Time passed quickly. A week later, it was the day for Norman Osborn to officially take office as Governor.
"Now, let us invite our new Governor, Mr. Norman Osborn, to speak."
While Harry was feeling bored, the system, which had been silent for a long time, popped up a notification again.
[Detected: Norman Osborn (Trusts Host) has become the Governor of New York]
[Social-Political Mission Tree Unlocked]
[Reward: Psionic Theory]
['Link' Vision loaded]
[Mission Issued: Power]
[Mission Objective: Control more than 50% of the power in the United States]
[Progress Bar: 11%]
The system's sudden "resurrection" surprised and delighted Harry.
It seemed his system was of the "play dead" type; if he just waited for missions to be issued, they wouldn't appear at all.
Becoming the President of the United States? That was already part of his plan.
After the system loaded the so-called 'Link' vision, it seemed to have unlocked his Sixth Sense, allowing him to vaguely discern others' attitudes toward him.
For example, his father, in his Sixth Sense, appeared as the colors of pride and self-satisfaction, along with some guilt.
According to the feedback from this new ability, Tony seemed to already view him as a friend, though there were still some doubts.
Psionic Theory discussed the existence of psionics and included some meditation-like cultivation methods, which Harry still needed to organize and practice.
Harry happily accepted the rewards and then waved at his father.
Go for it, Dad!
"Citizens of New York, I am honored to stand here today to deliver my inaugural address."
Time quickly arrived at the day of Norman's inauguration, and the place was packed with people.
"So, your father is now the Governor of New York. Congratulations."
Tony sat down next to Harry.
To be honest, Harry didn't really want Tony to come here; after all, Iron Man's movements generated too much buzz, and he didn't want Tony to overshadow his father.
He would just have to let the media handle it afterwards.
"Thanks. So, what are you doing here? Surely you didn't just come to say congratulations?"
"Of course not. This is what you wanted."
Tony handed over a disk, which should contain the artificial intelligence Harry had asked for.
Seeing this, Harry smiled—who wouldn't want an artificial intelligence like Jarvis?
However, Harry didn't get this to use it, but to train Lening.
"Not bad. I hope you didn't install any hacking programs in it."
"Of course not, how could I?" Tony's eyes drifted into the distance. "Using a hacking program to monitor an 18-year-old kid? Impossible."
In reality, Tony had indeed installed a backdoor program.
Tony was thinking: Kid, you're unbalanced in your studies, right? Let me teach you a proper lesson.
Harry was thinking: You'd better not let me catch you, otherwise I'll have Lening hit your Jarvis with a dimensional reduction strike.
"Anything else?" Harry noticed Tony suddenly started operating something. "Did you change careers to become an Agent? What are you doing?"
Tony looked around, as if confirming no one was eavesdropping, then tapped his watch, seemingly blocking eavesdropping devices.
"S.H.I.E.L.D., ever heard of it?"
Hearing Tony's words, Harry was a bit surprised: He's actually coming to discuss this with me?
"Sounds like some illegal organization. Have you heard of HYDRA? A legendary dark organization. These two names seem to be of the same style."
"What? Of course they aren't the same thing!" Tony shook his head like a rattle.
In fact, they were quite similar. Harry refrained from laughing out loud: Nick Fury's direct superior was HYDRA!
"But shouldn't legitimate departments be called something like 'Department of X' or 'Bureau of Y'? What kind of thing is S.H.I.E.L.D.?"
"It's an acronym. The full name is Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division. They want to form a superhero organization to..."
"...to protect the World?" Harry finished the sentence. "Did they invite you?"
"Yes! They invited me to protect the World. But before that, they need to evaluate me."
"Intern, I get it."
The word "intern" seemed to make Tony very unhappy.
"What? This is just a standard evaluation procedure for an organized department. You know every Stark employee, before joining Stark Industries, also has to..."
"Intern. The Osborn Group certainly has this procedure too." Harry blocked Tony's machine-gun-like mouth.
Tony couldn't refute that, and suddenly felt annoyed: It was clearly that black egghead who begged him to join, so why did he have to intern first?
Taking a deep breath, Tony continued:
"Fine, intern. They invited you too, but they don't seem too sure about the identity of that skateboarder guy, so they asked me to contact you."
"I refuse."
Harry's decisive refusal almost made Tony spit out his drink.
"What? But I think that black... no, their Director's ideas are actually quite similar to yours."
Harry didn't deny that.
Nick Fury's ideas were indeed close to Harry's; he was also someone who wanted to be the driver.
But Harry didn't think he would do any worse than him. Besides, what he wanted was the ownership of the car; being the driver was just a small step on the journey.
"I can do better, it's that simple. But if you want to join, I won't object."
As for Tony at this stage, he probably just wanted to fly around like a superhero and be admired by everyone.
After speaking, Norman's speech reached its final stage. Harry stood up first; he was going backstage to meet his father.
"Let us together..."
Suddenly, the situation changed. Harry keenly noticed that Norman's speech slowed down, and his body seemed to start swaying--
"...welcome a better tomorrow."
Bang!
Norman fell to one side.
Outside the infirmary, Harry paced in silence.
Norman wasn't that old, his past annual physical reports showed everything was normal, and there hadn't been anything upsetting recently.
In other words, this fainting spell was completely without warning.
But Harry still had some guesses.
Retrovirus.
But when Harry first transmigrated and confirmed his identity, he had checked the history of the Osborn Family.
He hadn't heard of the Osborn Family having this genetic disease, and in his memory, only the Osborn Family in the movie "The Amazing Spider-Man" had this genetic disease, so he believed that this World did not have this genetic disease.
Of course, it was also possible that Norman had been infected with this virus at some unknown time.
Right now, he had to reconsider how to solve this thing, and if Norman had been infected before Harry was born, then he was also very likely to have been infected with this virus.
Fortunately, Dr. Connors and Peter's blood were still in his hands.
"Harry," Dr. Connors walked out of the laboratory. "This is a very rare condition; it's a retrovirus."
"Dr. Connors, that means I also need to undergo an examination."
Connors nodded, the atmosphere very oppressive.
"I understand. But Dr. Connors, I hope all of this will be conducted in secret, whether it concerns my father or me."
Norman's political career had just started; the spread of news about his illness would be detrimental to his further development.
And as for Harry, regardless of whether he had the retrovirus in his body, his genes would surely astonish Connors.
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