28. The Avengers 3 - For Book Friends 121015113346795 [2/15]
Merlin didn't sleep well that night.
Riven and Lorna were playing and quarreling in the room. The two girls did not get along well. Riven was very domineering, while Lorna was weak, but she was in a very sensitive state. In the second half of the night, the unconscious girl Daisy woke up. She woke up Riven and Lorna who had just fallen asleep, and the three girls started making noise again.
Merlin ignored them. After being dispelled from sleep three times in a row, Merlin simply gave up her sleep and began to study the curse of Hoggs' ancient body in the bedroom.
This thing has shown its value. Merlin felt that it was necessary for him to speed up his learning so that he could truly control his body before half of the magic power was accumulated.
Merlin felt that once he truly mastered this spell, most of the effects of semi-demonization on him would be eliminated.
But the learning progress is not optimistic.
This spell is really too complicated.
It does not mean that its release spell has many difficult syllables and characters, but refers to the form of existence of this spell.
Just remembering its original mana model has exhausted Merlin, not to mention using magic to build a complete casting system. Merlin even felt that with his senses in the three-dimensional world, he could not fully simulate the release process of this abstract and ultimately abstract spell.
He must learn to transcend his thinking from the shackles of the real world in order to barely meet the standard of releasing this spell.
But this is difficult.
Any spiritual detachment is difficult, and Merlin has not yet found an effective method.
With the continuous learning and trying, the new day soon came. When the sun shone into the bedroom, Merlin stopped the learning process. He stood up, moved his body, and then went to wash.
Several girls had a night of trouble and were just asleep now. Merlin decided not to bother them.
He returned to his bedroom, opened the wardrobe, and in his wardrobe, four casual suits of the same style were hung there. Except for the different colors, these suits were exactly the same, and were customized in Mrs. Mojin's robe store.
Next to the suit, there was a long windbreaker that looked very similar to Fury's windbreaker, and a tight hunting suit for special operations, and finally the very retro blue dress I got from Succubus Mandy.
Merlin looked at the clothes in front of him, and finally, he reached out to take out a light blue casual suit and shirt, and then took out a pair of very clean leather shoes washed by the cleaning spell from the shoe cabinet.
He stood in front of the dressing mirror, looked left and right, and after confirming that, he picked up the disguised glasses from the table and put them on his face.
He subconsciously raised his wrist, and then he realized that there was no watch on his wrist. He fought with Magneto twice, and he lost two watches, which made Merlin shook his head helplessly.
"Go to the logistics department to get one"
After saying that, Merlin's figure flashed and disappeared into the bedroom.
A moment later, he appeared at the top of the Trident Building, looking at the New York City in front of him, he opened his arms and took a deep breath. Above his head, the lost and regained raven spirit, Vitke, was soaring.
After he became semi-demonized, Victor, who was connected to his consciousness, also completed the evolution of a spiritual body.
It is larger in size and faster in flight. The dark red feathers on its body are like strong steel feathers and their sharp claws. Now it can easily catch the heads of ghouls or low-level vampires.
Even its wisdom like a piece of white paper has improved a lot, and it is no different from an ordinary beast.
"Woooooo"
Victor made the same unpleasant sound as before. He soared over Merlin's head for a few times, then flapped his wings and disappeared into the air. After gaining real wisdom, the guy became much lazy. He was unwilling to fly around as stupidly as before, and he also hoped to hide in Merlin's will in a state of dissipation of his spirit body.
"Laggy guy!"
Merlin cursed, then walked forward a few steps and stood on the edge of the rooftop of the Trident Building. He turned his back to New York City behind him. Under the sunlight, Merlin's body leaned back, like he committed suicide, falling straight from the rooftop nearly 100 meters high.
His body fell in the air. As he approached Fury's office, he quickly dissipated into rolling black smoke, and after a few seconds, he reappeared in Fury's office.
"Oh, didn't you bother me?"
Merlin leaned against the window and looked at the two people sitting in the office.
Fry, who sat behind the desk, and Wolverine Logan, who was sitting on the other side, wearing a brown leather jacket and jeans, a plaid shirt, and a cigar in his mouth.
"Can you go through the door next time?"
Fury looked at Merlin with his one-eye, and he said:
"And, is it okay to learn to knock on the door? Do you know how many secrets there are in my office that cannot be revealed?"
“The answer is that there is no one.”
Merlin shrugged and said to Fury:
"How could a guy like you put his secret in an office where anyone can come?"
Fury snorted and stopped talking.
He just complained about it on a routine basis, and the meeting this morning was arranged in advance. He knew very well that Merlin was not a person without rules. In fact, when he was not summoned, Merlin rarely came to the Trident Building.
"Hello, crow."
Logan, who was sitting on the side smoking a cigar, also greeted Merlin, but his unique title made Merlin pick up her eyelids, and he corrected:
"It's a raven, not a crow!"
"It doesn't matter, it's almost the same anyway."
Logan laughed and waved his hand, he took the cigar from his mouth, then looked at Fury and Merlin, and he said:
"Tell me, what's the matter with you?"
"Merlin must have told you all, Mr. Logan."
Fury didn't say anything else, he said straight to the topic:
"We want you to join a secret protection organization."
He took out the documents related to the Avengers from the drawer and handed them to Logan, who took them in his hand, glanced at them, and said:
"Avengers? This name is weird. Are you sure this is a protection organization, not an assassination organization?"
“I’m pretty sure.”
Merlin made two cups of coffee for himself and Logan. He placed the coffee on the table in front of Logan, and then leaned against the side with the coffee, he said:
"Don't complain about this name, let's take a look at the content first. My boss is very much looking forward to you joining it. It is said that he has fought side by side with you, in Vietnam?"
