Chapter 23 Heroes and Mortals (Part 2)
Strange swallowed and looked at Schiller's gray eyes. He really didn't have the courage to say something to refuse. After all, as long as he was not stupid, he could tell that Schiller was not an ordinary person at all.
Strange was pulled into the car, but he said, "I will tell you first that I am a doctor, not a God. If your friend is dead, no matter how hard you threaten me, I will not be able to resurrect him."
Schiller drove expressionlessly, saying, "We are all doctors, I know this better than you. I will come to you because I am sure you can save him."
Strange breathed a sigh of relief, but frowned and said, "You are just a psychologist, neurosurgery, you'd better not draw conclusions so arbitrary."
Before he could finish his words, he saw a ballpoint pen pressing against his forehead again. Schiller's hands were driving, and the ballpoint pen was floating quietly. Strange made a zipper for his mouth, indicating that he would never speak anymore.
On the other side, the little spider stood at the door of the operating room with great guilt and self-blame, and he didn't even want to put a fly in it.
But Matt's ex-girlfriend Erica also sneaked into the door of the operating room.
Erica was not here to kill Matt. On the contrary, she knew the plan of those people earlier than Peter. He kept looking for an opportunity to tell Matt that Matt was too anxious and Erica rushed over after something happened.
Her relationship with Matt is very complicated. They are classmates and lovers, but they broke up because of some irreconcilable conflicts. Erica accepted Jin Bing's commission this time to assassinate Matt. But she showed mercy everywhere and didn't even think about killing Matt. But as a result, she was not obsessed with someone else's plot. How could she not be anxious?
Erica has a wealthy family and is not unfamiliar with the world. She knows that Matt is seriously injured and is in a critical condition. If she does not use some mysterious power, she may not be able to be rescued. She must take action. Perhaps only the power of the "beast" can make Matt live.
Erica drove the ninja escape technique and walked to the operating room. The character like a high school student in front of the door was not taken seriously by her at all. After several days of observation, she knew that Peter was just a high school student who didn't know any fighting skills. Erica planned to bypass him directly.
Coincidentally, Peter had the ability of a spider, and the most important one was spider sensing. He was very nervous at this time, and spider sensing was several times more sensitive than before. As soon as Erica approached, Peter turned his head and stared at the air in the corner of the wall. He felt someone there. He waved his fist and smashed Erica.
Erica knew that Peter's power was different from ordinary people and did not dare to take this move, but Peter's movements were full of loopholes. He had not undergone professional training. When he punched, his upper body leaned forward too much, and his lower body legs were not separated, and he did not stabilize his center of gravity. Erica's arm directly wrapped around Peter's wrist and pulled him forward. Peter's center of gravity was unstable and he fell forward.
As soon as Erica stumbled under her feet, Peter was knocked down by her. But perhaps the anxiety inspired Peter to use his superpowers. He bounced up the moment he landed on the ground and grabbed Erica's back with his arms tightly.
Erica herself was also very anxious. Both of them were very angry, but Erica was a female killer trained by the joint group. As soon as Peter hugged her, she waved her other hand with the short knife backwards.
The short knife with the air blade cut from Peter's shoulder to the bottom of his last rib, almost cutting off half of his body.
In an instant, a huge pain that was irresistible swallowed Peter, which almost stimulated his full potential. As soon as he exerted force, Erica was thrown away and fell to the other end of the corridor, and could not get up for a long time.
Peter also fell down. He felt that he was almost in pain. The short knife not only cut half of his back, but also cut the air blade into his lungs. Now as soon as he breathed, blood surged up along the trachea.
The first time Peter felt so painful, the huge pain of his entire back muscle being torn almost made him faint.
He is just a high school student, and the biggest pain he has experienced in his life is that he was punched a few days ago, which is a world of difference compared to the wound he is now.
His entire back was almost penetrated and his lungs were injured, causing his breath to smell bloody. Every time he inhaled, he was accompanied by huge pain. Peter's tears came out physiologically, and he squeezed out a painful murmur from his throat.
He suddenly realized that heroes would also be injured and bleeding.
And the hero will also suffer from severe pain when he is injured, and will not be cured at all. He will not be spared because of his special abilities.
His self-healing ability made him better between a few breaths. He looked into the operating room with a hazy look. Through the frosted glass, he could see the Daredevil lying there.
Daredevil tilted his head and opened his eyes. He was still awake but could not move.
Peter knew that Daredevil had no ability to heal himself, and he was about to die.
He was just a blind man who knew martial arts. Now that his entire spine was broken, he must have felt very painful, even more painful than him, but he couldn't make any sound.
Peter felt horror and despair, felt bitterness and anger for a hero's life so fragile, and more importantly, huge guilt and self-blame drowned him.
An ordinary man without superpowers saved him against the underground boxing ring, but when he heard the criminals plot, he felt that it was nothing to do with him and left, causing his friend, a real hero to suffer such great pain and even die.
Matt is the real hero, and he is not.
This intense emotion made his spider sense buzz. In an instant, Peter's spider ability was amplified to the maximum. The intense emotion surged in his heart, and in his eyes, the whole world changed.
Erica instantly activated the escape technique and hid herself, but Peter's eyes were red and he stared at her position in an instant.
