The track of dawn in the world of American manga

Chapter 22 22. It’s hopeless. Eat well and have fun. Let’s prepare for the funeral.

"This is a symbol formed after a certain curse has solidified. The black ring 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 hands, chains, and tentacles is evidence that the being that placed the curse on you wishes to restrain you rather than simply torture you."

Sitting next to Mason, John Constantine, the master of black magic and the famous prodigal son and scumbag, was blowing smoke rings while casually "introducing" the characteristics of the weird tattoo on his arm to Mason.

He acted confidently and indeed had something to say when he opened his mouth. When Mason heard this, he nodded repeatedly, with fear and helplessness appearing in his eyes.

His posture resembled that of a young man who had stumbled into a supernatural event and was at a loss.

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

"When I was trapped in a desperate situation, it gave me an offer I couldn't refuse, and then it brought me back to the world. I don't want to have anything to do with these things."

"Ha, I'm very familiar with this way of fooling people."

Zha Kang grinned, brushed his messy short hair, took a breath of smoke and blew it out from his nostrils, making a look like "I am a master" and said:

"It's probably a demon that pretends to be a ghost. They like to play this hard-to-get game, but some evil gods with weird personalities will occasionally play this trick.

So you have to give me more clues, Mason.

In addition, you see, I left my sweet girlfriend and came here to warn you of the approaching danger. Maybe I can continue to help you, but both the devil and the evil god are a bunch of small-minded guys.

I also have to take a lot of risks."

He glanced at Mason calmly and said meaningfully:

"I believe that a good boy like you who is noticed by Batman will not sit back and watch other people be in danger because of you, right?"

Mason now knew why Zha Kang came to "meddle in other people's business". This bastard must have discovered some clues and wanted to squeeze some benefits from 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 give you, Lord Wizard. As you can see, I am just an unlucky young man who just escaped from the gang."

"Hey, you're being very insincere, kid."

Zha Kang stood up and no longer acted like a "charity-loving" person. He played with the silver angel-shaped lighter in his hand and his tone became gloomy.

He walked to the window, turned his back to Mason and said:

"Do you still want me to reveal your little secret?

In that pit, in 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 frightened.

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

He threatened:

"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 many crooked ways, tracking the breath of life, which is what hell creatures are best at.

I happen to do it 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 to survive in a desperate situation. I understand your pain and helplessness very well.

But you must trust me first before I can help you better.

Don't be afraid, kid, the handsome John in front of you has personally banished no fewer than fifty hell creatures and helped at least a hundred people lift various curses in the past twenty years.

I'm a real expert in this area.

tell me!

What did you get from the mysterious dark wizard?"

"External energy has been detected entering the body. According to the analysis, the energy is some kind of spiritual guidance spell, which has a weak charm effect but is harmless to the human body.

Caster: John Constantine."

A prompt popped up on the light screen in front of Mason's eyes. He knew he had to say something to stabilize Zha Kang, otherwise this guy with no bottom line would cause trouble.

So the young man hugged his knees helplessly on the hospital bed and answered in a painful tone:

"Well, I wasn't the only unlucky guy who was kidnapped into the house by the wizard, there were three other people imprisoned with me.

We were treated as the monster's playthings. He set up a maze-like illusion for us to fight each other, and various monsters appeared in it.

I formed an alliance with another person.

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

The wizard told us that he wanted to see this kind of fighting desperation to make something strange. If Batman, you and your girlfriend hadn't interrupted the process at the 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 they were just tricks set up by the wizard to give us hope and make us despair.

If you can really help me lift this curse, I will be happy to give you all the loot as a reward.

Those things are ominous!

I don't want them at all."

"Very good, this kind of frankness is exactly what we need."

Constantine's eyes lit up when he heard "trophy". He walked up to Mason, put his hand on his shoulder, patted him and said:

"Where is your friend now?"

"Snapped"

Zha Kang's hand was thrown away by Mason. The young man glared at him and said:

"I have been in hell on earth for five days. Mr. John, I am not a fool. The trophies held by my friends are our last hope.

