Chapter 1531: New York Troubles (Part 1)

With a "bang", the door of the clinic was knocked open, and a figure stumbled in, shouting at the same time.

"Doctor, doctor, let me hide quickly. Gwen's father is chasing me. Find a place for me to hide quickly!"

Schiller was walking down from the second floor. He was stunned for a moment when he saw Peter rushing in, but he still pointed to the kitchen. Peter quickly passed through and hid behind the island. Schiller walked to the door and faced I took a look outside and saw Sergeant George leading a team of policemen running past the door.

After George's figure disappeared across the street, Peter climbed out from behind the island table, sighed and sat down on the sofa.

Schiller walked over and poured him a glass of water, put it in front of him and asked, "What's wrong? Why are you being chased by Sheriff George?"

Peter drank all the water in the cup, stretched out his hand to wipe his mouth, and said with a long sigh: "I have a rare free time today, so I will patrol in Spider-Man uniform to earn credits. At the end of the day, I plan to find a place to change clothes. As soon as I got dressed and walked out of the alley, I saw someone chasing the thief.”

"I didn't think too much and sprinted with all my strength to catch the thief. But I didn't expect that the person who had been stolen from had already called the police. From a long distance away, I saw Chief George running this way, so I started running. ”

"He might have thought I was a thief, so he started chasing me. I was afraid that he would see who I was and have to run quickly to keep a certain distance from him. No, I just ran here."

Schiller sat across from him, looked into his eyes and asked, "Why did you run when you saw Sheriff George coming?"

"Because I'm afraid he will find out..." Peter showed a sad expression and said, "I don't think I can explain to him how I ran so fast and how I pressed down a thief who was much stronger than me. On the ground."

"You know this is actually easy to explain." Schiller took a sip of water and said, "You are doing good things, and he won't doubt it too much."

"I always felt that he was already suspicious, so I didn't dare to face him at all." Peter scratched his hair irritably, slumped on the sofa and said helplessly: "I behaved in front of him like I was not working hard. A taciturn nerd, he felt reassured by Peter Parker, and Spider-Man was at the other end of the spectrum.”

"George disliked Spider-Man very much. He even believed that the parents who taught Spider-Man should be sentenced because they allowed a child who should be studying to wander outside."

"You know, he is the most traditional kind of parent. He believes that people should do things at any age. Young people should follow the rules and learn from their elders, instead of getting a fancy tights and hanging around in New York. ”

"Have you talked to Gwen about this?" Schiller asked.

"Of course Gwen can't tell me that her father is not good. She is not that kind of person. I can understand Sheriff George, so I can only avoid him, because if he discovers my true identity now, the consequences will be very serious. Seriously, because I lied to him.”

Peter collapsed and covered his face, saying, "I have never told such a big lie in my life. I'm really going crazy!"

Schiller could clearly see many physical manifestations of stressful situations in Peter, such as tight upper arm muscles, arms always wrapped around the body, and speaking much faster than usual when speaking. It was obvious that anxiety had overwhelmed him. he.

"Do you think you should confess to George?"

"I'll have to do it one day."

"So Gwen thinks you two should come clean to George?"

Peter tilted his head to the side and said: "I don't know, and I can't ask her this question so directly, because it is equivalent to putting pressure on her. If we confess and her father talks bad words to me, Gwen will I feel it’s her responsibility.”

"And if something worse happens, for example, one day the two of us really become enemies, or one of us hurts the other, then Gwen will be hurt twice."

"But in the future I envision, once George knows my identity as Spider-Man, he will definitely not give me a good look. Even if he knows that I and Gwen have hidden it from him for so long, he will definitely protect his daughter. I feel sad for helping outsiders, which makes me hate me even more.”

"By that time, Gwen will be like the fillings in the pie." Peter stretched out his hand and gestured, and said: "If I don't leave her, George will be sad, and if I leave her, I will be sad." , but she didn’t want any of us to be sad.”

Schiller thought for a moment and then asked: "So do you regret hiding it from George with Gwen before?"

Peter was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect Schiller to ask this. He thought about it carefully, and then said: "Actually, I didn't think of any good time to speak. I think the result would be the same no matter when he knew about it." ”

"If he knew that his daughter was dating Spider-Man at the beginning, his anger would not be much less than it is now. He might even have an extra layer of worry, worrying every day whether his daughter would be in danger because of Spider-Man. ”

"In this case, the deception between you and Gwen can be called a white lie, and you don't have to blame yourself too much for it."

Peter nodded, but Schiller could see that he was just perfunctory, and there were still countless logical knots looping around in his heart.

After a moment of silence, Peter still looked at Schiller with a pleading look. Schiller smiled, stood up from the sofa and walked up to the second floor. During this period, Peter's eyes followed him. When Schiller went upstairs, he even wanted to stand up and follow him up, like a completely insecure stray animal.

Schiller signaled him to calm down, and after a while he took out a pot of flowers from the bedroom on the second floor. It was not accurate to say it was a flower, it was a cabbage.

Schiller put the cabbage on the table. Peter stared at the cabbage and asked strangely: "Is this a new variety of potted plant? But why does it look so like a vegetable?"

"Yes, this is cabbage."

