Chapter 2174: Battle of Two Cities! (XVI)

Chapter 2148 Battle of Two Cities! (XVI)

In a dark basement in Gotham, a bearded man wearing a windbreaker sighed deeply, and 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."

"Look at the bright side. At least I won't be paralyzed." Barbara curled her lips and said, "In this city, being possessed by a demon is not a big deal."

"If it were only Gotham, maybe I would think you are right, but haven't you discovered it 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 say." Barbara, who was sitting on the chair, had an inexplicable light in her eyes, and her youthful and energetic face on weekdays also had a hint of abnormal paleness.

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

Even though he said that, 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 a magician's perspective, 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, DC's magic trading system has been very mature, and the source of the power used by Constantine has signed a more rigorous treaty with him.

The demons or other magic abilities summoned by Constantine's flame substitute 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 want to heal someone, you must find a demon or angel to sign a treaty. Constantine and the person being treated will pay the price together. If the other party is not a magician, they may have to pay more.

However, this also depends on the difficulty of the treatment. The huge price is often to pull a person back from the brink of life and death, while the rest of the injuries are minor injuries in the eyes of demons or angels. They do not need to pay the price of organs or souls. At most, they will lose some luck or life.

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

Constantine is too skilled in this area. He drew a random dialing array and called. 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 watched.

His intuition has saved his life more than once, which is the most powerful evidence that Constantine was born to do this job. The moment he was watched, Constantine immediately took Barbara, who had not yet completed the possession, and moved away.

I thought it was just a glimpse from heaven or hell, but it turned out to be a man-made disaster. Constantine moved 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 is a sophisticated enough wizard. He doesn't believe that anything that happens to him is just a coincidence or accident. Even if it is, there must be a devil behind the scenes manipulating the probability, so he took Barbara to move again.

But the other party always finds him quickly. Constantine has no time to think about why. This time he has to face this group of strange wizards, because even he doesn't have so much energy to carry an ordinary person to move several times in such a short time.

As Constantine expected, the other party didn't intend to reason with him at all. 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 wizards shouted "traitors who summoned demons" and rushed up.

Constantine didn't understand. The energy you used was different, wasn't it from the devil?

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

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

Constantine was not stupid. He found that as long as he tried to communicate with the devil 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 devil's energy.

So he took Barbara to the last shelter and used a seal to temporarily seal the devil 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 the trouble was over. In fact, on the contrary, the most difficult part had just begun.

Constantine now knew that there were mages in the new city that had been merged. He had to find out the details of these mages. To put it bluntly, he had to know who the mages' contracted parties were.

It was not difficult to see that this group of mages was organized, and the most fatal thing was that organized magicians in this world usually brought great disasters.

Because they indulged the ambitions of heaven and hell, they were often the vanguards for them to open up their territory in the human world. If it was not profitable, the demons and angels would not lend so much power to so many people at a high price.

Although the demon in Barbara's body could not communicate for the time being, Constantine's own phone line was still normal. He could actually ask the demon and let the demon investigate in hell.

But what he did not tell Barbara was that he was facing another trouble. A nosy historian and folklorist was investigating him.

This has to start with an unsolved case left behind in the UK when Constantine was young. The specific case is a bit complicated, but it also caused a double wave of waves in the ordinary society and the occult circle. It can also be said to be a turning point in Constantine's life.

It is certainly not unreasonable to bring up the old things again. Before this, Constantine also found that the demon who made trouble at the beginning had returned to the world. He wanted to solve the matter by himself, but he didn't expect that Dr. Sosip would come out halfway and disrupt his plan.

It would be fine if he couldn't investigate it openly, but Dr. Sosip got the news from somewhere and pointed the finger at Constantine directly.

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 the UK.

Dr. Sosip has a strong ability to track down things from decades ago. He can turn over things that happened decades ago, and the information he tracked down is even more detailed than what he experienced in person back then.

Constantine's intuition saved his life again, and later he confirmed from the visitor in the fog that the other party had a pivotal position in the society of ordinary people.

All Souls College of Oxford University is known as the crown of Oxford University. It does not recruit ordinary undergraduates and graduate students, and only allows scholars who have a pivotal position in the academic world to join.

As a magician, Constantine knows that it is also an ivory tower in the world of mysticism. All scholars who claim to study philosophy and theology there are actually people in the world of mysticism like him.

There are not only wild people like Constantine who are extremely talented in this world, but also scholars who have long realized that there is a mystical power in this world and have devoted themselves to the complicated research of mysticism, theology and religion with ordinary bodies.

Government agencies in the world also need such people to explain various mystical events that appear in this world. There is no doubt that All Souls College of Oxford University is the authority of mysticism in the society of ordinary people.

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 bet his social status that Dr. Sosip would not turn his past upside down.

Constantine chose to come to the United States to avoid the limelight and find out who Dr. Sosip was through the devil. But before he had a headache about the other party's background, he and Barbara were frozen here.

Before coming to New York, Constantine suspected that Sosip had cracked the magic circle he used to communicate with the devil. This was not surprising. He used this trick many years ago. At that time, he was young and ignorant, and the traces were not completely eliminated. As long as these theoretical masters were given some time, they would always be able to crack it.

If Constantine did not update his phone number, he would probably be caught by Sosip along the network cable if he called, but it was really difficult for 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 to notify the devil you have to call, and to call you have to update your phone number, otherwise you will be caught, and the loop is closed.

However, there is also a simplest solution, that is, Constantine opens a portal to go directly to hell.

Communication with the devil may be intercepted, but the probability of being intercepted if you teleport in person is very small, because Constantine has his own base on the edge of hell, where not everyone can go, most magicians can't.

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 tell your family first."

Barbara also sighed. It's not that she didn't want to call her father. She knew that Gordon must be crazy now, but the signal of the previous phone was interfered by the teleportation magic used by Constantine, and it couldn't be dialed at all.

Constantine took back the magical energy, and Barbara called Gordon and told him that she was not missing or kidnapped, but had to follow a magician to his base to prevent the energy originally used to heal the wound from getting out of control.

Barbara gave a series of explanations. I won't talk about how much Gordon understood. Constantine couldn't wait any longer because the group of wizards were chasing him again.

This time he really didn't have the energy to take Barbara to transfer in the human world. He waved his hand and took Barbara to the Soul Book Prison and placed her in his own hut.

The next step was to go to hell and talk to the demons in person to solve this series of troubles.

After a burst of light, Constantine appeared in hell. It was a familiar dark red again. Dust rose from the burnt brown ground. Smoke rose in the distance. The demons were as usual...

Wait, where are the demons?