Although Venom had grown fat from all the eating and drinking, he still hadn't lost his fighting skills. He could only obey orders internally, but he was bold enough to strike hard outside. Who could blame him for being so frustrated right now? Did those people on the other side just walk into his trap again?
The two thugs with guns fell limply to the ground without even seeing the shadow of Venom.
"I haven't eaten brains in ages." Looking at the two gunmen lying on the ground, Venom couldn't help but recall his past. Back then, he was a renowned brain-crushing freak. But now? He'd fallen to the bottom of the food chain! He'd become the one being eaten! Life was so unpredictable.
"Don't eat them. I still have something to ask them." Eddie heard Venom's muttering in his mind and suddenly became anxious. He stopped it and said, "If you must eat them, wait until I finish interrogating them."
As soon as he finished speaking, Eddie felt the contempt from Venom.
"Do you think I'm still the same person I used to be? It's neither nutritious nor tasty. Do you know what I ate during the time we were apart? In your human terms, it was a top-notch custom-made meal made with top-notch ingredients and prepared by a top chef!"
"Okay, okay." Eddie calmed down Venom, who was extremely agitated, and squatted in front of the two gunmen. Venom's iconic, devilish half-black face turned into fear that was deeply imprinted in the eyes of the two gunmen.
"What kind of monster are you?" One of the gunmen tried to get up from the ground, but was knocked down again like a gopher by the arm controlled by venom that covered half of Eddie's body.
"I want to ask you a few questions, and I suggest you answer them well. Otherwise, this big guy is very hungry, and he told me that he wants to taste you." Eddie threatened the two with venom.
Venom also cooperated, enveloping Eddie's face. A long tongue jutted out from its bloody mouth, its tip gliding slowly across the faces of the two gunmen, who were looking up at Eddie. The two gunmen were so horrified by this terrifying scene that they lay prone on the ground, not daring to move. Their eyeballs moved in the direction of Venom's tongue as it slid across their faces.
Seeing that the two gunmen were subdued, Eddie's face appeared again. He looked at the two gunmen, reached out and patted their faces, took out his beloved mobile phone, and pointed the camera at the two of them.
"What experiments are you using those homeless people for? And who's the mastermind behind this?" Eddie asked. Having experienced the events of the Life Foundation and witnessed the madness of people like Carlton Drake, he was more sensitive to these things and had a stronger desire to fight.
Venom's head popped out from Eddie's shoulder, neck stretched out, teeth bared, menacing the two gunmen. He could already smell the familiar scent of emotional food. It was his favorite flavor.
"I don't know." The two gunmen tensed up, following Venom's head swaying in the air from the corner of their eyes, and shook their heads in unison.
"Looks like this guy needs to step up." The squatting Eddie shrugged and pointed at Venom, whose mouth was wide open. "Three seconds. Whoever speaks out first will live. The other one will become this boss's food. You make your choice. The countdown is now.
Three, two,…"
"We really don't know! This is a mission our boss assigned us!" The two gunmen panicked, grumbling and trying to explain themselves, fearing they would be swallowed whole by the black monster in the next second.
Eddie Brock threatened several more times, but the information he obtained was all mixed and confusing, with nothing to do with what he wanted to know. He was just a reporter and didn't know any interrogation techniques. After exhausting all the methods he could think of except violence, he was helpless.
"You're still so useless." Venom mocked him mercilessly.
"If you can, come on." Eddie replied to Venom distractedly. Unexpectedly, Venom actually agreed.
"I'll do it if I want. Do you think I'm like you, that I haven't grown or become stronger during this period? I'm no longer the person I used to be." Venom was itching to do something. He hadn't just been eating and drinking to gain weight in Luke's lab during this time. Most of Luke's experiments had been conducted almost without his knowledge. He had been influenced by what he saw and heard, especially after parasitizing Stark. He, Venom! Through this influence, he could be said to be a semi-sewn combination of the technologies of two major technology giants.
"Let me think, what should I do?"
Venom scratched his forehead. Under Eddie's astonished gaze, Venom's expression instantly became much more pious, and he muttered some interjections that he couldn't understand.
Then, the next moment, a ball of warm golden light appeared between Venom's dark claws. Venom, with a serious expression, controlled the light and gathered it in his palm, then gradually shaped it.
