8. Afterlife. Decision(1/2)
Merlin's advice was gentle.
But Gordon has no power to refuse.
In many cases, a large number of people does not mean an advantage. Once a group of less appropriate teammates are chosen, a large number of people will become a huge disadvantage.
In fact, if Gordon chose to fight Merlin in a 1v1 battle, then his elusive ability may not be able to defeat Merlin, but it would be absolutely fine to take Lincoln away calmly.
Unfortunately, the teammate he chose has now become his biggest weakness.
As the instructor of these young aliens, he had no way to give up on them like this.
At the suggestion of Merlin's "friendly" and in the struggle of the four young aliens with increasingly painful expressions, Gordon eventually threw away the arc-shaped dagger in his hand.
He "looked" at Merlin and said:
"What do you want to talk about?"
"What I want to talk about is what this young man Lincoln is desperate to know."
Merlin shook his wand, and the young aliens who were raptured in the air landed on the ground, but the mist floating in the dark still wrapped around their necks, indicating that Merlin still determined their lives.
He said to the eyesless Gordon in a piggyback tone:
"I don't know much about the style of the strange people, but you can't just force a young man who knows nothing about you from his home to thousands of miles away. This is not only not in line with the definition of kindness, but also violates the law, Mr. Gordon."
"You are acting like a kidnapper!"
"law?"
Merlin's words made Yi Ren laugh strangely.
"In the past 10 years, in North America alone, more than 260 awakened aliens have been locked up in your hospitals and mental hospitals because they cannot control themselves. Among them, 57 of them have chosen to commit suicide due to the pain of being unable to bear the torture of drugs."
"They should have a brighter and more free future, but unfortunately, your law does not give them the right to choose, right?"
"From Lincoln's reaction, I don't think it's a bad choice for us to send young people who can't control their irritable instincts to the hospital."
Merlin retorted:
"Their actions have already posed a threat to others. Gordon, if you or the organization behind you have a way to solve their problems, then you should come forward to resolve them before the situation worsens, rather than waiting until now and throwing this blame on me."
"It's not me who killed them!"
“We sent someone to talk to the parents of those young people!”
Gordon said:
"We even talked to the doctors, but they couldn't understand and were reluctant to let their children accept the favor of fate. We saved the remaining people of the more than 260 young people, in our own way."
"The leaders of the 'After Life' organization realized very early that we should keep a distance from ordinary people. When facing unknown things, what you show at the first time is always the most direct malice."
The eyesless man said in an uncovered tone of hatred:
"Every stranger in the next life, including me, has a painful life. We choose to live alone in the world, we choose to join the group to keep warm, we hide from you, but even so."
He looked at the four young men controlled by Merlin, and his tone became colder:
"But you still don't want to let us go!"
"This is my personal behavior."
Merlin said:
"Whatever you think, you yell like a persecuted paranoid madman, I don't care. What I want to know is, what exactly is Inhuman? You look very similar to mutants."
"Mutant? No!"
Gordon shook his head:
"We are completely different from mutants. The awakening of mutants is uncontrollable, but mutants can choose their own life."
He turned around and said to Lincoln, who looked alert next to him:
"In fact, Lincoln Campbell, I want to bring you back to the next life to solve your instinct to awaken. But we won't force you. If you don't want the power contained in your bloodline, we will help you through the most difficult awakening period. After you can control your emotions, we will send you back to your world."
He said to Merlin in a sarcastic tone:
"We are different from you. We know the pain of being forced, and we will not impose this pain on our fellow countrymen."
"Then you should make it clear in advance!"
Merlin said bluntly:
"The fact that this matter in front of you has deteriorated to this extent is caused by your concealment."
"What should we do?"
Gordon retorted:
"Do you just reveal our existence to a young man who can't control himself? They won't believe it until they see other aliens in the 'afterlife'."
