The atmosphere in the Forgotten Bar was very gloomy. The remaining people sat around the bar. Jim, the master of the dark night, wiped the night blade in his hand and sighed: "The situation is very bad. I just killed more than a dozen archmages." Not many people can get through on the phone, I hope they are just hiding.”
"They should have thought that demons are unreliable!" Deadman Boston lowered his eyes and said, "No one can accuse them of reaching a deal to gain power, but relying too much on this power is what will happen."
"I don't know if the devil's sudden withdrawal of power has something to do with the vampire's actions. If so, we will be in big trouble." Bennett held the wine glass and looked very frustrated. Obviously he still felt that he had implicate Constantine.
"Mary, that crazy woman, must have sacrificed Constantine to Cain. Cain will suck all his blood. No vampire can resist the temptation of pure blood."
"We have to go to Plymouth." Red Robin, who was sitting at the farthest end, said silently: "They have a base there. We have to first find out what the Blood Queen Mary and Cain, the ancestor of the blood race, want to do."
"I'm sorry, kid, but I can't leave London now." Jim frowned and said, "I have to go to the magic family's residence first, and then go to the wizard towers of the great wizards I'm familiar with to find help. We can't If we allow the devil to break the contract, we must unite to negotiate with them.”
"In addition, Zatanna's mental state is not good. My apprentice Andrea gave her some concentration potions, but she still needs someone to take care of and protect her. We can't lose another friend."
Red Robin said nothing, he just nodded and stood up, and said: "I want to go back to the Forgotten Bookstore first to find my friends for help, and see if I can find anything useful left by John. .”
Jim reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and then opened a portal for him. Before Red Robin walked into the door, Jim looked at him and said: "You are a very capable boy, and I know I can't stop you from doing it." What’s the matter, but I hope you remember that you must, must, must use Lilith’s power with caution.”
"I will. I have seen the consequences of abusing power."
After saying that, Red Robin stepped into the teleportation gate. The next second after the teleportation was completed, an extremely strong smell of blood penetrated Red Robin's nose.
He subconsciously covered his nose with his hands, and then felt his feet stepping on some kind of mucus.
Red Robin looked up and saw a gruesome corpse hanging on the wall next to the stairs of the Oblivion Bar.
It was a young man with pale skin and lifeless skin. He was pierced by a Roman-style spear and nailed to the wall. The spear was originally hung on the wall beside the bookstore door for decoration.
All the skin on the lower abdomen and waist of the male body is gone, but the exposed muscle tissue is too clean, with no trace of blood or residual fat. It gives the impression that it is not being skinned, but that it has undergone a delicate operation.
Red Robin felt no fear at all. He stared at the corpse and slowly walked forward, leaving footprints one after another on the blood on the floor.
Lilith said in his mind: "How cruel, human beings..."
"Shut up."
A flash of anger emerged in Red Robin's mind, but it was not his own, but came from Lilith.
Before Lilith could get angry, she saw through Red Robin's eyes that all the blood on the ground rose up and fell back to the sky like raindrops gathered in a puddle.
All the information and clues in the space converged into luminous threads one after another, wrapped around Red Robin's body. He opened his arms to welcome it all, more reverently than to welcome Lilith.
He turned into a cocoon wrapped in information. The strong silk threads hooked around the beams and brought him to the midair of the room. When he looked down at his feet, he could see through the gaps in the fine silk threads. Arrive, a spotless leather shoe stepped on the same clean and tidy floor.
Schiller walked in first, then Jason the Red Hood.
Red Robin was not surprised by this. When he was called away by Constantine, Schiller was teaching Jason a lesson, but what were they doing when they went out?
Schiller carried a suitcase and placed it on the table. He lit a match, and the light of the fire reflected the bloody dusk of the London streets.
Schiller burned the shopping receipt and threw the ashes into the trash can. Just when he was about to pick up the suitcase again, a black shadow suddenly flashed outside the window.
Red Robin's fingers tightened for a moment. He should have thought of it. Scarlet Queen Mary must have made two preparations. In addition to leading people to the Oblivion Bar herself, she also sent people to the bookstore where Constantine was. Prevent Constantine from escaping back here using the teleportation array.
A vampire rushed into the bookstore. He spread his bat wings and stretched out his sharp claws, but what was waiting for him was not the usual scream, but a red hood that was immediately taken off the wall. of spear.
The spear pierced the vampire's chest, and blood splashed on the window glass on one side. The red hood took another step forward, and used the spear to hit the vampire's body against the back wall.
Then, his movements stopped. When this piece of information passed through Red Robin's mind, he felt a trace of doubt. Jason was a person who did not spare a hand to human criminals. How could he be willing to let go of a human criminal? Evil vampire?
Someone had stopped him, and the footprints on the ground proved it.
Schiller took a step forward, stretched out his arm to block the red hood's continued attack, and shook his head.
Schiller asked the red hood to step away. He walked past the red hood and picked up the suitcase on the table. When the suitcase was opened, it contained a set of precision surgical tools.
"Go and get the book over there for me." Schiller raised his chin slightly, and the red hood paused for a moment, but still followed his instructions to the bookshelf and took the book Schiller wanted. Come over.