You want them to be.

But this curse!"

Mason opened his sleeve, revealing the ominous symbol, and said:

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

"Oh, this is really hard for me to do."

Zha Kang curled his lips and put his hand on the tattoo mark on Mason's arm to examine it carefully.

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 tell the difference. He can tell that the other person is a very powerful guy just from the appearance and details of the tattoo. The most important thing is that the tattoo on Mason's body does not reveal any atmosphere, but there is a taboo picture. If this is

If you didn’t look carefully, you would think it was just a performance art of Erbi young man’s pursuit of freedom.

Just the degree of concealment of this aura can tell that the opponent is a "super big guy".

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

Seeing Zha Kang's silence, Mason felt that this scumbag mage might have the idea of ​​retreating, but the young man was not willing to miss the guy who came to his door.

The character card cannot identify the effect and triggering method of this soul curse, which makes Mason feel like there is a time bomb on his body that will explode at any time.

He himself knows nothing about magic, and it is probably too late to learn it now.

So he needs someone who knows his stuff.

At present, there is no one more suitable than a non-mainstream spellcaster like Zha Kang who is greedy and has no lower limit. As long as he gives a reward that satisfies Zha Kang, he will definitely be unable to bear the desire in his heart to participate.

"My friends and I grabbed the magic book that the wizard carried with him before he disappeared from his house!"

Mason whispered.

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

Uh, okay.

This is when Zha Kang, who is very motivated, begins to cast spells.

Two groups of green light surrounded this guy's eyes, as if he was wearing some kind of strange glasses.

While Zha Kang was casting the spell, the Cat School badge worn by Mason around his neck began to vibrate slightly and was immediately suppressed by Mason's arm.

The shaking of his arms made Zha Kang glance at him and said:

"I'm afraid, my master is here."

"No, this is not what I want to shake."

Mason explained:

"As you look at it, my arms are starting to get hot."

He didn't lie.

When Zha Kang used magic to examine the tattoo, his entire forearm began to feel hot, as if he was reacting to being "observed".

This sentence shocked Constantine.

He slipped a few steps away and immediately released the magic. Then he looked at Mason's shaking arms in surprise and said:

"Will even this level of weak observation cause a reaction? Well, kid, I have to say that your disease is probably hopeless. Eat something good these days, play some naughty things, and be in a happy mood.

Well, I have something else to do.

Oh, by the way, my girlfriend is waiting for me at the restaurant. I don't want to make her angry.

I’m leaving first.”

After saying that, this guy who sensed the risk and was very unscrupulous decisively drew a large arc with a burning cigarette on the wall behind him, apparently preparing to open the portal and leave.

"We grabbed two magic books! One of them records a complete collection of black magic that is said to come from another world."

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

"There are also some magical potions from his treasure house."

The cigarette in Constantine's hand was extinguished, and the green fluorescent light on the wall dimmed.

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

The young man sitting on the hospital bed added quietly.

At this moment, Zha Kang turned around suddenly.

He looked suspiciously, looked Mason up and down, and said:

"I feel like I've fallen into the trap of a bad guy who seems 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. If you want me to help you, you have to come up with something useful."

"Dry stuff? Okay."

Mason reached out and took down the recording board hanging beside the hospital bed. He picked up a pen and pointed it at the drawings of healing potions recorded in the alchemy branch in front of him. He scribbled down the raw materials and production process, and then threw away the piece of paper.

Gave it to Zha Kang.

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

He shook the paper and said:

"I can get you a box of this low-level potion in the time it takes to go to the toilet. This is meaningless to a master like me. It has no merit except that it is quick to make and the process is simple."

"Okay, then return the drawings to me."

Mason stretched out his hand to ask for it, and Zha Kang folded the paper and stuffed it into his arms, lit a cigarette for himself, blew out the smoke ring happily, and said:

"I mean it's useless to me. It's still very good to use it to deceive newbies who are new to the industry. If you're lucky, you might be able to deceive a few simple female apprentices into sleeping with you.

