[NPC: Peter Parker]
[Status: Dimension Synchronizing]
"Dimension Synchronizing?"
Darian was a bit confused when he saw this status.
Just then, the air beside Peter suddenly began to twist, and an irregular black spot appeared out of nowhere.
This black spot was initially only the size of a coin, but in an instant, it expanded into a two-character portal with edges flickering with colorful particles. Blue-purple energy sparks continuously erupted from the edges, and the inside of the portal was a bottomless void, as if leading to some unknown place.
"What is that thing?"
Peter subconsciously took half a step back, his Spider-Sense frantically alerting him.
At the same time, Darian heard a system prompt.
[Special Dungeon Entrance Detected]
[After the player clears the Dungeon, they will receive generous rewards based on the Dungeon exploration progress and mission completion.]
[Dungeon Entry Condition: Requires holding the item 'spider totem']
[Dungeon Participants: 0 / 1]
[Please note, special Dungeons cannot be saved or loaded. Enter with caution.]
It was a wild Dungeon entrance.
Darian was very surprised, and this Dungeon also had specific entry conditions, which seemed to be a special Dungeon specifically for Peter.
Just as he was checking the system information, the quantum portal suddenly twisted violently, erupting with a terrifying suction force. Peter was pulled towards the quantum portal by an invisible force, his feet dragging two deep marks on the ground.
"Peter!"
Seeing this, Harry immediately pounced forward and grabbed Peter's arm. Peter also shot webs at the surrounding buildings, trying to anchor himself.
But in the face of the powerful dimensional suction, their efforts seemed futile. The webs snapped one by one, Harry was also dragged forward, and Peter's body was slowly being pulled into the quantum portal.
Just as the two were about to lose their grip, Darian suddenly pulled out a small spider sculpture from his game inventory.
[Item: spider totem (The symbol of Spider-Man. With this, even if you look like a goblin, have four tentacles on your back, and a lizard tail, you are still Spider-Man.)]
The moment Darian pulled out the spider totem, the quantum portal's suction suddenly paused, as if it had frozen.
Quantum Portal: What the heck, why are there two Spider-Men here?
Since there was only one slot for the Dungeon, the quantum portal didn't know which one to teleport.
But how could Darian let go of this opportunity? He pulled Peter, who had been sucked into mid-air, back. Peter rolled twice on the ground, gasping for breath, still shaken.
"X Squad is on vacation for a while. I'll be back!"
After saying that, Darian, under the astonished gaze of everyone, actively stepped into the quantum portal.
Before leaving, he retrieved BT and also put Max into the Pure Iron Elf Ball. The process felt no obstruction, clearly the Dungeon did not consider Max a participant, nor did it consider him human.
Max: "..."
The next moment, Darian's figure completely disappeared into the quantum portal.
After completing its task of pulling someone in, the quantum portal quickly contracted, eventually turning into a tiny speck of light and dissipating into the air, as if it had never existed, leaving only the dumbfounded Peter and Harry in place.
At this moment, Darian felt himself being enveloped by an invisible force, plummeting into the deep Universe.
Countless shimmering spider webs crisscrossed in the void, weaving into a giant net that covered his entire field of vision, connecting the Planets scattered throughout this Universe.
Before he could carefully observe these Planets, his entire being fell even faster, instantly being sucked into another quantum portal that suddenly appeared.
The light and shadow in front of him changed rapidly. When his vision became clear again, Darian was startled to find himself hundreds of meters above a bustling city, plummeting straight down!
The wind roared in his ears, and the buildings and ground rapidly grew larger before his eyes!
Darian was not flustered at all. He first put on his magic mask, then adjusted his posture in the air, elegantly spinning his body, eventually turning into a supine position, with his arms crossed over his chest.
"Leap of Faith!"
Immediately after, a haystack appeared out of nowhere directly below his falling trajectory.
With a thud, Darian accurately fell into the center of the haystack, without suffering any harm.
