Chapter 22 22 There Is No Hope, Eat Well, Have Fun, and Prepare for the Afterlife

Chapter 22 22. There is no hope. Eat well, have fun, and prepare for the afterlife.

"This is a sign formed after a certain curse solidifies. The black ring means that it may come from hell or a similar place, and the ghost claws that appear represent the type of curse.

Generally speaking, the appearance of hands, chains, and tentacles proves that the existence that casts the curse on you wants to restrain you, rather than simply torture you."

The master of black magic and the famous prodigal and scum John Constantine, who was sitting next to Mason, blew smoke rings while casually "introducing" Mason to the characteristics of the weird tattoo on his arm.

He was full of confidence and had some practical knowledge when he spoke. Mason nodded repeatedly, and fear and helplessness appeared in his eyes again.

His posture was very much like a teenager who was at a loss after straying into a supernatural event.

The young man hesitated for a few seconds and said in a low voice:

"When I was trapped in a desperate situation, it gave me an offer that I couldn't refuse, and that's why it brought me back to the human world. I don't want to have anything to do with these things."

"Ha, I'm too familiar with this way of fooling people."

Zha Kang grinned, he brushed his messy short hair and took a puff of smoke out of his nostrils, pretending to be a "master" and said:

"It's probably a devil pretending to be a ghost. They like to play this kind of game of playing hard to get, but some evil gods with weird personalities occasionally play this trick.

So you have to provide more clues to I, Mason.

Besides, you see, I left my sweet girlfriend and came to warn you of the impending danger. Maybe I can continue to help you, but both the devil and the evil god are a group of petty guys.

I also have to take a big risk."

He glanced at Mason calmly and said meaningfully:

"I believe that a good boy like you who is watched by Batman will not sit idly by and watch others be affected by danger because of you, right?"

Mason now knew why Zha Kang came to "meddle in other people's business". This bastard must have found some clues and wanted to squeeze some benefits from him.

The young man pretended to hesitate for a moment.

He lowered his head and began to avoid Zha Kang's gaze, whispering:

"But I don't have anything to give you, Mr. Wizard. As you can see, I am an unlucky young man who just escaped from the gang."

"Hey, you are very insincere, kid."

Zha Kang stood up and no longer pretended to be "charitable". While playing with the silver angel-shaped lighter in his hand, his tone became gloomy.

He walked to the window, turned his back to Mason and said:

"Do you want me to reveal your little secret?

There are two life breaths in that pit, the pit left after the house disappeared, one is you, and the other is your companion, right?"

"This"

Mason seemed to be frightened.

He curled up on the bed, and Zha Kang looked back at him, with an expression of "I know everything" on his evil face.

He threatened:

"Xiao Zha is a powerful but simple-minded white wizard, and Batboy is a fool who likes to mess with bats, but I am different. In order to survive, I have to learn a lot of crooked ways, and I happen to know how to track life breath, which is the best thing for hell creatures.

Mason, you don't have to hide this from me.

I have had many experiences in desperate situations where I had to make deals with the devil to survive. I understand your pain and helplessness.

But you must trust me first, so that I can help you better.

Don't be afraid, kid, the handsome John in front of you has been in the past. In the past twenty years, I have personally banished no less than fifty hell creatures and helped at least one hundred people remove various curses.

I am a real expert in this area.

Tell me!

What did you get from the mysterious black wizard? "

"External energy was detected entering the body. The energy was analyzed as some kind of mind-guiding spell, which has a weak charm effect, but is harmless to the human body.

Caster: John Constantine. "

A line of prompts popped up on the light screen in front of Mason. He knew he had to say something to stabilize the scumbag Kang, otherwise this guy with no bottom line would make trouble.

So the young man hugged his knees helplessly on the hospital bed and answered in a painful tone:

"Well, I am not the only unlucky person who was abducted by the wizard into the house. There are three other people imprisoned with me.

We were treated as toys of the monster. He set up a maze-like illusion for us to fight each other, and all kinds of monsters roamed in it.

I formed an alliance with another person.

We supported each other and were forced to sign a contract with the monster to survive until the last day.

The wizard told us that he wanted to see the despair of this fight to make some strange things. If it weren't for Batman, you and your girlfriend interrupting the process at the critical moment, I would have been a corpse."

He looked up at Constantine and said:

"We did get some "trophies" in the five days of fighting, but that was just a trick set by the wizard to give us hope and then make us despair.

If you can really help me lift the curse, I am willing to give you all the trophies as a reward.

Those things are ominous things!

I don't want them at all."

"Very good, this kind of frankness is exactly what we need."

Constantine's eyes lit up when he heard "trophy". He walked up to Mason, put his hand on his shoulder, patted him and said:

"Where is your friend now?"

