The Comprehensive Evolution of American Comics.

Chapter 16 Rhino Man
"Did Alexi find the target?"

"No." Alexey crashed another instrument. "There shouldn't be any in this area. I'm going to look somewhere else."

"Okay, be steady and don't knock down the building. Remember, we have only one goal." Adrian hid in the crowd, his eyes fixed on a man in a suit and tie who was anxiously communicating with the police.

"Harry Osborn!" Alexi said word by word.

"That's right. If anyone gets in our way, get rid of them all. As long as Harry Osborn is alive, that's fine." After confirming the target, Adrian hung up the phone.

"Roar!" Alexei roared, activated the armor again, and rushed towards the next area with his thighs. No matter what obstacles there were along the way, they were smashed to pieces under his charge.

Not long after Alexei left, in the corner, there was a wall covered with art paintings. A crack appeared in the wall, and an eye was quietly observing the situation from inside.

"It seems he left."

"Thank you for saving us." Peter looked at the handsome boy in the green jacket in front of him.

"You're welcome. That rhino would never have guessed there was a secret door in this wall." The boy closed the secret door and looked at Peter and Mary Jane proudly.

"Excuse me, how did you know there was a secret door here?" Peter looked at the smug boy curiously. "Most people wouldn't know this secret."

"That's because I'm the person the rhino is looking for, and this is the exhibition area managed by my father's company." The boy pointed at himself.

"Are you Harry Osborn? The eldest son of the Osborn Group?" Mary Jane looked at the boy in front of her in surprise.

The shocked looks on Mary Jane and Peter's faces made Harry's nose go up to the sky.

"Then do you know the identity of that rhino monster? And why did he come looking for you?"

"I don't know." Harry didn't seem to care about Mary Jane's question. He casually took out his cell phone and prepared to contact his father.

"Maybe they're kidnapping me and threatening my dad for a ransom. I've been used to it since I was a kid, but this is the first time I've seen such a large-scale situation."

"FK! No signal!" Harry grabbed the phone angrily and wanted to throw it to the ground, but in the end, he sighed and put the phone down for fear of attracting the rhino man.

"As for you, I'm so sorry to involve you in this matter." Harry lowered his head and fiddled with the phone, speaking in a very low voice. If there was no noise here, Peter and Mary Jane might not be able to hear it.

"It's not your fault." Mary Jane shook her head. "No one wants to go through this. You're just a victim. I'm tired of this kind of victim-blaming."

"Me too, no one should blame you for this," Peter agreed.

"That's really new." Harry scratched his head, looking a little surprised. "You're the first couple involved in a kidnapping incident who didn't hate me."

"Let's get acquainted again, Harry Osborn." Harry held out his right hand.

"Peter Parker."

"Mary Jane Watson."

Peter and Mary Jane each shook Harry's hand.

"Do you have a signal on your cell phones?" Harry asked, withdrawing his hand.

"No."

"Mine doesn't work either. I guess that Rhino-Man blocked the signal here. It looks like we can only hope the police come find us."

Mary Jane and Peter took out their phones to check, and sure enough, there was no signal.

"No, those policemen are definitely not reliable. Their little guns that can make streetwalkers laugh are not even enough to tickle that rhino monster." Harry shook his head when he heard what Peter said.

Mary Jane frowned at Harry's dirty joke, but Peter pretended not to hear.

"Instead of relying on them, we might as well escape on our own." Harry looked confident. "I know the staff passage of this exhibition hall. It's not far from here. We can escape from there quietly."

"Isn't it too dangerous?" Peter disagreed with Harry's suggestion. He didn't want Mary Jane to take any risks. "You saw how fast that guy is. We can't outrun him. If he catches up to us, we'll die."

"Please, Peter, don't be such a coward." Harry looked at Peter helplessly. "As long as we are careful, it will be fine. Besides, his target is me. I'm not afraid, so why should you be afraid?"

"I just…"

"Peter is no coward!"

Peter was about to explain, but Mary Jane, standing beside him, beat him to the punch and looked at Harry with a cold brow. "We're very grateful that you saved us, but please take back what you said."

"Whatever." Harry shrugged, looking nonchalant. "If you want to wait for the police, stay here. I'll escape on my own."

"Of course, I will tell the police you are here after I escape." Harry slowly opened the secret door and said without turning his head.

"If I remember."

After saying that, he closed the secret door and left.

The Chamber of Secrets fell into silence after Harry left, and Peter looked at Mary Jane with an apologetic look.

"I'm so sorry, Mary Jane." Peter sat on the ground, curled up, and lowered his head. "If it weren't for me, you would have gone out with him."

Mary Jane looked at the lost Peter and silently sat next to him to comfort him.

"It's okay, Peter, we are friends." Mary simply leaned lightly on Peter's shoulder.

"And I saw you glanced at me when Harry made that suggestion, didn't you?" Mary Jane twirled her hair with her fingers.

"Are you worried about me?"

"I just..." Peter opened his mouth for a long time, and finally had to bow his head and accept his fate.

"Yes, I am worried about you. I don't want you to be involved in that kind of danger. I'm sorry, maybe I'm meddling too much."

Mary Jane looked at the boy who was looking down and introverted and thought he was cute. Just as she was about to speak, she heard a scream.

"Did you hear it?"

"It seems..." Peter frowned and confirmed confidently, "It seems like Harry is asking for help."

"Help!"

Harry now wished he had two more legs. Who would have thought that he would encounter the rhino monster just after he slipped out a short distance.

The monster was about to reach out and grab him as soon as they met, but luckily he was so scared that his legs went limp and he sat on the ground, then he crawled under his crotch and escaped.

"Stop!" Alexei shouted angrily. If he wasn't afraid that the armor would kill Harry, he wouldn't have let Harry run so far.

However, you can't escape the consequences, and soon the panicked Harry was tripped by the debris on the ground and fell to the ground.

"Stay away from me." Harry screamed and threw the debris on the ground at the rhino, while moving himself to escape.

"I got you, little bug." The Rhino ignored the debris thrown at him and reached out to grab Harry.

"boom!"

Just as Rhino was about to grab Harry, a bucket of paint hit him on the back.

The pungent smell angered Alexi. He let go of Harry and turned around to see a short, thin boy with glasses and trembling legs looking at him with an iron pipe.

"Run Harry!" Peter shouted.

"Peter..." Harry, who was blocked by the rhino, could only hear the voice, but even though the voice was hoarse due to excessive fear, Harry could still hear that it was the voice of Peter, whom he had just looked down upon.

"Crush you, little bug!" The rhino man was very irritable because of the potion injected. He couldn't stand Peter's provocation at all, so he activated his armor and rushed towards Peter.

"No! Peter!" Mary Jane, who had just arrived, looked at the rhino man who crashed into Peter in despair.

Peter was so frightened that he even forgot to close his eyes and just stared blankly at the rhino man rushing towards him.

"What is that?" Facing death, Peter felt that everything slowed down. Out of the corner of his eye, he seemed to see something red extending from his side.

"Bang!" With a muffled sound, Peter was stunned looking at the rhino horn only a dozen centimeters away from him.

"Hey! Little cow, do you want to have a bullfight?" Peter heard a voice coming from above his head. He looked up and saw a red giant protecting him in front of him.

"I'm a bullfighting superstar. Do you know why?" Yang Le, who had become a four-handed overlord, boasted. "Because I'm incredibly popular."

(End of this chapter)