Chapter 548

"Oh—" Peter Parker responded, and then fell silent.

Do you know everything?

Damn it, how am I supposed to respond to this topic?

"Come with us."

Su Quan smiled and walked towards the elevator with Gwen Stacy.

Peter Parker felt something was off, but since it was a rare opportunity, he followed the two into the elevator.

The elevator slowly ascended, but the three people inside remained silent, each lost in their own thoughts.

Peter Parker is trying to figure out who Su Quan is and why he knows his purpose.

Gwen Stacy was thinking that he was Peter Parker, and he seemed very ordinary, with nothing particularly attractive about him.

Her heart was Su Quan, and she didn't think much about Peter Parker, since he was a complete stranger to her.

What is Su Quan thinking?

He was considering whether to persuade Peter Parker to Professor Curt Connors' research team and work together on Interspecies Genetic Project.

The Osborn family's genetic disease problem has been resolved, and the core conflict that caused the various disputes has also disappeared. There is absolutely no need for fighting and killing like in the movies anymore.

Moreover, Peter Parker is key to the success of Interspecies Genetic Project, so from that point of view alone, there are only benefits to getting him to join, and no drawbacks.

"Bite!"

We've reached the floor.

"Gwen Stacy, go find Professor Connors and ask him to come to your office," Su Quan said with a smile.

"Good."

Gwen Stacy nodded and went to find someone.

Su Quan, accompanied by a curious and nervous Peter Parker, went straight to the office.

Not long after, Gwen Stacy led Professor Curt Connors into the office.

"What do you need me for?" Professor Curt Connors asked nervously.

Su Quan smiled and shook his head, pointing at Peter Parker: "It wasn't me looking for you, it was him."

"Hello Professor Connors, I am Peter Parker, Richard Parker is my father." Peter Parker extended his hand.

Professor Curt Connors shook hands with him with a slight change in expression, then looked at Su Quan with some confusion.

Su Quan thought for a moment and decided to confront the situation directly. Playing guessing games would only waste time and make things worse.

The core conflict between Peter Parker, or rather Peter Parker's parents, and the Osborn family revolved around this project, but with Su Quan's acceptance and Norman Osborn's recovery, the project was no longer so crucial.

As for the rest, we'll talk about it later.

Speaking of which, putting aside the 'protagonist halo,' Su Quan felt that Peter Parker's father Richard Parker, was quite unscrupulous in his actions...

He was originally a researcher at Osborn Industries, where he worked with Professor Curt Connors on genetic engineering for cross-species inheritance. Osborn Industries paid him a salary and provided him with research funding.

What did he do?

After the project's success, he worried that Osborn Industries might misuse the research, using it for illegal activities and then absconding with the research findings.

What's this?

I paid you a salary and provided you with funds, but after we succeeded, you took all the credit and ran away?

Are they even going so far as to disregard the most basic rule: whoever invests profits?

Yes, you developed this project and you succeeded in researching it, but you didn't work for nothing, did you?

Besides, could you have succeeded in developing it without Osborn Industries's funding?

Putting all that aside, the most ridiculous thing is the concern that Osborn Industries might misuse the research success.

Please, didn't you know that when you were doing your research?

If you're so righteous, why don't you refuse to research this project?

Why start worrying about this only after the research is successful?

What's even more disgusting is that not only did you run away with the research results, but you also mixed your own genes into the spiders you bred, so that they would only mutate if they were bitten.

You're telling me that all his actions were motivated by justice and concern?

All I can say is: Hehe.

Getting back to the point, Su Quan Quanchao smiled at Professor Curt Connors, who was unaware of his meaning, and said briefly, "You are his father's colleague and friend. He came to you mainly to learn about his father's affairs."

"To be precise, it was his father's research project."

As he spoke, Su Quan looked at Peter Parker, who was looking surprised, and bluntly stated, "There is an experimental file in the briefcase left by your father, which contains the formula for the Decay Rate Algorithm that he cracked."

"Decay Rate Algorithm?!"

Professor Curt Connors' eyes lit up. He remembered what Su Quan had said: the core problem of this experiment was the Decay Rate Algorithm. Without solving this problem, the experiment would never succeed.

Then, in less than half a day, he brought Richard Parker's son over, saying that Richard Parker had left him the formula for the Decay Rate Algorithm that he had successfully cracked.

