Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 31. The King's Secret Order

February in Auckland is already a bit hot.

This city in northwest California is close to the sea, so the temperature here will not drop below 0 degrees all year round. In this place, there is no market for warm clothes.

But at this time, in a remote black neighborhood in Oakland, Merlin, who was walking in the dusk, subconsciously wrapped his coat tightly. Although the outside temperature was not cold, whether it was the clothes on his body or the sunset behind him , but couldn't make him feel warm.

Because his coldness does not come from the perception of the body, but from the soul.

Merlin's current appearance would probably frighten the children around him. His face was as pale as paper, and he looked bloodless. The veins on his neck were bulging, as if he had been poisoned.

Looking carefully, when Merlin was in action, his face and hands seemed to be shrouded in a thin layer of black light all the time, and wisps of almost invisible black smoke emanated from his skin, making him He looked like a ghost who had smuggled into the world.

His steps were heavy and difficult, as if he was trying his best with every step.

He's in a bad situation, he's been pretty much across North America for the last 2 months.In this process, there have been no less than 5 times such as the sudden attack on the train that day.

And Merlin can now be sure that those pursuers are not the agents of the Manhattan night battle, but another group of people.

A group of more ruthless people, their purpose is very clear, is to get the super soldier serum in Merlin's hands, and then get rid of Merlin by the way.

A net has been stretched against him, and it is shrinking fast.

Just last night, in a small town on the outskirts of Oakland, Merlin accidentally stepped into the trap they set up.

The entire hotel was detonated by a large amount of buried explosives, and Merlin managed to escape in the form of black mist, and then he was rounded up by dozens of people.They are equipped with high-strength stun guns, barbed fishing nets, blinding flash grenades, and everyone wears infrared detectors.

The night battle last night was the most dangerous situation Merlin encountered.

Just a little bit, he would fall into that small town that was set up as a death trap.

But luck still favored him. After desperately cutting down a few pursuers, Merlin triggered the black mist to explode again, rushing into the vast night like a wounded beast.

But as with luck, there is also misfortune.

Taking advantage of the dimming night, under the cover of the shadow cloak, Merlin walked into an apartment building by the side of the road.Relying on his dark perception, he quickly found an uninhabited room and walked into it.

Merlin took off his coat, and on his abdomen, several scars that were healing were so shocking.

In Merlin's spiritual vision, he could see streaks of black energy covering these wounds, causing them to heal, but also invading his body bit by bit, flesh and energy fusing.

"It's getting worse."

Merlin sighed, lying weakly on the cold bed, he planned to rest for a while.

And just as he closed his eyes, the dark murmur that hadn't appeared for a long time appeared in his ears again.

It was the restlessness of the dark magic that existed in his soul and body.

The persevering pursuit of the pursuer caused Merlin to use magic power to explode several times in a short period of time, which caused it to start eroding Merlin's body again, and this time the erosion was faster and more violent.It's like a rebound after being suppressed for a long time.

And at night in Manhattan, on the train leaving New York, and in the small town last night, the non-lethal force used by the opponent also left many hidden wounds on Merlin's body, even torn wounds.

He was like a beast running away from exhaustion, he had no time to take a good rest, and if this continued, Merlin would probably be overwhelmed by exhaustion.

It was like what happened in Central City 2 years ago, but this time, he probably wasn't so lucky to meet such good people as the Allen couple.

"Let me rest for a while."

Merlin grumbled. He looked at the time on his wrist. It was 8 o'clock in the afternoon, and there were still 4 hours before midnight.

He took out the small water bottle from his pocket, took a sip of water, let the shell pendant begin to purify the escaping dark magic power, then covered his ears, and curled up on the dark bed, as if he could block the dark echoes in his ears .

He desperately needed some sleep.

But the night was not peaceful. Three hours later, Merlin was awakened by a low humming sound, and he jumped up from the bed.

