"I'm sorry, Harry, we couldn't save your father." Jason spoke first in response to Harry's puzzled look.
Harry was very emotional. He grabbed Jason's collar and yelled, "Tell me what happened. What happened to you?"
"Don't get excited, Harry. Don't get excited." Jason patted Harry's hands, signaling him not to get too excited.
"I'm sure you've been watching the news these days, about Hell's Kitchen."
"Yes, I saw it. You went and showed off your prowess, fighting a group of ninjas. Ha~ But what does this have to do with my father!" Harry's tone was still not very calm.
"Because the Hand plans to resurrect an evil god named Beast." Jason continued.
"And the beast was possessed by Peter at that time."
"Uncle Norman, his original life was coming to an end because of the genetic disease in your family. But he couldn't let you go, so you signed a contract with a demon to extend his life."
"This is impossible." Harry shook his head. He couldn't believe that there were demons in this world, and he didn't believe that his father would sign a contract with the demon.
"Listen to me." Jason motioned for Harry to continue listening to him. "Everything he did was to be able to research an antidote to the virus in your body."
"The devil forced Uncle Norman to do things he didn't want to do, such as killing Peter." What Jason said now already contained elements of lies.
When it comes to lying, the hardest things to uncover are those half-truths.
"Because the devil craves the power of the beast." This is Jason's own inference, but it is indeed true. "Uncle Norman was forced to become the devil's pawn under the devil's drive."
Harry looked at Norman's body on the ground and couldn't help kneeling beside him and crying.
"But he was unwilling to become the devil's minion, and he resisted the devil's control. He tried to break free from the devil's bondage and help us kill the evil beast." Having said that, Peter couldn't help but turn his back.
Lying was not something he was good at at all, and he was afraid of being exposed.
Although he did not particularly agree with this idea when Jason first discussed it with him, Peter did not have any better ideas.
And since Norman is dead, there is no need to pursue many things anymore. Otherwise, how should I face Harry in the future?
Jason ignored Peter's actions and continued talking. "Then the devil found out, and the devil came to Earth."
"So you want to tell me that my father was killed by a demon?" There was still disbelief in Harry's tone, but he was no longer as resistant as he was at the beginning.
"Yes, Uncle Norman rebelled against that devil. He didn't want to be that devil's puppet." Jason tried his best to keep his face expressionless so as to increase his credibility.
"In the end, he was killed by the devil. We were no match for the devil and could only watch him leave the earth." Among the people present at the time, Jason was probably the only one who knew that the Green Goblin was Norman Osborn, so this lie was not so easy to expose.
Harry was afraid that he would not be able to find the people of the Supreme Sorcerer to verify what happened at that time, because they came and went without a trace.
The only other person who witnessed the battle was Iron Man Tony Stark. Osborn Corporation and Stark Industries are competitors.
And at that time, Iron Man didn't know that the Green Goblin was Norman Osborn, and Harry probably wouldn't ask him.
As long as these two groups of people don't speak out, then only Peter and Jason will know the truth. Now that Peter doesn't speak, then whatever Jason says is true.
Jason didn't know whether this was right or wrong. He didn't want Harry to bear the heavy burden of his father being a demon. He and Peter were afraid that the truth would make Harry collapse.
They chose to cover up the truth with lies. Maybe they would slowly tell Harry the truth later, but not now.
Seeing Harry holding Norman's body and crying loudly, neither of them dared to say anything more.
"If what you said is true, then I will be irreconcilable with all demons!" Harry spoke with gritted teeth, his anger mixed with deep sadness.
The weather was not very good on the day of Norman Osborn's burial. New York welcomed its first snow in November, and small snowflakes fell from the sky on the day of the funeral.
Peter, Harry and Jason were all pallbearers. There was also a middle-aged man who was a distant relative of the Osborne family and had a good relationship.
It was Harry's request that Peter and Jason be the pallbearers, and they couldn't refuse this request, especially at such a vulnerable moment for Harry.
When the last white rose was thrown into the grave, Harry began to shovel the first shovel of soil. The brown soil slowly covered the black coffin.
This is the private mausoleum of the Osborn family. Harry dug from the first shovel of earth to the last without stopping.
New York has officially entered winter now, and he was sweating profusely even in the cold outdoors.
He was going to be the one to see Norman Osborn off on his final journey, and he didn't care no matter how hard it was.
"Harry, take a break." When Harry covered the last bit of soil, only Jason and Peter were left waiting for him in the biting cold wind.
The other workers began to do the final processing work, and Harry had no chance to get involved in this part, so Jason forcibly dragged him away.
"Thank you, thank you for staying with me." The corners of Harry's eyes were a little red. He didn't know if it was because he had been blown by the cold wind for too long, or for some other reason.
"Don't be silly, we are good brothers." Peter said and gave Harry a hug, then Jason hugged Harry and patted his back.
"Cheer up, Harry, you still have a huge business empire to manage. Don't let your father's efforts go to waste." Jason signaled Harry to cheer up.
Norman may have prepared a retreat long ago, and Janet Chan's experiments in the Osborne Group did not escape Norman's surveillance.
But Norman let it go, because this gene sequence was exactly the antidote he had been dreaming of. He knew that unless he used special methods, it would be difficult to get rid of Stannis's control over him.
So the road had been paved for Harry long ago, and all the previous secret experiments were destroyed by him. All the data was deleted.
He removed any stain that might damage the Osborne Group because he knew that Harry was not him and that Harry could not play so many tricks, at least not now.
He is still too young and needs more experience.
Norman only left the successful gene sequence part, and also indicated in the letter that he needed help from two friends.
Because he knew that neither Jason nor Peter would refuse Harry's request at this time, and they would definitely help Harry.
"Don't blame me for repeating the same old story, Jason. I need your help, and I want to hire you as my special advisor. I can't handle those guys on the board by myself." Harry cheered himself up and mentioned the invitation again.
Jason struggled a little. "Okay, I promised your father that I would help you. But I don't want to be a full-time employee, you know. Occasionally doing consulting or something is fine."
"Thanks, buddy." Harry lightly punched Jason on the shoulder to thank him for his support in this way.
"And your brother, thank you." Harry also hit Peter's shoulder.
"Oh, don't be too intimate. I still have Gwen. Don't you want to go see Mary Jane? She was almost crying from the cold outside just now, and I had to persuade her to go back first." Peter said with a smile.
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