Chapter 202: Why Are You So Skilled? (Part 1)

"Hello? Anne, I'm Eddie, Eddie Brock. Don't hang up the phone yet, give me three minutes, I have something very important to tell you."

"Just yesterday, I was attacked by two unidentified killers and am now on the run. There is evidence that these killers might be related to Drake, the boss of the Life Foundation I interviewed before."

"The two killers who attacked me came from a mysterious organization called the Hand. People investigating this organization saved me and told me that the Hand and the Life Foundation might be brewing a big conspiracy."

"The purpose of my calling you is that I hope you can help me. I need more information related to Drake."

"I know, I should apologize to you, I shouldn't have peeked at the information on your computer, but now things have developed to this step, they sent killers to hunt me down, if I don't solve this trouble, there will be no peace."

"So I hope you can provide me with some information you know. You don't have to rush to answer me, protect yourself, goodbye."

Eddie hung up the phone. He stared at the phone blankly, stayed dull for a few seconds, covered his eyes, and said: "God! How could I speak to Anne in this tone?? She will think I'm crazy..."

"What am I saying? I told her I'm Eddie Brock... who do I think I am, an FBI agent?"

"It can be seen that you don't understand women's hearts at all." Venom's voice rang in Eddie's brain. Eddie just wanted to refute him, when the phone in his hand rang. Anne's anxious voice came from the other side:

"Eddie, are you okay? Were you really hunted down? Where are you now? Hello? Answer me, you should call the police..."

"Calling the police is useless, Anne, the police can't manage the Hand's killers. Their previous cooperative partner was Kingpin, the controller of the entire East Coast criminal empire. They have already targeted me, so I have to leave here for a while..."

"Wait! Eddie!" Anne's voice came from the other end of the phone, with a bit of disbelief. She said: "Eddie, if it weren't for your voice not changing, I would have thought it wasn't you. You have never spoken to me in such a calm tone."

"Listen, actually I also know that the Life Foundation isn't a righteous organization. The legal disputes they asked me to solve for them were also related to human experiments, but you said they sent killers to hunt you down? This makes me a bit unable to believe it, but if this is really the truth, you'd better hide quickly."

Anne was worthy of being an elite lawyer. Her tone was a bit anxious, but her thinking was still clear. She said: "I know Drake isn't a good person, but my boss asked me to defend him. This line of work is like this, we don't look at the client's position."

"But I personally support you giving him a punch, and I was so angry afterward, just because you violated my privacy and didn't communicate with me at all before doing that. I was angry that you didn't trust me, and were reckless and impulsive..."

"Anne, my time is very tight, let's talk about things between us later."

Anne on the opposite side was silent for a while, sighed, and finally said: "The Life Foundation researcher Dora who contacted me had a wavering attitude. When we contacted privately, she once complained to me that her boss was too cold and only pursued interests."

"She once revealed that she didn't want to work for Drake anymore. I can give you her contact information, she should have the information you want there."

Anne listened to the silence on the other end of the phone. She asked: "Eddie, are you okay? Eddie! Answer me... did you encounter danger?"

"No, I didn't." After a while, Eddie's voice came from the other end of the phone. Anne heard him say in a low tone: "Wait until I get rid of these troubles, then I'll come to solve the things between us, if I'm still alive by then."

The busy signal of hanging up came from the phone. Anne took a deep breath, threw her phone onto the bed, leaned against the head of the bed on her side, and covered her eyes with some pain.

"Eddie, if only you could be this calm earlier." Anne said in a low voice.

After Eddie hung up the phone, he also breathed with some pain and muttered to himself: "She gave me useful information so easily, then what were we arguing about before?"

"Why do you think she was so angry before? You wouldn't think she broke up with you because she supported Drake, right?"

Eddie opened his mouth. Venom continued in his heart: "You deserve to be dumped. Clearly, she just hoped you would explain to her, hoped you could calm down and communicate with her, tell her why you wanted to do that, but you didn't say anything."

Just when Eddie wanted to open his mouth to refute, his phone vibrated. Anne sent a text message, which was exactly the contact information of the Life Foundation researcher Dora.

That night, in front of an apartment building in the Manhattan district, Dora was holding her handbag and searching for her door card. A black figure stood at the end of the alley. The light of the street lamp cast a long shadow in front of him, the shadow like a pitch-black blade, cutting across the wall of the alley.

"What kind of thing is this?" Eddie looked down at his palm. His back of the hand was covered with a layer of black hand armor. He turned his head and saw his own figure reflected on the window of the apartment building next to him.

Chang Xiang

At this time, Eddie was wearing a set of black battle armor. This battle suit was pitch black overall, with soft lining inside, covered with thin armor outside, and even carried a cape behind him.

