Marvel's Venom, starting with a Hydra undercover agent.

Holm showed no mercy, drilling holes in the sand giant's body like a black whirlwind.

Even though William Baker could manipulate the sand to restore his body, his plans were clearly delayed by Holm's arrival.

Moreover, as Holm repeatedly destroyed the core of his creation of the Dust Giant—the high-density dust—his energy inevitably began to be depleted, and he was no longer as relaxed as before.

Despite this, William Baker was unwilling to be completely tied down by Holm. Although he focused most of his energy on repairing his body and containing Holm, he continued to manipulate the sand to spread to the surrounding streets and buildings.

“Sand is inexhaustible. Even if you destroy it a hundred times, I can repair it for the hundred and first time.” As William Baker spoke, he conjured his true form not far from Holm.

Holm looked at the resolute-faced middle-aged man and said to him from the bottom of his heart, "I'm sorry about your daughter's situation, but no one but yourself should be held responsible for this. All the reasons you have are bullshit to me. What you should do is give yourself a good beating."

Hearing Holm's words, William Baker also said with a stern face, "I will not only beat myself up, I have even prepared to go and accompany her, but all of this will have to wait until after I have done these things."

"No matter what you say, you can't escape responsibility for my daughter's situation, and society can't escape responsibility either."

"So I have to do something, whether it's to vent or to get revenge, I have to make you pay some price for this."

Hearing William Baker's answer, Holm didn't say anything, but simply manipulated his tentacles to turn William Baker into a pile of loose sand.

William Baker simply solidified his body further away and continued, "No one can stop me. I will bury this disgusting city in the sand at a speed several times faster than last time."

Hearing his words, Holm didn't go any further. He just waved to the distance and then smiled, saying, "Since you like dreaming so much, then keep dreaming. I just wanted to stall for time with you. I didn't expect you to be so talkative."

"What?!..." Holm's words gave William Baker a bad feeling, but before he could say anything, a long pipe came rushing from a distance, tearing his body apart and falling into Holm's hands.

"Nice! Great throw!" After catching the pipe, Holm gave Gwen a thumbs-up and shouted.

It turns out that Gwen had arrived at the scene sometime earlier and had even secretly given Holm a helping hand today.

As Gwen jumped onto the solidifying agent armored vehicle downstairs and waved to Holm in response, Holm directly inserted the pipe into the Sand Giant's body.

"Open the floodgates!"

The milky-white coagulant gushed out of the pipe and, under Holm's pulling action, spread all over the Sand Giant's body.

Chapter 122, Collapse

As the coagulant took effect, large clumps of sand were bound together, and the sand giant's movements became increasingly stiff.

Meanwhile, Holm continued to tear apart the sand giant's body without any hesitation, waving his tentacles.

With the coagulant, what he dismantled was no longer just scattered sand and dust, but piles and piles of sand.

Holm's movements became faster and faster, and the sand giant's entire waist and abdomen were almost hollowed out.

William Baker knew he had been tricked by Holm again, but at this point he had no way to restore the sand that had been bound together by the coagulant to its original state.

He could only cut his losses in time, actively breaking up the solid sand giant, and then flying to the other side with the sand and dust that had not yet been contaminated by the coagulant.

"Boom!" Huge chunks of sand fell from the collapsing sand giant, gradually piling up into a sand dune.

Holm stood atop the dune, watching the dust swirling in the sky gather on the other side.

"What a hassle. If only the plane had been in position earlier," Holm remarked, looking at the sandstorm that had gathered again.

If the plane had been in the air just now, it would have been the perfect opportunity to deliver the final blow when William Baker separated the sand from the remaining dust.

However, there's no chance now; we can only wait for the plane to arrive and then try to find another solution.

His actions had essentially coated half of the surrounding sand with a coagulant, effectively meaning William Baker had suddenly lost half of his assets.

"I need to keep spreading it, it's just a shame this guy runs too fast." Holm thought to himself as he jumped down the dune, ready to find some more coagulant.

