Norman, who was observing the Symbiote, suddenly noticed it starting to riot.
It seemed to be severely injured, but Norman hadn't activated any sonic devices, so such a situation should have been impossible.
Just as he was pondering this, Andy walked out of the room.
Gluttony was currently writhing on Andy, transforming him into a black and red form.
"Norman, can you separate a bit more of that Symbiote?"
Hearing Andy's voice, Norman turned to look.
At this sight, Norman immediately activated the lab's sonic generator, and a powerful sonic wave erupted in the laboratory.
Because of the lab's noise, Stark emerged from his bedroom, extremely annoyed.
"Can you two be quiet? What the hell is this?"
Seeing Andy covered by Gluttony, Stark, who had been a bit sleepy, instantly sobered up.
He quickly tapped a few times on his watch, and it transformed into a makeshift pulse cannon.
Observing Norman and Stark's reactions, Andy waved his hand, causing Gluttony to concentrate on his arm.
After Gluttony devoured that small portion of the Symbiote, it had remained in its current state.
It couldn't retract into his body, and Andy also sensed from Gluttony's emotions that it was stuck.
Gluttony's current appearance was due to that small amount of Symbiote being insufficient for a complete transformation.
Now, Gluttony was stuck in this awkward, in-between state.
"Calm down, both of you! It's me, Andy."
This situation was also Andy's fault; he could have left Gluttony in the room and gone to the lab himself to get the Symbiote.
But in his haste, Andy forgot this and appeared in the lab with Gluttony covering him.
Seeing that it was Andy, both men calmed down.
Norman reached out and deactivated the ineffective sonic device, then looked at Gluttony on Andy's arm with a serious expression.
"When did you catch another Symbiote?"
This Symbiote wasn't the red one they knew; this was clearly one Andy had caught much earlier.
"Gluttony wasn't caught by me. Remember when I went to your secret room?
That Symbiote of yours left a very small piece of tissue with me. I genetically modified it, and now it's no longer a Symbiote."
Andy smiled and waved his hand. He couldn't tell Norman about the I-Virus.
But the existence of Gluttony could still be explained, as Gluttony was indeed born from Norman's Symbiote.
After understanding Gluttony's origin, Norman nodded.
Symbiotes would more or less leave behind some tissue residue during their movements, and those residues would quickly lose their activity after separating from the main body.
Eventually, they would completely shatter into powder and dissipate into the air.
Andy's ability allowed those residues to become new Symbiotes.
However, Andy had never revealed Gluttony before, so why was he letting Gluttony appear before them today?
"This Gluttony... what's wrong with it?"
Stark watched Gluttony writhing on Andy's arm for a while, then asked.
He saw clearly that Gluttony on Andy's arm was different from the captured Symbiote in many ways.
When a Symbiote was not parasitic, it was like a puddle of mud.
Although Gluttony also writhed like a Symbiote, Gluttony appeared much tougher, looking like it was made of cables.
Compared to the mud-like Symbiote, Gluttony's appearance clearly conformed more to his aesthetic.
However, Gluttony's writhing was more violent than that of an ordinary Symbiote, indicating that something was clearly wrong.
Andy looked at Gluttony on his arm, sensing Gluttony's eager emotions, and shook his head helplessly, saying,
"Remember the Symbiote in that test tube? Gluttony devoured it.
However, that small amount of Symbiote couldn't support Gluttony's transformation at all. Now Gluttony has only transformed halfway, so I'm here to get some Symbiote tissue."
Norman was a bit surprised to hear that Gluttony had devoured the Symbiote.
Gluttony's abilities were far stronger than he had imagined; at least, other Symbiotes wouldn't devour other Symbiotes like Gluttony did.
And Norman also understood why the Symbiote had such violent behavior: because Gluttony had devoured a part of its body.
Anyone whose body was partially devoured would react as violently as the Symbiote.
Norman opened the Symbiote's container and forcibly separated a small portion of the Symbiote into a test tube.
"Come on, let's try it. Let me see how Gluttony devours the Symbiote."
Handing the test tube to Andy, Norman activated the lab's monitoring equipment.
He had to record the entire process of this Symbiote devouring event.
Andy didn't observe the test tube; he directly tossed it to Gluttony, which was wrapped around his arm.
But before Gluttony devoured it, Andy instructed, "Show Norman the process of you devouring the Symbiote."
Gluttony was a very obedient child. After Andy's instruction, it extended its tendrils and wrapped around the test tube.
Instead of covering the entire test tube as it did last time, its tendrils forcefully created cracks in the test tube.
All the damaged areas of the test tube were filled by Gluttony's tendrils.
Soon, Norman and Stark saw the Symbiote inside the test tube being entangled by extremely tiny tendrils.
Those tendrils penetrated the Symbiote's tissue, continuously differentiating into a large number of tendrils.
Like a large net, it captured the Symbiote, which was utterly powerless to resist.
They could only see the enveloped Symbiote twitching continuously, slowly merging with Gluttony.
After Gluttony finished devouring, its form completely transformed, and now Gluttony could return to Andy's body again.
"Oh, this is truly a dangerous little fellow."
Stark couldn't help but exclaim, watching Gluttony devour the Symbiote.
