Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 436 21. Black Claws

"Hello? Hill?"

After the brief interrogation ended, Merlin returned to the office. While dialing the number, he picked up the paper and pen, closed his eyes, and began to write and draw on a piece of white paper.

"What is it? Sir Merlin."

Hill on the other end of the phone asked:

"I'm following Director Fury to a meeting in Europe, and I'm a bit busy right now."

"Well, I need your help with something, and you can tell Fury about it."

The pen in Merlin's hand quickly slid on the paper, like a printer, and quickly drew a head of a man, just like the so-called "Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. " looks almost identical.

他 说:

"Tell Fury, I've got another lead on snakes. They have some connection to the Department of Defense, especially Stryker's Project X, which has traces of their involvement."

"I am sending you a portrait of a suspect. He is still in SHIELD. His disguised identity should be a low-level agent. He is swindling outside under the banner of SHIELD...find him! But don't disturb him, just follow the clues, and maybe there will be new discoveries."

Merlin whispered:

"Fury will definitely take care of this matter. Also, tell Fury for me that his students have been very restless recently, and the Sky Eye will still look for superpowers everywhere, and try to control them in a strong way... I Don't know if they've had success, but if Fury isn't busy, let him step in."

"That woman is playing a dangerous game. She has inherited Fury's desire for control. She thinks she can control everything, but from my point of view, her understanding of supernatural affairs is still too shallow. Once she loses control The situation, those imprisoned superpowers, is likely to cause a bad trouble."

"OK, all right."

Hill's calm voice came from the microphone:

"Is there anything else? Sir. Oh, by the way, there is one more thing about the departure of Elsa's consultant..."

"I'll take care of this."

Merlin seemed unwilling to dwell on the subject, saying:

"Elsa's departure will not affect SDOLD's affairs, and Fury can rest assured."

"Okay, there are so many things at the moment, I will contact you again if you have any questions."

"Bon voyage, Hill."

Merlin quickly hung up the phone. He picked up his mobile phone, took a photo of the hand-painted portrait on the table, and sent it to Hill in Europe.

After doing all this, he leaned back on the office chair and continued to sort out the strange memories in his mind.

From the memory of Wade Wilson.

It's actually quite interesting to watch a lunatic's memory. His memory is non-linear. If he didn't watch his memory in its entirety, Merlin would never be able to guess what Wade's next thought was.

What the guy did wasn't exactly a decent guy, but he wasn't a bad guy in the traditional sense either.

He advocates using violence to control violence, and punishes those villains in his own way. After going crazy, he lives freely and freely every day.

He was saving money crazily, and he was not joking when he said that he wanted to buy a boat for Vanessa. This guy really planned to do so, but not because he wanted to continue to stay with Vanessa.

He just wanted to give a final gift to the woman who almost married him.

He's crazy, but he's cool, and he's been secretly looking for the bastards who turned him into a monster, and he's out for revenge, and he knows how dangerous it is to drag an ordinary woman into something like this.

He was going to break up with her...

As sad as it was, he had made a decision.

"Oh, it's still a seed of infatuation."

Memories of Wade flashed before Merlin's eyes, and he said softly:

"You're not hopeless, are you? Ugly..."

There are still some "interesting" things in Wade's memory.

For example, AIM hidden in the shadows, that organization has never forgotten the accident that its base was destroyed by Merlin, and they seem to have been secretly planning revenge.

Hiring Black Claw to rob the prison this time is part of the revenge.

That organization has been studying mutants. In their opinion, the mutant prisoners in the ghost base are great test samples. On the other hand, releasing these prisoners will undoubtedly be effective in combating Merlin and S.H.I.E.L.D. Advance mutant unification plan.

Moreover, Merlin also saw it in Wade's memory. In an AIM experiment base, Wade saw the scene of the experiments performed by the scientists. They seemed to be trying to simulate Merlin's black mist ability, and this experiment seemed to have There has been progress.

Those guys are planning to reproduce another "Raven Merlin".

"interesting."

