Chapter 4603

The main universe Constantine seemed to fall into memories. After a long while, he said with some emotion, "What nostalgic youth years. Thanks to Adam and Eve, thanks to that snake, thanks to that forbidden fruit... Oh, wait, did I thank Adam to his face?"

Constantine and Shiler couldn't listen anymore. Shiler silently began to load the gun, which clearly played a certain urging role. The main universe Constantine rummaged again and actually found something.

The moment he opened his palm, Shiler was stunned. Because what appeared in the main universe Constantine's palm was a pistol bullet casing, and this casing was very special, not a common pistol bullet model.

Shiler took the casing over, looked at it carefully, and then confirmed that this was a 9x18mm pistol bullet, also known as a Makarov pistol bullet. The reason it was special was that this 9mm pistol bullet could basically only be used in Makarov pistols. Because its bullet head was larger than other 9mm bullets, it was not compatible with many German 9mm pistol bullets, and the casing was about one millimeter shorter than most 9mm bullet casings, so he could recognize it at a glance.

And if he remembered correctly, when Anatoly committed suicide back then, he used a Makarov pistol.

Shiler was speechless, not knowing for a moment whether to wonder where Lucifer got this casing or how it ended up in Constantine's hands.

"I won this in a bet." The main universe Constantine said. "Lucifer's bar hadn't been open long, and I went to support him. We were drinking and playing games, and you know, there had to be a stake. Of course, I wanted something good."

"And then you asked for this?"

"This isn't what I asked for." The main universe Constantine pouted and said, "He must have been jealous that I won, so he threw this junk at me. There isn't much of Satan's power on it, it can't be used at all, so I just pressed it to the bottom of the box."

Constantine took the casing from Shiler's hand and examined it. He was clearly not looking at the model, but at the power of Satan entwined on it, and the deeper emotions within.

"Oh, I feel annoyance." Constantine said. "He doesn't like this thing, he gets annoyed when he sees it, so he just threw it to you."

"What did I tell you?" The main universe Constantine said. "I'll have to have a good talk with him about this another day..."

"I advise you not to do that." Shiler said. "This thing has a great background, you'd better not touch bad luck."

Both Constantines stared at Shiler. After thinking for a while, Shiler said, "Lucifer has a good friend, this should be what he gave him."

"Since they are good friends, why would he feel annoyed?"

"Probably because this bullet once passed through his good friend's brain." Shiler said. "You wouldn't be too happy if you saw the bullet your friend used to commit suicide, right?"

Constantine took a light breath and said, "Suicide?"

"More importantly, what happened after." Shiler paused and said, "It can be said that if it weren't for this bullet, nothing would have happened. It's normal for him to be upset."

Shiler had a lot he didn't say. He guessed in his heart that it was unlikely Lucifer went to get this bullet back; it was more likely that Anatoly picked it back up later. But what his purpose was in giving this thing to Lucifer, he didn't know.

But Shiler knew that Anatoly would definitely use this thing to tell hell jokes of lethal dosage. He never cared about these, but Lucifer might not. Clearly, this thing troubled him greatly; he couldn't bear to throw it away, and it was creepy to hold it, so he just threw it to the main universe Constantine when he lost the bet.

"The power on this is indeed not powerful." Shiler said. "But the story behind it will give it more powerful strength."

"Now that you mention it, I remember." The main universe Constantine recalled. "Because after I got this thing later, I found that it didn't seem to have any special use. I thought I didn't know how to use it, so I asked him sideways what the background of this thing was. He was very vague, but one sentence left an impression on me."

"What?"

"'There are two kinds of comedy in this world—the good begins with rebirth, the good begins with death.'"

"Doesn't sound good." Constantine commented. "The focus should be on the second half. Is Satan's friend okay?"

He might have been a bit dead back then, but he's fine now. Shiler answered in his heart. He couldn't help but start thinking about this sentence; it actually didn't have any complicated philosophical meaning, it might just be Anatoly's sudden emotion. Because it was precisely because he died that he came to Lucifer, and the two of them met; this could completely be called the good beginning with death.

However, thinking of Anatoly's subsequent experiences, this sentence sounded a bit sad. Perhaps this was also the main reason Lucifer threw the casing away; it was really too much like a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Shiler stared at the casing for a long time, then said, "Do you have anything else?"

"This is the only one I got from his hands. But I also collected some things that are said to have been blessed by Satan." Constantine took out a few more items, which were the kind of superstitious magic supplies. However, after some research and identification by the two of them, most of them were not very reliable; one or two might have been in contact with Satan, but there was no power on them.

