American comics: Starting from a copycat arms dealer.

Chapter 282 It turns out that demons are real!
Strange stepped through the portal and arrived at the Walton Hotel in New York.

He fabricated a fake FBI identity and asked the hotel front desk to retrieve customer check-in records.

After finding Wanda's check-in information, Strange took the elevator to the presidential suite on the 25th floor of the hotel.

"Ding--"

Ring the doorbell.

After waiting for a while, Strange saw a strange woman open the door.

"you are?"

"Hello, I'm Strange, from Kamar-Taj, and I'm also a wizard. I want to talk to Wanda and Carl about something."

Jean Grey shook her head and explained, "They went out this morning. I remember they went to Kamar-Taj."

Strange said seriously, "Are you sure they haven't come back yet?"

Jean Grey frowned. This man was so rude. How dare he question her?
"Anyway, I don't know where they went. You can come look for them another day."

After saying that, Qin wanted to close the door.

But Strange suddenly took a step forward, propped up the door with his hands, and wanted to break in to have a look, otherwise he would not give up.

Qin discovered that this man, dressed strangely, was trying to force his way in.

She decisively activated the power of the Phoenix.

boom--

An energy blast sent Strange flying into the wall of the hotel corridor.

"hiss"

Strange, who was half falling to the ground, touched his almost broken waist and took a breath.

Why does this woman start to fight over something when she doesn't agree with him?

The key is why is she still so strong?
A random shock wave can blow you away.

Looking at the door that closed again, Strange doubted his life for a while and could only leave in disappointment.

He saw that the woman was holding back. If he continued to disturb others, he wouldn't be sure he could handle it if he made them angry.

Walking out of the Walton Hotel, Strange looked around in confusion.

"The Earth is so big, where can we find Wanda and the others?"

Meanwhile, Carl and Wanda arrive in Salem, Massachusetts.

Salem is a coastal city located in the suburbs of Boston and one of the oldest seaports in the United States.

Europeans have settled here since the 17th century, and the seaport has become the most important trading port in early American history.

But in 1692, the infamous witch trials took place in Salem, and many innocent people were labeled "witches" and persecuted.

Most of the witches who were tried were followers of Agatha's mother, Ivanora.

In the 17th century, Ivanola ruled over all the witch colonies in Salem, Massachusetts.

Later, due to the influence of the witch trials, the witch group Agatha belonged to wanted to execute her for using black magic, so she killed the witch group led by her mother Ivanola.

Then Agatha brought some witches who shared her ideas to the Colorado Mountains in the western United States.

New Salem was established in the wild mountains where few people have ever been.

At this time, Carl and Wanda were flying over the wilderness mountains with complex terrain, looking for traces of the New Salem established by Agatha.

It is October, the beginning of winter, and the temperature in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado has dropped to 10°C.

The top of this mountain range has been quietly covered with a thin layer of snow, shining with a holy light under the early winter sunshine.

The pine and spruce trees on the mountainside are still green, intertwined with the orange-red broad-leaved forests all over the mountain, which further highlights the vitality of this mountain forest.

There was also a group of mountain lions lurking in the forest, chasing two bighorn sheep that were fleeing for their lives.

Carl took Wanda to appreciate the beautiful scenery of nature below while looking for traces of New Salem.

After half an hour.

Carl used his telepathy to scan this section of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, but he couldn't find any trace of New Salem.

"It seems that Agatha used some kind of concealment magic to hide New Salem." Carl muttered to himself.

"By the way, Wanda, did you sense anything unusual?"

Thinking that Wanda's telepathy might lead to some unexpected discoveries, Carl turned around and asked.

As a result, Wanda's face turned pale. She didn't even dare to look at the mountains below and had no time to deal with Carl's questions.

Wanda developed acrophobia after being taken to an altitude of more than a thousand meters by Carl's invisible telekinesis.

At this moment, she hugged Karl's arm tightly, even though she felt like she was stepping on something real.

But looking at the endless barren mountains and wilderness below, she was always worried that she would fall if she moved.

"Are you okay? If you're afraid of heights, why don't you tell me? I can lower the altitude."

