In a dark basement in Gotham, a man wearing a windbreaker and an unshaven beard sighed deeply, and the girl sitting opposite him tucked her short red hair behind her ear and said.
"Is this embarrassing for you? Otherwise you will send me back. I think you have done enough, Mr. Constantine."
"It has nothing to do with this." He sighed deeply again and said, "Call me John, Barbara. I missed the only time to send you to the hospital, and now it's too late."
"If you think about it on the bright side, at least I won't be half paralyzed." Barbara curled her lips and said, "In this city, being possessed by a demon is not a big deal."
"If there was only Gotham, maybe I would think what you said is right, but haven't you discovered yet? There are a group of extremely difficult guys in this new city that merges with Gotham."
Constantine sat in the corner, took out the cigarette and put it to his mouth. After a moment of hesitation, he stuffed it back into his pocket. He shook his head, showing a bored look.
"It seems that you are not as comfortable as you said." Barbara, who was sitting on the chair, had an inexplicable brilliance in her eyes, and her usually youthful and energetic face also had a hint of abnormal paleness.
"It's a big problem, kid, but it can be solved."
Even so, Constantine still felt a headache. He couldn't say that he made a wrong decision, it was just a bit unlucky.
When Constantine went to rescue Barbara, he found that Barbara had been hit on the side of the waist. Although he was not a doctor, he could see that the injury was not necessarily fatal, but it would definitely be disabling.
Thinking from the perspective of a magician, taking out bullets and healing wounds is not a big deal at all. The magical energy of magic can save all doomed decline.
But that is only for the magician himself, because after so many years of development, DC's magic trading system has become very mature, and the sources of the power used by Constantine have entered into more stringent treaties with him.
The demons or other magical abilities summoned by the flame avatar used by Constantine are all allowed to be used in the treaty. Of course, the treaty also has the ability to heal itself, but it is limited to healing Constantine himself.
If you encounter a situation where you want to heal someone else, you must find another treaty with a demon or angel, and Constantine and the person being treated will pay the price together. If the other person is not a magician, he may have to pay more.
However, this also depends on the difficulty of the treatment. What often requires a huge price is to bring a person back from the line of life and death, while other injuries are considered minor injuries by demons or angels and do not require the cost of organs or souls.
The cost is, at most, a loss of luck or lifespan.
With this idea in mind, Constantine planned to recruit anyone to treat his injuries. In this regard, both hell and heaven had clearly marked prices, so it would be the same no matter who he recruited.
Constantine was so skilled at this that he drew a random dialing circle and called the phone. Soon someone answered the phone and projected a trace of his power and consciousness on Barbara.
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But at this moment, Constantine felt that he was being watched.
His intuition had saved his life more than once, which was also the most powerful evidence that Constantine was born to do this. The moment he was targeted, Constantine immediately took Barba, who had not yet completed the possession of his body, with him.
Transferred.
I thought it was just an accidental glimpse from heaven or hell, but I didn't expect it to be a man-made disaster. Constantine moved to the safe house he had left in Gotham before, just when he wanted to communicate with the demon in Barbara's body again.
At that moment, a group of monks in yellow robes knocked on the door of the safe house.
Again, Constantine is a sophisticated enough mage. He does not believe that anything that happens to him is just a coincidence or accident. Even if it is, there must be a devil behind the scenes to manipulate the probability, so he once again took Barba with him.
Transferred.
But the other party could always find him quickly. Constantine didn't have time to think about why. This time he had to face these strange mages head-on, because even he didn't have so much energy in such a short time.
It carries an ordinary person for several transfers.
As expected by Constantine, the other party had no intention of reasoning with him. Even though Constantine and Barbara both said that they were in a cooperative relationship, no one kidnapped the other, and it was not who was hurting the other.
However, the group of mages shouted "The traitor who summoned the devil" and rushed forward.
Constantine doesn't understand. Isn't the energy you use coming from the devil?
What age has it been? Why are there still people attacking heretics because they cooperate with demons? Is there any mage in the world who does not cooperate with demons?
There is no other way. Constantine can only continue to run with Barbara. These guys are not weak hands. If they are not careful, the boat will capsize in the ditch, so they must be treated with caution.
Constantine was not stupid either. He found that as soon as he tried to communicate with the demon in Barbara's body, the other party would immediately lock onto his location, which led Constantine to speculate that the other party might be able to detect the energy of the demon.
So he took Barbara to the last shelter and used a seal to temporarily seal the demon consciousness in Barbara.
The mages seem to have encountered some other troubles and have not pursued them for the time being, but this does not mean that this trouble is over. In fact, on the contrary, the most difficult part has just begun.
