"Electro isn't enough; to stop the Super Heroes, we need more helpers."
Norman muttered to himself, "For example, those enhanced individuals, and the Lizard I've secretly raised. I'll release them all to cause trouble everywhere, attracting the Super Heroes' attention. This way, Dr. Otto's experiment can proceed smoothly."
"Additionally, I can find a way to divert Andrew Wang, making sure he can't rush back to New York in time. No matter how fast he is, he can't teleport."
Norman continued to think—he didn't know Andrew Wang could teleport. In fact, not many people knew about it.
The more Norman thought, the more excited he became, his skin even subtly turning green. He spread his arms, shouting excitedly, "I will stand on the corpse of New York and become a god!"
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That night, in Hell's Kitchen, Jack, a muscular man, angrily smashed a chair, continuously cursing the damned profiteers.
Jack was originally an ordinary gang member. Some time ago, he heard that someone was selling Human Enhancement Serum on the black market and was very interested, wanting to buy a dose to become an enhanced individual. Unfortunately, he had no money.
To change his life and achieve a class leap, Jack chose to take out a loan from Kingpin's bank to buy the Enhancement Serum—a usurious loan.
Jack originally thought that once he became an enhanced individual, he would have everything he desired. Unfortunately, reality was far from as good as he imagined—robbing banks either meant encountering rivals and engaging in shootouts, or being pursued by Super Heroes and the police, fleeing in disarray.
As a last resort, Jack could only rob small shops, such as mobile phone stores, gold shops, and so on.
The problem was that fencing stolen goods was troublesome. Those profiteers suppressed prices very low, and Jack worked himself to Death for half a day, unable to even repay his loan.
Just as Jack was furious, a low roar of an Evil God suddenly echoed in his ears. Immediately after, a large number of Evil Thoughts—slaughter, robbery, destruction, and so on—emerged in his mind.
Jack's sanity was quickly submerged by the Evil Thoughts. He let out a low growl and strode into the street.
An elite man in a sharp suit saw Jack, who was only wearing a vest, and looked at him with disdain. The beautiful woman beside him did the same.
Jack noticed their contemptuous gaze and became greatly enraged. If it were normal, he might not have done anything, but at this moment, he rushed over and punched the man in the suit, sending him flying. The man's face was instantly deformed, and he fell to the ground, his fate unknown.
The beautiful woman screamed. Jack didn't care and carried the beautiful woman into the building.
Similar incidents occurred one after another throughout New York City. Hundreds of enhanced individuals lost their minds, wantonly venting their Evil Thoughts on the streets. New York City began to enter a dark period.
And the instigator of all this was Norman Osborn—he had tampered with the Human Enhancement Serum. At this moment, he used his special ability to turn all enhanced individuals into beasts simultaneously, beasts filled with evil.
"You can't just take medicine randomly, especially medicine without a manufacturer or production date. This is common sense."
Norman Osborn laughed heartily. This business was truly profitable, not only earning money but also gaining a large number of free thugs.
…
In the Stark Tower laboratory, Tony was, as usual, working overtime researching new suits. Anyway, he now had infinite energy.
Pepper had no objections to this at all, because she had already fallen into a deep sleep. A man with infinite energy was just that powerful. An Iron Kidney, you deserve to have one.
Just then, Jarvis prompted, "Mr. Stark, Commander Garrett is calling."
"No time."
Tony said impatiently. He was thinking about a crucial point and had no time to deal with others.
Jarvis said, "Mr. Stark, Commander Garrett used the highest level of alert."
"Highest level? What happened again? Connect the call."
Tony cursed. Soon, the call connected, and Garrett's voice urgently said, "Tony, a large number of enhanced individuals and Lizard have appeared in the city. They are robbing and killing everywhere. The city is in chaos. Come and help quickly."
"Enhanced individuals and Lizard?"
Tony frowned. He said, "I'll leave immediately, Garrett. Share S.H.I.E.L.D.'s intelligence. Jarvis, monitor all city cameras."
With that, Tony equipped his suit at the fastest speed. Immediately after, Jarvis projected various pieces of intelligence in front of him.
"So many red dots?"
Tony was startled. He activated his suit and flew to the nearest red dot, where three Lizard were developing their kin.
That's right, developing their kin. One Lizard slammed a serum bottle onto the ground, laughing loudly, "Welcome to become a Lizard."
The serum bottle shattered, and a large amount of green mist emerged. Pedestrians were enveloped by the green mist, falling to the ground uncomfortably, green scales gradually appearing on their bodies.
Just then, a small blue ball descended from the sky, falling to the ground and exploding with a bang.
Then, a large amount of blue mist emerged, neutralizing the green mist. The pedestrians quickly returned to normal, lying on the ground, gasping for air.
