Three-stream detection simulator

No matter how others secretly winked at Hercule to tell him what he had discovered, he remained silent like "I'm sorry, but it's hard to say." Constantine had no choice but to continue:

Starro the Conqueror has the magical ability to release spores, which are small starfish, that attach to the enemy's face, thereby obtaining the host's memory and controlling the opponent's thoughts and actions. Creatures like this that have unlimited life and are difficult to kill usually have a great background, and Starro is no exception. It is a species born from a world outside the regular universe.

To put it simply, it was born in a place that has nothing to do with Newton's laws. It was very powerful when it was born. After a long period of fighting and training with other life forms, it finally came to humans as the strongest person in the world. The universe in which it is located.

It is obviously impossible for such a creature to have the moral values ​​​​believed in and abided by by the earth and some advanced civilization races in the universe. Starro has been synonymous with terror and destruction from the beginning. It roams the universe wantonly, conquering every planet in front of it, leaving a terrible name on its path...

Captain America asked: "Then how did it come to Earth?"

"Which Earth are you asking about, Captain?" Constantine ignored the sign of the no-smoking area next to him and said vaguely while holding a cigarette in his mouth. "I only heard that the starfish in the hands of the Wind Whisperer was not a complete Starro. A long time ago, They received a starfish fragment in a jar that was only the size of an adult's hand from the Strange Universe. At that time, the messenger from the Strange Universe asked the Wind Talkers to curb Starro's growth rate and use it to fight against the Sixth. note'.

As a result, after the leader of the Windspeakers gradually learned a lot of blasphemous knowledge that should not have been seen, he developed a stronger fear of the 'Sixth Note' than his instinctive reaction, and even the spores of Starro the Conqueror were gone. Can suppress this fear.

The Black Widow was impatient with this nagging way of describing, and asked: "Why is the leader of the Wind Whisperers afraid? Since you participated in the ceremony, did you also see the sixth note? What does it mean to be 'unimaginable'?" Possible thing'? What kind of power does it have?"

Constantine made a pause gesture: "Listen to me."

"The Wind Whisperers have to take risks every once in a while to hold sacrificial rituals to pry open the seal, because they are given an extremely critical responsibility by the Lost Universe - to judge the location of the Lost Universe in 21 through the sixth note. century of coverage on Earth.”

Hercule frowned slightly.

Constantine happened to glance at him at this time and continued: "Of course, the sixth note is not a computer, and people cannot rely on it to come up with a very precise number, but the strange universe does not seem to need specific values. . They just wait until the coverage crosses a qualifying standard and then they are ready to implement some kind of plan that will benefit them."

"This is the function of the sixth note and the mission of the Wind Whisperer. As for you asking me if I have seen the true appearance of this special power... I can only tell you that I have seen it with my own eyes, but there is no way I can do it here anyway. I’ll explain it to you in a few words.”

It can only be said that after the ceremony began, Constantine suddenly remembered the reason why he came to investigate Arizona. Zatanna described it like this at the time:

The ancient, invisible evil force penetrates the night sky, and the earth's veins are like musical strings, being struck by the invisible bow. At that moment, the immortal ghosts, the evil spirits of hell, the guardians of the temple, and the darkness are wandering in the world. The demons in the dimension... all heard and felt the aftermath of the planet's tremors.

Later, according to the senior management of the Windspeakers, something happened to Starro the Conqueror, which caused them to accidentally open the door that sealed the sixth note a little wider. This accident attracted the attention of the entire magical world, causing wizards including Constantine to set their sights on Arizona. Naturally, it also caused a strong shock within the Wind Whisperers.

The previous leader of the Wind Whisperers was forced to take the blame and resign, and later committed suicide on the altar, leaving no body behind. The other senior leaders have not yet been able to elect a second leader.

This shows the mystery and power of the ‘sixth note’.

Returning to the ceremony scene, Constantine's mind immediately went blank when he faced this terrifying power. Blood began to ooze out of his mouth, nose and ear canals, but he didn't notice it. Instead, he was dazzled and immersed in it. The others were no better than him. They stood blankly next to the five-pointed star-shaped altar, listening to the vague music caused by the vibration of magic in their ears, and looking at the countless bizarre and absurd things in front of them. phantom.

At this moment, as a mage with rich experience in traveling through various dimensions, Constantine almost thought that he was an incorporeal flying bird, deftly and leisurely crossing a mysterious place at the boundary of the universe. boundary. This process is like pebbles falling into water waves, or using fingers to penetrate a piece of paper as thin as a cicada's wings. With just a "pop" sound, a vast and colorful new world appeared in front of him. The original people, things, and The planet and the universe have become a book, a picture, and a pen that works frequently...

Before he could seriously study the situation, dizziness and nausea struck him at the same time.

