Cyber and Johnny sat in the chairs of the grave keeper's hut, the furnishings of the room were full of the smell of the last century, this was the residence of an immortal who had lived for more than 200 years, the sculptures and collectibles that had been given special meanings in time were wiped clean on the shelves, next to a pile of flour and food ordered from the supermarket a few days ago, and in front of the statue of the holy angel, there was an old ore radio, and Seb vaguely remembered that Daddy seemed to have one too. *With* Dream *Small* Say .lā

If you are a literary and artistic person, you may still experience a sense of chaos in time, as if time has stopped moving forward here.

Carter Slay was silent for a moment by Seber's question, and he reached out and took out a very modern pipe from the cabinet next to him, and put it in a delicate iron ring where he took his mouth, and he took some of the tobacco, and pressed it as he squeezed it, his eyes sparkling with memories, and he looked like an old man who was immersed in a bygone time.

"When did you start talking?"

Carter leaned back in his chair, and all the old man's strange, withdrawn emotions at this moment disappeared, replaced by a touch of peace and indifference, he compacted the pipe in his hand, put it to his mouth and smoked, a pungent smoke floated, and in the smoke, Carter began to tell his story.

"Twenty-seven years ago, I was a Texas Ranger, I was the best hunter in this area, no one can escape my pursuit, so what would this place be called? St. Austin? ”

Carter's eyes quickly turned to unhappiness, "But those guys were jealous of my merits, and they denounced me to my superiors, accusing me of corruption, well, I did get some ill-gotten gains from those horse bandits, but that was my gain, wasn't it? Really!"

He stretched out his little finger and gestured disdainfully, "Just a little bit... Then on the night before I died, a strange man appeared in the prison, and I knew by looking at his face that he was a bad seed, the complete kind, but he told me that he could save my life at the cost of my soul, which was ridiculous..."

Carter coughed lightly,

"Then we still used the contract, so when he asked for a contract, I didn't think much of it, I thought it was just a boring joke, because I didn't trust him at all! But just as my finger touched the contract, the sharp knife cut through my skin, and the blood dripped on the parchment of the contract, and I can still remember the flash of thunder that flashed outside the window... I see his shadow, the devil's shadow!"

Carter Sleigh's face showed a hint of exhaustion, and he rubbed the corners of his forehead,

"And then everyone forgot ... Forgetting about my sentence, I took the opportunity to kill the guys who framed me one by one, and then started to be my loose sheriff again, and I thought it was all over until 5 years later, on a rainy night, he came again, and he told me that he needed me..."

"You know, it's good to serve the devil. ”

Carter Shray suddenly lowered his voice and said something strange and not so positive in this sacred place, he laughed like a night owl, "They are very generous, the devil and their hell only need souls, after killing those guys he named me to kill, those guys' money belongs to me, oh my God, that crazy time, let me think, 0 years, at least 0 years, it is simply the happiest time of my life." ”

"Endless money! Endless women, blood that can never be wiped clean..."

Carter took a deep breath, closed his eyes slightly, and leaned back in his chair, "Until my last mission... I will never forget that place, the town of St. Vangonza, not far from where I was born, and I know that place, a very friendly, kind people, who lived as poor but happy as most peasants of that time, whose flock of sheep was their most precious treasure, and who were poor and clanged in addition to that. ”

The old man pursed his lips,

"But the ale was great, and of course, the food tasted terrible, so I wouldn't go to that kind of place where there was no oil and water, but this time, I had to go, and Mephisto told me that he had made a pact with the people there, and he told me to receive it, and I didn't think much of it at the time, and I rode my beloved horse "Calpote" to the hell place, and then I saw ... Hell. ”

"You can never imagine what I saw that night, the kind people were like crazy, even the helpless woman with a knife was slashing everyone around her, the children were thrown into the fire and burned, a third of them died in the poisoned water, hell, when I arrived, the killing was already going on to the end... No one survived! I watched as the last two people, a woman and an old man, like wild beasts, tried desperately to stab each other's hearts with the knives in their hands, but they were father and daughter... Oh my!"

Speaking of this, Carter Shray's hand trembled slightly, even after more than 200 years, the hell he saw that night never left him, he muttered to himself,

"I want to save the next one, really... I really wanted to save the next one, it was miserable, but I couldn't, the father bit off his daughter's ear, the daughter dug out the father's heart, no one survived, I approached the town that had been completely destroyed, and in the raging fire in the very center of the town, I saw, the scroll written in blood, Mephisto's conspiracy. ”

"He deceived them and said that if he sacrificed a voluntary soul, he could bring eternal life to all the people in the town, which is a funny reason, right? But at that time, everyone was very superstitious, and with the power that Mephisto displayed, they did so, and they got nothing, except for the contract, which sealed their tormented souls in the area of the town of St. Vangonza, and they could not escape until someone took the initiative to break the contract!"

"I got the contract..."

Carter Slay whispered, "I got it effortlessly, but I don't know if I should give him the contract full of blood in my hand, I didn't know what he wanted to do at the time, I found out later, I just thought that the thing in my hand was so disgusting, you call it a conscience discovery, call it a sudden awakening, in short, when I saw Mephisto with a smile on his face, I felt for the first time that smile was so hateful!

"The spirit of vengeance has given me the strength to resist... I resisted, and I fled with the contract. ”

The old man leaned back in his chair and breathed a sigh of relief, "That's probably the only right thing I've done in my life, and then that cash-rich Carter Shray died, and the only one left alive was an old man who was alive with a secret... How many secrets does a person have to go through in order to live a life in peace? That's a good question, you know? I've been waiting for you to come. ”

"Why?"

