Chapter 609
About a few minutes later, Constantine appeared outside the door of Wei En Manor; welcoming him was the butler Alfred, as well as a protective suit and disinfectant spray; Alfred, holding a disinfectant spray gun, sprayed Constantine for a few minutes; when Constantine walked out of that thick white mist, he was already full of the smell of disinfectant.
He coughed twice, waved his arm in front of him, and then walked into the hall of the manor, and then stopped about two meters away from Aisha and Dick; it wasn't that he wanted to stop, but Alfred, who had put down the disinfectant spray gun, had already started wiping his double-barreled shotgun.
Constantine just wanted to protest Alfred's attitude, when he heard Aisha sing that weird and ethereal tune; instantly, Constantine looked up, he extended his arms, his hands lit up with the glow of magic, and then looked at the ceiling with a solemn expression.
"Qinghu Sword Immortal"
Bruce also looked up, but he couldn't see anything; he narrowed his eyes, observing Constantine; there was a faint light in Constantine's eyes, which was somewhat similar to the magic radiance on his hands.
Just when Constantine was seriously wanting to cast magic, suddenly, his line of sight fell from the ceiling onto Aisha's face; Aisha opened her mouth, "ka-cha" one bite, and Constantine froze there.
During the whole process, the two were like actors in a pantomime, performing to the air; Bruce, Dick, and Alfred didn't see anything.
Suddenly, Constantine stood up straight, put down his hands, looked at Aisha, and then looked at Bruce and said: "Your daughter, she... has she shown any abnormality before?"
Bruce wanted to open his mouth to describe, but all of Aisha's life was abnormal, there was no normal time at all, making Bruce want to describe but having no way to start.
"She might be like me, born with an affinity for magic, or rather, she is also a cursed one, destined to deal with these strange things." Constantine's magic radiance extinguished; he looked up at the ceiling of Wei En Manor and said: "A long time ago, I also once cast a spell to summon demons without knowing it, and then..."
He shook his head and didn't describe the situation afterward, but Bruce could already imagine it; Bruce frowned and asked him: "Are you saying that Aisha just summoned a demon?"
"No, it might be worse than that; that is a kind of dark monster I have never seen before, but..." Constantine looked at Aisha's pupils and said: "They were all eaten by him, one bite on the head, and then, swallowed into the stomach..."
Aisha started shouting again, saying things like "so full", "delicious"; Bruce hugged her and looked at her repeatedly, didn't find any scars, and her temperament hadn't changed drastically, so he asked Constantine: "Can you let me see that kind of monster?"
"You can't use magic, so you can't see it," Constantine originally wanted to refuse, but Bruce and Alfred kept staring at him; he waved his hand and said: "Alright, for the sake of you having lent me money."
Constantine snapped his fingers, and clusters of flames appeared in front of him; he waved his hand forward, the flames lined up in a straight line, and then formed a circular shape in the air.
The flames landed with a "hu" sound, and with a "teng" sound, the flames shot up; the moment the lines between all the flames connected, Bruce felt that the world in front of him had changed its appearance.
All the furniture and walls around were twisting, emitting different lights, as if it were a visual effect after being poisoned by taking some hallucinogenic agents.
Bruce shook his head hard; he heard that when the kind of singing from Aisha's mouth rang out, it was no longer just the simple nursery rhyme from before, but also accompanied by a kind of ethereal and weird cackling sound.
Suddenly, a weird scream came; Bruce looked up; he saw black monsters with wings flying in between the twisted ceiling patterns; they wanted to land on Aisha's head and shoulders, but were grabbed down by her, and then put into her mouth.
The scream was incomparably harsh; almost instantly, it broke Bruce's hallucination; what he saw when he looked down again was the innocent Aisha.
He took a deep breath, calmed his mood, looked at Constantine, and asked: "Is this the world in your eyes?"
"Not entirely; I only occasionally use this kind of vision; what you just saw wasn't a hallucination, but another real world; we call it the Spirit Realm."
"You must be able to skillfully release magic in this world without being disturbed by anything, otherwise you might be swallowed by this piece of world forever."
"So, what on earth is she singing? And what is that kind of black monster?" Constantine also asked very confusedly; he just wanted to walk forward, when he heard the sound of a shotgun being loaded; he retreated two steps, extended his hands and said: "No, don't, don't point the gun at me, I won't get close to her."
"That is a nursery rhyme." Bruce understood that in the current situation, he was afraid he couldn't solve it alone; fortunately, he was not the lone wolf riddler of the future now; after a few phone calls, Constantine, Hal, and Schiller appeared in the hall of Wei En Manor.
These few people were users of special energy that Bruce knew now, all had experience in using quasi-magic energy, and also had some understanding of occultism.
