When Eddie Brock opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was his body tied up tightly with tight straps, and a particularly eye-catching magnificent cube not far away.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?"
Just as Eddie was immersed in the magnificence, a male voice sounded behind him, interrupting his concentration.
Eddie turned his head with great effort on the ground. The first thing that caught his eye was several pairs of boots and a pair of shiny leather shoes close at hand. He exerted force on his waist and abdomen, turned his body over from the prone position, and faced up. Only then could he see the person who was speaking clearly.
He was a thin man in a suit and tie. He had thick, slightly curly black hair and an intoxicated smile on the corner of his lips as he looked at the palm-sized cube not far away.
"Who are you? What is that?" Eddie lay on his back on the ground, slightly sideways, with his head raised, looking at the man beside him.
"That is the fire that leads mankind to a new world in the future." The visitor did not introduce himself, but answered Eddie's next question.
"The spark of the new world?" Eddie asked, glancing around. When he saw Venom lying in a transparent glass box encased in tempered glass, he felt strangely relieved. Even though Venom wasn't in his body right now.
"Prometheus stole fire for mankind, freeing them from darkness and cold and allowing them to eat warm food. This made an indelible contribution to mankind's dominance over the planet.
This Rubik's Cube will open a new chapter for humanity. It can help us transcend this planet and expand our hunting grounds to the entire galaxy and universe. Do you understand what this means?" The man looked down at him condescendingly.
"So this is why you ordered people to capture homeless people for human experiments?" Eddie asked boldly. He felt that under such circumstances, the other party should not hide anything from him.
"Then you might be mistaken. I don't need to look for those poor homeless people anymore." The man smiled. "I know you, Eddie Brock, a reporter for the Daily Bugle. You've just been in the metropolis for a year and three months.
You once worked in California and were fired by your newspaper because you offended the local giant, the Life Foundation. But you later successfully brought that company down. I have to say, your resume and achievements are quite impressive.
"Have you investigated me?" Eddie sighed.
"We have to investigate." The man glanced sideways at the black liquid imprisoned in the glass box. "After all, the sudden appearance of a monster at this time of year will always attract attention. It's obvious that there were other powerful forces behind the incident. You have many secrets to uncover."
"Okay, okay, it looks like you won't let me go anyway. I just want to ask, what do you want to do?" Eddie put his head on the cold ground, acting as if he had accepted his fate.
"I just want you to join us." The man said with a smile.
"Join you? As long as I join, you will let me leave safely?" Eddie blinked, somewhat incredulous.
"Yes, as long as you join us, you will be free." The man said affirmatively.
"I'm in! Do I need to write an application? Also, can you untie me? I'm feeling very uncomfortable." Eddie struggled on the ground for a few times, then raised his head and asked.
"No, Mr. Brock, the prerequisite for joining is that you must survive first." The man smiled maliciously, stood up, and waved behind him. Two people standing in the shadow of the corner came over. Eddie found that they were wrapped tightly all over their bodies, and even wore a pair of thick leather gloves on their hands.
"What do you mean?" Eddie sensed some kind of crisis. He moved his body back a little distance on the ground, and then two people approached, each grabbed one of his arms and started pulling him.
"You know, only when people's interests are aligned can they reduce the possibility of betrayal. First of all, I have to make you one of my own." The man took two steps back and came to a counter next to him. He typed a few numbers on the projected virtual keyboard with his fingers while speaking.
"I surrender! I agree to join you." Eddie felt the incredible strength of the two men holding his shoulders. They effortlessly lifted him, weighing over a hundred pounds. Even as he kicked and struggled in the air, their grip on him was like granite, as immovable as their bodies.
"You don't have the final say. I think only after you survive can we have a more in-depth conversation. For example, what do I want to do?" The man waved his hand.
In front of the pyramid device holding the cube, a layer of tempered wall was pulled open like elevator doors on both sides. The tempered glass cover used to protect the pyramid device also opened the next moment, and the cube was slightly lifted by the lifting platform of the pyramid device.
The two taciturn men took Eddie to a chair in front of the pyramid device, then quickly fixed him on the chair before starting to back away.
"Good luck." The man entered a few numbers on the virtual keyboard and hit enter.
Layer upon layer of sealed tempered glass doors began to close. As if connected to a power source from beneath the pyramidal device, the cube was awakened from its dormant state. The lines on its black outer shell seemed to flow like liquid beneath the azure glow within, rising from the bottom along the lines. Then, as azure energy filled the cube's entirety, a finger-thick azure beam erupted from its apex. This was absorbed and refracted by the instrument at the top, then, at a precisely adjusted angle, shot towards Eddie, who was secured to the metal chair.
Just when Eddie couldn't help but close his eyes due to the stimulation of the strong light, a layer of black liquid had already poured onto his body, instantly acting as the first layer of barrier.
Then, the blue beam of light fell on the black shell of Venom covering Eddie's body.
"Fuck!" Venom only had time to curse before he felt himself melting. The high temperature made him feel like he was going to die. In that instant, he really felt like he was going to die.
Holy light?
Holy light.
Holy light!
Venom had never used the Holy Light so devoutly before. According to what Luke had once told him, the more devout one was, the greater the effect of the Holy Light would be. The greater the effect of the Holy Light, the easier it would be for people to become more devout.