But just as he jumped off the dune, a Quinjet roared overhead, and at the same time, Natasha laughed and said over his comms channel, "After waiting so long, it's finally our turn to make a difference."

The Quinjet quickly caught up with William Baker, who was manipulating the remaining dust to solidify his body. Barton was standing in front of the hatch, which had been opened at some point, holding two pipes and spraying the solidifying agent loaded on the Quinjet like raindrops.

As the coagulant rained down, William Baker's dust-covered body was once again damaged.

Not only that, no matter how he maneuvered, Natasha would fly her plane after him, spraying the remaining sand and dust around him with a coagulant.

"This is outrageous! You forced me to do this!" William Baker shouted, then manipulated the surrounding sand to create a sandstorm that engulfed the Quinjet.

Countless pieces of debris and rocks slammed into the Quinjet as the sandstorm spun, even cracking the glass.

"Not bad, but not much." Despite being swirled around by the sandstorm, Natasha calmly remarked.

After saying that, she turned around and shouted at Barton, who was standing at the door fending off the sandstorm, "Turn the pipeline to maximum capacity and just throw out all the remaining coagulant!"

“Since he likes to spin around, let him spread the coagulant evenly. Let’s see how much sand he can waste.”

Upon hearing Natasha's words, Barton immediately pulled out several arrows from his back and stuck them one by one into the container next to him that contained the coagulant.

After doing all that, he turned back and shouted to Natasha, "Fly upwards! Pour out the coagulant directly!"

"Hold on tight!" Natasha didn't hesitate when she heard this. She gritted her teeth and pulled on the control stick, forcibly turning the plane, which was spinning horizontally, upwards.

"Whoosh!" After changing direction, Natasha also unleashed all her firepower, directly maneuvering the plane to rush up from the center of the sandstorm.

After they quickly left the center of the sandstorm, the solidifying agent they had thrown down was also spinning with the wind.

Finally, as the beeping sound grew more and more rapid, the arrows stuck in the coagulant container exploded, shattering the outer container and quickly spreading the milky white coagulant throughout the entire whirlpool.

Like ink poured into a washing machine, the milky-white coagulant spread evenly and quickly under the action of the airflow, giving William Baker a taste of what it means to reap what you sow.

He had stirred up dust and whirlwinds intending to take care of Natasha and Barton, but unexpectedly, it created this pleasant surprise for himself.

"Ah! Damn it! Damn it!" With William Baker's angry and unwilling shouts, the sandstorm gradually subsided under the action of the coagulant.

After this incident, he can control less than a third of the remaining sandstorm.

William Baker's ambition to flood New York was clearly no longer achievable. He knew the situation was dire, so after roaring, he picked up the remaining dust and prepared to flee.

Holm keenly sensed his movement, so he quickly stopped communicating with Gwen, put his hand on his headset, and warned the others on the comms channel: "Watch out! William Baker may be fleeing southwest!"

“It’s alright, he can’t run away now.” Coulson, who hadn’t spoken for a long time, responded to Holm’s reminder.

Upon hearing Coulson's voice and his words, Holm guessed that their secret weapon had been assembled.

"I've already blocked him in the southwest direction, just waiting for him to come to me," Coulson said over the comms channel.

Upon hearing his words, Holm and the others all looked towards the southwest.

In the southwest, the setting sun was gradually approaching the horizon and would probably be completely below the horizon in a little while.

In mid-air, a huge black plane was gradually shedding its disguise as the sky color, revealing its true form.

He blocked William Baker's escape route, completely ignoring the sandstorm the latter had stirred up.

Coulson sat in the driver's seat, and through the glass he could vaguely see William Baker's face through the dust. The man's mouth was open and closed, and his expression told him that he wasn't saying anything nice.

"Go ahead and curse, it's time for this farce to end." Coulson said as he raised the control stick, and under his control, the large plane gradually raised its head, revealing its belly to William Baker.

Just as William Baker was wondering what was happening, a huge roar began to sound.

At the same time, a powerful suction force forcibly dragged him toward the belly of the large aircraft.

