Attack

Seeing that Venom was tempted, Eddie was overjoyed. He said, "In this laboratory, aside from executives like Dr. Drake, only the head of security, Treece, is qualified to use a phone.

Over the past few days, I’ve observed his patrol route. He comes here every day at one in the afternoon. When he arrives, we’ll strike directly, knock him out, seize his phone, and report this to S.W.O.R.D.

After that, we’ll jump into the sea and escape. No matter how powerful Riot is, it won’t be able to catch us in time."

"That does sound simple."

Venom nodded repeatedly. Then, it suddenly asked, "Eddie, are you using me?"

Eddie’s heart tightened, but he immediately said, "How could I? Can’t you check my memories? Besides, we’re symbiotes now."

"You’d better remember that. If I die, you definitely won’t survive either."

Venom snorted coldly. In truth, it could not examine all of Eddie’s memories; it could only sense fragments of them. It had said that mainly to scare Eddie.

What Venom did not know was that Eddie had long known this. Otherwise, how would he have dared to deceive Venom?

That was right, Eddie was deceiving Venom. What a joke. Who would want to symbiotically bond with such an ugly alien life-form? Once they reached S.W.O.R.D., those big shots would surely have a way to separate them.

It would indeed be a pity to lose Venom, but it was not a major problem. With the credit from this incident, he would certainly be able to return to being the popular reporter he once was. That was enough for him.

Looks determined everything. Venom was simply too ugly.

"That guy should be here soon. Venom, get ready."

Eddie said excitedly, "What happens to us from now on depends on what happens next."

"Understood."

Venom retracted into Eddie’s body. It was somewhat excited too, because it truly did not want to keep being a loser.

Dr. Drake had betrayed humanity, and Venom had betrayed the symbiotes. Intelligent life was simply like that.

Not long after, Treece, the head of security, arrived on patrol with two guards. Seeing Eddie stand up and glare at him viciously, he sneered, "What, you want to come out and hit me? Sure. As long as you can get out, I’ll let you hit me."

The two guards burst into laughter. Eddie chuckled and said, "Since you insist, I’ll satisfy you. After all, I’m a good person."

As soon as he finished speaking, Venom erupted from Eddie’s body, completely enveloping him and transforming into a black-and-white monster over three meters tall. Venom then lunged forward, smashing through the glass and charging outside.

"How is this possible?"

Treece was horrified and instinctively reached for his gun. Venom opened its enormous mouth and bit down on Treece’s head, swallowing him whole.

The other two guards nearly pissed themselves and immediately turned to flee. Venom fired two strands of black slime from its palms, catching them like spiderwebs and dragging them back. Then, it bit off their heads one by one and casually swallowed their internal organs as well.

"Truly delicious."

Venom looked exhilarated. Then it returned to Eddie’s body and told him to make the call quickly.

Eddie did not comply. He stared in disbelief and asked, "Did you just eat them?"

Venom said matter-of-factly, "Of course. They’re my food."

"Damn it."

Remembering that he had shared in it, Eddie immediately threw up. He cursed internally, And you still want to be a Super Hero?

What company would hire a Super Hero that ate people? Good thing he had only been fooling Venom. Otherwise, he would definitely have died horribly.

Venom cursed, "Useless. Make the call already. I’m telling you, if I don’t become a Super Hero, I’ll definitely eat you."

"Don’t worry. You’ll definitely become a Super Hero."

Suppressing his nausea, Eddie took the phone from the head of security’s corpse. Then, he used the man’s finger to unlock it and called S.W.O.R.D.

After listening to Eddie’s report, the operator immediately said, "Mr. Brock, we’ll send agents to investigate the Life Foundation immediately."

"Hurry. Also, several million symbiotes are heading toward Earth. Tell the Space Fleet to raise its alert level. They absolutely cannot be allowed in. And the symbiotes—"

Just as Eddie was reporting intelligence, Dr. Drake rushed in with a group of people. Seeing Eddie’s phone, he was shocked and immediately transformed into silver-black Riot, pouncing at Eddie.

"Venom, run!"

Eddie was startled. He immediately hurled the phone at Dr. Drake, then transformed into Venom and was slammed to the ground by Riot.

"You actually betrayed us! Betrayed God!"

Riot roared. Its right hand turned into an axe as it prepared to hack the traitorous Venom to death.

"I want to be a Super Hero! I don’t want to be a loser anymore!"

Venom, thoroughly led astray by Eddie, punched Riot off its body. Then it scrambled to its feet and charged fiercely at the guards.

