Chapter 305: Marvel: Awakening the Little Cosmos at the Start, Chapter 158

Hawk smiled and said, "Worried about our time difference, I suppose. Don't forget, the Time Stone is with her."

Gwen nodded with a look of sudden understanding.

Half an hour later.

The Audi A8 pulled into the garage.

The next second.

After safely dropping Gwen off at her home, Hawk vanished instantly from the garage; when he reappeared, he had once again transformed into a black light so red it seemed black, shooting like a startled goose from ten thousand li above toward Fort Stockton, Texas.

The alarms at the New York S. H. I. E. L. D. Operations Command Center blared once more.

"Hiss!"

"Here we go again."

"Where do you think he's going?"

"Judging by the trajectory, it looks like he's still heading toward Texas."

"Call Agent Carter."

"Okay."

Several S. H. I. E. L. D. agents on holiday duty, watching Hawk move at a speed almost impossible to track beneath the S. H. I. E. L. D. satellite, determined his trajectory and location, and without a second thought prepared to call Sharon Carter, who was currently vacationing in Texas.

The reason? Among the entire S. H. I. E. L. D. agency, very few agents had dealt with Hawk.

Sharon Carter was already considered an expert in this regard.

At the same time, another person sensed Hawk's aura rapidly heading toward Fort Stockton, Texas: Johnny Blaze, who was currently sitting on the last row of a bus traveling from Pozzwell County, Pennsylvania, to Niuyuecheng, looking somewhat disheveled, appearing somewhat weary, and wearing the old face of Nicolas Cage.

Don't ask why he was on the bus.

Because even the Ghost Rider couldn't travel from Texas to Niuyuecheng in a single night.

The most important point.

After leaving Texas, even the Ghost Rider could not appear during the day.

So...

This resulted in Johnny Blaze buying a bus ticket and traveling toward Niuyuecheng properly during the day, while at night the Ghost Rider would steal someone else's motorcycle, transform back into the Ghost Rider, and continue toward Niuyuecheng with a cackling laugh.

Actually, logically speaking, even so, they should have arrived in Niuyuecheng yesterday.

But who could blame Johnny Blaze for being targeted by S. H. I. E. L. D.?

There it is.

The Ghost Rider might not fear S. H. I. E. L. D., but Johnny Blaze only knew that law enforcement agencies were hunting him, so he barely dared to move yesterday, found a place to hide, and only continued his journey once night fell and he could transform into the Ghost Rider.

This matter was mainly Johnny's own fault.

In one sentence.

If you didn't want to perform, you could have issued an announcement ten or half a month in advance.

Instead, a professional S. H. I. E. L. D. agent spent a huge sum on an inner-circle ticket, eagerly waiting to watch your performance the next night, only for you to simply stand her up.

The S. H. I. E. L. D. agent, feeling mocked, turned completely red and vowed to find this unreliable, suddenly famous Johnny.

In one sentence.

The S. H. I. E. L. D. agent, now flushed with anger, also wanted the suddenly famous Johnny to know that her temper was just as fiery.

Then, under S. H. I. E. L. D. surveillance, they saw Johnny Blaze transform into the Ghost Rider, enter a gas station, detonate the station while stealing a biker's motorcycle, and burst out of the exploding gas station with a cackling, cackling, cackling laugh.

Thus, a private grudge completely turned into official business.

No question about it.

S. H. I. E. L. D. machinery was instantly mobilized, fully searching for Johnny Blaze.

Although S. H. I. E. L. D.'s elite forces were still on the African continent, the S. H. I. E. L. D. agents remaining on home soil were actually quite capable.

If it were an ordinary person, they would have been found long ago.

But Johnny, relying on the keen intuition fused with the Ghost Rider, time and again evaded S. H. I. E. L. D.'s gaze, even successfully boarding the bus to Niuyuecheng this morning.

The result...

With only three hours left before reaching Niuyuecheng, but now, as Johnny Blaze felt Hawk's marked aura once again rapidly sweep toward Texas, he felt like he was about to cry.

But!

What else could he do?

His father's soul was still waiting for him to rescue it.

With his mind racing, Johnny walked toward the bus door while shouting, "Driver, stop quickly! My house is on fire; I need to get off."

The driver slammed on the brakes, nearly causing Johnny to stumble and fall in the bus aisle.

Five seconds later.

The bus sped away.

Watching the bus disappear into the distance, then looking at the deserted highway, Johnny suddenly froze, realizing something.

He should have gotten off at the previous transfer station.

Hawk had now landed once again in the valley where he had previously dueled the Earth Demon.

The moment he touched down, the aura of the Hell Dimension struck again, instantly attempting to suppress his combat power once more.

But...

