Chapter 704: U: The Infinity Event (Part 20)

Otto Octavius, a very pure researcher specializing in nuclear physics, could not be called the world's top, but he could be considered the best in the industry. However, reaching middle age, although he was not yet married or had children, he still faced considerable pressure.

Although Otto was a native of New York State, the place where he was born was far from New York City. His family situation could not be called affluent; it could only be described as destitute. Only his father worked in the family, but he drank heavily every day and occasionally committed domestic violence. The economic situation was imaginable.

Otto had extra talent in his studies. Relying on solving problems, he made his way into the physics department of the best school. After graduation, his research path was smooth. With the publication of several papers, he became famous overnight and became a top nuclear physicist in the industry.

However, he still needed to face many realistic problems. To work in New York City, one either had to rent or buy a house. In the days before, Otto had always been renting.

However, the rent in New York City could be described as terrifying. After renting for so many years, Otto was shocked to find that most of his savings had been given to the landlord. This could not go on.

As he grew older, getting married and starting a family was also an unavoidable proposition. However, if he still rented after marriage, a single apartment would definitely not meet the needs. But if he rented a family suite, the rent was truly daunting. Since that was the case, it was better to save money to buy a small apartment and then replace it with a larger house later.

Otto had worked for so many years, had a little savings in his hands, and knew some friends. Therefore, about a year ago, he bought an apartment in a good location in New York City, and added a new car this year.

Of course, no matter how rich he was, he was not rich enough to buy a New York apartment in full. Therefore, his house and car were both mortgaged.

Once he carried car loans and mortgages, his originally decent income seemed a bit meager. Other researchers could rely on their professional knowledge to take on some part-time jobs at private research institutes to earn extra money. However, Otto specialized in nuclear energy research. There were not many research institutes in New York City that conducted nuclear energy research, not to mention that his research direction was biased toward fusion research, so there were even fewer.

Just as Otto was worrying about money, a person who claimed to be the head of the Solar System Construction Project Nuclear Physics Research Group approached him. Although the name of this project sounded like a scam, the high salary they offered made Otto very tempted.

After conducting in-depth investigations and asking various peers, Otto discovered that this project was actually real. Humanity had already entered the stage of solar system development, but he actually didn't know it.

In order to keep up with the pace of the times and to reduce the burden of the loans he carried, Otto successfully joined this project group.

Once he entered the project group, Otto knew he had come to the right place. First of all, the researchers here included the famous Dr. Reed, as well as Dr. Yin Sen, who also had great achievements in the field of physics. Added to Otto, it could be called a luxurious lineup.

Moreover, what this project group was researching was even more extraordinary. It was the top priority in the solar system development plan, which was how to extract the sun's energy as a clean energy source for human use.

Colleagues with the top scientific research level, laboratories with the top hardware facilities, the highest level of salary in the industry, was there any better job than this? Otto felt that he was really lucky.

But soon, he discovered that there was a reason why this project would offer him such a high salary.

First of all, Dr. Reed was not working full-time in this project group. He also had to be responsible for near-Earth exploration and Mercury development. Dr. Yin Sen was also not full-time; he also had to go to Stark Tower to help with the Mercury base and robots.

In this way, Otto was the only one left working full-time on this project. And what was even more excessive was that after Otto arrived, these two people disappeared directly. It was already considered good if they could come to the laboratory once a week. All the heavy burden of the experiments was pressed on Otto.

Let alone developing a Dyson sphere by himself, even if he developed one of the parts by himself, the workload was desperate. After Otto took over the project completely, he lost more hair than his salary, his dark circles grew faster than his wages, and in just one month, he was exhausted and not in human form.

What was even more excessive was that originally, Otto disliked the assistants in the laboratory here for being unprofessional. But later, the biological experiment project group borrowed more than a dozen assistants, and the Mercury development project group borrowed more than a dozen. A total of more than thirty laboratory assistants were all transferred away soon, and the entire project group was left with only Otto.

Otto felt, could it be that the person in charge of the project was targeting him? But later, after asking his peers, he learned that the situation of all project groups in the entire plan was similar to his. Now they were extremely short of people, and some projects had already stalled because of insufficient manpower.

The burden of human civilization's development was pressed on Otto's shoulders. More importantly, he didn't want to stop paying. For that generous salary, he had to bite the bullet and do it.

In terms of scientific research, Otto still had a clear conscience. He never allowed any experimental data to go wrong. Even if the results came out slowly, he had to ensure rigor. However, this kind of work was really not something one person could do. After working hard for a month, Otto realized that this would not work.

A person could only have two hands, and when a project group reached the point where even washing test tubes required the project leader to do it himself, these two hands could not possibly be enough no matter what.

The so-called market demand forcing technology upgrades was probably like this. Otto discovered that he must first upgrade the technology on his body, allowing himself to do the work of eight people, in order to survive in this project group and complete the research.

Otto was indeed a genius. Genius did not only refer to his IQ, but also his thinking. He felt that although a person only had two hands, he could artificially add a few more hands. Artificial exoskeletons were a good choice. Even if the tentacles on his back could help him wash test tubes, it would be good.

Guided by such thinking, Otto began to develop mechanical tentacles. He originally wanted to fix the tentacles on his back through a mecha like Iron Man. The first phase of the experiment went very smoothly. The tentacles were developed, but the problem was that the flexibility was really too poor.

