Chapter 66: Marvel: Awakening the Little Universe at the Start, Chapter 31

Everything was silent.

Only the sound of "Hawk" coming from behind him caused Hawk, who was shirtless with his chest rising and falling slightly, to tremble involuntarily.

Hawk turned his head instinctively to look.

Coming into view.

He saw Gwen, who had walked out of the forest not far away, wearing a windbreaker; although her blonde hair was now messy and she was covered in sweat, the blue eyes looking at him were full of surprise.

"Gwen?"

Hawk froze in place instantly.

He found it somewhat hard to believe.

Good grief.

He never would have imagined that the first person to come here and find him would not be the military from Quantico, but Gwen.

But...

How could this be possible?

Hawk felt a bit disoriented.

And at this very moment, time, which had been standing still, seemed to restart.

Rumble!

The waterfall that had been flowing backward also returned to normal at this moment, though the sound of the falling water was now much quieter than before.

It seemed as if the waterfall itself was afraid that if its sound were too loud, it would lead to some unprovoked disaster.

After all, Hawk really could make it flow backward.

Meanwhile.

Upon seeing Hawk standing beneath the waterfall, Gwen had already started running.

Although she didn't understand why she was running when she had clearly already seen Hawk.

But she just wanted to run.

In the blink of an eye, Gwen jumped into the pool beneath the waterfall and waded over to stand in front of Hawk.

The next second.

She threw her arms around Hawk.

Hawk instinctively pulled Gwen into his embrace, using his own back to shield her from the impact of the waterfall's spray.

Just then.

He also reacted, and with a whoosh, his figure vanished from the pool; when he appeared again, he was already on the bank beside the waterfall pool, holding Gwen.

Billowing white mist, like smoke from a fire, emerged from Hawk and Gwen, who had just been soaked by the waterfall water in his arms.

In just the blink of an eye.

Under the surge of Hawk's powerful Qi and blood, the moisture on both Hawk and Gwen, who had been dripping wet a second ago, was completely gone, and they returned to a dry state.

After doing this, Hawk lowered his gaze to look at Gwen, who was clinging tightly to him in his arms.

He opened his mouth, intending to ask out of curiosity how Gwen had managed to find him when even the military from Quantico could not.

But...

Hawk looked at Gwen, who had closed her eyes in his arms and was even letting out faint snores; he opened his mouth, thought for a moment, and said nothing, instead sitting down right where he was and letting Gwen rest in his arms.

He did not speak, but looked down at the sleeping Gwen, watching the messy blonde hair on her face; he reached out his right hand, paused slightly in the air, then recovered and brushed the messy blonde hair away from her face.

About half an hour later.

Gwen slowly opened her eyes; because she had slept so soundly, she thought she had woken up in her bed and instinctively stretched.

The next second.

She saw Hawk looking down at her.

Their eyes met.

Gwen blinked instinctively.

Hawk smiled slightly.

"Hello."

"Holy shit!"

With an exclamation, Gwen jumped up from Hawk's arms, and her pale face flushed with a visible hint of pink at that moment.

Hawk also stood up from the ground.

The moment he stood up, his limbs let out sounds of comfortable stretching, having finally been able to move after remaining motionless for fear of waking Gwen.

Gwen also withdrew her gaze from observing the surrounding environment and refocused it, locking onto Hawk, who was only wearing a pair of shorts in front of her.

The Hawk before her had a physique like an ancient Greek sculpture, and the pair of sword-like eyebrows above those deep blue eyes displayed an unbridled air.

They were the same sword-like eyebrows.

The difference was that if the previous Hawk's eyebrows were like a sword hidden in its scabbard, then the current Hawk's eyebrows were like a sharp, unbridled sword drawn from its sheath.

Gwen was momentarily mesmerized.

The next second.

She snapped out of it, looked at Hawk, and as if thinking of something, a beautiful smile curled at the corners of her mouth.

"Library, reading, huh."

"..."

Hawk raised an eyebrow, catching the hint of resentment hidden beneath Gwen's teasing, and thought for a moment: "Sorry."

Gwen smiled.

If Hawk had heard the hint of resentment in her teasing just now, then Gwen had also heard something else in Hawk's apology.

For instance, the old Hawk had also said sorry to her before.

But she could feel that the old Hawk's apologies were just apologies for the sake of apologizing.

But this one?

Gwen's mouth turned up slightly, and she reached out a small hand toward Hawk.

Hawk was slightly stunned.

Gwen said: "Give me your phone, why didn't you answer my calls?"

Hawk realized, walked to the side, took out the phone he had left resting on his folded T-shirt, and handed it to Gwen: "I've been here for over twenty days; it ran out of power long ago."

Gwen was slightly stunned upon hearing this and took the phone.

Sure enough.

The phone wouldn't turn on.

But...

Gwen blinked, as if thinking of something; she held Hawk's phone in one hand and took out her own with the other, clicking on the link in her previous text message.

The link had expired.

Gwen stared, dumbfounded, at the link on the screen that had been there just a moment ago but was now invalid.

At this moment, Hawk finally asked the question he had been wanting to ask all along.

"By the way, Gwen, how did you know I was here?"

"..."

Gwen came back to her senses, calmly tucked her phone back into her pocket, handed Hawk's phone back to him, and revealed a smile on her face: "My dad is a police captain, Hawk; as long as I want to, no matter where you are, I can find you."

Hawk blinked.

These words...

He would have to be crazy to believe them.

But looking at Gwen, whose pale face had flushed pink again after saying this, Hawk thought for a moment, a look of sudden realization appeared on his face, and he nodded.

Forget it.

If he had been very curious about how Gwen found him when he first saw her, he was no longer curious at all now.

Yeah.

He stopped being curious just when Gwen was lying in his arms asleep earlier.

Perhaps it was just as Gwen said.

She was the police captain's daughter; as long as she wanted to, she could find where he was.

That was what Gwen said.

Hawk chose to believe this premise.