The track of dawn in the world of American manga

Chapter 22 22. It's hopeless, eat and have fun, prepare for the funeral
"This is a sign formed after a certain curse has solidified. The black circle 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 presence of such features as hands, chains, and tentacles is evidence that the being who casts the curse on you wishes to restrain you, rather than simply torture you. "

Sitting next to Mason, the master of black magic and the famous prodigal son and scumbag John Constantine casually "introduced" the features of the weird tattoo on his arm to Mason while puffing out smoke rings.

He was full of confidence, and when he opened his mouth, he did have something to say. Mason nodded repeatedly, and fear and helplessness appeared in his eyes.

That posture is very much like a teenager who has strayed into a supernatural event and is at a loss.

The young man hesitated for a few seconds, lowered his voice and said:

"It gave me an offer I couldn't refuse when I was trapped in a desperate situation, and it brought me back to the 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, brushed his messy short hair and took a puff of smoke from his nostrils, making an appearance of "I am a master" and said:
"It is likely to be a demon pretending to be a ghost, they like to play this kind of game, but some evil gods with eccentric personalities will occasionally play this trick.

So you have to give me more leads, Mason.

Also, look, I left my sweet girlfriend behind to warn you of the imminent danger. Maybe I can continue to help you, but both devils and evil gods are narrow-minded guys.

I'm also taking a big risk."

He glanced at Mason calmly, and said meaningfully:

"I believe that a good boy like you who has Batman's attention will not sit and watch others be affected by danger because of you?"

Now Mason knew why Zhakang came to "meddle in his own business". This bastard must have found some clues and wanted to squeeze some benefits out of him.

The young man pretended to hesitate.

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

"But I have nothing to offer you, your lord. As you can see, I'm just a hapless young man who just escaped from the gang."

"Hey, you're being dishonest like this, kid."

Zha Kang stood up and no longer put on that "benevolent" image, while playing with the silver angel-shaped lighter in his hand, his tone became gloomy.

He went to the window, turned his back on Mason and said:
"Do you want me to reveal your little secret?

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

"This"

Mason seemed intimidated.

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

He threatens:

"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, tracking the breath of life, which hell creatures are best at. I happen to be too.

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

I have had many times the experience of having to make a deal with the devil in order to survive in a desperate situation. I understand your pain and helplessness very well.

But you have to trust me first, so I can help you better.

Don't be afraid, kid, the handsome John in front of you has personally exiled no less than fifty hell creatures in the past 20 years, and helped at least 100 people to lift various curses.

I'm a real expert on this.

tell me!
What did you get from that mysterious dark wizard? "

"It is detected that external energy has entered the body, and the energy is analyzed as some kind of spiritual guidance 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 curtain in front of Mason. He knew he had to say something to stabilize Zha Kang, otherwise this guy who had no bottom line would make trouble.

So the young man hugged his knees helplessly on the hospital bed, and replied in a painful tone:
"Well, I wasn't the only unlucky one that was taken into the house by that wizard, there were three other people imprisoned with me.

We were treated as playthings of that monster, who set up a labyrinth-like illusion for us to fight each other, and various monsters haunted it.

I have formed an alliance with another person.

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

The wizard told us that he wanted to see this desperation to make something weird, and if Batman and you and your girlfriend hadn't interrupted that process at a critical moment, I would have been a corpse. "

He looked up at Constantine, and said:

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

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

Those things are ominous!
I don't want them at all. "

"Very well, this candor is exactly what we need."

Constantine's eyes lit up when he heard the "trophy", he walked to Mason's side, put his hand on his shoulder and patted him and said:
"Where is your friend now?"

"Snapped"

Zha Kang's hand was thrown away by Mason, and the young man squinted at him and said:

"I've been in hell for five days, Mr. John, I'm not an idiot, and the trophies held by my friends are our last hope.

You want them to be fine.

But the curse! "

Mason pulled up his sleeves, revealing the ominous sign, and said:

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

"Geez, that's making it hard for me."

Zha Kang curled his lips, and put his hand on the tattooed logo on Mason's arm for a closer look.

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 see the way, and he can tell that the opponent is a very powerful guy just from the shape and details of the tattoo.The most important thing is that the tattoo on Mason's body does not reveal any breath, but there is a taboo drawing. If you don't take it seriously, you may think it is just a performance art of a second-stroke youth pursuing freedom.

It's just the degree of concealment of this breath that can tell that the opponent is a "super big guy".

At this moment, Constantine regretted participating in such a thing.

Seeing the silence of Scumbag, Mason felt that this scum mage might have the idea of ​​retreating, but young people don't want to miss the guy who offered to send him to his door.

The character card could not identify the effect and trigger method of this soul curse, which made Mason feel like he had a time bomb that could explode at any time.

He doesn't know anything about magic himself, and it's probably too late to learn it now.

So he needs someone who knows how to do it.

At present, no one is more suitable than a non-mainstream spellcaster like Zha Kang who is greedy and has no lower limit. As long as he pays Zha Kang a satisfactory reward, he will definitely not be able to bear the desire to participate in it.

"My friend and I snatched the magic book he was carrying with him before the wizard's house disappeared!"

Mason whispered something.

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

This is the energetic Zha Kang began to cast spells.

Two balls of green light surrounded the guy's eye sockets, as if wearing some kind of strange glasses on him.

At the same time that Zha Kang was casting the spell, the cat school badge worn by Mason's neck began to vibrate slightly and was immediately pressed down by Mason's arms.

The shaking of his arm made Jarcon glance at him and say:
"I'm afraid, my master is here."

"No, that's not what I want to shake."

Mason explained:
"When you look at it, my arms start to get hot."

