Three-stream detection simulator

Constantine felt like he could go to heaven today.

Stopping a teammate who wants to die instead of pushing him into the fire pit. He has lung cancer from smoking and wants to persuade others to quit smoking. What kind of holy father is this? Hallelujah, just wear a cape outside the windbreaker and a mask on your face. It's okay. Standing can partner with Captain America.

It turned out that Hercule didn't appreciate it.

"The magic of the life-sharing contract is time-limited, and I will not die during this period."

And he was still trying to reason, "Maybe it doesn't look like that, but I'm very healthy now -"

In order to demonstrate this point of view, Hercule quickly took away the G. Lock 19M that the agent had on his waist from Bowen's side, and aimed at the pendulum crystal he had placed next to the box in the camp.

Agent Bowen didn't even react. Everyone knows that a detective's force value is inversely proportional to his IQ, and no one will pay special attention to him when guarding against him. In addition, Hercule's movements this time were twice as fast as usual. Even if Agent Bowen's well-trained body automatically The counterattack was still half a beat too slow.

'Bang'! The bullet accurately hit the pendulum.

Hercule fired the gun for the first time. In Gotham City, he pointed the pistol he bought at Shania Fordham and threatened her to drop the weapon, but his actions at that time were only aimed. This time he directly opened the safety. In the process, he hesitated a little out of some respect for hot weapons. However, with the bonus of the skill "One Hit", he pressed the trigger naturally. .

Until the bullet sank into the moist soil, the others still had silly expressions with their mouths half open.

After a moment, Agent Bowen came to his senses and fell into a rage: "Hercule, are you crazy?!" Without waiting for Hercule to answer, he yelled at the others, "Why are you all standing there?" Can’t move?”

Constantine: "Why are you standing still too?"

They looked at each other.

Hercule was still holding the gun and had no intention of putting it down. His right hand was clearly shaking due to excessive force, but he refused to switch to his more commonly used left hand.

Constantine was a little worried that he had shot him in the leg, and the life-sharing effect was still there. By then, two people would not be able to create three good legs, and it might become a beautiful sight in the hospital in Hawaii. So the Master persuaded him with unprecedented patience and kindness: "Put down the gun, Detective, we have something to talk about."

Hercule raised his hand, his eyes filled with bright gold. He showed a helpless expression: "Please don't be nervous, everyone, I didn't mean to threaten you. Wasn't the shot just now stable enough?"

Agent Bowen's tone was much harsher than Constantine's: "A drunkard never admits to drinking, and a madman always says he is a normal person."

Hercule listened with great interest: "I will not refute you, Agent Bowen. But you, like Mr. Constantine, like to accuse others based on conjecture. I understand what each of you is thinking, first of all, Mr. Constantine, I don't care what you just said about my character. At least your actions at this moment are well-intentioned - do you think I am affected by the curse attached to the pipe? Agent Bowen, you are more pragmatic? A little bit, I feel like the hourglass contains addictive drugs.”

Constantine interjected: "Why am I not pragmatic?"

Agent Bowen asked angrily: "There's still a curse??"

"..."

Agent Bowen could not argue with the abnormal Hercule, so he could only express his anger: "Constantine. Can't you ask something useful?"

"Yes, I know about the curse." Constantine answered him, "Remember what I said about being scolded? At that time, I thought that the curse on the pipe had at least been suppressed by its maker. "

"Of course." Hercule explained patiently, "My condiment bottle...the golden hourglass serves this purpose."

The pyramid, that is, the attribute bonus and the effect of traveling through the mental world provided by the pipe, could have continued forever. After all, killing the researchers of 'Apocalypse' is equivalent to loading the natural abilities of mutants into a fixed program that can be run at any time. .

But maybe they underestimated the cost of death. Without hourglass suppression, the user will be cursed by the 'Apocalypse'.

And if the gold in the hourglass is taken out alone, it will bring stillness and death to life. It and the pipe complement each other and are indispensable. However, compared to the mutant "Apocalypse" who became a standby animation, people have never been able to find a way to replace the gold in the hourglass. Wait until its owner and user becomes the time-traveled Hercule...

He didn't even know where he got the gold. Even if the Knowledge of Knowledge has reached level 4, there are still very few records about the Heart of Machine (the core of the black apple), the Upside Down World, the Golden Hourglass, etc.

Hercule could read in his mind information about alien creatures tens of thousands of light years away from the earth, but he was unable to understand the props in his hands.

This resulted in the gold in the hourglass being used less and less day by day. He could not maintain the special state of neither death nor life forever, and he could not always experience what it felt like to have a flexible right hand.

Coming to such a conclusion intellectually, Hercule's sensibility rarely prevailed.

He concealed all these positive or negative effects, and said in a tone of sincerity that no one could tell: "The golden hourglass has offset the curse on the pipe. No matter what state I seem to be in now, I am actually better than when I didn't use the pipe." Much better.”

Agent Bowen laughed angrily: "Oh, really? Then why do you want to quit smoking?"

"I was wrong about it before, but not anymore," Hercule said.

There was a rare enthusiasm in his eyes.

Agent Bowen said no more. He looked at Constantine.

Then, the two men quickly and tacitly joined forces. The mage recited a spell and pulled the suitcase containing the golden hourglass to his side. Agent Bowen rushed forward and tried to snatch the pipe and pistol from Hercule's hand.

Hercule was a little angry.

He will be emotionally ups and downs, and it is difficult to control: "I said it won't affect you, Constantine! What good will stopping me do to you?"

