[Comprehensive British and American] Family Matters

Jason looked helplessly at the Spartan brothers who were still arguing non-stop. They had already revealed all the embarrassing things about bedwetting when they were young and attacked each other. Regretting his words for the rest of his life, Jason only silently picked up his gun and adjusted the energy to the highest level, held it high above his head, took a deep breath and pulled the trigger to fire.

The shot managed to make the Spartan brothers stop their bickering and realize their humiliating juvenile behavior and the disappearance of Nero.

"Before you asked any questions, Nero went to call his girlfriend." Jason knew what he wanted to ask as soon as he saw Virgil's eyes, and he unhurriedly betrayed the whereabouts of the young demon hunter.

"Girlfriend! He actually has a girlfriend?" After a brief shock, Virgil's expression turned to panic in a subtle way, "Could it be that woman whose blood is full of nicotine?"

"What, it's not." Dante waved his hand, "It's not Nicole, Ji Liye... how should I put it, um... By the way, it's a bit like our mother's feeling, not the appearance, but the feeling, Do you understand? Feeling."

"That's good." Virgil showed a relieved expression, although Jason didn't understand what he felt from Dante's words at all, but whatever, as long as the two brothers talk it over.

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel about Nero's friendship status again, Jason quickly cleared his throat to draw their attention to himself: "Ahem, since there is no Demon King Yurizeng now, can we act as The crisis is over? I still have to check this tree."

"Oh, that's right." Dante rubbed his nose, and finally remembered the reason why he brought Jason with him, "You seem to have said to check whether this tree has anything to do with your coming here, so you said I ran a lot of places up and down here, did you see anything worth noting?"

Jason was stunned by such a straightforward question.

In fact, he traveled all the way inside the tree of evil, and he really didn't see anything that was suspected of actively arresting people from another irrelevant universe.

"You won't find that kind of thing." Virgil sheathed Yan Modao neatly, looking at Dante as if mocking him for asking such a stupid question, "The purpose of this tree is to Bearing fruit, just now it has fulfilled its mission."

"What do you mean by 'mission accomplished'? It doesn't sound very good." Jason stamped his heels on the ground, a little worried that the tree would suddenly collapse.

"It means that although it will no longer take the initiative to attack living creatures to draw blood, it will not produce any additional products." Virgil narrowed his eyes and thought for a while, correcting his statement: "If you want to talk about the use , and the only one, which is the passage between the demon world and the human world."

Dante shook his head exaggeratedly at the side, completely ignoring the sharp eyes that Virgil threw at him: "Hey, has history been repeating itself? You are in charge of making troubles, and I, who is weak, pitiful and helpless, have to help you clean up the mess. alright."

"But no matter what, there is always a reason for me to appear here. Maybe it's not something specific, but the intersection of the next condition at the time of the incident... The most direct one is the evil tree." Jason couldn't think of any other reasons Let yourself "land" here, "I appeared in this world, and it didn't take long for this tree to appear in Red Tomb City."

"I have an inference about your situation." Virgil rubbed the handle of Yan Mo Dao with his hand, and his tone was calm and even eager to try, "But there is still a chance to prove it."

It was Dante who reacted first.

It's not because Jason is too lax or trusts Virgil too much, it's purely because Dante and Virgil's experience of fighting against each other makes him familiar with all kinds of tricks before this troublesome brother makes a move. When Dante sees Virgil When his fingers were placed at a certain angle on the handle of the knife, he immediately warned: "Get out of there, brat!"

Jason also jumped away from the spot the moment he heard the voice, not for anything else, simply because he has been working with his teammates over the years, whether it is the Batman, the Justice League, or the Outlaws team. It is an established habit - when you are warned, don't ask why, hide first and speak later.

If Jason wasn't facing Virgil, or if the opponent didn't have Yan Modao in his hand, he must have avoided it perfectly.

If he could, the knife would not be stuck in his stomach now, and it would continue to push deeper.

