Chapter 604: Owl Nursery Rhyme (Part 2)
About a few minutes later, Constantine appeared outside the door of Wayne Manor. He was greeted by the butler Alfred, as well as protective clothing and disinfectant spray. Alfred, holding a disinfectant spray gun, sprayed Constantine for a few minutes. When Constantine walked out of the thick white fog, he was already full of the smell of disinfectant.
He coughed twice, waved his arm in front of him, and then walked into the hall of the manor, and then stopped about two meters away from Aisha and Dick. It was not that he wanted to stop, but Alfred, who put down the disinfectant spray gun, had already started to wipe his double-barreled shotgun.
Constantine was about to protest Alfred's attitude when he heard Aisha singing that weird and ethereal tune. In an instant, Constantine looked up, stretched out his arms, and his hands lit up with magic light, and then looked at the ceiling with a solemn face.
Bruce also looked up, but he couldn't see anything. He squinted his eyes and observed Constantine. There was a faint light in Constantine's eyes, which was somewhat similar to the magic light in his hands.
Just when Constantine was about to cast a spell with a serious face, suddenly, his sight fell from the ceiling to Aisha's face. Aisha opened her mouth and smacked, and Constantine was stunned.
During the whole process, the two were like actors in a mime, performing to the air, and Bruce Dick and Alfred saw nothing.
Suddenly, Constantine stood up straight, put down his hands, looked at Aisha, and then looked at Bruce and said: "Your daughter, she...did she show any abnormality before?"
Bruce wanted to describe it, but Aisha's whole life was abnormal, and there was no normal time at all, so Bruce couldn't describe it.
"She may be like me, born with an affinity for magic, or she is also cursed and destined to deal with these strange things." The magic light on Constantine's hand went out. He looked up at the ceiling of Wayne Manor and said, "A long time ago, I also cast a spell to summon a demon without knowing it, and then..." He shook his head and did not describe what happened afterwards, but Bruce could already imagine it. Bruce frowned and did not ask him, "You mean, Aisha just summoned a demon?" "No, it may be worse than that. It is a dark monster that I have never seen before, but..." Constantine looked at Aisha's vertical pupils and said, "They were all eaten by him, one bite On the head, and then, swallowed into the stomach..."
Elsa started screaming again, saying something like "so full" and "delicious". Bruce picked her up and looked at her again and again. He didn't find any scars, and her temperament didn't change drastically, so he asked Constantine: "Can I see that monster?"
"You can't use magic, so you can't see it," Constantine wanted to refuse, but Bruce and Alfred kept staring at him. He waved his hand and said: "Okay, for the sake of you lending me money."
Constantine snapped his fingers, and clusters of flames appeared in front of him. He waved his hand forward, and the flames formed a straight line, and then formed a circle in the air.
The flames fell to the ground with a "whoosh", and with a "teng", the flames jumped up. All the flames were connected into lines, forming a complex magic circle. The moment the lines lit up, Bruce felt that the world in front of him had changed.
All the furniture and walls around were distorted, emitting different lights, just like the vision after taking some psychedelic drugs.
Bruce shook his head vigorously. He heard that when Aisha sang, it was no longer just a simple nursery rhyme, but also accompanied by an ethereal and strange gurgling sound.
Suddenly, a strange scream was heard. Bruce looked up and saw that between the twisted ceiling patterns, black monsters with wings flew in. They wanted to land on Aisha's head and shoulders, but she grabbed them and put them in her mouth.
The scream was so piercing that it broke Bruce's illusion almost instantly. When he looked down again, he saw Aisha with an innocent face.
He took a deep breath, calmed his mind, looked at Constantine, and asked: "Is this the world in your eyes?"
"Not completely, I just use this kind of vision occasionally. What you just saw is not an illusion, but another real world. We call it the spirit world."
"You must skillfully release magic in this world without any interference, otherwise you may be swallowed up by this world forever."
"So, what is she singing? What is that black monster?" Constantine asked very puzzled. Just as he was about to move forward, he heard the sound of a shotgun being loaded. He stepped back two steps, stretched out his hand and said, "No, don't, don't point the gun at me, I won't get close to her."
"That's a nursery rhyme." Bruce understood that he might not be able to solve the current situation by himself. Fortunately, he is not the lone wolf riddler in the future. After a few phone calls, Constantine, Hal, and Schiller appeared in the hall of Wayne Manor.
These people are the users of special energy that Bruce knows so far. They have experience in using magic-like energy and have some understanding of mysticism.
