【Queens District】.
Inside a slightly messy bedroom.
"Peter, it's been several days. Do you have any leads on the killer?"
Gwen lay on the bed, staring unblinkingly at the ceiling, asking Peter Parker on the other end of the phone.
"Um... not yet."
Peter Parker, currently inside a biological laboratory within 【Osborn Tower】, quickly stopped the experiment he was working on and explained apologetically:
"Gwen, please be patient. Even with the best computers, searching for information takes time. I'll let you know as soon as I have any news."
"Maybe... I can even help you avenge Uncle George!"
"Thank you, Peter. You're a good person."
Gwen, feeling agitated, didn't catch the hidden meaning in his words and hung up the phone in disappointment.
Looking at the bright moon outside the window, symbolizing reunion, and the bustling streets, the scarred girl felt inexplicably frustrated and lonely.
After hesitating for a moment.
Gwen suddenly flipped over and jumped up, as if she had made up her mind.
Since the night was long and she couldn't sleep.
Instead of continuing to wallow in sadness, she might as well use a hearty battle to wear away this unbearable time.
Even though her injuries hadn't fully healed...
In the end.
Gwen once again locked her target on 【Hell's Kitchen】.
Because it was a paradise for all criminals.
After nightfall, it would transform into 【New York's】 inescapable purgatory.
In 【Hell's Kitchen】, you don't even need to bother looking for criminals; they'll come knocking on your door!
…………
……
Soon, Spider-Gwen, with a bandage on her left hand and movements noticeably less elegant and agile than usual, successfully arrived at the top of a building in 【Hell's Kitchen】 by swinging on her webs.
"Help me..."
Gwen had just stood firm on the rooftop when she caught the sound of a panicked cry for help coming from a few blocks away, thanks to her extraordinary hearing.
Good, it looks like tonight's prey has appeared.
...
In a narrow and dimly lit alley, two tall, burly men were approaching a young woman with malicious intentions.
"Don't come any closer! I'm calling the police!"
The young woman was trembling with fear, backing away while frantically searching for her phone in her bag.
Just as she finally pulled out her phone and was about to dial 911.
One of the men lunged forward, knocked the phone away, and held a sharp dagger to her chin.
"If you want to live, hand over the money obediently... *噗!*"
Before the man could finish his threatening words, Gwen kicked him, sending him flying.
He crashed heavily into the wall, his head exploding like a watermelon.
"Oh, shit?!"
Seeing this, the other man frantically pulled out a pistol from the back of his waistband and started firing at Gwen in a flurry.
"Get down!"
Gwen first pushed the robbed young woman to the ground.
Then, her figure moved like a ghost, bouncing back and forth on the walls of the alley, successfully dodging all the bullets.
"D... don't come any closer!"
After emptying all the bullets in the magazine, the man turned around and tried to run.
But the next second, his body was stuck to the wall of the alley by a spider web.
噗噗噗——
Gwen raised her hand and fired several more spider webs, wrapping the man's head tightly like a cocoon.
Soon, his burly body began to struggle violently due to lack of oxygen.
But Gwen ignored him, bent down, picked up the phone from the ground, and returned it to the young woman, who was curled up in a ball in fear.
"It's okay, no one can hurt you now... Go home quickly. Your family must be anxiously waiting for your return."
"Thank you, Spider-Woman!"
The young woman carefully took the phone.
When she saw the惨 death of the two men on the wall, a trace of grief and indignation flashed in her eyes.
But she still put on a shocked expression and exclaimed, covering her mouth, "Oh my God, d... did you kill them both?"
"Ah, no, I mean... I never go out alone in the streets of 【Hell's Kitchen】 at night, because I always see news about attacks on women at night."
"But today, I have a reason why I have to go out at night..."
The woman put the phone back into her bag and said to Gwen with gratitude:
"Spider-Woman, thank you so much this time. If you hadn't appeared in time, I don't know how I would have faced those two thugs."
