Chapter 1830: The Madman's Journey (VIII)

The reason why Eddie wanted to land directly from the outer wall was not only because there might be too many monsters in the building, but also because he found that the ward where he landed was located on the side of the hospital inpatient department. Downstairs was a small forest with few people coming. There was no shadow of zombies and it was very quiet. It was the best landing point.

Eddie, who was tied with ropes, couldn't help but think of the zombie who was bitten off by Venom and could still stand up from the ground.

At that time, the zombie's body could still follow its instinct to pounce on him. If Venom hadn't thrown it out, the sharp claws would definitely hit him.

Eddie felt more and more that his choice was correct. It was definitely a bad idea to fight with such a monster that could still move even after the body was separated. No matter how many symbiont factors Venom had, it would not be enough to consume.

More importantly, he knew that Venom was not invulnerable. The dense skin formed by his changed factor arrangement was not completely invincible, but the reason why he seemed not to be injured by human weapons was only because the symbiont factors were sufficient and could be replenished as soon as they were eliminated, so it looked like he was uninjured.

In order to protect the host under the mask, Venom must sacrifice a part of the symbiont factor to offset the opponent's attack.

When there is enough food, the symbiont factor will be produced naturally, but if there is no food supplement for a long time, the consumed symbiont will not be replenished.

Venom has obtained a lot of energy several times before, and most of the energy was converted into symbiont factors by him. If Gray Mist is not considered a member of the symbiont, then Venom is the most powerful symbiont so far.

But Eddie also knows another thing. The amine substances obtained by the symbiont from the human body are the normal food of their race, and the energy is more like a powerful nutrient. They can taste and get happiness from the amine substances.

Just like humans may one day be able to meet their nutritional needs for survival through various chemical preparations, but I am afraid that if the situation is not urgent, no one will voluntarily do so, because food is a kind of enjoyment for humans, and humans can survive during the fat loss period, but few people are not crazy.

Eddie was worried that the consumption of power would make Venom's appetite stronger, and it was very painful for the symbiote to be hungry but unable to eat a lot of amines. Eddie hadn't figured out what the portal explosion was. If they had to stay here for a long time, Venom would have to face this pain for a long time.

So Eddie thought it would be better to keep Venom in a semi-dormant state. After leaving the hospital, he would try to find a supermarket with stocks to see if he could stock up on some chocolate.

While thinking about the next countermeasures, Eddie tied the fire safety belt tightly to the rod in the wall where the bed cover was fixed. After tying it, he hung all the safety belts left between the head and the tail for slow descent on one arm.

He supported himself with his other hand, climbed up to the window and looked down. The grove was as quiet as usual, and the nearest zombies in sight were two streets away. This was a rare opportunity.

But when he lowered his head, Eddie broke out in a cold sweat again. This was the eighth floor, and he was a person with acrophobia.

Even though he already knew how powerful Venom was, when Venom asked him to jump from a tall building, he would still choose to refuse. Humans are such a species with weak bodies and fragile spirits, and some psychological barriers cannot be overcome.

Eddie swallowed his saliva and took a few deep breaths. He thought, no, that's not the reason. He refused because Venom would allow him to refuse. Venom would take him to the elevator after he refused. They even went down the fifteenth floor slowly from the stairwell. Venom kept muttering all the way, but still accompanied him down the stairs.

If Venom was really a ferocious parasite, like the riot that attached to the president of the Life Foundation before, he would definitely jump as soon as he said it, and he wouldn't care if Eddie was scared to death.

Eddie recalled that he gave lectures to those agents who were going to cooperate with the symbiotes at S.H.I.E.L.D., training them to initially accept the symbiotes and fight with them.

At that time, he keenly discovered that most of the newly born symbiotes have no empathy, and they only have the instinct to devour. When faced with such a situation, experienced cosmic agents like Lan Ling will only strengthen the host's defense, adjust the structure of the host's brain area, reduce their fear, and then "321" jump down.

In fact, they have no responsibility to understand the weakness of human beings, especially there is no need to understand fear. Since fear will make the host uncomfortable and delay the efficiency of work, it is better to eliminate it.

But Venom has never done this. Eddie is afraid of jumping down, so Venom accompanies him to walk the stairs or take the elevator. Eddie is afraid of gunshots, so Venom tries to avoid the area of ​​the firefight. Even Eddie is afraid of cockroaches, and Venom takes him out of the door at the fastest speed, instead of the simplest way of reaching out and slapping him.

Venom often laughs at Eddie for being a coward, but he is the culprit for Eddie's return from half a lifetime and still being a coward.

Thinking of this, Eddie took a deep breath, gripped his seat belt tightly, leaned out of the window, and put one foot actually outside the building.

The sound of swallowing saliva was extremely loud. Eddie moved his feet tremblingly downwards. After a long time, he only went down one meter.

He closed his eyes tightly, frowned and dared not look down, but his reason told him that this speed was not good. There was no place where zombies would never come.

Eddie took a few deep breaths, adjusted his breathing, and began to increase his pace to descend. Under the full moon, the small black shadows were like water drops falling when the ice cone melted, slowly sliding down.

"Do you want to know what your heart rate is now?"

