"Heh!" Norman Osborn let out a cold laugh. "There are no 'what ifs.' Anyone who dares to mess with me, Norman Osborn, will die with me."
His gaze toward Peter was icy, as if he truly intended to kill him.
"Hah~" Peter merely scoffed.
If gutting fish at a market could harden one's heart, then fighting in interstellar battles and slaughtering countless Dark Servant creatures had made his gaze even colder. He returned Norman's glare with an even more menacing one.
Click!
A faint noise suddenly came from the side.
Peter reacted instantly, extending his hand.
Whoosh!
A web shot out.
An object was yanked from a hidden corner on the second floor and pulled straight into his grasp.
Peter played with it for a moment.
It was a uniquely designed revolver, clearly high-powered and expensive. The gun's body was even adorned with gold inlays.
"Nice gun." Peter twirled the revolver around his finger before gripping the handle and pointing it at Norman Osborn. He mimed pulling the trigger. "But Mr. Osborn, care to explain why it ended up here? This little surprise didn't exactly make our conversation more pleasant."
Norman Osborn was startled by Peter's skills, but he ignored the gun aimed at him and instead asked, "Are you Spider-Man?"
"Does it matter who I am?" Peter countered.
Norman Osborn stared at him for a long moment before exhaling deeply, as if his energy had been drained in an instant.
It was as if he had aged from his forties or fifties to his seventies or eighties in mere seconds.
Waving his hand, he said, "Tell me your terms and your method."
Peter replied, "My demands are simple. I need a biological research lab and an atomic physics research lab, both equipped with the highest-grade facilities possible. Additionally, I'll need some initial funding support from Oscorp. In return, any breakthroughs from these labs will be offered to Oscorp first. If we sell the research externally, the labs will take a commission."
Norman Osborn nodded. "Agreed. The biological lab Dr. Connors previously used is on the twenty-third floor of Oscorp Tower. I can have the other spaces on that floor cleared out to accommodate the second lab. Consider the entire twenty-third floor my gift to our partnership."
Peter silently gave Norman Osborn credit for being so cooperative.
Placing the research labs within Oscorp Tower had its pros and cons.
The advantage was gaining immediate access to fully equipped facilities and real estate, allowing the labs to be set up and operational in the shortest time possible.
The downside was the potential risk of being controlled by Oscorp.
However, Peter's strength was his leverage.
If Oscorp ever attempted any underhanded schemes against the labs, he wouldn't hesitate to turn against them.
Besides, Norman Osborn's treatment had two stages.
After reaching a mutually satisfactory agreement, Peter didn't bother dragging things out. With Norman's eager anticipation, he finally revealed his method.
In truth, it was quite simple.
Back then, Richard Parker took the finished product and secretly tampered with it, ensuring that the mutated spiders of the Osborn Corporation contained a unique effect—only compatible with his DNA fragments. (From the comics' perspective, this could actually be explained as the choice of the Spider Totem, but the protagonist is unaware of this, so let's not bring it up.)
However, later on, facing the threat of death, Harry Osborn resolutely used the mutated spider venom stored in the basement. Enduring extreme pain and with the help of the Green Goblin armor's regenerative abilities, he broke through his limits and emerged as the Green Goblin of the Amazing Universe!
So in theory, obtaining some blood samples from Garfield's Spider-Man and comparing and adapting them with the mutated spider venom stored in Osborn Corporation's basement might significantly reduce the venom's destructive effects.
Of course, this could also lessen its mutagenic properties—for instance, instead of gaining ten tons of strength after mutation, one might only gain five tons.
But what does that have to do with Peter?
Even Norman Osborn himself wouldn't care!
After all, his original intention in researching this was purely to save his own life.
Becoming a super soldier? That thought had never even crossed his mind.
Honestly, Peter had never understood Garfield's Spider-Man's bizarre logic when watching the movie.
Harry Osborn merely asked for a little bit of his blood.
Yet Garfield's Spider-Man replied: He couldn't give him his blood, as it would harm him.
Excuse me?
Are you serious?
What kind of normal person would directly inject someone else's blood into their body? What, are you doing a blood transfusion?
Not to mention, their blood types might not even match!
Obviously, Harry just wanted to test a blood sample!
In the end, with no other options, Harry Osborn took a desperate gamble.
Though he won the bet, he also turned himself into a complete lunatic.
Father and son together—a perfect embodiment of tragedy.
But now, with Peter involved, everything was different.
The blood issue? He had already solved it.
He simply took a syringe and drew a full blood bag—200cc—from Garfield's Spider-Man, leaving both Gwens watching in exasperation.
Originally, the Amazing Gwen couldn't stand it and wanted to intervene.
But Garfield's Spider-Man willingly agreed.
Because Peter had told him about the "future" he had seen, about the entanglements between his father and Norman Osborn, between himself and Harry Osborn—the deep-seated conflicts between the two generations of father and son.
Most importantly, he also revealed that Amazing Gwen might die because of all this!
Garfield's Spider-Man had already been tormented by the harm he and his father had caused the Osborns. Now, hearing about Amazing Gwen's potential fate was the final straw that broke the camel's back.
Thus, he readily agreed to donate his blood—without charge.
However, Peter was the one to deliver the blood instead of Garfield's Spider-Man himself.
If possible, he still preferred to keep his identity as Spider-Man a secret from more people.
After extracting the blood bag, Peter didn't hand it over to Norman Osborn right away. Instead, he proposed that the research on the biological components of Spider-Man's blood and the mutated spider venom be conducted through a contract between Osborn Corporation and SST (Supra-Spatial-Time) Bio Research Institute.
With Dr. Connors as the lead scientist, Osborn Corporation could send its own researchers, but the final research results would still have to be purchased.
This sounded suspiciously like treating Osborn Corporation as a cash cow.
But faced with the life-threatening stakes for both himself and his son, Norman Osborn didn't hesitate and agreed.
(End of Chapter)
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