Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 1577 31. I. Raven. Shadow of the Stars

"buzz"

A silver-gray sports car parked on the side of the street in Hell's Kitchen.

This concept sports car immediately attracted the attention of many people. Some young people whistled and picked up their mobile phones, wanting to take a photo and send it to Moments.

But when the car door opened, Merlin who was sitting on the co-pilot waved his hand.

As if by magic, those who gathered around lost interest in the luxury car, they quickly dispersed and continued to do their own things.

This scene made Hope's little girl's eyes widen.

Wow!

O magician!

The cute little girl's big eyes were full of curiosity and excitement. She always knew that there were wizards in this world, but the relationship between her father and those wizards was not good.

So she never had a wizard friend.

She is very envious of her good friend Sharon.

It is said that Sharon's father and mother have many wizard friends, and those wizards will send great gifts to Sharon on her birthday.

Little Hope was holding her schoolbag. She looked at her father, and then at that Mr. Wizard.

Her eyes rolled, and the little princess secretly made up her mind.

Make sure to let this Mr. Wizard become her good friend today!

“This restaurant is good.”

Merlin patted the dust that didn't exist on the clothes, and he said to Tony who was holding his daughter's hand:

"Although it is newly opened, the chef in charge has a good cooking skill."

He glanced at Little Hope who was hiding behind his father and secretly sizing him up. Merlin chuckled lightly and said to Tony meaningfully:

"The child is growing up. I will bring her here to eat something nutritious."

After speaking, Meilin pushed open the door of the restaurant, and Shi Shi ran into it.

Tony raised his head, took off his brown sunglasses, and looked at the restaurant's signboard.

It was a string of very strange, runic-like words, and Tony recognized that it was Hebrew.

"??????????...Paradise Restaurant?"

Iron Man looked at the decoration of the restaurant, and sure enough, just like the name, the entire white restaurant was covered with religious decorations.

But not annoying.

Those decorations are arranged in the corners of the decoration with a modern and minimalist style, and you can't see it unless you look carefully.

"Weird place."

Tony complained, and walked into the restaurant with his little daughter, Merlin was already sitting by the window and ordering.

A waitress with a pretty face and a good figure in a black and white dress stood beside Merlin.

She acted very professionally, holding a pen and paper, recording the dishes Merlin had chosen.

"Wow, Angel!"

Little Hope, who followed Tony, seemed to have discovered a new world. She grabbed her father's hand, pointed at the waiter, and whispered to her father:

"That sister has wings on her back! White ones with feathers, so beautiful..."

"Ok?"

Tony glanced at his excited daughter, then at the waiter, but he didn't see anything.

Merlin, who was sitting there ordering food, seemed to have noticed Tony's surprise, he snapped his fingers lightly, and the scene in front of Tony changed suddenly.

The waiter, she folded her wings and was wearing a white robe. Judging from the shape of her wings, she was an archangel.

Tony turned his neck and looked at the restaurant bar.

The lady lying lazily on the bar and reading comics is also an angel with wings.

"You brought me to an incredible place."

Tony picked up little Hope and put him on the chair beside him. He watched the back of the "waiter" swaying away, and said to Merlin who finished ordering:

"Is that Archangel Gabriel? Or someone else?"

"Oh, um, she's Zandkiel, the Archangel of Thursday."

Merlin looked at the scenery of people coming and going outside the window, he said casually:

"Gabriel is the chef. She is busy in the back kitchen now. The person in charge of the cash register is the Archangel Haven. She came up with the idea of ​​opening a restaurant..."

"What's with that look on your face, Tony."

"Everyone has hobbies, and it's normal for angels to open a restaurant to pass the eternal boring life."

"I just didn't expect that Gabriel actually knows how to cook. It seems that they are really free in heaven."

While Merlin was talking, he suddenly turned his head and made a face at Little Hope who was looking at him.

The little girl laughed out loud.

He pinched his fingers again, folded it into a small paper crane with light, and put it in the air. The little thing flew around Hope, just like a real bird, which caused the curious little girl to stare. Eye.

