Daybreak arrives.
A sudden loud bang erupts over the calm sea, immediately followed by a moment when the sea surface with a diameter of two hundred meters explodes violently.
A giant octopus, so massive it seemed to block out the sun, suddenly leaps out of the sea.
"Holy shit!"
"Jesus!"
"Oh, God!"
In the S.H.I.E.L.D. Command Center, all the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who were holding their breath, watching the large screen, saw this gigantic octopus. It was akin to suddenly seeing a horrid ghost coming at you while thoroughly enjoying a comedy movie, and almost unanimously they let out a surprised cry.
Even Hill and Hand's eyes shrank suddenly for a moment.
But...
One of them is the director, the other the commander, and they're both women.
As is well known.
Violent organizations have always been a man's world, at least that's what people think, so to become a leader in a man's world, a woman must be stronger than most men.
So Hill and Hand resisted their instinctive urge, trying hard not to let themselves cry out in surprise.
At that moment.
A female agent, covering her mouth, had a sudden realization.
"Look, it's the Phoenix!"
"God, it really is the Phoenix."
"He's not dead, which means that merfolk died?"
"Merfolk?"
"I was going to call him a mermaid, but do you think he's pretty?"
"Let's just call him merfolk."
Hill and Hand exchanged glances upon hearing the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents' discussion, then turned back to the big screen, showing the scene where Hawk, after lifting something out of the sea and casually tossing it aside, stood in the air, bare-chested, on the screen.
Hawk's suit was a wreck already.
When that gigantic octopus stirred the underwater currents, his suit jacket was instantly shredded by the tumultuous waters.
It was only because Hawk reacted in time that he wasn't completely bare, just shirtless.
However...
How long has this damned octopus been alive?
It must be twenty thousand years old.
Hawk stood suspended in mid-air, frowning as he looked at the giant octopus corpse, like a waterfall draped across the sea, which he had just killed.
Hawk looked down at this octopus, which coincidentally appeared just when he was about to deal with Namor, and thought of Namor's Nemo Trident.
It wasn't surprising. This giant octopus appeared at that moment to protect Namor.
As everyone knows.
The DC Aquaman's Nemo Trident can control the ocean's power and communicate with marine creatures.
And the Marvel King of the Sea, Namor, his trident also has the power to control the ocean and summon marine creatures.
Hawk didn't spend much time defeating this giant octopus.
He was mainly searching for Namor underwater.
The result was evident.
Namor escaped.
In the seabed beneath where Namor was buried, Hawk discovered a deeper crack, and Namor's aura vanished there.
He scouted around that crack, confirming Namor was gone, before bringing the gigantic octopus out of the water.
After all, it was a trophy.
He hadn't yet tried what a twenty-thousand-year-old octopus barbecue tasted like.
Moreover, back in Waterfall Town, Hawk remembered joining a town Christmas food party with Gwen, where she ate takoyaki and remarked it was her favorite snack.
So...
Gwen would surely love a twenty-thousand-year-old octopus.
Hawk thought.
At that moment.
Suddenly!
Suddenly!
Suddenly!
In the distance, five speedboats in an attack defensive formation were speeding towards them.
Hawk turned his head to look, raised an eyebrow, and vanished instantly.
By the time he reappeared, he was already on one of the speedboats.
The two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents on the speedboat were startled by Hawk's sudden appearance.
Sharon Carter had already handed a black T-shirt emblazoned with the S.H.I.E.L.D. logo to Hawk the moment he appeared.
"Here you go."
"Thank you."
Hawk took the S.H.I.E.L.D. T-shirt Sharon handed over, thanked her, then glanced at the T-shirt in his hand and said to Sharon, "How many S.H.I.E.L.D. T-shirts is this for me now?"
Sharon thought for a moment, "The fourth one?"
Hawk shook his head, "The fifth one."
The first S.H.I.E.L.D. T-shirt was after he flaunted his power at Quantico.
The second one was in Wakanda, where Hill prepared it for him.
The third was in London City, given by Natasha.
The fourth was in Texas.
Counting the current one, he should have five S.H.I.E.L.D. T-shirts by now.
After putting on the S.H.I.E.L.D. T-shirt, Hawk said to Sharon, "Last time, Gwen mentioned she wanted to ask who your T-shirt supplier is because she plans to customize a female version to match ours as a couple's set."
Sharon smiled.
"Gwen mentioned it to me, and I've already given it to her."
"She didn't tell me."
"It was just yesterday when she returned to New York City, and I picked her up at the airport."
"...Thank you."