"Blessing is not that simple." Constantine said. "Sometimes, even if angels and devils want to bless certain things, they can't succeed. Even if they can succeed, the effect is very short-lived. The fundamental reason is that this thing has no connection with them, so it cannot carry their power."

"Connection is the most occult part of this whole process." Constantine continued to explain. "Just simply using it, or even liking it, doesn't necessarily count as a connection. Just like the sculptures or thrones in the devil's palace, they seem to have a deep connection with the devil, but if they are moved to the human world, they might not be useful."

The main universe Constantine nodded, clearly affirming this statement. Looking at him, he should have moved some.

"The best connection is clearly emotion, which is the most stable general solution I have found so far. As long as angels and devils pour emotion into an object, they can make this object possess eternal power. Both positive and negative emotions work, and the deeper it is, the more powerful it is."

This was not surprising. Shiler thought that emotion is the underlying logic of God's creation of the world, and it has thousands of connections with the operation laws of the entire reality universe. These mysterious beings seem to be able to become stronger because of emotion.

"Thank you." Shiler said. Then he left with Constantine. On the way back, Constantine asked, "Is that friend of Satan you mentioned still alive?"

"Why ask that?"

"Satan can control life and death, and even has power beyond God in some areas. If he doesn't want his friend to die, he certainly won't die."

"Then what if his friend is determined to die?"

Constantine shook his head and said, "Satan's original sin is arrogance; he usually doesn't care about other people's feelings."

"Then what if he can't stop it?"

Constantine frowned slightly, just wanting to refute, but he had to treat this as a possible hypothesis first, then said, "This is not a good choice. Breaking Satan's arrogance is a very dangerous thing. If he develops resentment, then even the soul will have no peace."

"Sounds really scary." Shiler said. "Then is there a possibility of letting him choose to accept death and let the other party go?"

"This is not easy." Constantine said. "It is very difficult for an arrogant person to accept that the other party wants to abandon them, especially abandoning them in the way of death, which is the greatest humiliation to him. I can't imagine how he would allow someone to do this."

"Perhaps he really understood him?"

"Understand?" Constantine sneered. "Such beings will not try to understand others, because there is no need. They control the entire universe, everything, the cycle of life and death, all cannot escape their palms. If you have such great power, would you bother to understand anyone?"

According to common sense, no. Shiler thought in his heart that such a powerful and arrogant person is almost impossible to have empathy. However, he could roughly guess why Lucifer couldn't win against Anatoly.

It's like Batman and Constantine in the main universe. If Batman were taking revenge on Constantine, or just venting his dissatisfaction, Constantine wouldn't listen to him; he has plenty of ways to escape from Arkham Asylum, and Batman wouldn't be able to catch him.

However, Batman happened to have no selfish motive. Constantine did such a thing, and he just felt that Constantine's mental state was worrying; if he didn't accept professional treatment, he might get sicker, so he tried to cure him.

Anatoly's self-detonation in Cat Getan was neither out of resentment for this world nor to abandon Lucifer; he did it to make this world better, to save the place in this world that was most impossible to be saved.

To some extent, this is also what Lucifer wanted to do. Not for the purpose of saving the world, but to get rid of the established destiny—what Lucifer hates most is the established destiny.

Cat Getan's tragedy was clearly a written script, which could not be changed, and there was no way to save it. Lucifer didn't care if the people inside were miserable; he just simply hated this feeling of "being chosen to do something."

Anatoly broke Cat Getan's established destiny, making Cat Getan no longer necessarily impossible to be saved; this is what Lucifer always wanted to do, but couldn't. So he had no way not to forgive Anatoly's death.

Still the same sentence, if Anatoly had even half a selfish motive, such as resentment for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or dissatisfaction with Lucifer himself, and chose to commit suicide, Lucifer would definitely not let him go. But it happened not to be.

At this moment, Shiler understood Lucifer's collapse a little. Precisely because there was no way to resent Anatoly's death, he was at a loss. Of course, he could better understand the collapse of Anatoly's creditors; it was already miserable enough to be defaulted on, Lucifer couldn't blame Anatoly, couldn't he blame this group of loan sharks? Although he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he could still imagine what kind of terrible attacks the wolves of Wall Street suffered back then.

When returning to the Justice League base, the members of the Justice League had already returned. Anatoly was with them; clearly, the solar cannon couldn't be used, but he didn't give up, seeming to intend to organize the Justice League of the multiverse to carry out a rescue operation.

Shiler stood outside the meeting room door and gave Anatoly a look. Not long after, Anatoly walked out. If that pendant caused him any emotional fluctuations, he hid it well, and Shiler didn't see anything.

However, when he took out that bullet casing, he finally saw Anatoly's somewhat cracked expression as he wished.

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