American Comics: The Matrix

"I……"

"What are you going to do after you find Connors? If he turns into a lizard man again, how will you deal with him? How will you make him change back to his original form?" Bant's series of questions left Peter silent.

Each of these questions was on point, but he had never thought about it.

Peter is very smart, but sometimes he is not good at using his intelligence.

Just like every time Superman uses his super intelligence, the answer he gets is - use your super strength to rush forward.

The same is true for Peter. Although he has only acquired the ability of spider not long ago, he has become too dependent on it. Every time he takes action, Peter hardly makes any preparations. Most of the time, he only uses his super strength to solve problems. Even if he encounters danger, his spider sense can save his life.

But he forgot that extraordinary wisdom is the greatest wealth of mankind.

"You're right..." Peter slumped.

"I have to research an antidote for the serum, but can I do it? What if my antidote goes wrong again?"

Peter said unsurely.

But this time his worries were right.

In fact, in order to allow the villain Lizard Man to be brought out and whipped many times, in the comics, the Lizard Man serum is rarely effective for a long time.

"How about this, you go find Dr. Connors and I'll help you make the serum."

Bant thought for a moment and said, "Give me your father's notes."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 29: Cracking the Serum (Seeking Follow-up Reading)

After hearing what Bant said, Peter quickly took the notebook.

The densely packed formulas on it made Bant dizzy.

In fact, if it weren't for the broken watch that could turn Bant into a little surprise soldier, he probably wouldn't be able to understand the contents on it even if he was given another ten years. But Peter never doubted this, in his opinion, Bant was omnipotent!

"Then I..."

"Go find Connors." Bant also took action.

Without a laboratory and equipment, even if he could crack the formula, he wouldn't be able to make the serum.

"Osborne Building is empty today?"

Peter shook his head. "No one."

In fact, he was a little puzzled. Even if something happened to Dr. Connors, why was the entire Osborn Enterprises empty? Not to mention that Dr. Connors' identity had not been exposed yet.

Bant thought about some more things.

This isn't all that surprising considering Norman Osborn's recent troubles.

"In that case, I'll go borrow some equipment from the Osborn Building." After he separated from Peter, he rushed towards Osborn.

As Peter had said, there seemed to be no one inside Osborne Building.

The Osborne Building, which was once bustling with people, is now deserted.

However, he did not enter immediately. Even though there was no one in the Osborne Building, the equipment was still running, especially the surveillance cameras. Bant did not want his secrets to be recorded and exposed.

He first went to a nearby shopping mall and bought a laptop with the highest configuration, then walked to the rooftop of the building next door and turned on the computer.

The movement of the watch popped out and locked onto the little warrior.

"First, let me start cracking the network system of Osborne Building."

The best way is to directly connect to Osborne's internal network and then turn off the monitoring or create a fake monitoring. And this is easy for the little warrior.

"Osborne's software system isn't that difficult to hack into."

Bant, who had become a little surprise soldier, half-crouched in front of the laptop. With his frog-like horizontal pupils, he watched a long string of codes passing in front of his eyes. The quickly flashing characters were as clear as still images in his eyes.

His eyelids closed at the sides.

The Gavins have two ways of blinking. One is to close the upper and lower eyelids normally, but sometimes their left and right eyelids will also close.

"I didn't expect that a company as big as Osborne would have such a weak firewall in its network system." He said in surprise.

However, he ignored the technological level of the Earth.

It’s not that Osborn’s firewall is too weak, but that his technology is too advanced!

"This computer is much better than the old one at home." He reached out and tapped the computer, nodding with satisfaction.

The two computers he and Peter used before were bought by Uncle Ben from second-hand goods that others didn't want. Even in this era, they were already out of date. Every time they were turned on, the computer chassis made a sound like the motor of a sports car.

At this moment, rows of prompt boxes flashed rapidly on the computer screen.

The system has been hacked successfully, but the little hero still needs about twenty-seven minutes to transform.

In other words, it took him less than three minutes to hack into Osborn Enterprises, and that was limited by the performance of the laptop.

If I really switched to a more advanced computer, it would probably only take a few seconds.

But now, he didn't plan to enter Osborne Building immediately.

It was somewhat inconvenient to move using the little warrior's body, so he planned to wait until the transformation time was over before going over.

"I have to quickly try to crack this little watch and get the permission. Otherwise, it will be a bit troublesome to wait so long every time." He turned his head and glanced back. With his wide field of vision, he could only see a small part of the dial on the back.

There was still a lot of time, so Bant simply took out Peter's father's notebook and started to decipher it.

"No wonder Peter and Connors' experiment failed."

He could tell at a glance the reason for Connors' mutation.

Peter's parents studied spider genes and created mutant super spiders, but in fact they did not fully achieve cross-species genetic inheritance.

In fact, if you want to make the serum stable, you need to do genetic adaptation in advance.

But Peter and Connors ignored this point, or rather, the notebook did not mention this point at all. Bant could see this flaw with his current wisdom, but Peter and Connors could not.