"But why do you want to plant a cabbage in a flower pot?"

"Let's not talk about it for now. Just poke it."

Peter didn't know why. He blinked in confusion, but still instinctively followed Schiller's instructions and leaned forward, stretched out his fingers and gently poked the cabbage leaves.

The living room of the clinic is not big, so the distance between the sofa and the coffee table is not far. Peter leaned forward, and the tip of his nose was just above the cabbage. He only heard a "bang", followed by a scream of "ouch", and Peter was He punched the sofa.

Spider-Man's nose is not an impenetrable wall. After a hard blow from close range, Peter immediately covered his nose and collapsed on the sofa, screaming, while asking in disbelief.

"How could it hit someone?!

"Now are you wondering why I grow cabbages?"

Peter rubbed his nose for a while, with tears in his eyes, he said in an aggrieved voice: "This is amazing. How can a cabbage get such power?"

"You see, when you find out that this cabbage can hit people, you won't care about why a cabbage appears in the flower pot, because a cabbage that can hit people is better than a cabbage that appears in a flower pot in a clinic. It’s even more amazing.”

"Human brain capacity and memory are limited. When a more alarming problem appears in front of them, they have no time to deal with other problems... How is Gwen recently?"

Schiller changed the topic so suddenly that Peter didn't react at all. He covered his nose and asked in confusion: "Huh?"

"I heard that Spider-Man Gwen has been pulling her to earn credits, and Nick has complained to me several times."

Peter nodded and said, "That's true. When she is not busy, she is helping Gwen Spider-Man with tasks, either running errands or patrolling."

"So she also wears the same uniform as Gwen Spider-Man and does the same things as her?"

Peter nodded, then froze. He looked at Schiller with his mouth wide open and said, "Doctor, do you want to..."

"If you say that Gwen is dating Spider-Man, George will definitely disagree. But if you say that Gwen wants to be Spider-Man, then George will definitely have no time to care about who she is dating."

"If George found out that his daughter was in a relationship with Spider-Man, he would be very angry, but if he found out that his daughter was being Spider-Man, then he would probably be scared, because Spider-Man has a history of sacrifice. ”

"But, but this..." Just as Peter was about to say whether it was not good to stimulate Chief George in this way, Schiller continued: "When such authoritarian parents find that their children's growth path is different from what they imagined, they Instinctively, they feel that someone has deceived their children, not that they have failed in their education.”

"If he finds out that Gwen is in a relationship with Spider-Man, then he will definitely feel that Spider-Man confused her, but if Gwen firmly wants to become Spider-Man, he will have no room to shirk responsibility and can only admit it. There is something wrong with my own education.”

"But he will definitely feel very worried." Peter lowered his head and said, "He will also feel very sad, because Gwen has always been obedient and she is his pride."

"Peter." Schiller called Peter's name and asked Peter to look at him: "Do you think Gwen is safe when she is not Spider-Man?"

"Of course." Peter responded instinctively: "How can it be unsafe to stay in the laboratory?"

"What is she working on in the lab?"

"She has recently been doing experiments on artificial solar energy with Dr. Otto, and occasionally goes to Dr. Connors to help, but I'm not sure what the specific topic is. It may be animal experiments or something."

"Peter, you think she is safe now because you have professional knowledge. Do you think if you go to George to talk about his daughter's work with words like 'artificial sun' or 'animal experiment', he will think she is very Is it safe?”

"But that's just the misunderstanding of some ordinary people." Peter explained anxiously: "The experimental process is controllable, and we are not building a big bomb or some evil monster."

"Of course, of course." Schiller reassured, and said: "But you can't ask every ordinary person to have the professional knowledge you and Gwen have. It's normal for them not to understand what you are doing in the laboratory."

"George doesn't understand professional knowledge. He can only listen to Gwen's words that everything is fine in the laboratory, but he understands how Spider-Man works as a vigilante, or he thinks he understands, so he makes judgments When it comes to whether Gwen is safe, he will ignore Gwen’s own opinion and use his own understanding to judge.”

"Many parents are like this. When they think they understand something, they ignore their children's feelings and make choices for them, or worry about themselves and imagine things that professionals think are ridiculous. Dangerous scene."

Peter was silent for a few minutes, as if thinking about how to express himself, and then he gently lowered his eyes and said.

"George has to do this. He is a single father, and his status is very sensitive. There are too many people who are interested in his daughter. His rejection of me is just the instinct to protect his daughter that he has developed over the years."

"Therefore, I can't stand on a high ground and rebuke him for being too authoritarian and unreasonable just because I know more than him, because it is his authoritarianism that has blocked all the disasters for Gwen on her way of growth, allowing her to grow up safely and become an excellent person."

Peter looked up at Schiller. There was always a childlike innocence in his eyes, with tenderness as the prelude and firmness as the ending.

"He is a good man, and good people can always understand good people, so he knows Spider-Man is a hero."

"Because of this, he understands how difficult this road is, so he hopes that his daughter will be as far away from the identity of a hero as possible and live a stable and peaceful life."

"I didn't confess my identity to Uncle Ben and Aunt May to make them sad, so how can I ask Gwen to provoke her father and make George worry?"

Schiller looked at Peter and sighed again: "You have really grown up, Peter."