America: A Prodigy of Stereotypes

"Cousin, is your internship fun?"

"Do not."

"Any souvenirs?" Shuangxi asked Liqun.

"Have."

Li Qun opened his suitcase and took out two bags of high-nutrition standardized breeding pellet feed.

"Is this cereal? Why is there a picture of a white mouse on the packaging?" Shuangxi asked.

“Because this is feed for mice,” Li Qun replied.

Shuangxi put down the souvenirs that Liqun had brought back.

Shuangxi frowned, completely baffled as to why her cousin had brought back the mouse feed.

"Shuangxi, you seem to have grown taller."

"I thought you'd gotten shorter, cousin."

"Go to the door frame, I'll measure your current height."

In the Osborn Industrial Park, the only people Li Qun could harass through the portal were his father and Bruce Banner. As for his uncle, Li Qun didn't dare to make a sound when he returned to his room.

It's been almost two months since I last saw Liqun and Shuangxi.

"1.93 meters!!"

Shuangxi stood next to the door frame, and the height of his head was already higher than the height of the door frame, so Liqun could no longer draw a line on the door frame to record Shuangxi's height.

"Should I not have grown this tall?" Shuangxi asked.

“Why shouldn’t it be this tall? It should be this tall,” Li Qun said.

My classmates said I don't look Asian.

"That's because they don't understand us."

Liqun looked Shuangxi up and down. Shuangxi was now tall and fat, and he would have a double chin whenever he lowered his head.

Shuangxi also grew her hair long, but not like a girl with long, flowing hair.

“I’ll go ask my uncle and father again to see if I can teach you kung fu,” Li Qun said, stroking his chin.

"Cousin, are you going to teach me kung fu?!" Shuangxi's face was beaming with joy.

"It would be a waste of your physical talent if I didn't teach you something." Li Qun patted Shuangxi's broad shoulder, then patted Shuangxi's protruding belly. Shuangxi's clothes and shoes were all oversized.

……

In the study of the Sanctuary, Li Qun placed two bags of feed on the table, and Bruce Banner looked at the souvenirs that Li Qun had brought him with surprise.

"I was just kidding, I don't really want to eat it."

As Dr. Banner spoke, he deftly picked up the scissors, cut open the feed package, grabbed some feed pellets, and smelled them.

"The formula has been improved?"

“No, this is breeding-enhanced feed!” Banner said.

“Dr. Banner, I don’t quite understand the difference between the enhanced and standard types,” Li Qun said.

“It’s not listed on the ingredient list,” Banner said.

"What wasn't marked?"

"Some medications, hormones, and the like."

"It's best not to eat it, it'll make you fat," Banner warned Li Qun.

"Won't the addition of hormone drugs affect the experiments on laboratory animals?" Li Qun asked.

"That depends on what aspect it is."

"This kind of feed is usually given to female mice when they are preparing for pregnancy. Once the female mice are in good physical condition, they are then allowed to reproduce..."

"Do you know how fertile female mice are? They will go into estrus within 24 hours of giving birth, and if they are put in the same cage with a male mouse at this time, they can get pregnant again," Banner said.

"Doing this isn't good for the mother mouse, so I just keep it in mind as a piece of knowledge."

"So? What are Osborn Industries researching? Have you tried to find out any business secrets from your classmate's family?" Banner asked with a smile.

“The female mice we cared for gave birth to mutant mice, mice with manic-depressive disorder.”

"They enter adolescence in less than three weeks after birth, grow very rapidly, and their size is close to that of an adult mouse."

“They initially agreed on a two-month internship, but we had to come back before the two months were up because Peter, Gwen, and Harry might not be able to defeat these mutated mice,” Li Qun said.

"Can't beat them?!"

"Your psychological defenses have been broken down by the mutated mice, haven't they?" Dr. Banner said with a smile.

“Harry was somewhat naive to think that since we artificially raised these mice, they might become close to us, but that’s not actually the case,” Li Qun said.

