Shadow of the Beautiful World

At 4 o'clock in the morning that night, in the flickering of distorted light, a group of people in winter clothing and equipped with instruments appeared on the edge of the remote Greenland.

S.H.I.E.L.D. consultant Dobby once again successfully brought many people together. During the years of joining S.H.I.E.L.D., the house elf Dobby became more and more proficient in using the S.H.I.E.L.D.

Of course, the leprechaun doesn't like the bone-chilling temperature here, so after sending the agents to their destination, it made another escape and returned to its warm home in North America.

Merlin stepped into the ground in front of him. He felt as if he was stepping on the compacted snow. With his keen senses, he could feel that there was a solid ice sheet under his feet, and the ground in front of him In the night, the vast expanse of white represents that they have come to a place that has been inaccessible for thousands of years.

Accompanied by his breathing, a white mist visible to the naked eye rose in the air, and the surrounding coldness in the air tried to penetrate Merlin's body, but amidst the lingering black mist, the coldness was isolated from the body by the magic power. outside.

Beside Merlin, Coulson, who had wrapped himself up tightly, took out a temperature detector and took a look. He couldn't help shaking his body, and said to the people around him:

Minus 37°, that's terrible.

Well, with this temperature, I feel like I'm alive all of a sudden.

Natasha Romanov, who was urgently transferred back from South America, was not so afraid of the severe cold. She stretched her body, took out some instruments, and began to work swiftly.

Although she was also wearing black, bloated winter clothes, she seemed very comfortable in this deadly cold.

This hairy girl, who was born in Siberia, seemed to be back at home.

Clint, you can't draw a bow at this temperature, use this.

Merlin turned around and threw his sniper rifle, which could take into account both live ammunition and rays, to Agent Patton, who took it in his hand and skillfully pulled the bolt.

.m's camp is ahead.

Merlin shared vision with the high-flying raven spirit Victor, and he quickly discovered a camp with lights on in the snow ditch on the coast ahead. He said to the people around him:

Clint, Dugan, you approach from both sides, I will infiltrate first, wait for my signal to fire.

Natasha and Coulson, you two assemble the biological cabin first, and come over after we have cleared that base.

Merlin quickly dissipated into a black mist that merged into the darkness in the night, while Agent Barton and Agent Dumbo, who was wearing a black round hat, moved quickly to the left and right.

Merlin quickly drifted into the advance base of .m. These guys are worthy of being armed with high technology. In this base far away from civilization, Merlin saw the defense robots patrolling all around, the kind similar to those in Star Wars movies. The -d2 is very similar to the yellow barrel robot. Inside the base, it is assembled into a workshop-like place, and several mechanical arms for digging and deep drilling are still in operation.

However, judging from the depth of the dug holes, it seems that these .m explorers have not been here for a long time, only a few days or so. Probably for the sake of deception, they didn't send too many people here.

They've found the wreckage of Steve's plane that went down that year.

Merlin was suspended in mid-air. In the shadowed corner illuminated by the light, he looked at some twisted metal wreckage piled up in the corner of the excavation workshop. The logo of *** was faintly visible on it.

It is said that Captain America Steve Rogers and the leader of Hydra, Red Skull Schmidt, crashed and disappeared together with the strategic plane used to bomb North America. That super-large plane was loaded with energy bombs capable of destroying the entire east coast. .

In other words, in the last battle of that legendary hero, he saved dozens of cities and tens of millions of civilians by himself.

Merlin pulled out the wand around his waist, and he said to the agents outside the base through the communicator:

Clint, 200 meters in front of you, there is a defense camp with about 20 defense robots and 7 .m mechanics. Dugan, there are no enemies in front of you, but there is an unmanned defense line , you move 300 meters south, then come around the ridge and take the commanding heights.

After 3 minutes, we start to invade!

Time passed by one minute and one second, and after 3 minutes, Merlin appeared from the shadows, waving his wand forward, and two green rays precisely hit the two mechanics who were manipulating the mechanical arms. body.

They are all ordinary people. Under the sudden attack of the sleeping spell, they fell to the ground on their backs without even groaning. A dozen defense robots around the workshop were also activated. The next moment, crazy bullets shot at The direction of Merlin spewed out.

There were also rhythmic gunshots outside the base, as well as the screams of the mechanics when they fell to the ground. Merlin was not worried about Clint and Dugan. They are both ace agents of SHIELD. Can't get anything done.

He drew out the vibrating gold long sword, and walked forward in the frenzy of bullets sprayed by the defense robot. The bullets that penetrated the body scattered and rolled the black mist, but they couldn't hurt Merlin's body.

He quickly rushed to the front of those defensive robots, raised the knife in his hand, and cut the dozen or so robots into a bunch of scrap iron with sparks flying.

The alloy used by these robots is very strong, but it is still far from vibranium.

Five minutes later, Clint and Dugan, with guns on their backs, escorted Natasha and Coulson, who were pushing instruments, into the excavation workshop where Merlin was, and they saw Merlin sitting in the .m In front of the computer, some encrypted information is being browsed.

Since when have you become so proficient in hacking techniques?

Natasha glanced at the screen curiously, and she found that this computer was running a weird program, and many encrypted files had been cracked.

I'll learn too, and I'll improve too, Natasha, you can't always look at me with the same old eyes.

Merlin quickly browsed through the information and said without looking back:

What's more, it is the 21st century, the era of electronic information, as an excellent agent, you should strengthen your studies in this area

Of course, despite what he said, the cracking program running on this computer was not made by Merlin himself. He just took the time to call the ghost base, and he was using George, the big head there, that is, Mordok Soon a small program was sent to his mobile phone.