"It's just that ordinary people, suspicious and conceited, always understand goodwill as malice. In the past decade, many aliens have chosen to join us, but more people have been sent back to the world of ordinary people after being cured."
"They have to trust us first so that we can help them."
Gordon "looked" at Merlin, he said:
"I never thought of hurting an ordinary person. If it weren't for your arrogant obstruction, Lincoln was now receiving treatment in the 'afterlife'. You thought you were helping him, but in fact, you were just delaying his recovery possibility."
"He has entered the final awakening period. Lincoln has been delaying for too long. He is almost 21 years old. If he has not learned to control his instinctive restlessness before the end of the awakening period, then the violence and anxious desire to destroy will accompany him for the rest of his life like the most terrifying mental scar."
"You are destroying him! 'Good Man'!"
"So what the hell is going on?"
Hearing this, Lincoln finally couldn't help it. Under the threat of self-madness, he asked sharply:
"What's going on during the awakening period, there are mental scars and the like?"
Merlin also asked:
"If you want to settle this peacefully, Gordon, you should tell us what we should know now."
"You are not an alien."
Gordon said to Merlin:
"I can't share our secrets with you, it will endanger our existence."
"He is!"
Merlin pointed at Lincoln and said:
"If you don't make it clear, I won't let you take him away. If your organization is really as kind and just as you said, then I think it's not a big problem to reveal some insignificant secrets in the face of a young man's future. Or"
Merlin's wand swung again, and the four young aliens were raised in the air again. He shrugged and said to Gordon:
"You can understand that I am threatening you with the lives of your fellow countrymen."
"Tell me."
Merlin gently advised:
"Speak it out before things get worse. You are not warriors, I can feel that even you are not a real warrior, so don't demand yourself with the loyalty of a warrior."
Gordon was still hesitating, but under Lincoln's plea and Merlin's threat, he finally chose to compromise.
A few minutes later, Gordon said in a low voice:
"'The Afterlife' is an Inhuman organization. We officially established ten years ago, but we are not the orthodox organization of Inhuman. You can understand that the Inhuman life is just a Inhuman shelter."
"I actually don't know how many aliens exist in the world. I said that we are different from mutants. Our evolution and awakening can be controlled by some substance, and after the evolution is completed, we are almost no different from ordinary people. Therefore, if our compatriots want to conceal their existence, then no one can find them."
"What about your origin?"
Merlin asked:
"You should at least know where you came from, right?"
"In fact, we don't know."
Gordon said with some regret:
"There has never been a message about the specific inheritance of the aliens. I only know that the history of the aliens appeared is no later than that of the mutant. In fact, we and the ancestors of the mutant appeared almost in the same era. According to the information we know now, the first batch of aliens had existed as early as the ancient Egyptian period."
"As for awakening, this is a difficult thing to describe."
Gordon said to Lincoln:
"The awakening of Yiren in childhood is the easiest thing. You only need to touch the mysterious substance to complete awakening quickly. As you grow older, the greater the danger of awakening."
"According to our experience, there is a concept of 'awakening period' in the resurgence of aliens, and this time is uncertain. I have seen a 57-year-old man enter the awakening period, and also seen a 15-year-old child enter the awakening period."
"That was a deadline. It was the power in the blood of the alien that he had premonitioned his about to disappear, and he issued a warning to the host body."
"It is manifested in the form of a normal person who suddenly cannot control his instinct, just like you, anxious, restless, and full of destructive desire. If at the end of the post-awakening period, you have not yet entered the awakening process, then there is a part of your will that disappears with the instinct."
"You will completely become a madman who cannot control yourself in the final madness of instinct. Of course, not every alien will have this situation."
Gordon "looked" at Merlin and said:
"We guess that this has something to do with the amount of certain gene fragments in the bloodline. Those who will have sudden awakening signs are individuals with fewer genes. For those bloodlines that have been passed down from generation to generation, they can awaken at any time from childhood to old age."
"What should I do?"
To be continued...