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Chapter 57, Point 7: Infiltration Investigation

Saturday morning, 6:30.

If someone were to enter the Fisk Building's server room at this time and observe carefully, they would find a data cable connecting the server to the ventilation duct. Inside the filthy ventilation duct, a spider-like freak dressed in a red jumpsuit would be illegally intruding, the low-frequency buzzing of the ventilation system masking the sound of him typing on the keyboard.

There are many villains in New York, but not many can afford to hire someone like The Thriller, The Chameleon, or Mysterio. They're mostly just a few rich and powerful guys, like Kingpin or Hammerhead from the mob, or AIM and Alchemy from companies that like to tinker with advanced technology, or Hydra and the like.

Peter, of course, had no idea who was behind this, so he decided to take advantage of the few days after defeating the spider swarm to investigate.

"No, no, still nothing... Kingpin's database is just as clean as when I last came, like a freshly washed dish. Where did you hide it, Philip?"

This wasn't Peter's first time infiltrating Fisk Tower. He'd been there once before the war with the Horrors, and hadn't found anything then either, just like now. Kingpin had meticulously cleaned up the data in the building's server room, as if his underworld business had nothing to do with the building. Actually, if Daredevil hadn't started his activities three years earlier, like Spider-Man, Peter might not have even bothered to target Kingpin.

But Daredevil has already made his debut, and Kingpin has absolutely no criminal record? Do you think Peter would believe that? Of course not.

For example, after scanning with his new suit, he discovered a huge hollow structure in the basement of the Fisk Tower, but he didn't know what was inside. It looked like a nuclear shelter, requiring DNA testing to enter the elevator, which was filled with alarms and infrared detectors. He couldn't go down into such a place.

However, the entire building looked quite clean; at least the mainframe interface was completely blank.

"Huh? Kingpin went underground?"

On his laptop, Peter recorded Kingpin's actions through a small window of a hacked webcam. Kingpin, accompanied by several assistants, opened the elevator doors and began descending into the underground. Peter thought for a moment, quickly closed the laptop, then crawled out through a ventilation duct in another room, entered the elevator shaft, and sped towards Kingpin's office.

Hopefully Kingpin can stay underground a little longer so I can see if I can hack into his computer.

"Your combination lock is less secure than an elevator control panel."

After easily cracking the computer password, Peter began browsing Kingpin's computer, starting by searching its operational history chronologically. To Peter's surprise, the computer was almost empty; it was mostly clean, containing only legitimate business-related content and a few TV show viewing records. He genuinely didn't know Kingpin watched TV, and for several hours a day at that.

Or perhaps Kingpin doesn't actually use this computer for work.

After scanning the entire office, Peter confirmed that there were no hidden rooms or similar places. It seemed Kingpin had kept this place very well concealed; both the computer room and the personal computers were impeccably clean. There might be some involvement in tax evasion or trade secrets, but no information related to the villains.

Of course, there's another possibility: this version of King isn't a bad guy, but just an honest businessman. However, believing that is less likely than believing he's Homelander Spider-Man.

In other words, this office and the computer server room are for intruders to investigate. For example, organizations like S.H.I.E.L.D. or the FBI would come here to investigate if they suspected Kingpin, and Kingpin would show them that there is nothing here.

However, those criminal records couldn't possibly be completely transparent; Kingpin must be somewhere else.

Anyway, I have nothing to do tonight until the homecoming dance, so I might as well just stay here and wait for Fisk all day. He can't really spend the whole day here reviewing documents and watching American TV shows, can he?

So he cleaned up the traces of his presence and planned to spend the whole day hiding in the ventilation duct of Kingpin's office. At that moment, he noticed green smoke rising outside and the tall, mysterious figure emerging from it.

Spider-Man was dumbfounded, then he became furious.

"Really?! It's only been two weeks since school started and I've already fought three villains: Horror, Chameleon, and Kalkin! The second week isn't even over yet, it's only Saturday, and now Mysterio's showing up?! And it's only been two weeks since school started!"

Just then, night fell over New York City, and Mysterio delivered his shocking criminal declaration—he even gave ordinary people ten minutes to stop wandering around the streets, and he was surprisingly nice.

"While I'm performing, crime in New York City might go on a crazy rampage, so I invited all of New York's superheroes to stop me. Once they stopped me, New York returned to normal."

You win, Mysterio, really.

Unwilling to keep an eye on Kingpin any longer, Peter climbed out of the ventilation duct and saw Iron Man soaring into the sky from Avengers Tower, then crashing headfirst into Mysterio—passing right through him, before being struck by a laser and crashing to the ground.

"I talked to Jarvis about Quentin Baker, and I even left Mysterio's old projection device at Avengers Tower, and then Iron Man just—pounced on it."

Peter sighed, preparing to use his webs to stop Mysterio before the illusions overwhelmed him. Then, he saw a ball of flame shoot into the sky from the Baxter Building, drawing a cool circle in the air containing the number "4" before charging towards Mysterio.

Then they failed to hit Mysterio.

No, forget about Tony Stark, but did you, Human Torch, not see Iron Man crash? Why did you rush up there too?

What's even more outrageous is that while Iron Man was at least hit and crashed, the Human Torch simply went out on the spot, literally went out, and then began freefall.

"Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!"

"I'm already pretty fast, buddy!"

Johnny Stone, who was falling, was caught by Spider-Man with one hand, tucked under his arm, and then landed safely on the roof of a building.

"Oh, hey." Johnny greeted him cheerfully, then looked at Peter and said, "I've heard of you. Reed said you'd be coming to Baxter Building in a couple of days."

"Yes, what's wrong?"

"I don't know. Before I could hit that guy, the flames on my body disappeared, my powers failed, and I fell down," the Human Torch explained. Spider-Man understood what had happened after a moment's thought.

"Perhaps your ability didn't fail, but Mysterio made you see that your flames were gone, and your brain thought that your ability had failed, so it shut it down on its own."

The Human Torch stared at Spider-Man for a full three seconds before finally uttering "Son of the Beach" to Mysterio. Then, without flames, the Human Torch floated up and soared into the sky. Spider-Man raised his hand to shoot a web, only to see the guy crash headfirst into the exterior wall of the building before falling down and landing next to Peter.

……

Dude, are you kidding me?

"Spider-Man, welcome to our party!"

A mysterious figure, whose voice clearly indicated he was real, appeared before Peter. Everything around Peter vanished, leaving only Peter and the mysterious figure. The mysterious figure extended his hand in a friendly manner.

"I want to talk to you because... I feel you are special."