The Comprehensive Evolution of American Comics.

Chapter 60: Harry in Doubt

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"Harry... Harry..."

Who is calling me?

In his blurred consciousness, Harry heard someone calling his name. The voice was very familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was for a moment.

Harry felt very dizzy, as if he was drowning. He had no strength to exert and could only let himself sink.

The voice calling his name was ethereal and vague, as if it really came from the water.

"Harry, Harry!"

The sound is becoming clearer and clearer, and seems to be a little different from the beginning. It may be because it has become clearer.

Harry's consciousness flew towards the direction where the sound came from. He vaguely saw a light and knew that he had broken through the water.

"Pooh!"

As if he was really drowning, Harry opened his eyes and breathed heavily, greedily absorbing air.

"Harry?! Are you okay Harry?"

Harry looked in the direction of the voice and found that his father, Norman Osborn, was sitting next to him and looking at him with concern.

"dad?"

Harry looked at Norman in confusion. He looked around and saw a scene that was quite familiar to him. After all, he had been here not long ago.

"It's me, don't worry Harry, I'll call the nurse right away. There's a doctor I know here, I'll go get him now."

Norman comforted the confused Harry, pressed the call button on the bedside, and then walked out the door.

"What the hell is going on?" Harry covered his head and lay helplessly on the bed.

--split line--

"Harry, are you listening?"

Harry, who was suddenly called, shuddered and quickly replied, "Ah, yes, I'm listening."

Norman looked at Harry worriedly, then asked Strange who was standing beside him.

"Steve, is my son really okay? He's been distracted several times."

"You've asked me several times, Norman." Strange rubbed his temple.

"According to the test, there's nothing abnormal about Harry. At most, he's just a little frightened."

Strange saw Norman's worry and spoke again, "If you are worried, you can let Harry stay in the hospital for observation for a while. Don't worry, although I am not in charge here, I will take good care of Harry."

"Then I'll leave it to you." Norman said in a calm tone.

While the two were talking, Harry, as the protagonist of the conversation, did not focus on them. He was still thinking about what his father had just said.

Norman sent Strange away and returned to Harry's bedside. Looking at the dazed Harry, he asked with concern.

"What's wrong, Harry? Are you feeling unwell?"

"Nothing, Dad." Harry lowered his head and spoke after hesitating for a long time.

"Dad, are you really okay?"

"What could happen to me?" Norman was confused at first, then seemed to have thought of something and comforted Harry.

"You're afraid of me because I scolded you for touching my lab bench without permission and causing an explosion. Although what you did was indeed stupid, I'm not so cruel as to criticize you when you're sick. Don't worry, just take care of yourself."

"But this is different from what I remember?" Harry looked at his father with a gentle expression and felt fear for the first time.

Yes, there was a deviation between Norman's description and Harry's memory. Just now, Harry learned about an accident that he had no recollection of from the conversation between Norman and Strange.

According to Norman, he was doing experiments in the laboratory when Harry came to call him to finish his meal. He put down his work and enjoyed a sumptuous dinner with Harry.

Harry ate very quickly and finished his dinner before Norman. He sneaked into Norman's laboratory under the pretext of going to the bathroom, and added some dangerous things to his experimental subjects without authorization, causing them to explode.

After the explosion, Norman rushed back to the laboratory, rescued Harry and sent him to the hospital.

'This is different from what I remember.' Harry was confused. He clearly remembered that he was arguing with his father when his father suddenly called him. Then he saw his father rushing towards him and the green gas behind him.

"Hiss!" Harry felt a sharp pain in his head when he thought of this. He covered his head and couldn't help but gasp.

"What's wrong, Harry?" Norman immediately stood up and moved closer to Harry.

"Do you need me to call the doctor again?"

"It's okay, Dad. I may not have rested enough." Harry shook his head and rejected his father's suggestion.

'Is there something wrong with my memory?'

Harry looked up at his father standing beside him. He was a little different from what he remembered. If Norman used to be meticulous and well-dressed, he looked a little unkempt today.

Wearing a stained white coat and casual clothes underneath, he doesn't look like a successful businessman at all, but more like a high school chemistry teacher.

However, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like it has experienced an explosion.

That's right. If it was really the same as what he remembered, there was no reason why his father, who was the first person to come into contact with the explosion, would wake up before him and stand in front of him, full of energy and concern for him.

'Maybe I really remembered it wrongly.'

Harry accepted the reality, relaxed on the bed, and fell into a drowsy sleep.

Norman sat beside him, watching Harry with concern until Harry fell asleep.

Hearing the sound of even breathing in his ears, Norman's expression gradually disappeared.

"Are you okay Harry?!"

The door of the ward was suddenly opened. Norman looked back and found that the person who opened the door was Peter in a hospital gown, followed by Yang Le and his group.

"Shh." Norman made a gesture of silence and pointed at Harry on the bed, indicating that Harry was asleep.

Seeing this, Peter immediately swallowed back all the words in his heart and looked at Norman apologetically.

Norman stood up, walked to the crowd, made a gesture, indicating that they should go out and talk, and then left the ward with everyone.

"Uncle Norman, how is Harry?" Peter asked impatiently as soon as he left the ward.

"Harry is fine." Norman gently closed the door of the ward. "He just needs to rest. As for you, Peter, I just found out about your hospitalization from Harry. What happened?"

"It's a long story." Peter was relieved when he heard that Harry was fine, and told Norman about his experience.

"Oh, that's really a sudden disaster." Norman's eyes flickered, and I don't know what he was thinking.

"By the way, Peter, which room do you live in? I'll come see you when I have time."

"No need, Uncle Norman, Harry is more important." Peter shook his head and wanted to refuse.

"Yes, Mr. Osborn, Harry really needs your company." Mary Jane echoed.

"Just call me Uncle Norman like Peter does." Norman corrected Mary Jane's name with a smile, then said.

"Harry will definitely blame me if he wakes up and finds out I didn't go visit his best friend."

"Okay, Uncle Norman." Peter compromised and told Norman his ward.

After a few small talk, Norman ended the conversation citing Peter and Harry's illness.

After Yang Le and Gwen sent Peter back to the ward, they left. As for Mary Jane, she chose to stay with Peter for a while longer.

"Have you noticed, harpy?"

On the way home, Gwen suddenly asked.

"What did you notice? What did you sense?" Yang Le looked at Gwen, thinking that Gwen's spider sense had discovered something.

Gwen shook her head and said, "That's not it. Did you notice Uncle Norman's expression when Peter opened the door?"

"Wasn't he facing away from us at that time?" Yang Le scratched his head. "No, what happened?"

"I saw it through the reflection in the window." Gwen held Yang Le's hand and looked a little uneasy.

"That expression was very cold, almost scary. It was definitely not the expression a father should have while staying by his sick son's side."

(End of this chapter)