"Vietnam?"
Logan frowned, he looked at Fury, and he said:
"Sorry, I've forgotten so many things I probably have been there, but my memory is a bit blurry. You've really fought with me in Vietnam?"
"Yes."
Fury nodded and said:
"Near Saigon, it was time for the war to end. My squad was ordered to escort some important figures out of the battlefield, but we were attacked by the enemy in the middle and we were isolated and we were almost desperate, and then you suddenly appeared."
Fury looked at Logan's face that was almost completely aging and subconsciously wiped his face, and he said:
"At that time, you rushed out of the jungle with a strong smell of blood, like a real beast. You used your claws, in front of us, tore up more than 50 enemies in 5 minutes."
"I can't forget that scene now. They fired at you in horror, but the bullets were useless to you. Even the mortar explosion could not affect you. The scene where you dragged your intestines toward those enemies will not only make them break, but also scare us."
Logan rubbed his forehead and said a little annoyed:
"I can't remember it later?"
"The story later was not that exciting."
Fury said:
"Our doctor is going to bandage you the wound, but before he can pick up the suture, your wound has healed. You are like you have never been injured at all. You asked us for the way, and then left alone, and we have never seen you again since."
"I later joined the Strategic Science Legion and found records about you in the database, Logan or James Houtley."
Fury picked up a set of old documents from the table. He opened the documents and looked at the records on it. He read:
"Born in 1832 at the Hautley Manor in Alberta, Canada, you should have a brother named Victor Houtley, who is one year older than you. Compared to your low-keyness, he is much more active than you."
Fury glanced at Logan, who was listening to him with all his attention, then turned to the second page and said:
"Since you and your cousin escaped from their hometown, you have been wandering around the world, perhaps by nature, or by being used to disputes. In short, you have participated in almost all wars from 1832 to the present, including World War II."
"You should be the person in this photo, right?"
Fury took out a black and white photo from the file and placed it in front of Logan. Merlin also leaned over and took a look and found that it was a very unique photo.
It was a group of fully armed soldiers, including Agent Dum Dugan who he had seen before, Ms. Page Carter, Howard Stark, and Captain America Steve Rogers, and on the edge of the group, there was a soldier sitting in an ammunition box smoking.
Although he was wearing a steel helmet, Merlin could still see from the inaccurate photo that it was Logan sitting next to him!
"You've also been in the Roaring Commando?"
Merlin looked at Logan in surprise, who took the photo and stared at himself in the photo, his face blankly.
"I don't know, I don't remember, I don't remember at all."
He said in a low tone:
"I only remember that I kept fighting, using guns, knives, and more with claws, killing different people. Men, women, old people. I still remember that I was sitting on a boat and rushed to the beach full of enemies under the flying fire of artillery. But the next moment, I went to a prisoner of war camp. I protected an Asian in military uniform. At the end of my sight, a huge mushroom cloud soared into the sky."
"I don't remember."
Logan held the photo tightly, and he raised his head and looked at Fury, he said anxiously:
"What else do you know? Tell me everything about me!"
"Don't worry, there are still many pages in this file."
Fury felt the beastly aura emitted from Logan. He looked at Merlin with some anxiety, who nodded slightly to him, indicating that there was no danger.
So Fury continued to read:
"Based on the news we've collected so far, Logan, your amnesia is not normal. At the end of the Vietnam War, you were involved in a special event."
"The Ministry of Defense has launched a program called X-Test, which is a top-secret plan. It is said that the content is to find elite warriors from mutants, and then transform and brainwash them to use them as super warriors of the new era."
Fury said:
"Now there is enough data to show that you were also a member of the X test. It should have been between 1980 and 1992. You chose to undergo a terrifying test for unknown reasons. The test was successful, but you had a conflict with the soldiers of the Ministry of Defense. You should have lost your memory at that time."
He picked up another photo, which was a burning valley.
"In 1995, you attacked a base in the Ministry of Defense, and completely destroyed it, saving a lot of mutants, including Cyclops, the sister of White Queen Emma, and so on."
"According to the information provided by Professor Charles, you briefly joined Xavier Talented Youth Academy at that time, but in July 1998, you left there again, and your whereabouts were unknown. Professor Charles told me that during this period, you have been traveling around the world, going to Japan, South America and Africa, but no one except yourself knows what you did."
"I don't remember."
Logan grabbed his hair and said in pain:
".m Those bastards washed away my memory and I had no idea what I did. I just remember that I received a letter in Mexico."
"We are also looking at this clue."
Fury said with some regret:
"But so far, I don't know who sent you that letter."
"Is the host of the x-test it still there?"
Logan asked.
"It's still here, that person is William Stryker, a colonel from the Ministry of Defense. Well, he should be a major general now."
Fury said as he knew it:
"In your attack on the military base in 1995, Stryker survived, and then he was sent to the military court for crimes against humanity because of Professor Charles' rebuke and complaints about the cruel plan. There are reports that he has been executed. But in fact, he changed his identity and continued to be active."
Fury took out another document and said to Logan:
"Just a year ago, the second x-test conducted by Lord Stryker failed again but they didn't get anything. They got a freak in the experiment. Just like you, the transformed mutant destroyed their base, and Stryker's guy was really lucky. He escaped again, and now, no one knows where he is."
"That escaped experimental subject."
Merlin asked:
"Who is he? Maybe we can get some news from him."
"His name is Wade, Wade Wilson."
Fury picked up a photo, which was a handsome but somewhat ruffian young man, he said:
"This guy has been very active during this period. He is performing missions around the world as a mercenary. Oh, by the way, the mercenary group he is in."
"Call Black Claw!"
Chapter completed!