Before Eddie could even think about anything after hanging up the phone, violent metal music started playing again from across the hall.
The piercing sound caused Eddie immediate pain. He knocked on the door and said in a low voice:
"Could you turn the music down a bit?"
"I'm really feeling terrible right now."
The hippie man glanced at Eddie and scoffed, "Mind your own business."
Eddie's face suddenly changed, turning into Venom expression as he glared at the other man with a ferocious look.
This sudden change of heart startled the hippie man, who immediately corrected himself, saying, "Okay, no problem, I'll turn it down a bit, sorry."
Upon hearing that the other party had agreed, Eddie said, "Thank you, thank you."
He then turned around and went straight back to his room, closing the Room Door behind him. The hippie man was so startled that he quickly closed his door as well.
A while later, the food Eddie had put in the oven was fried and he had just taken it out when the unfamiliar voice came to his mind again.
Don't open the Gate of Opening.
Eddie paused for a moment, and before he could react, he heard a knock on the Room Door. He went to the door and looked through the peephole, only to find no one there. He then opened the Room Door and looked down into the hallway.
But the moment the Room Door opened, several burly men rushed in, shoved Eddie into the room, and warned Eddie, "Stay put."
The Life Foundation's security Captain walked in and said directly, "Eddie, I'm here to retrieve Mr. Drake's belongings."
The voice in his head also asked, "Who is this guy?"
Two security personnel drew their pistols and pointed them at Eddie's chest. The infrared aiming lights shone on him, and Eddie immediately raised his hands.
Seeing Eddie's actions, the voice in his head asked, "What are you doing?"
Eddie spoke up, "Um, I'm raising my hand."
Meanwhile, Hinata Hyuga and the others outside the building had already noticed the changes in Eddie's room. Hinata whispered, "Mr. Eddie has been threatened. Should we intervene now?"
Ya yawned; he was a little sleepy after guarding the other person for two days and one night, but he still said, "Let's wait and see. Teacher Hong said we'll rescue them only if their lives are in danger."
"If Eddie gets pushed back by the enemy, we'll ambush him halfway."
Hearing Kiba's suggestion, Hinata replied softly, "Alright then, but Shino, you must use the bugs to protect Mr. Eddie in a crisis."
Shino, wearing a trench coat, stood on the rooftop of the opposite building, looking at Eddie in the room, and nodded, saying, "Don't worry, Mr. Eddie won't be in any danger."
At this moment, the Venom within Eddie controlled Eddie body, causing him to lower his hands and say, "Raising your hands is too embarrassing."
Eddie then raised his hands again and said, "Raising your hands is not shameful."
Eddie then controlled his hands to lower, while Venom controlled his hands to raise, and the two shouted at each other, "Shameful, not shameful."
This sudden turn of events stunned the Life Foundation's security personnel. The security Captain ignored Eddie's actions and continued to ask:
"Eddie, where's the thing?"
Seeing that Eddie didn't answer, he directly told his men, "Take him down."
The two pistols aimed at Eddie immediately pulled the triggers, and two electric shock beams shot out, but the other party was using a stun gun instead of bullets.
After a shudder, Eddie's two arms extended black objects that sent the two gunmen flying.
Eddie stared at his hands in disbelief, then his body moved beyond his control, knocking the remaining two security guards to the ground.
Looking at the black, asphalt-like substance in his hand, Eddie asked, "What exactly is this stuff?"
Venom's voice rang out again. "No, you should ask who this is?"
After taking down all four security guards in the room, two gunmen immediately emerged from the doorway and opened fire on Eddie. However, the weapon conjured by Venom shielded Eddie from the attack and even took down the enemies on his behalf.
At this moment, all six enemies fell to the ground in the room. Venom shouted:
"That's excellent. Now bite their heads off and pile them in the corner."
"Divided into a pile of corpses and a pile of heads."
Eddie asked, puzzled, "Why would you do that?"
At that moment, another gunman attacked from outside the door. Venom knocked him to the ground. Seeing this, Eddie dared not stay in the room any longer and immediately ran out.
Hinata Hyuga witnessed all of this, exclaimed in surprise, "My God, his strength has increased again!"
"That thing can actually attack on its own?"
Ya asked curiously, "What is it?"
"It's that creature that entered his body before; its manifestation seems to be Kekkei Genkai..."
Upon hearing Hinata's words, Kiba was also quite surprised, as Kekkei Genkai are a rare thing in the Ninja World.
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Eddie had just run out the door and hadn't even gone downstairs when a gunman came upstairs. He immediately turned around, but the gunman who had been shot earlier got up, grabbed his pistol, rushed out, and opened fire on Eddie.
"Da-da-da!"
However, all the bullets fired were dodged by Eddie, who was controlled by Venom. Then, Venom seemed to take over Eddie's body and jumped out of the window of the stairwell, landing in a house across the street.
The gunman climbed onto the window and fired a barrage of shots at Eddie's back, but they were all deflected by the shield conjured by Venom.
At this moment, the security Captain also ran downstairs, got into his car, and began his report.
"Mr. Drake, the target escaped with the Symbiote. I'm uploading the video now."
At this moment, Drake, along with a group of researchers, all gathered at the company's headquarters.
The huge projection screen in front of them quickly received the message from the security Captain.
Drake, looking at the transmitted image, exclaimed, "My God, he's successfully bonded with the Symbiote!"
"Did you all see that? They got married!"
Drake excitedly picked up the microphone and said, "Trevor, Trevor."
"Bring back my new kind of creature."
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Meanwhile, Eddie ran to the back door of the building and went to where he parked his motorcycle, trying to avoid the enemy's attack.
"Eddie."
The voice in his mind resurfaced, and Eddie looked at his reflection in the car window, now resembling Venom.
Looking inside, Eddie exclaimed in horror, "You're not in there, are you?"
"I'm just hallucinating. You're not real; you're just a parasite in my brain."
Eddie clearly hasn't accepted his changes and is still in a state of panic about everything that's happened.
Venom retorted angrily, "You call me a parasite!"
Eddie was instantly pinned to the wall.
Kiba, who was on the rooftop, looked at Hinata and said, "The crisis is over, shall we go down now?"
Hinata refused, saying, "No, I want to see what other changes he has undergone."
"And those people didn't leave; I saw even more enemies coming."
"Our ultimate goal is to protect Eddie and to remove what the Life Foundation has attached to Drake."
"We need to gather intelligence on the other side, and now is a good opportunity."
Hidden in the shadows, Kurenai Yuhi listened to Hinata Hyuga's words and nodded in approval. It seemed that the young lady of the Hyuga Clan had actually grown quite a bit since coming to this world.
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