Ever since the spider lantern was given to George Stansfield. It had been some time since the spider lantern was given to George Stansfield. The idea of the spider lantern was naturally inspired by a superhero movie that Li Jie had watched in his previous life.
It was a story about a playboy who wore a black mask and cape in the dark of a simple and honest city called Gotham. He worked as a vigilante. Li Jie's idea was not bad. It was very suitable for the Spider-man.
Of course, there were some slight changes to the searchlight. In the original Gotham vigilante story, due to the simple and honest nature of the city, as long as the bat-like light shone into the sky, the criminals in the city would obediently turn themselves in.
After entering Arkham Prison, the Gotham criminals would never be able to escape from the prison. This was because the light of the flying bat shrouded the sky above the city. It was a mark that they would never dare to violate.
However, New York was different from the simple and honest Gotham. The criminals here were not as honest as those in Arkham Prison.
In addition, he had to consider the reputation of the New York Police. If the police couldn't solve anything, they would light up the spider lantern and make it visible to the whole of New York. This would be a huge blow to the reputation of the New York Police.
Therefore, after careful consideration, Li Jie considered making a spider lantern light that could only be seen with special glasses.
However, it was obvious that after the Spider-man expressed his goodwill to George, George could accept the Spider-man's words and the two had the tendency to reconcile. However, due to the problem of the police's reputation. George had never used the spider lantern before.
Of course, it was likely that the police hadn't encountered any problems that they couldn't solve yet.
However, this time, George was willing to use the spider lantern to summon the Spider-man. This proved that something big had happened, and it would be very difficult for the police to solve it.
When Li Jie wore the Nightcrawler costume and drove the glider to the location Peter mentioned. The Spider-man and George were already waiting there.
It was the remains of the McCauley mansion. Because it was a standalone villa, it was far away from the other villas. This also prevented the fire from spreading to the neighbors.
At the same time, in order to protect privacy, oak trees were planted around each villa as fences. Therefore, when the fire first broke out, the surrounding neighbors did not immediately know that something had happened here. At the same time, when Duncan and Paul ran away, they were not seen by other neighbors.
The murder of a New York City Councilor was undoubtedly a headache. Now, all the higher-ups in the city felt a chill. Although the police had yet to confirm that McCauley's death was due to him using fire improperly in the kitchen and burning himself to death.
Or did someone deliberately set the scene on fire after the murder to disrupt the line of sight?
If it was just a simple murder case, or if the victim's identity was relatively ordinary, and the social relations were relatively easy to figure out, George would never use a spider lamp. After all, solving cases was his specialty.
But the person who died was a New York City councilman. Moreover, because of this councilor's political stance, this murder case was related to many places. There was even a possibility that a mutant was involved.
If the person who killed McCauley was a mutant, then such a case would be much more difficult. It was even possible that even if they found the culprit, they would not be able to catch him in the end.
Because ordinary police would always be powerless to deal with these super criminals. Therefore, under such circumstances, the investigation of McCauley's villa was basically completed at night. After the police pulled up the fences and left.
George came here alone and turned on the Spider-man's searchlight. He decided to have a talk with the Spider-man.
But when Peter followed the searchlight to this place and began to discuss the cause of McCauley's death with George, his Spider Sense kept vibrating, as if reminding him that he had forgotten something. That was why Peter contacted Li Jie.
When Li Jie got off the glider and handed over a piece of equipment that Peter had asked him to bring, Peter. George looked at Li Jie strangely. "I didn't expect you guys to be as close as the rumors say."
"Even a good man needs a helper." Li Jie only smiled. "What happened here, Sergeant?" George was wearing a police uniform, so Li Jie simply called him Sergeant.
"Councilor McCauley was killed. He was a radical anti-mutant radical. So I'm guessing that he didn't die in a fire, but in a deliberate murder. And the person who killed him is a mutant. "George looked at Li Jie. Compared to the Spider-man, he had a better impression of Nightcrawler.
That was because Nightcrawler always dealt with criminals that the police couldn't interfere with or knew that they were committing a crime but couldn't arrest them due to the lack of evidence.
Although what Nightcrawler did couldn't be made public, many police officers gave him a thumbs up in private. Because in order to arrest some criminals, their comrades were sacrificed or maimed. But after they finally arrested the criminals, they couldn't be convicted in court due to the lack of evidence.
