Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 581 39. Post-war affairs. The villain's "gift"

One month after the end of the Cybertron invasion, Merlin's life was back on track. He had no particular urgent matters at hand, so on the first day he returned to work at the Trident headquarters, Merlin began to deal with the leftovers from the Cybertron invasion war. down business.

In this war, it is not just the robots fighting each other, there are also other aspects that need to be paid attention to by Merlin.

For example, the result of the first operation of the newly formed Thunder Special Attack Team.

The materials that were brought out of the Decepticon-occupied military bases, and the people who were taken out of them.

"bang"

A large box was placed in Merlin's office by two agents. It was full of paper documents and several hard drives full of data. These were brought out before the base was blown up. material.

"Thank you for your hard work, go and rest."

Merlin said something to the two agents who were escorting the materials back to New York from the ghost base, and the two young agents nodded respectfully to Merlin, then turned and left.

With the nature of Merlin's work, most of his work is kept secret, but only those events that can be known by others are enough for Merlin to gain a lot of "fans" in S.H.I.E.L.D.

It is their nature for young people to worship heroes, but in the profession of secret agents and in S.H.I.E.L.D., whose story can be more legendary than the story of Chief Merlin?

Anything great takes time.

Merlin has been in S.H.I.E.L.D. for almost 12 years now, and he is the true veteran of the organization.

He has made great contributions to the rise of S.H.I.E.L.D. He became the deputy director in his 30s, and has been praised by the world's security council figures many times, and turned the tide in the recent mechanical invasion.

Fury has praised Merlin on various occasions as the best elite template for S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, and it is worth learning for everyone.

This kind of propaganda has a hint of encouragement, but as the saying goes, a lie can become the truth if it is repeated a hundred times, not to mention that Merlin has indeed achieved many feats that ordinary people cannot do.

Of course, Merlin himself doesn't care about these things, he is just doing what he thinks is right, and he has persisted until now.

"Come on, let me see."

Merlin easily lifted the box that required two agents to lift it with one hand, and placed it on the coffee table of the sofa. He poured himself a glass of water, and then looked at the documents as if reading a story.

These things have been backed up at the ghost base, and George who works in the data room over there will be responsible for converting these things into data files and uploading them to the new S.H.I.E.L.D. database.

Cybertronian data war is not a bad thing, at least this war reminded those bigwigs how outdated the database model they are currently using.

S.H.I.E.L.D. was the first to respond. Under George's single-handed planning, several databases created with new encryption technology have already been put into use.

Those databases are shown with a strict permission system to ensure that agents at all levels can only find what their level should see in it.Finding and keeping secrets is the bounden duty of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. As Merlin said, their existence is to erect a wall in the known and unknown worlds to ensure that ordinary people will not be caught by those dangerous people. secretly threatened.

"Well, mostly about Cybertronian technology."

It took Merlin more than ten minutes to browse through the files in the box. As he expected, the "Seventh District" of the Ministry of National Defense has been trying to replicate the magical powers of the Cybertronians while cooperating with the Decepticons. technology, and over the years, they have obtained a lot of research results that can be put into application.

Of course, these results are now "shared" with S.H.I.E.L.D.

These were not things that Merlin needed to care about. He threw aside the documents filled with scientific terms and began to focus on the rest of the documents.

A few years ago, after General Thaddeus Ross, who presided over the work of the Seventh District, left his post, Major General William Stryker, who began to secretly take charge of the work of the Seventh District, in addition to continuing to maintain the technological research on the Cybertronians, he He also launched a research project that he has been advancing.

Research on mutant abilities.

That is, the infamous "Weapon X" experiment among the mutant community.

Wolverine Logan, Deadpool Wade, and even Domino, the mysterious female mercenary that Merlin met once, are all products of that long-lasting experiment.

Merlin didn't know why William Stryker was targeting mutants so crazily, but this did not prevent him from trying to solve the trouble at hand through the information about mutants compiled by William Stryker.

Merlin hasn't forgotten that he still has an agreement with the dangerous mad attack...

Kuang Gong wanted to gain freedom of thinking, but that was something Merlin would never give him.

There is no one better than Merlin who can realize that once the mad attack escapes, the monster born in radical thinking will bring a terrifying threat to the world.

But it's useless to pretend and delay time. Kuang Gong has grown to an extremely dangerous level. Before the 5-year time limit comes, he must come up with a plan.

"Heaven... er, no, Hell Mr. Stryker, I hope you can bring me some 'luck'."

Merlin flipped through the documents in front of him, muttering softly.

In the past 20 years, Stryker has conducted three phases of X-weapon tests. According to Deadpool and Wolverine, the number of mutants who died in Stryker's hands is already an uncountable number.

His hands were covered with blood, it was impossible for such a scumbag to continue to live.

During the explosion at the Decepticon base, Wolverine took Stryker out of the base, but neither Merlin nor Fury asked about Stryker's final whereabouts.

There is no need to ask.

To be honest, there is no need to care about the final fate of such a scumbag.

But Logan seems to use some not-so-"justice" means to get clues about his chaotic life from Stryker. On the way back to the prison, Wolverine disappeared.

No one knows where he went, but according to the locator and life response that Logan carried with him, he should have returned to Japan...

