Merlin had met mutants, and he had contact with them.Although I haven't been in contact with the mercenary Spirit Butterfly for several years, when I was weak, the intersection with the Spirit Butterfly has always been vivid.When the chicken thief's beautiful mercenary rescued Merlin in '92, he kept it in hiding and was reluctant to reveal his strength.But in the final moments, in the face of the devastating explosion launched by the Wakanda warrior Okoye, her posture when she easily resisted the firestorm, and the traces of the crimson energy that erupted like the wings of a butterfly, remained in Merlin's heart.Even now, years later, Merlin still doesn't think he's going to be able to win the Butterfly.But he also knew that Spirit Butterfly was the most powerful of all mutants, and he couldn't use her as a benchmark to measure the strength of all mutants.Just like now, in Kandahar, at the end of night, Merlin encounters the strange Inhuman Gordon."
The ability to cross space is necessarily not the power of a bad street."
In the dimly lit tavern, Merlin lifted the dark compartment of the bar and held a blue-gray steel cane in his hand.As he sorted out his combat equipment, he said to Lincoln, a young man with a bag on his back, "Although this is the first time I've come into contact with the strange race of Inhumans, I'm sure that Gordon, who can 'jump around', won't be a third-rate character in the Inhuman population." ”He put on two black gloves, he moved his fingers, and hung a sapphire-encrusted pendant around his neck, and said to Lincoln, "You have to make a decision as soon as possible."
Are you going home?
You still have to be brave enough to face your fate.For the sake of you helping me, I will help you. ”"I don't know."
Lincoln said a little tired and dazed, "This is the first time I've faced these things, and it's different from everything I've encountered before."
If what Gordon said is true, and I am not a pure human being, will I be the gentle me I was when I 'wake up', or will I be swallowed up by my restless instincts?
”The young man said to Merlin, "This is what worries me the most.I don't want to be a monster. ”"Do you have a solution to the problem?"
Merlin walked up to Lincoln with a blue-gray cane, and said to the young man, "I have already told you, that even if I help you change your memory, it will be of little use to your problem.That just delays the outbreak of the problem, and a year or even months later, you still have to face the problem. ”"I—" Lincoln hesitated.This is as it should be, and it is also the right doubt.No one with self-wisdom would blindly believe a stranger's words about a strange power.An adult with a full mind should not believe that no supernatural power will come so easily.In fact, in Merlin's experience, the price of pursuing any power is not easy.Even those former little wizards have to go through years of serious study before they can master the basics of magic."
If you don't know what to do when faced with a thing, it means that you still know too little about it."
Merlin held out his hand and placed it on Lincoln's shoulder, and he said, "Let's go and 'ask.'" ”"Huh?"
Lincoln looked at Merlin quizzically, and the latter winked at him, "I mean, ask him in person."
Be prepared, this might be a little dizzy...", and the Transfiguration Charm activated.Merlin and Lincoln's figures twisted at this moment, as if the light had been rapidly swirled.In the blink of an eye, the two men disappeared into this closed environment.Lincoln felt a myriad of lights pulsing before his eyes, maybe only a second, maybe a long time had passed, and his concept of time was somewhat misplaced at this moment, as if he had been thrown into a washing machine that was spinning at high speed, and after a thousand times of high speed, his feet were once again standing on solid ground.The young man subconsciously covered his stomach, and the moment the shapeshifting spell ended, he turned his head, rushed to the side, and began to retch in pain.It's like a seasick man who has just finished a sea voyage.Merlin, accustomed to the oppression of his mind and body by the shapeshifting spell, stood on the edge of this desolate canyon and looked north.In the night, at the end of his sight, he could still faintly see the dim light of Kandahar City.This canyon cliff, a little chilly at night, was a spot that Raven Victor had scouted earlier today.The distance from Kandahar is about 15 kilometers in a straight line.It's quiet and remote enough to be a great place to talk to strangers.Even if the small talk fails and a fight is triggered, it will not attract anyone's attention.Merlin looked at the cliff at his feet, which was more than 30 meters high, and he nodded.Well, if the process of communication is not so "peaceful", then after the battle, it is also a good place to dump corpses.He looked back and saw that Lincoln, who was a little pale, was wiping his face, trying to stabilize his spirit.Merlin withdrew his gaze, the blue-gray cane in his hand tapping against the cliff beneath his feet.At the sound of metal and stone clashing, Merlin tapped his wand around his neck and shouted to all sides of the canyon cliff that was empty except for the two of them, "Come out, I know you're watching us!"
