Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 673 28. The Wolf Cub in the Swamp

A cloud of black mist was floating in the swamp, and it spread very quickly, as if being blown by the wind, passing over the swamp that smelled bad, but it didn't disturb the plants and trees here.

Since those new mutants could not provide effective coordinates, Merlin could only use the most primitive method to find that "home".

Based on what Merlin has learned so far, regarding the information about the organization that mass-produces new mutant fighters, they must be able to monitor the swamp they are in, so a large-scale search is not advisable, and it is easy to startle the snake.

What Merlin wanted was an annihilation operation, and he didn't really want to play hide-and-seek with those rats.

But fortunately, Merlin has an almost omnipotent intelligent assistant. According to some clues provided by those new mutants, Icarus used the time when they took the aircraft and the location where the Psylocke was attacked as a reference, and finally gave Merlin A search area is confirmed.

"The area of ​​this swamp is nearly 800 square kilometers, and it is inaccessible, and I suspect that the organization may have some advanced technology that can hide their base, at least optically."

Icarus said to Merlin:

"This means that if you rely on yourself to search, it may take several hours to find that place... But it has been nearly an hour since the team that attacked Miss Lingdie was wiped out. If that organization If they weren't stupid, they must have made a plan."

"They may have been evacuated, or they may have been prepared for an attack that may come after exposure."

"Victor is staring at the exit of the swamp, as well as satellite monitoring."

Merlin says:

"As long as they leave, we will know. But to be honest, I don't think they will give up the base so decisively. I have seen those from the memory of the fake White Queen. There are at least a few hundred children in that base. To let They all evacuated, it's not that easy to do."

"Don't call her a fake White Queen, she has a name too."

Icarus reminded:

"The girl's name is Grace."

"Maybe I should call her Little Emma."

Merlin smiled and said:

"Just to be separated from Big Emma of the Hellfire Club."

"The real White Queen sure doesn't like your joke."

Icarus complained:

"She might unleash the powerful mutants of the Hellfire Club to block you in an alley and give you a good lesson."

"Then let her come."

Merlin said indifferently:

"She doesn't even know that I've driven a nail in her Hellfire Club, oh my dear friend Asazor."

"Maybe she already knows."

Icarus seemed to be deliberately bickering with Merlin, she said:

"The White Queen has the same powerful spiritual power as Professor Charles, and the relationship between Asazo and you may not be hidden from her."

"Wouldn't that be better?"

Amidst the tumbling black mist, Merlin showed a strange smile, and he said:

"Doesn't this mean that Big Emma has no plans to turn against us recently, and she and her Hellfire Club have no plans to take advantage of this time to do something... Nothing happened, even if the world is peaceful."

"Hey... You agents are really too cunning."

Icarus snorted. Although she has the wisdom of data, she is obviously not more proficient than Merlin in these matters related to people's hearts.While manipulating several satellites to continuously scan the swamp, she said to Merlin:

"How long are you going to let that uninvited guy behind you stay with you?"

"Come on, isn't this already an open place?"

Merlin pushed his glasses, and the scattered black mist gathered in the open area of ​​the swamp. Under the still clear moonlight, those drifting mist formed Merlin's figure like the most gorgeous magic.

He hovered over the muddy swamp, and looked back at the place behind him where the moonlight could not be seen. In the dark swamp, there was a living body that had been hiding and following him secretly since just now.

like a child...

But it is impossible for a child to be able to move around in this harsh environment and inaccessible swamps where wild animals live.

"Son, come out."

Icarus' lens quickly switched to the detection mode. In the thermal imaging mode, on the edge of the swamp behind Merlin, among the low vines, there was a little guy lying there, looking at Merlin vigilantly, as if Like a vigilant little beast.

"You know I don't need thermal imaging to see her, right? The sound of her footsteps moving in the dark is like thunder to my ears..."

Merlin says:

"Turn it off, this blur makes me dizzy."

Icarus quickly turned off the thermal imaging module, and Merlin shouted to the quiet swamp behind him:

"Are you going to play hide-and-seek with me? Little girl, I'm not a bad person. In fact, I'm looking for some bad people. They're hiding in this swamp. I think you might be able to help."

