I Am Gwen's Spider-Man Mentor

"He is from a parallel universe! Does he know my past? No - is this true?

"Then...does he know what my future is like? Am...is my dad okay?"

"...What...does he think of me? What does he think of Spider-Woman?"

"What does his universe look like? What does he do in his universe?"

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Gwen Stacy, who was holding on to the crossbar on the subway, lowered her smart aqua eyes and raised her eyebrows to the middle - the girl obviously seemed to regret it now. It was the first time she learned about Raymond Xu. When she was a time traveler, many feelings that could not be described in words suddenly came to her heart:

The first was shock. She was shocked that he was also a stowaway from a parallel universe. However, after she had also experienced stowaway from a parallel universe, the shock was not very severe. The second was fear and unhappiness. These two emotional components were roughly balanced. He seems to know all about his past, and even knows about the discord between himself and his father - this makes Gwen not only a little scared, but also a little unhappy about being easily seen through.

To this day, when Gwen recalls that morning, she will always think of how panic and shame she felt when he said those words. All her past, all the things she cared about, and all the secrets were exposed to the harsh scrutiny of others. The feeling makes the blonde girl feel suffocated even now.

Just when Gwen reacted and tried to take these things out and ask him clearly, he disappeared - hell, why did he dodge so fast?

"Shoot!" Even now when she thinks about it, Gwen can't help but curse out. Of course, thanks to Stacey's good tutoring, she usually chooses a more elegant suffix between "Shit" and "Shoot". By.

Furthermore, Gwen thought - why didn't she react and ask these questions clearly? It's great now, and I couldn't have asked for a better opportunity than then!

Thinking of this, Gwen decided to raise the level of "somewhat regretful" to "regret to death".

besides! Gwen still hasn't figured out why her spider-sense didn't respond when she faced him, or even the morning after she woke up injured - her body actually told her that she was resting comfortably and wanted to do it again?

What again? Sleep on that fancy bed again? Or will you let a strange man cut open your clothes and treat your wounds again? Gwen gritted her teeth.

After lowering her eyes and thinking for a long time, almost falling asleep, the hairs on Gwen's arms grew again. While the girl was alert, she heard the subway announcement:

"We've arrived at Third Street Station. The next stop is..."

The emotionless subway female voice shouted again. Gwen Stacy walked tiredly, grabbing her schoolbag and coat and squeezing through the crowds of people with different skin colors and clothes. Her eyelids were almost drooping. For Spider-Man, fighting supervillains is just a bookmark in a complicated life, and the other pages that are not bookmarked are often filled with boredom - just like the boredom of other ordinary people's lives.

This kind of boredom, in addition to tasks such as helping the old lady find cats, also includes commuting every day and returning to the place where Gwen herself feels uncomfortable.

Gwen tried to hold her breath as she walked through a large area of ​​bungalows made up of abstract graffiti, garbage cans that smelled of hemp, and buzzing flies. Many houses and ancillary facilities here have fallen into disrepair. The government and various large companies have given up their influence here. Therefore, it has become a haven for illegal immigrants and various criminals.

If Gwen didn't get super powers, then even if she was a cool girl who was fearless, she wouldn't dare to live in a place like this just to get cheap money.

Amidst the occasional barking of dogs, blacks and Latinos were divided into groups according to ethnicity, chatting together, smoking somewhat suspicious cigarettes, and occasionally spitting thick phlegm on the ground - because no one was cleaning, Gwen saw The ground seemed to be covered with a layer of amber, reflecting the afterglow of the setting sun and the light of dim street lamps.

The slender girl wore loose clothes and a hood to cover her conspicuous blond hair, and the corners of her mouth were turned down. She loves to be clean. After seeing that scene, no matter how many times she watched it, she would always turn her head away in embarrassment to avoid that disgusting scene.

Gwen Stacy is a typical girl who grew up in a white elite family. The society and life here are like another world to her. It was precisely because she got here that she realized that there might not be such a clear boundary between good and bad in this world. Large expanses of gray and other dark colors that were close to gray were the main tone of this world, and it was also a bright and beautiful world. The other side of the overlord, the global empire, is hidden from the light.

"...Otherwise, the thought that I caused you to get hurt will always make my conscience feel uneasy..."

In a daze, Raymond seemed to be standing in front of him, apologizing to himself with a troubled and uncomfortable expression. Gwen, who has been alone for a long time, still doesn't understand why she was moved by him and agreed to join his laboratory, but these two sentences have been played in the girl's mind many times.

