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

"this--"

Batman is still hesitating.

The Flash couldn't wait to applaud: "Of course! The last time I went on a date, I wore the outfit he introduced. Ellie praised me for being handsome."

"I want Matthew to attend the meeting too..." said Superman. "He's a trustworthy companion."

"What about the rest?"

Batman asked Wonder Woman and others who had not expressed their opinion.

Wonder Woman nodded: "There are too many unusual things in Matthew, which may provide us with new ideas to solve problems."

Martian Manhunter and Cyborg are similar ideas.

Green Arrow even said: "I consider signing him as the image spokesperson of Quinn Group."

Even the Green Lantern Hal, who can only attend the meeting with a virtual image, is looking forward to meeting Matthew.

Seeing that almost everyone in the Justice League did not object, Batman could only compromise: "Okay, let Matthew participate in the meeting of the asteroid incident."

……

"Matthew, long time no see!"

"Hey Matthew, good news for you, Ellie said she wants to see you."

"Matthew, the Quinn Group needs an image spokesperson, are you interested?"

"You're Matthew Constantine? I'm Hal, Green Lantern."

……

Walking into the Justice League headquarters, Matthew was warmly greeted by superheroes.

In this regard, he is also deeply honored: "Thank you, thank you..."

"Personal matters will be resolved privately in private time, and now we have to discuss serious matters."

The Martian Manhunter interrupted everyone's enthusiasm and asked Matthew to sit down.

The big screen of the Justice League began to broadcast dynamic observation images of a super asteroid with a diameter of [-] kilometers about to hit the earth.

"That's the problem we're facing."

Superman said with a wry smile: "The close-range monitoring data shows that this is a Kryptonian meteorite, and my Kryptonian companion and I cannot get close."

"And asteroids have strong radiation, and superheroes' mechas will be scrapped by radiation..." Batman added, "At present, there are two ways we can think of to solve the threat of asteroids to the earth. One is to let the world The government jointly smashed the asteroid with missiles, and then figured out how to recover the meteorite fragments that fell into the atmosphere.

But this method has many flaws. After all, it is already very difficult for all countries to abandon their prejudices and unite to resist asteroids, let alone—”

"After the asteroid with a diameter of [-] kilometers is crushed, the meteorite rain will inevitably blow up the surface of the earth, and it will require a lot of manpower and material resources afterwards."

Arrow added, "Of course, Wayne Group and Quinn Group will do everything possible to help."

"What's your second option?" Matthew asked.

Zatanna opened her lips: "Magic..."

"magic?"

Matthew froze for a moment: "Are you actually planning to use magic to send away an asteroid with a diameter of [-] kilometers? This idea is too bold! It's just—"

"But this asteroid is very unusual..." Batman said, "Usually, an asteroid of this size cannot be discovered until it is 30 kilometers away from the earth. Moreover, it has not caused any impact on the earth's tidal motion so far." Influence."

"It's true—"

Matthew thought for a while: "Do you suspect that the sudden explosion of an asteroid that is about to hit the earth is related to magic?"

"Besides magic, we can't find any reasonable explanation..." Wonder Woman said, "All known monitoring data show that this giant asteroid came out of nowhere."

"When?" Matthew asked.

He thought of an absurd hypothesis that might be close to the truth.

"When was the data of this giant asteroid first detected by the eyes of space?"

"let me see."

Batman looked through the data and found the earliest record of anomalous data related to the giant asteroid: "Five days ago..."

"Five days ago?"

Matthew was startled...

The night five days ago was the day when all the Freemasons gathered in the chapel to hold the Satan summoning ceremony!

Shortly thereafter, Loki bluffed in front of Wonder Woman and tried to use the sand sculpture mountains around Loki to establish his image as a god. Instead, the Temple of Aten in the city of Akhtaten, which had been buried for thousands of years, reappeared in advance.

Immediately afterwards, Imerton appeared in front of Wonder Woman.

Now another giant asteroid with a diameter of 30 kilometers was only detected when it was only [-] kilometers away from the earth!

If there is no connection between this series of events, Matthew does not believe it.

But if there is a connection between them, where is the connection?

Matthew couldn't figure it out.

He can only share the intelligence he has with the superheroes of the Justice League.

……

After hearing Matthew's words, Batman, who was already frowning, felt even heavier.

"Is this true?"

Batman asked Matthew.

Matthew nodded.

Wonder Woman then said: "What Matthew said is all the truth."

"But this is just a hypothesis. There is no evidence to prove that the asteroid was summoned by the Satanic summoning ceremony held by the Freemasons in the chapel." Batman said, "What's more, the first time the eye of space captured the image of the asteroid was the day before yesterday. , the detection system is just—"

"What time was the day before yesterday!"