Gluttony's abilities far exceeded his imagination; without any specific weaknesses against the Symbiote, it could easily strangle the Symbiote with its slender tendrils alone.
Moreover, Gluttony's tendrils seemed to have a strong restraining effect on the Symbiote; once captured by the tendrils, the Symbiote could not exert its original abilities.
The transformed Gluttony no longer writhed but instead curled into a stable ball in Andy's hand.
"It still looks distinctly different from a Symbiote; at least, ordinary Symbiotes wouldn't be as stable as it is."
Seeing the motionless Gluttony, Norman confirmed the difference between Gluttony and the Symbiote.
The current Gluttony was more like a higher-level life form than a Symbiote, a more powerful life form that hunted Symbiotes.
This was important news for Norman, but what Norman couldn't understand was why Gluttony hadn't fed on Symbiotes in the past, even though his Green Goblin was also a Symbiote.
"Why would Gluttony suddenly prey on Symbiotes? It never appeared before us in the past, and now it doesn't react to the Green Goblin on me at all."
As he spoke, Green Goblin appeared on Norman's hand, but Gluttony remained calm.
It was only when Norman opened the container sealing the Symbiote that Gluttony showed a slight, noticeable change.
Watching Gluttony's eager desire to devour the Symbiote, Stark also found it strange.
"Right! Why doesn't Gluttony react to Norman's Green Goblin?"
If it considered Symbiotes prey, then Gluttony should react with similar excitement when facing Green Goblin.
Instead, it was like this now, only interested in the Symbiote it couldn't catch.
"Ha~ This guy wouldn't think the Symbiote that just came from outer space tastes better, would he?"
Stark looked at the black and red Gluttony and suddenly laughed.
The biggest difference between Green Goblin and the alien Symbiote was that Green Goblin was born on Earth, while the other had just arrived on Earth from outer space.
"No, Green Goblin is a castrated Symbiote; its abilities are inherently different from a normal Symbiote.
The Symbiote Gluttony preys on, on the other hand, has not undergone any defects."
Andy shook his head and explained that Gluttony was making up for its own defects by preying on Symbiotes.
Because when it merged with Norman's Symbiote, it lost many of the Symbiote's original abilities.
Now it was just recovering, and the reason it wasn't interested in Green Goblin was because Green Goblin, having been castrated, also had defects.
Devouring Green Goblin would not provide any improvement for Gluttony, which is why Gluttony had no interest in Norman's Green Goblin.
After studying it for a while, Norman gave up on researching Gluttony.
It was already very late, and it was time for them to rest.
Late at night, the Life Foundation had no personnel except for the security guards.
The laboratory door was opened, and a man who had infiltrated the Life Foundation was stealthily taking pictures with a camera.
His name was Eddie, a reporter. Someone had previously exposed that the Life Foundation was luring homeless people with high prices and using them for biological experiments.
He had questioned the head of the Life Foundation at the time, but unfortunately, he was escorted out by the Life Foundation's security.
At that time, he felt there was a big problem, and he also found a report about homeless people on his girlfriend's computer.
Eddie's girlfriend, as an employee of the Life Foundation, was clearly also suspicious of the Life Foundation's experiments.
And Eddie had been preparing for a long time, and with the cover of a Dr., he infiltrated the Life Foundation in a unique way.
Now Eddie was carefully taking pictures of the experimental area. This was the Life Foundation's special experimental area, and ordinary people simply couldn't enter here.
Each isolation laboratory here had an independent number, and inside were the personnel being experimented on. In some laboratories, there were still some strange traces remaining.
And on the glass walls of the laboratory, the experiment log of that laboratory was also displayed.
Every empty laboratory represented a failed experiment, and Eddie didn't know where the people went after the experiments failed.
As Eddie was taking pictures of different isolation laboratories in the experimental area, a woman suddenly stood in a laboratory, hitting the glass and calling out to Eddie.
Eddie recognized the woman; it was Maria. Eddie didn't know why Maria was here.
But Maria's anxious appearance made Eddie realize that she wanted to escape from here.
Eddie tried the password lock and found that it required authorization to open.
As he tried to open the electronic password lock, he triggered the alarm system here, and the entire experimental area was engulfed in red light.
"Don't worry, I'll save you right away."
Saying that, Eddie picked up a fire extinguisher from the ground and smashed it against the laboratory's glass door.
As laboratory glass, its strength was much stronger than ordinary glass.
Eddie smashed it several times without breaking the glass, only leaving some faint marks on it.
He smashed it a few more times with force, finally creating a crack in the glass.
Using this crack, Eddie quickly broke the glass door.
However, Maria had already fallen into a frenzy. The moment the glass door shattered, she rushed out and pounced on Eddie.
Her hands were tightly gripping Eddie's neck, making him unable to breathe.
In a place Eddie didn't notice, some black objects were quietly entering Eddie's body along Maria's hands.
"Phew~ Maria, calm down."
Eddie, whose neck was being choked, breathed with difficulty, gritting his teeth and speaking to the frenzied Maria, hoping she would let go and spare him.
But the frenzied Maria wasn't listening at all; her hands kept tightly gripping Eddie.
It wasn't until all the black objects had entered Eddie's body that Maria suddenly released her hands and collapsed to the ground.
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