"Mutant species? What is that?"
"According to the High Priest, it's a creature of despair and terror, covered entirely in a rough black keratinous shell, filled with cracks and fissures, from which dark golden light emerges, as if magma is flowing within its body. It has an asymmetrical number of limbs, some having multiple arms, others possessing multiple tentacles."
"But that's not the most terrifying part."
"The High Priest said that these terrifying mutant species have powerful evolutionary abilities."
Felicia shuddered involuntarily as she recalled, again, the terrifying creature described by the Uighur High Priest in the Uighur's Hall as if she were in its presence.
Hawk's eyes flickered.
"Evolution?"
"Yes."
"The High Priest mentioned that the Uighur were not so weak initially; they are descendants of the Celestial God, born with immense power. But those mutants could acquire the skills of the Uighur they killed."
"After a mutant devoured a fire-breathing Uighur, it evolved and learned to breathe fire."
"Under such circumstances, the Uighur could only retreat step by step, eventually fleeing from their ancestral land."
"Hiss!"
Hawk lowered his head in silence.
Sitting nearby, Peter, listening to Felicia's story, gasped: "Devouring evolution, is there really such a terrifying creature? What if that terrifying creature devours Hawk, then..."
Hawk snapped back, raised an eyebrow, and looked at Peter speechlessly.
"Hey, can you wish me well?"
"Sorry!"
Realizing he had misspoken, Peter quickly apologized.
Yet, he couldn't help but envision the scenario Felicia described, of a mutant acquiring Hawk's abilities, in his mind.
Goodness.
That would be the end of the world.
Peter couldn't help thinking.
Ignoring Peter, Hawk asked Felicia, "Do you have any idea what such a creature looks like?"
Felicia nodded.
"In the Uighur's Hall, there's a mural of that terrifying creature on the wall."
"Let's take a look."
"Okay."
Seeing Hawk rise, Felicia stood up from her seat as well.
Peter, seeing this, shook his head, then stood up too after shaking off the images in his mind.
Under the night sky,
in the Uighur's village, the tribespeople gathered around a bonfire, singing unknown but mysteriously beautiful songs.
In the holy hall, the wall was illuminated brightly by the bonfire.
According to the Uighur, as long as the bonfire in the holy hall doesn't extinguish, the souls of the Uighur can find their way home.
Hawk stood in the holy hall, looking up at the vibrant murals under the glow of the bonfire.
A terrifying creature, as Felicia had described, bared its fangs as if it's about to jump out from the mural on the wall.
Peter glanced around at the other murals: "I'm still curious how these murals have retained their colors so vividly over the years."
Felicia said, "The High Priest mentioned these murals were created by the first batch of tribespeople who escaped. In his words, they are descendants of the Celestial God."
Peter shrugged.
"I have reservations about that view."
"But they might not be lying after all."
Listening to Peter's words, Hawk turned to him and said, "They are certainly not Celestial God descendants, but they're very likely descendants of the Eternal Race."
Looking at the so-called mutant in the mural before him, Hawk thought he probably knew what this thing was.
It's not a mutant; its official name in the comics is the Anomaly Race, referred to as the Mutant Race in the movies.
Leaving aside the comic origin for now,
in the movies, the Mutant Race is a peculiar, nearly immortal life form created by the Celestial God Team through gene manipulation.
The Celestial God Team initially used the Mutant Race to clear the top predators on the Planet of Life to ensure life's continued development.
But perhaps even the Celestial God Team hadn't anticipated that in the course of predation, the Mutant Race evolved, eventually hunting and eliminating all life forms after initially targeting only the top predators.
This put the Celestial God Team in a dilemma.
They used the Mutant Race hoping life would continue so their so-called 'Divine Appearance' could be achieved.
But if the Mutant Race devoured all life on the Planet of Life, how could they bring forth new tribespeople?
So...
The Celestial God Team created the Eternal Race, specifically to hunt the Mutant Race. After completing their mission of Divine Appearance, the members of the Eternal Race would be brainwashed and deployed to the next Planet of Life to continue hunting the Mutant Race, ensuring life's proliferation until Divine Appearance was successful.
Over and over again.
Until members of the Eternal Race become so brainwashed, carrying too much residual information, they turn into a kind of dementia species.
They would then be mercilessly discarded by the Celestial God Team and replaced with a new batch of the Eternal Race to fulfill their mission.
Once Hawk realized the so-called mutant might be the Mutant Race, and the Uighur here could be descendants of the Eternal Race, he felt as if the clouds had parted away to reveal the sunshine.
Because if this were indeed the case, the metal that appeared to be Adamantium just now might actually be genuine Adamantium.