Johnny couldn't help but ask, and Cyber spoke at the same time, but asked another question,

"What does he want to do with that contract?"

Two people with very different personalities asked very different questions, Carter Slay smiled, he first looked at Cyber, he whispered,

"Where did you meet Mephisto?"

"Crossing the Bounds Bar, a rotten place!"

Cyber spread his hands and said, "That place is not far from here, but I wonder how the devil has allowed you to live for more than 200 years?"

"It's simple, because I'm 'dead'!"

"I sent most of the hellfire back to hell, creating the illusion that I was going to die, and the ones that didn't go back were used to support my old body, and with the protection of St. Michael, he couldn't find me... But when you go to the Bounds Bar, don't you find out that people like him from outside the world have to pay a price for entering our world?"

Cyber remembered the bartender in the bar who had been shot in the head by him, and he nodded,

"It is said that it takes a soul to open what hell the hell door?"

"It's a sacrifice, a sacrifice that summons a wisp of Mephisto's consciousness to this world, aren't you curious about what the St. Van Gonza Pact is for? Let me tell you, it's also a sacrifice... With the souls of thousands of people, summon the entity of the Great Demon King to descend into the present world, tear open the barriers of the world, and then establish a hell on earth in St. Van Gonzha... The best part is that the people there made a contract with the devil of their own free will, and even the Supreme Mage couldn't stop it from happening... Yes, that cunning old dog took advantage of it!"

The old man smiled low and smugly, like a stealing old cat,

"But all of this was ruined by me, hahaha, I really want to see Mephisto's depressed old face. ”

With that, he turned his gaze to Johnny again,

"That's why I'm looking forward to your arrival... I'm dying, the remnants of hellfire are almost depleted, I can't hold on anymore, I've been waiting for the next generation of knights to appear, I thought I would need to use my old life to awaken the vengeful spirit hidden in your body, but luckily, I don't seem to have to make such a big sacrifice. ”

He stood up, picked up the seemingly inconspicuous shovel in the corner, and slammed it against the wall, "bang", the shovel cracked through the center, revealing a rustic scroll with a hint of red lines, Carter took it out, looked at it in front of his eyes, shook his head, and threw it to Johnny.

"Then take over the responsibility and mission that I have carried for more than 200 years and protect it!"

Carter Shray whispered, "Use everything you have, protect it!" I know that this time it was the Witch Heart, the most unsuccessful of Mephisto's sons, and I saw the scene of him being violently beaten by the Supreme Mage, and if you can't violate the Supreme Mage's precepts and use power beyond this world, you two are definitely enough to deal with the Witch Heart, go and kill him! ”

The old man coughed twice,

"The power of his appearance in the present world is not as good as that of the Witch Heart Demon, and if he dares to descend with an entity, the Supreme Mage will make him look good. ”

"Hey, Johnny, let me see it!"

Cyber suddenly spoke, Johnny paused, nodded, and handed over the scroll in his hand without doubt, and Cyber took it in his hand, and he put the scroll in front of him,

"Oh, look, this little thing can create a real hell on earth... How terrifying. ”

He sighed, and then naturally stuffed the scroll into his pocket, patted the dust that didn't exist on his body, and showed a smile on his face,

"Thank you, then, Cartershray, and you, Johnny... I thought it was hard to find. ”

"Cyber, you!"

Johnny sensed that something was wrong, but a black shadow flashed in front of him in human form, and Cyber's punch hit him in the neck, Johnny's body shook and fell to the ground on his back, Cyber didn't look at Johnny who fell to the ground, he reached out and there was a clicking sound, he turned his head, and saw Carter Slay holding a black, beautiful old-fashioned riding gun in his hand, and the black muzzle was aimed at his heart.

"What the hell are you doing?"

Carter Slay was almost crazy, and he seemed to pull the trigger at any moment with excitement, but Seber pulled down the brim of his hat, and a smile appeared on his lips,

"Don't be funny, old man, Ghost Rider can't change during the day... Isn't it?"

"You... How do you know?"

"I've played Johnny head-to-head..."

Cyber looked up, his eyes had become extremely cold, "I broke his bones into more than 00 pieces with my bare hands, and I saw with my own eyes that the flames on his body were extinguished when the first rays of sunlight rose..."

He walked forward, resting his chest against the muzzle of the gun, and he reached out and patted Carter Shray on the shoulder,

"You're old, pay attention to your body... Take advantage of the rest of the time and get some rest, no one will blame you. ”

The old man glared at Cyber viciously, as if he wanted to tear him apart and eat him completely.

"Why?"

Faced with this questioning, Cyber shrugged, "I'm dying, only this thing can save my life... Is this answer enough?"

"But the world will become hell because of this!!"

"Hehe... What does that have to do with me?"

Cartershray's face turned pale, and at the same time, in distant Manhattan, a house full of miscellaneous things, the room was full of thick smoke, and a man and a woman rolled on the bed in a very intimate position, looking just in love, but just as they were about to go further, the man was suddenly pulled from the bed by a force, and a pale yellow, sparkling portal appeared behind him, and he was thrown into it.

"Help me do something... John!"

The man struggled, he looked at the already frightened beauty on the bed, and he smiled at her,

"Hi baby, wait for me, I'll be back in 1 day at most and continue with our..."

"Buzz"

Before he could finish speaking, he was engulfed by the closed portal,

"No! you damn old woman..."