Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 188 36. A Letter

In the ward of St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries, Gartler was lying on the hospital bed with a melancholy expression, as if recalling some unbearable past events.

Merlin sat on the edge of the bed, he looked at Gartler, but didn't know how to comfort him.

Every agent keeps a lot of secrets in his heart. Those may be painful or regrettable, but in the final analysis, secrets are secrets.It is an extremely rude behavior for others to blindly explore those secrets.

"Inside S.H.I.E.L.D...."

A few minutes later, Gartler hesitated. He looked at Merlin and lowered his voice:

"I don't know if you've noticed, but as our organization grows larger, it's not as pure as it used to be."

"Are you reminding me, Gartler."

Merlin looked around and said to his friend:

"Don't worry, I know."

"Ok?"

Gartler looked at Merlin suspiciously, the latter shrugged and said to Gartler:

"Before you, someone warned me. I will pay attention."

"Just paying attention isn't enough."

Gartler said:

"You have to be careful, Merlin. You have been too popular in the past few years, and you are easy to attract attention. The threat on the surface is obvious, but the disturbance from the dark is not so easy to detect."

"What did you notice? Gartler."

Merlin looked at Gartler's dignified expression, and he asked:

"Or have you found some evidence?"

"I'm also the director of the European branch of S.H.I.E.L.D. If I don't even notice this, then I'm too dereliction of duty."

Gartler said to Merlin:

"But I just noticed that I couldn't find evidence. I just know that there is an undercurrent flowing in the shadow of S.H.I.E.L.D. Maybe you have been targeted."

"Do you think, Fury knows?"

Merlin hesitated for a moment, then asked softly:

"Do you think Fury is credible?"

"Fury is a very good leader, he is also a trustworthy person, he is very sharp, always plan ahead for everything. But..."

Gartler looked at Merlin and said:

"He's not omniscient, either."

"Then do you think we should talk to Fury about this?"

Merlin asked again, but Gartler shook his head, and said:

"He's a guy who's so stubborn about certain things that he wouldn't believe it without evidence."

"Evidence."

Merlin rubbed his forehead, and after a while, the therapist at St. Mungo's Hospital notified Gartler to prepare for today's treatment, and Merlin took the opportunity to leave.Before leaving, Merlin said to Gartler:

"Don't worry, take a good rest, I will find the evidence."

"Be careful!"

Gartler exhorted:

"Don't fight with them, use your brain and use your wisdom to solve the problem."

"Well, I know."

After finishing speaking, Merlin left the ward, and hurried back to his place of residence.While watching Merlin leave, after more than ten minutes, when the therapists were ready, Gattler was pushed into the treatment room full of magic power marks. Before the treatment began, Gattler Put down the phone in your hand.

On the screen of the mobile phone, there is a sign that the email has been sent.

The content of that email was very simple, only four words.

"He noticed."

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When Merlin returned to the hotel where he was staying, he opened the door and saw a white envelope placed under his feet.

The thing must have been pushed in through the crack in the door.

Merlin looked left and right, and there was no one in the hotel aisle.He sensed it first with his dark sense, and after confirming that the envelope was just ordinary letter paper, he picked up the mysterious envelope, closed the door, and came to the desk.

Merlin looked over the unsigned envelope over and over again. This letter didn't even have a stamp.

He shook his head, opened the envelope, and took out one of the thick stacks of paper.

On the top was a letter full of words, while the document below was spread out on the table. Merlin found that it was a precise mechanical drawing.But with his engineering level, he couldn't understand what the creation of this blueprint represented.

He could only look at the letter, and he guessed that there should be an answer there.

And when Merlin opened the folded letter paper, what caught his eyes were some elegant fonts, like a woman's notes.He knew this font and was very familiar with it.

It was the handwriting of Ms. Carter, who had been missing for months.

"Merlin:"

"I'm sorry I left without saying goodbye. I know that you have many questions in your heart that need to be answered, but now is not the time to answer them."

"I got in touch with Hank and he was just as cynical and grumpy as ever. But at my request he gave me this drawing to fix the mess he left behind. According to him, it's a miniature Yes, a drawing of a semi-finished quantum interferometer. You give it to Dr. Bill Foster, who is fully capable of making such a sample."

"It can help that poor girl Ava maintain her quantum state activity. But Hank also reminded me that this interference device can only stop the child's body from disintegrating itself, but it cannot cure her. Want to make Ava completely To recover, you need to find a way to the quantum world, Hanke has been researching this topic for these years, but unfortunately, a smart person like him has not found the right way yet."

"You need to take good care of that child, and don't let her frequently use the ability of the quantum state. Hanke told me that as she grows older, her connection with the quantum world will become deeper and deeper, until one day, she will be The appeal of the quantum world completely disappears in the real world, but that will be at least 10 years later."

"I wrote Hank's contact information on the inside of the envelope, but I beg you, Merlin, not to tell anyone else about Hank's whereabouts."

"Remember what old Steve reminded you? The scale of S.H.I.E.L.D. is getting bigger and bigger. In the slightly blind expansion, the muddy water will also enter the clear water bay. I believe that giving Fury enough He has the ability to make this huge pool clear again, but I doubt that the lurking darkness will not give him enough time."

"Take good care of Sharon for me, Merlin, don't come looking for me. I have dedicated most of my life to my work. It's time for a poor old woman to be free and spend her last days happily."

