Chapter 19 The Butterfly Effect: The Lizard Man Appears!
Chapter 19 The Butterfly Effect: The Lizard Man Appears!
Toby's two fingers, like Gin's blow, shattered Peter's delusional detective spirit!
Peter's guesses at the beginning were all quite normal, so why was he suddenly portrayed as a schemer later on?
He himself had no idea he was thinking so much; Gwen was even his accomplice...
Toby admitted that Peter's guesses were partially correct, such as that his father was the one who trained the Super Spider, and that he himself had deliberately put the Super Spider on his neck yesterday.
However, he refuted other of Peter's childish speculations and added two points.
First, he secretly discovered these things by looking at Richard's belongings with Peter. (This is a lie.)
Second, according to his secret investigation, Peter's parents did not commit suicide. Rather, they were killed because Norman Osborn intended to use the super spiders that Peter's father had trained for the war, and Peter's father disagreed.
That's why, after taking some of the Super Spiders, he burned those that didn't actually belong to Osborn Corporation. (This is the truth.)
Through Toby's half-truthful words, Peter accepted the heavy truth brought to him by his cousin.
Toby also gave Peter two options.
First, kill Norman Osborn to avenge his parents. Peter can choose to do it himself, or Toby can do it for him.
Second, he should treat this matter as a thing of the past, accept this "gift" from his father, forget the pain of the past, and start a new life.
Peter chose to...keep quiet by himself.
He made no choice, but silently took off his Spider-Man suit, walked out of the basement in a daze, and locked himself in his room.
Toby did not offer Peter much comfort in response.
He has done all that he could for Peter, and said all that he could say.
The rest is up to Peter to make his own choice.
Whether he's a demon or a god, only Peter can decide...
However, no matter which choice Peter makes, the ultimate fate of Norman Osborn in this universe is death.
Putting aside Norman Osborn's own incurable genetic disease, Tobey Maguire wouldn't let go of Spider-Man's lifelong nemesis.
After all, Toby didn't want a treacherous guy constantly watching his family from the shadows.
Green Goblin may not be considered very powerful in the Marvel Universe, but he is one of the most dangerous characters to Spider-Man's family!
However, Toby wanted Peter to make his own choice before dealing with Norman Osborn.
Otherwise, it could leave the child with a lifelong regret.
Besides, Norman Osborn hasn't turned into the Green Goblin yet, so there's no rush.
But Toby clearly forgot the power of his little butterfly.
Every time he flaps his wings, it affects more than just one person...
This time, his influence extended beyond Peter, impacting the entire Osborn Corporation.
A fire killed all the super spiders and extinguished another glimmer of hope for Norman Osborn, who was already terminally ill.
Therefore, Norman Osborn naturally directed his anger and pressure at the entire Osborn Corporation.
This included Richard's former colleague, Dr. Connors.
Norman Osborn gave Dr. Connors a deadline: only one week left. If Dr. Connors couldn't complete the research on the regenerative serum within a week, he could pack his bags and leave!
This was undoubtedly bad news for Dr. Connors.
It's not that he's actually afraid of being fired by Osborn Corporation...
After all, even if a top expert like him were fired from Osborn Corporation, there would be plenty of top companies lining up to invite him to join.
Just like Toby when he first graduated.
What Dr. Connors was concerned about was that if he were really fired by Osborn Corporation, all his hard work at Osborn Corporation would be in vain!
Because the intellectual property rights to those research projects are all held by Osborn Corporation!
This means that not only can his previous research no longer be used, but more importantly, his ongoing research on lizard regeneration serum can no longer continue!
This crossed Dr. Connors' bottom line!
Restoring physical integrity has always been Dr. Connors' lifelong wish.
Now, with the help of Peter's algorithm, he finally sees hope of fulfilling his wish.
But this hope had just appeared, and it was about to be taken away again. How could Dr. Connors accept this?
So in the following days, Peter, deeply affected by the truth about his parents' deaths, did not help Dr. Connors complete his research on the lizard regeneration serum.
Gwen also didn't become Dr. Connors' assistant because she had to go to school from Monday to Friday.
However, Dr. Connors accelerated the research process on his own, conducting biological experiments on lizard regeneration serum day and night.
And hard work pays off; Dr. Connors' experiment succeeded before the last day that Norman Osborn gave him!
A mouse that lost its forelimb successfully grew a completely new leg thanks to the help of regenerative serum!
The news reached Norman Osborn, who was in his hospital bed, immediately.
In an attempt to prolong his dwindling life, Norman Osborn disregarded Dr. Connors's advice and had the regenerative serum, which had not yet undergone human trials, forcibly taken away.
This made Dr. Connors seem to understand why Richard insisted on leaving Osborn Corporation with his research results.
Because Norman Osborn has gone mad!
The kind-hearted Dr. Connors, in order to prevent his untested regeneration agent from being used on Norman Oskin and causing unpredictable consequences, decided to take action.
He gritted his teeth and injected himself with a dose of regenerative serum, intending to personally test its efficacy on the human body.
If the medication is effective and has no side effects, then naturally everything will be fine.
If there are side effects, he can set an example so that Norman Osborn can see the side effects of the serum and stop using it!
And the result, unsurprisingly, was unexpected.
After Connors received the regenerative serum, his missing right arm grew back, but it looked a little different from the original one!
Why does it look a bit green?
Moreover, the new arm wasn't just green; it also had green scales that looked like those of a lizard growing on it!
And it wasn't just on the newly grown arms; the green scales seemed to spread from the arms all over the body, like a virus.
Upon seeing this change, Dr. Connors knew perfectly well that his lizard regeneration potion had backfired!
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