Under the moonlight, in that hazy place.
Accompanied by a series of eerie cackles, followed closely by the roar of a motorcycle streaking across the sky, then landing heavily on the ground.
Boom!
Emerging as if from Hell itself, the flame-engulfed motorcycle continuously spewed sparks from its exhaust pipe.
Having finally found his motorcycle, the Ghost Rider, feeling toyed with by Hulk, still managed to return to Texas just before midnight.
At this moment, the Ghost Rider, gripping the handlebars, sitting on the motorcycle, and sporting a burning skull, looked up at Hulk on the canyon rim.
In his hollow eye sockets, Hellfire burned fiercely, swirling and even dancing, seemingly forming two vortexes leading to Hell.
"Hehehe!"
The Ghost Rider, driving his motorcycle to the edge of the canyon, let out a chilling laugh. After dismounting, he wasted no time, grabbing the chain wrapped around his body and swinging it violently towards Hulk above.
The chain, like a living venomous snake, suddenly flew up, carrying the soul-scorching Hellfire, whistling as it conjured a fire tornado, precisely twisting towards Hulk to kill him.
Hulk quietly watched the Soul Chain approaching him.
His figure vanished from his original spot the moment the chain attacked, just as the fire tornado violently destroyed the rocks beneath him.
The next second.
The Ghost Rider, clutching the other end of the Soul Chain, had his chest cave in instantly, turning into a fireball that crashed into the canyon wall with a thunderous boom.
"Sonic Punch!"
"Boom!"
Hulk appeared silently at the Ghost Rider's previous position, then looked at the Ghost Rider, who was embedded in the rock wall as if his entire body had been pressed in. He clenched his right fist and swung it at the Ghost Rider once more.
"Super! Sonic Punch—"
"Boom, boom, boom!"
The rock wall vibrated and disintegrated, and rocks broken off from the mountain scattered densely like bullets in all directions.
And as the rock wall was continuously deepened by Hulk's punching force, the Ghost Rider, who was directly enduring hundreds of punches per second from Hulk, continued to sink deeper into the rock wall at a visible speed.
Finally.
Accompanied by a wail, the rock wall, which had existed in the canyon for an unknown duration, slowly tilted and collapsed amidst deafening sounds, completely burying the Ghost Rider in the rock wall ruins with a cloud of dust that shot skyward.
Hulk retracted his fist but did not leave.
Could the Ghost Rider be so easily dispatched?
Don't be ridiculous.
One must know that the Ghost Rider is different from the Four Elemental Creators, and even unlike the second-generation Hell Blackheart.
Its core is the Spirit of Vengeance.
In short.
The Ghost Rider is almost completely immune to physical attacks.
Indeed!
After another Earth-shattering roar from the rock wall ruins, the Ghost Rider, with his Hellfire surging, leaped out of the ruins with a huge jump.
The rock fragments beneath his feet were scorched red by the Hellfire, even showing signs of melting.
And the Ghost Rider, standing on the rock fragments, looked at Hulk with his hollow, fiery eye sockets, holding his Soul Chain, his voice hollow.
"You are guilty!"
"None of your business!"
Hulk spoke almost the instant the Ghost Rider did, and at the same time, swung his right fist again.
Boom!
The Ghost Rider, standing on the rock fragments, was sent flying backward again, slamming into another rock wall.
But this time, he wasn't embedded.
Rocks splattered.
The moment the Ghost Rider fell from the rock wall onto the sand like a hanging scroll, the Soul Chain in his hand detached again, and in the blink of an eye, it instantly wrapped around Hulk's ankle… Just kidding!
The moment he was entangled by the Soul Chain, the afterimage Hulk left behind instantly vanished.
The Hellfire surging in the Ghost Rider's hollow eye sockets couldn't help but pause for a moment.
Hulk's voice echoed from above his head.
"Hey!"
"…"
"Boom!"
Almost the instant the Ghost Rider instinctively looked up, Hulk's powerful punch had already slammed directly onto the Ghost Rider's flaming skull.
Accompanied by the ground shaking, the Ghost Rider's height visibly shrank.
No.
It wasn't shrinking, but rather the Ghost Rider's entire lower body, under this palm strike from Hulk, instantly sank into the sand.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
The Ghost Rider's height continuously shrank. After three more strikes from Hulk, only a flaming skull remained above the ground, with the rest of his body completely submerged in the Earth.
"Hiss!"
Hulk retracted his right hand, shaking off the soul-scorching Hellfire that had clung to it, then looked at the Ghost Rider, whose head remained perfectly intact despite his three palm strikes capable of crushing a small mountain. He was somewhat surprised: "Your head is really hard."
Before he finished speaking.
