Shadow of the Beautiful World

Giggle.

A little girl's crisp laughter sounded in Merlin's house. It was little Ava, who was playing hide and seek with Matt.

Well, playing this kind of game that requires visual sensory support with a blind child is somewhat incompetent, but considering that Matt is not an ordinary child, the two of them played pretty well.

Relying on his amazing hearing, Matt can always accurately find the hidden Ava, but every time Matt is about to catch Ava, Ava will quickly disappear and then appear in another place.

Matt can't see it anyway so it doesn't count as cheating.

Idiot Matt, I'm here and you're looking in the wrong direction. Come on.

Ava, who had reappeared from Quantum Stealth, stood akimbo on the edge of Merlin's garage, calling out to Matt on the other side.

Matt touched his ears with some doubts. It was strange. He clearly heard Ava's heartbeat just now. Why did it disappear all of a sudden?

Could it be that I heard wrong?

But he was a very patient child, and he didn't complain. Instead, he continued to look in another direction, holding the blinding stick he used to disguise himself.

This scene fell into Merlin's eyes. He was holding a Coke and standing by the window, looking at the two friendly children playing. After a while, he turned his head and said to Dr. Foster behind him:

It seems that Ava can control her body freely?

No, she can't.

Dr. Foster, who was wearing a windbreaker, played with Merlin's Cybertron weapon module, and replied:

She has to rely on the quantum state suppressor on her wrist to enter and exit the quantum state, but I have to admit that my annoying old buddy Hank Pym is really a genius. Subsequent upgrades are considered, and the last upgrade module interface is left.

But Ava's situation is not optimistic to be honest. As she grows older, her body's quantization speed will become faster and faster. Now every three months, I have to upgrade the data of the suppressor. According to the current speed, when she is 20 years old, the energy inside her quantized body will usher in a node of explosive growth.

Dr. Foster said worriedly:

If we can't solve her problem before then, what awaits her will be a future that is completely torn apart from reality.

We'll find a way.

Merlin took a sip of his Coke and said:

So the point is, we need to find Pym Hank, right?

Well, so to speak.

Dr. Foster nodded and said:

If Hank's quantum tunnel is completed, we will send little Ava into it, let her stabilize her body structure in the real quantum world, and let her truly master the skills of switching between reality and quantum states. It’s the right way to solve the problem once and for all.”

But he hides very deeply. I have to find two other old friends before I can find Pim Hank.

Merlin says:

This process will take time and patience, but I don't think it will take too long. Speaking of which, how is the gravity engine made by you and Dr. Hall going?

The prototype is almost finished.

A smile appeared on Dr. Foster's face, and he said:

It may still be a few years before it is put into use and mass-produced, but there is no doubt that once the gravity engine appears, it will be one of the greatest inventions of this century.

Fry will be overjoyed.

Merlin smiled:

I remember that he has always wanted a new type of war weapon platform that can take off and land quickly, approach the enemy silently, and achieve complete invisibility. With your gravity engine, this idea should be realized soon.

All right, Dr. Foster.

Merlin raised his wrist, looked at the time, and said to Dr. Foster:

I have something to do, I have to go out for a while, and I will be back in a few hours. Can you take care of Matt for me first?

no problem.

Dr. Foster nodded and said:

I'm on vacation today. I don't have anything to do all day. Go get busy. I'll go and see your alchemy laboratory. I watched animation when I was a child, and I always dreamed of becoming an alchemist.

Just don't drink those potions I cooked.

Merlin handed the key to Dr. Foster, and he instructed:

Those potions are fatal to ordinary people. I keep some notes in the drawer next to the crucible. If you are interested in experiencing the feeling of an alchemist, then you can try to make some simple potions, but you must be safe.

After exchanging a few words with this good old doctor, Merlin used four consecutive transfer spells to travel from New York to Florida, the southernmost tip of North America. To be precise, it is further south of Florida, near the edge of a small island in the Caribbean Sea .

Dobby, a SHIELD operator code-named Leprechaun, is already waiting for him here.

Sir, those scoundrels are right there!

Dobby sneaks behind a rock, using an alchemical binoculars with a constantly moving eye. Observe the bunker-like buildings on the coast of the island. After noticing Merlin's appearance, it immediately reported to Merlin in a high-pitched voice:

Dobby came here with a cargo ship this morning. They unloaded a lot of boxes from the cargo ship, and some strangers were transported back to that bunker.

Who is inside that can be confirmed?

Merlin flicked his fingers, and Victor, the spirit of the raven, rushed into the sky, overlooking and monitoring the activities around the bunker below. Facing Merlin's inquiry, Dobby took out a small notebook from his pocket, and it said:

There's the 'baroness' you asked Dobby to find. She left here this morning, but Dobby took note of her address in New York.

okay, I get it.

Merlin nodded, and he said to Dobby:

Go back to Skull Island and continue your defense mission, leave it to me.

Dobby nodded, stretched out his slender fingers and snapped his fingers, and the figure disappeared on the edge of the island.

Merlin reached out and tapped the sapphire pendant on his chest, and buckled the half-covered mask on his face. He put on black gloves, stepped forward, and disappeared on the beach of the island under direct sunlight.

This Hydra bunker is heavily guarded, there is only one set of passages to enter it, and it has been completely fortified, filled with surveillance cameras everywhere, and various rapid-fire guns controlled by the defense system.

To build such an underground fortress in such a remote place, the resources required to build such an underground fortress are undoubtedly astronomical, which also proves that Hydra's base here is a very important place for them.

Maybe a research lab.

As Merlin walked silently in the passage, he recalled the conversation with the Baroness in Deathstroke's memory.

The death knell is most likely the serum enhancement received here.

If I destroy this place, Hydra will definitely feel distressed.

