Chapter 4033
Shiler didn't even twitch his eyebrows. It can only be said that the main universe Constantine is playing normally. Besides, if this guy climbed up to the black market boss by selling his looks, it would be more beneficial to their survival. After all, even superheroes from Earth have to take into account the influence and cannot interfere with people doing business normally. With the black market boss helping out, at least the two of them can have a reliable hiding place.
However, Shiler was not in a hurry to go over; he first finished the barely edible paste prepared by the owner at the bar with Constantine, and then took advantage of the night to bring Constantine to the black market next door.
He had been here before and remembered that there was a place selling weapons here, which only opened at night, because what was sold inside were some contraband weapons, basically all good things left by the two great mechanical empires on certain battlefields.
Both the Kree Empire and the Skrull Empire have very strict weapon equipment recycling regulations, and generally speaking, they won't explode equipment. But the universe is so big that anything can happen, and some lost weapons will flow into the black market.
Some time ago, Earth in the central universe and the three great empires had a fight, although that wave of the nine realms was all eaten, but they also fought a wave near the capital planet of the Shi'ar Empire before. Although Jarvis blocked the news on the network, Shiler had served in the Time Variance Authority after all and saw the general process of the war from the timeline. He knew that in that battle, the three great empires should have exploded a lot of good equipment, and it was about time for it to circulate in the black market.
Sure enough, when the two entered the weapon market, they saw many novel things. However, Shiler first found a shop and exchanged the universal coins Thanos gave him for gold. It seems that because of the war recently, the value of gold has also risen; fortunately, Shiler had brought some himself before, which was enough for the two to change into a set of equipment.
Shiler first replenished the energy for his standard pistol, and then bought a laser sword of the Skrull Empire, which looked similar to the one in Star Wars, but slightly shorter, more like a longer dagger. Then he bought a shield again, which seemed to be the technology of the Kree Empire, but the traces on it had already been washed clean.
Constantine also picked a laser gun; although the Gatling gun he had that was spitting fire had decent lethality, it was not very suitable for space combat. And because he was off his medicine, he basically had no strength to enchant the bullets, so it was more convenient to use a laser gun.
This is also one of the reasons why Shiler chose him as a teammate; although the upper limit of being a mage is very high, once there is no energy, he has to rest. Although the lethality of using a gun is limited, it at least guarantees the lower limit; even if he can't release magic, he can still have some attack power.
Constantine also bought a crossbow, which he heard was built by the dwarves of the nine realms, but it was mostly fake. But even if it was a fake, the quality was not bad, and it also came with an automatic crossbow arrow recovery function. In this case, he only needed to enchant one arrow and could use it repeatedly, which saved more than bullets.
He also changed his shield and life-support system, because once this kind of thing has suffered a fatal blow, the quality is no longer reliable, so it is safer to change it.
After shopping in the weapon market with Shiler, Shiler followed Constantine to shop in the magic market. There are still many magical creatures in the universe, so this market is also all-encompassing.
Although it is said to be a magic material market, Shiler looked at it and thought it was a cooking seasoning market. Those messy materials were placed in small baskets, filling an entire tabletop; every merchant had such a configuration, and from a distance, it really looked like a vegetable market.
Constantine was obviously also a regular here; he skillfully picked various materials and powders, and even some living creatures in jars, and then stuffed them all into his box.
Shiler stood in front of a small stall and picked up a glass jar, which contained creatures like slugs, and asked casually: "What is this for?"
Constantine took a look and said: "All creatures with mucus are basically raw materials for ointment, to provide stickiness for the ointment, making it easy to apply."
"Why not use chemical raw materials?"
"No magic affinity." Constantine used a shovel to shovel a kind of thing that looked like mung beans on the side, and said: "All the materials you see here can absorb and maintain magic energy well, while chemically synthesized preparations do not have special symbolism in the magic field, so it is difficult to play a role."
Shiler nodded, put down the jar, and picked up a jar of things that looked like chili peppers, intending to take a closer look, but his peripheral vision caught a figure.
Shiler turned his head calmly, pretending to be interested in a small pendant on the shelf next to him. Through the gap in the shelf, his gaze locked on the other party, and then he gently touched Constantine next to him with his arm.
Constantine didn't stop his movements either, just turned his head to look in the direction Shiler was looking. The next second he narrowed his eyes, because not far from them, a black-robed figure who was using a cup to catch some strange green liquid emitting a faint light looked very much like Doctor Strange of the main universe.
"What is that thing for?" Shiler asked in a low voice.
"The tree sap of a god tree worshipped by a certain tribe, the attribute is vitality and healing, usually used to make healing potions." Constantine paused for a moment and then said: "If he doesn't come to buy the kind of mucus worm you looked at before, it means he has internal injuries; if he buys it, he should need ointment for external injuries."
