Shadow of the Beautiful World

Ten minutes later, Merlin put down the storybook The Little Prince in his hand, and looked at Laura who was already asleep. The girl was unexpectedly quiet when she fell asleep. She held Merlin's hand tightly, as if she had found Like something that would make her feel at ease.

If you have kids of your own, then you're definitely going to be the best dad in the world.

Logan leaned against the door of Laura's room, and he said to Merlin:

Looking at the way you told her the story, it's really hard to imagine that you will be a secret agent who kills people without blinking an eye, and makes the aliens run away after hearing the news.

I don't know if you are praising me or mocking me.

Merlin reached out to help Laura cover the quilt, and he said softly:

In New York's heterosexual circles, my reputation can't get any worse. Those vampires use 'raven' as a curse word. But it's really nothing, as long as you don't care what other people think of you, those rumors Gossip is useless.

Speaking of which, you haven't told me why you were in such a bad mood after you came back this time.

Merlin gently turned his fingers into mist and broke free from Laura's grasp. He looked back at Logan, and said:

If I remember correctly, you have been looking for your son in Dongying for the past few years. I guess that your bad mood has something to do with him?

right.

Wolverine shook his head, and there was an unconcealable loss on his wild face, and he said to Merlin:

Go out and have a drink.

Let's go drink in the backyard.

Merlin said to Logan:

Laura lived in the house for the first time. I was worried that she would not get used to it. I had to watch her.

OK.

A few minutes later, two old men set up a table in the relatively spacious backyard of Merlin's house, opened the two bottles of wine that Logan brought, and sat there under the starry sky in the backyard.

Do you want to play cards?

Merlin took out the Gwent card and gave Logan a nod. He said:

I remember I taught you how to play.

Forget it, I can't play with this thing.

Logan drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, and said:

I hate all entertainment that requires the use of the mind.

Is it such a coincidence?

Merlin put away the cards, he winked at Logan:

In addition to Gwent, I am too. Tell me about your son

His name is Daken.

Logan poured himself wine and whispered:

Daken Changhong, a little kid, younger than Lola, but more dangerous, but I can't remember what his mother looks like at all, and I don't have a photo to remember, I forgot that Woman, but I must have loved her, I must have lived there a long time before I forgot her.

Wow, that's what deep amnesiacs are like.

Merlin pursed his lips, and said:

It's pathetic and pathetic but then again, if I remember correctly, the word Daken is not a good word in Japanese. 'the meaning of.)

I guess your son must have had a bad time these years, right?

Merlin asked.

Wolverine's expression darkened a little, and he said:

I don't know, he hides his background very well, I just know that he has appeared all over the world these years, and now, he is mixed with a group of broken Japanese gangsters and ninjas, what's called 'Island The Tian family' and the 'Hand Association'.

I met him two weeks ago. In fact, I didn't find him. I feel that he came to me on his own initiative.

Logan said:

At that time, some 'little' conflicts broke out between me and the Patriarch of Yashida Industry, and my self-healing factor was almost taken away. At the most critical moment, Daken appeared, and the child helped me kill that ungrateful bastard. Then he took me out of danger, took out my heart and intestines, and left me in the wilderness to die.

The relationship between you and his father and son is really distorted.

Merlin said:

Saving you first, then killing you, how should I evaluate this behavior?

Crazy, or revenge

Logan sneered, he looked at the starry sky above his head, and he whispered:

He told me that it was to avenge me for killing his mother. He said that in the winter of 1994, I just cut open the poor woman's stomach and threw her and her baby in the snow to wait. die.

That's not like something you'd do.

Merlin frowned and said:

I mean, you are very good at killing people, but torturing people is at least in the information I found, you don't have this hobby.

But the problem is I don't remember, Merlin.

