"A long time ago, my teacher once told me that the initial reason for his entanglement with me came from my gaze, or to be more specific - my choice. When I became interested in him, he changed He became the Joker, and the Joker was destined to be entangled with Batman."
"As the teaching continued, more information emerged from his few words. The entanglement between Batman and the Joker seemed to be the fate woven by the world for these two people. No one can break it. Its priority is almost Above everything that happens in this world.”
"Later I learned that the status of the Joker and Batman are complementary to each other. Their madness is like plants that have been entangled and grown together in the seedling stage. They have long been connected by blood and cannot be separated."
"It can be inferred from this that the stronger Batman is, the stronger the Joker will be, and I have indeed experienced this first-hand."
"When I desperately pursued strength and wanted to save Gotham, whether it was the clown in my teacher's body or another clown in Gotham, they were all crazy and reckless."
"But when I began to gradually let go of all this and pursue my own life, I found that the madness in their bodies that once made me despair seemed to have healed itself. Even though there were still some morbid thoughts left, it was more like Philosophers and artists.”
"So I had some other ideas."
Bruce stood on the highest tip of the roof of Westminster Abbey, overlooking the entire London. Hearing the crazy laughter and the screams of vampires coming from below, he continued to say to Beelzebub in his mind.
"Known: First, I can use some methods to transform other people into clowns; second, the stronger the clown is, the stronger Batman will be."
"Then is there a possibility - I will find a person who is strong enough and turn him into a clown. As the clown becomes stronger, I will also become stronger. When I become stronger, I can find a stronger person and then Turn him into a clown, the clown is stronger, I am stronger, and then I go..."
"ah?"
"When this idea appeared in my mind, it was just a preliminary plan, and there were many problems in practice. But I still summarized many rules that should work through my previous experiences."
"First, I must first find the target and have some entanglement with him. I look at him, and he looks at me. I attract his attention, and he also attracts my attention."
“But I’m not entirely convinced by this entanglement of fate that favors philosophical and metaphysical concepts, and I think there may be more direct ways to achieve this transformation.”
"One day before, someone took out my blood, but a powerful being he hosted did not dare to drink it. It was not disgust, but pure fear. He emphasized that I was special, and anyone who drank my blood would not drink it. Anyone with blood will have an incomprehensible bond with me, and I think this will be the means for me to implement my plan."
"The means of implementation are already there, and the next step is to select targets. But for a long time, I have not had a suitable target because I don't think anyone in ordinary society is stronger than me, even if in some aspects it exceeds The improvement I can bring is far from worth the effort I expend."
"Until my teacher led me to see the magic world, I had some understanding of it, but most of my eyes were focused on magicians like Constantine. I had no interest in borrowing money from the devil, so I never focused on understanding the magic world. The presence."
"Later, I read many books introducing magical creatures, magical historical classics and theological books at Forgotten Bookstore, and then I discovered that the powerful demons and angels recorded in the Bible really exist."
"But demons and angels are not good targets. Demons prefer to play with human souls, and angels are even less likely to drink human blood. But in the process of selecting targets by reading the classics, I noticed that there is a type of creature that is simply The perfect target, that's a vampire."
"They are born to feed on human blood. They will suck my blood without any deception. So, when I was in the Forgotten Bookstore, I asked Constantine to help me find a vampire. I wanted to try to see if he could Will be transformed by me."
"But at this time, there was turmoil in the magical world, and it coincided with the return of vampires. I heard about the appearance of Cain, the ancestor of the blood race, and generally learned about his story from the Bible and many other classics that record the past events in the Garden of Eden. Identity, personality, and behavioral patterns.”
Bruce sighed softly and said, "No one has ever firmly chosen Cain. This is his biggest weakness."
"In the Garden of Eden, both God and Adam and Eve preferred Abel. When he was expelled from the Garden of Eden and came to the Red Sea, even Lilith, who had a grudge against Adam, did not choose him, and he had no choice but to leave in the end."
"People who lack recognition and admiration during their growth will develop a fear of praise from others. When encountering unwavering affirmation and choice from others, the first thing to appear is hesitation and doubt. Driven by this mentality , you will worry about gains and losses and lose your reason.”
"The plan is going very smoothly." Bruce looked at the ray of light on the distant skyline and said: "Now the plan has been half successful. Cain has been turned into a clown by me. Next, we need to observe the dynamics between me and the clown. How is intensity achieved?”
"Since Gabriel dares to send people to provoke you in your bar, it proves that he is not afraid of being discovered by you at all." In the palace of Satan in Hell, Constantine leaned on the side of the throne and faced Lucifer and said: "Or, He bet you can't find him."
Lucifer frowned slightly and said, "You don't know. If I really want to know where he is, there is no need for Azazel to investigate."
"Of course, the omniscient and omnipotent His Majesty Lucifer doesn't need to investigate anything he wants to know, but if you fly over and catch him directly, it will make him feel proud." Constantine snorted coldly and said: "You are the light of origin. God’s most beloved Son, you are unlike the other angels, especially Gabriel.”
"It can be said that you are not even a kind of creature. Among all the angels, God only values you. Taking a step back, only Michael can compare with you. If you are different from the little follower who has been following you two, Gabriel takes care of it himself, and he can laugh out of his dreams.”
Lucifer pursed his lips and said nothing, but Constantine pointed out very bluntly: "He predicted that your biggest weakness is your arrogance. Even if he sends mortals to harass you and almost dance on your head, you can't do it yourself." I ran up to him and got angry at him."
