"No wonder his aura is so sickening."
"Strange. Where did Norman Osborn go?"
"Why did his son come out first instead?"
A powerful urge to purify Harry Osborn appeared out of nowhere, and Fenris suddenly felt his hand begin to itch.
"Who are you?"
Seeing such a freak suddenly appear in his laboratory without warning, the joy on Otto's face changed. He frowned and barked harshly at the Green Goblin's kid, "Who let you in here? Get out, or I'll call security!"
The sudden change immediately drew everyone's eyes to the Green Goblin's kid.
In their eyes, this was nothing more than some madman in a ridiculous costume trying to get attention. Very quickly, people started shouting for security, trying to have this freak who was interfering with their chance to witness history dragged out.
"Kekekeke!"
"I'm a lunatic, all right. And today, I came here specifically for one person."
The Green Goblin's kid seemed to enjoy being the center of attention. He reached behind himself, pulled out an exaggeratedly shaped glider, and lightly stepped onto it.
"Connors, I'm here to settle the score with you!"
"You left me to die back then. Now, I don't need you to save me anymore!"
Amid the hum of the flying machine, he slowly rose into the air. At the same time, his gaze crossed the crowd and locked firmly onto Connors beside Fenris.
"Harry Osborn?"
Harry had no intention of hiding his identity. Connors instantly remembered the handsome young man who had still been humbly begging him in his office yesterday to save his life.
He just had not expected that after only one day, Harry would turn into this.
"Harry?"
Seeing his best friend turn into this half-human, half-ghost thing, Peter felt his mind go blank with a roar.
"No!"
But in the next instant, an intense sense of danger swept through Peter's entire body.
His spider-sense began screaming wildly, urging him over and over to get away from this place as fast as possible.
"Is it the doctor's fusion reaction?"
Peter's heart tightened, and he turned his head in horror.
"Warning! Magnetic overload!"
"Warning! System overload!"
A shrill alarm suddenly rang through the entire laboratory.
"What happened?"
"Is the fusion out of control?"
"It's over. If that thing explodes, none of us will get out alive!"
Amid the beeping alarms, the crowd, already on edge, instantly descended into chaos.
Panicked cries erupted everywhere. Everyone present was an elite of some kind, so naturally, no one was ignorant of what a nuclear runaway would mean.
For a moment, everyone began rushing madly toward the door. Under the crush of bodies, the once orderly laboratory fell into total disorder, and cries and screams rose one after another.
"Kahahaha!"
"I locked the doors here a long time ago. None of you are getting out!"
Standing high above on his glider, the Green Goblin's kid looked down at the rioting crowd below. It was as if he had seen something hilarious. He even bent over laughing, letting out a shrill cackle.
"No!"
The crowd did not believe him, but after failing to force open the doors and windows, they realized the freak had not lied. For a time, an atmosphere of despair spread through the room.
"Everyone, don't panic. I'm Tony Stark. Trust me, everyone is getting out of here safely!"
"Don't shove. Listen to me!"
"Iron Man, you don't even have your suit. How are you going to save us?"
Seeing that things were turning bad, Tony stepped forward without hesitation.
Thanks to his identity as a superhero, although someone still voiced doubts, he barely managed to stabilize the situation.
Screech!
But in the very next moment, a loud tearing sound came from the wall as the steel there suddenly gave way with a violent shriek.
"What's going on?"
Tony was startled and turned his head sharply.
Inside the enormous magnetic confinement device, the artificial sun had rapidly expanded again in a very short time, reaching over three meters in diameter.
It looked like a giant fireball, wildly spitting out tongues of flame like solar prominences. Its previously docile appearance had vanished entirely. At this moment, it looked especially terrifying.
And as its volume expanded, the light, heat, and radiation it emitted were increasing exponentially.
At the same time, along with those changes came an incredibly powerful magnetic force leaking outward.
The strong magnetic field broke through the restraint of the device in an instant. From tiny paper clips on the floor to the necklaces around people's necks and small metal objects on their bodies, then all the way up to the various instruments and equipment in the laboratory, nothing was spared. Everything began falling toward the artificial sun.
"No. I can still control it!"
"I will not allow my life's work to be wasted like this!"
Otto, who was closest to the device, stabilized himself with the help of his mechanical tentacles. Like a madman, he made one last desperate struggle at the control console, trying to stabilize the artificial sun.
"No..."
Once nuclear fusion began, it could not be stopped so easily. Otto's hands kept moving, his face slick with cold sweat, but in the end, there was nothing he could do.
