Chapter 787: Special Deception
Carter Slade had been prepared to die tonight, but this Big Dipper had appeared out of nowhere and injected him with the red liquid.
At that moment, he actually felt his old and decaying body glow with vitality.
For the last hundred years or so, he had relied on the power of Ghost Rider to maintain his body.
But he was really too old. Although Ghost Rider was powerful, that energy couldn’t stop the old man’s body from decaying.
Over the years, his body had become like a bucket full of holes, and the Ghost Rider power continued to leak out.
In the last few years, the Ghost Rider power had clearly fallen to its weakest, allowing him to antic.i.p.ate his death.
Now, this mysterious “Big Dipper” had injected him with a strange energy that was slowly healing his body.
It was mending the cracks, and the rate at which the Ghost Rider power was depleting gradually slowed down.
He estimated that he could live for at least another three to five years.
What was going on? He had been ready to go back and die! Carter was conflicted.
A person who knew that he was going to die and had been prepared for everything suddenly learned that he would live for a while yet. The feeling was unimaginably complicated.
…
Luke had already let go of Carter Slade’s matter for now.
What he had needed was the old man’s knowledge. The Basic Theology he just learned contained a lot of general knowledge about h.e.l.l. He had achieved his goal.
He had long guessed that the old man was very sensitive to the word “deal,” which was why he had deliberately used it so that the old man would refuse.
That way, he could “defeat” the previous Ghost Rider and obtain a list of his abilities.
He hadn’t mistreated the old man.
The unknown red liquid was a form of compensation.
In any case, the old man no longer had the will to fight. Even if he lived a few more years, he would just retire in the cemetery and not go out and cause trouble like a young man.
Now, Luke only had one target left — Blackheart.
Oh, and that Water Demon, he couldn’t forget him, Luke reminded himself.
Looking at the images captured by the drone from the air, Luke sped up.
In the center of the abandoned town, in a square outside a church, Ghost Rider was confronting Blackheart.
Looking at Ghost Rider, who was burning with flames, Blackheart smiled. “Cancel your transformation, or your girlfriend will suffer.”
Water Demon, who was holding Roxanne, immediately tightened his grip on her neck, causing her face to turn red.
The flames faded from Ghost Rider to reveal Johnny’s true self.
“The San Venganza contract? Give it to me.” Blackheart stretched out his hand.
Johnny slowly took out the scroll from his chest. “A trade. If you let Roxanne go, I’ll give it to you.”
Blackheart looked at the scroll and felt the aura of his cheap father, Mephisto, on it. His heart burned.
He turned his head and gestured at Water Demon, who threw Roxanne into a corner seven or eight meters away.
Blackheart stepped forward and grabbed the scroll.
It didn’t budge!
Johnny gripped the other end of the scroll tightly as fury flashed in his eyes.
With a loud bang, his head burst into flames. Ghost Rider appeared again and punched Blackheart in the face, sending him flying.
Enraged, Blackheart roared as he lay on the ground, “Catch that woman and cut off one of her hands.”
The flames on Johnny’s head shook violently a few times, and he turned around to protect his girlfriend, Roxanne. Water Demon also started moving almost at the same time.
But the next moment, both of them exclaimed in surprise.
The corner which Roxanne had collapsed in was empty.
Blackheart got up and cursed at the motionless Water Demon. “Didn’t you hear me? Catch that woman…”
At that moment, he noticed the empty corner. “Huh? Where is she?”
Water Demon: “…I don’t know.”
“Find her. I’m going to cut his girlfriend into pieces in front of this Ghost Rider.” Black mist filled Blackheart’s blue face, and his mouth was full of sharp teeth.
He was infuriated by Johnny reneging on the deal.
Johnny was alone, and his girlfriend was here. How dare he fight back!
Blackheart wasn’t his father, and wouldn’t tolerate Ghost Rider’s provocation at all.
After a brief hesitation, Water Demon turned into a ball of liquid and flowed out of the square.
After leaving the square, he saw the female reporter, Roxanne, hiding behind a pile of rubble dozens of meters away, half of her body exposed.
He didn’t think too much of it.
Roxanne was just an ordinary woman without any abilities. Water Demon’s own traits made him unafraid of physical attacks, so catching Roxanne would be a piece of cake.
When he was not far from Rozanne, he condensed back into his human form and stretched out one wet hand with a hideous smile. “Come here, baby. Your boyfriend is waiting for you inside.”
A gray jar suddenly flew out from behind Roxanne and landed at his feet.
Roxanne cried out at the same time as she flailed her limbs in panic and suddenly flew more than twenty meters away.
Stunned for a moment, Water Demon didn’t understand what was going on. Then, with a bang, the gray dust under his feet suddenly exploded, and a thick white fog enveloped an area of ten meters.
“What… the h.e.l.l… is this…” He was still speaking, when he was enveloped in the white fog.
In the distance, Roxanne also turned to look at Water Demon with a baffled expression, as if she had no idea what was going on.
The air in front of her suddenly warped, and a figure appeared amidst flickering blue electricity.
The figure was wrapped tightly in a streamlined suit of dark gray armor, and the round lenses looked like old-fas.h.i.+oned sungla.s.ses.
Roxanne exclaimed and stumbled back a few meters.
The dark gray figure just turned around and glanced at her. Waving his hand to indicate that she should stay away, he walked toward the frozen Water Demon.
Naturally, it was Luke in the Big Dipper Armor.
The a.s.sa.s.sin-type Big Dipper Armor had an optical camouflage system. Most of the inspiration for this system came from the broken Predator armor which he obtained from the South Pole.
Luke then combined it with some of Earth’s technology and struggled before he was able to localize it for use.
This optical camouflage’s stealth effect was a little rougher in a situation that was sufficiently bright, and it was easy for others to detect the distortion of light.
But in a dark environment, the stealth effect was still useful.
Luke had relied on this thing to secretly cover Roxanne’s mouth and take her out while the other three were focused on the contract.
When Water Demon came to look for her, Luke deliberately exposed part of Roxanne’s body to lure him over, and then used a liquid nitrogen canister to trap Water Demon.
It seemed that Water Demon really was only a water demon, and not an ice demon.
He wasn’t as resistant to low temperatures as Luke had imagined, so Wind Demon decisively turned into a huge block of ice.