Chapter 154 37 I Am a Small Candle Burning

Chapter 154 37. I am a little candle burning and burning

"Mason, I found Jack! He's right up front."

On a scooter traveling at low altitude in the abandoned city, Barbara behind Mason looked at the signal positioning of the arm computer and said to Mason and Ertong:

"They're in the abandoned tall building out front, and Mary Jane and Peter Parker are there too."

"etc!"

Er Tong suddenly asked:

"When did you put locators on them?"

"Do you still need to say it?"

Mason turned the handle of the car and accelerated towards the miserable ruins of the high-rise building ahead, and said casually:

"Of course when we first met them, the lack of spider sense made it possible for us to put a locator on Spider-Man. You have been following Batman for several years, why do you still ask such stupid questions? "

"It's not just them."

Barbara reminds:

"Everyone we met along the way had locators placed on them, and most of them were placed by me myself.

This is a very effective detection method. For example, I can see now that Mayor Jameson left the shelter with a large group of people to help. "

"Let them go back!"

Mason warned:

"They can't deal with the mutated zombies in this city. If they have to come out, they should go back to Mary Jane's office first, where I left a box of zombie vaccines.

Although I don’t know if we can deal with this more dangerous virus, it is better than doing nothing.

I'm going in!

Jason, brace yourself, it's a little too quiet in here. "

"Click"

Two barrels of bullets were loaded, and the scooter flew into the abandoned high-rise building in a cool and unrestrained manner along the broken windows, intending to launch a wave of divine soldiers from the sky. The muzzles of their guns were all pointed forward.

Then, the three members of Team K became numb on the spot.

Numb on both physical and magical levels.

A demon's debilitating magic was struck head-on on them.

In this abandoned hall, there were not only Mary Jane holding her daughter and the middle-aged Spider-Man standing beside them to protect them, but also Captain Jack Sparrow, who had been beaten and bruised and was sitting and smoking a cigarette.

And the demon knight Jason Blood who was sitting on the tattered sofa, with his back straight, a knight sword in his hand and cold eyes.

Okay.

This is when the little mice ran into the old cat's paws.

It was definitely too late to run at this distance. The Demon Knight's oppressive aura was already pressing on the three of them.

Just like being locked by a Tyrannosaurus Rex, as long as the three Masons made the slightest movement, the knight's sword filled with cold light would definitely strike somewhere on their bodies.

"Mason Cooper!"

The Demon Knight sitting on the abandoned sofa didn't waste time, let alone play any hard-to-get tricks.

He said directly:

"Come here! I need to talk to you."

"Let me confirm first."

Mason moved his numb fingers, twisted the key of the scooter to turn it off, and used his eyes to signal Ergong and Barbara to put down their weapons and not to panic.

The fact that the dangerous guy in front of him didn't attack immediately meant that things were about to turn around.

He said to the Demon Knight:

"You're not going to beat us up now and ask us to take you back and then put us on trial by the Justice League, are you?"

"Hard to say."

The demon knight said coldly:

"It depends on how much information you choose to hide when you talk to me next. If you are honest enough and my questions can be answered, maybe there is a second way between us.

You worked so hard to bring me here, don't you just want me to see with my own eyes the scene of the doomsday? I can probably guess what you want to express.

So I'll tell you, Mason Cooper, things are a little bit better.

But it doesn't depend on me. "

"Boom"

Just as Brad finished speaking, the whole city shook violently again.

This time it was even more exaggerated. When Mason looked back, he could already see several tall buildings on the edge of the city collapsing amidst Mary Jane's exclamations.

The little girl in her arms screamed in fear, and Spider-Man reached out and hugged the two girls in his arms.

He looked at the distant place where smoke and dust were scattered, and the seriousness in his eyes became darker and darker.

The earthquake intensified.

There is less and less time left for them to act.

"Mason!"

Peter shouted:

"Hurry up and get your business done, and then we'll set off immediately! We can't wait any longer."

"Um."

Mason nodded, and after the earthquake subsided, he made a "please" gesture to Jason Blood and prepared to go to the next room to talk with him.

But when the Demon Knight stood up, he waved his hand to expose the two guys who had been restrained in the darkness to everyone.

Those were the Rhinoceros and the Scorpion Man. The two guys were sitting in the twisted steel like idiots, smiling like fools at a group of people and still drooling.

"I've interrogated them. The act of extracting thoughts may be a bit crude but it works well."

The Demon Knight said expressionlessly:

“Their mission is to cooperate with a guy named ‘Vulture’ to find you in the city and kill you. To be precise, kill you, Mason Cooper.

