"Who is this?"

Johnny, who was also wearing big sunglasses, stood behind Cyber and looked at the tombstone, "Carter Slay, that's a familiar name..."

"He's your senior, Johnny, the last generation of Ghost Riders, and in this desert, his story is almost a legend. ~With~Dream~Small~Say~щ~Suimеng~Lā"

Cyber stood up and knocked on the tombstone behind him, "Legend has it that he died, but I don't think he did, a person who dares to make a deal with the devil and snatch things from the devil is not so easy to die, this thing is just a cover, the old man must be hiding somewhere else." ”

With that, he turned to look, and in the shade of a tree not far behind him and Johnny, an old man in a dirty appearance, wearing a ragged cowboy hat from the last century, and carrying a shovel that was commonly used by grave keepers, was looking at them with a playful expression.

Cyber raised his hand and waved at him,

"Hey, Carter Shrey, am I right?"

"Hell!"

The old man, who looked like he might go to God at any time, spat hard and rudely swiped a middle finger at Cyberbie,

"What are you doing there? Two rookies who don't even know how to conceal their breath, do you know that spicy chickens like you represent a lot of soul gold coins in the eyes of those hunters, and you haven't been hacked to death yet, I have to say, the luck of fools is really good. ”

He rolled his eyes, turned with his shovel and pushed open the door to the grave keeper's hut, and waved his head at Cyber and Johnny, and the two men stepped forward and walked into the little house led by the old man.

Although this old man who has lived for more than 200 years looks sloppy, his house is unexpectedly tidy, and even has a warm and sacred feeling, because in the innermost part of the house, there is an angelic statue that is exactly the same as the statue of St. Michael's church.

Seem... It was as if there were eyes looking at the world through the eyes of the angel.

"Tea, or coffee?"

The fierce old man glanced at the two of them, held up the two jars and asked, Johnny asked subconsciously,

"Do you have beer?"

The old man glared at him and said teasingly, "Alcohol is not allowed in the Holy Land, but I'll give you a glass of juice, little mommy." ”

Johnny paused and shrugged, "Then whatever, you damn old man." ”

Cyber's focus was clearly another, and he rubbed his chin and asked,

"Holy land, what kind of holy place is this?"

The old man's movements were interrupted by this question, and he followed Cyber's eyes to see the statue of the angel that had been carefully tended, and he tilted his head,

"The site of St. Michael's Church, 220 years ago, the first place where the archangel came to earth... One of the holy places in this country, you have found out too, right? Hey, don't look at the incarnation of the Holy Angel with that impolite look, you know, she can see you!"

"Hmmm?!!"

Cyber snapped back to his senses, he frowned, "What do you mean?"

"What else could it mean?"

The old man came over with two cups of steaming tea, put them in front of the two people, crossed his legs, reached out to take the cigar handed over by Cyber, put it under his nose and sniffed it, his wrinkled face showed a satisfied expression, he comfortably lit the cigar on the oil lamp next to him, and swallowed the smoke,

"You've seen the devil, maybe you've signed a contract, you've entered the reality beneath the absurd façade of this world, boy, if there's a devil, isn't there an angel?

The sand content of this sentence is a bit large, Cyber and Johnny fell into thinking at the same time, the old man flicked the cigarette ash on the side, and changed to a more comfortable posture comfortably,

"But don't worry, this world is under the watchful eye of a powerful being, whether angels or demons, they are all guests... The guests will have to follow the host's arrangement, and there will indeed be some crazy people who believe in power, but that is a small probability event, believe me, you may not meet it once in your life. ”

"Hehe, you're living safely, if you're so peaceful. ”

The old man rudely picked up the water in front of him, drank it all, and let the clear water stand on his messy beard, he looked at Johnny, a hint of ridicule appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then looked at Cyber, but there was a doubt in his eyes,

"Wait, you... Your strength seems to be incomplete, and you didn't sign a contract?"

Seber shrugged his shoulders and took out the contract that Mephisto had given him from his bosom, the thing was wrapped in black goatskin, gilded gold, and looked gorgeous, and he threw the two finger-thick things on the table,

"Yes, I didn't sign it!"

"Hell!"

The old man burst into a foul mouth, he straightened up and pointed to Cyber's eyes, "Let me see your eyes!"

Cyber took off his sunglasses and widened his eyes,

"Is that so?"

"Bastard!

The old man looked a little irritable, Cyber snapped his fingers, and crimson flames and dark red eyes appeared at this moment, but at the moment when this power appeared, the angel statue exuded a soft power around it, showing a warm light, but it was extremely domineering, and forced the pupils that were completely released by Cyber back into his eyes.

But it didn't hurt him...

"There is no room for evil in this holy place... But you're really surprising me!"

The old man took the cigar to his mouth and took a hard breath, and he looked at Cyber as if he had seen some rare treasure,

"It's unbelievable how you managed to suppress a portion of the restlessness of the vengeful spirit without resorting to Mephisto's will, and still make it available to you to a limited extent?"

"Uh..."

Cyber thought for a while, "Exercising for 4 hours a day, reading more and doing more good deeds counts?"

"Get out, you unscrupulous!"

The old man scolded viciously, and he looked at Johnny again, and at this look, the old man showed a strange expression again,

"You're a freak too... He took your soul, but not your heart and will, and it wasn't hellfire that ruled you, and I even felt the traces of the vengeful spirit reviving in you... Wow, it looks like it's my lucky day. ”

After saying that, the old man whistled happily, but what he said made Cyber and Johnny a little blind, and Johnny asked,

"Wait! What is Hellfire? What is the Spirit of Vengeance?Why is Cyber so excited that he didn't sign a contract?Hell, can you tell us all at once? By the way, are you Carter Slay?"