Constantine now knows that there are also mages in the new integrated city. He needs to find out the details of this group of mages. To put it bluntly, he needs to know who the mages are contracting with.
It is not difficult to see that this group of magicians is organized, and the most terrible thing is that organized magicians in this world usually bring great disasters.
Because they indulge the ambitions of heaven and hell, they are often the vanguard to open up new territories for them in the human world. If it is not profitable, demons and angels will not spend so much money to lend so much power to so many people.
Although the demon in Barbara's body is temporarily unable to communicate, Constantine's own phone line is still normal. He can actually ask the demon and let the demon investigate in hell.
But what he doesn't tell Barbara is that he's also facing another layer of trouble: a nosy historian and folklorist is investigating him.
This starts from an unsolved case that Constantine left in England when he was young. The specific case is a bit complicated, but it also caused waves in both ordinary society and the occult circle. It can also be said to be a turning point in Constantine's life.
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Of course, it is not unreasonable to bring up old things again. Before that, Constantine also discovered that the demon that caused trouble at the time had returned to the world. He originally wanted to solve the problem by himself, but he didn't expect that Dr. Sochip came out halfway and beat him.
It messed up his plan.
It was okay not to be able to investigate openly, but Dr. Sohip got the information from somewhere and pointed the finger directly at Constantine.
So the mysterious visitor in the fog didn't even invite Constantine, he came to New York by himself, because he really couldn't stay in England anymore.
Dr. Sohipu's investigative ability is extremely strong. He can dig up things that happened decades ago, and the information he traces is even more detailed than what he personally experienced back then.
Constantine's intuition saved his life again, and he later confirmed from the visitor in the fog that the other party held a pivotal position in ordinary society.
All Souls College of the University of Oxford is known as the top of Oxford University. It does not recruit ordinary undergraduates and postgraduates, and only scholars with a pivotal position in the academic world are allowed to join.
As a magician, Constantine knew that it was also the ivory tower of the occult world. All the scholars there who claimed to study philosophy and theology were actually members of the occult world like him.
In this world, there are not only wild men with excellent talents like Constantine, but also scholars who have long been aware of the power of mysticism in this world and have devoted themselves to the study of complicated mysticism, theology and religion as ordinary people.
Government agencies in the world also need such people to explain various occult events that appear in the world. There is no doubt that All Souls College of Oxford University is the authority on occultism in ordinary society.
It was two centuries ago that magicians were superior to ordinary people. Now they are the rats in the gutter. Constantine did not dare to bet his social status on Dr. Sochip's incompetence.
Turn his old shit upside down.
Constantine chose to come to the United States to avoid the limelight, and by the way, he used the devil to find out who Dr. Soship was. However, before he could get a headache about his background, he and Barbara froze here together.
Before coming to New York, Constantine suspected that Sohipu had cracked the magic circle he used to communicate with demons. This was not surprising. He used this method many years ago. At that time, he was young and ignorant, and the traces were not completely eliminated. As long as
Give these theoretical masters some time and they will always be able to figure it out.
If Constantine didn't update his phone number, he would probably be caught by Sohip along the network cable if he called him. But it would be a bit difficult to get him to update his phone number under such circumstances.
The key is that you have to notify the devil to update your phone number. But if you want to notify the devil, you have to make a phone call. If you want to make a phone call, you have to update your phone number. Otherwise, you will be caught. It is a closed loop.
But there is another simplest solution, which is for Constantine to open a portal and go directly to hell.
Communication with the devil may be intercepted, but if it is transmitted in person, the probability of being intercepted is very small, because Constantine has his own stronghold in the edge of hell, and not everyone can go there. Most magicians can
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Constantine sighed and said to Barbara: "It's not safe to leave you here now. The demonic energy in your body may get out of control at any time. I want to take you to a safer place, but I think you should
Talk to your family first."
Barbara also sighed. It's not that she didn't want to call her father. She knew that Gordon must be crazy now, but the previous phone signal was interfered by the teleportation magic used by Constantine and could not get through at all.
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Constantine withdrew the magical energy, and Barbara called Gordon and told him that he was not missing or kidnapped, but that he had to follow a magician to his stronghold to prevent the energy originally used to heal the wound.
out of control.
Barbara gave a series of explanations. Regardless of how much Gordon understood, Constantine really couldn't wait any longer because the group of mages were chasing after her again.
This time he really didn't have the energy to take Barbara to the human world. With a wave of his hand, he took Barbara to the Soul Book Prison and placed her in his hut.
The next step is to go to hell, talk to the demons in person, and solve this series of troubles.
After a burst of light, Constantine appeared in hell. It was the familiar dark red and burnt brown ground with rising dust. Smoke pillars curled up in the distance. The demons were as usual...