A lot happened on this seemingly ordinary night.A devil prince has escaped from hell and is ready to embark on his own glorious conquest.A knight is empowered, propelled by fate to join the carnival.And where the two of them are about to meet, there is also something unknown going on, and this matter is no less important than the first two.There are cemeteries in every city.No one likes that place, but for a fast-growing city, a cemetery is a must.It tends to be quiet, low-key on the edge of the city in some of the less noticeable places.It often has beautiful meadows and quiet fences, as if to create an environment for the deceased to be undisturbed.Although that doesn't mean much to the deceased.After death, their souls are already free from their decaying bodies, and they will either step into the heaven of faith or fall into the hell of misery.Except for a few guys with special circumstances, they definitely don't stay in the human world.The soul is what really matters, the shell, that's meaningless.In Johnny and Rosan's hometown, outside of Austin, in a small, nondescript cemetery, a grave keeper prepares to sleep.He's old.The gray hair on his head and the wrinkles on his face were the truest traces of time.But the old man was still stubborn and didn't want to fall, he was wearing a half-worn denim outfit, just like the old cowboy of the previous era, no, the old cowboy of the previous era, and he was wearing a broken cowboy hat.Before going to sleep, he had to do his daily work, and he carried a shovel and walked around the cemetery, although there were very few tomb robbers in this era.After all, in this new era, grave robbers are really a very unpromising job, but there are always some drunks and junkies who will prefer a secluded and undisturbed place like a cemetery.Well, there are also some psychologically twisted little couples who will take advantage of the night to do some very perverted things here...
Never underestimate the madness inside people, especially in this increasingly crazy world.The old man walked around the cemetery with a lantern and a strange song, and the scene seemed to be a little oozing, even enough to frighten the cowards.I don't know if it's the reason for the sudden change in the weather, in the middle of this hellish night, there was actually a fog in the cemetery, and between the shadows and shadows, the light emitted by the horse lantern looked a little pale.It's like the old and absurd stories of the western land built on legends...
What a soul charmer, what a god of death or something."
Huh?"
Carrying a shovel and humming a song, the old man who was patrolling the cemetery suddenly heard the sound of talking from the cemetery next to him.He turned his head to see that the voice was coming from the depths of the cemetery, where there were some of the oldest cemeteries, mostly the tombstones of the dead of the Western cowboy's era.However, they were not originally buried here, they were originally in the city, but the city also needs to develop, and the role of the cemetery is obviously not as important as the train station, so those cemeteries were moved here a few decades ago.Very few people come to worship those who died hundreds of years ago, except for those who still maintain ancient traditions.Those who can be grave keepers are some very bold guys.At midnight, the old man who guarded the grave followed the sound of the tomb into the depths of the cemetery, he thought it was another group of junkies or madmen running for fun, but it was not until he approached the somewhat deserted cemetery that he realized that it was not.In front of a tombstone, two eccentric people are standing there.The guy standing on the left wears a black trench coat and a hood.Looked a little emaciated, holding a strange cane in his hand, glowing reddish in the dark, it was peculiar, it looked like it was made of some kind of plastic, but it wasn't!
The well-informed grave keeper could tell at a glance that it was made of bone.A work of art carved from a complete leg bone, and the fact that it glows suggests that the bones that have been made of raw materials must be extraordinary.The guy standing on the right is also wearing a cloak, but the cloak is more like a cloak.And it was like a very old mantle, which dragged on the ground like the cloak worn by the nobles of the Middle Ages, and he wore a green hood, which was almost perfectly hidden in the darkness of the night.These two guys are not ordinary people at first glance.So the grave keeper didn't come any closer, he hid behind a tree and listened quietly to the conversation between the two guys.—————————— "I'm curious, Mr.
Doom. ”Merlin looked at the weathered tombstone in front of him, and he looked at the silent Vidocq beside him.
Feng.
Doom said: "What kind of demands did it make of you when you were talking to my 'old friend'?
Is it convenient to reveal?
”"No, I promised it, and I can't say it until the time comes."
Dum's deep voice came from under his iron helmet, and the wizarding king was as low-key and silent as ever, and in the face of Merlin's question, he replied, "All I can say is that you have a lot of good things. ”"Lord Merlin, like your 'old friend', the all-knowing parchment, I would like to buy it from you if I can.""
It's a pity that I can't give it to you."
Merlin crouched down, stretched out his hand, and brushed away the weeds from the tombstone in front of him, and said, "Parchment is troublesome, it involves a lot of unknown things. ”"And the last time I left it with a friend, it got me in a terrible situation, and I still haven't gotten out of that trouble.Seriously, Lord Doom, I'm here for your own good...""
My 'old friend' is definitely not as simple as it seems.""
Found it, this is it."
Merlin looked at the weathered words on the tombstone, and he read them out: "Carter.
Shi Lei...
May the light of the Father shine on your dark soul, my friend. ”Beneath that meaningful epitaph, this Carter.
As Merlin stared at the words that had been stripped away by time, Merlin said, "A man who lived in the 19th century, well, was still a mounted policeman, interesting. ”He stood up and patted the dust off his gloves, he looked at the silent Doom beside him, and he said, "So, what did the parchment tell you?"
”"It told me a lot about Carter.
Shray, about the Covenant of St.
Van Gonza, about Mephistopheles' failure, about what we can do with it. ”With his hands folded on his abdomen, the wizard-king looked at the tombstone in front of him, and as if telling a story, he whispered in a magnetic voice, "Carter.
Shray is a Texas Ranger, a man who is said to be quite upright. ”"But in reality, he was the last knight of Mephistopheles.From the birth of the legend of the Evil Ghost Rider to the present, he is the only knight who has escaped the end of being destroyed, a truly intelligent man. ”"Of course, it's also a guy who doesn't keep his promises, the only guy who makes the big devil Mephistopheles reap a defeat.""
