Chapter 1167: Scaring Oneself (Second Update!!)

Tiamut!

A Celestial, though born of the Celestial Host, unlike the others, truly deserving of the phrase "rising from the mud unstained."

This is a Celestial who has transcended base tastes.

Judging by deeds rather than intentions, regardless of the circumstances, at the critical moment when Tiamut should have emerged and could have emerged, Tiamut resolutely helped the Eternals' Sersi seal himself away.

By means of self-sealing, he ensured Earth would not shatter into countless fragments.

Although this is not Hawk's own universe, let alone the mutant universe where he once communicated and turned Tiamut into a variant of his Order God.

But the universe is universal; at the very least, the Marvel Multiverse shares a consistent narrative regarding Tiamut.

So—

When Hawk left Universe 616, worried that his intervention might cause uncontrollable changes, he told the Avengers that their next extinction crisis came from a lifeform gestating beneath Skull Island.

Obviously.

Tony Stark and the others went to Skull Island, and precisely because they went there, they found a place to settle in this crumbling world.

As for why the Scarlet Witch and Black Hawk, created by the Celestial Creator Celestial Celeste, and even the Eternals who are now under Black Hawk's command, dare not attack Tony and the others at Skull Island, the reason is simple.

They are products.

Whether it is the Scarlet Witch here, or Black Hawk, or the Eternals here, they are all products created by the Celestial Host.

The Celestial Host is the master of these products.

Tiamut is too.

Even though Tiamut has not emerged yet, a master is still a master; once these products created by the Celestial Host arrive at Skull Island, one phrase can describe it.

Walking straight into a trap.

Currently, because Tiamut has not emerged, Tiamut cannot do anything to them, but if they reach Skull Island, they enter Tiamut's territory; at that time, with Tiamut's pressure descending, even if they are forced to choose self-detonation, they will obediently self-detonate.

Admittedly.

The Creator Celestial Celeste certainly would not sit idly by while such a thing happens, but he has no good solution either.

After all, Tiamut is determined to be the rebellious son of the Celestial Host, and the Celestial Host's programming contains a setting forbidding attacks on one's own kind.

Therefore, even the Creator Celeste, hidden behind the scenes, can only strictly order the products he created not to approach Skull Island.

But if they do not intervene, relying solely on the Hydra, which has suffered repeated defeats, to destroy the Avengers who have now moved their headquarters to Skull Island?

Heh.

That is no joke.

If it were Hydra during Alexander Pierce's era, perhaps they still had that strength; after all, under Alexander Pierce's hand, Hydra was the most recent force that nearly overturned the world; if only the Hydra agents in the elevator had been more capable back then, Hydra's algorithm would have launched long ago.

But Alexander Pierce is already dead.

So—

"Friday detected that last month, Hydra even tried to use nuclear missiles to destroy us."

"Unfortunately, they failed."

"Due to Skull Island's geography, nuclear missiles could not possibly pinpoint Skull Island accurately; furthermore, they had no way to evade the Island Storm Belt, now modified by Tony."

Natasha recounted the current situation at Skull Island to Hawk; when mentioning Hydra's attempt to use nuclear missiles to wipe them out, her expression held a hint of amusement.

After listening, Hawk also chuckled, then recalled the topic he and Andy discussed on the way over just now: "By the way, Andy said your coming here might be related to a prophecy circulating among the Resistance?"

Upon hearing this, Natasha nodded.

"Yes."

"I didn't expect you to still believe in prophecies."

"Because this prophecy was fabricated by me."

"..."

Hawk had considered many answers, even guessed what this so-called prophecy actually was.

But he never expected to hear this answer from Natasha's mouth.

Fabricated.

However, just as Hawk felt momentarily speechless, his thoughts shifted, and he understood Natasha's intention.

"You want the Resistance not to lose hope?"

"Yes."

