Limb regeneration was far more than a simple treatment for disability. Its true potential was almost limitless, with restoring severed limbs being only the most basic application.
If arms and legs could be regrown, then what about internal organs? The heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys—could the body's vital systems be restored as well? And if even those could be regenerated, then what about the brain itself?
From a medical standpoint, the human body simply does not possess the natural ability to recover from injuries such as severed limbs.
For humans, losing an arm or a leg is no different from having internal organs destroyed—both are considered permanent damage. And that raises an even more important question: what about organ failure?
Patients suffering from kidney failure must rely on transplants to survive. But with this technology, why not remove the failing kidney entirely and allow a healthy one to grow in its place?
The same logic applied to heart disease. Currently, bypass surgery is one of the most effective treatments, yet it is incredibly expensive and far from permanent.
The human body naturally rejects foreign objects; it was never designed to tolerate them indefinitely.
But a newly regenerated organ would be different.
Take cardiovascular disease, for example—something that affects nearly eighty percent of the elderly population. If heart regeneration alone became possible, it could extend the average human lifespan by more than twenty years.
And then there was cancer.
Modern medicine treats cancer through chemotherapy or surgical removal. Surgery—so-called physical therapy—requires cutting out cancerous tissue, but cancer cells are not isolated invaders. They are intertwined with the body's own organs.
Removing them inevitably means removing part of the patient as well. One miscalculation, and the result is mutual destruction: the cancer is gone, but so is the patient.
However, if organs could be regenerated…
Then the equation changes completely.
Lung cancer? Remove the lungs and grow new ones.
Liver cancer? Replace the liver entirely.
Even brain tumors—once considered untouchable—might no longer be a death sentence.
With this technology, humanity might not achieve a perfect, one hundred percent cure rate for cancer—but curing ninety-nine percent of cases would already redefine medicine as we know it.
And this time, it wouldn't just be "treatment."
It would be a true cure.
In the medical world, cancer has never been considered curable. Typically, if a late-stage patient survives for five years, the treatment is deemed successful—but that falls far short of an actual cure.
Now, for the first time in history, the possibility of completely eradicating cancer had become real.
…
Almost overnight, Umbrella Corporation—and its young CEO, Peter Parker, who had been nothing more than a high school student just months ago—became the center of global attention.
Every media outlet was talking about it.
Of course, behind the scenes, Peter had poured enormous resources into fueling this coverage.
Compared to this breakthrough, what did it matter that the White House had been attacked? That the President had issued statements or lost his temper in public? Those events, dramatic as they were, had little direct impact on ordinary people.
But limb regeneration—
The promise of curing cancer—
Those were things that touched everyone.
…
Within a single week, Umbrella's stock price skyrocketed, nearly doubling its market value and rapidly catching up to Stark Industries, the corporate giant backed by Iron Man.
Coincidentally, Stark Industries had just announced Tony Stark's resignation as CEO, with his personal assistant Pepper Potts stepping into the role. The transition caused a noticeable dip in Stark's stock.
And just like that, the long-standing gap between America's two corporate titans—once defined by Stark Industries in the West and Oscorp in the East—was erased. After Iron Man's emergence and Norman Osborn's decline, the balance had tilted heavily in Stark's favor.
But now?
In less than a week under Peter's leadership, that gap had not only been closed—
It was on the verge of reversing.
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Inside the company, the board of directors was ecstatic.
Initially, many of them had been deeply dissatisfied with Norman Osborn's decision to entrust the CEO position to a mere high school student. But since joining the company, Peter had proven himself time and again, earning recognition from every level of the organization.
And now, under his leadership, the company had achieved unprecedented visibility. Its stock price had nearly doubled, and the wealth of its shareholders had grown accordingly.
Naturally, they were more than pleased.
But Peter?
He had other plans.
Following the board meeting, he quietly sent out a clear message.
He had no intention of allowing others to "share the cake" inside his company—to interfere with or profit from what he considered his domain.
With the sole exception of Harry Osborn, whom he intended to keep for the time being—
Everyone else…
Would be removed.
"Begin the plan."
In a private office, a stunningly beautiful woman—her figure as striking as her face—nodded upon receiving Peter's instructions.
Stepping outside, she raised her hand and called out to the busy staff.
"Get to work. Release all the information in phases. That stock price that's been soaring all week…"
Her lips curved into a cold smile.
"I want it reduced to worthless paper within three days."
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Unlike some markets, the U.S. stock market had no daily limit on price drops. Unless the nation itself fell into turmoil—forcing the government to shut down trading entirely—there was no built-in safeguard.
No safety net.
And so—
At the very peak of Umbrella's market value—
The storm began.
One revelation after another.
So-called "leaked" information.
Confidential videos.
Damning photographs.
All of it—Flooded the internet within a single day.
…
Headlines exploded across every platform:
"A World-Shaking Scam? The High School CEO Behind Oscorp's Revival Exposed!"
"Shocking! The Biggest Lie of the 21st Century—Peter Parker Has Enraged the Entire World!"
"A Myth Shattered—Shareholders Dump Stock as They Rush to Cash Out!"
In an instant—
The miracle that had lifted Umbrella to the heavens…
Began to collapse.
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