Hawk did not know the content of Gwen and Ancient One's conversation.
After Librarian Wang led him into the secret room where the Time Stone, also known as the eye of agamotto, was kept, he turned and left without a word.
Hawk did not waste any time, directly taking out the eye of agamotto placed on the platform, and then sat cross-legged on the stone platform beneath him.
The eye of agamotto, which housed the Time Stone, slowly opened.
At first, it was a drop of green light, but as the eye of agamotto opened, and as the Time Stone bloomed, the green light instantly enveloped Hawk's entire body.
The next second.
Hawk opened his eyes and looked around.
The surroundings were as brilliant as the starry sky, but within the starry sky, a vast and immense River of Time seemed to appear beneath his feet.
And he stood suspended above this River of Time.
His River of Time.
The moment Hawk saw this River of Time, he understood that this was his own River of Time.
His past.
His present.
And his future, all were within the River of Time.
No, that's not right.
There was no future.
To be precise, his future was visibly approaching the end of his River of Time.
But it couldn't be said to have reached the end.
More accurately, after the end, it became fragmented and intermittent.
Looking out, from the moment he stood beneath it, among the 108,657 futures that extended outwards, 107,600 futures had already reached their end, and beyond that end, they were intermittent, as if the flow had stopped.
Good gracious.
In these 107,600 futures, do I no longer have a future?
Am I dead?
But then there shouldn't be any time left.
No, that's not right.
It should be that I succeeded.
When he awakened his Seventh Sense and stepped into the realm of the gods, and after comprehending the Eighth Sense, his Little Universe could truly become a parallel Universe of the Marvel Universe by relying on the Reality Stone he had already obtained.
And once the Phoenix parallel Universe appeared, then for Hawk, as the main god of the Universe, both fate and time would belong to him.
Therefore… his River of Time would naturally disappear in the Marvel Universe, as he would no longer be a person of the Marvel Universe, not even considered a person, so the Time Stone would naturally be unable to perceive his time.
Just like Odin.
The Time Stone could not reflect Odin's River of Time in the World Tree parallel Universe; only when Odin appeared in the Marvel Universe could the Time Stone reflect Odin's River of Time.
Hawk thought to himself, looking at the ends of the countless branches extending from the River of Time beneath his feet, he thought for a moment and couldn't resist the urge to go to the end and observe.
Because the past cannot be changed!
If he were to look at the future, it would no longer be the future; a known future is not the future, but the past.
And the past cannot be changed.
Once he saw one of his futures, he could only accept that future, regardless of whether it was good or bad.
Hawk was very clear about this.
Just like Odin and Ancient One.
These two were precedents who looked at their own futures, causing their futures to become set.
Odin peered into the future and saw Ragnarok, which caused Ragnarok to become an established fact.
This is also why Odin became complacent, allowing Loki to banish him to Earth.
Because Ragnarok had already arrived, and he had no way to stop it.
The past cannot be changed.
Ancient One was the same.
She also used the Time Stone to peer into her own future, turning this possible future into an already happened future.
Ancient One was the same.
But whether Odin cheated, Hawk didn't know, but he knew that Ancient One cheated.
Although Ancient One hadn't cheated yet, Hawk remembered Ancient One telling Gwen that she was going to the Phoenix Galaxy for a long vacation in a month, and he was very sure that Ancient One was going to cheat.
Since the past cannot be changed, then let this event happen.
Feigned death is also death!
As long as she died in an already existing timeline and never reappeared, it would not cause disorder in her own time.
Anyway, she was living in seclusion on Earth, and leaving Earth to go to the Phoenix Galaxy would also be living in seclusion.
There was no difference either way.
Simply put.
Ancient One saw her future, and then, through the futures of others, chose a timeline that could change her own future.
After all, in the River of Time, the timelines of all cosmic beings are together, forming a vast torrent of time.
Like the future Doctor Strange, Steve Strange.
He used the Time Stone to see Thanos snap his fingers, and the future where he would disappear under Thanos's snap.
This future became his past.
So no matter how many times Thanos snapped his fingers, his disappearance became inevitable.
For other beings, after Thanos's snap, life and death each had a fifty percent chance, but for Doctor Strange, he would disappear one hundred percent.
But the other Avengers did not know their future.
