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Huge stone statues are arranged in a certain pattern and stand in the temple in front of you.

Multiple giant columns carved with various patterns are supported on the left and right sides of the splendid palace.

Under the feet is a solid ground like gold, and in the sky above the head is a light source that emits colorful light.

An ancient and wild atmosphere spread across the floor, gorgeous, solemn, sacred, luxurious and majestic. Various adjectives could not fully describe the majestic palace in front of them. When everyone looked up at these huge stone statues, under these feet In front of a stone statue more than ten meters high, the members of Task Force X standing here at this moment are like tiny dwarfs.

"What is this place?"

The captain of the boomerang still kept throwing the darts. He turned his head and looked around with a dazed look on his face. The huge palace was like a palace built for the kingdom of giants. Looking up, down, left, right, front and back, there was an endless expanse. Of course, this is an exaggeration, but a conservative estimate is that this huge palace has a huge area of ​​at least several thousand square meters.

Suddenly passing through a narrow cave passage and arriving at a place like this, anyone would probably have an extremely unreal and absurd feeling.

cave?Wait

He suddenly looked back a second time and yelled.

"Fake! Our way here is gone!"

This shout made everyone come back to their senses.

Floyd turned around and rushed over, but there was only a wall in front of him. Where was the dark cave?After groping on the splendid wall, his face became increasingly ugly.

"What exactly is going on?"

He punched the wall, and there was a dull echo. The neatly arranged brick wall seemed to be made of some kind of gem-like material. It had a crystal clear appearance on the outside, but it was not pure inside. It is transparent but has a bright metallic texture like gold. Floyd has never seen this kind of material before. Could it be that it was created by alien technology.

"Deadshot, you have to calm down."

Bruce took a step forward and whispered.

"I am fine."

Maintaining the posture of hitting the wall with his fist for two seconds, Floyd took a deep breath, a hint of haze flashed in his eyes, and slowly retracted his movement.

Although no scary enemies or traps have appeared in this ghost place so far, this completely unpredictable development makes people feel even more chilled down their spines.

In contrast, Floyd would rather have some scary monster or a swarm of vampire bats pop out, so at least they can still fight head-on. But at this moment, not only did Killer Frost Caitlin disappear inexplicably, but also the The road disappeared as if it had never existed. This result really made him feel a little unacceptable.

"Waller. Can you still hear me?"

He put his hands around his ears and spoke in a low voice through the headset.

"It's okay, but Foid, you have to get your things as soon as possible. Time is running out."

From the headset, there was some intermittent noise from Waller.

"Is this a treasure trove?"

Freud turned his attention to Constantine.

"Since the gold-seeking bug stopped here, it means that there is likely to be some treasure hidden here, but I am not 100% sure. Maybe the special wavelength comes from the palace itself. After all, I have never I’ve seen a place like this, these stone statues, hmm?”

Constantine took a few steps forward and came to the nearest giant stone statue in front of him. He bent down and picked up a crescent-shaped boomerang.

"What I said, don't act rashly."

He turned back and glanced at Captain Boomerang with an unfriendly expression.

The other party shrugged disapprovingly.

"Isn't this okay? I think everyone can spread out and search to see if there is really any incredible treasure hidden here."

Apparently he had already made up his mind.

"After all, it's so big here."

"He's right. Let's search separately. The signal link here with the outside world is very unstable. We have to race against time. If it takes too long, if our signal is cut off, I don't need to say more about the consequences. .”

Floyd had a gloomy expression on his face.

"Guys, I discovered something."

At this moment, Bruce's voice came.

Everyone looked at him, and they didn't know when he and Harley Quinn had started exploring the hall. The former was seriously observing everything around him, while the latter was jumping around like a happy child and marveling at the things in the hall. Various furnishings and giant stone statues on display.

"Constantine, I need you to come over and take a look."

Bruce greeted.

Walking forward, Constantine came to the column supporting the sky where Bruce stood. His pupils glanced away and saw many complex and colorful scenes engraved on the huge column, which seemed to describe some kind of ancient What happened, you can see many villain-like depictions and even grotesque creatures, as well as very huge ferocious monsters.

"This seems to be a scene describing the battle of gods."

Constantine frowned, as if he had a vague realization. He quickly looked around at the sky-supporting column in front of him, then moved quickly and looked at the other ones, and his expression gradually became very serious. eccentric.

"How could this be?"

"what happened?"

Bruce followed, and he also felt that these murals engraved on the columns should record some unknown legendary history.

"I know where we are. This is the center of this dimensional space. Look at the description on this mural. The gods once built sixteen huge statues here to commemorate the ancient war. Among them, the bravest and most powerful heroes believed that even if they fell, the spirits of these heroes would continue to live on forever, so they built this temple and these stone statues to suppress the evil set by the gods. seal."

"guard?"

Bruce's expression became alarmed.

"You mean guarding? So where are Cain and Dracula?"

Constantine frowned and stared at the mural for a while, then slowly turned his head and cast his gaze towards the end of the hall.

"The strange thing is that the meaning depicted on these murals does not seem to be the story of sealing the true ancestor of the blood clan. Look at these giant monster-like guys. Although they have descriptions of the ancient blood clan, they are not everything. Others include There are many other unknown monsters, plus warriors from various races in ancient times. Although the scene depicted is a shocking battle, in the end"

Constantine frowned, held his chin with his left hand, and quickly looked at the other sky-supporting columns one by one, and his expression began to change more and more wonderfully.

