Chapter 201: The Plot Begins to Gradually Go Off-Track (Part 3)

The situation in the room now was very strange, because the first sound Venom made the moment he appeared was: "Ugh..."

Spider-Man was shocked. He said angrily and aggrievedly, "You... even if our cooperation wasn't very pleasant, you can't be like this??? I thought we were friends!!!"

"I'm not..." Venom said with his big mouth open. He pointed at Thor beside him and roared at him: "Stay away from me, damn it..."

Thor was also very angry. He said, "How dare you speak to me like that! I am the son of the All-Father! The Prince of Xiangong, you damn stowaway!"

"I'm not a stowaway, you bunch of damn humans!!"

"What does it have to do with humans?!" Spider-Man shouted at Venom: "Clearly you have no manners!!"

In short, these three parties began to quarrel loudly. Finally, Ma Te, who followed Spider-Man, stopped their quarrel.

Ma Te took his cane and struck each of them once, which made these three, who weren't much better than a kindergarten class, stop.

Finally, the four of them sat at four different directions of the coffee table. Closest to the door was Venom, then on the left was Thor, on the right was Spider-Man, and facing them was Ma Te.

"Let's talk about what's going on first." Ma Te brought the topic back to the main point: "Before, following the line of Bullseye, we found out that Kingpin seems to be doing business related to the Immortality Factor."

"We discovered that Kingpin seems to have sold a batch of Immortality Factor potions to the Hand, but their business seems to have encountered some problems, and then the two sides fell out."

Peter continued his words and said, "The person responsible for the transaction with the Hand before was Bullseye. From him, we got information about a stronghold of the Hand. For these past few days, I have been squatting near that stronghold, tracking their ninjas."

"The daily task of ninjas is to patrol in New York. In the past, the patrol routes were fixed, but who knew that today two ninjas walked in the wrong direction? I followed them all the way here and discovered that they actually wanted to kill you guys. What's going on?"

Ma Te's tone was still very calm. He said, "The Hand is an organization that pays great attention to efficiency. Although they kill people like hemp, their goals are very clear, and they won't kill people who are irrelevant."

"How would I know why this is?" Thor also said with great doubt: "Could it be that they came for me? But I'm not an Earthling at all, and I have no relationship with anyone here, let alone have a grudge against that so-called Hand."

At this time, the eyes of all three were focused on Venom. Venom's huge body sat on the small sofa, looking a bit funny.

He and the other three in the room had completely different styles. Although the other three weren't ordinary people either, they were at least human-shaped. Mixing a black monster several meters tall into this made the style look very strange.

Ma Te said to Spider-Man in a low voice: "Is this the alien creature that parasitized your body before?"

He looked Venom up and down and said, "Are you sure that all the behaviors he parasitized in your body were urging you to do homework, interfering with you and Gwen talking about love, and preventing you from going out to play???"

Ma Te said this, and even he himself didn't quite believe it. How could the style of this monster opposite look like a tutor?

"There are many bad things I didn't tell you!" Seemingly to retaliate against Venom dry heaving at him, Peter added fuel to the fire and said to Ma Te: "When I was playing basketball with others, he wanted me to deliberately bump into people. When I went to the convenience store to check out, he also wanted me to run without paying, and he even stole the cheese balls Gwen bought, and even ate all the chocolate cookies Aunt May baked, not leaving any!"

"I didn't eat them all! Didn't I leave a few pieces? And didn't those cookies go into your stomach too? You actually blamed it all on me..." Venom opened his big mouth full of sharp teeth and roared at Spider-Man.

Ma Te covered his forehead and said: "Stop arguing! Can you talk about business!"

Next, he summarized it himself: "I also feel that it's unlikely they came for Thor. Thor has only been here for a few days and hasn't had any relationship with the Hand, so it shouldn't be enough to make them send ninjas to kill him."

"Then that only leaves..." Peter looked at Venom and said: "It must be that you caused trouble again."

"How would I know!" Venom had an attitude of refusing to admit it. Later, under the questioning of Ma Te and Spider-Man, he reluctantly told what happened before.

After Venom detached from Spider-Man's body, he just wanted to find an ordinary person to parasitize and have a good rest to soothe his injured soul.

Originally, this host Eddie was not bad. He was a very normal person, without the tornado that happened a dozen times a day, nor the black tide that covered the sky, and he didn't need to teach a kid to do homework. Venom's days were very stable.

But the symbiote race would affect the host's emotions. Except for Spider-Man, whose temper was a bit better, the other hosts Venom had before weren't easy to mess with.

So after Eddie saw those materials from the Life Foundation, his anger directly doubled, and then he successfully angered Drake, the boss of the Life Foundation, and made himself lose his job, ending up with no money and no food, and Venom had to follow him and endure hunger.

Originally, Venom intended to change hosts, but at this time, Eddie moved here, and Venom caught an allergy, tossing and turning with vomiting and diarrhea every day, until Thor discovered him.

Speaking of this, Peter looked at Venom very suspiciously and said: "Allergy??? Aliens can also be allergic!??"

Venom covered his throat and said, "I suspect I seem to be allergic to people with low IQ, ugh..."

Spider-Man and Thor looked at each other. Venom dry heaved again and said: "Ever since he moved here, I've become more serious, because there are really many people here without brains..."

"Especially after moving next to you!!!" Venom opened his big mouth and shouted at Thor: "You don't have a brain at all!!! You fatal allergen, stay away from me!!!"

