There are over thirty-two thousand species of spiders in the world, divided into three main categories under the order Araneae…"
Following an Asian-looking teacher, Ron and other Midtown High students arrived at the Columbia University Research Center.
"Wow, this is amazing! This is the most advanced electron microscope on the West Coast of the United States. I can't believe it!"
Peter, Ron, and Harry walked together, excitedly marveling at the various sophisticated scientific instruments in the Columbia University lab.
"Oh…"
Unlike Peter, Harry, who was beside him, showed little interest in these scientific instruments. He casually responded to Peter, not paying much attention to these things.
Compared to the dull and boring scientific instruments, he was more interested in Mary Jane, the red-haired girl walking ahead.
Ron, on the other hand, was different from both Peter and Harry. He was approaching these precise scientific instruments, using his mental power to sense them as much as possible, recording them, preparing for when he might need them in the future.
Ron had already decided: he wanted to catch the mutated spider that bit Peter, then study the mutated spider, and research what exactly was hidden in its mutated venom that allowed Peter to become Spider-Man instead of just poisoning him to death!
There must be many secrets within it!
To study the mutated spider, these precise scientific research instruments were extremely useful.
Although Ron's fantasy materialization ability could materialize these precise scientific instruments, because he didn't understand them, Ron would need to expend a lot of mental power, and the materialization process would be very slow.
However, the more Ron understood the appearance and structure of an object, the easier it would be for him to materialize it!
For example, ordinary iron rods, stones, and so on—he could materialize these things instantly.
If Ron didn't even have a general idea or impression of an object, then that object was unknown to him, and his current materialization ability simply couldn't materialize these unknown things.
Besides being unable to materialize unknown things, Ron also tried to materialize living creatures like insects and small birds, but he only got failed results.
For him now, the unknown and life itself were both very mysterious, and with his current level of ability, he was still very far from being able to materialize these things.
The group gradually moved further in. After an introduction by the Asian-looking teacher, the critical moment finally arrived: Mary Jane was standing alone in front of a spider exhibit area.
Next, it was time for Peter to pluck up the courage to go forward and offer to take a picture for Mary Jane, then get bitten by the spider and become the famous Spider-Man!
Indeed, Peter, holding his camera, looked at Mary Jane, who was standing alone, and really wanted to strike up a conversation with her.
After a while, he finally gathered his courage, walked forward with his camera, and spoke, wanting to take a picture for Mary Jane.
"Hey, can I take a picture? I need one with a student in it."
Seeing Peter holding the camera, Mary Jane smiled and agreed to Peter's request for a photo.
"Of course, where do you want me to stand? Here?"
"Yeah, right there, that's good." Peter said as he backed away to a corner, his attention fully on Mary Jane, raising his camera to take her picture.
At this moment, a purplish-red mutated spider on the ceiling was slowly descending, its target precisely Peter Parker below!
At this time, Ron was actually standing not far from Peter. He had actually discovered the existence of this mutated spider long ago, but he did nothing. Instead, he quietly waited for the mutated spider to slide down and bite Peter, then he would act to retrieve the mutated spider to strengthen himself.
Initially, Ron had indeed considered seizing Peter's opportunity, preventing Peter from becoming Spider-Man, and taking all of Spider-Man's superpowers for himself.
But Ron thought about it for a moment and then directly abandoned this idea.
Because, for him now, Spider-Man's abilities were actually dispensable.
Although Spider-Man's strength is not weak among the super-powered individuals in the American comic world, it is not the strongest. Ron's future growth direction will definitely be related to his own mental power, and Spider-Man's superpowers are not essential to him.
Moreover, over the past year, Ron and Peter had already become good friends and had a good relationship. Ron didn't want to take away what originally belonged to his friend; it was better for Peter to maintain his original identity as Spider-Man.
Watching the mutated spider slide onto Peter's hand, bite him, and then scurry into a dark corner, Ron activated his mental power to restrain the mutated spider, controlling it with his mental power to put it into a small bottle he had prepared in his pocket.
Looking at the mutated spider in the bottle in his pocket, he smiled with satisfaction, then his expression returned to normal, and he continued to follow the majority of the students… Still at the spot where Peter Parker had just taken the photo, a short while later, a girl named Cindy Moon, wearing sandals, walked through this corner. She paused there for a moment before leaving…
Having obtained what he wanted, Ron only followed the group for a short while before finding an excuse that his cough had worsened and left Columbia University.
Ron didn't go anywhere else but returned to his small house, ready to begin strengthening his body with the mutated spider.
Although he now had superpowers, these superpowers all came from his mental power and had no relation to his body. Ron's body was still as weak as an ordinary person's, which is why Ron needed to strengthen his body.
After taking out the bottle containing the mutated spider from his pocket, Ron used all his mental power to magically extract all the mutated venom from the mutated spider's mouthparts into the air.
When Peter was bitten, Ron had already observed with his mental power that the mutated spider had injected the mutated venom from its mouthparts into Peter's body, which is why Peter became Spider-Man.
He had previously used his mental power to examine the entire body of the mutated spider and knew that there was still a lot of mutated venom in its mouthparts, about half of what it had previously injected into Peter's body.
Although it was only half, it was already quite good.
Ron also discovered that the spider's venom was not a one-time thing; the mutated spider could continue to secrete this venom.
However, this process was very slow, and the mutated spider might take several years to secrete a similar amount of mutated venom as it had in its mouthparts today!
The mutated spider indeed lived up to its reputation as the entity that could turn Peter into Spider-Man. After expending an unknown amount of mental power, he finally forcibly extracted most of the venom from the mutated spider's mouthparts.
Looking at the small drop of purplish-black mutated venom floating in the air, Ron smiled, then directly used his materialization ability to materialize the simple instruments he had seen earlier at Columbia University, using his mental power to assist the instruments in studying all the material composition and arrangement of the mutated venom, as well as all related factors!
What he wanted to do was to materialize more mutated venom using his materialization ability!
Ugh, I compromise, I modified it, ugh