As with all Mephistopheles-related stories, Sray was imprisoned for taking bribes, and he was to be executed.""
The night before he was executed, a mysterious man appeared in front of him, promised him a new life and hope, and the desperate Shray signed a contract to escape.""
During the day, he fulfilled his duties as a mounted police officer as before, and when night came, he turned into a ghost knight, collecting the souls of those contracts for the great devil in the western land, like a thug, an accomplice..."
Doom shook his head, he said, "Shi Lei may not be a good man, but he still has the last shred of conscience. ”"In his last debt collection operation, he witnessed Mephistopheles lure thousands of people into a village with the lure of eternal life, turning it into a living hell overnight.""
Wives kill their husbands, sons strangle their fathers, mothers poison their daughters, babies are thrown into wells and drowned...
All imaginable evils happened that night, and all of this was just a bad joke on Mephistopheles. ”"While the village was soaked in blood, the last vestiges of conscience in Shray's fallen soul forced him to rebel against his master, and he used some mysterious method to escape Mephistopheles' pursuit and flee with the pact until now.""
St.
Van Gonza!"
Rubbing his forehead, Merlin reminisced about his past, and soon he thought of his brief trip to Texas in 1991."
Oh, by the way, I've been to that famous haunted village.But I was too weak to unlock the secrets there, so I jotted it down in my notebook. ”Merlin took a notebook from his pocket, flipped through a few pages, and then pointed to the text on it and said, "Look, here it is, what I wrote at the time." ”"A dangerous place to come back and explore until you're strong enough...
Tsk, it's sad that this damn fate has pulled me into this matter a long time ago, and I don't know anything. ”Merlin looked at the tombstone in front of him and said, "So, Carter.
Shi Lei isn't actually dead, is he?
Lord Doom. ”"Of course, that cunning soul has been hiding in a hidden place, a place where the creatures of hell can't tread, and Shire has always been careful, any wind and grass will let him escape, just like now..."
Doom turned his head and looked at the pale lantern running wildly in the fog behind him, and he said, "He's going to run...
He thought he could run away. ”Doom's figure vanished in the flow of magic, and Merlin glanced back at the weathered tombstone, shook his head, and chased after him.But soon, Merlin stopped.He stood in the darkness of the night, looking at the shovel that had been thrown away by Shi Lei at his feet, a plain thing, which looked like it had been used for a long time, and even the wooden handle had been ground out of the pulp.Nobody will pay attention to it, and no one will pick it up if it is thrown on the street."
It's partially hollow!"
Icarus said to Merlin, "There's something in the handle. ”"Well, I feel it, it's a familiar feeling."
Merlin bent down and picked up the shovel, he looked at the thing in his hand, and he said, "I've felt this power before, it's been a long time...""
Let me think about it, a long time ago, when the half-demon Morris attacked the church of St.
Matthew, there was a white light protecting Father Paul, and the priest told me that it was the divine power of faith, I didn't believe it at the time, but the feeling of that light...""
Snap" Merlin broke the shovel wooden handle in his hand, and a white light gushed out, making Merlin's cold hair stand on end, and his whole person retreated more than ten meters, narrowly avoiding the beating white light."
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It's exactly the same, this holy power, I know there is hell in this world, but is there really a heaven?"
Merlin looked at the golden scroll that had fallen on the grass, wrapped in a cloud of white light, and said, "It is the legendary Heaven that is engaged in an endless war with Hell that is sheltering Shire...""
Ah, I see, the old Mountie 200 years ago was not a conscience at all, he was just inspired by heaven, that's all, no wonder he dared to go against Mephistopheles."
Merlin took the black suitcase from his pocket, called out the fortress, and asked the fortress to pick up the scroll protected by the white arc light from the ground, and then he led the fortress back to the front of the grave keeper's hut.It was a small sanctuary protected by holy power, and Merlin felt the strength of that power before decisively choosing to stop outside the house.In the room, Doom and the old Mounties were clearly not so "friendly" in their communication, and there was even a force similar to hellfire beating.But after a few minutes, the fighting in the house stopped.The "click" door was pushed open, and Dom stepped out of it, his cloak charred, but other than that, he was intact.Behind him, the old mounted policeman with a blue nose and swollen face looked at the two people in front of him with disgust, and the scroll held in his hand by the fortress, and said, "You fools, do you think this scroll is so easy to take?
It was protected by the power of St.
Michael, just to prevent Mephistopheles from using it for evil. ”"No, you're mistaken, Shiray."
With a wave of his finger, a golden contract identical to the one of St.
Vangonza's contract appeared in his hand, and he handed it to Shray the fake contract that had taken a lot of time to craft.He said: "We have never coveted this scroll, at least I don't want to hold it, thousands of evil souls mean nothing to me...
We just need you to do one thing for us. ”Doom looked at the last Ghost Rider, maybe this guy was very capable of fighting in his heyday, and it was difficult to entangle, but now, after Mephistopheles retracted a huge part of the knight's power, he was already an old man who had lived for more than 200 years.Whether it's Merlin or Doom, they can easily kill him."
Someone will come looking for it."
Merlin pointed to the scroll in Shray's hand, and he said to the old mounted policeman, "All you have to do is give this thing to the visitor...
That's all, oh sure, you might also need to act in a scene. ”Carter.
Shi Lei looked at the imitation in his hand, and there was even a real fake with dark magic surging.A smile flashed across his old face, and he showed his big yellow teeth, reaching out and pulling at his worn cowboy hat, and said to Doom and Merlin, "You're planning to pit Mephistopheles, you have the guts...
But if I said it earlier, it almost scared me to death. ”"I did it!"
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