[Zhongyingmei] It's not a slime!

"As punishment." Tony said, his tone was not malicious, even gentle, "I want you to feel my current... anger, and despair."

Just like killing people, you must first kill your heart.

What can nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine points of energy do?

Can't do anything.

Just a little short of--

Ruby stared wide-eyed at the number on her system panel.

Tony Stark was right, she did feel anger and despair.

So long preparations, she tried so hard to do something, even dying, she gave up everything, and finally got such a desperate ending.

There is nowhere to hide, nowhere to escape.

Tony Stark was like a monster who played with everything between applause. He almost saw their every step, and responded with precision, easily smashing all the hopes in front of her.

He turned a blind eye to their plan before, but it was because it did not cause substantial harm to him.

But this time, they really touched his bottom line——

His bottom line is Ruby.

He would never allow anyone to take Ruby away from him, never.

Even if it means making him an enemy of the whole world.

After finishing speaking, he kicked away Clark who was chasing him, and the huge impact caused by the light beam shot from his palm pushed him back a hundred meters away.

"The weapon system is recovering, the remaining time is 20 seconds."

"The last 20 seconds." Tony said, standing under the sky and above the blue sea, he showed a malicious and arrogant smile to everyone, like an evil god descended from the heavens, "I hope you can be well Enjoy it."

……

On the batwing.

Bruce didn't change his face. He lowered his head and looked at the demon mark engraved on a piece of parchment.

"...the last hidden card." He whispered.

……

Right now.

The world in Ruby's eyes suddenly came to a standstill.

She watched Tony raise his hand, the boiling white energy condensed in the palm of his hand, she saw the arc of Clark's raised cloak when he was flying, and watched all this slowly freeze as if suddenly frozen .

Ruby was slightly taken aback.

She has seen such scenes.

When she was in Las Vegas, the moment she stepped into each other's illusion, the world was running like this, as if time lost its meaning and condensed into some kind of high-density solid substance, viscous and heavy.

This is……

She just froze for a moment, and saw a small spark suddenly appearing beside Tony Stark.

The sparks began to expand, and the sparks radiated, just like the fireworks that bloomed on the Golden Gate Bridge.It is like a bright and dazzling band of light, spreading out little by little.

Its winds and heat almost distort the sun.

"...Constantine?" Ruby subconsciously called out.

The portal opens.

Constantine stood on the other side of the portal, his eyes fell on Ruby through the radiating sparks.

It's like he never changed.

Still wearing a black windbreaker, with a thin figure, a pale and handsome face, a tired and lazy look, and black star-like eyes staring at her intently, no one can understand the emotions inside.

"Am I... am I going to die?" Ruby was a little confused, "Why did I see you?"

"Because we still have one last thing to settle, Ruby." Constantine said calmly.

He walked out of the portal, and he stepped on the void, like stepping on an invisible ladder.

"This is the periphery of each other's illusions, the area where reality intersects." He said, "The flow of time will slow down, but everything that happens in this world will not affect the universe outside."

"So...you're not dead?" Ruby asked hesitantly.

She seemed to be afraid of the answer to the question.

"Yeah." Constantine nodded.

"...you bastard!" Ruby cursed softly.

Constantine laughed.

He didn't seem to have heard any cursing words, but instead heard a compliment that made him happy physically and mentally. At that moment, most of the anger and exhaustion in his body disappeared, and the melancholy between his brows seemed to disappear.

"Sorry, I know you're going to be disappointed, so..." he said, "I haven't told anyone that I'm alive."

"Yeah, I'm so disappointed. How did you survive?" Ruby asked.

In that case, surviving is almost impossible.

How on earth did he escape in such a desperate situation?

To be honest, facing a real Protoss whose level is a question mark with Lucifer Morning Star is much more terrifying than facing a blackened Tony Stark.The suppression of strength is almost overwhelming, there is no room for struggle at all.

"It's simple," Constantine said, "because I made a 'sacrifice.'"

"Sacrifice..." Ruby immediately understood the key point, "So, you actually went to heaven?"

"Yes, but Lucifer and I have made so many deals, and I have taken advantage of so much. He doesn't want me to escape his punishment so easily." Constantine said with a relaxed tone, as if he was talking about the fundamental It's not about his life or death, "so...he healed my wounds, and healed my illness along the way, so that I can continue to walk in the world. In this way, as long as I make mistakes in the future, I will fall into his trap again. hands, and he believed it was bound to happen."

