"Video?"
"Yes."
Natasha nodded, followed Wanda into the house, and then, after seeing Hawk coming out from behind the bar, briefly described the origin of the video.
Hawk raised an eyebrow: "A video signal intercepted from a collision between Captain America from a parallel universe where I haven't arrived and Captain America here in the flow of time?"
Wanda curiously looked at Natasha: "In that parallel universe, you died, Tony also died, and Captain America went back in time to spend his life with Peggy Kate?"
Good grief.
What kind of tragic cosmos is this.
Is it really that miserable?
However...
Just when Wanda sighed in her heart, suddenly, she thought that if Hawk hadn't come, it seemed, perhaps, the final outcome could really be like what Natasha just described.
Natasha met Wanda's gaze, nodded, and then looked at the two: "A total of four segments of video footage were captured. The first three are about me, Tony, and Captain America, but the last one is about..."
Natasha paused here, took out her phone, unlocked it, and handed it to Wanda beside her before continuing.
"It's about Jean."
"What?"
"Jean?"
Upon hearing this, Wanda quickly lowered her eyes, her gaze falling on Natasha's phone in her hands, watching the segment of footage playing on the phone, her body shook, her pupils constricted, and her expression turned anxious, she looked up at Hawk who had already come out from behind the bar and handed over the phone.
"Hawk, look."
"..."
Hawk said nothing, reached out to take the phone Wanda passed, then lowered his eyes, looking at the phone screen.
Entering view.
A six-cylinder Celestial God suddenly appeared above Earth, its enormous body nearly blocking the entire sky and scattering the clouds; subsequently, Jean, aged six, located in West View Town number 123, seemed to be restrained by something and unconsciously rose into the air; then, at the moment the six-cylinder Celestial God turned and left, six-year-old Jean vanished along with it.
The video played to the end.
Hawk clicked replay once more.
Wanda looked at Hawk, face full of anxiety.
Standing aside, Natasha said nothing.
She actually didn't know Jean.
But...
She recognized those others trying to come out and stop Jean from being taken; and since Bruce Banner had visited the universe where Hawk was and West View Town, when this footage played, those who had just returned the Infinity Gemstones knew this matter was significant.
So.
Natasha came immediately with the video to find Hawk and Wanda.
Soon.
The video played again.
Hawk withdrew his gaze from the phone screen and returned the phone to Natasha, eyes calm, and said thank you.
Natasha instinctively took back the phone.
Wanda spoke anxiously: "This isn't real, right."
Hawk looked at Wanda, shook his head.
He leaned towards believing it was true.
First.
The Celestial God Team has this precedent, although Hawk doesn't really understand whether the Celestial God Team has any sense.
Keep picking on him alone?
Are they not afraid of being completely wiped out from the multiverse?
Oh.
They've already thoroughly offended me, and since they've caused me and Gwen separation, it was destined the Celestial God Team would be completely wiped out from the multiverse?
Alright then.
That's fine.
Second.
Only this reason can explain why Captain America, when traversing time and space, encountered an improbable time-space collision, thus accidentally intercepted information from parallel cosmos and time.
Wanda looked at Hawk's expression, her heart sank, then noticed the 'Quantum Bracelet' on the bar: "No, I want to go back."
As she spoke, Wanda walked towards the bar, grabbed the 'Quantum Bracelet' placed on top, and then wore it on her wrist.
Hawk came to himself, turned to look.
"It won't do any good if you go back now."
"What?"
Wanda already prepared to press the button, looked at Hawk upon hearing him.
Hawk's face was calm.
"If guessed right, he's kidnapped Jean to negotiate terms with me."
"Negotiate terms?"
"Yes."
Perhaps at the beginning, Celestial God Griss, who returned from his cosmos, told the others of the Celestial God Team about his existence, but the other members of the Celestial God Team didn't believe it.
After all, just as Death described Hawk's Main Cosmos.
Too low-level!
So...
In the eyes of the Celestial God Team members, a life from a low-level cosmos, no matter how powerful, can't be that powerful; they estimated it was relying on that cosmos's Infinity Gemstones to beat their people into such heavy injuries.
But Hawk proved, with strength, he could kill them like slaughtering dogs.
So they believed, trusted that Hawk had the strength to massacre them, similarly trusted Hawk also had the ability to obliterate all existences holding their Celestial God Seeds.
Thus they thought of a solution.
Not to quickly bring Gwen that Hawk wanted back and halt losses, but instead ran to Hawk's universe, kidnapped Hawk's daughter Jean, and planned to use Hawk's daughter to negotiate with Hawk.
