In the Marvel Universe as Wonder Woman's boyfriend

Ch. 22 Times Have Changed

Fifteenth floor, no elevator.

He certainly picked an interesting place!

With the elevator out of commission, the only option was to take the emergency staircase.

Russell approached the emergency staircase next to the elevator, pushing open the fire door to take a look.

At a glance, the emergency staircase seemed normal.

Aside from not being cleaned for a long time, that is.

However, in a corner of the emergency staircase, Russell spotted something unusual.

Something that definitely shouldn't be here.

Impressively cautious!

Truly deserving of a man who could have the hotel charge a four gold coin urgent fee.

The small device situated in the stairwell wasn't anything else but a mini surveillance camera, and it was wireless.

Though the performance of these mini surveillance cameras might not match conventional ones, the advantage was that they were compact enough to easily be overlooked.

Having discovered the mini camera in the stairwell, Russell was reasonably certain that the Punisher was currently in the safehouse.

Wireless mini cameras like this had limited battery life and would only be installed when necessary.

If the Punisher wasn't in the safehouse, there would be no reason for them to be activated.

Closing the fire door, he checked a few other emergency staircases.

As expected, all the emergency staircases were equipped with these mini cameras.

Since all the emergency staircases had cameras, the next steps were quite straightforward.

Taking a deep breath, Russell transformed into his Venom form.

In the next moment, he, resembling a black monstrous entity, dashed into the emergency staircase without hesitation.

It's just the fifteenth floor, right?

No problem!

With his enhanced physiology further bolstered by the symbiote, he surged up the staircase like a shadow.

Sprinting up fifteen floors might take some time for an ordinary person, but for Russell, it was no challenge.

Just as Russell, resembling a black monster, charged out of the emergency staircase, a flashbang and a frag grenade landed in front of him.

Boom! Boom!

The flashbang and the frag grenade exploded in rapid succession.

The flashbang went off a moment before the frag grenade, its blinding light and deafening noise causing Russell's steps to falter.

The blinding light held no harm for Russell in his Venom form.

However, the tremendous noise did pose some slight inconvenience.

One of the symbiote's vulnerabilities happened to be soundwaves.

Although the hertz of the flashbang's noise didn't fall between the symbiote's most intolerable range of four to six thousand hertz, it still caused a minor stress response within it.

To be precise, a part of the symbiote on his body reacted to the stimulus.

Several dozen black tendrils erupted uncontrollably, as if attempting to detach from his body.