Hawk, upon hearing this, looked at Sharon and thanked her, then his gaze fell on Sharon, who, though smiling, still showed a hint of fatigue in the corners of her eyes.
Clearly.
Sharon rushed here right after meeting Gwen.
Hawk felt a stirring in his heart and looked at Sharon: "Alright, ask whatever you want, I'll tell you everything I know!"
Sharon smiled at the corner of her eyes.
"Any question?"
"Anything!"
Hawk sat right on the deck, looking at Sharon and opened his arms: "At this moment, I'm an open book, I'll tell you everything. By the way, you can take the octopus, just leave me three tentacles, the fat ones."
Hearing this, Sharon immediately nodded to the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents on the other speedboats.
The S.H.I.E.L.D. agent on another speedboat immediately contacted the nearest S.H.I.E.L.D ship.
Sharon then also sat down on the deck.
"That merfolk just now..."
"Merfolk?"
Hawk raised an eyebrow.
Sharon explained: "The one who fought with you, Marlon from the S.H.I.E.L.D. Command Center gave him the nickname."
Hawk's expression became clear.
"Alright, his name is Namor McKenzie, the king of the Undersea Kingdom Talokan."
"Talokan?"
"Atlantis, Talokan is what Atlantis used to be."
"Hiss!"
Sharon gasped: "The lost Atlantis?"
Talokan, never heard of it.
But Atlantis, that's quite familiar, after all, it's a kingdom that only exists in legends now, and some scholars even think Atlantis never existed.
Sharon used to be one of those.
But now...
"Did Atlantis really exist?"
"Of course, but it has been renamed Talokan, the Undersea Kingdom, where their people live in the ocean."
Hawk flipped through his memory palace information about King Namor McKenzie and Talokan.
"The current location of Talokan should be somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean."
"Atlantic Ocean?"
"Yes."
Sharon nodded, then remembered the merfolk.
"That merfolk..."
"Escaped."
"Escaped?"
Sharon seemed a bit shocked, her eyes widened as she looked at Hawk.
Seeing the expression on Sharon's face, Hawk couldn't help but chuckle.
"You seem more shocked than I am?"
"Of course."
Sharon nodded subconsciously, then realized, and said to Hawk: "I mean, this might be the first enemy to escape from you."
Hawk blinked and looked at Sharon: "Really?"
The last time with that Eternal...
Oh.
S.H.I.E.L.D wasn't on Skull Island last time, so they don't know.
Hawk then chuckled and looked at Sharon: "Namor McKenzie's nickname should be King of the Sea, just like I can't kill the Lord of Hell in Hell, I can't kill the King of the Sea in the ocean, at least not for now."
It's the truth.
Although he found Namor's weakness, it doesn't mean he can kill Namor on the spot.
At least not now.
If it were on land, just now, his punch aimed at Namor's weakness would have undoubtedly killed Namor.
But here, it's the ocean, Namor's home ground.
So...
After he dealt with the giant octopus summoned by Namor to protect him, Namor had already seized the opportunity to escape.
"However..."
"Even if he's not dead, he's severely wounded."
"And seriously so."
"It'll take him at least a year to recover."
Hawk thought of Namor, who had dodged his full blow in the nick of time but was still spat blood under the impact of most of the power, and his lips curved slightly.
Don't forget, he is currently manifesting the power of his Sixth Sense Silver Little Cosmos at all times.
Even without wearing the Holy Armor, each of his punches and kicks carries a strand of Phoenix Force.
Phoenix belongs to fire.
Namor belongs to water.
Water and fire are incompatible.
Even if Namor is the King of the Sea, what of it? If he could control his Power of the Ocean without relying on the Trident, he might recover in ten days to half a month.
But the current King Namor is like Thor is written as Hammer God, a trident god.
So, Namor won't recover for at least a year, and during this year, he will constantly suffer the burning of the Phoenix Fire Hawk had infused into him.
This is also why Hawk wasn't angry at all when he discovered Namor had escaped.
Hearing this, Sharon looked at Hawk with a serious expression.
"We will closely monitor this guy, and once he appears, I'll inform you immediately."
"Don't worry, if I say he won't come out in a year, he won't come out in a year, don't be so nervous."
Seeing Sharon more nervous than himself, Hawk laughed heartily, then raised his eyebrows and looked at Sharon.
"By the way."
"There's also a vibranium ore vein in Talokan, and they have a special herb, the first Talokan people gained the ability to breathe underwater after eating this herb."
"If the Five Good Men are interested, they can go look for it."
"If you find it, let me know, just like in Wakanda, I'll clear the way for you."
"..."