The three Lizard were furious at the sight and all turned to look at Iron Man flying over.
"Don't you know that Lizard are outdated?"
Iron Man sneered. He raised his right hand, and a gun barrel emerged from his arm, continuously firing antidote bullets at the Lizard.
After Osborn Group was robbed, S.H.I.E.L.D. rushed to produce a batch of Lizard Serum antidotes, which now came in handy.
As Iron Man said, Lizard were outdated—after Lizard Dr. died, no one continued to research Lizard Serum.
Although the three Lizard tried their best to dodge, they were still hit by the antidote bullets one after another. Then, they fell to the ground in pain, their bodies rapidly transforming from Lizard back to ordinary humans.
Iron Man walked up to the three Lizard and asked, "Tell me, how did you become Lizard?"
"I'm a homeless man. I don't know why I became a Lizard."
A middle-aged man said with a bitter smile, "I woke up like this."
"That's right, I woke up like this, and there were several bottles of Lizard Serum next to me."
The other two also said that after becoming a Lizard, their thoughts would change, seeing themselves as Lizard and wanting to develop more of their kind.
"Homeless?"
Tony frowned. It was obvious that someone was deliberately creating Lizard.
"What does The Mastermind want to do?"
Tony pondered while flying to other places to rescue people. This time, there were quite a lot of enhanced individuals and Lizard, plus some villains taking advantage of the chaos to rob. The entire New York was in an uproar.
Chief George had no choice but to return to the police station in the middle of the night to command the police to protect the citizens. S.H.I.E.L.D. also deployed all its forces, using energy guns to fight against the enhanced individuals and Lizard.
At the same time, Super Heroes such as Steve, Fantastic Three, Hawkeye Barton, Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Spider-Woman's team all went online, stopping enhanced individuals and Lizard from committing evil everywhere.
It's worth mentioning that even Dr. Banner came out of the laboratory. In Garrett's words, the situation this time was very bad, and even 'comedians' had to go to the battlefield.
Steve used his shield to knock out an enhanced individual covered in blood and asked through his communication headset, puzzled, "What's wrong with these enhanced individuals? Why did they all suddenly come out? Is it a rave tonight?"
"Their consciousness seems off, too excited, like they're on drugs."
Hawkeye Barton said while drawing his bow and shooting arrows, "I suspect their Human Enhancement Serum was tampered with, and The Mastermind added extra ingredients to control them."
Human Torch trapped several enhanced individuals with flames and said with a look of disdain, "What profiteers, not only selling problematic medicine but also tampering with the serum."
Stone Man sneered, "They said it was The Mastermind, how could they be good people?"
"Then how much Enhancement Serum did The Mastermind sell, to have so many enhanced individuals?"
Looking at the dense red dots on the screen, Garrett's scalp tingled. He shouted, "Captain, Coulson, hurry and take people to Hell's Kitchen. There are especially many enhanced individuals there.
Those gangs bought a lot of Human Enhancement Serum to seize territory. Damn it, where did those bastards get so much money?"
Steve immediately shouted, "Coming right away."
"I'll also bring my team over immediately."
Coulson said, "Most gangs don't have money. The problem is, if other gangs buy it and you don't, what's the difference from waiting for Death? In desperation, they could only grit their teeth and raise money, even borrowing money to buy Enhancement Serum.
This is also one of the reasons why there have been daily bank robberies recently. They need to recoup their costs."
"Why does it sound so absurd?"
Everyone complained. Tony said in the communication channel, "There are many absurd things. Gentlemen, this matter is clearly problematic. Someone is using enhanced individuals and Lizard to tie us down."
"The problem is, we must protect the safety of the citizens."
Steve thought for a moment and said, "Tony, leave the enhanced individuals and Lizard to us. You search the entire city for The Mastermind. That guy is willing to destroy the Human Enhancement Serum business, so his ambition must be huge. We must not let him succeed."
"Okay, Rhode is on his way. He will handle the enhanced individuals in my place."
Tony nodded, and light flames sprayed from his feet, sending him soaring into the sky. At this moment, he thought of something and said, "Oh, right, S.H.I.E.L.D., don't forget to watch the Quick-Shake live broadcast. If you have any news, notify us immediately."
Everyone at S.H.I.E.L.D. simultaneously had dark lines on their faces. Have you ever heard of not hitting someone in the face? Garrett snorted, "Do I need you to remind me? I've been watching the live broadcast for a long time."
Unfortunately, Horn TV Station did not report the inside story of this incident. Their ace anchor, Roxanne, was sitting on a motorcycle, filming the scenes of enhanced individuals and Lizard rampaging.
"I have a premonition that there will be big news today. These enhanced individuals and Lizard won't cause trouble on the streets for no reason."
