Marvel: Awakening the Universe.

Chapter 556 Entering the Main Timeline of the End

Chapter 556 Entering the Main Timeline of the End (First Update!)

The sky was grayish-yellow.

Like a worn-out linen cloth that has been repeatedly washed, rubbed, and discarded, light struggles to penetrate this grayish-yellow curtain, rendering the entire sky in this color.

The earth groaned beneath my feet.

Hawke, having successfully and silently smuggled himself into the 616 main timeline through the gates of hell, looked at the surface of the earth before him.

The ground was covered with deep and wide cracks, much like a riverbed that had dried up for millions of years, or a huge, wrinkled mouth that had been violently torn open by an invisible giant hand.

In the distance, the city has vanished; it can no longer even be called a house or building.

Now, they are nothing more than twisted black skeletons growing from the earth.

The reinforced concrete beams and columns pierced the filthy sky at bizarre angles, much like arms reaching out in a struggle before death.

On the half-collapsed wall, charred window holes still remain.

A complex smell permeated the air.

A strong earthy smell.

The lingering smell of burning.

But the most important flavor is something else entirely.

death!

Having recovered his senses, Hawke walked through the ruins of the city, now a wasteland, feeling the indelible aura of death that seemed to seep into the very marrow of the bricks and stones.

The city was deserted. Hawke walked through it, and he couldn't even hear the crows. Only the sound of his own footsteps was very clear in the now empty city.

What happened here?

The universe itself felt that it had destroyed its own timeline and was too lazy to create a new one, so it would definitely let this spacetime come to an end.
Hawke thought to himself, and for a moment, he had the urge to use the Infinity Stones to investigate what had happened in this spacetime after he left.

But not!
In this sub-timeline, he could also use a portion of the power of the Infinity Stones without being detected by Universe 616 itself.

However, in the main timeline, if he were to use even a trace of the power of the Infinity Stones, which no longer exist in this timeline, it would be instantly detected by Universe 616 itself.

Hawke didn't mind, but only after he figured out what was going on here.

and so--

Just as Hawke was thinking about what to do next, even without relying on the Infinity Stones, his already keen hearing picked up a faint sound of footsteps coming from three blocks away.

It sounds like walking quietly in a delta.

Hawke raised an eyebrow.

next second.

He then disappeared from the spot.

Three blocks away from Hawke, in a ruin, a woman dressed in a linen-like outfit that covered her entire body was carrying a large bag and carefully walking through the rubble, stopping every now and then to look out at the gray-yellow sky through the cover.

It seemed as if some great danger was lurking in the sky.

Hawke followed the woman's gaze to the gray-yellow sky, then looked at the woman in front of him, who had her back to him. After withdrawing her gaze, the woman seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and couldn't help but speak.

"What are you looking at?"

"..."

The woman froze upon hearing the voice behind her.

next second.

brush!
A battle axe that looked quite old appeared in the woman's hand. Then, she turned around instantly and swung the axe at Hawk, who had appeared behind her at some unknown time.

Hawke raised an eyebrow and extended his right hand.

Duang!

The moment his right hand gripped the battle axe, a clanging sound of metal clashing against metal rang out. The sound was not loud, but in this now quiet city, it was like the sound of a temple bell being rung in the middle of the night.

Hawke clearly saw the change in the eyes of the woman in front of him, who was completely covered up except for her eyes.

When the woman saw him catch her axe with his bare hands, her eyes were filled with shock. But after the sound came out, her eyes instantly changed from shock to terror, and this terror was a terror that came from the depths of her bones.

next second.

Before Hawke could think further, he saw the woman in front of him release her right hand from the battle axe almost without hesitation, then turn around and run frantically but quickly into the depths of the ruins.

Hawke frowned slightly at the woman's somewhat strange behavior, but did not choose to follow her. Instead, he continued to look up at the grayish-yellow sky that the woman had just been looking at.