Matthew interrupted Batman with eager eyes.

Batman looked through the records and found the time records down to the second.

Matthew's complexion suddenly became worse!

Because this time is within half an hour of Imerton's request to lift half of the curse seal on the surface of the mysterious black crystal!

"I think I've found the answer."

Matthew said weakly: "Once is a coincidence, twice is a coincidence, and three times is destiny!"

"Is there a problem with this timing?"

"Yes."

Matthew tremblingly took out the mysterious golden crystal now, and told everyone his doubts: "This crystal was given to me by Diana, and it appeared out of thin air in the statue box of Pharaoh Akhenaten..."

"I didn't expect things to become so complicated."

After listening to the narration, Wonder Woman was the first to express her thoughts: "Although I still don't believe that this mysterious crystal chip caused the giant asteroid to hit the earth, it's ridiculous!"

"Diana, in theory, I don't believe that a crystal can cause such a big crisis like you, but when all the impossibilities are eliminated, the remaining hypotheses must be accepted no matter how absurd, let alone this crystal is really very dangerous. unusual."

Batman tried to comfort Wonder Woman.

After hearing what Batman said, Wonder Woman became even more depressed.

After all, she was the one who gave the mysterious crystal to Matthew, who had been working all this time to break the ancient Egyptian curse seal on the surface of the crystal.

"No matter what the truth is, notify the governments of all countries immediately, and ask them to reach a consensus within a short period of time..." Superman said, "This is a crisis for all mankind! As for whether the asteroid was summoned by some magical force, it is not Things we need to care about now."

"But I still want to get up close to the colorful statue of Queen Nefertiti..." Matthew said, "No matter how absurd the hypothesis that the asteroid is summoned by the crystal, this is a possibility."

"Yes……"

Batman agreed with Matthew, promising: "We will contact the German government and the Egyptian government now and ask them to allow you to get up close and personal with Nefertiti's colorful statue without any monitoring! If the statue is damaged, the Justice League Responsible for compensation!"

"thanks……"

……

The earth is about to face a big crisis of a giant asteroid impact. The governments of various countries finally put aside their disputes for the time being and sit together to calculate how many missiles to destroy the asteroid and how to reduce the possibility of the asteroid being broken into at least tens of thousands of meteorite fragments and falling into the atmosphere. damage caused.

The request of the Justice League to borrow the colorful statue of Nefertiti has also been approved by the two governments after the fact that the mysterious crystal chip may be related to the asteroid.

The helicopter took Matthew and others to the small room with the highest level of security measures where the colorful statue of Queen Nefertiti was kept.

The scientific researchers responsible for protecting the statue turned more than 100 rounds on Matthew and others with more critical eyes than a wicked mother-in-law looks at her daughter-in-law, and finally had to let it go.

"The statue of Queen Nefertiti is missing a speck of dust, and I'll dig out a piece of your flesh!"

"Feel sorry……"

Matthew, who couldn't give any guarantee on this matter, smiled lightly, and led Zatanna and Emerton into the room.

……

"Is this Nefertiti? It looks nothing more than that."

After seeing the colorful statue of Queen Nefertiti, Imerton snorted disdainfully.

Archaeologists may find the polychrome statue of Queen Nefertiti stunningly beautiful, but to Imerton, the woman who supported her husband's Aten beliefs was nothing more than beautiful.

Matthew declined to comment on this.

From the moment he entered the room, his attention fell on the blank eye sockets of the polychrome statues: "Zatana, Imerton, what do we do next? Do we put the crystals in the eye sockets immediately, or—"

"Observe first." Zatana said cautiously.

Matthew nodded...

Together, the two observe the colorful statue of Queen Nefertiti, which has been temporarily removed from the nitrogen cabinet.

"Ancient Egyptian sculptors were really bold in their use of color, and I can even feel the love the artist put into making the sculptures..."

Zatanna said to herself, "Maybe it's because of love that-"

"The sculptor really loves his creation, but his love is for the sculpture itself."

Imerton, who was on the sidelines, said: "You guessed it right, the statue does hide a secret, a secret that can only be solved by inserting crystals into the eye sockets."

"Then what are we waiting for?"

Matthew took out the crystal chip and prepared to—

"Wait a moment!"

Zatana stopped Matthew: "I feel something is wrong."

Before the words fell, Zatana fainted to the ground.

Imerton, who was standing behind her, supported the fainted Zatanna with an unpredictable smile.

