Chapter 677: Daddy Brawl (Part 1)

After hearing those few burps, the people beside the energy hub were stunned for a moment. Following Shiler's roar, Strange raised his staff and hammered the ground hard, saying:

"Check immediately, where does that branch channel lead!"

Ancient One had already narrowed her eyes. On one of her hands, magical brilliance was looming. As long as she heard that the other side was some Demon God in some dimension, she would immediately follow the network cable and chop the other side into pieces.

Loki crossed his arms, looking somewhat disappointed. He wouldn't let go of any opportunity to accumulate capital for Asgard. Therefore, he would participate in various plans organized by humans and provide endorsements for them as the Prince of Asgard.

And Nick's expression was as usual. This director had seen too many big storms. He was more confident than these people. He thought that no one could steal the electricity he wanted to steal in advance. If there was, he just needed to get it back several times over from the other party.

The few all regarded the person who stole the electricity in advance as an enemy. After all, a plan failing at the last moment looked like a conspiracy no matter how you looked at it. Human civilization had come to this day, and everything had developed too smoothly. It was time to encounter some setbacks.

The few had their own thoughts, but suddenly, a mage walked out of the portal and said: "Sorcerer Supreme, found it. This energy channel did not leave Earth. The landing point is somewhere on Earth."

Instantly, everyone narrowed their eyes, revealing suspicious expressions. They were not afraid of external enemies, only internal traitors. If there were bad people among the masses, that would be the worst result.

"Can you find the landing point?" Strange looked at the mage seriously and asked. Nick walked up directly and said: "Give me an address. No matter where he is, S. H. I. E. L. D. agents will arrive immediately."

If there was someone who had been staying on Earth but could spy on the entire plan of this group of four, plunder the fruits at the end of the plan, and remain undiscovered throughout, then things would be a big deal.

Soon, Strange closed his eyes and began to meditate to communicate with Earth's magical defense network, and then through the branch of that energy channel, he traced its landing point. Because it did not leave Earth, Strange found the location almost instantly.

He waved his hand and opened a portal. Except for Ancient One who remained in Kamar-Taj to sit in command, the others walked in, and they walked in rubbing their hands and gnashing their teeth.

If this plan had been very difficult to succeed from the beginning, then not achieving results at the end wouldn't have been so infuriating. If the plan had been too simple, the few might have felt there was a trap, and being tricked at the end wouldn't have been too unexpected.

However, this plan belonged to the kind that had difficulties to overcome, but could be solved with current technical means. There might be setbacks, but overall it went relatively smoothly. This kind of plan was very deceptive, making people feel that the results were hard-won, but should also belong to them.

Therefore, when the results were unsatisfactory, it made people especially angry.

The few followed the network cable to the target location. During the process of passing through the portal, they imagined various situations. For example, there would be three hundred axemen as soon as they landed, surrounding them, or a great demon king resembling Mephisto, sitting on the throne in the palace, imposing and aggressive.

However, as soon as they landed, they saw Eddie Brock leaning on the sofa, holding a large bucket of cheese balls in his hand. When the few arrived, he was opening a can of beer and pouring it into his mouth.

Strange, who was leading, was stunned. He looked at Eddie and asked: "Why are you here?"

And Shiler had already begun to look at the surrounding environment. This was an apartment with decent decoration. Although it was relatively close to Hell's Kitchen, it also belonged to the kind of neighborhood with high land prices, which matched Eddie's current income level. And looking at his relaxed posture, just like in his own home, this should be Eddie's current residence.

And it was obvious that Eddie had no motive to steal electricity. If you asked who had the motive, then of course it was...

"Venom, come out, let's talk!" Shiler walked up to Eddie. Eddie shook his head and said: "He went to sleep."

"Sleep? Why would he sleep?" Shiler narrowed his eyes and looked at Eddie, because as far as he knew, symbiotes only needed to sleep to digest after absorbing a large amount of energy.

Shiler scanned the surrounding environment again. It was obvious that there was more than one person here just now. Venom must have cooperated with someone. Suddenly, Shiler squatted down, reached out, and wiped the bottom of the sofa.

There was nothing on his hand, but Gray Mist felt it and said to Shiler in his heart: "... It's a symbiote. This symbiote factor should belong to the one we contacted before... Blue Spirit?"

"Hurry up and come out, Venom. I know you're not asleep. Don't think that by using Eddie as a shield, we have no way." Shiler snorted, turned his head to look at Nick. Nick cleared his throat and said: "The stock price of the Global Times hasn't been very optimistic recently. The management seems to have plans to cut the salaries of editors in various sectors..."

"Alright, I'm out." Venom's hoarse voice came from Eddie's throat, but it wasn't hard to tell that he was indeed carrying a sense of sleepiness. Shiler stood in front of him with his hands on his hips and asked:

"Was it you who stole my electricity??" Shiler asked.

"Your electricity? Did you pray for it?" Venom asked back.

"Of course not, but who did they pray to? Wasn't it the bat totem?" Shiler continued to ask.

"Is that bat totem yours?" Venom asked back again.

"I'm asking you, why was the bat totem born?" Shiler looked at Venom. Before Venom could answer, he said: "If it weren't for my plan to deal with vampires back then, how would the Bat God be born? If the Bat God wasn't born, how would the bat totem appear? If the bat totem didn't appear, who would they pray to? If they didn't pray, where would the electricity come from? So I said this electricity is mine, is there any problem?"

