Chapter 706: U: The Infinity Event (Part 22)

Outside the laboratory window, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, while inside the laboratory, it was a mess. Otto stood among the fragments all over the floor, two tentacles supporting the ground, lifting himself up, and the four limbs of tentacles stepped forward like legs, until he came to Zhang Parker.

"Are you also Spider-Man?" Otto looked down at the four tentacles behind Zhang Parker. Compared with Doctor Octopus's tentacles, the tentacles behind Zhang Parker were more like the legs of arthropods, with sharper ends, more like weapons than tools.

"I am not Spider-Man." Zhang Parker admitted his identity for the first time, and he said: "I am you from a parallel universe."

Otto "snorted" and didn't speak, controlling the tentacles to turn around, fixing the tentacles on the ceiling, and then began to clean up the fragments in the room.

Zhang Parker, however, seemed to be angered and said angrily: "Don't you believe it? I did better than you, I replaced Spider-Man and became the only hero in that world."

"Is that so? Then you are still quite amazing. Go back to your universe, why come here? Are you still complaining that I'm not busy enough?" Otto bent down to pick up the fragments of the experimental bench, a look of regret appearing on his face.

All the building materials in this laboratory used the best materials. Unfortunately, the mechanical tentacles behind Otto used even better materials. The luxurious combination of molten steel and vibranium gave the tool tentacles unparalleled hardness. Even if they were gently whipped on the experimental bench, they would break the experimental bench.

"Where did you put them?" Zhang Parker asked.

"Who are you referring to?"

"Those Spider-Men."

Otto shook his head and said: "They followed the agents away. S. H. I. E. L. D. wants to investigate the matter of crossing the universe. If you chase their car now, you should be able to catch up."

While he was speaking, he put on his glasses, picked up the document at hand, and began to look at the content on it. Although he was a bit tired, after making a fuss and venting the anger in his heart, he seemed much calmer.

"Are you just staying here like this?" Zhang Parker took two steps forward, looked at Otto and asked: "Living such a failed life, always defeated by Spider-Man? Don't you want to defeat him?"

"Why should I defeat him?" Otto asked back without looking back.

"He destroyed everything you had! Even if not yet, sooner or later he will! He is such a person! His indecision and cowardice will destroy this world!" The tentacles behind Zhang Parker trembled, and his tone contained a kind of anger.

Otto put down the document in his hand, paused for a moment, the four mechanical tentacles supported him, turned his body around, his lenses reflected the moonlight outside the window, making Zhang Parker unable to see his eyes clearly, but he could be sure that Otto at this time was not angry because of his words.

"Are you jealous of him?" Otto asked.

"I said, I have already defeated him, I did better than him!" Zhang Parker emphasized again: "I wiped out all the criminals at once, and from then on, New York will be safe forever."

Zhang Parker suddenly saw that after Otto took off his glasses again, his eyes made people feel a bit familiar. Zhang Parker recalled that perhaps, at some times, he had also looked at Spider-Man with such eyes.

"You are not me." Under the moonlight, Otto looked at Zhang Parker and said firmly: "Otto Octavius will not spend a few hours swinging around over New York every day like Spider-Man, because he knows that it is useless."

Zhang Parker was just about to say something, but Otto walked a little closer, looked into his eyes and asked: "New York is safe, then what about the East Coast? What about the entire East? What about the West? The Americas? The whole world?"

"You are not me, you are still Spider-Man." Otto emphasized again, and he said: "Only those silly kids who are in puberty will think that as long as they use their fists to defeat all criminals, this world can achieve peace."

"And Otto, which is me, I know that the criminals in this world cannot be wiped out, because humans are just like this." Otto put on his glasses again, but when he was backlit, Zhang Parker could see a more mature thought in his eyes.

"There will be so much evil in this world, there will be wars, bloodshed, and death, essentially because resources are limited, and humans must compete for the already scarce resources in this small place."

"This will lead to too many meaningless fights, and if there are infinite resources, allowing all humans to live the best life, although it cannot completely eliminate criminals, it will definitely be much better than now."