Ignoring the bewildered expressions of the passersby, he brushed the straw off his body and began to survey his surroundings.
"Why is it New York again?"
Darian raised an eyebrow slightly, recognizing several iconic buildings.
But unlike his main server, the celebrities on the billboards here were all different.
For example, a certain basketball player became a famous UFC fighter, and a certain female celebrity who liked to box became a male celebrity, currently embroiled in a public scandal of being falsely accused of voyeurism.
However, the most eye-catching thing was undoubtedly the largest electronic display screen in the plaza.
The screen was broadcasting a shocking news report.
"The well-known superhero Spider-Man has unfortunately passed away. He suffered fatal injuries in the latest strong earthquake in Brooklyn."
"Confirmed by several informed sources, Spider-Man's real name was Peter Parker. This 26-year-old graduate student and part-time photographer had been active as Spider-Man for at least ten years."
The news footage alternately showed Spider-Man swinging through the city in his red and blue suit, and a handsome man with blond hair and blue eyes.
And indeed, this face bore some resemblance to Peter from Darian's main server.
Darian was only slightly surprised by this.
The game system had long stated that different numbered game servers corresponded to a randomly generated independent game World, containing various possibilities, including parallel versions of the NPCs he was familiar with.
Clearly, the blond, blue-eyed man on the screen was Peter's counterpart in this server.
More surprising to Darian was that Peter Parker in this server had actually died, and his identity had even been exposed.
Darian naturally didn't believe that Peter's counterpart would die in an earthquake. That sounded as ridiculous as Tony dying in a plane crash.
In his opinion, Peter's counterpart must have died at someone's hands.
But the question was, who had the ability to kill Peter's counterpart?
After spending this time together, Darian was quite familiar with Peter's strength.
Besides his climbing and swinging abilities, Peter also possessed powerful physical attributes. His strength was conservatively estimated to be over ten tons, otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to kick Hulk dozens of meters away during his time at Midtown High School.
If it weren't for Peter's high moral standards, intentionally holding back his strength in every battle, a single punch from him would probably make his opponent kneel and beg him not to die.
Not to mention Peter also had a special ability called Spider-Sense. According to Peter himself, he could sense any threat targeting him in advance, and his body would instinctively dodge, almost like cheating.
Unless it was a situation of overwhelming numerical superiority, it would generally be very difficult to harm Peter.
Could it be that Peter Parker in this server was weaker?
Darian had no immediate clue. Seeing that the game system had not yet issued a Dungeon mission, he simply found a dark alley and slipped into it.
A few minutes later, Darian emerged from the alley, tidying his collar, with a stack of old and new banknotes in his hand.
He had just met some very friendly Thug brothers who, upon seeing him, asked if he had any money.
Upon learning that he had no money, they immediately gave him all the money they had, insisting he take it, otherwise they would kneel and die in front of Darian.
Darian couldn't refuse and finally had to accept the money along with the Golden Desert Eagle.
He used the money from the thug brothers to buy a newspaper at a newsstand. The front page had the news of Spider-Man's death, and besides that, there was nothing noteworthy, with very little superhero content.
It was unknown whether other superheroes didn't exist in this World, or if they just hadn't appeared yet.
It's worth noting that Darian actually found Spider-Man comic books here, titled 'The True Story of Spider-Man', which detailed Spider-Man's origin story and subsequent developments, such as the radioactive spider, the death of Uncle Ben, and 'with great power comes great responsibility'.
However, the name of Spider-Man in the comic was not Peter Parker, but a fictional name, and at the back of the comic, there was even a statement of authorization from Spider-Man himself.
Darian couldn't help but exclaim: "It has to be Peter Parker from this server who knows how to make things happen, actually adapting his experiences into comic books for publication."
He decisively bought all the Spider-Man comic books and stored them all in his game inventory.
One must know that Peter Parker from this server was a 26-year-old adult.