For a long time, he seemed to be stunned.

"How is this possible"

"what is the problem?"

Bruce followed him behind him, and felt very strange when he saw his dazed look. This was a rare behavior for Constantine, who was usually fearless.

"No, no, the seal here does not restrict Cain and Dracula at all. What is depicted on these murals is inconsistent with the ancient history I know."

"What's so strange about this? There are certain differences between legends and reality. Isn't this the case throughout the ages?"

Freud and others also noticed Constantine's abnormal behavior not far away. He came closer and said smoothly.

"Instead of studying these things that no longer exist here, it is better to quickly find where the magic lamp is."

But before he could finish his urging words, he was rudely interrupted by Constantine.

"No! Things shouldn't be like this. The history I know shouldn't be false. Even if there are indeed discrepancies, they shouldn't be so different."

"This is not a place to seal the true ancestor of the blood clan at all. Cain and Dracula are just a cover."

He turned his body and even started to trot quickly, constantly casting his eyes on all the sky-supporting columns in the hall.As if in a daze.

Others were a little confused and didn't know what trick Constantine wanted to play.

"I said, you almost deserve it"

Freud frowned for a while, and was about to step forward to stop Constantine's weird behavior, but the other party paused before he could finish his words.

"This is indeed a place of sealing, but its fundamental purpose is not to seal Cain and Dracula. I understand."

Constantine murmured to himself, his expression suddenly became terrifying.

"I understand--"

"What do you understand?"

Bruce was also a little confused. He didn't know what Constantine discovered that could make the mage's face look so ugly.

"This is not a place to seal Cain and Dracula at all. What is sealed here is actually Gaia."

Constantine took a deep breath and said something almost growling.

This made the other team members who were watching him look at each other.

"If you put all the murals together, you will see this picture."

Constantine pointed with his big hand, and Bruce looked up according to his pointing. The column they were now under was carved with dense reliefs. Compared with other supporting columns, the mural on this column seemed to be the most complex.

What is carved on this sky-supporting pillar is a picture of gods in the sky, looking down at a round planet below.

Among them, the extraordinary gods have different shapes, including winged men with multiple wings, heavenly generals with three heads and six arms holding spears, giants holding divine hammers, or even giants with the head of a human and the body of a snake. Without exception, they all aimed their magical powers or weapons at the planet below. They could see countless faint linear stripes linking the power of the gods to the planet.

"What does this painting represent?"

Bruce asked.

"If my guess is correct, this sculpture represents the seal of Gaia."

Constantine spoke in a deep voice and took a step back.

"The power of the gods turned into chains, and the chains bound the entire planet. The symbol represented the meaning of imprisoning the entire planet. But a planet without any 'self', why does it need to use all the power of the gods? Why go to such trouble to imprison it? I finally understood that sealing the True Ancestor of the Vampire Clan is useless at all, or in other words, it is not the most fundamental solution. Because the creator of the True Ancestor is Gaia, even if Dracula is sealed And Cain, even if there is no intervention from God, even if all the twelve true ancestors are dead, as long as the Gaia consciousness still exists, it can still create another group of special beings to destroy mankind. So the choice of the gods is Blocking off the source of this possibility.”

Constantine stood in front of the supporting column, looking up at the 'Charm of the Stars Locked by the Gods'.

"That is, to seal the 'special' origin and existence of Gaia."

Everyone looked at Constantine's dazed look and couldn't help but frown.

"I said, Mr. Constantine, are you kidding us? Does this earth still have its own consciousness? How stupid does it take to believe that a planet can have its own consciousness?"

Captain Boomerang George couldn't believe this unbelievable thing, so he mocked.

But when he saw that the others were silent, he couldn't help but frown.

"Hey, hey, you guys really believe this guy's lies, right?"

"Is there any record about the magic lamp mentioned here? It stands to reason that if this kind of magical object that can fulfill any wish is really buried here, it should be depicted on these murals, right?"

Weather Wizard Mark didn't care about Gaia's consciousness and Earth's consciousness. As a gangster, he didn't care about this kind of thing at all. Now he wants to know about the legendary magic lamp [Isoudare] mentioned by Amanda Waller. ·Sha, Nun] is not here.

"So, is this any different from sealing Cain and Dracula?"

Freud also frowned, looking at the mural that Constantine pointed to, wondering what the difference was.

"Haha, do you know how big a deal the existence of Gaia's seal is? Damn Mephistopheles deceived me. At first, I thought that [Gaia] was just an 'unconscious' part of this planet. This kind of manifestation represents the potential thinking of the planet itself. This kind of consciousness is scattered. For example, it is like we humans have countless nerve cells, but only ours truly controls the special power of 'wisdom'. It's just the brain, our arms, and our thighs don't have their own thinking or their own 'wisdom'. At most, they can only produce simple conditioned reflexes when they receive certain stimulation. For example, when a virus invades, they in turn call us. immune system in the body to kill the virus.”

"what do you mean"

Bruce narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Yes, the situation is much more than just 'conditioned reflex'."

Constantine's face darkened.He stared at the mural relief on the column in front of him and spoke slowly, word for word.

"The gods will use all their strength to seal Gaia. This means that Gaia is not a manifestation of potential consciousness at all. It has an entity, or it is the brain of this planet. It is a real 'Intelligent life form'."