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The car driver, who was being injected by Kohei Imamura, was so nervous he didn't dare move an inch, fearing that Imamura would suddenly tear the car apart with his sharp claws and devour him.
"I have to get out of here, out of the sewers." Fortunately, Kohei Imamura's rationality prevailed, rather than being completely swayed by the lizard.
So he didn't pay much attention to the car that hit him, but instead focused on getting away from the trouble as quickly as possible. Then, Kohei Imamura saw the manhole cover in the middle of the road.
Kohei Imamura simply poked his paw into the manhole cover, pulled it out, and then jumped in, ignoring the strange smell.
"Anyway, I did a lot of diving in the diving club during college, diving into sewers... it's a different kind of diving, so it's pretty much the same."
[This is what Kohei Imamura thought to himself as he jumped into the sewer to comfort himself.]
"In your mind, are the ocean and the sewer the same thing?"
Kitahara Iori looked at Imamura Kohei and said.
"Are you deliberately trying to confuse the issue? I never thought they were the same. You didn't mention the word 'alternative' at all."
Kohei Imamura looked at Iori Kitahara, who was taking things out of context and sounding like a marketing account, and said, "For Kitahara Iori, 'alternative diving' has become a sewer, which is also considered the ocean."
"Did you guys watch Zhuge Cong's press conference yesterday?" Nohara Shinnosuke asked as soon as he entered the classroom, overhearing everyone around him discussing Zhuge Cong.
"Xiao Che, do you know anything?" Having been busy all day, Nohara Shinnosuke went straight to bed when he got home, naturally unaware that Zhuge Cong had been found and his family's weapons department had been shut down the day before.
"The timelines are starting to merge."
Seeing Nohara Shinnosuke and the others start discussing Zhuge Cong means that we will soon see Nohara Shinnosuke heading to the scene of the Iron Man battle, and we will also know the subsequent developments after the Iron Man battle.
"Hey, you don't even know this? It was the number one trending topic yesterday, and all the news reports were about Zhuge Cong," Kazama Toru said, looking at Nohara Shinnosuke who seemed completely oblivious.
"Sorry, my home only has 2G internet, so could you please explain it to me in more detail, Tetsuya?" Nohara Shinnosuke said.
"Where can you find 2G network? I can't really describe it verbally, so I'll just show you my own news." Kazama Toru complained about Nohara Shinnosuke's 2G network before pulling out his phone and displaying news about Zhuge Cong.
Shinnosuke Nohara also started watching very seriously.
"You'll be making another cameo appearance soon."
Sato Kazuma looked at Zhuge Cong and said, "Anyway, everyone else is doing well except him. Maybe that taxi driver who looks so big that even he doesn't recognize himself is actually him."
However, the hardships and turbulent years of his life made him feel like a stranger to himself.
"You're jealous."
Zhuge Cong looked at Sato Kazuma and said.
"No, why would I be jealous of you?"
"They're jealous that I get to be on the big screen and have such good roles and prestige."
Zhuge Cong added fuel to the fire by saying this.
"........."
Once his defenses crumbled, Kazuma Sato fell silent, staring at the light screen as if he were playing a game of "Red Light, Green Light."
"No wonder Zhuge Cong shut down the weapons division." Looking at the news report, Nohara Shinnosuke finally understood why Zhuge Cong had closed his company's major weapons division.
"But this dealt a severe blow to the Zhuge Group," said Daidouji Tomoyo, standing to the side. As the daughter of the Daidouji family, she knew far more than the average person.
"However, I believe Zhuge Cong wouldn't just rashly shut down the weapons department. He must have some backup plan to replace it, or even surpass it."
"Wow, is it that powerful?" Li Xiaolang said from the side, unable to imagine what could possibly replace the current weapons department of the Zhuge Group.
"I don't know either. We'll have to wait for Zhuge Cong to announce it himself."
"Hey, Shin-chan, what are you thinking about?" Kazama Toru asked, seeing Nohara Shinnosuke suddenly fall silent, assuming he was still dwelling on Nanako's death.
As Shinnosuke's close friends, Toru Kazama and the others knew how devastating Nanako's passing was for Shinnosuke, so they tried their best to avoid mentioning it and prevent him from dwelling on this sad fact.
"Ah, it's nothing, just thinking about some trivial things," Nohara Shinnosuke said.
Shinnosuke Nohara suddenly discovers that while he has gained immense power, he also suddenly has many more enemies: Kingpin, the strange guy who throws pumpkins, and people who threaten the city.
Shinnosuke Nohara's sense of justice made it impossible for him to turn a blind eye to those evildoers.
For the next few days, Nohara Shinnosuke continued his usual practice of going out at night to maintain order and gather information from Kirito.
However, crucial information, such as the guy who threw the pumpkin bomb and where Kingpin's hometown was, remained elusive.
"Oh, that's amazing. Suzuki Group Biotechnology Company was robbed, losing a large amount of experimental equipment, but fortunately, no important research data was lost."
"Meanwhile, the renowned reptile biologist Kohei Imamura has gone missing."
"I've been to this place before, but these days thieves aren't stealing money anymore, they're stealing lab equipment, which is incredibly valuable."
"Dr. Kohei Imamura has also disappeared. Why did I say 'also'? It doesn't matter. First Zhuge Cong disappeared, and now Kohei Imamura has disappeared. Could there be any connection between the two? I'll go investigate."
65: Shinnosuke: I must have been too excited, I saw a lizard man!
