13. Dark Aid
At the Queens Police Department, Merlin said to Cyclops, who had been put on casual clothes:
"I already have clues, and I will follow the clues to check them."
"About Ororo, I know that you X-Men have always been united and are as close as brothers. You will definitely not give up Ororo just like that."
"But my advice to you is not to interfere!"
Merlin said to the silent Cyclops:
"I'm basically sure now that the Ororo accident will be widely publicized in the news tonight. Now videos have been leaked on the Internet, and even if information control is adopted, it will not be of much use."
"It's a well-designed game, but as Jesse said, the goal of this game is definitely not just Ororo."
Merlin looked at Cyclops:
"His purpose is to provoke the opposition between humans and mutants. The rash intervention of the X-Men, or utopians will only put Ororo in a more awkward and painful situation. This storm is getting worse and worse, and it will even involve all mutants."
"But we can't just watch it!"
Cyclops says:
"The professor certainly won't want us to give up."
"No one asked you to give up Ororo!"
Merlin interrupted Cyclops and said:
"Ororo will not be a problem, don't forget that her nationality is not here, and there is another identity of Orroro besides the X-Men."
Merlin breathed a sigh of relief, he patted Cyclops on the shoulder, and he said:
"Don't worry, once this matter goes up to a higher level, Wakanda will operate, and you don't need to come forward at all."
"Tell Emma what I said so she should not be impulsive."
Cyclops couldn't help but push his tactical eyepiece, and his expression relaxed almost at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Indeed, he had been led by this before, and he almost forgot about it.
Ororo is different from all other mutants.
Behind her is the country Wakanda as the backing.
As the princess of Wakanda and the future queen, Ororo herself also has certain political privileges.
If this happens to other X-Men, the ending will inevitably be very troublesome.
But Ororo is the exception.
"So, is this the negligence of the mastermind behind the ghostly devil?"
Cyclops asked:
"He doesn't know this, or says"
"I can't be sure, at least not at the moment."
Merlin said with a serious expression:
"So I want you not to interfere, let this matter develop first, and see what he will do later."
"What I am more worried about now is that if he has enough information sources and has carefully and detailed thinking and preparations, then this matter is likely to be more complicated than we think."
"It might be a conspiracy to pull Wakanda into the storm circle, too."
"If that's the case, then things will be really troublesome."
"Since you mean, you seem to know who is planning all this?"
Cyclops asked in a low voice:
"Do you need X-Men's help?"
“Not for now.”
Merlin shook his head, and he looked at the night sky above his head, and he said:
"I know who is planning, but I don't know who is behind that guy"
"It would be fine if he was just messing around, but if he had a convergence with the more terrifying darkness, then the problem would be very serious."
"But if you decide to step in this, I need you to prepare from now on."
Merlin said to Cyclops:
"If things don't go well, I can always need your help. It's not a bad thing to give myself an extra choice at any time. As for the interference of spiritual power..."
Merlin reached out and rubbed his forehead, and he said:
"The professor cannot help now, so when I encounter the same force, I may need Emma's assistance. You have to inform her in advance of this."
"Um."
Cyclops nodded, and he whispered:
"When it comes to spiritual power, if the piano is here..."
"Stop!"
Merlin interrupted Cyclops with a voice, and he knew what Summers wanted to say, and he said seriously:
"She can't show up now, otherwise everything will be wasted."
"I asked Qin to meet you at the time to let you, the infatuated prodigal son, understand the seriousness of the matter about Qin!"
"She tells you everything about the strength in her body, about the challenges she is facing now, about the situation she is facing, the danger of losing herself at any time."
"You have to remember that Summers, Qin's trouble is no less than ours. Once she loses control, she will become an uncontrollable risk."
"I see."
Cyclops nodded with gritted teeth and said:
"I will wait patiently for her to come back and be confident."
"Well, that's right. The temporary separation is for a long time."
Merlin laughed and said:
"You are here to accompany Ororo and talk with her. The most important thing is to protect her and protect yourself. Do you understand what I mean?"
"If something happens to you, Qin will have a high probability of not being able to hold on. You are her current pillar."
"I understand."
