But...
Although he didn't agree with the choice of that first High Priest, there was one thing for sure.
He had guts!
Hawk thought of the first High Priest, who maintained a sitting posture until he turned completely into a skeleton. After giving the highest praise between men in his heart, he shook his head, ended the topic, and looked towards Peter and Felicia: "Alright, things here are settled, are you ready to go?"
Peter and Felicia exchanged a glance, then nodded toward Hawk.
"Ready."
"How are you going to..."
"Ah!"
Accompanied by a scream from Felicia before she finished speaking, in an instant, Hawk looked up and enveloped Peter and Felicia with telekinesis, soaring directly into the sky.
Boom!
The sonic boom cloud suddenly appeared above Skull Island. Hawk, directly at supersonic speed, plunged headlong into the massive storm system that seemed to connect the sky above and the sea below, with Peter and Felicia enveloped by telekinesis on either side.
The next second.
Rumble!
The gigantic storm system seemed to be enraged at this moment, with various colors of lightning constantly striking around the three of them, led by Hawk, swiftly piercing through the clouds in a V formation.
Red linear lightning.
Blue ball lightning.
Black thick lightning.
In the sudden flashes of countless lightning, Peter and Felicia, protected by telekinesis, moved from initial panic to gradually calming down.
The massive storm system, neither long nor short, was traversed in the blink of an eye, with Hawk bringing the telekinetically wrapped Peter and Felicia out from the stormy clouds.
It was like a distant world.
The waves of the Pacific Ocean surged, and the incessant howling wind, thunder claps, and the Holy Armor rain hitting the water completely pulled Hawk, Peter, and Felicia back into the real world.
Hawk continued unabated, rushing with Peter and Felicia, who were successfully retrieved, towards the Osborn experimental base platform located in the Pacific Ocean.
At this moment, the power system of the Osborn experimental base platform had been repaired.
From a distance.
Under the ravage of storm and rain, the Osborn experimental platform, established on the Pacific Ocean, was brightly lit, like a guiding light on the vast sea.
Quickly!
Thud!
Hawk landed steadily on his feet, and immediately, Peter and Felicia, who were enveloped in telekinesis, also steadied their feet on the platform floor.
The next moment.
A group of ten armed security guards rushed out of the platform base, with infrared beams from their guns falling on Hawk, Peter, and Felicia.
At this time, a voice accompanied by hurried footsteps came from the base behind: "Stop, put down your guns quickly."
Before long.
A woman quickly walked out of the base, shouting for the guards to put down their guns, then hurriedly ran to Felicia and, with immense excitement, hugged Felicia: "Boss..."
The person who came was none other than Felicia's personal assistant.
Although the old butler contacted Hawk first, Hawk had already set out, the old butler still contacted the young assistant, who promptly recruited an international security team and led them here.
They met the lab personnel who survived a great disaster here and learned from them that Hawk had already been here and left again.
So the assistant and the international security team repaired the power system and settled here.
The international security team didn't mind, as they were paid by the hour anyway.
And so.
They ended up staying for seventeen days.
In the experiment base room, Hawk listened to the assistant explaining the time he left and raised an eyebrow.
"Seventeen days?"
"Basically, you stayed there for a day and a night, and we left at around ten in the morning, so there really is a time discrepancy."
Peter explained from the side, then said to Hawk with a somewhat inexplicable expression, "So does that mean I'm a year older now?"
Although he had only been missing for more than a month outside, he actually spent a whole year on Skull Island.
Hawk, hearing Peter's sudden thought-provoking question, replied with a smile: "I think you should first worry about how to tell Aunt Mei that she'll become a grandmother in six months."
Peter's expression visibly froze upon hearing Hawk's words.
Hawk laughed, then turned his attention back to the assistant with them: "Has anything special happened in New York City during these days?"
The assistant thought for a moment and shook his head: "As far as I know, nothing particularly sensational has happened."
Hawk nodded at the words.
At that moment.
Felicia returned from outside, holding a satellite phone again.
She had just gone out to call the old butler at home.
The old butler originally intended to come over too, if not worried that his aged body might give out halfway through the flight.
So, upon receiving Felicia's phone call, the old butler couldn't be more excited.
"Hawk, are you going back by yourself, or with us?"
"I'll go with you."
After all, nothing major happened in New York City, and flying back would be exhausting, especially after having a hard battle with Icarus earlier.
So, hitching a ride back was naturally excellent.
Hawk mentioned this while borrowing the satellite phone from Felicia, intending to call and reassure his fiancée back home.
Although he had mentioned beforehand that he might be delayed, now that he was out, to prevent Gwen from worrying, it was necessary to make the call.
The result...
The call couldn't connect.
Listening to the busy signal on the satellite phone, Hawk's eyebrows furrowed!
...