Reid's first thought was of Tony Stark.

  Given that it was 1991, Tony was one of the few targets Reid could approach with retive ease, he had the resources and influence Reid might need.

  However, Reid quickly shook his head and dismissed the idea.

  Even though Tony wasn’t yet the Iron Man of the future, he already had knowledge of Hydra and the Winter Soldier. The desire to avenge Maria Stark’s death would already be deeply rooted in his heart.

  In this sario, Reid couldn’t fidently gauge Tony’s current level of willpower. Using the virus from his regur blood might lead to Toing its effects, which would only expose Reid’s existend abilities.

  As for the virus from his heart, the risks were far too great. That strain of the virus wasn’t easy to use and came with signifit costs

  If Reid were to iony with the heart virus, the most likely result would be that Tony simply adopted some of Reid’s personality traits.

  Reid uood himself well. Uhe Joker, who thrived on pure chaos and madness, Reid’s personality cked the extreme characteristics that could pletely reshape an ied person’s identity.

  If Tony were ied with the heart virus, he might undergo minimal ges, perhaps being slightly more self-serving. This wouldn’t just fail to serve Reid’s purposes but could create unnecessary plications.

  "Fet it. I’ll leave it at that. Tomorrow, I’ll head to New York to gather information. As for Jean, I hope she doesn’t disappoint me."

  By now, Reid had mostly figured out the state of the mutant unity in this world. With this uanding, Jeaence had taken on a different meaning.

  She wasn’t just an individual anymore. She had bee a time bomb Reid had pnted among the mutants, waiting to go off at the right moment.

  What? You think her infatuation with Reid should stop him from using her like this?

  Reid had to admit, he genuinely enjoyed Western id admired many of the characters within them. However, if it came down to making one of those heroines his girlfriend, he’d holy rather opt for celibacy.

  Those heroines who jumped from one love io another—Reid wanted nothing to do with them.

  If she likes Reid, that’s her business. He doesn't like her.

  ……

  The day, Reid still wasn’t in a rush. Gotham had stabilized, Alfred’s mission ractically guaranteed success, and with that weight off his shoulders, Reid let himself rex. He slept in until noon before driving to New York City.

  Upon arriving in New York, Reid wasn’t ied in seeking out iidmarks from the Marvel Universe. For instance, he had no iion of visiting Stark Industries, nor did he pn to involve the identity of "Reid" in any of the major power struggles.

  To the world, Reid was nothing more than a retive of Alfred’s, and until he had suffit strength under his trol, Reid inteo remain an unremarkable individual.

  His first objective iy was log Fisk Tower.

  This infamous building often appeared in Spider-Man stories as the headquarters of Wilson Fisk—only known as Kingpin—the mastermind of a massive crime empire.

  However, even after searg through the entire Hell's Kit, Reid couldn’t find Wilson Fisk. Instead, he found a high-ranking enforamed Wilson in anang.

  Reid then began to iigate the Osborn family.

  This was also reted to Spider-Man. In his previous life, Reid had searched online for Marvel's parallel universe numbers. To his surprise, nearly half of the parallel universes in the Marvel world had beeed due to ges involving Spider-Man.

  As a result, some events reted to Spider-Man were likely to be multiverse-level crises.

  Such dangers could surpass, or at least rival, the threat posed by Thanos, the Mad Titan.

  Therefore, Reid knew he had to figure out which version of Spider-Man this world had.

  As his iigation tinued, Reid also uncovered details about the Osborn family.

  To be precise, it wasn't accurate to refer to them as a family just yet.

  Norman Osborn, the wealthy businessman, was still in the process of building his empire. Harry Osborn hadn’t even been bor.

  The Osborn Corporation, which Reid remembered, had a new name in this world: Os Industries.

  The reason for this ge was simple. The pany wasn’t solely founded by Osborn. There was another person Reid alsto Octavius. The infamous Doctor Octopus, known to many Marvel fans.

  With Otto and Osborn jointly founding Os Industries, Reid could now firm his suspis about the situation in this world regarding Spider-Man.

  He realized that the Spider-Man in this world was likely the one from the Spider-Man game he had pyed in his past life.

  ‘Sure enough, this world’s events differ quite a bit from the movie universe.’ Reid thought.

  The storyline where Winter Soldier attacked Howard Stark firmed that the Avengers' story here was simir to that in the movie universe. However, mutants appeared ichester, and as for Spider-Man, he clearly wasn’t the version pyed by Tom Holnd, but rather the one from the game.

  From Osborn’s current age, it seemed that Peter’s birth in this world was earlier than in the movie universe.

  This meant that Spider-Man would appear sooner, which would iably ge the events surrounding the Civil War.

  As Reid tinued his iigation, he rubbed his head, realizing that his advantage of fht was steadily diminishing. His predis about the future were losing their relevance.

  Not just with Spider-Man, but even the existenutants guarahat the future wouldn't unfold like it did in the movies.

  Moreover, these mutants were uhe ones who would eventually form the X-Men. They were something different, something that didn’t fit the mold he expected.

  Shaking off the uainty, Reid refocused. Without realizing it, he had already spent two months iigating in New York. Today, however, he found an ued opportunity.

  Sitting in his car, Reid looked at the stru site ahead—Doom Industries' headquarters.

  In the movie Fantastic Four, the vilin Victor Von Doom raised iments for his super-corporation, which, by the 2000s, was capable of ung manned spacecraft to study is. That kind of achievement was beyond even Stark Industries at the time.

  Although Victor didn't trol his pany the same way Tony Stark ran Stark Industries, it couldn’t be dehat his reckless approach ting in outside capital had allowed Doom Industries to rapidly grow into a huge powerhouse.

  Now, seeing the iments rolling in and the stru of the Doom Tinning, eveatue of Victor in the pza was scheduled for development, Reid felt a deep sense of excitement.

  He reized many opportunities. Much of this world hadn’t fully developed yet, and if he acted quickly, he could gain signifit advantages by stepping in early.

  But there roblem. Reid couldn’t get involved in any of this under his current identity, and Alfred’s mission was still not pleted.

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