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There is a strong earthy smell permeating the depths of this old forest, and the fog also permeates the darkness, as if the entire night world has been covered with a mysterious curtain, thus blocking it. The original truth.

The trees began to become twisted, and every tree in the mist was crooked, like a group of tall old men with their heads lowered and their waists bent, or like the guardians of the "green of all things". But they are not swamp monsters, and swamp monsters will not come here. On the contrary, "All Greens" even appointed a swamp monster to warn Constantine not to approach this stagnant pool.

It seems like a taboo here.

Constantine knew this place many years ago, when he heard many legends about the Billabong Pool.

Some people say that there is a group of vampires living here. They have mutated here and can even lurk in the water like fish. They will attract some curious idiots, then drag them into the water and sacrifice them to the lair hidden at the bottom of the billabong. The vampire queen.

Some people say that this was the last refuge for Indians to stop the slaughter of hunters, but they never came out again. The hunters who chased the Indians also disappeared. Only black flowers floated on the quiet water. superior.

Some people say that a famous criminal thief once hid a treasure here. He betrayed his brother and took the treasure by himself, but he had no chance to live and drink. For a vengeance had begun to brew, until he died at the hands of his brothers and was thrown into a lagoon. Two weeks later, the criminal thief walked out of the stagnant pool. He came back to life. In other words, he was more like a stinking living dead, but he lost his original soul and was left with only an empty shell.

Some people say that there once lived here a pervert who specialized in killing children, and he eventually died at the hands of a group of children. The perverted corpse's stomach was cut open, stones were added, and it was sewn back together. Finally, the corpse was thrown into the stagnant pool. The ending of this story is similar to the previous one, and it also ends with the pervert being resurrected in a terrifying state of the living dead.

No one knows if these stories are true or not, or if they are all true. They all happened here, and the corpses of the dead were thrown into the pool, but they all left again.

Leaving in a subtle and strange manner.

And there is indeed some kind of mysterious power contained here. There is no doubt that that power is powerful enough to scare away countless famous magicians.

And it is precisely because of the power of these terrifying legends and evil spirits that the people of Gotham and the locals prefer to call it the Slaughter Swamp.

This is indeed appropriate.

Constantine swatted a mosquito to death. He bit the cigarette butt in disgust and saw more scalp-numbing mosquito shadows flying around in the mist.

Just when Constantine began to suspect that the people here seemed to be bitten to death by these swarms of mosquitoes, Diana stopped.

And Constantine suddenly discovered that they were already standing on the shore of the billabong. In front of Diana was a pier made of rotten wooden boards, and a small wooden boat that looked like it might sink at any time was docked quietly. pier.

On the misty water surface, a few more strange black flowers fell.

"Come on, Constantine, we still have some distance to go." Diana walked towards the boat. She untied the rope without hesitation and stepped onto the boat again.

"Are you serious?" Constantine observed the ship. He began to suspect that Diana was crazy, because the ship did not look like it could complete the journey.

"Don't be stupid, Constantine! If this ship is here, it means it can complete the entire journey." Diana picked up the rough oar, and some ripples finally appeared on the water.

Constantine killed another mosquito. He accidentally glanced at the corpse of the mosquito. At just a glance, he trembled with fright and his sweat pores stood up.

"Damn it!" Constantine staggered back two steps instinctively. He raised his hand, his shaky posture was extremely funny, but he did not laugh, and the cigarette in his mouth fell to the ground.

Constantine's frightened eyes stared at the small patch of blood and mutilated body in his palm.

It was a little man with insect wings. His head had almost been smashed by Constantine, but his facial features could be vaguely recognized, and the hands and feet were undoubtedly humanoid. The thing even wore dark blue clothes. clothing.

"Sytar." Diana raised her head relatively calmly. She did not look at Constantine. She seemed to know the villain Constantine saw. Instead, she looked at the dim sky above in the mist. She seemed to be confirming something, and then shouted anxiously, "Hurry up, Constantine! Unless you want to be killed by these Xitars!"

Constantine's forehead was sweaty, but he was still calm. He looked at Diana, who was holding the oar to swing away from the broken pier, "What the hell are the Tatars? What are they? Tooth fairies? Or fairyland?" Those little elves?"

As he spoke, Constantine also ran up the creaking pier in three steps. He jumped into the boat, and then lowered his body as much as possible to maintain balance.

After Constantine's reckless action, the boat shook violently, and it also made a nervous creaking sound, but the boat did not break, nor did it leak and sink. It gradually became stable, and Diana also He used the paddle in his hand to push down the wooden plank of the dock, allowing the boat to leave the shore smoothly.

In the mist, more of the Xitars that Diana had spoken of flew down. Constantine began to sit in the boat and wave his arms comically to drive away the attacks of the villains.

"They came from the end of the earth. They are the last evolved form of mankind! A group of savage and brutal predators!" Diana stood on the bow of the boat and paddled. She drove the boat quickly towards the depths of the Slaughter Swamp. "Their presence means we are on the right track!"

"I seem to hear something!" As Constantine kept driving away the swooping Xitar, he felt that he seemed to hear a distant but somewhat clear singing voice.

"Don't be fooled by any sounds here! This is a transit station! The black and white here are constantly intertwining and changing, and the actual things begin to become as ethereal and illusory as a mirage!" Diana explained, "More parallel realities And other worlds in time seem to cast their shadows here too!”

"You seem to be saying that this place doesn't even belong to the earth!" Constantine looked back. It seemed that he would never be able to see the shore.

"Yes, Constantine, you have grasped the point." Diana ignored the attacks of the Xitars. Those villains seemed unable to hurt her. "This is not even within any dimension. What flows here is contaminated. Time, and those flowers, are also souls that died under the killing of sin.”

Constantine felt that all the blood in his body was cold, because he was just an ant here who could be crushed at any time.

The black flowers continued to fall, and the singing continued melodiously.

Gradually, a pier and a lonely old house became vaguely visible in the fog.

The lights in the house then turned on.