[Comprehensive British and American] Family Matters

Jason resisted the urge to roll his eyes and yawn as Zatanna cast spell after spell on him.

After the last incantation was finished, there was no flash, no ghost image, and no reaction at all. If it wasn't for Zatanna's brows furrowed as she paced and murmured, Jason would have thought that this round of spellcasting wasn't over yet.

"Physiologically, he is extremely healthy. I can assure you that he is the healthiest one in your family." Zatana muttered for a long time before coming to such a conclusion.

"Physically very healthy... Judging from your expression and what you said, it doesn't seem to be a good sign." Jason looked down at the palms of his hands, turned them over for a while, and found that the lifeline was very short and disconnected Other than that, it's nothing different, "Wait, you're not implying that I have a mental problem! Nothing! Did you hear the gossip from someone!"

Zatana slapped Jason on the forehead with a backhand, and said angrily: "Forget it, there are not many people in the entire Justice League who have no mental health problems, but you——where did you get it? There is also a strange energy attached to it. I have never seen such a situation. The human soul can be regarded as a kind of life energy. It's a wound, but this energy looks like... co-existing with your soul? No, it's more like wrapping your soul in a membrane."

"Membrane?" Jason really can't imagine being wrapped in a bubble. If there is a strange energy and a soul, the only thing that can be imagined is when he was with Peter and briefly came into contact with the Infinity Gem in a ghost state. The effect of, "Uh, so this means that my soul is fine and not consumed? Isn't that great!"

"Don't talk too early, boy." The door of the study was opened without warning, and Constantine stood in the doorway wearing a signature trench coat, wrinkled shirt and baggy tie, "Hi, guys, I'm sorry late."

That's what he said, but Konstantin didn't seem to be sorry at all. He walked up to Jason, rubbed his chin and circled around him, murmuring some syllables that sounded completely meaningless from time to time.

"That's true. I really don't know whether to congratulate you or say you are pitiful." Having reached the conclusion, Constantine leaned on the nearest bookshelf, shaking his head and moaning at Jason.

Bruce, who has been silent all this time, managed to drop the temperature in the study several degrees with two words, which is more useful than turning on the air conditioner: "Explain."

"What's the rush? If I don't want to help, I won't even come today." Shrugging, Constantine still looked like a ruffian, but he didn't push back, and explained in easy-to-understand words: "Look, The soul can be regarded as the spiritual energy of human existence, so the reason why the scenes of violent murders are often haunted is because the souls of the deceased are full of resentment, staying at the scene and refusing to leave, and over time they become ghosts."

"So, even though different nations and religions have different explanations for the whereabouts of the soul after death, there is one thing that is affirmed in common: a person must have a living body and a healthy soul before he can truly be called 'alive'. If you lose the former, you’re a ghost, if you lose the latter…you’ve seen zombie movies, it’s something like that.”

"Under...solution?" Jason nodded, not quite understanding what Constantine was trying to express by laying out so much, but he was sure that the more he said, the worse things would be, "so if my soul is not damaged , the body is also quite healthy, which means that I will not become a ghost or a zombie, but will I become something else?"

"Under normal circumstances, the energy of the soul will be consumed together with the body. The weapon of the Great Caste Blade only accelerates the consumption. When one of them is consumed to a certain extent, the person dies. It is like a chronic disease. It’s the same, but it works on the soul, it’s a similar principle.” Constantine said, showing some sympathy to Jason, “You kid’s body should have been necrotic, but somehow you came back alive , I’ve been rinsing in that evil pool water, it’s hard to say whether it’s the body or the soul that will be unable to hold on first, and now there is this thing that makes your soul not even have normal wear and tear, when the time comes your The body is 'dead', but the soul is not dead. Even if heaven and hell haven't overturned the sky for your soul, other mages—especially those who specialize in necromancy—will hold tournaments for your soul gone."

At the end of Constantine's speech, the scene of a supermarket sale appeared in Jason's vivid description, but this time it was not the limited discounted items that were robbed, but his own ghost.

"The human soul is very valuable." Zatanna also affirmed Constantine's statement, "The longer you live, the more storms you have experienced, the higher the added value of the soul-but the paradox is, As the age grows, the energy of the soul itself is gradually depleted, and it is not easy to obtain a soul with abundant energy and experience."

Swallowing, Jason raised his finger and pointed at himself: "So, when I die, I will be a valuable, weather-beaten but energetic fresh soul?"

Constantine and Zatana nodded silently.

For a moment, Jason felt a little complicated.On the one hand, he can happily continue to use the blade of the great caste, at least until the membrane disappears, he doesn't have to worry about sudden death on the spot with a swipe of the knife.But on the other hand, there is no peace after death, the feeling of being treated as a magical tonic... Although it should not be too much to worry about when everyone is dead, right?

Bruce and the two magic users next to him had already had a lively discussion.Jason was about to tell them not to bother them, which is good, he is not the type who wants to return to the world after death or reincarnate like the Orientals, when Zatana said earnestly:

"The state of Jason's soul must not be known to others. There are many mages who have completely lost their humanity in pursuit of the pinnacle of magic. If they find out, they will directly torture people to death, or directly take away their souls for research. It's not impossible."

Constantine, as if worried that the fire was not strong enough, added:

"If you want to directly torture the soul, hell is very specialized. I believe that the executioner there will really want to know how to torture this special soul."

