When Eddie regained consciousness again, he found himself lying on the cold tile floor. He held his aching head and straightened his upper body. He used his forearms to prop up his body. He slipped and fell back to the original position.
Rubbing his aching shoulder with his right hand, Eddie looked around. In his hazy vision, he found that he had also arrived in a dirty hospital ward.
It was only then that memories came flooding back, and Eddie remembered the last scene he saw before coming here.
Huge explosion.
He and Schiller embarked on a business trip across the universe, and the moment they entered the teleportation gate, the teleportation device exploded violently.
Eddie tried his best to straighten his back and sit up. He bent his knees and pressed his head, shouting in his heart: "Venom...Venom!"
"I am here."
"Then why didn't you say anything just now?" Eddie roared: "I thought something happened to you."
"Um……"
Venom made a rare low sound, and Eddie became nervous instantly, and then he heard Venom say: "Because I'm thinking, which one is funnier, your worry about Schiller's mood or your worry about my mood, haha
Hahahahahahahaha!"
Hearing Venom's steady and powerful laughter, Eddie breathed a sigh of relief, his legs softened and he lay back down. Venom said in his mind again: "Is there a possibility that you are the weakest among us? Worry that we are not as good as
Worry about yourself."
"So Dr. Schiller is okay too?"
"What illusions do you still have about him?" Venom said in a sympathetic tone: "If this wasn't his fault, I would give up chocolate for a week!"
This can be called a poisonous oath, so Eddie said dubiously: "You mean Schiller blew up the portal? But why did he do that? What's the point of it?"
"Seeing you crying for father and mother here is the biggest meaning." Venom said sharply: "You still haven't seen his true face clearly. As long as he has fun, he dares to do anything."
Eddie sighed deeply, and stood up unsteadily with his right hand on the dusty ground. Judging from the pain coming from his body, he fell from a height of almost two meters, and the blood in his body
The parasite didn't catch him at all.
As soon as Eddie thought of this, Venom began to scream: "The sound wave of the explosion is the natural enemy of the symbiote. I hid the moment it exploded. Who knew you could fall so fast?"
After moving his hands and feet, he found that there were no fractures or serious injuries. There were only a few small scratches on his elbows and shoulders, which were quickly repaired by the venom.
He stood in the center of the room and looked around carefully, and soon discovered that this hospital had probably been abandoned for a while. Not only was there dust on the floor, there was also a thin layer of dust on the surface of the table, the edges of the skirting boards, and the armrests of the hospital beds.
dust.
While checking the direction of the dust on the armrest, Eddie discovered something very strange. Most of the patients' bedding was not folded, nor spread randomly on the bed, but seemed to have been lifted.
It has never been touched again.
If the hospital was evacuated in an orderly manner, this situation would definitely not occur, and the subsequent search confirmed Eddie's guess. There was uneaten food on the bedside table, and in the drawer, in addition to various medical information,
, as well as daily necessities, valuable personal items, and even home keys.
If the patient is transferred or the hospital moves, these things cannot be left in the original hospital, unless they hurriedly opened the quilt and ran out of bed, rushed out of the room and never came back.
But even if one or two patients rushed out due to some emergency, it would not be the case for all six beds in this ward. Could it be that some disaster had occurred?
Eddie did not rashly open the curtains in the ward and look at the street, because it would be very easy to expose himself. In line with the principle of being cowardly, Eddie leaned against the door of the ward and glanced into the corridor.
It was dusk now, and night was about to fall. The windows at the end of the corridor were filled with the blood-like sunset, and the bright light reflected on the floor of the corridor shone in Eddie's eyes, which gave him a strange feeling.
He heard heavy footsteps coming from the other end of the corridor. Eddie had no choice but to go back to the room and lock the door. He opened the patient's private cabinet and started looking for weapons that could be used. Although he didn't know who the enemy was yet, he
I think it is necessary to prepare weapons.
"What are you doing?" Venom asked, "We can just rush out and kill them all."
"Don't be stupid." Eddie said while rummaging through his clothes: "There are always enemies you can't deal with. The situation in this universe is too weird. We need to make more preparations."
Venom was rather dismissive of this and kept humming in Eddie's mind, but Eddie quickly rummaged through the clothes in the patient's personal belongings cabinet. As expected, he couldn't find any usable weapons, but he
A bloody business card was found in one of the patients' suit jackets that read "Feddy Alkadze, Rental Manager."
Just as Eddie was looking at the business card intently, heavy and slow footsteps approached step by step. Eddie carefully closed the glove cabinet, and then laboriously dragged one of the metal glove cabinets to the door.
On the door.
There was a loud "bang", and a bloody face with exposed gums was slapped on the viewing window. Eddie was so frightened that he screamed, backed away, and fell to the ground on his butt.
