Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 172 20. West Coast Tracking【95100】

"Do you think your radical compatriots will change their personalities overnight and sincerely cooperate with certain human organizations?"

On the way back to Hell's Kitchen from the S.H.I.E.L.D. office building, Merlin said to his silent car:

"Also, didn't you say that with the technological level of the earth, you can't find your behavior of entering the database at all? You were almost exposed just now, and you will also implicate me."

"Once any secret matter is discovered for the first time by the vigilant guards, there will be no more secrets."

Fei Guoshan replied while driving Merlin on the avenues of New York:

"It must be your agents who intercepted the signal fragments of the Decepticons when they were collecting information on the Internet, and then followed the pictures. Those Decepticons are not professional Cybertronian mechanical agents, and their behavior is more like a group of barbarians. Warrior. But the cooperation you speak of...I don't think they will put carbon-based creatures on an equal footing with themselves."

"If they are really cooperating with your fellow citizens, then I think you should start worrying about the lives of your fellow citizens."

Facing the warning from the mechanical life, Merlin nodded.

If what he said to the mechanical warrior who released his goodwill is true, then the agents and soldiers of the Ministry of Defense are obviously being led by the nose by the Decepticons hidden on the earth.

But as a secret agent, Merlin doesn't think about things from just one side.

He leaned back in the driver's seat of the fast-moving black muscle car, and after a few minutes, he said:

"There is another possibility!"

"Ok?"

Fei Guoshan asked in an emotionless metallic voice:

"what?"

"What I mean is, you've been thinking in a way that mechanical life dominates."

Merlin looked at the scenery flashing by outside the window, he said softly:

"But what if we change the angle? Maybe those Decepticons are not playing any conspiracy, maybe in this matter, it is the human beings that you despise?"

"What if the Ministry of Defense has something that threatens the Decepticons, or something they desperately need? Then it's probably not us who are being led by the nose, but your fellow radical lunatics."

Merlin closed his eyes, and he whispered:

"Don't underestimate the means of a group of professional soldiers who deal with war. In your opinion, the Decepticons are playing with humans, but we can't ignore the second possibility... those Decepticons who suddenly started to move, Just a 'new weapon' for a group of soldiers trying to harness a new power?"

"If the Ministry of Defense is also looking for the B-127, then according to you, the military is dealing with a hidden, best mechanical agent in the Cybertron Rebels, and the best way for them to find it is to find the best Familiar with your warriors."

"Um..."

Merlin pondered for a few seconds before saying:

"Let me use another word to describe those Decepticons, maybe they are just 'mercenaries' of the Ministry of Defense."

Facing Merlin's subversive guess, Fei Guoshan should have refuted it, but unexpectedly, the fast-moving mechanical life remained silent for a long time.

This silence seemed to represent that it also recognized Merlin's thoughts.

But this made Merlin even more curious.

If his guess is true, then the Ministry of Defense must have something that S.H.I.E.L.D. does not know, something that can make alien mechanical soldiers work for them...

Fei Guoshan probably also knew about the existence of that thing, but it was obviously unwilling to reveal too much to Merlin.

So now the question is...

What is the hole card in the hands of the Ministry of National Defense?

Seeing that it was getting closer and closer to his home, Merlin became more and more curious.

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Three days passed quickly. Under Fury's instructions, the resources of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the entire North American region began to deflect towards the signal source of the mechanical life that appeared strangely.

With the joint efforts of tens of thousands of manpower distributed in various regions, in the early morning of the third day, Merlin, who had just finished his morning run, received a call from Fu Rui.

Things are already on the horizon.

"A military agent team of the Department of Defense is currently operating in the California area, which is a small town and not far from Los Angeles."

Fury put it succinctly on the phone:

"I have already sent the specific address to your mailbox. It is SDOLD's job to investigate this matter and eliminate all hidden dangers, so I will not interfere with your actions. I hope that after the matter is over, you can There is a good result!"

"I'll try to give you a good result, Fury."

Merlin held the phone in one hand and put on his coat with the other.He went straight into his garage and said to Fury:

"But after all, it's a risky operation involving another powerful department. Once the Ministry of National Defense's operations are destroyed, I can't bear the anger of those professional warmongers. I hope you can also prepare in advance to argue with the Ministry of Defense Prepare."

"Just tell me to prepare to take the blame."

Fury's tone was a bit dissatisfied, he said:

"I always thought you were my subordinates before, but now it seems that I, who always cleans up the mess for you, seem to be your subordinates... Try to hold back as much as possible, and don't kill people unless necessary."

"I know."

Merlin hung up the phone and put his hands in a special groove on the bridge in front of him.

The next moment, the car completed all the operations of ignition, engine activation, and accelerator pedal within 1 second.Merlin, who was sitting in the driver's seat, felt like he was sitting in a sports car that started suddenly. At this moment, his whole body was pressed against the seat by an invisible force.

"Take it easy!"

Merlin rushed out of the garage and said to Flying Mountain, who turned sharply on the road like drifting:

"I know you are very excited to get the information, but control the speed, don't scare other people, and don't forget your disguise."

Facing the slightly panicked Merlin, Flying Over the Urn, who had rested in the garage for three days, replied in a low voice:

"If you want to vomit, just vomit outside... Just because I'm your prisoner doesn't mean I don't have a temper. If you vomit on me, I'll throw you out."

"Damn it!"

