Chapter 563

Although Hawk added that he was joking afterward.

But...

Peter's spider-sense told him that Hawk was not joking.

And he had indeed sensed a trace of anomaly just now; although it was only in a flash, that momentary aura was captured by his spider-sense, it just disappeared before the hair on his body could stand up.

Peter muttered in his heart, wanting to find Hawk to get to the bottom of it.

But the timing was wrong.

After all, this was a church, and asking Hawk here if he really chopped up God just now felt like a very impolite thing to do.

So...

After the holy meal ended, when Aunt May and Felicia went to see the guests off, Peter couldn't wait to pull Hawk into the cemetery behind the church.

Hawk did not refuse.

After all, his sister's grave was right here, and because he lived in the neighboring Palm Street community, the area around his sister Anya's tombstone was kept very quiet.

Hawk squatted down, stroking the photo of his sister on the tombstone before him, and then his mind sank into his small universe, seeing his sister Anya playing in the Underworld, surrounded by the Blood Elf Kaila and several other blood elves.

"I wonder how the cloning experiment replicated by the Merrick clone is going."

Although the real Dr. Merrick was suffering in the frozen Underworld.

But cloning wasn't something only Dr. Merrick knew how to do; his clone also knew how.

At that time, in order to pass for the real thing and make S. H. I. E. L. D. truly believe he had been caught, the real Merrick had given all his memories to his clone.

So theoretically, his clone also knew how to clone.

However, Hawk didn't like any surprises.

Especially when it came to his sister, so the Dr. Merrick clone was conducting the cloning replication experiment under the supervision of S. H. I. E. L. D.

And Dr. Helen Cho was also involved, providing technical support to ensure that there would be no accidents in the cloning experiment.

And as soon as S. H. I. E. L. D. confirmed that the cloning experiment could proceed, the next step would be to open his sister's coffin, extract the DNA data, and then his sister could be resurrected.

So...

It shouldn't be long before his sister Anya could truly be resurrected.

Hawk thought to himself, withdrew his right hand, stood up, and then turned to look at Peter, who had pulled him to the cemetery.

"What is it?"

"..."

Peter, who had been waiting for Hawk, looked at Hawk, who had turned around with a smile and taken the initiative, his expression stunned, and then his mouth twitched: "I should be the one asking you that."

Hawk said "oh," and without hiding it from Peter, he told him about God's projection descending and trying to recruit him to be his Archangel.

Peter listened, stunned.

He was a bit curious.

"You weren't willing?"

"Of course."

"Why?"

"Because God's skin isn't white."

"God's skin isn't..."

Peter widened his eyes, his volume subconsciously rising, but he quickly realized and looked at Hawk: "How is that possible?"

Hawk smiled, and then briefly summarized the evil plan where Dr. Merrick had previously cloned his body on a large scale in the name of God, attempting to replace quality with quantity and completely replace his soul.

After listening, Peter was even more shocked and incredulous.

But it wasn't that he didn't believe Hawk.

It was just...

Peter thought about how Hawk had just called out to God so devoutly and respected God, and looked at Hawk with some lack of understanding.

"Then why were you so devout just now?"

"What's wrong?"

"God and you..."

"Oh."

Hawk didn't wait for Peter to finish; he already knew what Peter wanted to say and waved his hand.

"Believing in God and chopping up God are two different things."

"Who says that if you believe in God, you can't chop him up?"

"Besides."

"God is God, and Yahweh is Yahweh!"

"When I chop up Yahweh, I will be the new God."

"By then, believing in God will mean believing in myself."

"So, why can't I believe in God?"

Anyway, when he chopped up God, it wouldn't cause any impact on Earth; even if he didn't say anything, the Vatican probably wouldn't know that their source of faith had changed people.

But by then, Hawk wouldn't bother to inform the Vatican, saying something like, the master you believe in has changed from Yahweh to Hawk.

In a word.

Dimensions need faith.

He, Hawk, the Phoenix Saint, the Lord of the Phoenix parallel universe, does not need any faith.

Faith is like incense—it's poison.

Just like the Blood God Madora.

He played with vampire faith, but unfortunately, he messed it up. After Deacon Frost died, the last believer who knew his god died, and the Blood God Madora also brought about his own fate.

