Chapter 2142

Peter listened to it in a fog, basically didn't understand anything. Although he was not interested in occultism, he still wanted to know what was going on. Why were there two Constantines? What was the relationship between the two of them? What were they talking about with this Dr. Sothip?

Peter definitely couldn't think of it himself, but he knew he had a powerful helper, so he returned to the front of the black sun and asked his question with as pious a posture as possible.

Soon a large amount of knowledge was stuffed into his brain. Peter sighed painfully and sat on the ground, trying to digest the complex occult knowledge.

After he had seen almost enough, he realized that all this knowledge was about John Constantine.

Constantine is special.

This is what all this information wants to express, and as for the principle, it probably has to start from the grievances between heaven and hell.

In short, the countless universes in the world where Constantine is located have the same heaven and hell. The competition for believers between heaven and hell in the human world does not only happen in one universe, but is carried out in all universes at the same time.

However, affected by certain factors, heaven and hell cannot treat the human world as a hot war battlefield, but their cold war has never stopped. Faith war, information war, and countless proxy wars of all sizes.

This situation lasted for a long time, until one day, the archangels of heaven and the demon kings of hell thought that it could not go on like this. We should sit down and talk, and compete in a more civilized and fairer way.

This way is Constantine.

Constantine himself is a black box used for gambling. His soul is endowed with special permissions. No demon king in heaven or hell can open the box to check the power composition inside, and can only cast blind bets.

Simply put, no one in heaven and hell knows how much power others have lent to Constantine, nor do they know the specific content of the contracts between them. Everyone is blind signing and blind lending.

And when Constantine dies, the black box will be opened, and the person who bets the most in it will take everything, including Constantine's special soul, and also what others have invested in him.

This is a large gambling competition held jointly by heaven and hell, and Constantine is just a card table.

To ensure the fairness of the competition, no one is allowed to use forced means to instill power into Constantine's body, and it must be agreed by Constantine himself.

But how could angels and demons not drill loopholes?

They first used their influence in the human world to create trouble for Constantine, such as sending demons or clergy to create disasters, guiding Constantine to solve them. In order to save people, Constantine must borrow power from them, and naturally he will agree to sign contracts with them and accept their power. Angels and demons then have a legitimate opportunity to follow the bet.

The reason why angels and demons are repeatedly deceived by him is just constantly following the bet.

Schiller discovered this earlier than Constantine, because he once tried to repay his debt for Constantine, and Constantine never thought of doing so.

Constantine has been defaulting on debts. Most of his work in the first half of his life was created around how to default on debts. No Constantine in all universes intends to honestly repay debts, and no one will repay debts for Constantine. Schiller is the first.

Schiller repaid it for him, so at the moment of repaying the debt, he discovered that Constantine had no debts. He was just a prop used by heaven and hell to play games.

Of course, no one took the initiative to tell Schiller this. They accepted the energy paid by Schiller in a pretentious manner, but Schiller discovered that when he repaid the debt for Constantine, he was equivalent to inheriting Constantine's position, and demons and angels could bet on him.

And as for how he discovered it, he had to mention the occult knowledge about this universe that Schiller had studied in the French manor.

In fact, this is not the first time Schiller has come into contact with occultism, and the time he first came into contact with occultism was earlier than everyone imagined. That was something that happened in his previous life.

There is a special group in Schiller's mind palace. They are neither doctors nor professors, and have nothing to do with psychology at all. They usually don't appear in the corridors of the high tower, but are scattered in various rooms.

This group of Schillers has a common attribute—they are magic-side.

The world where Schiller lived in his previous life had no magic, but this does not mean that Schiller could not study occultism, or that he was destined to study occultism, because what happened to him could no longer be explained by science.

The loneliness of autism in childhood interfered with the exertion of Schiller's ability, and the busyness of youth also left him no time to investigate what his powerful power was all about.

When he finally achieved a relatively high social status and had a relatively stable life, he could finally start to study what the various extraordinary things about him were all about.

Normally, it is impossible for anyone to imagine out of thin air that he was thrown into this world by God, so Schiller's first suspect was genes.