If nothing unexpected happens, what could make a woman so panicked must be coming from the grayish-yellow sky, and that thing seems to be attracted by sounds.

Hawke was very curious about what this thing was.

But just as he was preparing to wait for this thing to arrive, the woman who had been running quickly into the depths of the ruins suddenly stopped, turned her head and looked at Hawke, who was still standing in place, looking at the sky with incredibly clear eyes. Her thoughts raced for a moment, and then she gritted her teeth, quickly turned back, grabbed Hawke's arm, and said urgently.

"Come on!"

"..."

By the time Hawke realized what was happening, the woman had already pulled him and run deeper into the ruins.

Hawke hesitated for a moment, but did not refuse the woman's invitation. He followed her and quickly traversed the ruins of the city.

The woman seemed to have an unusual familiarity with the terrain of the ruins; in the blink of an eye, she led Hawke into the city's original sewer system.

Just as Hawke followed the woman into the now-dry and dusty sewers, he felt two cold weapons pressed against his body, and at the same time heard two deliberately lowered voices.

"do not move!"

"Don't speak, be quiet, shut up!"

Hawke didn't speak, but watched as the woman who had brought him in, with the help of another person, worked together to mend the hole they had just crawled through. Then the other person took out a device and quickly filled the gap in the hole with something that looked like expanding foam.

But after doing all this, the woman and her companion did not relax. Instead, they pressed their ears to the cave entrance, as if listening intently to any sounds from the outside world.

Even the man holding Hawke hostage with two melee weapons looked up at the top of the sewer pipe with a serious and tense expression, listening intently to something.

Hawke, of course, wouldn't ask what they were doing at this moment, but instead listened to the sounds from the outside world, just like the others.

Sure enough. He actually heard it.

It seemed as if someone had appeared in the sky, hovering above where he and the woman had just stood, as if observing something.

The woman and her companion heard it too, and their tense expressions visibly rose a whole floor.

Hawke strongly suspected that the hearts of these people were in their throats at this moment.

However, the person who appeared outside did not stay for long. After observing that there was nothing unusual, they flew away.

Yes.

Fly away.

But just as Hawke was about to speak, he noticed out of the corner of his eye that the woman's expression hadn't relaxed, so he immediately fell silent.

really.

After the person outside flew away, it flew back again, remained in the air, and then came to a standstill once more.

Good guy.

They've even started using military strategy?

Hawke thought to himself.

next second.

The sound of flying away rang out again. After three minutes, when there was no more sound from the outside world, the woman's expression softened slightly.

The woman's companions couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief upon seeing her appearance.

next second.

The woman's gaze fell on Hawke.

Hawke was about to speak when the woman made a shushing gesture at him, then nodded to her companion beside her.

His companion understood and took out an earpiece and a bone conduction device from his pocket. He then put the earpiece in Hawk's ear and pressed the bone conduction device against Hawk's Adam's apple.

Immediately afterwards, a voice appeared in Hawke's ears.

"Who are you."

"Hawk!"

Hawke listened to the cold voice and looked at its owner, the woman who had brought him in and was clearly the leader of this place: "You are..."

"Andy!"

woman……

wrong.

Although she was wearing a linen garment that covered her entire body, the woman's well-defined figure was still faintly visible. Andy looked at Hawke warily.

"Where did you come from?"

"I come from hell."

"..."

Hawke is just telling the truth.

But it was obvious that the woman named Andy in front of him didn't believe it.

Hawke was direct and to the point.

"Who are you hiding from? What happened in this time and space?"

"..."

Upon hearing this, Andy's gaze towards Hawke changed: "You don't even know about the Cleaners?"

"The Cleaners?"

Hawke frowned at the name, which sounded quite Celestial-like, then looked at Andy: "Where are the Avengers?"

Upon hearing this, Andy looked at Hawke with a strange expression: "You don't even know the Cleaners, but you know the Avengers?"