Marvel's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - Chapter 179

c178 Infiltrating the Baxter Building

The Baxter Building is a 35-story building, with each floor 24 feet (about 7.3 meters) high and a total height of more than 255.5 meters. It is located at the intersection of 42nd Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, Eagle Country.

The building was originally built in 1949 by brothers Leland Baxter and Noah Baxter. It is the world’s first building to use the “K-braced” steel frame structure, which is very strong.

And its name comes from this.

When the military contact of the Fantastic Four recommended the building to the Fantastic Four, Mr. Fantastic bought it and hired his former professor Noah Baxter to redesign the top five floors of the Baxter Building for him as the superhero headquarters of the Fantastic Four.

However, in the main universe, the building is in turmoil and has been destroyed and rebuilt many times.

For example, Doctor Doom lifted it into the air, Tyros decomposed everything above the 32nd floor, etc., causing extreme panic among other tenants in the building.

——This is also the reason why Mr. Fantastic wanted to buy it directly. After all, only things in his own home can be “made” at will.

In the most serious cases, even the entire building was directly destroyed.

In a room in the building closest to the Baxter Building, Super Spider was introducing his friends to the information he knew about the Baxter Building: “In the lobby on the first floor of the Baxter Building, there is Abe Schoenstein’s snack bar, optometrist shop, visitor center, elevator garage and freight dock. Among them, from 9 am to 4 pm every day, the visitor center will play a multimedia program about the history of the Fantastic Four every hour. There is also a floor directory there. If the successor villain named Genix has not changed it a lot, perhaps we can find some clues from the directory.” “Its 1st to 30th floors are actually ordinary floors rented to other tenants, and 31st to 35th floors are the floors used by the Fantastic Four themselves. If I were Genix, I would definitely use the top five floors that were originally transformed by the Fantastic Four as a clone company, because there are enough conditions there!” Everyone nodded and agreed with Super Spider’s conjecture. It would be the same for anyone. It is always faster to make appropriate modifications on the original basis than to build a new one out of nothing. This is a reasonable guess.

Super Spider continued to introduce: “In addition, there are four elevators in the lobby on the first floor, three of which serve the 1st to 30th floors, and one has the emblem of the Fantastic Four. It may have been replaced with other logos now? Anyway, that special one is the express elevator to the 31st to 35th floors, which is the headquarters of the Fantastic Four.” Spider Gwen interrupted the chattering Super Spider and said helplessly: “Should we take the elevator up? Please skip these useless descriptions, okay? We have limited time.” “Uh” Super Spider scratched his head, then grabbed the ear part of the headgear, and said a little entangled, “But there is a main control computer inside the Baxter Building, which monitors every part of the entire building in all aspects, including visual, audio, biophysical and electronic surveillance. Moreover, if an emergency occurs, the main control computer will activate a special “field” to completely cover the entire building. At that time, we will not be able to get in and out.” This means that except for the little black spider who can achieve isolation detection after full power, the invisibility of the other few people may be exposed. This greatly increased the difficulty of their infiltration.

Ultimate Spider frowned: “Where is the external glass?”

Super Spider said: “The exterior of the building has an armored outer wall, and the surface is covered with mirrors. As for the windows, it is about 2 feet thick glass and polymer composite synthetic materials. If you choose to break in directly through the window, it will definitely trigger the alarm system. In fact, even climbing on the surface has a certain chance of being discovered.”

Shadow Spider shrugged: “It sounds like this is not a building, but a war fortress.”

Super Spider laughed awkwardly: “The enemies of the Fantastic Four are all kinds of strange. Some are powerful guys on Earth, and there are also strange creatures from other pocket dimensions, so the building is designed like this.”

Spider Gwen also had a headache after hearing this: “I knew I should have recruited from other worlds. If a few Fantastic Four come, it shouldn’t be difficult to let them invade their own base, right? ”

Ultimate Spider said: “In fact, there is also Mr. Fantastic in my world. Why don’t we go back and recruit him?”

Spider Gwen shook her head: “Although Bid has given me the ability to travel through time and space, in fact, the time and space energy I can control is limited. The remaining energy can probably only allow us to leave this world. Moreover, since Bid’s plan has been completed, it means that the connection between Genix and other heirs has been temporarily interrupted. In this way, he will definitely strengthen his control over the time and space energy of this world. If we travel through the world at this time, the possibility of being exposed is very high. ”

Ultimate Spider nodded, indicating that he understood.

“But this will block the possibility of entering the Baxter Building from the outside. So, what about from the top?” The Ultimate Spider pointed to the top of the Baxter.

The top of the Baxter Building is a flat floor, which seems to be a good entry point.

Super Spider introduced: “The top is flat, there are no extra buildings, only a huge Fantastic Four logo and a retractable hatch for launching aircraft.”

Shadow Spider touched his chin and said: “It looks like a good entry point.”

Ultimate Spider nodded: “Indeed. There is no cover on the top floor, and it is difficult for normal people not to be discovered, but we may be able to enter it invisibly. The only problem is that it sounds like there is no other entrance to the lower floors except for the retractable hatch for launching aircraft?”

Super Spider explained: “Not completely. In the corner of the top floor, there is a dome, which can be completely lowered into the hangar on the 35th floor by lowering the floor. It is a launch silo for launching rocket ships, parking and entering and exiting medium and large aircraft.”

“But that requires at least one person to sneak into the building and activate the device, right?” Spider Gwen found the problem.

Super Spider nodded and sighed: “Yes, that’s the problem.”

“So, we still have to start with the elevator?” Spider Gwen seemed to understand why Super Spider had to introduce the elevator at the beginning.

Super Spider nodded: “Yes, at least that’s how I got in. Find the express elevator that goes directly to the 31st to 35th floors, and then crawl in through the elevator shaft.”

Ultimate Spider shook his head: “This method may work, but there is a big problem.”