Chapter 508

As the two stepped out of the bar, the night breeze caressed their faces. Betty Brant, feeling a bit tipsy, asked Su Quan almost impulsively, "I live around here, wanna come up for a coffee?"

After she finished speaking, she felt a little regretful, regretting that she lacked experience and had spoken too rashly and bluntly.

However, since the words had already been spoken, although she felt somewhat embarrassed, she did not explain or avoid the question, but instead waited expectantly for the other party's reply.

Su Quan shrugged and said with a smile, "Why not?"

Betty Brant immediately beamed with joy. Great, she hadn't been rejected!

Looking back on the first half of her life, she had never done anything so rash or daring, but all the so-called reasons were no match for the phrase "I fucking want to."

The old saying goes, "I've eaten more salt than you've walked roads," which makes a lot of sense, because sometimes rich experience can indeed make things much easier.

For example, if you want to thread a needle but the thread won't go through the eye of the needle, you can moisten it with saliva and it will go in.

A pot of wine with a bosom friend; how many springs have passed in life?

Spring...

The best time to plan for the year is in spring, and the best time to plan for the day is in the morning.

Early in the morning, Betty Brant, who had just fallen asleep, stubbornly got up after several alarm clock rings.

Looking at the empty bed beside her, Betty Brant paused for a moment, then, suppressing the discomfort of her hangover, she forced herself to shower and wash up before heading to work.

The Daily Bugle.

At the desk outside the boss's office, Betty Brant Brandt forced herself to start her new day's work.

However, her job was fine, and her boss was as sarcastic and mean as ever, but she didn't take it to heart at all. The pressure and frustration she had accumulated in the past seemed to have vanished completely.

"Is this the right way to relieve stress?"

Betty Brant couldn't help but think of the man she considered a confidant.

Then, she thought of how the other person had left without saying goodbye that morning, and couldn't help but feel a little sad and disappointed.

After a busy day at work, Betty Brant had just stepped out of the newspaper office when a bouquet of flowers blocked her view.

"It's you?" Betty Brant took a few steps back and recognized the person behind the bouquet.

It was none other than Su Quan.

"These are for you." Su Quan handed over the flowers, adding with a hint of complaint, "Give me your number. I don't want to be an idiot and knock on doors again."

"Knock on the door?"

"I went downstairs to buy breakfast this morning, and when I came back I knocked on the door for a long time but no one answered. Then I thought, you should be at work."

This was mostly true, but one part was false. Su Quan did go downstairs to buy breakfast in the morning, but before the restaurant had finished preparing it, he noticed that Betty Brant had woken up, and then he rushed off to work.

Then he finished his breakfast at the restaurant.

As for knocking on the door?

Knowing that Betty Brant was already gone, why bother knocking on the door...?

Betty Brant was stunned when she heard this. She thought Su Quan was a player who would leave after completing the game. She never expected him to go downstairs to buy her breakfast.

A wave of embarrassment and regret washed over her, and Betty Brant quickly apologized. "I'm sorry, I didn't know you went to buy breakfast. I thought you... you left, and then I went to work."

"Let me treat you to dinner as an apology, okay?"

Su Quan said with a smile, "Why don't you just buy me coffee? I've already booked the restaurant for dinner."

Betty Brant blushed slightly, then nodded readily and said, "Okay."

The two arrived at the roadside and, to Betty Brant's astonishment, got into a silver sports car.

Twenty minutes later, the two entered a very famous high-end restaurant. Su Quan gave his name and was led to his seat by the waiter.

"I heard there are a few good dishes that need to be prepared in advance, so I ordered them when I made the reservation this morning. Take a look and see if there's anything you'd like to eat," Su Quan said with a smile.

Betty Brant Brandt didn't mind that Su Quan had ordered the food in advance; her attention was focused on the 'morning reservation'.

Therefore, Su Quan had booked a restaurant to have dinner with her in the morning, and it wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision for some reason!

Betty Brant felt increasingly moved and guilty as she thought about it.

As they ate and chatted, Betty Brant, thinking of Su Quan's sports car, couldn't help but ask curiously, "By the way, I still don't know what you do for a living."

Su Quan said with a smile, "I guess I work in the investment industry. I invest in promising projects and people in advance, help them succeed, and then get the returns I want, or rather, even greater returns."

The investment industry is a very fitting description!