It seems your peers hate you more than we care about you. "

"I work in an organization that's full of big bad guys, and all I can say is that it doesn't surprise me."

Mason snorted and said:

"But that's a good thing. It means I won't feel the slightest guilt when I chop off Sandstorm's head. After all, everyone saw that it was him who made the first move."

Rhino Man and Scorpion were not killed.

Although they kidnapped Little Mae Parker, they did not harm her but instead protected her from the zombie attack.

Although not out of good intentions.

But this act of protection itself earned them a chance to survive the Demon Knight's sword.

But the armors on their bodies were badly damaged, covered with scorch marks from flames and miserable sword marks. When these two unlucky guys were thrown out, they looked like they were lying on garbage.

When he saw the two engineering combat uniforms, Mason's eyes lit up and he gestured to Barbara.

Batgirl understood immediately.

Although the contact time was not long, Barbara already had a certain understanding of Mason's peculiar "collecting habit", and he fell in love with these two armors.

Although it doesn't look very advanced, it's still great for the servants to use.

While Mason was talking to the Demon Knight, Barbara was collecting and disposing of the armor, and the middle-aged Spider-Man was saying goodbye to his wife and daughter, Ergu also walked up to the bruised and swollen Captain Jack and said to him:

"Jack, you don't have to follow us to attack the tower. You have a new mission."

"Huh? Can I just say that's good news?"

Captain Jack, who had a hairy head and was saved from being fucked by the devil because he gave in in time, twitched his mouth and said:

"How can Mason, who uses people as livestock, be so kind? Tell me, why do you want the great Captain Jack Sparrow to help you?"

"You are one of 'us' too."

Ertun snorted, sat next to Jack, took out his own gun, disassembled it for maintenance, and said:

“You need to go back to the shelter.

Go negotiate with the underground people in the name of Team K. Dr. Connors will assist you.

While we're at war with the Six-Headed Snake Team, you have to find a way to sneak those big lizards into the city from the underground sewers to cause chaos.

There are a lot of minions over there.

It's your job to delay them and cause chaos, and Mason asked me to give this to you. "

Ergong took out an exquisite sculpture of a black three-headed hell dog from his pocket and handed it to Captain Jack, and whispered:

"Leave it to you to defend yourself. The activation word is 'Maomao, come and help me'. Zha Kang has put a spell on it. It will not attack the person holding the statue, but you'd better be careful.

Try not to use it if you can. "

"Well, I'm good at inciting and negotiating!"

Captain Jack felt a little more relaxed when he heard about his new job. He took the statue of the zombie three-headed dog and put it in his arms, then glanced back at Mary Jane who was arguing with Spider-Man.

He rubbed his chin and said:

"I think I can bring in more than one support army. Hey, just wait and see, the omnipotent Captain Jack will give you a surprise!"

——

In the room next to the abandoned hall, when Mason walked in, he pricked up his ears and could hear Mary Jane shouting at the silent Peter Parker, scolding him for going to die!

Although the words were rude, the care and worry were palpable.

This made Mason lament that no matter what world line or background, the relationship between Peter Parker and Mary Jane will always be so complicated and disconnected.

Alas, another fairy love that makes people feel like eating a ton of lemons

"What would you like to talk with me?"

He withdrew his attention from the pair of infatuated men and resentful women, and looked at the demon knight Jason Blood in front of him.

The latter had already retracted his knight's sword decorated with demon heads, and was standing by the broken window looking at the dead and ominous city in front of him.

It's like standing on the corpse of a decaying beast and imagining what it looked like when it was still alive. The act itself is sad enough.

"The question isn't what I want to talk about, Mason."

Faced with Mason's inquiry, Brad said without looking back:

“The question is what do you want to tell me?

You brought me into this world, you showed me the real apocalypse, you tried to show me that even within your organization there were different... 'factions'?

Or called different thinking.

You are obviously hostile to your counterparts in this world, they want to kill you, and your purpose here is probably not that peaceful. "

The Demon Knight paused.

He said:

"Are you going to show me another possibility about your identities?"

“It’s not about showing, it’s about explaining.”

Mason leaned against a broken cabinet and said:

"The last time the Justice League was able to thwart the Star Council's actions in our world was all because of Constantine's warning. You might as well guess who took the risk to get that information out of the hands of the intruders?

I know very well that in the face of the survival of a world, no matter how confusing words are, it is meaningless, so I use actions to prove my thoughts.

And you have seen with your own eyes my sincerity.

