Marvel's Spider-Man: Web of Fate

This positively demonstrates his ability.

On the negative side, it's not an exaggeration to say that half of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s staff were once Hydra agents.

Even if he wasn't a firsthand witness, Stark had a deep understanding of how dirty S.H.I.E.L.D. was.

Putting aside other things, S.H.I.E.L.D. once sent Black Widow to approach him, trying to seduce him.

Furthermore, S.H.I.E.L.D. had secretly acquired Stark Industries stock, intending to use the stock to control Stark Industries and have Stark Industries continue to provide it with weapons and technological support.

Fortunately, Stark discovered the crisis early, which allowed him to resolve it one by one.

This is also why Stark only focuses on the Avengers and doesn't want to have much contact with S.H.I.E.L.D.

hetui!

What a piece of trash S.H.I.E.L.D.!

They deserved to disappear!

In short, when it comes to selecting Stark, ability is one aspect, and credibility is another.

Bill Foster's experience at S.H.I.E.L.D. became a negative factor for him.

Otherwise, he would have brought the person over long ago.

Since this matter concerns Peter, Stark is naturally even more cautious.

Stark conducted extensive research on him before deciding to give him a try.

According to Stark's investigation, Bill Foster appears to be facing some financial crisis recently, and has even sold his car.

However, he purchased a large number of electronic components for experiments, so he is probably conducting some kind of experiment in secret.

Stark didn't seem inclined to delve into it, and had even become accustomed to it.

Every scientist has their own little secrets and pursuits.

He himself was no exception.

These "small pursuits" often require some financial support.

So all he needed to know was that Bill Foster was short of money.

He, Tony Stark, has no shortage of money!

As for Peter's side...

He did not refuse Stark's offer.

Although he was confident that he now had complete control over the second-generation Venom symbiote.

But he also wanted to learn more about the second-generation Venom symbiote.

Not only is it better to be prepared, but it also helps him to better develop and utilize this thing.

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Peter met Dr. Bill Foster in person at a Stark Group biological laboratory.

Dr. Bill Foster was a Black man, not very tall, a bit overweight, and wore black-rimmed glasses, but he still didn't quite look like a researcher.

His hair and beard were already somewhat gray, which made him look a little more amiable.

Peter arrived wearing a nano-spider suit, as a matter of secrecy.

Neither he nor Stark wanted too many people to know that "Spider-Man is Peter Parker".

This is Peter protecting Aunt May, and it's also Stark protecting Peter.

When Peter arrived, he took out a sealed glass container containing a small clump of second-generation Venom symbiote.

Dr. Foster never expected that her real employer would be the newly minted superhero Spider-Man.

But soon, his attention was drawn to the glassware in Peter's hand.

Driven by curiosity, he quickly began to study it.

As the research progressed, Dr. Foster's brow furrowed and relaxed, and his expression changed repeatedly.

Chapter 156 Tracking Foster

The study lasted for many days.

The research finally came to a halt when the second-generation Venom symbiote starved to death after being separated from its "food" for too long.

In fact, it's quite normal to "starve to death".

Symbionts are actually a special kind of organism. As living things, they need to eat because their activities require energy.

If one is in a possessed state, then one can naturally obtain energy from the host.

But now it has broken away from its host.

Moreover, before separating it, Peter deliberately extracted most of its biological activity to minimize its "lifespan" in order to prevent it from being used by malicious individuals or to make it independent.

"Where did you get this stuff?" Dr. Foster asked Peter more than once.

But each time Peter shook his head: "I got it by chance from a meteorite. I only found this little bit, and it's all here."

"What about that meteorite?" Dr. Foster pressed.

"It's gone. It was burned by the time we got here. This was collected from the ashes of the meteorite," Peter answered honestly.

Dr. Foster seemed quite disappointed after hearing this.

This puzzled Peter.

He always felt that Dr. Foster was hiding something.

It seems his interest lies not in the bioactivity of the second-generation Venom symbiote, but in something else entirely.

But he wouldn't talk, and Peter couldn't force him to open his mouth.

However, Dr. Foster still had professional ethics.

He handed over to Peter all the findings of his research on the second-generation Venom symbiote over the past few days, including experimental records and his own conjectures.

In fact, Dr. Foster's research on the second-generation Venom symbiote was not much different from Dr. Connors' research on the Venom symbiote that he obtained from Spider-Man in another world.

It is still slightly inferior in some details.

If you think about it from that perspective, it seems like a bit of a loss.

But Peter has been assisting Dr. Foster these past few days, essentially taking a one-on-one "symbiotic research course" taught by a biology PhD.

This is a course that is hard to buy even if you have money.

Putting everything else aside, thanks to Peter's comprehension and learning ability, his knowledge of biology has been greatly enriched after experiencing all of this.

Although he hasn't attended many classes at Columbia University yet, he feels that his knowledge of biology is not much worse than that of a typical first or second-year student.

Peter clearly has some cognitive errors about himself.

In fact, after spending the last few days with Spider-Man, Dr. Foster even concluded that Spider-Man was a researcher specializing in certain areas.

Although he still lacks proficiency in some areas, his grasp of others is already quite high.

However, Dr. Foster assumed that Peter knew the answer himself, so he didn't bring it up.

After all, nobody talks about these things all the time, right?

-

After seeing Dr. Foster off, Peter thought about it again and again, but still couldn't suppress his curiosity.

His spider-sense has now transformed into a magical intuition.

It's not just about potential dangers, but a kind of "premonition" about certain things.

He felt that Dr. Foster must have discovered something from the second-generation Venom symbiote, but he chose to keep it from him.

So Peter wanted to secretly follow Dr. Foster to see if he could learn anything from his subsequent actions.

After leaving the biological laboratory, Dr. Foster first went to the Avengers headquarters, which is now the Stark Industries building.

Peter gave Stark a heads-up here.

Dr. Foster quickly received his payment.

One million US dollars after tax.

It's only four days, which is equivalent to $25 per day, so it's already very generous.

Of those, 700,000 were replaced by various materials by Dr. Foster.

These materials were required to be shipped to a warehouse in Los Angeles.

Dr. Foster then purchased the next available flight and returned to Los Angeles.

To avoid being exposed, Peter chose to use a cheat code to evade the fare.

Just as the plane was about to take off, he rushed onto it, hung himself outside, followed it all the way to Los Angeles, and then jumped off just before the plane was about to land.

If you also want to sneak in without a ticket, you can give it a try!

After getting off the plane, Peter received a message from Friday (Stark's AI assistant; Peter asked Stark to help track Dr. Foster, and Stark asked Friday to assist him in the best way possible). Dr. Foster had contacted some companies and thought he had secretly purchased a lot of things.