"No problem, I'm willing to join DC Company!"
Baker was practically won over, agreeing without hesitation.
He gripped Anton's hand tightly, feeling like he had finally found the person who would change his life for the better. His face was filled with excitement.
"By the way, I heard you have a team," Anton said with a smile, seemingly casually. "Why don't you bring your team over to our crew right away? Our special effects department really needs your technical support right now."
"No problem."
Baker answered decisively.
Afterward, Anton talked to Baker about both feelings and money, explaining the treatment and prospects of joining the company until Baker couldn't wait to go back to Stark Industries to resign. Only then did he watch Baker leave the company.
With the addition of the special effects master, Mysterio, Quentin Baker, DC Company could be said to have been given wings.
Anton could finally let go and make movies.
The three films, Cyborg, Superman, and Batman: The Dark Knight, also had a greater guarantee of quality, and could even shorten the post-production time to get them into theaters faster.
Looking at the sky, Anton, full of suspicion, prepared to drive home.
As soon as he walked out of the building, he saw Eddie and Phil driving the interview car out of the building's underground parking lot.
Although Eddie was the editor-in-chief of the Daily Bugle, at critical moments, he preferred to return to being a front-line reporter.
Phil was naturally his loyal follower.
"What's happening so late?"
Anton could tell at a glance that the two of them were heading out to cover a news story, and he was a little curious.
"Anton!"
Eddie slammed on the brakes when he saw Anton, greeting him with an impatient wave. "Something's happened at the Osborn Company! A Lizard is causing trouble in the Osborn Company building, and Spider-Man is fighting him."
Phil, in the passenger seat, added, "Boss, this news is already all over the city. The other news outlets have already rushed over. The Daily Bugle can't fall behind."
"What? The Lizard and Spider-Man are fighting?"
Anton was stunned.
Without needing to say anything more, he instantly understood what had happened.
Connors has turned into the Lizard!
This was Spider-Man's debut battle.
"Want to go together?"
Eddie understood Anton's meaning. The Venom symbiote extended tendrils from his shoulder, violently ripping open the car door.
The implication was clear:
"No time to explain, get in the car!"
Inside the Osborn Company building.
"Doctor Connors!"
Peter looked anxious, transformed into Spider-Man, and was locked in a back-and-forth battle with the Lizard in front of him, the fight intense and exciting.
He had witnessed firsthand Connors transform into the Lizard right before his eyes, instantly losing control of his emotions and developing a desire to destroy everything, along with an extreme hatred for humans.
Peter understood that Connors' mind had been affected by the gene serum, breeding extreme tendencies and violent inclinations within him; at this moment, he even harbored anti-human sentiments.
Connors championed the greatness of lizard genes, and during the fight, he declared that he would turn the entire world into Lizard-men.
In his view, Lizard-men were the path to human evolution.
"You're crazy, Professor!"
Peter was heartbroken.
In his eyes, Connors had originally been a gentle, well-mannered, and knowledgeable good person.
"I shouldn't have helped you with this experiment. I'm also to blame for what you've become! I have to fix this mistake."
Peter was in great pain, but he had come to a realization. Gritting his teeth, he charged forward, intending to subdue Connors.
However, after transforming into the Lizard, Connors' strength was on par with Spider-Man's, perhaps even surpassing Peter's in his un-matured state.
Peter could only rely on his Web-Shooters and his Spider-Sense, which allowed him to anticipate danger, to fight a guerilla war against the Lizard. He hoped to weaken Connors' combat ability and then subdue him in one fell swoop.
But, the little spider was thinking too simply!
Bang!
Connors grabbed the web Peter shot out, and with a forceful swing, he hurled Peter, who lacked combat experience and was caught off guard, out the window.
Shatter!
The glass instantly shattered into fragments.
Peter was flung out the window by Connors' mighty force, plummeting from a height of hundreds of meters.
He didn't even have time to consider the pain in his body. Opening his eyes wide, he twisted his waist, flipping his falling body in mid-air, raised his wrist, and quickly shot out a web to stick to the outer wall of the glass, barely stopping his descent.
"Whew!"
Peter clung to the outer wall of the Osborn Company building, gasping for breath, looking up and down with lingering fear.
Swoosh!
Suddenly, a beam from a searchlight landed on him.
Above him was a police helicopter.
"Don't shoot, it's Spider-Man!"
Peter could hear the police shouting, struggling to be heard over the noise of the rotors.
Although the police didn't like Spider-Man, they knew he was a good person. At this moment, they should be allies, not enemies.
"The Lizard is still inside the Osborn building, above the 30th floor. Continue searching for the target!"
From a distance, the officers observing the building alerted those in the aircraft.
They had spotted the Lizard.
Swoosh! The guy actually jumped straight down from the thirty-something floor of the Osborn Company building.
"What?"
At the same time, Peter widened his eyes.
He saw Connors use one arm to directly embed himself in the glass wall, adding friction to counter his falling body. Finally, with about twenty meters left to fall, he twisted in mid-air, leaped about fifty meters, and landed heavily on the ground.
Boom! The ground caved in, a deep pit appearing under his foot. Cracks spread across half a street. The soil in the decorative flowerbeds on both sides exploded like water columns.
The dust obscured the police's vision, but it didn't stop them from launching a full-scale offensive.
"Shoot!"
The police officer in the helicopter shouted the order.
Rat-tat-tat-tat!
The special machine gun on the helicopter spewed out dazzling flames, and bullets the size of peanuts rained down, relentlessly hammering the ground where Lizard, Connors, had landed.
However, as the dust settled, all they saw were the indentations already made by the Lizard's stomping, now covered in countless bullet marks.
The Lizard had vanished without a trace.
"What the hell? Where did he go?"
The police officers were stunned.
Peter narrowed his eyes, lost in thought, on the exterior wall of the Osborn Building.
At the same time, Anton, who had just arrived on the scene, witnessed firsthand the Lizard leaping from the Osborn Building. The Lizard was unharmed by the police's machine gun fire and managed to escape.
Anton felt a sense of foreboding. He turned to look at Spider-Man, clinging to the outside of the Osborn Building. Suddenly, his eyes flickered to the side, and he was frozen in a deep daze.
The most severely damaged area of the Osborn Building wasn't where the Lizard had just jumped, creating a crack nearly a hundred meters long. It was the three floors from the 30th floor upwards, right next to the "Limb Regeneration Technology" department.
These three floors had been completely wrecked during the battle between the Lizard and Spider-Man.
"Shit!"
Anton hadn't cursed in a long time, but this time he was truly enraged. Veins popped out on his forehead, and he was fuming.
"They even dared to touch my territory!"
Don't forget, the laboratory he rented for filming Cyborg was right above the "Limb Regeneration Technology" department.
In other words, the Lizard and Spider-Man trashed his set!
Furthermore, the movie's filming equipment, like cameras, props, and so on, probably didn't survive the encounter.
This was bound to delay the filming of Cyborg and postpone its release.
Anton was extremely displeased to be caught in the crossfire.
"Damn it, I was planning to leave you for Spider-Man to deal with..."
A surge of anger ignited within Anton. He gritted his teeth, muttering under his breath, and said fiercely, "Forget it, I'll take care of your 'ascension' myself!"
With that, he vanished into the dark alley beside him, transforming into Batman. He found a sewer entrance and charged in, radiating killing intent.
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Eddie and Phil looked at each other, bewildered.
However, judging from Anton's earlier reaction, this Lizard had definitely angered him somehow.
The two of them silently mourned for the Lizard, hoping he wouldn't die too horribly!
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