"Snapped"

Zha Kang's hand was thrown away by Mason. The young man glared at him and said:

"I have been in hell on earth for five days, Mr. John, I am not a fool. The trophies held by my friends are our last hope.

You want them to be.

But this curse! "

Mason opened his sleeve, revealing the ominous symbol, and said:

"You must first lift this curse, or show that you have the ability to resolve it."

"Oh, this is really hard for me to do."

Zha Kang curled his lips and put his hand on the tattoo mark on Mason's arm to examine it carefully.

But with his rich experience in dealing with hell creatures and knowledge of black magic, it was difficult to find useful information from this sign for a while.

The more he looked at the ghost claw tattoo, the more frightened he became.

An expert can tell the difference, and he can tell that the other person is a very powerful guy just from the appearance and details of the tattoo. The most important thing is that the tattoo on Mason's body does not reveal any atmosphere, but there is a taboo picture. If you don't look carefully, you would think it is just a performance art of a young man pursuing freedom.

Just the degree of concealment of this aura can tell that the opponent is a "super big guy".

At this moment, Constantine regretted getting involved in such a thing.

Seeing that Zha Kang fell silent, Mason felt that the scumbag mage might have the idea of ​​retreating, but the young man was not willing to miss the guy who came to his door.

The character card was unable to identify the effect and triggering method of this soul curse, which made Mason feel like there was a time bomb on his body that could explode at any time.

He himself knew nothing about magic, and it was probably too late to learn it now.

So he needs someone who knows his stuff.

At present, there is no one more suitable than a non-mainstream spellcaster like Zha Kang who is greedy and has no lower limit. As long as he gives a reward that satisfies Zha Kang, he will definitely be unable to bear the desire in his heart to participate.

"My friends and I grabbed the magic book that the wizard carried with him before he disappeared from his house!"

Mason whispered.

Zha Kang's eyes suddenly lit up, like a light bulb.

Uh, okay.

This is when Zha Kang, who is full of energy, begins to cast spells.

Two groups of green light surrounded this guy's eyes, as if he was wearing some kind of strange glasses.

While Zha Kang was casting the spell, the Cat School badge worn by Mason around his neck began to vibrate slightly and was immediately suppressed by Mason's arm.

The shaking of his arms made Zha Kang glance at him and said:

"I'm afraid, my master is here."

"No, this is not what I want to shake."

Mason explains:

"As you look at it, my arms are starting to get hot."

He didn't lie.

When Zha Kang used magic to examine the tattoo, his entire forearm began to feel hot, as if he was reacting to being "observed."

This sentence shocked Constantine.

He slipped a few steps away and immediately released the magic. He looked at Mason's shaking arms in surprise and said:

"Will even such a weak observation cause a reaction? Well, kid, I have to say that your disease is probably hopeless. Eat something good these days, play some naughty things, and be in a happy mood.

Well, I have something else to do.

Oh, by the way, my girlfriend is waiting for me at the restaurant, and I don't want to make her angry.

I'm leaving first. "

After saying that, this guy who sensed the risk and was very unscrupulous decisively drew a large arc with a burning cigarette on the wall behind him, apparently preparing to open the portal and leave.

"We grabbed two magic books! One of them contains a complete collection of black magic that is said to come from another world."

Mason said something, and Zha Kang's movement of drawing the portal suddenly slowed down.

"And some magical potions from his treasury."

The cigarette in Constantine's hand went out, and the green fluorescent light on the wall dimmed.

"I used one of the potions to revive my friend whose heart was broken by a monster. The whole process only took less than ten seconds."

The young man sitting on the hospital bed added quietly.

At this moment, Zha Kang turned around suddenly.

He looked suspiciously, looked Mason up and down, and said:

"I feel like I've fallen into the trap of a bad guy who looks harmless but actually has a lot of things on his mind. I'm not hiding this from you, Mason.

The curse on you is very troublesome.

I haven't seen this level of "dirty stuff" in almost ten years. If you want me to help you, you have to come up with something useful. "

"Dry stuff? Okay."

Mason reached out and took down the recording board hanging next to the hospital bed. He picked up a pen and pointed it at the drawings of healing potions that had been recorded in the alchemy branch in front of him. He scribbled down the raw materials and production process, and then threw away the piece of paper. Gave it to Zha Kang.

The latter glanced at it and curled his lips, not hiding the disdain on his face.

He shook the paper and said:

"I can get you a box of this low-level potion in the time it takes to go to the toilet. This is meaningless to a master like me. It has no merit except that it is quick to make and the process is simple."

"Okay, then return the drawings to me."

Mason stretched out his hand to ask for it, and Zha Kang folded the paper and stuffed it into his arms, lit a cigarette for himself, blew out the smoke ring happily, and said:

"I mean it's useless to me. It's still very good to use it to deceive newbies who are new to the industry. If you're lucky, you might be able to deceive a few simple female apprentices into sleeping with you.

