Chapter 703 U: Infinite Events (Twenty-Two)

The moon was bright outside the laboratory window, but the laboratory was in a mess. Otto stood among the debris on the ground, two tentacles supported the ground, lifted himself up, and the four tentacles took steps forward like legs until he came to Zhang Parker.

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

"I'm not Spider-Man." Zhang Parker admitted his identity for the first time. He said, "I am you in your parallel universe."

Otto snorted and did not speak. He controlled the tentacles to turn around, fixed them to the ceiling, and began to pick up the debris in the room.

Zhang Parker seemed to be irritated, 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."

"Really? Then you are still pretty good. Go back to your universe. Why are you here? Do you think I am not busy enough?" Otto bent down to pick up the fragments of the laboratory table, with a little regretful expression on his face.

All the building materials in this laboratory are made of the best materials. Unfortunately, the mechanical tentacles behind Otto are made of better materials. The luxurious combination of molten steel and vibranium makes the tool tentacles have unparalleled hardness. Even if they are lightly whipped on the laboratory table, they will break the laboratory table.

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

"Who are you referring to?"

"Those Spider-Men."

Otto shook his head and said, "They left with the agents. SHIELD is investigating the matter of traveling across the universe. If you chase their car now, you should be able to catch up."

As he spoke, he put on his glasses, picked up the documents at hand, and began to read the contents on them. Although he was a little tired, he seemed to be much calmer after making a fuss and venting his anger.

"Are you just going to stay here?" Zhang Parker took two steps forward, looked at Otto and asked, "Live a failed life like yours, and always be 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 have! Even if it hasn't happened yet, it will happen sooner or later! He is such a person! His indecision and cowardice will destroy the world!" The tentacles behind Zhang Parker trembled, and there was a hint of anger in his tone.

Otto put down the document in his hand, paused for a moment, supported by his mechanical tentacles, and turned his body around. His glasses reflected the moonlight outside the window, so Zhang Parker couldn't see his eyes clearly, but he was sure that Otto was not angry about his words at this time.

"Are you jealous of him?" Otto asked.

"I said, I have defeated him, I did better than him!" Zhang Parker emphasized again: "I eliminated all the criminals at once, and from now 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 little familiar. Zhang Parker recalled that perhaps, at some point, 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 hours every day roaming around New York like Spider-Man, because he knows that it is useless."

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

"You are not me, you are still Spider-Man." Otto emphasized again, he said: "Only those stupid boys in adolescence will think that as long as they beat all criminals with their fists, the world will be able to achieve peace."

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

"There are so many sins in this world, wars, bloodshed and death, essentially because resources are limited, and humans must compete for the limited resources in this small space."

"This will lead to too many meaningless fights. If there are unlimited resources, all humans can live the best life. Although criminals cannot be completely eliminated, it must be much better than it is now."

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

"From the beginning to the end, I have been an energy scientist. The only way I can save the world is to obtain inexhaustible clean energy for mankind, so that everyone will no longer fight for it. This is what I should do."

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

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

Since exchanging bodies with Peter Parker, he has been busy all the time. He wants to open his own laboratory, make stronger equipment, fight more criminals, invent monitoring equipment to monitor the whole city, and always beware of Spider-Man's counterattack.

He has to crack all kinds of conspiracies and tricks. After traveling to the future, he is on the road to deal with the Inheritors. He led the Spider Army to attack head-on and was seriously injured. Zhang Parker asked himself, even if Peter Parker from his world came, he would not do better than him.

Did he do better than Peter Parker?

Maybe yes, he provided mechas for many people, eliminated criminals, and hit the Inheritors who threatened Spider-Man. That immature boy was not that strong at all.

But is he still Otto Octavius?

The days of being a researcher are very far away from him. The days of driving to and from get off work every day, facing boring experimental data, and being angry at the inaccurate operation of laboratory assistants are like the moonlight this night, which disappears the moment the sun rises.

Also gone were Otto's ambitions and aspirations.

When he first lit the reactor fire when he was young, he had imagined that he would become a great scientist who would change the fate of mankind, and like all the great men in history, he would leave a strong and colorful mark on the road to human ultimate happiness.

But this idea did not last long, and he met Spider-Man, a destined opponent.

He began to abandon his ideas as an energy scientist, repairing tentacles, strengthening equipment, and even making a device that could exchange bodies with Peter Parker.

What a great invention, but when Zhang Parker stood here, he gradually recalled the joy he felt after discovering that he had successfully exchanged bodies with Spider-Man.

Was he happy for his new life?

Or was he happy for becoming his enemy, the fool he once disdained?

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

Perhaps, this is indeed something to be proud of, but that middle-aged, ordinary and somewhat unlucky energy scientist has completely disappeared in his universe.

Does the world need Otto more or Spider-Man more?