Schiller hugged Aisha and sat on the sofa; he used the vision of the gray fog to look, didn't find any abnormality; Hal's Green Lantern ring scan couldn't be used on Parallax, but he still dutifully checked Dick, and the scan result showed that he hadn't been affected by anything either.
"Let me think..." Schiller hugged Aisha and sat on the sofa; he put Aisha aside, stroked her hair with his hand and said: "I know, the darkness and chaos in Cat Getan are not entirely because of the system."
"After all, Blüdhaven, which is very close to here and has a completely identical system, doesn't have this problem, which means that there must be a mysterious power hidden inside Cat Getan."
"Actually, I've been thinking, what on earth are they using to control this city; rain alone is actually not enough."
"Now it seems that they might have created a nursery rhyme; this nursery rhyme might not just be a simple song; it contains some occult power, so even though the lyrics are difficult and the tune is complex, it can still spread among children."
"Children who sing this nursery rhyme might summon those dark monsters; however, because not everyone can see the situation in the Spirit Realm that Constantine mentioned, they will be affected by those dark monsters without knowing it."
"Even without investigation, it should be known that those monsters certainly wouldn't teach them to study hard; the energy of these dark monsters might make all the children in Cat Getan become more irritable and evil."
"I really find it hard to imagine." Hal concluded: "Do they not have any morality and conscience? How can they... to children..."
Hal likes children very much; during the time he traveled between Cat Getan and the Green Lantern Corps headquarters, he would occasionally go to the vocational education school in the Living Hell to tell them knowledge about airplanes.
At first, he also had a headache about this group of children being naughty and not listening to the teacher's instructions, but when he told some stories of legendary pilots, the pure light of longing in the children's eyes wouldn't lie.
"I have always believed that every child has the possibility of becoming better." Hal touched Dick's head and said: "Their background is very rotten, but as long as they receive education, they will definitely become better; at least they won't be worse than now."
"However, Cat Getan has experienced many generations, and it has never become better." Bruce rested his elbows on his knees, then placed the side of his palm on his mouth; he said: "In so many generations, it's not that no one has entered Cat Getan University to receive education, and some even went to good universities in other cities."
"Many of them returned to Cat Getan, but without exception, they didn't bring any good changes to this city, but like a drop of water returning to its source, after merging into the river, they disappeared."
"So, if you want to truly reduce crime, you must first solve this problem." The muscles on both sides of Bruce's nose twitched, making him appear a bit cold; whenever he revealed this kind of expression, Schiller could see the shadow of the mature Batman of the future on him.
"Aisha can eat that kind of monster." Constantine thought and said: "However, if you rely on her singing and eating, I'm afraid it's very difficult to eat up all the dark power in Cat Getan."
"Eat! Delicious! Aisha eat!" Aisha started shouting again; children of this age are always hungry very quickly; no matter whether what she eats is human food or not, not even an hour has passed, and she is hungry again.
Watching Aisha about to start singing, Constantine extended his hand again; flames fell; Hal dodged the flame, and then said: "Wow, cool!"
Constantine smiled proudly; just when he wanted to say something, Aisha's singing had already rung out.
In the Spirit Realm vision, Aisha's singing was mixed with a kind of cackling sound that made people's teeth ache, as if some giant object was grinding its teeth; Schiller listened carefully, and he found this kind of sound a bit familiar; isn't this the sound of Parallax grinding its teeth before?
No wonder Aisha could eat monsters one by one; it's just that her body size has shrunk now, and she doesn't have such a big mouth; if she were still that yellow source of fear, Parallax, she could eat more than one monster in one bite.
Following the magic array playing its role, Schiller's vision also began to change, but soon stabilized again, just with a layer of blue-gray filter; the gray fog said in his brain: "Detected a change in the information transmitted by the visual nerve, already adjusted back to the normal picture."
So, Schiller could see the true appearance of that kind of monster more clearly than others; others looked at those monsters, they were just a mass of black mist with wings, but Schiller could see clearly that they were flying owls.
And they were not ordinary owls; only the skeletons remained, but the feathers on the body still tenaciously adhered to the skeletons; green flames erupted in the eye sockets of the skulls, wings carried black energy trails behind them, and when circling in the air, they would emit harsh screams, just like people giggling.
Watching them circle and approach Aisha, Schiller snorted coldly, staring at that group of monsters.
He slowly picked up the parasol in his hand; the energy from Knull collected in the Marvel world was released from the gray fog, transmitted along the parasol all the way to the tip of the umbrella.
The crowd attracted by his movements gathered their gazes; they saw Schiller wave his parasol, point at the owls in the sky, and shout:
"Expecto Patronum!"
End of Chapter