Venom's voice was too abrupt. Eddie clenched his hands tightly. He gritted his teeth and yelled, "Don't make a sound suddenly! Do you want to scare me to death?"

"You are almost scared to death." Venom rarely said this in a sarcastic tone. Instead, he said hesitantly, "Tachycardia, muscle twitching, rapid breathing, and some nerve disorders. If you don't let me take you to jump from a tall building, you are almost scared to death in the process of jumping off the building."

"It's going well now." Eddie tried to control his tone and not to shake so much. He said, "I'm descending faster and faster. At most, I will touch the ground in seven or eight minutes."

After that, he ignored Venom and pulled the safety belt in his hand as steadily as possible, step by step.

The situation is indeed getting better. On the one hand, humans may indeed be able to burst out infinite potential in critical situations. On the other hand, after all, they are going backwards. As long as they don't look down and walk with their heads down, the fear will be greatly reduced.

Eddie once again mustered up the courage to look down between his feet. He was now in the middle of the fifth and sixth floors. The whole process was much faster than he expected. Maybe he could be back on the ground in another five minutes.

When he thought of this, Eddie breathed a sigh of relief, and the dizziness caused by the fear of heights also dissipated a little.

But as he continued to hold the safety belt and descend, he found that his hands were a little itchy. Eddie looked up and saw some black things on the back of his hands.

He raised one hand, and the black things fell to the original position of his hand. The hand he raised grabbed a place lower, and the original hand was raised again. Eddie descended two steps again.

But at this time, black things appeared on the backs of both hands again. Eddie thought it might be a shadow cast by the moonlight, but he didn't know what cast the shadow, so in the interval between changing hands, he touched it with the free hand.

It was human hair.

Eddie looked up in disbelief and saw the ghost girl with hollow eyes and blood gushing out, lying on the safety rope and looking at him, with the ends of her black hair falling on the back of his hand.

"Ah!!!!!!!!!!"

Eddie couldn't control his screams at all.

Several famous Japanese ghost movies were popular in Europe and America, and they were also the childhood shadows of many Americans. Unfortunately, these people happened to include Eddie, who was once frightened by Kayako and had nightmares for a week.

What's more terrifying is that the ghost girl climbed down step by step with her head down, grabbing his safety belt, getting closer and closer to Eddie.

Eddie switched his hands like crazy and slid down at the fastest speed. In a panic, he didn't have time to walk a few meters and then muster up the courage to look down, and he couldn't accurately judge the direction of his force.

The final result was that Eddie walked further and further away, and when he reached the window on the fifth floor, he stepped on the air in an instant and fell directly down.

Fortunately, Eddie estimated the approximate height of the eighth floor before he started, and tied the fire safety belt to his chest, back, waist and crotch at the same distance but four or five feet shorter, in order to prevent a sudden fall.

This safety clothing tied with the fire safety belt played a great role. Although the impact of the fall was still not small, fortunately the fire safety belt also had a certain toughness. Eddie was almost equivalent to playing a bungee jump at a height of about the fifth floor.

Although this is a great psychological shock for people with acrophobia, fortunately, there was no physical injury.

At the moment when he was hung by the safety belt, Eddie had no time to be afraid, and was full of gratitude.

Fortunately, when he worked in a newspaper before, he saw workers cleaning glass curtain walls and vaguely remembered the structure of their safety clothing.

If he really tied the safety belt only around his waist like in the TV series, he might have ruptured his internal organs by now because of the impact of the fall.

After checking himself, he found that there was nothing wrong with his body, but Eddie found that his estimation of the distance between the floors was not very accurate. The position of the tie was a little too high. He was now hanging under the window on the second floor, still a certain distance from the ground.

Eddie estimated that he could continue to slide down as long as he untied part of the safety clothing, so he began to untie the safety belt wrapped around his body, but at this moment, he heard a rustling sound on the ground.

Eddie looked down and saw two zombies staggering towards him.

Eddie recalled his scream just now. It seemed that this was similar to the setting in zombie movies. Zombies would be attracted by sound, but the difference was that the zombies in this universe were much faster. It took less than a minute to rush over from two streets away.

Seeing them approaching at high speed, Eddie was neither advancing nor retreating. If he climbed up, the female ghost upstairs stared at him covetously. If he jumped down, Eddie was not sure that he could outrun the zombies.

Eddie made up his mind and stretched out his hands to grab the edge of the second-floor window. He used all his strength to support himself, put his knees on the edge of the second-floor window, and then lay on the surface of the window.

Eddie took out his key from his trouser pocket, held it in his hand and smashed it against the corner of the window. At this moment, he was not in the mood to care whether it would attract zombies in the building, because the two unlucky things under his feet were ready to jump.

With a "crash", the glass was smashed, and Eddie rushed into the room where the window was regardless.

Fortunately, the two taller zombies outside didn't seem to be able to use their arms very well. Although they jumped high, they couldn't hold on to the windowsill, so they didn't chase Eddie in.

Just when Eddie was relieved, he saw a spider crawling out of the preparation room at the other end of the ward.

It looked like an ordinary spider, but the only problem was that it was half the height of a person.