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"Pfft!"
Hearing Flint say he didn't want to hurt him, Spider-Man laughed.
"I guess you haven't heard—I'm the sheriff of this area!"
Seeing Spider-Man looking down on him, Flint didn't waste words and swung at Peter.
Peter swayed and dodged Flint's attacks one after another.
Flint's punching speed was very slow in Peter's view.
After dodging Flint's attack, Peter punched Flint in the stomach.
"Oh!"
To Peter's surprise, his fist went straight through Flint's body.
Looking closely, Flint's body had turned into something like sand.
Peter's arm was temporarily trapped.
Flint smiled mockingly, then turned his right hand into a big fist made of sand and threw it at Peter.
This time, Peter couldn't escape.
WHAM!
Flint knocked Peter through the car door. He flew backward.
Fortunately, Peter reacted quickly and shot webbing toward the car to stick to it, catching up again soon.
With the help of the web strand, Peter returned to the vehicle, facing Flint's non-stop attacks.
However, his attacks were useless.
Flint could turn into sand and was immune to physical attacks.
Although Peter's attacks failed to damage Flint, Flint had no way to continue stealing money.
Plus the car was out of control.
In desperation, after wrestling with Spider-Man for a while and finding he couldn't hurt him, Flint chose to leave.
After Peter rescued the people in the car, he found Flint had disappeared, so he had to give up.
Peter left the scene and came to a tall building.
He took off his mask and shoes, shaking out the sand inside.
Peter felt increasingly unlucky recently.
He couldn't figure out where Sandman came from or how he had such powerful abilities.
After thinking for a while, Peter put down the Sandman matter.
Because he was going to propose to Mary Jane.
In the evening, Peter was going to propose at a French restaurant.
However, Mary Jane and Peter quarreled again, and in the end Peter failed to propose again.
Peter's mood was even worse.
Especially when he learned from the police station that Flint was an accomplice of the robber who'd injured his uncle.
When Uncle Ben was injured, Flint had also been responsible.
So Peter wanted to catch Flint and make him pay the price.
Peter monitored internal police information periodically, hoping to hear news about Flint.
For this reason, he didn't stop other common crimes.
One dark and stormy night, while Peter was sleeping, Venom—which had been lurking all along—found an opportunity and possessed him.
It sensed Peter's weakness, so it directly possessed him.
After Peter woke up, he found himself appearing on the reflective glass outside a tall building at some point.
Looking at himself in the black spider suit in the mirror, Peter was very surprised.
"What is this?"
"This feels great!"
At this moment, Peter felt his whole body was full of strength.
Now he had stronger power, stronger jumping ability, and stronger web-shooting!
Peter felt his strength had increased by several levels!
He felt better than ever.
But Peter wasn't a fool. He also felt something was wrong with the suddenly appearing spider suit.
Peter cut off scraps of the Venom suit and found Marcus.
Because Marcus was the person he trusted most.
In the laboratory, Marcus looked at Peter who'd come to find him and smiled.
He didn't refuse Peter's visit.
Holding the small amount of Venom in his hand, Marcus conducted some tests.
Seeing Marcus's test was almost done, Peter couldn't help asking: "Marcus, did you find anything?"
Marcus glanced at Peter, whose temperament had already begun to change, and smiled.
"This thing is an unknown parasite. It's very corrosive. If possible, you'd better not let it attach to you, otherwise it will be very difficult to get rid of."
Looking at the small pinch of Venom that kept moving toward him in the glass, Peter was silent for a while, then responded:
"I understand."
Marcus saw Peter didn't listen.
But it didn't matter. Peter wouldn't do anything bad by darkening, and Marcus would wake Peter up when the time came.
Peter went home.
Not long after, he heard news of Sandman reappearing.
So he immediately prepared to act. Because he hadn't beaten Sandman last time, Peter put on the Venom suit again by a strange coincidence.
Soon, Peter arrived at the scene.
A bank had been robbed.
Peter, arriving at the scene, happened to see some residual sand disappearing at a sewer opening.
Seeing this, Peter lifted the manhole cover and was about to go into the sewer.
At this time, Eddie, who'd rushed to the scene, stepped forward wanting to take pictures of Peter.
Eddie was a recent addition to the Daily Bugle.
On several occasions, he'd just happened to snap photos of Spider-Man, getting bonuses from Jameson before Peter could.
This behavior made Peter very uncomfortable.
I just sell my photos to get a little bonus. Is it easy for me?
Even Marcus doesn't want to compete with me. You little bastard still wants to rob me.
Ever since Peter knew his identity had been exposed to Marcus during the Green Goblin incident, he'd begged Marcus not to compete with him for business. He was really poor.
Marcus wasn't short of money, so naturally he didn't take many pictures of Peter.
Marcus rarely even went to the Daily Bugle.
He only went once in a while. Anyway, after showing he was rich and becoming a shareholder of the Daily Bugle, Jameson didn't bother caring about Marcus anymore.
Because Marcus didn't interfere with the Daily Bugle's operations.
Looking at Eddie, Peter was annoyed.
So after Peter stuck Eddie's camera with webbing, he smashed it directly!
Eddie was stunned, not knowing where he'd offended Spider-Man.
Peter didn't care about Eddie. After smashing the camera, Peter entered the sewer.
Following the sewer passage, Peter quickly found Flint walking in it.
Peter angrily attacked him.
The two engaged in back-and-forth battle.
This time, with the blessing of the Venom suit, Peter's strength greatly increased, and he almost beat Sandman.
However, Peter also found that although he was dominating Sandman in combat, he failed to cause any effective damage.
But after fighting for a while, Peter found a turning point.
After Flint accidentally got some dirty water on his arm, it started dissolving.
So Peter seized the opportunity, and when Sandman fell in front of a large water pipe, Peter directly tore the pipe open!
A lot of water rushed toward Flint.
Sandman watched all this in horror.
He could only watch the large water source washing his body.
In the end, his body slowly dissolved and disappeared into the underground sewage.
Watching Sandman disappear, Peter had no thought of saving him, but just watched all this silently.
"Rest in peace!"