PFC Chapter 2921 When Night Falls (39)
Chapter 2921 When Night Falls (39)
Chapter 2921 When Night Falls (Thirty-Nine)
Before the two returned to the portal, Constantine searched the basement for all the organs. Except for a few jars that were improperly preserved and left as evidence, he took away the rest.
After all, organs are also good trading commodities for demons. Unfortunately, Constantine is not very good at killing people, let alone removing and preserving organs. Picking up so many at once is like pie in the sky.
Back at the Mystery House, Constantine said, "Where do we go next?"
"One more trip."
"Again..." Constantine looked at Schiller with some confusion.
Schiller moved his pocket watch forward one day, to the day before their previous day.
This time they changed direction, but also came to a more marginal community. They hypnotized a serial killer with the same method to cause trouble in the police station, and found Barry from the previous day and fooled him with almost the same words.
This time, the serial killer was a limb lover and liked to equip his mannequin with real limbs, so Constantine got a lot of arms and legs.
After returning to the Mystery House, Schiller moved the pocket watch forward one day to the day before the first day, and then repeated the same method, and Constantine got a lot of eyeballs.
After repeating this for more than a dozen times, Doctor Fate and Constantine were exhausted, but Schiller did not give them much time to rest and continued to repeat it without stopping.
Constantine figured out that Schiller was going to use the human wave tactic. Since Barry had the ability to travel through time, it could be said that he had this ability every minute and every second. So as long as he looked from the back to the front on the timeline, he could find countless Barrys and go together to beat up the vampire Barry.
The reason why we have to look from the back to the front is that if we look at the front first, the early Barry will run away to find the vampire Barry, then the future will be changed, and the later Barry may not be in Central City.
But if we look for the later Barry first, then when Schiller found him, the early Barry had not yet been called to catch vampires, so they would naturally be in Central City.
Theoretically, it can be pushed back to the day when Barry gains super speed, but in fact it is not that long, not because Schiller doesn't want to, but because there are not enough serial killers.
Central City does have some retired serial killers, but there are far fewer than on the East Coast. Using them as bait to catch Barry is limited in the number that can be caught.
Constantine couldn't quite remember how many times they repeated this, but in the end his warehouse was full, and the trophies collected from the serial killers could be assembled into at least several hundred complete people.
However, Constantine feels that there is a loophole in this plan, that is, the vampire Flash can actually find his past few months self and let them travel through time to fight the normal Flash.
But when he thought about it carefully, the time that the Flash was bitten was not very long, only a few months at most, but Barry had been the Flash for a long time, at least a few years.
If the Vampire Flash can go over and ask for help, then the normal Flash can ask for more.
The most special power that the Flash relies on is the Speed Force. Their battle basically only takes place within the Speed Force and cannot affect the outside world. However, it plunges the vampire Flash into the vast ocean of people's war and holds back the vampire side. This may be the most unsolvable fighting force.
"Perfect," Constantine commented.
He was still a little worried though, so he asked, "What if normal Barry gets bitten?"
"No big deal." Schiller said, "Suppose normal Barry can't beat vampire Barry, and they are all transformed into vampires, then do you think we should be worried about it, or the Vampire King?"
Constantine suddenly realized.
This is similar to the situation when Batman was turned into a vampire. He is the king of vampires, and he dare not believe that Batman was turned into a vampire. What if he was pretending? What if he was not restricted by blood? What if he was wearing a yellow robe?
If all the Flashes at all time points were transformed, that would at least create an army of tens of millions of vampire Flashes, and Barry Allen might really need to put on more clothes.
"Wait a minute..." Constantine narrowed his eyes and looked at Schiller and said, "Are you planning to do this?!"
"More than that." Schiller sighed and said, "If the Flash at every point in time was turned into a vampire, where would their food come from?"
Constantine was slightly stunned.
In the past, people did not belong to this world. Suppose there are 70 billion people on the earth now, plus the 70 billion yesterday, it would be 140 billion, and plus the day before yesterday, it would be 210 billion.
There is only one vampire Flash now, and he must eat at least one person a day. Yesterday's vampire Flash also had one person, and he also eats one person a day.
If you eat now and yesterday's food, there is no problem. But if two people are to eat now and yesterday's food combined, then the consumption is equivalent to doubling.
So if the vampire Flash ate one person every minute and every second, now, yesterday, the day before yesterday, and even before that, how many days would they be able to eat 70 billion people?
Could this guy be trying to exterminate humanity? Constantine made his most sinister assumption.
But after thinking about it carefully, he found something wrong.
It is unlikely that all of these vampire Flashes will come to eat modern humans, because they have to fight against the normal Flash.
