Chapter 382: Avengers 2: Civil War (Part 1)

In the empty and dark universe, the light of the star is like a lighthouse flickering above the harbor. In front of a hot, orange-red ball of light, a few tiny black dots fly through the solar particles, cutting through the storm around the star, bringing up wave-shaped ripples.

Around the star, there is a visible energy field, like surging sea tides. And as the ripples spread, those few tiny black dots slowly sail away from the planet. As the distance gets closer, one can see that they are a few spaceships shaped like octopuses.

The front part of the spaceship is an oval-shaped cargo hold, while the back part is divided into several thinner tentacles. That is where the main control room is. And in the control room of the spaceship, a few crew members with monster heads are complaining.

"I don't know what the Governor is thinking. A security case on the surface actually needs the star mining team to solve. He lifted the protocol for firing on the surface. Later, we might have to aim our cannons at the city and fire one. If the capital planet finds out, we might be executed!"

Another monster head, a bit taller than him, patted him on the shoulder and said: "You also know, recently the backup parasitic bodies are not enough. Look, this body of yours is almost rotten. Only the Governor has the right to distribute the quota for bodies. We work hard for him, maybe next month we can change into a new body."

"I heard that the high-level agent has lowered the threshold for backup parasitic bodies. Maybe soon there will be a steady stream of bodies for us to use. Forget it, let's go back as soon as possible, so as not to let the city on the surface really have any problems."

Just at this moment, a sharp alarm sounded. The monster heads gathered together looked left and right. One of them walked quickly to the wall, picked up the communicator hanging on the wall, and asked: "What's going on? Why is the cargo ship alarming? Oh, damn it! What is that?"

He had just looked out from the observation window of the spaceship when he saw an incomparably huge, strange spaceship, quietly floating in front of them, like a giant shark waiting to devour people.

The monster head held the communicator in his hand and dazed. At this time, the Governor's somewhat exasperated voice came from the spaceship's broadcast system: "Quickly organize firepower to counterattack! Where is your professional quality?!!"

The monster head holding the communicator had somewhat trembling hands, but he still put down the thing in his hand as quickly as possible, then turned and walked back to the control room. The spaceship pilot was already busy in front of the operation panel. The monster head who walked in looked left and right: "Open the defensive shield! Their cannons are already charging. They might soon..."

Suddenly, an intense, silent light swallowed the entire control room. Almost in an instant, all the tentacles of the octopus spaceship, along with the Brood people inside, all disappeared between the astonishing high temperature and particle collision.

"Five Generations of Rivers and Mountains"

In the Governor's office, Stark looked at the panel on his arm, and Jarvis's voice sounded in his ears:

"Firing complete. This attack used two spaceships and four secondary cannons, and the opponent's spaceships have been completely wiped out."

"The firing spaceships have returned to position, the cannons are cooling down, estimated next firing time, 3 minutes and 31 seconds later..."

Stark looked at the Governor opposite, whose face was turning blue, and said: "Do you know? The most difficult thing just now was controlling our secondary cannons to output at low power, avoiding hitting you too hard."

The tentacles on the Governor's face trembled, but he still said very toughly: "Are you humans really going to go to war with the Brood?!"

"I just contacted our capital planet. They are sending troops here. You will face the Brood's endless fleet army!!"

"But you won't see that day." As he spoke, Stark floated up, flew to mid-air, opened the cannon muzzle on his hand armor, "whoosh," a ray shot toward the Governor.

That Governor with a monster head dodged in a panic, flew around the table quickly, ran to the wall on the other side, smashed the storage cabinet on the wall, and took out the weapons inside.

That was a hand cannon with a large-diameter muzzle. The Governor hurriedly armed it to his arm, and then fired at Iron Man's armor. Energy condensed on the muzzle, emitting a slight buzzing sound, followed by a violent explosion.

The entire office was blown down by the shell of this energy cannon, but Stark controlled the armor to flexibly dodge the aftermath of the explosion and pursued the Governor who was trying to escape.

Missiles that had calculated the trajectory constantly chased the figure of the monster head. No matter how he dodged, there were always missiles that could catch up to him and detonate beside him, flipping him over.

Standing on the edge of the high building and looking down, the rain had already soaked the street. The humid air drilled into his lungs. The Governor had never lived in such a moist environment. He felt the hazy mist obscuring his eyes, making his thoughts begin to become chaotic.

Between the flickering neon light and shadow, the familiar smiling face mask appeared again on the screen of the building opposite. He seemed to be able to see the person here and said: "Chased like a stray dog, huh? When you were chasing those panicked humans, did you also think of this day?"

He retreated a few steps, revealing the scene behind him. That was a control room that looked somewhat familiar to the Governor, with many operation panels and monitoring equipment. The man wearing the clown mask let out a series of laughter and then said:

"You thought my first stop here was the TV station? But that was just what I told you. You actually believed it."

