Master, What's Your Job? I Kill Insects

This kind of pure love was already a rarity in America, a country that prized openness and freedom. A girl willing to wait for you for two years and still remain steadfast in her feelings for you—without a doubt, that was ninety-nine percent rare...

Peter, who had inexplicably been force-fed a serving of PDA beside them, suddenly stuck his head between the two. With dead-fish eyes, he looked at Toby on his left, then Gwen on his right.

"Hey, guys, have you two noticed that I still exist?"

"And Dr. Connors's meet-and-greet is about to start, right? Can we attend that first?"

"After it's over, you two can ignore me and go do whatever you want, okay?"

Interrupted by Peter, Gwen finally calmed down a little. Her face reddened, and she hurriedly turned around to hide her embarrassment.

"Ahem, of course. Follow me. Dr. Connors should already be here."

With that, Gwen set off again, moving both arms and legs on the same side at once.

Peter scratched his head in confusion. "Why is Gwen walking so weirdly? Is she feeling unwell?"

Seeing that Peter was even more of a blockhead than himself, Toby shook his head and flicked the back of Peter's head with two fingers. "If you don't know how to talk, then don't talk. No one's treating you like a mute."

After saying that, Toby strode over to Gwen, took her icy little hand in his, and led her onward.

Gwen stared blankly at the large hand holding hers. The mind that had only just calmed down became dizzy again, and she no longer knew what heaven and earth were.

This time, she was not imagining things. This block of wood, Toby, had really had his brain drilled open!

I have a boyfriend?

"Gwen, Gwen? Miss Stacy? Won't you introduce these two to me?"

Only when a calm voice sounded beside her did Gwen snap out of her daze.

Looking up, she realized that Toby had somehow already led her to Dr. Connors.

Aside from becoming lovestruck whenever she faced Toby, Gwen was normally a very rational person. She immediately regained her composure and introduced them to Dr. Connors.

"Dr. Connors, this is Peter, my classmate. His grades in biology are even better than mine. He's my only competitor at school—a genuine genius!"

Hearing Gwen introduce him so extravagantly, Peter bashfully extended his right hand to Dr. Connors.

"No, no, Gwen is much smarter than I am. Other than my cousin, she's the most gifted person my age that I've ever met!"

Dr. Connors pointed at his empty right side with his left hand and shrugged. "Sorry, Peter, but I'm afraid I can't shake your right hand. It hasn't grown back yet~"

"Oh, sorry, Dr. Connors, I didn't mean to..." Only then did Peter remember that Dr. Connors had lost his right arm for his country on the battlefield, and his face filled with regret.

He had known all that, but seeing his idol in person had made him so nervous that he forgot.

Dr. Connors smiled kindly and shook his head to show that it was all right.

Seeing that Dr. Connors did not mind, Peter breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, his curiosity surged up, and he could not help asking, "Dr. Connors, what did you mean when you said your right arm hasn't grown back yet?"

At Peter's question, Dr. Connors grew interested as well and explained, "Because I've been studying the remarkable regenerative limb cells found in lizards. If I can successfully transfer them into the human body, I believe I'll be able to help countless soldiers like myself who were wounded in battle and lost parts of their bodies. And at the same time, I'll be able to become 'whole' again..."

Then, remembering Gwen's introduction of Peter as a biology student even more gifted than herself, Dr. Connors suddenly said, "How about this? The interns probably won't arrive for a while yet. I'll take you to have a look around my laboratory first."

The reason Dr. Connors had recruited Gwen, a student still in school, as his assistant was that his colleagues in society were trapped by established formulas and could no longer offer him better innovative suggestions.

That was why he had turned his attention to young geniuses, hoping that these talented youths, who had not yet been trapped by rigid ways of thinking, could offer him fresh ideas and advice.

Gwen was the young genius he had met through Captain Stacy at a banquet.

Now that he had encountered a student even more outstanding than Gwen, Dr. Connors naturally felt a fondness for talent once more.

Peter, of course, agreed happily.

Being able to visit his idol's laboratory was an immense honor for Peter as well!

Before heading to the laboratory, though, Dr. Connors looked at Toby and asked with a smile, "By the way, what should I call this gentleman?"

Gwen knew that although Dr. Connors was kind, he still possessed a scientist's pride deep down. He normally disliked those idiotic jock types with well-developed limbs and simple minds.

Afraid that Dr. Connors would see Toby's build and mistakenly lump him in with that kind of idiot, she hurriedly introduced him.

"This is Toby, Toby Parker. He works at Fisk Enterprises now. He used to be New York City's number one teenage genius, graduating with honors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the age of eighteen!"

Upon hearing that, surprise and something more complicated flashed through Dr. Connors's eyes, but he quickly suppressed it. He took the initiative to extend his left hand toward Toby with a smile.

"Mr. Parker, I've heard of you. Your graduation caused quite a stir throughout New York back then. Nearly every prominent New York company invited a genius like you to join them."

"Even Mr. Norman Osborn personally tried to recruit you. It's a pity you turned him down. Otherwise, you might very well be my superior now~"

In response to Dr. Connors's joke, Toby shook his left hand and smiled back.

"You flatter me. It wasn't that I was particularly gifted; it was just that the people in my cohort were too stupid. I only gained a little undeserved fame because of how badly my peers compared."

"And when it comes to biology, I'm nowhere near Dr. Connors's level. I'm not particularly good at biology myself, which is why I didn't choose to join Osborn Enterprises, a company focused primarily on biotechnology."

Dr. Connors was clearly pleased by praise from the genius who had once taken New York by storm, and the smile on his face widened.

"I'm old now. This is the era of you young people, and the future belongs to you as well."

"By the way, what kind of work does Mr. Parker do at Fisk Enterprises?"

Toby shrugged and answered frankly, "Underground pest extermination. I'm mainly responsible for clearing them out in New York, though I occasionally go to other cities as well. It mostly depends on where the client's target is located."

Gwen's eyes widened at once. She abruptly looked up at Toby, her large eyes filled with disbelief!