All the Flashes are fighting mobile warfare, so when they need supplies, it is impossible for them to return thousands of miles to their starting point, but they must plunder nearby.
If they were fighting in the past timeline, then the humans they ate could basically only be from the past.
So the question is, since everyone has only one life, and the vampire Flash ate everyone in the past, what do vampires eat now?
Constantine slapped his thigh and said, "Great!"
In fact, this just brings forward the famine problem that Batman mentioned. If the vampires continue to expand like this, there will definitely be famine, but it may take some time.
But if so many Flashes were put back into the past, it would be equivalent to the expansion starting from the past, and the evil consequences would definitely be revealed now.
This will lead to serious conflicts between the current vampires and the Flash in the past, because according to Batman's theory, when the vampires expand to tens of millions, it is only a matter of time before their food becomes extinct.
That is, if the current vampires didn't stop the past vampire Flash from eating people, they would now be facing famine.
Zatanna on the side thought of another problem.
"If a person who was supposed to be turned into a vampire in a few months is eaten by the vampire Flash who traveled back in time, is he gone forever?"
"In theory, yes." Dr. Fate replied, "Changes to the past will be reflected in the current timeline."
"I see." Zatanna said, "The most vicious thing about this plan is that it completely divides the vampires."
Originally, vampires should be very united because they have a bloodline control system. Starting from the vampire king and going down layer by layer, every vampire has absolute control over his descendants, so the power will eventually be concentrated in the hands of the vampire king.
In other words, there is no internal power struggle among them and they are able to work together as a team. It can be said that if the Vampire King was not powerful enough, they would have unified the Earth long ago.
Constantine and Doctor Fate both nodded. It can be said that if the power in such an organizational structure is concentrated in Batman, then not to mention the Earth, even Apokolips might change hands.
This is an almost unbreakable ruling structure, a completely idealized centralization of power. Even if the monarch's ability is within the average range, it is no problem for him to plunder the entire earth.
On the human side, let alone the various countries, even the Justice League is not completely under his control. No matter how powerful Batman is, it is useless if he can't command his thighs with his brain.
To bridge the gap, it is not necessary to find a way to make the Justice League perfectly centralized. If that could be done, Batman would have done it long ago.
However, it is extremely difficult to split the current vampires, unless a method can be found to break the blood control, but even Constantine does not know whether there is such a method.
It seems that necromancy can be considered a type of magic, but Doctor Strange obviously has its limits and cannot transform too much. It is okay to use it to obtain intelligence, but it is still a bit too much to ask of him to pull out a separate vampire force.
But Schiller took a radical but surprisingly creative approach - setting the present against the past.
Vampires today are indeed a united group, but the vast majority of them, or all of them except the Vampire King, were once vulnerable humans.
If they were killed by vampires in the past, they would not exist today, so they must do everything they can to ensure that their past selves are not killed.
Then the vampire Flash who has the ability to travel through time is no longer a trump card, but the biggest hidden danger to vampires, because the vampire Flash can travel back in time and kill them when they are still vulnerable humans.
Originally, the Vampire Flash had no reason to do this, but Schiller gave him one, which was to deal with the normal Flash.
If he doesn't deal with the normal Flash, the normal Flash will take him down, but to deal with more and more normal Flashes, he has to recruit more and more vampire Flashes.
But as more and more vampire Flashes appear, more and more food is needed, and they don’t have time to go back to the present to get it. Isn’t it just like the God of Hell in the past timeline?
Once the current vampires know what the Vampire Flash did in the past, they will inevitably fight to the death because it is a struggle for survival.
Either the Vampire Flash will starve to death, or the current vampires will disappear because they were eaten clean in the past.
The two sides were in complete opposition, and the internal friction was much more serious than that of humans.
Obviously, Schiller wanted to do more than that.
"As far as I know, vampires nowadays should not have the means to travel through time. Even an outsider like me can know this. John Constantine has the ability to find a way to travel through time. Do you think they don't know this?"
"You mean they'll come looking for me?"
"They will definitely come to you."
Schiller stood up from his chair, walked to the portal, tapped the door frame and said, "What you need to do now is to contact all your friends who have the ability to travel through time, unite and make a fortune from them."
Constantine never imagined that one day he would judge someone as shameless.
But he soon discovered that Schiller was more shameless than he thought.
"Also, tell those vampires who want to go back to the past that if they want to save their lives as humans, they can use you to contract them with the Heart Inscription."
"Do you think the blood control during the Embrace Ritual takes priority, or the contract of the Heart Inscription takes priority? Or... will the two of them get stuck, giving countless vampires freedom?"
"Freedom... freedom..." Constantine repeated this word like the most vicious spell. He closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair and said, "Tens of millions of free vampires? I can't wait to see Mary's expression."
Night falls