When Merlin woke up again, the first thing he saw was a beautiful woman staring at him.She has a typical oriental face, with good skin that can be broken by blowing.Her eyes were blue, not the sea blue that is common to Europeans and Americans, but more like the pure blue of the sky.Her hair hung low, and her black hair was mixed with a different kind of purple, which looked very beautiful and very soft.She was also dressed in a black leather suit, dressed like a female ninja, a dashing trench coat over her battle suit, and the heavy katana was casually thrown beside the bed.The mercenary, who had completed his mission, was sitting on the edge of the bed, looking at Merlin with curious eyes.Looking into Merlin's eyes, to be precise, the eyes that are different."
Ahem, you, what are you looking at?"
Merlin asked weakly, and the beautiful woman shrugged her shoulders, and she stood up, took a few steps back, and sat down on the couch next to her.She said, "I'm looking at gold!"
”"What gold?"
Merlin asked rhetorically for some reason.The beautiful woman snorted, stretched out her fingers, and said while playing with her nails: "Someone gave 5 million, just so that I could save your life."
You know?
Now in my eyes, you are as valuable as the same volume of gold. ”"Oh, really?"
Merlin closed his eyes, he knew that it should be Bruce's family who hired this tough beauty.He hadn't been going to use the number Bruce had left him, but he had used it in the lethal hour of last night, and it did save his life.Alas, I don't know how to repay him."
What's your name?"
Merlin leaned against the head of the bed with a little difficulty, and he looked at the beautiful mercenary in front of him.The latter picked out his black and purple hair, and said lazily: "Why do you ask this?"
Look at you, you can't afford to hire me.You're not a beautiful type, you're not the type I like, so forget it, and when you're safe, we'll have nothing to do with each other. ”"I always want to know the name of my benefactor.You've saved my life, and it may seem to you that it's just a business, but it's my life...", Merlin said softly but stubbornly, "though I may not be able to help you, but if you need it, I will do my best to help."
I don't really like to owe favors. ”Merlin's words silenced the beauty for a moment, she looked at Merlin, and she said, "Well...
You don't look like an American, but like someone from my hometown, and you know how to repay you, okay, very good. ”The beautiful woman rolled over and unconcerned about exposing her beautiful figure to Merlin's eyes.She crouched on the couch and rummaged through her small bag, finding a crumpled business card and tossing it to Merlin.She crossed her waist and said aloud, "Then remember, boy." ”"Call me Lingdie, the best and most beautiful mercenary in the world.Oh, by the way, another reminder..."
Spirit Butterfly held out her finger, a cloud of crimson energy turned into a sharp blade in her hand, she shook the energy knife, she said, "I'm a mutant.You seem to be too?
”"Hmm...
Sort of. ”Merlin didn't want to explain too much about the problem, he rested in silence for a few minutes, and then suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly struggled to get up, picked up the water by the bed, and drank it all.He looked back at the clock behind him, it was 9 o'clock in the morning, and 5 hours and 57 minutes had passed since his last drink...
It's a suspense.Lingdie, who was bored watching TV in this hotel room, glanced at Merlin in surprise.She didn't care about Merlin's actions, she knew that many mutants had quirky quirks, and it would be rude to ask about this."
Where are you taking me?"
Merlin stood by the window, looking out at the bustling street below, which should still be Auckland, but it should be on the other side of the city, close to the airport."
You can go anywhere."
Lingdie tore open a bag of snacks and said as she ate it, "As long as you can safely avoid this pursuit." ”"I'm going to take you to Canada, where the Mutant Brotherhood has a base, and as long as you're willing to join Magneto's organization, there aren't too many unscrupulous people in this world who dare to mess with you.""
Magneto?"
Merlin shook his head, he knew that this powerful mutant was said to be one of the two leaders of the mutant society.However, since Magneto has planned a lot of attacks against humans in the past ten years, in the minds of humans, Magneto is equivalent to a real villain.What's more, even Magneto's love for mutants is useless, because Merlin is not a mutant at all.He said to the spirit butterfly, "I don't want to go there, I want to stay here." ”“？？？”
Lingdie looked back at Merlin, and she asked in surprise, "What are you staying here for?"
