The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Peter listened in confusion and basically didn't understand anything. Although he was not interested in occultism, he still wanted to know what was going on and why were there two Constantines? What is the relationship between the two of them? What are they talking about with this Dr. Sohip?

Peter certainly couldn't figure it out himself, but he knew he had a powerful helper, so he returned to the black sun and asked his question in the most pious manner possible.

Soon a lot of knowledge was stuffed into his brain. Peter sighed painfully and sat on the ground trying to digest the complex occult knowledge.

After he had read almost everything, he realized that all this knowledge was about John Constantine.

Constantine was special.

This is what all the information is trying to express, and the principle should probably start with the grudges between heaven and hell.

In short, countless universes in Constantine's world share the same heaven and hell. The battle for believers in heaven and hell in the human world does not only occur in one universe, but is ongoing in all universes at the same time.

However, due to certain factors, Heaven and Hell cannot treat the human world as a hot war battlefield, but their Cold War has never stopped, including faith wars, information wars, and countless proxy wars, large and small.

This situation lasted for a long time, until one day, the Archangel in Heaven and the Demon King in Hell decided that this could not go on any longer, and that we should sit down and talk to compete in a more civilized and fair way.

This way is Constantine.

Constantine itself is a black box used for gambling, and his soul is given special permissions. No devil in heaven or hell can open the box to see the power components inside, and can only place blind bets.

To put it simply, no one in heaven or hell knows how much power others lent to Constantine, nor does they know the specific content of the contract between them. Everyone signs and borrows blindly.

And when Constantine dies, the black box will be opened, and the person who bets the most will take away everything, including Constantine's special soul, and what others have invested in him.

This is a big gambling tournament between heaven and hell, and Constantine is just a card table.

In order to ensure the fairness of the competition, no one is allowed to use force to instill power into Constantine's body, and must obtain the consent of Constantine himself.

But how could angels and demons not take advantage of this?

They first used their influence in the human world to cause trouble for Constantine, such as sending demons or clergy to cause disasters and guide Constantine to solve them. In order to save people, Constantine had to borrow power from them, and naturally he would By agreeing to make a contract with them and accept their power, angels and demons have a legitimate chance to follow suit.

The reason why angels and demons are deceived by him again and again is just because they keep following the bets.

Schiller discovered this earlier than Constantine, for he had tried to repay his debts for Constantine, while Constantine had never thought of doing so.

Constantine has been defaulting on his debts. Most of his work in this half of his life has revolved around how to default on his debts. There is no Constantine in the universe who intends to repay the debts honestly, and no one will pay off the debts for Constantine. Xi Le was the first.

Schiller paid it for him, so the moment he paid the debt, he discovered that Constantine had no debt, he was just a prop used in the game between heaven and hell.

Of course, no one took the initiative to tell Schiller this. They pretended to accept the energy paid by Schiller, but Schiller discovered that when he paid off Constantine's debt, he was equivalent to inheriting Constantine's position. , demons and angels can bet on him.

As for how he discovered it, we have to mention the mystical knowledge about the universe that Schiller learned at a French manor.

In fact, this was not Schiller's first contact with occultism, but his first contact with occultism occurred earlier than anyone imagined. It happened in a previous life.

There is a special group of people in Schiller's palace of thought. They are neither doctors nor professors, and have nothing to do with psychology at all. They usually do not appear in the corridors of the tower, but are scattered in various rooms.

This group of Schillers have one attribute in common - they are on the magic side.

There was no magic in the world where Schiller lived in his previous life, but this does not mean that Schiller cannot study mysticism, or that he is destined to study mysticism, because what happened to him can no longer be explained by science.

Autism in childhood interfered with the development of Schiller's abilities, and the busyness of his youth also left him no time to investigate what his powerful strength was.

When he finally achieved a higher social status and had a more stable life, he could finally start to study what was going on with all the extraordinary things about himself. Normally, it is impossible for someone to imagine out of thin air that they were thrown into this world by God, so Schiller's first suspicion was genes.