"To show my gratitude, can I send you... to meet God?"
Almost at the same time as she finished speaking.
The young woman had already pulled out a loaded pistol from her handbag and, without hesitation, pulled the trigger at Gwen, who was close at hand.
"You臭婊子, you killed my two partners. I want you to pay for it with blood."
砰砰砰——
"!!!"
However, under the strong warning of 【Spider-Sense】, Gwen's body swayed from side to side like a tumbler, standing in place.
She actually performed a wonderful dodge comparable to 【Bullet Time】.
"T... how is this possible?"
The young woman was almost stunned by the scene in front of her. Wasn't it said that "a gun is fast beyond seven steps, and accurate and fast within seven steps?"
But why couldn't she hit her even though she was so close?
"Hehe, I should have guessed it. At this late hour, how could a normal, good woman be alone on the streets of 【Hell's Kitchen】?"
"It seems this is a trap specifically for me..."
A self-deprecating look appeared on Gwen's face.
Then, she pinched the woman's neck with her right hand, slowly lifting her body into the air, and said in an extremely cold voice:
"But it doesn't matter, because I originally came for battle this time!"
"Cough cough..."
A look of horror appeared on the young woman's face, and she quickly begged for mercy:
"Wait a minute, Spider-Woman, if I tell you who wants to kill you, will you spare my life?"
"No."
Gwen refused the other party's excessive request without even thinking about it. "But before killing you, I can allow you to say the name of the mastermind."
"That way, when you go to hell, you can go with him."
After saying that.
Even Gwen herself couldn't help but feel a little strange.
Why would such cold-blooded words come out of her mouth?
However.
Blood and battle can indeed make her feel an unprecedented sense of fulfillment and satisfaction.
Even those irritable emotions will be washed away.
This feeling is like an addictive drug, luring Gwen to sink deeper and deeper into it, unable to extricate herself.
And at this moment.
Under the mask, the 【Khorne Rune】 on Gwen's forehead reappeared and gradually flickered with a shining scarlet light.
The pain that had enveloped Gwen's whole body suddenly disappeared.
"You damn monster."
The young woman was obviously frightened by the cold-blooded and ruthless girl in front of her.
Because this was completely different from the Spider-Woman she knew from the information, who held the "no-kill principle".
The woman couldn't help but curse Bullseye in her heart for hiring the three of them to lure and kill Spider-Woman.
Moreover, in order to successfully attract Spider-Woman's attention, they had to perform the robbery scene just now in different areas every day.
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"Bullseye, you bastard, you lied to me with fake information. I won't let you go even if I become a ghost!"
However, even though she was full of resentment, she still didn't dare to say the other party's name.
Just because she was very clear that the man standing behind Bullseye was Kingpin, who was known as the "Underground Emperor of New York".
Once she said the other party's name, then even after her death, her family would still suffer a tragic fate because of it.
"Stop, let go of that woman..."
Just as Gwen was about to break the woman's neck, a voice full of anger suddenly came from the end of the alley.
Immediately afterwards, a red short stick made of special metal shot towards Gwen's face at high speed.
唰——
Gwen tilted her head slightly, successfully dodging the attack of the short stick.
Unexpectedly, the tail of the short stick was also connected to a thin steel cable.
Daredevil yanked the other half of the short stick in his hand backwards, and the ejected front half of the short stick drew an arc in the air like a boomerang and wrapped around Gwen.
Seeing this, Gwen had to let go of the woman in her hand, and then her body jumped up the wall, successfully dodging the entanglement of the short stick.
However.
She didn't intend to let go of the female killer who wanted to lure her to her death.
While Daredevil was quickly dragging her backwards with the steel cable, she raised her hand and fired several spider webs from her wrist, sealing the female killer's mouth and nose tightly.
"呜呜呜..."
The female killer wanted to reach out and tear off the spider silk that was obstructing her breathing on her face.
But her whole person was now being dragged backwards by the steel lock on Daredevil's short stick like a粽子.
