Ding-a-ling!
As the shell wind chimes on the tavern door rang, Tony Stark pushed open the door of the tavern carrying a suitcase.
There are many motels and small bars along federal interstate highways where travelers can rest.
It's called a bar, but it's actually a pub, with a simple bar, a busy bartender who works part-time as a bartender, and seven or eight tables.
Some strangers gathered at a table to share their experiences and drink a few large glasses of beer.
The sounds of drinking, playing finger-guessing games, betting and arm-wrestling added a bit of liveliness to the tavern.
Tony Stark glanced at the bar. All the tables in the small bar were already full of people.
He soon saw the target person drinking alone in the corner, but he did not approach him to chat with him immediately.
Instead, he took off his sunglasses, tucked them into his suit pocket, walked over to the bar, put his suitcase at his feet, and knocked on the table at the old bartender in front of him.
"Open a bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label! And give me two glasses!"
The old bartender recognized the man in a suit and tie in front of him. He rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and said with some excitement and embarrassment:
"I'm sorry, Mr. Stark. We're glad you're here, but this is a small bar and we don't have this kind of wine!"
"What about the black card?" Tony Stark said as a second choice.
The old bartender said regretfully: "Neither!"
"Okay, what's your best-selling wine here?"
Tony Stark looked at the labels on the bottles on the rack behind the bartender, most of which he didn't recognize.
"I brewed my own beer, and the travelers on this road love it. Do you want to try it?" The old bartender looked at Tony Stark expectantly and introduced it excitedly.
His small bar has been open for decades, but no celebrity like Tony Stark has ever visited it.
Tony Stark glanced at the oak beer barrel behind the old bartender, took out a US dollar from his wallet and put it on the bar.
"Give me a drink!"
A large transparent beer glass, golden beer with some white bubbles,
Tony Stark had never tasted this cheap, civilian-brewed beer before.
He took a bite.
The slight bitterness is mixed with a strong malt aroma, and the taste is surprisingly good.
"It tastes good!" Tony Stark commented in the expectant eyes of the old bartender.
Seeing that Tony Stark was satisfied with the wine, the old bartender rubbed his hands and said awkwardly:
"Mr. Stark, can I take a photo with you? My grandson is your fan! He has always admired you-"
Tony Stark sat on the bar counter, holding a beer glass in his hand. After taking a big sip, he looked at the somewhat nervous old bartender and said with a smile:
"If you don't mind, it might take a while, I need to finish some things!"
"No problem, no problem, you go ahead and do your work, I won't bother you anymore!"
The old bartender said hurriedly, walked to the oak beer barrel, used a wiped beer glass, filled it with a large glass of beer and brought it to the bar in front of Tony Stark.
Then he moved aside and sat in the corner of the bar, holding a hot towel and wiping the steamed beer cup.
Tony Stark sat at the bar, drinking beer while looking at the man drinking alone in the corner of the bar.
He took out his cell phone and swiped his finger.
"Jarvis, look up Johnny Blaze's information!"
"Yes, sir!" The voice of artificial intelligence Jarvis came from the phone.
Soon Jarvis found out a lot of information about Johnny Blaze.
The best motorcycle stuntman, motorcycle vagabond...
Tony Stark looked at the pictures and performance videos that Jarvis found, and looked at the young face of Johnny Blaze riding a motorcycle in the photos.
Looking at the weathered man not far away, Tony Stark could hardly tell that this was a human being.
"That's all?"
Tony Stark looked through the information and didn't find anything surprising about this former motorcycle stuntman.
"Sir, some of the information has been encrypted!"
"Access the database of the Strategic Homeland Defense Attack and Logistics Support Agency. I remember we have the authority of Agent Phil!"
On the plane back to New York from Afghanistan, Tony Stark once borrowed Phil Coulson's computer.
Out of distrust and curiosity about this kind of spy organization, Tony Stark installed some backdoor programs on Phil Coulson's computer.
Through Jarvis once stole his permissions.
Tony Stark gave an order, and the phone in his hand quickly entered an encrypted web page after a while of connection.
A web page interface with a black and white eagle as the background image, Jarvis logged in using Phil Coulson's permission password.
Entered Johnny Blaze's name into the search page.
A line of review information appears on the page.
"Data access permissions above level 4,
The permissions are under review.
Review passed!
Welcome, Agent Phil!"
Page loading, jumping,
A knight on a motorcycle appears on the page, a cool motorcycle with flames burning, and a knight with a flaming skull on his head.
Tony Stark subconsciously turned his head to look at the decadent man in the corner, then looked down at the photo on his phone.
Apart from the black windbreaker, he couldn't see any similarities between this flaming skull knight and Johnny Blaze.
Johnny Blaze, codename: Ghost Rider!
