[Comprehensive British and American] The vest system of the son of hell

Matthew, an unremarkable Gotham citizen, becomes involved in an unremarkable street explosion by an unremarkable Arkham Asylum "graduate" on an unremarkable evening. The unremarkable dead.

When his head flew into the sky and saw the body left on the ground blown into blood, because of Gotham City's excessive talents and nerves comparable to submarine cables, he even couldn't help thinking in the last second before dying— —

With what image will Death greet me?

Neil Gaiman, a bad old man, said that the god of death usually takes away the lost soul with the favorite mythical image of the deceased as the last tenderness.

Thinking about it this way, Matthew suddenly felt that death was not so scary.

After all, he was born in a Catholic family but he is a genuine homosexual. According to his beliefs, he will 100% go to hell after death.

That being the case, let the Grim Reaper turn into a young Keanu Reeves or Leonardo DiCaprio and take me to hell!

Matthew thought so, closed his eyes, woke up again, and came to the desolate "new world" where the sky was yellow with black, the air was filled with sulfur, and the ground was covered with fire-breathing gullies.

really……

Go to hell after death...

Matthew wants to...

Lying on the cracked ground that was empty than the wilderness for about a quarter of an hour, Matthew, who was gradually adapting to the new environment, slowly sat up, lowered his head, and saw that the surface of the arms and legs was covered with black sutures, and the skin at both ends of the sutures was still there. The color difference is so obvious that it cannot be ignored, white, brown, brown, yellow, black... Shengsheng turned his arms and legs into an expo of earth's skin color.

There are also traces of patchwork left on the palm.

Some fingers are fair and slender, with delicate and complicated manicure sheets;

Some fingers are vigorous and powerful, with thick calluses on their finger pads;

The surface of some fingers is densely covered with fine scales that are suspected to be cold-blooded animals...

Ten fingers of different skin colors, different genders, and different races are sewn on the same palm. As the "person" involved, the more Matthew thinks about it, the more unusual it is.

Is this really hell?

Or some madman's lab making supervillains?

Legend has it that the black market in Gotham sells potions that can bring people back from the dead!

Legend has it that there is a gate leading to hell hidden underground in the Arkham Asylum...

Thinking of this, Matthew, a former? Ordinary? Gotham citizen who had been tortured physically and mentally by the "art performance" of outstanding graduates of the Arkham Mental Hospital headed by the clown for 20 years before his death, suddenly felt dark.

After taking a deep breath and making sure that he was still in control of this patchwork body, Matthew stood up unsteadily, and then, a transparent panel unfolded within the field of vision.

The panel is extremely simple, only the two function buttons of "task" and "information" are shining, and the rest of the buttons are all gray, and it is impossible to click and switch by thinking.

information……

Matthew subconsciously entered the "Information" interface. The memories of his life were simply organized and placed in the entry named "Matthew". The entry buttons under "Matthew" were all gray and could not be clicked to enter.

Matthew then clicked into the "Task" interface.

The "Task" interface is empty, with a blank progress bar at the top.

There are no tasks, how to complete the progress?

Matthew's eyes went dark again, his melancholy gaze stayed on the empty "mission" interface for a moment, he looked away, and looked painfully ahead, or the troubles he was about to face.

A blond-haired and blue-eyed humanoid creature that looks like a girl, has no wings but can hang steadily in the yellow-black air, and lacks a right hand.

"you……"

【You finally noticed my existence? 】

A voice exuding a dark aura resounded in his mind.

Immediately afterwards, a humanoid creature with the appearance of a girl "floats" in front of Matthew, and stretches out a full and round left hand like a lotus root to caress Matthew's face.

[I am Astra, this is Limbo Hell, the world ruled by my king, the first. 】

"Astra..."

Matthew repeated the devil's name in a low voice, feeling inexplicably familiar, and then——

There were dense needle pricks in his brain, and the bit of consciousness that Matthew had managed to recover was almost torn into pieces by the pain and thrown into the abyss. His thinking was forced to stop, and the strange transparent interface shook like ripples. Under the "Matthew" entry on the "Information" interface, entries such as "The First Fallen", "Astra", and "Limbo Hell" light up in sequence.