The scene in front of him faded quickly, and Constantine stood in the cave full of big starfish again. He was dizzy, his face was covered with blood, and he fell to the ground and couldn't stop retching. Something was crawling up in his stomach. He grabbed the ground with one hand and stuffed the other hand into his throat and tried to dig it out. Not long after, a dead little starfish came out of his throat and fell to the ground with a snap.

The exhausted wizard curled up on the ground and trembled all over. It took him a long time to stand up. He lifted the hem of his shirt to wipe the blood, physiological tears and saliva mixed on his face, kicked the disgusting little starfish aside, stumbled to the altar, stood firm and looked around.

After the spores left his body, Starro's control over him immediately lost its effect. His memory and self-awareness slowly returned. Constantine recalled his experiences of the past few days with a green face and came to several conclusions:

First, the starfish can indeed restrain the power of the sixth note. The so-called baptism is both control and protection. If Constantine had not been parasitized by the starfish, he might be dead now. The other wind whisperers did not react so violently, probably because they were limited in strength and talent, and could not see many things under the influence of the sixth note like Constantine.

Second, Starro was not awake at the moment. Its appearance appeared completely in the eyes of Constantine who had regained consciousness. The upper and lower eyelids of the huge bulging eye in the middle of the starfish were tightly closed together. It was simply relying on instinct and-Constantine suspected that it was dreaming. The evidence was that its eyeballs turned back and forth from time to time, and the five starfish horns squeezed on the rock wall would occasionally twitch suddenly, just like humans who kicked their legs and kicked the quilt when they had a bad sleep-the subconscious behavior in the dream released spores to control humans.

The Windtalkers might have a way to make it spit out more spores when needed. Constantine did not give them a chance to fight back. He immediately destroyed the ceremony. The keyhole on the altar slowly shrank. Several Windtalkers leaders saw something and rushed to the stone platform with horror, trying to insert their bloody arms into the keyhole to stop it from changing. Some people were desperately banging their heads against the wall, as if they could not feel any pain at all.

Constantine watched coldly, and after confirming that they were all crazy, he decisively took out a gun and killed them one by one.

Then he carefully squeezed himself out of Statto's body, stood outside the cave and breathed the long-lost fresh air, and felt the joy of surviving the disaster from the bottom of his heart.

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Constantine was like this, so it was normal for the previous Windtalkers leader to be afraid of the sixth note and go crazy. Moreover, he might have vomited starfish under strong stimulation, and had to swallow new spores to save his life. This repeated process would drive even a normal person into a psychopath.

Regardless of his thoughts, the former leader, who had become perverted under the pressure of life, gradually and unconsciously allowed Starro to grow in order to cope with his resistance to the sixth note... It is possible that he completely surrendered to Starro in the repeated parasitic process, or it is possible that he just lost his mind. In short, the starfish that originally couldn't even fill a can became bigger and stronger, until the entire mountain could no longer accommodate its body.

Batman: "Then you left Starro, the human corpses and the altar in the cave?"

"How about I take a dreaming psychic master and alien creature?" Constantine said unhappily, "If you leave it alone, it will hide itself. Once you wake it up, the earth will be over. As for those human corpses, before the cemetery was invented, they didn't have to dig a pit to be degraded, right?"

"Then we can't really do nothing. Conqueror Starro is too dangerous." Wonder Woman said disapprovingly, and volunteered, "I just happened to have time to take a look recently. If you have other ideas or better candidates, you can put them forward."

Hercules finally couldn't help but suggest: "I think there should be Batman in the team, because Starro may know him."

Facing people's questioning eyes, he tried to explain objectively: "As far as I know, someone has seen the little starfish wearing a Robin uniform."

Silence.

More questions materialized in this small conference room, but no one spoke. Superman immediately understood why Hercule had such a strange expression when he heard Starro's name, and now everyone's expression was highly synchronized with the detective's expression a quarter of an hour ago.

After a long time, Batman raised his hand and pressed his forehead. This should be a thinking posture, and then he said, "Okay, I'll go."

So the result of the meeting was tentatively decided that Wonder Woman and Batman would go to Arizona to deal with Starfish. But before the two of them set off, a sudden accident interrupted the actions of the superheroes:

There was a one-sided massacre inside S.H.I.E.L.D. The murderer broke into the headquarters "Triskelion" in Washington, the intelligence department of the secret service academy, and the operations headquarters "Center", and carried out a purposeful killing, resulting in the deaths of two newly joined secret service trainees, a teacher in the intelligence department, two senior agents with confidential security level six and one confidential security level seven, and at the same time, Director Nick Fury was missing.

There are also rumors that Hercule Hugo is very likely to be the person assigned to investigate the matter.