The boy who was still clumsy just now disappeared almost instantly. Then, a huge force crashed Erica into the wall. She spit out a mouthful of blood and used her last power to use the escape technique to leave. When Schiller returned to the hospital, he saw that under a broken wall, Peter was sitting there, his eyes were red.
Strange entered the operating room. At this time, it was completely dark, and Schiller stood opposite Spider-Man.
"Peter. I really didn't expect that our meeting would be in this situation," Schiller said.
Peter's reaction was a little slow now. He didn't understand what Schiller meant. Schiller squatted down and looked into Peter's eyes. He said, "I'm sorry, I didn't accompany you during that physical examination. As you can see, I no longer work in this hospital."
Peter replied in some way, saying, "It's you, you're that doctor."
Apparently he remembered the doctor who had been chatting with him online.
Schiller said: "Yes, it's me."
Peter lowered his head silently and said, "I should have disappointed you. I was not as good as I showed when I was chatting with you. I did a lot of wrong things and almost killed my friend."
Schiller said: "I think you already understand something."
"Yes, yes..." Peter said hoarsely: "The biggest truth I understand is that it really hurts."
"It hurts so much, but he still has to do it." Peter whispered, "He is a hero, but I am not, maybe I will never become a hero..."
Schiller's voice was still very calm. Peter could not hear a trace of blame in his tone. He just said calmly: "Maybe you have understood that if no one in this world can save others, then no one will come to save you."
"Maybe you think your life is not good now, but even this kind of bad life is built for you by some people who are willing to give."
"Even the beggar-like life is something that Daredevil can only have after he cleared the gangsters on that street."
"Peter. This sentence should not be said by me, but now I am afraid that only I can do it for you." Schiller said.
“The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.”
Spider-Man closed his eyes silently.
Just in the early morning, at the darkest moment, Strange took off his gloves and walked out of the operating room and said, "Congratulations, the operation is very successful, and his nerves are 80% likely to be fully recovered."
After hearing this, Peter finally let out a loud roar, as if he wanted to vent all the emotions accumulated in his chest. He jumped directly from the window, climbed up to the roof along the walls of the building, and then began to shuttle quickly on the roof of New York City.
At this time, he saw the golden and red mecha again, as if he was going to lead him to somewhere, and kept spinning around him. Peter followed the mecha and they jumped and ran to the New York TV Tower.
The two stood at the top of the New York TV Tower.
Peter tried hard to roar, but he couldn't make any sound. All his emotions were held in his chest, and he was going crazy.
Stark's face armor rose, Peter saw his face and said in surprise: "You are Stark! Iron Man is Stark!"
"It's not surprising, kid, who else can develop such a mecha except the owner of the Stark Group?" Stark said.
"But the news says you were kidnapped and tied to Afghanistan."
"Yes, but do you want to know how I came out?"
Peter looked at him and Stark said, "I built an energy core and installed it here." Stark pointed to his chest.
"There is still an ark reactor here."
"In a cave in Afghanistan, I cut my chest open and stuffed a metal foreign object into it. My own blood wet my pants."
Just when Peter imagined that scene, he felt a faint pain in his chest. He said, "It must be a bad feeling, right?"
"Of course, that hurts," Stark said lightly, but Peter could hear his tone tremble and seemed unwilling to recall that day.
"You have to cut the chest with a not-sharp bone knife, and then sew the wires into your flesh."
Peter felt a chill on his back.
He really didn't expect that Stark, who always appears in the news as a playboy, seems to have a very generous life and carefree wealthy man, has also experienced such a painful past. He has also shed a lot of blood and experienced pain that ordinary people are almost irresistible.
"Although I always like to call myself a genius, I am very sober. I know that if I get hit by a bullet, I will definitely shed a lot of blood. If shrapnel smash my heart, I will definitely die. If I lose one leg, I will also be unable to walk."
"But I have done a lot of work, and there will be such a risky job. Am I going to find excitement?" Stark said.
"I am the richest person in the world, and the power that most people in the world don't have. I don't have any need to wear my expensive mecha and save ordinary people who can't afford a screw on me for a month's salary, let alone take such a big risk."
Spider-Man closed his eyes and was silent for a while, and he said, "...The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, right?"
Stark didn't answer, he just pointed to his heart.
And Peter had already understood what he meant, and he thought that his heart had given him the answer.
Facing the rising sun in New York City, Peter and Stark stood at the top of the TV tower, watching the golden glow spread the clouds and plastered all New York buildings with brilliant gold.
From today on, Peter Parker, Spider-Man, he understands a truth-
The so-called heroes are also mortals. They will suffer, be injured, bleed, be lonely and confused. The only difference between them and ordinary people on earth is that they have a sense of responsibility that ordinary people do not have and the great determination to implement justice until death.
No one in this world is born to resist such severe pain. When they move forward in the dark, they condense the bones and blood carved with pain into a solid armor on their bodies, and after dawn, they use this hard bone to save the world.
Spider-Man stood up from the iron rack of the TV tower for the first time. He had not worn Spider-Man's tights, not that tall and strong, but his soul stood up and became straight, and the surging emotions in his chest became a force that spread from his wounds to his whole body.
Facing the first ray of sunshine, he thought, it was dawn-
Chapter completed!