She couldn't explain this feeling. Maybe it was because she had been misunderstood for a long time. Maybe it was because the responsibility of being Spider-Man made this weak girl's shoulders almost collapse. Someone could empathize with her and express "Thank you for your hard work." , was enough to move Gwen.

Gwen, who hurried back to the small broken bedroom with her head lowered, was thinking deeply about Raymond's invitation to her during the day, when she accidentally bumped into the person in front of her. Her spider-sense only works in times of danger, and the man in front of her clearly means no harm, so Gwen looks up to apologize—and then a drop of water hits the toe of her shoe.

The blond girl raised her head and saw that it was a black man. His eyes were dull and lifeless, and the saliva in his mouth was flowing freely. His two long arms covered with needle holes were hanging down like an ape, and his legs were arched. With. Gwen clearly saw that he was not walking, but moving - his legs were moving his stiff body like a machine that had been in disrepair.

The living dead - Gwen Stacy, who was once ignorant of the world, was already familiar with this. These were people who had taken illegal drugs to the point of losing their consciousness. In the slums of New York, such men and women are everywhere. They often show zombie-like faces and wander aimlessly on the streets like zombies. Until they naturally disappeared into the dark forest of steel and skyscrapers that was New York City.

Gwen's toes in the turquoise sneakers curled up, as if the saliva dripping on her shoes was about to seep through the fabric and onto her feet. The girl held back her nausea and discomfort, quickly lowered her head, and passed by the "living dead" - the moment she passed by the man, she, who prided herself on being just and kind-hearted, didn't know what to do. .

Gwen Stacy, who ran away from home, finally saw the social order she had sworn to uphold because of her conscience in the familiar yet unfamiliar slums of New York many universes away - such an ugly and disgusting slum. order. When she first saw all this, it almost broke her. But after the collapse, she felt even more what she should do.

She thought again of the afternoon when Raymond and she had a fight. He stubbornly believed that he was "meddling" and "can't change anything."

This is the biggest difference between Gwen Stacy and Raymond Xu. They all entered society with ideals and beliefs and tried to change society. Gwen Stacy repeatedly hit the wall, but felt that it was because she had not done enough and was not good enough; while Raymond Xu began to blame everything on everyone, and he finally felt that he was powerless in the world. , so he chose to cover his eyes and ears.

When Miss Spider ran wildly through the set story, Raymond became an accident in her journey that should not have happened.

When Gwen Stacy was experiencing her unknown life, she wanted to stay longer and see the scenery in life. She wanted to know that Professor Raymond Xu tried to escape from the world and took action for her several times. These two things were contradictory. What is the reason behind the confusion?

Therefore, for Gwen's two identities, Raymond Xu is a person worthy of staying and paying attention.

"Hey, girl!"

Gwen raised her head and saw a skinny Latino young man with a pockmarked face, a scar on the right side of his face, and a basketball vest standing in front of her. Like a dirty rapper, he said something rude to himself: "Don't you know this street has changed its owner?"

Gwen Stacy took a wrong step to the side and tried to escape. She didn't want to fight for a gangster.

But the gangster also took a step to the side, stood in front of the blonde girl, and pulled off her hood - the girl's pretty face made the gangster's eyes shine, and the Latino stowaway swore, He hadn't seen such a pretty girl since he'd been in a gang on this block, no, since he'd come to America.

The moment of daze was because I was impressed by the beauty, and what followed was a more terrifying and troublesome malice: "Do you have time to go out and play together tonight?"

Gwen knew that it would be useless to hide any longer, so Miss Spider looked at the gangster's playful and teasing eyes indifferently, without any emotion, just like the rocks on the ice sheet: "Sorry, I don't have time."

At this time, the sky was completely dark, and in the flickering street lights, Gwen could vaguely see the baseball bat in the hand of the rejected opponent and the malicious look in his eyes - she just wanted to go back now, and then curl up in that hard and painful On the bed, another messy day came to a messy end. She was so upset that she didn't want to get entangled here anymore.

With a few dull groans, the body fell to the ground dullly. Miss Spider tied the spider silk around the unconscious gangster's ankle, and then hung the two of them up from the street lamp with one hand. When she walked out of the flickering shadows, Gwen Stacy had already put on her hood again, hurriedly put her pockets in and disappeared into the darkness outside the streetlight.

The current situation makes it necessary to speed up some plots. It's not very good to keep everything smooth. Come on, add an update to push yourself.