The first thought that came to Jason's mind was to hold the exposed blade of Yan Modao, so that it would not continue to stab into his body. He just raised his hand, and Virgil's voice without any emotion stopped him Jason's action: "If you don't want to suffer more unnecessary injuries, I advise you not to move."

While saying this, Virgil also looked at Dante who was about to save someone, and several blue swords appeared beside Virgil as if they had been summoned, ready to attack Dante at any time: " You too, Dante. I'll just say it once—don't move."

If it wasn't for the terrible pain in his stomach, Jason would have laughed.

What is "not wanting to be hurt unnecessarily"?Could it be that the knife in the stomach is still necessary now?Do you dare to give a warning first!

"Hmph, that's true." Virgil muttered something, and continued to frown and push the knife into Jason's body vigorously. "This power...is really interesting."

Accompanied by Virgil's words, came the severe pain caused by Yan Modao's withdrawal from the body, and the lavender energy wrapped around the bloody knife.

The color was much lighter than before, but it was undoubtedly the purple light of the Infinity Stone, which was the energy attached to Jason's soul that made Constantine and Zatana helpless.

It was cut out so easily?

"I've never seen such power." Virgil raised the knife to his eyes and examined the purple energy carefully. "Pure, destructive power, interesting."

"What the hell?" Dante looked warily at Virgil and the Yan Mo Dao wrapped in purple energy in his hand, in case the other party suddenly attacked, "What did you do to him, Virgil?"

"Isn't it obvious at a glance? I just removed the foreign matter in his body, and this power does not belong to him." Virgil's down-to-earth tone seemed to make Dante even more angry.

"Really? Does it belong to you if it doesn't belong to him?" Dante put on a posture, and made a gesture of "give me" to Virgil, "Hand over Yan Modao, and you open portals everywhere The days of making trouble are over."

Virgil's expression looked like he wanted to roll his eyes desperately, but he managed to control himself: "You know the old rules. If you want it, you have to get it yourself." Virgil's eyes deliberately stayed on Dante The particularly embarrassing part of your body, "But it's meaningless to defeat you in this state..."

In the middle of speaking, the hem of Virgil's coat was suddenly pulled violently, causing him to almost lose his balance and fall to the ground, but he happened to meet a pair of green eyes burning with the fire of survival.

Jason's right hand was pressed against the wound on his abdomen, and there was a shocking pool of blood on the ground, and the person who contributed the blood pinched Virgil's coat with one hand: "Before you two go to war...don't think I'm fucking Can you still save me!"

Dante's and Virgil's expressions blanked at the same time, and this was the moment when they looked most like twin brothers.

***

After making the phone call, Nero came back with a heavy heart. He spent all the change on his body. After a bunch of unexplained "I am Groot", he finally looked forward to Kylie, but he only heard it from a distance. A gentle sentence: "What's the matter, Groot, who is calling?" The call was cut off because of insufficient balance.

"Sorry for taking so long...uh, wait!"

No one paid him any attention.

His new dad wields a knife and makes what looks like a portal (exactly the same one the day he chopped off his own hand) and Dante hops right in after him with something in his arms .

"Hey! You wait for me!" Wanting to catch up before the portal closed, the abnormal touch under his feet made Nero lower his head to check involuntarily, and found that what he stepped on was not an ordinary puddle, but a puddle that had not been stepped on. Dried blood.

—Dante and Virgil leaving in a hurry.

— Fresh blood on the ground.

——I didn't see Jason when I came back.

——Dante seemed to be holding something in his hand, no, it was a person.

A flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and Nero felt as if he had discovered something extraordinary.

While he was on the phone... His father and uncle actually killed someone and planned to throw the body away!

What to do, how to deal with this situation?No one ever told him.Should I pretend not to see it?Ordinary people will pretend not to watch it!Although many people died in Red Tomb City because of this tree, isn't Jason V's friend?It should be different from people who have never met before, right?And isn't V part of Virgil?That being the case, why do things like killing people and throwing away corpses?

Is my old father so insane?

Nero clenched his fists, took a few deep breaths, and resolutely turned around to leave—he didn't know why Dante suddenly changed his mind to help Virgil, but he would not let the other party continue this brutal act, since he is The man's son, then it's up to him to fix the mistake!

