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33. Once Upon a Time in Atlantis (Part 2)

Namo and Merlin, who returned to normal, walked in the silver-gray building that had been evacuated. When Namo was controlled, he learned some of the secrets of the mysterious mutant Mr. Evil Zhao who controlled him.

He knows where the guy will store the collected x-gene samples.

While the two were looking for the secret room, Namo also told him the story of his past at Merlin's request.

"My father was Leonard Mackenzie, an explorer and a captain. In that era, he was quite active, so he was hired by a group of wealthy guys to open a route to the Antarctic."

Namo talked about his past and could see that he did not like his past stories very much. He just told those pasts mechanically due to Merlin's request.

"My father was very lucky. His ship encountered ice floes in Antarctica. People in that era were very savage. In short, he used explosives to explode the ice floes, but he used too much explosives and accidentally destroyed a floes in Atlantis, who was cruising Antarctic at the time."

"The conflict broke out between the two sides, but my father was quite rational. After seeing that he could not defeat the undersea people, he decided to evacuate."

Namo took Merlin to the top of the building with some weird, medieval-style murals hanging in front of the medieval style. He continued while pounding on the bricks and stones:

"But the Atlantis people are more sensitive. At that time, they had just finished fighting with the Amazons on Paradise Island and were always suspicious, so the king of Atlantis at that time Thakur sent a team to investigate the friction."

"My mother, the daughter of Thakur, is also the princess of Atlantis. Her name is very complicated, you can call her 'Fen'."

Merlin noticed that when Namo mentioned his mother, there was a gentle light in his eyes, but a hint of discomfort.

It seems that the relationship between mother and son is not very good.

"My mother was quite young at that time. She liked to run around. She told me that she left the investigation team and went to observe the humans. She was accidentally injured and rescued by my father. Then love broke out between them."

Namo smiled and said self-deprecatingly:

"But I would rather believe that it was the cause of desire. In short, my mother was pregnant with me and angered my grandfather. The pedantic guy sent someone to kill everyone, including my father, and brought my mother back to the royal city. A few months later, I was born."

Namo quickly found the mechanism with something hidden. He punched the hollow bricks and stones, then grabbed the mechanism inside and pulled it outward, and a secret room appeared in front of Merlin and him.

Namo walked into the secret room, and Merlin followed him.

This secret room is not big, it contains a database that is self-deleting data, and a storage cabinet that has begun to thaw and contains hundreds of genetic samples.

Merlin quickly stepped forward, asking Icarus to rescue the data in the database while releasing magic on the thawed container and freezing it back to freeze.

"Continue to say it."

Merlin was busy, but she still didn't give up on her plan to listen to the story. He urged Namo, and he said:

"What about the story after you were born?"

“The story after my birth is not so beautiful.”

Namo stood in the darkness and whispered in a gloomy voice:

"In the eyes of mankind, Atlantis is a very developed civilization, but in my opinion, it is just a backward kingdom that should have been thrown into the garbage dump. The four major countries of Atlantis all implement backward feudal systems. In the most powerful Kingdom of Atlantis, this traditional system makes people feel so depressed that they can't breathe."

"And I am more like a human than their appearance. Think about it, in such a society, what kind of treatment will an impure child suffer?"

Namo sneered:

"After I became sensible, the first word I learned was 'freak'. They called me that way. Even though my mother had a noble status, the maids still looked at me with the eyes of the bastard... My grandfather regarded me as a shame to the family. He even tried to get rid of me more than once, and the priests tried to drive me out of the sea again and again."

"My cowardly mother dared not challenge the thousands of years of inheritance. One night, overwhelmed, she fled the palace with me. My grandfather and her father did not even send a guard to find her, just because she is like me, a stain on the family."

"She took me to the fisherman's Kingdom, uh, you can understand it as the kingdom of Naga. The legend of Naga in your human mythology is from the soft-skinned snake-like creatures in the fisherman's Kingdom. That country is famous for its elegant poetry and artists, and the king there is also merciful. He acquiesced to my mother and hide in his country with me."

"But we can only live in slums. In order to conceal our identity, my mother casually found a man to remarry and gave birth to a sister for me."

Namo said:

"There is nothing to say about the story behind. In 1970, my stepfather went to sea to work, but was killed by the Trench tribe. The family lost their support. I could no longer bear the suffocating place. Maybe it was fate. In short, I took my mother and sister to my father's world."

"It makes people feel that our family is bullied in their hometown, but they have good luck in the human world. My mother met many kind-hearted people. The time before her death was probably the happiest time in her life. I still remember that she was lying in the yard of Manhattan, basking in the sun and chatting with her good friend Ms. Carter."

"She is already very weak, but she still refuses to return to the sea. Even if she returns to the sea, she can live for hundreds of years, but she doesn't want to face the disappointing hometown anymore."

Namo's tone became softer, he said:

"She would rather die as a human being..."

"Wait, 1970...Ms. Carter."

Merlin suddenly looked back at Namo and said:

"Is the friend who helped your mother settle down in Manhattan named Peggy Carter?"

"Um?"

Namo looked up and looked at Merlin in confusion, saying:

"How do you know her name? Do you know her?"

"Uh, I know each other, and I'm very familiar with each other."

Merlin said:

"I've read some diaries left by Ms. Carter, which records some of her friends in the 1970s, including your mother, who she calls her 'Nancy'."

"Well, that's indeed my mother's pseudonym."

