After hanging up the phone, Eddie didn't have time to think carefully about what had just happened. The aggressive sound of heavy metal music blasted from the next door once again.
The piercing noise caused Eddie intense discomfort. He knocked on the neighbor's door and said in a low voice, "Can you please lower the volume of the music? I'm really not feeling well."
The hippie guy glanced at Eddie and scoffed, "Mind your own business."
Suddenly, Eddie's face changed as if it transformed into Venom's menacing visage. This sudden change startled the hippie guy, who immediately changed his tone, "Okay, no problem, I'll lower the volume. Sorry about that."
Hearing the guy agree, Eddie said, "Thank you, thank you."
He then returned to his room and closed the door behind him, while the hippie guy quickly shut his own door as well.
After a while, Eddie's food was ready in the microwave. Just as he took it out, he heard a strange voice in his mind.
"Don't go to the door."
Eddie paused for a moment, but before he could react, he immediately heard knocking on his door. He walked up to the door and looked through the peephole, only to find nobody outside. He opened the door to peer into the hallway.
However, as soon as he opened the door, several burly men rushed in and pushed Eddie back into the room, warning him, "Stay still and don't move."
The head of the Life Foundation's security team entered the room and said, "Eddie, I've come to retrieve Mr. Drake's belongings."
Meanwhile, the voice in Eddie's mind also questioned, "Who is this guy?"
Two security guards pulled out their guns and aimed them at Eddie's chest, their red laser sights targeting him. Eddie immediately raised his hands.
Seeing Eddie's actions, the voice in his mind asked, "What are you doing?"
Eddie replied, "Uh, I'm just raising my hands."
At this moment, outside the building, Hinata and the others had already noticed the change in Eddie's room. Hinata whispered, "Mr. Eddie is under threat. Should we intervene now?"
Kiba yawned, feeling a bit tired after keeping watch over the target for two days and nights, but he still replied, "Let's wait a bit longer. Sensei said we should wait until he's in mortal danger before we intervene. If Eddie is overpowered by the intruders, we'll strike halfway."
Hearing Kiba's suggestion, Hinata softly responded, "Okay, but Shino, make sure to use your bugs to protect Mr. Eddie in case of an emergency."
Shino, wearing a windbreaker, stood on the opposite rooftop, observing Eddie in the room. He nodded and said, "Rest assured, Mr. Eddie won't be in mortal danger."
Meanwhile, Venom inside Eddie's body took control, lowering Eddie's hands, and said, "Raising your hands is too embarrassing."
Eddie then regained control of his hands and raised them again, saying, "Raising hands is not embarrassing."
Then, Eddie and Venom alternated controlling his hands, one lowering them while the other raised them, and they shouted at each other, "Embarrassing!" "Not embarrassing!"
This sudden scene left the security personnel of the Life Foundation stunned. The security captain didn't pay attention to Eddie's behavior,
Instead, he continued to ask, "Eddie, where are the belongings?"
Seeing Eddie's lack of response, he instructed his men, "Take him down."
Immediately, the two gunmen aimed their pistols at Eddie's chest and pulled the triggers. Instead of bullets, two electric nets shot out, indicating that they were using stun guns.
After trembling for a moment, Eddie's two arms extended black, tar-like substances, knocking the two gunmen away.
Eddie looked at his hands in disbelief and then lost control of his body, which directly knocked down the remaining two security personnel.
Looking at the black, tar-like substance in his hands, Eddie asked, "What is this stuff?"
Venom's voice sounded again, "No, you should ask who is this?"
As he knocked down all four security personnel in the room, two gunmen came out of the door, aiming their guns at Eddie. However, Venom's manifested weapons protected Eddie from the bullets and actively knocked down the enemies.
With all six enemies lying on the floor, Venom shouted, "That's good. Now bite off their heads and pile them up in the corner. Divide them into a pile of bodies and a pile of heads."
Eddie asked in confusion, "Why would we do that?"
At this moment, more gunmen attacked from outside the room. Venom immediately knocked them down. Seeing this, Eddie didn't dare to stay in the room any longer and ran out.
Watching all this unfold, Hinata was amazed. "Wow, his strength has increased again. That thing can actively attack?"
Kiba asked curiously, "What thing?"
"The creature that entered his body earlier. Its behavior seems like a Bloodline Limit..."
Hearing Hinata's words, Kiba was also astonished. After all, Bloodline Limits were rare in the ninja world.
As Eddie ran out of the room, he was immediately met with gunmen aiming their weapons at him. He quickly changed direction but was attacked by the gunmen who had been knocked down earlier.
Bullets flew towards him, but Venom-controlled Eddie dodged them all and then jumped out of the window into the neighboring house.
The gunmen climbed onto the window and fired at Eddie's back, but Venom's manifested shield blocked all the bullets.
Meanwhile, the head of security ran downstairs and began his report in the car.
"Mr. Drake, the target has fled with the symbiote. I'm uploading the footage now."
…
At this moment, Drake, accompanied by a group of researchers, gathered in the command center of the company.
Upon receiving the footage from the security chief, Drake exclaimed, "He and the symbiote have successfully merged!"
"Did everyone see that? They've successfully merged!"
Excitedly, Drake picked up the microphone and said, "Tress, Tress."
"Retrieve my new creature."
…
Meanwhile, Eddie arrived at the back door of the building, where he had parked his motorcycle. He needed to evade the attackers.
"Eddie."
The voice in his mind resurfaced. Eddie looked at his reflection in the car window, which now resembled Venom's appearance.
Looking at his reflection, Eddie exclaimed in terror, "You're not real, are you?"
"I'm just hallucinating. You're not real, just a parasite in my brain who is causing me hallucination."
Clearly, Eddie hadn't fully accepted his transformation and was still panicking about everything that was happening.
But Venom was angry, "Calling me a parasite!"
In an instant, he pinned Eddie to the wall.
On the rooftop, Kiba looked at Hinata and asked, " Should we go down now?"
Hinata refused, "No, I want to see what other changes he undergoes. And those people haven't left; I saw more enemies rushing over."
"Our ultimate goal is to protect Eddie and retrieve what the Life Foundation has implanted in Drake."
"We need to gather intelligence from them, and now is a good opportunity."
Watching his student, Hinata, make such decisions, Kurenai, hidden in the shadows, nodded silently. It seemed that the heiress of the Hyuga clan had grown a lot since coming to this world.