Su Quan continued, "You know Osborn Industries, right? They're collaborating with the military on a 'Human Enhancement Potion' project. However, it's a large investment and slow to yield results. If Norman Osborn fails to complete the experiment within the stipulated time, they will lose the military's investment, and Osborn Industries will be acquired."

"During the day I went to see Norman Osborn and talked to him about continuing to invest in the project after his failure."

Norman Osborn in this world does not have any inherited genetic diseases. He started the Osborn Industries from scratch and is very passionate about researching aircraft and performance enhancers.

Before he received the incomplete dose of the physical enhancement serum, he was a good person, though somewhat hypocritical and charitable. But how many self-made capitalists are truly consistent in word and deed?

The business world is like a battlefield; naive people have long been eliminated.

The main reason Su Quan wanted to invest was because he was optimistic about the Osborne family.

Norman Osborn was a very capable businessman and researcher, and his son Harry Osborn was kind, loyal and righteous, more than capable of being a hero like the Green Goblin.

Speaking of which, Harry Osborn is the most tragic character in this version of Spider-Man.

As the heir to the Osborn Industries, he had none of the arrogance typical of rich kids. He was high school classmates with Flashpoint Flash Thompson, Peter Parker, and Mary Jane, and was Peter Parker's only good friend.

The melodramatic plot of two best friends falling for the same girl unfolds between him and Peter Parker.

They both liked Mary Jane, but unlike Peter Parker who only harbored a secret crush, he took the initiative after Mary Jane and Flashpoint Flash Thompson broke up, and he succeeded.

Later...

His miserable life began.

His father turned into the Green Goblin and was killed by his best friend; his girlfriend broke up with him and got together with his best friend; after learning the truth about his father's death, he transformed into the Green Goblin II to seek revenge on his best friend, but he lost his memory and forgot his hatred.

Why would he forget that his best friend was his father's killer? Because his best friend was very important to him. He was torn between his father and his best friend. What could he do?

So after being injured, he lost his memory and forgot that his best friend was the murderer of his father.

Then, he remembered.

However, his good friend was affected by the Venom Suit and his mood changed drastically.

He was disfigured.

But when his good friend realized his mistake and asked him to help rescue Mary Jane, he went anyway, and in the critical moment, he saved his friend with his own life.

He risked his life to save his love rival, his father's killer, and the person who disfigured him, simply because that person was his good friend.

With such an ending, is there anyone in this version of Spider-Man who suffered a worse fate?

Speaking of the three Spider-Man, the first Spider-Man lost Uncle Ben, the second Spider-Man lost Gwen Stacy, and the third Spider-Man suffered the most.

Not only did they lose Uncle Ben, but they also lost their 'adoptive father' Iron Man, and even Aunt Mei was tragically killed by the Green Goblin who traveled across the universe.

Oh, his girlfriend didn't die, but Doctor Strange's Oblivion Curse made her, and even the whole world, forget him.

Truly a lone wolf!

The three Spider-Men appeared together, with Tobey Spider-Man and the Amazing Spider-Man each speaking about the most important person they had lost, but neither mentioned Harry Osborn.

What's wrong?

Don't I, Harry Osborn, deserve a name?

I've given so much for you, and you won't even mention me once!

Let's get back to the main topic.

After dinner, Su Quan was invited to Betty Brant's house and once again enjoyed her coffee-making skills.

The next morning, Su Quan took Betty Brant to the Daily Bugle and then went to Empire State University in New York.

In the near future, Peter Parker will attend this university after graduating from high school.

Su Quan came to meet Peter Parker's future biology teacher, Professor Connors.

If this name sounds unfamiliar, he also has a very famous name.

Lizard Professor!

However, in this version, in this world, he is just the one-armed Professor Curt Connors, who also helped Peter Parker analyze samples of the Venom Suit, and did not become Lizard Professor.

Su Quan came to him partly because he wanted him to join his Multiverse research team; after all, the more scientists, the better.

On the other hand, he had a friend named Otto Octavius.

He also has another name: Doctor Octopus!

Speaking of Spider-Man's villains, there are only two who are truly unique: Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus.

Doctor Octopus is a very talented scientist, kind-hearted, with a happy family. He has been dedicated to the research of nuclear energy, and once his research is successful, it will generate an endless supply of usable energy.

For his energy research, he developed mechanical tentacles for himself.

Unfortunately, the experiment ultimately failed, and he was also affected by the mechanical tentacles, turning him into a villain.

However, unlike other villains, in the comics his consciousness possessed Spider-Man Peter Parker's body, becoming the Superior Spider-Man.