Venom's seriousness also affected Eddie. Eddie stared at the ball of golden light slowly forming in Venom's palm into a, um, hammer?
Eddie had to admit that if all this had not happened right under his nose, he might have mistaken the hammer in front of him, which had fine patterns, was translucent, and looked extremely solid, for a toy made of transparent material.
"Are you going to use this hammer to hit them to death and make them tell the truth?" This time it was Eddie who mocked Venom.
"You don't understand anything, Eddie. This is your world, but it has undergone tremendous changes, and you still know nothing. Ignorance is the most tragic thing." Venom reached out and grasped the handle of the hammer that was completely condensed from golden energy, and said with some emotion.
The hammer hit one of the gunmen on the head. The seemingly solid hammer didn't cause any physical damage to the gunman. At least Eddie couldn't see any injuries on his body, not even redness or swelling. But the gunman who was hit by the hammer looked dazed, and then tears and snot came out, and he started to sob.
"Did you hammer him to tears?" Eddie looked at the tall and strong gunner, sobbing like a child, his face filled with grief, and felt a little bewildered. Was Venom's hammer too hard?
"It shouldn't be like this! That's how Luke used it in the beginning! I controlled the variables." Venom was also a little confused. He had seen Luke use such a hammer to hit a vampire, and the old vampire even exposed his past to Luke.
"What did you do?" Eddie wanted to understand the current situation.
"Simply put, I use a technique that can touch the hearts of evildoers, awakening their good side. They'll break down, repent, and answer every question. In Luke's words, is it a wake-up call? Or a repentance?" Venom thought carefully before giving Eddie an answer. Then, his attention returned to the weeping gunman, marked by the Hammer of Repentance.
"Do you have anything to say?" Venom asked, imitating Luke's tone at the time.
"I am guilty!" The gunman choked and propped himself up from the ground, knelt on the ground and made an awkward church prayer gesture, saying with tears in his eyes.
"What's your fault?" Venom's eyes lit up and he asked hurriedly.
The gunman looked at the dark, terrifying face that Venom was approaching and cried loudly, "I've made so many mistakes! Please eat me! I deserve it!"
Venom's expression suddenly became tense.
"Why are you arresting those street vagrants? Who are you working for?" Eddie suppressed his laughter and asked on behalf of Venom. Although he didn't know where Venom learned these magical methods, now that he had created such a good opportunity, he had to seize it.
"I don't know. This is a task assigned by our boss." The gunman, still immersed in a strong feeling of remorse and unable to extricate himself, answered sincerely as he desperately wanted to confess and atone for his sins.
"Who is your boss?" Eddie and Venom looked at each other.
"The leader of the Viper Gang in Kitchen N31. We all call him Boss Hawke."
"You just said you were from the Metropolitan Underground Gang, Circle Al."
"We lied."
"Great! Can you take us to find Hawk now?" Eddie said happily.
"No, what did you do to me?" The sobbing gunman suddenly felt like he had been poured with cold water. He shuddered and recovered from the overwhelming feeling of remorse. He still remembered everything he had just experienced! He once again looked at the dark Venom and the smiling Eddie in horror.
"How come you woke up so quickly?" Eddie asked Venom.
"It might be a problem with energy output. You know, if you're not experienced, there will always be various problems the first time." Venom scratched his scalp.
"Can we do it again? With another one this time?" Eddie asked, his eyes falling on the other stunned gunman next to him.
"Do you think this is some free trick?" Venom refused. He himself was also resistant to the emotional energy combined with the Holy Light! He was able to use it only because Luke had given him special training! But it would cost him money! He planned to stay out for at least a long time this time, so for safety's sake, he had to conserve this energy.
"Then we can only go to the kitchen and look for it slowly. I have a friend there..."
"Wait a minute, who said I wanted to go to the kitchen with you?" Venom interrupted Eddie.
"If you don't go with me, how can I deal with those people and find out the truth?"
"What does this have to do with me? You should go to the police."
"Okay, let's put it another way. Let's go there to hunt for food, right? There are heads to chew on everywhere. As long as they've committed a lot of evil deeds, you'll definitely be able to have a good time chewing them."
"That's alright. I'm actually a little hungry now."
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A Quinjet landed on the apron of the Haibolun Industrial Park. Phil, along with his men, carried a rectangular metal coffin-like object and slowly walked down from the open hatch.