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, Gwen's father is chasing me, find a place for me to hide!"

Schiller was walking down from the second floor. He was stunned 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 looked outside, and found that Sheriff George led a team of police officers running through the door.

When George's figure disappeared at the other end of the street, Peter crawled out from behind the island, breathed a sigh of relief 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 glass in big gulps, wiped his mouth with his hand, sighed and said, "Today is a rare free day, so I patrolled in Spider-Man's uniform to earn credits. When it was almost over, I planned to find a place to change clothes. As soon as I changed and walked out of the alley, I found someone chasing a thief."

"I didn't think too much, and I sprinted all the way to catch the thief, but I didn't expect that the person who was stolen had already called the police. From a long distance, I saw Sheriff George running over here, so I started running."

"He may think I'm a thief, so he started chasing me. I was afraid that he would see who I was, so I had to run faster and keep a certain distance from him. Look, I ran here."

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

"Because I was afraid he would find out..." Peter showed a sad expression and said, "I don't think I can explain to him how I ran so fast How fast did I do it, and how I pinned the thief who was much stronger than me to the ground. "

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

"I always feel that he has doubted it, so I don't dare to face him at all." Peter scratched his hair irritably, collapsed on the sofa and said helplessly: "I acted like a lazy, taciturn nerd in front of him. He thinks Peter Parker is such a person, which makes him feel very relieved, and Spider-Man is the other extreme."

"George doesn't like Spider-Man very much. He even thinks that the parents who taught Spider-Man should be sentenced because they let a child who should be studying wander outside."

"You know, he is the most traditional parent who believes that people should do what they should do at their age. Young people should follow the rules and learn from their elders, instead of getting a fancy tights and swinging around New York. "

"Have you talked about this issue with Gwen?" Schiller asked.

"Gwen certainly can't tell me that her father is a bad person. She is not that kind of person. I can understand Sheriff George, so I can only hide from him, because if he finds out my true identity now, the consequences will be very serious because I lied to him."

Peter covered his face in a state of collapse and said, "I have never lied so big in my life. I am really going crazy!"

Schiller could clearly see many physical manifestations of being under pressure in Peter, such as tight upper arm muscles, arms always wrapped around the body, and speaking much faster than usual. Obviously, anxiety has overwhelmed him.

"Do you think you should confess to George?"

"One day you have to."

"So does Gwen think you two should confess to George?"

Peter tilted his head to one side and said, "I don't know. I can't ask her this question so directly because it's like putting pressure on her. If we confess and her father speaks ill of me, Gwen will think it's her responsibility."

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

"But in the future I envision, once George knows my identity as Spider-Man, he will definitely not look at me well. Even if he knows that Gwen and I have kept it a secret from him for so long, he will definitely feel sad for his daughter's actions of helping outsiders and will hate me even more."

"By that time, Gwen Like the filling in a pie. "Peter stretched out his hand and gestured, and said, "If I don't leave her, George will be sad. If I leave her, I will be sad, but she doesn't want any of us to be sad." Schiller thought for a while and asked, "So do you regret hiding it from George with Gwen?" Peter was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect Schiller to ask this. He thought about it carefully, and then said, "In fact, I didn't think of any good time to speak. I think the result will be the same no matter when he knows 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 to worry about whether his daughter would be in danger because of Spider-Man every day." "In this case, your deception with 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 in his mind.

After a moment of silence, Peter still looked at Schiller with a look of help. Schiller smiled, stood up from the sofa and walked upstairs. During this time, Peter's eyes followed him. When Schiller went upstairs, he even wanted to stand up and follow him up, like a stray animal with no sense of security.

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

Schiller put the cabbage on the table. Peter stared at it and asked curiously, "Is this a new variety of potted plant? Why does it look so much like a vegetable?"

"Yes, this is a cabbage."

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

"Let's not talk about this for now. Poke it."

Peter didn't understand. He blinked in confusion, but 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 sofa is not far from the coffee table. Peter leaned forward and his nose was just above the cabbage. There was a "bang" sound, followed by a scream of "Ah", and Peter was punched on the sofa.

Spider-Man's nose is not a solid wall. After being hit hard at close range, Peter immediately collapsed on the sofa, covering his nose and screaming, and asked in disbelief.

"How can it hit people?!!"

"Are you still curious about why I grow cabbages?"

Peter rubbed his nose for a while, tears in his eyes, and said in a wronged voice: "This is amazing, where does a cabbage get such great power?"

"Look, when you find out that this cabbage can hit people, you won't care why there is a cabbage in the flowerpot, because a cabbage hitting people is more amazing than a cabbage appearing in a flowerpot in the clinic."

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

Schiller changed the topic too suddenly, Peter didn't react at all, he covered his nose and asked puzzledly: "Ah?"

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

Peter nodded and said, "That's right. When she is not busy, she helps 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, you don't want to..."

"If you say Gwen is dating Spider-Man, George will definitely not agree, but if you say Gwen wants to be Spider-Man herself, then George will definitely not have time to care who she is dating."

"If George finds out that his daughter is dating Spider-Man, he will definitely be very angry, but if he finds out that his daughter is Spider-Man, he will be afraid. If he is afraid, he will be afraid, because Spider-Man has sacrificed himself before. "

"But, but this..." Peter was about to say whether it was not good to provoke Sheriff George in this way, and Schiller continued: "When these authoritarian parents find that their children's growth path is different from what they imagined, they will instinctively think that someone has deceived their children, rather than that they have failed in education."

"If he finds out that Gwen is in love with Spider-Man, then he will definitely think that Spider-Man has confused her, but if Gwen is determined to become Spider-Man, he will have no room to shirk responsibility and can only admit that there is a problem with his education."

"But he will definitely feel very worried." Peter said with his head down: "He will also feel very sad, because Gwen has always been very obedient, 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 instinctively answered: "How can it be unsafe to stay in the laboratory?"

"What is she studying in the laboratory?"

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

"Peter, you think she is safe now because you have professional knowledge. Do you think that if you use words like "artificial sun" or "animal experiments" to talk to George about his daughter's work, he will think she is safe?"

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

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

"George doesn't understand professional knowledge. He can only believe what Gwen said that everything is fine in the lab, but he knows how Spider-Man works as a vigilante, or he thinks he knows it, so when judging whether Gwen is safe, he will ignore Gwen's opinion and judge it based on his own understanding."

"Many parents are like this. When they think they understand something, they will ignore their children's feelings and make choices for them, or worry about their own imaginations of dangerous scenes that seem absurd to professionals."

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

"George has to do this. He is a single father and his status is very sensitive. There are too many people who are targeting 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 to 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 that 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 could I ask Gwen to stimulate her father and make George worry?"

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