***

Jason watched numbly as Dante and Virgil argued over whether the wound should be stitched or bandaged.

Just now, they passed through the portal of Yan Mo Dao (Dante: This is the last time! I will still bring Yan Mo Dao!) to the largest medical material store in Red Tomb City, when Virgil was just V Jason and he had come here to search for some first aid supplies when they were in the hospital.

According to the memory in his mind, he found the necessary tools and disinfectants, opened the package with his hands and mouth, and Jason silently treated the wound by himself.

The Spartan brothers were each trying to grab and throw away what was in the other's hands, as if to prove themselves right.

Finally wrapped up the gauze, Jason gritted his teeth and continued to search for the few powerful painkillers and syringes to inject himself, while paying attention to the battle situation of the Spartan brothers: Dante had a scalpel stuck in his forehead , Virgil also poked a pair of surgical scissors on his leg.

The painkillers made Jason feel a little dizzy, but he still had the most important thing on his mind: "Hey, so why did you suddenly stab me? If you don't explain it clearly, I'm going to risk my life not to do it." Will put a hole in your stomach—whether you're a monster or a monster."

Virgil, who was about to insert another scalpel into Dante's neck, suddenly stopped and turned his head, with a mixed expression of helplessness, a little envy and jealousy: "You really don't know how much that power is... well, count gone."

"What's wrong! Tell me what you have to say!" Jason pointed at the gauze on his stomach, and yelled viciously, "I didn't take this knife to listen to your covert explanation, or did I really want to follow the rules of the world? , call first and then talk? All right! I will accompany you!"

The Blade of Great Caste appeared in Jason's hand as usual, but what was different from usual was a feeling that made him feel cold from the inside out, and it took some time for his drowsy mind to think of his own soul. Has lost the power from the Infinity Gem, and the cost of using the Blade of the Great Caste is the consumption of souls.

"I'm not..." Virgil's expression was rather tangled, as if he still didn't know how to express his inner thoughts, "You said that you came here because of the evil tree, that's not the case. It's the one in your body. The force that brought you to this place, the tree of evil... in your own words, is just a subtle intersection between two universes that makes you fall from 'there' to 'here', but the behind Not because of the tree, but because of that power. I guess it's not the first time you've gone to other universes like this?"

"What?" Jason froze. He knew he must look like a fool, but he couldn't do anything. What Virgil said was too difficult to understand.

"I don't know where you got that power, but its destructiveness is absolute. Although there is only a tiny part left on you, it is enough to be a barrier between different worlds." Virgil told Yan Mo The knife was slightly out of its sheath, revealing a little purple fluorescence, "The boundaries between different dimensions are not indestructible."

Looking back now, Jason found that his problem of jumping to other universes at every turn started after his resurrection.

"To break the boundaries between different dimensions, you usually need the assistance of other things besides knowledge, such as my knife." Virgil pointed at Jason with the handle of the knife, "but you never need it, right? You A similar technique was used when Dante and Yuri fought, that mirrored dimension."

"No, that skill isn't that great, is it?" Jason remembered that the sorcerer in the red cloak just waved his hand, "Besides, if all this happened because of me, then I should be able to go back by myself, right? "

"Because you don't know how to use this power at all." Under Virgil's eyes, Jason felt like an idiot sitting on a treasure mountain without knowing it, "That mirror dimension should be a clever use, but it's in your hands It's like roughly tearing open the rift between dimensions."

Thinking back carefully, I fell into this universe because I went to help Constantine cut down the ungrown evil tree, and encountered resistance from the tree.At that time, Jason's disposal method was to forcibly cut down the tree with the blade of the big caste, and the blade of the big caste did not consume his soul but the residual energy of the power gem.

Once again, the timeline from Wakanda to Flashpoint was also because he forcibly broke through the mage's mirror dimension.

Before that, he would fall to Wakanda because he was hit by the bow of God Ra - normally he should have been killed directly by the power of the bow of God.

