Silence.
A deathly silence!
On the streets of Queens.
Watching Vincent, in his three-in-one form, land alone on the ground, many passersby in the distance filming videos with their phones, or media reporters doing live broadcasts, all stood frozen like statues.
Their mouths gaped in horror, and a chill far colder than the winter frost surged from their spines to their hearts!
Iron Man Tony Stark, who debuted as a superhero a year and a half ago and became the undisputed number one in New York, intimidating the entire world with the light of his cross-century technology… now, had been swallowed whole by an unknown monster?
It was like truly witnessing the death of an omnipotent god, a feeling of faith collapsing.
Tonight was destined to be a night of despair for countless people in New York City… Vincent, the culprit on the scene, didn't think that much. He just felt that Iron Man's interference was too troublesome, greatly affecting his hunt for the Symbiote, so he simply—banished him.
Landing back on the ground.
Vincent took a step and came behind Venom Spider, who was protecting Mei with his body.
Although it looked like a body only slightly larger than an adult's palm, harmless and even a bit cute, Venom Spider, with Peter's consciousness in control, understood very well how terrifying and unsolvable the unknown creature in the form of a black cat in front of him was!
Noticing that Vincent was already close to its body, Venom Spider, with gray-green hands, propped itself on the ground, its knees also on the ground, its face, revealing some of Peter's features, twisted, and it said intermittently and painfully: "Kill me…"
"Please, kill me… I'm about to lose control…"
As it spoke, the gray-green viscous liquid on its body began to squirm, like rotten, evil sludge, slowly encroaching and covering the boy's exposed face.
"No, Peter!" Mei below cried, reaching out to peel off the gray-green liquid from Venom Spider's face, but it was useless.
It seemed Peter was about to be re-enveloped by the Symbiote's bioweapon.
Vincent, in his three-in-one form, nodded indifferently, raising a cat's paw: "Then, as you wish!"
Clack clack clack!
Bones cracked and crunched. Vincent's elongated and enlarged claws clamped Venom Spider's hands from behind, lifting its body upwards, while a dark black tail, like a tentacle, bound Venom Spider's feet.
He ignored Mei, who was crying out beside him.
The black cat's mouth corners on both sides split open exaggeratedly, far beyond the outline of its face, transforming into a bloody maw with interlocking fangs.
Venom chuckled in his mind: "Should have done this earlier, just devour it directly!"
Vincent didn't pay attention to his words, but said inexplicably: "Just bear with it for a moment."
"Hm?" Venom, parasitic in Vincent's body, froze, suddenly feeling a very ominous premonition: "Wait a minute, what are you trying to do?!"
Vincent did not swallow Venom Spider into the Flerken's dimension. He just took a deep breath, so deep that his chest rapidly inflated like a balloon!
In a short while, his body had swelled to about five or six times its original size.
Venom understood Vincent's intention and immediately roared: "You're crazy! Stop it, stop it right now!"
Vincent ignored him and certainly couldn't stop.
He held Venom Spider high above his head, gathered himself, and then raised his jaw upwards.
Vincent aimed his mouth at Venom Spider and suddenly opened it—
The next second.
People within a five-mile radius instinctively covered their ears, and countless glass windows, car windows, and light bulbs shattered!
"Aaaargh!!!!!"
A terrifying, high-pitched sonic wave roared from his mouth. Vincent, like an ancient monster, howled towards the sky, and the sonic waves, like surging tides, boomed and exploded in the nearby air!
The sonic wave transformed into actual sound waves, carrying an indescribable impact! If it hadn't spread towards the night sky, the ground would have been stripped of a layer of skin!
He directly roared out an ultrasonic wave.
This terrifying and powerful scene made a figure appear in the minds of many people.
That was Superman, the god among men, far away in Metropolis!
"Sizzle!!"
Venom Spider endured the cleansing of the ultrasonic wave, and its entire tough bioweapon-like outer layer immediately exploded, like thoroughly boiling water in a hot pot!
Hiss—
Strands of gray-green viscous liquid peeled off Venom Spider's body. Under the impact of the ultrasonic wave, the second Symbiote began to be forced to separate from its host, Peter!
Of course, it wasn't just the second Symbiote that was enduring the ultrasonic wave's impact.
"What are you doing? Stop it right now, this way you'll also break the Symbiote state…" Venom wailed in extreme pain, never expecting Vincent to use such a method, harming a thousand enemies while incurring eight hundred self-damage.
In a state where only one Symbiote was parasitic on a human, it would be absolutely impossible to generate an ultrasonic wave by merely roaring. This could only be achieved in the three-in-one state, with the Flerken's abilities superimposed.
"Wait! What's going on?" Venom, starting to self-disintegrate, quickly realized that the ultrasonic wave had no effect on Vincent's main body.
Vincent, with his human rationality returned, smiled and responded with his thoughts: "I only acquired your abilities, but I didn't inherit the corresponding weaknesses."
"So you already realized it." Venom suddenly understood. From the very beginning, Vincent never intended to just deal with the second Symbiote; he had included it in his calculations.
"Vincent, you bas…"
Before Venom could finish his sentence, his liquefied body was forced to separate from Vincent, breaking the Symbiote state.
However, because Vincent was parasitic on the Flerken, Venom was also directly stuck inside the Flerken's body. And because two Symbiotes cannot coexist on a single host, and given Vincent's 'Symbiote' was incredibly powerful and lacked the ultrasonic weakness, Venom had no power to seize host control and could only be forced into dormancy within the Flerken!
Having detached from the three-in-one state, Vincent, as a Symbiote with his own abilities, continued to parasitize the Flerken.
In his mind, the evil and negative thoughts that had influenced his self were swept away.
Only the Flerken's "Meow meow" of approval remained.
Vincent breathed a sigh of relief, having fully recovered his human rationality.
Recalling his state just now, he still felt a lingering fear!
The three-in-one state's abilities were indeed unimaginably powerful. But in that state, thoughts and actions would become increasingly extreme and evil, until he would devolve into a monster purely driven by slaughter!
Symbiote Venom seemed cooperative on the surface, but in reality, he had been guiding him towards the abyss of irrationality, wanting to seize control of this body!
...Symbiote Venom fell into a dormant, almost shut-down state.
Vincent, parasitic on the Flerken, still maintained the overall appearance of a black cat, but the white markings on his lower abdomen were gone, and the cold and evil aura on his body dissipated, making him look more like an ordinary small cat.
Vincent looked up, watching the second Symbiote that had separated from Peter.
Without hesitation, he opened his mouth wide again. This time, his maw transformed into a bottomless black hole, swallowing the second Symbiote, which was trying to escape!
Flerken, banish!