Schiller asked Red Hood to open a certain page of the book, and used a scalpel to carve a complex pattern on the back of the hand of the vampire who was knocked down and nailed to the ground in a dazzling way.
Schiller asked the Red Hood to hold the still-energy staff used by Constantine and Bruce when they conducted magic circle experiments, and tapped it on the back of the vampire's hand. The magic circle emitted a dirty red light, and the vampire emitted A terrible scream.
He instinctively wanted to turn into a bat and escape, but the restrictive magic circle disabled his ability to transform, and the spear that the Red Hood penetrated through his chest forced him to lie on the ground.
"He can't run, go and pull out the weapon." Schiller cleaned the scalpel and said to the red hood.
The Red Hood has always hated others giving orders to him, not even Batman, but now his movements are so fast that they leave afterimages, because the Schiller he is facing now gives him the feeling that he is actually the same as the unlucky man lying on the ground. The eggs made no difference - Schiller couldn't see them at all.
The red hood pulled out the spear, and the vampire struggled to get up. Schiller raised his head again and said, "Go grab him and keep him still."
The red hood walked in front of the vampire's head, stretched out his hand to drag his upper body up from the ground, and locked him with his hands under his armpits. Schiller nodded and said, "Very good, keep this position and don't move. If you don’t want to see, just close your eyes.”
"How do you plan to eliminate him? Let him bask in the sun?"
"I didn't plan to destroy him. Vampires have strong self-healing abilities. I just took some things from his body. He won't die."
Schiller took off the vampire's shirt as he spoke, and then used a scalpel to draw a thin line oozing blood from the center of the collarbone to the navel. The vampire didn't know what he was going to do, but he just kept cursing.
The next second, the scalpel cut through the skin. The wound was not deep and the pain was not severe, but Schiller inserted his fingers and used his hands to spread the skin near the wound, and then cut downwards until he reached the soft lower abdomen.
The vampire's body had no temperature, and Schiller seemed dissatisfied with this. He sped up the movements of his hands, and said to the red hood while pushing aside the skin on the vampire's abdomen.
"Have you read the Bible?"
"I guess so."
“Abel was a shepherd, and Cain was a farmer. Abel raised livestock with a heart to serve God, and God was pleased with his piety, so it was acceptable to him, so that everyone might know that God was It rejoices when animals are killed and sacrificed.”
"God liked Abel's sacrifice. One reason is that God likes sacrifice. The sacrifice bears the sin of the sacrificer. It sheds blood for the guilty person and allows God to understand the repentance of the sacrificer."
"The second reason is that the sacrifices offered are the best. The first-born sheep in the flock are the strongest, and the fat on the belly of the sheep is the fattest part of the sheep. Only by offering the best to God can it be joy."
The vampire kept trembling and screaming, more and more blood flowed out of his body, and his uncontrollable legs wiped arc-shaped traces of blood on the floor.
"Your hand is loose." Schiller lowered his head and reminded.
Red Hood showed a slightly troubled expression, and said: "Don't do this, just kill him, I can't... I can't..."
"If you let go, you will be the next one lying here."
Suddenly, the vampire no longer had any room to struggle. Schiller removed all the epidermis on the vampire's abdomen and waist, cut off the nerves, removed blood vessels, and then used a scalpel to scrape off his clean subcutaneous fat bit by bit, and inserted In a glass bottle.
While the Red Hood used all his strength to clamp down on the struggling vampire, he closed his eyes and kept hypnotizing himself in his mind.
Until Schiller stood up, put away the surgical tools and bottles, and said to the Red Hood: "Take that spear and nail him to the wall. Someone will read it."
Red Hood almost instinctively did as he was told, but after seeing the vampire who kept grabbing the spear on his chest while struggling and screaming, he still couldn't hold it back and stopped Schiller who was about to leave, and said : "There is some mercury in the basement. I'm going to get it and feed it to him. Wait for me."
After saying that, the red hood walked to the basement without looking back. Soon, he brought a small bottle of mercury, forced open the vampire's mouth and let him swallow it.
The vampire showed no symptoms of mercury poisoning, but his ability to heal gradually disappeared, followed by his vitality.
The Red Hood walked past Schiller with his head lowered, came to the door and whispered: "It's mentioned in folklore stories, but I didn't expect it to be really useful."
"You will make a good student of Arrogance."
Schiller lowered his head, packed up the surgical tools meticulously, picked up the bottle containing abdominal fat, and left the Oblivion Bookstore with the Red Hood.
Lilith was speechless after seeing the scene replayed in Red Robin's mind, but Red Robin raised his head, stared intently at the corpse on the wall and said, "How cruel, human beings..."
After a while, Red Robin quickly walked out of the Forgotten Bookstore. Lilith asked in his mind: "Where are you going? Do you need me to help you open the portal?"
"No need."
Red Robin walked outside and saw a taxi coming down the street. He got into the back seat and said to the driver: "Go to Westminster Abbey."
Before Lilith could ask, Red Robin said, "He left that body behind because he knew someone could understand it... That person was me. This is a letter he left for me."
(End of chapter)
