Lin Feng lay comfortably in the sun, evolving.
Little did he know that the Blue Star in this universe was suffering miserably...
In the southeastern United States, Garcia City (fictional), with an area of 916 square kilometers and a permanent population of about 4 million.
As a coastal tourist city, it boasted beautiful scenery and a massive luxury shopping center.
It received tens of millions of tourists annually, with a gross domestic product reaching hundreds of billions of dollars each year.
The hot summer was peak season for tourism. At this time, Garcia City would usually be bustling with noise and excitement.
However, the city center, which should have been teeming with people, was unusually silent.
The meticulously cleaned streets of the past were now overgrown with weeds, shrouded in dust.
The buildings on both sides, full of regional characteristics, had become dilapidated, with rubble scattered everywhere, bearing the marks of destruction.
Upon closer inspection, the rubble was covered with terrifying claw marks, deep and large, as if attacked by unknown beasts.
The entire city seemed to have lost its vitality; not even a bird's chirp could be heard. The silence was so profound it sent shivers down one's spine,
It was like a zombie apocalypse scene from a movie.
*Buzz!*
The sound of a car engine starting suddenly broke the silence of the city, piercing the stillness.
"Roar!!!"
As if startled by the engine, beast-like roars echoed from the sides of the street, sharp and painful to the ears.
In the center of the street, a severely damaged black Chevrolet sped towards the outskirts of the city like a madman.
It continuously collided with obstacles along the way but did not dare to stop.
Behind the vehicle, three enormous monsters pursued relentlessly.
The monsters were massive in size and agile in their movements.
Beneath their human-like appearances were a pair of pale white, colossal eyes, and bloodthirsty mouths filled with sharp teeth that constantly flicked out long, snake-like tongues.
Muscles, impossibly swollen, concealed sharp claws that tore through the hard asphalt road as they ran.
At high speed, the three monsters gradually caught up to the Chevrolet.
The purple monster, running at the forefront, leaped with its thick, muscular legs and landed on the roof of the moving car.
*Screech!*
Gleaming black claws effortlessly tore into the car's roof, tearing it open.
However, before the monster could take further action, a sharp blade covered in red veins suddenly emerged from the car, swiftly slashing towards the purple monster's head.
*Clang!*
The blow severed half of the monster's head.
The purple monster instantly lost its strength and fell to the ground.
The sharp claws that emerged from the car did not retract immediately. Instead, they transformed like pliable clay into countless tentacles, grabbing debris like stones from the sides of the road and hurling them at the two pursuing monsters.
With this pincer movement of pursuit and attack, the speed of the two monsters gradually slowed down.
In the end, they could only watch as the vehicle drove further and further away...
"Roar!!"
The monsters let out unwilling roars, and then, surprisingly, spoke in human voices.
"Traitor! Another traitor!"
Their voices were incredibly grating and ear-splitting, like fingernails scraping on a blackboard.
"It matters not. The leader will not let her go!"
From behind the two monsters, the purple monster whose head had been severed had already completely regenerated, as if it had not been decapitated at all.
The three monsters exchanged glances, licked their eyes with their snake-like tongues, and tacitly turned to leave.
If Lin Feng were here, he would have recognized these three monsters.
They were all fellow Symbiotes from Venom's universe...
On Blue Star in the numbered-off Venom universe, nearly half of the planet had been conquered by the Symbiotes.
Eddie Brock had not succeeded in stopping the riot as he did in the movie.
This allowed Dr. Drake, possessed by Riot, to successfully pilot the spaceship to his home planet.
Months later, Riot returned to Blue Star with countless Symbiotes.
A sweeping catastrophe ensued. Symbiotes began to possess and devour humans indiscriminately.
In the initial stages, humanity had almost no power to resist the Symbiotes.
They were impervious to blades and bullets, and their arms could transform into various weapons, capable of killing humans with a single blow.
Confused and panicked, humans fled in all directions.
The cunning Symbiotes seized the opportunity, reproducing themselves without restraint, their numbers skyrocketing.
The disaster spread globally in just a few months.
Humanity was reduced to mere tools and food.
In short, they suffered greatly and were constantly on the run.
However, humanity was not entirely without hope.
Soon, various national forces discovered that Symbiotes were vulnerable to specific frequencies of sound waves and fire.
A counterattack against the Symbiotes began.
After months of see-saw battles, humans and Symbiotes had divided roughly half of Blue Star between them.
Humans gathered in major cities, building fortresses surrounded by massive loudspeakers and flamethrowers, repelling Symbiote attacks time and again.
They believed that with accumulated strength, they could completely eradicate the Symbiotes.
However, events took a despairing turn.
A small portion of the Symbiotes evolved, or rather mutated.
These new Symbiotes were no longer afraid of fire and sound waves. This meant that for every such Symbiote eliminated, humanity had to resort to heavy weaponry or sacrifice soldiers' lives.
This situation only began to turn around about a month ago.
Symbiotes could amplify the evil in humans' hearts, but if the host human's righteousness outweighed their evil, there was a high probability of assimilating the Symbiote.
Thus, the duo of Eddie Brock and Venom joined the human ranks.
Subsequently, more and more Symbiotes who maintained their sanity, along with their hosts, joined the human side.
They dealt with the Symbiotes impervious to sound and fire, greatly reducing human casualties.
Humanity was devising ways to eliminate the Symbiotes.
Meanwhile, the Symbiotes were also constantly planning how to breach human strongholds...
"A bunch of useless scum!"
Inside a villa in Garcia City, Riot roared from his throne.
Beneath him, three trembling Symbiotes knelt.
"Leader, her abilities are too powerful! We couldn't stop her!"
*Clang!*
The head of the speaking Symbiote was severed. Coincidentally, this purple Symbiote had just had its head cut off once before...
"Excuses, all excuses!"
Riot roared in anger.
"Rage, Scorn, you two go after her! Bite her head off!"
Furious at the betrayal from within his ranks, Riot dispatched two of his most capable subordinates.
"Yes!"
Beside Riot, two deep red Symbiotes exchanged glances, their figures moving with swiftness towards the only intercontinental highway leading out of the city.
Apart from the airport, Garcia City only had this single intercontinental highway connecting it to the outside world.
The traitor, fleeing, would surely have to take this long stretch of intercontinental highway!
The two Symbiotes' guess was correct.
On the intercontinental highway, usually bustling with traffic, only a battered black Chevrolet was moving.
Inside the car was a short-haired beauty.
It was Gwen Stacy, who had escaped from Garcia City.
From her shoulder, a large red head emerged. It looked similar to the three monsters that had been chasing them, though it appeared more petite.
"Gwen, where are we going next?"
A sharp, ear-splitting female voice asked.
"All the way north, to the Hua Dun Continental Congregation!"
Gwen replied without hesitation. She had already decided on her destination before defecting!