Three-stream detection simulator

Who knows these four taboos?

If it is Apocalypse Company again, Hercule has fled from New York to Hawaii, why can we still see them?

Don't these people have to go to work?

Captain Hugo had just finished arranging the cat-finding mission and happened to be idle, so he caught the cultist who had asked questions before and ordered him, "Tell me about Hercule Hugo."

The cultist did not dare to ask the "detective" the purpose of the questioning, and did not even dare to guess what the helmsman wanted to know specifically, and directly spit out everything he knew:

"Intelligence shows that Hercule Hugo has been mainly active in New York and Gotham in the eastern United States recently. The first force to contact him was the Court of Owls, but you know, the court made two fatal mistakes - one was that it did not judge the time when the core of the black apple appeared, and the other was that it let that hateful person send the golden hourglass to New York."

The "Court of Owls" has appeared in Hercule's ears many times. The experimental report of Pioneer Technology mentioned that the amber gold they have can replace the shell of the Mechanical Heart after purification; the real Marshall of the police station said that the Court of Owls hired Shania to find the "detective who doesn't even have a name".

The skill "Well-informed and Strongly Sensed" also gave an annotation: Beware of the Court of Owls, always monitoring your travel... an underground organization that is famous in nursery rhymes rather than in reality, and has amber gold that is more useful than its members.

I always feel that the game system has a mocking face.

However, the fatal mistake mentioned by the cultists is new information for Hercule.

What does it mean to misjudge the time when the core of the black apple appears?

He recalled the reason that Shania never made clear for hiring a detective.

Now it seems that the Court of Owls wanted to get the Mechanical Heart from Hercule at that time, but there is a very obvious time difference here-the Mechanical Heart is the reward item for the first section of the main task. When the Court of Owls hired Shania, not to mention the Mechanical Heart, even Hercule himself was not in this world.

This can't help but remind him of the prophecy of the Windtalker.

Of course, from his point of view, prophecies seem to be unreliable at all times, and Marshall's life and death at two o'clock in the afternoon can be said to be quite random. But what if the Court of Owls also received the prophecy and believed it firmly? The source of information that can make them bet on the golden hourglass must at least be guaranteed to have never made mistakes before...

Thinking of this, Hercule tentatively asked the believers: "How about the golden hourglass?"

This question can be understood as "Where is the golden hourglass", or "What is the current situation of the golden hourglass", and can be further understood as "What should the Court of Owls do in response to this situation?" The specific direction depends on whether the believers know that Hercule has found the hourglass, and the emotional intelligence of the respondent.

The cultists didn't know what Hercule was thinking, so they speculated and said, "Hourglass... It's not detailed above. But since Hercule Hugo went to New York, the task of retrieving the golden hourglass should be the responsibility of the people there.

You think, once the 'stillness' represented by the hourglass offsets the anti-phase power contained in the universe, we will close a door to salvation, or fulfill the atrocities of the Son of Perdition. But to put it simply, it is just one of the seven keys in the legend, and it is not lost by us. No matter how shocked the East Coast is by the appearance of Hercule Hugo, it will not affect our making money in the West, don't you think?"

Captain Hugo: "..."

The cultists are really amateur and casual.

Hercule knew that the 'Son of Perdition' referred to himself - the mutant who died in the apartment used the same name.

'Stillness and anti-phase' is also relatively easy to understand. He had long guessed that the golden hourglass and the pyramid represent two different powers. The cultists' statement is more standardized, and they also explain its essence.

If the golden hourglass points to stillness, it shows the same state to the corpse and Hercules, probably because death represents an ultimate stagnation to some extent.

Hercules has a novice protection period of "no need to die within 42 months". Absolute immortality and death, in the eyes of the hourglass, are the same.

However, what does it mean that the power of "Apocalypse" En Sabah Nur is the opposite of the golden hourglass?

Speaking of which, the golden hourglass appeared in this world earlier than the Mechanical Heart and the Pyramid (pipe), and the Court of Owls handed it over to Shania Fortanmore to determine Hercules' identity.