A cold light flashed in Merlin's eyes:

It's like taking a piece of flesh out of their heart.

Laughing under his breath, he took out his wand, walked out of the base, looked at the patrolling agents around him, waved his wrist, and threw a spell he had never used before.

imperio! (Imperio Curse)

After a while, Merlin took out one plastic explosive after another from his pocket, with the signal set, and put it into the hands of the soldiers with blank eyes and completely controlled minds.

Take it, one by one.

Merlin warned:

Go to the base, find the load-bearing walls, those important equipment, and places with a lot of people, just stand there and wait for orders.

The soul-captured soldiers did not resist at all. They put the dangerous bombs in their arms, and walked into the base in front of them as usual patrolling, under the eyes of Merlin.

And Merlin himself wandered around, as if wandering, walking back and forth in this well-guarded bunker, and every time he walked, he took out an explosive and put it away. The cursed bag, containing a prodigious amount of explosives, was the arsenal he carried with him.

Like a hardworking farmer, he kept planting the seeds of destruction, and then walked all the way into the main hall of the underground fortress.

This is indeed a laboratory, and it is a very sophisticated one. Various experimental instruments that Merlin does not know are placed in every corner. In those black experimental cabins, there are some people who are sleeping or have lost their life activities. Experimental samples.

Merlin also found the death knell that he had met once in Nandalbat. This guy was probably irresponsibly injected with a large amount of serum, his limbs were all twisted, and he was restrained in an erected experimental cabin, almost The state of life and death.

It seems that after he was rescued by the wizard of Hydra, he didn't get any good treatment.

It's pathetic.

Merlin looked at the pale traitor warrior in the experimental cabin, and said softly:

But maybe when you're working with Hydra, you should have guessed what happened to you.

He put down the experimental cabin of Death Knell so that the guy could lie down more comfortably, and then intimately placed 3 pieces of high-explosive bombs around the experimental cabin, so that his old friend Death Knell could Die unconscious.

But what makes Merlin feel a little uneasy is that there is not a single experimenter in this huge laboratory, and there are still traces left by some experimenters on the experiment table, and some experiment logs have not been deleted in time.

They seemed to be in a hurry.

And it wasn't long before he was supposed to leave.

It's really sharp.

Merlin reached out to put away the experiment log, and inserted a USB flash drive into the laboratory computer. While copying the data, he looked around the empty laboratory and shouted to the empty air:

Come on, isn't it just to lure me into such a big scene?

I am coming!

hum

The moment Merlin finished speaking, in front of him was a woman in a long green dress, dressed like a lady, with a gorgeous mask like a cocktail party holding a magic wand in one hand and a black magic book in the other. Book, Shi Shi ran out slowly from the distorted light.

It's you.

Merlin looked at the woman, and he recognized her. It was the wizard who rescued Deathstroke in Nandalbat, and she was also the woman called Madame in the banker's memory.

This is one of the upper echelons of Hydra.

We gave you many chances, Merlin Riley.

The mysterious Lady Hydra raised her wand, and with a violently throbbing green flash shining at the tip of her wand, she said in a hoarse, vicious voice:

But you still keep causing trouble for us. You are like an ignorant and fearless child, provoking forces that you don't understand at all. Unfortunately, your story will end today.

avadakedavra! (Avada Kedavra)

The woman's attack was extremely ruthless, and the first shot was a life-killing curse that annihilated the soul, but at the moment when the death-killing curse was shot, the detonator in Merlin's hand was also pressed at the same moment.

In his eyes, there was still an undisguised sarcasm.

Times have changed, wizard. Avada Kedavra is not the most dangerous thing now.

boom

The high-explosive bombs buried by Merlin in every corner of the bunker were detonated at the same time, and the flames rolling from all directions were like fire dragons raging underground. In this enclosed space, the result of detonating a huge amount of explosives together was almost In an instant, the structure supporting the ground of the underground fortress was destroyed.

In the shaking of the entire island, clusters of smoke and dust mixed with flames made an earthquake-like noise, destroying the entire bunker and all life and existence inside from the depths of the ground.

The ground is collapsing, and a huge depression has formed, like the marks left by an invisible giant punching on the ground.

Amidst the smoke and dust, Merlin's figure appeared on the beach. He didn't have any wounds on his body, and even his hairstyle didn't change. He waved his hand, and with the flick of his wand Lola, a burning flame was summoned, covering all the Hydra warriors rushing from another sentry post in the flames.

Amidst their wailing, Lady Hydra also came out of the light of the Displacement Curse.

But compared to Merlin's leisurely, she was much more embarrassed.

No matter how fast the transfer spell is cast, it will still be affected by the explosion. Lady Hydra's beautiful long golden hair was almost completely burned by the flames, and her luxurious green dress also had many Fragmented, holes burned by flames.

It's like changing from a noble lady to a lunatic with disheveled hair. Uh, no, it's not disheveled, she has no hair anymore.

A bald head, paired with that beautiful face covered in black and gray, is really strange.

avadakedavra! (Avada Kedavra)

Amidst her frantic screams, another green Killing Curse hit Merlin, but after atomization, there was no entity for the Killing Curse to hit, so the green lightning finally disappeared into the sky .

avadakedavra! (Avada Kedavra)

An identical green lightning shot out from Merlin's magic wand and went straight to Madame Hydra. Just before the lightning hit the latter, a strange, black, viscous substance like oil jumped out of the air, helping Jiu Mrs. Snake blocked the blow, and then disappeared without a sound.

Two wizards, a man and a woman, just stood in a stalemate with each other on the beach.

The two put away their wands almost at the same time. The wizard's ultimate attack method was useless to these two people.

Next, they will use other methods to resolve their conflicts.

And today, under this sky, only one person is destined to leave here alive.