Norman’s excited expression froze on his face, and then his eyes carried unwillingness and relief: “That’s right, recently I’ve been able to feel my body noticeably somatizing. I’m afraid it won’t be long before I, like my father, end up lying in bed until I die…”
“Has Aunt Angel still not found a solution?” Derek’s expression darkened.
Norman managed to squeeze a smile onto his face and patted Derek on the shoulder: “It’s useless, Derek. That Superhumans you recruited into our estate before can at most heal ailments of the flesh and internal organs. The genetic disease of our Osborn Family is at the genetic level. No matter how much you pressure her, she’s powerless…”
“Damn it, what a piece of trash!” Derek couldn’t help cursing, then asked again: “What about the research on the Super Spider that can strengthen genes?”
Norman still shook his head: “Still no, Richard Parker has already conducted biological experiments, but these creatures injected with Super Spider venom have all undergone malignant mutations. Either they turn into half-prototype, half-spider monsters, or their genes collapse and they die shortly after!”
“They all failed? That shouldn’t be…” Hearing this, Derek furrowed his brows even deeper.
Logically speaking, with his intervention in this Universe, the Super Spider project was not turned into a tool for the America Military to use in war.
Therefore, Spider-Man’s old man Richard did not defect from Oscorp because of this, but instead stayed at Oscorp to continue researching the Super Spider.
Logically speaking, Richard had researched the Super Spider in this Universe much longer than in other Universes, so it should be much more refined.
The Super Spider in other Universes could turn Peter into Spider-Man; the Super Spider in this Universe shouldn’t cause mutations!
Could it really be like in the comics, where Peter gained spider abilities not just because of the Super Spider, but also because Peter was someone chosen by the Spider Totem?
And any person or creature not chosen by the Spider Totem would turn into a monster if injected with the Super Spider’s venom?
He remembered in the comics, there was an issue where all the citizens of New York turned into Spider-Man, only for all of them to mutate into spider monsters shortly after…
Could it be that he changed the fate of Peter’s family, yet couldn’t change the fate of his adoptive father Osborn’s family?
No!
I refuse to believe this damn fate!
Bam——————
Derek placed the black briefcase on the table.
“What is this?” Norman was a bit puzzled.
Derek opened the box, and inside lay several blue vials.
Norman looked at the blue vials, ran through a circle of similar formulas in his mind, and asked: “Is this… Super Soldier Serum? Or compound v?”
In his impression, only these two types of formulas were worthy of his adoptive son valuing them enough to pack them in a box.
Otherwise, Derek would have just shoved them straight into his pockets~
Derek shook his finger: “Nonono, Old Man, your horizons are still too narrow. Those two things aren’t worth me making such a big fuss over. This thing is much stronger than Super Soldier Serum and compound v, it is… V1!”
“Vought’s prototype compound?!” Hearing this, Norman was genuinely startled.
Even if his adoptive son had truly obtained Super Soldier Serum and compound v, Norman wouldn’t have been this surprised, because his adoptive son’s strength was right there.
But V1…
“Isn’t this thing rumored to have been completely destroyed by Vought?” What Norman doubted wasn’t whether Derek could get V1, but this point.
Derek said disdainfully: “That’s why ‘rumored’ is unreliable. I’d also say the Earth is Flat, But isn’t it still round?”
Norman: …
This description…
Very Derek…
“I investigated for a long time before finally finding the location of the laboratory where Vought originally manufactured V1, and found these last few V1 vials!” Derek continued.
Hearing this, Norman picked up a bottle of V1, and hope reignited in his eyes: “It’s said that V1 can grant people stronger superpowers than V5, and also has the ability to grant immortality that V5 lacks!”
Derek smiled slightly and nodded: “That’s right, so it can definitely cure the genetic disease problems of you and Harry, and let you live long enough!”
Norman suppressed the urge to inject it on the spot, hesitating: “But V1 is rumored to have a pathetic success rate of only 1%. I don’t mind, but Harry is still young. Gambling on this 1% success rate is just not worth it…”
“Hehe, if even your somatized, sluggish brain can think of this, how could I not? Look at what this is?”
Derek chuckled and pulled several more blue vials out of his clothes pocket.
“What is this again?” Seeing Derek actually pulling vials out of his clothes pocket, Norman’s mouth twitched fiercely.
He had just thought that earlier, but didn’t expect Derek to actually do it…
You’re the eldest son of a leading biotechnology company, can’t you be a bit more rigorous!
At least pack them in a box…
Norman mentally complained in speechlessness.
“V5, which is the public version injected by those Superhumans secretly produced by Vought on the market!” Derek placed several V5 vials on the table and said leisurely.
“How did you get V5? This thing is Vought’s top-secret treasure. You didn’t break into Vought and rob them, did you?” Norman put V1 back into the box and picked up a V5 vial to examine it.
Derek smiled mysteriously: “Rest assured, there’s no need to rob at all. I have a tiny connection inside Vought~”
“Oh.” Norman nodded, not delving into who this connection was, but his eyes turned thoughtful:
“If it’s V5, the mortality rate for adults reaches 80% with a 20% success rate. It is indeed much higher than V1’s 1%, so it’s indeed worth me taking a gamble!”
Bam————
Derek snatched V5 right back from Norman’s hands as he prepared to try it, rolling his eyes:
“What are you thinking? If I wanted you to gamble on this 20% success rate, I would have brought V5 to you long ago. Would I have waited until now?”
“Then what do you mean?” Norman was puzzled.
Derek picked up a V1 vial, his gaze also growing somewhat burning:
“The reason I am only pulling out V5 now is because I discovered a bug in Vought’s compounds: that is, if a Superhumans uses V5 and then uses V1, the success rate will increase from a pathetic 1% to a terrifying 100%!”
“In other words, as long as you and Harry use V5 and then use V1, you can join me in gaining true immortality!”
“Therefore, our goal right now is to have Oscorp’s top scientists start researching V5 with all their might, raising its success rate in adults to 100%. Then you and Harry, having injected V5, will use V1!”
Norman heard this and became puzzled yet again: “Then why don’t we just research V1 directly?”
“Research V1? I’d want to too, but there are only two remaining V1 vials left in this World. If you take them for research and it fails, won’t they all be gone? Do you dare take the risk of losing immortality?”
Derek was also quite speechless at his cheap old man.
Norman was stunned: “Two? But aren’t there three here?”
“There’ll only be two left in a moment!” Derek grinned, a spark of Purple Electricity condensing into an electric blade at the tip of his left index finger, slashing across his alloy-like skin and revealing the bright red muscle tissue beneath.
Then, amidst Norman’s widening eyes, Derek unhesitatingly uncapped the V1 needle in his hand and stabbed it straight into the muscle of his wound!