Venom was shocked by his shamelessness, but he wasn't that easy to deal with either. He said: "You formulated the plan, but who executed it back then?"

"But if I didn't formulate it, how would you execute it?"

"If I didn't execute it, how would your plan be realized?"

"Gray Mist, bite him!"

Instantly, a black mist and a black sticky substance broke through the window. The remaining three stood in a row in front of the window, watching the two symbiotes chasing each other on the New York skyline. Nick lowered his head and glanced at his watch and said: "I guess, at most 5 minutes..."

"Underestimated them, two minutes at most." Strange waved his hand, and the bucket of cheese balls Eddie hadn't finished flew into his hand. He threw a cheese ball into his mouth and chewed. Before this snack was swallowed, the two symbiotes broke through the window again.

Shiler, who had transformed back into human form, clapped his hands. Nick walked over and lowered his voice to ask: "How much did you negotiate?"

"Thirty percent, plus a half-percent late fee." After Shiler finished, Nick nodded, clearly quite satisfied with this amount. And Venom, who was walking in front, snorted and said: "I worked so hard to steal the electricity, and I have to pay such a high tax! A bunch of vampires who get something for nothing!"

"Don't think I don't know, that group of symbiotes who left should also have the electricity you stole, right? If you complain again, I'll count their share together and calculate a 35% tax, plus a full late fee..." Shiler didn't even look at Venom and sat directly on the sofa.

Nick narrowed his eyes, looked at Venom and said: "You actually use this method to evade taxes? How much energy did they bring? Is there 50% of the energy you carry? Tax Bureau? Where is the Tax Bureau?!!"

"Of course not, and they have already left the country. If you want to recover it, go to outer space and find them." Venom said fearlessly.

Inheriting part of the personalities of Batman and Stark, Venom of course knew how to take precautions, or rather, he knew that after doing bad things, he had to run quickly.

And the reason he stayed here was nothing more than to attract the attention of the few, allowing other symbiotes carrying a large amount of funds to transfer quickly.

Venom had a very precise grasp of the psychology of these few people. As long as it wasn't everyone running away with money or refusing to pay taxes, they wouldn't have terrible luck. At most, they would need to bleed a little.

If he could give them some other clues to divert their attention, then this matter could probably be considered over. So Venom said:

"There is one situation I must tell you. When I was stealing faith power, I discovered that someone might have acted before me." Venom paused and then continued: "I originally thought it would be you, but now it seems there is someone else."

The others looked at each other. Shiler stared at Venom and said: "You mean, someone stole this power before you? How do you know?"

"When I was meditating, I could see the bat totem. At the beginning, the faith power on the bat totem was very rich, almost about to completely control it. But when I went again today, I discovered that the faith power had become very thin, even leaving only a thin layer, looking completely different from the kind that had been accumulated for a long time before..."

Venom described the situation he had seen before and stated his analysis: "During the time I wasn't observing the bat totem, someone might have used a method similar to mine to take away the faith power that this group of prayers had accumulated on the bat totem before..."

Finally, Venom said the point: "And, I can be sure that the other party took more than I did."

Sure enough, after listening, the few returned to Kamar-Taj without stopping, because they thought of the other branch they had observed on that energy channel before. Although they didn't see that line transmitting energy at that time, it meant they acted earlier.

And if it was as Venom said, they stole more energy, which meant they had to pay more taxes.

After carefully checking that energy channel, Strange discovered that there were indeed traces of faith power passing through it. As for who the other party was, there was no need to reason, and he could roughly guess. The Bat God was composed of two people, one was Venom, and the other was Peter.

When Strange opened the portal, Shiler said: "Peter definitely wouldn't think of stealing electricity. He is very simple and not that immoral. So who guided him is obvious."

Ten minutes later, Pikachu was lifted up by Shiler by his tail. He waved his four short legs and shouted loudly: "It wasn't me!"

Shiler grabbed his lightning tail, lifted him to his face, and looked at his dark, round eyes: "If it wasn't you, who else could it be? Every bad habit of Peter's is influenced by you. Did he use to stay up late playing games until 2 AM?"

"Vegetable Skeleton's Exotic Reclamation"

Shiler was forcing Pikachu here, while Strange was patting Peter on the shoulder over there and saying: "No matter what Pikachu told you, Peter, forget it. That's wrong. You can't learn from him. He is already an adult... I mean, an adult mouse, but you are different. You just started college..."

"Um..." Peter revealed a tangled expression, but looking at Pikachu, who was being grabbed by Shiler and having his cheeks rubbed constantly, he still couldn't go against his conscience, so he said: "Actually, it wasn't Pikachu's plan..."

"Not Pikachu? Then who was it?" Strange asked with some surprise.

"It... it was Helen."

Everyone was stunned. After Loki heard this name, he walked out and asked: "Who did you say? Helen? But didn't she just be born a few days ago?"

"Uh, yes, but she grows very fast, and..."

Before Peter could finish speaking, suddenly, a beam of light fell in the center of the room. A small figure appeared in the beam of light. Helen floated in the air. Seeing so many people suddenly in the laboratory, she was also stunned.

She scanned these people somewhat flusteredly, and then her gaze stayed on Loki. Loki suddenly had a bad premonition. He took two steps back, but still couldn't stop Helen from pouncing on him.

With a "bang," Helen hit Loki against the wall, and a heaven-shaking scream resounded over New York:

"Mom... Dad——Dad——!" ===== CHAPTER 678 =====