Shadow of the Beautiful World

Merlin's advice was mild.

But Gordon has no right to refuse.

In many cases, a large number of people does not mean an advantage. Once a group of teammates who are not so suitable is selected, a large number of people will become a great disadvantage.

In fact, if Gordon chooses to have a 1v1 battle with Merlin, then his ability to appear and disappear may not be able to defeat Merlin, but it is absolutely fine to take Lincoln away calmly.

Unfortunately, the teammates he chose have now become his biggest weakness.

As the instructor of these young aliens, he couldn't just give up on them.

Under Merlin's friendly suggestion, Gordon finally threw away the curved dagger in his hand amid the struggles of the four young aliens with increasingly painful expressions.

He looked at Merlin, and said:

What do you want to talk about?

What I want to talk about is what this young man Lincoln desperately wants to know.

Merlin flicked his wand, and the young aliens who had been caught in the air fell to the ground, but the mist floating in the darkness was still wrapped around their necks, which meant that Merlin still determined their lives.

He said to Gordon the Eyeless in a tone of reproach:

I don't know much about the behavior style of the aliens, but you can't just take a young man who knows nothing about you from his home and take him thousands of miles away. Not only does this not meet the definition of friendliness, it is more Against the law, Mr Gordon.

You act like a kidnapper!

law?

Merlin's words made the stranger let out a strange laugh.

In the past 10 years, in North America alone, more than 260 aliens who are about to awaken have been imprisoned in your hospitals and mental institutions because they cannot control themselves, and 57 of them are suffering from unbearable drug torture. chose to commit suicide.”

They should have a brighter and freer future, but unfortunately, your laws don't give them the right to choose, do they?

Judging by Lincoln's reaction, I don't think we made the wrong choice in sending young people who couldn't control their violent instincts to the hospital.

Merlin retorted:

Their behavior has already caused a threat to others. Gordon, if you or the organization behind you have a way to solve their problem, then you should come forward to solve the problem before the situation deteriorates, instead of waiting until now to take this The black pot was thrown on me.

I didn't kill them!

We sent someone to talk to the parents of those young people!

Gordon said:

We even talked to the doctors, but they couldn't understand, let alone let their children accept the fate. We saved the rest of the 260-odd young people, in our own way.

The leader of the 'Afterlife' organization realized very early on that we should keep a distance from ordinary people. When facing unknown things, the first thing you show is always the most direct malice.

The Eyeless Man said in a tone of undisguised hatred:

Including me, every alien in the afterlife has had a painful life. We choose to live in seclusion, we choose to report to the group for warmth, and we hide from you, but even so

He looked at the four young men controlled by Merlin, and his tone became even colder:

You still don't want to let us go!

This is my personal behavior.

Merlin says:

Whatever you think, whatever you want to yell like a persecutory paranoid maniac, I don't care. What I want to know is, what the hell are Inhumans? You look a lot like mutants.

Mutants? No!

Gordon shook his head:

We are completely different from mutants. The awakening of mutants cannot be controlled, but aliens can choose their own lives.

He turned back to Lincoln who looked wary next to him and said:

Actually, Lincoln Campbell, I want to bring you back to the world to solve your instinct to awaken. But we will not force you. If you don't want the power contained in your blood, we will help you through it. The most difficult awakening period, after you can control your emotions, we will send you back to your world.

He said to Merlin again in a sarcastic tone:

We are different from you, we know the pain of being coerced, and we will not inflict this pain on our fellow citizens.

Then you should make it clear in advance!

Merlin said bluntly:

The deterioration of the matter in front of you to such an extent is all caused by your concealment.

Then what should we do?

Gordon retorted:

Just reveal our existence to a young man who can't control himself? They won't believe it until they see other aliens in the 'afterlife' with their own eyes.

Ordinary people are like this, suspicious and conceited, always interpreting kindness as malice. In the past ten years, many aliens chose to join us, but there are also more people who were sent back to the world of ordinary people after being cured .”

They have to trust us before we can help them.

Gordon looked at Merlin, and said:

I never thought of hurting any ordinary person. If it weren't for your arrogant obstruction, Lincoln would have received treatment in the 'afterlife'. You thought you were helping him, but in fact, you were only delaying his recovery.

He has entered the final awakening period. Lincoln has delayed it for too long. He is almost 21 years old. If he has not learned to control the instinctive restlessness before the awakening period is over, then the violent and restless destructive desire will Like the scariest spiritual scar, it will accompany him for the rest of his life.

You're destroying him! 'Good-hearted man'!

So what the hell is going on here?

Hearing this, Lincoln finally couldn't bear it anymore. Under the threat of self-madness, he asked sharply:

Awakening period, and mental scars, what's going on?

Merlin also asked:

If you want to end this matter peacefully, Gordon, you should tell us everything we should know now.

You are not a stranger.

Gordon said to Merlin:

I cannot share our secrets with you, it would endanger our existence.

he is!

Merlin pointed to Lincoln and said:

If you don't make it clear, I won't let you take him away. If your organization is really as kind and just as you said, then I don't think it should be a big deal to reveal some insignificant secrets in front of a young man's future. Big problem. Or

Merlin waved his wand again, and the four young aliens were lifted into the air again. He shrugged and said to Gordon:

You can understand that I am threatening you with the lives of your compatriots.

Say it.

Merlin gently advised:

Before things get worse, speak up. You are not fighters, I can feel that even you are not real fighters, so don't demand the loyalty of fighters from yourself.