As he spoke, Carl used his telekinesis to quickly lower the flying altitude of the two.

"Ah~ it's almost time!"

The two of them were descending so fast that Wanda felt like she was on a roller coaster. She was so scared that she locked Carl's arms tightly and screamed wildly.

Wait until the two of them stopped less than a hundred meters above the Rocky Mountains.

"Huhu. If you scare me on purpose again next time, I won't ride in your hovercraft."

Wanda tried to slow down her rapid heartbeat with deep breaths, and quickly pushed Carl's arm away, cursing this guy who was deliberately doing bad things.

Carl smiled and joked, "As a superhero that attracts worldwide attention, you are not afraid of heights, right?"

Wanda said with a dark face: "Who wouldn't be scared if a normal person was suspended a thousand meters in the air with nothing around them?"

Karl pointed at himself shamelessly and said confidently: “I’m not afraid.”

Wanda just glanced at him, not bothering to refute.

Now they couldn't find New Salem for the time being, so they could only continue chatting while searching.

So Carl continued with this topic.

"Actually, I can help you treat your fear of heights. Do you want to hear the treatment plan I have for you?"

Wanda's face was full of resistance: "If you don't want to hear it, shut up and focus on finding New Salem, okay?"

Carl seemed not to understand Wanda's refusal and said to himself:

"As long as I take you on a few more high-altitude unprotected flights, I believe you will soon be able to overcome your fear of heights. This method works every time."

Wanda said coldly: "Shut up!"

"OK, just ignore what I said."

Carl paused for a moment and began to mutter again.

"You really can give it a try. The best way to overcome your fear of heights is to face it."

At this time, a bald eagle swooped down from the sky and passed by Carl in a flash.

The speed was so fast that only a shadow could be seen.

But soon, when the bald eagle swooped down to less than fifty meters from the ground, it suddenly disappeared into thin air.

This abnormal phenomenon immediately caught Carl's attention.

"Wait, something's happening. Didn't you see that sea eagle just now flying down below and suddenly disappear?"

Wanda shook her head and said, "No, how about you take me down to the ground and take a look? I'm tired too, and I want to feel grounded and take a rest."

"Okay, let's take a break. I'll go investigate the abnormality on this mountain." After saying that, Carl took Wanda and landed below in the forest covered with a layer of snow.

Due to the high altitude, this mountain forest is mostly coniferous forests, spruce and other tree species.

The two landed at a place where they could see the surrounding environment clearly through the sparse trees.

Wanda frowned. "This damn place, there's nothing but trees and snow, nothing moving. It doesn't look like anything..."

“Shh” Karl stretched out his hand to signal her not to speak.

Wanda thought he had discovered something, so she lowered her voice and asked, "What did you find wrong?"

Carl pointed to the 15 o'clock direction and said mysteriously, "Look there!"

Wanda looked in the direction he was pointing.

结果
She saw a male chipmunk lying on a female chipmunk on the branch of a tall spruce tree, breeding little chipmunks.

Wanda was so upset by this scene.

"Oh my god, you're so boring, aren't you?"

Carl shook his head and said seriously: "You only saw the surface, but you didn't think about how rare it is for chipmunks to appear in such high-altitude mountains."

Wanda gave me a look that said, "Are you kidding me?"

"No matter how rare they are, they are just two chipmunks. What's so strange about that?"

"Superficial!" Carl said seriously, "There must be a special reason why these two chipmunks appeared here. This hill is very abnormal!"

Wanda no longer wanted to talk.

"What's wrong with that? I think you're just too suspicious. They're just some small animals. Are you hinting at something?"

When she said the last part, Wanda showed an extremely disgusted look, which made Carl feel a little embarrassed.

Okay, he was just trying to make a joke.

After all, we spent almost two hours wandering around this mountain range, and apart from animals, we didn't see a single living person.

Carl even suspected that he had come to the wrong place.

New Salem might not even be here.

But soon, he tried to use telepathy to search the hill.

But I found that there were unusually many small animals in this area.

So many that it is obviously abnormal.

At this moment, Carl saw hedgehogs coming out during the day, lizards crawling in the snow, and many red squirrels active in the woods.

