembered that his little girlfriend Gwen's father, Chief Stacy, had long since reached the threshold for promotion based on his achievements, right?
It was just that there were always two incompetent fat-asses occupying the positions of Director and Deputy Director above him, so there was no suitable spot for Chief Stacy to be promoted. That was why he had remained in the position of Chief.
Then today, he would be 'kind-hearted' and give his future father-in-law a push!
Although Chief Stacy himself might not agree to being promoted in such a manner~
As for the guarantee he had previously given Chief Stacy that he would watch the Lizard Man and not let him come out to kill innocents again...
What? Wasn't that 'Spider-Man's' promise? What did it have to do with him, the Spider Tyrant?
After all, at that time, Chief Stacy had mistaken him for Spider-Man and was calling him Spider-Man with every breath.
Besides, the Director and Deputy Director of the New York Police Department couldn't exactly be considered innocent...
Now that the scapegoat, location, and targets were all chosen, Ryan no longer hesitated. As the Symbiote shifted in his palm, a dark green initial lizard regeneration serum injection appeared.
This was another benefit of the Symbiote: it could store items of a certain size.
This way, if Ryan needed to carry anything on him in the future, he no longer had to worry about it bulging out of his suit and affecting the aesthetics.
Amidst 'Heisenberg's' terrified screams, Ryan ruthlessly jabbed the needle into his neck and injected the serum into his body.
Watching 'Heisenberg' twitching on the ground as he began to mutate, Ryan didn't delay any longer. He grabbed him by the neck, dove into the sewers, and left the 'innocent' gang he had randomly wiped out.
The entire underground sewer system of New York was a vast, interconnected network, and this network naturally included the New York Police Department.
Ryan multi-tasked, looking at the map of the New York underground pipe World while racing through the subterranean World without stopping. Soon, he arrived directly beneath the New York Police Department, carrying Heisenberg.
He glanced at Heisenberg, who had almost completely mutated into a Lizard Man, and then confirmed that directly above him was indeed the location of the New York Police Department Director's office.