Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 492 17. Don't Leave Regrets

In the slightly weird spiritual world of Steve Rogers, Merlin was sitting next to Steve's spiritual body, drinking a strange wine leisurely.

From the composition of this spiritual world, Merlin could tell that Agent Dugan's worst guess was correct.

It's not that Steve Rogers can't wake up, he just doesn't want to wake up.

He prefers to stay in his already weak spiritual vision, watching the most regrettable thing in his life being fulfilled again and again, just like a beautiful dream.

Repeat over and over again to gain peace of mind.

Merlin couldn't be sure how long this dance in the spiritual world lasted, but he could probably guess that from the moment Steve was frozen until now, this double dance may have never stopped.

That's why Steve's spirit is so weak...

In the past 68 years, he has hardly had a good rest at all.

No matter how strong a person is, under such persistence, he will become extremely weak. To be honest, it is a miracle that Steve Rogers' soul has not collapsed yet.

Merlin suspects that this is another stubborn idea in Steve's soul that is supporting him to persevere.

He wants to survive!

He wants to see his lover again...

Even if the world has changed, even if things have changed.

This guy...

It's really a seed of infatuation.

"You didn't miss the dance, Steve, you just didn't know it."

Merlin smiled, and said softly:

"You may make up for the regrets of the past in the future, but I can't guarantee that."

"Is what you said true?"

Steve finally reacted to Merlin's presence at this moment, he turned his head to look at Merlin, a flame flashed in his eyes, and he said:

"You didn't lie to me?"

"What's the use of lying to you?"

Merlin shrugged, stood up, and said to Steve:

"Wake up, many people are waiting for you."

"wait for me?"

Steve said suspiciously:

"What are they waiting for me? I don't know how long I've been frozen, but it's definitely not the time of war. The war must be over, we won, we saved the world, why do you need a soldier in a peaceful world?"

"Yes, you saved it."

Merlin said with some regret:

"It's a pity that we messed it up again. Seriously, this era needs you more than it did during the war. Do you remember Hydra, Captain."

"Of course, how could I forget?"

Steve gritted his teeth and said:

"It was they who started the war. Hitler was one of them, the craziest one, but their leader, the Red Skull, has disappeared. I saw with my own eyes that he was sent to the stars by the Rubik's Cube, and he never returned. coming."

Steve looked at Merlin and said:

"Could it be that it's been so long, and you haven't been able to completely wipe out the Hydra that lost its leader? Are my younger generations so inefficient?"

Facing Steve's questioning, Merlin shrugged and said softly:

"Chop off one head, and grow two in place."

"Because of the disappearance of the Red Skull, Hydra did suffer a fatal blow, but they did not admit defeat, nor failed because of it...they became more difficult to deal with, more secretive, after a long period of dormancy, using Some of our actions lurk in the shadows behind us."

Merlin drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, and he said to Steve who was listening to him seriously:

"Me and Fury, um...a brat full of intrigue, and your comrade-in-arms, Dumbo. Agent Dugan, and some people of good character who are secretly supporting us have sensed the threat, and we A reckoning operation was launched, which succeeded in taking out some of those modern-day HYDRA. But it was not enough."

"Captain, when it comes to understanding Hydra, we are not as good as you."

Merlin says:

"We need your help, and the world today is different from the world you remember."

"All kinds of supernatural creatures, all kinds of supernatural events, a few years ago, there was a group of bastards from the southern galaxy who drove starships to try to destroy us. Those aliens hidden in the dark are also There's something going on, some immature guys who call themselves superheroes and just want to get acclaim and admiration are doing it."

"We need you, captain, we need your tactical talent, we need you to lead an official metahuman organization."

他 说:

"We also need you to become a flag in the hearts of the people again, telling the people that although times have changed, those guardians have never left. There is no one more suitable than you."

"But I see suspicion in your eyes, Mr. Merlin."

Steve wasn't dizzy by the high hat, he looked at Merlin rationally, and said:

"You yourself are questioning what you're saying, you don't trust me, you don't think I can do what you say. You're here because you've been ordered... Am I right? "

"Hey, it's not a good thing to live too sober, Mr. Captain."

Merlin smiled reservedly, he raised the empty cup in his hand to the captain, and said:

"Besides, praise doesn't cost money."

"Okay, I'll be honest."

Under Steve's gaze, Merlin said softly:

"I don't believe that a person who suddenly wakes up after being frozen for decades can do the things I say... But some people do, and many people do, so I think, maybe you should give them a chance , you should give yourself a chance."

"Your fate is not over yet, Steve, at least in my eyes, your future is much more exciting than your past."

He put down his glass and said to Steve:

"Okay, we've talked too much about these big and empty things, let's talk about something more specific, Captain. I'm here to find you, but there's actually another thing to bother you."

他 说:

"I know that in a certain operation in 1942, you took Sergeant Bucky Barnes of the Roaring Commando to Antarctica to perform a mission, but the records of that mission were vague. Just yesterday, We discovered a castle left by Nacui in Antarctica, I want to ask you about this... What happened during the operation that year?"