"I introduced myself there and told you I had just arrived here, but in fact, I had just come from another place..."

"Where is this?" The man put his hand behind his ear, making a listening gesture. The Governor said in a low voice: "Weather control tower... you lunatic! This damn weather was really made by you!"

The person on the screen shouldn't be able to hear the Governor speak, but he seemed to have anticipated what the Governor would say. He said: "That's right, it's the place where you control the weather!"

"Your level of development of this planet is so high that you can control the water cycle on the surface. After I subdued the staff here, I let them do me a small favor..."

"Look up at the sky, look at those beautiful, crystal-clear raindrops. Don't they look like salt grains sprinkled from a salt jar?"

"Do you smell that soul-stirring wine fragrance? That is the deepest chaos and madness from the other side..."

His tone began to become gentle, like reading a romantic poem, and also like singing a requiem. The man in the clown mask straightened his waist and retreated a few steps. Another black figure appeared on the screen.

He turned and walked back, stood face-to-face with the person with bat ears, and then asked him: "When justice and evil, order and chaos begin to reverse, when a lunatic uses his crazy brain to do a just thing, how do you judge who is the evil one?"

"Look, those monsters active in the dark streets, they are shameless bugs, stealing human bodies, parasitizing them, killing them, controlling them..."

"But those ordinary people you swore to protect, their minds that have been tamed by order, are these bugs..."

"Do you see? They sneak into human bodies, manipulating their thoughts and actions, making them commit heinous, despicable acts. And I, the poor lunatic in your mouth..."

"I am their savior. I am driving those ugly and despicable bugs out of their bodies. Do you see? Just like this..."

Firelight shone in from the floor-to-ceiling windows stained with raindrops. Another building was ignited. A person with a monster head split his big mouth, seeming to be about to laugh.

Looking at this crazy scene in front of him, the indigenous people here didn't feel terrified. They slowly gathered around, looking at the rising firelight. The pleasure of destroying order took root and sprouted in everyone's heart. That illusion of freedom made them feel happy.

In a trance, Eddie saw that all this was his illusion. Those so-called monster heads didn't actually have terrifying monster faces. They were just a group of ordinary people, but the pleasure generated in sin made their faces twist and turn into monsters.

He shook his head hard, but Venom said in a hoarse voice: "Because sin will always happen in order, let everything return to disorder and chaos. Do you think you are upholding justice? No, you are just venting your madness..."

"Are you planning to save them? Let everything return to order, just like you have done countless times... Are these people really worth saving?"

Through Eddie Brock's eyes, one could see layers of surging sea tides. Different from the soul-stirring light of the star, the black ocean was quiet and distant, just unable to see the end.

Like a sea breeze sweeping across the sea surface, reaching the distant other shore, where another soul stood on the beach.

His gaze seemed to pass through distant space, through the barriers of the world, seeing that group of races whose heads were monsters but whose bodies were like ordinary people, yet seeing deeper philosophical meanings from them, and also hearing those crazy words.

"Humans are monsters parasitized by thoughts, and they still cannot completely control their bodies. What you want to save, is it their flesh or their soul? Which one is worth saving? Which kind of justice is worth upholding?"

Eddie saw the man wearing the clown mask slowly walk to a broken window. Rainwater was blown into the window by the wind, creating a hazy mist around him. When the light shone on it, his voice spread out with the hazy light.

"Human flesh can be healed, but their thinking is hard to change. Their situation can be changed, but their nature has no chance to be rewritten..."

"In the process of the universe falling toward chaos, building a shelter to protect the flesh cannot change anything..."

Eddie heard a series of laughter again, but it gradually turned from crazy to low. He saw the man open his arms in front of the window, with the sky full of fire behind him.

Suddenly, he was silent, and then he took out a button from his pocket with a smile and said: "What did I just say? My first stop on this planet was the weather control tower?... No no no, I'm sorry, I lied to you, but I had no choice but to do so..."

As he spoke, he looked at the camera again, raised the button in his hand, and said: "Guess where I buried a big bomb?"

At this time, on the roof of the high building of the Governor's office, Stark, who also heard this sentence, ran away.

But it was still a step too late. The aftermath of the violent explosion directly shook him away. After stabilizing his figure in mid-air, Stark pressed his hand on the mask and said: "This damn lunatic! I said long ago he was a bit abnormal!"

Just at this moment, Jarvis's voice came: "Warning! High-energy reading detected, locating... 1328 meters underground, rising rapidly, dodge immediately! Dodge immediately!"

"900 meters... 500 meters... 300 meters..."

Stark directly pulled the armor up to an altitude of several thousand meters. In his field of vision, a huge tentacle broke through the ground, followed by an endless sea of tentacles. Soon, a behemoth crawled up from underground.

Stark narrowed his eyes and said: "Hive..." ===== CHAPTER 383 =====