Cyclops nodded, and he watched Meilin disappear. In this slightly cold night, he looked at the quiet night sky, and then sighed.
A few minutes later, Merlin appeared in the cell passage at the bottom of the Isolated Island Prison without disturbing anyone anymore.
"Shield the surveillance."
Merlin said, Icarus immediately executed the blocking program, allowing the surveillance camera data of this channel to be traced back to 5 minutes ago.
He took a step forward, and the artificial intelligence in the cell at the bottom immediately verified Merlin's permission, a voice with metallic sound quality said:
"The highest authority is passed, welcome back, Agent Merlin Riley."
"Open the incarceration cabin."
Under Merlin's order, this independent artificial intelligence immediately popped up a cage that imprisoned the clown from under the sea.
Amid the sound of mechanical collisions, several blockades were unlocked one after another, and the metal plates in the imprisonment cabin also bounced open slowly.
Merlin looked at the cell where the clown in a restraint suit was still sitting beside the bed and giggling.
Everything looks fine.
"Data backtracking, Icarus."
Merlin took off his gloves while walking into the cell, and he whispered:
“Click out all the visits from the Joker in recent months.”
"Hold on."
Icarus hmmed, connected himself to the access system of the Isle Island Prison, and began to query the records of the lowest level prison.
Merlin strode to the clown.
He squatted down and looked at the face carefully, the scars on the edge of the corners of his mouth, the protruding jawbone on his face, and the deep sleeping eye sockets.
It's exactly the same as he remembers.
"If I'm not wrong"
Merlin stretched out his finger and placed it behind the clown's earlobe. This action made the clown feel itchy and he giggled.
Merlin's fingers moved amid the clown's terrible laughter, and after a few seconds he found a slight bulge behind the clown's earlobe.
"Tear"
It's like tearing off the entire mask.
The next moment, the disguise on the clown's face was torn off.
Meilin looked at the strange face in front of him, which was like a living person who had become a living person, and his fists clenched tightly at this moment.
"It's really hard for you"
Merlin whispered:
"Even the figure looks so similar, it must have taken a lot of effort."
"Data backtracking is completed, Merlin, except for your half-month surveillance, the imprisonment cabin is only open once unplanned, nearly 17 days ago, but the authority is exactly the same as you."
Icarus said:
"Your permissions have been stolen, Merlin."
"Well, many things can be explained."
Meilin looked at the high-tech mask used for disguise in his hand and breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he leaned down and put the mask that had been finished with disguise and printing back on the fake clown's face.
He took a step back and looked at the clown sitting by the bed and giggling, he shook his head.
"The defense system of the Isolated Island Prison is meaningless, not only the Isolated Island Prison, the Ghost Base, but also the 084 Base. It is probably too late to reset the defense system at Pagasos Base."
"And it is possible to alarm the latter."
Icarus reminded:
"You have to find a way to prepare in advance."
"Um."
Merlin nodded, he rubbed his chin, and there was a light of thought in his eyes. After a moment, he said to Icarus:
"The data is connected to the North American Data Monitoring Center and began to search for clowns throughout the continent, and also confirm the current trace of Bruce. I want to meet him as soon as possible."
"You want to start Avengers No. 006?"
Icarus's business has a little more surprise:
"Things haven't broken that far, right?"
"Be prepared for any trouble, Icarus."
Merlin looked at the closed imprisonment facilities in front of him and whispered:
“I’ve encountered many challenges, this time it’s different.”
"A lot of things happened together, either because my good luck ended, or it means that this incident is absolutely extraordinary."
"Check out Banner and Betty's research progress on kryptonite if they are not completed yet, let them speed up!"
"Notify Moira, the symbiosis war suits of 001 and 006 will immediately enter the actual combat simulation stage."
"Swish"
Merlin's figure disappeared in the shapeshift curse and returned to his home when it appeared again.
He hung his coat on a hanger and said to Lorna, a green-haired girl who was sitting on the sofa and picking lipstick and perfume on the shopping website:
"Lorna, is the progress of learning magnetic control with Magnett recently going well?"
"It's okay."
Lorna said without looking back:
"It's normal."
"Well, then come with me."
