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Just as the remaining three lizardmen, who had already realized what was happening, were about to shout warnings and attack, several more black tentacles suddenly sprouted from Holm's body.

The black tentacles rushed straight towards the lizardmen's faces, then tightly wrapped around their mouths, preventing them from making a sound.

"Hehe, no shouting allowed! Keep your mouths shut!" Venom shouted excitedly, while simultaneously tightening his tentacles, leaving marks on the lizardman's head.

Holm didn't waste the cooperation the venom provided. His left hand, which had just turned back into a black claw to pinch the lizardman's mouth, transformed back into a blade and, along with the movement of his right hand, chopped off the heads of the two lizardmen on the left and right.

Before Holm could continue his attack, the two tentacles that had just been freed up were transformed into sharp blades under the control of the venom, and then crossed and plunged into the neck of the last lizardman.

"Kaba!" With the twisting of the two sharp tentacles, a lizard head with a rough cut fell off and rolled together with the two heads next to it.

"Hahaha! I was so awesome!" As the battle ended, Venom, quite satisfied with his performance, let out another smug laugh.

Listening to its voice and tone, Holm couldn't help but imagine two tentacles forked at its waist.

"These lizardmen are nothing special. They even claim they want to replace humans, but they're all just as weak." Venom said disdainfully, "If that lizard doctor is like this, then taking care of him won't be difficult for us."

"I hope so, but I don't think it will be that simple." Holm replied thoughtfully after listening to Venom's words. In his opinion, dealing with Dr. Lizard, the progenitor of the lizardmen, would not be as easy as dealing with these lizardmen now.

As Holm talked to Venom, he walked out of the passage to the laboratory door. Hearing the noises in the passage next to him, Holm knew that Spider-Woman's situation was probably not over yet.

Just as he was about to step over to check and help, the noise stopped, and Spider-Woman nimbly jumped out of the passage and landed on the ground.

Gwen was taken aback when she saw Holm, who had come out even earlier and was already at the entrance of the passage on her side.

She thought she was fast enough and was even thinking of helping Holm, but she didn't expect that she was the slowest one.

Seeing that Holm had already reached the entrance of the passage to her side, it seemed that he had the same idea as she had just had: to help her.

Slightly embarrassed, Gwen's perception of Holm's strength was once again refreshed.

While Gwen was momentarily stunned, Holm took two more steps and looked towards the passage where Gwen was.

Looking at the huge "white cocoons" formed by spider silk on the wall or the ground, Holm also understood the opponent's fighting method.

Unlike his swift and fierce fighting style, Spider-Woman did not use any killer moves, but instead used control and restraint methods as usual.

"The no-kill principle... no wonder he's Spider-Man." Holm withdrew his gaze and thought to himself.

Chapter 35 Dear readers! Great news!!!

I received this book via private message today...

To be honest, I'm a bit speechless. This book has left me completely confused.

I thought I wrote it very well, but the data wasn't good. When I contacted the editor last Friday, he said that if I didn't get a private message after 13 words, I could just cut it.

Then, when I was about to make the cut, he looked at the data again and said, "Don't rush, he might send a private message tonight." So I waited until Friday, and then Saturday and Sunday.

Then on Monday, when I asked the editor again, they told me to just cut it off, saying that the follow-up readership had been dropping for the past two days and the data wasn't good either.

Who could know the turmoil in my heart? But the editors all said there was no chance, so I had no choice but to cut it off.

I was already prepared to cut that book, and I told the readers that I was going to cut it. I also deleted a lot of the later chapters.

The result! The result! Just now! The writer consultant reminded me that the first round of recommendations will begin on the 28th?!

My mind is a little foggy!

Now all I can do is contact the editor as soon as possible to ask him to restore my permissions so I can get the deleted chapters back.

The editor just replied to me. He said he would grant me the permissions later, but he also said that recommendations wouldn't help much, as the data would still keep dropping.

I don't know if what he said is true or false, but I still want to try it, because it's really a pity.

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Chapter 36, The Laboratory

Just like Holm, Gwen already knew Holm's fighting style and the outcome of the passage next to him simply by smelling the strong scent of blood on him.

While Gwen herself wouldn't fight like that, she didn't have any objections, since not everyone is like her.

"Next, we need to enter the lab. It seems we need a password... I wonder if there would be any problems if we forced it open." The silence didn't last long before Holm looked at the door in front of him and said to Gwen beside him.

Upon hearing this, Gwen approached the display screen next to the door, observed it for a moment, and then said, "It's not a complicated thing. I have a way to open it."

As she spoke, she pulled a thin piece, slightly thicker than chewing gum, from her waist and stuck it above the display screen.

After pressing the small button on the far right, this tiny device started randomly displaying some gibberish.

Seeing Holm's somewhat puzzled look, Gwen explained, "This is a lock-picking tool I made myself. It can crack most passwords that aren't too difficult."

"The password Dr. Lizard used here isn't particularly complicated. I guess he set it up simply to prevent his lizardmen from entering freely and to prevent some less intelligent lizardmen from interfering with the experiment."

“After all, aside from today’s operation, Dr. Lizard usually doesn’t leave this place. And if it’s about dealing with intruders, the lizardmen who usually guard this place are much more useful than combination locks.”

Listening to Spider-Woman's explanation, Holm nodded and put the small bomb he had just taken out back into his bag.

He was even planning to use the small bomb to blow the door open, since he had done it many times in previous missions and found it quite handy.

This S.H.I.E.L.D.-specific miniature bomb is characterized by its quiet operation, high power, and excellent penetrating ability, making it particularly effective against locked doors.

