[Zhongyingmei] The beating heart

"Do you trust him, Miss Dawn?" Ahsoka blinked her wide eyes at Bea, eager for an affirmative answer.

"I can't lie to you, Ahsoka." Bea also looked at Ahsoka, she was very reluctant to say that at this time, but, "He is one of the most unreliable people I have ever met. "

"Hey! I can hear you!" Constantine turned around and complained, "Can't you keep your voice down when you speak ill of me!"

"Oh my god...he didn't refute the unreliable part!" Ahsoka immediately realized that Beer was telling the truth, "What should we do about Miss Dawn?"

"No, I don't know! Oh right! I had an amulet to summon demons before, how about us..."

"Wait, hello!" Unbearable, Constantine stopped and pointed at Beer and Ahsoka and complained, "Do you want to believe that even a demon doesn't believe in me?! I am a master of black magic! I An authentic exorcist! I'm licensed, let me tell you!"

"Sorry Konstantin..."

"Okay, I know you're worried, but..."

"Konstantin, nothing you say will reassure us while you're holding a little girl ghost by the hand."

All right.It turns out that's the point.Constantine glanced at the ghost he was holding in his hand.It should be a ghost, although there are entities that can be touched now.The skin of the little girl's whole body was severely damaged, there was no hair at all, and her eyes became dull and yellow. She was only wearing a dilapidated hospital gown and no shoes.

"Among the monsters on the long journey, there is one called the baby spirit." Constantine sighed, he could only explain this to Beer and Ahsoka, "In ancient times, it was very difficult for people to survive, and there were no 'welfare institutions'. '. Especially some girls who are pregnant before marriage. They may be afraid of being known about themselves, or they may not have the ability and conditions, so they will give their children to a kind of local people called 'angel nurturers'. These people claim to find good homes for the children and take high wages from the young mothers. But often when the mothers leave, they kill the children."

"Those dead children became infant spirits. They were starving and waiting for their mothers to feed them, but..." Constantine didn't go on, knowing that Bea and Ahsoka could understand this, "this is The child. She was abandoned by her mother."

"But, but... this is different from what we saw." Ahsoka remembered something. Before meeting this little girl, she and Bea saw a vision under the guidance of the banshee in the forest. It should be What happened in this hospital before, and this little girl was among them, what the phantom said was not that her mother abandoned her, but to save her... No, wait... This seems to have nothing to do with the story of the baby spirit. contradiction.

A mother who can't support her child and a mother who wants to heal her child, and an angel breeder who claims to find a adopter and a doctor who claims to cure a girl... no, it's not that different.Ahsoka figured it out: "I don't know...but I don't think it's my mother's fault."

"It doesn't matter whose fault Ahsoka is. This space has been distorted and we need to correct it," Constantine emphasized, saying, "There is nothing we can do about the dead, but we can still save the living." .”

"It's easy for you..."

"No. Ahsoka. It's never easy."

Constantine shook his head: "Many, many things will happen, and many, many friends will be lost. In the end, I will also be dragged into hell. But if only I can do this, then only I can do it. Sorry to involve you .Besides, Bi'er, I haven't forgiven you for saying I'm unreliable. Give me a kiss and think about it."

"You've only been serious for about 3 minutes. I almost changed my mind about you. Why don't you stick with it for 2 minutes?"

"Excessive! I can last another 10 minutes!"

"Really? I'll give you a chance and you think about it..."

"Okay. Five minutes no more."

"what is that?"

Anakin wondered if he should ask such a stupid question, now that he believed in ghosts and magic.Because it's all so weird that it can only be explained by these.He had a worrying picture in front of him, he didn't know what kind of magic it was, but it certainly wasn't the good kind.

In the storage room of the hospital, they finally found the source of the singing. This is not so much a storage room as an 'altar', and the candles around it are unbelievably still burning. Rotting and maggot-ridden goat's head, and just in front of it, was the source of that torn song, a beating heart.

"Summon the altar of the devil." This is no longer as simple as a long journey.No matter who the person performing this ritual is, he has already gone beyond the scope of the long journey, and what he meets at the end of the journey will not be a goat spirit, but a real demon.And the devil... oh devil, it never ends well.Strange didn't know what to do, he was a little uncertain, he was the supreme mage, but he was not an exorcist, not to mention he had to consider a lot of things, "At the end of the long journey, people will pass through the cemetery Come to the church. The goat will greet them, and if the goat's heart is touched, then the person will see the future."

"Okay...then..."

"No. Not good. Because it's not a long journey at all." Strange shook his head, his brows were tightly frowned, "Maybe it was right at the beginning, but it's not anymore." No matter what happened, this It's getting farther and farther away from a ceremony that predicts the future.At first Strange thought that the monsters during the long journey might have mutated, but it seemed that it was not them, but something else mixed in.

"It's screaming." Anakin didn't understand that, he only knew that the heart and sheep's head in front of him made people feel horrible and terrible.

"Yeah. I can hear you." Strange raised his eyebrows. "But until we don't know what the ritual is calling, we'd better not move anything."

"Then what about Ahsoka and the others?"

"You know, although this is not a long journey, it is not completely unrelated to the long journey. We still have clues to find them." Strange said, "If they want to leave the different space, they must reach the point of the journey. And the focus of the legend is the church."

"But there's no church here?"

"That's right. So the church here is as much a reference as the woods. It could be any room, or... by the way. You can only get to the church by walking through the cemetery, right?"

"So the 'cemetery' in a hospital is...the morgue?"

"We can only hope that Dr. Strange can take care of the outside. Now we just need to take care of the inside." Constantine squatted down in front of the morgue, took out a piece of chalk from his pocket and stamped it on the door Before drawing something: "This will summon a demon. The demon will then take the child's soul."

"Wait, are you going to hand her over to the demon?" Ahsoka didn't understand, why?This kid... well, although she looks a little scary, she doesn't seem to be bad.

"Only demons can accept her." Constantine stated so calmly, "She cannot be called good or evil, so she is only accepted by those things that cannot be called good or evil. And This kind of thing is obviously not our omniscient god. Don't worry, although it is a demon, this is a good home for her."

"Then what should we do after this?"

"Walk through the 'cemetery' and you will arrive at the place where the goat is. That will be the end of the journey. If we are lucky and we don't get killed by the monsters on the way, then we will complete the journey and maybe learn the future of something by the way — that's the best case scenario."

"What about the worst case?" Bea looked up at Constantine. She knew what the worst was, but she didn't want to admit it.

"We're all stuck here and probably never get out. Or get killed by monsters. Don't know which is better. But don't worry, we still have a killer weapon." Constantine didn't seem to be Worried, "Unless you literally throw the amulet I gave you into the sun."

"...Are you saying that Mephisto is our trump card?!"

"I know he's not a good guy. But he can definitely get us out of danger in times like this."

Well, that makes a little sense.And Bi'er now also feels that maybe Mephisto is more reliable: "Konstantin... the matter in this hospital is far from being as simple as a long journey. Of course it is not simple, but... But I have seen this child's skin before."

"Have you seen...?"

"There's another person. His skin has been damaged like this. This person exists in our world Constantine." Beer emphasized, she said, "We have to find him."

"I... this person is... Forget it. I get it." Konstantin was confused.There is one more person?So what happened in this hospital?How does all this connect?Forget it... the most urgent thing now is to get out of this ghostly place, otherwise nothing can be done, "Let's find the heart of the goat essence first, maybe the goat essence will show mercy and tell us what's going on. "