"Who are you saying has no brain?!"

Seeing that they were about to quarrel again, Ma Te could only soothe them again: "Fine, since you are uncomfortable, then you go back first. I want to find your host to ask something."

After being in a stalemate with Thor for a while, the black slime still retracted into Eddie's body. He sat up from the sofa, looked at the other three staring at him with burning eyes, shook his head, and said: "... What's wrong? Who are you two?"

"I remember two black figures wanted to kill me, looking like the ninjas in cartoons..."

"That was indeed ninjas."

Next, Ma Te explained the current situation to Eddie.

Eddie patted his temples with his palm and said: "... Is that so?"

"... If they really have a reason to kill me, I'm afraid it's because I offended Drake, the boss of the Life Foundation."

"If you are sure you haven't offended anyone recently, then it should be so."

"You offended the boss of the Life Foundation, but the ones who came to kill you were the Hand's killers. This proves they might have a cooperative relationship."

Ma Te sat in his seat and pondered, then he analyzed: "If there is anything that can connect the Foundation and the Hand, it's only the Immortality Factor potion."

"We investigated that recently the Hand and Kingpin fell out, which might also be because of the Immortality Factor potion. Kingpin sold a batch of Immortality Factor potions to the Hand, but in the end, this business made them fall out. Could there be a reason for the Life Foundation in this?"

Ma Te tapped the floor with his cane and said: "It seems we have a new investigation target. We have to find out what the relationship is between Kingpin, the Hand, and the Life Foundation?"

Bai Meng Shu

Eddie coughed fiercely twice and said: "... I have a plan."

The other three all looked at him. Eddie raised his head, he gritted his teeth and said: "You guys wouldn't think I would swallow my anger, right? They made me lose my job, and actually sent people to kill me..."

His face was very gloomy, but his statement was very clear. He said: "I saw the materials of the Life Foundation using homeless people for human experiments in that document, and recently they are recruiting volunteers for the Immortality Factor experiment."

Eddie breathed heavily, seemingly exhausted to the limit, but his tone was very fluent: "We can go apply to be volunteers, then mix into the base of the Life Foundation and find out what they are doing."

Eddie's tone was incredibly calm, carrying a unique hoarseness and lowness. He continued: "Except for me having contact with Drake, you three should all meet the requirements of volunteers. Thor can pretend to be a homeless person, this kid looks very young, also meeting the requirements of vulnerable groups, and you..."

Eddie looked at Ma Te and said: "You are a blind person, also belonging to the vulnerable group. The Life Foundation once used blind people for experiments."

"No matter which one of you succeeds in mixing in, we can cooperate from inside and outside. As for those two organizations you want to handle, we can also find useful information from the Life Foundation."

"There is also a backup plan. Recently Drake has been in the limelight, he has accepted many media interviews, I can get his whereabouts information from my reporter friends. If it really doesn't work, we'll kidnap him."

"In addition, the Life Foundation researcher who contacted my ex-girlfriend mentioned in the message to my ex-girlfriend that the Life Foundation had fallen into some trouble recently and some legal disputes needed to be handled. This is also a clue..."

"Also, the Immortality Factor potion comes from vampires. When I reported on the vampire invasion incident, I knew several police officers who participated in this action. We can..."

He said seven or eight plans intermittently, almost without any omissions, using all the clues that could be used. After he finished speaking, the whole room was quiet for a minute.

Ma Te looked at Eddie and said: "Were you really a reporter before?"

"I of course..." Speaking of this, Eddie himself was also stunned for a moment. He didn't know why he could suddenly formulate so many plans. He said: "These plans popped up in my brain by themselves, I don't know why..."

"It seems you have talent." Ma Te sighed.

"Actually, I feel the feasibility of the first plan is the highest." Peter evaluated: "The three of us go apply to be volunteers, we can always choose one, right? At worst, we'll just make ourselves look a bit miserable."

"I feel the first plan and the second plan can be carried out in parallel." Ma Te was more cautious. He said: "Mixing into the Life Foundation to find information and clues is important, but watching Drake is also important. If he contacts the Hand directly, we can find out what they are trying to do."

"The three of you go apply to be volunteers, I'll go watch Drake." Eddie said.

"Are you really okay?" Peter asked Eddie: "Someone told me before that reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance aren't that easy. If you haven't undergone professional training, tracking is very likely to be discovered."

Ma Te also said: "And you are still being hunted by the Hand. If you go to investigate Drake, isn't that throwing yourself into the net?"

Eddie also hesitated for a moment. He didn't know where he got the confidence to say such things. Just at this moment, a voice rang in his brain: "Tell them you can do it."

Eddie jumped up from the sofa in shock. He looked left and right suspiciously and said: "What sound? Who are you?!"

"I'm dying of stupidity because of you, you actually haven't discovered me yet?"

"I..."

"My name is Venom, don't ask about the rest, your brain can't understand it. You just need to tell them you can do it."

Eddie was stunned in place. He was thinking about whether he was really crazy, but he still couldn't help but say: "Believe me, I can do it."

Then the other three saw his facial muscles twitch, as if he had become a different person in an instant, gloomy and indifferent to the point of being a bit scary. He said in a low voice:

"Because I am Eddie Brock."

---Author's Note---

Just one word: Sew! ===== CHAPTER 202 =====