A Marine Admiral in the Marvel Universe

"Cao, you look so tired." Harry appeared beside Cao Gui: "Are you sick?"

Cao Gui rolled his eyes, glanced at Harry indifferently, and realized that he wasn't sick, nor was Gwen too voluptuous...it was just that he had been struck by lightning too many times last night.

He wanted to try out advanced Armament Haki, but he had no clue where to start.

He tried to let his domineering aura flow through his body, but he not only exhausted himself, he also almost got injured.

"So how did Luffy train? Did he just fight a few grunts? Did he just watch a demonstration once?" Cao Gui wondered to himself, but he couldn't figure it out.

Cao Gui has no other way to obtain high-level Armament Haki except through cheating or exchanging it.

At this moment, Cao Gui's gaze sharpened. After not seeing him for several months, the blue-green patches of skin on Harry's neck had grown larger, indicating that his condition had worsened!

Noticing Cao Gui's gaze, Harry's expression changed slightly, and he awkwardly adjusted his clothes: "Alright, class is about to start, let's go."

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Chapter 430 Gwen vs. Beth

In class, the teacher imparted knowledge and carefully taught the students, but Cao Gui's eyelids drooped and he didn't listen... Well, not exactly didn't listen, but rather let it go in one ear and out the other, completely ignoring the teacher.

This behavior is very bad. You'll always be the one who suffers from skipping class, but... I'm a billionaire, why should I study so hard?

Cao Gui opened his system panel, where he saw the character card of the little human princess, Mansherry. This character card had been off cooldown for a long time, and the healing fruit's power could be used again.

Cao Gui couldn't be sure if the Healing Fruit would work on the Osborn family's genetic disease, but it was the best option.

Currently, Cao Gui has three ways to deal with Osborn's genetic disease: one is the Healing Fruit, another is the Healing Hormone, and the third is either Luo's character card or Marco's character card.

The last one is out of the question. Although Marco is a ship's doctor, he is more inclined to fight, and besides... he's too expensive!

Luo is alright, relatively cheaper, so I won't feel bad about it, but the surgery fruit is more for external injuries, and may not be effective for diseases at the genetic level.

Let's not even talk about the healing hormones; the side effects are too great, and the uncertainties are too numerous, so Cao Gui dares not use them indiscriminately.

Time flies when you're daydreaming, and before you know it, the bell has rung, but Cao Gui hasn't realized it yet.

“Cao…” Gwen came over and gently nudged Cao Gui, bringing him back to his senses.

"Uh... what's wrong?" Cao Gui looked at Gwen and Beth, who were holding hands in front of him, and asked in confusion, "I was listening attentively to the lecture just now. The teacher was explaining it so well that I got engrossed in it without realizing it."

Gwen: →_→

Beth: ←_←

This is about learning knowledge, not about learning posture. How could you possibly be so serious about it? ×2

"Cough cough... What's wrong?" Cao Gui coughed twice and asked.

“I’m going to practice yoga with Beth,” Gwen said. “You can take care of your own meals today.”

"Oh, okay." Cao Gui nodded. He was going to Osborne's house for dinner today anyway, so he turned to the Green Goblin and said, "Harry, I need to talk to you about something. It's about the thing on your neck."

Seeing Cao Gui and Harry with their arms around each other, Gwen shrugged: "How about coming to my house today? I have a nice place there."

Gwen was referring to her own basement, which she had converted into a workout area a long time ago.

“Okay.” Beth chuckled. Come to think of it… I haven’t been to Cao’s bedroom yet.

At Osborne Villa, after hearing Cao Gui's purpose, Harry and Norman were too excited to speak. This genetic disease had plagued their family for generations, and forty or fifty years old was already a person's prime.

It was a great time for him to make his mark, but... Osborne had to endure the torment of illness in his thirties due to a genetic disease.

Norman Osborn is 45 years old this year. Thanks to the Osborn Group, he has no shortage of precious drugs. In addition, he does not place all his hopes on a cure. He has also put a lot of effort into delaying the onset of the disease, which is why he has lived to this day.

Otherwise... my uncle started lying in bed at the age of forty, and passed away completely in six or seven years.

"Alright, stop talking, let's begin..." Cao Gui closed his eyes slightly, and when he opened them again, they had turned golden. He raised both hands and placed them on the heads of the father and son at the same time, and a faint golden light flowed into their bodies.

Harry and Norman froze, their faces lighting up with ecstasy as the stiffness in their bodies was greatly relieved...

……

A villa in a New Jersey neighborhood.

Gwen looked a little embarrassed. She then remembered that in the bedroom, she and Cao... It wasn't that she didn't care about hygiene, but Cao Gui had made her so much trouble this morning that she was almost late, which was why she hadn't cleaned the room properly.

I hadn't thought about this at all before I arrived, and it wasn't until I drove to my own doorstep that I realized it.

"What's wrong?" Beth asked, puzzled.

"Cough...it's nothing," Gwen coughed lightly, clenching her fist. "Beth, let's go inside. My training room is underground..."

“Gwen…” Beth was exasperated: “Has anyone ever told you that your expression is just like Cao’s…”

"Ah, this..."

