Falsifying history is good business

Chapter 234 The Owl Arrives Before the Treasure Land

There is a widely circulated saying in Latin America: "Too far from heaven, too close to America." The closest to America is Mexico, where Lin You set foot this time.

Leaving aside those special stories, the historical trend of the world is roughly the same as the real dimension; in 1992, Mexico was forced to sign a treaty that was believed to completely lock its future development path: the North American Free Trade Agreement.

For an agricultural country to sign such an agreement with the largest industrial country at that time, and both sides are close neighbors, what else could it be but courting death?
Just a few years later, Mexico's industry and agriculture almost completely collapsed, and were successively overwhelmed or merged and controlled by American capital. So much so that after entering the 21st century, some people joked that the most profitable primary industry in Mexico was drug cultivation, the most profitable secondary industry was drug processing, and the most profitable tertiary industry was drug smuggling and organizing illegal immigration...

Perhaps it was because the filter brought over from the real dimension was too thick and heavy. When Lin You looked at the sky of Mexico, he always felt that there was a lingering haze hanging over his head.

Helena's goal was not in Mexico City; she left the airport, rented a car, and headed north. In less than half a day, she rushed into the Sierra Madre Oriental.

The further north they went, the weirder Lin You's expression became; until Helena began to frequently take out an old map and look for the location of a nearby country church on the map, Count Goff finally confirmed the connection between this place and the Spear of Longinus.

In the movie version of "Hellblazer", wasn't the Spear of Longinus wrapped in the NAZI "swastika flag" and buried under an abandoned church nearby?
When integrating the Constantine story, the characters, plot and even settings of the movie version were very different from the original comics. In addition, the crucial information fragments of the "giant beast" were stuffed into the TV series version by God, so Lin You also wrote the TV series version that was closer to the original comics as the main story line into the big world.

As for the black-haired Hellblazer in the movie version... although Keanu is indeed more handsome, he is still shelved; it is likely that he will have to wait until the DC world is fully integrated in the future, and then be handled in the same way as the 52 parallel universes.

Now it seems that although the character has been shelved and the related plot has been completely removed from the big world, the key prop in the plot, the Spear of Longinus, has been recycled by someone with ulterior motives.

In the movie, the Spear of Longinus was used to bring about the birth of Mammon, the son of Satan; the one who used the holy spear was the Archangel Gabriel.

In today's world, in order to protect the smooth ending of the "unknown", everyone from heaven to hell and then to the realm of gods has been taken care of, and no one is allowed to take the initiative to intervene in the situation - it is very likely that Mammon and Gabriel will not appear.

Who is still eyeing the Holy Spear? What else can this Holy Spear be used for?

"Since I have accompanied you here, can you tell me where the new clues about the Holy Spear come from? How do you plan to find it?" Lin You looked at Helena's pencil drawing circles here and there on the map, and couldn't help but ask.

Helena took the map and compared it with the surrounding roads. She didn't answer until she chose a direction and restarted the car. "In fact, the truth is not surprising at all. I first found a NAZI SS officer who might have taken the Holy Lance, and found the route he took when he fled to South America. Before the 'Saints' organization attacked me, I had already found out that the officer had an uncle who was a bishop in South America."

"So you are looking for the bishop's church now?" Lin You suddenly realized.

"To be precise, it is a church under the jurisdiction of the bishop." Helena corrected, "Bishop Portillo - the officer's uncle - is in charge of a parish. Before going to England, I asked a friend to investigate Portillo's information; if the information she brought me is correct, this area is the parish governed by Portillo."

"She?" Lin You's heart moved.

"You should pay more attention to the Holy Lance instead of my friends," Helena reminded.

Lin You readily agreed: "Do you think the Holy Lance will be hidden in a church under the jurisdiction of Bishop Portillo?" "It's just my guess, there is no substantial evidence, but..." Helena was modest in her words, but she was confident in her heart, "When the Allies won a great victory and controlled the world, the only thing that could fight against the secular regime was religion; and it makes sense to place the holy relic in a sacred place, doesn't it?"

"That makes sense." Lin You replied lazily, his words not really meaning it; he still only cared about his employer behind the scenes, not the Holy Spear. But now he was sitting in the passenger seat, and could only let the driver take him wherever he wanted.

As it was getting close to noon, the cries of birds and animals could occasionally be heard from the hilltops and valleys, breaking the tranquility of the mountains.

“Is there a bird following us?” Helena peered up through the windshield and car windows. “I keep hearing the same bird song.”

"Really?" Lin You pretended not to know and rolled down the car window to listen carefully. Suddenly, a deep and long bird song came from above his head, and then there was a "bang" and something fell on the roof of the car.

The sudden strange noise scared Helena so much that she slammed on the brakes, and the wheels rubbed against the road, raising a large amount of dust.

Lin You pushed the door and got out of the car, only to see a long-tailed osprey perched on the roof of the car, with a parchment letter on its feet.

Helena also got off the car from the other side. Before she turned around, a gust of wind blew from the side, not only blinding her eyes, but also filling her nose and mouth with dirt, causing her to cough non-stop.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lin You took the letter and waved his hand to drive the messenger away.

When Helena rubbed her eyes and looked over, she saw a big owl soaring into the sky and flying away; but she did not see Lin You's little movement of putting away the letter paper, and she did not know that the strange wind was "blown" by a boy's twisting fingers.

"Another owl? An owl almost hit the windshield when we were leaving the airport just now." Helena muttered, "Hurry up and get in the car, we have several churches to find, and the distance added up is hundreds of kilometers!"

"It's lucky to see an owl. It's a mascot of wisdom and foresight. Does it mean you will get what you want and find your goal smoothly?" Lin You said with a smile, deliberately distracting the other party.

"Does the magic world also believe in this?" Helena asked with a smile, "Or is there some unknown magic in owls?"

"Superstitious, of course not." Lin You said, "I just know a little about the history of ancient Athens. The owl is the guardian animal of the city of Athens."

Count Goff was not lying. After all, with a young Athena in the family, he would naturally pay more attention to related myths and legends. In addition to ancient Greece, in Roman mythology, Minerva also kept an owl beside her.

While speaking, Lin You quietly cast a confounding spell, avoiding Helena's attention and opened the envelope - this was the second owl letter he received after arriving in Mexico.

The first letter was from Dumbledore, the second from Constantine.

(End of this chapter)