A transcendent who is suspected of having obtained the flames of hell,
Sampling results show that the power is 90% similar to Carter Slay.
According to preliminary investigations, he possesses the Eye of Judgment and is suspected to be involved in several federal gang busting cases.
Danger level A+
Tony Stark clicks on a video on the interface below.
The video is a surveillance video. The image quality is very blurry, but it can be vaguely seen.
The location was in a bar, where a knight with a flaming skull on his head, holding a chain wrapped in flames in his hand, launched a massacre at a group of gangster gunmen armed with guns.
The battle continued quickly. The guy with the flaming skull on his head was not afraid of the weapons in the hands of these gangsters.
The bullets hit him without even breaking his leather jacket.
Instead, he swung the chain in his hand, locked a gunman, and the flames burning on the chain could instantly burn the person to ashes.
The more Tony Stark looked at it, the more solemn his expression became. He didn't think his iron armor could withstand the power of this kind of flame.
"Jarvis, remember this flame and do a spectral analysis when we get back. It looks like we need to make a few sets of anti-Ghost Rider suits!"
Tony Stark instructed Jarvis while watching the video recording.
"stop!"
When he saw the flaming skeleton holding a big beard in the air, he subconsciously asked Jarvis to pause the video.
"What is he talking about?"
"Sir, he's making this man look him in the eyes!"
Jarvis interprets Ghost Rider's lips for Tony Stark.
Although all that was left of the Ghost Rider was a skull wrapped in flames, Jarvis was still able to interpret his words thanks to the precise comparison of the artificial intelligence.
"Eye of Judgment?!"
Tony Stark flipped through the pages and saw the introduction of Johnny Blaze and the name of Carter Slay.
"Jarvis, search for Carter Slay and the Eye of Judgment!"
"Carter Slay
Data access permissions must be level 5 or above.
The permissions are under review.
Review passed!
Welcome, Agent Phil!"
“Carter Slay!
A member of the Brotherhood of the Shield
The second generation Ghost Rider, who wields the power of hellfire.
Danger level: A
Suspected to be dead.
Eye of Judgment: The extraordinary power possessed by Ghost Rider.
The Eye of Judgment will make the target recall all the crimes committed in his life, and make his soul feel intense pain according to the severity of the crimes! "
"So, the reason why Nick Fury, the head of the secret service, doesn't dare to meet this Ghost Rider is because he's afraid of the Eye of Judgment?!"
Tony Stark looked at the introduction about the Eye of Judgment and suddenly realized something.
Then he lowered his head and looked at his outstretched hands. The two agents did not dare to face the Ghost Rider who possessed the Eye of Judgment.
What about me? An arms dealer with blood on his hands.
Tony Stark laughed at himself and handed the box at his feet to the old bartender for safekeeping.
He picked up two glasses of beer from the bar and walked towards Johnny Blaze, who was drinking alone in the corner of the bar.
Johnny Blaze took big gulps of beer from his glass and stared blankly at the table in front of him, his lifeless eyes full of confusion.
when!
Just then, a large glass filled with beer was placed in front of him.
Johnny Blaze raised his head drunkenly and looked at the man in a suit in front of him. Perhaps he thought he was here to share the table, so he didn't react and just moved his wine glass to the side.
"Johnny Blaze!"
When Johnny Blaze heard the man in front of him mention his name, he finally woke up from his sleepiness and looked at the man in front of him carefully.
"Tony Stark!?"
Looking at this familiar face that appears every day on TV media, Johnny Blaze was a little surprised!
"Are you interested in having a drink and chatting?" Tony Stark pushed a glass of beer to Johnny Blaze and invited him.
"What can a rich man like you and a homeless person like me have to talk about?"
Johnny Blaze swirled the remaining beer in his glass, tilted his head back and drank the rest.
Then he picked up the cup that Tony Stark pushed in front of him and finished one third of it in one gulp.
"Burp!" Johnny Blaze burped heavily, put down the cup and wiped his mouth: "Millionaire, are you looking for me to perform motorcycle acrobatics? I haven't performed for many years!"
"But for the sake of your glass of wine, I can make an exception for you!"
Tony Stark took a sip of wine, looked at Johnny Blaze whose hands were shaking, put down his glass, stared at him and said:
"I've heard of you, Ghost Rider!"
Johnny Blaze's hand trembled as he was about to pick up the beer glass, and the beer in the glass spilled onto the table.
He raised his head and looked at Tony Stark clearly, examining the man in front of him.
Thinking of the information about the Eye of Judgment he had just found, Tony Stark subconsciously avoided Johnny Blaze's gaze.
"It seems you really know me!" Johnny Blaze smiled bitterly: "Don't worry, the Eye of Judgment will only appear when I transform!"
Tony Stark raised his glass awkwardly: "I just read some of your information!"
“Do you have time to listen to my story?!”
