I Am Gwen's Spider-Man Mentor

Chapter 4 Gwen’s Troubles

Gwen Stacy, a young and beautiful girl, has many things in her life that she has not yet figured out and does not know whether she should regret, including being bitten by a radioactive spider and turning into Ghost Spider-Man, and her childhood sweetheart who turned into a lizard. Peter Parker dealt too heavy a hand and ran away from home across parallel universes to escape the pressure from his father... Now one more thing must be added to these things:

She didn't catch Professor Raymond Xu's class yesterday morning.

This led to a series of complicated problems. First, she was caught by the professor and stood next to the podium for an entire class. Almost the entire college knew that the beautiful girl Gwen was late again, and then she was escorted by the professor. Review in the office, and then encountered a school shooter on the road... So Gwen had to change her horse in front of Professor Xu, and then her identity was revealed.

Unlike Tony Stark, who is at the top and has wide connections in the military and political circles, who can unscrupulously announce his identity as Iron Man, Gwen Stacy, who has no relatives or friends in this universe, must be careful every step of the way. She hasn't done it yet. She knows that there are some terrifying forces or super villains in this world... But it turns out that Gwen Stacy's cautiousness can only be the "cautiousness" of a young and weak girl. In many places, she is almost careless. .

Raymond Xu is not a few years older than her, but as a genius who was admitted to the top university in his hometown at the age of fifteen and graduated with a doctorate in engineering from Oxford University at the age of twenty, he also has the identity of a unknown time traveler. Naturally, he has much more experience than Gwen - at least no one has ever doubted that the soul in his body does not belong to this world.

But now there is no use regretting it. Gwen’s experience in the past few years is to learn to accept this fucking life... After thinking about this, the girl took a sharp breath: "Professor Xu, I hope you can keep my secret."

The mysterious will that had been suppressing him, as if it came from the entire universe, suddenly let go. As if a burden had been lifted, Raymond breathed a sigh of relief and was finally able to say the words that he had been unable to say before. : "Are you Ms. Ghost Spider-Man?"

Gwen remained silent. After thinking about it, she just nodded - but Raymond still caught a hint of helplessness in the girl's eyes. It was probably because his secret identity was accidentally known to an unwanted stranger. regret.

"Okay..." Professor Xu sighed again, "Miss Stacey, if this is the reason why you are late and leave early and are given an academic warning, then I accept it."

What's the use of accepting it? You're not a member of the school's executive committee - Gwen complained in her heart. Of course, she didn't have the guts to complain like this about a tenured professor from a private Ivy League university.

"So, Professor, where is my coat... Those documents are difficult to replace..."

"Ah..." Raymond walked out from behind the desk and came to the door, "You can go to the school hospital to look for it. It was so chaotic yesterday. They still have a lot of unclaimed things."

"I understand, thank you." Gwen nodded obediently after getting her wish. Seeing that Raymond was about to leave, the sensitive girl added another sentence: "Please keep my secret!"

"Please also..." He began to regret it as soon as Raymond Xu said these words. What? And don’t involve me in the world of superheroes? Or don't you want to be my student anymore? From the moment he saw the name Gwen Stacy on the roll call, he had been inevitably involved in one of the multiverse Spider-Man stories.

"What, Professor?" Gwen tilted her head, her short and medium blond hair swaying cutely.

"It's nothing..." Forcing himself to look away from the girl's blue eyes, Raymond Xu continued: "Go to the campus hospital quickly. I will leave later. I have a meeting in the afternoon."

————The dividing line between Professor Xu’s career————

"As a weapon that is purely used for vulnerable cluster soft targets and non-highly reinforced hard targets, the 'Jerigo' missile has no problems and fills the current gap in the military." Raymond said in Star He stood in front of the PPT curtain in the conference room of Gram Corporation and expressed his evaluation: "But as a weapon system, it has too few highlights. It is not compatible with the Army's M270 and M142 multiple rocket launch systems, and it is not suitable for the Air Force's Various types of tactical fighter jets are completely incompatible with the JSF project under development, and I can’t think of any reason why the Navy would purchase such a short-range land attack missile.”

Tony Stark was spinning his pen on the other side of the long conference table. As a self-proclaimed genius, he was rarely willing to listen to other people's opinions, but the person in front of him was an exception - after all, Raymond Xu was a Stark industrial weapon. Senior technical advisor in the R\u0026D department. Although the success of Stark Industries is inseparable from Stark's own talent in technology research and development, Raymond Xu's organizational skills and indicator selection in engineering must not be ignored.

"So, Xu, what do you think?"

Contrary to what outsiders think, Tony Stark often loses his playboy tone when dealing with technical issues. This is really because technology is technology, and there is no room for sloppiness or perfunctoryness.

