Hearing this, Harry's fair face turned as red as a cooked shrimp. He lunged at Peter, firmly covering his mouth, and said through gritted teeth:
"Motherf—... Damn it, Peter, if you don't speak, nobody will take you for a mute!"
Harry was already panicking because his privacy was being projected, but he didn't expect Peter to shout it out in public.
As a result, everyone who was already surprised by their own phone messages being projected suddenly focused all their attention on his browsing history!
This time, Harry suffered a true social death!
Especially seeing his respected elder brother, Ryan, casting a half-smiling glance at him, Harry felt like his life had turned completely grey.
In the end, Harry simply stopped trying to hide it and threw his hands up in resignation:
"Come on, I'm a normal man too, I have needs. I'm the only one in this family without a girlfriend, so isn't it normal for me to watch some 'adult movies' to take care of things?"
Well, that was indeed quite normal; after all, who hasn't seen one? But...
In your records... tentacles, slimes, foreign object development... are you freaking serious?
Are those even 'normal' adult movies?!
Even Ryan couldn't help but facepalm. When he read comics before, he always felt it was ridiculous how Venom and every host seemed to develop an ambiguous relationship.
But he didn't expect to actually see a real-life example of someone being turned gay by Venom.
No wonder Harry was handsome and rich but never looked for a girlfriend...
It wasn't that he couldn't find one; it was that he already had something 'better'...
Evidently, the ones who found this hardest to accept were May and Ben, Harry's foster parents.
"Harry, is this true?!" May looked at the child she remembered as being the most well-behaved with a face full of disbelief.
Harry could ignore what others thought, but with May, who had given him the maternal love he lacked since childhood, he panicked instantly:
"Oh, Mom, I can explain! I swear I'm not dating Venom, it's just trying to help, it's more like, uh... a toy?"
"What? I'm just a toy?!" Now Venom couldn't hold back either. A head suddenly sprouted from Harry's body, staring at the 'heartbreaker' Harry with a complex look of shock, heartbreak, and abandonment.
Seeing Venom come out, Harry panicked even more and hurriedly tried to explain to Venom: "God, I didn't mean it like that, Venom, I was saying..."
Before Harry could finish, May stood up again and glared at him: "Then what DO you mean, Harry!"
Venom wasn't to be outdone either: "Yeah, say it, what do you mean? You were calling me 'sweetie' last night!"
Harry looked back and forth between the aggressive May and Venom, instantly feeling like he couldn't explain himself no matter what he said...
Realizing he had caused a huge mess for his best friend, Peter shrunk his neck and silently moved his chair away from the battlefield, sitting down next to Max.
Max was actually quite happy at the moment. He patted Peter on the shoulder: "Hey, kid, good job. This guy is usually so talkative, but look at him now, he's speechless! Hahahaha!"
Peter: ...
The chatterbox Peter fell strangely silent this time...
Watching this ridiculous farce, Ryan couldn't help but shake his head and sigh. His Spider Family lacked many things, but it never lacked entertainment.
It seemed the days ahead wouldn't be boring...
As Ryan shook his head, his peripheral vision keenly noticed that the two Gwens sitting on either side of him were acting very strangely!
Unlike the others who were watching Harry, their eyes were fixed on trying to block their own holographic projections.
Hmm? Something was wrong—very, very wrong!
The more the two Gwens tried to hide it, the more curious Ryan became. He couldn't help but lean in to look at the projections they were covering with their hands.
He immediately saw that what they were hiding was the same chat log.
Moreover, it was a chat history between the two of them from last night.
The content was as follows:
Gwen Two: "Gwen, when are you coming back? I... I'm a bit..."
Gwen One: "What's wrong? You can't take it after I've only been gone for a day?"
Gwen Two: "Mhm mhm ՞⸝⸝'ᜊ'⸝⸝՞!"
Gwen One: "Then I unfortunately have to tell you that my dad booked a seven-day trip. You might have to endure it alone for seven more days..."
Gwen Two: "Ah, seven days? No way, I'll break (*TーT)!"
Gwen One: "Sister, even if we both went at it together, the result would be the same. It's just that both of us would be broken, right (TーT*)?"
Gwen One, Gwen Two: "(*TーT) person (TーT*)."
Ryan: ...
Sure enough, girls' chat logs are sometimes even more explosive than guys' browser histories...
So the two Gwens were actually talking about this in private?
At that moment, the two Gwens finally noticed Ryan peeking at their chat history, and their faces instantly turned red!
"You meanie, don't look!"
They both reached out and pressed against Ryan's cheeks, forcibly straightening his head to stop him from seeing more!
The cries of the two Gwens also attracted everyone else's attention.
The two Gwens had no choice but to turn back and block their projections again.
However, Ryan didn't make the chat history public like the big-mouthed Peter. Instead, he looked at Tony:
"Alright, Tony. With what you've shown, they have enough to have you arrested for invasion of privacy, so stop playing around and put them away."
Hearing this, Tony, who had been enjoying the show, snapped his fingers again, making everyone's holographic projections disappear.
This allowed those whose secrets hadn't been noticed to breathe a sigh of relief.
Phones are convenient and useful, but once they are controlled by someone else, the horror is truly terrifying!
It was almost more heart-pounding than experiencing a real, dangerous battle!
Tony looked at the lingering fear on everyone's faces and proudly twirled his mustache, saying:
"I believe you've all seen that in this age of information explosion, everyone's data leaves a trail in the digital network. Through the network, I can easily find the private secrets of any of you."
"And this is the breakthrough I'll use to find all the Skrulls!"
Dr. Banner, who also knew a bit about intelligent systems, frowned and asked, "Tony, do you want to use Jarvis to find all the Skrulls hidden among humans worldwide?"
"I admit your Jarvis might be the most advanced AI system in the World, but with all due respect, there are billions of people. For Jarvis to filter through the complex information on everyone's phones and find the hidden Skrulls... even if his computing power can do it, it would likely take a very long time."
"And in that time, it's more than enough for those hidden Skrulls to switch to new identities..."
The brilliant Dr. Banner immediately saw Tony's plan and its flaws.
But if Dr. Banner could see the flaws, how could Tony, the inventor of Jarvis, not know them?
Ryan looked at the still-confident Tony and said calmly, "Alright, Tony, stop being mysterious. Tell us, what exactly do you want to do, or... what do you want?"
With his emotional perception, Ryan had already seen a rising surge of intense desire from Tony when he mentioned his plan.
Moreover, the object of Tony's desire was Ryan himself—or rather, something in Ryan's possession.
Tony stared intently at Ryan, his voice suppressed with excitement: "I need to borrow something from you. Something that can create computing power countless times stronger than Jarvis. I want to use it to create a true digital life. I've named it the 'Ultron Project'!"