Logan pointed to his head:

I don't have any impression in my mind, it's like it's been cleaned. I can't remember those things. I've lived for more than 200 years, but I can only remember the things in the past ten years. Those things in the past , the ones I have done with my own hands are only fragmentary and often contradictory. For example, I clearly remember seeing Charles when he was young, and he seemed to beat him, but he told me that when he was young, he did not Haven't seen me.

Maybe Daken is telling the truth?

Logan took a sip of his wine, and he said to Merlin:

Maybe the forgetting of those memories is not because of other people's intervention, but because I want to forget it voluntarily? Maybe I was once a heinous guy?

You think too much.

Merlin took a sip of his wine and said to Logan:

As long as you find the right way, the memory can be modified, but the nature cannot be erased, just like the endless anger surging in your heart cannot be programmed the day after tomorrow. Modifying the memory should also follow the basic rules, unless you encounter some It's an indescribable power, but it's so rare.

Logan, you may not be a good person, you may have done bad things, but you are certainly not a villain who takes pleasure in violence.

hehe.

Wolverine smiled and said:

Thank you for supporting me, brother, but there are some things that cannot be explained.

Go ahead and talk about Daken, and talk about your son.

Merlin says:

You're not the kind of guy who would give up easily, so I guess, when you come back this time, besides meeting Laura, do you have other work to do?

right.

Logan said:

I suspect my son, he may have been brainwashed by some people, you know what I mean? Young people, especially adolescents, are always impulsive and easily indoctrinated into dangerous ideas.

According to what he said, when I killed his mother, he was not yet born. He couldn't know the circumstances of his mother's death. Someone must have told him. I have to find that person, and find the person who raised my son. A man who becomes a killer and a villain.

Do you need my help?

Merlin says:

If you use the power of S.H.I.E.L.D., your pursuit will be easier.

No, no need.

Logan refused:

This is my family business, and I can feel that there must be a conspiracy against me behind this. You have caused enough trouble, this time I will do it myself.

Well, whatever you want.

Merlin raised his glass to Logan, and he said:

But don't forget, you also have friends. When you can't handle it alone, remember to ask for support. Where are you going to find out?

Where it all began.

Logan breathed a sigh of relief, he drank the wine in the glass in one breath, touched his mouth, and said:

Canada, Hautley Manor, and then the first test site of Project X. Daken revealed that he has been there

You know? Merlin, I have a feeling right now that the Weapon X plan is not as simple as it seems on the surface. When I killed Stryker, that bastard also told me that he was just an insignificant pawn. There is a more terrifying darkness waiting for me ahead.

Actually, I have doubts for a long time, why you?

Merlin was playing with the wine glass, he questioned:

There are so many mutants in this world. You are not the most powerful, nor the most unique. You just live a long time and have a self-healing factor. So why are you? I have read the dossier of the X weapon project, from From an outsider's perspective, I feel like the entire Weapon X program that has been on and off for decades revolves around you.

I don't know, Merlin.

Logan showed a bitter smile, and he shot himself in the head, saying:

There's no answer here, I'm like walking in a fog, I don't know what's ahead, but I can't stop until I get to the end. Oh, yes, there is one more thing.

Wolverine scratched his tangled hair and said to Merlin:

There is bad news. The saber-toothed tiger that I killed a few years ago has also been resurrected. I saw him in Japan, and he was with Daken. It seems that he is plotting something, as if the hand is going to do it Something big was involved, but I remember very well that I killed him completely by chopping off his head with Muramasa.

Muramasa? A saber-toothed tiger?

Merlin said in surprise:

Is he dead? No wonder the undead mercenary has been so inactive these past few years, but you said that the legendary demon sword can kill a mutant with a self-healing factor? Is it so magical?

It's not the legendary one, but it's really made of special steel.

Logan took out a broken blade the size of a palm from his pocket, and threw it to Merlin. Merlin held it in his hand, and it felt cold to the touch, as if touching ice.

This is not the knife I used, but it has the same magical effect. It can prevent the self-healing factor from working. A weapon made of this material can theoretically kill those guys like me.

