Hawk did not take the matter to heart.
After returning home, he connected his computer to his phone's hotspot and began browsing related information online.
The Battle of New York had taken place in June. Three months had passed since then, so photos and videos of people possessing Chitauri Soldier weapons had more or less begun circulating online.
He could even find the value of those weapons.
For example, Hawk was currently browsing a low-level trading website.
He had stumbled across it while surfing the web. At first, he had assumed it was an ordinary marketplace, until he saw a video of a young Western European girl being openly auctioned off in real time.
But Hawk only glanced at it before looking at something else.
First, just as he had told Spider-Man, he was not kind. At the very least, he would not soften his heart and step in whenever he saw someone suffering.
Back when he needed help, when he needed someone to stand up for justice, no one had come forward for him.
So...
Let go of the urge to help others, and respect their fate.
Of course, Hawk felt that while he was not a good person, he definitely was not evil either.
So he did not keep watching the auction and chose to keep his eyes clean instead.
After a while.
After browsing several other black-market forum posts selling Chitauri weapons, Hawk gained a rough estimate of the five trophies in his possession.
The weapons belonging to the Chitauri Soldiers—the four miscellaneous grunts—were probably worth somewhere between one hundred and fifty thousand and two hundred thousand.
Of course, that was the price per weapon.
As for the weapon he had seized from the Chitauri squad leader, there was nothing similar listed on the forum, but he