The guards fired repeatedly in terror, but their bullets could not hurt Venom at all. Venom casually grabbed two guards and hurled them at the pursuing Riot, then leaped into the air and jumped out through a window.

The window was high up, but that was nothing to Venom. It used slime in place of spiderwebs, easily dispersing the force of its fall as it landed on the ground.

Once outside, Venom was about to leap into the sea and flee when, with two loud bangs, two figures crashed through the windows and landed in front of it, staring at it with savage expressions and murderous intent.

These two figures were successfully fused symbiotes. Dr. Drake had been working extremely hard during this time.

"Venom, how dare you become a traitor?"

The two symbiotes angrily pounced on Venom. Venom cursed and fought them, only to be beaten until it rolled all over the ground.

That was perfectly normal. As had been said before, Venom was a loser. If it could become powerful, how could it still be a loser?

Bang! Riot descended from the sky. It glared viciously at the restrained Venom and asked, "Who did you call just now, and what did you say?"

Venom did not dare answer. Eddie’s face emerged and said, "Take a guess."

"Separate them. I want them to beg for life and beg for death."

Riot flew into a rage. The two symbiotes immediately grabbed Venom and forcefully tore it away from Eddie’s body.

Eddie and Venom screamed at the same time. As Venom struggled, it cursed, "Eddie, you got me killed! Now I can’t even be a loser anymore, let alone a Super Hero."

"No, we’re already heroes. So what if we die? At least we protected Earth."

At the brink of life and death, Eddie instead became carefree. His only regret was that he had not been able to call Anne Weying. He wondered what she was doing now, and whether she was doing well.

"What the hell does Earth have to do with me?"

Venom cursed furiously. Just as it was about to be torn free from Eddie’s body, two Micro Missiles shot in from afar, striking the two symbiotes and exploding with a thunderous boom. The two symbiotes were blasted away on the spot, screaming in agony.

Symbiotes feared fire and high-frequency sound waves. Missiles were extremely lethal to them.

Riot turned around angrily and saw several suits flying toward them. Leading them were two identical Mark 50 suits: Tony and Future Tony.

Behind the suits were the Super Heroes led by Steve, including four Spider-Men.

"The Avengers are here? Wow, your efficiency is way too high!"

Eddie shouted in delight. The Avengers really were different from the police. They had arrived in less than five minutes. They deserved a big thumbs-up.

Unlike the excited Eddie, Dr. Drake and Kingpin in the underground base were both cursing furiously. Kingpin in particular had never expected that, despite being so cautious, something would still go wrong.

"Damn Dr. Drake. I should’ve slapped him to death back then."

Kingpin was so furious that he crushed his ballpoint pen. He stood up and called to Dr. Octopus, "Activate our trump card immediately."

"No problem. I’ll activate it right away. Kingpin, should we activate the Super Collider?"

Dr. Octopus’s eyes flashed. She said, "Although the Quantum Realm hasn’t fully stabilized yet, the trump card I just developed should be usable."

Kingpin said, "Use every method we have. This time, we have no way out."

"Understood."

Dr. Octopus nodded and eagerly went to activate the Super Collider.

"Wow, this alien is way too ugly, isn’t it?"

Looking at the grim-faced Riot, Tony mocked, "Future me, have you seen something like this before?"

"There seems to be an antihero called Venom with this appearance. He wasn’t on the same side as the Avengers, so I don’t know much."

Future Tony thought for a moment before answering. Upon hearing its name, Venom immediately returned to Eddie’s body and shouted, "I’m Venom! You know me?"

"Two life-forms fused together? Interesting."

Future Tony said, "But it really is ugly."

Venom flew into a rage. If Eddie had not desperately restrained it, it would have pounced on Future Tony and taught him a lesson.

Eddie quietly advised, "Big brother, we’re going to be Super Heroes. We can’t casually offend people. That guy’s suit is the same as Iron Man’s, so he must be a big shot too."

Venom gritted its teeth and decided to endure it. Then it withdrew into Eddie’s body, leaving Eddie to communicate with the Avengers.

"Iron Man, his name is Riot. He’s the leader of the symbiotes. They plan to bring several million symbiotes to Earth and replace humanity."

Eddie shouted, "Also, Venom says the symbiotes have a god, one that has existed longer than the universe."

"Several million symbiotes? A god that has existed longer than the universe?"

Tony was shocked. As he had Jarvis contact Wang Bert, he raised his hand toward Riot and shouted, "Surrender. Explain everything clearly, or don’t blame us for getting rough."

"I’d like to see how you plan to get rough."

