Chapter 19: The Fledgling Little Spider
Peter Parker has been very happy during this period. Since he was bitten by the spider, he has gained unparalleled superpowers. Now he is no longer the powerless otaku, but has become extremely powerful and agile. This is really the best thing for a high school student.
However, he is not without worries. The doctor who has been chatting with him online arranged a thorough physical examination for their family, but this physical examination found many problems.
Peter has no problem. He is very healthy, and the hospital's machine has not found any special features of him.
The problem is his uncle and aunt, old Parker and Aunt May. After all, they are old and there will always be some problems, but this is nothing. However, in the examination results, the doctor told Peter that his uncle has a shadow in his lungs, which is not good news.
Anyone with a little common sense knows that the next sentence of this sentence may be either cancer or a tumor.
The doctor suggested that Ben Parker have a comprehensive lung examination, but this is not cheap, especially considering that a biopsy may be required later, and the Parker family can't afford the surgery fee at all.
Although medical expenses will be reimbursed, the cost of this kind of examination is not on the reimbursement list, and no insurance company will cover it.
If the doctor Peter met online is still working in this hospital, then maybe Peter can ask him for help. Even if this good hospital doesn't work, he can go to a slightly worse hospital, which will be cheaper.
The Parker family has always been in a tight spot. Peter often doesn't have a new piece of clothing all year round, but Peter also knows that his uncle and aunt have tried their best to provide him with the best life. After all, they earn too little, and Uncle Ben is not willing to get a penny of ill-gotten gains. With a meager salary, he has to support Peter's studies, and there is really no surplus.
Ben Parker is very open-minded. The shadow in the lungs does not necessarily mean cancer or tumors. Maybe it's just some insignificant inflammation, and it will heal on its own. He comforted Peter and said that it might just be the alarmist talk of the big hospital, but Peter was really sad.
He couldn't help but feel a sense of complaint. Thompson, who always bullied him at school, might have a pair of sneakers on his feet that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars, but his family couldn't even afford the hundreds of dollars for the inspection.
But Peter thought that the situation would be different now. He had all these superpowers, what else could he do if he didn't use them to make money?
Peter was of course very smart. He used his flexible little brain to come up with the fastest way to make money, which was to participate in underground boxing matches.
Of course, it might be faster to go to the casino to play cards, but Peter knew that his sensing ability was sometimes effective and sometimes not. If he performed unstably, he would not only fail to make money, but might even lose money.
But underground boxing was different. His strength was enough to defeat any ordinary person, no matter how fierce and cruel they were. The absolute suppression of strength would definitely make him invincible.
Where in New York is the underground boxing industry the most prosperous? Of course, it's the hellhole of Hell's Kitchen.
But as a good student who has studied hard since childhood, Peter would not go near such a chaotic place. Therefore, perhaps out of fear or caution, Peter wandered around Hell's Kitchen for several days, but still did not take the initiative to go in.
Finally one day, when Peter returned home from school, he learned that his aunt had twisted her waist, but she had no money to buy medicine and could only lie in bed to rest. He really couldn't help it, and his frustration turned into anger. He really wanted to beat a few people.
He put on the homemade mask, although it looked funny, but after getting the spider power, his body became a little stronger and no longer so skinny, so he looked okay.
He bumped around in Hell's Kitchen like a headless fly, but no one could beat him anyway, and he had spider sense, which could be used to dodge bullets, and he finally found the way.
There is an underground boxing ring opened by the gangsters on Beale Street, which is about two blocks away from Mary Street in Hell's Kitchen. After Peter knocked down the strongest black boxer there with one punch, he was noticed by the supervisor there and recommended to fight in the largest underground boxing ring at the end of the street.
And here, Peter gave himself a code name, Spider-Man.
All this happened smoothly. Peter won continuously. Few boxers could withstand his set of random punches. The power brought by the spider mutation was too strong. Peter earned tens of thousands of dollars in just a few days.
On the other hand, Daredevil lay in Schiller's place for a few days. After all, he did not have any superpowers, and the speed of wound healing was the same as that of ordinary people. However, fortunately, the assassin who assassinated him was obviously merciful, and the bullet did not damage important organs. Matt was much better after lying for a few days.
So that night, Matt said goodbye to Schiller. He had to continue his righteous cause. If he stopped because of Kingpin's assassination, that would be his wish. So instead of stopping his actions to uphold justice, Matt wants to give Kingpin a severe blow.
