Before the two returned to the portal, Constantine also searched for all the organs in the basement. Except for a few jars that were improperly preserved and were left as evidence, the rest were taken away.
After all, for demons, organs are also good trading goods. Unfortunately, Constantine is not very good at killing people, let alone removing and preserving organs. Being able to pick up so many at once is like pie in the sky.
After returning to the Mystery House, Constantine said: "Where shall we go next?"
"Go there again."
"Again..." Constantine looked at Schiller with some confusion.
Schiller turned his pocket watch forward one day, which was the day before the day before them.
This time they changed directions, but also came to a relatively marginalized community. They used the same method to hypnotize a serial killer to go to the police station to cause trouble. They also found Barry from the previous day and deceived him with almost the same words.
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This time, the serial killer is a limb lover and likes to equip his mannequins with real limbs, so Constantine got a lot of arms and legs.
After returning to the Mystery House, Schiller adjusted his pocket watch forward one day to the day before the first day. Then he followed the same pattern and Constantine got a lot of eyeballs.
After repeating this for more than a dozen times, Dr. Fate and Constantine were both exhausted and paralyzed, but Schiller did not give them much time to rest and continued to repeat without stopping.
Constantine finally figured it out. Schiller was going to use the human sea tactic. Since Barry has the ability to travel through time, it can be said that he has this ability every minute and every second. So just search from back to front on the timeline.
, then you can find countless Barrys and go together to beat up that vampire Barry.
The reason why we have to search from the back to the front is because if we look for the front first, if the early Barry goes to find the vampire Barry, then the future will be changed, and the later Barry may not be in Central City.
But if you look for the later Barry first, then when Schiller found him, the early Barry hadn't been called to catch the vampires, so they were naturally in Central City.
Theoretically, you can push it forward to the day when Barry gets the Speed Force, but in fact it doesn't take that long, not because Schiller doesn't want to, but because serial killers are not enough.
There are indeed some secondary serial killers in Central City, but there are far fewer than there are on the East Coast. If you use them as bait to catch Barry, the number you can catch is limited.
Constantine didn't quite remember how many times they repeated it, but in the end his warehouse couldn't fit it all in, and the serial killer's trophies he collected could at least be assembled into hundreds of complete people.
However, Constantine feels that there is a loophole in this plan, that is, the vampire Flash can actually find himself in the past few months, so that they can also travel through the past to fight against the normal Flash.
But when he thought about it carefully, he realized that the time it took for the Flash to be bitten was not very long, only a few months at most, but it took a long time for Barry to become the Flash, at least a few years.
If the vampire Flash can go there and shake helpers, then the normal Flash can bring more.
The most special power that The Flash relies on is the Speed Force. Their battles will basically only take place within the Speed Force and will not affect the outside world. However, it has plunged the Vampire Flash into the vast sea of the People's War, holding back the vampire side.
, probably the most unsolvable combat power.
"Perfect." Constantine commented.
But he was still a little worried, and he asked: "What if normal Barry is bitten?"
"Nothing can be done." Schiller said: "Assuming that normal Barry cannot defeat vampire Barry and all of them are transformed into vampires, then do you think it is us or the King of Vampires who should be worried now?"
Constantine suddenly understood.
This is similar to how Batman was turned into a vampire. He is the king of vampires, and he can't believe that Batman was turned into a vampire. What if the other party is pretending? What if the other party is not controlled by blood?
What about the restrictions? What if the other party wears a yellow robe?
If all the Flashes at all points in time were transformed, it would at least create an army of tens of millions of vampire Flashes, and then Barry Allen might really need to wear more clothes.
"Wait a minute..." Constantine narrowed his eyes and looked at Schiller and said, "Isn't that what you planned?!"
"More than that." Schiller said with a sigh: "If the Flashes at every point in time were turned into vampires, where would their food come from?"
Constantine was slightly stunned.
In the past, people did not belong to this world. Assume that there are 7 billion people on the earth now. Adding yesterday's 7 billion, the number is 14 billion, and adding the day before yesterday, the number is 21 billion.
There is only one Vampire Flash now, and he has to eat at least one person a day. Yesterday, there was also one Vampire Flash, and he also had to eat one person a day.
If you eat now and eat yesterday, there is no problem, but if now and yesterday are added together to feed two people, then the consumption is equivalent to doubling.
So if the Vampire Flash had to eat one person yesterday, the day before yesterday, and every minute and every second before that, how many days would 7 billion people be enough to feed them?
Could this guy want to exterminate the human race? Constantine made his most sinister hypothesis.
But when he thought about it carefully, he realized something was wrong.
It is unlikely that this group of vampire Flashes will all come to eat today's humans, because they have to fight the normal Flashes.