Merlin narrowed his eyes, he was worried that he couldn't catch AIM's tail, but Wade sent him a surprise.

But now is not the time to act.

Wade didn't remember the specific location of the base. They were sent there by AIM people using a special energy transmission method. Merlin needed to talk to other members of the Black Claw Mercenary Corps.

Perhaps Merlin could gain more useful information from them.

More importantly, from Wade's mind, Merlin knew a lot.Some in Talon, he knew, were not hopeless.

After Elsa left, SDOLD also needed to find another consultant who could act on his own.

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On a new Monday, Merlin, who spent the weekend with his family and children, finally felt better, and the influence of Elsa's departure on him became weaker.

He returned to the ghost base from New York with a teleportation spell. Instead of going back to his office, he went directly to the prison for serious criminals on the basement six floor of the base.

This floor is the lowest level prison of the ghost base, where the most dangerous group of fellows of the Mutant Brotherhood and the mercenaries of the Talon Mercenary Corps are imprisoned.

The cells here adopt the same design as the isolated island prison. High-strength composite materials, like glass, form one cell after another. Outside the glass cells, there are closed metal baffles. If there is no permission to open it, then this place is like a narrow metal passage.

"Swish"

Merlin had just Apparated, and saw a very eye-catching scene.

Deadpool and Vanessa are kissing through the glass...

These two dudes are very engaged in kissing...

"Cough cough."

Merlin coughed lightly, causing Vanessa to open her eyes suddenly, and stood to the other side in a hurry, while Wade in the cell didn't care, he was wearing an orange prisoner jumpsuit , carelessly made a rude gesture to Merlin.

"You are now a government official."

Merlin ignored Deadpool's provocation, and he said to Vanessa earnestly:

"I pay you wages, give you a new identity, let you get rid of the difficult life in the past, not for you to flirt with prisoners, assistant prison guard Miss Vanessa. Prisoners on the sixth floor, for you these days The job evaluation is very high, so I don't want you to be on the list of dismissed personnel next time."

Merlin glanced at Wade in the cell, and he warned softly:

"If you really want to spend more time with your 'boyfriend', then you'd better act professionally..."

"I see, sir."

Vanessa, who was warned, straightened her body and tried to look professional. She assured Merlin:

"I'll do the job right."

"Ah, very good."

Merlin nodded and said:

"Go and rest, read more books if you have nothing to do, and go to the base's learning courses. If you are interested, you can sign up for agent training. I look forward to the day you join S.H.I.E.L.D."

He sent Vanessa away, put his hands in his trouser pockets, turned his head to look at Wade sitting in the cell, he sneered, and said:

"Life is good these days, Mr. Wade."

"Do not talk to me!"

The ugly guy turned his head away, ignored Merlin, and said coldly:

"Don't think I don't know what you're thinking! You put Vanessa here just to keep me from making trouble, hehe, the wisdom of mortals!"

"Yeah, that's what I intended."

Merlin looked at the lipstick marks left on the glass in front of him, and he said frankly:

"It's going to be troublesome for a bastard like you, so I let Vanessa watch you...but you don't seem to like the treatment, so I'll transfer Vanessa to the 3rd floor, where Some petty criminals awaiting trial, maybe that's a better place for her."

"puff"

The cold-faced Wade knelt down on his knees the next moment. This unscrupulous lunatic mercenary said to Merlin with a "sincere" face:

"Please, don't do this!"

"If I don't see Vanessa's slender waist and buttocks every day, I will go crazy in this birdcage..."

"You really are hopeless."

Merlin shook his head, no longer paying attention to this funny guy, he stretched out his hand and pressed the lock on the wall, and the retracted metal baffle slowly closed, sealing the glass cell again.

Merlin continued to move forward in the aisle. After a while, he opened the shutter of another cell. In this cell, a bearded, vicissitude-looking guy was wearing a prison uniform, lying leisurely. On the bed in the cell.

He was still humming.

A folk song from the West.