His target is Beale Street, where two nightclubs, a casino, an underground boxing ring, and an illegal car modification shop are all Kingpin's businesses. It can be said that this street is controlled by the Kingpin gang, which can bring him millions of dollars in profits every year.
Matt's first target is the underground boxing ring.
Don't forget how his father died. This kind of underground black boxing ring has no need to exist at all. They just want to make money from those gamblers and don't care about anyone's life. Matt's father refused to fake the match because he wanted to bring his son a winning performance, which made the bookmaker lose money, and was brutally killed by the gang.
This also contributed to the birth of Daredevil. Therefore, Matt will never let go of any underground boxing ring. In fact, Kingpin's underground black boxing gambling industry has been hit very badly by Matt.
This is also why Kingpin sent assassins to him. If Matt doesn't die, Kingpin will never think of making money from black boxing.
Of course, Matt is a seasoned hero. He did not rush into the black boxing ring. His most common method of disintegrating these underground organizations is to observe for a few days, then find a drunkard who comes out of there and get all the information he wants from them. Then he will catch a few management members and focus on them. After disrupting the opening several times, those gamblers will look for other places.
After Matt observed for a few days, he learned about the name "Spider-Man" from many people and learned that he had been in the limelight in the competition recently. Matt had also seen Spider-Man once, but he just missed it in a hurry. But he knew that this kid's good days would not last long.
On this day, the owner of the underground boxing ring found Peter. He wanted Peter to play a fake match. People who have a certain understanding of the rules of this kind of gambling know that if Peter wins like this, his odds will become very low. Everyone will buy him to win, and almost no one will buy his opponent.
At this time, if Peter loses, then the dealer only needs to pay the money of a few people who bet on his opponent to win, and take away the money of all those who bet on Peter to win, which is a huge fortune.
The underground boxing ring is actually such a business. There is no fair competition here. Everything is manipulated by the dealer to make money from those gambling bosses.
The boss of the underground casino promised to give Peter a share, but Peter was not very happy. First, he felt that he had earned enough money. Tens of thousands of dollars were enough for Uncle Ben to do a full set of examinations, and even if Aunt May's waist needed major surgery, this money was enough.
In addition, Peter was just a high school student after all. His mind was not mature yet. The pleasure of continuous victory made him unable to stop. For an adolescent boy, it was almost impossible to let them deliberately lose to their opponents. Peter finally got proud of himself, so he would not do it.
The boss of the underground boxing ring didn't say anything, so Peter naively thought that the other party could not do anything to him. After all, he had such a powerful force. Who among ordinary people could beat him?
All of this was seen by Daredevil Matt.
He sneaked in here as a drunkard early in the morning, pretending to be drunk and collapsed in the audience. His extraordinary hearing allowed him to hear the conversation between the boss of the underground boxing ring and Peter in the backstage without missing a word.
And Matt was there during the competition the next day.
When Peter came on stage, there were still countless cheers from the audience. Peter raised his hands to greet them, ready to wait for the next one to be defeated by him.
A strong black boxer came up. Peter looked at him with a cunning smile on his face. He didn't understand what was going on.
When he started boxing, Peter felt okay. He almost knocked the boxer out with one punch, but the boxer did not fight head-on, but dodged and seemed to be stalling for time.
Soon, Peter felt something was wrong. His stomach began to cramp, his legs became weak, and his eyes became black.
Just when he was confused, the black boxer punched him in the cheek. Peter staggered back a few steps and felt dizzy.
The boxer on the other side took advantage of the victory. When Peter was hit, his spider sense rang. He felt that there was a heavy lead block in the boxing gloves of the boxer on the other side. If he was hit like this, his brain might fly out.
Peter bent down and barely avoided the blow. The audience below booed. Spider-Man never dodged in the previous competitions.
Peter couldn't care about so much. He was in great pain and could hardly breathe. The boxer on the other side punched him again. Peter was knocked to the ground directly. This was not a regular competition venue. There was no decent referee. After Peter fell to the ground, the boxer's fists still fell like raindrops, and no one came to stop him.
Peter could only hold his head tightly, but the boxing gloves with lead blocks hit him, making him feel that his internal organs were about to shift. In the end, he really couldn't hold it back, and he lay on the ground and vomited with a "vomit". The audience below cursed.
Knowing that he might lose his money, the audience's curses became more and more harsh.
Peter had never heard of swear words in his life, thrown out of their mouths and thrown at Spider-Man.
Before Peter passed out, he saw a figure leap up from the audience and hit the opposing boxer on the neck with a cane with a sound of wind. The fierce beating finally stopped, but Peter could no longer hold on and passed out.