Hearing Peter's voice turn somewhat strange, Dr. Connors instinctively looked up.
As soon as he looked up, he was startled by Peter's sudden change:
"My god, Peter, what happened to you? Did you inject a high concentration of lizard serum while I wasn't looking?"
"Calm down, Dr." As Peter twisted the little broken watch on his hand, he quickly returned to his original form:
"This has nothing to do with your serum; I just used magic to record the lizard's genes."
"Now, the lizard genes have reached a perfect balance in my body. I can easily control this power without being affected by any biological instincts."
As Peter spoke, he drew a vial of blood and handed it to Dr. Connors:
"Look at this; I guarantee you'll be surprised."
Dr. Connors took the vial of blood skeptically, prepared a slide, and placed it under the microscope for careful observation.
"My god, how can it be so perfect?!"
He first let out a cry of amazement, then couldn't help but use more advanced instruments to analyze the secrets within.
"The genetic compatibility has actually reached 100%! This is simply incredible!"
Peter let Connors be excited for a while, and only after he gradually calmed down did Peter speak:
"Dr., if my blood were used as a neutralizing medium, could it improve a human's tolerance after receiving a 100% concentration of lizard serum?"
Hearing this, Connors thought for a moment before answering:
"Theoretically feasible, but as for whether it will actually succeed, only God knows."
Peter knew the Dr. had a point, but he really didn't want to wait any longer, so he simply proposed:
"Perhaps you can try to create a new vial of serum now and use yourself as a test subject. After all, even if something goes wrong, I can help you expel the lizard genes you can't assimilate, just like last time, right?"
Dr. Connors frowned and thought for a while. Considering that even if he went mad, he wouldn't be a match for Peter, and that Peter really could cure him, he finally nodded obediently:
"Alright then, we'll do as you say!"
As he spoke, he began working quickly at the workstation. Before long, a new type of lizard serum based on Peter's blood as a medium was completed.
Taking a deep breath, Dr. Connors gritted his teeth and injected the serum into his body, then quietly waited for the painful transformation process.
About a minute later, his body indeed began to change.
His body continuously shifted between human and lizard forms. Although Connors' mind remained clear, his appearance was visibly leaning more and more toward that of a Lizardman.
Seeing Dr. Connors about to turn into a Lizard Monster again, Peter didn't hesitate and immediately pressed his hand onto the doctor's shoulder.
As the horse talisman's power activated, the lizard traits on Connors' body rapidly receded.
Before long, he returned to his original appearance.
Huff... huff... Dr. Connors gasped heavily, still feeling the lingering fear.
Although he hadn't felt any violent or murderous urges in his mind, seeing lizard-like scales grow on his own body was stimulating enough for him.
Coming back to his senses, the Dr. instinctively wanted to pick up his water glass for a sip.
The result... Clink~
The glass had just touched his hand when it was instantly crushed into fragments by a massive force.
The sharp glass fragments fell into the doctor's palm, but they didn't pierce his skin.
Dr. Connors stared blankly at this scene, then instinctively increased his grip strength.
As a result, he even ground the glass fragments in his hand into powder without seeing them pierce the skin on his hand... "If you want to test your self-healing ability, I can help you."
As Peter spoke, he used a Finger Pistol to stab Dr. Connors' back of the hand.
His finger instantly pierced the tough back of the hand, and bright red blood gushed out.
The Dr. sucked in a breath of cold air from the pain, but he didn't complain; instead, he stared unblinkingly at his palm.
That palm, which had a bloody hole nearly two centimeters in diameter, was actually healing slowly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
About a minute later, the bloody hole had completely healed, with only a dark red scab still covering the spot.
"It... it succeeded!" Dr. Connors' voice trembled with excitement.
He had originally thought that with Peter's healing, he would return to human form while losing this powerful strength, just like last time.
He hadn't expected that this time, he would actually retain this power.
"Uh... it seems there's more to it than that." Peter thoughtfully took out his phone and snapped a photo of Dr. Connors.
Dr. Connors took the phone with some confusion, only to find that fine scales had appeared on his face again.
This gave him a fright, and he nearly crushed Peter's phone:
"Peter, the lizard genes are acting up again! Quick, help me treat it; I don't want to go home looking like this."
"Calm down, Dr." Peter patted the doctor's shoulder with amusement:
"It's not that there's a problem with my healing ability... try silently willing the scales to retract in your mind?"
Dr. Connors blankly did as told, and then he watched as the scales, which had already spread to his arms, actually retracted bit by bit.
"This... what's going on? I can actually... freely switch between lizard and human forms?"
Connors was so excited he was incoherent.
He repeatedly manipulated the scales to cover his body, even making a lizard tail grow behind him, only to make these traits disappear again and again, looking completely addicted to it.
To be honest, even Peter was a bit unsure of the situation. After a moment, he spoke tentatively:
"This might be due to the influence of my blood, but it could also be related to you, Dr. Connors. After all, you had already become Dr. Lizard before.
Perhaps this power has been lurking in your body all along, and today's second transplant helped you activate this hidden power."
Peter tried to provide an explanation using a more "scientific" method.
As for the unscientific explanation? The answer was naturally the so-called lizard totem.
In Peter's view, the reason Dr. Connors could become a Lizardman, and even use the serum to transform people into lizards on a large scale in the movies, might itself be related to the choice of the lizard totem.
Now, with Peter's blood, or rather the perfect genes provided by the little broken watch, he, who was already chosen by the totem, naturally completed a life leap, becoming the perfect Dr. Lizard in every sense.
As for whether Peter's guess was true, verifying it would be very simple.
Just give a shot of lizard serum to his good buddy Harry and see if he can also retain the transformation ability after the gene transplant, and then it'll be clear, won't it?!"