American comics: Today’s big news Chapter 125

“The situation is getting out of control… Zatanna, seal this place off, don’t let anyone leave!”

Batman issued the order, clearly determined to fight Wonder Woman to the end.

“Zatanna?”

However, Zatanna ignored him and instead walked to Wonder Woman’s side before speaking:

“Look, Batman, Constantine wanted us to stay away from the Mother Box, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned growing up, it’s that you have to listen to Constantine’s words in reverse.”

Her hands bloomed with golden light, and she loudly chanted a spell:

“ (Sòng chuán)!” (Teleport!)

“Green Lantern, grab her!” Steve ordered Green Lantern.

Batman rushed towards Zatanna, shouting to Constantine:

“Damn it! Stop her, Constantine!”

Constantine didn’t move. He was being held by Connors, and he felt immense pressure on his shoulders, leaving him no time to worry about anything else.

Once Zatanna and Wonder Woman had completely disappeared, Constantine felt the pressure on his shoulders lighten. He turned his head and found that Connors had disappeared.

“That guy is even more troublesome than me, I need to find some means to deal with him…”

Constantine muttered to himself, then looked at Shazam, who was still eating sunflower seeds:

“Red guy, are you staying here to watch them run around like headless flies, or are you going to do something practical and fix everything? I know the whole thing started with you in Kahndaq.”

Shazam was a little reluctant to part with the sunflower seeds in his hand, and while speeding up his consumption, he followed Constantine towards the House of Mystery:

“I don’t care about fixing anything, and I don’t care who you are, I just want to get out of here—isn’t your little shack about to be demolished?”

“That’s not true, Connors just tampered with it. Don’t worry, come in. Besides, even if it really is a dilapidated building, it shouldn’t mess up your hairstyle.”

Constantine gradually relaxed Shazam’s psychological defenses. The two of them entered the House of Mystery almost as soon as Zatanna disappeared.

So after Batman’s plea to Constantine failed, he turned his head and issued an angry question:

“Where the hell did Constantine go?!”

The Flash added:

“And Shazam?”

Catwoman sighed:

“Connors is gone too.”

“Damn it…!” Steve, the leader of the American Justice League, cursed halfway, not daring to say Connors’ name. After pausing for a moment, he continued, “Things are getting worse and worse!”

Steve was worried that if he cursed Connors today, the cactus in his house would come to life the next day, and he would inexplicably bloom flowers all over his body.

“The real chaos hasn’t even started yet, Steve.” The Phantom Stranger said, starting to speak cryptically again after Wonder Woman and her group disappeared.

“If we can’t stop them, you’ll see horrors far beyond your imagination…”

“Then we should go after Wonder Woman,” Batman said.

“No, we must seek answers from him,” said the Phantom Stranger.

Batman: “From whom?”

Phantom Stranger: “Doctor Light.”

Vibe: “Doctor Light is dead.”

Phantom Stranger: “Yes, he is dead.”

Batman: “……”

He grabbed the Phantom Stranger by the collar and lifted him into the air:

“Explain yourself, I learned a phrase from Connors—don’t be a riddler!”

The Phantom Stranger helplessly raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, and only after Batman put him down did he straighten his collar and say:

“We go to Heaven to find him.”

Catwoman looked at the Phantom Stranger curiously:

“Heaven? That’s a new place, we’re going to Heaven to find Doctor Light?”

As she spoke, she felt someone poke her waist, and then a small scarecrow was stuffed into her hand, without attracting anyone’s attention.

“Help me plant an eye in Heaven, afterwards.”

After Connors finished speaking, he quickly left them in the “Grass Man’s” invisible state.

“Enlarge” and “Spider-Sense” allowed him to quickly sense the location of Wonder Woman and others, and with the addition of the black smoke cloak, he flew towards there.

Catwoman then discreetly squeezed the “Grass Man” in her hand.

……

New York’s “Hole Bar,” not far from the House of Mystery.

“Mop Mop (), the store should have closed half an hour ago, and I have a terrible headache—in short, you have to go home.”

The bartender said to a pink-haired man with tattoos that looked like fences on his arms.

The pink-haired man, named Mop Mop (), said with red cheeks and nose, clearly drunk, he said dizzyly:

“I want to sleep here for a while.”

“You can sleep wherever the hell you want, just don’t sleep in my bar,” said the bartender, reaching out to lift the guy up.

But the already closed bar was pushed open again, the outside was already dark, and two figures walked in from the darkness:

“Hey, Lloyd, lock the door, I need to use this place.”

Constantine, wearing a trench coat and lighting a cigarette, was followed by Shazam in a white cloak.

“It’s my turn to appear, I have to start doing some serious business… I originally wanted to give the Cold Flame Cult a taste of their own medicine when the time came, but thanks to those uniformed guys, I didn’t even have time to prepare.”

Constantine said, walking to the bar with Shazam:

“Billy, you’re a key figure, I have a prediction that this Superman incident is related to your Shazam powers, whether you transform with a magic necklace or something, I know you have another form.”

“I want you to shut it down for a while… that is, undo the transformation.”

Shazam was still eating the sunflower seeds Connors gave him. Even though he was speeding up, there weren’t many sunflower seeds in his hand, but it seemed like he could never finish them:

“Why should I trust you? I just followed you to get away from that chaotic group of guys.”

Shazam’s right hand was already using the “m” in “Shazam”, which is “Mercury’s speed”, and at this time this hand was waving in the air, leaving afterimages.

The sunflower seeds Connors gave him were so delicious that Shazam couldn’t bear to throw them away, and he had no pockets on his body, so he had to speed up and finish them.

Constantine looked at Shazam using his powers to eat sunflower seeds, and asked depressedly:

“How much do you know about your own power?”

Shazam: “More than you anyway. Crunch crunch crunch…”

His mouth was also using “Mercury’s speed”, spitting out sunflower seed shells as if it were snowing.

Constantine walked around, trying to stand where the sunflower seed shells wouldn’t fly on him, and said:

“No, I’m the best magic expert in the world, I know everything, and I can tell you’re not stupid.”

He paused at this point, watching Shazam’s lips spray sunflower seed shells outward at a frequency of dozens of times per second.

“Let’s put it this way, when I entered the House of Mystery, I sensed a huge magical force field, it was a kind of offensive magic, maybe it was a trap set by Black Adam.”

Constantine threw away his cigarette butt and lit another one:

“That spell is tracking you, I brought you here to buy two minutes, if you continue to use magic, it might find you and kill you.”

“You change back to your original form, it won’t be able to find you, then we’ll get rid of it, and you’ll be fine—everyone’s happy.”

Shazam threw away the sunflower seeds in his hand, he was almost full from eating that stuff.

And he had to listen carefully to what Constantine said, it seemed to be of great help to him.

“—And then, I’ll tell the Justice League how unselfishly you helped them solve the problem, and how much of a favor they owe you.”

“Sometimes trusting friends can bring win-win results, right? The opposite is not necessarily true.”

Shazam felt more and more that Constantine was right, he didn’t notice that the discarded sunflower seeds disappeared quickly, but shouted emotionally:

“Shazam!”