Merlin paused. He saw that the little girl hiding in the mud was slowly backing away, and seemed to be frightened by him.

Obviously, she didn't trust Merlin.

She is going to run away.

"I mean no harm, girl."

At this moment, Merlin's voice suddenly sounded in the mind of the little girl covered in mud, like some kind of evil magic, which made the little girl turn around and run away in fright.

Her speed was extremely fast, like a little monkey, jumping and running between the vines and trees in the swamp, and disappeared from Merlin's sight almost in the blink of an eye.

"She's a mutant, there's no doubt about it."

Icarus intercepted the girl's running movement and projected it on Merlin's lens. She said:

"The movements are fast, definitely exceeding the explosive power that a child of her age should have, and the reaction speed is also very fast, several times faster than that of an adult."

"A little mutant, hiding not far from the villains, still so vigilant."

Merlin's figure dissipated into black mist, and he said softly:

"It seems that we need a little guide... Well, maybe even God can't see through those evil deeds, and specially sent this little angel to help us carry out justice."

"Don't you scare her."

Icarus exhorts:

"Something bad must have happened to that kid, you have to be gentle."

"I'm good with kids, Icarus, I like kids, they love and hate, they don't hide their thoughts like nasty adults, you're nice to them, they're nice to you...if How wonderful it would be to have children in this world."

Like a ghost in the black mist, Merlin followed the direction that the little girl escaped just now, and he said:

"When I picked up Lorna, she was about the same age as this girl. Lorna was so good at that time, and Ruiwen, uh, Ruiwen was a special case. She was very bad at the beginning, but now she is much better Oh, but it’s the obedient Lorna who caused headaches when she grew up... She sneaked away to Ireland to play with Wanda these few days, and she thought I didn’t know..."

"They are real sisters... It's normal to be attracted by nature."

Icarus said:

"Wanda Django Maximoff is very kind to Lorna, don't think about it, I have been 'borrowing' satellites to observe them. And Wanda has obviously noticed this observation, and she has not expressed resistance , this is her gesture of goodwill."

"I'm not worried about Wanda, Icarus."

Merlin is very much like a brother who is worried about his sister, he said:

"I'm worried about Kuaiyin, Lorna's brother, the guy who always causes trouble. Sooner or later, he will cause trouble that he can't solve, and maybe my lovely Lorna will be involved."

"And Ruiwen, my sister pretends to be a good girl just to reassure me, but in fact, I know what she is doing recently... She has discovered the three magic weapons I hid in the mysterious house, she Just waiting for an opportunity to unblock it, ahhh, it's so disturbing."

"Ruiwen is also for self-protection."

Icarus said:

"Ruiwen is born with great power. After being sealed by the Supreme Mage, it is normal for her to feel uneasy. Didn't you peek at her diary? She just wants to help her brother share some pressure, and she is vigilant against the world with you." Just like the shadow that breeds, Ruiwen is always worried about whether the seal she released on the Sangongmo is still intact."

"Oh, don't talk nonsense! When did I read my sister's diary? I'm not a voyeur."

Merlin said dissatisfied:

"That time, it was just that Rui Wen accidentally forgot the diary on the table, and I just helped her put it away."

"How many pages did you read by the way?"

Icarus said teasingly:

"Come on, Merlin, you like to peep into other people's privacy, you don't respect other people's personal space at all, if Matt knows that he and his only friend were admitted to Columbia University early because you helped them clear the relationship, then You're done."

"I didn't! Don't talk nonsense, Icarus."

Merlin quibbled:

"I 'accidentally' revealed this to Fury while we were chatting... I swear I didn't interfere, it was all a spontaneous action by Chief Bratto, and it had nothing to do with me No... oh, I found her."

"Shh, Icarus, don't make a sound. That girl is hiding on a branch trying to sneak up on me..."

Merlin stopped at a fork in the depths of the swamp, as if he had found some traces, he squatted down, stretched out his gloved hand, and touched the remaining traces on the ground.

The moment he squatted down, on the branch behind him, a small figure pounced down like a female leopard preying on it. The girl covered in mud did not say a word, with her hands open, holding On the tight little fist, weird claws poked out from under the skin.