However, now that Spider-Woman can open the door in a better way, he can save himself a bomb.

Seeing that the progress on that small device was almost complete, Holm couldn't help but admire Spider-Woman's brilliant mind. It was truly remarkable that she could come up with such a practical piece of cutting-edge technology.

"Click!" As the progress bar finished, the door in front of us made a soft sound and then slowly popped open.

Seeing this, Holm simply pushed the door open completely and went inside with Spider-Woman.

The laboratory was large, but it was crammed full of various instruments and devices. In addition to the various instruments in the middle whose purpose was unclear, there were several huge glass jars placed side by side against the wall at the far end.

These glass jars contained various lizardmen, all submerged in a green liquid. Each jar had words written on its base, such as "Phase One" and "Phase Two"...

Unlike the fully formed lizardmen they had just encountered outside, the lizardmen inside all appeared to be somewhat incomplete. Judging from the words on the base, they were likely failed experiments from the very beginning of each stage.

"I can't feel their heartbeats or breathing; they must be dead," Venom's voice echoed in Holm's mind.

Holm sighed upon hearing this; these seemingly crippled lizardmen had once been living, breathing human beings.

Beside him, Gwen was also looking at the mutilated lizardmen in the glass jars.

Unlike Holm, her eyes beneath the mask held not only sympathy for the crippled lizardmen before her, but also a deep sorrow filled with memories.

She thought of Peter Parker, who was also one of Dr. Lizard's test subjects.

Dr. Lizard tricked him, exploiting Peter Parker's desire to become special, to become like Spider-Woman, and made him willingly become a test subject.

Thinking of this, Gwen clenched her fists involuntarily.

Driven by this heavy atmosphere, Holm and Spider-Woman involuntarily quickened their pace, both eager to find information on the reagent and Dr. Lizard's detailed plan as soon as possible.

"This is a separate folder..." Holm suddenly found a folder hidden in a corner.

The folder contains several videos, each with a date and time marked below it.

Holm thought for a moment, then opened and played the earliest video.

After a period of blackout and shaking, a scruffy, tired, and sad-looking man appeared on the screen.

His right sleeve was empty, clearly indicating that he had lost his right arm for some reason.

“These past few days have been really tough. Three days ago, my Maserati also passed away. I don’t know what the point of living is anymore…” The man spoke to the camera with a sense of despair and hopelessness.

Holm watched the man in the video and learned some things from his features and words that were different from what he remembered.

It seems that in this world, the lizardman is also Kurt Connors, after all, the feature of his missing right arm is an obvious reminder.

However, unlike in Holm's memory, in this world, Dr. Connors' wife and son, who didn't appear much in the original film, died in accidents one after another, which is why Dr. Connors looks so haggard in the scene.

After a long, rambling, and incoherent speech, Dr. Connors finally brought up his experiment.

"I no longer know why I should continue living, but I want to finish the experiment I interrupted. Whether the result is failure or success, I can follow Martha without any regrets..."

"I had promised Martha that I would stop this experiment forever and forget about it, but she always felt it was too dangerous..."

“Martha is afraid of the unknown, she always has... Although I still really wanted to continue the experiments, I gave them up for Martha's sake... We were so happy back then, we really shouldn't have done anything dangerous again..."

"But now, I have nothing left—my child, my Martha... All I have left is that experiment, that interrupted experiment is an obsession I can't forget..."

"I want to complete that experiment, regardless of the outcome. I don't want to live without purpose, but I also don't want to die with regrets..."

The first video ended there. Holm looked up and realized that Spider-Woman had somehow moved up to his side and was also watching the video.

Holm smelled a faint fragrance, a rich aroma containing the fresh scent of fruit.

This smell seems familiar; it's like I've smelled it somewhere before.

Chapter 37, Kurt Connors's Change

“Dr. Kurt Connors, I never imagined... that he was Dr. Lizard…” Spider-Woman said in a low voice.

Upon hearing her voice, Holm put the scent aside and focused his attention on what Spider-Woman had just said.

"You know him? Have you met him?" Holm asked curiously, wondering what kind of connection Kurt Connors and Spider-Woman could have.

"I've attended his lectures... He's an excellent scientist."

Gwen said with a hint of reminiscence, "I even made a promise with... a friend that we would do scientific research together in the future."

"However, later, my friend left, and Dr. Connors suddenly stopped his research for some reason and disappeared without a trace..."

"Now it seems that the reason must be the accident involving his family."

After saying that, Gwen reached out and clicked on the next video: "Keep watching, I want to know how he became like this."

Holm couldn't see her expression, but he could sense a hint of sadness within it. He didn't ask further, but simply glanced at the progress bar on the screen beside him and asked, "Have you found the formula yet?"

Gwen nodded and said, "The formula isn't hard to find. I've already set up the opposite serum formula based on its properties, and the machines in the lab will be able to produce it in a little while."

Is it that simple? Holm was somewhat surprised; he hadn't expected the serum to be so easy to make.

However, it could also be because it was Spider-Woman operating the device. If it were him, he definitely wouldn't be able to do it. After all, everyone has their own expertise, and he wouldn't understand scientific matters.

On the screen, as the second video was opened, the image began to change.

This time, quite a bit of time had passed since the first time, and Kurt Connors was no longer the slovenly man he once was; instead, he was very well-groomed.

An irrepressible smile played on his lips, and his eyes, no longer wearing glasses, were filled with excitement and suppressed madness.

"My experiment was a success! Hahaha! My arm has grown back!" Dr. Connors said in the video, raising his right hand.