If this is all because of the gap between the dimensions that burst from the burst of energy...

"This is a form of self-inflicted punishment." Jason let go of the hand holding the blade of the big caste, and with the disappearance of the weapon, the tense situation in the small space eased slightly, "Okay, I don't want to Will use this power, it was taken by you again, mean?"

Virgil didn't answer Jason's question, but pulled out Yan Mo Dao, covered in blue magic power, and turned into a demon image similar to Dante and Yuri's confrontation.

While swinging the knife, there seemed to be countless thin lines intertwined in the surrounding area. Anyone who touched those "lines" on the walls and shelves of the medical equipment store were neatly cut off, rushing towards him in the dense cutting lines like a spider web. Before coming over, Jason clearly heard Virgil's voice whispering in his ear: "I paid off the tuition."

Space collapsed around Jason.

***

At the same time that such a huge magical power and that abnormal power that did not belong to monsters erupted, Nero immediately knew where the person he was looking for was.

"I won't let you..." While rushing in the direction of the magic power, Nero felt a corresponding power gradually emerge from his body, "Do whatever you want!"

As he gradually approached the source of magic power, Nero saw with his own eyes that the demon who should be the incarnation of Virgil swung a sword at Jason who was bandaged and seriously injured. Not a hair or drop of blood remained.

——The perfect scene of evidence destruction after a crime.

The domineering power on Yan Mo Dao was only a little bit of invisible purple starlight, and Virgil let out a sigh of relief, feeling that the burden in his heart was slightly relieved.He doesn't like the feeling of being indebted, and he is not good at explaining the meaning behind his every action in words.Just explaining the usage of Dimensional Power like just now, feels like he has exhausted his speaking quota for the next year.

However, when he sensed the presence of another person and turned his head to see who it was, he met Nero, whose father-son relationship was extremely tense, with his contemptuous eyes.

"I originally thought that those who had the guts to make such a miserable situation outside were at least brave men. I didn't expect you to choose such a cowardly method of destroying corpses and leaving traces."

"No, Nero! You misunderstood!" Dante, who watched the whole process, seemed to have finally recovered his brotherly love who had been offline for many years, and helped Virgil explain the cause and effect, "Well, Jason was just sent home by Virgil. , do you think he came from other universes, he just went home."

Dante's words seemed to have touched something, which made Nero's heart flutter instantly: "Wait, I thought I was going to rely on the power of the evil tree to make him go back? Can you still use Yan Mo Dao?"

Nero couldn't help but think of the difficult treant at home, who would only pretend to be cute and innocent to occupy Ji Liye. Even the children in the orphanage thought that treant was a good playmate. If this continues, his status in the family It would only drop rapidly, and the phone call that Ji Liye could never answer just now proved the danger of the other party!

But as long as all this can be sent back, it will never affect his and Ji Liye's life again, which is really great!

"The most basic use of Yan Mo Dao is to cut off the dimension. As long as there is enough power, this kind of thing can be done." Virgil held Yan Mo Dao, talking about cutting the dimension as if cutting weeds in his own garden, let Nero was full of hope.

Ah, is this what it feels like when you are young and see other friends around you go home to find your parents when they are in trouble?Although it was more than twenty years late, can he finally experience the power of the omnipotent father today?

"Actually, Jason still has a companion..." Nero had great expectations.

"Ah, let's wait a little longer. He came from farther than expected, and the power drawn from him has almost been exhausted." Virgil's words were like a basin of ice water coming out of him on a bone-chilling winter day. Nero poured water on his head.

In the next second, a pair of blue wings had spread out on Nero's back, carrying surging magic power, with a claw-like structure at the end, and even his severed right hand was re-condensed under the surge of magic power. Entity——The moment the newborn right hand was born, it was showing a very filial gesture to the old father, and it was paired with Nero's full of spirit, filled with soul and emotional greetings:

"Flower Q!"

For just such a short moment, Virgil wanted to get Jason back a little bit. After consulting the current situation, should we talk about it first, or is it better to talk about it first and then talk about it?

Hey, it's so hard to have kids.