American Comics: The Matrix

Chapter 29: Cracking the Serum (Seeking Follow-up Reading)
After hearing what Bant said, Peter quickly took the notebook.

The densely packed formulas on it made Bant dizzy.

In fact, if it weren't for the broken watch that could turn Bant into a little surprise soldier, he probably wouldn't be able to understand the contents on it even if he was given another ten years. But Peter never doubted this, in his opinion, Bant was omnipotent!
"Then I..."

"Go find Connors." Bant also took action.

Without a laboratory and equipment, even if he could crack the formula, he wouldn't be able to make the serum.

"Osborne Building is empty today?"

Peter shook his head. "No one."

In fact, he was a little puzzled. Even if something happened to Dr. Connors, why was the entire Osborn Enterprises empty? Not to mention that Dr. Connors' identity had not been exposed yet.

Bant thought about some more things.

This isn't all that surprising considering Norman Osborn's recent troubles.

"In that case, I'll go borrow some equipment from the Osborn Building." After he separated from Peter, he rushed towards Osborn.

As Peter had said, there seemed to be no one inside Osborne Building.

The Osborne Building, which was once bustling with people, is now deserted.

However, he did not enter immediately. Even though there was no one in the Osborne Building, the equipment was still running, especially the surveillance cameras. Bant did not want his secrets to be recorded and exposed.

He first went to a nearby shopping mall and bought a laptop with the highest configuration, then walked to the rooftop of the building next door and turned on the computer.

The movement of the watch popped out and locked onto the little warrior.

"First, let me start cracking the network system of Osborne Building."

The best way is to directly connect to Osborne's internal network and then turn off the monitoring or create a fake monitoring. And this is easy for the little warrior.

"Osborne's software system isn't that difficult to hack into."

Bant, who had become a little surprise soldier, half-crouched in front of the laptop. With his frog-like horizontal pupils, he watched a long string of codes passing in front of his eyes. The quickly flashing characters were as clear as still images in his eyes.

His eyelids closed at the sides.

The Gavins have two ways of blinking. One is to close the upper and lower eyelids normally, but sometimes their left and right eyelids will also close.

"I didn't expect that a company as big as Osborne would have such a weak firewall in its network system." He said in surprise.

However, he ignored the technological level of the Earth.

It’s not that Osborn’s firewall is too weak, but that his technology is too advanced!

"This computer is much better than the old one at home." He reached out and tapped the computer, nodding with satisfaction.

The two computers he and Peter used before were bought by Uncle Ben from second-hand goods that others didn't want. Even in this era, they were already out of date. Every time they were turned on, the computer chassis made a sound like the motor of a sports car.

At this moment, rows of prompt boxes flashed rapidly on the computer screen.

The system has been hacked successfully, but the little hero still needs about twenty-seven minutes to transform.

In other words, it took him less than three minutes to hack into Osborn Enterprises, and that was limited by the performance of the laptop.

If I really switched to a more advanced computer, it would probably only take a few seconds.

But now, he didn't plan to enter Osborne Building immediately.

It was somewhat inconvenient to move using the little warrior's body, so he planned to wait until the transformation time was over before going over.

"We have to try to crack the little watch quickly and get the permission, otherwise it will be troublesome to wait so long every time." He turned his head and looked back. With a wide field of vision, he could only see a small part of the back dial. There was still a lot of time, so Bant simply took out Peter's father's notebook and started to crack it.

"No wonder Peter and Connors' experiment failed."

He could tell at a glance the reason for Connors' mutation.

Peter's parents studied spider genes and created mutant super spiders, but in fact they did not fully achieve cross-species genetic inheritance.

In fact, if you want to make the serum stable, you need to do genetic adaptation in advance.

But Peter and Connors ignored this point, or rather, the notebook did not mention this point at all. Bant could see this flaw with his current wisdom, but Peter and Connors could not.

The more important problem is that even if genetic adaptation is done in advance, it cannot be guaranteed to be completely stable.

It can be said that the formula left by Richard Parker actually had problems, and he himself knew this clearly, so even though he had adapted Peter's genes in the mutant spider's body a long time ago, he did not immediately try the experiment on him.

In other words, Peter is now at risk of mutating into a spider-monster, just like Connors.

It’s just that the spider gene in Peter’s body is more stable, so there’s no need to worry for the time being unless something unexpected happens.

But as Peter's spider abilities continue to grow, this balance will be broken sooner or later.

"You should be thankful that you have a good cousin."

Bant clenched his chin and began to recalculate the formula.

The antidote for the lizard serum is very easy to make. You just need to reverse the formula, but it will take a little time to stabilize the genes in Peter's body.

Of course, it’s just a little bit…

Ten minutes later, Bant stretched.

And in front of him, the notebook was filled with formulas.

Not only was there a medicine that could stabilize Peter's genes, but he even derived the perfect lizard serum.

Of course, he removed the super powers brought by the lizard serum and only retained its medical use. He didn't want the world to become full of superhumans.

Although the serum itself has not been experimentally verified, Bant is very confident.

"Now, Primos' medical project is complete." Bant thought happily, "But this medicine is too perfect. If it is put on the market immediately, it will be very troublesome."

A tube of medicine can regenerate a person's severed limbs. Bant couldn't even imagine how many medical companies would hate him if this thing was really put on the market.

He planned to reduce the potency of the medicine many times before putting it on the market.

There was still a little time left, and Bant was not idle. Instead, he borrowed the little soldier's brain to start learning.

Ten minutes later, Bant, who had transformed back from a little warrior, put away his notebook and looked towards the Osborne Building.

Coincidentally, it was getting dark.

"It's time to move."

He wrote down all the steps for debugging the serum in his notebook.

Bant closed his notebook and jumped from the roof of the building under the cover of night.

At the same time, inside Osborn Enterprises, a thin, gloomy white-haired old man was playing with his little parrot.

"Lizard serum, what a great invention!"

He picked up a small bottle of serum, looked at its crystal clear appearance, and exclaimed in admiration!
(End of this chapter)