Batman Incident (V)

In the Stark Tower's laboratory, Dr. Connors was leading a group of researchers working overtime when his phone rang. Dr. Connors answered, "Hello, I'm very busy right now. We can talk later..."

"This is Nick. How's the serum research going?"

"The research sample is insufficient. You must provide me with at least three more vampires. I am researching serum. You can't expect me to conjure it out of thin air without even providing a blood sample, can you?"

"I will contact the battlefield commander." Nick's voice was calm. He said, "How confident are you that you can break the vampire's Self-Healing ability?"

While organizing research data, Dr. Connors said into the phone, "It's not certain yet, but it's more likely that even if this effect takes effect, it won't be permanent."

"This is a completely new field. I have never encountered this kind of monster before. There is a mysterious factor in their blood that I cannot fully decipher yet. I can only tell you that the kind of effect you are imagining is probably unlikely to occur."

"But we must crack their Self-Healing ability, otherwise this battle is almost impossible to fight."

"The group of vampires who initially controlled the streets of Brooklyn District and Queens numbered over 300. We severely wounded half of them, but they soon recovered to over 200. Meanwhile, our armed police force was reduced from over 300 to 60. Most of them sustained only minor injuries but were unable to continue fighting and had to retreat to await reinforcements."

"With such a disparity in manpower, the longer it drags on, the less we can fight."

Connors spoke quickly as he explained to Nick, "They are a magical creation, and you should know that better than I do. I may not be able to completely decipher one of their abilities using scientific methods. As for making their Self-Healing abilities disappear completely, I can only tell you that it's impossible."

"But I actually have a better idea. If successful, we might not only be able to crack one of their abilities, but we could even render them incapable of fighting."

"Then what are you waiting for? What do you need? Research samples, right? I'll contact Spider-Man right now and have him capture a few and send them to you."

A while later, Dr. Connors heard a loud crash at the window. Spider-Man had crashed into the glass of Stark Tower, and then he used a Silk to stick to the window next to him to prevent himself from sliding down.

He dragged the Web with two or three bats still struggling inside. He opened the window with great difficulty and pulled the net in. Dr. Connors stood in front of him with his arms crossed and said, "Couldn't you have knocked them out first before bringing them in?"

"I'm sorry, Doctor, because I didn't know if you wanted them to be completely alive. You know, if I punched them, their heads might be unusable."

Connors thought he had a point, and then he said, "Are you trying to run off to the battlefield again? Let me tell you, no way! Stay here and help me finish the first phase of research before you can leave."

"But we have a big plan to do, we intend to..."

"Listen, I don't care what you're planning to do. All I know is that, given the current situation, it doesn't make much difference whether you're here or not. But if you stay in the lab, we might be able to solve this problem at its root."

"But..." Peter a little dejected. He knew that Dr. Connors was right.

The plan to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge is no longer needed for him. Just now, Stark has entered the fray. He can command unmanned mechs to launch suicide attacks. At this stage of the war, the power that an individual soldier can exert is no longer significant.

With fighter jets entering the fray and special operations forces beginning their operations, the entire battlefield has now entered the brink of a strategic counter-offensive. What follows is a large-scale brawl, also known as a bombardment.

Spider-Man might be able to use his Superman strength to collect some fries on the battlefield, but the effectiveness of individual heroes in such large-scale operations has been reduced to a minimum. Apart from Iron Man's mech and explosives, and Quake's group attacks, the other superheroes and agent have basically retreated to the edge of the battlefield to carry out rescue work.

Reason told Peter that the laboratory needed him more right now.

In the past, Spider-Man would have been itching to get involved in such a big scene, and even if he stayed in one place, he would feel like he had thorns growing on his butt.

But this time, Peter calmed down quickly. He took off the hood almost without hesitation and then planned to change his clothes and go into the laboratory.

Connors was somewhat surprised. He had already decided to be patient with children and try to appease Peter first. He also knew that few boy of this age could resist the temptation of being a hero in a large-scale war.

After all, a hero is always behind the scenes. No one would not want to attract more attention. Connors knew Peter's personality all along. Perhaps it was because his other identity had been suppressed for too long in daily life. As Spider-Man- Man, Peter really loved to show off.

Peter changed his clothes, walked in, and said directly, "Where do we begin? Do you have any preliminary materials I can see?"

Connors handed him some of the documents, and to everyone's surprise Peter actually found a place to sit down and started reading them seriously.

Connors watched his retreating figure. Although Peter's physique had become much stronger than before, he was still just a teenager, which was quite inconsistent with his current calm demeanor. Connors said, "Now that I think about it, you're only 16 years old. Perhaps we've been a bit too demanding of you."

