Shadow trail of the beautiful world

第274章 39.喝吧，这就是你的命运--为疯1封1风兄弟加更【2640】

"Well, you convinced me."

In Mick's House, facing Merlin's persuasion, Vivienne did not hesitate for too long.

She looked at Merlin and replied:

"I will discuss this matter with my mentor. If we reach an agreement, then my mentor and I will spare some time to help you research the ingredients of this potion and find ways to improve it."

"But there is one problem, Merlin."

Vivian picked up the juice, she took a sip, and said to Merlin:

"Imperial Organization is now under the direct control of the World Security Council. Every research we conduct must be filed with S.H.I.E.L.D. I mean, if we decide to do this, then we must write a A report, tell Director Fury ... Only then will we be able to get the support of funds and authority."

"No, don't tell him just yet."

Merlin stopped:

"He has enough things to do, don't let him worry about these little things."

"Ok?"

Vivienne is a very smart woman, she almost immediately noticed the hidden meaning behind Merlin's refusal.

She pushed her glasses and said to Merlin:

"No, it's a rule of procedure, we have to do it."

"Well, well, you guys can write a project application."

Merlin thought for ten seconds, nodded to Vivian, and said:

"But this matter is SDOLD's internal affairs, so when you submit your application, you can submit it directly to my office instead of Fury's. As a direct subordinate department of S.H.I.E.L.D., I have the authority to approve A-level I can also support you with some funds for the following research projects, and I will provide all the research materials."

"Below A-level?"

Vivian looked at Merlin with a strange expression:

"A restarted super soldier project, you actually said it is an incident below A level? That's not right, Mr. Merlin, this should at least be an S level research project."

"Honestly, this makes me feel worse and worse, Merlin."

Vivienne said with some concern:

"I gotta say, you're making us do something really dangerous."

"You have to understand, Vivian, this is for your safety."

Merlin looked around, his fingers moved slightly, and a soundproof spell was cast around him and Vivian.He lowered his voice and said to Vivian:

"You remember the tragedy of Richard and Mary, don't you?"

"Ah."

Vivienne nodded. She had a good relationship with Richard and Mary, and she also attended the funeral of Richard and his wife on behalf of the imperial organization they had worked with.

"The accident was declared to be a plane crash, but in reality it was not that simple."

Merlin stroked the glass and said in a low tone:

"As far as I know, the last research project that Mary and Richard conducted before their death was related to human enhancement. Fury personally protected them, but he still failed. Some people...some people who are not so safe, I have been focusing on this field. This is also the reason why I don’t let you carry out research in a big way.”

He looked at Vivienne, and he said:

"Let's set it as a B-level research project, and the research location should be placed in a place that only you know. I think Skull Island is very good. Believe me, this is for the good of you and Dr. Qin Ze."

Seeing Merlin's solemn expression, Vivian subconsciously clenched her fists. After a while, she nodded and said to Merlin:

"I will communicate with my mentor, and if there is any news, I will notify you."

"Ah."

Merlin looked at the time on his watch, and he said to Vivian:

"It's almost 10 o'clock. I will send you back to where you live. In addition, I will send a subordinate to protect you. But it will not interfere with any of your actions. It will appear only in critical times and take you Get out of danger."

"it?"

Vivian stood up and asked curiously:

"Your subordinates, aren't they human?"

"Yes, a goblin."

Merlin said casually:

"Don't try to study it, Miss Vivian, it's timid, and you can't see it."

"Ok."

Miss Vivian lifted her handbag, and she said to Merlin:

"You really have a lot of talent under your command."

"Ha, that's ridiculous."

Merlin went to the counter to pay the bill, then left the restaurant with Vivienne, and sent her to an apartment.He stood at the door of the high-end apartment and said to Vivian:

"For your scientific research meeting this time, you live in a good place. It seems that the person who held the meeting must be a rich and powerful group."

"Well, it's the environmental seminar held by Osborne Industries."