"You have never looked down upon any angel, whether it was Michael, Gabriel, Raphael or Uriel, you have never looked down upon him. This has been the case since you fell into heaven, because you know, God is the God of others but your Father only.”
"That's enough." Lucifer interrupted Constantine, but there was not much anger in his tone. He just sighed and said: "Don't mention those old things. I will not let Gabriel get his wish no matter what."
He stood up from the throne and walked down the stairs, his voice echoing in the empty palace.
"The war between heaven and hell has no meaning. I just pursue freedom outside of love, and I have to be entangled in thousands of years of trivial wars. If the first battle of the Fallen Heaven is what I paid for my choice Price, then what is the purpose of the second war? It can’t be revenge against God, right?”
“Don’t you hate God?”
"It's not that I hate him, it's just that it's hard to understand the way he loves me, so I plan to avoid talking about it and keep quiet."
"The reason why you have such freedom is because you know that he loves you and that he will choose you no matter what, so you can spend it freely and not care, and you don't even have the emotion of hate."
Constantine's Adam's apple moved, his tone lowered, and he said: "You are favored, so you will never understand how crazy those who are forgotten in the corner can do in order to find a sense of existence. It's like I fell into hell, but I never looked back."
"Do you think I should put up with Gabriel?"
"Of course not, although I will tell you that if you completely turn a blind eye to him, he will feel very painful, but I still hope that you can expose his unrealistic illusions. This is good for heaven, hell or earth. "
Lucifer turned to look at Constantine and said, "Then what do you think I should do?"
"It's useless to simply find him and beat him up, or even seal him up. He will only challenge you again and again to find a sense of existence. The more everyone pays attention to him, the crazier he will be. Even if When he is rebuked by God, he will only be ecstatic because he is finally being taken seriously.”
"But you can't do nothing, otherwise sooner or later he will mix heaven, hell and the world into a mess. As for what you need to do to make him give up completely... I can only suggest that you ask Schiller."
Lucifer's expression froze, and the expression on his face could be described as "Is your map of Yan Kingdom a little too short?"
"You know better than me how proficient Schiller is at breaking down a person's psychological defenses, but he will make you pay the price."
Lucifer stood there gritting his teeth. After a while, he turned around and walked out of the palace, while Constantine sighed and said.
"You would rather go to Schiller than lower yourself and beat Gabriel up. I can only say that you brought all your bad luck on yourself, you are arrogant."
After Lucifer left, Azazel took Constantine back to his palace. Satan did not express his position. Azazel did not torture Constantine anymore, but just found a room in the palace and threw him away. Got in.
Constantine lay on the bed for a while, and just as he was about to fall asleep, he heard a cry in his ears.
"Wake up! Wake up! John Constantine, wake up!"
As soon as Constantine opened his eyes, he saw a beautiful dark-skinned girl shaking him. He thought he was dreaming, muttered a few words casually, and wanted to turn over and continue sleeping.
"Wake up quickly, I am Midnight's sister Luna, something big has happened!"
Constantine woke up suddenly, looked at the girl in front of him and said, "Midnight? Father Midnight? What's wrong with him?"
"Today is my birthday. He just came over to see me and said that Constantine finally fell into his hands, but I saw you in the palace a few days ago... Are you really John Constantine?"
"Of course I am Constantine."
"That's weird, then who is the one my brother is talking about?" The dark-skinned girl showed a puzzled face, but still sighed, shook her head and planned to leave.
But Constantine grabbed her wrist, stared at her and said, "Are you sure your brother said he saw me in the human world?"
"Yes, he said that a vampire chased you, you were injured and had to escape to Midnight Dad's Bar, and he saved you."
Constantine's eyes widened slightly, and he said in a daze: "It's dark under the lamp...it's really yours, Gabriel!"
He sighed again and said: "But you prevented Schiller from getting my heart back, Gabriel. You are too smart to be wise. I'm afraid you are really going to be in bad luck."
On the other side, in Papa Midnight's bar, Midnight hurried back to his bar after receiving the news from his sister. There was nothing but a pool of blood in the guest room on the second floor. Constantine had already No trace.
Midnight gritted his teeth and cursed. Of course Lucifer and Azazel would not mistake Constantine, so the only possibility is that this one in the real world is fake. Realizing that he had been tricked, Midnight walked to the center of the room. , chanting a spell over the pool of blood.
But at this moment, there was a knock on the door, and the sound of opening the door came. Midnight looked back and saw a man wearing a dark red plaid suit standing outside the door, followed by a very strong young man.
"Hello, I'm looking for Constantine. I chased him here."
Midnight was suddenly filled with anger. He was about to explode when he looked into this man's barren gray eyes. His years of experience and intuition among all kinds of people made his aggressive words roll on the tip of his tongue before being swallowed. go back.
"You are late, he has already run away."
"Is it Constantine who ran away?"
Midnight immediately narrowed his eyes, turned to look at the uninvited guest, and then heard him say: "You know magic, find out who controls his body, I will find him, the body is mine, and the soul is yours. "
Midnight turned his head and glanced at the scene in the room, knowing that he had no choice. If the guy who had tricked him released the news, his prestige would be greatly affected, and he must be chased back as soon as possible.
Thinking of this, Midnight no longer hesitated. He recited the spell faster and faster. Instantly, a burst of light rose from his blood. Midnight's pupils shrank suddenly and he exclaimed a name.
"Gabriel??!!!"
Schiller's brows frowned fiercely.
(End of chapter)