Sent to death?
”Merlin didn't answer, and Spiritbutterfly chattered, "Do you know how famous the Winter Soldier is in the mercenary world?
”"For the past dozen years, he has served the Soviet government, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, he began to serve an organization.The completion rate of the missions he took on was almost 100 percent, and many of them were extremely dangerous political assassination missions. ”"Being targeted by such a ruthless character, even if it's me, will be a headache.You...
Merlin, it's not that I underestimate you, your abilities are very unstable, and obviously not systematically developed, you are not his opponent at all. ”"His name is the Winter Soldier, what a name."
Merlin nodded, he didn't care what Lingdie said.Under the gaze of the Spirit Butterfly, Merlin turned his head to look out the window, he looked at his hands, and he said, "Those people died because of me, Spirit Butterfly." ”"Before you came, I was hiding in an apartment building, and the Winter Soldier fired a rocket at the apartment in order to kill me, and his subordinates threw a lot of explosives in that block.""
They don't deserve this fate, they only got this result because I was hiding there and I didn't get out in time."
Merlin looked out the window with an indescribable gaze and said, "I'm not a bad person, I'm just unlucky, I've been unlucky." ”"I've implicated them, I've implicated a lot of people, I'm in doom...
I should have known that I didn't have a home, not because my home didn't accept me, but because I didn't deserve to hug that home. ”"I'm just going to hurt them...""
So you feel guilty?
Do you want to sacrifice yourself to maintain order?
”Lingdie said sarcastically to Merlin, "I've lived much longer than you think, Merlin, I've seen a lot of people like you.Do you want to know the results?
Let me tell you, even if you die, the fight will not stop.Someone like the Winter Soldier, he won't stop making killings as long as he's alive, and you want to put an end to all this?
”"Yes...
Kill him, and everything will be over for a while. ”"But the question is, can you do it?
Merlin, good baby, I ask you, have you ever killed someone?
”Lingdie lay comfortably on the sofa, stretching her body like a supermodel, she said: "Countering violence with violence is low-level, but in the real world, this is always the best way to solve problems, don't talk to me about world peace...
Even a powerful mutant like Professor Charles, a strong man who can control all the dignitaries in the world in an instant, can't really achieve world peace. ”"If there is one thing that has remained constant throughout my long life, it is the hatred of one kind...
It's original sin, you know?
An irreparable original sin!
So don't have that naïve idea, it's really important to live well.Don't forget, you're worth 5 million!
Much more expensive than the average person. ”Reprimanded by Spirit Butterfly as an elder, Merlin nodded silently, and he seemed to have given up his childish thoughts.A moment later, under the gaze of the butterfly, he turned around and limped into the bathroom.Butterfly continued to focus on the soap opera in front of her, and Merlin hadn't come out of the bathroom until nearly 8 minutes later.Lingdie suddenly realized that she didn't seem to hear the sound of water in the bathroom a few minutes ago."
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Hell!"
Lingdie kicked open the door of the bathroom, and it was empty.Meanwhile, downstairs in the hotel, down the street, Merlin got into a cab and said to the driver, "Auckland train station, thank you." ”Thirty minutes later, Merlin, wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap, walked to the locker at the train station, took out a key from the compartment of his boot, and opened the locker in the corner in front of him, where a black thermos mug was placed.He took out the thermos cup, twisted it open, poured out the melted water inside, and poured the small bag of blue liquid into a syringe he had just bought.Merlin held the needle in front of his eyes, and he looked at the viscous blue liquid in the needle.Reflected in the liquid was Merlin's paper-pale face and his eyes under his sunglasses.Flames danced in those shadowy eyes."
How can you make me feel comfortable watching innocent people die because of me?
I'm almost out of breath from the burden of the past...""
Just when I...