This happiness came so suddenly!

"How do you know about the briefcase and Decay Rate Algorithm?" Peter Parker stared at Su Quan in astonishment, his eyes wide like saucers.

"I know everything."

Su Quan shrugged, then continued with a startling statement, "I not only know that your father kept the Decay Rate Algorithm, but I also know that he left you another treasure that cannot be measured in money."

"To be honest, your father is a bit of a scoundrel."

Peter Parker frowned and said, "I won't allow you to talk about my father like that!"

Su Quan shrugged. "I'm stating the facts. Besides, what can you do about it? Hit me? Curse me? Believe me, I'll flip his coffin lid off!"

Since it concerned his father, and Peter Parker was a hot-blooded young man, how could he hold back? Without thinking, he shouted and threw a punch at Su Quan.

Seeing this, Professor Curt Connors, even with only one arm left, tried to grab Peter Parker immediately, while Gwen Stacy stood directly in front of Su Quan, wanting to protect him with her body.

"The truth—don't you want to know?"

Su Quan's calm voice instantly stopped the furious Peter Parker from his rage. He glared at Su Quan and demanded, "The truth! Tell me the truth!"

Su Quan patted Gwen Stacy on the shoulder, smiled and kissed her cheek, and then, under her slightly shy gaze, slowly began to recount what happened back then.

"Your father, Richard Parker, was a researcher at Osborn Industries, where he worked with Professor Connors on genetic engineering. However, after the research was successful, your father worried that Osborn Industries would use the research to make illegal profits, so he and your mother ran away with the research."

"The Osborn family has a congenital genetic disease called Reverse Cell Proliferation Syndrome. The genetic engineering your father and Professor Connors are researching is aimed at curing this disease."

"Osborn Industries invested a lot of money in this project and gave your father and Professor Connors very generous personal benefits. However, your father took away the project results that Osborn Corporation had invested in and developed, using the unfounded reason that he was worried that Osborn Industries use this research to make illegal profits."

Do you think this is appropriate?

"Why didn't he have this concern at the beginning of the experiment? Besides, did Osborn Industries illegally profit from this research? No, he was just worried, and then he ran away with the results!"

"To put it another way, would a giant company like Osborn Industries, with a scale of hundreds of billions of dollars, need to use this project to make illegal profits? And would the profits be more than normal profits?"

Peter Parker opened his mouth as if to argue, but he had nothing to say.

"Norman Osborn paid out of his own pocket to develop a project in order to cure his own and his offspring's genetic disease. The project was successful, but the developer ran away with the results. So, was it wrong for him to send people to capture the developer and take back the results?"

Su Quan's words were like a knife, stabbing Peter Parker hard.

If what Su Quan said is true, then his father is indeed—indeed—somewhat unethical.

"You think your father only did this? No, no, no, he did something even more outrageous for Osborne," Su Quan sneered.

Peter Parker hesitated for a moment before asking, "What else did he do?"

"The Decay Rate Algorithm is real, but even with the Decay Rate Algorithm, this experiment won't succeed easily! Or rather, this experiment can only succeed on you!"

"Why—why?" Peter Parker was puzzled, not understanding why success only worked on him.

Su Quan curled his lip and said, "Because your father incorporated his genes into the spiders he cultivated. Only when he and his offspring are bitten by the spiders can they mutate!"

"This is what I meant by the immeasurable wealth your father left you. It grants you extraordinary abilities, transforming you from a nobody into a hero!"

Peter Parker fell silent, and Professor Curt Connors also fell silent.

In particular, Professor Curt Connors, after Richard Parker's accident, stayed behind to continue developing the project due to the threat from the Osborn Industries and his ambition to restore his arm.

At the same time, he severed ties with the Parker family and never visited Peter Parker again.

He did this partly to protect Peter Parker, and partly out of shame, feeling he had let down his friend who had sacrificed himself.

But now, after hearing what Su Quan said, Professor Curt Connors just wanted to say "Screw it!"

So you've tricked everyone, and all their investment and effort has ended up benefiting your son?

Su Quan is right, you really are a dog!

"Let's make a deal."

"You helped Professor Connors complete the experiment, and I will grant you superpowers and have the Osborn family forgive your father's actions and drop the matter."

Just as Peter Parker was stunned by the truth, Su Quan spoke up.

Peter Parker paused for a moment, then said, "My father is dead."