Chapter 361: Eternals, Deviants, and Adamantium (Fourth update!)

"Mutant species? What is that?"

"According to the High Priest, it is a terrifying creature called despair. They are covered with rough black horny shells, full of cracks and gullies, and dark golden light shines from the cracks and gullies, as if magma is flowing in their bodies. The number of limbs is asymmetrical, some have multiple arms, and some have multiple tentacles."

"But the most terrifying thing is not this."

"The High Priest said that this kind of terrifying mutant species possesses powerful evolutionary capabilities."

Felicia thought of the description the Iwi High Priest gave her in the Iwi temple with a tone as if he were personally on the scene. When she retold it, she couldn't help but shiver.

Hawk's eyes were flickering.

"Evolution?"

"Yes."

"The High Priest said that the Iwi people were not so weak at the beginning. They were descendants of the Heavenly Gods and were born with incomparably powerful strength. But those mutant species could obtain the skills of the tribesmen after killing them."

"After the mutant species devoured an Iwi tribesman who could spit fire, that mutant species evolved and also learned to spit fire."

"It was under such circumstances that the Iwi people retreated steadily and finally had to escape from the land of their ancestors."

"Hiss!"

Hawk lowered his eyes and didn't speak.

Peter, who was sitting on the side and also listening to Felicia's narration, took a deep breath: "Devouring evolution, is there really such a terrifying creature? If that terrifying creature devoured Hawk, then..."

Hawk regained his focus, raised an eyebrow, and looked at Peter speechlessly.

"Hey, can you wish me something good?"

"Sorry!"

Peter, realizing he said the wrong thing, apologized quickly.

But in his mind, the scene of this mutant species in Felicia's mouth if it obtained Hawk's ability still couldn't help but surface.

Good guy.

That would be the end of the world, right.

Peter couldn't help but think.

Hawk ignored Peter and looked at Felicia: "Is there a general appearance of this creature?"

Felicia nodded.

"There is a mural of that terrifying creature on the wall of the Iwi temple."

"Let's go see."

"Okay."

Felicia looked at Hawk, who stood up, and also stood up from the seat.

Peter, on the side, seeing this, shook his head, threw the scene in his mind away, and also stood up.

Night fell.

In the Iwi village, the tribesmen gathered around the campfire, singing songs that were unknown but sounded very mysterious and beautiful.

In the temple, the campfire on the wall was bright.

According to the Iwi people, if the campfire in the temple doesn't go out, then the souls of the Iwi people can find the direction home along the campfire.

Hawk was standing in the temple at this moment, looking up at the colorful mural that looked lifelike under the illumination of the campfire.

A terrifying creature, just as Felicia described, was baring its teeth, as if it wanted to jump out of the mural on the wall.

Peter, on the side, looked around at the other murals: "I'm still a bit curious, how have these murals kept their colors from fading at all for so many years."

Felicia said: "The High Priest said these murals were all painted by the first batch of tribesmen who escaped. In his words, they are descendants of the Heavenly Gods."

Peter shrugged.

"I hold a reserved attitude toward this view."

"They really might not be lying."

Hawk, listening to Peter's words behind him, regained his focus, turned his head, and said to Peter: "But they are definitely not descendants of the Heavenly Gods, but they are likely descendants of the Eternals."

He looked at the so-called mutant species in the mural in front of him and thought about what this thing was likely to be.

Not a mutant species, the official name of this thing in the comics is Deviants, and in the movie, it is called Deviants.

Let's not mention the origin of the comics for now.

The Deviants in the movie are peculiar life forms that are almost immortal and created by the Celestials through genetic modification.

The Celestials initially used the Deviants as top predators on life planets to ensure that life could develop.

But perhaps even the Celestials didn't expect that the Deviants evolved during predation, changing from only capturing top predators to hunting and destroying all life forms.

This made the Celestials a bit stuck.

They used the Deviants, thinking that life could continue, so as to complete their so-called "Emergence."

But the Deviants ate all the life on the life planet, so how could they give birth to new tribesmen.

So...

The Celestials created the Eternals again, a life form specifically used to hunt the Deviants. Whenever they completed the task, that is, the Emergence, these members of the Eternals would be brainwashed, and then put into the next life planet to continue hunting the Deviants, continuing to ensure that life could multiply until the Emergence was successful.

Cycle after cycle.

Until these members of the Eternals became a demented species because of too much brainwashing and too much chronic information.

They would be mercilessly abandoned by the Celestials, and the next batch of Eternals would be created to complete their mission.

And after knowing that this mutant species might be Deviants, and the Iwi people here might be descendants of the Eternals, Hawk suddenly felt like he had cleared the clouds and seen the sun.

Because if this were really the case, then the metal suspected to be Adamantium just now was probably genuine Adamantium.

No other reason.

Tiamut, a member of the new Celestials gestating inside the Earth, possesses a massive amount of Adamantium.

Or rather—

Tiamut itself is Adamantium.

This is mentioned in "Captain America 4."

At the same time, this explains why he felt a pressure from a superior on his strength when he just arrived on Skull Island.

If there were no accidents, this divine pressure was probably the pressure of Tiamut, a member of the new Celestials who had not yet been born.