Zzzzt!
As a massive tongue of flame erupted from the artificial sun's surface, it easily broke through the magnetic restraint. Under Otto's nearly despairing gaze, the specially designed outer shell of the device let out a groan, then bent downward outright.
"It's over..."
Otto's eyes were filled with despair. "No one can stop it now..."
That thing was almost completely out of control.
"Otto!"
A woman's desperate cry suddenly came from not far away. Hearing it, Otto jerked his head around.
Not far away, a glass curtain wall shattered with a crash, and countless shards of glass flew toward the artificial sun at terrifying speed.
And his beloved wife, Rosie, was standing directly between them.
"No! Rosie!"
"Move!"
Seeing that Rosie was about to be pierced through by the glass shards, Otto's eyes widened instantly. The mechanical tentacles behind him lunged frantically to the side, trying to save his wife.
But in the end, he was still half a step too slow.
Watching the fear in Rosie's eyes, Otto's pupils began to tremble violently.
A true sense of despair surged into his heart. His lips began to shake unconsciously, and cold sweat instantly crawled up his back. "Rosie!"
Boom!
In the next moment, Otto's vision blurred, and Rosie's figure vanished from his sight as if she had disappeared into thin air.
"Rosie?"
A large number of glass shards flew over, and with one sweep, his mechanical tentacles blocked them all.
When Otto came back to himself and searched for his wife, he saw that she had somehow appeared in another corner of the laboratory.
Rosie was still shaken, clutching her chest and gasping for breath. Beside her, a strange yet familiar figure flashed past.
"Is that the kid Connors mentioned?"
A sunny face surfaced in Otto's memory. He froze, never expecting that Fenris would be the one to save his wife's life.
"Fenris, help take care of Gwen. I'm going to pull the power."
On the other side, the situation was urgent. At some point, Peter had already changed into his suit. After calling out to Fenris, who had just finished rescuing someone, his figure flashed, and he shot toward the magnetic confinement device.
Five thick cables were connected to the device, providing it with power.
While the artificial sun had not fully formed yet, cutting off its energy supply would most likely resolve the crisis.
Otherwise, once the artificial sun went completely out of control, the explosion it caused could absolutely be called a disaster. Who knew how many people would suffer?
"Stop!"
Just as Peter wrapped his arms around one of the thick cables and began desperately pulling it outward, Otto's furious voice suddenly rang out.
With a crisp crack, the chip behind his head, originally meant to protect his brain, suddenly shattered.
At the same time, the artificial intelligence in the mechanical tentacles took advantage of the opening and completely seized control of Otto's consciousness.
"This is my life's work!"
"I won't allow you to touch my device!"
One second ago, Otto had still been relieved over his wife's safety. In the next, it was as if he had become a completely different person. His eyes turned bloodshot, and the four tentacles behind him stabbed toward Peter in unison.
"Doctor, what are you doing?"
Peter never expected the doctor to attack him. As his spider-sense screamed warnings, he had no choice but to let go of the cable and narrowly dodge the strike.
"I'm going to help the kid."
Tony, who had been busy calming the crowd, saw that things were going wrong. He immediately pivoted and rushed toward Peter.
He yanked off his expensive suit jacket, revealing the vibranium combat suit he had been wearing underneath. At the same time, he shook both arms, and two sharp-tipped arm shields extended from the sleeves of the suit.
Because the Mark suits were not portable enough, he had made this kind of combat suit to wear on his person.
And honestly, it was pretty useful in a crisis.
"Kid, I'll help you too!"
Connors, who had always felt guilty toward Peter because of what had happened before, saw him being entangled by Doctor Octopus and rushed after Tony without hesitation.
His body rapidly expanded as he ran. In the blink of an eye, a black lizardman over three meters tall, bearing some resemblance to Fenris, appeared in the laboratory.
"How did Connors turn into that?"
Seeing Connors transform into such a strange form with his own eyes, the Green Goblin's kid, who had been leisurely watching the show from the air, subconsciously scratched his head. Beneath his mask, a conflicted expression appeared on his face for the first time.
His instincts told him that Connors in this form was not someone to mess with. In fact, he was extremely dangerous.
But when his hand unconsciously touched the pumpkin bombs loaded onto the glider, it was as if he had been injected with immense courage. The hesitation on Harry's face vanished instantly.
"Whatever. Eat my pumpkin bombs first!"
Amid his sharp shout, Harry threw two bombs flashing with dangerous green light. They landed precisely in Connors's arms.
(End of Chapter)
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