Because the abdominal injury hadn't fully healed, this violent movement made Merlin grit his teeth uncontrollably.He quickly walked to the window, opened the window, and then looked towards the sky in the direction of the sound.

The next moment, Merlin's eyes suddenly tightened.

Under the cloud cover of the night, he saw an irregular oval black object hovering above the clouds.That was the limit of ordinary people's eyesight, but to Merlin it was far beyond the limit.

Overhead, the things in the clouds looked like flying saucers in urban legends.

But it looks very thick and very technological.And when viewed from below, the combination of the three energy jets below the spaceship looks like a blurred human face.

But Merlin can be sure that in this world in 1992, no country could make such a thing!

"After wizards, sea people, and super soldiers, are they aliens?"

Merlin murmured to himself:

"What the hell is going on in this damn world?"

But the next moment, the cranky thinking about aliens was broken.

Because in Merlin's spiritual vision, he clearly saw several figures using some kind of dive device to descend from the hovering spaceship.

Although the targets were too small and moving too fast, they were a bit blurry, but Merlin was sure that those were all real humans.

But what made Merlin feel that he was in trouble the most was that the target of the whereabouts of these guys of unknown origin was the apartment building where he was located.

"Could it be that they are the chasers this time?"

A thought jumped out of Merlin's mind, but Merlin denied it in the next second.

"Impossible! If those hounds have such black technology, they don't need to chase me across North America at all."

"It's another group. But what are they doing here?"

Doubts abounded in Merlin's mind, he returned to the bed and lay down again.

He closed his eyes, let the shadows cover his body, and then, like in the night of Manhattan, spread his consciousness bit by bit through the perception of darkness.

A moment later, in a room obliquely above Merlin, he heard the depressing conversation between two people.

"Listen, we just need to keep going in and out fast and it's fine. You come from the west, turn the corner, me and two other guys are waiting for you here, after the merge the car is gone, understand? Here.. .”

The voice of a person speaking is very urgent, but very methodical.He stopped speaking quickly, as if he had a premonition, and suddenly said to the other person:

"Quick! Put the gun away! Someone's coming."

"Is it the police?"

Another person asked a little nervously.A few seconds later, with the sound of some kind of metal knocking, as Merlin listened, the person who spoke first replied:

"No, it's not..."

Accompanied by the sound of the pistol being loaded, Merlin immediately realized that there might be a gun battle here. Just as he was about to withdraw his dark perception and leave here, something unexpected happened.

"There are two strange girls standing outside, they, they still have spears?"

"Open the door!"

"Are you sure? They look dangerous."

"Open the door, trust me. They won't knock next time."

The sound of the door opening, and the sound of some kind of strange vibration of metal reverberated in Merlin's will, and he was even more curious about what happened in that room.

He began to focus most of his attention on the house, just like the image formed by the echoes of the sonar, a blurry, not very clear picture where only lines and outlines could be seen emerged in Merlin's mind.

He saw two tense men, one of whom was holding a pistol.

In front of them were two women holding cold weapons. Merlin noticed that the vitality of the two women was very strong.Except for Vico, the undersea man, Merlin had never seen such a powerful human being.

And in Merlin's perception, there is another weird guy hiding in the darkness of the room... But Merlin can't feel his vitality and soul, as if there is something blocking Merlin's darkness perception.

All he could feel was a dark, fast-moving shadow.

But what is certain is that that guy must be very strong. His movement in the dark is as sharp as a spider. Even the dark perception can hardly capture his movements.

This man reminded Merlin of the attacker with a metal arm he saw the night the Howards were killed, and they were really similar.The feeling brought to Merlin is extremely dangerous.

The four people in the house were communicating in a language that Merlin couldn't understand. It seemed to be some kind of aboriginal language, very rhythmic.

He felt that someone had parted his lips, as if to verify something, and the next moment, the sound of the short current interruption and restart was clearly reflected in Merlin's spirit.

Although he couldn't see the picture, he could think of what happened in that room.

The guy who hid in the darkness appeared from the darkness.

