36. Samples recovered
The form of Ecken, super-level magic, and classification belongs to illusion.
In the wizard world, illusion magic is often known for its fraud and flexibility. It does not emphasize the ability to fight head-on. For illusion masters, they must avoid close contact with the enemy under any circumstances. This is also a magic category that Merlin knows little about.
However, as a super-level magic, the form of existence of the form of Ecken has surpassed the scope of ordinary illusions, and it almost pushed the power of illusions to the extreme.
During the huge magic storm, ten Merlins appeared in one go around the landing spacecraft, just like splitting from Merlin's body. The ten men were exactly the same from the outside to the inside. Each illusion had the same physical qualities as his body, the same spell casting ability, nearly 100% replica, and had complete personal thinking.
It is equivalent to copying 9 selfs, and Merlin's combat power has increased by 10 times in this moment!
Of course, they still share a magic pool.
This means that this powerful magic with a sudden increase in combat power by dozens of times in an instant can last for a period of time, which is maintained according to the total amount of magic power of the spellcaster.
This is probably the biggest disadvantage of this super-level magic, but there is no perfect thing in the world. Compared with the powerful effects of this magic, this disadvantage is almost worth mentioning.
For ordinary wizards, they will be squeezed out of their magic the moment they release their magic. Even Merlin's powerful magic pool will never last more than 1 minute after splitting the 10th level of illusion.
but...
Enough!
Ten Merlins hovered around the spacecraft. The heavy spacecraft fell rapidly under the pull of gravity. The friction with the atmosphere made it the most dazzling meteor that fell in the darkness. The friction around the spacecraft told the friction that even brought about a nearly substantial flame.
The gravity of the center of the earth was like an invisible hand, pulling Reed's spaceship toward the ground like a falling warhammer. This was another battle between steel and earth, and steel had almost no chance of winning.
"gravitational..."
Ten Merlins raised their fingers at the same time, and the 10 extreme gravity-added gravity-in is activated, just like an anti-gravity black hole opened in the sky.
"Clang"
The spacecraft that fell rapidly seemed to hit an invisible heavy shield, and it was like being held by another pair of reverse stretched hands. In the collision between the two terrifying forces above and below, its shell was shaking wildly. The thin swept wings and slightly slender tail on both sides of the spacecraft were torn off from the hull during this collision and threw it into the surrounding air in a flying posture.
The entire spacecraft was buzzing, but the terrifying kinetic energy it carried when it fell was quickly eliminated in the confrontation between gravity and gravity.
Its falling speed was decreasing rapidly. After just 3 seconds, it hovered completely in the air in a broken posture.
“Telection…”
Ten Merlin's fingers touched the shell of the Reed spacecraft in a uniform manner, and 10 targets pointed to the same shape-shifting spell at the same time. The body of the spacecraft and the light around the spacecraft were twisted open at this moment, just like the opening of a vortex light door that rotated inward.
"Swish"
The scorching meteor that had fallen rapidly in the sky disappeared. The next second, it appeared in the empty dock on the 16th floor of the underground base of Pagasos. This place was originally where the Kerry warship seized in the 1994 warship was parked, but the warship had long been demolished by scientists, so it was vacant.
Under the ever-changing gravity, Reed's spacecraft hovered very smoothly several meters above the ground, without even splashing a trace of dust.
"Goodbye, 'raven' gentlemen..."
Ten Merlins waved goodbye to each other, and one by one, the light spots that turned into dark red dissipated, and finally only Merlin's body remained.
"Icarus, open the landing gear."
Merlin ordered, after a moment, during the takeover of Icarus, the internal control system of the spacecraft that had been shut down was restarted. Amid the sound of the collision of mechanical modules, the spacecraft's still complete 15 landing gears were opened, supporting the broken spacecraft on the ground as a whole.
"There must be something in this spacecraft affecting Clark, and those things make him weak... We were negligent just now."
Merlin stepped into the black hole inside the spacecraft, looking for Reed's super-large laboratory, while Icarus seemed silent at this moment.
"Are you scared by the magic just now? Icarus."
Merlin was searching for all kinds of suspicious things in the laboratory where the emergency lights were turned on, and he asked softly:
“Is this beyond your understanding?”
Icarus did not talk back this time, she honestly said:
"If a magic can increase your overall strength by 1 to 2 times, then I can understand that magic is magic after all. But this... is more than ten times or even dozens of times in an instant, which is too unscientific! I even think it is very unmagical!"
"Merlin, don't tell me, you can even do that in the ternary state..."
"What do you think?"
Merlin pushed his glasses and his eyes moved to the corner of the laboratory. On the ground, there was a storage box that should have been sealed, with green fluorescence beating in the dim light.
He walked towards the fluorescence and said to Icarus:
"Copying the ternary system will increase the magic consumption exponentially. Although that state can only last less than 10 seconds... but with the time accelerator, I think it is enough to deal with most scenes."
"This is the trump card. My Icarus is enough to reverse everything at a critical moment."
Merlin squatted down, carefully imposed a protective magic on himself, then reached out and took out a green stone the size of a fingernail from the broken seal box and looked at it.
He could feel that the stone exuded some power that he could not understand.
"What's this?"
He asked.
"It looks like some natural substance, which is radiation-induced."
A blue light shot out from Icarus's frame, scanning the small green stone in Merlin's hand, she said:
"It contains some energy fluctuations that are very similar to gamma rays, but that energy is more complicated. Do you think it's this thing that has caused Mr. Clark to be weak?"
"I can't be sure, Icarus, but the suspicion of this thing is the greatest."
Merlin looked at the box at her feet, which was filled with stones shining with green fluorescent light, and didn't know where Reed and his companions found this thing.
"Can the navigation records be retrieved?"