All the Flashes are engaged in mobile warfare, so when they need supplies, they cannot return to their starting point all the way, but must plunder nearby.
If they fought in the past timeline, they would probably only be eating humans from the past.
So the question is, when one person only has one life, the Vampire Flash ate everyone in the past, what do vampires eat now?
Constantine slapped his thigh and said: "Wonderful!"
In fact, this just brings forward the famine problem that Batman mentioned. If vampires continue to expand like this, there will definitely be famine, but it may take a while.
But if you put so many Flashes back in time, it would be equivalent to expansion starting in the past, and the consequences will definitely be revealed now.
This will lead to serious conflicts between the current vampires and the past Flash, because according to Batman's theory, when vampires expand to tens of millions, it will be a matter of time before their food becomes extinct.
In other words, if the current vampires don't stop the past vampire Flash from eating people, they will face famine now.
Zatanna on the side thought of another question.
"If a person who was supposed to be transformed into a vampire a few months later was eaten by the vampire Flash who traveled back in time, would he disappear forever?"
"Theoretically, yes." Dr. Destiny replied: "Changes in the past will be reflected on the current timeline."
"I understand." Zatanna said: "The most vicious part of this plan is to completely divide the vampires."
Originally, vampires should be very united because they have a bloodline control system. Starting from the vampire king downwards, each vampire has absolute control over his descendants. That power will eventually be concentrated in the hands of the vampire king.
In other words, there is no internal friction of power between them, and they can completely work together. It can be said that if the vampire king was not powerful enough, they would have unified the earth long ago.
Constantine and Dr. Destiny both nodded. It can be said that if the power in such an organizational structure is concentrated on Batman, not to mention the earth, Apokolips may change hands.
This is an almost unbreakable ruling structure, a completely idealized centralization of power. Even if the monarch's ability is within the average range, conquering an entire planet is not a problem.
On the other hand, on the human side, not to mention all countries, the Justice League is not completely able to use its hands and fingers. No matter how powerful Batman is, it is useless if his brain cannot control his legs.
To close the gap, it is not about finding a way to achieve perfect centralization of the Justice League. If it can be done, Batman has already done it.
But splitting the current vampires is extremely difficult, unless a method can be found to break the bloodline control, but even Constantine doesn't know if there is such a method.
It seems that necromancy is a kind of magic, but Doctor Strange obviously has its limits, and it can't change it too much. It's okay for gathering intelligence, but it's still a bit too difficult to pull out a separate vampire force.
But Schiller took an eccentric, but surprisingly creative approach - pitting the present against the past.
Today's vampires are indeed monolithic, but the vast majority of them, or in other words all except the King of Vampires, were once fragile humans.
If they were killed by vampires in the past, they would not exist today, so they must try their best to ensure that their past selves are not killed.
Then the Vampire Flash with the ability to travel through time is no longer a trump card, but the biggest hidden danger to vampires, because the Vampire Flash can travel back in time and kill them when they are still fragile humans.
Originally, the Vampire Flash had no reason to do this, but Schiller gave him one, which was to deal with the normal Flash.
If he doesn't deal with the normal Flash, the normal Flash will take him down, but to deal with more and more normal Flashes, he has to summon more and more vampire Flashes.
But more and more vampire Flashes need more and more food, and they don't have time to go back to the present to get it. Isn't it just the king of hell in the past timeline?
Once the current vampires know what the Vampire Flash did in the past, they will inevitably fight, and it will be to the death, because this is a fight for survival.
Either the vampire Flash starved to death, or the current vampire disappeared because he was eaten clean in the past.
The two parties are completely in opposition, and the internal friction is much more serious than that of humans.
Obviously, Schiller wanted to do more than that.
"As far as I know, current vampires should not have the means to travel through time. Even an outsider like me can know that you, John Constantine, have the ability to find a way to travel through time. Do you think they don't know?"
"You mean they're going to come after me?"
"They will definitely come to you."
Schiller stood up from his chair, walked to the portal, patted the door frame gently and said: "And what you have to do now is to contact all your friends who have the ability to travel through time, and join forces to steal a huge sum of money from them.
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Constantine never thought that one day he would judge others as shameless.
But soon he discovered that Schiller was more shameless than he thought.
"And tell those vampires who want to go back to the past that in order to save their lives when they were still humans, you can contract them with the inscription on your heart."
"Do you think the bloodline control during the first embrace ceremony takes priority, or the contract with the heart inscription? Or...the two of them will be stuck, giving freedom to countless vampires?"
"Freedom...freedom..." Constantine muttered this word like the most vicious curse. He closed his eyes and leaned back on the chair and said: "Tens of millions of free vampires? I can't wait to see Mary's expression.