Chapter 1800: Journey of a Madman (Part 13)

Spider-Man took a few steps back in shock, his eyes fixed on that line of large characters on the wall, and then he stepped forward cautiously. Before he even got close, he smelled a rich bloody scent.

There was no doubt that this line was written in blood, but Spider-Man immediately analyzed that this was just ordinary venous blood. There were no visceral fragments or brain matter on it, and it was also different from the dark red sticky blood that flowed out of the zombies' bodies.

"Wait... are there still survivors?!" Spider-Man immediately realized something. He looked left and right, as if wanting to find traces of living people on the Wakanda spaceship.

But to his disappointment, this small spaceship had a total of two rooms. Crossing this wall was the cockpit, and from the observation window, one could also see that there was no one in the cockpit. At this moment, this spaceship was empty.

Spider-Man turned his head to look at Helen. Helen walked over, looked at the handwriting on the wall, and frowned, saying, "Judging from the state of the blood drying, the time the other party left this line isn't long. We might have brushed past him."

Helen waved her hand to signal Spider-Man to step back and said, "Before, my mother and I were arrested by the Time Variance Authority. When that Mobius went to talk to Loki alone, he left me in the Time Variance Authority's office, and I wasn't idle either; I ate quite a few time machines I could find."

"But it's very strange that manipulating the timeline at will requires special rule abilities. I don't have the status, so I can't do it for the time being, but I can see what happened to them in the past through some item. But the time I can backtrack isn't long, I can only see things that happened within two hours."

"I think it's necessary for me to expend some energy to see who wrote this line. Put your hand on my shoulder, and I'll transmit the image to you with divine power."

Spider-Man walked up and gently placed his hand on Helen's shoulder. Helen closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Although her physical instincts were a bit chaotic, magic abilities like divine power could still be used. She stretched out a hand, and the same light as the Time Variance Authority's portal bloomed on her hand.

The moment her fingertips touched the blood characters, a misty image appeared in front of both of them simultaneously.

The red font on the wall rippled like a water surface. Between the fluctuations, a drop of bright red blood was extracted from the water surface, like a raindrop rising into the sky in a storm.

Countless light and shadows rotated. This drop of bright red blood was like a flying shuttle crossing the galaxy, shuttling through countless hazy black shadows, returning to the lively and surging flesh. With a "swish," the wound closed like a zipper.

What appeared in the field of vision was a red and blue arm.

"Coward, did you forget something?"

Venom's voice sounded in Eddie's mind. Eddie's hand searching the storage cabinet paused. He asked in his mind, "Forgot something?"

"You were worried that if we stayed here for a long time, I might feel hungry, so you wanted to find food for me, but is there a possibility that we don't have to stay here for a long time."

Eddie resumed his actions and said, "Of course I considered that we find clues in the fastest way, and then leave this world."

"But Venom, I'm not a great detective, just an ordinary person. When most ordinary people investigate something, it's actually all based on luck. If we are unlucky, then we wasted our strength and didn't find long-term survival resources, and the outcome will be even worse."

"Yes, it was like that before." Venom rarely didn't sing a different tune with Eddie. He also knew how much pressure Eddie was under now. There was a hint of hesitation in his tone, but finally, he said, "Fine, Eddie, do you know that you are actually a very petty person? Don't think I don't know you never buy any Stark Group products, just because that scumbag was once my host."

"I just don't think there's anything worth buying in the light industrial products produced by a military-industrial group." Eddie said in a muffled voice.

"But I must talk to you about this now." Venom tried his best to bring out his limited emotional intelligence and said, "Look where we are now! This is Stark Tower, and it's the most important high-level laboratory for Stark Tower."

"And I, I am a symbiote that once parasitized Tony Stark, possessing all his knowledge and most of his wisdom. This is a treasure trove for us. We can completely take some radical measures!"

Eddie was about to say something, but Venom interrupted him and said, "Can we keep hiding? We'll run into that group of zombie Avengers sooner or later. And if I remember correctly, there is information on every Avenger in Stark Industries' database. Perhaps Stark even formulated combat plans against them."

"If we can find this information, we won't just be passively fleeing when we encounter danger next, at least we'll have the power to fight."

Eddie was silent.

He didn't know how to refute Venom, because Venom was right, but it also made him feel a deep sense of powerlessness.

Why did Venom make this suggestion? Because he was just an ordinary person, he didn't understand the Avengers members, and he didn't understand the details of the high-level back-and-forth. The so-called "a clever woman can't cook without rice," even if he was a detective, without enough information accumulation and knowledge reserve, he couldn't deduce anything.

Eddie thought, didn't he know that finding clues and leaving this world in a flash at the fastest speed was the best method? But he knew he couldn't do it. He had neither the reserve nor the ability.

But it shouldn't have been like this originally.

He had more opportunities to come into contact with superheroes than ordinary people. He had a good relationship with Avengers members and the Asgardian prince, and even lived under the same roof as them.

And there was Dr. Schiller. Schiller was best at providing enough growth space for his friends. Eddie knew that as long as he opened his mouth, Schiller absolutely couldn't refuse.

What on earth was he resisting? What on earth was he escaping from?

"You don't want to be a superhero." Venom said like a ghost hovering in his heart, "You think being a weak ordinary person is better. Without ability, you don't have to take responsibility. You can run away when disaster strikes. You think you can't risk your life to save the world like a superhero."

