Chapter 70

"Dr. Connors was conducting experiments in his own laboratory. When I arrived, I found that he had been captured by a lizard monster. So, I followed the trail left by the lizard monster until I got here, but the monster disappeared. I want to know what it intends to do with Dr. Connors."

Spider-Man recounted everything he knew, but his voice slowed down, as if he also sensed something unusual from Mrs. Connors' words.

"Peter, wait a moment. I think Mrs. Connors has something to say." Mrs. Connors was startled to hear another voice, which seemed to come from a mass of air beside Spider-Man.

Ymir felt that Mrs. Connors did not seem to find it hard to accept what Spider-Man had said. Moreover, what did she mean by what she just said?

"I will never let you harm my husband!"

"Husband? I didn't hear wrong, did I? You call the lizard man who took Dr. Connors your husband?" Spider-Man was taken aback and turned to Mrs. Connors to ask.

Mrs. Connors fell into a long silence. After a long time, she finally admitted, "Yes, that's right. He is Curt Connors, my husband."

"How can this be!" Despite being mentally prepared, Spider-Man was still shocked by Mrs. Connors' words. He couldn't believe that his mentor had turned into a giant lizard creature for no reason.

"It's all because of that damned hybrid gene serum. Curt developed a new scientific system, which he called the hybrid gene recombination system. After successfully testing it on mice, he couldn't wait to conduct a human experiment on himself. Although his arm regrew, he also transformed into the appearance of a lizard man."

Mrs. Connors' voice no longer had the previous defensive tone, but instead was filled with an uncontrollable desire for help. She hoped Spider-Man could help her solve this problem.

"Mrs. Connors, haven't you told anyone else? Including the New York police?" Ymir, who was invisible, asked. He didn't want to reveal himself to others.

Having one Spider-Man know his true identity was already troublesome enough; Ymir didn't want his peaceful life to be disrupted.

"No! They would treat Curt as a monster. They would hunt him down and hurt him!" Mrs. Connors, in pain, hugged little Billy. These days, she had been very worried about her husband, enduring much suffering.

She said, "I will never agree to that, and it's also Curt's own wish. Spider-Man, will you save Curt, right?"

"Alright, I understand your meaning, but if we don't figure out what's really going on, how can we solve it?" Faced with Mrs. Connors' trust, Spider-Man felt both pleased and troubled.

Ymir's voice came from the air again: "Madam, didn't Dr. Connors leave you any instructions? I mean, does he still have his rationality after transforming into a lizard man?"

Mrs. Connors nodded: "In fact, Curt only transforms at night, but even after transforming, he still retains his rationality. He won't attack me or Billy, nor will he harm others."

This was different from what Ymir had seen in movies, where the Lizard Doctor lost all his rationality after transforming.

While Ymir was silently thinking, he suddenly sensed the same aura as before, identical to the power fluctuations from the Lizard Doctor. He cautiously floated out of the house and patrolled around, but found nothing.

It was just an ordinary community, with no one nearby who looked like they had superpowers. Only in the air did there seem to be a strange smell of death...

A strong, pungent smell of sulfur, as if something had crawled out of hell.

"Devils should stay in hell..."

Ymir said something he himself didn't fully understand, perhaps because his body had studied at the Columbia University Divinity School before, he always associated these strange phenomena with heaven or hell.

The faint power fluctuations were truly bizarre, not seeming very powerful at first, but they felt omnipresent. Like fallen desires, they could silently erode human hearts.

Neither Mrs. Connors nor Spider-Man in the house felt this subtle power. Spider-Man's nose was irritated by the smell, but he thought it was just someone cooking with gas nearby, so he didn't pay much attention.

His spider-sense didn't indicate any danger nearby. What made him more anxious was the changes happening to Dr. Connors.

Ymir floated in the air for a while and soon felt that the power fluctuations were gradually disappearing, and the sulfur smell in the air had also faded.

Perhaps it wasn't targeting him and Spider-Man, but the omnipresent sulfur smell still lingered in Ymir's nose. He felt that he had experienced this strange power fluctuation somewhere before...

But where?

In his previous life, it was impossible; Ymir had never encountered anything science couldn't explain. In this world, there were many powers beyond the understanding of civilian technology, but Ymir had only been reborn for a few days, and all his memories were intact. How could he have a sense of déjà vu?

This was truly strange. Ymir shook his head and floated back to Dr. Connors' house.

Spider-Man had gained Mrs. Connors' trust. She said, "Please follow me. Curt and I agreed that if anything happened to him, I must publish his experimental records and follow the instructions on the video tape."

Mrs. Connors settled Billy in the dining room and then led Spider-Man into Dr. Connors' study. She found the video tape of his experimental records, inserted it into the TV player, and turned it on.

Dr. Connors' figure appeared on the TV, in the first volume of his experimental records: "Good afternoon, I am Curt Connors. As you can see, I have successfully trained myself to be a left-handed person, so I am not disabled."

He slightly mocked his own amputated arm and then said, "Today's IAD-0001 is the first hybrid gene serum extraction experiment. Now, I will begin the record."

In the video, Dr. Connors put on a white lab coat, walked to the camera, and formally introduced himself: "I am a physicist, biologist, and one of the world's top herpetologists, primarily studying cold-blooded animals, such as lizards..."