There were many excellent scholars in the environment where he worked, including many geneticists. After a series of investigations, Schiller found that it should have nothing to do with this.

Followed by checking mental problems, but he himself is a psychologist. He knew that his ability had far exceeded the scope of schizophrenia fantasy and existed in this world in reality.

After investigating all scientific possibilities, even if Schiller didn't want to believe it, he had to suspect that there might really be magic in this world.

So after he had achieved great success in the direction of psychological psychoanalysis and research, he chose to take the same path as Newton and began to study theology.

Schiller spent about 5 years visiting all parts of the world. He had dabbled in history, religious studies, theology, occultism, and folklore, mainly to find out if there were any records with information related to his ability.

In the end, of course, nothing was gained.

There is a lot of information that can be matched, very few pieces of evidence that can be found, and not a single one that is true and accurate. Until Schiller's plane crashed, this was still a cold case.

Because this is the longest and most information-intensive intelligence collection work in Schiller's life, and the way of thinking required to collect this information is completely different from the previous academic research and scientific investigation, so there are special personalities to conduct such research.

They must abandon the previous rigorous, professional, and evidence-based research methods, and use a more abstract, more dependent on association, and infinitely close to subjective idealism method to conduct such research, which also gave birth to a group of personalities.

Of course, idealism has always been the enemy of scientific research, and doctors are even more taboo about "I don't want you to think, I want me to think", so this group of personalities almost never appears in the high tower. There are rooms in the high tower specially customized for them, which basically fit their attributes.

For example, the Professor Schiller in the Hogwarts room is actually one of the magic-side Schillers. His main research direction is the magic images that appear in famous literature and film and television works, and the personality code is also the "magician" in the usual sense.

Of course, there are also "Doctors" representing philosophy and history, "Agents" of social folklore, "Bishops" of religious studies and theology, and some more abstract "Inspiration", "Fallacy", "Balance", etc.

It was precisely because they discovered that after Schiller repaid the debt for Constantine, his own existence status changed, so they deduced the general trend of things. After confirmation with Lucifer later, it proved that the facts were indeed so.

And when Schiller intended to change his identity, these personalities who had nothing to do with psychology, and even nothing to do with the entire scientific side, could finally float to the surface consciousness to control the body.

And after confirming the linkage between the two universes, Schiller obtained his new origin stories in both DC and Marvel, and the keywords of the origin stories were magician, doctor, agent, and bishop.

But it was not only Schiller who deduced the truth. In the DC universe where he was, the Constantine who had recovered his health and freedom realized after discovering that he could not contact any angels and demons at all that Schiller had replaced his status and became the black box for heaven and hell to bet on.

The Constantine of the fused Earth came to New York to avoid Dr. Sothip, and Schiller came to the fused Earth to avoid the Constantine of his universe.

Still that sentence, whether it is Batman or Constantine, aside from the various things they have experienced, they cannot be considered normal people. Their bodies and spirits are healthy, which does not mean they can become friendly good people in the universal sense.

And Dr. Sothip subsequently received a call from the Constantine of the fused Earth.

"Who the hell are you?!" His voice sounded very angry, and he said: "Why do you want to investigate me? Why do you want to dig out this number?! Do you know what this represents?"

"This represents a mistake you once made." His tone was very slow, still containing a wonderful sense of rhythm, sounding like a pious prayer.

The voice on the opposite side stopped abruptly. After a long while, Constantine opened his mouth and said: "You don't understand, I have no choice."

"Of course I understand." The doctor pressed a hand on the stone slab, his expression solemn, his eyes dim, like listening to a believer's repentance, and he said: "You had no choice when things happened, is it the same after things ended?"

"I feel very guilty about this, but you, or any demons and angels standing behind you, have no position and qualification to blame me for this, because you are the culprits."

Without waiting for a response, Constantine continued like a string of beads: "Listen, do me a favor, I need to summon a city, but I don't have relevant experience. You need to go to the library of All Souls College of Oxford University and help me find a paranormal case of a disappearing small town."