"Tsk, look at you, you don't use prefixes when calling me." Constantine laughed at him while deliberately stuffing the cigarette into his mouth, "As someone who has experienced it, let me tell you, unless you can convince me Satan—maybe God? Kick you out of heaven or stop talking about soothing things."

Hercule said angrily: "How about let me face God? I happen to have a lot of things to ask him."

After saying that, he took another deep breath of cigarette the moment Agent Bowen snatched away the pistol. The liquid in the tobacco pot finally bottomed out, and Hercule's eyes turned completely golden. The next moment, he closed his eyes and fell down.

Agent Bowen suddenly stretched out his hand to catch him. He was so frightened that his heart almost stopped. He heard Constantine shout: "Be careful! He can control your body!"

However, the detective's cold voice sounded in the ears of the agent and the mage: "That's what you would do, John. I'm very sorry, but I need to calm down without you two taking the trouble. I'm afraid I'll have to leave everything to you next." ”

His consciousness sank into the world of mental images.

Outside, Constantine faced Agent Bowen's eyes and took a puff of his cigarette in embarrassment: "He called me John. He's really angry this time, right?"

Agent Bowen picked up Hercule's pipe that had fallen on the ground, put it away, and said nonchalantly: "What do you mean he can control my body?"

Constantine explains the structure of the mental world and the principle of changing bodies. Agent Bowen gritted his teeth and said, "You have to go find him."

"Why are you looking for him? We still have a lot of things to clean up in this mess."

"He just said that he won't use my body, Constantine, and there is no guarantee that he won't use anyone else's." Agent Bowen sighed, "As you can see, his current condition is definitely not normal. Think about it, letting someone with a high IQ and extremely high... What will happen to the mobile detective when he wakes up?"

"...This has nothing to do with me." Constantine lowered his head and looked at his hand holding the cigarette, "The life-sharing contract between us will definitely be over by then."

"Hercule can help you find the 'Bell of Cybida'."

"Me too - forget it. If he dies now, I'll be at a loss." Constantine said to himself, "That makes sense. I'll see how I can trace his soul along the umbilical cord."

**

Hercule opened his eyes on the beach of the mental world. The waves washed against the soles of his feet, which was not a good thing, but he did not avoid it. He just lay on the gravel and stared at the sky in a daze for a while. After a while, he turned his head and stared at the Sea Monkey on the beach.

Its shell is oval-shaped. If you look closely, you can see a line of cursive characters engraved on the metal on the center line below:

Our salvation is not in heaven or under the earth, but in everyone’s heart.

Beneath the squiggles were two handwritten letters, 'J.K.'

Hercule didn't know what the abbreviation was, but it sounded like a Japanese high school girl.

He stood up and moved closer, letting the ship's deck lift him into the air. The writing on the hull became clearer, with traces of age erosion remaining on each letter. He carefully observed the words. When the deck moved to the stern, a metal plate was obviously polished. Hercule stretched out his hand and felt the lines left on the spacecraft with his palm, and finally confirmed that the erased words were :

‘Shit’.

Apparently, this was an aggressive barrage left by another person.

No wonder he was banned later.

With nothing to do anyway, Hercule circled the ship, trying to find other signs or messages, but found nothing. He flipped through his list of side quests, intending to read the mission record of 'Sea Monkey and Fishing Boat' carefully, but he was too irritated to read it because of the craving for cigarettes surging in his chest.

Finally, he activated the Sea Monkey and decided to find the whereabouts of the Yuan Devouring Beast.

This was completely a sudden choice, and it may also be that the logical reasoning of upgrading to level 3 played a role.

It is known that the element-eating beast is a ferocious alien creature and has intelligence beyond ordinary cats.

It is also known that the ocean between the subconscious islands is endless, and maybe the edge of the ocean corresponds to the edge of the universe.

So do the countless lives in the universe have their own mental world? If humans, as intelligent creatures, live on islands and are threatened by the "sea", what is the mental world of other creatures like? Could the mental world of fish be the other way around, with endless movable land and oceans surrounded by land? Will the subconscious mind of the summer insect stand leisurely on the leaves until winter comes?

Are the mental spaces of these different species connected?

What is at the end of the sea and beyond the universe?

Many questions will not be answered for the time being, but the 'Educated Knowledge' told Hercule: Yes, you can find the island of the element-devouring beast on the 'sea'.

It lives on land and has established contact with humans, so before anyone knew it, a Cat Island that few people noticed appeared in the vast sea.

As long as Hercule can find the subconscious island of the Devourer, he can track its whereabouts.

The real world can disguise and hide, but the subconscious island will not lie, and each island will be closer to the island of the person who has contacted in reality, which makes the whereabouts of the Devourer traceable. Hercule followed Agent Bowen's island to find his colleagues, that is, other SHIELD agents. Not long ago, the SHIELD agents sent to Hawaii tracked the Devourer for a long time.

After wandering on the sea for a long time in the Sea Monkey, Hercule finally saw an island covered with black reefs and in the shape of a twisted cat head.

He was about to find the Devourer hiding perfectly among the large black rocks, when he suddenly heard a shout from behind: "Hercule!"

It was Constantine.

Hercule's heartbeat accelerated. He didn't find the source of the sound, but he realized that he still didn't want to face Agent Bowen and Constantine in reality, so he simply controlled the Sea Monkey to land on Cathead Island.

When he opened his eyes again-

He came to the body of the Devourer II.

Then he found that the huge black object on the island was not a reef wet by the sea water, but a black garbage bag in the garbage can of the human city. The garbage bag wrapped the black cat, and the cat lay on the bag with its belly up and slept soundly.

Hercule: "..."

S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Church of Remaining Warmth, look into my eyes, you said you can't find the Devourer?