Maybe there is no need to use force to solve this matter, and we can talk about it. ”Blessed by magic, his voice echoed through the night around the canyon like a amplified trumpet.That Inhuman Gordon brought Lincoln all the way from North America to Afghanistan and tried to take the young man away in front of his eyes, which shows that he didn't give up on him so easily.He hid it well, at least under Merlin's dark perception and the wide observation of the Raven Spirit flying in the sky, Merlin found no trace of him.But he must have been observing it somehow.Merlin is sure.But no one responded to Merlin's call, as if the Inhuman had given up.He and Lincoln stood on this remote cliff in the cold wind, in the unsettling darkness of the night around them, and time passed minute by minute.Lincoln held his backpack nervously and looked around in a windy manner, and any wind and grass would attract his attention.Merlin was silent as well, his eyes closed, his perception drifting around him.Unbeknownst to Lincoln, under the cover of the night, a faint wisp of black mist, full of magic, was clinging to his body.It's like a little trap.He was waiting for Gordon to jump into the trap."
It's cunning.""
He's waiting for us to lose our vigilance," Merlin said.Seriously, Lincoln, maybe in the next second, he will..."
Before Merlin could finish his words, a figure appeared behind Lincoln in a faint light, he stretched out his hand and grabbed Lincoln's shoulder, and in the flash of the blue arc, he "jumped" away from the cliff with the young man caught off guard.From appearing to leaving, the process doesn't even take a second.By the time Merlin turned around, there was nothing behind him.But did he fail?
Not really!
Merlin felt that the wisp of mist that he had attached to Lincoln's body was carried away nearly a thousand kilometers southeast in an instant.But that wisp of mist, like a signpost of space, set a precise direction for Merlin.In the next second, the Shapeshifting Charm activates.It's like chasing and escaping, and the next moment Lincoln was taken away, Merlin's figure also disappeared on this cliff.By the time he reappeared, he had already arrived in another place far from Afghanistan.In the distance in front of him was a white snow-capped mountain that reached into the sky, and the temperature here was much colder than the night in Afghanistan.To Merlin's disappointment, however, he looked around and saw that this was not the lair of the strangers.Here, just another trap.A trap against him.In front of him, Inhuman Gordon was holding a weapon, and Lincoln was restrained further away by another guy.Behind Merlin, there were three more menacing guys, who, together with Gordon, surrounded Merlin in the center.Several other people are no different from ordinary people in appearance.But in front of Merlin's eyes, the appearance of Inhuman Gordon is a little weird to ordinary people.As Lincoln said, he had no eyes, not for some malignant purpose, and his face was flat between his forehead and nose, as if he were born without eyes.He must have perceived the world in other ways."
It's an Inhuman's internal business."
Gordon held a curved short sword, and in a cold and flat tone, said to Merlin: "We have no intention of intersecting with the outside world, you can leave safely now." ”On Gordon's arm, the bleeding had stopped from the cut from Merlin, but Merlin could still smell blood.Merlin looked around, and behind him, a muscular guy was shirtless, with a pair of fists clenched that were larger than ordinary people, representing that he was a power-type Inhuman.On the left and right, there was a pair of masked ladies, their bodies were very similar, even the clothes they wore were exactly the same, they looked like twins, and in the hands of both of them, there was a flame-like energy shining.Coupled with the Inhuman Gordon in front of him who can travel through space at will, the trap composed of these four people looks very deterrent."
