Injection of Serum (Second Update!)

After deducing several viable gene implantation methods through the correct decay rate algorithm, Dr. Connors couldn't wait to create several serums based on these methods and began experiments on a few lab mice.

The experiment required at least a month or two to determine the results, so Dilos and Dr. Connors found themselves with some free time. However, to avoid any mishaps similar to the movies where mutated mice go on a rampage, Dilos suggested that Dr. Connors replace the containers housing the mice with alloy ones.

In the following time, Dilos found a house with enough space and good concealment to rent. First, there was nothing for him to do at Dr. Connors' lab for the time being. Second, he couldn't keep the mutated spiders hidden in the lab for long; it would be bad if Dr. Connors discovered his work on the variant spiders at this stage. Finally, he needed to conduct his own experiments, which naturally couldn't be done in the house Lex had rented for him.

As for the fact that Dilos was a minor and couldn't rent a house without a guardian, Dilos noted that with forged documents and the help of psychic hypnosis, he could still secure a suitable property on his own.

Besides that, Dilos had to buckle down and study for his final exams in two months. After all, he was still a high school student; no matter how long his internship lasted, he had to return to prepare for his finals. Furthermore, he had to perfect the spider serum during this period.

Thus, Dilos's schedule remained extremely tight.

Time flew by, and over half a month passed. Not only had Dilos's variant spiders fully integrated with the serum, but under his arrangement, they had also bred a second generation.

The first generation of variant spiders ultimately had many issues. After fully mutating, these spiders not only doubled in size and gained greater strength, but their temperaments also became extremely aggressive.

This aggression was particularly pronounced whenever other living creatures were nearby, regardless of whether they were their own kind.

Fortunately, it was easy for Dilos to control them with telepathy. Based on their emotional responses, Dilos speculated that their extreme aggression stemmed primarily from panic; their significantly enhanced senses caused them to feel overwhelmed whenever they detected movement around them.

After all, even highly intelligent humans would fall into a panic if their senses were suddenly amplified to such a degree, let alone spiders with naturally limited intelligence.

It was fortunate that these variant spiders were kept in the special metal boxes Dilos had paid to have made, preventing them from doing anything drastic. After a few days of adjustment, the situation gradually calmed down.

Once the second generation of variant spiders hatched, Dilos killed all the first-generation ones. After all, they were no longer of any use.

Although the new generation of variant spiders numbered in the hundreds, Dilos had prepared a large number of special metal culture containers for them, making it quite convenient to raise this second generation.

According to Dilos's observations and telepathic perception, the second generation was significantly less aggressive than the first.

During this time, Dilos even took some genetic samples from the second-generation spiders to Dr. Connors' lab for secret analysis. The results showed that the genetic structure of these second-generation spiders was much more stable than that of the first.

At first, Dilos had wondered why Richard Parker emphasized the need to breed a second generation in his notebook, but upon seeing these results, he finally understood why it was worth the trouble.

While raising the second generation, a few things surprised Dilos. First, these spiders developed incredibly fast; in just a day or two, they grew to the size of a typical high-grade Spider-Man breed that would take a month or two to reach. This growth rate was so rapid that they didn't even need growth hormones from Dilos.

Furthermore, these little things weren't picky eaters. Whether it was raw meat, mosquitoes, or vegetables, they ate whatever humans could eat.

However, their appetites were much larger than expected. A single hamburger would be devoured completely by the hundreds of second-generation spiders in just a few hours. After molting the next day, they would eat the same amount again, and their feeding speed increased by about half.

As time passed and they continued to grow, their appetites only increased.

Is it because my genes were added? And these little things seem to grow faster the more they eat. They won't just keep growing indefinitely, will they...

Dilos couldn't help but worry as he observed their growth. Fortunately, once they reached the size of an adult's palm, they stopped growing. Their appetites also returned to that of a normal spider of their size; otherwise, Dilos would have suspected that his experiment had gone wrong.

Additionally, Dilos discovered that the second generation had developed physiological changes absent in the first.

Their color shifted from bright yellow to a mix of black, white, and yellow. Their chelicerae changed from one pair to six, and the teeth on them became thick, sharp, and rugged, resembling a miniature version of tiger fangs. At the same time, the claws on their pedipalps also began to resemble those of a tiger.

Although their eight legs still maintained a spider-like form, their mobility and jumping ability were unexpectedly strong. At the very least, Dilos had never seen a spider move like a shadow, darting around and jumping three or four meters in a single bound during testing.

If Dilos hadn't used his telepathy to restrain that spider in time, the agile little creature would have escaped.

"Although I added Siberian tiger and ant gene fragments to make the variant spiders stronger (PS: The gene fragments of the Siberian tiger and ant were the only ones among the external genes at the time that could perfectly integrate with my genes in digital simulations and be implanted into the radioactive spider), the performance of this second generation is much stronger than I imagined."

Looking at the test data in his notebook, Dilos felt very satisfied with the second-generation variant spiders.

Just like that, Dilos entered the final stage of the spider serum production process.

In a room without windows, equipped only with an air circulation system, sat over a hundred metal containers. Dilos opened one of the containers, used his telepathy to command the second-generation spider to crawl out, and then guided it to press its chelicerae against the mouth of his test tube to inject venom. Once the venom gland was empty, he let it return to its container.

Dilos repeated this process with over thirty second-generation spiders until the test tube was full. Only then did he draw twenty milliliters into a syringe and inject it into the vein of his own arm.

After doing all this, Dilos sat in his chair, quietly waiting for the mutation to begin within his body...