Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 40 39. Requirements

"I heard you brought a baby back last night?"

Early the next morning, outside Merlin's room, Fury was standing there with a dissatisfied face.In front of him was Merlin who had just washed up and was about to have a meal.

"You should at least call me first, Merlin!"

Fury said in a tone of reprimanding his subordinates:

"Officer Carter lives in this hotel, which is now on a level-[-] alert. You can't just bring a stranger back like this!"

Merlin glanced at him, and he said:

"First of all, I reported it at the front desk, and your subordinates didn't stop me."

"Secondly, it was just a 12-year-old kid... Do you agents see everyone as an enemy? What can a kid do in front of dozens of agents with guns?"

"Finally, can we talk while eating? I'm very hungry now, and I got angry early in the morning. Aren't you hungry?"

Merlin's words made Fury's forehead wrinkle at a speed visible to the naked eye. He stared at Merlin viciously, and he said:

"You should be glad that you haven't officially joined the job yet! Otherwise, you should go to the confinement room now! The Strategic Science Corps is a militarized organization, you'd better change your style of excessive freedom in advance..."

While talking, Fury touched his stomach, he breathed a sigh of relief, and turned around:

"Go, let's eat."

Merlin shrugged and followed Fury down the stairs.

A few minutes later, the two sat in the corner of the restaurant, talking while eating a fairly good breakfast.

"Well, today's soup is good."

Fury took a sip of the soup with a spoon, sighed, and said to Merlin:

"How? Have you considered it? Do you want to join us?"

"almost."

Merlin bit the fruit, he looked up and said:

"What should I do? Submit a resume? Or write an application?"

"You don't have to do anything."

Fury sipped the soup slowly, he explained:

"The Strategic Science Corps has a complete recruiting process. Originally, you had to wait for a 1-2-year inspection period to review and train you, but recently, our organization is seeking transformation. It is now the end of World War II. Over the past 50 years, the former Soviet Union officially disintegrated last year, the Cold War has completely ended, and some wartime systems are no longer applicable to the future era.”

"So, you are very lucky. You don't need to wait so long, because of the recommendation of Chief Peggy Carter, you only need to study and train for 5-8 months at the Secret Service Academy. Of course, social relations There’s no avoiding scrutiny. So if you’re hiding something in particular, it’s best to say so now.”

"I told Ms. Carter everything."

Merlin says:

"Do you want me to repeat it again? You know that I am in a special situation."

"Oh, you still don't understand."

Fury sighed, and he explained to Merlin:

"Ms. Carter is a senior agent. Her qualifications are much higher than mine. I can't ask her directly because of your affairs. Moreover, Ms. Carter is already semi-retired. She has stopped intervening in administration since a few months ago. affairs, so you tell her it's one thing, for the agency itself, we also need a full report."

He stared at Merlin, and he said:

"Seriously, I'm also curious, you know, the Strategic Science Corps has the authority to investigate the National Citizen File, I went to your file... but there is no! Your first 18 years are like a blank sheet of paper , I can't find any records at all, so I'm curious, how did you do it? Did you live in the wilderness all the time before you were 18 years old, and never entered this society?"

"As I said, my affairs are more complicated."

Merlin didn't want to discuss this issue very much, he said briefly:

"If Ms. Carter didn't tell you this, it means that she also thinks these things are not important. So don't ask any more. If you have to issue a report, you can make up your own imagination. I don't mind."

"But what if I'm curious?"

Fury picked up the chewing gum at hand and gave one to Merlin. He said:

"What if I want to know? Not as a senior agent, but as Nick Fury, will you tell me?"

"magic."

Merlin said briefly:

"It's magic that made it all, it's magic that erased the first 18 years of my life, it's the damn magic that made me, you just know that."

"really..."

Fury shook his head, he no longer dwells on the question.

Merlin was recommended by Ms. Carter herself, and like Merlin said, if Ms. Carter thinks Merlin's gap of the past 18 years is not a problem, then it really is not a problem.

Don't underestimate the power and majesty of a leader who has led an intelligence organization for more than 50 years. In the current Strategic Science Corps, Ms. Carter may not be able to cover the sky with one hand, but she is almost there.Even Fury's chief, Alexander Pierce, who is about to take over as the leader, dared not question the decision she made.

After all, it was a living legend.

"Okay, let's not talk about that."

Chewing gum, Fury said to Merlin:

"Any other requests? Tell them all."

"Let me think."

Merlin rubbed his forehead, and after a while, he said:

"That child, he saved my life that night, but unfortunately lost his father, so I hope you can help me settle him properly. Find a good family in New York, and then help him apply for local enrollment formalities."

"can."

Fury did not refuse, and in fact, three hours after the child entered the hotel, all the child's documents were sent to his house.

That kid's father might be doing something illegal, but that kid, there's no threat.And needless to say Merlin, Fury will keep this child under his nose. He has not forgotten the weird female warrior with a spear that appeared that night, maybe this child is related to that female warrior.

"Then, I hope you can help me find someone."

Merlin hesitated and said:

"My real name is Merlin Riley. As far as I know, there are only two people left in the Riley family. Besides me, there is also a cousin of mine who lives in Queens, New York. That is my remaining The next... well, the only relative with a blood connection."

Merlin looked at Fury, he pointed to his head, and he said:

"The more troublesome thing is that due to some special reasons, my cousin has completely forgotten my existence. I hope you can help me use some official means to make her 'remember' me again."

"Well, it's not a big problem."

Fury looked at the watch on his wrist, and he asked:

"What's your cousin's name?"

