Chapter 26: Chapter 26 Artificial Little Sun
[Peter trudged down a quiet road, pushing his damaged scooter alongside him. The streets were lined with posters of Mary Jane, her smiling face seeming to mock his loneliness. Peter's expression was heavy, his thoughts lost in the overwhelming weight of his life.]
[In Professor Connors' classroom, the professor lectured passionately on the intricacies of fusion energy, but Peter sat in the back, absent-mindedly scribbling in his notebook. Words like "Nucleur fusion," "excessive energy," and "explosion" covered the page, a chaotic reflection of his thoughts.]
[After class, Peter found a payphone and called Mary Jane. The phone rang several times before going to voicemail. "Hi, Mary Jane, it's Peter," he began awkwardly. "I went to your show last night. I rode my scooter..."]
[At this time, Mary Jane returned home. After hearing Peter's voice, she pick up the phone. The noise attracted Peter's attention, "Are you home? I really planned my whole day around it, but..."]
[Mary Jane, having just returned home, listened in silence. Finally, she whispered, "I know. You expected that I would be disappointed in you. You guessed right."]
["It's unbelievable, isn't it?" Peter continued; his voice tinged with frustration. "Isn't it just about arriving on time at 8 o'clock? I made something so simple so complicated."]
[Mary Jane sat down and listened as Peter rambled. "It's that annoying doorman. Someone needs to talk to him, MJ." Before Peter could finish, the payphone abruptly cut off.]
[Sighing deeply, Mary Jane turned away from the phone, disappointed. Peter still didn't seem to grasp the gravity of his actions or take responsibility, instead blaming external factors. Frustrated, she walked away.]
[On the other side, Peter stared at the phone in his hand, a mix of emotions swirling in his chest. He took a deep breath and murmured, "This is it. I am Spider-Man. Incredible, isn't it?"
Peter's voice softened. "Now you understand why I can't be with you. If my enemies knew about you, if they hurt you, I'd never forgive myself. I wish I could tell you how much I love you." Slowly, he hung up the phone and walked away.]"
"On one side is Peter Parker, and on the other side is Spider-Man. It's really hard to balance!" An ordinary citizen lamented Peter's difficulties.
"Who wouldn't agree?" another chimed in. "He's already struggling with school and work, barely has a dollar to his name, and still spends his nights fighting crime as Spider-Man. It's too much for one person." Another lady nearby said in deep agreement.
[That afternoon, Otto's experiment was carried out as scheduled. People from all walks of life were invited to his lab. Otto and Rose were welcoming the guests.]
[Before starting the experiment, Otto told a joke to make everyone laugh, including Peter and Harry. Although he thought it was terrible, everyone was indeed amused.]
[Otto's expression became serious. "Today, you will witness with your own eyes the birth of a new energy based on fusion reactor. A safe and sustainable energy source that provides electricity for everyone."]
[Otto then introduced his assistants to everyone, who turned out to be four robotic arms. He took off his shirt and explained, "These four robotic arms are specially designed and manufactured to operate this fusion reactor system! They are completely unaffected by heat and magnetic fields!"]
[He came to the stage and operated on the computer. The mechanical arms were fixed on his waist, and then fixed firmly on his body with his spine as the core.]
[The spikes pierced his spine, causing intense pain, but Otto gritted his teeth and persevered. The crowd watching was so frightened by this scene that they gasped, making a great contribution to the global greenhouse effect.]
[Once secured, the robotic arms extended behind him, moving fluidly like living appendages.
"These smart arms are controlled directly by my brain," Otto explained. "Commands are transmitted via my spinal nerves through microscopic wires inserted into my cerebellum. This allows me to perform operations in environments humans cannot survive."]
[A woman raised her hand nervously. "Dr. Octavius, if these robotic arms are as intelligent as you claim, could they… control you instead of the other way around?"
Otto smiled at her question. "An excellent concern! That's why I developed this inhibitor chip." He turned to reveal a small chip at the base of his neck. "This ensures that I control the arms, not the other way around."]
Tony noticed something was wrong immediately.
"What?" Tony exclaimed, sitting upright. "One chip? That's it? What happens if it fails?"
As one of the world's top scientists, he was well aware that relying solely on such a chip was not safe at all. Once there was a problem with the chip, Dr. Otto would become a slave to the machine.
"Moreover, the material of his chip is too low-end. It can't withstand the huge pressure at all and will easily go wrong." Tony looked at the crystal material deduced by Jarvis and was very annoyed by the doctor's recklessness.
If it were him, he would definitely not rely on just a simple chip. Even if he only relied on the chip, he would definitely add high-strength protection on the outside of the chip. Unlike Otto, he directly exposed the entire chip. He really is not afraid of anything happening!
[Otto controlled the robotic arms and turned his head to aim at the equipment he was going to use next. He walked over and the four robotic arms began to operate.]
[He operated the computer and opened the test tube containing tritium. The test tube stretched out from the machine, and the mechanical arm took away the tritium stored in it.]
["This system operates using the rare tritium element," Otto explained. "There are only 25 pounds of it on Earth. Special thanks to Harry Osborn and Oscorp Industries for providing this invaluable resource!"
Harry beamed, laughing. "Happy to foot the bill, Doctor."]
[As the robotic arms carefully released the tritium, it began to spin and accelerate, suspended mid-air. Rose handed Otto a pair of goggles, her smile warm with pride.
"Ladies and gentlemen," Otto declared, donning the goggles, "please fasten your seat belts!" He activated the device, and beams of light erupted from four positions, converging into a radiant energy ball—a miniature sun.]
[The assistant announced the success of the fusion process, and the room erupted in applause. Harry grinned, feeling he'd achieved something his father had only dreamed of. The fusion reactor was generating an astounding one gigawatt of energy per second.]
"That's pretty impressive, Dr. Otto. You actually created an Ark reactor. It just doesn't seem stable enough. However, the energy output is really huge, much stronger than my previous reactor. But can you control it?"
Tony became serious when he saw that Dr. Otto had successfully made an artificial sun. Although it was thermonuclear fusion, it was indeed an Ark reactor. Its energy output was better than the large reactor of Stark Industries and the micro reactor on his body. However, its only drawback was that it was not stable enough.
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