Are Lollipops Gold-Plated?

Life Foundation Building had been left in ruins after Riot and Venom's battle, with raging flames burning throughout the building.

At that moment, a woman in a black bodysuit was carefully examining a shattered glass vial, seemingly trying to glean some useful information from it.

But after inspecting it again and again, she found nothing. Just then, a middle-aged man in a crisp suit walked up to her.

"Natasha, did you find anything?"

The sharply dressed man was none other than S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Coulson, while the woman was naturally Natasha.

Natasha shook her head. "Nothing for now. What about your side?"

Coulson shook his head as well. "All the useful paper records in the lab were burned, and Life Foundation's experimental database was wiped clean. Nothing was left behind."

"Judging by the way this was handled, it was most likely that kid Loren again."

Hearing Coulson say that, Natasha smiled and stopped dwelling on it, tossing the glass vial in her hand straight onto the ground.

With a clang, the already cracked glass vial shattered into pieces, scattering shards all over the floor.

"I think so too. Stealing someone's things and wiping their database while he was at it—such a rotten thing to do. In this world, I'm afraid only that kid Loren could pull it off."

"Let's go! That kid strips everything bare. There's no point staying any longer. Let the police come deal with this mess!"

Natasha spoke as she headed straight out of the building. At that moment, an inconspicuous glass shard pierced the sole of her shoe.

Clinging to that shard was something the size of a sesame seed, like a speck of black grime.

Yet as Natasha walked, that black speck of grime suddenly wriggled...

Meanwhile, led by Peter, A2 entered a huge sewer through