Natasha said: "Nowadays, except for the East and some regions of the Federation, Hydra's claws have covered almost the entire world; these Resistance fighters are in a difficult situation, so they need a belief, just as Captain America stood up to serve as that belief back then."

Hawk nodded.

Regardless of who the true heroes of World War II were in reality, here, the heroes of World War II are Captain America.

Captain America, appearing out of nowhere, shouted loudly, "Turn the tide!" and immediately severed one of Hydra's heads.

A single move mastered can conquer the world.

Having once tasted success, naturally one would not abandon a reliable old method to choose a new one whose effectiveness is unknown.

Just...

Hawk looked at Natasha with curiosity: "I heard the Federation government chose to surrender after you left."

Natasha shook her head again.

Hawk raised an eyebrow: "Wrong again?"

Alright.

Andy is merely someone who moved here after the Blip event, then led local survivors to form a small-scale Resistance.

Moreover, after Hawk learned from Andy that he did not know him, he could not say he completely disbelieved Andy's words, only that he maintained a half-skeptical view.

So Hawk was already prepared when he saw Natasha shaking her head again.

After shaking her head, Natasha looked at Hawk.

"They didn't surrender after we left; it was because of their inside-outside collusion that we were forced to flee Niuyuecheng in a wretched state under the cover of Dr. Bruce Banner."

"The federal government... surrendered?"

Hawk heard the truth from Natasha's mouth, opened his mouth, then shook his head speechlessly.

"Why am I not surprised at all?"

"Because there are still many Hydra members within the federal government."

Natasha said thus: "We once thought Hydra members were just the remnants of the last failure. We never expected that those who were once persecuted were actually the true Hydra we had been searching for but never found."

Hawk was not surprised at all by this.

"Squid has no bones, and there are many ways to cook it; it's not rare."

"True."

Hearing words that comforted herself, Natasha laughed, then looked at Hawk and shifted the topic to the Black Hawk here: "By the way, Hawk, this Black Hawk resurrected by the Scarlet Witch seems to be planning something."

Although under the Scarlet Witch, they had no way to infiltrate Hydra's current ranks.

But they were not completely without sources of information.

Friday, the artificial intelligence created by Tony Stark after JARVIS, was released by Tony onto the internet at the final moment of Niuyuecheng's fall.

Let's put it this way.

Today's Friday is essentially Ultron.

But a gender-swapped Ultron, and one with a kind personality at that. Precisely because of this, Natasha and others today can learn some internal Hydra matters from Friday.

Although most of this information is not very important, when non-important information is aggregated, it becomes very important information in the eyes of professional intelligence analysts.

See?

Tony and others reached a conclusion.

This Black Hawk is plotting something big.

"He seems to be searching for all supernatural lives in this world."

"Is that so?"

Hearing this information from Natasha, Hawk's heart stirred; as his thoughts turned, he chuckled lightly: "He is creating a soul for himself."

Natasha looked at the speaking Hawk and said nothing.

Hawk raised his eyes to look at Natasha and stated the purpose of his coming here.

"This Black Hawk you speak of was created by a Celestial named Creator Sera."

"Including the Scarlet Witch here."

"They fought me in another universe before, lost, so they ran here and set a trap for me."

"They tried to use this Black Hawk to replace me, from my timeline."

"But they have no way to create a true me."

"Because I am the only one."

"Therefore, they intercepted the timeline where my Wanda stayed here, created a Scarlet Witch from it, and then created a me who was similar but not the same from that Scarlet Witch's timeline."

"But this me has no soul."

"Therefore, they must endow him with a soul; only then can they truly pass off the fake as the real."

"But ordinary souls cannot achieve this, and they dare not make big moves, as that would be detected by me."

"Therefore, his gaze can only fall on your planet; the only ones meeting the requirements are those supernatural lives living in seclusion on Earth."

"Although their souls still have some gap compared to mine."

"But quantitative change can trigger qualitative change, especially since what he wants is only a soul that can reach the threshold of passing off the fake as the real."

"So..."