Namo nodded, and he chuckled and said:

"It seems we are really destined to be, but I haven't seen Ms. Carter for a long time. She has disappeared for too long since she helped her move in England last time. She seems to be performing some secret missions or something."

"Ah, that time in England, it was the one you helped her move... no wonder it was so fast."

Merlin shook her head, and many details met. Ms. Carter was indeed a scheming person. She must have many things that Merlin had not discovered, like a secret thread like Namo.

While browsing the only data left in the database, Merlin found the information of x-23, which is Laura's little girl. Sure enough, the x-gene fragment used by Laura's mutation came from Wolverine Logan.

"Damn Logan! He really has to deal with his own blood everywhere..."

Merlin couldn't help but whisper.

From a bloody perspective, Laura and Logan have no connection, but from an ethical perspective, Laura is Logan's daughter, or sister.

He breathed a sigh of relief and asked Namo behind him while saving the information:

"You just said you have a sister? Does she still live in Manhattan?"

"I don't actually have a good relationship with her."

Namo said a little embarrassedly:

"We haven't been in contact for several years, but she prefers human contact more than I do, so I guess she should still live in the house left by her mother. What are you asking about this?"

"I'm a secret agent, man Namo, I like secrets."

Merlin said frankly:

"I like all the secrets...you can choose not to answer. Speaking of which, do you know an Atlantis person named Atlantis? She seems to be the queen of Atlantis."

"know!"

Namo snorted in a weird tone, and he said:

"Queen Atlana is the wife of King Ovax and a member of the royal family. King Ovax is my grandfather and the eldest son of the old and confused Thakur, he is my mother's brother. He took over the throne around 1970 and became the king of Atlantis."

"It is said that Queen Atlana is the distant cousin of King Ovax. They are considered political marriages and close relatives. From the perspective of the family system, Queen Atlana is also my mother's cousin, so I should call her aunt."

Namo analyzed for Merlin a relationship with Queen Atlana, the mother of the little Arthur, and then shrugged with regret:

"Queen Atlanta is not bad. When my mother took me to escape, she helped us send our mother and son out of the Kingdom of Atlantis. She is also one of the few royal members in my memory who do not discriminate against me. I have always had a good impression of this aunt."

"It's a pity that her husband is a bastard and a tyrant. After she left Prince Om for Owax, she was thrown into the dull abyss by Owax because of some trivial matters..."

Namo's voice became a little colder, he said:

"This also made my last bit of affection for Atlantis disappear, but that idiot Ovax probably did too much bad things. I heard that the king was in a bad state recently, and he was probably not far from death... As for his son, my cousin Prince Om, hehe, a arrogant and warlike idiot, as stupid as his father!"

Namo's tone was filled with disgust for Atlantis, but Merlin heard something else.

He stared at Namo, and after a moment, he said:

"You are going to return to Atlantis, right? I feel your hatred for that place, you are going to take back what you have lost... In theory, you also have the right to claim the throne of Atlantis, and once the current king dies, you will have a chance before Prince Om ascends to the throne."

"Why do you say that?"

Namo did not refute this statement, he just asked with interest:

"Why are you so sure I will go back to Atlantis to challenge my cousin? I don't seem to tell you that the throne of Atlantis can be obtained through the challenge of the royal bloodline."

"Because I don't know nothing about Atlantis, brother Namo."

Merlin showed a mysterious smile and said to Namo:

"As for why I'm sure you'll challenge Oum, the reason is very simple... The mental control that Mr. Evil Omen exerted on you is not a rude force control. We have discussed it before. It is an amplification of your inner desires. Since you will call yourself the King of the Seven Seas, it means that you also have ideas about the throne that you scoffed at."

"No, I don't want to be a king!"

Namo stepped forward, and he walked to the dim light, and he said to Merlin:

"I want to go back to that country, I want to destroy those stupid and old-fashioned inheritances... My mother, I know she still loves the place where she was born, even if that place hurts her heart... I want to change it! For those I suffered in the past..."

"Well, very good idea, very interesting ambition."

Merlin reached out her hand and patted her, and he said to Namo:

"I support you, man, but you really have to practice your fighting skills well."

"I'm not going to beat you, Merlin, you should know that."

Namo's expression became serious, and he said to Merlin:

"But you are right, I do have something to be missing... You need the trident in your hand, I can feel it resonance with the sea. With it, I will be more confident in challenging Oum. I want to ask you to sell it to me."

"Sell?"

Merlin blinked, and he shook his head:

"No, that's not a sale...but I can give it to you..."

When Namo heard Merlin's words, he did not show a happy expression. He was a mutant who had lived for a long time. He knew a truth in the world...

Those free things are always the most expensive.

"What do you need me to do?"

Namo asked.

"clever!"

Merlin took out the Poseidon trident from his pocket and threw it to Namo. The latter was taken into his hand. The resonance of the power of the sea made the sea artifact burst out with a brilliant light. In that light, he heard Merlin whisper:

"You are also a mutant. You should know that there is a place in this world called utopia."

"I need you to join that place and join with all your heart."

"And at some point... do me a favor!"

“What’s the busy thing?”

Namo asked with a frown.

Merlin raised his fingers and put them beside his mouth, and made a ban on sound, and he whispered:

"You can't say now, you won't even remember our conversation, but believe me, the time is coming, you will naturally remember everything, and you will naturally know what I need you to do..."

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