Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 123 14. Merlin's Evaluation Report 【46100】

"Ah, finally back to the human world."

In the airport waiting room in Bangkok, Merlin drank the Coke in his hand in one go.He moved his shoulders and let out a comfortable moan.

He said to Agent Hill beside him:

"Doris, get me another cup."

Agent Hill did not refuse, but obediently took the cup from Merlin's hand. A moment later, another glass of drink with ice was delivered to Merlin's hand.

"what happened to you?"

Merlin took the Coke, he noticed the expression on Agent Hill's face, he asked:

"Is it uncomfortable? Or unhappy? The mission is over, we returned to the bustling place from that isolated place, shouldn't we be happy?"

"No, there isn't, sir."

Hill was sitting next to Merlin, she brushed her short hair, and said with some disappointment:

"I just feel that I didn't help you at all this time. Chief Fury sent me to assist you, but you did all the work by yourself. Maybe, I'm really not a qualified agent."

"Ok?"

Merlin, who was wearing a baseball cap, took a sip of icy coolness. He leaned on the chair, looked out of the window of the waiting room in front of him, the ups and downs of the plane, and said softly:

"I'm not very good at comforting other people, Doris... Hill."

"But I know a truth. In the face of any job, no matter how well prepared you are in advance, when you actually operate for the first time, there will always be problems of one kind or another, and there will always be mistakes. Some mistakes are not counted. Nothing, but some mistakes can be fatal."

"What's more, what you are doing now is one of the most difficult jobs in the world."

Merlin says:

"Your performance this time is really not satisfactory. I hoped that you could get more news from Vivian, but you are obviously not as shrewd as that scheming girl. But it's actually nothing."

"Furry asked me to bring you, probably to let you experience for yourself what the daily life of an agent is like. I have also studied in the Secret Service Academy, and I know what the atmosphere over there is like... I know very well the restlessness of young people, their childish expectations for the future, and their foolish self-belief that they will become heroes."

"But actually?"

Merlin looked at Hill beside him, and said:

"In fact, the life of an agent is indeed very exciting. You also saw Raton, and the weird scenery on Skull Island, those creatures, etc. But there are not so many crises in this world that require us to race against time to change, nor There are so many deranged bad people who want to destroy the world all day long."

"Collecting information, organizing information, flying around the world, dealing with all kinds of people, disguising, deceiving, and intimidating when necessary. This is our daily work, a little boring, but occasionally there are some unexpected surprises .”

Merlin finished the Coke in his hand, stood up, patted Hill on the shoulder, and said to the girl:

"Change your mood, think about the gains and losses of the past few days, and then prepare to start working alone. Fury has high expectations for you. Perhaps among the newcomers in this class, you are the most important thing he values."

"Don't disappoint him."

After finishing speaking, Merlin threw it away without looking at it, and the empty cup fell precisely into the trash bin next to it.

He picked up his suitcase, pulled his hat down, and said to Hill:

"Let's go, it's time to board the plane."

"Fry is still waiting for us."

"By the way, tomorrow afternoon, there will be an assessment report in Washington. Those high-ranking old men and women in the World Security Council are eager to know the inside story of the imperial organization and the results of the security assessment...I am not good at it. Host these, so, this report will be in charge of you."

"No problem? Agent Maria Hill."

"No problem! Sir!"

Hill straightened her body, and she said in a dry and serious voice:

"I won't let you down this time!"

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That night, New York, Hell's Kitchen.

A taxi stopped in front of Merlin's house, and Merlin in a gray casual suit got out of the car with a handbag.He took out his wallet, handed a piece of money to the driver, and said:

"Next time the music won't be so loud, okay?"

Along the way, the Indian driver kept talking and playing their songs, which made Merlin's head ache.Can't wait to give this guy a smack from behind.

But seeing that the little brother drove very steadily, he finally held back.

"Okay, sir."