Gordon was still hesitating, but under Lincoln's pleading and Merlin's threats, he finally chose to compromise.

After a few minutes Gordon said in a low voice:

'Afterlife' is an alien organization. We were officially established ten years ago, but we are not an orthodox organization of aliens. You can understand that 'afterlife' is just a shelter for aliens.

I actually don't know how many aliens exist in the world. As I said, we are different from mutants. Our evolution and awakening can be controlled by some kind of substance, and after the evolution is completed, we are different from ordinary people. There is almost no difference. So if our countrymen try to hide their presence, there is no way for anyone to detect them.

What about your origin?

Merlin asked:

You should at least know where you are from?

Actually, we don't know.

Gordon said with some regret:

There has never been any specific information about the inheritance of Inhumans. I only know that Inhumans appeared no later than Mutants. In fact, our ancestors and Mutants appeared almost at the same time. According to the information we know now, the first group of aliens existed as early as the ancient Egyptian period.

As for awakening, it's a difficult thing to describe.

Gordon said to Lincoln:

The awakening of aliens is the easiest when they are children. They only need to be exposed to that mysterious substance to complete the awakening quickly. As the age increases, the danger of awakening becomes greater.

According to our experience, there is a concept of 'awakening period' in the recovery of aliens, and this time is uncertain. I have seen a 57-year-old man enter the awakening period, and I have also seen a 15-year-old child enter the awakening period.

That was a deadline, and it was a warning sent to the host body by the power in the alien's bloodline, which had a premonition of its imminent disappearance.

It manifests in the form of a normal person suddenly unable to control his instincts, just like you, restless, restless, and full of destructive desires. If you have not entered the awakening process at the end of the post-awakening period, then the accompanying With the disappearance of instinct, there is also a part of your will.

You will completely become a lunatic who can't control himself in the last madness of instinct. Of course, not every alien will have such a situation.

Gordon looked at Merlin, and said:

We speculate that this has something to do with the amount of certain gene fragments in the blood. The people who will have signs of sudden awakening are some individuals with fewer alien genes. For those alien blood passed down from generation to generation, they have never been From childhood to old age, it can be awakened at any time.

Then what should I do?

Lincoln looked at Gordon, who said to him:

Follow me to the 'afterlife'. If you are willing to accept the awakening, then we will help you. If you are unwilling to embrace the power of your own blood, we will use secret methods to help you completely get rid of the influence of instinct.

We won't force you.

Then how do you identify different people?

Merlin asked again:

You must have some way of detecting whether an ordinary person is one of your own.

we do not have!

Gordon said regretfully:

This is the problem. In the past ten years, all we can find are some people with few alien gene fragments. We can only find them when they show signs of awakening. For those aliens with pure blood In other words, whether they choose to awaken or not, they don't need our help at all.

And in the eyes of those alien families who have inherited the ancient tradition, we are just a group of inferior people who are not worthy of attention. I have said that the aliens in the 'afterlife' are just a group of poor people who reported to the group to keep warm.

No wonder.

Merlin nodded, and he waved his wand to release the four bound young aliens. He said to Gordon:

No wonder the fighters you brought are so weak. It turns out that you are not truly elite aliens. You just said that your 'afterlife' organization is not orthodox of aliens. Then what I am curious about is that your aliens Is there an absolutely orthodox organization among people?

have.

Gordon said:

Although I don't know where they have migrated to now, the Yiren Dynasty is real!

In our legend, the dynasty formed by the most orthodox and powerful aliens is the most orthodox inheritance of aliens from ancient times to the present. We have a king of aliens. It is said that his strength is enough to easily destroy this world. world.

Actually, the position where the 'afterlife' exists now is exactly where the Inhuman Dynasty was hundreds of years ago. But they have enough power to realize the migration of the position, and they are unwilling to intervene in the affairs of human civilization. They have enough Ability to protect ourselves, but also maintain a high level of independence. As for us

Gordon said lonely:

We're just a bunch of unrecognized exiles.

It seems that you don't know much yourself, what a pity.

Merlin nodded, he basically had no doubts, and even if he wanted to know more, this Gordon in front of him would definitely not tell him any more.

So Merlin turned to look at Lincoln, and he asked:

So, now it's up to you to make a decision. Lincoln, should you go with them? Or should you stick to it?

I don't trust them, but they can help me.

Lincoln listened to Gordon's speech. Although he still didn't trust this group of strangers, for now, if he wanted to solve his own problems, there were really not many choices left for him.

Merlin also understood Lincoln's concerns, and he turned to Gordon and said:

I don't care about other aliens, but since I met Lincoln, I can't ignore him. I will pay attention to him, and you must ensure that he is free to come and go.

This is impossible!

Gordon said forcefully:

Once he chooses to become an alien, he has to stay in the 'afterlife'.

We don't need his power to do bad things, but to protect him. You are not aliens. You can't understand the ugly things that ordinary people have done to us. During your Second World War, we Thousands of your compatriots have died in your labs.

It's not WWII now, you bigots.

Merlin said with a headache:

And even if he comes back, he will no longer be an ordinary person. He will accept the supervision of my organization. It is impossible for us to let a person with weird power run around in the world of ordinary people.

Your organization?

Gordon looked at Merlin suspiciously:

Does your organization specialize in managing these oddities?

certainly.

Merlin took out his ID, shook it to Gordon, and said softly:

Sl.d., a subsidiary of the international official organization S.H.I.E.L.D., specializes in dealing with supernatural affairs, understand?