Chapter 95: Verbal Criticism (4K chapter)
After seeing the hellfire coming out of the wreckage of Ghost Rider condense into a huge fireball with a diameter of more than five meters, not only Richard guessed the purpose of the Spirit of Vengeance, but Invisible Woman and Thunderbolt also guessed it.
The onlookers who were unwilling to evacuate before and insisted on staying at the scene to watch the excitement were stunned for a second or two when they saw this scene.
Then, they ran madly as if fleeing.
Although they didn't know what the Ghost Rider and the Spirit of Vengeance were, they were not stupid.
After seeing the stone man burned into "charcoal" by the hellfire, they knew that the hellfire on the body of the Ghost Rider was not an ordinary flame.
As for the huge fireball that appeared now, it is clear that this is definitely a large-scale attack move.
It was not only the onlookers who ran madly. After seeing this scene, the surrounding New York police also began to flee.
Only a few thousand dollars a month, what's the point of playing with your life!
When the onlookers and New York police quickly evacuated, Invisible Woman and the other two also tried to evacuate with the stone man.
However, compared with the crazy running onlookers and New York police, their speed was more than a little slower.
Although the three Invisible Women had superpowers, it was not easy for them to evacuate quickly with the stone man who was as heavy as a stone.
None of them had superpowers, and the superpowers they had were not suitable for evacuating quickly with the stone man.
After seeing the huge fireball condensed by the Spirit of Vengeance becoming more and more dazzling, the Invisible Woman immediately used her superpowers to create a defensive force field to cover herself and Mr. Fantastic.
Boom!
Within a few seconds, the huge fireball condensed by the Spirit of Vengeance exploded like a small nuclear bomb. The huge explosion sounded not only throughout the Brooklyn area, but also clearly reached the ears of residents in other districts of New York.
The shock wave generated by the explosion swept around with amazing power, and spread out one or two kilometers in the blink of an eye.
The golden mushroom cloud rose into the sky, and the flames of the explosion made New York, which was originally at night, become as bright as day, and the earth shook violently like an earthquake.
As the person closest to the center of the explosion, Richard did not evacuate.
Although the "self-destruction" attack created by the power of revenge was indeed very strong, it still did not threaten him.
Before the huge fireball exploded, he used all his strength to absorb energy and protected himself 360 degrees without dead angles.
He had not tested the limit of energy absorption before.
However, he was not worried about being injured.
Not to mention that energy absorption is an enhanced Alpha-level superpower.
Even if the power of the "self-destruction" of the spirit of revenge exceeded the limit of energy absorption, it would not threaten him with his Alpha-level super physique and super self-healing.
The terrifying shock wave and the blinding light generated by the explosion did not last long, and disappeared after only a few seconds.
Although the shock wave and the strong light disappeared, the flying dust raised by the explosion and the golden mushroom cloud that rose into the sky did not disappear together.
Richard ignored these and locked the recovering Ghost Rider with telepathy.
The wreckage of the Ghost Rider was blown away by the shock wave of the explosion early in the morning.
Not to mention his wreckage, even the surrounding reinforced concrete buildings were destroyed by the shock wave of the explosion.
Although it is unknown where the wreckage was blown away, it did not affect the recovery of Ghost Rider at all.
In the center of the golden mushroom cloud, the hellfire quickly condensed into a human shape.
Then, the skeletons of Ghost Rider appeared one by one in the hellfire.
Compared with the beginning, the recovery speed of Ghost Rider is not ordinary slow.
It took almost ten seconds for Ghost Rider to restore his complete skeleton form.
As for the original leather clothes and jeans on his body, they have disappeared now.
The Spirit of Vengeance, which has consumed a lot of energy, is not in the mood to care whether the host is running naked.
Or, even if he runs naked, no one will care.
They are all skeletons, it doesn’t matter whether he wears clothes or not.
After using the remaining little energy to restore the host, the Spirit of Vengeance directly took over the body of Ghost Rider, ready to leave as quickly as possible, temporarily giving up the judgment on Richard.
However, as soon as the Spirit of Vengeance, which had taken over the body of Ghost Rider, came out of the golden mushroom cloud, it saw Richard holding two samurai swords, one long and one short, looking at it with satisfaction.
The moment it saw Richard, the Spirit of Vengeance immediately had a strong intuition of death that it had only felt six thousand years ago.
