Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 446 31. Long talk under the moon

"I thought you were going to beat me up."

Ten minutes later, on the top of the mansion next to the Gulf of California, Tony, who had changed into casual sportswear, sat at the table. He touched his face, and he was still a little dizzy.

He said to Merlin:

"You don't seem to like me very much."

"That's because you're a nuisance."

Merlin looked at the steaks, red wine and all kinds of exquisite food on the table in front of him, and he looked at the bodyguards standing a few meters away, he picked up the knife and fork, and said:

"Keep them away, you don't want your affairs to be known to everyone... And, thank you for the midnight snack."

Tony waved his hand, and the other bodyguards retreated obediently. There was only a fat, strong man in a suit and sunglasses standing behind Tony with a cold expression on his face.

"Happy is the person I trust the most."

He said to Merlin:

"He is trustworthy."

"I don't care."

Merlin picked up the steak and cut it open with a knife, without raising his head, he said:

"It's your business, and I don't care if you tell it to anyone."

"Speak, tell me."

Tony took a sip of red wine to calm his beating heart. After a while, he took a deep breath and picked up a cigar. The bodyguard next to him, Happy, immediately handed over the lighter.

"Actually, things are not as complicated as you think."

Merlin picked up the tablecloth, wiped his mouth, leaned back on the chair, and said to Tony, whose eyes were shining with apprehension:

"The death of your parents is indeed not an accident."

"They went to the airport that night, and they should be escorting the super soldier serum to the agents of the Strategic Science Corps. The rumors outside are true. Your father probably really knows the specific formula of the super soldier serum, but I don't know why He didn't reconfigure them until 1991."

"How do you know they're delivering serum?"

Tony asked:

"You were just an ordinary person at the time, right? You couldn't possibly know that."

"I was never a normal person, Tony."

Merlin picked up the red wine and shook it in his hand. He said to Tony:

"And I'm pretty sure it's the super soldier serum, because the last remnants of those serums are in my body."

"you?"

Tony looked at Merlin, he said:

"You also injected that serum?"

"Yes, I was forced to."

Merlin took a sip of his wine, and his thoughts returned to nearly ten years ago. He whispered:

"The murderer who killed your parents has been hunting me. I was weak and I couldn't protect myself. Because of me, many people have suffered misfortune... I wanted to end this disaster with my own hands, so I injected it."

"The other serum your parents shipped all evaporated in the blast, leaving only half the normal dose, so the serum didn't work as well on me as Steve Rogers did...but it still made weaklings I have the ability to confront the enemy head-on."

"You killed him?"

Tony stared at Merlin, his hand tightly clutching the wine glass in his hand, he asked:

"Is he dead?"

"If you had asked this question a few years ago, I would have told you that he was dead."

Merlin sighed, he didn't hide anything, he said truthfully:

"But now, I can't be sure. I only recently learned that there are some methods in that organization that can make dying people escape death. Maybe the killer is dead, maybe he is not dead, but there is no doubt that he is ten years old. It hasn't been seen for several years."

"Who is he?"

Tony's voice became indifferent, and he asked:

"What is that organization?"

"His name is the Winter Soldier, also known as the Winter Soldier. It is a product of the former Soviet Union's super soldier program. Ten years ago, he was a world-renowned assassin. As for that organization, it is called Hydra. You should have heard of this organization, your father once fought against them."

Merlin put down his glass and said:

"Your father, Ms. Carter, and the Howling Commandos, they thought they had wiped out that organization, but they didn't, they just changed their way and continued to live in the shadow of the world, like vines, entangled in the destruction They grew little by little, until they were discovered by us a few years ago."

"We are fighting them. This is a secret war. So far, we have a slight advantage, but they have chosen to dive deep after being hit. This struggle will continue until one of the two sides Fall down completely, or both sides perish together."

"Hydra..."

Tony chanted the name, with his eyes closed, as if he wanted to carve this name into his bones, into his soul.

After a while, he opened his eyes, looked at Merlin, and said:

"About the scene where my parents were killed...tell me."

"Why do you want to know this?"

Merlin frowned and said:

"The more you know, the more pain you will have."

"Because I didn't believe it, my father just died like that!"

Tony gritted his teeth and said:

"I didn't have a good relationship with him, but when I became an inventor and scientist like him, I really realized how terrifying my father's intelligence is... How can such a person, such a person Just casually dying in an assassination? Maybe, maybe it was just a cover-up and he just left me for something more secretive."

Merlin stared at Tony, and after a moment he said:

"You're paranoid, and that's not good."

"It's my business!"

Tony's tone was a little cold, he said:

"You just need to tell me about the scene of that night."

"Ok."

Merlin didn't care about the excitement in Tony's tone, he whispered:

"That night, I was walking by the Hudson River, and I heard a loud brake, which seemed to be a car accident, and I drove as fast as I could."

"Your parents' car crashed into a tree on the side of the road, but they were still alive and seriously injured. I tried to help your father, but he asked me to save your mother first. I hugged the unconscious Mrs. Maria. When I got out of the car, I turned around and went to help your father, he was bleeding, he was an old man, the impact hurt him."

"But at that moment, a motorcycle pulled up to the side of the road that was deserted."

Merlin paused, he glanced at Tony's serious expression, and he continued:

"The headlights were so bright that I couldn't see who was coming. But he didn't even want to say hello to us. He was holding a military rifle and fired at us without any explanation...I'm dragging your The parents tried to leave the field, but the fire was so intense that I felt like I wasn't facing one person, but a well-trained squad."

"I was forced to leave, and that guy took out the box of serum from your father's car, but he didn't give up chasing me."

"At that time... how should I put it, I was not very good at fighting, and I didn't have the will to fight that a fighter should have."

