Seeing that Johnny insisted on saving his girlfriend, the old man sighed, picked up the shovel next to him, and smashed it.
Only then did Johnny realize that the handle of the shovel was hollow.
The old man took out a thin scroll. "The San Venganza Contract."
Johnny reached out to take it.
The old man dodged his hand. "Can I trust you?"
After a brief silence, Johnny said, "They took my soul, but they can't control my heart."
The old man smiled. "Anyone who has the guts to sell their soul for love has the power to change the world. Remember what you said! "
As he spoke, he handed the scroll to Johnny.
Johnny took the scroll. "Uh, where's San Venganza?"
The old man said, "About two hundred kilometers southwest. We have to set off quickly." He then walked out of the cemetery.
Johnny pocketed the scroll and followed the old man. "Us?"
On the road in front of the cemetery, the old man stuck a finger into his mouth and whistled.
Suddenly, there was the neigh of a horse not far away. The horse's hooves clattered on the ground as it quickly approached the two of them.
A black steed suddenly rushed out of the misty night and ran briskly to the old man's side. It intimately rubbed its big head against the old man's.
The old man got on the horse. "I think I can ride it one last time."
As he spoke, flames rose from his head and spread down.
A skeleton knight appeared in front of Johnny.
Johnny looked at this scene in astonishment, and was enlightened. "Carter Slade?"
The skeleton knight nodded slightly.
Luke wasn't too surprised.
Carter Slade was the previous Ghost Rider that the old man had mentioned.
In order to prevent Mephisto from obtaining the extremely powerful San Venganza contract, Carter Slade had betrayed him and disappeared with the contract.
Hm, from this point of view, Mephisto's Ghost Riders weren't very obedient.
But on the other hand, Ghost Rider was also a "qualified person."
If anyone could use Ghost Rider's power, Mephisto wouldn't have to carefully select the people who accepted this power.
And it definitely wouldn't be easy for Mephisto to control those who obtained this power.
Johnny looked at the horse suspiciously. "Can it keep up?"
Carter's skeletal mouth opened as if he was smiling, and the flames on his body suddenly spread to his black horse.
The originally unremarkable black horse's hooves and eyes were ablaze. Its nostrils and mouth were spewing out sparks. It pawed its hooves a few times and tilted its head, as if it was despising Johnny's question.
Johnny: "… Okay, let's go." Flames rose from his body as he turned into Ghost Rider.
The next moment, amidst the rumbling of the engine and the crisp sound of hooves, a carriage and a horse galloped away.
Luke sighed. "Are you messing with me?"
It was one thing for these two fellows to transform themselves, but they could also use those flames to change the nature of their mounts. This was really cheating.
Whether it was the Black Horse or the retro motorcycle, after being possessed by the flames, they immediately became super powerful transportation tools, reaching speeds of over 300 kilometers per hour in a short period of time.
Furthermore, these two fellows were directly heading west in the wilderness, and didn't take the road at all.
It was very difficult for the Triumph motorcycle to reach this speed even on the highway. Luke snorted and put away the motorcycle. He released a small plane in the open and mumbled, "If I can't outrun them, I can still fly."
In the night sky, he could see a line of fire and a string of flaming hooves on the ground from afar. He wouldn't lose sight of these two fellows.
But looking at the two people galloping ahead, especially the handsome skeleton horse, Luke was a little envious, but he could only drool as he looked at the carriage and the horse below.
Secondly, while Ghost Rider's transformation was too high-profile, it was indeed very handsome, and could also hide its identity.
Ghost Rider was a skeleton after it appeared, and it wasn't easy to see its body shape.
When Luke was bored, he even did facial reconstruction on Johnny's skull. It wasn't Johnny himself, but an unfamiliar man's face.
Clearly, Ghost Rider's skeleton wasn't Johnny's.
However, Johnny had just transformed in the detention room, and there was no point in talking about hiding his identity. It was a waste of such a good disguise.
On the other hand, Ghost Rider was a modified evil spirit that Mephisto had given him.
Luke had never thought of selling his soul.
Even if Mephisto let bygones be bygones and was willing to sign a contract with him, Luke couldn't sell his soul.
Before this bigshot was sent back to hell by the system, he had inadvertently mentioned that Luke's soul had already signed a contract with a "person."
Now that he thought about it, he was probably referring to the system.
That was also the reason why the system, which usually didn't take the initiative, would stop anyone who tried to invade its "territory" (rejecting the mental energy link) and even attack Mephisto.
In other words, as long as the enemy didn't do anything to Luke's soul and mind, the system wouldn't react.
Just like that, Luke, who was pondering in the air, followed the two Ghost Riders below for more than twenty minutes before they arrived at the ruins of San Venganza.
Looking at the dark remains of the village not far away, the flames on Carter's body extinguished, and he returned to his old appearance. "I'll send you off here."
Johnny was a little stunned. "You're not coming with me?"
He had thought that Carter had come to help save someone. Why was he done after accompanying him for a while?
Carter said helplessly, "I'm too old, and Ghost Rider's energy is almost exhausted. I only sent you here to fulfill my wish."
Johnny asked, "What wish?"
Carter said, "I want to make sure that someone will continue fighting the demons after I die."
He tossed over a Winchester shotgun from the back of his horse. "Go, son."
Johnny took the gun, and Carter Slade pulled the reins. The black horse under him neighed, and its front hooves rose into the air. It twisted on the spot, turned around, and galloped back the way they came.
The man and horse quickly disappeared into the thick night.
Johnny was speechless.
Carter was a Ghost Rider from 150 years ago. He had relied on Ghost Rider's energy to support his old body to live until now.
But this support was limited, and wasn't enough to make a person immortal.
At that moment, Carter handed over the San Venganza contract, which he had guarded for more than a hundred years, to Johnny.
This meant that his only concern and responsibility had been handed over to Johnny, the new generation of Ghost Rider.
After living for almost two hundred years, there was nothing left for him to miss. Accompanying Johnny on this last journey also meant that his story as a former Ghost Rider had come to an end.
In the future, Johnny, the new Ghost Rider, would be the only one left.
After Johnny watched Carter disappear over a small slope, he put away his faint melancholy and continued toward the ruins of San Venganza.
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