Chapter 87 Mud and Rotten People (Part 2) (Patreon)

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Who is Stark?

Just look at his introduction in the comics and you'll know that he's called "Super genius cursed by knowledge." In the comics, he has the eighth Infinity Gem, "Curse of Knowledge," in his brain. He can fully master all knowledge about black holes in just one day, which can be said to make Einstein sad and Mendeleev shed tears. (XD)

This led to a change that completely exceeded Venom's expectations.

First of all, Stark is a person who likes to dig deep. He spent a full six days checking Venom's household registration.

When he found out that Venom was an extraterrestrial creature, Stark's suddenly excited mood made Venom stumble.(XD)

From the Birthplace of Venom, to how he drifted to Earth, and how he possessed host after host, Stark questioned Venom in detail.

Out of respect for his long-term meal ticket, Venom tried to answer Stark's questions as much as possible, but a super genius is always like a million whys. For every question he could come up with countless follow-up questions.

Where is the symbiote's homeworld? Who created you? What kind of extraterrestrial creature is he? In what form does it exist there? Is it far from Earth? Can humans reach it within their lifetime? Will you come to invade Earth? Is your creator an independent intelligent life form, or a common consciousness of a planet? Why don't your siblings leave your mother? Why did you run away alone? Did you anger your creator? What's the difference between it and God in human religious stories?

Stark would pursue each of these questions from various angles. While Venom could answer some questions, others were too abstract and creative for him to answer.

According to the age of the symbiote, it is still a child. Even if it is a genius child among the symbiotes, it cannot understand the strange and creative questions of the super genius.

Finally, Stark's curiosity about its origin decreased a bit. Then, Venom discovered for the first time that human emotions could be so complex.

Stark's overly sensitive heart and emotional brain made Venom feel like he was living in a huge maze every day. Every time Stark's mood changed, the entire maze was completely reset, and Venom, who had just found the exit, was kicked back to the starting point.

[ShaneFreak: I am loving it...]

Furthermore, Stark was truly a cursed brain of knowledge. As a symbiote, Venom couldn't keep up with the speed of Stark's thoughts.

Whenever Stark began to contemplate, Venom could only cower in a corner, feeling countless symbols crashing onto him that he couldn't comprehend. In other words, he was submerged in an ocean of knowledge.

What was even more terrifying was that Stark would frantically reset his maze while releasing the floodgates of knowledge like a torrential downpour. Venom would bounce back and forth between these two states, unable to keep up with the speed, and would be kicked in the butt by the maze one moment and knocked down by the sea water the next.

Any sentient being with emotions would have certain requirements for their living environment, and symbiotes were no exception.

If living in an ordinary human body was like being in a matchbox, albeit a bit cramped and stuffy, at least it was relatively quiet. But living in Stark's body was like living on a dangerous planet full of countless storms and lightning. Although there was enough space, life here was just too exciting, and Venom couldn't even rest for a moment.

Originally, symbiotes and hosts were in sync, able to constantly sense the changes in their bodies and emotions. It was their race's unique talent and the foundation upon which they relied for survival. However, now, this talent brought tremendous trouble to Venom. In sync with someone like Stark, Venom had to endure a life full of constant and unpredictable dangers, like a primitive jungle adventure.

Stark was like an unsolvable puzzle, and his external appearance was only one-thousandth of him. His inner self, full of infinite philosophical ideas and wisdom, was enough to drown any outsider who attempted to peek into his heart, including this symbiote.

The first emotion that Venom learned from Stark was exhaustion. This was not because Stark was tired, but because being a symbiote for Stark was truly exhausting.

To make matters worse, Stark was currently in a low point of immense pressure. He couldn't relieve this pressure, so he had to find something to do to distract himself. At this moment, an intelligent creature that he could communicate with happened to appear in his body, and it was even an alien with special talents. This was like being gifted a pillow while feeling sleepy - was there any better test subject than this?

Tony Stark treated Venom as his alter ego, able to share the same brain power and fully understand him.

This was truly amazing!

Originally, Stark couldn't find a suitable person to share his genius ideas with. Peter was too young and couldn't handle too much pressure, Schiller was too easily shocked and only good at changing light bulbs. Stark used to have Rhodey to showcase his new inventions, but now Rhodey was gone, so Stark poured all his overflowing desire to share into Venom.

When Stark stayed up all night, spending three full days explaining high-energy physics to Venom in his mind, Venom learned a second emotion, which was terror. (XD)

Was this something that a symbiote should learn???

This genius scientist urgently wanted to teach all the knowledge he possessed to his other self, so that he could truly discuss various inventions and ideas with himself, and have a true soulmate who could fully understand and experience everything about him.

Stark was in a state of emptiness and desperate for an outlet, without considering that there was a limit to how much a symbiote could accept. He never thought that even with brainwave communication, you couldn't expect a child to learn the essence of human knowledge overnight, right???

Venom was truly on the verge of a breakdown, like a student who was completely clueless but forced to attend an advanced math class. His third emotion that he learned was regret, extreme regret.

