Chapter 37: Invention and Creation

This time, Peter still did not immediately return.

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

Through this battle, he gained more insights.

Not just in combat, but also in equipment.

He was Spider-Man, a mutant, and had greater power than ordinary people, true.

But if he could only utilize these abilities, what difference was there between him and animals?

The blue whale, as the largest animal in the world, could reach over 30 meters in length and 180 tons in weight. How powerful was that?

Yet what could brute force alone accomplish?

In the end, they could still be brutally hunted by humans.

Therefore, as a human being, especially one living in the technological era, he must also learn to arm himself with science!

If he had his world's high-tech suit tonight, the difficulty in capturing Dr. Connors would have been reduced by at least 30%!

Most crucially, he now understood the Amazing Spider-Man's forte.

It was invention and creation!

Peter sat at the small workbench in the tiny workshop, writing furiously. 

At this moment, he combined the technological insights of his own Peter Parker with the Amazing Spider-Man's immense inventive talents!

The two shared the same idea - to start by earning their first fortune.

Earlier that day, Peter had experimentally derived the differences between the two spider silk varieties, directly applying that data now.

After several hours of hard work, they finally succeeded in producing an excellent polymer fiber material!

This material was based on a variation of the Amazing Spider-Man's webbing.

Testing revealed its performance superior to any known biomass fiber in the Earth-120703 universe (the Amazing Spider-Man's home reality).

As long as he found suitable collaborators, the Amazing Spider-Man was sure to make a tidy profit.

As for Peter's own universe, that would have to wait until he returned.

Not only that, there was an unexpected gain from the research process. 

Their synthetic spider silk proved an excellent supplementary super lens, capable of helping conventional optical microscopes break through their "vision" limits.

The operation was quite simple. One merely needed to fashion an airtight disc from spider silk, inject absolute alcohol into it to form a glass-like lens, then affix it to the optical microscope. 

Refracted through the spider silk, traditional optical microscopes' resolution limit improved from 200 nanometers to at least 100 nanometers!

This may not sound like an Earth-shattering discovery.

After all, high-end laboratories utilized electron microscopes.

Electron microscopes had long been capable of magnifications between 0.2 and 3 nanometers, able to directly observe atoms of certain heavy metals and neatly arranged atomic lattices in crystals. 

But correspondingly, their usage conditions were also quite stringent.

First, observations had to occur in a vacuum, precluding living samples.

Second, sample preparation was difficult. If any structures not originally present were inadvertently added during processing, even small amounts could severely impact subsequent analysis after 300,000x magnification.

Third, when three-dimensional objects were projected onto a two-dimensional plane for observation, image overlap could occur, requiring repeated comparisons. 

Fourth, and crucially, they were expensive.

The purchase and maintenance costs of an electron microscope represented a huge expenditure. 

This was not cost-effective for small laboratories, personal labs, or institutions requiring large quantities like schools.

The "optical microscope glasses" made from Peter's spider silk lenses only needed to be worn over an optical microscope during use to increase its magnification by 2-3 times, providing an unparalleled viewing experience.

Was this not wonderful?

There was another crucial point as well.

This was a consumable product. 

Since spider silk was a biological protein, once the sterile packaging was torn open and used, there was no possibility of reuse.

So as long as they could open up sales channels, there'd be no concerns about future demand!

As for how to establish those sales...

Both Peters had their own ideas.

The Amazing Spider-Man decided to try his luck with Oscorp. 

Oscorp already had numerous biological laboratories, and Dr. Connors' Lizard formula was just one of their studies.

Collaborating with Oscorp should ensure a stable path forward.

The only thing worrying the Amazing Spider-Man was the possibility of a connection between his parents' disappearance over ten years ago and Oscorp itself. 

This was something Peter had deduced based on existing intelligence after his arrival, relying on the reasoning abilities he obtained from the Noir Spider-Man.

Previously believing he could never return, he had written it down and left the notes for the Amazing Spider-Man.

At that time, there were fewer clues, only partial evidence remaining. But now, with the revelation of Dr. Connors' true Lizard identity, the speculation had almost become fact!

The Amazing Spider-Man's mutant spider gene originated from a visit to Oscorp. That venomous spider was the product of some cross-species genetic engineering project.

This cross-species program seemed to have been terminated for unknown reasons years later, with little progress made since.

Later, this program was taken over by Dr. Curt Connors, a former colleague of Peter's father Richard Parker. 

After providing Dr. Connors with his father's zero-rate decay formula, Connors created the Lizard serum and transformed himself into the Lizard!

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

When all the pieces combined, one possibility surfaced: his father had been responsible for Oscorp's mutant spider project over a decade ago! His father's sudden departure led to that project's forced suspension!

But why had his father left so abruptly? 

Could his departure have had anything to do with Oscorp?

This new series of mysteries now shrouded the Amazing Spider-Man. 

Moreover, in a villa in New York City in the Amazing Spider-Man's world, someone closely monitoring the news about the Lizard and Spider-Man recently received word of the Lizard's arrest.

"I didn't expect that the Lizard would turn out to be Curt. So his cross-species experiment succeeded? Maybe we should find a way to extricate him and at least obtain the results of his work!"

New enemies, new shadows were encroaching upon the Amazing Spider-Man.

However, every person would have their own journey, their own story to chronicle.

The Amazing Spider-Man's tale needed to be penned by his own hand.

For Peter had already returned to his native reality after providing this analysis.

(End of chapter)