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Three meteors, one in front and two behind, streaked across the New York sky, trailing sparks. Under everyone's watchful eyes, they crashed into Harlem, slamming three craters into the ground!
This violent impact caused the entire New York City to tremble slightly!
At this moment, only one thought crossed the minds of every New York citizen: "Not this f*cking sh*t again!"
It was bad enough that the Chitauri invaded less than two months after the Frost Giant invasion!
But the Chitauri only finished their invasion yesterday—how are there more alien invaders today?!
Is New York City some kind of f*cking tourist hotspot for aliens?!
Can't they go terrorize some other city? Like Washington next door, or Los Angeles!
Many New Yorkers were even starting to plan on moving to other cities!
With an alien invasion happening every other day, their hearts just couldn't take it anymore!
However, it wouldn't be long before they abandoned that idea, because... they would find that fleeing to other cities was actually useless...
The three "meteors" that landed in Harlem were, of course, the three members of Inheritor Family whom Ryan had thrown one after another.
As for why he threw them toward Harlem?
Did he even need to ask?
It was obviously because this was Harlem!
Harlem was the most chaotic area in New York after Hells Kitchen; in fact, to some extent, Harlem was even more chaotic than Hells Kitchen!
Hells Kitchen at least had Kingpin, the underground emperor, keeping things in check. The gangs there showed some restraint because they feared him...
But the folks in Harlem, tsk tsk...
This illegal neighborhood was different; they didn't care who Kingpin was. After all, many of them weren't even part of real gangs—they were just small-time hoodlums...
The last time Ryan cleared out the "pests" of New York, he started with Harlem. But back then, the Avengers from another Universe were waiting, so he hadn't been thorough!
So this time, he deliberately chose this area as the next battlefield against the three members of Inheritor Family...
And this time, Ryan wouldn't be playing around like he did before.
This time, not only would he kill these three reckless Inheritors, but he would also take the opportunity to purge the most chaotic district in New York!
Right now, Harlem was filled with screams and chaos.
This chaos wasn't just caused by the three Inheritors crashing down like meteors.
It was more because the sudden chaos triggered the "source code" of this community, causing countless Thugs to start their specialty: looting!
On the streets, before the three invaders from Inheritor Family could even begin causing destruction, the Thugs had already skillfully masked up and started robbing the people around them and the stores.
This left the three Inheritors, who were shaking their heads and climbing out of the craters, somewhat bewildered.
They thought they had arrived on some war-torn Planet!
Until a bolt of purple lightning streaked across the sky, and a figure landed before Morlun and the others with a thunderous "whoosh!"
Seeing the purple lightning gradually dissipate from Ryan's body, Morlun and the other two finally believed they were indeed still on Earth, rather than having been thrown to some other war-torn Planet by that damn Spider-Man with his ridiculously absurd strength!
Ryan, who had descended from the sky to give chase, wasn't as surprised by the surrounding chaos as the other three; instead, he seemed quite calm.
After all, he had lived in this country for over twenty years and was long accustomed to the "traditional crafts" of these Thugs...
However... he believed that after today, the situation would be greatly improved—at least in New York...
And for that... he would need the cooperation of their three guests...
A classic villainous smirk curled on Ryan's lips as he looked at the three of them like a wolf eyeing sheep!
The three Inheritors, who had never felt fear from any Spider-Man before, all shuddered simultaneously at this moment!
Especially Morlun, who had been the first to be kicked away by Ryan. That kick had been incredibly heavy, blowing a basin-sized hole in the spot where he was hit, and a large chunk of flesh was still missing!
Thus, as the family leader, Morlun couldn't help but take two steps back under Ryan's predatory gaze, shielding himself with Karn and Raina.
"You two stall him first; I need to recover!"
Hearing this, Karn's face was hidden behind his mask, but Raina's expression instantly turned sour.
"We stall him? Wait, brother, are you serious?"
Although she and Karn hadn't been as badly injured as Morlun—theirs were just minor "fatal" injuries like having their necks snapped by Ryan—they had already realized the power gap between them and Ryan!
They were suppressed three-on-one, and now it was two-on-one?
And that was with Karn not even back at full strength!
How were they supposed to fight?
But before Raina could refuse, Karn had already charged at Ryan with his Trident.
Karn was an honest man; after being tricked by Morlun into becoming the muscle for Inheritor Family, he was solely focused on atonement and completely disregarded his own safety!
The charging Karn stuck to his old routine. His space-cutting Trident swung down toward Ryan's head, just as it had when he attacked Witch Wanda!
To be fair, while the move was simple, it was quite effective against most powerful opponents!
After all, in any Universe, space and time were considered high-level forms of attack.
Even someone as strong as Scarlet Witch Wanda had nearly met her match under Karn's spatial slicing due to a moment of carelessness!
But Ryan was not Witch Wanda. No matter how strong Witch Wanda was, it was ultimately because her Chaos Magic was well-developed; she wasn't inherently that powerful herself.
But Ryan was a true all-rounder!
Neither his combat experience nor his reflexes were comparable to Witch Wanda, who was still at a mortal level!
Facing the Trident Karn swung down at him, Ryan showed no intention of dodging. Instead, he calmly watched the crimson blade of the halberd enlarge before his eyes!
Then... when it was less than half a meter away, Karn, who had leapt with it, froze in mid-air!
Familiar red light was coiled around Karn's body!
At that moment, two figures—one red and one yellow—slowly descended from behind Ryan.
It was the arriving Witch and Wolverine!
Both of them were now staring angrily at Karn. The Witch, in particular, said coldly, "Ryan, leave him to us. We have a score to settle with him!"