Her hands couldn't break free at all, so she could only struggle desperately with despair in her eyes.
"Damn it!"
Daredevil keenly noticed the abnormality on the woman's body with his super sensory ability.
Immediately, he shook his wrist and retracted the steel cable and the front half of the short stick that were wrapped around the other party back into his hand.
Then he quickly rushed forward, wanting to help the other party tear off the tough spider web on her face.
But how could Gwen give him such an opportunity?
The petite figure was one step ahead of the other party, blocking in front of the female killer.
"I know who you are, Daredevil, this is my fight, you better not interfere..."
"Spider-Woman, you are not qualified to濫殺無辜 in 【Hell's Kitchen】!"
Daredevil pointed at Gwen on the opposite side with a short stick and sternly reprimanded:
"Even if these people are all heinous scum, they should be judged by the law."
If Gwen had heard these words before George Stacy was killed, not only would she not have refuted them in any way, but she would have happily taken a photo with this old vigilante senior.
But now.
After experiencing her father's murder, witnessing the two dirty cops at the docks who collected black money, and the series of atrocities committed by those Hand members.
Gwen's worldview has undergone earth-shattering changes.
She felt extremely disgusted with Daredevil's hypocritical remarks.
In her opinion.
False mercy is even more hateful than those criminals!
A disdainful sneer appeared on Gwen's face under the mask, and she immediately asked:
"Then I would like to ask you, in these years, what good changes have taken place in 【Hell's Kitchen】 under your protection?"
"How many innocent people die every day in the hands of those heinous scum who avoid all guilt through legal loopholes... Are you aware of all this?"
Gwen's pointed questions obviously made Daredevil a little angry.
Because if he admitted that what Gwen said was correct, it would mean that his "righteous acts" that he had always carried out over the years would not only instantly become worthless, but would even become an accomplice to the evildoers.
Daredevil can accept setbacks in action.
But he absolutely cannot tolerate the collapse of his beliefs.
So he stubbornly roared: "Stop trying to distort the facts and quibble."
"I am a law... I understand the law, and I know what is right and what is wrong better than anyone else."
"The greater the power, the greater the responsibility. What I have to do is to send this group of scum to court and then be judged by the law."
"But before the court officially declares these people guilty, they still enjoy corresponding rights... So I don't allow you to 濫殺無辜 in my neighborhood."
"Innocent? They... or you?"
This time, Gwen was surprisingly calm.
However, she had completely lost faith in this long-established vigilante senior.
At the same time, she had a redefined definition of the word hero - a group of pedantic people who are righteous for the sake of "justice"!!!
"I understand, so you are just a vigilante who is unwilling to accept reality and forever immersed in the false justice you fantasize about."
Gwen slowly raised a finger and pointed it at Daredevil on the opposite side.
"In that case, you should understand that every person harmed and every murder committed by those scum who escape from your hands has a share of the blame on your head."
Isn't it just moral kidnapping?
I can do it too!
"Absurd... preposterous."
Daredevil immediately let out an exasperated roar.
But whether it was himself or Gwen, they both noticed a hint of undisguised panic in the voice.
Gwen's words were like a sharp spike driven straight into his spine, causing Daredevil to experience an unspeakable phantom pain on a physiological level.
Images of criminals flashed before his eyes like slides in a projector.
Among them were Kingpin, the high-ranking members of the Hand, and those gang leaders who committed all kinds of evil...
These wealthy and powerful scumbags each had countless innocent people's blood on their hands.
Yet, they had never received the judgment they deserved.
They spent exorbitant amounts of money hiring luxurious legal teams, exploiting loopholes in the law to escape legal sanctions time and time again!
Daredevil... no, Matt Murdock, the lawyer, could even recall the smug expressions on the faces of those scumbags as they swaggered out of the courtroom.
And all he could do was watch it all happen → repeat, completely powerless to do anything about it!
So, in some ways, Gwen was right!