But after I killed the sabre-toothed tiger last time, I left my knife in the Xavier Academy of Mutants.

Logan said to Merlin:

I remember I gave it to Charles because it was the only thing in the world that could stop me from doing bad things, and I had to give it to the most trustworthy person who wouldn't use it casually.

I can understand, good man, but maybe you should have been more cautious.

Merlin played with the broken blade in his hand, he said:

But what happened to this fragment?

I have no idea.

Logan explained:

When I left Dongpu, I vaguely remembered something. I went to a small island on the other side of Okinawa, and found this in a ruin on the coast. Maybe it was a weapon I had used. Maybe the answer is Among the memories that have been completely forgotten, I don't know, I can't recall.

Wolverine sighed regretfully, and he said to Merlin:

I've given this to you, so take it as a gift from me to Little Wolf Girl.

The saber-toothed tiger is a complete lunatic, and he is full of hatred for me, especially likes to hunt and kill women who have relations with me, and has a perverted desire to torture, just like I always fall into the arms of those red-haired opposite sexes, This may be the nature that cannot be eradicated.

Logan made a rare joke, and he said to Merlin seriously:

The saber-toothed tiger may come to look for the little wolf. You have to protect her, or let her have the ability to protect herself. The thing in your hand can really kill the saber-toothed tiger. Promise me, if he really appears, then never show mercy

I'll reforge it.

Merlin put the black shard in front of his eyes, and said:

Although the person who is best at manipulating metal is gone, we still have a new option. I will give it to Laura. That child does not need my protection. She has the ability to protect herself. She has the same power as you. self-healing factor

The self-healing factor is not a panacea.

Logan poured the last bit of wine into the glass, and he said to Merlin:

Laura is not me. She has the weakness that all self-healers have. She doesn't have an Adamantium alloy skeleton. If her head is cut off and cannot be brought back in time, she will die. However, since she has survived those lunatics The Adamantium alloy injections on her arms and feet prove that she can survive a full body injection like mine, maybe, you can

No, I won't do that.

Merlin says:

I will not turn my child into a weapon like yours, the process is too painful.

whatever.

Logan stood up, moved his body, and said to Merlin:

I just made a suggestion, well, the wine is over, I should go.

I won't send you off.

Merlin stood up, drew his wand, and said to Logan:

But I can give you a gift, stand still!

The dark red magic wand Lola lightly tapped on Logan's forehead, and in the beating of Merlin's unique dark red magic power, a temporary spell was cast on Logan's body.

The temporary version of Occlumency can make you exempt from all spellcasting abilities not higher than mine, psychic infiltration and amnesiac, but it can only take effect once. Of course, when facing an enemy like Professor Charles who is proficient in psychic abilities, your last Just don't expect it to protect you for long.

Merlin says:

But it may make your journey easier. I will give it to you for free this time. If you need it next time, you will be charged.

Thanks.

Logan touched his forehead. He could feel a wall-like power outside of his chaotic spirit. He nodded to Merlin, then grabbed the leather jacket at hand, and quickly disappeared into the in the backyard.

When will you bastards learn to walk through the door?

Merlin watched Logan jump over the wall nimbly, he complained, then went back to the study, changed into pajamas, and prepared to rest.

In the early hours of the morning, Merlin was awakened suddenly. He looked down and found that Laura who was wearing pajamas ran to him at some point. Judging from it, she should have just had a nightmare.

This reminded Merlin of the situation when Lorna first moved in, and Lorna was the same as Laura at that time.

well

Merlin sighed. He adjusted his posture. Without affecting Laura, he leaned against the head of the bed, then waved for a magic book, and read it in the dark.

Fortunately, he is a wizard and does not need sleep to replenish his energy.

Don't be like that rebellious Daken when you grow up.

Merlin suspended the magic book in front of his eyes, gently stroked Laura's black hair, and said softly:

That would break my heart.