The principle of the Mechanical Heart is close to that of a reactor, and it is a genuine man-made object. The golden hourglass seems very magical, and its function depends on its own properties.

Hercules wondered, could the golden hourglass be a local product of this universe where technology has not yet developed, while the pyramid and the Mechanical Heart come from the game world? And because the two worlds are essentially in conflict, they are called "opposite" by believers?

But it cannot explain the Stark technology introduced when the Mechanical Heart was manufactured.

Hercules has three conjectures about this.

First, if the basic principles remain unchanged, similar nodes will be born when the technology of each world develops to a certain level. Just like humans on different Earths will discover gravity one day, the person who discovered it in another universe may not be named Newton, and may not even be a British person. The person who made the mechanical heart in the game may not be named Stark, but may be named Li Goudan.

Second, the game world and the Earth after Hercules travels through are not only the same in basic principles.

They may be parallel universes that are mirror images of each other, similar to two branches growing from a tree branch, but the story of one takes place in a cyber background and the other in the 21st century.

——To use another popular term in the fandom, it is AU.

The third guess... Is the game world the future of the current universe?

If this is true, Hercule is a little nervous, and it is hard to imagine what kind of conspiracy is hidden behind it.

He also wants to get more clues from the cultists, but unfortunately they only think about making money, not much ambition, and never take the initiative to inquire about intelligence. What I just said was notified by the "above", and perhaps it also contains some rumors and illiterate personal understanding.

As for whether the "above" refers to Apocalypse Company, the believers did not say, but brought the topic back to Hercule:

"The Court of Owls is miserable enough, so I think we don't need to make Hercule Hugo unhappy. I order everyone to avoid any detectives when they are active, so that they will not violate the four taboos in any way! Of course, Captain, even without the help of a detective, the cat you are looking for will soon be found."

Captain Hugo with the ID of "Detective": "..."

There are too many complaints, I don't know where to start.

"Oh, by the way," the cult leader thought of something, "If Constantine in the magic world can be considered a detective... we haven't met a detective recently."

**

On the other side, Agent Bowen was reporting to his boss: "High technology or magic has confused the perception of all FBI agents and criminals in the office. In their eyes, the detective is now Captain Hugo. Hercule is trying to use this to organize the cult to find the second individual of the Devourer..."

"Pause." The boss said, "Most of the cult members are ordinary people? How can they identify the Devourer?"

"The detective didn't mention its body, only that it looks like a black cat."

The boss was surprised: "Does he really know? But the director didn't mention the image of the Devourer at all?"

Agent Bowen thought for a while and said: "Maybe he has a special information channel."

"But even if we count the agents in SHIELD whose authority level reaches your and my standards, how many humans on the entire earth have heard of this extremely rare alien creature? Or if he knows aliens, that would be even more powerful."

Agent Bowen was speechless.

The boss also knew that he had tried his best, and comforted him by saying: "Forget it, don't think too much. We are on the same side now, and the more reliable the teammates are, the better. In addition to the FBI branch, have you found any other abnormalities?"

"Not yet."

"Hercule Hugo has never shown any familiarity or understanding of the brainwashing phenomenon in the office? He also didn't tell you any inferences, predictions, or assumptions about the next development?"

"Yes, sir, no."

This time the silence on the other end of the phone lasted for a long time.

Agent Bowen couldn't help but say, "Maybe the key point is not Hercule Hugo."

"No." The boss said, "I am more inclined to believe that there is something wrong with the way we conduct 'copycat crimes', or that Hercule Hugo's behavior pattern has changed - he no longer has sympathy for victims and people in need of help, so he doesn't need to take risks and tell us the secrets he knows..."

"I don't think a person's transformation is impermanent, sir." Agent Bowen interrupted his boss at the risk of being scolded, "At least in my eyes, the detective still has a high sense of social responsibility, which is reflected in his choice to rescue the victims of the cult at the first time."