"Yeah." Ruby said coolly, "He really knows you. So, what are you here for?"

Constantine looked at Ruby and said softly, "I'll help you."

"Oh, come on," Ruby said, "I'm afraid I'll die sooner."

Constantine laughed: "I know you have a problem with me, yes, I did do some bad things to you."

"So?" Ruby said. "Are you going to say sorry next?"

"...I don't think you need this apology either, do you?" Constantine said.

Ruby snorted softly.

"I just want to tell you something interesting," Constantine said, "something I didn't understand before, but I just figured it out recently."

Ruby sighed.

She looked at the frozen world around her and said softly: "Well, although I don't really want to hear it, but now it seems that I have no other choice but to listen to you."

Constantine didn't care about the little symbiote's words. He said softly, "Ruby, I used to care about nothing except the goal of going to heaven."

"Understood, if you are alive, you are either busy living or dying." Ruby said.

"I have experienced and lost more things on this road than you can imagine." He continued, "But I don't care, I don't think I did anything wrong, but heaven has been unwilling to accept me."

"...Didn't do anything wrong? It's a matter of opinion." Ruby said.

"Yeah." Constantine smiled, "But at the last moment, I suddenly realized a problem-what made me who I am now? It was the goal of desperately exorcising demons and wanting to enter heaven, Or every footstep I've ever walked, every drop of blood I've shed, everything I've lost?"

Ruby was slightly taken aback.

"I used to not care, Ruby." Constantine said softly, "It wasn't until the moment when death was approaching that I realized that 'don't care' is the real cowardice. There is no difference between a numb person and a dead person. You should go' 'Cause what we've been through, makes us stronger...we need to be stronger than what we've been through."

Accept them.

hug them.

Then defeat them.

"Don't despair, Ruby," he said softly, "Never despair."

Even if you are polluted by all the filthy and filthy things in the world, dragged by demons and staggeringly crawling into hell, abandoned, cursed, and played by karma, don't give up.

You've come all the way, you can't go down at the last moment.

Ruby smiled slightly.

"Yeah, Constantine," she said, "I've only recently learned that.

"Tony also mentioned this issue to me, but he interpreted it from a completely opposite angle.

"I have indeed encountered many, many unpleasant things along the way, which made me unable to look back on the path I have traveled for a long time, and this also made me lose many, many things.

"But now I understand, Constantine—what's really precious is the people, things, and even setbacks I've met along the way.

"This is why you will appear here and face the abyss and disaster with me, isn't it?

"I didn't want to think about you, Constantine, I pretended that you didn't exist, I pretended that you never appeared in my life. At that time, I regretted having met you.

"But now, I don't regret it.

"You're right, everything I've been through will only make me stronger."

Constantine looked at Ruby with serious eyes, and after a while, a smile appeared in his eyes.

"You know what to do next, Ruby," he said. "We're going to win."

The moment the voice fell.

On Ruby's system panel that was almost eroded by garbled codes, Constantine's personal panel jumped.

His 90.00% ninety-nine fit, which has never changed, finally reached [-]% at this moment.

And Ruby's energy balance also exceeded [-] with the change of fit.

……

The boundary between illusion and reality suddenly collapsed at this moment, and the frozen time began to flow, and Ruby also set her skills on reset without hesitation in this fleeting moment!

"I love you all," she said softly. "You are the real ones worth pursuing."

Tony's pupils shrank suddenly.

"Impossible—!" Before he finished speaking, he was punched on the chin by the fast-flying Clark.

"Impossible—" He held his chin and said in disbelief, "Your energy!?"

He opened another system of Ruby almost instantly, and the energy balance of [-] was enough for him to point back Ruby's skills. However, at this moment, garbled characters began to appear on his system interface——

"Oh, I'm finally reconnected." AI Tony's voice sounded, "Are you surprised, Tony Stark? When you integrated your code into my system, you also gave me the opportunity to hack you. Now Feel my despair, bastard."

Tony showed an almost furious expression: "How dare you-!"

He turned his face to look at Constantine floating in the air: "So, you are not dead - this is the blind spot that I ignored, the dark card of the old bat. It's ridiculous, AI Tony Stark's memory file You don’t even exist here, and your secrecy work even deceives yourself——!”

"Ah, I'm sorry." Constantine said lazily, "I'm the best at deceiving people."

Tony took a deep breath, and then he laughed: "Unfortunately, you still miscalculated a bit."