"What is this thing!" William Baker exclaimed, somewhat surprised and unwilling. He had a bad feeling, but he was still trying his best to resist the suction from the belly of the large plane.

Chapter 123, Unexpected Situations and Special Abilities

However, this device was designed to be too restrictive for him; even with all his strength, he was still flying toward the belly of the large aircraft.

On the ground, Holm watched everything that was happening in mid-air and remarked to Gwen beside him, "I have to say, he looked quite graceful when he was forcibly sucked away."

At this moment, the setting sun in the distance was at its reddest, and William Baker seemed to have added a layer of grayish-yellow veil to the reddish sky, adding a lot of mystery.

Hearing Holm's remark, Gwen smiled and said, "The night view is indeed beautiful tonight, and William Baker is about to be caught."

“I have to thank you for cooperating with me just now,” Holm continued to say to Gwen.

Gwen waved her hand and said, "It's nothing. I just happened to have the same idea, so when I saw your actions, I guessed that you thought the same thing as me."

"Besides, I arrived late today and wasn't able to help much."

As the two were chatting, Holm suddenly noticed that the dust being sucked in by the plane was mixed with many stones and fragments.

“Look at those sandstorms, aren’t there a lot of impurities mixed in?” Holm asked Gwen beside him.

Upon hearing this, Gwen also looked at the dust in the sky and noticed the problem: "Huh? There's definitely a lot more debris now. It didn't seem like there was any just now."

"It seems William Baker isn't giving up, so he wants to get these things sucked in with him to see if he can destroy the aircraft's equipment." Holm immediately realized.

After figuring it out, he quickly shared his discovery over the communication channel.

Upon hearing Holm's report, Coulson on the plane paused for a moment, then immediately stood up and asked the researchers on board to inspect the operating device.

As Holm predicted, the hard debris sucked into the instrument along with the sand and dust did indeed cause some damage to the internal components.

But even so, they have no way to stop now, because if they stop, William Baker will have a chance to escape.

If he misses this opportunity, it won't be easy to catch him again next time. After all, he's not some brainless fool; on the contrary, he's quite smart. Having learned his lesson this time, he will definitely be more cautious and careful next time.

After a moment's thought, Coulson said to Holm over the communication channel in a deep voice, "Your discovery is indeed correct, but it's too late now."

"Although we have discovered that hard objects mixed in with the dust can damage the instrument, we have no way to stop it at this point."

"...Now we can only hope that these components are sturdy enough to hold their own and suck in all the sand and dust..."

Hearing Coulson's deep voice, Holm's brows gradually furrowed.

As expected, plans can never keep up with changes. Although they had thoroughly considered the functions of the instrument in advance, they always found oversights during actual operation.

This may be because the device was sent directly to the site after it was completed without being tested; otherwise, such a problem would definitely have been discovered during the actual testing process.

Overall, it was because of the tight schedule, but it's too late to say anything now. We can only try to make up for these oversights.

"The instrument has become sturdy enough, the components have become hard enough..." Holm muttered in a low voice, while raising his hand to look at his palm.

He thought of the venom drill that had suddenly become harder and sharper while he was destroying the sand giant.

He clearly remembered that at that moment, a stream of icy-cold energy suddenly appeared in his body, and it seemed that it was this icy-cold energy that caused the venom to change in that way.

Thinking of this, Holm quickly ran towards the place where the Quinjet was parked, while simultaneously communicating with Venom in his mind.

"...So you must have felt that energy too, right? Was it because of that energy that the drill bit that was transformed became harder and sharper?"

Hearing Holm's explanation and questions, Venom nodded in response, "That's true. I was planning to have a proper chat with you after the mission is over..."

Venom then told Holm about the changes in his resistance to sound waves and fire that had occurred during this period.

"I originally thought it was because I was frequently exposed to flames and explosions during this period that my resistance naturally increased."

"But now that I think about it, it might not be that simple. It's more like the energy you sensed is subtly changing me... I think... this might be what I meant by evolution before..."