Screech~
A police car slowly parked in front of a high-end apartment in Queens.
Having finished everything, Chief George got out of the car, closed the door, and briskly walked to the entrance.
"Phew..."
Feeling somewhat impatient, he paused for a bit at the door. After deeply inhaling, he gently opened the door and changed into slippers.
Then he intentionally softened his footsteps, slowly walking towards his bedroom.
Yet passing through the corridor, when he was beside his daughter's bedroom door, his footsteps couldn't help halting.
"Seems like I haven't cared about Gwen for a very long time."
Tonight's experience had made George realize many things.
At the moment when the helicopter crashed, infinitely close to death.
He didn't have much fear of death. As a policeman, he had long accepted that he might die on duty one day.
It was just that when death truly arrived, what welled up in his heart was nothing but reluctance towards his daughter and wife.
He was afraid that he would never see them again.
Seeming to have worked up his courage, George stepped to his daughter's door. He slowly raised his hand.
Yet, in the end, he still didn't knock in the end, lowering it.
"That Spider-Woman, she seems to be about the same age as Gwen."
Leaving Gwen's bedroom door, and walking towards his own bedroom, George suddenly recalled the Spider-Girl from today. She had risked her life and revealing her identity just to save him.
It was precisely because he thought of his own daughter before that he finally halted before tearing off her mask.
"Alas, it's a pity that the police station will probably be busy for a very long time after an incident like today happened. No knowing when there'll be a chance to take leave and properly accompany the family."
George let out a helpless sigh. Yet he could only silently return to his own bedroom.
Able to become Chief in his forties, he had undoubtedly sacrificed many things. Among them was time spent with family.
Within Gwen's bedroom currently, Gwen who had seemed deep asleep lying in bed earlier sharply opened her eyes when her acute senses felt her father leave.
She slowly sat up, carefully and gingerly taking off the tattered spider suit that had gone through tonight's intense battle.
"Ow."
Although very gentle, she still inadvertently grazed her injured area. The sudden sharp pain almost made her cry out.
"Luckily my body has changed. My recovery ability is several times that of a normal person."
"Otherwise who knows how I'd explain this tomorrow."
Applying the medicine already prepared to the wounds.
Gwen endured the severe pain and lay back on her bed, slowly closing her eyes.
Yet just minutes later she sharply opened them again.
"Damn it. Can't sleep at all."
Although her body was exhausted, Gwen's spirit was still extremely excited.
Finally, she took out a pen and notebook from her bedside drawer. Leaning against the headboard she slowly started drawing.
Very quickly, an uncannily lifelike drawing was completed.
On the pristine notebook, a figure in a black spider suit leaped out.
Rip...
It was just that the instant she finished this drawing, she unhesitatingly fiercely tore it into countless tiny scraps.
Then threw them into the trash.
"Phew, that feels better!"
After venting in a special way, Gwen's mood seemed to have improved greatly.
"And that guy, was he really Superman?"
While recalling in her mind the figure that floated in the air and gave him a great shock, Gwen slowly drew on her book.
...
At this time, in the depths of distant space.
Peter, who still had his arms spread embracing the sun.
Was also carefully sensing the feeling completely different from when absorbing sunlight on Earth now.
At this moment, every cell in his body seemed to be completely active.
Countless sunlight scrambled to integrate into his body. Through the special changes of his body cells, it turned into a special kind of energy in his body.
Almost every minute, even every second, his body was strengthening at an extremely fast speed.
Then maintaining this sun-embracing posture, Peter basked in space for a full few hours.
Until the night in New York had ended and the early morning sunrise had risen from the East.
Peter, who had closed his eyes tightly, finally opened his eyes sharply.
And the instant he opened his eyes, it seemed a glint of golden light was flowing in his crystalline eyes.
The next moment he suddenly changed direction, hurtling rapidly back to Earth below.
In less than a full minute, Peter returned from outer space hundreds of kilometers away back to land.
Yet Peter returning to Earth was in no hurry to fly home.
Rather he flew to a desolate area.
The place was filled with boulders of different sizes standing on top of each other, and there wasn't even a single weed.
The smallest boulders were a few meters tall, while the big ones neared a hundred meters, like a small mountain peak.
Peter slowly flew over a boulder with diameter of almost ten meters.
Eyes wide open, he just stared fiercely at the boulder before him like that.
One second... Ten seconds... One minute...
A full few minutes passed with Peter glaring wide-eyed at the boulder before him.
As if the boulder in front of him had a deep hatred with him, wanting to crush it with ferocious eyes.
A full nearly ten minutes passed. Even with his steel body, he couldn't help feeling his eyes somewhat dry.
When a scorching heat energy suddenly converged in his eyes.
In an instant, amidst Peter's originally pitch-black pupils, a glaring crimson suddenly burst out. Like a fiercely burning flame.
Just a flash, and the fiery crimson color occupied his entire eyeballs.
Both eyes flashing with scarlet light, just like a demon from hell.
"Ah!"
Accompanying Peter's roar, two thick crimson heat vision beams instantly erupted from his red eyes.
Bearing terrifying high temperatures and tremendous impact, they instantly struck the boulder below.
Hiss hiss hiss...
The powerful impact instantly penetrated through the boulder before him.
The scorching high heat even roasted the boulder's interior emitting red light in the short time, like red-hot metal.
Boom!
A few seconds later, the boulder whose interior and exterior temperatures were extremely unbalanced exploded violently.
And Peter also reflexively turned his head. Yet the heat vision in his eyes did not stop. Still sweeping out a several meters deep trench on the ground following his sight.
Everything the heat vision passed was instantly sliced apart. Countless boulders were bisected. And on the cross sections, it seemed a glint of red still hadn't extinguished.
In this time he even vertically bisected a boulder dozens of meters tall.
The split boulders rumbled falling to both sides, stirring up plumes of dust.
Until Peter turned his sight skywards. The crimson heat vision directly pierced the clouds. Scattering the clouds overhead.
Only then could Peter finally control this formidable power. Fiercely shutting his eyes.
Even now one could still faintly see through his closed eyelids. Both scarlet eyeballs are wrapped inside.
Gradually the red light faded from his eyes.
[Congratulations Host on successfully awakening Heat Vision, Frozen Breath.]
And the next moment, the system notification also timely sounded in his mind.
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(End of Chapter)
To be continued...