"Really?" Constantine raised an eyebrow.

"Even if Ruby is reset, as long as she's still on me, you can't hurt me." Tony said, "Because you won't hurt her, will you?"

Not because she is without weaknesses.

Just because she is their weakness.

Clark's anger almost reached its peak at this moment. He punched Tony Stark in the face, almost causing his armor to lose power: "How can you do this? Do you have any bottom line!"

Tony Stark chuckled: "What do you think, Kryptonian? By the way, the weapon system has only the last ten seconds left to restart, and my system-I will get it back sooner or later. "

Constantine frowned.

This is indeed one of the most critical issues facing them.

At this moment, he suddenly felt that the imprint of the contract that he had signed in the depths of his soul began to heat up. The contract was not maintained by magical power, and it should have disappeared, but it was awakened again at this moment.

A soft voice passed into his soul through the imprint, and said softly: "Konstantin, kill me."

Constantine was slightly taken aback.

"You're the perfect person for this, aren't you?" Ruby said. "Don't worry, I can come back to life."

Constantine only hesitated for a moment, then took out his lighter engraved with an angel totem from his pocket.

Tony Stark seemed to understand his intentions immediately.

He yelled: "—Stop it, Constantine! I can resurrect her, but only if I can get complete control of the system, do you understand what I mean?"

AI Tony has now destroyed the system of the white tank, so the white tank can't immediately restore Ruby's skills, but this also means that he can't revive Ruby.

Unless AI Tony exits his system—and that would mean that Bai Can regains full control of the system, and all previous efforts will be wasted.

"So," Tony said, "if you dare to kill her, be prepared for her to die forever!"

This sentence successfully made Constantine's movements pause.

——Bai Can is betting that they dare not kill Ruby.

And they were gambling, betting that Bai Can couldn't bear to watch Ruby die!

"Grass! That bastard!" The superheroes who watched all this in the batwing were almost stunned. Even Bruce clenched his fists, and a furious look appeared between his brows.

Said they wouldn't hurt Ruby.

If Tony Stark is really desperate to this point, they will be wary instead.

Ruby knew this too.

She can't let everything go to waste.

So she said to Constantine: "Konstantin, kill me! Quick!"

"...why me?" Constantine asked.

Obviously Kryptonians and old bats are capable of killing you easily, why is it me?

Ruby laughed.

"Because you are Constantine." She said with a smile, "You are the only one who doesn't feel guilty about killing people to save people, isn't it?"

——Only you can kill your teammates without any psychological burden, John Constantine.

Constantine froze.

This sentence was like the most vicious curse, which made his hand holding the lighter start to tremble slightly.

Won't he feel guilty?

If he doesn't feel guilty, then how do those gray and white souls around him torture him?

If he really doesn't feel guilty, why does he live in such exhaustion and pain?

So, he deserved to bear all the darkness and infamy, bear the sin of killing her, and walk on the edge of the world?

—Yeah, maybe he deserved it.

It took him so long to learn not to care, and when he finally learned to care again, he was going to kill the person who taught him how to care.

Destiny.

Cursed karma.

He suddenly felt a heart-piercing pain in his chest, so that he couldn't stop coughing, and the hand holding the lighter that had killed countless demons was even a little unsteady.

His lung cancer has obviously been cured.

But it seemed that some more serious illness took root in his body, and dark flowers bloomed.

"Konstantin?" Ruby's voice came again.

"..." Constantine remained motionless.

Ruby shouted eagerly: "Konstantin—burn!!"

While she was still able to muster up the courage to face death—quick!

There are only three seconds left for the weapon system of the white tank to restart! !

"...Okay." Konstantin said when he heard his own voice, as if his soul had completely detached from his body, like an indifferent spectator, watching all that happened in front of him from a distance.

"Very well," he said, "if that is your wish."

His index finger rubbed lightly on the lighter.

In the next second, golden flames roared and spewed out like a giant dragon, swallowing Tony Stark almost instantly.

"No! Stop—" At this moment, Clark and Tony shouted almost simultaneously, their eyes widening in disbelief.

Everything happened so fast that no one on the Batwing could realize what was happening.

They could only watch as the golden dragon devoured Tony Stark, who was wrapped in the white symbiote armor, and watched as the white symbiote on his body was burned to ashes.

Everyone looked at the extremely splendid scene in front of them.

The blazing sun of San Francisco shone on the golden flames.

The pure soul burns the remains, turning into a raging fire that consumes all evil.