After Otto finished speaking, he walked closer, the tentacles supported his body, he looked down at Zhang Parker and said:

"From beginning to end, I am an energy scientist. The only way for me to save this world is to obtain inexhaustible clean energy for humanity, so that everyone no longer fights for this. This is what I should do."

"And you, if you agree with the method of defeating all criminals to save the world, then you are not me, because I would never consider this method."

After Otto finished speaking, he turned to clean up the laboratory, while Zhang Parker stood there silently.

Ever since he swapped bodies with Peter Parker, he has been constantly running around, he has to set up his own laboratory, manufacture stronger equipment, fight more criminals, he has to invent monitoring equipment to monitor the whole city, and he has to be on guard against Spider-Man's counterattack at all times.

He has to crack various conspiracies and tricks. After crossing to the future, he has been running on the road to deal with the Inheritor family. He led the Spider Army to attack head-on and was seriously injured because of it. Zhang Parker asked himself, even if Peter Parker from his world came, he wouldn't have done better than him.

Did he do better than Peter Parker?

Perhaps yes, he provided mechas for many people, wiped out criminals, and fought against the Inheritor family that threatened Spider-Man. That immature kid is not that strong at all.

However, is he still Otto Octavius?

The days as a researcher are already very far away from him. The days of driving to and from work every day, facing boring experimental data, and feeling angry because of the inaccurate operation of laboratory assistants are like the moonlight tonight, disappearing the moment the sun rises.

Also disappearing are the ambitions and aspirations that belong only to Otto.

When the young him first ignited the fire of the reactor, he also imagined that he would become a great scientist who would change the fate of humanity, like all the great people in history, leaving a heavy mark on the road of humanity toward ultimate happiness.

But such thoughts did not last long, he met Spider-Man, a destined opponent.

He began to abandon those concepts he had as an energy scientist, repairing tentacles, strengthening equipment, and even creating a device that could swap bodies with Peter Parker.

What a great invention this is, but when Zhang Parker stood here, he gradually recalled, gradually recalled the joy he felt when he discovered that he had really successfully swapped bodies with Spider-Man.

Was he rejoicing for the new life?

Or was he rejoicing for becoming his enemy, the silly kid he once disdained?

This new body gave him infinite vitality, and then he used this vitality to do the same things as Spider-Man, upgrading equipment, fighting criminals, and going further on this road.

Perhaps, this is indeed something to be proud of, it's just that the energy scientist who reached middle age, ordinary and a bit unlucky, has completely disappeared in his universe.

In this world, is it more necessary to have Otto, or is it more necessary to have Spider-Man?

When Zhang Parker thought about this question, he looked down at the materials scattered on the laboratory floor.

He took two steps forward, picked up a piece of paper on the ground, on which were written some data that even he could not fully understand, it seemed to be a survey conclusion about the sun.

"If you want to see it, the data room is next door." Otto's voice came from the side, Zhang Parker felt his arm trembling, he walked along the wall on one side of the room toward that door.

After opening the door, several filing cabinets were neatly placed against the wall. Zhang Parker walked up with urgent steps, as if anxious to find an answer.

He began to look through the materials inside, taking out all the documents, data, drawings, conclusions, including energy equipment that was about to be put into production and had already been put into production, everything he could understand and couldn't understand.

Numbers and graphics surrounded him, and the distant memories belonging to the scientist surged up again.

When Zhang Parker fully understood these things, he discovered that in this universe, the genius scientist Otto saved this world in his own way.

The stellar energy extraction device he designed had been in actual application for less than three months, and the energy extracted had reached 30% of the global total coal power generation. In the next three years, it is expected to replace most of the energy generated by coal power generation on Earth, and it is clean, pollution-free, and sustainable.

Zhang Parker put down the materials in his hand, he walked out of this data room, and then pushed open the laboratory door next door, where other Spider-Men were doing experiments. Zhang Parker saw more project materials there.

The lizard serum project that can make severed limbs regenerate perfectly without sequelae, the mechanical equipment project of the Mercury base, the low-temperature cabin project that can freeze people suffering from terminal illnesses to wait for future treatment...

Every document here represents a step for humanity toward ultimate happiness.

