Chapter 2910

Before the two returned to the portal, Constantine went to loot all the organs in the basement. Except for a few jars that were improperly preserved and left behind as evidence, he took everything else.

After all, for a demon, organs are also good trading goods. It's just a pity that Constantine isn't very good at killing, let alone harvesting and preserving organs. Being able to pick up so many at once is practically equivalent to a pie falling from the sky.

After returning to the House of Mystery, Constantine said: "Where are we going next?"

"Go again."

"Go..." Constantine looked at Schiller with some confusion.

Schiller turned the pocket watch forward by one day, which was to the day before their previous day.

This time they changed direction, but similarly arrived at a relatively fringe community, used the same method to hypnotize a serial killer to cause trouble at the police station, and similarly found the Barry from the day before, fooling him with almost identical rhetoric.

This time, this serial killer was a limb enthusiast who liked to attach real human limbs to his mannequins, so Constantine harvested a pile of arms and legs.

After returning to the House of Mystery, Schiller adjusted the pocket watch forward by another day, arriving at the day before the first day, and then followed the same procedure. Constantine got a pile of eyeballs.

After repeating this more than a dozen times, Doctor Fate and Constantine were both exhausted, but Schiller didn't give them much time to rest and continued to repeat without stopping.

Constantine finally saw it: Schiller was using a human-wave tactic. Since Barry possesses the ability to travel through time, it can be said that he possesses this ability every second. Therefore, as long as you search from back to front on the timeline, you can find countless Barrys to surround and beat the vampire Barry together.

The reason for searching from back to front is because if you search for the earlier ones first, the early Barry would run to find the vampire Barry, and the future would be changed, and the later Barry might not be in Central City.

But if you search for the later Barrys first, when Schiller finds him, the early Barry hasn't been called to catch the vampire yet, so they are naturally still in Central City.

Theoretically, one could push forward to the day Barry gained the Speed Force, but in fact, it wasn't that long. It wasn't because Schiller didn't want to, but because there weren't enough serial killers.

Central City does have some serial killers who have retreated to the second line, but there are far fewer than on the East Coast. Using them as bait to fish for Barry, the number that can be caught is limited.

Constantine also didn't remember how many times they repeated it, but anyway, his warehouse was full by the end. The trophies collected from serial killers could at least be assembled into hundreds of complete people.

However, Constantine felt there was still a loophole in this plan: the vampire Flash could actually also go find himself from the past few months and have them travel back to confront the normal Flash.

But after thinking carefully, the time the Flash was bitten wasn't very long, at most a few months, but the time Barry had been the Flash was very long, at least a few years.

If the vampire Flash could go to the past to call for help, the normal Flash could call for even more.

And the most special power the Flash relies on is the Speed Force. Their great battle would basically only happen within the Speed Force, not affecting the outside world, but it would plunge the vampire Flash into a vast sea of people's war, dragging down the vampire side—this might be the most unsolvable combat power.

"Perfect," Constantine evaluated.

However, he was still a bit worried. He asked: "What if the normal Barry gets bitten?"

"It doesn't matter," Schiller said. "Assuming the normal Barry can't beat the vampire Barry and all of them get turned into vampires, then who do you think should be worried now—us, or the Vampire King?"

Constantine suddenly realized.

This is the same logic as Batman being turned into a vampire. Even if you are the Vampire King, you wouldn't dare to trust a Batman who has been turned into a vampire. What if the other party is faking it? What if the other party is actually not restricted by bloodline control? What if the other party is crowned emperor?

If all the Flashes at all time points were turned, at least an army of tens of millions of vampire Flashes could be pulled out. Then Barry Allen might really need to put on another layer of clothes.

"Wait a minute..." Constantine narrowed his eyes and looked at Schiller, saying: "You weren't planning on that, were you?!"

"Not just that," Schiller sighed lightly and said: "If every Flash at every time point were turned into a vampire, where would their food come from?"

Constantine was slightly stunned.

People from the past don't belong to this world. Assuming there are 7 billion people on Earth now, plus the 7 billion from yesterday, that's 14 billion, plus the day before, that's 21 billion.

There is only one vampire Flash now, and he needs to eat at least one person a day. There is also one vampire Flash from yesterday, and he also needs to eat one person a day.

If the current one eats the current ones and yesterday's eats yesterday's, that's no problem. But if the current one and yesterday's combined need to eat two people, the consumption is equivalent to doubling.

Then if the vampire Flash from now, yesterday, the day before, and even every second before that all need to eat one person, how many days will 7 billion people last them?

Is this guy trying to exterminate humanity? Constantine made his most sinister assumption.

But after thinking carefully, he discovered something wrong.

It's unlikely that this group of vampire Flashes will all come to the present to eat the current humans, because they have to fight the normal Flash.