"Actually, you didn't have that obligation originally. It's because of me. My strength makes you feel like you have to take on more responsibility, but you actually have no confidence at all. You are afraid that you will turn around and run away the first moment disaster strikes."

"That would be a betrayal." Eddie said, "They would all be very disappointed... but I really can't guarantee I won't run away."

"Do you think the Eddie of this world ran away?"

Eddie was silent for a while, didn't answer Venom's question. He pursed his lips and said, "Even if we are counterparts in a parallel universe, we are not exactly the same. I don't know."

He stood up from in front of the storage cabinet, and then said, "I admit what you said is right. Since we have already broken into Stark Tower, there's no reason not to loot here. Let's go, Stark No. 2, let's see if we can use your understanding of him to find something useful here."

Eddie and Venom walked up all the way. Strangely, they didn't encounter any enemies. It wasn't until they were close to the top floor that Eddie discovered a strange device that had been overturned in a certain laboratory.

"What is this?" Eddie asked.

Venom appeared, covering the surface of his body, walked up to check that strange object that looked like a cage, looked at the wires and then at the storage battery, and said, "I said why I seemed to keep hearing some strange noise. This thing is a live cage, but the way it's powered is very strange, not the kind of lethal current, but more like some kind of radio wave."

"It seems the violent shaking of the building overturned it, and that kind of radio wave is continuously spreading, but I don't know what the significance of this is."

Eddie looked up at the ceiling and said, "Upstairs should be the laboratory Tony often uses. Let's go up and see."

On the way to upstairs, Venom said, "Don't you think it's a bit strange? If the zombie Iron Man of this universe is still alive, then his old home has been blown up, how come he hasn't made any move?"

Eddie shook his head, signaling he didn't know. They went upstairs, and Venom found the laboratory Stark often used with ease.

Venom was prepared for violent demolition, but to his shock, Stark didn't lock the laboratory door at all.

Venom knelt down and touched the liquid on the ground. Almost in an instant, he shook his hand and threw away all the symbiote factors that had been in contact with that drop of liquid. He said, "That's right, the same stench. The Iron Man of this world has turned into a zombie, and was in this laboratory before leaving the building."

"He left very hurriedly, it could be said he ran out, and didn't even have time to close the laboratory door."

"What urgent matter does he have?"

"Let's go in and see."

After Venom entered the laboratory, he was like returning home. He used symbiote factors to virtualize a pair of glasses for himself and directly entered Stark's working state.

"Let me see, the experimental equipment isn't started, it looks like he wasn't doing experiments, the suit is well placed on the rack... oh my god, the suit of the Iron Man of this world is too ugly. Who is this? Zorro?"

"Hurry up, Venom, there's no time to stroll now!"

Venom made a "tsk" sound, but still quickly focused on the point. He bypassed the huge experimental table to the other side, pressed a button, and a holographic screen popped up. He said, "If he wasn't doing experiments, he must have been looking at data. I can check the usage records of the equipment."

Venom frowned and typed on the keyboard. Patterns kept appearing on the holographic screen. After a while, he straightened his waist and said, "The equipment called recently is all cameras. He seems to be looking for someone in the city."

"Looking for someone?" No matter how slow Eddie's reaction was, he reacted. He said, "Could it be that there is still a resistance army? If he was looking for teammates, he wouldn't need to use cameras at all."

"Very likely, let me see the footage recorded by the cameras."

Venom tapped his finger, and the next second, he and Eddie were stunned together.

The last frame shown by the camera was a figure squatting at a street corner, holding a round, peculiar object in his hand.

What shocked the two was that the person in the picture was Spider-Man, and more importantly, he hadn't turned into a zombie, there were no wounds on his body, and his mouth was normal.

"Spider-Man escaped a disaster!!!" Eddie couldn't help but raise his tone, almost shouting. He said, "Well done! It's very likely he is still normal now, we have to go find him!"

"Wait, after zombie Iron Man saw this picture, he rushed out immediately, which means..."

Eddie hammered his fist hard, gritted his teeth and said, "We are a step late. Spider-Man is probably not the opponent of the zombie army!"

"Don't be anxious." Venom's tone was still steady. He said, "We can continue to watch the surveillance footage. Maybe zombie Iron Man didn't call anyone, and Spider-Man escaped by luck?"

After speaking, he tapped the keyboard again, letting the surveillance footage from various places continue to play. Sure enough, zombie Iron Man's figure soon appeared in the picture.

"He really didn't call anyone." Eddie's voice became excited. He said, "Great, if it's only him, maybe..."

But the footage from one of the surveillance cameras made Eddie's heart go completely cold. Zombie Iron Man's bloody mouth bit Spider-Man's arm, and blood flowed instantly.

Spider-Man was roaring incomparably painfully, but Eddie discovered that it wasn't because of pain, but there was thick unwillingness in that roar.

From the skyline behind the two, Eddie judged that the place where they fought wasn't far from New York's Times Square.

They saw the injured Spider-Man use all his strength to jump onto the roof of a building, and after Venom zoomed in on the picture, he discovered that a small spaceship was parked at the edge of the roof.

A red and blue figure flashed by, and the final picture stopped on the Wakanda logo on the spaceship hull. ===== CHAPTER 1801 =====