Chapter 98 - 95
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Not far away, on the rooftop of a small bungalow bathed in moonlight, three figures stood silently watching the Ghost Rider, now trapped by the metal spears on the street below. With her striking red coat and flowing hair, it was none other than the Scarlet Witch, Wanda Maximoff.
Beside her were Pietro and Sergei, keeping a vigilant watch.
"This guy only shows up at night. If we hadn't hacked the surveillance networks of several nearby cities, he'd be impossible to track," Pietro said, crossing his arms, the hem of his coat fluttering in the breeze.
Though he made it sound simple, the task had been anything but. Thankfully, Natasha had provided some remote assistance. Without her, they wouldn't have been able to hack into multiple cities' surveillance systems. The three of them simply lacked the technical expertise to pull off such a feat on their own.
Despite how easily it's depicted in movies, hacking a city's surveillance network is no small feat. The United States, famous for its "Matrix"-level monitoring systems, leads the world in network surveillance. Considerable manpower, resources, and funds have been invested in these systems for strategic purposes.
And a network security department had been established to attract the world's top experts and design a specialized firewall. But there was always a way around it—especially when you knew someone like Natasha.
Natasha didn't need to be an expert in finding vulnerabilities. Instead of attacking the system directly, she simply bypassed the firewall and found a backdoor—a network loophole. This kind of backdoor wasn't an uncommon feature in the United States, where agencies like the FBI and CIA often resorted to methods that weren't exactly legal or publicized. These "backdoors" were an unspoken agreement between certain departments, making covert access easier for those in the know.
Thanks to this, the three of them were able to locate the Skeleton Knight fairly quickly. What they didn't anticipate, however, was that Wanda's earlier feeling had been right. Magneto, the leader of the Brotherhood of Mutants, was also hunting for the Skeleton Knight, clearly drawn to him just as they were.
"By the way, this guy is a skeleton now... how are we supposed to draw blood from him?" Pietro asked with a smirk, clearly enjoying his own joke.