Chapter 225
"Wow! This wine is really strong!"
In the wide back seat of the off-road vehicle, Johnny panicked the bottle drunk, just like a drunkard , Moved towards Cyber laughed heartily with an exaggerated expression, it can be seen that this guy must not have the usual drinking habit, just a small half bottle of wine, let him enter a state of drunken joy.
After poking the disguise, this guy no longer had the feeling that he refused to be beyond a thousand li before. He and Cyber smoked and drank, and answered Selina’s questions about professional drivers from time to time. The problem, coupled with the wild music of the truck radio station Selina clicked on, the second half of the journey was almost full of joy.
Behind the joy is the painful past of the Johnny Blaze family.
His story is not complicated. When Johnny was a child, when he was 15 years old, 10 years ago, he and his father, Barton Blaze, who was also a death car mechanic, were in a large scale near Austin. The circus performance of father and son car skills is widely acclaimed in the local area. His childhood life is not good, but it is definitely not embarrassing. Until he was 15 years old, God made a joke with his father.
Lung cancer was still a terrifying term 10 years ago. Johnny discovered all this. He couldn't believe it. He was rude and always devoted himself to acrobatics. He was as healthy as a horse. The old fogey wanted to leave him so easily, the young Johnny was surrounded by an indescribable fear, and on that night, a stranger visited him.
It’s Mephisto. This guy has the temperament that a devil should have. He moved Johnny with no difficulty and signed a weird contract with him. He promised Johnny that he would get A healthy father, second day, Johnny did see that his father was completely restored to his 30-year-old, incredible health. He set out to plan his elopement plan with his first love girl. The result was the moment Johnny left the circus... There was an accident with Barton Blaze.
It was an acrobatics with almost no difficulty. Riding a bicycle across the ring of fire, any primary level rider can do it, but Barton, who is known as the best rider, fell in this link. When Johnny rushed into the hospital, he saw father's cold, charred body.
He got what he expected, a healthy relative, but in less than 30 minutes, he lost him again... Mephisto did what he promised, but he used a kind of unforgettable He took away Johnny’s only relative... and his love. In the cold wind and rain in Austin, Johnny left his hometown on the car left by his father alone. He was alone.
From the year when he was 15 years old, Johnny has learned one thing, he has to protect those he is willing to protect, but he has to use another way...that is to stay away from them, because His appearance will only bring doom and death.
"I've been looking forward to the second chance..."
The drunk Johnny hugged Cyber's shoulders, thinking it was a dream, "Everyone deserves a second chance. I know I can’t live in fear, but when I left my hometown at 15 years old, I could see him every time I turned... He told me that he would appear again, and at that time, he had to fulfill him. Promised, he will take away what he needs... my soul... I know, all this is because of me, if I did not sign the contract, my father would..."
"He will die as well..."
Cyber turned Johnny's face with one hand and looked directly into his eyes, "If you didn't sign the contract, your father would do the same Death, he will even lie in the hospital bed in pain, day by day desperately waiting for the arrival of the last moment, you at least let him die in what he likes to do, this is a kind of kindness, as for your fear. .. It makes no sense!"
"Johnny, all your fears, you have lived in fear for 10 years, repeatedly trying all kinds of car skills, what do you want to prove?"
"Do you want to prove that he has forgotten you? Do you want to escape this way?"
Cyber placed his finger, he leaned on the chair,
"No wonder you have your skull and spine broken, and you can survive safe and sound. His power is always around you. He wants to make sure that his "investment" can be profitable. He wants to make sure that you can become what he wants. This kind of person... you don’t even realize the nature of the problem. You are sure that everything you are going to do now comes from what you really want to do, or is it just a method by which he shows you his strength..."
Cyber puts his finger in front of Johnny’s eyes, "In my opinion, you are almost crushed by him. You told yourself you can’t live in fear, but every time you say this, it means You have not been able to get out of fear at all. Every time you mention it, it is an activation of fear. If you continue to do this without him coming to you, you will be crushed by yourself."
" You don’t smoke, you don’t drink, and you don’t like everything the youngster likes... Tell me, is this normal?"
A playful smile appeared on Cyber's mouth, "As far as I know, Mephisto doesn’t like cigarettes and alcohol. I think you’re slowly becoming him...Do you know what I mean?"
A drunk person is impossible spirituality Thinking, but Johnny is not an ordinary person. He is asleep with the power of the Great Demon ghost in his body like Cyber. What Cyber said, he heard all the words in his ears, and more and more I feel that what Cyber says makes sense.
Is he unwilling to touch all that, or is it some other force affecting him?
Johnny sat there thinking for a few minutes, then grabbed the phone next to him,
"Hey, Mike, my brother, you have a party tonight, right?"
The phone seems to be very noisy. Vice Captain Mike of the Johnny team, who is also one of his only friends, said loudly to the phone, "***.! You don’t usually feel at all about these things. Interested, why? Do you want to come and play too?"
Johnny shrugged, he asked loudly,
"Are there cigarettes, alcohol, and beauties? There are all those youngsters Should I be interested in something?"
"Wow! Our ***. has come alive!"
Mike said happily, "The best to enjoy, the best Beautiful beauty, East Town, Houston, do you need me to find someone to pick you up?"
Johnny reported an address, hung up, he put out a long breath, looked at Cyber, he reached out and grabbed it Hair,
"You’re right, I think I should...relieve occasionally. The pressure of ten years is really about to break me down."
"Before the danger really comes, this is a shame. The warrior should eat the best, drink the best, play the best, and then bravely go to the battlefield with weapons and die on the battlefield. This is the best home for the brave... You will be a good warrior, Johnny, I look forward to seeing you and Mephisto again."
