Chapter 154 37. I am a small candle burning and burning
"Mason, I found Jack! He's up ahead."
On the small motorcycle passing through the abandoned city at low altitude, Barbara behind Mason looked at the signal positioning of the arm computer, and said to Mason and Ertuan:
"They're in the abandoned high-rise up ahead, and Mary Jane and Peter Parker are there."
"etc!"
Er Tong suddenly asked:
"When did you put locators on them?"
"Need to say?"
Mason twisted the handlebar to accelerate towards the miserable high-rise ruins ahead, and said casually:
"Of course, when we first met them, the lack of spider senses made it possible for us to put a locator on Spider-Man. You have been with Batman for several years, why would you ask such a stupid question? "
"Not just them."
Barbara reminds:
"Everyone we met along the way had locators placed on them, and most of them were placed by me.
This is a very effective detection method. For example, I can see Mayor Jameson leading a large group of people out of the shelter to help. "
"Take them back!"
Mason exhorted:
"They can't deal with the mutated zombies in this city. If they have to come out, they should go back to Mary Jane's office. I left a box of zombie vaccines there.
Although I don’t know if I can deal with this more dangerous virus, it’s better than doing nothing.
I'm going in!
Jason, cheer up, it's a little too quiet inside. "
"click"
Two barrels of bullets were loaded, and the scooter flew into the abandoned high-rise building in a cool and unrestrained manner along the broken window, intending to send a wave of magical soldiers, and the muzzles of their guns were even aimed at the front.
Then, the three members of Team K went numb on the spot.
The dual levels of physics and magic are numb.
A demon's debilitating magic was thrown head-on at them.
In this abandoned hall, there are not only Mary Jane, who is holding her daughter, and the middle-aged Spiderman standing next to them, but also Captain Jack, who is sitting on the side smoking a suffocating cigarette with a beaten nose and bruised face.
And the demon knight Jason Brad, who was sitting on the tattered sofa with a straight waist, a knight sword in his hand, and cold eyes.
Okay.
These are the little mice that ran headlong into the old cat's paws.
It is definitely too late to run this distance, the oppressive aura of the demon knight has already pressed on the three of them.
As if being locked by a Tyrannosaurus rex, as long as the three of Mason made the slightest movement, the knight sword full of cold light would definitely hit a certain position on their bodies.
"Mason Cooper!"
The demon knight sitting on the abandoned sofa didn't waste any time, let alone play hard-to-get tricks.
He said directly:
"Come here! I need to talk to you."
"Let me confirm first."
Mason moved his paralyzed fingers, twisted the key of the scooter to turn it off, and signaled Ertu and Barbara with his eyes to put down their weapons and not to panic.
The fact that the dangerous guy in front of him didn't attack immediately shows that things are still turning around.
He said to the Demon Rider:
"You're not going to beat us up now and ask us to take you back and put us on the Justice League bench, are you?"
"Hard to say."
The devil knight said in a cold voice:
"It depends on how much information you choose to hide when you talk to me next. If you are honest enough and my questions can be answered, maybe there is a second way between us.
You have worked so hard to bring me here, don’t you just want me to see the scene under the doomsday with my own eyes? I can probably guess what you want to express.
So I'll tell you, Mason Cooper, things are a little bit better.
But it's not up to me. "
"Boom"
Just as Brad finished speaking, the whole city shook violently again.
This time it was even more exaggerated. When Mason looked back, he saw several tall buildings on the edge of the city collapsing amidst Mary Jane's exclamation.
The little girl in her arms screamed in fright, and Spider-Man reached out and hugged the two girls in his arms.
He looked at the distance where the smoke and dust splashed, and the seriousness in his eyes became more and more depressed.
The earthquake intensified.
The time left for them to act is getting less and less.
"Mason!"
Peter cried out:
"Get your business over with, and we're off right away! There's no waiting any longer."
"Um."
Mason nodded, and after the earthquake subsided, he made a "please" gesture to Jason Brad, ready to go to the next room to talk with him.
But when the devil knight got up, he waved his hand and exposed the two guys who had been bound in the darkness to everyone.
Those are Rhino and Scorpion, the two guys are sitting in the twisted steel like idiots, showing foolish smiles at a group of people and still drooling.
"I have interrogated them, and the act of extracting thoughts may be a bit rough but it works well."
The demon knight said with a blank face:
"Their task is to cooperate with a guy named 'Vulture' to find you in the city and kill you. To be precise, kill you, Mason Cooper.