You should find a few more people."
Merlin reached out and tapped on his sapphire pendant, and Kerrytech's half-covered mask quickly slipped over the lower half of his face, making his voice sound urn-like.He said to Gordon, "That's fair." ”The blue-gray cane in Merlin's hand quickly deformed in the dark night, like the transformation process of a Cybertron, and it was full of futuristic technology in its swiftness.In the blink of an eye, the weapon module from the Decepticon warrior turned into a coarse, extremely deterrent weapon."
Huh" Gordon's reaction was the fastest, and at the same time that the staff began to change, he appeared in front of Merlin's eyes in the arc light, and the short sword in his hand stabbed straight ahead.But Merlin didn't dodge, allowing the blade to pierce his chest.Obscured by the translucent visor, he gave Gordon a wry smile.He raised his hands, his left hand magic wand, his right hand energy hand cannon, two very different weapons at the same time."
Stupefy!
）”The two twins who "banged" on Merlin's left and right also reacted quickly, and the flaming arrows they threw were fast and ruthless, but Merlin was not afraid of the flames at all.Between the beating flames, the green stober spell pierced through the flames and slammed into the girl on her left.She fell to the ground almost immediately, snoring sweetly on the deadly battlefield.To Merlin's left, the red rays from the energy cannon were even more powerful, and the weapon from the mechanical life ignored the pulsing sparks, like a ferocious fist, and slammed into the body of another girl.The flames of her protective body were pierced, and she screamed and flew away.However, Merlin uses the lowest mode of firepower, which is barely a "stun" mode.In Gordon's "gaze", Merlin's body quickly shattered into a drifting mist, and the power behind him just roared and raised his fists and smashed Merlin's body.It looked like the roaring Inhuman smashed Merlin into powder with his fist."
Stand back!"
Gordon yelled at the somewhat dazed Inhuman fighter in front of him, but as soon as the latter straightened up, he slammed his knife into his thick neck with a precise hand.Merlin, who appeared behind the boxer, smiled at Gordon again, and with a slight hook of the fingers of his left hand, the wisp of magic mist wrapped around Lincoln's body, like a snake, flew onto the body of the Inhuman who held Lincoln hostage, and then...There was a dull explosion with a bang, and before the poor boy could show his abilities, he fell to the ground covered in blood.In the midst of the black mist, Merlin calmly manifested his form.The Cybertron cannon in his hand turned back into a blue-gray cane again, and with the wave of the magic wand Lola in his left hand, in less than 2 seconds, the young Inhuman, who was all knocked down, was lifted from the ground into the air as if he was choked by an invisible hand.Their expressions were pained, and it was clear that the hand of magic that was holding their necks was not gentle."
You have a hostage."
Merlin looked at Gordon, who jumped back to Lincoln's side, and he said, "I have four." ”"Of course, with your speed, you can save at least 3 before I break their necks, but here's the problem..."
In the darkness, Merlin's voice became a little colder, and he said, "Dear Mr.
Gordon, have you decided which one to give up?"
”In this unfamiliar area, the atmosphere in front of me became stagnant.Gordon didn't answer, as the commander of this ambush, he had clearly made a mistake.A very common and fatal mistake.His estimate of Merlin's strength was grossly underestimated.Of course, he is not to blame for this, it can only be said that Merlin's low-key disguise on weekdays is too perfect.It makes people ignore his other equally deadly skills and abilities beyond the mysterious atomization.Gordon had no eyes, Merlin couldn't see his inner emotions through his eyes, and after a few seconds of silent confrontation, Merlin said, "Of course, this is an internal affair for you Inhumans. ”"I don't know you before, and I don't mean to hurt anyone, I'm only interested in two things.Lincoln's safety, and, a few things about you Inhumans...""
Gordon, lay down your arms.Let's talk calmly. ”()