Chapter 42: A Sudden Accident

Gently tapping it open...

Pfft!

The very moment the stone, placed inside the transparent control box, was tapped open, a strange light—invisible to the naked eye of an ordinary person but visible to Hawk—burst out from the stone.

And at this exact moment, his Cosmo stirred.

It was very clear.

His Cosmo was telling him one thing.

Gammanium—

He had found it.

After absorbing the message conveyed by his Cosmo, Hawk understood exactly what Gammanium was, and at the same time, he smiled with a sense of speechlessness.

The reason was simple.

Gammanium, to put it plainly, was simply gamma radiation that, for unknown reasons, had transformed from something fundamentally impossible to store into something that could be stored.

This...

was Gammanium.

Hmm.

It sounded like total nonsense.

But that was no longer important; what mattered was that Hawk now knew where he could find the Gammanium he needed.

Quantico!

The laboratory where Bruce Banner encountered the gamma radiation explosion.

After bringing Hawk in and temporarily acting as a guide, Gwen, seeing Hawk staring fixedly at the shattered stone, subconsciously nudged him with her elbow.

Hawk snapped back to reality and looked at Gwen.

His eyes were clear...

"Hmm?"

"What are you thinking about?"

Gwen knitted her brows: "You don't actually want to turn into a monster like Abomination, do you?"

Thinking of the obsessed look Hawk had just worn, she had a feeling that Hawk didn't intend to remain human.

Hawk temporarily suppressed the thought of running to Quantico right now and shook his head: "How could that be? I was just wondering if Dr. Connors' experiment is about to succeed."

Gwen was just about to speak.

Right at this moment.

Dr. Connors, who had been watching Gwen bring someone in, happened to walk over, heard this, and interjected: "Scientific research is a path of constant trial and error, but indeed, I feel we are already on the road to success."

Gwen turned to look at the approaching Dr. Connors and greeted him.

"Doctor."

"Curtis, Curtis Connors."

Also wearing a white lab coat but with only one arm, Connors smiled and extended his single left hand toward Hawk: "You are..."

Hawk looked at the left hand Dr. Connors extended and smiled, extending his own left hand: "Hawk, a classmate of Gwen's, currently working a summer job in the Bio-Electric Engineering Department. By the way, I came with Mr. Dillon; I asked Gwen if she could bring me for a tour. Sorry to bother you, Doctor."

Dr. Connors laughed: "I just heard you chatting with Gwen; do you really think my experiment can succeed?"

Hawk said with a smile: "I've read the Doctor's paper. Obviously, if the Doctor's experiment succeeds, it will certainly benefit humanity."

This was not flattery, but a fact.

As long as Dr. Connors' regeneration experiment could succeed, there would be no more disabled people in the entire world.

Of course, this refers to physical disabilities.

That is why Hawk said it would benefit humanity, rather than all of mankind.

But the premise for all of this is that Dr. Connors can actually produce the regeneration serum, rather than concocting that lizard serum that turns people into Lizard-men.

However...

That is highly unlikely.

The reason Dr. Connors became the Lizard was mainly due to the warning from the Amazing Spider-Man.

Although the Dr. Connors before him looked like the one from the Amazing Spider-Man movie, there was no Amazing Spider-Man here.

There was a spider-being here, though.

But he was working a summer job at the Daily Bugle and was unlikely to appear here.

Therefore...

The probability of the Dr. Connors here becoming the Lizard is honestly not as high as the probability of Max Dillon, who was doing repairs outside, becoming Electro next year.

But Hawk's words were watertight.

He didn't say whether he believed it or not, only that once Dr. Connors' experiment succeeded, it could benefit humanity.

Dr. Connors was very pleased by this and laughed, though he didn't say anything more. However, as he left, he said to Gwen: "Gwen, you can introduce your classmate to our current progress."

It was rare for someone to affirm his experiment, and Gwen wasn't actually involved in any core technology; the progress was public, so there was no issue of leaking secrets.

Gwen acknowledged, and after Dr. Connors left, she stood side-by-side with Hawk again and whispered: "Do you really think Dr. Connors' experiment can succeed?"

Hawk was watching the lab technician who had tapped open the gamma stone walk toward a centrifuge not far away; hearing this, he looked at Gwen beside him.

Just as he was about to shake his head and say he didn't believe it, he seemed to notice something and looked up at the lightbulb overhead.

The lightbulb on the laboratory ceiling flickered rapidly.

The next moment.

With a bang.

Accompanied by the bursting of the bulb, the lights in the entire laboratory suddenly went out.

"Thud!"

"Holy..."

"Pfft!"

Accompanied by the sound of an explosion coming from the darkness in an instant, and the sound of urgent exclamations, Hawk instantly felt a sense of pressure heading toward...

Gwen!

Hawk didn't have time to think; almost subconsciously, he extended his right hand and blocked in front of Gwen.

"Pfft!"

"..."

Hawk felt the pain coming from his palm and knitted his brows. At the same time, the laboratory's emergency lights quickly came online after the main lights went out.

The red emergency light made the cold laboratory look somewhat terrifying.

Especially as everyone saw a corpse lying in a pool of blood.

A female lab technician was clutching her bleeding neck, collapsed on the floor near the broken centrifuge, blood bubbling out continuously through the gaps in her fingers.

A few white mice were scurrying around on the floor.

"Holy shit!"

"Mia?"

"Jesus Christ."

"Mia!"

Everyone under the red emergency light looked at this scene with drastically changed expressions; some ran out of the lab to call for help, while others ran toward the person who had fallen.

Gwen's gaze fell on Hawk, who had already retracted his right hand and placed it behind his back.

Her eyes flickered, and she turned to face Hawk directly.

"Show me your hand."

"What?"

Hawk was slightly stunned.

Gwen didn't speak; she reached out directly, grabbed Hawk's arm, pulled his right hand from behind his back, and pried it open.

Coming into view.

Hawk's right palm was completely intact, except for a spot in the center that looked exactly like newly grown skin.

Gwen was stunned.

Hawk smiled and retracted his right hand: "My hand isn't as pretty as yours."

Gwen frowned and said nothing.

Just then, the Osborn medical staff and security ran in from outside and began to clear the scene.

Taking advantage of the chaos in the lab, Hawk took the somewhat dazed Max and left early.

Gwen stood outside the lab, still frowning.

She was certain she hadn't seen wrong just now.

Just a moment ago, the moment the lights went dark, she had clearly felt a sense of pressure from the air being compressed rushing toward her. However, this pressure came and went quickly, but she had seen it clearly: the moment that pressure disappeared, a few drops of blood had dripped down within her line of sight.

But Hawk's palm was perfectly fine.

Wait a minute.

Gwen seemed to think of something; her eyes lit up, and she walked to the lab entrance, looking at the spot where she had just been standing.

On that floor...

On the white floor, a few drops of blood were clearly visible!

A white mouse with a severed tail ran over there, sniffed, and then, as if its eyes lit up, began to stick out its tongue and lap up those few drops of blood.

Xie Te!

Gwen Stacy snapped back to her senses and hurriedly ran inside.

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