Chapter 33: The Incident

In the United States, there are two ways to take the college entrance examination, which are the ACT test and the SAT test. The ACT is a test based on the high school syllabus, while the SAT is a test based on an individual intelligence test.

One is to inspect the student's three years of high school studies, and the other is to examine the student's qualifications, which is quite a kind of meaning that the former pays attention to the present and the latter invests in the future.

But because of geography and timing, Peter and Linson took the SAT, because the SAT has always been a tradition on the East Coast, and at this point in June, only the SAT test can be chosen.

The two of them arrived at the test center in Manhattan at half past seven, Peter looked in good spirits, after last night's events, the whole person was different from before, just like finding his goal, Lin Sen felt that Peter's whole person was much more cheerful and confident.

Seeing him stretch his neck to look here and there, Lin Sen was a little strange, "Peter, what are you looking at?" ”

"I'm looking at Gwen, she seems to be in this exam room, I don't know if it's there."

"Oh? Looks like you're on good terms. ”

"It's okay", Peter quickly changed the subject, "By the way, Lin Sen, I saw my idol last night, and it was he who saved Uncle Ben." ”

"Really? Did you ask him for an autograph? Lin Sen also looked surprised, in fact, he had already guessed that Peter would talk to him about it.

"No, he ran away before I could say anything about the autograph," Peter was a little distressed, "but I'm sure I'll be able to see him again!" ”

"Well, good luck then, Harry and I will always have your back, including this exam, oh, and you and Gwen."

"Thank you, Linson, and Harry."

"Yes, and Harry, see you after the exam."

"Bye-bye."

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The two chatted outside for a while, and Peter saw that he still hadn't waited for Gwen, and when he saw that it was almost time for the exam, he went to find his own exam room and seat.

The SAT test is divided into two parts, of which SAT1 is the general test section, and SAT2 is a single subject test that students choose to apply for according to the school and major they want to apply for.

The total duration of the exam is 4 hours and 45 minutes, from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., with only a 15-minute break in between, and a total of three breaks of five minutes each. It can be said that this test is not only the intelligence of students, but also the test of their physical strength, endurance and mental strength.

For such a long time on the exam, Peter and Lin Sen have been systematically strengthened, and the other has been genetically strengthened, and the two have taken a great advantage in terms of physical strength and endurance, and when Lin Sen did the last part of the SAT test, he found a very interesting thing.

The previous reading, culture, and math problems are not big, especially mathematics, the difficulty is almost equal to nothing, and it is more about examining the degree of carefulness, but when it comes to composition, that topic makes Lin Sen familiar with it anymore: the discussion of mutants.

SAT Writing gives a critical essay and then asks students to analyze it objectively rather than express their own opinions.

Generally speaking, SAT writing requires a lot of reading ability, and the content of the articles is basically political speech, social life, and the history of the founding of the country, politics, economic development, social environment, racial issues, feminism, etc.

Using mutants as the topic of this exam is indeed the hottest topic at the moment, but the topic itself has great sensitivity, and it can be said that it is completely unexpected and reasonable.

"Is it really okay to use this question as an SAT test subject?"

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The SAT test is allowed to be handed in in early, after all, it is a country that advocates freedom in everything, so after checking and finding that there was no problem, Lin Sen directly handed in the papers, and when the results came out, he found that Peter was already waiting outside, he was talking to Harry non-stop, and Logan was standing aside.

I haven't seen him for a day, Harry is almost unrecognizable to Lin Sen, his usual neat and tidy clothes are gone, his golden hair is messy, he has lost his former brilliance, his face is haggard, his eyes are red, and others can't imagine that this person who is undressed like a homeless man will be the eldest young master of the Osborne group.

"What's wrong? Harry. Lin Sen was shocked, it was the first time he had seen Harry like this.

Since the year before, Norman Osborne has been sick from time to time and needs to be hospitalized, and even Harry can't visit Norman Osborne when he is hospitalized, and Norman has been hiding his illness from Harry, so Harry has been kept in the dark.

It happened yesterday when Harry accompanied Peter to borrow medical equipment from the Osborne Group, and he was about to go back after greeting Peter, when he reached the door, he saw his father's secretary John and Dr. Connors walking by in the distance, and he didn't even see himself greeting him in a hurry.

Out of curiosity, he followed the two of them by surprise.