"Oh, oh, that's better." The boss was even more surprised, "It seems that you get along well. Keep up the hard work, Agent Bowen, we will want to know what the detective has done besides finding cats. Speaking of which, is the detective short of manpower? Your current action can actually become a long-term mission."

Who would want to compete with the Riddler for a job!

Agent Bowen hung up the communication, squatted on the roof of an abandoned building with a lot of thoughts in his mind, and observed the scene below with a telescope. There is news that Constantine and his old rivals in the magic world had a fight nearby. The problem is that the intelligence was not provided by SHIELD, but by an outlaw expert from the A.R.G.U.S.

The A.R.G.U.S. is an organization that is unfamiliar even to SHIELD agents.

Its full name is the Advanced Joint Investigation Team of Superhumans. It was established by the government decades ago when the mutant forces were at their worst. It is responsible for studying and supervising superhumans and responding to small-scale supernatural threats.

Later, mutants gradually integrated into society and maintained a peaceful state with ordinary people for a long time. The A.R.G.U.S. also hid behind the scenes and did not show up for many years, so much so that even Nick Fury thought they had disbanded for a while.

Until two years ago, Magneto tried to convert leaders of various countries into mutants at the summit. After his conspiracy was thwarted by the X-Men, the domestic situation in the United States fell into an unclear state. The A.R.G.U.S. seized the opportunity to come back again and quickly controlled the chaos.

Many people only then realized that we still have such an organization?

As a result, SHIELD has a bad impression of the latecomer A.O.L.D. More importantly, A.O.L.D. has never had a stable leader.

In the past two years, several government officials have taken turns to manage it, but they stepped down before they could make any achievements.

As a result, the behavior of the Sky Eye Society has also changed from one hammer to the other. The internal staff is leaderless, and the agents have their own walls. Whether the assigned field agents are reliable depends on luck.

The expert assigned to provide assistance today is codenamed Master Blight. He is a mutant who can use the power of plants and is also an ex-criminal. His most famous record is that he strangled four people hidden in the crowd with ginkgo branches during a street performance. opponent.

This guy has been associated with various underground forces all year round and knows a lot of gossip. Although he kills people without blinking an eye, he is barely a special talent, so after being imprisoned, he was recruited by the Sky Eye Society by pinching his nose.

He comes from the command of Amanda Waller, one of the top leaders of the Sky Eye Society.

Amanda Waller, as far as Agent Bowen knew, was a rather cruel woman. Her most famous idea is to "recruit bad people to do bad things to protect good people." In other words, she uses cruel means to control unforgivable prisoners and force them to do dirty work for the government, regardless of whether their men live or die in order to achieve their goals.

——As soon as he heard that the person he wanted to contact was Constantine, the Sky Eye would quickly send Amanda’s criminals. Anyway, he wouldn’t feel bad if he was sold. Agent Bowen could hear this plan across the United States.

He asked Master Blight: "Who is Constantine's opponent?"

"You have to ask who in the magic world is not his enemy." Master Wither looked solemn and stood next to Agent Bowen, stepping on a vine.

A special nano bomb was injected into his neck, which could be detonated by the Sky Eye at any time and shatter his skull. Therefore, this would honestly answer Agent Bowen's question:

"Although I'm not a mage, I heard that everyone from heaven's gatekeepers to street gangsters wanted to take his life. But judging from the fight scene, Constantine's opponent was evenly matched with him, so he shouldn't be a big shot."

Agent Bowen breathed a sigh of relief. He was still young and didn't want to see the real God in advance because of Constantine: "That's great. Let's find him quickly, help him deal with his enemies, and then go back to find He..."

Before he finished speaking, the roof bricks exploded with a bang. Master Blight reflexively stepped on the plants to distance himself, while Agent Bowen fell from his feet and landed on the next floor, causing him to fall dizzy.

The former was stunned, then flew to his teammates and asked: "Oh, no, I am a good person this time, I forgot... are you okay?"