Merlin shook his head:

"Being cornered, I turned around and fought him, relying on my ability to surprise and wound him, the explosion destroyed most of the serum. He ran away, and then I went to find your parents."

Having said that, Merlin sighed:

"Unfortunately, Tony, when I went back, your mother had already lost her breath. And your father still had his last breath. He told me to leave with the serum. He warned me that the organization is not Will let me go."

"I had a chance to take them away, but I couldn't save them, sorry Tony."

Merlin closed his eyes and said:

"At that time, I was too weak. I wanted to do good things, but I couldn't do anything. I wanted to stop bad things, but I couldn't do anything."

"It's not your fault..."

Tony listened to Merlin's memories completely. He leaned back on the chair in a daze, and looked at the sea in the distance under the dark night with his eyes unfocused. He said:

"That day... when they left home, I had an argument with them because they couldn't spend my birthday with me, and I was sulking with them... I don't think they cared enough about me, especially my father, who was a child. .. since I was a child, I have never said those gentle words to me."

"He was always on the go, doing business, flying around the world, he gave me expensive presents, but on my birthday, he wouldn't even show up... as I found out later, he was actually a A secret agent, like you, Mr. Merlin."

"His life must have been wonderful, but he chose not to tell me that. To protect me, he was indifferent to me, but also to protect me."

Tony lowered his head, he didn't want others to see his face, he covered his face with his hands, he said:

"I don't understand him, I didn't understand him from the beginning. By the time I started to understand him, he had already left, and I had no chance to chat with him, travel with him, or even eat with him Meal...”

"If you want to know about Mr. Howard's past."

Merlin said to Tony:

"Where do I have a lot of information left by Ms. Carter, maybe it can help you."

"No, no need."

Tony whispered sadly:

"The database defense system of your S.H.I.E.L.D. is too bad. I have read all the information you have a few years ago."

Merlin's eyes blinked. He accidentally found the culprit who frequently invaded the S.H.I.E.L.D.

Young people always do some reckless things regardless of the consequences, especially when it comes to matters related to their loved ones. Merlin can understand him.

"I'm not very good at comforting people, Tony."

Merlin looked at Tony with two lines of tears on his face, he took out his pocket watch, checked the time, and said to Tony:

"And you already know everything you want to know, so I should go too, thank you for the midnight snack, it tastes good."

He stood up, picked up the tote bag containing Captain America's shield and was about to leave, but was stopped by Tony who recovered.

"Merlin, can you tell me how to find those Hydra? And that Winter Soldier..."

"Stop that thought!"

Merlin turned his head, looked at Tony seriously, and said:

"You're just a rich man. You're just an ordinary person. Getting involved in such a secret war won't do you any good. The world rules you know don't apply to them, and you can't deal with them."

"I have a good relationship with Ms. Carter, and I have some connections with Mr. Howard. I'm here to seriously warn you, Tony! Don't get involved in this matter."

He turned to look at the fat, strong man standing beside Tony, and said:

"Your name is Happy, right? You are the person Tony trusts the most. You are responsible for protecting him. Then do your job well. If you find out that your employer and friends want to do something that will threaten your life." ...you better stop him!"

"The status of a billionaire can't protect him."

After speaking, Merlin glanced at the expression on Tony Stark's face, and he knew that this guy didn't listen to his advice at all.

But he didn't say anything more, but left the mansion with his shield in hand.

A few minutes later, Merlin was back at the Trident, where Fury was waiting for him in his office.

"boom"

The shield was placed on Fury's table, and Merlin leaned aside and said to Fury:

"The things were brought back, and those things were told to Tony Stark, he is a paranoid guy, your plan succeeded, Fury, he will definitely find a way to search for all clues related to Hydra... You've got another tough guy for our opponent."

"Ok?"

Fury keenly felt the dissatisfaction in Merlin's words. He raised his head and looked at Merlin. After a while, he sighed:

"Merlin, Merlin, you are good in everything, but the occasional sense of sympathy for no reason is a headache. Do you think we are harming Tony Stark by dragging him into this secret war?"

Merlin didn't answer, his face was expressionless, but that said it all.

"No! We're not hurting him!"

Fury said emphatically:

"Hydra killed Howard, they and Tony have always been enemies. And they put their target on Howard, just to prevent Howard from affecting their evil plan, people like them, after killing a tricky person, How could another be left to rebuild that destroyed cause?"

"If we hadn't attacked Hydra in recent years, I'm afraid they would have targeted Tony a long time ago... Don't forget, Tony is an inventor and researcher as powerful as his father, no one knows Did Howard leave any news for Tony before he died?"

"It's much better for us to give him an early warning than to let him fall into the siege of Hydra in a daze. That group of people is a threat, whether it's for us or Tony, he'd better be prepared in advance."

Fury snorted and said:

"Put away your meaningless sympathy, Merlin, I'm not a villain who casually takes other people's lives as a game. What we do is necessary."

"Um..."

Merlin nodded, he seemed convinced by Fury.

But a few seconds later, Merlin woke up suddenly. He took a step back, pulled out his wand, pointed at Fury with a face of astonishment, and in the light of the Avada Kedavra curse, he snapped:

"What's going on? You were using spiritual induction on me just now?"

"When did you learn it? Are you Fury!"

Frim remained silent.

He was a little frustrated in his heart. During the period of obtaining the ability, no one had discovered his use of this ability, but the first time he used it on Merlin, he was caught.

Fury shrugged at Merlin, then stretched out his hand and pulled off his blindfold, revealing those strange-looking eyes with a touch of black light in the white.

他 说:

"I was also shocked by the previous energy..."

"I also have super powers, Merlin, I am also one of you..."

(End of this chapter)