Merlin put away the box of special substances, he stood up and asked:
“I wonder where they have been to the past three years?”
"no."
Icarus tried several times, she said:
"The navigation data is locked in the core database. The protection program is extremely complicated, like a data riddle. Without Reed's permission, I can't open it."
"So these smart people never forget to show off their wisdom."
Merlin shook his head regretfully, walked out of the cabin, reblocked the spacecraft, and connected the spacecraft to the energy inside the Pagasos base, so that its laboratory could continue to operate so as not to destroy those completed experimental projects.
After all this, Merlin flashed back to the medical office of the Ghost Base. Dr. Moira, Miss Lillian, and Dr. Ziegler were busy. Reed foursomes, plus Clark, who was unconscious, everyone needed help and everyone needed treatment.
"Clark is like he's becoming an ordinary person."
Merlin looked at Clark on the hospital bed. This invincible Kryptonian Superman was weak at this time. He was as if all the energy in his body had been emptied, and even his previous defense as strong as steel was lost.
On Clark's left arm, an infusion needle pierced into his blood vessels, which proved that Clark was no different from a mortal at this time.
"What he needs is not treatment..."
Merlin said to Dr. Ziegler beside him:
“He just needs to bask in the sun to recover.”
After saying that, Merlin reached out and pulled out the needle, he put his Kerry respirator on Clark's face, then carried him up and walked out of the medical room.
A moment later, Horus's transformed black Kerry shuttle quietly rushed into the night sky and flew out of the atmosphere. The pure sunlight outside the ground should allow Clark to recover quickly.
Merlin leaned in the driver's seat, and he looked at the vast stars unfolding in front of him, and said to Icarus:
"It seems that the Kryptonians are not as perfect as we thought they were before. They also have weaknesses. To be honest, this actually made me feel relieved."
"You mean, have you finally found a way to restrain the Kryptonians?"
Icarus asked:
"Is this your 'counter-counter plan' for Clark?"
"That's right, but more of the reason..."
He turned his head and looked at the unconscious Superman beside him, and he whispered:
"It's hard for you to understand. Icarus, being friends with a perfect god... it's very stressful."
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Dr. Reed was in a coma with energy disorder. Without his authority, he could not open the core database of the spacecraft. Merlin could not know what happened in the spacecraft before Reed, his fiancée and his friend fell into a coma.
So he didn't know that at the same time when Reed's spacecraft encountered a cosmic ray explosion caused by a solar storm, a probe ship carrying four mysterious alien biological samples fell into the earth because the spacecraft lost control.
Of course, Merlin didn't know that it did not mean that no one paid attention to this unexpected time. After all, in addition to S.H.I.E.D., there is also a department on the earth that is specifically responsible for dealing with all matters related to extraterrestrial life and extraterrestrial UFOs.
m.i.b, SHIELD's brother department.
When the Life Foundation spacecraft crashed into the earth, m.i.b monitored the fall accident and sent a 2-person special agent team from the Indian branch to check the situation.
The place where the ship fell was in Southeast Asia, to be precise, on a small island in Borneo that was rarely visited.
The two Indian M.i.b agents were very dedicated and rushed to the ground as soon as they received the mission, but their luck was very bad. When their flying car arrived at the detection ship, they saw a burning island.
The area of this island is not large. Some twisted metal plates can be vaguely seen among the burning trees. The devices carried by the two agents can also detect the remaining energy of the spacecraft's superluminal engine falling to the ground and exploding. On the open space on the other side of the island, there is a fragmented hull and one-third of the head of the spacecraft.
This looked like a tragedy of fall, and the burning flames almost burned down all the sample data on the island that could be analyzed. Before the fire was extinguished, the two agents could not do anything.
However, their luck was not particularly bad. Almost an hour later, the owner of the fall detection ship, the representative of the Life Foundation, also took a helicopter to the landing point of the spacecraft. At this time, the agents of m.i.b had put out the fire and were conducting a final search of the remains of the spacecraft remaining on the island.
"Who are you? Why are you here!"
The representative who was escorted by several bodyguards was not polite. He scolded two Indian agents:
"The wreckage of this ship belongs to the Life Foundation. You cannot take anything away! Stop it, don't move it again!"
"Sorry, man, but your detection ship fell, triggered a fire, destroyed everything, and it seems that your detection ship did not bring back anything valuable, it was a waste of time tonight."
A M.i.b agent stood up and shrugged at the angry Life Foundation representative, while his companion put on sunglasses and took out a silver-colored, similar to a large-sized signature pen from his pocket.
The next second, a white light flashed, and no one would know what happened tonight.
But is it really that simple?
No.
Just as the agents of m.i.b completed the mission, a submarine for scientific research was sailing away from this sea area hundreds of kilometers away from the island.
The shell of this submarine is marked with the Life Foundation logo, and in the laboratory inside the submarine, there are four large biological chambers juxtaposed. In that biological chamber, the four collected alien biological samples are slowly squirming.
Thanks to the specially designed biological compartment, they were not destroyed in the fall.
Several Life Foundation scientists are observing these four samples, recording their data.
The crashed detection ship was originally the property of the Foundation of Life. When it completed its final handover with Dr. Reed's spacecraft, the Foundation of Life on Earth received a signal that the ship was performing, and they were ready to receive the sample.
Later, the spacecraft fell unexpectedly, and the Life Foundation also calculated its landing point as soon as possible and sent the nearest scientific research team to recycle the samples.
These scientists were lucky. They found scattered samples before the arrival of the agents of m.i.b and took them away. Before leaving, they set a fire to forge the scene of the spacecraft crash and explosion.
As for the representative of the Life Foundation that appeared last... he is just the last link to win the official.
Chapter completed!