Matthew clicked on the "Astra" entry, and finally had a little understanding of the past of the girl demon in front of him.

When Astra was a human girl, she couldn't bear the abuse of her scumbag father, she secretly learned black magic, and accidentally summoned hell beasts, which caused a tragedy.

Knowing this, John Constantine, who was still very young at the time, summoned his friends in an attempt to summon high-level demons to solve the beasts of hell and help Astra.

It is a pity that the young Constantine did not have the ability to control the demon Nergal he summoned. Everyone who participated in this summoning ceremony was cursed by Nergal, and Astra was treated as a demon by the demon. dragged into hell in the face of John Constantine, John Constantine tried his best to snatch her right hand back.

The girl Astra has since become the demon Astra.

Immediately afterwards, Matthew clicked on the entry of "The First Fallen".

The entry of "The First Fallen" is very long, but there are very few parts that can be read. Within the field of vision, more than 90.00% of the entry content is covered by the mosaic of [the current authority is insufficient to display it]. The only content that can be clearly read is The vague "'The First Fallen' is one of the three kings of hell".

Matthew: "..."

After a little silence, Matthew was about to click on the "Limbo Hell" entry to accept a new round of world fragmentation, but was interrupted by the "Jie Jie" vibration from above.

Matthew looked up and saw a strange man with a thin and dry body, wearing only underwear and a black cloak, with black hair floating on his bare feet, descending barefoot in this desolate world filled with the sulfurous atmosphere of the end of the world. At this time, the demon Astra only has a low eyebrow and a pleasing eye:

"My king, Astra—"

The man raised his hand, and the world was immediately paused, all sounds disappeared, and Astra directly dispersed in the air.

The silence made Matthew's hairs stand on his head, and everything around him seemed to come alive, every stone, every wind, every dead tree... all opened their invisible eyes, and cast their gazes from all directions, observing and sizing up look at yourself.

In the ear, a relaxed and happy voice sounded.

"My son..."

my king?

My son!

This guy who wears clothes with a clear tendency to be mentally ill is actually the master of Lingbo Prison and the "first fallen" among the three kings of hell?

At the same time, is it the "father" of this body that I occupy, where even the fingers are patchwork and sewn together?

Matthew felt that he should immediately faint and play dead.

however--

As soon as the idea came up, the mysterious transparent interface immediately began to loop the scene of him being blown into pieces by a street bomb randomly placed by a graduate of the Arkham Mental Hospital, and his head flew into the sky!

Matthew: "..."

His lips moved, but he didn't speak in the end, letting the gusts of sulfur particles blow across his cheeks, and the scorching air made his mouth parched.

After ten seconds of silence——

The strange man suspected of being a first-timer opened his mouth and announced coldly: "From now on, you are my son."

"You are……"

Since he had never encountered such a situation, Matthew had to do his best to bluff.

But he quickly thought that the devil in front of him could kill him with just one breath but has not harmed him so far and let him be his son. He immediately calmed down, let out a breath, and said, "You are the first fallen, hell three! One of the kings?"

As soon as the words fell, the air current that had already been faintly swelled up again, and the whole space was like a hedgehog in a defensive state, sharp and aggressive.

Matthew felt killing intent spread all around, and hostility was everywhere like a spider's web.

"I am not one of the three kings of hell, I am the only king of hell!"

The First Fallen announced unceremoniously.

"I know." Matthew tried to raise the corners of his mouth, pretending to be happy, "I was testing your ability just now."

"Test? How dare you doubt me?"

The first fallen said very unhappy, but Matthew knew that he was not in a bad mood at the moment, because the originally frantic and fiery air was gradually soothing.Soft as silk, it gently passed over the surface of Matthew's skin.

The newly fallen man looked up to the sky and laughed, his throat made a piercing sound like metal rubbing against each other: "As expected of my son, he dared to question me when he was born! Jie Jie Jie!"

As soon as the voice fell, the transparent panel changed.

Matthew peeked at the panel and found that the contents of the "Matthew" entry and the "First Fallen" entry under the "Information" column had changed.

The "Matthew" entry has added Matthew from Gotham. After his death, his soul fell into hell and accidentally entered "The First Fallen" to extract the demon blood of the exorcist John Constantine and mix it with the blood that was torn apart by the "First Fallen". An introductory narrative of a humanoid puppet named "Son" made from the body fragments of multiple arch-demons.