The more important problem is that even if genetic adaptation is done in advance, it cannot be guaranteed to be completely stable.

It can be said that the formula left by Richard Parker actually had problems, and he himself knew this clearly, so even though he had adapted Peter's genes in the mutant spider's body a long time ago, he did not immediately try the experiment on him.

In other words, Peter is now at risk of mutating into a spider-monster, just like Connors.

It’s just that the spider gene in Peter’s body is more stable, so there’s no need to worry for the time being unless something unexpected happens.

But as Peter's spider abilities continue to grow, this balance will be broken sooner or later.

"You should be thankful that you have a good cousin."

Bant clenched his chin and began to recalculate the formula.

The antidote for the lizard serum is very easy to make. You just need to reverse the formula, but it will take a little time to stabilize the genes in Peter's body.

Of course, it’s just a little bit…

Ten minutes later, Bant stretched.

And in front of him, the notebook was filled with formulas.

Not only was there a medicine that could stabilize Peter's genes, but he even derived the perfect lizard serum.

Of course, he removed the super powers brought by the lizard serum and only retained its medical use. He didn't want the world to become full of superhumans.

Although the serum itself has not been experimentally verified, Bant is very confident.

"Now, Primos' medical project is complete." Bant thought happily, "But this medicine is too perfect. If it is put on the market immediately, it will be very troublesome."

A tube of medicine can regenerate a person's severed limbs. Bant couldn't even imagine how many medical companies would hate him if this thing was really put on the market.

He planned to reduce the potency of the medicine many times before putting it on the market.

There was still a little time left, and Bant was not idle. Instead, he borrowed the little soldier's brain to start learning.

Ten minutes later, Bant, who had transformed back from a little warrior, put away his notebook and looked towards the Osborne Building.

Coincidentally, it was getting dark.

"It's time to move."

He wrote down all the steps for debugging the serum in his notebook.

Bant closed his notebook and jumped from the roof of the building under the cover of night.

At the same time, inside Osborn Enterprises, a thin, gloomy white-haired old man was playing with his little parrot.

"Lizard serum, what a great invention!"

He picked up a small bottle of serum, looked at its crystal clear appearance, and exclaimed in admiration!

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 30: Doctor Wu (Seeking follow-up reading)

night.

The interior of Osborne Building was completely dark.

Only the sign for the safe passage was still emitting a faint green light.

However, the darkness did not hinder Bant's vision much. Peter could see clearly even with black lenses, let alone him.

"Connors' laboratory, I remember it was over here..."

Just now, when he hacked into the Osborne Building, he had already planned the route. Not only that, he also added a general message for himself so that no access control could stop him.

After a while, he found Connors' original laboratory.

This place is a complete mess.

Everything was lying on the ground in a twisted state, even the laboratory tables were overturned.

There was a pungent smell in the air. Bant frowned, covered his nose, and walked in with the help of the red light from his watch.

For some reason, at this moment, he always had a strange feeling. It was not that he felt dangerous, nor was it spider sense, but it seemed as if he was being spied on by someone.

He glanced at the things in the laboratory. Several mice that had not yet been used in experiments looked at him warily, and when they felt his gaze, they quickly hid in the corner.

There doesn't seem to be anything unusual.

Bant suppressed his doubts, straightened the laboratory table, found a few well-preserved test tubes, collected the remaining materials in the laboratory, and began to prepare the lizard serum.

However, what he did not notice was that the little white mice hiding in the dark corners looked at him more and more ferociously.

……

Meanwhile, underground pipes in New York.

Peter found a central area where pipes connected the entire city and was the largest sewage gathering place in the vicinity.

"In a narrow sewer, small vibrations can be very clear."

He shot the spider silk into the depths of different pipes, and all the silk threads were connected into a huge web. The spider web was woven into a huge trap, waiting for the prey to be hooked, and he was the hunting spider on this web!

"Next, just wait quietly."

Peter sat on the spider web.

Only then did he have a little time to breathe.

However, he would rather not have to breathe because it stinks so badly here.

"It's dirty and smelly. Why is my working environment so bad?" Peter pinched his nose and complained, "I wish I could work in outer space like Superman."

"Iron Man would never go to the sewer, and there's Ben, no wonder he didn't come to help me..."

Peter muttered to himself.

"correct--"

He suddenly remembered something, jumped back to the ground, found his schoolbag, and took out his camera.

"This is a good opportunity. If I can take a picture of Spider-Man fighting the Lizard, not only can I clear Spider-Man's reputation, but I can also make some money."

To this day, Peter is still very angry that George Stacy thinks Spider-Man and the Lizard are in cahoots.

He worked so hard to help the police catch so many criminals, and it would be fine if they didn't thank him, but they actually thought he was a big bad guy?

"It must be because they don't know that I caught those criminals. I think I should leave a note next time, just say 'Your good neighbor Spider-Man'."