Probably went to look for his stolen son again.

Merlin flipped through the documents, and soon, a thin document caught Merlin's attention.

He put the document in his hand and read it carefully.

This is not an experimental report, but a conjecture based on the research of the X gene.

And judging from the stains on this thin document, this conjecture may have just been written down by a scientist, and it was not even submitted to the upper echelons.

This also seems to mean that the feasibility of this conjecture is indeed very low, so low that even the person who wrote it did not think it would succeed.

But Merlin read on anyway.

"Through repeated studies on the X gene, we have come to a conclusion, that is, the X gene definitely did not appear with the birth of human beings."

"It is a kind of...mutation caused by external forces!"

"Although it is still impossible to deduce the original source of the X gene from the existing data, we can basically be sure that the mutation of this human gene seems to be chaotic and uncontrollable, but in fact there is a set of laws that have not been discovered yet. "

"The abilities of mutants are all kinds of strange, and the slight difference in the gene chain may lead to completely different and huge differences in abilities. We have tried to find the connection between these complex and cumbersome abilities, but unfortunately, we failed, or Say, we have a new guess."

"If... If we think that mutants can have all the abilities we can imagine in theory, then is there such an ability that can affect and interfere with the release and production of other abilities?"

Seeing this, Merlin narrowed his eyes, and he felt that he seemed to have grasped a glimmer of hope to solve the problem.

He continued to look down.

"This is not a hypothesis based on groundless guesses. Please note that among all the mutant samples we have collected so far, the sample numbered 478 and named Mary has already shown part of this characteristic."

"No. 478 can temporarily strip off the abilities of other mutants by touching the skin of other mutants, and transfer them to itself. In theory, it is possible for No. 478 to have multiple abilities."

"And the source of our conjecture is the diametrically opposite mutant ability of number 478...Erasure! Or, to put it another way, closed!"

"Perhaps, there is a certain mutant in this world, and he or she can also erase the abilities of other mutants through contact or approach, or even permanently or long-term block other abilities, Let the genetic chain of the mutants return to the form of normal people."

"But unfortunately, so far, we still haven't found a mutant with this ability. In other words, he or she may have appeared, may have appeared at a certain point in the past, but may also appear in In the future, the uncertainty is too high."

"So, to sum it up, the idea of ​​using mutant powers to turn other mutants back into normal people is interesting, but it's really hard to do."

"Unless we find that natural 'mutant killer'."

"PS: After Bob in the accounting office read my conjecture, he came up with an interesting idea. He told me that some special mutants have the characteristics of family inheritance, such as the most famous storm girl Ororo's Family, every era of that family will give birth to a powerful mutant who can manipulate the weather. This shows that the ability of mutants can be transmitted through blood."

"Bob told me that maybe we can find the 'mutant killer' who can cure all mutants by searching the past history, but unfortunately, relying on the resources I have at hand, it is impossible to complete this huge project. What's more, General Stryker is not a patient person."

After Merlin finished reading the conjecture with only nearly a thousand words, he put the document on the table, propped his chin with one hand, and the fingers of the other hand danced on the table.

He was thinking, thinking about the hint of inspiration brought to him by this seemingly nonsensical conjecture.

"Tri Tan, a member of the royal family from the Yiren side, told me that in the inheritance of the Yiren, there is a mysterious 'whiplash', which was specially prepared by the Kree people to suppress the power of the Yiren. It has never appeared before. The aliens who have passed have the suppressive lethality against other aliens, even including the hive."

"It's insurance left by the Kree."

Merlin whispered:

"If the X gene, if the emergence of mutants is also due to some kind of power in the stars. If they also appear as experiments or weapons of war, then their creators may leave a similar insurance..."

"From this point of view, the content of this conjecture is not groundless."

"If there is such a mutant, it can erase all the abilities of other mutants..."

Merlin's eyes narrowed, he stood up, and inserted the key of the mysterious house into the door lock. The next moment, he walked into the mysterious house, greeted Xuan Lan who was standing beside him, and walked quickly to the fireplace , picked up the parchment of the dark god book placed on the wooden shelf.

He quickly wrote down a question.

"Are mutants that can erase the abilities of other mutants exist?"

The next moment, a sentence appeared in front of Merlin's eyes.

"Yes, he exists!"

Seeing this answer, Merlin felt relieved suddenly.

But he restrained himself from continuing to ask.

There is a price to be paid for knowing any secret, especially the mysterious parchment in front of him... Until Merlin fulfills all the previous promises, he will not use it recklessly again.

It might be able to give Merlin the whole world, but unfortunately, Merlin couldn't afford that price.

What's more, he still has time.

As long as that mutant exists, he still has 5 years to find him.

Of course, all of this must be done without telling Kuang Gong.

However, it would be too risky to put everything on this mysterious mutant. Merlin felt that maybe he needed a plan B.

He put the parchment back on the wooden stand in front of him, sat on the sofa by the fireplace, looked at the dancing flames in front of him, and said softly:

"Ah, hell Mr. Stryker... really, thank you for the 'gift' you left behind."

"On this day next year, I will pay homage to you. The premise is that if I can still remember this incident at that time..."

(End of this chapter)