Painful screams and agonized wails echoed loudly from Venom's distorted mouth.
It was clear to the naked eye that Venom had already separated most of his mass from Angelo's body. If the sonic wave could be maintained for just a while longer, Venom would be completely separated from Angelo entirely. How to deal with Venom after that point depended entirely on the Illuminati's collective decision.
At this moment, watching Venom teetering on the verge of complete collapse, Eddie snapped a few more quick photos with his camera, then turned around and fled without any hesitation whatsoever.
Just as Eddie was about to leave the area completely, Venom finally separated entirely from Angelo's body, wriggling incessantly within the sonic wave field, desperately trying to escape the wave's effective range.
But at that precise moment, a component suddenly detached from Tony's suit, rapidly transforming itself into a gold and red metal canister. Tony unscrewed the canister lid and aimed it directly at Venom. A powerful gravitational force sucked Venom into the canister quickly, immediately sealing it shut and trapping the symbiote inside.
Both Tony and Reed had a strong desire to study symbiotes extensively, so they did not plan to destroy Venom outright. Instead, they planned to take it back to their laboratory and study it for a considerable while.
"Reed, we have successfully captured Venom. We can leave now."
"Okay, I am ready to..."
Reed had not finished his words when a piece of steel, torn from somewhere nearby, suddenly flew towards them at high speed and struck the sonic generator hard, shattering it completely and rendering it utterly useless.
At the same time, a symbiote, silver with black stripes running across its body, looking even more hideous and terrifying than Venom himself, emerged from the breach in the first lab wall near the entrance. Judging by the appearance of the breach, it was abundantly clear that the steel plate had been torn directly from there with tremendous force.
"Is there another symbiote here?"
"More than just one... There are five symbiotes in the five different labs on this floor. In other words, there are five additional symbiotes here besides Venom. One disappeared during the previous battle, and this is the second one we are seeing. The other three are currently still in other labs on this floor."
Tony's suit visor scanned the labs on this floor carefully, his expression finally becoming serious.
"Reed, do you have any backup sonic generators on you?"
"Two more units!"
"Throw them all out right now!"
Hearing Tony's urgent words, Reed immediately pulled out two metal spheres from his equipment and hurled them directly at the symbiote's feet, which was clearly still getting used to its newly bonded body.
The spheres activated the very moment they landed, emitting a piercing sonic wave that instantly caused the new symbiote to begin collapsing.
However, just as Tony and Reed prepared to continue with capturing the symbiote, the latter stepped on the two metal spheres before completely collapsing. His resistance to sonic waves was surprisingly much stronger than Venom's, allowing him to react even within the sonic wave field!
"Reed, he is very resistant to sonic waves, we need to use the backup plan immediately!"
With that warning, Tony stood protectively in front of Reed, his left hand instantly transforming into a megaphone-like shape. A concentrated beam of sonic waves emanated from Tony's hand, sending the symbiote into disarray once again.
This was the anti-Venom armor Tony had specially modified and designed specifically to combat Venom!
It was equipped with a specialized symbiote-scanning system, powerful sonic weapons, advanced flamethrowers, and a highly sophisticated defense system so powerful that the symbiote could not penetrate it.
Tony had calculated that if he truly wanted to destroy Venom completely, his anti-Venom armor would be more than capable of accomplishing that task.
However, Tony had not anticipated the existence of five other symbiotes beyond Venom. These five symbiotes seemed to have evolved significantly, possessing abilities even greater than Venom's, particularly their resistance against sonic attacks and fire.
"Damn... insignificant little bugs!"
With a furious roar, Riot's arm suddenly extended dramatically, transforming into a massive scythe blade. It swung outward violently, slashing at Tony, who, trapped in the confined space, had absolutely no time to dodge.
With a heavy thud,
Tony flew backward through the air, colliding hard with Reed, and both of them slammed forcefully into the wall behind them.
Picking himself up from the ground with effort, Tony looked at Reed, who had been crushed flat and then recovered his form. He immediately called the others through the communicator urgently, "Sebastian, Namor, something is wrong here. We have captured Venom, but there are five other symbiotes here. One is missing, and one has already found a parasitic host. This one is a bit tricky to handle, we need support immediately!"
If it were out in the open air, Tony would have immediately launched a sustained barrage of missiles, but in this enclosed place, he absolutely could not do that. Besides, this new symbiote seemed far more powerful than Venom had been.
"Reed, I will deal with him. You take Venom away first to safety."
As he spoke, Tony reached for the metal canister at his waist, but suddenly realized with alarm it was gone!
Turning around quickly, Tony saw the canister lying not far ahead on the ground.
Without any hesitation, his thrusters activated, and Tony charged towards it at maximum speed.
But at that critical moment, Riot suddenly swung his arms dramatically, unleashing a series of sharp blades transformed from his own body, which pierced the ground one after another in rapid succession.
One of them pierced the metal canister directly, and Venom burst forth from inside. In a matter of mere seconds, he charged at the unconscious Angelo lying nearby, then transformed himself into Venom once again, appearing before Tony and Reed in his full form.
Buzz!
Without any hesitation, Tony unleashed another powerful sonic beam.
But this time, Venom was fully prepared, dodging backward skillfully and approaching Riot.
Looking at Riot, who was considerably taller and more muscular than himself, Venom immediately declared, "Riot, my child, help me take out those annoying Avengers!"
Venom finished speaking and was about to charge at Tony and Reed, but Riot suddenly grabbed Venom's head firmly and pressed it hard against the wall, causing it to cave in deeply.
"Venom... you pathetic weakling, you are just a discarded product in our evolution. You have absolutely no right to call yourself our father. We are Riot, the King of Symbiotes! Submit to me completely! Or I will devour you entirely!"
As he spoke these words, the right side of Riot's face disintegrated, revealing Dr. Drake's excited and playful face underneath. As Riot's first parasitic host, Dr. Drake, who had once enslaved Venom, naturally had a strong influence on Riot, making him naturally have no affection whatsoever for Venom.
What is more, symbiotes are not ordinary creatures with so-called parent-child relationships. In the eyes of symbiotes, so-called parents are nothing more than discarded products and remnants on the road of evolution!