This kind of behavior...
Is very abstract.
But considering the Celestial God Team itself was created by some abstract god, thinking this way seems reasonable.
"Rest assured."
"Hmm?"
"Jean will be okay."
Hawk thought to himself, then looked at the anxious Wanda and said, "Just like Gwen, the most they can do is temporarily separate Jean from us; they cannot, and do not have the ability to kill her."
Just like they don't dare to kill Gwen, they have to ensure she's alive and well.
This is why Hawk inherently finds the Celestial God Team abstract.
So what if they have hostages?
Let's not even mention that 'compromise' is never in Hawk's dictionary. After capturing Gwen and Jean, do they dare to kill them?
They don't dare.
So then...
What is the point of their kidnapping?
Hawk couldn't understand.
But he didn't need to understand.
Initially, he thought about giving this place's Celestial God Team a month, just like the Main Cosmos.
Since this Celestial God Team has made their choice.
Now it's his turn.
As Hawk thought this, he raised his head, his gaze piercing through the Earth's atmosphere, seeing the sudden presence of the six-barrel Celestial God in the Solar System.
"Here it comes!"
"Jean!"
Wanda, noticing Hawk's actions, was startled, then said, "I'm going too."
Hawk raised an eyebrow.
Just as he was about to speak, Wanda looked directly at him.
"I'm going too."
"Alright!"
Hearing this, Hawk said no more, stepped forward, and embraced Wanda's waist.
The next second.
The two of them instantly vanished from the spot.
Standing aside, Natasha looked at the now-empty living room, opened her mouth, then retracted her gaze, turned around, and left the house behind her, closing the door as she went out.
Hearing the door close, Anya walked out from the room on the second floor, staring at the empty living room, dumbfounded.
Wait, where did they go?
Boom!
As Hawk held Wanda and turned into a stream of light, bursting out of the atmosphere, accompanied by another explosion from the Little Cosmos, he was instantly clad in the Golden Phoenix Holy Armor, dancing with the Phoenix Wings, entering a superluminal state, and immediately appearing in orbit above Jupiter.
Not far off.
A six-barrel Celestial God, appearing as if covered in red rust, stood silently in the cosmos.
Bang!
After detaching from superluminal speed with Wanda, Hawk saw his daughter Jean floating in front of the six-barrel Celestial God's head.
"Jean!"
"Mommy, Daddy!"
Seeing Hawk and Wanda, their daughter Jean instinctively spoke out.
Beneath Hawk's faceplate, his expression was blank, his eyes with twin pupils looked at the six-barrel Celestial God ahead as if looking at a dead man.
"Your name."
"The Calculator—"
The red rust-covered six-barrel Celestial God's voice sounded like an electronic synthesis: "Erebus, I am responsible for calculating the trajectory of each cosmos and preventing variables from arising."
Hawk listened to the duties stated by the Celestial God Erebus before him and smiled, "Congratulations, Erebus. Because of your and Griss's deeds, the Celestial God Team will face total annihilation. Are you ready to face my wrath?"
If, before, all the Celestial God Team needed to do was return Gwen to him, maybe he would still consider negotiations.
But now, the choice to negotiate is completely gone.
There's only one path left for the Celestial God Team.
Extermination!
And facing Hawk, who smiled but with a voice devoid of emotional fluctuation, the six barrels of the Celestial God Erebus flickered.
"The Celestial God Team maintains the order of the Multiverse."
"Is that so?"
Hawk changed his tone, somewhat curious, "Then did you calculate the trajectory of your Celestial God Team after kidnapping my daughter?"
"Yes, of course."
"And then?"
"You will not compromise."
The six barrels of Celestial God Erebus revolved as if a computer screen was being washed over by countless data: "Among the infinite possibilities I calculated, there is no chance for you to compromise."
Hawk chuckled, "Since you know I won't compromise, why do it then?"
The Calculator Erebus's tone was mechanical and rigid, "Because it's the only choice."
Hawk raised an eyebrow, directly staring at the Calculator Erebus, his mind rapidly processing.
But he quickly dismissed it.
Once more.
There's no need.
Because to him, Calculator Erebus simply picked a dead end from among countless dead ends.
It's still a dead end.
Does it make a difference?
It doesn't, not in Hawk's perspective.
But Calculator Erebus seemed to have a different opinion.
Hawk thought, directly speaking to Calculator Erebus.
"If you don't mind, explain before you die?"
"Because this will slow down your transcendence."
"Slow me down?"
"Yes, we cannot eliminate you, but we can slow your transcendence by this method."
"..."