No matter what, the exoskeleton could not be as precise as a real arm. Whether it was controlled by brain waves or a remote control, there would be a certain delay, and the movements would not be in place. Such tentacle exoskeletons could not meet Otto's requirements.

However, the pressure from above was getting greater and greater, and the requirements for experimental progress were getting higher and higher. Otto was really forced to have no other way. He thought, human limb movements were all controlled by nerves, so if the exoskeleton tentacles were like limbs, directly controlled by nerves, perhaps there would no longer be the problem of insufficient flexibility.

Thinking this way, Otto began to upgrade and replace the tentacles. However, he was not a neurologist and didn't know how to connect the tentacles to himself. The project stalled for a time, until he saw a name among the researchers of other project groups, and that was Stephen Strange.

As the world's most famous neurosurgeon, Strange definitely had the ability to install the tentacles on Otto's body. Therefore, Otto contacted Strange through the person in charge of the laboratory. After hearing Otto's idea, Strange was amazed.

On a beautiful afternoon, Otto, Connors, Pym, and Strange gathered together. They intended to test whether the mechanical tentacles could really be controlled through human nerves. If they could, wouldn't that be able to solve the current urgent shortage of manpower very well?

Not surprisingly, the surgery was very successful. And because of Pym's existence, using Pym particles, the mechanical tentacles developed by Otto could be enlarged or shrunk at any time. When not in use, they became tattoos on the back, and when in use, they were enlarged into mechanical tentacles.

The problem of flexibility was completely solved. The mechanical tentacles directly controlled by nerves were as flexible as human fingers. And because they could be extended and bent at will, they could take any object in the laboratory at any time, so it was very convenient. Now, mass production was already being considered.

However, growing four more hands could not alleviate the explosive workload of the project group Otto was responsible for. Moreover, ever since they knew he had grown four more hands, the requirements for experimental progress were even more outrageous.

"This is simply inhumane! Even the car transporting experimental materials requires me to reverse into the garage myself!... Today! Just this morning! The raw material warehouse called me and said their car was broken and wanted me to pick up the raw materials myself. My God, two pieces of equipment are running, I can't get away at all..."

"This kid!" Otto reached out and pointed at Spider-Man who was supporting him, and said: "This damn kid! He said he was going to Stark Tower to help! Listen to what this is! He thinks Tony Stark needs help?!"

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Otto showed an expression of disbelief and said: "He doesn't think I need help, he thinks Tony Stark, who owns hundreds of thousands of mechas and robots, needs help!"

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"After he left, the warehouse kept urging me to pick up the raw materials quickly, otherwise the raw materials for this period would be distributed to other project groups. I drove my own car to the streets of New York, only to find that the traffic jam was longer than the opening monologue of a damn midnight radio host!"

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"I shouldn't wave four tentacles and run around on the streets of New York??? Then you tell me, how do I get from Litchfield to East New York??? Hmm???"

Otto was obviously a bit broken down. He walked up and poked Iron Man's shoulder with his finger and said: "And you! You are just like this bunch of little bastards, you would rather spend three hours flying around over New York every day than spend some time worrying about the future of humanity!"

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"To hell with the future of humanity! Am I the only one responsible for the future of humanity? What are you all doing? Going to college? Falling in love? Or going home and hiding under the covers reading those damn erotic comics?!"

"Dr. Otto, calm down, I just had something to do with Mr. Stark today, I swear, I will definitely not leave early in the future... Are you going to East New York to pick up experimental materials? I'll go right now! I'll go right now!" Spider-Man said while retreating, while the other two Spider-Men looked at each other, not understanding why things had developed like this.

At this time, Otto's eyes had fallen on the two of them, and he asked: "Are you two also Spider-Men?"

"Uh... we are, but also not, just... maybe we are..." Peter said stammeringly.

He had already heard that the Spider-Man who was defending Dr. Otto was actually the Spider-Man in this timeline, which was the future Peter, and the two of them were one Peter from the past and one Peter from another universe in the past timeline.

"I don't care who you are, listen, if you can participate in the research, get to the laboratory immediately, if not, disappear from my sight immediately, don't let me see you, you would rather swing around over New York than do proper work!" Otto's attitude was almost pointing at Spider-Man's nose and cursing, but the two Spider-Men looked at each other and still did not refute.

"Wait, what's going on?" Stark scanned the three Spider-Men and then said: "You are actually not imitators, are you all Spider-Men?"

Just at this time, Otto answered a phone call. Peter was busy explaining to Stark what the multiverse and parallel universes were about, so he didn't hear what Otto was saying, but soon, Otto walked back and said:

"Since you are all Spider-Men, you should all have scientific research capabilities. The experiment has reached the most important stage. Now, immediately, follow me! I need assistants!"

"No... wait a minute, we can go with you, but don't use this method, no!

Don't!

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Iron Man stood on the roof, watching Otto waving four tentacles, one tentacle wrapping around one Spider-Man, and the remaining tentacle hanging on the glass curtain wall like a spider web, and then the four of them swung together.

"Oh!

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Three almost identical screams came from afar, waking up Zhang Parker in the ward.

He turned his head to look at the window, and then saw the Spider-Men wrapped by tentacles, swinging back and forth between the high-rise buildings of New York. ===== CHAPTER 705 =====