The young Indian driver gestured to Merlin, handed a business card to Merlin, and said in an accented voice:

"Next time, if you still need taxi service, sir, you can call this number, and I will pick you up as quickly as possible."

"Oh? Do taxi drivers have this kind of business now?"

Merlin exchanged a few words with the driver brother, and then watched him leave the street. Merlin looked down at the business card, and he saw the name of the driver in the darkness.

"Dupunde? An odd name."

Merlin shook his head. He wanted to throw the business card into the trash can, but after thinking about it, he put it back in his pocket.

Merlin took out the key, looking at the long-lost house in front of him, and the messy and untended garden at the entrance, he sighed a little.

But the next moment, Merlin felt that there was a figure moving in the darkness in the room with the lights off in front of him.

This made him stop opening the door, and in the dark night, his figure suddenly disappeared.

"Snapped"

In the dark room, something cold suddenly touched Nick Fury's neck, causing him to subconsciously raise his hand.

Fury guessed who was behind him, and he whispered:

"You came back a bit late...I've been waiting for you here for more than 30 minutes."

"I went to my cousin's house. The invasion of those Cree bastards frightened her a while ago."

Merlin turned on the light, threw the can of beer in his hand to Fury, and twisted open a can himself. He leaned on the refrigerator, looked at Fury who was cutting the sausage, and said:

"Are you going to fix yourself a supper at my house? Why don't you go home and eat?"

"There's no one in my house."

Fury sandwiched the cut sausage into the hot bread, took a bite, chewed the food, turned around, looked at Merlin, and said:

"My wife is traveling and I have nowhere to go after work."

"Ok."

Merlin glanced at the black blindfold on Fury's left eye. He sat back on the chair, took out a few documents from the suitcase at his feet, and put them on the table. He said:

"Although I think you must have trouble looking for me, but I don't have any evidence...Let's take a look at this first."

Merlin pointed to those documents and said:

"I think it is necessary to let you see all the inside information about the Emperor's organization that I have collected before showing it to those big shots."

Fury didn't refuse, he ate the bread quickly, wiped his hands, and sat down on the chair.

He flipped through the shocking photos and documents, and Merlin could feel that Fury's mood and attention were also changing.Obviously, these things also brought him quite a shock.

And when the two men were talking about things at night, there was a sudden slapping sound from the window behind Merlin.Merlin turned his head and saw an orange cat with a silver collar lying on the window, staring at him with yellow eyes, and its tail was still flapping the closed window.

Merlin waved his hand, and the closed window was pushed open by invisible magic power. The orange cat Gugu jumped into the room nimbly, then with its tail up, it quickly ran to Merlin's feet, rubbing its head against his leg, with a look of The look of respect and welcome.

Merlin hugged Gu Gu in his arms, took out a small bone with a unique shape that he picked up from Skull Island from his pocket, and put it near Gu Gu's mouth.

The magical creature disguised as an orange cat sniffed at the bone, then stretched out its claws and grabbed the bone tightly, as if it had found a new toy.

Ten minutes later, after Fury finished reading the first document, he raised his head and saw the orange cat playing with the bone in Merlin's arms.Fury seemed to see some monster.

"Mazefak!"

He took a step back abruptly, then subconsciously covered his left eye, and screamed at Merlin:

"Hey! Get that thing away from me!"

"what?"

Merlin raised his head and looked at Fury. He put Goo Goo on the table, then held Goo Goo's paws and shook them in the air, like playing a game with a cat.With a strange smile, he said to Fury:

"Why? Look at how cute it is. Isn't it? Little Goo, look at how cute and obedient you are."

Having got a new toy, the orange cat who was in a good mood meowed twice, as if to echo what Merlin said.But Fury is one of the few people who knows Gu Gu's true identity. He looked at the kitten vigilantly with a trace of fear, and said:

"Seriously! Don't be kidding me, Merlin! That thing is dangerous... My eyes are the proof, let it go! I need to talk to you!"

"Ok."

