Russell's attitude is a bit arrogant, but Jin and Target Eyes don't see anything wrong with it.
The Traveling Family's dominance and arrogance had long been spread throughout New York's underground world.
To them, this is Russell's normal MO.
The only thing they can't figure out is why Russell took a shot at Mr. Negative.
While Russell says it's a personal vendetta between him and Mr. Negative, it's clear to both Jin and Target Eyes that the two of them have never even been in contact before.
To be more precise, they hadn't even met before tonight.
Something like a personal vendetta is an excuse Russell made up off the top of his head the moment he heard it.
But even so, Jin and could only recognize the statement with a stiff upper lip.
Russell is no pushover, and he's not called a crazy traveler for no reason.
If Mr. Negative had been one of his own men, Jin and might have stood up for him a little.
Russell ignored the glances of Jin and Target Eyes sizing himself up, and pushed the Symbiote to replicate Mr. Negative's superpowers with full force.
He knew he would certainly draw Jin and's displeasure if he struck out here.
But he still chose to do it.
The reason was simple: he didn't want to waste time looking for another opportunity to deal with Mr. Negative.
It's coming out anyway, better sooner than later.
And there's another advantage to striking in Kim and's office, which is that Mr. Negative Martin Lee would never expect him to do it here.
After being possessed by the symbiote, Mr. Negative loses control of his body completely.
But Russell still ran into a little trouble.
Mr. Negative was in no position to resist now, but the negative energy within him was instinctively resisting the symbiotic possession.
This is the third time Russell has duplicated a target's abilities through symbiotic possession.
But this time, the replication took far longer than the two times it took to replicate Sloan and Punisher abilities.
Five minutes had passed and the progress of replication was not even a tenth of a percent.
Damn!
Russell cursed inwardly.
He knew that this replication was going to be more time consuming than the previous two, after all, Mr. Negative was truly genetically mutated.
However, he hadn't expected that the progress of replication would actually be so slow.
At first, Kim and Target Eye were curious as to what Russell was actually going to do with Mr. Negative.
As time passed, their expressions became a bit strange.
Mr. Negative stood motionless as he was firmly bound by the black tentacles pouring out of Russell's body.
And Russell, who started it all, is now standing still and not saying a word.
Looking at the somewhat unseasonably calm image in front of them, Jin and Target Eyes glanced at each other.
"What's he doing?"
"No?"
"When are they going to finish?"
"No?"
"Why don't you know anything!"
"You don't know anything either!"
Although Jin and Target Eyes didn't speak, they could tell what the other was trying to say from their eyes and expressions.
In the end, it was Russell who was the first to put up with the strange atmosphere.
If it was just him and Mr. Negative here, he could stand it even if this state of affairs lasted for an hour or two.
But here, it wasn't just him and Mr. Negative.
Jin and Target Eyes were now looking at him and Mr. Negative like two curious eaters.
Turning his head to look at Jin and Target Eyes, who were saying "I'm just looking, I'm not talking", Russell manipulated the black tentacles and lifted Mr. Negative up.
Then, under the watchful eyes of Jin and Target Eye, he left the office.
Instead of choosing to take the elevator out of the Fisker Building, he went to the roof of the Fisker Building.
After mentally calculating the distance to the building across the street and Mr. Negative's weight, he began to boost.
Just as he was about to run to the edge of the rooftop of the building, his legs jerked and he jumped towards the opposite building.
Despite lifting an adult, jumping from the Fisker Building directly to the building across the street wasn't a difficult task for him.
At that instant when he jumped, the floor under his feet shattered with a bang, spiderweb-like cracks spreading out.
After jumping to the roof of the opposite building, he didn't stop and jumped towards another building.
Relying on his inhuman physique, he quickly disappeared into the night with Mr. Negative.
It was only after bouncing around like this all the way to Hell's Kitchen that he stopped this strange march and began his final replication on the roof of an abandoned building.
Five, Ten, Thirty Minutes ...
It wasn't until an hour later that he finally managed to replicate Mr. Negative's superpower.
The moment the copy was successful, the black tentacles binding Mr. Negative quickly turned white at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Not only that, negative energies like black and white flames began to surface in him.
It finally worked!
After seeing the black tentacles binding Mr. Negative turn white, he didn't unattach himself at the first opportunity, but instead, he directly began his venomization.
Large and small white tentacles surged out of his body.
In just a blink of an eye, he turned into a white monster with a mouth full of sharp teeth and hands that looked like demonic claws.
Venom form!
No, it should be called serum form now!
From the looks of it, he's now Venom with the color scheme just reversed.
The black exterior, turned white.
The white lines on his body, too, turned black.
The white eyes had not only gotten smaller, but they had an orange-red glow to them.
The mouth full of sharp teeth also turned black.
If you open your mouth, you can still see the orange-red glow, as if a giant dragon is brewing a dragon's breath in its mouth.
The only thing that hadn't changed much was the long, flexible red tongue.
Although there was now no mirror to admire his new form, Russell wasn't too concerned about that.
Right now he was feeling the difference between the serum and the venom.
Serums are also symbiotic in terms of life forms.
But it is clear that the serum is not the normal form of the symbiote, but a mutated form.
Strength and speed and all that, he had no way to test it right now.
One thing he could confirm, though, was that the serum strengthened him significantly more than the venom.
On top of that, he now possessed a healing ability that could be described as open-ended.
A normal symbiote can only heal itself.
And the serum, it can heal others.
Whether it's a disease in the normal sense, like cancer or something.
Still, diseases in the unconventional sense such as drug addiction, and even genetic mutations, are within the scope of the serum's cure.
Although he couldn't test the serum's enhancement of strength and physique right now, the serum's extraordinary healing ability was something he now had a good target to test.
With that thought, he set his sights on Mr. Negative.
Until now, he hadn't unlocked Mr. Negative's symbiotic possession.
Looking at Mr. Negative, whose appearance was no different from that of a normal human, Russell unconsciously licked his lips with that long and flexible red tongue.
For the sake of providing me with a new ability and having the venom evolve into a serum, let's make you the serum's first healing target.