Having made up his mind, Nohara Shinnosuke headed towards the Suzuki Group Biotechnology Company, intending to see if he could find any clues. Unfortunately, he didn't know where Dr. Imamura Kohei lived, so it would be better to go directly to Dr. Imamura Kohei's residence to look for clues.
"You're not going to be living in the sewers forever, are you? But actually, the sewers aren't so bad, are they? You can even go diving—it'll let you relive your college days."
Kitahara Iori said this to Imamura Kohei, which made Imamura Kohei furious, and he looked at Kitahara Iori with an unfriendly gaze.
"Really? Say whatever you want. I'm really looking forward to seeing how you do next. Don't turn into an octopus, or you'll have to experience diving all over again."
Kohei Imamura also spoke to Iori Kitahara, his words filled with extremely sincere emotion.
"Excellent, I've successfully infiltrated." Thanks to his exceptional skills and stealth abilities, Shinnosuke Nohara successfully infiltrated the Suzuki Group's biotechnology company.
"Let's go check the place where I first saw Dr. Imamura Kohei when I came here, then we'll check the floor where the theft occurred." Nohara Shinnosuke crawled along the wall towards the spot where Dr. Imamura Kohei first appeared.
"It's so convenient for me to not have to work overtime."
"Sigh, my poor dad still has to work so late." Nohara Shinnosuke suddenly thought of his elderly father.
"No, no, I found it, Dr. Kohei Imamura's office." Shinnosuke Nohara had wandered around for a while and finally found the office with Kohei Imamura's nameplate at the end of a corridor.
"Bang bang bang."
"There's no one here, but I still have to be polite." Shinnosuke Nohara knocked three times before entering, then jokingly told himself, but the next second his spider-sense suddenly gave him a warning.
[With a "bang," Nohara Shinnosuke immediately leaped and stuck to the ceiling. The next second, a dark green lizard burst through the door, its immense momentum propelling it forward as it crashed headfirst into the office across the hall.]
"A lizard monster!" Shinnosuke Nohara exclaimed in surprise upon seeing the green figure.
"Is it possible that Suzuki Biotechnology, besides researching spiders that turn people into spider-like beings, also researches lizards that turn people into lizard-like beings?"
"That's a bit of a convoluted explanation, but thankfully it was a spider that bit me, not a lizard, otherwise I might be the one who turned into a lizard."
"Hey, I'm not a thief, so are you listening again?" Nohara Shinnosuke looked at him fiercely as he crawled out from a pile of rubble. This look made Nohara Shinnosuke feel a little flustered.
"Ugh!" Dr. Kohei Imamura, the Lizard, felt inexplicably annoyed at Spider-Man Shinnosuke Nohara, wanting to tear the guy in the bodysuit to shreds.
"Imamura Kohei wanted to tear Nohara Shinnosuke apart, probably because he's a lizard and Spider-Man is a spider."
"After all, Kohei Imamura mutated because of a lizard, and Shinnosuke Nohara mutated because of a spider."
"So perhaps their relationship is like that of a lizard preying on a spider in nature."
"That's why Dr. Lizard would want to tear Spider-Man to pieces even if he had no grudge against him."
Yukimura Shinya analyzed as she watched Dr. Lizard try to tear apart the Spider-Man she was meeting for the first time.
"It's also possible that Kohei Imamura became more brutal after being injected with that lizard serum, just like when he was in the taxi and he thought about killing the taxi driver."
Himuro Ayame thought Yukimura Shinya's words made sense, but she also had her own opinions.
"Lizard, do you think you're more powerful or Spider-Man is?"
Kitahara Iori nudged Imamura Kohei, who was watching with great interest, with her elbow and said.
"We'll find out soon enough."
"I feel like you might not be able to beat Spider-Man. After all, you look like the villain, while Spider-Man is on the side of justice. Isn't it true that good always triumphs over evil?"
"But don't worry, buddy, I still think you're better than Spider-Man."
After Kitahara Iori finished speaking, he patted Imamura Kohei on the shoulder, implying that it was hard to find another buddy as good as him.
"Ah."
Looking at Kitahara Iori's ugly face, even without him saying a word, Imamura Kohei could imagine what the guy was thinking about being beaten up by Spider-Man.
"You're pretty good." Shinnosuke Nohara, who was perched on the ceiling, immediately dodged to the side. The Lizard Doctor was faster than any enemy he had ever fought; he was practically in Shinnosuke's face in the blink of an eye.
[Nohara Shinnosuke, having dodged the attack, fired two spider silk bolts directly at Imamura Kohei's eyes.]
The white spider silk stuck directly to Kohei Imamura's eye.
Even the ever-effective spider silk suffered its first defeat; Kohei Imamura's claws easily tore off Shinnosuke Nohara's spider silk with a gentle tug.
"Where is he?" But such a short time was enough for Nohara Shinnosuke to escape Imamura Kohei's sight and find a suitable ambush point.
"I can smell the prey scent of a spider on you," Kohei Imamura said, sticking out his tongue repeatedly as he searched for Shinnosuke Nohara.
"Damn it, with all this vigorous activity, I'll be easily spotted." Shinnosuke Nohara, watching the lizardman sticking out its tongue, remembered what Bo had said: lizards use their tongues to smell.
Therefore, even if you try to become invisible, you will still be detected.
Sure enough, the next second Kohei Imamura turned around to look at the ceiling above him. However, because Shinnosuke Nohara was invisible, Kohei could only see an empty ceiling. But the smell told him that Spider-Man was there.
["Bang!" Kohei Imamura, disregarding everything else, threw a punch directly at Shinnosuke Nohara's location.]