There were many outstanding scholars in his working environment, including many geneticists. After conducting a series of investigations, Schiller found that it should have nothing to do with it.

Then there was the inquiry into mental problems, but he was a psychologist himself, and he knew that his abilities were far beyond the scope of schizophrenia fantasies, and actually existed in this world.

After investigating all the scientific possibilities, even if Schiller didn't want to believe it, he had to suspect that there might really be magic in this world.

So after he had achieved great success in psychology, psychoanalysis and research, he chose to follow the same path as Newton and began to study theology.

Schiller spent about five years traveling around the world, dabbling in history, religion, theology, mysticism, and folklore, mainly to find out if there were any records that contained information about his abilities.

In the end, of course, nothing was gained.

There was a lot of information that could be matched, and the evidence that could be found was very rare, and there was none that was true and conclusive. Until Schiller's plane crashed, this was still an unsolved case.

Because this is the longest and most information-rich intelligence collection work in Schiller's life, and the way of thinking required to collect this information is completely different from previous academic research and scientific investigations, there is a dedicated personality to carry out this task. type research.

They must abandon the previous rigorous, professional, and solid evidence-based research methods as reference and theoretical basis, and use a more abstract, more dependent on association, and infinitely close to subjective idealism method to conduct such research, and this is how it was born. A group of personalities.

Of course, idealism has always been the enemy of scientific research, and doctors are even more taboo about "I don't want you to feel, I want what I feel", so this group of personalities almost never appear in the tower, and there are rooms specially customized for them. , basically in line with their attributes.

For example, the Professor Schiller in the Hogwarts room is actually one of the Schillers on the magic side. His main research direction is the magical images that appear in famous literature and film and television works. The code name of the personality is also in the usual sense. The "magician".

Of course, there are also "doctors" representing philosophy and history, "agents" for social folklore, "bishops" for religion and theology, and some more abstract "inspirations," "fallacies," "balance," etc. .

It was they who discovered that Schiller's own existence had changed after repaying Constantine's debt, and therefore deduced the general direction of the matter. After later confirmation with Lucifer, it was proved that this was indeed the case.

After Schiller planned to change his identity, these personalities that had nothing to do with psychology, or even science as a whole, could finally rise to the level of conscious control of the body.

And after confirming the linkage between the two universes, Schiller got his own new origin story in both DC and Marvel, and the key words of the origin story are magician, doctor, agent and bishop.

But Schiller is not the only one who has guessed the truth. In the DC universe where he lives, Constantine, who has restored health and freedom, also realizes that Schiller has replaced his own after discovering that he cannot communicate with any angels and demons at all. The person has become the black box for betting between heaven and hell.

The Constantine of the fused Earth came to New York to hide from Dr. Sohip, while Schiller came to the fused Earth to hide from the Constantine of his universe.

Again, whether it is Batman or Constantine, regardless of what they have experienced, they are not normal people. Just because they are physically and mentally healthy does not mean that they can become a person of universal significance. Good friendly people.

Dr. Sohip then received a call from Constantine who merged with the Earth.

"Who the hell are you?!" His voice sounded angry as he said, "Why are you investigating me? Why are you turning out this number?! Do you know what this means?"

"This represents a mistake you have made." His tone was very slow, still containing a wonderful sense of rhythm, and it sounded like a pious prayer.

The voice on the other side suddenly stopped, and after a long while, Constantine said: "You don't understand, I have no choice."

"Of course I understand." The doctor pressed one hand on the stone slab with a solemn expression and dark eyes, as if he was listening to the confession of a believer. He said: "You had no choice when the incident happened. Is the same after the incident ended?"

"I feel very guilty for this, but you, or any demon or angel standing behind you, have no position or qualification to accuse me of this matter, because you are the culprits."

Without waiting for a response, Constantine continued: "Listen, do me a favor. I need to summon a city, but I have no relevant experience. You need to go to the library of All Souls College, Oxford University, and help me. Find a supernatural case in a vanished town.”