"He's coming over." Shiler said and pulled Constantine to the side. Fortunately, it was very crowded here, and there were many people, so the two of them were not conspicuous. They walked to another stall and pretended to pick things.
"He should be injured, and not lightly." Constantine continued: "Otherwise he wouldn't have to come here at all, but could take a detour back, or maybe he didn't even have the strength to fly and pass through the portal."
"Injured so badly?"
"It's not heavy for a mage, probably one healing spell can recover, and at most two bottles if drinking potion. He ran here to buy materials, so he should be at the end of his rope."
"Who is chasing him?" Shiler muttered to himself in a low voice. Because in his view, people on the Marvel side definitely wouldn't take such a heavy hand; even if they found him, they would mostly just knock him out and take him back. But it shouldn't be Batman's people either, because his mission was to find Doctor Strange; if Doctor Strange had already been found, Batman should have notified him to go back. He didn't receive a notification, so it should be that Batman didn't have a clue either.
Constantine suddenly paused. Shiler noticed his movement, looked in his direction, and saw several people in uniforms rushing into the market.
"Intergalactic Security Committee." Constantine said in a low voice, "Your colleagues are here."
"So they didn't block this planet to find the two of us." Shiler shoveled back and forth in a basket of withered small eyeballs and said: "He might have been injured by this gang of agents."
Shiler thought about it and felt it was the same; after all, Doctor Strange made such a big commotion with the collection heist, and the victim, the Elder of the Universe, also had a face in the universe, so the Intergalactic Security Committee must make an effort to investigate this case, otherwise it would be embarrassing.
As for finding the two of them, even if they knew they had two stones, the Avengers probably wouldn't go to ask Thanos for help. It's not that they don't want to, the key is what to say when they go?
"You, go and eliminate Shiler and the other one"?
Thanos indicated that he didn't have any plans to date Death recently.
So, the Avengers secretly sending people over is the better choice. Making such a big commotion, it could only be to catch Doctor Strange.
Thinking of this, Shiler gave Constantine a wink. The two quickly passed through a large pile of stalls and came to the agents in uniforms. Shiler walked up directly and stopped one of them and said: "Damn it, what are you doing?!"
The other party was stunned for a moment when stopped by Shiler. Come on, they are police, and the people in this black market see them like mice seeing a cat, how could someone take the initiative to come and die?
But before he could draw his gun, Shiler showed his credentials first. Seeing the credentials and the standard pistol, the other party immediately understood that it might be a misunderstanding, and quickly called their captain over.
"Lord Thanos sent me to secretly track Doctor Strange. He is in this market now, and I was already very close. You searched like this, isn't it alerting the enemy?"
The other party was also a highly humanoid creature, just that the skin was green, and he immediately felt a bit embarrassed and said: "That... we are also acting on orders. The Director has started following this case so early?"
"By the time you react, everything will be cold." Shiler said unhappily, "You have already blocked the market?"
"Yes, now all creatures are not allowed to enter or leave this planet. Since you have almost caught up with him, you must know his physical characteristics, why don't we cooperate, how about it?"
Shiler waved his hand impatiently and said: "This guy is too cunning. If I'm not wrong, he has already run away from your hands once before, right? Pushing him into a corner is of no benefit to anyone."
"Alright, then what do you say we should do?"
"The most important thing is to lower his vigilance. This is my companion, named Constantine. Later I will let him pretend to be a criminal, you pretend to be catching him, make some noise in the market, and I will take the opportunity to follow Doctor Strange. If you really catch him, I will definitely report your merit in front of Lord Thanos."
"That would be great. You don't know how difficult this guy is; he took a ship cannon shot and still injured five or six of us. To tell you the truth, we don't want to fight him head-on either; if it weren't for the death order from above, who would fight the Sorcerer Supreme!"
The two sides agreed on the plan. Constantine put on a mask to cover his face, ran to a small stall not far from where Doctor Strange was, and directly fought with the agents using the laser gun he had just bought. In an instant, lasers flew everywhere, and the stall owners screamed and fled.
"Quickly catch this damn fugitive!" The captain shouted loudly, "This guy is a heinous killer, absolutely cannot let him run away!!!"
Shiler walked back to his original position calmly. He saw that the black-robed Doctor Strange might have wanted to run, but seeing the agents chasing others, he stopped his movements.
It seems that the main universe Doctor Strange is also at the end of his rope, and it is very likely that even teleporting is very strenuous, otherwise, he would have teleported away the first time he found the police coming. The blockade of the Intergalactic Security Committee couldn't stop human portals; he didn't do so, it must be because it would make him pay a huge price.
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