American comics: Starting with Luke the Maker

California.

“BOSS, I think you should take a look at this.” After Snoke sent a message to Luke, he attached a video file. Luke, who was far away in New York, saw Snoke's message in the study of his villa and opened the video file he sent him.

The picture in the video file was very shaky. A man rushed out of the Life Foundation's laboratory. Under the pursuit of a group of heavily armed security guards, he showed incredible athletic ability and destructive power. Just as the other party was about to catch up with him, he suddenly disappeared from the screen. Then, before long, the man reappeared in the picture.

At the top of a tree tens of meters high, he was hugging a branch, waiting for the security guards below to disperse.

Luke rewound the video and browsed it several times, finally stopping on the man's face.

“White Queen.” Luke whispered.

“At your service.” White Queen's voice rang in front of Luke's screen.

“Search for all the information about this man and pass it on to Snoke.” Luke ordered.

As Luke spoke, many small screens instantly split out on the virtual screen in front of him. Each screen had a face similar to this man's. After comparison and authentication, the information was locked, and the examples that could be found on the Internet were evaluated for authenticity. Then, it was packaged and compressed in front of Luke and sent to Snoke in California in Hyperion's encrypted format.

...

Dawn broke.

Eddie Brock returned to his home tiredly. He felt that this operation was extremely exciting. He was really collecting intelligence with his life. When the gunshots rang and several jungle vehicles chased him, he almost thought he would never come back. Although he was a little tired, he was in high spirits. At the same time, he also felt extremely hungry.

When going upstairs, he did not forget to call his partner, Dr. Dora Skirth, to report that he was safe. Unfortunately, the call did not go through, so he could only leave a message. So Eddie could only leave a message with his follow-up ideas, and told her to call him when she came back. It would be best for the two of them to carry out the next step together.

While leaving a message about his thoughts, Eddie opened his door with the key. He opened the door, walked into his house, and couldn't wait to open the refrigerator and take out all the food he had stored. After hanging up the phone, he began to eat frantically. He felt like he had been hungry for many days. The violent peristalsis and hunger in his stomach made him instinctively stuff all the food in front of him into his mouth, and then swallow it without chewing. He even dug out the half-eaten roast chicken that he had thrown into the trash bag the day before and gnawed it clean.

When Eddie finally woke up from the completely dominant sense of hunger, he was faced with a messy room, food wrappers everywhere, and a man with a cold expression sitting on the sofa.

“Who are you?” Eddie Brock, still a little dazed, became sober and alert when he saw a strange man in his house.

“I don't have any malice, Mr. Brock.” Snoke stood up from the sofa and took two steps back. “I'm here to help you.”

“I don't think a person who enters someone else's house without permission has no malice.” Eddie said incredulously, “Who do you work for? What do you want from me? Did Carlton Drake send you?”

“If that Mr. Drake knew that you took away his most important property, he wouldn't just send one person and still do nothing to you while you were unconscious after entering the room. Especially, he wouldn't talk to you nicely like I am.” Snoke shrugged. “He would probably just send his people to talk to you with guns.”

“I don't want to listen to your nonsense here. You'd better leave my room immediately, or I'll call the police.” Eddie looked at Snoke, who was a head taller than him, and said irritably.

“Don't you want to know what changes have happened to your body? Don't you want to know what caused your abnormality?” Snoke didn't provoke Eddie, but when he walked to the door, he turned around and threw two questions at Eddie, who was still on guard. “Your problem is very serious now, Mr. Brock. I repeat, I have no malice, but I'm here to help you.”

“Do you know what caused these abnormalities in my body?” Eddie asked suspiciously.

“Symbiote!” Snoke didn't waste any words and threw out an answer that made Eddie look blank at first, and then suddenly realize.

“The alien visitor that Drake's company brought back?” Eddie thought of the popular science that Dr. Dora had given him.

“Look, you're not completely ignorant.” Snoke saw that Eddie had a desire to talk, so he temporarily stopped and stood by the door and said, “They are a kind of parasite that needs to use creatures to achieve symbiosis in order to become a complete body. But this kind of parasitism is not without danger.”

“Sorry, I still can't believe you. Besides, I feel pretty good about myself now.” Eddie didn't know why he blurted out these words.

“It doesn't matter, trust can be built up little by little. Before I leave, can I ask you a question?” Snoke said.

“Ask.” Eddie saw that Snoke was so easy to talk to, and he let down his guard a little.

“Was it Dr. Dora Skirth who took you into the Life Foundation?”

Snoke's question immediately made Eddie vigilant again: “What do you want to do by asking this?”

“This question is related to the safety of your partner. You don't think that the trouble you caused at the Life Foundation last night won't bring any trouble to your partner, do you? With Mr. Drake's methods, your partner's exposure is inevitable, and this time will be very soon. Then, what do you think will happen to your partner?

Will he be sent to the police station? I think this is a relatively gentle approach. What about the extreme? Will he hurt your partner? Will something happen to your partner?” Snoke said softly to Eddie, “Tell me, I and the power behind me can protect her, but time is running out!”

Eddie Brock's mind immediately recalled the evil deeds of the Life Foundation that he had seen before, as well as the experimental subjects who had lost their lives in the laboratory in the early morning. He shuddered and looked at Snoke with his eyes: “You know a lot. It's her. If you want to build trust with me, then ensure her safety first.”

...

Life Foundation.

Dr. Dora looked at a message popping up on her phone, her heart pounding.

“Dr. Dora, your actions of helping Eddie Brock enter the Life Foundation are about to be discovered. Please find a way to leave the Life Foundation as soon as possible. We will take you away. Note: This is a request from Mr. Eddie Brock.”