"Finally, old Steve asked me to tell you that if you have time, you might as well go around Bleecker Street in Manhattan. The scenery and food there are quite good."

This concludes Ms. Carter's short but mysterious letter.

But Merlin couldn't relax his brows. He looked at the stack of folded drawings in his hand, and he knew that it was Ms. Carter who fulfilled her promise and found the mysterious Pim Hank for Merlin, and let him Dr. Hanke designed and manufactured an interferometer for Ava to suppress the quantum state.

But that's not the point.

The point is, Ms. Carter confirmed the old Steve's warning to Merlin. As the leader of the Strategic Science Corps, if she also believes that there is a dark shadow in the current S.H.I.E.L.D., it means that there are The problem is probably more serious than Merlin imagined.

And listening to Ms. Carter, Fury seems to know this too, and Fury has been working hard to keep the water in SHIELD clear.

But Fury didn't tell him, nor did he let him participate, which meant that Fury didn't need his help, at least for now, Fury didn't want Merlin to participate.

Perhaps, that old agent was also suspicious of Merlin.

"It's really hard to like."

Merlin curled his lips, and a flame wrapped in black smoke ignited in his hand, burning the letter.Then the envelope was opened, and inside the envelope, there was a slightly invisible phone number.

That should be Pim Hank's contact information.

Merlin saved this number in his phone, but he didn't dial the number right away.

Because he didn't know what to say to that Dr. Hank, the other party seemed to have a bad temper, and he had already given Merlin the help he needed.

Merlin put away the stack of blueprints and put them into his handbag. He looked out of the window. It was afternoon, dusk had not yet arrived, but the scorching and bright sun at noon had already turned dark.

"Hey, this trip is coming to an early end again."

Merlin sighed, he didn't stay in the hotel any longer, but tidied up and left the room again.

Now that he has decided to return to New York soon, he needs to hurry up and search for the magic materials he needs in Diagon Alley.But considering that the normal business order has not yet been restored in that place, it is estimated that it will be difficult for Merlin's needs to be met all at once.

Two days later, a black plane rushed into the sky from the airport in Paris. This is the postal plane inside SHIELD, which is specially used to fly between North America and Europe to transport some materials and resources inside SHIELD.

This is not a commercial plane, so the interior furnishings are not comfortable. On the upper floor of the cabin, there is a small room for the pilot to rest, and Merlin is sitting in it right now.

Opposite him is Dobby, a house elf dressed up in new clothes.

Or rather, Dobby, the new advisor to Merlin's department, SDOLD.

According to Merlin's request, this guy put on a new outfit.Madam Malkin is a skilled magic tailor. The black uniform she made by herself is wearing on Dobby's body, and there is also a pair of small leather shoes that are like works of art.

But this uniform should be handsome and serious after wearing it, but it looks baggy because of Dobby's thin body, without the majesty it should have.

Dobby also got a pair of psychic sunglasses that SDOLD agents always have, which are also a reduced version of the toad mirror, which is now on the bridge of Dobby's sharp nose.But the small toad mirror can't cover Dobby's big eyes at all, so this outfit makes Dobby look full of a weird style of painting, just like the short and funny big eyes that often appear in children's comics. Same with the villains.

But what else could Merlin expect from a magical race that was inherently ugly?Dobby can put on the uniform honestly, which is already the most positive transformation he can make so far.

According to the living habits of the house elves, they would not wear such formal clothes, and it was very inconvenient to work in such clothes.

And Merlin also noticed that there was a black magic wand like a fire stick at the waist of the elf agent.

The thing looked like an ordinary stick, but it did have magical waves on it.

"Mr. Ollivander is too perfunctory."

Merlin looked at the wand hanging from Dobby's waist, he frowned and said:

"This thing doesn't even have the later polishing and carving... Can it be used normally?"

"Of course you can, sir."

Dobby stroked the wand at his waist, and it said to Merlin in a sharp but cadenced voice:

"Master Ollivander made this for me on the spot. Because of the tight schedule, he didn't add too much modification, but this thing has the functions that the wand should have."

"That's good."

Merlin didn't pay too much attention to these details, he said to Dobby:

"The courses at the Secret Service Academy will start in September. I didn't say hello to the instructors there, but I believe that relying on your ability, it shouldn't be a problem to complete six months of secret service training without being detected."

"I'll do it right, sir."

Dobby straightened his chest hard, and said to his new boss:

"It's not difficult at all to disguise yourself in front of Muggles."

"Ah That's good."

Merlin took out his mobile phone, glanced at it, and found that he had a new text message, which was sent by Dr. Franklin Hall of the Secret Service Academy. The content of the text message was very concise, with only one line:

"My experiment finally succeeded!!! Merlin, come to the lab and help me do the application experiment!"

"Well, what a coincidence."

If it wasn't for Dr. Hall's text message, Merlin would probably have forgotten that when he left the Secret Service Academy, he promised Dr. Hall that he would help him with a special experiment.

For goodness sake, but that was 6 years ago.

What exactly was Dr. Hall's experiment studying?It took 6 years to complete.

This also made Merlin a little curious, and he glanced at Dobby who was studying the airplane seat.He put away his mobile phone and said to the ugly mysterious affairs consultant in front of him:

"I'm just going to the Secret Service Academy, I'll go with you."

(End of this chapter)