Normally, hedgehogs are nocturnal, cold-blooded animals such as lizards hibernate in winter, and red squirrels and chipmunks do not appear in high altitudes.

Everything here seems very abnormal.

Carl was already certain that there was definitely something wrong with this hill.

"All these abnormal phenomena show that there is definitely something wrong here."

Wanda will no longer believe anything Carl says.

"I think the biggest problem here is you, you bastard!"

Karl looked at a loss whether to laugh or cry, "You can't do it! Well, wait, I'll prove it to you now!"

After saying that, Wanda looked at Carl, who was suspended in the air, and a faint cold breeze appeared silently like a gentle breeze moistening the earth.

In just a few seconds, the wind speed increased rapidly to the point of a tornado.

All the trees on the mountain, including spruce and pine trees, were rustling in the strong wind.

Snowflakes were flying all over the sky, and half of the sky was covered by white snowflakes.

Wanda could only set up a magic shield around her to block the growing wind.

"Why are you crazy?"

She shouted to Carl in the air.

Carl continued to mobilize the power of the Phoenix regardless, increasing the wind speed while scanning the surroundings with his sharp eyes.

No matter how deeply the anomalies in this area are hidden, he will find out the problem even if he has to flatten the entire mountain.

In fact, creating a tornado is already a relatively gentle approach.

If Carl launches a high-yield nuclear-level fusion explosion.

Not to mention a 5,000-meter-high mountain, he could even blow a planet to pieces.

With the strength of a single universe, it is very easy for him to explode a star.

But the earth is the cradle of human life after all, so he won't destroy it for no reason.

At this time, the increasingly violent tornado gradually uprooted spruce and other trees.

Countless mountain soil, mud and rocks were sucked into the center of the tornado, spiraling upward into the sky.

Wanda was stunned by this world-destroying scene.

"That's enough! If you continue like this, the protective array will be forcibly destroyed!"

At this moment, an angry, high-pitched female voice reached their ears.

A woman wearing a black robe and a mask with strange patterns rose from the mountainside and flew in front of Carl.

A dark purple magic shield emerged around the woman, protecting her and making her unaffected by the tornado.

Seeing that someone finally couldn't help but come out to stop it, Carl put on a victorious attitude and glanced at Wanda.

"I told you there's definitely something wrong in this area. Are you a witch from New Salem?"

The witch opposite was wearing a strange mask, so her face could not be seen clearly, but her tone was obviously much more polite afterwards.

"Yes, I'm Agatha Harkness, the leader of New Salem. Your way of greeting people is really strange."

As soon as Carl thought about it, the tornado around him quickly weakened and disappeared.

At the same time, he went straight to the point and said, "It seems that I have finally found the right place, Ms. Agatha. I need the copy of the Dark Book in your hand."

"Will you hand it over voluntarily, or will we have to fight first and then be forced to hand it over?"

Although the other party's tone was very arrogant, judging from the performance he just showed, this man did have the ability to be so arrogant.

Agatha hesitated for a while, but finally gave in, but she put forward a condition.

"I can give you the Dark Book, but you must first sign a soul contract to never disturb New Salem again."

Karl interrupted directly: “It seems that you choose to fight first, okay, are you ready?”

As soon as she finished speaking, Agatha felt an invisible force binding her and she was unable to move.

She hurriedly recited a spell, summoning a large area of thick black fog to block the enemy's vision, and then slowly think of a way to escape.

As a result, when Carl mobilized the power of the Phoenix, the black mist that he had just summoned with magic was all decomposed into the smallest elementary particles and disappeared into the invisible.

Seeing that this trick didn't work, Agatha recited the spell again, preparing to summon the devil from hell.

As the spell took effect, a small hole was torn in the hell dimension, and a gray mist filled with the smell of sulfur poured out.

Several bull demons, hellhounds, and skeleton warriors gradually emerged from the gray fog and appeared in front of Carl.

"What?"

Wanda's pupils shrank when she saw the ugly appearance of these demons. It turned out that the legendary demons from hell really existed!
She was about to open her mouth to remind Karl to be careful.

(End of this chapter)