Twisted fingers scratched the glass, and the blood-stained face was squeezed against the glass, looking even more deformed. Eddie was stunned. It took him a long time to remember and shout: "Mask! Mask!!!"
In an instant, Venom appeared. He stood up from the ground, moved his wrists and ankles, and with a wave of his arms, Eddie moved the cabinet blocking the door and smashed it into the wall inside. He pulled the door open and saw the outside.
A full view of the monster.
As expected, it was a zombie, and all the parts from the lips to the orbicularis oris muscle were missing, the entire gums were exposed, the teeth were incomplete, a few were broken, and there were rotten pieces of meat between the teeth.
Venom didn't think much at all. When he saw the humanoid creature, he instinctively grabbed his neck with his big hands, opened his mouth full of sharp teeth, and bit off the head in one bite.
The next second, he vomited.
He really vomited. One of Venom's hands pinched his neck tightly and spit out all the parts he had just chewed and swallowed. He was shaking in place as if he was having an epilepsy.
"Did I just eat a fucking piece of shit?! Ugh!"
Venom rushed towards the other side of the corridor regardless. He could hear the sound of water flowing in a room at the end of the corridor. Sure enough, he found a bathroom. The huge monster squeezed in from the door frame and turned on the faucet.
Rinse your mouth with water.
Eddie and Venom didn't share their sense of taste, so he didn't know what Venom tasted. When he just thought of this, Venom turned on the sharing switch, and Eddie also vomited.
It's hard to describe. It tastes a bit like rotten durian, stir-fried skunk blood, and bitter melon pickled in skunk blood. More importantly, it has a mouthfeel that is so rotten once you take a sip that it doesn't even give you a chance to regret it.
Venom's psychology was severely damaged. He had never eaten anything so unpalatable since he was born, and he tasted spicy food for the first time in his life. A certain stimulating feeling spread among his symbiote factors.
"This thing is poisonous." Venom gasped and said: "That virus is extremely tenacious. It is constantly killing your cells and trying to control your body. Fortunately, I didn't take in much and I vomited it in time.
, and then we cleared them all out.”
"I can't remember how many times I've reminded you, Venom, why do you think you can put everything in your mouth and taste it?!" Eddie supported the sink with both hands and patted the countertop hard.
Venom was silent. Maybe he was really scared. Eddie also felt that his words were a bit harsh. Just when he wanted to speak out to comfort him, Venom said in a low tone: "This is how the symbiote understands the world. If
If we want to truly understand something, we must use symbiotic factors to break it down."
"The toxin of that thing is very strange." Venom said in a puzzled tone: "The rate of proliferation is unimaginable, and it invades human cells very purposefully. If I didn't know you better, you might have been infected by it now.
.”
The deep fear in Venom's tone made Eddie unable to say any more accusations. After all, on the previous earth, there was nothing that Venom couldn't eat.
Not to mention poisonous spiders and poisonous frogs, he would eat even the most poisonous compounds, but obviously, this time he hit an iron plate.
Eddie could feel Venom's panic, even though he tried his best to hide it. He felt that Venom was not afraid of the power of the virus, but that his reckless actions almost turned Eddie into the same person as that person.
A zombie-like monster.
Eddie sighed and said: "Okay, Venom, don't worry, I won't become like that. Besides this strange poison, what else do you feel?"
"It's unpalatable." Venom replied truthfully: "And there are no amines in the brains of other living people. And I suspect that the strange toxin caused their brains to mutate and produce a more disgusting form.
Something, that may be the source of the terrible smell."
Eddie savored the taste of the shared venom and couldn't help but cover his mouth again and lay down by the sink and retched.
After a while, he straightened his body up and down, opened the faucet and drank some water, but he didn't dare to swallow it, so he rinsed his mouth and spit it back into the pool.
"Can that toxin hurt you?"
"No, but it can hurt you." Venom said helplessly: "It can't directly cause harm to the symbiote factor, but it will multiply in your body at an extremely fast speed and attack your body."
brain."
"In order to fight it, I must wrap them with symbiotic factors and cut off the connection between these factors and the main body, so that they can completely leave your body."
"What if you directly cover my body with symbiotic factors? Prevent me from direct contact with the virus and separate us?"
"Okay." The affirmative answer given by Venom made Eddie relieved, but his next words made Eddie's heart tighten again, "But if the whole world is like this now, it means I don't have it."
No food, I can't get amines from this rotten brain."
"Although I currently have sufficient symbiote factors and stored magical energy, the reserves are ultimately limited. If they are not replenished, they will eventually be exhausted."
Eddie immediately felt the urgency. He walked over to the headless zombie and wanted to feel if there were any weapons on him. As a result, as soon as he got closer, the body began to tremble violently.
Eddie hurriedly returned to the door. In his horrified eyes, the headless zombie slowly stood up with twitching limbs.