"Who are you, and why did you get me here?" Johnny stood up and stared warily at the old man, he was sure that the reason why he had unconsciously come here must be the old man's ghost. With {dream} small ◢.1a

"My name is Carter. Shray, the night watchman of this cemetery. I didn't get you here, but you had a mission to get you here. The old man looked at Johnny with a smile.

"The mission? Lonely life buried here, don't pretend to be a ghost, I've seen a lot of guys like you, either make things clear, or be ready to bear my wrath. Flames began to appear on Johnny's face, and half of his face shifted between ** and skeleton.

"Hey, don't be nervous, Ghost Rider, can you bear to make a move on an old man in his last years?"

"yes, if another old man appeared in front of me, I would punch him in the face." Ever since he was trapped by Mephisto, Johnny didn't have much affection for old men and the like, especially the old man who could get him from bed to the cemetery without even noticing.

"Looks like you might be a little mistaken about the old man." Seeing that Johnny was about to turn into a full-fledged Ghost Rider, the old man Carter hurriedly waved his hand, "Okay, no kidding, actually, we are the same people." ”

Bang, a flame skeleton appeared in front of Johnny, and he looked at old Carter dumbfounded, "You're also a ghost rider?" ”

"Yes, I'm your ex, I think, I've met the old man you want to beat." Carter Sr. changed back into his human form and smiled at Johnny.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Shray, I'm a little too sensitive to the mystery, and I think you can understand that Mephisto's old liar with a mouth full of lies has made us look like no human and no ghost." Johnny stretched out his hand and shook hands with Carter Sr., he still had a good impression of the other Ghost Rider, after all, they were all like-minded people.

"It's nothing, but it's strange to me that you know something about Mephisto and Ghost Rider, did anyone tell you?"

"Yes, a strong fellow, even able to defeat me." Johnny remembered Kane and the bone dragon he gave him, and couldn't help but pout, this guy's strength is unfathomable.

"Oh, I'd love to meet him when I get a chance." Carter was surprised to hear that someone was able to defeat Ghost Rider.

"By the way, Mr. Shi Lei, what are you bringing me here for?"

"I'm sorry, I brought you here because I need your help with a very tricky matter." Old Carter said seriously, "I saw your heroic appearance over New York on TV, and then I knew that there was another Ghost Rider, so I took the liberty to summon you." ”

"Do you know the legend of St. Van Gonza?"

"No, never."

"It was the name of a small town, it was full of quiet and peaceful, until one day, a man who was bewitched by the devil to become an evil ghost rider because of greed came to this town, and all the people in the town suddenly changed, arrogance, jealousy, anger, laziness, greed, **, gluttony and other negative emotions suddenly broke out among them, everyone died in the fight against each other, not a single survivor, and in the end, a parchment with a contract written on it appeared in the church in the town, There are a thousand of the names of all those who died in this catastrophe. ”

Listening to Carter Sr.'s story, Johnny couldn't help but think of what he saw in his nightmare, it seemed that it was what happened in the small town of St. Van Gonza, and he himself played the role of Old Carter, and that sense of empathy and powerlessness made him sympathize with the old man.

"The man walked out of the town with the Saint Van Gonza Contract, and Mephisto, the devil who had bewitched him, suddenly appeared in front of him and asked him for the contract, and then he realized that he had caused the hellish scene in this town, but, for some reason, he could not go in and retrieve the contract himself."

"This man has never done much good in his life, but at this moment he hesitated, although he was greedy, but he also knew the importance of the contract to the devil, so he ran away with the contract at the last moment, and since then he has been hiding incognito." Carter spread his hands, "Look, he seems to be hiding well, at least the devil hasn't found him." ”

"I think you're probably overthinking." Johnny poured cold water on the smug old man, as a friend of Kane, he was the one who knew the truth about the Ghost Rider from the Ancient One, "Mephisto hasn't appeared in front of you because he hasn't figured out how to cheat that contract out of you, and you think you can just get away with him?" ”

"Your Excellency the Supreme Mage told me that they have an agreement with the devil, and the devil cannot directly obtain souls from humans, otherwise he will be unlucky, I think, the tragedy of the small town of St. Van Gonza must have been that he took some loopholes in the rules, but he did not dare to take those souls himself, unless someone gave them to him personally." According to what the Ancient One Master said, Johnny guessed the truth.

"So, Mephisto already knew I was living in seclusion?" Old Carter wanted to cry a little, if this is the truth, then what is the point of him doing this for hundreds of years?

"Then I finally know how Blackheart found me." Carter sighed.

"Black heart? So who is that? ”

"That's why I brought you here, another devil named Blackheart is also looking for the Saint Van Gonza Contract, I just killed one of his men, I think, he will be able to find here soon, I am afraid that I will not be able to protect the contract, so I summoned you, who are also companions."

Johnny thought about it carefully, and felt that he and Carter alone were not safe, after experiencing the battle of New York, his worldview has changed dramatically, there are all kinds of strong people in this world, and it is not a hero who is reckless at will, and the most important thing is to successfully prevent the disaster from happening, since it is to face the devil, then it is a little more likely to call that person to win.

The town of Salem, Massachusetts, where the most notorious Salem witch trial in American history took place, in which 19 people were hanged and one was crushed to death by a pile of stones, and later, people blamed the hallucinogenic ergot in bread as the reason for the case, but no one could answer why such a horrific incident had never happened anywhere else in the world.

More than 00 years later, the town has returned to normal, people have forgotten that dark moment, the witch trial even gave the town an extra tourist income, and now the townspeople feel that there is nothing bad about the case that happened here.

In the evening of that day, a convoy quietly drove into the town, parked next to the Witches Museum in Salem, which was once used as a court to try those witches, several big men walked into the closed museum through the back door, skillfully solved the only guard of the museum, and then waved to the convoy, several container trucks stopped at the back door in turn, and they carried the squirming travel bags into the museum, and the residents of the town were enjoying dinner at home, and no one noticed this scene.