Vivian nodded, and she complained:

"Mr. Norman Osborne has always been enthusiastic about public affairs, and he is also a very talented scientist. Most importantly, he is very famous and rich. Therefore, in every seminar, there are some women who pretend to be scientists. Come in. But this time, the verification measures of Osborne Industry have done a good job, at least some researchers with real materials come here."

"Oh, right."

Vivian seemed to remember something, she said to Merlin:

"Yesterday, I heard from a sister who works in the Osborne Biological Research Laboratory that in April this year, Osborne Enterprises also seemed to have proposed a conceptual research topic on the 'Human Body Enhancement' project. It is said that it was drawn up by Mr. Norman himself. .”

"It's nothing, Vivian."

Merlin breathed a sigh of relief, and he said to Vivian:

"Do you know how many biological laboratories in the world are working on this project? The concept of human enhancement has been very popular since its inception. A technology company like Osborne Enterprises, if I would find it strange if I didn't involve this field... But then again, so many people have worked together to study, but so far, they haven't come up with a real finished product, which also shows the difficulty of this subject. "

"The human body is an untapped treasure である. (The human body is an untapped treasure)"

Vivian suddenly said something in Japanese, but Merlin didn't understand, he looked at Vivian, who said it again in English, this time Merlin understood.

"This is a sentence that the tutor occasionally said. It was told by his father. I heard that the tutor's father was forced to join the wartime research institute in Japan during World War II. They seemed to be there at the time. Imitate North America and create their own super soldiers."

"There are such rumors in every country."

Merlin shook his head and said:

"But so far, the super-soldier project has only really succeeded once... well, if you count the Soviet Winter Soldier, then it should be two times."

"The Winter Soldier?"

Vivienne blinked, and she said:

"What's that? It sounds imposing."

"That's not something you should know, miss."

Merlin smiled, and he said to Vivian:

"Go back and rest, I won't bother you anymore, if you have any news, let's call."

After watching Vivienne enter the apartment, Merlin took out the phone and dialed an extremely long number. After waiting for a few seconds, the husky voice of the Cybertronian flying over the mountain rang out:

"Merlin, what's the matter?"

"Is the bumblebee with you? Fly over the mountain, I need his help with something."

Merlin asked.

"It's not there, it took Charlie to find Eric."

fly over the mountain says:

"If you have any questions, I can tell you."

"I need Bumblebee to help me tamper with an application for a pilot project at some point in the future."

Merlin walked towards Dupont's taxi that was waiting for him on the side of the road, and said to Fei Guoshan:

"I will contact you again at a specific time. I need Bumblebee to hack into the S.H.I.E.L.D. database and block this project application."

"If that data wasn't stored in your physically encrypted database, I could do it."

Fei Guoshan replied:

"Just contact me when the time comes."

"Well, okay, then I won't bother you."

Merlin hung up the phone, got into a taxi, and said to Dupont, who was having a hot dog:

"Go to my house...and, why do you always eat this kind of junk food? You make a lot of money every month, right?"

"I want to support a family, Merlin."

While turning the steering wheel with one hand, Dubender replied:

"And recently my cousin is going to come to the United States to make a living, and I have to prepare an apartment for her. I heard that she is very beautiful."

"Oh, the single dog is thinking about spring."

Merlin laughed and said:

"Understandable, understandable."

Du Pengde glanced at the rearview mirror, and he snorted dissatisfiedly:

"What are you laughing at! Aren't you also a single dog?"

"Uh..."

Dupont's rebuttal left Merlin speechless for a moment, he thought for a while, and said to Dupont:

"Forget it, don't go to my house. Go to the House of Blood, you know that place, right?"

"Well, my dad bought a talisman there, and it is said that it is quite effective."

Dupont stuffed the last bite of the hot dog into his mouth, and said vaguely:

"Miss Xueshi is actually quite beautiful, but she loves money too much."