"Little Hope is really a smart and kind child."

Merlin propped his chin with both hands, and Little Hope, who was opposite him, held the paper crane made by Guang with one hand, imitating Merlin, propping his chin with his hands.

One big and one small stared at each other, as if they were playing a game.

Merlin said to the little girl:

"It is said that only a pure soul can see through the disguise of angels. From this point of view, Little Hope has a bright future. Your life is definitely much more exciting than your idiot father."

"Hmph, Dad is not an idiot."

Little Hope pouted and retorted to Merlin:

"My dad is the smartest, he's the smartest man in the world!"

"He told you so?"

With a weird smile, Merlin glanced at Tony, who turned his face away, and said to Little Hope:

"He's bragging, girl. There are at least four people smarter than him in this world. When I met your father, he liked bragging, and it's the same now."

"I do not believe!"

Little Hope stared and said:

"Dad is the smartest! Uncle Steve said the same thing when he was drunk last time. Also, uncle, are you a magician?"

Seeing the little girl's expectant eyes, Merlin shrugged, rubbed his fingers to create a small flame, and said to Hope:

"Yes, I am a magician."

"Hi, guest!"

A call came from the bar, and the cashier Hai Wen said in a voice that couldn't lift his spirits:

"Playing with fire and magic is forbidden in the restaurant, put out the fire!"

"Alright alright."

Merlin extinguished the little flame on his finger, and he said to the regretful Hope:

"Do you want to learn magic from me? Girl, I can teach you."

"My daughter doesn't learn any magic."

Before Hope could finish speaking, Tony stopped him:

"She is a genius in mechanics, just like me, she will inherit my title in the future."

"Really? It seems that you like the new world very much and accept Hope's existence."

Merlin leaned back on the chair noncommittally, and looked at Tony with his star-reflected eyes, which made Tony feel a little hairy. After a few seconds, Merlin sighed softly.

It's like the warmth of meeting old friends fades away at this moment, and the flowing time also stops at this moment.

Pedestrians walking outside the window, angels in the restaurant, sunshine, clouds, even the blowing wind, the smile on Little Hope’s face, and the light of the paper crane she holds in her hand.

It's like the switch of time is turned off and everything stops.

Merlin picked up the coffee in hand and said:

"This morning, you just learned that you have a daughter. There are two memory lines in your mind, and you are still in the confusion of perception."

"When the stars restart, your consciousness is transmitted to this moment by the power of the Infinity Gauntlet. You can't even be sure whether the world in front of you is real, whether all this is a dream of yours."

Merlin took his coffee and walked to the window.

Looking at the scenery full of life outside the window, he said:

"I'm here to answer your question, Tony."

"These beauties are all real."

Tony followed Merlin's line of sight, and the whole world outside the window was changing rapidly.

The complete world is like being divided into countless stacked building blocks. They are randomly drawn and built in another position, as if they are being manipulated by a pair of nimble hands.

In a dizzying rearrangement, entire worlds are placed among the stars.

Tony sat at the dining table, watching this unimaginable scene, Merlin was like a guide, he took Tony and the time-suspended little Hope, and flew among the stars.

Those starlights, they are twisting, twisting in the direction of Merlin, just like a black hole attracting those colorful light beams.

"They don't even remember you."

Tony looked at Merlin's back, he said:

"Steve said something that I couldn't understand at all. I guess you twisted their memories and took your part out of everyone's memory?"

"But Tyrion clearly gave me the soul stone. He said that those who have experienced the coming of the outer gods will never forget that battle!"

"He didn't lie to you, those memories were indeed preserved."

Merlin looked back at Tony, he showed a gentle smile, and he said:

"But it's a pity...you can't remember me, Tony."

"why?"

Tony asked fiercely:

"It's not fun, Merlin! No one is willing to forget you, and no one will take the initiative to forget you. Without you, this new world is impossible!"

"I know, I believe in you just like I believe in myself, listen to me, this is also a last resort."

Merlin explained helplessly:

"Look at the stars, Tony."

"It's not that different from the old days, but it has definitely changed."