When Zhang Parker thought about this question, he lowered his head and looked at the scattered materials on the floor of the laboratory.

He took two steps forward and picked up a piece of paper on the ground. There were some data written on it that he couldn't even fully understand, which seemed to be the conclusion of the survey of 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 arms trembling a little. He walked along the wall on one side of the room and walked towards the door.

After opening the door, there were several filing cabinets neatly placed on the wall. Zhang Parker walked forward anxiously, as if he was eager 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, all the things he could understand and couldn't understand.

Numbers and graphics surrounded him, and the distant memories of scientists came to his mind again.

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

The stellar energy extraction device he designed has been in actual use for no more than three months, and the energy extracted has reached 30% of the total global coal-fired power generation. In the next three years, it is expected to replace most of the energy generated by coal-fired power generation on the earth, and it is clean, pollution-free and sustainable.

Zhang Parker put down the information in his hand, walked out of the information room, and then pushed open the door of the laboratory next door, where other Spider-Mans were doing experiments. There, Zhang Parker saw more project information.

The lizard serum project that can perfectly regenerate broken limbs without sequelae, the mechanical equipment project of the Mercury base, and the cryogenic chamber project that can freeze terminally ill people for future treatment...

Every document here represents a step towards human ultimate happiness.

A few minutes later, Otto looked at the list, and the figure with tentacles appeared outside the door again. Zhang Parker asked in a hoarse voice: "Lizard Man... I mean, Dr. Connors, where is he?"

"His laboratory is in Stark Building. If I'm not mistaken, he should still be doing experiments now. You can call that Tony Stark. He always gives a break 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 Building, Connors rubbed his wrists and put down the pen in his hand. After recording the last set of data, he was about to get off work. At this time, he turned and looked outside the door. Under the moonlight, a figure with four tentacles appeared there.

"Otto? Oh, you are not Otto, Peter?? You also had the mechanical tentacle surgery?" Connors looked at Zhang Parker who appeared at the door with some surprise.

"I..." Zhang Parker smacked his lips. He looked at Connors, the once cruel and cold-blooded Dr. Lizard, who was calmer than he thought. For some reason, everyone in this universe seemed more focused, self-consistent, and balanced, with a sense of relaxation from the inside out.

Connors looked at Zhang Parker and seemed to realize that he was not the Peter he knew, but in the end, his eyes fell on Zhang Parker's waist and he asked: "Are you injured? And it seems that the injury is very serious..."

As he said, he turned around and took two injections from the cabinet next to him. He walked towards Zhang Parker and handed the injections to him, saying: "This is a mature version that has been tested. With just one injection, the wound can be perfectly repaired and the broken limbs can be regenerated."

Zhang Parker took the two injections silently, but after hesitating 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 extra bright moonlight, and slowly uttered two words in a nostalgic tone: "Go home."

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

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

"The problem is, I don't even know how I sent you here." Peter, who was looking at a thick stack of information in his hand, showed a bitter face.

"The secret of magic is to make your wish come true." Zhang Parker repeated the words that Peter said before sending them here. He said, "If you know magic, use magic to send me back."

"... I'll try, but I can't guarantee success." Peter said a little embarrassedly. As he said that, he put his hand on Zhang Parker's shoulder, trying to concentrate, and kept chanting: "Make your wish come true, make your wish come true..."

After a burst of light, Zhang Parker appeared in the silent universe. He held the teleporter in his hand and used spider sense to communicate with the spider totem to locate his own universe.

In an instant, he appeared in a familiar room. Outside the window were surveillance robots flying around, and the police and security guards patrolling the streets were all wearing mechas designed by him.

Zhang Parker lowered his head, looked 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 he had almost forgotten, the remains of Otto Octavius ​​had been kept there. Dr. Octopus came to the body, put the injection in his hand, and then started the body exchange device.

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

"Silly boy."

As soon as the voice fell, Dr. Octopus opened his eyes again.

Otto felt the great pain coming from this dying body. The broken, old, and painful body was far less useful than the young and healthy body.

But he smiled, clenched the lizard serum in his hand, and then stabbed it hard in his shoulder.

Then, on the skyline of New York City, four huge mechanical tentacles broke out of the ground.

A middle-aged man in a windbreaker and sunglasses stood in the sun again. He took a deep breath and turned his head to look at the traffic in downtown New York and the sun hanging high in the sky.

Spider-Man, who regained his body, jumped out of the hole in the ceiling. He stretched out his tentacles and said to Otto: "Doctor Octopus, don't get 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 vent his dissatisfaction with Spider-Man and himself broke through the clouds above the city and echoed over New York:

"Spider-Man!! You would rather spend three hours flying around New York every day! You are unwilling to spend some time worrying about the future of mankind!!!!"

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