Well, you didn't hear this, and I didn't say anything about 'going to bed'.

Don't tell Xiao Zha!

Otherwise, I will add a curse to you and make your life worse than death!

So, this is what you can give me?

Get knowledge from that mysterious wizard’s treasure house? But with all due respect, if that’s all I have, 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 waiting for a price.

When he thought of the stories about Zha Kang in his mind, he had an idea and wrote down something as taboo as Voldemort's Horcrux, handed it to Zha Kang, and said:

"This is something from another magic book. The situation was urgent and I just glanced at it casually. I don't know if it will be useful to you."

Constantine took the paper and glanced at it.

He didn't really care at first.

But when he saw the introduction of "horcruxes" and the description of the "immortal" state after soul cutting, the guy suddenly narrowed his eyes.

Zha Kang's most famous deed is that he sold his soul to a dozen devils at the same time to keep his creditors in check and ensure that he would not go to hell in a short time.

For Zha Kang, who dances on the edge of a knife almost all the time, it is very fitting that a Horcrux that is definitely taboo knowledge in the eyes of outsiders.

A cool man like him who is either provoking bosses or walking on the road of provocation every day must wish he had divided his soul into dozens of pieces and hid them in different places.

Lest you accidentally overturn your car one day and end up in an irreversible end.

Look, even Zha Kang himself knows that it is only a matter of time before he overturns.

"Hey, so-so."

Zuizhakang, who clearly wanted it but insisted on saying "I don't care", simply popped up a ball of flame and burned the note in his hand cleanly.

He lowered his head and lit a cigarette for himself, took two quick puffs and said to Mason:

"The things you gave me are too cheap to interest me at all. But who gave me a compassionate girlfriend? In order to please her and prevent her from wearing a hat for me on a whim one day, you

I took over this life-saving job.

Don't go to places where a lot of people have died recently, don't fight with people, just stay there!

I'll go back and do some research and give you an answer in a few days.

But if you don’t receive any reward in this business, it’s against the rules. Since you have to pay, I’m embarrassed not to accept it.”

When he heard Zha Kang's shameless statement, Mason had no expression on his face but felt happy in his heart.

He knew that Zha Kang had taken the bait.

The tough-talking Constantine blew out smoke rings, casually picked 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 complex and weird shape on the metal surface, which looked like an eyeball.

He immediately got the information tag of this thing:

Constantine's Eye of Hell

Quality: Excellent enchantment/inscription items·Excellent craftsmanship

Effect: The Eye of Hell exuding the aura of black magic can reveal nearby traps, lurking lives or approaching dangers to the wearer. It can also be used as a communication and positioning item and will share everything it sees with its owner.

.

Producer: John Constantine

Status: This item requires Enchantment Lv3, Inscription Lv2 and Jewelry Processing Lv2 resolvable drawings.

Item description: You'd better not ask Constantine where he 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 amazing in every situation.

It's very difficult to deal with.

"I'm very happy if you give me something."

Mason also placed the eerie Hell Eye accessory in front of his eyes. When Zha Kang turned around and left, he said:

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

"Hey, expert."

Zha Kang, whose thoughts were exposed, turned around and grinned without any guilt.

He patted his head and said embarrassedly:

"I'm used to it because of my career. Don't worry about it. I just have some bad habits that like to peek at others.

I’m not bragging, last time I used this thing to peek at Xiao Zha taking a bath, it was really useful. Of course, it would be really bad if she chased her and hacked three alien planes later.”

As he spoke, he reached out and plucked 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 admire him so much and don't want him to know that you have been locked by the darkness and alienate you."

Zha Kang waved his hand and drew a five-pointed star on the wall, opening 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 give you a surprise, but it depends on how generous you are.

Learn more from Bruce Wayne.

The huge deposit that guy gave Xiao Zha for his performance made me wonder if he wanted to keep my girlfriend, and it also made me hate myself for not being a woman.

What the hell!"

(End of chapter)