Chapter 40: The Finally Appearing Gammanium (Weekend Bonus Chapter, Please Keep Reading!)

Dr. Connors's regeneration laboratory is located on the twenty-first floor of the Oscorp Biotechnical building.

The entire laboratory is filled with a dazzling array of various instruments.

Some of the instruments look incredibly expensive just by their appearance.

However, what attracts Hawk's attention the most is the stone he sees through the glass, placed inside a transparent box.

Hawk does not know what kind of stone that is.

But...

His intuition tells him that this is the thing he has been searching for.

Hawk's heart stirs, and he looks at Gwen beside him.

"What is that?"

"What?"

Gwen is stunned for a moment, withdraws her gaze from Max Dillon who is currently performing repairs, glances in the direction Hawk is pointing, and then looks at Hawk.

"Oh, that? Gamma radiation."

"?"

Gamma...

And radiation?

A question mark appears over Hawk's head once again, and the corner of his mouth twitches: "Although my physics grades aren't as good as yours, they aren't bad either. Since when can this thing called gamma radiation turn into a stone?"

Gwen laughs.

However...

She thinks for a moment, looks around first, seemingly to ensure that the other lab personnel's attention is not on them, and then says to Hawk in a lowered voice: "Do you remember the incident in September 2009 when the Hulk went on a rampage in New York City?"

Hawk is slightly stunned, then nods and says: "Of course I remember."

How could he possibly not remember?

That day could be said to be the most memorable day since he transmigrated.

Not just because his cheat went online that day.

There is another reason.

In short, Hawk remembers that day as clearly as can be.

Gwen shrugs.

"Then you should know about that Abomination; he used the Hulk's blood to mutate into that ugly monster."

"Mm."

Hawk nods again, then, as if thinking of something, looks at Gwen.

"You mean to say, this stone is... the Abomination?"

"Of course not. These stones were transported from the Quantico military base."

Gwen laughs and says: "The Hulk... Dr. Bruce Banner mutated because of a gamma laboratory explosion, but it seems some peculiar changes occurred during the explosion process. These stones were dug out from that exploded laboratory at the time."

Hawk is bewildered.

"Then you just mentioned the Abomination..."

"Oh."

Gwen realizes, shrugs: "I thought you didn't know the Hulk was Dr. Bruce Banner, after all, you don't have a computer or a mobile phone..."

Gwen pauses here, then thinks of something and looks at Hawk: "The phone I gave you last time, you haven't bought a SIM card for it yet, have you?"

Hawk takes out the phone that looks exactly like an iPhone 4 from his pocket: "I bought one."

This phone was given to him by Gwen twenty days ago when she brought him to join Oscorp.

He originally didn't want it, but Gwen gave him a reason he couldn't refuse.

As everyone knows.

Working stiffs need to clock in.

Oscorp is no exception.

And Gwen didn't give him a chance to refuse, shoved the phone into his hand, and turned to leave.

After Hawk takes out the phone and shakes it, he pulls the topic back, looking at the stone inside the glass laboratory that gives him a strange feeling.

"How did the stones from Quantico end up here?"

"Because Dr. Connors's experiments also have the military's support."

Gwen explains.

To be precise, most of the experimental projects invested in by Oscorp have military support, and some experiments are even partnerships with the military.

After all, the relationship between Oscorp and the military has always been very close.

At the very beginning, Oscorp was just a food factory making canned herring, but after the war came, Norman Osborn, who was still very young at the time, saw the opportunity and decisively sold the canned herring production line in exchange for a weapons and ammunition production line.

Nowadays, although Oscorp Biotechnical no longer sells arms, it has always maintained a good cooperative relationship with the military.

Just like Dr. Connors.

Dr. Connors's experimental project is a partnership between Oscorp and the military, it's just that the laboratory is located here at Oscorp Biotechnical.

After all, Dr. Connors was previously a military doctor.

After hearing Gwen's explanation, Hawk nods in realization.

At this moment, in the laboratory behind the glass, a lab technician is securing a vial of serum of unknown origin, then operating a robotic arm to pick up the so-called gamma stone.

"What is this doing?"

"Regeneration serum experiment."

"Lizard serum?"

Dr. Connors is trying to study lizards, wanting to find the secret of limb regeneration in lizards; this matter is not a secret.

After all, Dr. Connors's papers are right there.

But most people are not optimistic about it.

There are many reasons.

Hawk didn't look into it in detail either; after all, whether before awakening his Cosmo or now, he never intended to go down the path of scientific research.

So Gwen is not surprised that Hawk knows this, nods, and says: "Dr. Connors thinks that the combination of lizard serum and gamma radiation might be the thing he has been searching for."

Hawk nods, then looks at the stone being held by the robotic arm, his heart stirs, and he looks at Gwen: "Can I go in and take a look?"

He wants to confirm something.

Upon hearing this, Gwen thinks of the scene where Hawk was reading papers in the library at that time.

"You aren't really interested in the gamma radiation that can turn people into monsters, are you?"

"No, I'm interested in the gamma radiation inside this stone."

Hawk shakes his head and says, because from a scientific point of view, gamma radiation cannot be stored; after all, gamma radiation disappears once it is emitted.

What?

This is the Marvel Universe, science doesn't apply.

Alright, then never mind.

Gwen thinks for a moment, confirms that simply taking Hawk in for a close look won't spoil Dr. Connors's experimental progress, and nods.

Hawk is secretly happy, but as he follows Gwen inside, he says to Max Dillon who is repairing over there: "Max, I'm going in to take a look at that amazing stone."

He didn't call him Mr. Dillon, because Max wouldn't allow it; it seems because he knew Max's name, Max treats him as a friend.

Mm.

It would be better if Max's skin color were a bit lighter.

Hawk thinks to himself.

Max, who is burying his head in repairs, turns back and reveals an honest smile: "Okay, I'll be finished repairing soon too."

Hawk says thank you, and then follows Gwen, who is swiping her card, into the laboratory inside.

Just at this moment.

Just as Hawk follows Gwen into the laboratory, and his gaze locks once again on the gamma stone held by the robotic arm.

Instantly.

A message is transmitted from his Cosmo.

It is it.

It is it.

It is exactly it.

Gammanium!