Merlin cursed, and he said:

"A car on earth can't run at such a high speed in the city... 240 miles! Slow down!"

"I have to get to the California town as fast as I can."

Feiguoshan's emotionless tone finally showed some emotional fluctuations, and he said a little anxiously:

"The B-127 is a good mechanical agent, but it's not good at fighting. I identified your military weapons on your network. Those things may endanger its life. We have delayed it for too long."

"Then don't take the high speed!"

Merlin patted the bridge and said to Fei Guoshan:

"If you don't want to be famous, go the low profile route and go all the way to California."

"Oh...you have a point."

Flying over the mountain at a speed of nearly 240 mph, he made a sharp turn and turned into a remote path.A projection also appeared in front of Merlin's eyes. On the map, a red line marked the shortest road from New York to Los Angeles.

A few seat belt-like things extended from the seat, tied around Merlin's body, and flew over the mountain and said in a deep voice:

"Sit tight, Merlin..."

"The next four hours will be bumpy."

After speaking, the speed of this crazy black muscle car increased again, and Merlin felt as if he was sitting on a speeding black lightning.He turned his head to look out the window, even with the perception of spiritual vision, he couldn't see the passing scenery clearly.

He couldn't measure the specific speed, but from his perception, the speed of this car has definitely exceeded 400 miles. The most terrifying thing is that this speed is still increasing.

Merlin felt like he was riding on a missile flying close to the ground.

"You Cybertronians, are you all monsters?"

Merlin grasped the armrest of the seat with both hands. At this speed, any collision would be fatal.

Fortunately, he didn't need to worry about death.

Under the desperate gallop over the mountain, after 4 hours and 22 minutes, Merlin arrived in the Los Angeles area of ​​the west coast from New York on the east coast. He crossed the entire North American continent in less than half a day.

This speed reminded him of his experience of taking a dolphin from Maine to Florida overnight in a coma a few years ago.

"buzz"

The black muscle car covered with mud and dust swung its tail gracefully, and stopped on a hillside outside a small town by the sea.The car door opened at this moment, and the pale-faced Merlin stepped out of the car.

His legs were a little weak, but his physical fitness was strong after all. After taking several deep breaths, Merlin quickly recovered.

He stood on the hillside, looking towards the small town in front of him.

It was a typical small American town, about 8 blocks in size, and it was lunch time, so there were not many people coming and going on the streets.But on the streets near the outskirts of the town, Merlin saw some rather eye-catching things in his spirit vision.

Several desert gray military vehicles are parked outside a warehouse. On the roofs of those vehicles are mounted military-grade heavy small-caliber rapid-fire guns.Once this thing is fired, it only takes a few seconds to completely destroy a house.

"It seems that the people from the Ministry of National Defense are planning to play for real."

Merlin said with an ugly expression:

"They actually parked this kind of thing in a residential area. It seems that no matter what we plan to do, those people will not let us get it easily."

"This also shows that we came in time."

Behind Merlin, his black muscle car quickly formed a 6-meter-high mechanical warrior in a dazzling but technologically-sounding form accompanied by the low-pitched collision and combination of mechanical gears and parts.

Flying over the mountain in a prone position, propped up by his only left arm, lying on the hillside, it used the information collector on its head to observe the small town in front of it, and after a while, it made a loud noise Said to Merlin:

"They probably haven't found B-127 yet, and I haven't found any traces of Decepticons nearby. That's good. This is an opportunity!"

"Do not."

Merlin shook his head. He reached out and tapped Fei Guoshan's horn-like head decoration. He said:

"The most threatening fighter on the opponent's side has disappeared. I don't think this is a good thing. You are disabled now, and it is the limit to be able to hold one. I can deal with one at most...We are not strong enough, flying Over the hill, we have to determine how many Decepticon fighters the Defense Department has, and where they are now, before we can move."

"The best outcome is that we don't alarm anyone."

Merlin moved his fingers and said:

"Find the B-127 before the DoD discovers it and the Decepticons enter the war, and take it away."

"You're right."

After Fei Guoshan thought for a while, the big man said to Merlin:

"I was being reckless. So what should we do?"

"You go to the town to find clues."

Merlin waved his finger:

"You rebel fighters have a way to communicate with each other, right?"

Fei Guoshan nodded, and Merlin hung a black communicator on his ear, and he said to Fei Guoshan:

"Then you go look for B-127, I'll go to the camp of those soldiers. If you find it, contact through the communicator... You can access the signal of this thing, right?"

"Yes! Deciphering your communication signal is not difficult."

Flying over the mountain moves the body, thousands of metal parts on its huge body change rapidly, and in the transformation process full of futuristic sense of technology, it turns back into the form of a car.

Under Merlin's gaze, the windows of this car were slowly lowered, and under the shining light curtain, a lifelike, virtual image of the driver appeared on the driver's seat.

It seems that these Cybertronians also know how to be flexible. At least they can fly over the mountains to know that an unmanned car will attract a lot of attention.

"Take action."

Merlin issued an instruction in the communicator, and the virtual driver created by Fei Guoshan waved towards Merlin, and then the car started slowly and drove towards the main road of the town.

Watching the mechanical warrior disappear, a gleam of light flashed in Merlin's eyes, and as the body turned into black smoke, slowly dissipating in the air, Merlin looked at the temporary base in the warehouse, and said softly:

"Then let me look for it..."

"You Cybertronians, what kind of secrets are you hiding on Earth?"

(End of this chapter)