The laws of life and death also flowed through Hawk; under the scouring of the Life and Death Law, that feeling of attempting to suppress his combat power instantly vanished.

After all, before my Underworld was built, if you said I died and went to your Hell, I wouldn't argue with you.

But now that my Underworld is built, if you say I still go to your Hell after dying, then wasn't my Underworld built for nothing?

Feeling the dissipating aura of Hell, Hawk stood in place, stretched his limbs, then took out his phone from his pocket, looked at the incoming call, and directly answered it.

"Sharon."

"Hawk, are you heading back to Fort Stockton again?"

"Yes."

Hawk smiled and said, "I think that motorcycle stunt performance you mentioned is quite impressive; I gave it some thought and felt I should come over to see it."

Better not to bring this up.

But once brought up!

On the other end of the phone, Sharon instantly brimmed with resentment: "Don't mention Blazing Johnny; that damn guy turned out to be a demon."

Hawk's sword-like eyebrows arched.

Sharon then explained how she had spent a fortune on tickets, waiting in anticipation for who knows how long, only to arrive and find Blazing Johnny's performance cancelled; furious, she went to confront him in person, and that was when she witnessed Blazing Johnny transform into a skeleton man.

"Then you're too late; that fellow has already fled to Pennsylvania."

"Not too late; just in time."

Listening to Sharon's account, Hawk completely confirmed that the surprise Mephisto had prepared for him was the Ghost Rider.

But whenever he thought about the Ghost Rider who had been struggling all these past two days to make his way to Niuyuecheng, he felt an irresistible urge to laugh.

Nevertheless, Hawk ultimately restrained himself, and sensing Sharon's confusion on the other end of the line, he chuckled and said, "He is coming for me; here is a piece of advice: tell your people not to approach him at night."

Hearing this, Sharon first froze, then grew somewhat curious.

"What happens if we approach him?"

"He was once a Hell Lord himself, but was defeated by Mephisto and transformed by Mephisto into a Spirit of Vengeance, specifically tasked by Mephisto with reaping souls; so what do you think will happen if you get close?"

"Hiss!"

Hearing this, Sharon drew in a sharp breath of cold air and hurriedly said, "Understood, thank you; I will report this information immediately, but since he is coming for you, then you..."

Hawk smiled and said, "I am here precisely for him."

On the other end of the phone, Sharon's expression turned to realization; after hanging up with Hawk, she urgently reported the latest situation up the chain.

Intelligence moved rapidly.

Very soon.

Two S. H. I. E. L. D. agents, driving a vehicle along the highway in an attempt to locate Johnny's whereabouts, suddenly lit up with excitement as they spotted Johnny not far away, standing on the road with his thumb out trying to hitch a ride; just as they were about to accelerate forward to claim credit.

The latest intelligence arrived.

Johnny, looking at the Chevrolet SUV approaching him from a distance, also displayed a happy expression on his face.

The next second.

The Chevrolet SUV roared past without stopping; the driver inside and the two men in black suits in the passenger seat acted as if they could not see him at all, sweeping straight past him and accelerating toward the front.

Caw!

Caw!

Caw!

A crow flew overhead, leaving three bold question marks above Johnny's head.

"WTF—"

"The people here have no human warmth at all!"

After reacting, Johnny watched the Chevrolet SUV disappearing into the distance and instinctively cursed, unable to help complaining that Pennsylvania was nothing like their home in Texas, where people helped each other.

Night fell!

In a desolate canyon fifty kilometers south of Fort Stockton.

Hawk sat atop a cliff, looking up at the moon quietly rising.

Tonight's moon was very round.

He recalled his childhood days at the church; whenever the fifteenth of the eighth month arrived, he would stand behind the church looking up at the moon, and his younger sister Anya would imitate him, standing beside him and looking up at the moon as well.

Sadly, ever since Anya's accidental death, he had rarely looked at the moon in all these years.

Because ever since Anya passed away, whenever he looked up at the moon, he would always think of his younger sister standing beside him, mimicking his actions and gazing up at the moon together with him.

He feared being hurt by the sight.

He also feared that objects would remind him of the person.

Therefore, today marked the first time in all these years that he was seriously looking at the moon again.

Because...

Barring any unexpected developments, before the sun rose tomorrow, he would be able to bring his younger sister back.

The reason he had cultivated the Underworld to such perfection, even using the Reality Gem to create a lifelike Pure Land of Bliss, was solely so that during the time his younger sister stayed in the Underworld, she could live comfortably.

Soon!

Anya, I am coming to fetch you immediately.

Accompanied by a strange "Heh heh heh" laughter gradually approaching from the distance, Hawk slowly withdrew his gaze and looked toward the direction from which the eerie laughter emanated.

Before his eyes!