At that time, it had just descended from heaven to the earth in the form of fire rain, and had not yet begun to devour its own kind to improve itself, and was far less powerful than it is now.
In the battles with other similar people, it also had several intuitions of death.
But the intuition of death generated at that time was far less strong than it is now.
Although it didn't know why it felt such a strong intuition of death in Richard, it chose to believe in its intuition and immediately mobilized the remaining little energy.
When the Spirit of Vengeance began to use the remaining little energy, the hellfire covering the Ghost Rider burned more fiercely.
And at this moment, under the gaze of the Spirit of Vengeance, Richard raised the Yama Blade in his hand.
Richard didn't waste any more time, flashed in front of the Ghost Rider, and swung the Yama Blade in his right hand with lightning.
Separation!
The Yama Blade encountered no obstruction and slashed through the Ghost Rider's body as if it was slicing through the air.
On the surface, his attack did not cause any harm to Ghost Rider.
But the Spirit of Vengeance possessed by Ghost Rider had a completely different view.
The Spirit of Vengeance, which had already merged with the host's soul, felt a powerful separation ability that he had never felt before.
This strange and powerful separation ability forcibly dissolved its fusion with the host.
At the same time, it was pulled out of the host's body.
For ordinary people, it is very difficult to separate the Spirit of Vengeance that has merged with the host's soul.
But for Richard, it is not a difficult task.
In fact, the method of separating the Spirit of Vengeance from the host is not uncommon in the Marvel Universe.
There are several methods that have appeared in comics alone.
For example, the sacred weapons made of heaven paving bricks, the black magic of the Hand, the spell of Mephisto, etc.
As long as the right method is used, it is not difficult to separate the Spirit of Vengeance from the host.
Under Richard's gaze, a fist-sized golden ball of light flew out of Ghost Rider's body.
As the golden ball of light left the body, the hellfire on the Ghost Rider disappeared without a trace, and the body changed from the original skeletal form back to normal flesh and blood.
Who is this guy?
After seeing the Ghost Rider who had recovered his human form, Richard frowned slightly.
He thought that the Ghost Rider who appeared tonight would be one of the first, second, and third generations.
However, it turned out that he guessed wrong.
The Ghost Rider who had recovered his human form was a black man in his thirties or forties.
Although black Ghost Riders have appeared in comics.
For example, Caleb, the Ghost Rider during the American Civil War, was a black man.
But it was obvious that the middle-aged black man in front of him was not Caleb.
Although he didn't know who this middle-aged black man was, Richard didn't hesitate at all, and the authentic knife in his left hand flashed out.
No matter who the Ghost Rider in this world is, he doesn't intend to spare his life.
It has come to this point, if he still lets the other party go, it would be too unreasonable.
The Spirit of Vengeance wants to kill, and the host also wants to kill!
Swish!
As the authentic knife passed, the middle-aged black man's head flew high like a basketball shot.
After killing the middle-aged black man who had no impression at all, Richard's eyes fell on the golden ball of light, or more precisely, on the Spirit of Vengeance.
After separating from the host, the Spirit of Vengeance tried to leave as quickly as possible.
But soon, it found that it was overthinking.
Magnetic field binding!
The moment the Spirit of Vengeance was separated, Richard used his superpower of magnetic field control to create an ultra-high intensity magnetic field that could not be detected by the naked eye, binding the Spirit of Vengeance.
After fusing the Yama Knife back to the authentic knife, Richard stretched out his right hand and directly grabbed the body of the Spirit of Vengeance.
Energy absorption!
The moment he touched the body of the Spirit of Vengeance, the little energy in the Spirit of Vengeance was absorbed crazily by him.
After only two or three seconds, the Spirit of Vengeance completely dimmed, and its size changed from the original fist size to the size of an egg.
Although there was not much energy left in the Spirit of Vengeance, Richard still did not stop absorbing it.
After another five or six seconds, the egg-sized Spirit of Vengeance became the size of a grain of sand.
Finally, it completely disappeared.
Plunder!
After using energy absorption to drain the Spirit of Vengeance alive, Richard immediately performed Omega-level plunder.
[New ability: Hellfire! ]
[Hellfire: A supernatural flame originating from the depths of hell, not restricted by natural laws, with the abilities of demonization, materialization, recovery, burning souls, and transformation into evil spirits. ]
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After reading the system introduction, Richard smiled with satisfaction.
