A few days later.
At Liberty State Park Cruise Port in Bayonne, New Jersey.
Gwen parked the car in the port, opened the door, and looked at the Statue of Liberty and the Manhattan skyline, both fully visible, and exclaimed, turning her head to look at Hawk, who was getting out of the passenger seat.
"I've never seen the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan from this angle before. They look beautiful from here, don't you think, Hawk?"
"They're alright."
Hawk glanced at the Statue of Liberty, then at Manhattan across the port, and gave his assessment.
Gwen listened to Hawk's evaluation, her mouth agape, feeling a bit speechless and thinking she shouldn't have discussed the beauty of the place with Hawk.
So…
Gwen decisively changed the subject.
"Where's that friend you mentioned?"
"You're early. We agreed on ten o'clock, and it's only nine now."
Hawk's tone was calm.
A few nights ago, when he left Gwen's house, he received a call from Anna. After he hung up, Gwen casually asked who it was, and he told her.
Just as Hawk had said before, as long as Gwen asked, he wouldn't hide anything.
But after asking, when Gwen learned that Anna was the one who provided him with the information, she expressed that she wanted to come with Hawk.
Hawk agreed.
And so it was.
This morning, Gwen came to his apartment to wake him up. They had originally agreed to meet here at ten o'clock, but Gwen arrived at nine.
Fortunately.
An hour wasn't very long. In the blink of an eye, it was quickly ten o'clock.
Just then, an unremarkable semi-trailer truck drove into the port. After two honks, it attracted Hawk and Gwen's attention.
Hawk turned his head to look at the semi-trailer truck that was approaching them and gradually slowing down.
He saw the truck driver.
Anna.
A moment later, the truck stopped steadily beside Hawk. Anna, with her golden hair tied high and wearing intellectual glasses, jumped down from the truck and smiled at Hawk: "Sorry for the wait, Hawk."
Hawk also smiled and said: "I'm very patient with friends, Anna."
Anna's gaze then fell on Gwen beside her, and a hint of surprise appeared on her cold and beautiful face as she looked at Hawk: "This is…"
"Gwen, my girlfriend."
"Anna, my friend."
"Hello, Gwen."
Anna listened to Hawk's introduction, her smile radiant as she took off her glove and extended her right hand to Gwen.
Gwen smiled and shook Anna's hand: "Hello."
She had seen this woman before.
But…
Gwen recalled the woman she had seen while waiting for Hawk in the car—a woman who walked with a strong presence, had a stern expression, and was like a thorny iceberg. She couldn't connect the Anna before her, who seemed to make the iceberg bloom, with the previous Anna.
However, she didn't say anything, merely suppressing her curiosity.
After shaking Gwen's hand, Anna immediately looked at Hawk.
"Hawk, do you think this is enough?"
"Okay."
Hawk nodded.
Anna then turned and led Hawk towards the back of the truck's cargo compartment.
Gwen followed closely behind.
As the truck's cargo compartment opened, instantly, iron meteorites, almost filling the entire compartment, came into Hawk's view.
Gwen looked at the iron meteorites filling the compartment, her mouth involuntarily wide open.
Anna patted the compartment, looked at Hawk, and said with a smile: "Sorry, I was a bit rushed for time and only found thirty tons. If it's not enough, I'll have someone look for more."
Hawk heard the quantity and his mouth twitched subtly.
Rushed for time? Thirty tons? Can find more if not enough?
Alright.
No need to doubt now.
HYDRA was confirmed.
In this World, to be able to collect thirty tons of iron meteorites in just three months, aside from official forces, perhaps only HYDRA has that kind of energy.
Hawk's thoughts churned as he looked at Anna and said with a smile: "Enough, not just enough, but even more than enough. I'm very satisfied, thank you."
How much iron meteorite does it take to forge a saint cloth?
Although what he wanted wasn't iron meteorites, but the silver star sand formed after grinding iron meteorites with the power of the Little Universe.
But…
Even so, thirty tons of iron meteorites would be enough for him to forge the Phoenix saint cloth, with plenty left over for the next saint cloth forging.
Anna heard Hawk's reply, and her smile became even brighter. She then patted the compartment again.
"Are you taking them directly, or…"
"…"
Before she could finish her sentence, she saw Hawk had already started.
Immediately after.
Anna watched the scene unfolding before her, her pupils rapidly contracting.
In her sight.
Hawk walked straight to the front of the compartment. After taking a deep breath, as he opened his right hand, the thirty tons of iron meteorites in the compartment seemed to be pulled by something, one by one, abruptly disappearing without a trace.
And from a perspective Anna couldn't see.
Hawk's Little Universe projected out, slowly rotating like a black hole, pulling these iron meteorites into his own Little Universe.
The Phoenix Constellation Diagram in the Little Universe was blazing like Fire.
These iron meteorites would be ground down by Hawk's Little Universe power in the Little Universe, turning into silver sand, then transferred into the Phoenix Constellation Diagram, and then, under the action of the Phoenix Fire, transform into silver star sand, one of the three main materials for manufacturing the saint cloth!
However, just like the last time he collected gammanian, it required time.
In fact, the saint cloth was similar; the older the saint cloth, the stronger its power, after all, the saint cloth was a container for the power of the constellations.
In the blink of an eye, the entire thirty tons of iron meteorites in the compartment had completely disappeared.
Anna's pupils had widened in shock countless times already.
Gwen, standing beside her, looked at this slightly bizarre scene and was also shocked.
After Hawk finished all of this, a hint of fatigue appeared between his brows.
After all, there were no saint seiya in this World. If the Marvel Universe were treated as a game, then his Little Universe power system was not written into this game's code.
Although he could burn his Little Universe to achieve the purpose of a phantom projection of the Little Universe.
Compared to the saint seiya World, it was half the effort for double the result.
But…
Hawk had already thought of a solution.
Just as he had already thought of how to solve the problem of the saint cloth's inferior power.
But there was no rush now. These two matters, at the very least, could only be considered after he had manufactured the saint cloth.
Hawk lightly exhaled a turbid breath, and the fatigue between his brows disappeared at a visible speed. He then looked at Anna, whose pupils were still somewhat shocked, and extended his right arm: "Come on."
Anna temporarily recovered from her shock, looking at Hawk extending his right arm, seeming a little slow to react.
Hawk smiled and said: "But 200 milliliters is enough."
Anna reacted.
Her expression…
Just as her expression hadn't had time to change, she heard Hawk say with another smile.
"I'll give you four hundred milliliters."
"…"
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