Chapter 1832: The Madman's Journey (8)
The reason why Eddie wanted to descend directly from the outer wall to the ground, in addition to the fact that there might be too many monsters in the building, was also because he found that the ward he was in when he landed here was on the side of the inpatient department of the hospital, and the downstairs here was a small grove where few people came, there was no shadow of zombies, and it was very quiet, which was the best place to land.
Eddie, who was tied to the rope, couldn't help but think of the zombie who had bitten off his head with venom and could still get up from the ground with a wobble head.
At that time, the zombie's body could still follow its instinctive actions and pounce on him, if it hadn't been for the venom throwing it out, the sharp claws would definitely give him a blow.
Eddie felt more and more that he had made the right choice, it was definitely a terrible idea to fight this kind of monster that could still move even after the corpse was separated, and the amount of symbiote factor in the venom was not enough to consume.
What's more, he knew that Venom was not inaccessible, and the dense skin formed by his changing factor arrangement was not completely invincible, but the reason why it seemed that it would not be injured by human weapons was only because the symbiote factor was sufficient and could be filled as soon as it was destroyed, so it looked like it was harmless.
In order to protect the host under the mask, Venom must sacrifice a portion of the symbiote factor to counteract the opponent's attacks.
When there is enough food, the symbiotic factor will be produced naturally, but if the food is not replenished for a long time, the consumed symbiote will not be able to replenish it.
Venom had received a large amount of energy several times before, and most of the energy was converted into symbiote factors by him, and if Gray Mist was not a member of the symbiote, then Venom was by far the most powerful symbiote.
But Eddie also knew that the amines that the symbiotes obtained from the human body were the normal food of their race, and the energy was more like a powerful nutrient, and they could taste and get pleasure from the amines.
It's like human beings may one day be able to meet their nutritional needs for survival through a variety of chemical preparations, but I'm afraid that if it is not an emergency, no one will do it voluntarily, because food is a kind of enjoyment for human beings, and human beings in the fat loss period can also live, but there are few people who are not crazy.
Eddie fears that the depletion of power will make Venom more appetite, and that it is very painful for the symbiote to be hungry but unable to eat large amounts of amines, and Eddie still hasn't figured out what the portal explosion is about, and if they have to stay here for a long time, Venom will have to face this pain for a long time.
So Eddie thinks it's better to keep Venom in a semi-dormant state, and after leaving the hospital, he'll find a way to find a supermarket that still has stock up on chocolate.
While thinking about the next step, Eddie tightly fastened the fire safety belt to the pole in the wall of the hospital bed cover, and after fastening it, he hung all the safety belts left between the head and tail for slow descent on one arm.
He propped himself up with his other hand, climbed up the window and looked down, the grove was quiet as usual, and the nearest zombie in his field of vision was two streets away, this was a rare opportunity.
But as soon as he lowered his head, Eddie broke out in a cold sweat again, this was the eighth floor, and he was a person with a fear of heights.
Even if he already understands the power of Venom, when Venom asks him to jump down from a tall building, he will still choose to refuse, human beings are such a species that is not strong in body and weak in spirit, and some psychological obstacles just can't be overcome.
Eddie swallowed and took a few deep breaths, he thought, no, not for this reason, of course 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 from the walking stairwell slowly, Venom chattered all the way, but still accompanied him down the stairs.
If Venom was really a murderous parasite, like the riot that had been attached to the president of the Life Foundation before, he would have jumped and jumped, and he didn't care if Eddie was scared to death or not.
Eddie recalls that he was at S.H.I.E.L.D. lecturing the agents who were going to work with the symbiote, training them to accept the symbiote and fight with them initially.
At that time, he keenly discovered that the vast majority of newborn symbiotes had no ability to empathize, and some of them only had the instinct to devour, and when faced with this situation, experienced cosmic agents like Lan Ling would only strengthen the host's defenses, adjust the structure of the host's brain area, reduce their fear, and then "321" jumped down.
They don't really have a responsibility to understand the weakness of human beings, especially not the need to understand fear, which can be uncomfortable for the host and slow down the efficiency of doing things, so it would be good to eliminate it.
But Venom never did this, Eddie was afraid to jump down, Venom accompanied him up the stairs or the elevator, Eddie was afraid of gunshots, Venom went around the fire area as much as possible, even Eddie was afraid of cockroaches, Venom carried him out of the room as fast as possible, instead of reaching out in the easiest way.
Venom often mocks Eddie for being a coward, but he is the culprit behind Eddie's return from half his life and still being a coward.
Thinking of this, Eddie took a deep breath, he clenched his seat belt tightly, leaned out of the window, and literally stepped on the outside of the building with one foot.
The sound of swallowing saliva was extremely loud, and Eddie trembled and moved down, and it was only a meter down for a long time.
He closed his eyes tightly, frowning and not daring to look down, but his reason was telling him that this speed would not work, and there was no place where zombies would never come.
Eddie took a few deep breaths, adjusted his breathing, and began to increase his pace and descend, under a full moon, the small black image was a drop of water falling when the ice pick melted, slowly and slowly sliding downward.
"Do you want to know what your heart rate is right now?"