When Bruce's eyes drifted over, Jason seemed to hear the announcement that he would serve a life sentence in the Batcave.

No, he has to find a way to save him!

"Hey, well, I don't think everyone should take the problem too seriously." Jason clenched his right fist and knocked on his heart, "Actually, the problem is very simple, that is, how to remove this 'membrane', Zatanna can't help it." Having said that, apart from this membrane, my soul is nothing special compared to other people."

Constantine laughed without shame: "Remove it? To put it simply, do you think you are removing the plastic wrap?"

Jason's answer was to summon the Blade of the Great Caste, and played it around in his hand: "Isn't it just to remove the plastic wrap? Using the Blade of the Great Caste must consume souls. If my soul is not consumed, then What is being used up?"

The first to react was Bruce, and Zatanna who began to chant the spell: "The 'membrane' is also a kind of energy. If there is any energy that replaces the soul and is consumed, it is probably it."

"The time is too short, and I can't see any changes. I have to maintain this state for a while to see whether there is any impact-how much impact." After chanting the spell, Zatana said that this will be a long-term plan, " If it really consumes that unknown energy, it is also a good thing."

Compared with Zatanna and Bruce's serious research on how to "diagnose" the influence of the Great Caste Blade and the strange energy membrane, Constantine put his hand in the pocket of the windbreaker with little interest, saying that since the purpose of finding him has been If you have achieved it, then please pay according to the agreement. When Bruce took an airtight thing wrapped in black cloth from the collection room that Jason jokingly called "the house of black magic" with a straight face, he handed it to Kang After Standing, the exorcist, who was more of a mage than a mage, immediately smiled with a wan expression on his face.

"Hey, it's different to do business with the cool people." Stuffing the black cloth bag into the inner layer of the windbreaker, Constantine left the study without looking back, "Next time you want to have such a good thing, you know how to find it." I."

Zatanna looked at the direction Constantine was leaving, and wanted to speak a few times, but finally shook her head and closed her mouth, planning with Jason, Bruce and others how to measure the efficiency of the Great Caste Blade in consuming unknown energy.

The conclusion is that Jason must use the Blade of Great Caste as much as possible. Anyway, this weapon is very evil, and it only gets out of the body of evil things. If it is not an enemy full of evil, it can't even be used as a shaving knife.

The red hood holding double knives has since opened a new page for the legend of Gotham:

"It is said that the Red Hood is getting more and more vicious now!"

"That's right, my second cousin's aunt's grandson saw it with his own eyes. The red hood is holding that—such a big knife. If he is attacked..."

"If it weren't for the bat logo on the chest, I would have thought that the red hood had become a villain!"

"I miss the double｜gun red hoods back then. If I know who broke our hoods, I will [beep——] kill him!"

Even Jim Gordon, his old friend, began to crazily hint that he should take good care of the child's psychological problems, saying that the child becomes irritable and parents should be enlightened. Even Thalia sent a letter through her assassin, meaning Remind him to have a good chat with Jason, why do you keep killing people recently?All the co-authors think that carrying guns all over the city is a normal, happy and healthy expression of red hood.

Batman, with mixed feelings inside.

The only good news that can comfort the old father is that during this period, the crazy use of the blade of the big caste did make the membrane on Jason's soul a little thinner, but the efficiency is too low, and a more effective method needs to be thought of .Perhaps he should contact Dr. Fate again?

I was thinking about how to proceed next, but I didn't expect that it was Constantine who contacted him first.

"Uh, hey, bat!" Konstantin on the other end of the phone sounded a little anxious, "Remember the deal I made with you last time? I'll check the ghost's soul for you, and you'll give me the Egyptian No.20 Three Dynasties The cursed dagger? Well... I found that things are a bit complicated, I have to borrow a bigger and more powerful knife from you..."

"Speak the key."

"Borrow two knives from your kid. Anyway, aren't you all clamoring to consume that ghost's energy now? Just in time, I have something that needs to be hacked off early, otherwise it will be a disaster for the world sooner or later."

"Chop what?"

"Have you heard of the Kabbalah tree of life? The one I have here is the reverse Kabbalah tree, also known as the evil tree (Qliphoth). It sounds bad, and it is really bad, so if you don't want this tree If the tree decides to explode auxin and grow taller, you know."

"Send all the information you have at hand, and I'll take a look."

"Okay, okay, you are the boss and you have the final say, but it's better to look fast, I don't know how long this thing can be honest."

Not long after the phone was hung up, Constantine sent over the commission about the Evil Tree, as well as the discoveries he and a few companions had made. It seemed that it was indeed a crisis that needed to be snuffed out at the seedling stage.

Jason patted his chest and set off with a knife in his hand, indicating that Red Hood would split the demon tree into firewood in no time.

In order to prevent the tree from being cut down by mistake, he even took Groot, who could no longer live in the flower pot, but always loved to hold the flower pot he lived in when he was a child, with him.

Constantine picked up one person and one tree as if welcoming his ancestors. Three days later, Constantine appeared again, holding a broken small flowerpot in his arms at the gate of Wayne Mansion.

Constantine tried to hand the flower pot to Bruce, "It was normal at first, your kid cut it with a knife... Then the people and the trees disappeared!"

"I don't know why it's like this."

"I know I have bad credit, but I swear I really didn't cheat him!"

"I'm not! I'm not!"