Merlin says:

"May, her name is May Riley. She just got married a few years ago, and her husband's name is Ben Parker."

"Okay, leave it to us."

Fury stood up and straightened his clothes. He glanced at Merlin, his expression suddenly became weird. He took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Merlin:

"Wipe it...you have a nosebleed."

"Ok?"

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On the other side, in an unknown place, something closely related to Merlin is happening.

The place looked like a warehouse, with some heavy containers stacked around it, and a faint light shining on the top, but that light didn't really brighten the place up.On the contrary, because the light is too scattered, it looks even darker here.

More than a dozen people are standing in this warehouse. There are people in all kinds of clothes, from the well-dressed upper-class figures to the workers in uniforms. bigwigs.

This should be a completely different circle, but at this moment, these people stand here and get along well.It was as if they were from the same place.

"bang"

With the sound of the warehouse door being pushed open, everyone who was chatting in low voices turned their heads to look at the entrance.

An old-fashioned car was parked at the door of the warehouse. The bodyguard opened the door, and a big man stepped out of the car.He was wearing a white suit with a bow tie, buttoning his coat with both hands.He walked into the warehouse with steady steps, with a pair of strange glasses in his piercing eyes.

That style is not like the style that is popular now, but rather like the glasses worn by the intellectuals of the previous era, black with small round frames.

His hair was neatly combed, but it was already gray.His face was stern and Germanic, and in short he was alien to everything around him.

It's like it doesn't belong to this era at all.

Seeing the big guy walk into the warehouse, a man who looked like the person in charge hurried up to meet him. He nodded to the silent big guy, and then led the way ahead, introducing the situation by the way:

"Our people found him in the sewage treatment plant on the outskirts of Auckland. He was washed out by the sewage. He was in a terrible condition at the time. It was almost like he was blown to pieces. It is really hard to imagine that he was injured like that. , he was able to escape.”

"Well, don't underestimate the lives of these so-called 'super soldiers'."

The big guy in the white suit nodded, and he said softly:

"Super soldier serum is indeed one of the greatest inventions of the last era. In my opinion, it is even greater than the atomic bomb. The latter can only bring destruction, while the former... can bring new life. A kind of self-evolution, the future prospect of human beings. They use it for war, so short-sighted...”

"Yes Yes."

The local person in charge obediently agreed with the boss, even though he himself thought that the super soldier serum itself was the best weapon.But in front of the boss, his thoughts and will are not important.

"Your Excellency hopes that you can use some 'technology' to help him recover. After all, at the current point of time, he is the most indispensable fighter in our organization."

"Your Mightiness?"

The big guy in the white suit snorted disdainfully:

"After 50 years, they're still playing this old hidden game. They're really addicted to rats. It's ridiculous...Let me see him first!"

"Yes, my lord, please come with me."

The person in charge leaned over to salute, but the boss seemed very dissatisfied with this title, he said:

"Call me Daniel. Don't pick up things that should go in the trash."

"Okay, Mr. Daniel."

After finishing speaking, the person in charge waved his hand, and the other people in the warehouse immediately turned and left, and they guarded outside the warehouse.The boss named Daniel was brought to a container, and the person in charge opened the door of the container with his own hands, and a cold air visible to the naked eye escaped from it.

It overflowed together, and there was a pungent smell of blood.

Daniel took out a handkerchief, covered his nose, and took a few steps forward.

With the help of the light in the container, he saw the frozen life in front of him, which was hardly a human being.

Most of his abdomen has been torn apart, his left leg has completely disappeared, and only one third of his right leg is left. In the abdominal wound, it can be clearly seen that some internal organs are missing, and there is still a break in the chest Most of his face had lost its skin, and even the eerie white bones could be seen.

The entirety of his right arm was missing, but judging from the smooth wound, it wasn't damaged in the most recent explosion.

And under the light, his identity could be vaguely seen on that remaining face...

It's The Winter Soldier!

It is unimaginable that he survived the death explosion caused by the Wakanda warrior.

However, the Winter Soldier in this state is absolutely worse than death now. Merlin's dark magic power and Wakanda's explosive technology almost sent him to hell.But even at this level, he could still see his chest beating weakly in the frosty covering.

He is still alive, like a wild beast struggling to survive, trying his best to live.

"He's been healing himself."

The local person in charge stood beside Big Brother Daniel and said to the Big Brother:

"The super soldier's self-healing ability is amazing, but to be honest, such a serious injury has exceeded the limit he can bear. Without external force, he may never be able to recover. We can only freeze him. Seal it up."

"Well, it's a bit tricky."

Daniel stretched out his hand and touched the bloody wound of the Winter Soldier. He said:

"Even if the self-healing serum extracted from the blood of a different person, it is difficult to work on such a serious injury. I will try my best, but you go back and tell... Well, tell that sir, I am not sure, and even if he ends up in the end It can be healed, and it is difficult to restore the strength of the heyday. However, some means of biochemical technology can be adopted. It just so happens that I saw a very creative plan a few days ago."

"It's very feasible, and it fits well with the Winter Soldier's current situation."

The boss took a step back, he hooked his fingers, and the bodyguard behind him handed a document to him.He passed the information to the person in charge around him and said to him:

"Take this information back and let him see it."

"I took the Winter Soldier away first. His current condition is not suitable for staying here."

"OK, all right."

The person in charge waved goodbye to Daniel, and he directed a few people to send the container out of the warehouse, where a heavy truck was waiting.

The person in charge himself returned to his office and took out the information that Daniel had given him. There was a line of big characters written on the cover.

"Death Warrior Plan."

(End of this chapter)