Be naïve. ”The "poof" needle pierced the blood vessels of the arm with precision, and the blue liquid was injected into Merlin's body little by little.He didn't know what the consequences of this serum being injected into the body would be like this, but maybe Lingdie was right, in this real world that was different from fairy tales, perhaps, countering violence with violence was the way he should choose to atone for his sins.But countering violence with violence requires strength!
The empty syringe fell to the ground and was crushed by Merlin's foot.His body began to tremble, and the serum worked.I don't know if this kind of violent trembling of the body is a normal reaction.A pain erupted in Merlin's will, a sign that the body's structures were beginning to tear apart at the cellular level, and the deadly crisis was revealed, black smoke rolling over his arm, but not completing the full manifestation of the black mist.There is a force blooming in Merlin's body, it is preventing the dark magic from continuing to erode Merlin's body, and it is also preventing Merlin's body from turning into dark smoke.Merlin curled up in the corner, the shadows clearer of his senses covering him like flowing water, as if pulling him into another dimension.He held his body in both hands, and streams of intense pain rushed out of the depths of his body, and it hurt.It's like the pain he suffered on the night he lost everything in the Wisconsin wilderness two years ago.The power of darkness was like a cocoon, enveloping Merlin little by little in the rising smoke.The absorption of the Super Soldier Serum requires a huge amount of energy to catalyze, and Merlin doesn't have those sophisticated equipment.But luckily, he wasn't injected with a full dose of serum, and if it was just energy, he wasn't short of energy."
If, this is a game...""
Then let it...
Let's be fair. ”————————— an hour later, Lingdie, dressed loosely, rushed into the train station.There was a slight glint in her blue eyes, like an invisible sign, guiding the Butterfly all the way to the train station, and she followed the invisible sign until she reached the edge of the locker.She could feel that a painful life was hidden here.Butterfly looked left and right, she reached out and covered her fingers with crimson energy, and then grabbed at the empty corner.With a slight sound similar to the sound of glass breaking, Merlin, who was huddled in the shadows, was grabbed by the spirit butterfly."
Run!
You run again!
”Spirit Butterfly scolded, waved it with one hand, and crimson energy wrapped around Merlin's body, binding him to death, as if he was planning to take the 5 million guy away like this.Merlin didn't resist, he wasn't doing well.The sweat pouring from his body had soaked his clothes so wet that he looked like he had been fished out of the water.He lowered his head and asked in a hoarse voice, "How did you find me?"
”Spirit Butterfly glared at him and said impatiently, "I can sense other people's minds, and although I don't like this ability, it doesn't mean I won't use it."
I really underestimated you, Merlin, you can actually go from...
Wait, your eyes!
”Merlin's eyes changed.The light in his eyes, which had been like a dancing flame, had completely solidified into dark orange-red points of light at this moment, like the embers of coal that were about to be extinguished after the flame had ended.Only then did Lingdie notice that Merlin's face was no longer as morbidly pale as before, but had become rosy.His slightly thin body also became strong.Even his height soared by 15 centimeters in just one hour.The pants and clothes that originally fit are like one size smaller out of thin air."
What did you do to yourself?"
Surprised, Spirit Butterfly asked, "What evil transformation have you received?"
Or drank something like a magic potion?
”"Nothing."
Merlin moved his arms, and the black smoke rolled slightly on his arms, and the spirit butterfly bound his energy ring, which was squeezed away little by little.He put back on his sunglasses and said to Butterfly, "I just...
Embracing the things that have been calling me, I have discovered that the more you try to escape, the more you will encounter fate. ”"So I decided to make my life a little more dangerous, just like you.""
A path to darkness is really bad, but it's at least a path for those who have no way out.""
Now, I'm on my way."
Merlin looked back at the slightly surprised Spirit Butterfly, he narrowed his eyes and showed a kind smile, and he said, "Speaking of which, you have telepathy, right?"
Ms.
Spiritbutterfly...""
Can you do me a little favor?""
Help me find the Winter Soldier.It's time for this to end...""
Of course, before that, I'll have to take a shower and eat something...
Look at the smell, it's terrible. ”()