Matthew: "Imorton, what's your expression?"

Emerton: "The next thing, she is not eligible to participate."

"But you told me that only female magicians can unlock the other half of the seal on the surface of the crystal plate."

Matthew looked at Imerton suspiciously.

"Yes, only a female magician can unlock the other half of the seal on the surface of the crystal plate, but the necessary condition for lifting the seal is not for a female magician to recite a spell."

Imerton told Matthew calmly.

"what do you mean--"

Matthew thought of a creepy possibility: "You want to sacrifice her! She is the inheritor of your magic system! You actually want to sacrifice your student! Just because she is a woman!"

"Sorry, master."

Imerton said calmly: "This is the fastest and most effective way to break the spell."

"No other options?"

"This one……"

Imerton smiled bitterly and said, "Since the master has spoken, I will do my best to save her life."

"Your original plan was—"

"Master, in the era when I assisted the pharaoh in ruling the whole of Egypt as the prime minister of the empire, the safety of the sacrifices was not something priests had to consider."

Emerton said very sincerely.

After all, he was the prime minister second only to pharaoh in the slave society.

Discussing the human rights of slaves with great slave owners is as absurd as discussing the right to life of animals with slaughterhouse workers.

In fact, if the person talking to Emerton at this moment was not Matthew, Imerton would have killed the bastard who dared to criticize him before sacrificing Zatanna, and would not patiently explain the necessity of doing so and promise the sacrifice ceremony Does not endanger Zatanna's life.

Matthew also knew that saving Zatanna's life was the biggest concession Imerton could give.

Considering that the asteroid that hit the earth is very close at hand, and the creation energy fragments in the crystal chip are very important, Matthew nodded and allowed Emerton to build the colorful statues of Zatanna and Queen Nefertiti as the core. The magic circle removes the last layer of curse seal set by ancient Egyptian magicians.

"Master, you are indeed as wise and powerful as Imerton hoped."

After speaking, Imerton started to get busy.

Matthew unexpectedly received a contact from Crowley at this time.

【hey-hey!Matthew, do you have time now? 】

The room where the colorful statue of Queen Nefertiti is kept is completely blocked from communication signals, and Crowley can only use magic to make Matthew hear his voice.

"Crowley?"

Matthew was surprised.

He didn't think that Crowley took the initiative to contact him because of the asteroid in space that might hit the earth at any time.

"whats the matter?"

[The Freemasons have rejected your terms of exchange, this is expected, right? 】

"Yes." Matthew said.

He does not have the ability to give infinite wisdom, and deliberately offered a high price that the people participating in the summoning ceremony would never agree to. It was expected that the Freemasons would reject his request after three days of careful consideration.

[Sure enough... but there is a small situation in this matter now...】

"What's happening?"

[A few people want to complete a small-scale transaction with you, and I will send you the details. 】

"it is good……"

As soon as the words fell, a large section of the screen appeared in front of Matthew, led by Michael, who was branded by him as a demon.

This group of Freemasons didn't know that the demon standing in front of them was Crowley pretending to be, and they were kneeling on the ground and praying devoutly: "Master of eternal wisdom, we want to exchange our lives and the lives of all our blood relatives for enough Wisdom to keep our names forever remembered."

"They want their names to be remembered forever?"

【Yes. 】

"Then do they know that there is an asteroid with a diameter of 30 kilometers less than [-] kilometers away from the earth at this moment, which may hit the earth at any time and completely destroy human civilization?"

Matthew complained: "Maybe I should agree to this transaction. This will be the most profitable soul transaction in history. After all, the earth's civilization is about to be destroyed."

【No no no!Matthew, if I were you, I would never agree to this deal. 】

"why?"

[Because this transaction cannot be realized. 】

Crowley said slyly.

Matthew: "Did you already know something?"

【Ha, how could I—】

"Don't lie to me, we are all demons."

[But we didn't face each other, well, you're right, I shouldn't have lied to you. 】

I thought that Crowley would refuse to admit it to death, but he didn't expect this guy to change his mouth so quickly, and Matthew was a little surprised.

Glancing at the magic circle that was about to be completed, Matthew asked, "What's going on? Why can't you agree to this deal?"

[Because if the earth is destroyed, the transaction will not exist at all, and the demon kings in hell will not be happy because you have completed such a large soul transaction. 】

"Any more?"

[You will get an excess amount of hell soul kpi, but getting an excess amount of soul kpi at one time is not necessarily a good thing, we demons usually pursue sustainability and go fishing.The whole deal is doomed to do more harm than good anyway, no matter how you make it. 】

Crowley clearly had something to hide.