Well, those two ordinary people must have been taken aback.

Merlin felt that after that weird guy appeared, one of the ordinary people knelt on the ground immediately, and he said in a low voice:

"His Majesty!"

"His Majesty?"

This title made Merlin very puzzled. In this era, in 1992, is there still a real king?

And most importantly, if this is a king, why would he appear in this way, in a lonely black neighborhood in Oakland?

What is the secret behind this weird and powerful king?

"Let him go!"

The man called the king ordered in a voice as low as darkness, and the man kneeling on the ground explained quickly:

"This is James, I swear on my life, he is trustworthy, he can stay, as long as you allow, my Majesty T'Chaka."

"Okay, then as you wish, get up!"

For this conversation, they used English, which made Merlin heave a sigh of relief.If you can't understand the dialogue of these eccentric people, you can't figure out this increasingly strange thing.

Merlin heard the name of the man called His Majesty, T'Chaka.

This pronunciation always feels a little strange.

Merlin continued to listen, and he sensed that the king took off his helmet, and the moment he took off the helmet, Merlin's perception of him suddenly became clear.

It seemed that it was the helmet and the armor on his body that blocked Merlin's perception of darkness.

But after recovering his perception, Merlin clearly felt that if the vitality of other people was like a flame, then the vitality of King T'Chaka was as majestic as a raging flame.

His vitality is at least 5-10 times that of ordinary people!In Merlin's perception, this guy doesn't look like a human being at all, but looks like an extremely dangerous monster.

Even more dangerous than Vico, the underwater man!

"My brother, let me see how you are doing."

"I'm doing well, my lord. I'm still in good health, but I miss my hometown a little bit. By the way, how is my family?"

The king and the man seemed to be familiar, more like friends, and the two chatted in a relaxed tone until the man asked a question.

Merlin could feel that the atmosphere in the house suddenly became tense.

"Hometown, it's not good."

The king replied:

"There is a man, his name is Ulysses Crow. He stole 0.25 tons of Vibranium from us. In order to escape, he detonated a bomb on the border. We suffered heavy casualties. Most importantly, my brother, this outsider , He knows where we hide the Zhenjin, and also knows how to effectively launch an attack, obviously, he has internal support."

The king's tone became low:

"I'm here, my brother, I want you to look me in the eye and tell me why, why you're betraying our country, why you're betraying... Wakanda!"

"Vibranium? What is that? A metal? Where is Wakanda? I think I've heard of this country."

Merlin was like an experienced voyeur. He was full of curiosity, but he didn't say anything. Instead, he continued to spread his dark perception quietly, and continued to observe the tense situation in the room.

He heard the guy named "Enjob", arguing with King T'Chaka, and the scene of the sudden betrayal of the reliable "James" brother beside him.

It turned out that James, who was trusted by Enjob, was also the spy sent by this weird Wakanda kingdom to North America. He had been hiding beside Enjob and recorded all the evidence of his treason.

Merlin frowned upon hearing this internal strife among royal families in a foreign land, as if he had discovered another big secret inadvertently.

And at this moment, in that room, King T'Chaka's sentence was over.

"Prince Enjob, as the Black Panther of Wakanda, I request you to return to your homeland immediately, meet the Council of Elders, and confess your crimes to them!"

At this moment, Merlin suddenly opened his eyes. If he felt something, he quickly spread the darkness perception outward.

In the building across the block, a familiar, sharp breath entered the realm of dark perception, like a beast suddenly emerging from hiding.

The terrified Merlin jumped up violently, rushed to the window of the room desperately, broke the glass from the 4th floor and jumped down.

At the same time, on the top floor opposite to this building, the ruthless Winter Soldier pulled the trigger. With a deep roar, an anti-tank rocket rushed towards the floor where Merlin was, dragging dazzling flames. The pursuer locked his hiding place almost perfectly and precisely.

The deadliest hunter, in the dark, reappears!

(End of this chapter)