It appears that your peers hate you more than we care about you. "
"I work in an organization that is full of big villains, and all I can say is that I'm not surprised."
Mason snorted and said:
"But it's a good thing, it means I won't feel the slightest bit of guilt when I cut off Sandstorm's head. After all, everyone saw it, and he did it first."
Rhino and Scorpion were not killed.
Although they kidnapped Xiaomei Parker, they didn't hurt her but protected her from the zombie attack.
Although not out of good intentions.
But this act of protection itself earned them the chance to survive the sword of the Demon Knight.
But the battle armor on their bodies has been damaged and looks bad, covered with scorching marks of flames and miserable sword marks. When these two unlucky **** were thrown out, they looked like they were lying on garbage.
When he saw the two kinds of engineering combat uniforms, Mason's eyes lit up and he gestured to Barbara.
Batgirl understood immediately.
Although the contact time is not long, Barbara already has a certain understanding of Mason's peculiar "collection addiction", and he has taken a fancy to these two armors.
Although it doesn’t look very advanced, it’s still great for minions to use.
While Mason was talking with the Demon Knight, Barbara was collecting and processing the armor, and the middle-aged Spider-Man was saying goodbye to his wife and daughter, Er Tuan also walked up to the bruised and swollen Captain Jack and said to him:
"Jack, you don't need to follow us to attack that tower, you have a new mission."
"Huh? Can I just say that's good news?"
Captain Jack, who was covered in bales and was saved from being roasted by the devil because he confessed in time, twitched his mouth and said:
"Mason who treats people like livestock will be so kind? Tell me, what do you want the great Captain Jack Sparrow to do for you?"
"You are also one of 'us'."
Ertong snorted, sat next to Jack and took out his own gun while disassembling and maintaining it, and said:
"You're going back to the shelter.
In the name of Team K, negotiate with the underground people, and Dr. Connors will assist you.
While we're fighting the Hydra squad, you'll have to find a way to sneak those lizards down the sewers into the city and cause chaos.
There are a lot of minions over there.
It's your job to delay them and create confusion, and Mason asked me to give this to you. "
Er Tuan took out an exquisite sculpture of a black three-headed dog from his pocket and handed it to Captain Jack, whispering:
"Leaving it for your self-defense, the opening word is 'Maomao, come help me'. Jarcon has cast a curse on it, it will not attack the person holding the statue, but you'd better be careful.
Try not to use it if you can. "
"Well, I am good at instigating and negotiating!"
He stroked his chin and said:
"I think I can bring in more than a support army. Oh, just wait and see, the omnipotent Captain Jack will give you a surprise!"
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In the room next to the abandoned hall, Mason who walked into it pricked up his ears and could hear Mary Jane yelling at the silent Peter Parker, scolding him for going to die!
Although the words were very blunt, the concern and worry were beyond words.
This made Mason feel that no matter what world line or background, the relationship between Peter Parker and Mary Jane is always so intricate and disconnected.
Alas, another fairy love that makes people feel like eating a ton of lemons
"What would you like to talk with me?"
He withdrew his attention from the pair of obsessive men and women, and looked at the demon knight Jason Bullard in front of him.
The latter has taken back his knight sword dotted with demon heads, and is standing by the broken window looking at the dead and ominous city in front of him.
It's like standing on the corpse of a decayed giant and imagining what it would be like when it was still alive. The act alone is tragic enough.
"It's not about what I want to talk about, Mason."
Facing Mason's inquiry, Brad said without looking back:
"The question is what are you trying to tell me?
You brought me into this world, you showed me the real apocalypse, you tried to show me that even within your organization there are different .'factions'?
Or called different thinking.
You are obviously hostile to your colleagues in this world. They want to kill you, and the purpose of your coming here is probably not so peaceful. "
The Demon Knight paused.
He said:
"Are you going to show me another possibility regarding your identities?"
"Not to show, but to explain."
Mason leaned against a broken cabinet and said:
"The last time the Justice League was able to thwart the actions of the Stars in our world was because of Constantine's warning, you might as well guess who took the risk to get those messages from the intruders?
I know that in the face of the survival of a world, no matter how deceptive language is meaningless, so I use actions to prove my ideas.
And you have seen my sincerity with your own eyes.
Let's put it this way, Jason Bullard. "
The young man rubbed his forehead and said:
"I am the 'undercover' sent by you. Although you didn't do it, it is the truth. The K team is lurking in the stars to observe their every move and give you timely feedback. Our last cooperation was very successful.
