Marvel's Spider-Man: The Web of Fate
Chapter 37

Invention and Creation

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This time, Peter still didn't go back immediately.

He returned to the Amazing Spider-Man's small workshop.

Through this battle, he gained more insights. It wasn't just about combat, but also about equipment.

He was Spider-Man, a mutant, possessing greater strength than ordinary people, that was true. But if he only relied on that, what difference would he have from an animal?

The blue whale, as the largest animal in the world, could reach over 30 meters in length and weigh 180 tons. How great would its strength be? But relying solely on strength, what could it accomplish? In the end, it could only be brutally hunted by humans.

Therefore, as a human, especially one living in the age of technology, he also needed to be adept at arming himself with technology! If he had the high-tech suit from his world tonight, capturing Doctor Lizard would be at least 30% easier!

The most crucial point was that he now knew what the Amazing Spider-Man excelled at. It was invention and creation!

Peter sat at the small workbench in the small workshop, writing furiously. At this moment, he was a combination of Peter's knowledge from the high-tech era and the Amazing Spider-Man's high creative abilities!

The two had the same idea: they would start by earning their first pot of gold.

And just that day, after experimenting, he had obtained the differences between two types of spider silk. Peter directly utilized this data. After several hours of effort, they finally succeeded in creating a decent high-molecular fiber material!

This material was a variation based on the Amazing Spider-Man's spider silk. After testing, its performance was superior to any known biomass fiber material in the Earth-120703 universe (the Amazing Spider-Man's universe). As long as a suitable collaborator was found, the Amazing Spider-Man could definitely make a fortune. As for Peter's own universe, he would have to wait until he returned to see.

Not only that. During the research process, there was an unexpected gain. Their synthetic spider silk was an excellent super-assistive lens, capable of helping conventional optical microscopes break through their "visual" limits.

The operation was also simple. It only required using the spider silk to form a small, airtight circular piece, injecting anhydrous alcohol into it to create something similar to glasses, and then placing it on the optical microscope. Under the refraction of the spider silk, the resolution limit of traditional optical microscopes broke through from 200 nanometers to at least 100 nanometers!

This might not sound like a great discovery. After all, high-end laboratories used electron microscopes, which could already achieve magnifications between 0.2 to 3 nanometers. However, the purpose of this small invention was never intended for those high-end labs, but rather for schools, individuals, and smaller laboratories!

Although electron microscopes were powerful, with the top-tier ones capable of magnifying objects over 3 million times, even directly observing the atomic lattices of certain heavy metals and the orderly arrangement of atoms in crystals, their usage conditions were extremely demanding.

First, they required a vacuum environment, making it impossible to observe live samples.

Second, sample preparation was difficult. If any structure not originally present in the sample was added during processing, even a tiny amount would significantly impact the difficulty of later analysis when magnified 3 million times.

Third, observing a 3D object projected onto a 2D plane could sometimes lead to image overlap, requiring repeated comparisons.

Fourth, and importantly, they were expensive. The purchase and maintenance of electron microscopes were significant expenses. This was not cost-effective for small laboratories, individual labs, or places like schools that required large quantities of equipment.

However, the "optical microscope glasses" made with the spider silk lenses developed by Peter only needed to be attached to an optical microscope during use, increasing its magnification by 2-3 times for an ultimate viewing experience. How wonderful is that?

There was also a very crucial point. This item was a consumable. Since spider silk was a biological protein, once the sterile bag was opened and used, it could not be reused. Therefore, as long as a sales channel could be opened, there would be no shortage of buyers!

As for how to open a sales channel... both Peters had their own ideas. The Amazing Spider-Man decided to try his luck at the Osborn Group. The Osborn Group already possessed numerous biological laboratories; Doctor Connors' Lizard Serum was just one of their research projects.

If they partnered with the Osborn Group, there would be no shortage of future prospects.

The only thing that worried Amazing Spider-Man was that his parents' disappearance over a decade ago might have had some connection to the Osborn Group.

This was something Peter had deduced with his reasoning abilities, gained from Shadow Spider-Man, after arriving and piecing together the existing intelligence.

He had previously thought he would never be able to return, so he had written it down on paper for Amazing Spider-Man.

At the time, there were few clues, so he had only left a part of it. Now, with the true identity of Doctor Lizard revealed, the speculation had practically become fact!

The origin of Amazing Spider-Man's mutated spider gene stemmed from a visit to the Osborn Group. That poisonous spider was a product of some cross-species gene engineering.

This cross-species gene engineering seemed to have been terminated for some reason many years later and had made no progress since.

Later, this cross-species gene engineering was taken over by Doctor Kurt Connors, his father Richard Parker's former colleague.

After he provided Doctor Connors with the zero-zero decay rate formula left by his father, Doctor Connors thus created the Lizard Serum and turned himself into Doctor Lizard!

This also proved that the zero-zero decay rate formula was indeed correct and effective!

When all of this was put together, one possibility surfaced: the mutated spider project at the Osborn Group was handled by his father over a decade ago! His father's departure had caused that project to be forcibly halted!

But why did his father leave so suddenly?

Did his departure have anything to do with the Osborn Group?

A series of new mysteries now loomed over Amazing Spider-Man.

Not only that.

In a villa in New York City within Amazing Spider-Man's world, someone who was closely monitoring news about Doctor Lizard and Spider-Man had recently received word of Doctor Lizard's arrest.

"I never expected that Lizard-Man would be Kurt. So, his cross-species experiments actually succeeded? Perhaps I should find a way to get him out, or at least obtain his experimental results!"

New enemies and new shadows were closing in on Amazing Spider-Man.

However, everyone has their own journey, and everyone will write their own biography.

Amazing Spider-Man's story needed to be written by himself.

Because after Peter finished analyzing the situation for him, he had already returned to his own world.

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