Just judging from his expression and posture, this guy doesn't look like he's in jail at all, it's more like he's lying on the beach, enjoying his leisurely vacation.

"McRae..."

Standing in front of the glass cage, Merlin said:

"How have you been lately? Cowboy."

"Well, it's pretty good."

The guy didn't even open his eyes, just resting his hands on his pillow, and said in a relaxed tone:

"There are beauties delivering meals every day, and the meals are also meat and vegetables. You can eat an apple every day. There is soothing music at night. No one comes to disturb you. You don't have to work hard. The bed is still very comfortable and you can get the sun. It is open 24 hours a day. Turning on the heater...God, if I knew it was so good here, maybe I should have planned to rob you sooner."

The cowboy paused and said softly:

"Except that there is no freedom, this place is perfect like heaven."

"So between freedom and heaven, which one would you choose?"

Merlin asked.

The cowboy lying on the bed heard the extra meaning in Merlin's words, he sat up suddenly, sat on the edge of the bed, looked at Merlin, and said:

"Is there still a choice? Of course it is freedom!"

He stared at Merlin, and he said:

"Any work for me? Sir. Most importantly, can this work reduce my sentence?"

"It depends on your sincerity."

Merlin said ambiguously:

"You should know that the reason why I came to find you, not anyone else, is because I know that in Black Claw, only you have a little conscience... You have the least blood debt in your hand, and you only have 20 years in prison, You're one of those people who can still be redeemed."

Merlin paused, and he glanced at McCree, who was sitting by the bed, listening to what he said seriously.

"Let's be honest, Mr. McRae, I want you to join my department as a field agent. I need someone like you who is capable and has a bottom line. Of course, you will receive additional monitoring, but I think if I give You have a chance to reform yourself, and you shouldn't throw it away so easily."

Merlin flicked his fingers, looked at the cowboy in front of him, and said:

"So, what's your answer?"

"It doesn't matter who you work for."

McCree shrugged and said:

"I don't hate or discriminate against officials, but it's too much to pay to be an official lackey in exchange for freedom. I mean, if you can agree to my other request..."

"Stop it! Cowboys."

Merlin said blankly:

"Are you negotiating terms? Do you think you are qualified to negotiate terms with me?"

"A big man like you with great powers and official resources, coming to me, a penniless and down-and-out cowboy, proves that you need my help with some tricky things."

McCree said softly:

"You see, sir, I was unlucky and got caught, but that doesn't mean I'm stupid."

"When you have the advantage, take advantage of yourself as much as possible. This is the cowboy's way of life. If my tone makes you feel angry, then please forgive my vulgarity, but I grew up in the West, and my veins There's cowboy blood in it, and I'm descended from the famous Arthur Cowboy...I mean, I probably can't get over this bad habit."

"Then you'd better change it."

Merlin says:

"I don't like my subordinates who are eloquent. I prefer those who are silent, low-key, but can get things done. Tell me, what do you want?"

"Ash!"

McRae said bluntly:

"Give her freedom, and I will sell my life to you."

"Yo, it seems that lovers are abundant in Black Claw."

Merlin gave a strange "praise" and said to McCree:

"But I think it's better for you to care about yourself. The little girl Ash is treated much better than you. The day after she was arrested, someone tried to release her on bail with a huge sum of money...Of course, I Refused. She is a dangerous person, she is different from you, she can't control the criminal desire in her heart, I can't just release a dangerous person like this."

Merlin says:

"However, I heard that she is the heir of the generation of the famous Ash family in New York? How did the little princess who was born with a golden key become the leader of the Deadlock Gang back then, and how did she embark on this criminal path?" ? And, what is the relationship between the two of you? Also about Black Claw, how was this mercenary group established? And what purpose was it established for? I am really curious."

"Is inquiring about other people's private lives part of the mission?"

McRae replied:

"Can I refuse to answer this question?"

"Of course, you can refuse."

Merlin said gently:

"As long as you don't want to be free."

"Come on, cowboy... freedom is waving at you, don't keep it waiting."

(End of this chapter)