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Chapter 221 Symbiote Frenzy - A Glimmer of Hope

Venom absorbed the Codex of Riot, or rather, Venom stole the Codex of Riot from Nar. Peter expressed considerable confusion about this.

Where did this setting come from? It's not in the comics.

Venom replied, "I don't know either."

"You really don't know?"

Honestly, I had absolutely no idea.

If I had known that this was how to stop the riots, I would have just wiped them out in the harbor last night and that would have been it. Why go through all this trouble?

Peter then thought of the game Prototype and tentatively asked Venom, "Can you transform into Riot? Or get Riot's abilities, or at the very least, get Riot's resistance!"

[It's impossible.]

"Then what can you do with the code of riots?"

[Chat with him?]

What's the point of chatting with him?!

After a couple of exasperated complaints, Peter finally asked the last question: "So, what did he talk to you about?"

【bad language.】

Peter sighed helplessly, wondering why he had to ask.
However, neither Venom nor Peter knew that Venom could devour the Codex.

Venom was certain that it was an ordinary symbiote, nothing special, and it had no idea why it could devour the Codex of Riot. But after a moment of silence, Peter suddenly realized: if Venom could devour the Codex of Riot, then what about Grendel? What if Venom could devour the entire Grendel?

“We have to go to the Baxter Building.” Peter suddenly realized and looked at Cindy: “Want to come along? It might be the safest place right now.”

Cindy simply nodded, and the two of them swung on their webs and headed towards the Baxter Building.

At this moment, Baxter Building was bustling with activity again. The science trio, who had been slacking off, were now working overtime all night. A large number of symbiotes, which were not afraid of ordinary high temperatures and sound waves, began to swarm towards Baxter Building like a zombie apocalypse. Invisible Woman Susan deployed her field of view to block all the symbiotes outside, while Human Torch Johnny was in charge of clearing the area. The only one who was of little use was the Thing, who could only vent his anger by throwing things down.

"Hey, guys."

"Spider-Man?" Reed was in a frenzy of research and didn't even wonder why Peter was here. "I'm sorry, we're still working on a way to deal with Knull, but there hasn't been much progress yet..."

"I'm pregnant." All three of them immediately looked at Peter.

What do you mean by "you're pregnant"?
"Uh, it was an accident. I was dealing with Riot, who was resurrected by Gnar, and Venom just ate Riot. Then something unusual happened—Riot's Codex was absorbed by Venom. Although Venom didn't get anything."

The three scientific experts were stunned. After a moment, Hank was the first to offer his opinion: "It might be that Venom itself is special. But if we put that aside, considering the unique collective consciousness of the symbiote species, it might also explain this to some extent. Generally speaking, after a symbiote dies, its consciousness returns to the collective network, but you also mentioned that because it left Klinta, the symbiote couldn't connect to the symbiote network while it was still alive."

"So once the code is formed, it is devoured by another symbiote that possesses the code, and they will naturally form their own symbiote network."

Tony picked up the conversation, looking somewhat smug. Indeed, it was a very feasible idea, and following this line of thought, they also figured out what Peter wanted to do. If this deduction was correct, then there was an additional way to deal with Grendel—to have Venom eat Grendel.

"First of all, we need to consider that thing is huge, a full thirty meters long. Hank, you're the expert on size changes, can you come up with a solution?"

Tony looked directly at Hank, who quickly answered questions about Pym Particles in his field: "Considering Nal's ability to reshape the symbiote, he can probably control the size of that dragon at any time. Of course, considering that he hasn't changed his size, it's reasonable to assume that he's more used to his current size."

In other words, using Pym particles to shrink Grendel is not feasible.

"Generally speaking, considering the impact on the user, the amplification effect of Pym Particles will not exceed 15 times, so I rarely grow larger than 20 meters. Venom itself is over three meters tall, so in terms of size, Venom, after being amplified, would have no problem wrestling with Grundel. However, if the opponent realizes this, he probably won't stay still."

“Unless… we can delay or freeze the symbiote’s molecular movement.” Reed realized, “The Iceman can do that.”

“No, Nar isn’t stupid. Once we start this operation, he’ll quickly realize the importance of Iceman. He still has a lot of symbiotes at his disposal, and I just got word that another group of superhumans have been infected by him.”

Tony immediately figured out the problem, and then the three of them looked at the things being studied in the lab.

“That won’t work…that can only shape and prevent the symbiote from changing its form.” Reed, as the main developer, immediately understood Tony’s purpose and objected, but Tony laughed instead: “What does it matter? That’s exactly what we need. As long as that guy can’t change freely for a while, we can use Pym Particles to shrink him and kill him.”

That would require greatly weakening the power of the nar and further increasing the effective duration of the polymer coagulant.

“Okay, wait for our notification, then you can get started. We might need a few more hours to get everything sorted out.” Tony patted Peter on the shoulder. “Until then, you should get some rest.”

"There may be no way to rest, Mr. Stark. The situation in New York is only going to get worse."

Peter spoke as he prepared to leave, and Cindy, who had been following silently, simply nodded and followed. After watching them leave, Tony turned around thoughtfully, considering what to do next.

"If we want to weaken Nar, perhaps we need to mobilize everyone, or find some way to prevent ordinary symbiotes from possessing us. Okay, everyone, what are your thoughts on this?"

(End of this chapter)