So Doctor Strange only needed to ensure that the fact of his disappearance after Thanos's snap would occur, and then, through the futures of others, choose a future where he would return after disappearing.
After all, Thanos's snap had a fifty-fifty probability.
And under this probability, it was very difficult to gather "Ant-Man" to provide time travel, "Hulk" and "Iron Man" to create time-traveling equipment, and "Black Widow" and others to ensure they could obtain the Soul Stone, all of whom survived Thanos's snap.
This is also why when Iron Man asked Doctor Strange how many times he succeeded.
Doctor Strange answered once.
In short!
The past cannot be changed.
The future cannot be observed.
Hawk took a deep breath, suppressing the impulse in his heart, turned directly, looked at the unchangeable past River of Time, and unified his mind.
The next moment.
The Mind Stone appeared at the center of his brows, emitting a faint yellow light, strengthening his mind.
Hawk then did not hesitate, with a thud, like a free fall, he directly jumped into his own River of Time, then sank to the bottom, sitting cross-legged.
He used the two cheating artifacts, the "Mind Stone" which could strengthen the mind, and the "Time Stone" which allowed one to walk freely in the River of Time, to help himself quickly comprehend the essence of the Seventh Sense—the Sense of Time!
The essence of the Fifth Sense is the Sense of Matter.
The Sixth Sense is the Sense of Mind.
And the Seventh Sense is the Sense of Time.
The reason Gold Saints are powerful is that they can perceive time and transcend time; for them, time can be unchanging, and similarly, time can be ever-changing in an instant.
And the best way to comprehend time is to take a journey on the River of Time.
Destination.
His starting point in this Universe.
Buzz!
Hawk's mind shook, and after opening his eyes, he found himself in a very dilapidated room, even emitting a musty and fishy smell everywhere.
"Push."
"It's coming out."
"Push!"
"Wah, wah, wah!"
"It's out, it's out, wait, there's another one, push!"
Accompanied by the cry of a baby.
Hawk, who appeared in the room but was not seen by the people around him, witnessed his own birth, and at the same time, witnessed the birth of his sister, Anya.
Of course.
He also saw the woman lying on the bed, with golden hair, but now covered in sweat.
The moment Hawk saw this woman, he finally understood whose eyes his sister Anya inherited.
Very clearly.
This woman was the birth mother of him and Anya.
As for the father… Hawk glanced at the man who was carefully holding his infant self.
Overalls.
Beard.
Hawk then withdrew his gaze, surveyed the dilapidated room, especially the drafty roof, and probably understood why he and his sister were abandoned.
As for why they had no birth certificates, he had roughly guessed that long ago.
Only those born in hospitals had records, but in 1995, many women still chose to give birth at home due to religious and various reasons.
And here, it was probably because they were poor and couldn't afford a hospital, so they gave birth at home.
Also because they were poor, he and his sister were placed at the church door.
Hawk understood, and his heart had no great fluctuations.
After all, he wasn't that curious about his birth father and mother in this life; although Anya used to ask when she was little, she gradually stopped asking as she grew older.
Anyway, he was doing pretty well now.
Hawk looked at the big man happily holding himself after he and Anna were born, and the woman lying on the bed who looked a bit weak but was smiling, he withdrew his gaze, passed through the dilapidated bedroom, went past the equally old living room, walked out the front door, then turned and looked at the house number.
The next second.
By the time he opened his eyes again, he had already arrived at Christmas Eve of 1995.
The house was still the same house.
The woman was still the same woman.
But at this moment, the woman had already wrapped two swaddled babies, her expression numb, and she walked down the street.
Hawk watched the direction the woman left.
Reluctance.
Sorrow.
Pain.
He perceived the woman's emotions, and after withdrawing his gaze, he returned to the house.
The house was still the same house, but it looked like the warmth, though present in the poverty he first perceived, had completely vanished.
Hawk also perceived the emotion of loss.
He frowned, and with a thought, time flowed backward, the scenes around him, like a rewind, quickly replayed in his perception.
Immediately after.
Hawk saw the woman at home with himself and his sister, smiling as she opened the door, looking at the two police officers who appeared at the doorway.
And after these two police officers appeared, the smile on the woman's face disappeared, and then, she broke down crying.
Hawk's gaze fell on the young police officer on the left.
He had seen this young police officer before.
George Stacy.
His—
Future father-in-law!
... (End of this chapter)
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