Chapter 2149: Battle of Two Cities! (XVI)

In a dark basement in Gotham, a man wearing a windbreaker and with a beard sighed deeply. The girl sitting opposite him put her short red hair behind her ears and said.

"Does this make you feel embarrassed? Otherwise, just 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. Now it's too late."

"Think of it in a good way. At least I won't be paralyzed on one side of my body." Barbara curled her lips and said, "In this city, being possessed by a demon is not a big deal."

"If it was only Gotham, maybe I would think you are right, but haven't you noticed yet? In this new city that merged with Gotham, there is a group of extremely difficult guys."

Constantine sat in the corner, took out a cigarette and put it to his mouth. After hesitating for a while, he put it back in his pocket. He shook his head and showed a bored look.

"It seems that you are not as comfortable as you said." Barbara, who was sitting on the chair, had an inexplicable light in her eyes, and her youthful and energetic face was also abnormally pale.

"It's a big trouble, kid, but it can be solved."

Although he said this, Constantine still felt a headache. He couldn't say that he made a wrong decision, it was just a little unfortunate.

When Constantine went to save Barbara, he found that Barbara was hit in the waist. Although he was not a doctor, he could see that the injury might not be fatal, but it would definitely cause disability.

From the perspective of a magician, taking out the bullet and healing the wound is not a big deal at all. The magical magic energy can save everything that is destined to decline.

But that is only for the magician himself, because after so many years of development, the magic trading system has been very mature, and the source of the power used by Constantine has signed a relatively strict contract with him.

The demons or other magical abilities summoned by the flame substitute used by Constantine are all allowed to be used in the treaty. Of course, there is also self-healing ability in the treaty, but it is limited to healing Constantine himself.

If you encounter a situation where you want to heal others, you must find a demon or angel to sign other treaties, and Constantine and the person being treated will pay the price together. If the other party is not a magician, you may have to pay more.

However, this also depends on the difficulty of the treatment. It is often necessary to pay a huge price to pull a person back from the line of life and death, while the rest of the injuries are minor injuries in the eyes of demons or angels. There is no need to pay the price of organs or souls, and at most some luck or life will be lost.

With this idea in mind, Constantine plans to recruit someone to heal the injury. In this regard, hell and heaven are clearly marked, so it doesn’t matter who is recruited.

Constantine is too skilled in this regard. He drew a random dialing array and called the phone. Soon someone answered the phone and projected a trace of his power and consciousness on Barbara.

But at this moment, Constantine felt that he was being stared at.

His intuition had saved his life more than once, which was the strongest evidence that Constantine was born to do this. The moment he was targeted, Constantine immediately transferred Barbara, who had not yet completed the possession.

He thought it was just a chance glimpse from heaven or hell, but unexpectedly it was a man-made disaster. Constantine transferred to the safe house he had left in Gotham before. Just when he wanted to communicate with the demon in Barbara's body again, a group of monks in yellow robes knocked on the door of the safe house.

Again, Constantine was a sufficiently experienced wizard. He did not believe that anything that happened to him was just a coincidence or accident. Even if it was, there must be a devil behind the scenes manipulating the probability, so he transferred Barbara again.

But the other party always found him quickly. Constantine had no time to think about why. This time he had to face this group of strange wizards, because even he did not have so much energy to transfer an ordinary person several times in such a short time.

As Constantine expected, the other party had no intention of reasoning with him. Even though Constantine and Barbara said that they were in a cooperative relationship, no one kidnapped anyone, and no one was hurting anyone, this group of mages shouted "traitors who summoned demons" and rushed up.

Constantine didn't understand. Are the energies you use different from those of demons?

What era is it now? Why are there still people attacking heretics because they cooperate with demons? Is there any mage in the world who doesn't cooperate with demons?

There was no way. Constantine could only continue to run with Barbara. These guys on the opposite side were not weak hands. If they were not careful, they would capsize in the gutter. They had to be treated with caution.

Constantine was not stupid. He found that as long as he tried to communicate with the demon in Barbara's body, the other party would immediately lock his position, which made Constantine speculate that the other party might be able to detect the demon's energy.

So he took Barbara to the last shelter and used a seal to temporarily seal the demon consciousness in Barbara's body.

The mages seemed to have encountered some other troubles and did not catch up for the time being, but this did not mean that this troublesome matter was over. In fact, on the contrary, the most difficult part had 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 were not profitable, demons and angels would 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: an officious 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. .

Of course, it is not unreasonable to bring up old things again. Before that, Constantine also discovered that the demon that caused the rebellion had returned to the world. He originally wanted to solve the problem by himself, but he didn't expect that Dr. Soship came out halfway and beat him. messed up his plans.

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 out 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 then he 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 graduate students, and only scholars with a pivotal position in the academic world are allowed to join.

As a magician, Constantine knew that there 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 talented wild men 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 risk his social status on Dr. Sochip's 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 the background of Dr. Soship. However, before he could get a headache about the opponent's background, he and Barbara froze here.

Before coming to New York, Constantine suspected that Sohipu had cracked the magic circle that 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 Suoship 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 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 no.

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 going crazy now, but the previous phone signal was interfered by the teleportation magic used by Constantine and couldn't get through at all. .

Constantine withdrew the magical energy, and Barbara called Gordon and told him that he was not missing or kidnapped, but 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 him 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 cabin.

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 a familiar dark red, dust rose from the burnt brown ground, and smoke columns rose in the distance. The demons were the same as always...

Wait, where are the demons?