Just then, the revolving door that separated the hotel's interior from the street outside, in the partition.
A mass of dark liquid squirmed on the ground.
Suffocating, oppressive!
A feeling Vincent had never experienced before surged through his body and mind.
Difficulty breathing? No, it was an inability to breathe!
At this moment, Vincent felt as if he was not suited to live on this planet.
Absolutely right, the Lord of the Retinue's ability had triggered—to the extent that his body had also been transformed by some transcendent ability!
"If this continues, will I die?" Vincent, like a mass of boiling liquid, lay on the ground, his whole body restlessly squirming.
"Meow!"
A cat's meow caught Vincent's attention. From the gap in the zipper of his schoolbag, which had fallen beside him, a little orange cat poked its head out.
It was Little Orange Cat!
Vincent's body shuddered. At that instant, as if driven by instinct, the black liquid he had become lunged forward, enveloping the little orange cat, then rapidly merging with and attaching itself to the tiny cat's body!
Hotel front desk.
"Welcome." The front desk attendant, seeing the revolving door pushed open, subconsciously looked up. What met her eyes, however, was a completely black cat.
"Where did this stray cat come from!" The front desk attendant quickly stepped forward to shoo it away.
The black cat squatted in place, stunned for a moment, then, reacting swiftly, it picked up the schoolbag from the ground and rushed out through the still-revolving door onto the street outside.
On the bustling street.
Seeing the black cat suddenly rush out of the hotel, pedestrians scattered, watching it disappear with the schoolbag into a street corner alley.
A while later.
On the open-air rooftop of a five-story building.
The schoolbag was placed to one side, and the black cat stood on the building's railing, lost in thought as it overlooked the modern street below, with its flashing neon lights.
"Who am I?"
"I am a Symbiote, Venom... No, I am a Flerken, a juvenile..."
"No, no, no! All wrong!!!"
The black cat, in a human-like gesture, clutched its head, struggling for a moment, then its eyes quickly filled with a bright, intelligent glint: "I remember. I am Vincent Prince, an ordinary human middle school student, living in downtown Washington."
"What exactly happened to me?" The black cat, which Vincent had become, took a deep breath, feeling a chaotic jumble of voices speaking in his mind.
A hoarse, evil voice cried out: "What's wrong with this human's body?"
"Why is he in charge?! Damnable, hateful, pathetic!!!"
And a tender, innocent voice said: "Is Master alright?"
"Sigh, I can't control my body anymore, I've been locked in a dark room..."
"Everyone, be quiet, let me sort this out properly." Vincent rubbed his temples and squatted on the ground to clear his thoughts.
Due to shared thought messages, Vincent quickly understood what had happened to his body.
It all started with a voice in his mind, a Symbiote life form named "Venom."
Venom came from a planet in outer space and, with the help of a New York biological research company's spacecraft, unexpectedly arrived on the current Earth world.
As Symbiotes, they cannot survive alone physiologically and mechanically; they can only parasitize other living organisms.
The Symbiote Venom discovered that some humans had a physique very suitable for symbiosis. After a search, it finally chose Vincent as its host.
Next, a more complex problem arose.
Symbiotes are neither male nor female; they have no gender. But in some ways, they can be considered three-in-one.
And when the Symbiote parasitized Vincent, it naturally met the potential condition for 'intimate contact.' In addition, when the liquid and Vincent coexisted and merged, the liquid within their bodies achieved shared exchange—
Thus, Vincent's ability, Lord of the Retinue, was triggered.
Vincent gained the characteristics and abilities of the Symbiote Venom, which led to the scene of his body melting into black liquid just now.
The subsequent events are simple to understand.
Under the instinct of parasitism, Vincent parasitized the little orange cat, Little Orange Cat, coexisting with it.
Simply put, Venom parasitized Vincent, and Vincent then parasitized Little Orange Cat.
Symbiote, human, Flerken—three different racial creatures unexpectedly merged into one. Among them, Vincent was the dominant one, but the thoughts of both Venom and Little Orange Cat could be shared and conveyed.
"Humans, actually possessing such extraordinary abilities."
The Symbiote Venom, under shared thoughts, also understood the current situation and asked in confusion: "Since you've become a Symbiote, why can I still parasitize you?"
Symbiotes and Symbiotes can only fight and devour each other; they cannot coexist.
"I probably know what's going on." Vincent sighed.
He did indeed gain the abilities and characteristics of a Symbiote, but he was fundamentally still a human. Thus, the current 'Symbiote parasitizes Vincent, Vincent parasitizes Flerken' three-in-one situation was formed.
"Three creatures coexisting, this is the first time I've encountered such a situation." Venom's hoarse, sharp voice echoed in Vincent's mind.
Suddenly, it exclaimed excitedly: "Wait, although I can't control it, I can feel that the body we've formed by parasitic coexistence is exceptionally powerful!"
"Powerful—? I guess so." Vincent's mouth twitched. He looked at his pudding-sized cat paws and didn't know how to describe his current physical state. His body seemed to be enveloped in a layer of dark black outer skin, with lightning-like white markings on his lower abdomen.
"That's right, that's right!" Venom said excitedly: "In that case, we can defeat those guys!"
Vincent tilted his head. Under shared thoughts, he quickly understood what the Symbiote Venom was saying.
Venom was not the only Symbiote that had descended upon Earth.
There were also three others.
These three Symbiotes were hostile to Venom. Their colonial consciousness was strong, and they seemed intent on controlling humans to lead other members of their race to invade Earth.
"It's always about destroying Earth. Is there no end to this? Earthlings ate your family's rice, didn't they?" Vincent rolled his eyes, unable to hold back his complaints.
But suddenly.
The black cat's body trembled slightly. As if sensing something, it turned to look behind him. On the other side of the building he was on, a model climbed up the fifteen-meter-high exterior wall.
The model moved like a puppet, her movements slightly stiff. Her eyes were vacant, and her bare hands were covered in brown barbs.
"It's one of my kind! We Symbiotes can sense each other's locations!" Venom shouted a warning in Vincent's mind.
"Why didn't you say so sooner?!" Vincent moved his limbs, transforming into a black lightning bolt and fleeing backward.
Seeing this, the model immediately pursued at an inhuman speed. The brown barbs on her arms continuously grew, like two giant, ferocious heavy hammers striking at the tiny cat's body!
In mid-air.
"Are you taking me for granted?"
The black cat suddenly turned its head, its mouth splitting open in a demonic grin. Its tiny tail whipped backward fiercely, instantly slicing through the air with a sharp edge. The tail had clearly transformed into a four-meter-long sword, more than ten times larger than its own cat body!
Ching!
The two heavy hammer limbs were cleanly cut in half!
The Symbiote parasitizing the model was startled, not expecting the useless Venom, who had parasitized an Earth cat, to be so powerful.
She was about to retreat.
The dark, cold four-meter-long sword slashed down, cutting the model from head to toe into two halves!