"..." Agent Bowen ignored him and climbed up on the ground. A figure with blond hair, blue eyes, and a light brown trench coat ran quickly across from him. It was Constantine who was the target.

Constantine held a cigarette in his mouth, and the smell of the cigarette was lingering, like an unpredictable elf. He himself kept walking, raising the corner of his mouth to smile at them while reaching out to pinch the cigarette butt.

Agent Bowen immediately wanted to pull out his gun, but saw smoke suddenly cover his vision, and his vision became gray. He raised the gun and narrowed his eyes to try to aim. The roar of Master Blight rang in his ears: "Don't shoot and don't look at his smoke! That's a trick of their mage!"

A strong rotten smell came from the side. Agent Bowen took a deep breath, feeling the stench was so overwhelming that he almost vomited out his overnight meal in disgust. At the same time, the miasmatic green mist covered the cigarette smoke, and his eyes became clear again - and then he saw that the person his gun was pointing at was actually his teammate Master Wither.

Constantine took advantage of this moment to run down the stairs. Regardless of the injury caused by the fall, Agent Bowen turned around and raised his gun again, aiming at Constantine's calf and firing two bullets.

However, this time he hit his opponent's phantom.

Fuck the magician! !

Agent Bowen felt deeply aggrieved. Master Blight closed his eyes and opened his hands, exerting force until the veins on his forehead jumped, and he calmed down to feel the power of the plants hidden in the buildings. I saw that the already weak walls around him were even more crumbling, and then, a light green barrier rose on the ground with him as the center.

The barrier enveloped the entire two-story building. Agent Bowen rushed to the window and stuck his head out, and saw that Constantine had already reached the corner door, and was now forced to show his figure and was unable to move forward or retreat.

The human mage, known for his smoking habit and notoriety, raised his head and uttered a clear, "Fuck!"

Speaking of which, humans who are known for their smoking addiction and bad reputation...

With addiction and notoriety...

Agent Bowen thought that he always felt that this setting had been seen in someone who was a detective by profession.

There was no time to think about it at this moment. When he ran downstairs, Master Wither behind him was still muttering to himself in disbelief, "I actually trapped Constantine! Did you see that, Agent Bowen? I'm not a mage but I can trap Constantine for a year!"

Constantine downstairs spoke out what Agent Bowen was thinking: "If you can't see that I don't think about the conflict, you'd better go see a neurologist first."

Agent Bowen was inexplicably relieved when he heard the blunt insults from his opponent. Fortunately, fortunately, Constantine is not the second Hercule.

The detective will not say bad words in front of others, he will only say yin and yang, 'Your heroic posture when defeating Constantine reminds me of the FBI agent who arrested me today.'

This realization made Agent Bowen straighten his back again. He said seriously: "John Constantine, I am from SHIELD, and the Blight Master next to me is from the Sky Eye Society. You have to come with us to meet someone."

"Where to go?"

"FBI."

Constantine heard this, and the sarcasm on his face became stronger: "So your third teammate is from the FBI? How come I didn't know that SHIELD, the Eye of Heaven and the FBI have started a three-way cooperation? Isn't it the normal procedure to fight with the enemy before going to war and then ask the president for permission?"

He said this, ready to offend two people at the same time, but the SHIELD agent fell silent with a complicated expression for some reason, and the Master of Withering frowned and asked the people around him for confirmation: "FBI? Why didn't I hear that the operation command also includes the FBI? No, I have to report to the Eye of Heaven."

-Is it an internal conflict?

Constantine, who didn't expect there would be such a special program, leisurely blew a smoke ring, then turned his head to look at the SHIELD agent. The agent looked embarrassed, and admitted after a few seconds: "...It's a collaborator, but you misunderstood, he is not from the FBI."

"?"

"It's the one arrested by the FBI."

"..." Constantine held the cigarette in his mouth and took a deep breath, and stood in awe for a moment.