Nothing else.
Inside Earth, a new member of the Celestial God Team, Tiam, contains a massive amount of Adamantium.
Or rather—
Tiam himself is Adamantium.
This was mentioned in "Captain America 4."
Also, this explains why when he first arrived at Skull Island, he felt a kind of oppressive presence.
Without any surprises, this divine oppression was likely from Tiam, the new member of the Celestial God Team yet to be born.
And...
Tiam hasn't even reached the time of awakening yet; the pressure he unintentionally emanated is already this terrifying. Now, what if it's those awakened members of the Celestial God Team?
No!
After returning, I must get the Mind Gemstone as soon as possible.
For some reason, when he thinks of the Celestial God Team, his Sixth Sense hints at a sense of crisis.
Although this sense of crisis is very light.
But!
His intuition tells him that once he and the Celestial God Team meet face to face, the Celestial God Team is probably an enemy rather than a friend.
Hawk's expression remained silent.
Next to him, Peter and Felicia exchanged glances upon hearing Hawk mention the 'Eternal Race,' both seeing confusion in each other's eyes.
Felicia spoke up.
"Hawk, this Eternal Race is...?"
"A pitiful race used as tools by the Celestial God."
Hawk came back to his senses and briefly described the position of the Eternal Race.
That's the truth.
He didn't exaggerate.
Peter, hearing this, looked at the terrifying creature in the mural.
"And this mutant species?"
"Mutant Race."
Hawk withdrew his gaze from the mural: "Also created by the Celestial God to be used as tools, but they refused to be treated as tools, eventually rising up in rebellion, which led the Celestial God to create the Eternal Race to specifically hunt them down."
Peter blinked his eyes.
"Does this Celestial God have some kind of problem, creating two races to play games of confrontation with himself? He can play all he wants, but why throw this stuff on our Earth."
"It's not just Earth."
"What?"
"In the Cosmos, on all planets of life, the traces of these two races can be found."
"..."
Peter opened his mouth and finally concluded.
"This Celestial God must be sick, very sick."
"Haha."
Hearing this, Hawk laughed and said to Peter, who was unaware of the danger: "When he comes to Earth in the future, I support you telling him that."
Peter was slightly stunned.
"To Earth, he will come to Earth?"
"Of course."
Hawk shrugged: "But that's a matter of years later."
Bad news.
He's sure that when he meets the Celestial God Team, they are more likely to be enemies than friends.
Good news.
It's still a few years until the Celestial God Team appears; Thanos hasn't snapped his fingers yet, so that member of the Celestial God Team, Arisen, hasn't set his sights on Earth yet, and he still has several years to develop.
Celestial God Team.
The legendary race created by the Celestial Eternal to maintain the Main Multiverse.
The Celestial God created by the Creator God.
Even awakening the Seventh Sense Golden Little Cosmos cannot defeat these divine spirits.
But truly becoming a god might still be possible.
Fortunately...
There's still time!
Hawk's thoughts raced, then he took a deep breath and smiled at Peter and Felicia, "Alright, you two go to sleep first. When you wake up, we'll head home."
Peter and Felicia showed joyful expressions on their faces.
In the next second.
Felicia realized something and looked at Hawk, "Then you tonight..."
Hawk smiled slightly: "I'll go check out the underground passage over there."
Since it's confirmed that there really is Adamantium.
What to do next?
Of course, dig it up.
Sleep?
In the future, if we kick OAA with our feet and punch the Five Creators with our fists, we will have plenty of time to sleep.
Now——
This is the age to strive!
If you don't strive when you should, by the time the Celestial God Team's Arisen comes to collect you, you might not even be able to cry even if you wanted to.
First accumulate Adamantium, then get Uru Metal, and finally, once the suitable materials for Gammanien are found, the Golden Phoenix Holy Armor, possessing the Power of the Sun and Phoenix, can be truly crafted.
Hawk thought to himself and then left Peter and Felicia with a reassuring message before turning away, and in that moment, his figure disappeared before their eyes.
Peter and Felicia watched Hawk abruptly disappear in front of them and blinked.
Peter wasn't surprised anymore and said to Felicia, "Let's go, we should head back."
Felicia came back to her senses, nodding as she walked with Peter towards the outside of the Uighur's Hall, seemingly thinking of something, and asked in a low voice, "Is Hawk a god?"
Peter shook his head.
"He said he's not?"
"He said?"
"Mm, last time in London City, an ugly guy trying to destroy asked Hawk if he was a god, and Hawk said he wasn't a god yet."
"Yet..."
"Yes, that's what he said."
"..."