Eddie's head was completely wrapped in mechanical armor. There was a pattern similar to a bat on his chest, and the bat was surrounded by lines similar to spider webs.

It had to be admitted that this battle suit looked very handsome. The smooth lines, the mechanical joints full of futuristic sense, the weird but gothic aesthetic pattern, Eddie felt that wearing it to save the world was simply cool. The only problem was...

"But what's up with these ears?" Eddie asked Venom in confusion.

The helmet of the battle suit completely wrapped Eddie's head, making him become like a robot, but this robot had two sharp ears on its head.

"That's the point." Venom told Eddie with a firm tone: "As long as you have these two ears, you will never die, because you are the Bat... Venom-Man."

"Venom-Man? This name sounds too evil... fine, what should we do next?"

"If you don't know what to do, look down at the pattern on your chest, then listen to the guidance of instinct, it will give you the answer."

Ten minutes later, Dora was taking out her key to open her apartment door. At this time, she heard some movement behind her. She turned her head, and a tall black shadow appeared in the shadow of the corridor.

Dora just wanted to scream, but that black shadow appeared behind her, covered her mouth, and said: "Don't make a sound, let's go in and talk."

Saying this, he pulled Dora into her apartment. After the door closed, Dora was paralyzed on the ground in fright. The mechanical helmet wrapping Eddie's head faded away. He said to Dora: "You should recognize me, I am the reporter who gave Drake a punch when interviewing him a few days ago, I am Eddie, Eddie Brock."

Dora widened her eyes. She stood up holding the back of the sofa and said with some trembling: "You... you seem to be that Brock, but..."

Eddie's voice was very low. He said to Dora: "Because I exposed Drake's despicable behavior of using human bodies for experiments, now I am in trouble. He and another evil organization are cooperating, and their killers are hunting me down."

Dora pushed her glasses and stood up straight, saying: "Actually, I intended to find you, I didn't expect you to find me first."

"Why do you want to find me?"

Dora sighed. After discovering that Eddie wasn't some kidnapper, she gradually relaxed and then pointed to the wall behind Eddie and said: "Press the switch on that, turn on the light, thank you."

Eddie then discovered that there was no light in the apartment, but he could see very clearly. Since when did he have night vision?

He followed what Dora said, turned around to turn on the light. The suddenly bright light made Eddie cover his eyes with his arm. He discovered that he was actually a bit uncomfortable with the light.

Dora walked to the sofa and sat down, but Eddie didn't move, still standing in the corner of the room. Dora turned back to look at him and said: "Although I don't have anything to treat guests with, at least sit down and drink some water?"

Saying this, she wiped her hands on her pants with some embarrassment and said: "I don't have any friends, no one comes to my home often, the hospitality is poor, I hope you can forgive me."

Eddie shook his head silently. Dora turned around, held the back of the sofa, looked at Eddie, and said: "You are completely different from what I imagined. I thought you would be that kind of... just that kind of relatively... person with a sense of justice."

"You can directly say I am that kind of relatively impulsive person."

"No, I don't mean that. Actually, I feel you did very right. That punch you gave him was really satisfying."

"You seem very dissatisfied with your boss."

Dora pursed her lips, her expression very complex. She turned back, facing away from Eddie, and said: "I don't know how to describe it. If as a boss, he is actually not bad, he paid me a very high salary."

"But he is not a good person, can even be said to be very evil. You don't know what he has done in the laboratory..."

"I am just wanting to hear this part."

Dora bit her lip, seemingly a bit conflicted. At this time, Eddie's voice came: "You don't have to worry at all. If I had any possibility of agreeing with Drake's approach, I wouldn't have risked ruining my career and given him a punch in front of so many people."

Dora seemed to have figured out this truth. She sighed and said: "He is indeed using human bodies for experiments, and some very cruel, inhumane experiments."

"What specific experiments?"

"You should know about the Immortality Factor, right?"

"I've heard many people mention it."

"Drake is extracting the Immortality Factor from an unknown creature."

"But I heard that thing isn't extracted from vampires?"

"Normal Immortality Factor is indeed like that, but vampires are managed very strictly by the official, and the few that exist are all at Stark Industries or Oscorp. The Life Foundation can't get them."

Dora pushed her glasses again and continued: "But Drake saw the huge benefits in the Immortality Factor field, and he also wanted a piece of the pie."

"The Life Foundation and Oscorp belong to a competitive relationship. They are both developers of biotechnology. Oscorp couldn't possibly give them precious vampire raw materials."

"But I heard the Life Foundation also produced Immortality Factor potions."

"That's right, but that kind of potion isn't extracted from vampires, but from another kind of alien creature."

"Then what exactly is that?"

Dora turned to look at Eddie again and said: "I can't describe it to you, but I can take you to see it." ===== CHAPTER 203 =====