"I remember when I was 16, I used to skip school every day and hang out with a bunch of people. Back then, I thought everything was fun as long as I was away from school. Even the telephone poles on the main road looked better than those in school."

Peter looked up in surprise and said, "I thought you were a good student."

Dr. Connors smiled and shook his head, saying, "Actually, I only started studying in college; I was just messing around in high school."

Then he said with some emotion, "When I was admitted to Harvard Medical School, I was a little dissatisfied. If I hadn't been admitted, I could have studied abroad. But Harvard Medical School is good too, so I stayed."

Peter swallowed hard, immediately lowered his head, and began to bury himself in his books.

This research project was actually commissioned by Nick to Stark. Nick was well aware of how rare this opportunity was. The members of Congress had made a rare concession and approved the use of large-scale heavy firepower against the vampire invasion of New York. Therefore, they had to act quickly and solve the vampire problem at its root.

If the process drags on for too long, it will give the moderates room to maneuver, which is something the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.. desperately wants to avoid.

The problem of dealing with vampires has always fallen on S.H.I.E.L.D..'s shoulders, but dealing with these things is a thankless task. If Nick Fury hadn't had some conscience, anyone else probably wouldn't have bothered with it at all.

These West Africa troublesome. They have two forms, can use magic, and have extremely strong Self-Healing abilities. Unless they are completely blown out of the head or have their hearts pierced, they will recover very quickly. Even high-level agent may be in danger when facing them.

But it was S.H.I.E.L.D..'s duty to deal with this creature. Nick hated this kind of bill that involved a lot of investment, little return, and no reimbursement, so he naturally wanted to take this opportunity to solve the problem once and for all.

He also knew very well that machine guns and cannons alone could not completely eliminate these creatures. He hoped to approach the problem from a biological perspective and have the genius Stark create a biological weapon for him, ideally one that could turn all the vampires into humans. If that wasn't possible, then he would abolish their special abilities.

So the brilliant Stark simply passed the project on to Connors, while Iron Man had other things to do.

Ever since that day when Stark was inspired by Schiller and had a sudden burst of inspiration, he has been tinkering around in the lab with boundless creativity, making Coulson and Hill tremble with fear, afraid that if they weren't careful, Stark would create a massive steel torrent or an omnic crisis.

Even more terrified than them were the members of Congress who had watched Stark's speech video.

Hill's video was exceptionally well-shot; she completely missed capturing Schiller's warning to Stark, instead starting the recording directly from the climax of Stark's speech.

Throughout the video, Stark acts like a mad genius scientist, passionately describing his dangerous ideas that could destroy the world at any moment.

Stark becomes frantic and neurotic when discussing matters in his field of expertise, a common trait among geniuses.

He went on and on about his crazy ideas, muttering a string of technical terms that normal people couldn't understand, and occasionally spouting things like machines dominating the world, inorganic matter conquering everything, and carbon-based life forms being trash.

Just watching this video would certainly terrify the lawmakers, because they know very well that Stark is capable of doing these things.

Everyone knows that the predicament Stark is facing is mostly because he has set a bottom line for himself and is unwilling to use unconventional methods to deal with his opponents. Otherwise, let alone the military, even if all the forces on Capitol Hill were united, they would not be able to stop Stark's Jaeger army.

They actually had no way to completely stop Stark; everything depended on Stark's own moral compass. The military and lawmakers had considered what to do if Stark went insane one day, but the answer was that there was nothing they could do but pray he didn't.

They all knew that even if Stark Industries went bankrupt and Stark ended up on the streets, if you gave Stark a junkyard, he could still return a Gundam army to you a few days later. The situation in Afghanistan was so dire, yet Stark still managed to escape in the end.

Therefore, they lifted almost all restrictions on S.H.I.E.L.D.., granting Nick full authority and ordering him to immediately and ruthlessly resolve the vampire invasion, leaving Stark with no excuse to retaliate.

In their view, Stark's speech was not just about vampires.

These politicians love to make their own assumptions. In their view, it's because the military oppressed Stark too much recently that Stark is warning them like this, telling them that he has the power to destroy the world.

The senators' choice to confront the vampire issue head-on and eliminate these creatures by any means necessary is also a way of telling Stark that as long as he is willing to maintain his moral bottom line, they can help him maintain that bottom line. He doesn't have to use any abilities outside of that bottom line, so everyone can live a good life.

Of course, Stark couldn't be bothered to think about all that. He was currently on the battlefield, commanding his fleet of Jaegers to wreak havoc.