The Soul Chain, which had been hanging on the ground, seemingly without any reaction, automatically rose like a venomous snake, spitting its tongue, and shot towards Hulk, who was stepping on the skull, with a whoosh, carrying blazing Hellfire.
Hulk did not dodge or evade, directly extending his left hand and successfully gripping the Soul Chain at its vital point.
The Ghost Rider, whose entire body except for his head was submerged in the ground, sensed Hulk grabbing his Soul Chain and cackled eerily.
The next second.
The Hellfire of the Soul Chain surged explosively, and then, Hulk felt his feet go empty. Looking down, he saw that the skull, which had just been beneath his feet, had now disappeared.
But…
The Ghost Rider's body was still beneath his feet.
Hulk regained his composure and looked again at the Soul Chain he was holding.
The moment he looked, a pair of hollow, Hellfire-burning skulls replaced the Soul Chain in his hand.
The hollow eye sockets met his gaze.
"Hehehe."
"You are guilty, accept judgment."
The skull held in Hulk's hand opened its mouth slightly, cackling eerily, and the Hellfire in its hollow eye sockets instantly formed a swirling portal.
Beyond the vortex, there seemed to be endless darkness.
Hulk felt his soul being pulled. From the Hellfire vortex in the Ghost Rider's eye sockets, an external force seemed to come, attempting to pull his soul into the passage.
If his Little Universe's Underworld had not been born, he would certainly have had no possibility of resisting such a pulling force.
After all, he was currently on Earth and had not signed any contracts with any dimensions, so theoretically, he was an Earthling, and his soul should belong to Mephisto's Hell.
But it was different after his own Underworld was born.
It was still that phrase.
I already have my own Underworld, and my soul still belongs to your Hell? Wouldn't my Underworld have been built in vain?
Therefore…
Hulk could feel the vortex in the Ghost Rider's hollow eye sockets trying to pull his soul.
But his soul remained unmoving.
Time passed bit by bit.
The Ghost Rider continued to cackle eerily.
Hulk calmly stared into the vortex in the Ghost Rider's hollow eye sockets.
Ten seconds.
Thirty seconds.
One minute.
Three minutes.
The Ghost Rider stopped cackling. Not only did he stop laughing, but even the vortex leading to Hell disappeared, and the Hellfire in his eye sockets became stagnant, as if his entire being fell into silence at that moment.
But…
Smiles don't disappear; they merely transfer.
Hulk looked at the Ghost Rider, who had walked right into his trap and stopped his eerie cackling in his palm, and smiled slightly: "Laugh, keep laughing!"
As he spoke, he suddenly squeezed the Ghost Rider's head with increased force.
Crack!
A crisp cracking sound clearly echoed in the canyon, which had just been noisy but was now silent again.
If the Ghost Rider didn't separate his head from his body, Hulk truly had no way to deal with him.
But once the Ghost Rider chose to actively separate his head, it was completely different.
"Ah!"
As the cracking sound rang out, a scream from the depths of the soul erupted, followed by a scene like something out of a horror movie.
The flaming skull in Hulk's left palm, at the moment the scream sounded, instantly transformed back into a head with Nicolas Cage's old face, but then immediately reverted to the Ghost Rider's iconic skull.
Hulk instantly understood.
Originally, he thought the relationship between Johnny and the Ghost Rider was more similar to the relationship between Bruce Banner and the Hulk.
That is, Johnny could transform into the Ghost Rider, but the Ghost Rider wasn't just Johnny; he could have other hosts.
But it seemed that this was not the case now.
Johnny's soul seemed to have perfectly merged with the Ghost Rider's Spirit of Vengeance.
And to achieve this, there was only one way.
That is, Johnny must willingly choose to merge with the Spirit of Vengeance.
This explained another problem.
Why, when Sharon called earlier, she said that Johnny, even when not transformed into the Ghost Rider during the day, was still heading towards New York City.
Simply put—
It wasn't just the Ghost Rider who was ordered by Mephisto to try and take his soul to Hell.
Johnny was also involved.
This Johnny also wanted to send his soul to Hell.
No wonder the Ghost Rider could separate his head so easily.
So, you two are united in thought, huh?
"Tsk!"
After realizing this, Hulk looked at the head in his left palm, which was continuously switching between Johnny and Ghost Rider states while screaming under increasing pressure, and couldn't help but click his tongue.
The next second.
Boom!
The moment Hulk's gaze turned cold, his left hand, gripping the head, instantly closed.
The scream abruptly ceased.
Hulk loosened his left palm, and tiny fragments of the head in his palm flowed down through the gaps between his fingers.
A Hell vortex opened in Hulk's perception.
Johnny's soul, perfectly merged with the Spirit of Vengeance, was instantly absorbed by the Hell vortex.
Hulk perceived everything expressionlessly.
He already knew how to go to Hell.
But…
Let the bullets fly for a while!
…
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