Schiller picked up Aisha. He used the vision of the gray fog to look around and found nothing unusual. Heil's green lantern ring scan did not work on the parallax monster, but he still dutifully checked Dick. The scan results showed that he was not affected at all.
"Let me think about it..." Schiller held Aisha and sat on the sofa. He put Aisha aside, stroked her hair and said, "I know that the darkness and chaos in Gotham are not entirely due to the system."
"After all, Blüdhaven, which is very close to here and has a completely consistent system, does not have this problem. That means there must be a mysterious power hidden in Gotham."
"In fact, I have been thinking about how they control this city. Rain alone is not enough."
"Now it seems that they may have made a nursery rhyme. This nursery rhyme may not be just a simple song. It contains some mystical power. So even though the lyrics are difficult and the melody is complicated, it can still be spread among children. " "Children who sing this nursery rhyme may attract those dark monsters, but since not everyone can see the spiritual world mentioned by Constantine, they will be affected by those dark monsters without realizing it. " "Even if we don't investigate, we should know that those monsters can't teach them to study hard. The energy of these dark monsters may make all the children in Gotham more irritable and evil. " "I really can't imagine it. " Hal concluded: "Don't they have any morals and conscience? How can they treat children..." Hal likes children very much. During the time he traveled back and forth between Gotham and the headquarters of the Green Lantern Corps, he would occasionally go to the vocational education school in the living hell to teach them about airplanes. At first, he was also troubled by the mischievousness of these children and their disobedience to the teacher's instructions, but when he told some stories about legendary pilots, the innocent light of desire in the children's eyes would not lie. "I always believe that every child has the potential to become better." Hal touched Dick's head and said: "They come from a bad background, but as long as they receive education, they will definitely become better, at least not worse than they are now."
"But Gotham has gone through many generations and has never gotten better." Bruce propped his elbows on his knees, then put the side of his palm on his mouth. He said: "In so many generations, it's not that no one has entered Gotham University to receive education, and some have even gone to good universities in other cities."
"Many of them returned to Gotham, but without exception, they did not bring any good changes to the city, but were like a drop of water returning to its source, merging into the river and disappearing."
"So, if you want to truly reduce crime, you must first solve this problem." Bruce's muscles on both sides of his nose twitched, making him look a little indifferent. Whenever he showed this expression, Schiller could see the shadow of the mature Batman in the future in him.
"Elsa can eat that monster." Constantine thought and said, "But if she just sings and eats, it will be difficult for her to eat all the dark forces in Gotham."
"Eat! Delicious! Elsa, eat!" Elsa started to scream again. Children of this age always get hungry quickly. No matter whether she eats human food or not, she is hungry again before an hour has passed.
Seeing Elsa about to start singing again, Constantine stretched out his hand again, and the flame fell. Hal dodged the flame and said, "Wow, cool!"
Constantine smiled proudly. He was about to say something when Elsa's singing sounded.
In the spiritual world vision, Elsa's singing was mixed with a kind of gurgling sound that made people feel a little bit sour, as if something huge was rubbing its teeth. Schiller listened carefully and found that this sound was a bit familiar. Isn't this the sound of the parallax monster grinding its teeth before?
No wonder Aisha could eat a monster in one bite. It was because she was smaller now and didn't have such a big mouth. If he was still the yellow parallax monster that was the source of fear, he could eat more than one monster in one bite.
As the magic circle took effect, Schiller's vision began to change, but soon stabilized again, with only a blue-gray filter. The gray fog said in his mind: "The change in the information transmitted by the visual nerve has been detected, and the picture has been adjusted back to normal."
So, Schiller could see the true appearance of the monster more clearly than others. Others saw those monsters as a group of black mist with wings, but Schiller could see clearly that it was a flying owl.
And it was not an ordinary owl. This kind of owl only had a skeleton left, but the feathers on its body were still stubbornly attached to the skeleton. There was green flame in the eye sockets of the skeleton, and there was a black energy tail behind the wings. When it hovered in the air, it would make a piercing cry, like a person laughing.
Watching them hovering close to Aisha, Schiller snorted coldly and looked up at the group of monsters.
He slowly picked up the umbrella in his hand, and the energy collected from Knull in the Marvel world was released from the gray fog and transmitted all the way along the umbrella to the tip of the umbrella.
The crowd was attracted by his action and their eyes converged. They saw Schiller waved his umbrella, pointed at the owl in the sky, and shouted:
"Expecto Patronus!"
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