The sound of Venom appeared so abruptly that Eddie's hands clenched tightly, and he gritted his teeth and yelled, "Don't make a sudden noise! Are you trying to scare me to death? ”
"You're scared to death." Venom rarely said this sentence in a mocking tone, but said a little hesitantly: "Tachycardia, muscle twitches, rapid breathing, and some symptoms of nerve disorders, if you don't let me jump down from the tall building with you, then you are almost scared to death in the process of jumping off the building." ”
"It's going well so far." Eddie struggled to keep his tone from shaking, and said, "I'm descending faster and faster, and in seven or eight minutes at most, I'll be touching the ground." ”
After speaking, he ignored the venom, and pulled the seat belt in his hand as steadily as possible, stepping back step by step.
The situation is indeed improving, on the one hand, human beings may indeed be able to burst out of infinite potential in critical situations, and on the other hand, after all, they are going backwards, as long as they do not look down and bury their heads in walking, the sense of fear will be greatly reduced.
Eddie plucked up the courage to look under the gap between his feet, he was now in the middle of the fifth or sixth floor, and the whole process was much faster than he expected, maybe he would be back on the ground in five minutes.
Thinking of this, Eddie breathed a sigh of relief, and the dizziness caused by the fear of heights dissipated a little.
But as he continued to hold on to his harness and descended, he noticed that his hands were a little itchy, and Eddie looked up and saw something black on the back of his hand.
He lifted a hand, and the black things fell to their original positions, and the hand that picked it up grabbed the place below, and the original hand picked it up again, and Eddie took two more steps.
But at this time, something black appeared on the back of the hands of both hands, and Eddie thought that it might be the shadow cast by the moonlight, but he didn't know what it was, so in the interval between changing hands, he touched it with the free hand.
That's human hair.
Eddie looked up in disbelief and saw a female ghost with hollow eyes and blood pouring down on the safety rope to meet him, the ends of her black hair falling down the back of his hand.
"Ah!!!!!!h
Eddie couldn't control his screams.
There are several famous Japanese ghost movies that have been popular in Europe and the United States, and they are also the childhood shadows of many Americans, and unfortunately, these people also happen to include Eddie, who was once scared by Gaco and had nightmares for a week.
What's even more terrifying is that the female ghost grabs his seat belt headfirst and climbs down step by step, getting closer and closer to Eddie.
Eddie switched his hands like crazy and slid down as fast as he could, and in his panic, he didn't have time to walk a few meters like he used to muster up the courage to look at his feet, and there was no way to accurately judge the direction of his force.
The final outcome is that Eddie goes further and further away, and then when he reaches the window on the fifth floor, he steps on the air in an instant, and the whole person falls straight down.
Fortunately, Eddie estimated the approximate height of the eighth floor before he started, and tied the fire safety belt to his chest, waist, and crotch at the same distance but as short as four or five feet, in order to prevent a sudden fall.
This safety suit tied with a fire safety belt played a great role, although the impact of the fall was still not small, but fortunately, the fire safety belt also had a certain toughness, and 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 fear of heights, fortunately it does not hurt the body.
The moment he was hung by the seat belt, Eddie didn't have time to be afraid, and he was full of only joy.
Fortunately, when he worked at the newspaper before, he watched the workers clean the glass curtain wall, and vaguely remembered the structure of the safety clothing on their bodies.
If he had only strapped his seat belt around his waist like in the TV series, he would probably have ruptured his internal organs by now due to the impact of the fall.
Touching himself, there was nothing wrong with his whole body, but Eddie found that his estimation of the distance between the floors was not very accurate, and the position of the tie was a little closer, and he was now hanging under the window on the second floor, still a certain distance from the ground.
Eddie reckoned that he could continue to slide down as long as he partially unfastened his safety suit, so he began to unfasten the harness wrapped around his body, but just then, he heard the sound of ropes on the ground.
Eddie looked down and saw two zombies staggering towards him.
Eddie recalled his scream just now, it seems that this is similar to the setting in a zombie movie, zombies will be attracted to sound, but the difference is that the zombies in this universe move much faster, and it takes less than a minute to come from two streets away.
Seeing them approaching at high speed, Eddie is neither advancing nor retreating, climb up, the female ghost upstairs stares at him fiercely, jump down, Eddie is not sure that he can outrun the zombies.
Eddie's heart was crossed, he tried to stretch out his hands, grabbed the edge of the second-floor window, supported himself with all his strength, put his knees on the edge of the second-floor window, and then the whole person lay on the surface of the window.
Eddie took his key out of his pants pocket and slammed it into the corner of the window, he wasn't in the mood to care if it would attract the zombies in the building, because the two unlucky things under his feet were ready to jump.
With a bang, the glass shattered, and Eddie rushed into the room where the window was.
Fortunately, the two taller zombies outside didn't seem to be able to use their arms, and although they jumped high, they couldn't hold on to the windowsill, so they didn't chase Eddie in.
Just as Eddie breathed a sigh of relief, he saw a spider crawling out of the preparation room at the other end of the room.
The appearance is basically a normal spider, the only problem is that this thing is half a human tall.