Johnny Blaze seemed to have been feeling depressed for a long time and wanted to find someone to talk to.
Tony Stark then became the tree hole and listened to Johnny Blaze tell his experiences.
When he was young, Johnny Blaze and his father made a living by doing stunt racing in an amusement park.
By the time he was nearly seventeen, Johnny Blaze's motorcycle stunts had become famous, even surpassing his father's and becoming the ace of the amusement park.
But his father has always been his role model.
But one day, his father was diagnosed with a terminal illness, which made Johnny very sad and depressed.
Until one day an old man in a suit and tie appeared in front of him. He promised to cure Johnny's father, but Johnny had to sign a contract and sell his soul to him.
"Sell your soul?" Tony Stark interrupted Johnny Blaze in surprise when he heard him say this.
"Later I found out that the old man was Mephisto, the devil from hell. I accepted his terms and signed the contract."
Johnny Blaze took a big gulp from the beer glass in front of him and said, "The next day, my father really recovered immediately!"
Tony Stark looked at Johnny Blaze's sad and angry eyes, and it was obvious that there was more to come.
Sure enough, Johnny Blaze slammed the beer glass on the table.
"But during a performance that day, my father passed away due to an accident. That damn old devil played a trick on the contract!"
"Mephisto, the legendary lord of hell, does the devil really exist in this world?" Tony Stark looked at Johnny Blaze with red eyes in front of him, and he, who has always been obsessed with science, murmured.
"I wouldn't have believed it before, if the spirit of revenge hadn't still existed in me!"
Johnny Blaze touched his chest.
"Spirit of Vengeance?" Tony Stark was curious.
"It's the power that Mephisto placed in me. It's also the key to my voice changing into Ghost Rider!" Johnny Blaze explained: "The Spirit of Vengeance is like a seed. It allows me to master the power of Hellfire!"
"What image of Mephisto are you talking about? Can he withstand bullets? If bullets can't, what about sonic attacks? Infrasonic attacks? If it's a soul, can solar energy focus and energy shock waves deal with him? "
The unfamiliar realm of demons and souls made Tony Stark somewhat forget the purpose of his visit, and he concentrated on digging out information about Mephisto and Hell from Johnny Blaze.
It seems that he wants to build an iron suit to fight against hell.
"Mephisto is an old white gentleman wearing a suit and holding a cane. Bullets probably can't hurt him. After I transformed, bullets are ineffective against me!"
"The soul is hard to describe, it's just a ball of conscious energy..."
Johnny Blaze racked his brains to answer Tony Stark's questions.
Tony Stark listened to Johnny Blaze's words while having Jarvis record...
He likes to wear suits and carry a cane. If it is a white suit, he looks very similar to a guy in his memory.
Tony Stark listened to Johnny Blaze's description of Mephisto's image and thought of someone.
At this time, at the door of the bar, a middle-aged agent with a slightly bald head was looking inside through the glass.
"Sir, Mr. Coulson called you-"
Tony Stark, who was listening to Johnny Blaze talking about the Eye of Judgment, was interrupted by a phone call. He looked at the caller ID and finally found the purpose of his trip.
"A bald guy asked me to ask you something. He wants to form a super boy organization to fight against Doomsday and alien invasion. He wants to recruit you to join. Are you interested?"
Tony Stark hung up the phone with Phil Coulson and asked Johnny Blaze perfunctorily.
"Organization?!" Johnny Blaze smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I have been wandering outside all these years, unable to return home, waiting for Mephisto to come back and find me..."
"I want revenge on him. Dealing with this old devil is too dangerous. I can't let others get involved. Besides..."
Johnny Blaze pointed at his eyes and said, "I don't think you will like these eyes. Once I transform and face evil, I won't be able to control these eyes of judgment even myself!"
"And the definition of the Eye of Judgment is very broad. Everyone has sins and original sins. No one can withstand its judgment!"
Tony Stark had anticipated this result. Two agents who didn't even dare to meet his face wanted to recruit Ghost Rider.
"This is my personal contact information. If you encounter Mephisto and need help, just call me!"
Tony Stark took out a pen, privately wrote a note on the notepad on the wall of the bar, wrote down his phone number, and handed it to Johnny Blaze.
Johnny Blaze didn't reach out to take the sticky note from Tony Stark's hand.
He knew the cruelty and cunning of the old devil Mephisto, and he didn't want to implicate others.
“I am very interested in Mephisto, the mythical devil. If hell really exists, then it should be another parallel world or another dimension!
Theoretically, no matter what kind of creature it is, it is nothing more than the difference between entity and energy.
In this material world, nothing is absolutely powerful, even the devil. Give me enough time, maybe I can develop a weapon to kill the devil..."
Tony Stark said confidently to Johnny Blaze.