Roxanne put down the microphone and said excitedly. Johnny, who was driving, hesitantly asked, "Is what you're doing not quite right? The bigger the incident, the more people die."
"I'm a reporter. My job is to report the truth. As for saving citizens, that's S.H.I.E.L.D., the city hall, and the military's business."
Roxanne said nonchalantly. At this moment, she thought of something and asked Johnny, "Are you really not going to be a Super Hero? Tonight might be a good opportunity."
"There are already so many Super Heroes in the city, they don't lack me. My target is demons."
Johnny shook his head. He had already been a big star and had no interest in being a Super Hero. Now, he just wanted to make amends to Roxanne and live a good life.
Roxanne nodded and said, "That's good too. You're an incomplete Ghost Rider. You can't transform during the day, and being a Super Hero is too dangerous, even more dangerous than Tony Stark, who is often kidnapped."
"I'm not an incomplete version. A normal Ghost Rider is like me. Your boss isn't a Ghost Rider; he just put on a shell. Besides, if I fully master the Spirit of Vengeance within me, I can also be active during the day."
Johnny said gloomily. His Spirit of Vengeance was unique, not only having an angel but also the elemental lord Zartanos.
Roxanne asked, "Who exactly is my BOSS? Why do you keep refusing to say?"
"Because I can't beat him, and that guy is very petty. I've found that the stronger a person is, the more petty they are. Your boss is, and my boss is too."
Johnny sighed. Who was his boss? It was Sorcerer Supreme Gu Yi.
"BOSS is a good person, how could he punish you for such a small matter?"
Roxanne retorted. She was very grateful and admired Andrew Wang. After all, he was truly strong, and she was able to join Horn TV Station because he specifically named her.
"Good person?"
Johnny looked speechless. Do you know you're insulting him?
At this moment, Roxanne received news from the TV station and hurriedly shouted, "Johnny, go to Hell's Kitchen. It's as chaotic as the Middle East there."
Johnny asked, "Aren't you afraid of danger?"
"Who doesn't know I have nine lives? Besides, don't you have me?"
Roxanne said, "Although you're not very reliable, can't transform during the day, search for demons all night and can't even find a piece of cloth, and abandoned me twice, you should still be able to scare people."
"…You don't have to say the last half."
Johnny complained. He remembered Roxanne's excitement during his first transformation and secretly rolled his eyes. Heh, women.
Then, Johnny didn't waste any more words and took Roxanne to Hell's Kitchen.
Hell's Kitchen was now in complete chaos. There were enhanced individuals and masked thugs everywhere. They were not only robbing but also wantonly attacking passersby. Their wild laughter and the screams of the citizens were everywhere.
To be honest, Hell's Kitchen now truly was no different from hell.
"What does Kingpin want to do? Is he crazy?"
Jessica slammed two villains together, asking angrily. Kingpin was the underground emperor of New York. These gang members being so crazy definitely had something to do with him.
"What does that have to do with me? I'm the victim. What can I do if the Enhancement Serum is problematic? I'm also very desperate."
Kingpin, who was burly, muscular, and wearing a white suit, stood on the balcony of Fisk Tower, looking innocent.
Of course, this was an act. More than half of the firearms in the thugs' hands were secretly provided by him. Not only that, he also sent his subordinates to provide a batch of spiked illegal drugs to the thugs for free, to get them high.
Why did Kingpin do this? Because he wanted to enhance his strength through Death and slaughter. Don't forget, he also had Evil God blood.
"How can I miss such a good opportunity?"
Kingpin secretly thought, "As for what New York will become, that's the Super Heroes' business. What does it have to do with me?"
Besides Kingpin, another divine blood possessor, Foot Clan leader Shredder, was also fishing in troubled waters. He secretly sent ninjas to cause slaughter and increase the chaos in New York City—the Foot Clan's goal was to step on everyone.
This was why the situation in New York City was getting worse and worse. Kingpin and Shredder were the strongest gang leaders in New York.
Gwen, while webbing up the villains on the street, said, "When this is over, I must find evidence of Kingpin's crimes and bring him to justice."
Skye asked with a smile, "You're very irritable, aren't you? Is it because you haven't had a date with Andrew lately?"
"Date? I don't even have time to make a call, okay? I even suspect Andrew forgot about me. Hmm…"
Gwen was complaining when she suddenly saw the scene in front of her and couldn't help but exclaim.
Jessica and Colleen simultaneously asked, "Gwen, what's wrong?"
Gwen blinked and asked, "Am I still dreaming? There are actually four Giant Turtle walking upright fighting a group of ninjas in front? Uh, one of them seems to be able to rap?"
"Giant Turtle?"
Everyone was stunned. New York City truly had everything.