Chapter 015: The Villains

"You have chosen your profession, Vagrant."

"From now on, you are the vagrant Mal James."

"What you need to do now is run fast!"

Run fast?

Wang Bo was stunned. Before he could react, the room's door was suddenly kicked open, and a burly man strode in, holding a shotgun.

The man glared at Wang Bo and roared, "You damned vagrant, how dare you break into my house to steal? I order you to get out of my house immediately, or I'll shoot you dead."

Damn it!

Wang Bo finally realized that this should be his home, but a vagrant has no home. He hadn't expected that after choosing the vagrant profession, even his home would be inherited by someone else.

The burly man aimed the shotgun at Wang Bo, staring at him intently, his face full of anger and impatience, as if he might pull the trigger at any moment.

Wang Bo quickly raised his hands and said, "Alright, I'll leave now."

"Then get the hell out," the burly man cursed, but his hand holding the shotgun remained steady as a rock.

Wang Bo nodded, hurried through the door, and walked out.

Bang!

A loud sound of the door slamming against the frame came from behind him.

After being driven out of his home, Wang Bo found himself wearing a thin set of clothes and a pair of slippers. He looked up and saw that it was night, the sky was very dark, and the streets were filled with colorful lights.

Just then, a new prompt appeared.

"You are a homeless vagrant. You should try under the bridge; there should be a place for you to stay."

Wang Bo had no choice but to follow the prompt to a large bridge. He found many tents there, and a group of vagrants were gathered around a campfire, seemingly chatting.

A few of them noticed Wang Bo. A bearded man smiled and greeted him, "Mal, why are you back? Didn't you go to inherit your uncle's estate?"

Wang Bo thought, so these are acquaintances. Obviously, the Mal James he was using should be a real person, but he didn't know what had happened to that person now.

Maybe he was missing, maybe dead.

So when Wang Bo used this identity, it was as if he had replaced Mal James.

This replacement seemed similar to how he had come to this world and replaced Thompson's identity.

Only the order was different.

After Wang Bo replaced Thompson, Thompson disappeared and would never appear anywhere in this world again.

But in this game, Mal James had disappeared first, though no one should have discovered it yet. So with Friday's help, Wang Bo took over this name.

The two seemed similar, but they were very different.

The biggest difference was that one could be discovered, and the other could not.

Wang Bo walked over and sat down naturally by the campfire. The others didn't mind and made room for him.

Another middle-aged man said, "Mal, what about your uncle's inheritance?"

Wang Bo thought for a moment and said, "Can we not talk about that?"

Everyone couldn't help but laugh. The middle-aged man said, "Looks like you were tricked, Mal."

Wang Bo said nothing, pretending to be silent.

The bearded man who had first teased Wang Bo coughed, interrupting the laughter. "Alright, stop teasing Mal. We should stick together."

The middle-aged man nodded and said, "That's right, we shouldn't tease Mal." As he spoke, he stood up, took a cup, and poured Wang Bo a cup of hot water.

"Anyway, welcome back, Mal."

The others raised their cups and clinked them lightly, saying, "Welcome back, Mal."

"Thanks," Wang Bo said.

After the brief welcome, everyone quickly returned to their previous topic. The middle-aged man said, "Where was I?"

"Ice sculptures," said a short man.

"Ice sculptures, right, that's it," said the middle-aged man. "You should know that in recent days, the streets of New York haven't been peaceful. Ice sculptures often appear on the streets."

"The police are running around because of this, but they haven't found anything."

"Yeah, yesterday a police officer stopped me and asked if I knew about the ice sculptures, but I could only shake my head because I didn't know anything."

"Those ice sculptures appear too strangely."

The middle-aged man said, "The police don't know who did it, but I do."

"You know?" Everyone looked at the middle-aged man in unison, including Wang Bo.

He had been staying home playing games for the past few days and was hearing about the ice sculptures for the first time. It seemed that in the original plot, there were no ice sculptures.

Wang Bo remembered that the main villain in the plot should be the Green Goblin.

So he really wanted to know what was going on with the ice sculptures.

Seeing everyone looking at him eagerly, the middle-aged man's vanity was greatly satisfied. He said, "Yes, I saw it. The one who made the ice sculptures is a woman, an extremely beautiful woman."

"A woman?" The bearded man looked surprised.

"She was wearing a white dress, like a queen from a fairy tale. Her beauty is no less than that of Hollywood star Sharon Vineyard. With just a gentle breath, she could turn people into ice sculptures, like magic—yes, it's magic."

The middle-aged man said with certainty.

The bearded man asked, "Did you see this with your own eyes?"

"Yes, I saw it with my own eyes on my way back that night. I was terrified at the time, so I hid. Luckily, that woman didn't find me, so I managed to escape with my life."

Recalling what happened that night, the middle-aged man was still trembling.

Hearing this, everyone looked serious.

Wang Bo thought frantically. A queen-like woman who could freeze people with a breath?

Is there such a person in the Spider-Man universe?

In the Spider-Man universe, there are many villains, such as the Green Goblin, Kingpin, Doctor Octopus, Carnage, Venom, Mysterio, Scorpion, Vulture, Lizard, Rhino, Chameleon, Hammerhead, Tombstone, Mister Negative, Kraven the Hunter, etc., but none of them seem to be female.

And there is no female who can turn people into ice sculptures.

Could it be another time traveler?

Wang Bo couldn't help but think.

It wasn't that he was paranoid, but in the Spider-Man universe, there really is no villain who can freeze people into ice sculptures. In the Batman universe, there is a villain who can freeze people... Mr. Freeze.

But the problem is, Mr. Freeze isn't a woman either.

That's why Wang Bo thought of a time traveler; only a time traveler would fit such conditions.