"If you really want revenge, get rid of, or kill that devil, I think you're going to need help!"
Johnny Blaze hesitated for a moment, looked at Tony Stark's confident expression, took the note from his hand and put it in his pocket.
"There's one more thing I need your help with!"
Tony Stark looked at Johnny Blaze with a little excitement!
Johnny Blaze looked at Tony Stark in confusion.
"I need to collect data on your transformation into Ghost Rider so that I can directly assess Mephisto's strength!"
Tony Stark spoke his mind.
"This is very dangerous. The power of the Eye of Judgment is not something I can control at will!"
Johnny Blaze shook his head and disagreed with Tony Stark's idea.
"My Iron Man suit can fly tens of thousands of feet in the sky. Your ability doesn't seem to include flying. Don't worry, I will keep a safe distance!"
Tony Stark insisted on his own idea.
"Well then! If you see that something is wrong, immediately fly into the air in your Iron Man suit!"
Johnny Blaze had also seen Tony Stark's Iron Man suit on TV, and after thinking about it, he decided that there was indeed no danger.
He nodded reluctantly in agreement.
… …
Tony Stark took back the box containing his Iron Man suit from the bartender and walked out of the bar one after another with Johnny Blaze.
Phil Coulson and Nick Fury hid in the car when they saw Johnny Blaze coming out.
"We need to find an open area!"
Johnny Blaze got on his motorcycle and turned to look at Tony Stark.
Tony Stark placed the box in his hand flat on the ground and stepped on it with his feet.
Kakakakaka…
The box deformed quickly, and the metal parts wrapped around Tony Stark's feet and quickly spread upwards. Soon Tony Stark was wrapped in a set of gold and red steel armor.
Johnny Blaze gave Tony Stark a thumbs up, then started the motorcycle and stepped on the accelerator.
The motorcycle roared and rushed into the distance along the interstate.
puff!
Tony Stark's Iron Man suit's palms and soles simultaneously spurted out pale blue energy flames.
The golden and red iron suit carries Tony Stark into the sky!
"Sir!"
Phil Coulson sat in the driver's seat and turned his head to look at Nick Fury!
"Chase after them and see!" Nick Fury ordered.
Phil Coulson put his car, which had been running all the time, into gear, stepped on the accelerator, and chased in the direction of Johnny Blaze's motorcycle.
How fast can a motorcycle go
The fastest motorcycle in the world is the Dodge Tomahawk produced by Chrysler Corporation. It has the same name as the Tomahawk missile, which is enough to show that its speed is extremely fast, with a maximum speed of 676 kilometers per hour.
Of course, no one in the world dares to drive a motorcycle so fast, except for crazy people and those who are not afraid of death.
Johnny Blaze is a man who is not afraid of death because he cannot die.
He had tried to commit suicide many times over the years, but the spirit of revenge in his body seemed to have given him immortality.
When he is in danger, he transforms into the immortal Ghost Rider.
It's ironic that death has become a luxury even for him, like a constant reminder to him.
My soul has already found a home, which has been reserved in advance by a devil.
Johnny Blaze stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and the speed of the motorcycle that had undergone the Hellfire modification soared to more than 500 kilometers per hour.
On the interstate highway, which was not in very good condition, the wind seemed to be left behind by Johnny Blaze.
Also left behind him were Agent Phil Coulson and his black superior who were driving a car.
If there were no forks on this interstate highway, Phil Coulson would have suspected that Johnny Blaze had turned into a fork.
You have to know that he stepped on the accelerator to the bottom and the speed has reached 250.
How fast can a motorcycle go
There were fewer and fewer vehicles on the road, and a large area of uninhabited wilderness appeared on both sides of the highway.
Johnny Blaze twisted the handlebars and the motorcycle took off, flying straight off the road.
Tony Stark, who was high in the air, thought that Johnny Blaze's high-speed motorcycle had an accident and was about to dive down to save him.
The flying motorcycle suddenly soared in mid-air and was engulfed in a ball of fire.
The flames rose up and enveloped the motorcycle under Johnny Blaze's crotch, and the motorcycle seemed to be quenched.
The handlebars of the motorcycle are stretched in the flames, with a cool skull decoration appearing in the middle. The body of the motorcycle becomes more gorgeous, and the enveloping flames seem like rising cool three-dimensional flame patterns.
Johnny Blaze, who was riding on a chariot that looked like the soul of hell, also changed his image greatly at this time.
The flesh and blood on his head had completely disappeared, revealing a skull wrapped in flames.
He turned his head and looked up into the sky. There seemed to be two balls of fire burning in the eye sockets of the flaming skull.
He stretched out a black glove wrapped in flames, hooked his finger at Tony Stark in the sky, turned the accelerator, and drove towards the wilderness.
A charred, flame-marked trail ran along his motorcycle into the wilderness.