Although Victor and Venom kept taunting the Mechanical Doctor verbally, their internal vigilance was at its peak.
Because the Mechanical Doctor's attacks were as precise as his evasions, as if calculated thousands of times.
Every swing of that scorching Plasma Sword carried destructive energy, and the hum it made while tearing through the air was hair-raising.
At this moment, Venom's massive body became a target instead. The Lightsaber easily sliced through Venom's flesh, like a hot knife through butter, and the cut areas struggled to heal, emitting the foul stench of burnt protein.
"Venom, switch! The high temperature is too effective against you!" Victor urgently shouted in his mind.
"Switch now?! Has your brain finally been filled with chocolate sauce?!" Venom roared angrily while struggling to regenerate the severed parts.
"Listen! I have a plan! What if we... like this?" Victor rapidly transmitted a thought.
"Sounds good! But I'm worried you'll be finely minced into meat filling before you succeed—a portion of lean meat, a portion of fatty meat, plus a portion of cartilage!"
Venom retorted, simultaneously jerking backward to narrowly dodge a sword slash aimed at its head.
"Better than you being chopped into dumpling filling right now! Stop complaining! Any later and you'll really be gone! Three, two, one!"
Victor finished the countdown.
"Don't blame me if you die!" Venom grumbled, but still chose to trust.
Just as the Mechanical Doctor's Lightsaber was about to slash Venom's neck once more—
Venom's massive black body abruptly shrank back like a receding tide, instantly retracting completely into Victor's body!
The Mechanical Doctor's Lightsaber swung through empty air. The scorching blade grazed past Victor's nose tip, the searing heat wave making his cheek sting.
Almost at the same moment, relying on astonishing prediction and reflexes, the Mechanical Doctor retreated half a step, precisely dodging Victor's right hand that suddenly shot toward his shattered half-face.
"Although I don't know what you're trying to do," the Mechanical Doctor's voice, mixed with metallic grating, carried a hint of mockery.
"But your intent is too obvious. Just a little short, kid." His remaining intact human eye even blinked.
"No," a triumphant, nearly insane smile appeared on Victor's face, "just perfect."
His right hand emitted a teeth-grating *crack-crack* sound—that was the noise of him deliberately dislocating his shoulder, elbow, and wrist joints in an instant!
His arm extended unnaturally, elongating in a grotesque, physiologically impossible way. His fingertips precisely touched the Mechanical Doctor's exposed, sparking, shattered metal cheek!
"Venom! Your turn!" Victor roared, enduring the intense pain.
"The hero makes an entrance!" Venom's excited roar erupted from Victor's fingertips!
A small stream of viscous, tar-like black substance shot out like an arrow from Victor's fingertips, instantly drilling into the exposed gaps of the Mechanical Doctor's metal structure, directly invading the interior of his alloy skeleton!
"Damn it!" The Mechanical Doctor abruptly retreated half a step, his electronic eye flashing frantically. "To actually dislocate arm joints to increase attack range... this guy is ruthless enough!"
But his shock was far from over. The Venom invading his body began to spread and penetrate wildly, like the most virulent virus, attempting to seize control of his body.
Black, viscous fluid even began seeping uncontrollably from the metal seams on his body surface.
"My control is being taken away?! How is that possible?!" The Mechanical Doctor's voice carried genuine, algorithm-unprocessable astonishment for the first time. "A mere parasite that can't survive without its host... how could it have such capability?!"
Inside him, a silent yet intensely fierce war erupted.
The Mechanical Doctor's cold electronic consciousness and Venom's wild symbiotic instincts engaged in a fierce battle for bodily control within his mechanical shell.
Externally, Victor seized the opportunity to pounce. He first quickly snapped his dislocated right hand back into place, then used both hands to forcefully pry open the fingers of the Mechanical Doctor's right hand, which tightly gripped the Lightsaber hilt.
"That's a good thing! Victor, I'll help you!" A voice rang out—it was actually Venom controlling the Mechanical Doctor's left hand.
The fingers of that left hand rapidly morphed and fused, transforming into a sharp cleaver with a black metallic sheen. Then, without hesitation, it swung viciously toward the elbow joint of the Mechanical Doctor's own right arm!
The Mechanical Doctor stared in shock at his uncontrollable left hand. "My body's control has been taken away? And it can alter my body structure?! Amazing! This biological plasticity... incredible!"
Suddenly, he sharply turned his head. His intact human eye and crimson electronic eye simultaneously locked onto Victor.
"Alright, I admit it, C-136, C-137." His voice oddly regained some calmness, though tinged with a hint of defeat. "You score a point this time. I hope you'll have such good luck next time."
"Fine, fine, as long as you're happy," Victor casually dismissed, his full attention on the Lightsaber. "By the way, could you loosen your grip? I really want this toy."
The Mechanical Doctor laughed, the smile appearing especially eerie on his half-human, half-mechanical face. "Wishful thinking, you uncivilized monkey."
His red mechanical eye suddenly began flickering violently and irregularly, the frequency alarmingly fast. Simultaneously, a sharp, urgent *beep-beep-beep* alarm sounded from within his mechanical body!
"Shit!" Venom cursed furiously inside Victor. The portion of the symbiote that had invaded the Mechanical Doctor's body recoiled as if electrocuted, instantly retracting entirely back into Victor's body.
"Victor, run! Right now, this guy is a large, super-charged Flashbang! He's going to blow!!"
Venom instantly completed the bonding. Pitch-black symbiote material covered Victor's entire body like a second skin, providing superhuman strength and protection.
But Victor didn't use it for offense or defense. Instead, he channeled all its energy into his legs—
He shot off like a black cannonball, ignoring the terrifyingly escalating energy hum behind him, and charged with astonishing speed straight toward Wednesday, who hadn't fully reacted yet.
*Thud!*
He slammed heavily into Wednesday, knocking her to the ground. His body completely covered hers, his arms tightly wrapping around her, forming a desperate and fragile protective shell.
The moment she was tackled, Wednesday only had time to see Victor's face, covered by Venom. His huge white eyes were contracting violently like never before, filled with a frantic terror she had never seen before.
Immediately after—
*BOOM!!!!!!!!!!*——————————*
An indescribably terrifying explosion violently erupted!
A horrific sound wave, centered on the Mechanical Doctor, exploded, crushed, and expanded spherically in all directions!
The rotting leaves and soil on the ground were instantly swept up.
The surrounding trees were crushed as if by an invisible giant hand, snapping and shattering one after another!
Wednesday felt as if her head had been struck hard by a red-hot sledgehammer!
Intense pain and an irresistible shockwave instantly stripped her of all consciousness. Her vision was swallowed by pure darkness.
In the last moment before she completely lost consciousness, her blurred senses captured a few fragmented yet searingly imprinted images:
The Venom covering Victor's body—that seemingly indestructible black symbiote flesh—under this destructive sonic impact, violently, agonizingly boiled, twisted, and disintegrated, like a wax figure thrown into a super-high-temperature furnace!
It emitted a soundless wail, was violently shaken off Victor's body, and flung away.
And Victor... having lost Venom's protection, endured all the impact with his own flesh and blood.
She felt the hands covering her ears, using every ounce of life's strength, pressing desperately against the sides of her head. The knuckles were twisted and white from extreme force, as if trying to embed into her skull.
Her last sight froze on the depths of his ear canal—bright, warm blood was continuously overflowing from within, winding down, dripping onto her pale cheek, the sensation scalding.
Then, the world fell utterly silent, descending into darkness.
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