Tony Stark has been a little weird lately. He handed over the technology of the Ark reactor to the board of directors. Let the professionals take care of the operations. Then he went into the basement alone again.

Only this time he was no longer studying his steel suit, but devoted a lot of energy to various religious semiotics. In fact, when you see the mark on your body, you already know that it is a devil's mark. After all, if you are in Europe and the United States, you are very familiar with the pentagram.

But Tony was still unwilling to find some other clues. He looked through a large number of religious texts, as well as various documents. In the end, he could only reluctantly determine the mark on his body, which meant that he had a deal with the devil.

However, what pained Tony the most was that he couldn't remember what he had paid. He quietly checked that the palladium poisoning on his body had been lifted. This shows that everything is not an illusion of oneself. I encountered some supernatural event myself. But even Jarvis, who is an artificial intelligence, did not record what happened that night?

Tony is a businessman who knows that there is no such thing as a free lunch. You may already be in some kind of dangerous state and don't know it.

"Pebo, help me contact the Cardinal in New York City."

Lin Xuan didn't know Tony's condition. He hadn't always been very fond of Tony Stark. At least until he rushed into the wormhole with a nuclear bomb, he didn't have much affection for him. So I didn't pay too much attention to him. He cared about news from the Retreat.

Blood Sacrifice. The oldest form of magic. Before the whole sacrifice is launched. It is not detectable at all. In Lin Xuan's magical career, he had seen more than one blood sacrifice. Even he himself used to use it. It was the oldest and purest form of magic. Depending on the number of blood sacrifices, it can produce a variety of incredible effects.

"Casillas is a traitor to the Order. He wants to use the Blood Sacrifice to forcibly break through Emperor Weishan? ”

"As it stands, it should be."

"But now it's twenty-one society. How could he unwittingly find thousands of people to sacrifice? This is not the Middle Ages, and even if he is a magician, it is impossible not to alarm us and silently kidnap so many people for sacrifice. The secular society is no weaker than the world in us. What does he want to do? Jiaying was a little puzzled.

"It's very simple, little by little people from all over the world. Even if there are 10,000 fewer people, no one will find out. After all, there is such a large population now. Hermione retorted.

"It's not that simple, if you want to forcibly break through Emperor Weishan, you have to start from the node of the formation. That is, the ceremony must be held in Hong Kong, New York, and London. Casillas has a group of followers, but there are not many of them, and they are absolutely not capable of doing it to this extent. Not even with the dark cult. ”

"Rolco."

"What?"

"Rolco, who has not been heard from all this time, may not need to kidnap the sacrifice if he helps. There will be a large number of volunteers who will volunteer to die. ”

"Hell and the dark dimension of Dormammum are not a united front."

"But that doesn't mean Rolko can't join forces with Dormammu. You know, Rolko is now Hell's most wanted man. Presumably Mephisto was thinking about how to crush it to ashes? It was only natural for him to find a new partner. ”

"Rolco isn't qualified to work with Dormammu, right?"

"That's why he has to show a little bit of value first. Rolco is the Great Devil, and he can easily trick mortals into dying for it. ”

"But the whole of New York is under our surveillance, and if there is a large number of ordinary people who are bewitched, we should monitor it until then."

"Don't be too confident, Jiaying. Why do you think that our monitoring magic will be able to capture the movements of an old devil who may have lived for tens of thousands of years? Remember the lessons I gave you? ”

"When facing this kind of opponent, always assume that the opponent still has hole cards. Until the opponent is completely down. ”

"That's right. Now Rolko, let alone falling, we haven't even found him yet. As you can imagine, he must have been extremely well prepared. ”

"In that case, we can use the power of S.H.I.E.L.D. They monitor the world much more than we do. ”

"Contact them. But don't make a big fuss. Let the Hermit bite Casillas. But the parliament stood still for the time being. Wait for the rats hiding in the darkness to show their tails. We're doing a thorough cleanup. ”

S.H.I.E.L.D., Coulson is reporting to Fury.

"S.H.I.E.L.D.'s regular report for the last month is out. Our analysts found some slight irrationality in this. It was not originally at the level of escalation. But given the recent tensions, I think it's better to report on it. In addition, I personally have some vague feelings of inappropriateness. ”

"As an agent, professional skills are a must. But sometimes it's intuition that really saves lives. So I never underestimate the instincts of a good agent. Let's talk about it, Coulson. ”

"First of all, in terms of public opinion, since the events in New York. There are all kinds of threat theories on the Internet. Statements about sightings, monsters, aliens, and demons dominate. However, there is a slight problem here, the proportion of devil's speech is ten percentage points higher than we calculated. I think that in today's society, the proportion of alien speech should be relatively large. ”

"Analysts' data is only an estimate, not an exact reference."

"That's true, so it's a minor issue. And then there's about some of the emerging religions. Every time such a disaster is followed, there is always a chaotic denomination of all kinds. This time was no exception. It's just that this time, the number is also a lot more than we imagined. And, most of them are biased towards the dark. ”

"These two points add up, and they can indeed be called doubtful. But you're not going to report to me just because that's the degree. So, are there any other decisive factors? ”

"There is indeed one. The last suspicion is very special. It comes from one of our special surveillance subjects, Tony Stark. ”

"Is there anything wrong with him? Palladium poisoning deepened? ”

"No, it's weirder than this. We were unable to get close to him, but according to the agents' observations, his poisoning did not deepen. But that's not the point, the suspicion is. One early morning two weeks ago. Tony Stark's private account has tens of millions of dollars in cash flow. These perfectly legitimate funds have gone through complex flows, and the final destination has become somewhat ambiguous. But our technicians still found some clues.

"Let me guess, something to do with what you said earlier?"

"Yes, there is more than one emerging denomination that has been sponsored by this funding."