Riot transformed both hands into axes and roared angrily. At the same time, the two symbiotes that had been blasted away earlier stood behind Riot, glaring at Tony and the others with savage expressions.

"This won’t do. Riot, we’re no match for them. I’ll stall for time. Contact your god and see if He can help us. Also, if a fight really breaks out, take the others to the underground base. Kingpin is there."

Dr. Drake instructed him. Riot nodded. "Understood. The spacecraft is almost at the Solar System. With God’s power, He should be able to send some symbiotes to Earth."

"That’s good."

Dr. Drake let out a sigh of relief. Then he emerged from Riot’s chest and said, "Tony Stark, I’m not harming Earth. I’m saving it. Once symbiotes merge with humans, they’ll create a new race."

"Dr. Drake of the Life Foundation, do you believe that nonsense yourself? And that new race of yours is truly ugly."

Tony sneered. At the same time, Jarvis connected him with Wang Bert. After hearing Tony’s intelligence, Wang Bert said, "I’ll deal with this so-called symbiote god. You don’t need to worry."

Wang Bert did not know much about Knull, the symbiote god. After all, in his previous life, he had mainly followed the movies. He only looked up information on characters he found particularly interesting.

Still, it was not a problem. In the Main Universe, Wang Bert only feared the Five Creator Gods. Against anyone else, at worst he could fight to a draw, and that was without using the Infinity Stones.

If he used the Reality Stone and the Mind Stone, Wang Bert would even dare fight a Creator God.

As for having lived longer than the universe, it certainly sounded impressive, but living a long time did not mean being powerful. The Elders of the Universe had also lived for a long time, yet they could still be defeated with a single poke.

Wang Bert smiled faintly. "I hope this Knull can bring me a few surprises. The more puppets, the better."

With Wang Bert’s assurance, Tony was greatly relieved. Seeing that Dr. Drake still wanted to say something, he shouted, "Stop talking nonsense. Surrender immediately and explain everything about the symbiotes and Kingpin."

"Who’s Kingpin? I don’t know him."

Dr. Drake still wanted to stall for time, but Tony directly fired a Pulse Cannon at him. Dr. Drake was so frightened that he hurriedly withdrew into Riot’s body.

Riot turned its hand into a shield to block the Pulse Cannon. Then it stuck to a nearby rock and hurled it fiercely at Tony and the others.

"The abilities are a little like Spider-Man’s, but I’ll say it again: way too ugly."

Tony blasted the rock apart with a shot. Then two devices popped out from his shoulders and fired crimson energy beams at Riot.

Riot dodged, thrust both hands forward, and transformed its ten fingers into ten spears that shot toward Tony in the air. Tony formed a shield from Nanoparticles to block the attack. Then six Micro Missiles popped out from his back and flew toward Riot together.

Riot hurriedly fled backward. The Micro Missiles exploded behind it in a series of thunderous blasts. Flames raged and shockwaves swept outward, sending Riot flying before it crashed heavily onto the ground.

Before Riot could get back up, another six Micro Missiles flew in. This time, Future Tony had attacked. Riot was immediately blasted into a severely injured state, screaming miserably amid the sea of flames.

"I could’ve handled it."

Tony was somewhat dissatisfied. Future Tony shrugged and said, "When have you ever seen me stand around doing nothing?"

Tony clicked his tongue irritably. With his "hyperactivity," he really could not just watch from the sidelines.

Seeing Riot in desperate straits, the two symbiotes braved their fear of the flames and rushed over. Barton, wearing the Hawkeye Suit, smiled disdainfully and fired an arrow, striking one of the symbiotes directly in the back of the heart. The arrowhead then exploded, and the symbiote screamed as it fell to the ground.

As for the other symbiote, Human Torch dealt with it. Flying in the air, he hurled two enormous balls of blazing fire from his hands. The symbiote dodged repeatedly in terror, looking utterly miserable.

At that moment, the Life Foundation’s guards used machine guns, Rocket Launchers, and other heavy weapons to fire down at them, forcing Tony and the others to deal with those men first.

Riot took the opportunity to roll into the sea, then fled through an underwater entrance into the underground base.

Riot said in shock and anger, "These Super Heroes truly live up to their reputation."

Dr. Drake asked nervously, "Will God come save us?"

As Riot repaired its body, it reassured him, "Don’t worry. God is already preparing His methods. A large number of symbiotes will soon descend."

Dr. Drake asked, "Aside from the symbiotes, are there any other reinforcements? It’s not that symbiotes are bad, but they need to merge with humans to have combat power."

"Don’t worry. We symbiotes aren’t that weak."

Riot smiled confidently and quickly fled deeper into the underground base.