Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 337 18. A Warm Ending-Thanks to the Silver League of Brother Taipal, the head of Xinshou Village 【1110】

"Whitehall is dead?"

Gordon reached out, groped for the broken spectacles, and said:

"Then I have to thank you for Jiaying, no, thank you for all the strangers who were hurt by that lunatic."

"and this."

Merlin took out the box containing the obelisk from his pocket and placed it in front of Gordon. He said with a blank expression:

"The obelisk that was taken by Whitehall, you can take it away."

Gordon opened the box. He stretched out his hand and placed it on the surface of the obelisk. The next moment, he stood up abruptly and said to Merlin:

"Where's the contents? Where's the Terrigen crystal? You took it?"

"what?"

Merlin asked blankly:

"You mean, the crystal isn't in there?"

"You do not know?"

There was a trace of suspicion in Gordon's tone. Merlin stood up and walked to the table. He looked at the obelisk in Gordon's hand and said:

"How do I know? You only told me how to hold it, but not how to open it."

Merlin's answer seemed to be shirking responsibility, but Gordon knew that there was a high probability that what Merlin said was true.

The production method of the obelisk comes from the ancestors of the aliens. It carries a knowledge system that is completely different from the earth's technology. Only the oldest alien families know how to use the obelisk and want to use external force to crack it. It is simply impossible.

Although Merlin has strange abilities, Gordon doesn't think that he can break the secret of the obelisk in just a few days.

Most importantly, if the obelisk is not opened in the correct way, the obelisk will be permanently damaged. When the external force is forcibly cracked, the Terrigen crystal inside the obelisk will be quickly converted into mist, and then attack the surrounding people indiscriminately. all life.

Now that the obelisk is still intact, and Merlin is still alive, this seems to be enough to prove that the empty obelisk should not have been opened by him.

"Are you sure the dangerous Terrigen crystal isn't in there?"

Merlin frowned and asked:

"Could it be that you feel wrong?"

"It's gone, no doubt about it."

Gordon put the obelisk in the box, he shook his head, and said to Merlin:

"I have to tell Jiaying about this."

"Wait, she's having dinner with her family."

Merlin says:

"Don't bother them now. This family is . . . not easy."

Gordon hesitated, then finally nodded.

More than an hour later, Daisy took a nap accompanied by her parents, the gentle Zarvin took care of her daughter, and Jiaying put on her mask again and walked into Merlin's bedroom.

At a glance, she saw the obelisk on the table and the broken black round-rimmed glasses that she remembered deeply and that she would never forget in her entire life.

She stepped forward and stroked the broken glasses. Gordon said something to her in a low voice, and Jiaying turned around, bent down, and thanked Merlin sincerely.

"Thank you, Mr. Merlin, you got rid of the biggest nightmare of my life."

"It's nothing, it's work."

Merlin responded casually, saying:

"Let's take a look at your obelisk first. Gordon told me that the obelisk I snatched back with all my might is empty."

"empty?"

Jiaying's complexion changed under the mask. She turned around and picked up the obelisk. The place where the object was touched was icy cold, but the destructive power was no longer inside the metal, which meant that the obelisk The source of power of the monument has disappeared.

Jiaying turned around, with her back to Merlin, her fingers quickly touched the scattered rune circles and lines on the surface of the obelisk with a special rhythm, as if entering a complex password.

A few minutes later, with the sound of some kind of precision machinery starting, the irregular, geometric obelisk slowly opened from the upper floor.

It's like a metal flower that opens in layers.

But the inside of this thing is indeed empty.

"Could it be him..."

Gordon asked in a low voice beside Jiaying.

"No, not him."

Jiaying said in a tone mixed with disappointment and regret:

"Only members of the alien family who live in the ancient inheritance know how to open the obelisk. Mr. Merlin is not an alien. Even if he knows the method to open it, he will be caught by Terry in the process of repeatedly touching the obelisk. The power of the root crystal is assimilated into inorganic matter... He is still alive, which proves that he did not open this thing."

"Maybe Whitehall, maybe someone else."

"Whitehall didn't always hold the obelisk."