Put it this way, Jason Blood. "

The young man rubbed his forehead and said:

"I am an 'undercover' sent by you. Although you did not do this, this is the fact. Team K lurks in the Stars Club to observe their every move and provide you with timely feedback. Our last cooperation was very successful.

We can continue to replicate this success.

The premise is that you must keep it secret for us.

Once too many people know anything, it is no longer a secret. Moreover, the Star Society probably has "eyes" in our world.

I can only invite you here in this way.

The scumbag told me that you are trustworthy."

"He would never say that. Constantine wants me to die. After all, I am one of his "creditors."

The Devil Knight smiled grimly and said:

"But I roughly understand what you mean, Mason Cooper. I ask you, did Batman send you to lurk in this organization called "Star Society"? "

"No, no one instructed me to do this, and I don't even want to do it myself. "

Mason answered truthfully:

"All this is just an accident, but I now suspect, like you, that Batman has actually guessed the true identity of Team K. The reason why he didn't make it clear is probably because he wanted to wait until a suitable time.

If I'm not mistaken, he is also trying to stop you from revealing our identities, right?"

"You really know him well, just as he trusts you. "

The Demon Knight shook his head and stopped dwelling on this question. He looked at the city full of zombies and death. After being silent for several seconds, he spoke:

"If your interception failed last time, will everything that happened here happen again in our world?"

"High probability!"

Mason walked to the window and stood with the Demon Knight, saying with a serious expression:

"Once, I thought our world was very strong compared to those weak worlds, enough to protect itself from such "pollution".

But it turns out that I was still too young.

Look at the city in front of you, Jason Blood.

The superheroes that this world once had were no less powerful than the Justice League, and even after their failure, this half-dead world would still become a ruin for the stars to recruit warriors.

Strength alone cannot stop them.

As the old saying goes, a dynasty defeated by the enemy may still make a comeback, but a world that collapses from the inside will never have a burial place.

Conspiracy, deception, provocation, they have too many weapons to use.

They don't even have to speak!

As long as we put the cruel reality we have seen in front of us, there will naturally be people with weak minds who give up resistance under the pretext of "protecting the weak and continuing existence." "

Mason looked at the demon knight beside him and said:

"I think we should learn some lessons from the stories of this world, and I hope that these lessons will be conveyed to those who trust you in your tone instead of in my name.

This may be the best result we can get from our conversation today.

Of course, getting you to give up chasing us is also part of this achievement.

"Then there is still a lot I want to see."

Jason Brad shook his head and said:

"I need to take a journey in this world and use my eyes to record the lessons and experiences that this world wants to teach us.

Truce, Mason Cooper.

I will not put pressure on you until you have done what you must do, but when I decide to return to our world, you must go back with me to face those who sent me.

Those who can decide the future of our world.

Those who stand with Batman and the Justice League! ”

"I accept it. "

Mason took a step back.

He thanked the powerful demon knight for his rationality, but then he pulled up his sleeves to reveal the tattoo on his arm and reminded him:

"But if you want to pass through that door again, this is the price! You have to become one of them, and you have to become one of us."

"Let me see it."

The demon knight leaned down and stared at Mason's arm. He did not use magic to detect it like Zha Kang, but he could see a lot of things with his eyes from hell.

His brows were tightly furrowed, and after several seconds, he said:

"It seems that the price of "going home" is high. I'd better keep this power for the time being. I will write you a letter that cannot be forged and let you take it back for me."

"Are you afraid of this curse even if you are such a powerful life?"

Mason asked with a raised eyebrow.

The demon knight looked up at him and said:

"You are not afraid?

That only shows that you have not really realized how much trouble you have gotten into. Let me explain this thing to you in a simpler and easier to understand way.

Compared to letting you keep it, maybe it would be easier for you to be stabbed to death by my sword now.

You and your teammates have become "candles", Mason."

"Candles?"

Mason asked.

The Demon Knight nodded and explained softly:

"This is a popular saying in hell, which means burning yourself to illuminate others.

Those powerful demons or devils will look for many candles in the world and bind their existence to their own.

Every candle that is lit means that its power is stronger, and it will never die or fail until the last candle goes out.

You are just one of the millions of candles.

And if you want to take back your soul and the soul of your friends, you will eventually have to fight with that terrifying thing."

After that, the Demon Knight looked at Mason seriously and said:

"You have embarked on a road of resistance that cannot be turned back. I wish you good luck.

As for me, I thought about it and decided that staying in this alien world for a long time would be easier for my already troubled life than the curse.

Anyway, I don’t like our ‘homeland’ that much. ”