This made many of George's colleagues, including George himself, angry.
"Because if the criminal involved in this matter is a Mutant, then the police's power is not enough to arrest such a super criminal. So I want to hire Spider-man. Of course, if you are willing to help, I also want to hire you, Nightcrawler. If necessary, give us some support in terms of strength. "
George's words were very clear. He was afraid that he wouldn't be able to catch the mutant criminals. So he asked the two of you to be his helpers.
But it was obvious that the Spider-man wasn't just going to be a simple labor force, so he asked Li Jie to bring the equipment. It was a device as big as a briefcase.
When it was opened, it looked like a laptop. In fact, it was a portable X-Gene examination device. It was another product in the Osborne Group's technology library that wasn't on the shelves.
X-Gene examination devices weren't rare in this world. Some companies that produced large security equipment produced this kind of equipment. Oscorp was the first to produce this portable X genetic detector, and its main focus was differentiated competition.
Therefore, this product had a completely different design compared to other similar products. Not only was it lighter and more portable, but the detection accuracy was also much higher than other similar products. Of course, the result of this was a rise in production costs, resulting in a high price.
After a period of sales, the sales weren't ideal, and then it was taken off the shelves. At the same time, the production line also stopped producing this device. Now, other than some inventory and a small number of products that had been sold, it was difficult to see this device on the market.
"What do you want to do with this thing?" Li Jie watched as the Spider-man began to fiddle with the device and couldn't help but ask.
"Didn't you say that the murderer might be a mutant? Let me first check if there are any traces of a mutant. "Peter snapped his fingers and looked like he was ready to start work.
"Nightcrawler, help me collect some samples from the surroundings to see if there is anything suspicious."
Because of his Spider-Sense, Peter felt that things weren't that simple. And Li Jie also trusted Peter's intuition because his intuition was almost always right.
And if this was really the work of a mutant, then Li Jie felt that it was necessary to remind Professor Charles to be more vigilant in case someone tried to harm their school.
Therefore, at this moment, the two New York City superheroes were like police officers from the Criminal Investigation and Evidence Department. They began to search the ruins of McCauley's house step by step.
George, who originally only wanted to find a fighter, was a little dumbfounded. What are these two playing at? New York detectives?
… …
More than 300 kilometers away from New York, in Washington, Stryker had already gotten off his plane. He was rushing to meet with the three big shots of Congress. He wanted to try his best to persuade Congress to pass the mutant bill.
The place to meet with the Congress was a private room in a private club in Washington. As soon as Stryker walked into the room and saw the three Congress members, he began his speech without any pleasantries.
"Gentlemen, I think you already know about the death of Senator McCauley. Although the cause of his death has not been fully released by the police, I think everyone here has their own channels of information and knows the uniqueness of McCauley's death this time. This is the work of the mutants! And today, they can kill a city councilor who opposes them. "Stryker looked around at everyone present.
"Then they can kill a congressman tomorrow. We don't have time to hesitate. Gentlemen, I need you to pass Mr. McCauley's' Mutant Management Bill 'and even call an emergency meeting for this. We don't have much time left! "
Stryker's voice was deafening. The three bigwigs of the Congress looked at each other a few times. They would not be easily persuaded by others. But today, what Stryker said might be very reasonable. The actions of the Mutants were indeed a bit over the top!
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At the secret Weapon X base more than a thousand kilometers away from New York. A fully invisible Blackbird fighter slowly landed. Jean had already piloted the Blackbird fighter to the base hidden in the mountains that Charles found.
As the leader of this operation, laser eyes Scott had already begun to give orders to his team members. "Stormwoman, we need some storms as cover. Steel Strongman, we'll rely on you to attack. Dazzling Sound, later, give our enemies some interference! "
Scott was calling out the names of his team members one by one. "Cuckoo, later use your doppelganger to confuse the enemy. Blink, later, we'll rely on your shuttle ability to quickly find the location of the Phantom Master. Jean, you stay in the fighter and provide support for our retreat. "
"And I, will provide you with enough firepower." Scott pointed at his glasses. He seemed to have assigned everyone's mission, but he had forgotten one person. That person was Logen the Wolverine.
Because Logen's mission was probably the most difficult to assign. He was currently in a state of rage. Someone used his son to kill a councilor and might even provoke an even bigger incident. And the person who stained his son's hands with blood was among them!
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