……

Inside Osborne Villa, Cao Gui's expression changed slightly. The Healing Fruit was effective against genetic issues, and Harry was fine; the problem could be resolved before the character card's time limit expired.

But Norman was different; his physical functions had aged, and due to a genetic disease, he aged more severely than people of the same age.

"System, can you extend the time limit of the character card?" Cao Gui asked in a deep voice.

[Consumes merit points, one point per second.]

Cao Gui's face twitched. "That's really expensive!"

……

In the spacious underground training room.

Gwen followed Beth, slowly bending over, her slender waist curving into a breathtaking arc.

At the same time, support yourself with both hands on the ground, extend your long legs forward and backward, and press your body down to complete a split.

“Gwen, what’s that raised white spot on your wrist?” Beth asked.

“Oh, this…” Gwen looked at the white dot on her wrist. That was actually where the web was launched, but Gwen hadn’t used it in a long time. She had been using the web launcher she made herself.

The spider silk it produces carries its own DNA information, and once detected, it can be found 100% of the time. Although it is not afraid, it is very annoying.

During the period when the web-shooter was unavailable, Cao Gui would even secretly clean up the remaining cobwebs for her before going home each time.

“It’s just a birthmark, don’t worry about it,” Gwen said with a smile, but a thought flickered in her mind. Beth’s physical abilities seemed a little off. She was a mutant, so it was normal for her to have stronger physical abilities.

But Beth is an ordinary person. How can she complete such a difficult task while remaining calm and composed, talking to herself without blushing or skipping a beat?

"Hmph... Gwen," Beth scoffed. "If I'm not mistaken, that white spot on your arm is related to Osborn's Spider Project, isn't it?"

"And I also remember that Dr. Connors, the head of Project Spider, was the same person... although he later changed his research focus..."

Gwen's eyes narrowed instantly. She slapped the ground with one hand, swayed her waist, and kicked Beth's chin hard with her toes.

That's where the trigeminal nerve is connected. The trigeminal nerve is controlled by the cerebellum, which in turn controls a person's balance.

Once struck, she would usually faint. Gwen was very confident in her control over her power and could subdue Beth without injuring her.

However, Beth also braced herself with her arms, pointed her toes, and kicked out in the same way.

With a soft thud, Gwen and Beth both stepped back, followed by a squeak as a white spiderweb shot out.

A glint flashed in Beth's eyes. She formed a palm with one hand, and a burst of fiery red light surged upwards. With a swift chop, she cleaved the incoming spider silk in two, as easily as a hot knife through butter.

Inside the basement, the smell of burning feathers wafted out. Gwen looked surprised; no wonder Beth had changed so much, her figure had become so good—she had undergone physical enhancement.

“Gwen, are you the black-armored man from the Battle of New York?” Beth chuckled.

Gwen raised an eyebrow, oblivious to Beth's malice: "How did you know me?"

"You forgot?" Beth chuckled. "We are Osborn's second-largest shareholder, and I happen to be the chairman of our company, so I have certain authority to investigate."

Gwen's lips twitched; so that's how it is.

"Should we continue?"

"How about we go somewhere else? We can't damage your house."

"Okay, let's go somewhere else."

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Posting early today~

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Please take one day off.

As the title suggests, I'm taking a day off, dear readers. I'm experiencing some writer's block, so let me, the orange cat, sort it out.

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Chapter 431 The Scumbag's Deception Fails (Part 1)

In the Osborn villa, Cao Gui let out a long breath. Looking at the 50,000 merit points that had been reduced on the system panel, Cao Gui's lips twitched slightly. He had used up a bit too many, and his heart ached a little.

"Ah..." Harry groaned and stretched languidly in his chair.

“I… feel so light…” Harry clenched his fist and said in surprise. Suddenly, he noticed that his neck was a little itchy. He gently scratched it and tore off a piece of greenish-blue skin about the size of a thumb.

"Hiss...it hurts a bit..." Harry gasped, but at the same time his eyes narrowed. It hurt, but it also felt good, just like when he was a child and he tore off the bloody yoke from his wound. It was both painful and pleasurable.

On the other side, Norman touched his neck and gently tore off a thin, translucent piece of flesh-colored skin, revealing the pitted, bluish-green skin on his neck.

Cao Gui glanced at it and then looked away. He wasn't someone with trypophobia, but seeing that scene still made him very uncomfortable.

Norman went into his bathroom and roughly scraped off the diseased skin, while calling his private doctor for a full medical checkup.

"Cao, let's go to the living room." Harry laughed heartily, feeling completely relaxed; the feeling of being healthy and free of illness was wonderful.

"So this is what it feels like for you normal people... That's great."

"From now on, you're a normal person too," Cao Gui said with a smile, patting his shoulder.

This ending is great. It's good for Harry to be a rich young master. He doesn't have to be the Green Goblin anymore; that's not suitable for him.

……

In the mountains of New Jersey.

Gwen and Beth, their faces flushed and panting, looked at each other. On the surrounding trees, some were covered with white spider silk, some were cut in half with charred black edges, and some were even glowing red. The faint smell of burnt feathers and charcoal wafted through the forest.

Looking at Beth in front of her, Gwen's expression turned serious. Beth wasn't a strong fighter; she was powerful but slow and not very agile, so she wasn't a match for her.