“It was right not to continue,” Banner said.

"The experimental animals I used in my previous research projects in the military were dogs."

"Three dogs have developed mutations similar to my Hulk's."

"It was terrible. Hulk and I were bitten all over by those three dogs, and in the end, Hulk and I had to euthanize them."

"Is it really euthanasia?" Li Qun asked Bruce Banner.

"They died in my and Hulk's arms."

"What an unlovable dog."

"Hulk hates dogs." Hulk appeared beside them, like a genie flying out of a magic lamp, instantly taking up a third of the space in the study.

"If a drug is successful on laboratory animals, what steps are needed to conduct experiments on humans?" Li Qun asked Dr. Banner.

"You've asked me the right question."

Bruce Banner was somewhat troubled, as the theory and reality were completely different things.

Chapter 135 Columbia Science Exhibition

At Columbia University in Manhattan, New York, professors organized a small welcome party.

"Welcome back, Otto."

"Connors!"

Curtis Scott Connors hugged Otto Octavius ​​with his only hand.

"How is high school life? It must be very easy, right?" Dr. Connors asked.

"It's quite easy, much easier than doing research," Dr. Otto said with a smile.

“You’ll have to get busy tomorrow,” Dr. Connors said.

"Yes. I hope everything I requested is in the lab."

“Research on artificial intelligence needs a direction, right? The people at the university are eager to produce a tangible result within a year or two to prove that your mutual selection was the right thing to do,” Dr. Connors said.

“Connors, do you have any suggestions?” Otto asked, looking at Connors.

“I remember you and I discussed things related to human neurons. You envisioned using intelligent machines to replace human limbs that have been lost. Training a mechanical prosthesis with artificial intelligence that can help a human arm work is a good project.”

“I remember that your research focuses on limb regeneration technology.”

“The two are not contradictory,” Connors said.

"I know."

"Still not much progress?" Otto asked with concern.

"Still trying my luck."

"If my project succeeds first, you won't be sad, will you?" Otto smiled gently.

“How could that be? By then, I’ll have the intelligent prosthetic limb you developed, and my work efficiency will immediately double, as will my research progress.” Connors laughed as well.

“When you become successful, remember to invest some money in my project. Actually, the lack of money is also the reason for the poor progress,” Connors said.

"I saw the science fair held at the school. Is this the result of the lab's efforts to secure research funding?"

"This isn't just my lab seeking funding; other people are too."

“I feel that exhibiting genetically engineered spiders is not a good choice, as many people have arachnophobia,” Otto told Connors.

"I don't study arthropods."

……

……

Li Qun came out of the movie theater carrying a bucket of popcorn.

"Jurassic Park III was pretty good, wasn't it? I wanted to see it when I was doing my internship!"

The four of them stood at the entrance of the movie theater, and Harry enthusiastically shared his thoughts on the movie.

"Oh no, I should have left this bin in the movie theater; the sanitation workers would have taken care of it." Li Qun looked around, but there were still no trash cans on the street outside the movie theater.

“Where do we go next?” Gwen asked.

“A bookstore?” Peter suggested.

"Let's go to the bookstore," Li Qun said.

“Spinosaurus is really strong. I declare Spinosaurus to be my number one dinosaur,” Harry said.

“Harry, I have something to say that will spoil the mood,” Li Qun said.

"Then don't say it."

"The Spinosaurus in the movie is the War God Spinosaurus, a genetically modified dinosaur, not a scientifically reconstructed Spinosaurus," Li Qun said, not shutting up.

“I understand. From now on, when I talk about Spinosaurus, I’ll add the prefix ‘God of War’ to it,” Harry said.

The bookstore is not far from the cinema, and many people will go to the bookstore next door after watching the movie to look for books related to the movie they just watched.

Peter was standing by the newspaper rack, observing the recent publications and newspapers, when he suddenly noticed a news article in the New York Morning Post reporting on the recent science fair held at Columbia University.