[Zhongyingmei] It's not a slime!

Ruby lay for a long time in a pile of shards of glass.

She hoped that Clark could open another portal, and this fantasy even lasted for half an hour.

Half an hour later, the gray sky was still empty.

Ruby sighed.

She crawled out from a pile of broken glass, and the place on her body that was burned by the heat vision was still hot. Fortunately, the wound was not large, and it was considered a minimal wound.

With the recovery ability of the symbiont, it won't take long to heal itself easily.

What to do now?

She silently climbed up a nearby dead tree, wrapped herself around it, and stared blankly into the distance.

She still didn't want to understand.

why?

Hasn't it been fine before?She had behaved as well as she could, why did Clark send her back anyway?

Just because I couldn't handle the runaway Animal Crossing Friends Club?

Or was the Kryptonian's gentle exterior just a disguise?

Is he deliberately messing with her mentality?

...Damn Kryptonians! he~tui!

Ruby couldn't figure it out, and didn't want to think about it any more.

She fell into a drowsy sleep.

She felt as if she had had a long dream in the haze.

She dreamed of Steve, she dreamed of Peter, she dreamed of the times she had spent with them, only those times were getting farther and farther away, gone forever, lost in the flood of memories.

She was quickly awakened.

Not because of the dream, but because she accidentally fell from the tree.

Ruby: "System, come out!"

System: currently out of signal range, unable to connect to the server.

Ruby: "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohood

Clark Kent is a liar, John Constantine is a liar, and the system is a liar!

She, Ruby, is a fool!

Ruby who fell to the ground: "I'm sorry, I'll just crawl."

System: currently out of signal range, unable to connect to the server.

Ruby fell silent.

She felt that talking to herself like this made her look like a schizophrenic.

She lay quietly under the tree, looking up at the dark universe.

There is no day and night on the symbiote planet, only a huge gaseous planet surrounds it, occupying almost half of the sky.

no solution anymore.

There are only two ways she can go now.

The first way, hoping that Clark suddenly found out with his conscience, ran back to pick her up.But judging by his attitude towards avoiding him, the possibility of this is almost zero.

The second way, summon Constantine.

...it seems that the second way is the only way.

Ruby shed tears of despair, and she seemed to hear someone whispering in her ear: "Hey, it's hell ahead!"

But other than that, what could she do?

Spend the rest of your life on this goddamn symbiote planet until you're completely insane from loneliness?

Ruby buried her little head in her soft body, and after a while, she said softly:

"Constantine."

"Help."

……

She was answered by a sudden gust of wind, smelling of sulfur.

On the desolate and dim planet, in the void filled with icy air, a small spark suddenly ignited.

Like a light suddenly lit in the darkness, the rising stars, like fireworks piercing the darkness, are reflected in Ruby's eyes.

The portal opens.

She saw Constantine immediately.

Wearing a hunting black windbreaker and a black tie, John Constantine was blown up by the hurricane brought by the distorted space.

A half-puffed eye was dangling from the corner of his mouth, and he held a metal lighter in his hand, turning it once and for all, making a crisp sound of metal colliding.He raised his eyes, and his indifferent eyes fell on the symbiote at the other end of the portal.

The moment she saw him, Ruby felt that the air pressure around her had dropped a lot, and the icy air pressed down heavily, making her almost shiver.

"...I haven't seen you for a while." He said, his voice came from the imprint in Ruby's soul, his tone was low, "I thought you had such a good life that you forgot about me."

After speaking, he lightly exhaled a puff of white smoke and called out the name of the small symbiote.

"Ruby."

Ruby looked at his face, his face looked even paler, those eyes as deep as dark stars were also full of tiredness, his brows were slightly frowned, his handsome face was almost covered by the white mist of cigarettes .

"Konstantin," Ruby had never thought this guy was so pleasing to the eye, like a savior, she raised her head to look at the thin, pale man, and said, "Help me, take me out of here!"

Constantine was still standing behind the portal, without moving a step.

He bit his cigarette, glanced casually past Ruby, looked at the barren symbiote planet behind her, and whispered, "Why?"

Ruby said: "Because, because I can't be thrown here all the time, I don't belong here, I have a lot of things to do!"

Constantine's gaze returned to Ruby. He seemed to have heard something particularly funny, and chuckled lightly, "I'm not asking why you left this place, I'm asking..."

His voice became softer, almost covered by the wind pressure caused by space distortion: "Why should I take you away?"

Ruby froze for a moment.

yeah why?

If it's not relative, he doesn't seem to have any obligation to help himself.

She asked stupidly: "You said that if I have something to come to you...you also said that you will make up for me if you cheat me!"

Constantine narrowed his eyes, walked out from the portal, and squatted down in front of the small symbiosis.

The barrier made of magic firmly protected him, and the harsh cosmic environment could not affect him at all.Those howling winds passed by his side like a ghost, but they couldn't touch the corner of his clothes.

He said softly: "Ruby... I have been able to see some things that should not exist in the world since I was a child, some from heaven, some from hell... Therefore, I understand better, in this world that is the gap between heaven and hell , what is the most important thing——

"balance.

"You are right, I did trick you into signing the contract, in exchange, I will do one thing for you as compensation, so I helped you find Clark Kent, this is your own wish, and this wish will serve you What kind of consequences you bring has nothing to do with me. Because we have settled the relationship, I don't owe you anything, and you don't owe me anything.

"I also did say that you can find me through our contract and ask me for help.

"I have come as promised, so you have thought about it, have you paid me anything?"

Ruby stared blankly at Constantine.

The latter lowered his eyes to look at her, his eyes seemed to be surging with dark tides, bottomless.

Ruby suddenly realized that she seemed to have been missing some important clues.

She said, "...you did it on purpose."