Well, you didn't hear that, and I didn't say anything about 'getting in bed'.

Don't tell Xiao Zha!

Otherwise, I will add a curse to you and make your life worse than death!

So, this is what you can give me?

Bringing knowledge from that mysterious wizard's hoard? But with all due respect, it would be difficult for me to help you if that’s all you have. "

"I'm not a mage. I can't remember so many complicated things."

Mason glanced at Zaccon, who was waiting for a price.

When he thought of the stories about Zha Kang in his mind, he had an idea. He wrote down such a taboo thing as Voldemort's Horcrux, handed it to Zha Kang, and said:

"This is something from another magic book. The situation was urgent and I just glanced at it casually. I don't know if it will be useful to you."

Constantine took the paper and glanced at it.

He didn't care much at first.

But when he saw the introduction of "horcruxes" and the description of the "immortal" state after soul cutting, the guy suddenly narrowed his eyes.

Zha Kang's most famous deed is that he sold his soul to a dozen devils at the same time to keep his creditors in check and ensure that he would not go to hell in a short time.

For Zha Kang, who dances on the edge of a knife almost all the time, it is very fitting that a Horcrux that is definitely a forbidden knowledge in the eyes of outsiders.

A cool man like him who is either provoking bosses or walking on the path of provocation every day must wish he had divided his soul into dozens of pieces and hid them in different places.

Lest you accidentally overturn your car one day and end up in an irreversible end.

Look, even Zha Kang himself knows that it is only a matter of time before he overturns.

"Hey, so-so."

Zuizhakang, who clearly wanted it but insisted on saying "I don't care", simply popped up a ball of flame and burned the note in his hand cleanly.

He lowered his head and lit a cigarette for himself, took two quick puffs and said to Mason:

"The things you gave me are too cheap to interest me at all. But who gave me a compassionate girlfriend? In order to please her and prevent her from wearing a hat for me on a whim one day, you I took over this life-saving job.

Don't go to places where a lot of people have died recently, don't fight with people, just stay there!

I'll go back and do some research and give you an answer in a few days.

But it’s against the rules to not get paid in this business. Since you must pay, I’m embarrassed not to accept it. "

When he heard Zha Kang's shameless statement, Mason had no expression on his face but felt happy in his heart.

He knew that Zha Kang had taken the bait.

The tough-talking Constantine blew out smoke rings, casually picked off something from his collar and threw it to Mason, saying:

"I'll use it to contact you."

Mason took the thing in his hand and found that it was a small button with a very complex and weird shape on the metal surface, which looked like an eyeball.

He immediately got the information tag of this thing:

Constantine's Eye of Hell

Quality: Excellent enchanted/inscribed items·Excellent craftsmanship

Effect: The Eye of Hell, which exudes the aura of black magic, can reveal to the wearer nearby traps, lurking lives or approaching dangers. It can also be used as a communication and positioning item while sharing everything it sees with its owner. .

Producer: John Constantine

Status: This item requires Enchantment Level 3, Inscription Level 2 and Jewelry Processing Level 2 resolvable drawings.

Item description: You'd better not ask Constantine where he learned how to monitor such hellish creatures. You just need to know that he paid a lot for it. God, the succubus sisters of the Nine Hells are very difficult to deal with under various circumstances.

"I'm very happy if you give me something."

Mason also put the eerie Hell Eye accessory in front of his eyes. When Zha Kang turned around and left, he said:

"But can you remove the surveillance magic you put on this thing? Although I am young, I am not used to running around with such a trendy 'magic camera'."

"Hey, expert."

Zha Kang, whose thoughts were exposed, turned around and grinned without any guilt.

He patted his head and said sheepishly:

"I'm used to it because of my career. Don't worry about it. I just have some bad habits that like to peek at others.

I'm not bragging, last time I used this thing to peek at Xiao Zha taking a bath, it was really useful. Of course, it was very bad when she chased and hacked three alien planes later. "

As he spoke, he reached out and fiddled with the Eye of Hell pendant.

The eyeball icon above the emblem also closed its eyes strangely.

"I know you don't tell Batman these things because you admire him so much and don't want him to know that you have been targeted by the Dark and alienate you."

Zha Kang waved his hand and drew a five-pointed star on the wall, opening a cool door.

Before leaving, he turned to Mason and said:

"So this is a secret between the two of us, little Mason. Your powerful friend John will have a surprise for you, but it depends on how generous you are.

Learn more from Bruce Wayne.

The huge deposit that guy gave Xiao Zha for his performance made me wonder if he wanted to keep my girlfriend, and it also made me hate myself for not being a woman.

What the hell! "