A few minutes later, Otto looked up, and the figure who also had tentacles appeared outside the door again. Zhang Parker asked in a hoarse voice: "Lizardman... I mean, Dr. Connors, where is he?"

"His laboratory is in Stark Tower. If I'm not mistaken, he should still be doing experiments now. You can call that Tony Stark, he will always be lenient to people named Peter Parker."

Otto's words dissipated in the moonlight, and the figure with tentacles on his back at the door had disappeared.

In the laboratory of Stark Tower, Connors rubbed his wrists, put down the pen in his hand, and after recording the last set of data, he was about to get off work. At this time, he turned to look outside the door. Under the moonlight, a figure with four tentacles appeared there.

"Otto? Oh, you are not Otto, Peter?? Did you also have surgery for mechanical tentacles?" Connors looked at Zhang Parker who appeared at the door with some surprise.

"I..." Zhang Parker opened his mouth. He looked at Connors. This once cruel and cold-blooded Lizard Doctor was calmer than he imagined. For some reason, everyone in this universe looked more focused, self-consistent, and balanced, with a kind of relaxation from the inside out.

Connors looked at Zhang Parker, seemingly realizing that he was not the Peter he knew, but finally, his eyes fell on Zhang Parker's waist, and he asked: "Are you injured? And it seems like you are seriously injured..."

As he said that, he turned around, took two injections from the cabinet next to him, walked toward Zhang Parker, then handed the injections to him, and said: "A mature version that has been tested, just one shot, the wound can be perfectly repaired, and severed limbs can also regenerate."

Zhang Parker silently took the two injections, but hesitated for a moment, he still said: "Can I take it away?"

"Where are you going?"

Zhang Parker turned his head to look out the window, the exceptionally bright moonlight, and slowly spat out two words in a nostalgic tone: "Home."

"You said you want to go home?" Peter looked Zhang Parker up and down and said: "Going back now??"

"That's right, send me back the same way you sent me over." Zhang Parker looked at Peter and said.

"The problem is, I don't even know how I sent you over." Peter, who was holding a thick stack of materials and looking at them, showed a bitter face.

"The secret of magic is that you get what you wish for." Zhang Parker repeated the sentence Peter muttered before sending them over, and he said: "If you know magic, use magic to send me back."

"... I'll try, but I can't guarantee success." Peter said a bit embarrassedly. As he said that, he put his hand on Zhang Parker's shoulder, tried his best to concentrate, and kept muttering: "Get what you wish for, get what you wish for..."

After a burst of light, Zhang Parker appeared in the silent space of the universe. He held the transmitter in his hand, used spider-sense to communicate with the spider totem, and located his universe.

In an instant, he appeared in a familiar room. Outside the window were monitoring robots flying around, and the police and security guards patrolling the street were all wearing mechas he designed himself.

Zhang Parker looked down at the lizard serum in his hand, took a deep breath, and seemed to have made a decision that consumed a lot of courage.

In a corner that had almost been forgotten by him, the residual body belonging to Otto Octavius had always been preserved there. Zhang Parker came to that body, put the injection into his hand, and then started the device for swapping bodies.

In the process of the device running, he heard the soul fragment of Peter Parker in his body say to him: "No! You can't do that! Your body is about to die, you will die..."

"Silly kid."

As soon as the words fell, Doctor Octopus opened his eyes again.

Otto felt the huge pain coming from this dying body, broken, aging, painful, far less useful than that young and healthy body.

But he showed a smile, clenched the lizard serum in his hand, and then fiercely stabbed it into his shoulder.

Subsequently, on the skyline of New York City, four huge mechanical tentacles broke through the ground.

A middle-aged man wearing a trench coat and sunglasses stood in the sun again. He took a deep breath, turned to look at the bustling traffic in the center of New York, and the sun hanging high in the sky.

Spider-Man, who had regained his body, jumped out from the hole in the ceiling. He stretched out his tentacles and said to Otto: "Doctor Octopus, don't be excited, I don't think you are a bad person, we can really talk!"

Otto looked at him, took a deep breath, and a roar that seemed to be venting dissatisfaction at Spider-Man, and also at himself, broke through the clouds over the city and echoed over New York:

"Spider-Man!

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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