Merlin chatted with Elsa who had just returned to New York in the House of Blood for a while, asked her some questions about the inheritance of the witcher, and then returned to his home. After a while, Merlin's life seemed to be back on track , The vampires who had been beaten up settled down, and the vampires in other parts of New York also became a lot more peaceful.

This made the agents of SDOLD, who had been tense for a while, relax.As the time approached the new year, several of Merlin's chief agents also began to take turns to take vacations. Because the vampire war had just ended, and because of SDOLD's complete victory, when Fury was approving vacation funds for this department, he also Generous a lot.

Sharon went to the Maldives alone, Coulson took her parents to Tahiti, and Melinda went to Europe with her fiancé.

In short, during this month, Merlin has been handling almost all the big and small matters, which made him get tired of the office life again.

And almost three months later, in the spring of 3, on a gloomy night, Merlin got off work early and used a teleportation spell to come to a hidden valley in Todd Mountain on Staten Island.

He stood alone under the gloomy sky, he looked at the clouds above his head, he seemed to be waiting for something.

Tonight, if he is lucky enough, he will be able to complete the Animagus Transfiguration Curse that he has been preparing for a long time.

"Victor, look around."

Merlin said to the Raven Spirit standing on his arm:

"Don't let anything bother me."

"Wow!"

Victor let out an ugly scream, flapped his wings and rushed into the sky. Merlin looked down at his phone. Today's weather forecast said that there should be thunderstorms in the New York area tonight.

This was the weather Merlin had been waiting for.

Speaking of it, the production process of the Animagus Transfiguration Curse potion is really weird, so weird that even an amateur alchemist like Merlin feels psychedelic.

Compared with the refining of ordinary potions, the production process of this transformation curse potion is more like a mystical ritual.

The first step was to put a single leaf of a mandrake in his mouth, and for a whole month, that step was not difficult for Merlin.

Then, on a full moon, the leaves are taken out and placed in a crystal bottle filled with saliva to allow it to absorb the moonlight. This step is not difficult, except that it is a bit disgusting.

Merlin strictly followed the production process of the potion. Just before dawn, he pulled out a hair, poured some dew collected by himself, which had not been exposed to the sun for seven days, and then added a potion that cost a lot of money from Bought from Diagon Alley, the purest chrysalis of the hawkmoth.

After doing all this, Merlin buried the rather disgusting mixture in the shaded valley of Mount Todd at the same time as the first rays of dawn fell.

It's quiet enough here without direct sunlight.

Now is the last step.

He had to wait for a natural weather with thunder and lightning, and then take out the potion that had been buried for more than three months.

During these three months, every day at sunset, Merlin would point his wand to his heart and silently recite a strange spell.It can be said that this is really full of mystery.

And it's strange to say that in the first month, Merlin didn't feel any abnormality, but from the second month on, every time he recited the spell silently, he could feel that when his heart beat, It felt like a second heart was beating, and that feeling was extremely strange.

It's like a second heart is beating.

Merlin's luck was not bad this time, he only waited for 3 months before a thunderstorm came.He heard that some unlucky wizards waited for several years when making Animagus potions before encountering the natural thunder and lightning weather.

"Boom"

Ten minutes later, accompanied by howling winds, the first dazzling thunder and lightning streaked across the gloomy night sky, like a signal.

With a hook of Merlin's finger, the stones and soil in front of him were deflected by gravity, and quickly left the ground, revealing the small pit where Merlin buried the potion.

And in that small pit, the crystal bottle was lying there quietly.

But in that crystal bottle, the originally disgusting mixture had turned into a mouthful of blood-red liquid gleaming with strange light.

That's what Merlin needs.

He picked up the crystal bottle, and amidst the increasingly dense thunder, he looked at the blood-red potion.

"Drink, drink, this is my destiny..."

He said softly, and the next moment, the potion that was glowing with blood was swallowed up in one gulp.

(End of this chapter)