Not polluted?

Kino said nothing, silently taking out his phone and making a call.

"Castle, my business is done. Yeah, about two hours back to the tavern. Settle the remaining payment, and add another 500,000. Yes, I'm sure."

After Kino hung up, Wade cheered excitedly, his face brimming with uncontrollable joy.

"Boss is generous! Logan, look what I brought you – a big score. Buy me a drink when we get back to the bar later."

"No problem, I'll have a good drink too." Logan couldn't help but feel happy either; this was the first time he'd had so much money.

The three of them sped along, arriving at the tavern in an hour and a half.

Butler Castle was waiting at the entrance of the tavern, bowing slightly.

"Young Master, you've returned."

"Mm, Castle, find us a private room."

The three arrived at a private room. Logan generously ordered a pile of drinks and, unscrewing a bottle of whiskey, downed it in one gulp, some liquor dribbling down his chin.

"Kid, I'm ready. Speak."

Kino had a cup of chocolate milk in front of him, and he downed it in one go as well.

This tastes good, I like it.

"James, that's your real name. Logan is what you changed it to later."

James? Logan frowned. Although he hadn't heard it before, he felt a sense of familiarity.

From his name, to participating in the war, Sabretooth, Silver Fox, and finally the X-Weapon experiment.

"So, my memory loss was all caused by a Colonel Stryker."

Logan looked at Kino with determined eyes, not doubting the intelligence he provided. There was too much information; he could verify its truthfulness with a little research.

"Logan, you've had it rough, torture and fighting your own brother. But the name Stryker sounds so familiar... Oh, right. A few years ago, a Colonel invited me to join a small team, but I was in the middle of a passionate romance with Vanessa back then and couldn't get away."

Wade looked at Logan sympathetically, clinking glasses with him as he spoke, a look of realization on his face.

Kino pondered, realizing this was why the two hadn't met.

"How can I find Stryker?"

Logan excitedly crushed the wine bottle, intense killing intent filling his eyes, his teeth grinding.

"Logan, you think too highly of me. While I know some things, it's all classified information, not omniscience."

Seeing Logan lower his head in disappointment, Kino thought for a moment and said.

"However, his goal is to eliminate all Mutants. You can go to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, founded by Professor X. You can wait there."

"Professor X?"

Kino nodded and said earnestly, "There are two factions of Mutants now: the peace faction and the war faction. Professor X is the leader of the peace faction. I don't recommend you go to the war faction."

"Why?" Logan asked.

"The leader of the war faction is Magneto. He can control metal."

Logan fell silent again and downed another bottle of whiskey.

"Boss, do you have any information that could help me make a fortune?"

Wade found this boss to be very mysterious, knowing a lot of classified intelligence, even the military's plans, as if he had experienced them firsthand.

"How much money can you come up with right now?"

"Including what you just gave me, boss, it's about 2 million dollars."

"So little."

Wade's face darkened. Living in this expensive New York, saving 500,000 was already quite good.

"Just buy Stark Industries stock. Buy as much as you can."

"Boss, you mean Stark isn't dead."

Tony Stark, of course, he knew. Few people in the world didn't know him.

Whether it was his genius intellect or his extravagant lifestyle, Wade envied it all.

"He's not going to die that easily. Of course, it's just a suggestion. Whether you listen or not is up to you." Kino said ambiguously while drinking his chocolate milk.

"Boss, I've always trusted you."

Wade immediately took out his phone and started calling the stock center.

Even Logan on the side kept glancing over, considering whether to invest as well.

Kino watched Wade's excited expression and decided not to mention his cancer.

The previous information could be attributed to special intelligence channels, but if he said more, it would be predicting the future.

However, Kino remembered that in the comics, Deadpool was Venom's second host, and it was under his influence that Venom later became evil and chaotic.

He then asked mentally.

Venom, how many hosts did you have before me?

[No, you're the first host. Although you have many origins in your mind, I've always been on the symbiote planet before. What's wrong?]

That's really great.

[What's great?] Venom sounded confused.

"I'm your first host, which means you're not corrupted yet."

Kino drank some chocolate milk. This also meant Venom could more easily take his shape.

[Not corrupted? You really have the nerve to say that. Do you think you're so clean and pure? Demon Sister, Lady Yakushi, Autumn Sky... Kid, you really like to drive big cars.] Venom's tone was full of mockery.

"Pfft... cough, cough, cough."

He spat out his milk, and Kino coughed repeatedly. He hadn't expected these memories to be brought up.

Wade, who was drinking with Logan, was sprayed in the face without any warning.

"Boss?"

"Kid!"

Kino looked up at the two dark faces and gave an awkward smile.

"Sorry, I was just talking to Venom. He's a bit mischievous. This round's on me today."

Only then did Wade and Logan resume their drinking.

[You're blaming this on me? But then again, I'm just an alien creature. Don't even mention...]

Enough. Just tell me what you want directly.

Kino covered his face. This sarcastic tone, he learned it so quickly.

[Go somewhere, find something.]

Venom's voice sounded a bit lost. Ever since they left the laboratory, it felt something in the distance was summoning it.

Go where? Find what?

Kino's expression grew serious. Another thing unrelated to the plot made him uneasy.

[I don't know, but it's something very important.]

Fine, you don't know anything. But you must know the direction, right?

After asking the bar owner for a world map, Kino followed the direction Venom indicated and finally stopped at a location.

Is this it?

[Probably?]

Venom wasn't sure either. It only knew the general direction.

Kino stared blankly at the location: Afghanistan in the Middle East, where Iron Man was kidnapped. What a coincidence.

[I can extract Wolverine's Healing Factor and inject it into you. That way, you won't die even without me.]

Venom also felt something was wrong, but it felt that thing was very important.