The comic books adapted from his personal experiences were undoubtedly a game guide, which might be helpful to him, and he could also put on a show in front of Peter, like predicting the future.
There was nothing he could do. The game company had demanded a same-day trial, giving Darian no chance to catch up on background information.
Furthermore, the Marvel stories from Darian's era were completely different from the game content he was seeing now, even the time periods were vastly different.
When the game started, Darian had searched for a long time for the superhero called Iron Black Heart, but found nothing.
Darian thought for a moment and decided to go to Peter's residence first.
Since this World only had Spider-Man as a superhero, the Dungeon mission might be related to him.
Although he didn't know where Peter Parker's residence was in this server, he knew the location of Peter's residence in the main server, so he walked towards Peter's residence with the idea of giving it a try.
Soon, Darian took a taxi to an old-looking house in Queens.
To his surprise, three people had already gathered at the front of the house: a middle-aged man with a full beard, a young black man, and a blond girl in a black and white jumpsuit.
Darian scanned the information of the three people.
[NPC: Peter B. Parker (Earth-616B)]
[NPC: Miles Morales]
[NPC: Gwen Stacy (Earth-65)]
Darian was surprised to find that two of them were old acquaintances: Peter Parker and Gwen.
However, their appearances were not what he was familiar with. One looked exactly like Peter Parker from this server, just older and with a face full of stories, while the other looked like a punk rebellious girl.
And judging by the server numbers after their names, they were clearly not natives of this server, but outsiders like him.
Besides that, the codenames of these three people were, without exception, Spider-Man, just with some subtle differences.
The moment Darian was observing the three, a system prompt suddenly sounded in his mind.
[Official Dungeon Mission Begins]
[Mission: Passing Spider-Men]
[Goal: Send the Spider-Men lost in this server back to their original places.]
[Reward: Will be determined by the number of Spider-Men successfully sent back.]
"Who are you?"
Peter B. Parker, as experienced as his appearance suggested, was the first to notice Darian's gaze and instantly became wary.
His Spider-Sense was frantically blaring alarms; this stranger wearing a bizarre mask was extremely dangerous!
Gwen also quickly entered a state of alert.
As a superhero trainee with nearly two and a half years of experience, her vigilance was not lacking. After all, her Universe had many powerful villains. If she didn't have this awareness, she would have long been kneaded into various poses by the super villains.
Only Miles, the young Spider-Man who hadn't even finished his tutorial, stood there looking bewildered.
"What's happening?"
"Miles, stand back. This person is very dangerous."
Peter B. was still Peter Parker after all. He immediately stood in front, shielding Gwen and Miles behind him.
"What's wrong with this guy?"
Seeing Peter B.'s serious expression, Miles immediately became nervous.
Peter B. stared intently at Darian, lowering his voice: "Didn't you ask me what experience I could pass on to you before?"
"Now here's a practical tip: if you see someone with such a unique appearance who suddenly appears, 90% of the time they are a powerful and evil super villain. You must be prepared!"
Darian: "???"
You son of a Parker, you're not even old yet, why are your eyes failing you?
With my hundreds of points of righteousness, radiating the light of the righteous path from head to toe, how do I look like a super villain?
Looking at the three Spider-Men who were facing him as if facing a great enemy, Darian was a bit speechless and said: "Relax, I'm not some super villain. Like you, I'm also a superhero from another Universe."
This made all three of them show surprised expressions.
Miles asked curiously: "Are you also Spider-Man from another Universe?"
Darian nodded: "Could be."
Miles: "..."
What does "could be" mean?
Peter B. became even more vigilant upon hearing this: "Impossible, I can't sense your Spider-Sense at all. Every Spider-Man should have this ability; it's our distinguishing mark."
Spider-Men attract each other.
As long as they are both Spider-Men, their Spider-Sense will resonate, like radios tuned to the same frequency, allowing them to immediately recognize each other's identity.
However, they did not have this resonance with Darian.