All the Flashes are fighting a war of movement, so when they need supplies, they can't travel thousands of miles to return to the origin; they must be looting nearby.

If they are fighting on the past timeline, then what they eat can basically only be humans from the past.

Then the question arises: in a situation where one person only has one life, if the vampire Flash eats all the people in the past, what will the current vampire eat?

Constantine slapped his thigh and said: "Brilliant!"

In fact, this just brings forward the famine problem mentioned by Batman. If the vampires expand like this, there will definitely be a famine, but it might take some time.

But if so many Flashes are put back into the past, it's equivalent to the expansion starting from the past, and the evil consequences will definitely be revealed in the present.

This will lead to a serious contradiction between the current vampires and the past Flashes, because according to Batman's theory, when vampires expand to the tens of millions, their food extinction is just a matter of time.

That is to say, if the current vampires don't stop the past vampire Flashes from eating people, they will face famine now.

Zatanna, on the side, thought of another problem.

"If a person who was supposed to be turned into a vampire in a few months is eaten by a vampire Flash who traveled to the past, does he disappear forever?"

"Theoretically, yes," Doctor Fate replied. "Changes to the past will be reflected on the current timeline."

"I understand," Zatanna said. "The most vicious part of this plan is that it completely splits the vampires."

Originally, vampires should be very united because they have a bloodline control system, from the Vampire King down layer by layer, and every vampire has absolute control over their descendants. That power must eventually be concentrated in the hands of the Vampire King.

That is to say, they don't have internal friction of power and can completely twist into a rope. It can be said that if the Vampire King weren't incompetent, they would definitely have unified the Earth long ago.

Constantine and Doctor Fate both nodded. It can be said that if the power in such an organizational structure were concentrated on Batman, let alone the Earth, Apokolips might have changed hands by now.

This is almost an unbreakable ruling structure, a completely idealized centralized power. Even if the monarch's ability is within the average range, conquering an Earth is not a problem.

Looking at the human side, let alone various countries, the Justice League isn't completely like an arm and a finger. No matter how powerful Batman is, it's useless if the brain can't command the legs.

To level the gap, it's not about finding a way to make the Justice League reach perfect centralized power—if that were doable, Batman would have done it long ago.

But splitting the current vampires is as difficult as ascending to heaven, unless a way to break bloodline control can be found. But even Constantine doesn't know if such a method exists.

It seems necromancy counts as one, but Doctor Strange clearly has limits and can't turn too many. It's fine for gathering intelligence, but it's a bit too much to ask to pull out a separate vampire force.

But Schiller adopted a method that is unconventional but surprisingly creative—making the present and the past stand in opposition.

The current vampires are indeed a solid block, but the vast majority of them, or rather all of them except the Vampire King, were once fragile humans.

If they were killed by vampires in the past, they wouldn't exist today, so they must ensure as much as possible that their past selves are not killed.

Then the vampire Flash with the ability to travel through time is no longer a trump card, but the vampires' biggest hidden danger, because the vampire Flash can travel back to the past and kill them when they are still fragile humans.

Originally, the vampire Flash had no reason to do this, but Schiller gave him one, which is to deal with the normal Flash.

If he doesn't deal with the normal Flash, the normal Flash will take him down. But to deal with more and more normal Flashes, he has to summon more and more vampire Flashes.

But more and more vampire Flashes need more and more food, and they can't return to the present in time to get it, so aren't they just checking in with the King of Hell on the past timeline?

Once the current vampires know what the vampire Flash is doing in the past, they will definitely fight, and it will be a fight to the death, because this is a struggle for survival.

Either the vampire Flash starves to death, or the current vampires disappear because they were eaten clean in the past.

These two sides are completely opposed, and the internal friction is much more severe than that of humans.

And obviously, Schiller wants to do more than just that.

"As far as I know, the current vampires shouldn't have the means to travel through time. Even an outsider like me can know this. You, John Constantine, have the ability to find a way to travel through time. Do you think they wouldn't know?"

"You mean they will come to find me?"

"They will definitely come to find you."

Schiller stood up from his chair, walked to the side of the portal, patted the door frame lightly, and said: "And what you need to do now is to contact all your friends who have the ability to travel through time, unite, and slaughter them for a big one."

Constantine didn't expect that one day he would evaluate someone else as shameless.

But soon, he discovered that Schiller was more shameless than he thought.

"And, tell those vampires who want to return to the past that if they want to save their lives when they were still human, let them use heart inscriptions to contract them."

"Do you think bloodline control during the embrace ceremony takes priority, or the heart inscription contract? Or... will the two of them jam, giving countless vampires freedom?"

"Freedom... freedom..." Constantine muttered this word like the most vicious spell. He closed his eyes, leaned back in his chair, and said: "Tens of millions of free vampires? I can't wait to see Mary's expression."