But Imerton's sacrifice ceremony is about to begin, and Matthew can only—

"I'll think about it again."

[There is no time now, you must make a decision immediately, complete or cancel. 】

Crowley urged.

"Then I-"

Matthew took a breath and said, “Cancel the deal!”

【it is good! 】

Crowley ended the call.

Matthew turned around and walked to Imerton who had completed the preparations for the ceremony: "Start now?"

"Yes, my master."

Emerton told Matthew piously and seriously.

"What exactly do I need to do?" Matthew asked.

Emerton: "The only thing you need to do is to inhale the holy object into your body the moment the curse seal is released."

"You do not want--"

"I can't bear it."

Imerton replied truthfully: "The sacred object has a huge energy that can destroy the entire world. Although I am a great human magician, I am only a human being after all, and I cannot bear such a powerful force. Only gods can touch it." the greatest and purest power I can touch."

"So that's the reason why you surrendered to me."

Matthew glanced at Imherton with a half-smile.

Imerton lowered his head, not daring to meet Matthew's eyes.

Apparently, the great ancient Egyptian magician had secrets of his own.

But these are not important anymore.

At least it is not important to Matthew now.

He glanced at the unconscious Zatanna in the center of the magic circle, then at the colorful statue of Queen Nefertiti, who was still gorgeous and magnificent after thousands of years, and said to Imerton: "Let's begin..."

"Yes……"

Imerton stepped forward, knelt on the ground, raised his hands high, and kept chanting rap mantras from ancient Egypt.

Matthew stood aside, quietly feeling the magic fluctuations.

He felt that his body was becoming lighter and lighter as Imerton chanted, as if he could fly into the sky in the next second...

The fate of the world is at stake, and the heads of governments of various countries have to temporarily shake hands and make peace, hold a global video summit, and discuss with the top scientists the feasibility of using missiles to destroy super asteroids that are [-] kilometers away.

The Justice League and Avengers were also featured in the videoconference.

Although the anti-superhero government officials headed by Amanda Waller are very dissatisfied with this.

but--

Compared with the fate of the world, their dissatisfaction is obviously not worth mentioning.

"That's the minimum use of missiles we've calculated."

Dr. Sisko said with a wry smile while showing the calculation results: "Asteroids have strong radiation, which means that most of the positioning electronic components built in the missile will fail due to the radiation of the asteroid itself when the missile approaches the asteroid. , the hit rate is greatly reduced."

"It's okay, this is an acceptable mistake." The President of the United States replied grimly.

"We are making plans on how to deal with the aftermath after the asteroid is crushed into a meteorite rain."

Amanda Waller stood up with a gloomy face: "My personal idea is to sign an agreement with all the super villains in custody, and use the interception of meteorites to offset their sentences!"

"Why sign a deal with supervillains? Superheroes are not enough?"

"Mr. President, we must prepare for the worst."

Amanda Waller said solemnly: "What's more, most heroes have lofty morals, and they will intercept meteorites even if they are not paid, but super villains need a real incentive system."

"Well, you have a good point."

The earth crisis is imminent, and the president can only act expediently, ordering the office to draft a special pardon law, authorizing Amanda Waller and the supervillains to sign a special agreement to intercept meteorites to offset their sentences.

The goal was achieved, and Amanda Waller finally had a smile on her face.

The superheroes resent Amanda Waller's suggestion to unleash the supervillains to save the planet, but because there's nothing better to do, they accept it.

The operations meeting to blow up the asteroid continues.

As predicted by Zhenglian and Fulian, although the leaders of various countries are willing to work together to save the earth, they cannot reach a consensus on the specific number of missile launches allocated to each country.

"What should we do now?"

Superman looked at Batman.

Batman shook his head, indicating that there was nothing he could do.

In the conference room of the Avengers Building in New York, superheroes have a similar sense of powerlessness.

……

The lengthy and complicated ancient Egyptian incantations have not yet been finished, and the temperature in the room has dropped close to absolute zero.

Matthew looked at Imerton.

The latter was surrounded by runes at this time, and he was concentrating on manipulating magic, continuously chanting complex notes that Matthew had never heard before, as if Imerton had a mouth in his body and this mouth could make sounds that humans could not make.

The magic elements are getting denser and denser.

In a low-temperature space close to absolute zero, a large number of golden talisman cultures are flying in the sky in the form of shining powder. Matthew's attention is involuntarily attracted by the golden powder, and a messy and gorgeous picture appears in his mind, and a large number of completely unaffected memories flood out. Come on, almost drown Matthew!

this...these...

all these are--