Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 201

In the current concept of war, there is a very important theory called the asymmetric combat mode.

A variety of special tactics, including guerrilla warfare, actually belong to the asymmetrical combat system.

Just as an agile warrior seizes the opportunity to backstab an opponent who cannot face him head-on, after being involved in a war of completely unequal military power, in order to win a slim chance of victory, the weaker side , often adopt various methods to gain an advantage for themselves.

This is what Merlin is facing now.

Obviously, armed groups operating locally are incapable of confronting well-equipped and powerful forces supported by external forces, so they have adopted a more effective offensive method.

That is the ambush.

"boom"

Merlin's car drove with difficulty for more than ten meters on the rugged mountainous terrain by the side of the road, and then accompanied by a violent noise, a puff of black smoke gushed out from the front hood of the car.

Merlin looked at the car window that was on the verge of being broken by the stones from the explosion, and looked at the horrific wound on the hood that was scratched by the shrapnel from the explosion.

Although even if he was hit by shrapnel in the front, he would not die, or even be injured.

But there is a real ordinary person in his car at this time.

"What happened?"

Lincoln, who was awakened by the explosion, hadn't recovered from the daze of sleep for a while. At this instant, he subconsciously lay on the window and looked towards the scene of the explosion behind him.

The road at the explosion site was blasted into a large crater emitting thick smoke. The shell of the first car had been twisted, and all the soldiers inside must have died.

No one can survive that kind of powerful explosion from below.

The second car was burning, and several soldiers who were on fire screamed and jumped on the ground. They were lucky to recover a life from the explosion, but judging from the current situation, their hope of surviving was still slim.

The third car was fortunately unscathed, and the soldiers were jumping out of the car to try to save their comrades.

"Get down!"

At this moment, Merlin pressed Lincoln's head and pressed his whole body into the carriage.In the next second, chaotic gunshots sounded from behind the hillside next to the road.

A group of militants hiding there howled and rushed out. They shot at the soldiers who were stupefied by the bombs indiscriminately, knocking down several people on the spot.

But the worst part was that the place where they jumped out was less than 30 meters away from the place where Merlin's car was turned off.

Those bullets flying around smashed all the windows of Merlin's third-hand old car in an instant.

And the worst thing was that the soldiers who sensed being attacked also started to fight back, so the bullets flying from another direction shattered the only remaining car window.

"Go! Go!"

Merlin kicked the car door, grabbed the panicked Lincoln, and rushed out of the car in a prone position.

He led the trembling young men across the battlefield, and the moment they were extremely lucky to rush out of the slope, a guy with his face covered and brandishing an old rifle howled and pointed his guns at each other. Yes Merlin.

At this moment, a faint electric arc bounced around the watch on Merlin's wrist, and with the wave of Merlin's finger, the gun muzzle of the militant was strangely lifted up a few inches.

"bang bang bang"

The howling bullets passed by Lincoln's ears, making the young man scream out loud in fright, and subconsciously crouched on the ground with his head in his arms.

Merlin took a wrong step forward and kicked the masked man's chest with great force. The guy was like a baseball being hit by a bat, and he howled and flew backwards.

Until the moment he landed, there was still a trace of astonishment in his eyes that had lost the luster of life.

He clearly aimed at the hearts of those two people... At a distance of only a few meters, it is impossible for him to miss the shot.Why...why was he the one who died?

"Go away! You idiot."

Merlin turned around and kicked the screaming young man's buttocks, forcing him to lean against his head, run and crawl, and use all four limbs to rush out of the dangerous slope where bullets flew across.

Merlin glanced at the chaotic battlefield behind him. The militants who had seized the opportunity had an absolute advantage, but the soldiers did not give up either. They used their military vehicles as cover and fought back quickly.

It's not safe here.

At least for the oil bottle behind Merlin, it is very unsafe.

To be honest, Merlin regretted bringing Lincoln, who was in the way, with him. If he wasn't there, Merlin could have easily killed this group of militants at that moment.