The entry of "The First Fallen" unlocks the information about the many fights between the "First Fallen" and the exorcist John Constantine, with detailed content of the fighting process.

Matthew browsed the entry of "The First Fallen" to unlock the content at the fastest speed. Combined with the addition of the entry "Matthew", he couldn't help suspecting that "The First Fallen" had a special relationship with John Constantine, a human being nicknamed Hell Detective. Affection - somewhere between love and hatred, but also mixed with a strong twisted possessiveness.

Seems like the Joker is to Batman too...

Suddenly, a certain sentence that he always wanted to say but dared not say when he was an ordinary Gotham citizen floated in Matthew's mind.

He thought, if he had the chance to return to Gotham, he must print this sentence and paste it all over Gotham's streets and alleys and every bulletin board. He is no longer a human being, so don't worry——

"You want to get out of here?"

The first fallen man said coldly, interrupting Matthew's thinking.

Matthew: "..."

His current body is a humanoid puppet made by the first fallen with demon blood and fragments of the demon body. It has a standard Sima face and no expression changes at all!

Although he himself really wanted to leave this ghost place.

By the way, figure out the transparent panel in front of you.

"You are a life I created, but the main ingredient that makes up you comes from John Constantine. Now that you have self-awareness, it is normal to want to leave hell."

The first fallen said quickly, "I will not stop you, I will also give you the surname Constantine, from now on, you will be called—"

"Matthew! I wish I had Matthew in my name!"

"Okay, Matthew Fast (first) Constantine."

Obviously, allowing "Matthew" to appear in the name is the biggest concession the First Fallen can give.

The ordinary man Matthew was a little desperate, but he had to accept the arrangement of the first fallen, struggling to ask: "When can I leave?"

First Fallen: "Anytime."

Matthew: "How to leave?"

First Fallen: "Find out your own way."

Matthew: "..."

I have a saying that I don't know if I should say it or not.

Matthew, who has fought side by side with Asian players many times in large-scale shooting online games and learned the common language of Asian players, complained.

But he still wanted to fight for it: "Can't you send me away?"

"Is it difficult to leave hell? Need me to help you?"

The First Fallen was very upset, as if he had suddenly discovered that Matthew was a stupid fool.

Matthew patiently analyzed and said: "I have just gained self-awareness, and I don't even know who I am or where I am."

"So you asked me for help?"

The tone of the first fallen was cold.

Matthew emphasized: "You made me."

First Fallen: "But you already have self-awareness."

The implication is that you are not under my control now.

Uh……

Matthew blinked, and resignedly began to rummage through his mind for information that might help him get out of hell.

The first fallen looked at him blankly, and suddenly added: "If your action fails, I will make a new one."

It's awesome to be able to experience death again after death!

Matthew is speechless...

He took a deep breath: "Can I have a mirror?"

"Using a mirror as a passage to leave hell? A very savvy idea."

While speaking, the cloak behind the newly fallen man split open, turning into a dark mirror.

Matthew, who asked for the mirror simply because he wanted to know what he looked like now, froze for a moment. He took the black mirror, looked at the mirror, and his consciousness suddenly pulled away from his body!

Immediately, the vision became all-round, and he could clearly see that the first fallen who is currently using John Constantine's demon blood and countless demon body fragments, the body covered with suture marks on the surface, fell straight up, and his consciousness flew into In the air, surrounded by countless golden particles peeled off from the hot space, they gradually gathered and condensed into the outline of an adult man's body.

A cloud of white mist appeared on the surface of the mysterious interface that was always floating in the field of vision, and the mist quickly condensed into words: The loyal and humble servant Kespler is always at your service.

Immediately afterwards, a task appears in the "Task" column of the interface.

Goal: Collect Fragments of Genesis Energy.

Progress: 0

Tip: Creation is the greatest miracle, so try to find the miracle hidden in reality.

Note: Neil Gaiman is a famous fantasy author in Europe and America, and also a screenwriter for DC. He won the World Fantasy Award and the Hugo Award for DC.It is a common setting in his works that gods appear in people's favorite images.