What Merlin has to do is to connect his mobile phone to the computer in front of him, and then tap the program on the desktop of the mobile phone.

But this does not prevent him from pretending to be mysterious in front of his colleagues.

found it!

Soon, Merlin found a .m detection result of the underground of the nearby ice sheet in those encrypted files. He opened the detection map, and Natasha frowned after taking a look.

33 meters of ice? How did Steve Rogers get buried so deep?

According to this document, the ice around here appears to have been unstable.

Merlin looked at the document, and he explained:

In 67 years, there have been 8 small earthquakes here, which should be the reason why Steve, who was originally on the surface, was buried deeper, which also explains why the continuous search operations of S.H.I.E.L.D. It turned out he was buried so deep that normal detectors couldn't detect his location at all.

Merlin turned to the others and said:

The 'good folks' of .m have helped us locate specific coordinate points. The Avenger Pioneer, who has been sleeping for 67 years, is sleeping at our feet. Let's start working, brothers.

He reached out and typed an instruction on the keyboard, and the two mechanical arms that had stopped automatically because no one was operating them were activated again.

Agents Clint and Dugan each manipulated one and began to quickly dig down, while Coulson and Natasha lifted the black metal box they had assembled from the trailer and placed it on the ground. to start the activation operation.

This is a portable biological cabin specially prepared for this operation by the Logistics Department of S.H.I.E.L.D. It can ensure a constant internal temperature.

Steve Rogers has been frozen for 67 years. It doesn't matter if he is dead, but if he is still alive, it is a delicate operation to unfreeze him from the frozen state.

Just like a mass of meat that has been rapidly frozen, if the method of thawing is not correct, the composition of the meat will be destroyed.

They didn't come all the way here to bring home a rotting mass of meat.

It won't work, it's too slow.

Ten minutes later, Merlin looked at the pothole that had been dug down to a depth of less than 5 meters. He stood up frowning, and said to the agents around him:

Stand back a little, I'll try it with magic.

Be careful.

Agent Duggan exhorted:

There are faults in the ice cap here, don't use too powerful magic, don't cause the ice cap to break again.

don’t worry.

Merlin moved his fingers, and he quickly threw a cloud of black mist into the deep ditch in front of him. With the injection of magic power, the cloud of black mist began to emit a fiery red halo, and the sharply rising temperature pushed the black mist into contact. The ice layer melted rapidly, and clouds of rising water vapor continued to drift in the base of the excavation workshop.

I'll melt down to 30 meters.

While manipulating the scorching black mist to burn down, Merlin said to the other agents:

Then take out the remaining ice cubes all at once, and prepare the cutting equipment. The biological cabin can't hold a whole ice cube.

Beside Merlin, Coulson had already pulled out a camera, ready to record the scene of his idol being rescued at any time. After nearly ten minutes, Merlin put away the black mist, and he motioned for the others to back off, before jumping off. into the pit as deep as 30 meters.

The temperature inside is so low that it can freeze a human body instantly.

Merlin fell under the ice layer. He squatted down and wiped the ice shavings from his feet. Through the 3-meter-thick ice block, he vaguely saw a figure trapped in the ice layer.

He was wearing his famous combat uniform adorned with the colors of the national flag, lying on his back in a mass of twisted metal wreckage, looking as if he had died.

Merlin took off his gloves, stuck his fingers on the surface of the cold ice cube, and penetrated his perception into the ice cube.

Like an invisible tentacle, his perception touched the dusty person in the ice layer. After a while, Merlin withdrew his finger, and he said in the communication:

I found him.

He's still alive, although his vital activity is weak, but he's still alive.

On the surface, Coulson let out a cheer, and at this moment, Agent Damm Duggan clenched his fist hard. Natasha quickly sent the news back to the headquarters. A few seconds later, Fury sent a message with only a simple sentence.

Please escort the hero home. We are all waiting for him.

click

After a few muffled sounds, Merlin used the ray of magic power to cut apart the giant ice block and ice layer under his feet, and then suspended in the air, manipulating gravity to lift the heavy ice block bit by bit.

His movements are very light. After all, the ice is not steel. It will be broken when it is hit by a collision, and it will be shattered into ice slag along with Steve Rogers who is sleeping in it.

Even though superhuman serum was flowing in his body, in this state of ultra-low temperature storage, his body was not much stronger than ice.

A few minutes later, Merlin manipulated the 3-meter-high ice block and placed it on the ground of the excavation base. Agents Barton and Dugan held a small cutter and began to cut the ice. Soon, they cut the giant ice into a shape that could be put into the biological cabin.

Crack, click, click

In front of the biological cabin, Coulson kept pressing the shutter with trembling hands, and took photos of Steve Rogers who was still frozen in the long strip of ice from various angles. He fought side by side with Captain America Agent Damm Dugan stood in front of the ice, his eyes full of anticipation and reminiscence.

He once pessimistically thought that he might never see this old friend in his life, but fate still favors the brave and heroes. In this far away place, he found his captain and friend back then.

He fulfilled his promise to those near-deceased comrades in arms, and he got Steve back.

And in the unclear ice, the soldier whose time was fixed in 1945 still maintains the face when he fell that year.

Wearing a half-covered helmet and closing his eyes tightly, he looked exactly like the black and white photo of Captain America in Ms. Carter's house. Merlin looked at the sleeping man in front of him. He knew that this was Steve Rogers, but Somewhere in the world, there's another Steve Rogers.

Who is real and who is fake between the two of them? Or are they both real?

What is the relationship between this young Steve and that old Steve?

Merlin shook his head, this question seems to have no answer so far.

Let's go!

Merlin took out his pocket watch, checked the time, and said to the others:

Let's send this veteran home.