And at the moment Merlin rushed up the slope, he suddenly saw the body of the militant who was kicked away by him.

A corpse naturally couldn't attract Merlin's attention, he had seen many deaths already.

What really caught Merlin's attention was the red tattoo on the left wrist of the corpse.

Under the surprised gaze of Lincoln who was hiding behind the dirt slope, Merlin rushed to the corpse in a strange, floating gesture.

Less than 20 meters away from the chaotic battlefield, he knelt down, grabbed the corpse's wrist, and looked at the red tattoo.

Ten rings are intertwined with each other, and there are two swords in the center.

This is the logo of the Ten Rings Gang!

Merlin suddenly raised his head, looking at the howling militants who were shooting at the soldiers, a gleam flashed in his eyes, and even the expression on his face became joyful.

An hour ago, Merlin was still worrying about how to find the Ten Rings Gang, but now...it takes no effort at all!

To be honest, Merlin didn't know whether he was lucky or unlucky.Looking at his experience in the past few years, almost every time something bad happens, he will solve a problem at hand at the same time.

"What are you doing? Yuri, come back quickly!"

Lincoln, who was hiding behind the slope, looked at Merlin anxiously, and shouted in a low voice:

"It's not safe there, come here!"

However, the next moment, Lincoln saw Merlin take out a red wooden stick from his pocket, and threw it at him. The young man's eyes went dark, and he didn't know anything.

After putting Lincoln into a deep sleep, Merlin moved his shoulders and stood up. He looked at the militants who had rushed to the middle of the road and began to slaughter the soldiers.His fingers moved and pressed on the case of the watch in his left hand.

The current generator built into the watch was activated, and the next moment, in the jumping arc, Merlin stretched his fingers towards the group of warlike bloodthirsty lunatics just like before.

He flicked his finger upwards, and more than 20 meters away, the military vehicle that was still burning in the middle of the road and rolled over in the explosion seemed to be lifted by an invisible hand. As Merlin turned his fingers, he felt strange The posture was placed horizontally in the air at a height of 3 meters.

"Goodbye."

Merlin said softly, and the next moment, the arc on his watch suddenly disappeared, and the force that dragged the car also dissipated at this moment.

Amidst the horrified screams of the seven militants, the heavy military vehicle smashed down like a war hammer.

gushing blood...

Like a squeezed peach, amidst the soft sound of bones breaking, at this moment the road was covered with a messy face.

This is not the magic of the Levitation Curse.

This is a "small gift" from Dr. Franklin Hall. In Merlin's watch, there is a ball of gravitonium the size of a grain of rice. Under the stimulation of a strong current, it can give Merlin the ability to temporarily change gravity.

But the duration is very short, less than 3 seconds.

However, it is completely sufficient for emergencies and raids.After all, casting spells requires reciting incantations, so this thing is much more convenient, you only need to lift your finger and it's OK.

This weird scene silenced the battlefield where the fierce firefight was taking place.

In the next second, the remaining dozen militants jumped their guns and shot wildly towards where Merlin was.

But Merlin stood there, watching the bullet pass through his body as if it had been pierced into the air.

He looked at the shouting militants, and at the tip of his wand Lola, the light of the dancing Dementia spell was like a hungry beast, unable to resist the desire to devour it.

A few minutes later, the disarmed terrorists were stunned one by one by Merlin, and thrown on the slope in the sun.

Merlin, holding a magic wand, squatted down and opened the eyelids of the first militant. When the four eyes met, the Dementia Curse was activated.

"Legilimens!"

Amidst the sound of Merlin chanting the spell silently, his eyes shone with a strange light, and his strong will was like a spike, mercilessly piercing into the spirit of the militant in front of him.

In the previous actions, when Merlin used the Dementia Curse, he also needed to take into account the endurance of the subject's soul.But now, facing a group of vicious militants who just created a massacre, he didn't care anymore.