"That was a failed operation."

The captain didn't hesitate, he said frankly:

"We received warnings from our allies in the deep sea. We followed the clues and discovered that the nacui were carrying out a rather dangerous plan. They summoned a terrible weapon. We went to Antarctica to try to destroy the weapon, but we saw nothing. ...a deranged giant attacked us, but also disrupted nacui's search efforts there."

"Actually, when we evacuated, I didn't know what kind of things Nacui made, but there is no doubt that it is definitely not a simple thing that can make Red Skull appear in person. You said that Nacui built a castle there ?So it seems that our sabotage operation back then failed.”

Steve said with some regret:

"Those cunning guys have always been like this, using various methods to achieve their goals. But you found that castle, does that mean that that dangerous thing fell into your hands?"

"No, no."

Merlin said with regret:

"We found nothing there, but I learned a name from those guardians... Book of Skulls, have you heard of this thing?"

"Not only heard."

The captain shook his head:

"I have also seen with my own eyes that that evil thing was held in Hitler's hands more than once. It is said that there is a lot of evil knowledge recorded in it."

"Where is that thing kept?"

Merlin asked:

"Can you give me some clues?"

"I don't know either, Agent."

The captain sighed, and said:

"I have been frozen for 45 years. Although the Red Skull disappeared with me, I don't know if he transferred the book before he left. I can only tell you that I know that the Red Skull is in North Africa and Southern Europe. There are several secret bases, maybe you can go there and look for them."

"Do not."

Merlin shook his head, and he said to Steve:

"Maybe you can take it as your first challenge and task after waking up."

他 说:

"You can't stay here forever, you and I both know, it's time to wake up."

"Oh, by the way, what I said... don't tell anyone else, okay? I don't want to get myself into trouble anymore."

He watched the glass before him dissipate into a cloud of smoke, and said to Steve:

"Okay, I've stayed long enough, Steve, I'll see you in real time, don't keep me waiting."

"Wait, Merlin."

Just as Merlin was about to leave, Steve stopped him suddenly.

Merlin turned his head and looked at the captain, who said to him calmly:

"I don't know you, but you are very familiar with me. I can feel that what you said to me just now should be true."

"So? You want to thank me for telling you the truth?"

Merlin waved his hand and said:

"Don't worry about it, Steve, you know, I'm here for the mission."

"No, what I mean is, this is my spiritual world, where I can clearly feel your consciousness, your entanglement and pain."

The captain also stood up, and he said to Merlin:

"Is it an emotional thing?"

“…”

Merlin didn't answer, he was just a little depressed. Could it be that anyone can see at a glance that his relationship is not going well?

Is it so weird?

The captain ignored Merlin's strange expression, and said seriously:

"I may not be qualified to say this, but if I had another chance to choose, I might confess to Peggy before leaving that battle instead of waiting until the last moment...I failed her."

"I just hope, Merlin, that you don't have any regrets in your life...not like me and Peggy."

"You're acting like a lover now."

Merlin says:

"But I've read your file, captain, and you've only been in love once."

"Yes, Peggy was my first love and the love of my life."

The captain whispered:

"But I have a buddy who is very good at dating... Bucky always tells me that life is too short to seize the moment."

"It's easy to say."

Merlin snorted, stretched out his hands, and said to Steve:

"The one on the left is my first love, I still miss her."

"On the right is each other, and I love her too."

"Then tell me, Captain Love Saint, how should I choose?"

"I don't know, Merlin."

The young Steve smiled, his spiritual world slowly dimmed before Merlin's eyes, and he said softly:

"But if you can't let go of each...why give up one?"

"You make me a scumbag?"

Merlin frowned, he looked at Steve, he said:

"I didn't expect the famous Captain America to be such a person!"

"No no no, I mean..."

At the moment when the light in front of Merlin's eyes completely dimmed, Steve's voice came with a smile, and he said:

"Love as hard as you can, and let it be."

"Anyway, don't leave any regrets..."

"Swish"

The next moment, Merlin's consciousness returned to his body, and he found himself lying on another bed, beside the bed, Fury and Dugan were watching him nervously.

"what happened?"

Merlin was a little puzzled and said:

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

"You have been in a coma for 3 days!"

Fury said:

"What the hell did you see in Steve's mental world?"

"3 days?"

Merlin rubbed his forehead with some headaches, he sat up from the bed, and said to the two people:

"Damn it, the flow of time in that guy's spiritual world is definitely different from that in this world... But I have good news, get ready for Captain America's awakening."

Merlin says:

"According to this time ratio, he will wake up in a few months at the earliest, and it will not exceed 3 years at the latest."

"The Captain America you want is coming back."

"In addition, I have to warn you that Steve may have gone crazy due to long-term mental sleep...or split personality, he actually persuaded me...Forget it, there is no need to tell you these things."

"In short, be prepared to welcome him to wake up."

(End of this chapter)