Venom doesn't understand. Stark scolded him again and Venom felt wronged. What's so difficult about this? Can't you read my memories? Isn't it an open-book exam? You can't even handle an open-book exam? What kind of rubbish are you?

For a symbiote with top learning ability, physics and math aren't difficult. What's difficult is keeping up with Stark's wild creativity and inventiveness that is closer to philosophy and mysticism. 99% of the effort is not difficult, it's the 1% inspiration that is hard.

Even a symbiote couldn't fully comprehend Stark's thought leaps. Venom had been suspecting for a long time, is Stark really human? How can a human be so complex and incomprehensible?

If you only say Stark has high intelligence, that's one thing, but unfortunately, his personality is also terrible.

Stark left the hospital and walked on the road. Venom, who finally didn't have to stay cooped up in the laboratory with Stark, kept repeating in his mind, "Let's go eat a human head. Just one, bite off their brain, it must be very delicious..."

"Has anyone told you? The brains of ordinary people are like untested zombie meat. You can't eat this unsafe food."

Venom transmitted a sense of doubt.

"Eat healthier, like me. Don't you know? The brains of ordinary people hardly function in this lifetime, just like decaying fish meat that hasn't been treated with any preservatives."

"Taste! Taste is important! You understand? I absolutely won't allow you to devour that zombie meat and pollute my genius brain." (XD)

"Forget it, I know you aliens haven't eaten anything good. You're actually interested in the brains of ordinary humans, a lump of meat made up of water and protein. There's no brilliant idea that can change the world in there, like I can. If you eat this kind of thing, is your symbiote race scavenging for a living?"

Venom emitted a series of extremely intense and angry brain waves, but Stark didn't notice and continued to say disdainfully, "Are all alien tastes like this? Or is it because human brains are considered pretty good in the universe? How dumb do other aliens have to be? Are human beings the only ones in the universe with brains?"

"I really can't believe that there's a race that considers the brains of ordinary humans as a delicacy. How resource-poor must you be? Do you want some cheese balls? Earth's specialty, you can also bring some back for your poor brothers and sisters. I'll pay."

"We're not poor!" Venom said angrily.

"But you behave like a country bumpkin who just came to the city, thinking everything is good. Were you interested in those chocolate balls in the convenience store just now? Come on, can you really eat so many snacks that only cost a dozen dollars? Don't bother looking, I won't go to such a low-end convenience store to buy things..."

"What? Eat the employees in that office building? What are you thinking? Those people who can't even earn enough for a cheap apartment rent in a month, you want to eat them? Those kind of people can't even pass the first round of interviews in our Stark Industries!"

"That person who just sat in the Porsche? No way! His hair is golden, I bet he must have dyed it with some fancy dye, which is disgusting. It smells like chemicals, I want to avoid him..."

"Turn your head back and don't look like a naive fool." Stark thought in his mind, "Don't embarrass me, the genius scientist and world's richest person, Stark. I'm not a silly boy who looks around while walking down the street."

[ShaneFreak: Poor Venom...]

After speaking, he complained in his mind again, "Is there no one in your race who is as handsome and rich as I am? I think they would be more suitable for me. Otherwise, go find a big guy in the next-door high school football team. You know, those white people who are jumpy and willing to buy you cheap chocolate..."

Venom said, "I want to eat now! I want to eat chocolate! And I want to eat a head! Right away! Or else I will drag you and hit the wall!!!"

"Not now, wait a moment, J.A.R.V.I.S? J.A.R.V.I.S? Are you there? Help me order some special chocolate from the original manufacturer in Italy..."

"Yes, let them use the best cocoa beans... No, don't use those mass production lines! They're too dirty! I'll buy a whole production line separately..."

"How long will it take? Three weeks? That's pretty fast."

"Let them hurry up... Oh, and use a fully mechanized production process, don't let anyone's dirty hands touch what I want to eat..."

"Packaging? No, no, no! Their gold foil packaging is too tacky. From Italy, hire a designer to design something better with the Stark Industries logo on it. Use gold and red colors, and use real gold for the gold parts, don't use dyes to fool people..."

Venom said, "I'll starve to death in three weeks."

"Why are you so weak? Are all symbiotes idiots who only know how to eat?"

"No! Let me go! Don't go into that convenience store! It smells like lemon-scented air freshener! Get out of there, I hate that smell!!"

Stark stumbled around like he was fighting himself, and slammed into the glass door of the convenience store, grabbing the edge of the glass door and shouting, "I won't go into this damn place!!!! It's full of junk from the industrial production line! Even a glance pollutes my brain!!!"

"Let me in!! Let me eat!!"

"No, I won't go in!!"

"Go in!!" Venom also yelled.

"I won't go in!!!" Stark yelled even louder.

"Go in!!" Venom was on the verge of breaking down.

"No!!!" Stark was also hysterical.

In the end, Stark sat outside the glass door. With his unwavering determination, or rather extreme melodramatic mentality, he won the battle.

Venom was completely exhausted. The fourth thing he learned from Stark was to never underestimate a rotten person.

[ShaneFreak: Man...XD.... My stomach is hurting.... best chapter!]

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