This time, he searched his memory so hard that he didn't intend to hold back at all.

He needs to find out where the Ten Rings are hiding from the minds of these bastards.

And the most powerful Dementia Curse cast without any scruples almost instantly defeated the will of the first prisoner.Merlin saw many fleeting images, but none of them were what he needed.

A few seconds later, he withdrew his spirit with some regret. At his feet, the militant who had absorbed his spiritual thoughts had his eyes glazed over.His breathing became extremely weak. Obviously, after being brutally torn apart, he was only one step away from death.

"it's a pity."

Merlin glanced at him, then lost interest, and he threw the guy with bloody hands on the slope to die.Then he reached out and opened the eyelids of the second prisoner.

Another most powerful Dementia Curse was thrown out, and the memory of the unlucky guy was rolled into a pot of porridge in an instant.

Merlin was lucky this time, he managed to find the inner scene of the canyon in the militant's mind.

He saw the military supplies that were piled together and placed in the cave like a hill.He also saw the poisonous crops in the depths of the canyon that were carefully cared for like farms.

He also saw the Ten Rings' internal meetings filled with ritual mystery.

But unfortunately, this guy who was taken into mind is just a low-level member of that organization, and he doesn't know much.

"But that's okay."

Merlin withdrew his spirit and threw aside the second prisoner whose mind had been shattered.He looked at the 11 militants who fell on the ground in front of him. He flicked his fingers and said indifferently:

"We have 11 more chances... the broken puzzle will always fit and I will find it."

After another ten minutes, it was ten minutes of depressing and dead silence, and Merlin threw the last unconscious prisoner in the sun.He sat on the rock of the slope, closed his eyes, and rubbed his forehead lightly.

Ingesting the memories of more than a dozen people at once, those chaotic memory fragments made Merlin's consciousness a little bit trance.

Like watching a dozen bad movies in one sitting, his powerful spirit also felt a little tired.

But the good news is that through the combination of memory fragments from different angles, he has roughly locked the location of the Ten Rings Gang Canyon, and through memory bridging, he has learned some internal information about the mysterious Ten Rings Gang.

He knows that the Ten Rings Gang is a huge organization, and Afghanistan is just a stronghold of that organization. In the huge territory of Central Asia, including Mongolia and the Middle East, almost every country has their strongholds.

Merlin knew that both he and Fury underestimated this obscure organization, and the background of this organization was simply terrifying.

"They owe their allegiance to a man called 'The Mandarin'."

Merlin looked at the captives who were exposed to the sun and lost their sanity and could only wait to die. He recalled the pieces of information he had collected in his mind:

"It was a long-lived monster, a dark sage with a strange belief, a forerunner of chaos. And it was the 'Mandalin' behind the scenes that made this big attack on the government-held area. "

"The question is, why did the mysterious 'Mandalin' do this? Does he want to unify the chaotic Afghanistan?"

Merlin shook his head. Judging from these memories, Mandarin should not be a leader who pursues peace and stability.

He had the feeling of facing the inner mysteries of S.H.I.E.L.D. again. The more he knew, the more doubts he had, like a ring expanding in a blank area.

Another mystery representing the unknown...

"What a... headache."

Merlin stood up, he looked left and right, the battlefield was dead silent, there was nothing to pay attention to.

He should go.

Merlin reached out and threw a levitation spell on the unconscious Lincoln Campbell. He couldn't just throw this young man here, it was almost sending him to death.

He planned to erase the young man's memory and throw him in the city of Kandahar.

But just as Merlin was about to leave, his perception swept across the battlefield for the last time, and he suddenly found a faint life activity among the fallen corpses.

It was the soldiers who had been bombed and ambushed, and one of them survived.Of course, life activities are very weak, and there is only one step away from death.

"It's amazing vitality."

Merlin stroked his chin, and he walked towards the corpses:

"If you really beat death, then maybe I should help you."

(End of this chapter)