Because it is not an X-gene superpower, Hellfire is not integrated with other superpowers of the same type, nor is it divided into specific levels.
However, this is not a very important matter.
After turning off the information panel, Richard turned his head and glanced at the four Invisible Women.
The self-destruction attack performed by the Spirit of Vengeance just now was indeed very strong, but the defensive force field of the Invisible Women was not weak either.
Although the defensive force field she created showed signs of collapse, none of the four of them were injured in the self-destruction attack of the Spirit of Vengeance.
As for the onlookers and the New York police, they were not so lucky.
Richard could confirm that two or three hundred people died in the self-explosion attack of the Spirit of Vengeance by just using telepathy.
Under the gaze of the four Invisible Women, he did nothing but used teleportation to leave and returned to the hotel entrance.
"Where do you live?"
After returning to the car, Richard said to Fina who was sitting in the co-pilot seat.
Huh?
Fina had already prepared herself to go home alone tonight.
After hearing Richard's words, she looked at Richard with a surprised look.
Although she had been staying in the car, she also saw the live broadcast of Richard's fight with the Ghost Rider on the Internet.
Not only that, when the live broadcast was suddenly interrupted, she was a little worried about whether Richard would be injured.
In her opinion, Richard, who had just finished the battle, should not be in much mood to play poker with her two sisters.
After all, they had played once before.
Unexpectedly, after Richard returned to the car, the first thing he said was to ask her where she lived.
Although it was a little unexpected, Fina immediately told Richard the address of the apartment.
Then, she took out her mobile phone and sent a text message to her sister in the apartment, asking her to get ready.
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At noon the next day.
Fina's apartment.
Richard removed the arms and thighs that Fina and her sister had placed on him, got up, found his clothes from the clothes scattered on the ground and put them on.
"Are you going back?"
Fina looked at Richard with sleepy eyes and asked reluctantly.
"Yeah."
Richard nodded.
After hearing his words, Fina first showed a disappointed expression.
Then she quickly got up and came to him, serving him like a maid.
Soon, Richard put on his clothes.
Under Fina's gaze, he performed teleportation, disappeared in an instant, and came to the underground garage.
Then, he drove the Aston Martin antique car towards the manor.
Although he did not return to the manor last night, he sent a text message to the White Queen before playing poker with the Fina sisters, so that the White Queen would not think that he was killed by the Ghost Rider last night.
At this time, he did not know that he had aroused public anger in New York and became a murderer who was criticized by people.
In the early hours of last night, the heads of major TV stations and newspapers in New York received calls from the authorities.
In addition, they also received the accurate casualties of last night.
The death toll was 276 and the number of injured was 851.
Although the incidental economic losses have not been counted, this is not the point.
At least for the officials, this is not the point.
At the request of the officials, major TV stations and newspapers in New York reported the battle between Richard and the Ghost Rider very "fairly".
Then, he became a murderer who was criticized.
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S.H.I.E.L.D.
Triskelion Headquarters.
The Director's Office.
"What are those people in the White House thinking? Are they all crazy, or are they so arrogant that they think they can manipulate Richard?"
"Let the media deliberately mislead the public and throw dirty water on him. Aren't they afraid that Richard will come to visit them in person?"
Natasha, who was wearing a tight black uniform and perfectly showing her sexy curves, sat in front of Nick Fury and said with a frown.
"They are not crazy, and they are not arrogant."
"As for whether Richard will come to visit them, it depends on whether he is determined to be an enemy of the whole world."
Nick Fury said slowly.
Natasha looked at Nick Fury in confusion.
Although Nick Fury said it very obscurely, a guess immediately flashed through her mind.
"I don't know what you have prepared, but my intuition tells me that Richard is not as easy to deal with as you think."
"In addition, no matter what plan you have, Banner and I will not participate."
After speaking, Natasha stood up and turned away without waiting for Nick Fury to answer.
Nick Fury didn't take Natasha's attitude to heart.
Or rather, when he recruited Natasha into SHIELD, he knew that Natasha was not the kind of subordinate who would obey obediently.
When Natasha left the office, Nick Fury took out his mobile phone and dialed the number of the head of SHIELD's New York branch.
Soon, the call was connected.
"From now on, report the latest situation to me every hour."
"I want to know all of Richard Wesley's next actions."
"What he did, who he met, and what he ate, I want to know everything."
Nick Fury said with a serious face.
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