He waved to Lorna, and he said:
"I have something I want you to help. If you do it well enough, I will double your pocket money next month."
"Okay, okay!"
Lorna wore slippers and shook her fluffy green hair, followed Merlin into the bathroom, and then entered the mysterious room.
Merlin took him all the way to the lab and opened a sealed box.
He took out hundreds of red armor pieces stored there, and took out a drawing from his pocket, and he said to Lorna:
"Can I use magnetic shaping of this armor but don't change the fixed magnetic field frequency inside it? Can it be done?"
"It's a bit difficult."
Lorna frowned, and she raised her fingers lightly. As the magnetic jumps, hundreds of pieces of armor were all suspended in the air, like a metal storm rotating around the green-haired little princess.
She looked at the complicated drawings, then looked at Meilin with her head tilted, and there was concern in her eyes, she said:
"Brother, did you prepare this for yourself? Are you going out to fight again?"
"No."
Merlin narrowed his eyes and smiled. He reached out to rub Lorna's head and said:
"Just an experiment."
Merlin stretched out his finger, and during the unusual casting process, shining Lun runes appeared in his palm, and he said to Lorna:
"I have learned a new magic recently. I need this armor to do an enchantment experiment. Don't think too much, in addition."
"Don't tell Riven and Laura, okay?"
"Information control! I hate information control!"
In a safe house in New York, the clown held the remote control in his hand and looked at various news stations toss and turns.
But except for a few small news media, major mainstream media have no news about the X-Men killing of civilians.
On the contrary, the videos of the storm women slaughtering civilians that the clowns spread have gained great popularity.
Obviously, there is an official force to ban the news about the conflict between mutants and humans that the clown wants to trigger.
But that's OK.
The clown poked his finger on his cheek, and he looked at the website in front of him and smiled proudly.
"Thanks to this era, the speed of information dissemination is more than a hundred times that of the past. There are always those who are eager to see the 'truth'. The more you suppress it, the more they will rebound."
"Things are fermenting, it doesn't matter, I just need to wait patiently"
"You won't see the results you want to see!"
A voice suddenly rang in the clown's ears, causing the clown to jump up from the sofa.
He looked back vigilantly. At the dining table behind him, a strange man wearing a medieval black robe with long hair scattered behind his head and a diamond-shaped blood-colored emblem on his forehead was sitting there.
He wore gloves, his face was pale and his eyes were blood-red, like a vampire, and his behavior was quite like a medieval old ghost.
It's like a ghost coming out of that long-dead era.
“You won’t see the results you want”
The weird man said another word, he looked at the clown, his eyes full of admiration, he said:
"Your method is good, but unfortunately I chose the wrong person."
"Hasn't the financial backer behind you told you that Ororo has another identity besides the X-Men?"
The uninvited man said:
"Not to mention killing 5 cowards, even if she went crazy and killed everyone in a block, no one would hold her accountable."
The clown did not answer, and he turned his head to look at the winter soldier standing aside, like a sculpture.
He seemed to be wondering why the winter soldier, who was responsible for protecting him, would let this weird man appear here.
"Stop thinking about it."
The man stood up, leaned over to the clown with his cane, and said softly:
"I will introduce myself. My name is Evil Zhao. You can call me mr.sinister (Mr. Evil Zhao)."
"Okay, Lord Evil."
The clown pretended to put his hand behind him and returned an inappropriate manner. He showed his signature smile and asked:
"So are you here just to mock my stupidity?"
"No! It's the opposite."
Mr. Evil said in a low voice:
"I saw your potential and I also knew your purpose, so I decided to help you with it. You don't need to consider what I have. You just need to know that I can give you what you want!"
"oh?"
The clown asked with his head tilted:
"Then tell me, what do I want?"
"Chaos, subversion, an evil game."
Mr. Evil Shakes his hand and says:
"You are not the first Chaos believer, nor will you be the last, but you are still special."
"You are the purest one."
"I will help you, Lord Joker, and I have only one request."
"For this era and all the times ahead, for the countless creatures of the past, present and future, Qin. Grey's poor girl, the daughter of the Phoenix"
Chapter completed!