"Of course I am, kid. ”

The old man picked up the Bible next to him, looked at it, and whispered, "I'm Carter Shray, and I know you have a lot of questions to ask without a doubt, but don't worry, I'll tell you little by little." ”

"First of all, I want to say, don't listen to Mephisto's lies! The power in the three of us doesn't come from him at all, he's just a disgusting liar, a pretender, a reptilian wretch! The contract you sign has nothing to do with your awakened abilities! I'm talking about you, Johnny Blazer!"

Carter's gaze became mysterious and deep, and he pointed at Johnny,

"Even if you don't sign that contract, when the right time comes, you can still summon the spirit of revenge to lean over, because you have talent, you are the chosen one, and Mephisto asked you to sign the contract is nothing more than to control your soul in advance and let you be used by him, just like he deceived me back then, that damn bastard!"

"By whom?"

Johnny asked subconsciously, and Cyber pricked up his ears, and the old man looked at them as if he were pointing to the angel statue standing there.

"By angels?"

Johnny asked stupidly, but the old man directly pasted his face with the Bible,

"Holy, it's God!"

"It is said that the first spirits of vengeance were the sword of heaven's punishment, and in the distant past, when human civilization was still in its infancy, God sent the spirit of vengeance to descend on the world in the form of a rain of fire, which was the second method he used to control the world after the great flood of destruction... Oh, don't look at me like that, I don't really believe him, I'll say, God is a blue pool!"

This sentence made Cyber almost squirt out of the tea in his mouth, he should have thought of it, the old man in front of him could tell from the tone of his voice that he didn't believe in anything at all.

"The angel statue is also an accidental trophy of a bandit when I was a Texas Ranger, it is said that it was a holy item snatched from the Holy Land of Jerusalem during the Crusades, and I don't know how it fell in this place, but... I did see the scene where she descended into this world with this stone statue as a coordinate. ”

The old man smugly raised his eyebrows at Cyber and Johnny,

"I'm the first person in the world to talk and laugh with an archangel in nearly 200 years. ”

"So here's the problem... Why is God's vengeful spirit controlled by Mephisto?"

Johnny asked again, and the old man frowned at the question,

"I don't know, I don't know exactly, but it is said that it is because the spirit of vengeance has forgotten its duty, and has changed from maintaining balance to punishing all evil, you know? ”

He pursed his lips, "It's scary... You can think that the vengeful spirit has gone crazy, so it is not a good thing to be bent down by him, anyway, when I became a ghost knight, my mind was always in chaos, and I would always subconsciously seek out the guilty to judge them. ”

"That power is hard to control, but it should be, after all, how can mortal spirits fight against vengeful spirits..."

Carter Slay sighed with a sad look on his face, he shrugged his shoulders and continued,

"But I'm sure that God... Well, maybe Zeus or Odin or something, they're gone... They left this world, it is said that they were expelled by the powerful person who controlled the world, uh, it is also said that the supreme mage destroyed Mount Olympus, and the other gods were scared, and they left this world on their own initiative, in short... It is good to have faith, but those believers do not know that it is no longer possible for their gods to respond to them. ”

A hint of playfulness flashed in the old man's eyes,

"Whoever it is... There may still be remnants of gods in this world, but they are no longer the masters of this world, and we are no longer lambs, which is a good thing, isn't it?"

"Okay, tell me about me, what the hell are my eyes?"

Cyber asked, and the old man stretched out two fingers and shook them in front of their eyes.

"The complete Ghost Knight is composed of the spirit of vengeance, the Hellfire and the host, Johnny the Kid is the complete knight, his soul is controlled by Mephisto, and his body is also inhabited by the polluted and corrupted spirit of revenge, and the power of the Hellfire he can also mobilize, it is the kind of crimson flame, the temperature is extremely high! His eyes are the Eyes of Repentance, the most terrifying weapon of every Ghost Rider. ”

"But you're not, you don't have a crazy vengeance spirit in your body, it must be Mephisto is a cunning guy, even if the vengeful spirit goes crazy, he can't control them, so he uses a roundabout method, first trick you into signing a contract, then control your soul, and finally give the power of the vengeful spirit to you, and control the vengeful spirit for his use by controlling your soul. ”

Carter Slay spoke eloquently, and he pointed to Cyber's eyes,

"When you didn't sign the contract, he wouldn't give you the complete spirit of revenge, in my experience, your eyes are only a small part of the power of the spirit of revenge, although I don't know how you control it, but it seems to be able to use it for you now, I guess the old dog can't get it back, this is a good thing, by the way, you have to be careful with that contract, that treacherous old man cast magic on the top of the contract, as long as the finger touches it, it will be cut open, and blood will drip on the contract, that is, the contract is established..."

The old man slapped the table indignantly, "That's how Lao Tzu was cheated back then!"

Johnny touched his nose a little unnaturally, "Uh, that's how I was deceived. ”

"And this contract?"

Cyber picked up the scroll, and the old man waved his hand in disgust, "You can use it as a butt wipe, that thing is useless except to dedicate your soul to the devil, but you have to be careful, you don't have the support of a complete vengeful spirit in your body, and the ability of those eyes to ignite the evil soul is best used sparingly, if your will is not strong enough, you may be made into a madman who can only drink porridge for the rest of your life by that pressure." ”

"Whew... Don't worry, I'm not stupid enough to let it control me for this power of unknown origin, I'm not that weak. ”

Cyber breathed a sigh of relief, and after confirming that the eyes were harmless, his heart relaxed, and he looked at Carter Shray,

"Then tell me about you, the story of your pact with St. Vangonza. ”