Later, he overheard a terrible fact from the conversation between the two: it turned out that every generation of the Osborne family had a family genetic disease, and every member of the Osborne family who had this genetic disease did not live to be forty-five years old.

This familial genetic disease is unlike any other disease in the world today, and each generation of Osborne's family heads try to find the pathogen so that their offspring will not suffer, because the skin of the whole body will gradually turn green, the internal organs will gradually fail, and then end their life of despair in agony.

After several generations of attempts, Norman Osborne has been hiding his illness since he took the helm of the Osborne Group, while supporting human modification programs, especially Dr. Connors's cross-species genetics.

In Norman Osborne's view, this genetic disease is a curse belonging to the Osborne family, which is hidden in the genes of each generation of Osborne's descendants, so he wants to start with genes, in order to develop a genetic drug to change the genes in the body to achieve the effect of treating genetic diseases.

However, Dr. Connors's recent experiments have been less than ideal, the algorithm of gene decay rate is not very accurate, and even experiments on animals have failed, let alone used in human experiments.

But the problem is precisely that Norman Osborne, his father, will turn forty-five this year!

Now, Harry finally knew why his father had insisted on the human modification program, and had himself represent him at every group meeting, because he probably wouldn't be able to come at all now.

After learning the truth, Harry walked out of the Osborne building in despair, he didn't even know how he went back, if it weren't for Logan, he probably would really have to walk back alone, he didn't worry about the tragic situation when he had a genetic disease, he only had one thought in his mind:

My father is almost forty-five years old!

Finally waiting for dawn, Harry couldn't wait to go out to discuss with Lin Sen and Peter, but when he arrived at their house, he remembered that they were going to take the SAT today, and he rushed here non-stop.

Although Lin Sen knew that Norman Osborne was the Green Goblin, he and Peter had heard about genetic diseases for the first time, and even Harry didn't know what the use of the entire Osborne group was helpless to find them by himself, maybe he was just used to it, but what he didn't expect was that Peter thought about it for a while, and then said hesitantly:

"If it's a cross-species genetic experiment, Dr. Connors should be on the verge of success?"

"What?!" Harry was shocked by the news and overjoyed for a moment.

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As Peter spoke of Dr. Connors' experiments, Connors and John were standing in front of a monitor in the Osborne Group's lab, showing the biological state of a mouse that had been the subject of their experiment.

The mouse seemed normal now, but just a few minutes ago, it was a disabled animal with only three legs, but after being injected with the genetic potion that Connors had extracted from the lizard, it only took ten minutes for it to grow that lost leg.

"Congratulations, Professor Connors, animal modification has been successful, can we conduct human experiments?" Looking at the steady data on the display, John didn't bother to sing the praises of the invention, as if he couldn't wait to conduct human experiments because of Norman Osborne's illness.

"Again... Wait! In a few more ~ minutes! Dr. Connors said this, but he was almost too excited to control his trembling tone, which he had spent twenty years working on, and who had been able to solve his disability, and perhaps even go down in history for it.

Drip, drip!

However, as if to confirm what Dr. Connors had just said, the instrument that had been testing the data of the experimental mice suddenly emitted a piercing alarm, which made Connors have a glimmer of foreboding.

"What's wrong?! What happened? Hearing this, Dr. Connors threw himself nervously outside the test box.

"Squeak squeak!!" The guinea pig, which was normal just now, suddenly seemed to be crazy and slammed wildly in the experimental box, and its body also underwent visible changes to the naked eye.

Click~click~

I saw that the legs of the mouse suddenly swelled, and the small body swelled up as if cheering, and the white fur on the body was gradually replaced by green scales, and the body was quickly elongated, and soon, a hairy mouse had turned into a green-skinned lizard under Connors's gaze.

"Squeak ~ oh woo! ~”

The mutated mouse screamed twice in the test box before falling straight down, and it seems that the experiment has failed again.

"This is the closest thing to a successful experiment." Connors couldn't accept this huge drop and blow, as if his whole body strength had been drained, and he sat on the ground, and the animal experiments were unsuccessful, let alone human experiments.

John also looked at the dead guinea pig in the experiment box with a blue face, but he still said firmly:

"The day after tomorrow, no matter whether the animal experiment is successful or not, we will conduct human experiments."

"Impossible!" Dr. Connors had come to his senses a little, "Is it legal for you to do this?" ”

"Dr. Connors, so all you need to do is get this genetic potion done as soon as possible so we're legal." With that, John turned and left.