Cyber waved his hand to Selina,
"Let Johnny down at the next street corner, and we should go home."
"Goodbye, Cyber!"
Johnny stood outside the car, moved towards Cyber and Selina waved her hand, "3Frigg's performance, you are welcome, I can arrange the best seats for you!" Selina screamed in surprise, and then watched Johnny push the car away. In the alley of, Cyber shook the glass of the car up, under the sunglasses, two beating rays of light flashed, and I didn’t know what he was thinking about.
"Selina, help me contact Katherine, let the little girl send a few people over, I want the kind of young man who can find someone to fight with... Don’t let Katherine come over, she still has to study in Gotham !"
Cyber closed his eyes, he reached out and rubbed the bridge of his nose with a tired face, he said to Selina who was sitting next to him,
"If she is noisy, tell her, This is the requirement of the old man, she must finish high school and college to run the bar, let Lewis and Robin pay close attention to her, this time we have to face the power is a bit troublesome, don't let the reckless little girl get involved "
In the early morning of the second day, Cyber and Yuriko led down the ruins of the small town called San Venganza at Selina's. The place is quite far from the bar beyond the border, almost at the two extremes of a desert. In terms of the direction, its name is hard to not think of the San Venganza contract. The most important thing is that Cyber wants to get some clues from it.
"You said that there is a tourist attraction now?"
Yuriko looked at the Texas travel map in his hand blankly, and turned to look towards Selina while driving," but Mr. Cyber said there It’s dangerous! How can it be a tourist attraction?"
This title made Selina and Cyber both frustrated at the same time, and the latter waved his hand.
"Yuriko, you call me Cyber, or You can call me Hawk, can you not call me an adult? This sounds weird."
"This is a respectable name!"
Yuriko stubbornly replied, "Whether it is strength or experience, you are qualified to assume this title. You must know that in ancient Japan, forces like the Devil Gang can already match some small names. This title is definitely appropriate!"
Looking at the serious look on her face, Cyber sighed, no longer stopped, Yuriko’s father, that crazy scientist used traditional education for his daughter. This kind of thing is difficult to reverse. .
Since it can’t be changed, then learn to enjoy it. Frankly speaking, being called "adult" by such a beautiful girl is actually a very cool and peculiar experience.
"That place is indeed a tourist attraction. The dilapidated houses and buildings there retain the western style of 2 centuries ago. Many people will travel there."
Selina while driving. While looking at Cyber with her rearview mirror, every time Cyber's gaze turned, she would stare back fiercely. Yuriko didn't know Cyber's nasty ability.
"Then about San Venganza, is there any legend related to the devil?"
Cyber noticed the movement of Miss Thief, so he closed his eyes, put on sunglasses, and put the brim of his hat After pulling it down, Selina was satisfied with Cyber, who had finally "honestly" come down, and then began to talk about the news she had received during her last trip.
"There are a lot of myths and stories circulating in this place in the west. The truth is not clear, but if it is in the San Venganza area, there are two most famous stories that almost everyone knows. One is the devil in the wheat field. It is said that every 30 years is the harvest season in the summer. The devil will hide in the wheat field, and those selected pitiful persons will be killed by him. It will stop and return to Demon Realm when the blood shed is enough to cover one third of a wheat field. Go."
Selina told the story in an artificially terrifying tone. After she finished speaking, she looked at the expressions of Yuriko and Cyber's. The former was full of interest, while the latter was unresponsive. Selina has a strange sense of frustration, so she continues with the second story.
"The legend of the devil in the wheat field is mainly popular on the edge of the desert. Another legend is about Ghost Rider's. It is said to be Knight. In fact, it is more like Bounty Hunter. This is amazing. I have traveled in the past few years. The place, as long as it is close to the Western Region, almost has this legend, and every place is different. The Ghost Rider's protagonist in San Venganza is a Texas Mounted Police named Carter Slade. Well, that was the old bones 230 years ago. "
"oh?"
Cyber was in interest, he knocked on Selina's seat with his large cane,
"There are also records The protagonist of such a clear story, come and talk about this Carter Slade."
Selina glared at him, then twitched her nose and whispered,
"I'm also from that The tour guide heard this story. It is said that Carter Slade is one of the most famous Mounted Police in Texas history. They were active in the last scene of the Western Era. He was a very upright and brave man. In the area he patrolled, those Both the horse thief and the criminal fled. It is said that Carter’s bullets can accurately explode a guy’s head from 500 meters away. At that time, there was no criminal gang in the west that was not afraid of him, but this guy has a problem, that is, he is too greedy. "
Selina twisted the steering wheel and drove the car into a remote desert road. She continued to tell the Ghost Rider's story,
"Carter's greed for money and power It caused trouble for him. It seems that when he was 35 years old, he was sent to prison for corruption. While waiting for his death, Carter met a mysterious guy, and he signed a contract with him. The crimes of the greedy Carter have been forgotten by everyone. He has become the brave and upright mounted policeman. He chases criminals during the day and becomes a burning Knight at night, chasing down the demons and ghosts who sneak into the world. "
"But Carter's old problem has committed again. During a hunt, he took away some things that should belong to the devil, which caused even greater troubles. He was killed by the devil. But what he took away disappeared. It is said that the devil...has been looking for it!"
Selina's voice trembled a bit after this. I heard this story before. At the time, Miss Thief only thought it was talking nonsense, but after seeing Mephisto, Se lina suddenly realized...this story is probably...
"Really! "
Cyber looked at the village outside the window, his eyes moved slightly,
"This story is true. It was the San Venganza contract that Carter Slade took away!" Selina, Yuriko...You guys go to the neighborhood and ask, any news about Carter Slade, sum it up to me... We finally have a clear goal. "