So—

Faith, that thing, even a dog wouldn't want it!

After Hawk finished speaking, he looked at Peter, who had his mouth wide open, raised an eyebrow, patted Peter on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "You just need to know it yourself; you wouldn't want the truth to cause the faith of the world's 2.4 billion believers to collapse, would you?"

After saying this.

He patted Peter on the shoulder again, and then walked toward Gwen, who had come to the back door to find him.

Gwen looked at Hawk walking toward her, and then looked at Peter, who had turned around with a dazed expression, and looked at Hawk curiously.

"What did you talk to Peter about?"

"God."

"Oh, is he curious why you wanted to chop up God but were still so devout just now?"

"Yeah."

Hawk nodded and looked at Gwen: "How did you know?"

Gwen smiled slightly: "Because I'm quite curious too."

Hawk shrugged.

"Render unto God the things that are God's, and unto Yahweh the things that are Yahweh's."

"Besides..."

"I came from the church choir, so of course I'm devout."

Hawk said this casually, thinking again of the days he spent with his sister in the church when he was a child, and looked toward Gwen: "After all, if I didn't act devout, I would have gone hungry as a child."

Hearing this, Gwen pursed her lips and hugged Hawk.

Hawk also hugged Gwen.

Half an hour later.

At the church entrance.

Gwen was teasing Little Ben, who was giggling in his stroller while clutching a golden cross, while talking to Felicia: "I've already looked at the profiles of the people you sent over. I've selected a few and sent them to your email. Just those four; we can add more later if it's not enough."

Because when Gwen was researching the regeneration experiment in collaboration with Dr. Helen Cho, she used the lizard regeneration research theory that Dr. Connors had previously targeted.

And those intellectual property rights belonged to Oscorp.

Gwen had obtained Felicia's authorization in advance, and Dr. Helen Cho had also agreed that once there were research results, Oscorp would be given priority in terms of commercialization.

And so.

With Gwen's graduation with her doctorate, the commercialization of the regeneration experiment was also beginning to get on the right track.

Gwen had also obtained her first job after graduating with her doctorate.

Still at Oscorp.

But she was no longer working as an assistant to others; she was working in the Stacy-Phoenix Biological Laboratory, which was fully sponsored by Oscorp.

These days, Gwen often talked to Felicia on the phone, communicating about the laboratory's equipment and some of the initial staff.

Felicia nodded.

"Okay, then I'll have HR send them invitations according to what you sent over."

"No problem."

Gwen smiled, looked at Little Ben giggling in the stroller, reached out both hands, and rubbed Little Ben's cheeks: "Wow, our Little Ben is so cute."

Hawk was Little Ben's godfather, and after she and Hawk got their marriage license next year, she would naturally be Little Ben's godmother.

Once again.

In Little Ben's life plan, the godmother's voice was also greater than the mother's, Felicia's.

Hawk, having just finished shaking hands and saying goodbye to the priest with Peter, also walked out of the church.

After a while.

Peter and Felicia got into the car, waved goodbye, and the driver drove away from the church.

Hawk and Gwen also withdrew their gazes, turned around, and walked toward 521A Palm Street.

Half an hour later.

Boom!

A rainbow light shot up from the backyard of 521A Palm Street, appearing ten thousand miles above in the blink of an eye, then its speed soared suddenly, and after blasting out a sonic boom cloud, it broke through the atmosphere with a "whoosh."

At the S. H. I. E. L. D. hub in New York, the alarm sounded loudly on the big screen!

Just at this moment.

Sharon opened the door to her office, stood in the hallway, and glanced at the alarm on the big screen below.

"Cancel the alarm, execute the Shackles Project."

"Yes."

The alarm sound disappeared in response, and at the same time, a team of elite S. H. I. E. L. D. agents left the hub and quickly rushed to 521A Palm Street to execute the plan to protect the Demon King's shackles.

Sharon also returned to her office.

She had just received a call from Gwen and already knew that Hawk was leaving New York City for a trip.

"By the way, Gwen, where is Hawk going on this trip? Do we need to do anything?"

"Uh, you guys can't help anymore."

"Hawk said Mephisto occupied his territory."

"He's going over to make Mephisto move."

"..."