This is also a kind of energy that can subtly change a person's character.
Warm holy light spread throughout Venom's body, dispelling the pain and high temperature he was enduring, and restoring his weakened vitality. The thin layer of warm yellow light and the destructive blue light fought against each other inside and outside Venom's body.
"How did it appear there?" The man outside the protective layer also saw the black liquid monster and the unknown, thin warm yellow light on its body from the monitor screen.
He subconsciously glanced at the tempered glass box that Venom had been imprisoned in. He saw a neatly cut circle in front of it. Apparently, Venom had taken advantage of Eddie's attention and secretly used the abilities Luke had bestowed upon it, creating a simple tool that subtly cut through the tempered glass that held it captive.
"Damn it." The man cursed in his heart.
Venom felt a shattering transformation unfolding within him. A new force was clashing with a power deep within him. The power from within seemed to possess consciousness, surging forth with fury, only to then reveal a sense of weakness as it faltered. Ultimately, under the onslaught of this new power, it gradually lost ground, finally fading into complete silence.
Two high-level powers were fighting for the control over modifying his body. Realistically, Venom's body should have been blown to pieces in the confrontation between these two tremendous forces. However, Venom, who was on the verge of life and death, was concerned about his own life. With an unprecedented devotion to the Holy Light, he managed to hold on under the continuous healing and bonding of the high-intensity Holy Light, and held on until the two forces decided the outcome within his body.
Having escaped death, Venom frantically absorbed the surrounding energy, especially the energy reflected by the cube. By the time the people outside realized something was wrong, released the energy inside the cube, and hurriedly opened the protective door to rush in to resolve the situation, Venom had already helped Eddie break free from the metal detention chair.
Venom's appearance had completely changed at this moment. He was now metallic in color, with sharp edges and corners, like a technological creation full of technological beauty, just like Stark's Mark series battle suit.
"Wow, I've evolved, cool!" Venom looked at his two big metal claws that were full of lethality, felt the changes in his body, opened his eyes wide, and said happily.
Get stronger, and eat.
It is Venom's eternal pursuit.
He felt that his new body was stronger than his previous symbiote body, especially since he could only be a scientific research body in the symbiote.
"This kind of mutation is simply a work of art!"
Venom suddenly heard a voice. He looked up and saw a man looking at him with eyes full of fascination. That look, as if he were looking at his beloved lover, made Venom, despite his iron body, shudder uncontrollably. He felt his incredibly hard new body soften a little, and his defenses plummeted.
"The look is disgusting."
Venom raised his right paw, and in full view of everyone, his right hand began to transform in a complex and precise manner. In about two seconds, an energy cannon emitting a blazing white light and ready to erupt was ready.
The energy cannon directly blasted away the bodyguard who was standing in front of the man with his arms crossed as a human shield. The man behind him was also sent flying by the impact and rolled on the ground.
The other man's arm glowed red hot, burning the clothes on his arm to ash. He swung his fist towards Venom, but Venom stretched out his left hand and directly wrapped the other's fist with his large claws.
"Wow, high temperatures don't work on me." Venom whistled excitedly as he felt the high temperature reminder coming from the contact point. He was no longer the symbiote that was afraid of high temperatures and had obvious weaknesses.
"But, my tastes seem to have changed too." Venom clenched his left hand tightly, using it as a hammer to slam the opponent back and forth four times. Then, he released his grip and flung him away, colliding with the metallic-colored bodyguard who had just stood up. Even as they fought, Venom didn't forget to feel the changes in his body.
He felt like he had transformed into a mechanical body, capable of various transformations and assembly. As long as he had a design in his head, he could create it, or even transform it directly. He even had a vague feeling that he could reorganize and replicate structures at the molecular level.
The simplest use of this ability is to simply swallow a piece of vibranium, and he will be able to transform himself into the consumed vibranium structure almost 100%. The more different metals he consumes, the more he can transform. With the various blueprints he has mastered and the research talent he more or less inherited from Stark, he is almost a universal technology carrier!
The change in his appetite. In the past, when he saw the other person's head, he just wanted to bite it off and swallow it into his stomach.
Now when I see the other person's head, I really just see a head, and I no longer have the strong desire to eat that I had before.
But when his eyes fell on the magnificent cube in front of the pyramid device, the hunger he had felt before surged back. This should be a delicious source of energy, right?
Mechanical Venom thought.
He strode towards the pyramid device and grabbed the cube floating on it with his big hands.
However, the man also saw through Venom's thoughts. Under his command, the two transformed bodyguards rushed up again and entangled Venom, and the man took the opportunity to take away the cube.
Venom roared in anger at the man's sprinting back. However, the two mutants' exceptionally strong defenses left him stranded. After all, he had only just transformed into a mechanical body, and he was still figuring out its functions. His fighting style couldn't be changed overnight, so his current fighting style was still based on his early days as a symbiote: close-quarters combat with fists and teeth.
Facing two mutants with exceptionally strong defenses, Venom could only rely on his own strength to fight them in the past, either defeating them or being defeated. But now, he can use many methods and tools to enhance his combat power. For example, the high-frequency shockwave knife.
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While Venom was causing chaos in a base somewhere, Luke in the Hebron laboratory in the metropolis inexplicably felt that he was connected to a weak mental connection.