Merlin said:

"According to our investigation, the obelisk disappeared five years ago, and Whitehall got it three years ago. Maybe when Whitehall got it, it was already empty."

"No, it should have been opened recently."

Jiaying put the obelisk back together, she turned to look at Merlin:

"The energy Gordon felt on the east coast calling for strangers can't be faked. When you were hunting down Whitehall, did you encounter any strange people?"

"Well... yes!"

Merlin rubbed his forehead and said:

"There is a man who can transform his body into different substances at will according to the things he touches. He has been preventing me from hunting Whitehall. He is a difficult opponent. Oh, yes, Whitehall called him No. 13, and the guy seems irrational, he must be some kind of guinea pig."

"Where is he?"

Jiaying asked.

"In the S.H.I.E.L.D. base, it took me a lot of energy to catch him. Lincoln is testing him to determine whether he is an alien and when he will transform."

Merlin said frankly:

"I have a guess, maybe that number 13 is the alien transformed by Whitehall using the Terrigen crystal?"

"possible."

Gordon nodded:

"It also makes logical sense."

"Gordon, you go to Lincoln."

Jiaying said to Gordon:

"Help him determine the situation on the 13th. I'll wait for you here."

"Ah."

Gordon really obeyed Jiaying's words, and he disappeared into Merlin's bedroom in the flash of blue arc light in a flash.Seeing Gordon's disappearing figure, Merlin said playfully:

"He really defends you, and has a kind of heartfelt admiration for you... Tell me, will he..."

"Gordon is my adopted son."

Jiaying knew what Merlin was going to say, she sat on the chair, took off her mask, and said to Merlin calmly:

"He was an abandoned baby that I picked up on my world travels before I met Zarvin. He was born with a disability. Maybe that's why he was abandoned by his parents. In this world full of pain, there are too many such things .”

"Oh, I almost forgot, you are also a long-lived species."

Merlin patted his forehead and said:

"I'm curious, how long have you lived?"

"More than 200 years."

Jiaying replied blankly:

"I was born at the time when the French Revolution was at its most powerful. My family has a genetic trait. We are all long-lived, but the offspring are difficult. It is difficult for you to understand that when Daisy was born, my family and I How happy I am, Daisy, my daughter, she has inherited the excellent blood of my family, and she is destined to do great things in her life."

"That depends on the child's choice."

Merlin flicked his fingers, took out a cigarette, put it under his nose and sniffed gently, and said:

"Even parents are not qualified to plan the life path of their children. In my opinion, maybe Daisy will be very happy to live her life as an ordinary person."

"What did you say to my daughter?"

Jiaying said:

"She just told me that she wants to stay with her father and take care of her father for me, and she also asked me to stay with her...I know Zalvin, with his character, he will not stop me from taking Dai Akane, so it must be you!"

"I just told that kind child that her father was sick and needed care."

Merlin said frankly:

"It's Daisy's own choice."

"It's true that Zarvin's body is very weak. He drank those damn potions and turned himself into a lunatic. Now, he is sober, and it seems that he has turned back to the elegant man who made me fascinated overnight. , but it’s a pity that he will run out of fuel in seven years at most.”

Jiaying looked at Meilin, she said:

"You modified his memory, right? Mr. Merlin, erased all the painful, dark, and unbearable past, and gave him a chance to start again, but I'm curious, why did you do this? "

"I also have some doubts."

Merlin lit a cigarette, and in the rising smoke, he looked at Jiaying and said:

"Zarvin pushed an entire village into the abyss to bring you back from the dead, but after that, you seemed to have a big change of heart. Why did this happen? Lincoln told me before that it only takes a small amount of Thai to transform an alien. The Regan Crystal would do it, but you and Gordon have been collecting obelisks for years."

"The existing Terrigen crystals in your hands must have exceeded the amount needed to maintain the operation of the 'afterlife'. What are you hiding so many dangerous crystals for?"

Meilin spread his hands and said to Jiaying:

"You see, an organization that claims to be peaceful has weapons that can cause massacres at any time. If it's just a verbal guarantee, it's really hard to reassure us."

