Chapter 22: No, You're Just Prey!

"There was a loud pop and a dull thumping sound.

Frank pulled up a fire hydrant and tried to hit Peter.

Peter dodged the fire hydrant, but he got close enough to stab the other man in the head with his arm transformed into an alien-like claw.

Sharp air tones sounded, accompanied by burning flames and bursts of falling water droplets, Frank raised his arms to ward off Peter's attack.

Incarnated as a spider monster, his power continued to grow, strong strength bursting out from within his body.

Grabbing Peter's arm, he tried to throw him out.

"Boom!"

He, who had exerted all his strength to throw Peter out, also received a heavy blow to his chest.

Feeling a sharp pain in his chest, he took a few steps backward and crashed into a fire hydrant.

Breathing heavily, he looked at Peter who had been thrown out, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth that had become inhuman.

But soon looking at Peter, who was back on his feet, his smile disappeared.

Peter, who stood up, his heart was beating rapidly, and the temperature in his body was rising.

A strong desire to kill spread from his heart to his entire body.

Frowning, he slowly stretched out his arm.

The arm in the impact of the flames and water flow slowly condensed a black siliconized shell.

The siliconized shell that resembled an exoskeleton glowed with a layer of cold light in the night, as if it was a close-fitting battle armor.

And this siliconized shell didn't just condense on the arm parts as usual.

Instead, it kept spreading, quickly covering the entire body like a black flame.

The clothes he was wearing were also instantly destroyed.

Strong and hot sensations filled the senses as the siliconized shell covered him.

If before it was the abundant feeling of being dominated by power, now it was a powerful confidence that had nothing to fear, a confidence possessed by power that was several times stronger than before.

The exoskeleton that fit tightly to his body didn't give him a sense of hindrance or discomfort, but rather an incomparable fit.

"No, this isn't clothing, it's a skeleton."

Peter gazed at the exoskeleton shaped like a black uniform covering his arm and whispered to himself.

According to the information he had read, the skeleton of an alien was, as a rule, generated based on a host as a template (such as birds, reptiles, or even arthropods).

External skin that fits snugly against the skeleton and silicifies is the immediate visual sensation of the alien's external skin.

The composition of this exoskeleton is silicide, which allows them to adapt to a variety of external environmental temperatures and pressures because the ossified skin is not thermally conductive.

It also does not emit heat and is not visible to devices such as thermal imaging.

This ossified skin is equivalent to wearing a suit of armor itself; gunshots and electric shocks have very little effect on it, and the damage caused by heat and pressure and freezing is attenuated considerably.

The current self is equivalent to put on this layer of armor.

From afar, Frank looked at Peter, who had put on a layer of "black armor" with a daze.

This visually striking image caused his mind to briefly short-circuit.

"Peter, so you're just like me!"

In the middle of the day, Frank muttered out of his mouth.

The red light in your and his plural eyes intensified, and he said towards Peter, "You and I, we're all the same kind of people, monsters with beasts bred inside us!"

A beast?

Peter's brow furrowed as he heard Frank utter something familiar.

"You're from the Hand Combine?"

"No, I'm not, of course I'm not."

Frank shook his head said indignantly, "But my father was, I like spiders, so he used me for animal experiments, planted the so-called 'beast' into my body, and wanted to harvest me, maybe he couldn't have imagined that I would accidentally awaken my powers early."

"And the downside is that he'll be wrapped in a cocoon and eaten by me."

An insect-like sound came out of Frank's mouth amidst the flames and roiling spray of running water.

"Is that weird? Isn't that what insects do? When the egg breaks open, that's when the larva eats the parent."

A hissing laugh escaped his lips as he took a step towards Peter.

"Now I want revenge, to hurt them, to hear them cry, to make them look funny for survival, what could be better than that?"

"Peter. Parker, you're like me now, we're both monsters, but also gods, we could have done without killing each other."

However before he could finish his words, his voice stopped in a summer.

Peter, whose entire body was covered in a black exoskeleton, moved in front of Frank at a speed several times faster than before.

He grabbed him by the throat and caught him in mid-air.

Grabbed in mid-air, Frank, who possessed plural spider eyes, had a sharp pain coming from his throat and looked at Peter with an unbelievable gaze.

"You are wrong, you and I are not the same kind of people, you are just mere prey in my eyes. "

Frank opened his mouth wide and squeezed out a word with difficulty: "Walt?!!!"

"Whoosh~"

A tail-like weapon covered with a black silicon shell and emitting a cold chill extended out from Peter's back, instantly piercing through Frank's neck.

The "tail", which emitted coldness, pierced through the right side of his neck and out the left side.

Blood instantly spurted out!

Frank, whose eyes were flashing with an unbelievable and horrified gaze, had several eyes on his forehead slowly extinguish their light.

"Flop!"

Peter let go and let the other man's body fall to the ground.

The tail that grew on his tail slowly disappeared away.

In the moment just now, the tail on his femur just naturally grew out, piercing the opponent's throat with his killing thoughts.

It was as if it was a combat technique cultivated within him, innately used out with combat.

The Alien's tail was one of its most powerful offensive weapons!

Now, his own self, who had been affected by the Alien, also showed this characteristic of the Alien, giving birth to the tail to attack the enemy.

Gazing at the burning stage, Peter's expression became grave.

The sense of accomplishment as a hunter that killed Frank instantly disappeared, and in its place were gloomy thoughts of himself changing more and more in the direction of the Alien.

Lowering his head, he cast his eyes towards Frank on the ground.

Would his future self turn into a monster like him?

In the distance, the sound of sirens rang out, and the flames burned ever more fiercely, even the sputtering water couldn't stop them.

Abandoning his complex thoughts for the moment, Peter turned around and prepared to leave.

"Roar!"

hissed from behind him as the otherwise dead Frank jumped up and pounced on him.

"Buzz! ''

The sound of a powerful motor rang out, and the roar of a booming car resounded through the night.

The roaring automobile crashed through the wire gates of the playground and barreled right into the campus surrounded by flames.

Frank, who had just stood up, was heavily hit by the car before he could make a move.

The front bumper of the Mercedes-Benz was instantly knocked off, and the car impacted forward for several meters before coming to a stop.

"Dang!"

The car door was pushed open and a panting Gwen, staggered out of the warped car.