"We are too accustomed to the days when the military-industrial complex in the former president's era had to accept whatever the military-industrial complex gave to the military." Before Professor Xu could speak, Obadiah Stane pointedly pointed out, "'Jericho 'The project still lacks further review and demonstration. I will work hard to communicate with the military, but at the same time, I also hope..."

Obadiah stood up and looked around at the professors, scientists, research institutes, engineers and Tony Stark present: "The 'Jericho' missile must have higher versatility, and we should find ways to integrate it into Our F-16 operational upgrade program and the M142 High Mobility Multiple Launch Rocket System..."

When Professor Xu walked out of the Stark Industries conference room, he had a look on his face - he wanted to lie down and die if possible, but living decently in a place like New York where money is needed to breathe is hard. It is not that easy, so applying for horizontal projects from these large companies is essential.

Some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouths... Raymond Xu turned around, looked at the back of Tony Stark leaving, and sighed softly.

In fact, theoretically speaking, the status of the Stark family has declined a lot from Howard Stark to Tony's generation - Howard Stark was the main contractor of US military weapons during World War II and the leader of the Manhattan Project. One of the founders of S.H.I.E.L.D., no joke, he is the largest shareholder of the United States alongside the old Morgan, Citibank and the Boston Consortium.

But in Tony's generation, the former "major shareholder of the United States" has actually transformed into a pure arms dealer. Tony's position in Stark Industries was almost completely eclipsed by Obadiah at this time... the former "old money" Turned into a simple arms dealer, I don't know what Howard would think of the spirit under the spring.

After looking at the watch on his wrist, Raymond shrugged, took out his mobile phone and placed an order for a cheese pizza at his favorite pizza shop.

————The dividing line between Gwen’s hard work————

Compared with Professor Raymond Xu, a high-end part-time worker who shuttles between large companies to earn a living, Gwen Stacy's after-school life is considered low-end in comparison - perhaps the fate of every Spider-Man , at this time Gwen was holding a large pile of pizza boxes and shuttled through the urban traffic, looking down at the watch on her wrist from time to time.

The girl has tried many jobs, from part-time supermarket cashier, school computer room assistant to librarian. It can be said that she is not suitable for any position she has tried before. Carrying too heavy responsibilities at a too young age makes her and her peers There is a significant distance between them. She tried to relieve her stress by joining the school's rock band, but with little success.

In addition, although she is a student of an Ivy League school, her long-term absence from work and her resume that she barely passed most courses after taking make-up exams are not so favored by companies. This is also due to the girl's complex experience of chivalry... But in short, Ge If Wen wants to survive successfully in New York, which is familiar yet unfamiliar to him, he must find a way to make enough money.

The order in hand was about to time out in 5 minutes, but damn... there was a traffic jam ahead at three intersections. While lamenting how she had been so unlucky these days, Gwen turned into an alley, threw off the baggy white coat she had just brought back, and put on her mask and hood.

No one says Spider-Woman can't use her superpowers to deliver pizza, right?

The girl shot out spider silk at the edge of the tall building and pulled herself up suddenly. The girl's ballet skills allowed her to move around the city as dexterously as an elf - but she obviously didn't expect that the pile of pizza in her hand was already in her hand at this time. Under the influence of inertia, I danced in the thin pizza box.

Pressing the 5-minute timeline, Gwen climbed to the window on the 17th floor of the target apartment building. Seeing the old lady cleaning the house walking into the emergency exit, the spider girl flexibly opened the window of the apartment corridor and climbed along the ceiling. He came in, then rolled down from the ceiling and landed smoothly.

Then she took out a red sweater from her backpack and quickly changed it, covering up the tight-fitting battle suit that was always close to her body.

"Ding dong——" The girl rang the doorbell and tried her best to use her sweet voice to treat customers like a god: "Your pizza has arrived."

Professor Xu, wearing a large white bathrobe and messy, greasy hair, opened the door and saw...

"Miss Stacey?!" "Professor Xu?!"

The two people facing each other looked at each other with surprised expressions. Raymond Xu, who cherished his life, had panic in his eyes. He didn't know that Gwen Stacy had a temperament that would come to the door to cause trouble or even silence her after her identity was revealed. He couldn't help but worry about himself.

Gwen took a deep breath, suppressed the embarrassing memory of the genius professor making things difficult for her, forced herself to calm down, took out the box of cheese pizza and handed it to her professor: "Mr. Professor, this is the pizza you ordered. Please don’t forget my little….”

Professor Xu, who was holding a 3-dollar bill and was about to give a tip, and Gwen Stacy, who was holding a large pile of pizza boxes, opened their mouths when they saw the open box of cheese pizza.

That pizza was really horrible. What was even more horrible than the pizza was the white pizza box... Professor Xu put the hand holding the 3-dollar bill behind his back, frowned and asked: "Miss Stacey, I guess you You must not have come here on a cobweb, right?"

The blonde girl looked up with a frustrated look on her face as she answered the question.