"Wait... I still have a question."
Johnny took a deep breath. Just as he was about to ask why it was him, Carter Slade seemed to have guessed what he wanted to ask and directly said, "From the moment you signed the contract with Mephisto, you were destined to be unable to escape this nightmare!"
Mephisto...
This evil name was like a terrifying nightmare, winding around Johnny for more than ten years!
If he had not been bewitched, in order to save his father who was suffering from cancer, and signed the evil contract with Mephisto, his father would not have died in a flying car performance.
And he would not blame himself deeply for this matter and even deliberately challenge the impossible flying car stunt in order to find a way to let him die in peace.
"You... How did you know?" Johnny sat on the ground dejectedly, his hands deeply inserted into the roots of his hair, burying his head in the bear like an ostrich avoiding a storm.
"Because I also signed a contract with Mephisto just like you." Carter Slade recalled the past and could not help but let out a long sigh.
"So you... we were all deceived by Mephisto!" A trace of astonishment flashed through Johnny's eyes. He did not expect the old man in front of him to have a similar experience with him. He immediately felt that Carter had become much closer.
Carter Slade sighed again, the wrinkles on his face squeezed together. "We don't need to be touched. We will soon be in big trouble. If we can't solve it, the whole world will be swallowed up by the demons."
Johnny's eyes twitched. "Sorry, are you talking about the plot of Hollywood movies?"
"The man who attacked you last night, I smelled a strong smell of hell from him." There was a hint of fear in Carter's eyes. He said in a deep voice, "Just looking into his eyes made me feel a shudder from the depths of my soul. This feeling of being killed at any time, I have only felt it from Mephistopheles."
"So... why did he attack me?" Johnny swallowed his saliva. Although he did not know how strong Mephisto was, the scene of him being abused by that man yesterday and being unable to fight back was still vivid in his mind!
"If I'm not wrong, he should be here for the contract!" Carter Slade subconsciously glanced at a broken tombstone.
But he quickly took it back and did not attract Johnny's attention.
"The Contract of San Venganza?" Johnny frowned. His intuition told him that this thing was very important. "It sounds very powerful, but I have never seen it. Why did that man come to me?"
"Because this is... the fate of the evil knight!" Carter Slade said in a deep voice, "It is the fate of every evil knight to protect the Contract of San Venganza and not fall into the hands of Mephistopheles and other demons."
Gulp...
Perhaps influenced by Carter's solemn expression, Johnny unconsciously puffed up his chest and asked nervously, "What is the Contract of San Venganza?"
"Key!"
Carter Slade's expression was rather solemn. "This is a Magic Tool forged by Mephisto who spent hundreds of years to turn a holy land of faith into purgatory and seal the souls of three thousand Fallen Saints!"
"Once the Contract of San Venganza is obtained by Mephisto or other powerful demons, the entrance to hell linking the world to the world will be opened. Countless demons will enter the world and turn the entire world into another hell!"
Johnny, "..."
Carter waited for a long time but there was no response. He frowned and said, "Are you okay?"
"... Can I give up?" Johnny wanted to cry but had no tears. The shock of this news was no less than a bolt of lightning striking his head. He was clearly just a flying car stuntman. How did he suddenly become a hero who saved the world?
"Of course you can. As long as you are willing to see the people you love with your own eyes, all of them will fall into hell and suffer forever." Carter Slade sneered and said indifferently, "Anyway, I am about to die and have lived long enough. There is no one worthy of me thinking about."
"..."
Johnny's mouth twitched slightly, and he was speechless for a moment.
Carter Slade looked at him with disappointment. He stood up with the handrail and walked to the church with a shovel. "You still have a chance to regret. The car is outside the cemetery. When you think it through, come to the church. I will teach you how to control the evil spirit in your body."
Johnny sat alone in the cemetery with a complicated look in his eyes.
Looking at the desolate and dilapidated scenery around him, countless chaotic thoughts emerged in his mind. It was like a tangled thread, making Johnny suddenly feel a little confused. He did not know how to choose!
...
...
...
As time went on, the bright moon rose from the horizon.
Johnny actually sat quietly for a whole day without knowing it. The messy thoughts in his mind gradually dispersed, replaced by a man's voice full of magnetism that sounded in his heart!
"Johnny, don't be bound by fear!"
"If you don't lead the fate, then you will be led by the fate."
To dominate the fate, not to be controlled by the fate!
This was what his father had told him before he died!
This sentence was like a lamp in the dark night, instantly illuminating the shadow in Johnny's heart, guiding him to a great path!
"That's right, I can't live in the shadows of the past, and I can't be bound by fear!" The light in Johnny's eyes became brighter, and his decadent aura was swept away. His whole person was like a new life, exuding a vigorous aura. "I want to control my own destiny. Whether it is Mephisto or the Demon of hell, don't think of taking away my love!"
Johnny strode into the church. He looked at the old man sitting under the window and said word by word, "I've decided. I want to become an evil knight and protect the Contract of San Venganza. I want to save my lover and this world!"
"Congratulations."
A smile bloomed on Carter's calm face. His eyes were filled with relief. "In your despair, you finally have a chance to resist that dog shit's fate!"
"Thank you." Johnny shrugged and said, "Didn't you want to teach me how to control my transformation? I want to start from that step first? It's best if it's simpler and faster."
"That's easy. You just need to stand there and don't move."
A strange smile appeared on Carter Slade's face. He held a shovel and dragged him to the ground, slowly walking towards Johnny.
"Wait... what do you want to do?" Johnny showed a trace of fear on his face and subconsciously leaned against the door.
"Don't be afraid. I'll help you transform. Don't you want the fastest and simplest way?" Carter Slade said with a smile, his hands holding the heavy shovel.
Then...
Before Johnny could react, Carter waved the heavy shovel and slapped it on his forehead!
Boom
The shovel almost smashed Johnny's head into pieces, and the hell fire burst out uncontrollably!
The next moment, the Ghost Rider appeared.
"This is the method you said?!" Johnny, who had turned into an Ghost Rider, touched his burning skull and shouted with lingering fear, "Damn it, do you know that I was almost killed by a shovel? What if I didn't transform?"
Dang ---
"You are the one who requested to use the fastest and simplest method. Is my method not fast enough?" Carter held the shovel in one hand and said lightly, "And it is impossible for anything to happen to you. The hellfire can heal all wounds."
Reality proved that trying to take a shortcut was not a good thing.
Johnny, who was in the wrong, was exasperated and raised his middle finger. "F*ck you!"