We can continue to replicate this success.
The premise is that you have to keep it secret for us.
Once there are too many people who know anything, there is no secret at all, not to mention, the stars probably still have 'eyes' in our world.
I can only invite you here in this way.
Jackson told me you were trustworthy"
"He wouldn't say that kind of thing. Constantine wished that I would die. After all, I was also one of his 'creditors'."
The demon knight showed a sinister smile and said:
"But I probably understand what you mean, Mason Cooper. Let me ask you, did Batman send you to lurk in this organization called 'The Club of Stars'?"
"No, no one told me to do it, not even myself."
Mason answered truthfully:
"All of this was just an accident, but now I suspect as much as you do that Batman has actually guessed the true identity of Team K. The reason why he didn't mention this is probably because he wanted to wait for a suitable time.
If I'm not mistaken, he's also preventing you from revealing our identities, right? "
"You really know him very well, just as he trusts you."
The demon knight shook his head, no longer entangled in this problem, he looked at the city full of zombies and death in front of him, and after a few seconds of silence, he opened his mouth and said:
"If your interception failed last time, will what happened here be repeated in our world?"
"High probability!"
Mason walked to the window and stood with the devil knight, and said with a serious expression:
"Once, I thought our world was stronger than those weaker worlds, enough to protect itself from such 'pollution'.
But it turns out I was still too young.
Look at the city in front of you, Jason Bullard.
The world once had superheroes no less powerful than the Justice League, and even after their defeat the half-dead world would still be a ruin for Stellaris recruiting fighters.
Power alone cannot stop them.
As the old saying goes, a dynasty crushed by an enemy may rise again, but a world that collapses from within will never be buried.
Conspiracy, demagogy, provocation, they have too many weapons to use.
They don't even have to open their mouths!
Just put the cruel reality we have seen in front of us, and there will naturally be people with unstable minds who give up their resistance on the grounds of "protecting the weak and continuing existence". "
Mason looked at the demon knight beside him and said:
"I think we should learn some lessons from the stories of this world, and I hope that these lessons will be relayed not in my name but in yours to those who trust you.
This may be the best we can get from today's conversation.
Of course, making you give up hunting us is also part of this achievement. "
"Then I still have a lot to see."
Jason Bullard shook his head and said:
“I need to take a trip in this world, and use my eyes to record the lessons and experiences that this world wants to teach us.
Take a truce, Mason Cooper.
I will not pressure you until you have done what you have to do, but when I decide to return to our world, you must go back with me to face those who sent me.
Those who can determine the future of our world.
Those who stand with Batman and the Justice League! "
"I accept."
Mason took a step back.
Thanks a lot for the sanity of this powerful demon knight, but then he pulled his sleeve to reveal the tattoo on his arm, reminding:
"But you want to go through that door again, and that's the price! You've got to be one of them, and you've got to be one of us."
"Let me see it."
The demon knight bent down and stared at Mason's arm. He didn't use magic to detect it like Zack Kang, but his eyes from **** could see a lot of ways.
His brows were tightly wrinkled, and after a few seconds, he said:
"It seems that the price of 'going home' is high. I'd better retain this power for the time being. I will write a letter that cannot be forged and hand it to you, so that you can take it back for me."
"Would a life as powerful as yours be afraid of this curse?"
Mason raised his eyebrows and asked.
The Demon Knight looked up at him and said:
"Aren't you afraid?
That just means you haven't really realized how much trouble you've gotten into. Let me explain this thing to you in simpler and easier to understand words
Compared to continuing to let you keep it, perhaps it would be an easier ending for you to be stabbed to death by my sword now.
You and your team have become Candles, Mason. "
"Candle?"
Mason asked a question.
The demon knight nodded and explained softly:
"This is a popular saying in hell, to the effect that it burns oneself and illuminates others.
Those powerful demons or demons will look for many, many candles in the world, and bind their existence with their own.
Each candle is lit to make it stronger, and it can never die or fail until the last candle is extinguished.
You are just one of thousands of candles.
And if you want to get back the souls of yourself and your friends, you will eventually have to fight that horrible thing. "
After finishing speaking, the Demon Knight looked at Mason seriously and said:
"You have embarked on a road of resistance that cannot be turned back, good luck.
As for me, I thought about it. Compared with that curse, it might be easier for me to stay in this different world for a long time for my already troubled life.
Anyway, I don't like our 'hometown' much. "
(end of this chapter)