The efficacy of the regeneration serum was nothing short of a miracle for today's medical industry!
Therefore, even if the pricing wasn't exactly cheap, it instantly became a global hit. Even before its release, it was already in a state of being out of stock.
If it hadn't been for Jarvis running the Parker Industries website, the servers would have likely been crashed by the traffic!
After all, while not everyone has physical disabilities, who wouldn't want to own a serum that could save their life?
So, naturally, the name Parker Industries spread throughout the entire World like a virus.
And Parker himself, who held the majority of Parker Industries, was being investigated by various factions.
One must know that the Parker Industries official website showed that even Harry Osborn only held a mere 20% of the shares, Tony Stark only held 10%, and Wilson Fisk also only held 10%.
So they were all very curious as to just what kind of sacred being this Ryan Parker was!
After their investigation, they were surprised to find that this person, who overpowered three big shots in terms of shares, was actually just a 20-year-old kid from Queens!
Holy shit! Is there some mistake?!
Besides being a bit handsome, having a good physique, and a high IQ, what does this kid have to deserve this?
This was an unsolved mystery of the World, unknown to anyone except the four founders of Parker Industries.
As for the reason...
It was actually very simple.
First of all, Harry was willing. After experiencing a series of changes and being backstabbed by his own Board of Directors, he had no desire to manage a company after taking his revenge last night.
Coincidentally, he 'accidentally' heard about Ryan's idea to start a company. Therefore, Harry simply closed his own company and chose to bring his entire net worth to join his big brother's company, becoming a carefree Director who only cared about taking dividends every year.
As for Harry investing his entire net worth only to get 20% of the shares in the new company, Parker Industries, that was naturally impossible.
It was just that Harry only wanted 20% of Parker Industries' shares, and gave everything else to Ryan, who had selflessly helped him all along.
Even the Oscorp Tower was given to Ryan for free by Harry to serve as the new headquarters for Parker Industries.
In Harry's words, because of the hereditary disease in his family causing early deaths, his only family now was his sworn brother, Ryan. He didn't even have a relative to share the shares with, so what was the use of holding so many?
Furthermore, Harry said he didn't want Ryan to follow in his father's footsteps. Because his father didn't have absolute control over the shares in Osborn Enterprises, he was constrained everywhere by the Board of Directors. That's why Harry gave most of his shares to Ryan, so that Ryan could have an unconstrained amount of shares.
Hearing this, even Ryan felt a pang of conscience, so he changed the status of the venom from being lent to Harry to being given to him directly.
This made Harry incredibly happy, even happier than when he took back his own company!
As for Tony and Fisk only taking 10% of the shares, that was even simpler. Ryan had taken the initiative to pull them in through his personal relationships with them. They invested and took 10% of the shares purely out of respect for Ryan as a person.
And Ryan pulled them in just to borrow their influence and connections, to save his company from most of the trouble.
Tony and Kingpin—one was the Military's number one arms supplier whom even the U.S. government didn't dare touch lightly, and the other was the underground emperor of the underworld whom no one dared to trip up in the dark.
The addition of these two could effectively block most of the black hands who wanted to interfere with Parker Industries for illegitimate reasons.
For example, right now there was a large Black hand peering at Ryan and Ryan's Parker Industries.
That hand was... the black-scalped trench-coat hero who had no blood relation to the bald-headed caped hero!
Nick Fury!
At the press conference, among the crowd of reporters, a bald man in a black suit and sunglasses was taking photos with a camera.
But unlike other reporters who were only focused on filming the regeneration serum, this bald man was mostly taking photos of Ryan himself on the stage.
After taking a few photos of Ryan, the bald man silently backed out of the crowd of reporters who were scrambling for front-row questions and walked alone against the flow of people to a deserted corner.
Then he took out his phone and dialed a number.
When the call connected, Coulson spoke directly:
"Director, it has been basically confirmed. Ryan Parker, the largest shareholder of Parker Industries, is the superhuman assassin 'venom' employed by Kingpin that we have been looking for!"
"Furthermore, Tony Stark's mysterious rescue and return to New York, Harry Osborn's ability to return to Osborn Enterprises and forcibly dissolve it, and the death of the entire Osborn Board of Directors last night should all be related to him!"
"So, Director, now that we have confirmed the target's true identity, should we use forceful measures against him?"
Nick Fury on the other end of the phone was silent for a while before slowly replying, "No, Coulson, you come back first. We can't move against him for the time being..."
Hearing this, Coulson's expression was very puzzled:
"As S.H.I.E.L.D., the supernatural protectors of Earth, Ryan Parker's act of killing so many people has clearly violated the Earth Superhuman Act established by the Council. Shouldn't we arrest him now to prevent more innocent people from being harmed?"
Nick Fury on the other end said coldly, "You also said it's to prevent more innocent people from being harmed, but think about his past action records. How many of the people he killed were innocent?"
"It can be said that not one person was absolutely innocent!"
"And most importantly, although we know his true identity, it is precisely because of his current status that we cannot use force against him!"
Coulson was stunned and subconsciously asked, "Why?"
Nick Fury sighed, "For example, you knew early on that Kingpin has power far beyond ordinary people, and his sins are much deeper than Ryan's. Why has S.H.I.E.L.D. never gone to arrest Kingpin?"
"Because his influence is large and deep enough, and more importantly, because he has a reason to exist. Without Kingpin, the underground World won't become better; instead, it will become more chaotic, and thus more people will die!"
"Ryan Parker is the same now. In fact, after today, his influence will be even deeper than Kingpin's. With the support of Tony Stark, an arms dealer mogul, and Kingpin, a criminal syndicate leader, the regeneration serum will surely go global smoothly. Arresting Ryan Parker now would not only offend Tony Stark and Kingpin at the same time, but also the entire World!"
"So, Coulson, come back. I will send other Agents more suitable for dealing with anti-heroes like him to contact him and see if we can recruit him..."