So, under Lin Rui’s mental energy surveillance, he was able to hear some of the conversations between Eddie and Venom inside the apartment across the street. In Lin Rui’s perspective, Venom parasitizing Eddie was something of a melodramatic character, frequently resorting to threatening Eddie’s life as leverage.
Eddie, now a host to Venom, had no choice but to temporarily comply with Venom’s demands to stay alive. Thus, they had temporarily reached a state of uneasy coexistence.
Lin Rui didn’t have to wait long before the Life Foundation’s pursuit team arrived at Eddie’s apartment. The pursuit team had no prior experience with a host fully bonded with a symbiote and was brutally beaten within Eddie’s apartment. Eddie then leaped out of the window, beginning a thrilling chase through the city streets of San Francisco.
Naturally, Lin Rui continued to follow them from the shadows and even took care of the police and surveillance footage capturing Venom taking action, all to cover their tracks.
Of course, all these actions were attributed to Carlton Drake, the President of the Life Foundation, by the world. After all, given the Life Foundation’s capabilities, they could indeed exert considerable influence in San Francisco.
With Venom’s assistance, Eddie managed to deal with many of the pursuers. However, just as he began to feel confident in his newfound power, his “Five-Man Driven” bike collided with a vehicle blocking his path. After executing a series of acrobatic maneuvers in mid-air, Eddie crashed hard onto the ground.
His body sustained multiple severe fractures, his right leg was broken in an irregular manner, and his internal organs suffered varying degrees of damage.
Eddie resembled a broken sack writhing in agony at the crossroads, seemingly on the brink of death. After intercepting Eddie, the Life Foundation’s pursuit team swiftly sealed off the intersection.
The Captain, the leader of the pursuit team, slowly approached Eddie, his bald head and facial expression revealing unbridled resentment. Of course, Captain was delighted now that Eddie had been reduced to this pitiful state.
However, as Eddie helplessly watched Captain standing beside him, unable to do anything, Venom’s voice echoed in his mind once more.
“Eddie, I don’t actually have any ill intentions towards you. Now, it’s time for you to see my true power…”
Following Venom’s words in Eddie’s mind, the Venom symbiote that had been dormant within Eddie’s body surged forth. In a matter of seconds, it healed Eddie, who was on the brink of death. Then, the symbiote oozed out and completely armored Eddie.
At this moment, Eddie, now fully equipped by Venom, transformed into a terrifying black monstrosity. Standing over two meters tall, he had a humanoid form but with a gruesome, bloodthirsty face. The muscular tissue transformed by Venom appeared exceptionally robust and durable, resembling a combat-oriented humanoid weapon.
Eddie was bewildered by the changes inside and outside his body. At this point, he could no longer control himself. Perhaps he no longer had a body to call his own; his body was Venom’s!
Whoosh!
The next moment, the transformed Eddie, or Venom, swiftly grabbed the bald-headed Captain, who was still in shock due to Eddie’s transformation. Enormous black claws tightly clasped Captain’s body, and as Venom exerted force, the sound of bones crunching echoed from Captain’s body.
Crack, Crack, Crack!
The excruciating pain rendered Captain speechless, and in the face of this horrifying creature, he seemed to understand his fate. Indeed, Venom didn’t prolong his suffering. Hungry and eager, Venom opened its bloodthirsty maw wide and bit off Captain’s head in a single gulp.
The scene was gruesome and terrifying, and it finally snapped the other members of the pursuit team, who had been momentarily stunned, back to reality. In the next moment, an onslaught of firepower was unleashed upon Venom.
At this point, they weren’t interested in capturing Venom anymore; they just wanted to eliminate this terrifying creature that devoured human heads.
Pew, Pew, Pew!
“Ugh… tastes average,” Venom remarked, paying no attention to the bullets hitting its body.
Bang!
Then, Venom impatiently glanced at the pursuing team surrounding it and chose a direction to charge towards. With not much heavy firepower or means to restrain Venom, the pursuit team watched helplessly as Venom broke free from the encirclement and leaped into the sea, making its escape.
Once Venom jumped into the sea, the Life Foundation’s pursuit team ceased their chase. This pursuit of Eddie had cost them many team members, with even the Captain having his head devoured. Certainly, Venom’s horrifying abilities and appearance had left psychological scars on these combat personnel.
However, the Life Foundation’s pursuit team giving up the chase didn’t mean that Lin Rui lurking in the shadows would allow Venom and Eddie to continue causing trouble unchecked.
Although the scene of Venom devouring Captain’s head had sent shivers down Lin Rui’s spine, after all he had been through, Lin Rui couldn’t claim to be unable to accept it.
“This Venom really is… disgustingly capable!” Lin Rui muttered as he watched the rapidly receding black figure beneath the seawater from the shore where Venom had leaped into the sea.
Compared to the previous “Venom” that had parasitized Peter, these “Venom” obtained by the Life Foundation seemed to be complete life forms. The Venom that had been sealed in Tony’s lab, although possessing consciousness, clearly hadn’t reached the level of a complete personality; it could only influence its host on a subconscious level.
Swoosh!
After muttering to himself, Lin Rui had already disappeared from his original spot. Having observed the situation, Lin Rui had no intention of letting Venom and Eddie continue their actions unchecked.
Bang!
After swiftly traversing nearly a kilometer underwater, Venom emerged from the sea and landed on one of the pylons of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Then, Venom deactivated the full-body armor on its host, revealing Eddie, who had been barely clinging to life moments ago.
Once freed from Venom’s control and armor, Eddie examined his body in astonishment, noting that he had absolutely no injuries. Then, he remembered something and sat down on the pylon, looking utterly drained.
As Eddie slumped in exhaustion, Venom oozed out from behind him, with a black viscous substance extending from Eddie’s back. Finally, it morphed into a grotesque face that floated in front of Eddie.
“Hey, Eddie.”
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