Dr. Connors believed that merely creating more Lizardmen was not enough. His Lizard Serum was still too weak; he had to develop a more potent one.
And all of that required money.
When that vial of Lizard Serum, carrying madness and hope, was injected into Professor Connors's body, an unprecedented transformation began.
At first, there were only subtle physical abnormalities. Patterns resembling lizard scales occasionally emerged on his skin, but before long, the change spread like an uncontrollable wildfire.
A new personality quietly came into being within Professor Connors's body.
This new personality seemed to be a bizarre fusion of Professor Connors's intellect and a lizard's savage, primal instincts.
It inherited Professor Connors's vast knowledge and exceptional intellect, yet was ruled by the lizard's cold, selfish, and aggressive instincts.
In its eyes, humanity was merely a frail and inferior species, while it—an existence fused with lizard genes—stood at the pinnacle of the evolutionary chain.
It began to see itself as a superior being, and an utterly insane idea took root in its mind—spread the Lizard Serum, turn all of New York's humans into reptilian humans like itself, and establish a world ruled by these "new humans."
After the Lizardman attack on the Brooklyn Bridge.
The incident drew widespread attention and fierce condemnation from all sectors of society.
As the backer of the Interspecies gene transplantation project, the Osborn Group immediately became the target of public outrage.
But unexpectedly, not only did they fail to halt the dangerous project, they swiftly took complete control of it instead.
They sealed off the laboratory, forbade all unauthorized personnel from entering, and took possession of all experimental records in an attempt to conceal the truth.
Even more outrageously, the Osborn Group directly used the Lizard Serum in human trials without approval from the FDA.