He didn't lie.

When Zackon used his magic to look at the tattoo, his entire forearm began to heat up, as if he had reacted to being "observed".

This sentence surprised Constantine.

A sliding step flashed a few steps away and immediately dispelled the magic, and looked at Mason's trembling arm in surprise, and said:
"Will even this level of weak observation cause a reaction? Well, child, I have to say, your illness is probably hopeless. These days, eat something good, play a few flirty things, and feel happy.

What, 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 finishing speaking, this unruly guy who felt the risk decisively drew a large arc with a burning cigarette on the wall behind him, apparently preparing to open the portal and leave.

"We snatched two magic books! One of them records the complete book of black magic that is said to have come from another world."

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

"And some magical potions from his treasury."

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

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

The young man sitting on the hospital bed added another sentence quietly.

Now Zha Kang turned around sharply.

He showed a suspicious expression, 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 thoughts. I won't hide it from you, Mason.

The curse on you is very troublesome.

I haven't seen this level of 'dirty stuff' in almost ten years, and if you want me to help you, get some dry stuff out. "

"Dry goods? OK."

Mason reached out to take down the recording board hanging beside the hospital bed, picked up a pen, and followed the drawing of the healing potion recorded in the alchemy branch in front of the light curtain, scribbling down the raw materials and production process, then threw the piece of paper away To Zha Kang.

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

He shook the paper and said:

"I can make you a box of this kind of low-level potion in the time it takes to go to the toilet, which is meaningless to a master like me. It is useless except that it is quick to make and the process is simple."

"Okay, then you return the blueprint to me."

Mason stretched out his hand to beg for it, and Zha Kang folded the paper up and stuffed it into his pocket, lit another cigarette for himself, exhaled comfortably, and said:
"I mean it's useless to me, it's still very good to use it to deceive those new rookies, if you are lucky, you may be able to deceive a few simple female apprentices into bed.

Uh, you didn't hear that, and I didn't say anything about 'going to bed'.

Don't tell Xiao Zha!
Otherwise, I will add another curse to make your life worse than death!

So, this is what you can give me?

Take knowledge from the vault of that mysterious wizard?But with all due respect, if there is only so much, it will be difficult for me to help you. "

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

Mason glanced at Zha Kang who was up for sale.

When he thought of the stories about Zha Kang in his mind, he had an idea, so he wrote down such taboo things as Voldemort's Horcrux, handed it to Zha Kang, and said:
"This is something in another magic book. I just glanced at it casually at the time of the emergency, and 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 about the "Horcrux" and the description of the "immortality" state after the soul was cut, this guy suddenly narrowed his eyes.

The most famous deed of Zha Kang is that he sold his soul to more than a dozen devils at the same time to make his creditors restrain each other, so as to ensure that he would not go to hell in a short time.

For Zha Kang, who dances on the tip of a knife almost all the time, the Horcrux, which is absolutely taboo knowledge in the eyes of outsiders, is so right.

A flamboyant man like him who is either provoking big bosses or walking on the road of provocation every day, must wish he could divide his soul into dozens of pieces and hide them in different places.

In case I accidentally overturned the car one day and ended up in an irreversible end.

See, even Jack Kang himself knows that it's only a matter of time before his car rolls over.

"Tch, so-so."

Zha Zhakang, who obviously wanted it but insisted on putting on a stubborn look of "I don't care for it", popped up a flame and burned the note in his hand.

He lowered his head and lit a cigarette for himself, took two quick puffs and said to Mason:
"The things you gave are so cheap that they can't arouse my interest at all. But who gave me a compassionate girlfriend? In order to please her and prevent her from giving me a hat on a whim one day, you I took over this life-saving job.

Don't go to places where many people have died recently, and don't fight people desperately, just stay honest!

I'll go back and study it, and I'll give you an answer in a few days.

But it's a bad rule to not get paid for doing this job, and since you have to give it, I'm too embarrassed not to. "

When he heard Zha Kang's shameless statement, Mason was expressionless but delighted.

He knew that Zha Kang had taken the bait.

The stubborn Constantine blew out smoke rings, took 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 complicated and weird shape on the metal surface, which looked like an eyeball.

He immediately got the info tag for this thing:

Constantine's Eyes of Hell

Quality: Excellent Enchantment/Inscription Item · Outstanding Craftsmanship
Effect: The eye of hell exuding black magic can reveal nearby traps, hidden life or imminent danger to the wearer. It can also be used as a communication and positioning item and share everything it sees with its owner. .

Producer: John Constantine
Status: This item requires Enchanting Lv3, Inscription Lv2 and Jewelry Crafting Lv2 to parse blueprints.

Item description: You'd better not ask where Constantine learned the monitoring method of this hell creature, 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 in various situations.

"You gave me something, I am very happy."

Mason also put the gloomy eye of hell accessories in front of his eyes, and when Zha Kang turned away coolly, he said:

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

"Yo, expert."

Confused, Zha Kang turned his head and grinned without guilt.

He patted his head and said embarrassedly:
"I'm used to it professionally, don't worry about it, I just have a bad habit of spying on others.

It's not me 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 I was chased by her and chopped off three different planes. "

As he spoke, he reached out and touched 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 adore him so much that you don't want him to know you've been locked in by the darkness and alienate you."

Zha Kang waved his hand and drew a pentagram on the wall, and opened 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 surprise you, but it depends on how rich you are.

Learn more from Bruce Wayne.

That guy gave Xiao Zha a huge deposit for his performance, which made me wonder if he wanted to keep my girlfriend, and made me hate myself for not being a woman
What the hell! "

(End of this chapter)