Constantine raised his eyebrows and expressed doubts.

Ruby said: "You knew Clark would be wary of me and would throw me here, but you still sent me to him. You did it on purpose."

Constantine was expressionless, and said impatiently: "This is your own choice, and it has nothing to do with me."

Ruby was furious, she grinned, showing sharp teeth and a ferocious expression, and said fiercely: "You can tell me in advance!"

Constantine said, "Well, sorry, I thought that was your wish."

He raised his pale and thin chin, and looked at the desolate and desolate symbiote planet: "Isn't it good to go home?"

Ruby: ...Who would take it as a wish to go back to such a ghostly place!

Constantine still had his usual stern look, and said coldly: "So, have you thought about it?"

Ruby thought for a while and said, "I can help you treat your disease, at least I can help you prolong your life."

She thought that no one would refuse this condition.

Living itself is the heaviest and most powerful price tag.

However, Constantine seemed to have heard something ridiculous, and a self-deprecating smile appeared in his eyes. He coughed twice in a low voice, and said softly: "If you can't freely choose the way and timing of death, then live one more life." What's the point of two years?"

"But if you live, you will have a chance!" Ruby said.

Constantine stood up, adjusted his black windbreaker, and said, "It's not me who wants to seize the opportunity now."

After speaking, he took two steps back and returned to the other end of the portal.

"Wait a minute!" Ruby was anxious to death.

No!

She couldn't just let go of the only chance for her to get out of here!

"Then tell me, what do you want!" Ruby said hastily.

Constantine stopped and looked down at the little symbiote.

She is really in a hurry.

He could feel her emotions from the imprint of that contract, which was a kind of urgency that was close to despair and completely desperate.

He knew that the victory of this negotiation was within easy reach.

His plan, so far, has not deviated in the slightest, and is advancing almost seamlessly according to every step of the arrangement.

He was the one who pushed the little symbiote into this situation, he was the one who designed this farce, he was the one who used the Kryptonian as a tool, he was the one who thought of the future the moment the little symbiote proposed Clark Kent everything that happens.And all he did was give the Kryptonian a little nudge because his time was running out and he couldn't afford to wait.

What exactly does he want?

——It is a contract that cannot be rejected, is enforced by the contract, and cannot be broken from the causal level.

Because only when cornered, people will desperately grab any life-saving straw, even if they know that the straw is coated with poison.

He knew that he would surely get what he wanted.

This little symbiote had no choice at all, she would definitely agree.

He has already won.

Although he didn't think there was anything to be happy about.

Still, he laughed.

At this moment, most of the tiredness, laziness, and heavy death that lingered on him seemed to have faded away, like the rare sunshine finally ushered in the cemetery shrouded in rain and cold, and even so, the sunshine was still Not warm, just a fleeting bit of temperature.

"I don't know what I want either," Constantine said.

Ruby: "......"

A juvenile symbiote decides to turn to crime.

Seeing the expression of wanting to kill someone in the little symbiont in front of him, Constantine quickly added: "But we can sign another contract, I will help you get out of here, and before I die, you need to do something for me. I will tell you about this matter after I think it over. If I die without thinking it through, the contract will be void."

He looked at the little symbiote and said, "How? A fair deal."

Ruby was suddenly alert: "No, you have to tell me what it is first, what if you ask me to commit suicide?!"

Constantine wanted to say something, but he suddenly showed a painful expression, covered his mouth and coughed violently.

He looked in extreme pain, the hand covering the bloodless mouth was trembling, his thin body was almost unsteady, as if every cough was like a knife cut, he only recovered after a while, panting slightly He was so angry that he couldn't even speak.

Seeing him like this, Ruby shrank her head silently and put away her fierce expression.

This person hates really hates.

Miserable is also really miserable.

"Sorry." He took a deep breath and said, "I forgot to take my cough medicine."

Ruby: "...how come you don't forget to smoke?"

Constantine didn't care about the small symbiont's words, he said: "Don't worry, I won't let you do things that are against principles."

Ruby said seriously: "This principle must be determined by me!"

Constantine put the cigarette in his mouth and nodded.

Ruby said: "First of all, my life must not be endangered."

Constantine nodded: "Of course."

"Actually, this matter must be within my ability. At least with my ability, I can do it with a [-]% success rate." Ruby continued, "The last point, I will not do anything that will harm others." I will not do anything that breaks the moral bottom line, of course, except for the heinous villains!"

Constantine listened quietly, and after Ruby finished speaking, he raised his eyes: "That's all?"

"...and one more!" Ruby said, "Don't let me go back to the symbiote planet!"

Constantine laughed: "I took you back and sent you back again... Am I so boring?"

Ruby: ... Who knows what's going on in your mind!

Ruby thought about it, and this should be the bottom line she could accept. No matter how Constantine tricked her, as long as there was this bottom line, there shouldn't be any terrible consequences.

After all, what could be worse than the current situation?

And after all, she has too little money to negotiate.

Constantine is her only hope.

She is very clear.

Therefore, even if Constantine was really cheating on her, she had to accept it.

This is an obvious conspiracy.

So she nodded: "Well, that's all."

Constantine nodded, and he stretched out his hand to the small symbiote in front of him.

"Come on," he said, "Ruby."

At this moment, his eyes that were as dark as black stars seemed to ignite a fire from the depths of his pupils, burning blazingly, almost burning away the exhaustion and indifference in his eyes.

Ruby hesitated for a moment, but stretched out a thin tentacle, and lightly touched Constantine's finger.

At that moment, she felt that there was a contract closely connected with the law of cause and effect being branded on her soul, and the clear burning sensation made her almost tremble.

At the same time, she followed Constantine's pale, slender and cold fingers into his terminally ill and broken body.

The contract is established.