A ghostly phanteur pierced the wall and entered a darkened laboratory. It looked like it was a woman—or should I say it had been a woman. And now she is disheveled, her face is sallow and withered, she is dressed in white, and her whole body is like a phantom of the Tao, like a female ghost with no fixed soul.

She floated into the lab, heading straight for the stack of metal crates piled up in the corner—exactly the same one that had appeared in the hands of the dock gangsters. She unbuckled and lifted the lid of the box, and a large cloud of white mist erupted from it. White light was released from the box, converging behind her, gradually forming another transparent outline.

A man in a similar state to her, with an abominable face like a ghost.

The moment he saw this "female ghost", he couldn't help but exclaim: "Lucy? It's you? God, look at you like this...... What did he do to you? ”

Soon, he noticed his anomaly as well.

"No......" he gritted his teeth as he looked at his looming palm, "where are the others?" ”

The female ghost he called "Lucy" pointed to the metal boxes behind her: "Just like us, trapped in our respective cages. I know it's confusing, but now we have to cheer up, Hugo......"

"Cheer up? Look what we've become, Lucy! Hugo exclaimed anxiously. His eyes darkened, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Look what he did to us!" He has to pay, Lucy. We've got to find him...... We've probably been locked up inside for hours. ”

"Hugo......" Lucy looked at him gloomily, "...... We've been locked up for years. ”

......

The two ghosts opened the other chests, releasing more people in a similar condition to them. Everyone's reaction was similar – shocked, furious, incredulous. It is difficult for them to accept the fact that they have disappeared from the world for many years, and it is even harder to accept their current state of being like living dead. Almost everyone had to scold the guy who had betrayed them and caused them to fall into such a field, until the center of anger reached Lucy.

"It's not just his fault, it's you, isn't it?" One of the ghosts said coldly to Lucy, "We trusted you so much. ”

Lucy sighed, "It's not my fault. ”

"Not yours? You shouldn't have tinkered with the Dark Book in the first place, it's something you, perhaps any human being, can't understand. ”

"He's right." Hugo agreed, accusing Lucy, "It was all because you were so obsessed with that broken book. ”

"And that 'broken book' is the only thing that can help us right now." Lucy said impatiently, "That book will help us get back to the way we were." ”

"Or help you regain the power you didn't get last time."

"We can't find it anyway." Hugo snorted, "He's been ahead of us for so many years, and we don't have the slightest chance." ”

"We'll find the book." Lucy said coldly, "Then we'll kill him, and any guys who try to stop us." ”

***

Los Angeles, Heavenly Sword Division.

Daisy stripped off her coat and lay on the white bed, a group of paramedics examining her. She looked up boredly at the flickering lights on the ceiling until the automatic doors of the infirmary opened and Wanda walked in with her arms crossed.

Daisy's gaze shifted to Wanda, "How's it going?" Did the lab make any decisions? ”

Wanda shook her head: "No." They opened the box, but there appeared to be nothing inside. Now they're trying to scan it with a bunch of precision instruments or something, and maybe they'll get results in a while. ”

She paused, and then changed her words: "Are you okay?" I've seen you seem to have been beaten up a lot. ”

"It's not very comfortable, but I'm not worse yet." Daisy shrugged her shoulders indifferently, and then her expression became solemn, "But that thing...... I gotta say, I was really scared, almost peeing. ”

Wanda understood: "yes, I was also scared when I saw that. ”

Ghost Rider, the main target of their trip. It wasn't long ago that they had actually encountered that thing, and that guy was even more impressive than they had expected.

Daisy, in particular, the few rounds she had with Ghost Rider really felt like she had gone to the Ghost Gate, and the suffocating burning sensation was now haunting her like a hallucination. Fortunately, Wanda stepped in in time and used chaos magic to knock the ghost rider into the water. But after that, the other party disappeared, and the branch sub-unit subsequently sent a search force to search for him along the coast for a long time without seeing him.

"Didi ......"

The communicator on Wanda's wrist rang. She glanced at it and said to Daisy, "It's the boss, maybe he asked about our mission." I'll be back soon. ”

Daisy nodded, closed her eyelids tiredly, and closed her eyes to recuperate. Wanda exits the room and connects to the communication in the hallway.

"Boss?"

"You're looking into the Ghost Rider case?" Michael asked straight to the point.

"Yes." Wanda asked, "Boss, do you know him?" ”

"Know a little." Michael, on the other end of the com, narrowed his eyes and asked, "So did you find him?" ”

"Well, but we don't know who he is yet...... Or something. Wanda replied, "But we did meet with Ghost Rider." Daisy had a direct fight with the other party, suffered a minor injury, and is now being examined at the Los Angeles branch. We also brought back a box from the scene, and although we don't seem to have noticed anything wrong with it yet, it always gives me a sense of foreboding......"

"Boxes?"

"Yes, a metal box. A local gang leader wanted it, and he said it had the power to 'surpass human comprehension' or something. When he opened the box, everyone in the room went crazy, pulling out their guns to kill each other, and Daisy and I had to stop them. Now the box is in the lab of the Los Angeles branch, where researchers are working on it. But when they opened the box, it didn't seem like there was anything inside......"

"Did you enter the scene as soon as the box was opened?" Michael interrupted suddenly.

"Enter...... Got in. What's wrong? His tone made Wanda feel a little bad.

"Stay there and stay put." Michael said in a non-debatable tone, "I'll go over now." ”

After saying that, the communication was hung up. Wanda was stunned for a moment, a little puzzled.

Sure enough, is there something wrong with that box?

Bang!

The sound of glass breaking startled Wanda. She subconsciously jumped back and saw a medical staff slammed through the window of the infirmary and was thrown out of it, slamming into the wall of the aisle.

It's Daisy.

It was she who used the shock wave to shake the medical staff out of the room.