Chapter 34: The Whirlwind Storm of Fluttering Butterfly Wings

The Museum of Natural History, located in New York City, is one of the largest natural history museums in the world and a major center for natural history research and education in the United States. With an area of over 7 hectares, it boasts the richest and most valuable collections of specimens in the world, including astronomy, minerals, human history, and paleontology.

At this moment, the first floor of the museum is hosting a radiated animal exhibition. Students from Midtown High School have gathered here to visit this scientific biological exhibition. Perhaps due to the recent tragedy at the football game, the number of students attending the exhibition is not large.

"What is this?!" Harry stood in front of a huge turtle exhibit and asked Peter, "A turtle? Why does the shell of this turtle look so strange?"

The turtle shell in front of him displayed a pattern of spirals and was unusually large.

"It's an Eniwetak Atoll sea turtle," Peter replied, gazing at the creature inside the exhibit, "From 1948 to 1958, the Eniwetak Atoll was heavily contaminated by nuclear testing, resulting in radiation leaks, and this creature is one of the marine organisms affected by radiation."

As he spoke, Peter glanced towards another area and said to Harry, "If you're interested in artificially bred radioactive organisms, you can go and take a look over there."

"Okay." Harry saw Gwen walking towards them and shrugged, "I should give you guys some space."

Ignoring Harry's sarcasm, Peter walked towards the nearby arthropod exhibit.

When Gwen approached Peter, she found him gazing at the spiders in the glass display case. As she looked at the colorful spiders inside, Gwen suddenly thought of the spider monster Frank had transformed into. The juxtaposition of the changing spiders and the spider monster made her feel nauseous.

"Frank said that spiders, as insects, consume their mothers after hatching," Peter said, looking at the spiders in the glass case, addressing Gwen.

"That sounds cruel, but humans are not insects," Gwen said, feeling somewhat down. She had learned from her father that Frank's father had been killed by him and then cocooned.

Peter stepped away from the glass case and shook his head, saying to Gwen, "No, you're wrong, Gwen, and so was Frank."

"Huh?" Gwen was puzzled, unsure where she had gone wrong.

Peter's eyes focused on the spiders spinning silk inside the glass box as he said slowly, "Spiders are not insects; they are arthropods."

Gwen: （＾_＾;）

Peter's occasional dry jokes made her feel both amused and exasperated.

"Cough."

With an unnatural cough, Gwen was about to speak when she suddenly heard a "crash" as the sound of shattering glass filled the air.

Instinctively, she looked up and saw that the skylight glass of the museum had shattered.

The shattered glass fell towards the ground, splitting into four or five pieces upon impact. Glass shards scattered everywhere.

The sudden turn of events left everyone on the first floor dumbfounded.

The injured people hit by the splintered glass screamed in terror.

Then, from where the skylight glass had shattered, a giant bird flapped its wings and flew in.

No!

Not a bird!

Gwen instantly realized that it wasn't a bird but a human wearing wings.

"Boom!"

With black wings flapping and emitting sharp whistles, the birdman landed heavily on the ground.

"Osborn!"

The bald birdman, with his hooked nose and sinister face, roared towards the direction where Harry was, then lunged towards him.

Unable to dodge in time, Harry was grabbed by him by the shoulder and flown outside.

As Harry, bewildered by being grabbed, reacted, he tried to grab the claws gripping his shoulder. But the claws held onto him fiercely, even piercing into his muscles. Blood gushed out, flowing down his shoulder. The stabbing pain in his shoulder and the dizziness from being carried higher and higher made him unable to help but scream.

"Ahh!!!"

Harry being carried away shocked the crowd in the exhibition hall once again.

It wasn't until Harry was carried away and disappeared through the skylight that everyone reacted.

The crowd screamed, and frightened people rushed out.

The security and staff inside the museum immediately sounded the alarm.

"What was that?!" Gwen, shocked by Harry being taken away, asked in disbelief.

"I don't know. You call the police first, and I'll go outside to see what's happening," Peter said calmly, taking out his phone.

Furrowing his brow, he looked up at the sky, his expression becoming unusually serious.

Was that the Vulture?! A supervillain from the Marvel Universe.

Originally named Adrian Toomes, he was a scientist villain with a flying suit.

Did an event like this happen the day Peter Parker was bitten by a spider?

Or was it the "storm vortex" caused by his own butterfly wings?

Lost in thought, Peter handed his phone to Gwen to call the police while quickly heading outside.

Even though now is the opportunity to become Spider-Man and he can't leave this place, he can use his eyesight to track the other party's movements.

He could roughly determine the direction in which the other party took Harry.

Amidst the blaring alarm, the crowd surged outside.

Liz, who had missed the tragedy at the Midtown High School football game last time, didn't run away this time. Instead, she excitedly held up her phone, aiming it at the Vulture and the captured Harry.

Even after Harry and the Vulture disappeared, she continued to hold up her phone towards the crowd.

"Danger!"

Seeing the shattered skylight glass falling again, Gwen shouted towards Liz, who was directly below it.

Gritting her teeth, Gwen rushed towards Liz.

"Bang!"

With a sudden sound, Gwen forcefully pushed Liz away, and the two rolled several times on the slippery floor like tumbleweeds.

"Crash!"

The falling glass hit the glass case containing radioactive spiders.

The glass case shattered instantly, and glass shards flew everywhere.

The radioactive spider, now out of control, crawled out through the broken glass.

Gwen, who was hit hard, felt dizzy as she tried to stand up. But a shard of glass pierced her left hand, and blood began to flow.

With a groan, she immediately pulled out the glass from her left hand.

The palm of her left hand was pierced by the glass, and blood covered half of it.

A brightly colored spider, along with the glass, stuck to her palm.

Seeing the spider motionless, it seemed to have been accidentally crushed by her.

Ignoring this, Gwen threw the spider's body away and staggered to her feet.

At the same time, Peter, standing at the museum entrance, had already spotted the spider that had bitten Gwen in her hand.

Feeling a huge shock in his heart, he suddenly felt his heart beating rapidly.

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