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Peter and Cindy walked down the street, looking at the surrounding scenery. To be honest, Peter's worries were unnecessary. As superhumans, they wouldn't normally catch a cold from a simple temperature difference.
Peter stepped outside, glanced at both sides of the street, and then noticed the problem: "If I remember correctly, didn't Strange just say that there's a coffee shop at the corner if you turn left after you go out?"
"That's not a coffee shop," Cindy realized. "It's a bar."
"I think he's been casting too many spells and has developed dementia; he can even mistake a bar for a coffee shop."
Peter was ruthless towards Strange; the spell to observe the entire multiverse didn't meet Peter's requirements at all. However, Cindy was curious about something else: "He said he was staying for dinner, why did he remember—"
Due to the differences between Eastern and Western cultures, Strange's invitation for Peter to stay for dinner indicates that there is indeed food available. However, this is precisely what Peter is worried about: "As a sorcerer, casting spells comes at a price. And Strange is considered one of the most troublesome among all the Sorcerers Supreme. He already has many health problems caused by casting spells, and doctors can't cure them. He has to take some, well, precious magical herbs."
Peter quickly added after speaking, "To describe most of the taste as 'bad' would be an exaggeration; it's worse than 'bad.'"
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Cindy didn't know much about mages, but after hearing Peter's explanation, she began to understand. She then asked, "You cast spells often, right? Is that alright?"
Hearing this, Peter hesitated for a moment, but quickly assured her that he was perfectly fine. Ultimately, Peter had a huge advantage over Strange: after being bitten by three different spiders, enhanced by the Erkins serum, and further strengthened by his cultivation of Qi, his vitality was already strong enough, and his foundation was solid.
Moreover, the spell he uses most often is the Sling Ring Portal, which doesn't require borrowing power from extra dimensions, making him safer.
The two walked and talked, and soon the topic shifted to other things. Peter then asked something he was still quite curious about: "How are your parents and brother? Any news?"
For a fleeting moment, Peter noticed a blank look on Cindy's face, but she quickly masked it and shook her head: "I don't know."
This answer really surprised Peter. He looked at Cindy with surprise, and then she explained, "I've spoken to my family a few times on the phone—but I don't know if it's really them."
Peter frowned, understanding Cindy's meaning: because of the Scorpion attack, Nick Fury replaced Cindy's family with LMDs to ensure their safety, but this also had a side effect, namely that Cindy didn't know whether the family members around her were real, not only those living with her, but also those who were in contact with her.
Nick Fury is perfectly capable of doing that.
"—I don't know. They acted exactly like my family, as if they had never left, but I knew they were fake. They weren't there. What was in my house were just machines. But knowing this from the beginning had its advantages; at least I wasn't scared."
Thinking about it carefully, this is really quite chilling. The other people in your family are all fake people who are exactly the same as your family members, even their daily behaviors are exactly the same. These people care about you, take care of you, and live with you like your family, but they are not living people at all.
For some reason, Peter got goosebumps just thinking about it.
"I—or how about you try to get Nick Fury to remove those LMDs, just make up some reason or something, like having your family leave?"
Peter felt that things couldn't continue like this, while Cindy paused for a moment before explaining, "Frey mentioned that—theoretically, Kingpin has the information provided by Scorpion; he just hasn't gotten to the final step, and it's actually quite easy for Scorpion to investigate—"
It took Peter a few seconds to piece together a logic from Cindy's completely irrelevant answers: "It was easy to find your house using Scorpion's approach, so Fury wanted you to keep LMD in order to fish for information, and you agreed?"
Cindy finally nodded.
"Okay, ignore him. The key is you now. I don't know what Fury is thinking, but he really treats superhumans like Superman. If you keep going like this, your mental state will break down sooner or later—I don't want you to break down and beat Fury up one day."
Half-jokingly, Peter seemed inclined to skip the topic. However, Cindy shook her head directly: "No, I—I definitely won't break down over something like this."
"That's hard to say—"
"Even if I don't know if any of the other people are real or not, or if they are LMD or other things disguised as humans, I can confirm that you are real, that you are where you are, and that you are right here beside me, Peter."
You will always be real to me.
Peter said "Oh," then stood there, speechless for a moment: "Well, we have to thank that spider."
Cindy didn't speak, only nodded, but she felt Peter was right. Perhaps the person they should be most grateful to was the spider; it was it that brought all this to light. She smiled, then looked at Peter: "How long do you think this secret war of the Superhumans will last?"
"I don't think the Transcendent will discuss this topic for long. He's clearly an impatient person, I don't know why—"
Peter hesitated. He remembered that the original Secret War in the comics only lasted 14 days, but this time it was a secret war on the scale of the entire multiverse. Would it still last so short?
He decided to trust his gut feeling.
"I still think it won't last more than a month."
"So when do you plan to leave?"
"A few days after school starts, I need to prove that I'm still a student and haven't run away—although I don't really feel the need to go to school anymore. Then I'll go to the multiverse to recruit my team, and then I'll participate in this battle."
Unlike Gwen, Cindy didn't actually intend to stop Peter. She simply said, "Could you come to my house the day before you leave? I'm planning to have Fury remove all those LMDs. He won't bother us. I think—I just want to say goodbye."
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