"In the flames of the cosmic furnace, I was also reshaped into another form. My body died, but my spirit survived and was integrated into the new world."

"After experiencing the alternation of falsehood and reality, I was endowed with a certain symbolism."

He turned to Tony and said:

"That's a meaning that's hard to explain. I can only tell you that the me I am now is... the stars in front of you!"

Merlin raised his finger, and under Tony's stunned gaze, the stars in front of him were shaking with Merlin's finger, as if the body was moving according to the will.

"The me in your eyes is just a projection of the symbolic level of the stars."

"If you can't understand the secrets of the stars, you can't understand my existence."

Raven put the coffee cup on the dining table among the stars, and while the tablecloth was shaking, he said to Tony with his hands behind his back:

"For the common soul, the pressure to remember a stellar symbol is terrifying."

"That kind of pressure will completely crush your souls. Even if you can barely bear it, you will still be distorted due to premature contact with the truth of the stars."

"I have to extract those memories about me...Only in this way can you set sail again without being bound in the new world."

Merlin paused, and said with emotion:

"I, I am indeed destined to be a remnant of the old era."

"But I remember you, and I don't feel anything wrong."

Tony probably understood what Merlin meant.

This kind of forgetting about the raven is not malicious, but comes from Merlin's "protection" of old friends.

He rubbed his forehead and said to Merlin:

"According to you, I am a special soul?"

"No, you're not, stop being narcissistic."

Merlin chuckled lightly.

He walked behind Tony, put his hand on the back of Tony's head, and said:

"You can remember me only because of the power of the Infinity Gauntlet. The distortion of your soul has already begun, which is why I want to have this meal with you with great fanfare..."

"Swish"

Something was taken out of Tony's mind by Merlin.

It was a crystal-like gemstone, very much like the shape of an infinite rough stone.

It was pinched between Merlin's two fingers, as if it reflected the entire universe.

"See, the last false shard of the old days, it stays in your head."

"This is just the beginning. If I come a few days late, you will be twisted into a shapeless monster by the pressure of this star symbol."

Merlin put the crystal in Tony's hand, and he said to Tony in a tone of telling a horror story:

"You will grow a special thinking organ to understand the secrets of the stars. It is a kind of evolution, but it is not controlled. You may become a big octopus cursed by knowledge in your sleep."

"This is the curse of knowledge."

"But I think little Hope is probably not ready to say goodbye to his father?"

Merlin paused, and he said in a seductive tone:

"I give you the right to choose, Tony, or continue to carry this fragment, as the price of remembering me, know the truth of the stars, and live among the stars in another terrifying form."

"Alternatively, I will take this fragment away, and you, your little daughter and wife can continue your own life, grow up with Hope, watch her grow up, and grow old with the one you love."

"How would you choose, my friend?"

Tony looked at the illusory fragments in his hand, and then at his daughter who was sitting next to him with a smirk on his face and was connected by blood.

He hesitated for a long time.

He raised his head, and silently handed the fragment in his hand to Merlin.

He said in a tone of undisguised sadness:

"I understand."

"You came to say goodbye to me."

Merlin nodded, but he didn't say anything more.

Tony could feel the memory of Merlin in his mind fading rapidly, and the man in front of him was becoming more and more unfamiliar. He covered his forehead and asked loudly:

"Merlin, can we meet again in the future?"

"Of course you can."

Merlin breathed a sigh of relief, he looked at the bright stars in front of him, and said:

"Didn't I say it all?"

"As long as you understand the truth of the stars, you can understand my form of existence... As long as you rely on yourselves to research the knowledge that leads to infinity, we can always meet again in the stars."

Merlin looked at Tony, there was only a gentle light in his eyes, his body floated up and merged into the thousands of stars, like the twin wings of stars slowly wrapping him.

In the flying feathers of bright light, he said:

"I'll be here for you, Tony, and those old friends."

"We will be reunited among the stars."

"Set sail in the new world, Tony, use your wisdom and strength to open up the road to the stars, and I will wait for you at the end of that road."

"My friends."

"Don't make me wait too long..."

(End of this chapter)