It is very similar to Logan's six steel claws, but this girl's claws only have four, scattered on two fists.

"Puff, puff"

With two soft sounds, the claws on the fist of the girl who jumped down from the tree pierced Merlin's neck from left to right. Her movements were fierce and precise. Obviously, this was not the first time she had done such a thing as a sneak attack.

But the problem is, that deadly steel claw didn't touch any entity at all, just like stabbing a cloud of air.

"Ha, got you."

Merlin seemed to be playing with this child, his body exploded into billowing black mist at this moment, trapping the little girl who couldn't dodge in it.The girl knew that she had fallen into a trap, she screamed like a beast, and kept waving her claws in the black mist. Merlin noticed that this girl actually had 6 claws.

In addition to the four on the fist, there is also a steel claw protruding from each of her two feet.

This made the girl look like a living spinning knife wheel when she was rolling, a deadly weapon, the kind that could hurt you at the touch of it.

"Watch her claws, Merlin."

When the black mist continued to compress and gradually bound the girl, Icarus reminded:

"Her claws are made of almost the same material as Logan's steel claws, and this child has been infused with the same adamantium alloy as Logan... I can't imagine that she can survive the experiment that is enough to drive adults crazy .”

"There is no Adamantium in her body, only her arms and feet have..."

Merlin's spiritual vision could clearly see the abnormal distribution of vitality in the child's body, he said:

"Those bastards did it on purpose. Obviously, they knew that the child wouldn't be able to make it through, so they performed a phased infusion first...that group of bastards!"

Merlin's figure appeared outside the black mist. He looked at the girl bound by the black mist in front of him. The latter was still trying to swing her claws, but the restraint of the black mist prevented her from moving. She could only use her own He stared at Merlin fiercely.

Merlin squatted down, half kneeling in front of the girl, he looked at her, then stretched out his hand, and threw a cleansing spell on the girl's muddy face.

After a while, a face with South American characteristics appeared in front of Merlin's eyes. This child had chestnut hair and big black eyes. She grinned, her teeth were bared, her nose was raised, and she looked fierce. Unexpectedly strong.

But the panic and fear in her eyes couldn't be hidden from Merlin, the child was very scared now.

"Don't be afraid..."

Merlin stretched out his hand to caress the girl's hand, the cold Adamantium alloy claws extended from her hand bones, and Merlin stroked the slightly deformed hand bones, he could imagine that this child who was at most 12 years old was infused with scorching heat The unspeakable pain I suffered while using the Adamantium alloy.

Logan, Wolverine has undergone such a transformation experiment. It was in the 20th century that Logan was tricked into the X weapon experiment. At that time, he was an adult, strong and determined, but even that kind of Logan Root, also in Adamantium Infusion, lost his mind due to the excruciating pain.

"This must hurt..."

He gently stroked the girl's hand, raised his head, and looked at the poor child in front of him with the gentlest smile. His fingers touched the girl's forehead, and the power of the Yakexi seal gently penetrated into the girl. In a tense spirit.

"Don't be afraid, child, no one can hurt you anymore."

Merlin used a method similar to Professor Charles' mental intervention to calm the tension and fear in the child's heart little by little. It took him several minutes to calm the girl in front of him.

He untied the shackles of the black mist, and said to the girl who stood in front of him and looked at him suspiciously:

"What's your name?"

The girl didn't answer, Merlin took out an apple from her pocket and handed it to the girl, who looked at the apple, her throat moved up and down, but she didn't reach out to pick it up immediately.

"Take it, I gave it to you."

Merlin smiled and handed the apple to the girl, and he said to her:

"It's okay, eat, I will protect you."

And when his fingers were close to the girl's hand, the girl seemed to be stimulated, she took a step forward, waved her hand and pierced her claws into Merlin's chest.

Merlin lowered his head to look at the paws that had sunk into his chest, and then looked at the surprised girl in front of him. He shrugged his shoulders, pinched the Yaxi seal, gathered his energy, and said to the child:

"Ah, a good girl who knows how to protect herself."

"Well, I'm starting to like you, kid... Come on, look into my eyes."

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