"Crossing the gate of death, always leave something behind."

Jiaying lowered her head, she replied in a low voice:

"After Zalvin resurrected me, I lost some of my emotions. This is the disadvantage of longevity. When you live long enough, your emotions will naturally become very indifferent. Many of my ancestors lost all their emotions. , I finally chose to kill myself, and my emotional loss was not as severe as that of my ancestors, but that death, coupled with the news of my daughter's disappearance, intensified the process."

"Zarvin didn't know this, he was in deep despair, he came to me later, he swore to me that he would find his daughter, but at that time I was recovering, under the influence of the cold will, I told him Said a lot of things that shouldn't have been said, very vicious things... I hurt him again."

"He asked me to transform him into a different person, so as to gain the power to find our lost daughter, but he is an ordinary person, and contact with the mist will only make him die. I refused him, and he found a way by himself, and ended up turning himself Go crazy, and even almost hurt some children in the 'afterlife', Gordon was very angry, he has never liked Zalvin, so he kicked him out of the afterlife."

"As for your second question, the answer is actually quite simple."

Jiaying raised her head, a trace of indifference flashed in her beautiful eyes, she said:

"The deepest bond I have with this world is my daughter, my Daisy, and if she has been hurt, why should I be kind to a world that keeps hurting me and my people?"

"Mr. Merlin, there are people like Whitehall...there are many in this world. Do you think they deserve to continue living? They wantonly hurt those innocent people, they do evil things but get away with it, they I can live in the sunshine dignifiedly, but my compatriots, those innocent children, can only hide secretly in the mountains."

"Is this world fair?"

Jiaying said:

"Maybe let them also experience the feeling of being a monster. Maybe, letting those bad people who call us monsters become monsters themselves will be the best punishment for them... What do you think?"

"But in this world, there are always more good people."

Merlin waved his hand, and he said helplessly:

"That's the way the world is. The rain falls on everyone, whether they are good or bad. It's no use hating them. The world is yours, but it's also theirs. It's good and bad. Believe me, Ms. Jiaying, I hate those who do evil things more than you do. But you have to admit, it's a part of the world."

"There is no evil without ugliness, and the beauty of justice is unappreciated."

"You want to take revenge on those bad guys who hurt you, but according to my experience, once this kind of thing starts, while your revenge engulfs those bad guys, more people will be involved, I mean those The innocent you want to protect."

He breathed a sigh of relief, he looked at Jiaying who was sitting in front of him like a statue, and said:

"You are a dangerous person, Ms. Jiaying. There is no doubt about that. You can't control the desire for revenge in your heart. You are planning a very dangerous thing. I can't just ignore it."

"Are you going to arrest me?"

Jiaying raised her head, she looked at Meilin, she said:

"After bringing back and taking my daughter, what do you want to do to me?"

"Do not."

Merlin shook his head, walked towards Jiaying, bent down, looked at Jiaying's eyes, and said seriously:

"I advise you to give up those... your plans, your revenge, your painful memories, everything, let it go, ma'am."

"You can live in New York as normal people with your daughter and your husband, and you can spend enough time to make up for your love for your daughter and your guilt for your husband. I can guarantee that no one will bother you."

"Gordon is a good leader, and I think it's reassuring enough for you to have him lead 'Afterlife'."

"I can not do it."

Jiaying closed her eyes, she said in pain:

"Those memories, those pasts, those hurts...I can't do it, Mr. Merlin, I'm not as magnanimous as Zalvin, I'm just a woman, a hurt, narrow-minded woman."

"So I'll help you."

Merlin drew out his wand, and he said to Jiaying:

"Write a letter to Gordon, as a parting mother and adopted son, let go of the past that overwhelmed you, and start a new life with your daughter like your husband. Even if it is for Daisy's sake, You should know what kind of life is best for her."

"I mean, please think about it... In your heart, is revenge more important? Or daughter?"

Jiaying looked at the wand in Merlin's hand. After a few minutes, she breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"Then..."

"I'm sorry, Mr. Merlin."

(End of this chapter)