Merlin put Goo Goo back to the ground, he patted Goo Goo on the head, and said to the kitten:

"Be good recently, I'll buy you cat food in a few days, the kind you like best... Now go back to your room and sleep."

With a meow, it bit its own bone toy, as if it could understand Merlin's words, it rushed up the stairs quickly.On the balcony on the second floor, little Eric specially made a comfortable cat nest for Gu Gu Gu.

Seeing Cuckoo leave, Fury, who was still in shock, sat back on the chair.

He looked at Merlin, and he said:

"You guy, you can actually get along with that kind of creature..."

"As long as those scary features are ignored, Goo Goo is actually quite easy to get along with."

Merlin lazily lit a cigarette, and said:

"This guy lives here now. My cousin and little Eric like it very much. And before leaving, Carol told me that the Yuan Devourer is a very cat-like creature, and it will take the initiative to Protect your lair...so I mean, the next time you come, it'd better be when I'm home."

He glared at Fury, who liked to pretend to be mysterious, and he warned:

"The first thing I don't want to do when I come back is collect your body from the cat poop."

"Speaking of this..."

Fury looked at Merlin, and asked in a low voice:

"You and Carol? Between you?"

"Since when did you become such a gossip?"

Merlin didn't want to talk about this issue. In the rising smoke, he said softly:

"We're just friends who have been through the same situation."

"Okay, let's not talk about that."

Fury shrugged, pointed to the document in front of him, and said to Merlin seriously:

"These files, something needs to be deleted."

"Delete what?"

"All detailed research data and results about the ancient Titan, including the locations of Skull Island and Mona Island, are deleted!"

Fury picked up a very blurry photo and said to Merlin:

"Only such blurred and ambiguous photos can be preserved."

"Ok?"

Merlin frowned, and he said to Fury:

"I thought, you're going to let the World Security Council know all the truth?"

"No, what they need is not the truth."

Fury said softly:

"They want reassurance and the feeling of being in control, not something that's creepy to even read. If you just hand it over like that, it's going to scare the big shots. .”

"More importantly, Merlin."

Fury knocked on the table, he said to Merlin:

"Representations on the World Security Council are not for life, and these things need to be seen by those who will eventually be replaced. Do you think they can protect this secret?"

Fury picked up the second document, and he said to Merlin:

"The five life-long directors, they are the ones who will see the truth. In fact, if we want to keep a secret, the best way is to know as few people as possible."

In the dim light, Fury's voice became lighter, and he said:

"Secrets are always leaked out of stupidity, and I've seen too many of them. Idiots learn a secret, as if it were a pregnant woman... bent on spit it out. Secrets hidden in their In my heart, it will make them sleepless."

"Ok."

Merlin nodded, and he said to Fury:

"I will notify Hill to change the assessment report."

"Speaking of Hill."

Fury raised his head, looked at Merlin with his remaining right eye, and said:

"How is she doing?"

"So far so good."

Merlin shrugged:

"But she is very self-motivated and learns quickly. She has a special talent. As long as she cultivates it carefully, she will soon become the qualified assistant you need."

"Ah, very good."

Fury nodded. He put away the two documents and put them in the suitcase he brought. He looked at the watch on his wrist and said to Merlin:

"Then I won't bother you. Come to the office building tomorrow, your new office has been empty for too long."

"Oh, by the way, I have assigned you two new assistants. At the same time, you will also be responsible for serving as the SO (supervisor) of these two newcomers until they become qualified field agents. During the next period of time, You continue to be in charge of liaising with the Emperor Organization. If there are new tasks, I will notify you."

Fury stood up, patted Merlin on the shoulder, and said:

"Take a good rest for a while."

"Wait, Fury."

Merlin stopped Fury, who was about to leave, and said to his boss:

"In July this year, I may take a long vacation and report to you in advance."

"Long vacation?"

Fury asked suspiciously:

"Where are you going?"

"Go take care of some private matters."

Merlin breathed a sigh of relief:

"Some things borrowed from others should be returned."

(End of this chapter)