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The Mandarin is still missing, but he has lost an arm and 5 ability rings. His overall strength has been greatly reduced, and his threat level has been reduced a lot.

As for the Mandarin's severed arm, it had already been quietly obtained by Adrian's skeleton soldiers lying in wait underground. Because of his sudden fainting, everyone ignored the existence of the Mandarin's severed arm. After waking up, Adrian was busy cleaning up the Mandarin's safe house, and he didn't have time to check the rings.

……

When Wang was satisfied with his meal, he and Adrian packed enough salmon, found a remote corner in the street, and returned to Kama Taj through the portal.

Wang took the salmon to distribute to other mages and apprentices, and Adrian returned to the rest room. He summoned the earliest suture monster. The big mouth on the abdomen of the suture monster opened and spit out the fragments of the Mandarin. arm. Adrien took off the five ability rings and grafted the Mandarin's severed arm onto the Stitch Monster's back, leaving it for other use.

Adrian was curious about what needs these original rings had for the wearer. The Mandarin could wear 10 of them, but these rings had no effect on his hands.

Adrian could not directly distinguish the abilities of these rings. He could only speculate on the corresponding abilities of these "original rings" based on the colors of the derivative rings he had obtained previously. There must be errors, because the Mandarin has 10 original rings, and there are 12 ring ability users under the Mandarin. It often happens that a ring ability user wears 2 ability rings, so these 10 original rings are derived There are more than 12 ability rings released, and it is almost impossible to rely solely on color to work backwards.

When raiding Lord Manchu's safe house, Adrian got a psychic amplification ring from Gale. Counting the previous gains, he now has a total of 5 derivative rings in his hand. Except for the one worn on his left hand, when Adrian opened his close-fitting backpack, he found that there were only three derivative rings left in it, as well as a small amount of metal powder. The psychic amplification ring was missing.

Adrian guessed that these original rings may have some properties that can absorb the previously derived rings. The psychic amplification ring disappeared, and among the 5 original rings, a ring inlaid with blue gems was shining. It was extremely powerful. It may be related to the previous psychic amplification ring.

Among the original rings obtained, there was also a purple ring, which was very similar in color to the energy beam ring Terry was wearing. The specific situation still needs to be studied back in Las Vegas.

A crimson original ring reminded Adrian of Helga's flesh and blood ring. If they are of the same origin, the effect will definitely be stronger. It is very likely that the Mandarin relied on this ring. Survived for a long time.

……

It was now 2 pm on Karma Taj time. Adrian, who had been busy for almost a whole day, took a short nap for 2 hours. After getting up, he said goodbye to everyone in Karma Taj and returned to London.

It was 8 o'clock in the morning in London, and people on the street were in a hurry, starting their busy life for the day. Adrian arrived at the nursing home where Peggy Carter was staying and saw Peggy Carter looking good in the room.

"I brought you coffee."

"Oh, that's great!"

Peggy Carter took the coffee, took a sip, and continued: "Those people didn't allow me to drink this. Phew~ It's such a nostalgic taste. I roughly know what happened. Didn't you find any clues about the Mandarin? ?”

"No, as a person who has lived for a long time, he is cautious enough. I have found several safe houses one after another, but I haven't found any clues, so I don't know where he went."

"That's too bad."

"But it doesn't matter. One of his arms was cut off by Captain Britain, so his threat is much reduced."

"But it's still a threat."

"We'll talk about the Mandarin thing later. I got a new ring. I think it's related to the previous flesh and blood ring."

Adrian took out the original crimson ring and handed it to Peggy Carter.

Sure enough, as Adrian had guessed, after the two rings came closer, the original flesh and blood ring on Peggy Carter's hand glowed red. In the flash, the flesh and blood ring shattered little by little, and finally turned into a pile of powder. The powder The red light emanating from it was all integrated into the crimson original ring.

"This is?"

"I call it the original ring. The ability of the previous flesh and blood ring comes from it. I think the previous flesh and blood ring suited you, and this ring should also suit you. Try it on."

Without doubting his presence, Peggy Carter slowly put the crimson original ring on her finger.

The moment the ring fit against the skin, a burst of red light overflowed and enveloped Peggy Carter. Several wrinkles on her forehead and corners of her eyes disappeared visibly, and time seemed to have gone back ten years on Peggy Carter's body. .

“Amazing feeling!”

The red light dissipated, and as the owner of the body, Peggy Carter felt more intuitively. She opened the bedside table, took out the mirror and looked at it. She gently touched the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes. The wrinkles had faded a lot.

"It's amazing, like magic!"

"This is the power of magic."

"I even feel that my physical strength is slowly recovering."

"It will get better."

"Ok?"

"The Mandarin has lived for hundreds of years, and the power of this ring is stronger than you imagine."

"Prolong life? Return to youth?"

"Maybe, but we don't know yet whether it will have side effects. For example, the owner of the previous flesh and blood ring was a bloodthirsty maniac, and the Mandarin was extremely bloodthirsty and cold-blooded. I don't know if he was affected by the ring. , you still need to pay attention."

"This ring is so important, I..." Peggy Carter was a little embarrassed to accept such an important gift.

"We're friends, aren't we?"

"Thank you!"

"You're welcome! The gift has been delivered and I have to leave."

"Where to go?"

"Back to Las Vegas, where I made my home."

"Las Vegas? It's a nice place."

"Yeah, bye, Peggy."

"Goodbye."

Seeing Adrian disappear, Peggy Carter rubbed the ring on her hand and looked at her hospital bed and the white walls around her. She had many thoughts. She recalled the days when everyone fought side by side.

“It’s so nostalgic!”

……

Although he could go home through the portal, Adrian still preferred to take ordinary transportation when it was not necessary. When Adrian flew back to Las Vegas and took a taxi back home, Terry and Enns were sitting on the sofa in the basement playing games.

Seeing Adrien return, both of them stood up and greeted Adrien in surprise.

"BOSS!"

"Father!"

"Well, has anything happened recently?"

"No, everything is fine! All our money is legalized and we don't have to worry about the IRS anymore."

"Then you're too happy!" Adrian threw a backpack he was carrying to Terry.

Terry opened his backpack and poured out the contents. Most of them were paper documents, involving land deeds and some deposit certificates, which Adrian had collected from the Mandarin safe house.

"BOSS, these are all ours?"

"Not yet. We need lawyer Jennifer's help to handle the transfer."