Shadow of the Beautiful World

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In the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, in the isolated island prison, Merlin looked at the cell that was slowly closing in front of him. Under the not-so-bright light, the clown, who had been washed clean and changed into a prison uniform, was sitting quietly beside the cell bed. .

He looked a little dazed, occasionally showing a silly smile and giggling, and with the scar on the corner of his mouth, he looked very scary.

Merlin washed away the Joker's memory with the Amnesiac, and burned his evil thoughts and ideas like a fire, leaving only an empty head and the intelligence just enough to survive.

But this guy is still dangerous.

The Forgetting Curse is a kind of continuous magic. For the will of ordinary people, it is basically impossible to recover after being casted by the Forgetting Curse.

But for those guys whose minds are different from ordinary people, the memory erasure of the Forgetting Curse is not complete, and with the help of a wizard with extremely high spellcasting ability, the Forgetting Curse can still be untied.

Although the steps are complicated and the success rate is extremely low, Merlin still needs to prevent this from happening.

To be honest, Merlin was really murderous on the way to bring the clown to the isolated island prison.

He knows what this guy has done in Gotham City in the past few years. Although he looks like a crazy ordinary person, he belongs to the most dangerous group of super criminals.

Dangerous ideas are born in his chaotic mind all the time, and what's more, this guy can often turn those dangerous ideas into reality.

But Merlin didn't want a clown to affect his relationship with Bruce, especially since Bruce had just agreed to join the Avengers, Bruce was much more important than the bastard in front of him.

Take care of him.

Merlin said to the agents around him:

24-hour surveillance, no one is allowed to visit, no one is allowed to enter the cell, no parole is allowed! He will stay here until he dies of old age.

Yes, sir.

Although the agents of the Island Prison didn't understand how the poor, stupid guy in front of him had offended Chief Merlin, he didn't intend to ask.

Every prisoner in this prison has a thrilling past, and they are all extremely dangerous. The first rule to learn when working here is to never be curious about those criminals.

Merlin took one last look at the Joker before he turned to leave.

Behind him, the triple imprisonment around the cell closed one after another, and a data lock that required level 7 authority to open was also locked. The entire cell sank rapidly on the track like an elevator, and finally sank under the seabed.

This is the treatment reserved for the most dangerous prisoners.

And if you want to rescue the clown from such a cell, you must first attack the defense system of the entire island prison.

But this defense system is directly connected to the data center of the Trident Building. Under extreme circumstances, Merlin can lead all the Avengers here in less than 5 seconds.

In other words, the prison is impossible to storm from the outside.

Unless the jailbreaker is a guy so powerful that even the Avengers can't deal with it, but for such a guy, no matter how advanced the defense system is, it is useless.

Dr. Reed woke up five minutes ago, Merlin.

Icarus projected a message in front of Merlin's eyes, the latter's eyes blinked, and then disappeared into the island prison in a flash.

During the transformation of the transfer spell, he appeared on the top floor of the Baxter Building in New York, and then saw three guys who maintained a strange silence.

It's a good thing to escape disaster, my friends, why are you still so silent?

Merlin walked towards the three people in front of him, and he said:

Shouldn't this be the time to pop a bottle of champagne to celebrate?

Celebrate what?

The stone man sitting on the ground murmured, and said in a bad tone:

Celebrating our turning into monsters?

oh?

Merlin asked in surprise:

Mr. Ben, do you think that dying in a disaster is more fortunate than turning into a monster? Also, there should be four of you. Where did Mr. Jonathan Stone go?

Dr. Susan silently pointed to the open window, and there were traces of melting on the glass.

Merlin's expression changed, and he quickly switched to the perspective of Victor, the spirit of the raven, only to see a flaming man dangling in the air above the sky of New York.

His upper body still maintains a human shape, but his lower body looks like a trail of rockets, and he looks completely elemental.

He is not very skilled in flying, but he keeps screaming happily, and seems to enjoy this state of flying freely.

Although the citizens of New York City claim to be well-informed, they have seen all kinds of things, and their attitude towards superheroes is also extremely open.

But now, in broad daylight, a burning guy is flying around in the air, with a scorching flame behind him, which really scared some people on the ground, and of course some bold guys have already picked up their phones I'm taking pictures.

It seems that not everyone has regrets about becoming a monster. Look how happy that young man is entertaining himself.

Merlin stood by the window, he drew out his wand, and while speaking to the three people behind him, he cast a suffocating spell under Victor's positioning.

A white spell streaked across the sky, and flew towards Jonathan, who was constantly changing his flying posture, like an arrow leaving the string. A few seconds later, under Merlin's control, the spell hit the unsuspecting young man.

The oxygen around him was quickly drawn under the effect of magic power, he felt suffocated, and without the oxygen to support the combustion, the flames around him were also extinguished like the flames in a bottle.

Losing the impetus of the flames, Jonathan screamed and fell to the ground, and then was grabbed by the claws of the invisible raven spirit. Between faint neighing, he was thrown into Bacchus like a stone. In the window of the top floor of the special building.

Snapped

Jonathan Stone lay on the ground in a disconcerting posture. He had just experienced hypoxia, which made his face flushed and he breathed heavily. Immediately afterwards, the young man saw a pair of clean clothes in front of him. leather shoes.

He raised his head, looked up, and saw Merlin's unfriendly eyes.

Mr. Jonathan, the flame on your body is a natural fire, and it cannot burn without oxygen. This time it will be a free lesson for you.

With a light lift of Merlin's fingers, the young man lying on the ground was lifted up under the force of gravity. Merlin stretched out his hand and patted the dust on his body. He said softly:

Also, superheroes without legal flying rights are prohibited from flying around in New York City. If you plan to experience the feeling of free flight, you might as well go to the sea to play, or go to the Heroes Association to get a certificate. Not difficult.

and who are you?

Jonathan, a typical young man with an impulsive personality, stared at Merlin and said:

I just want to get acquainted with the ability

It doesn't matter who I am, what matters is that for a former ordinary person like you, suddenly getting an ability means that it was a surprise, and surprise means you were not prepared.

You need time to get familiar with your abilities, and this familiar time, for innocent people, often means catastrophe.

Merlin says:

If you don't understand what I'm talking about, I'll be more direct. Hold back, Mr. Flame, having superpowers doesn't mean you're freer than you were before!

you

Jonathan was irritated by Merlin's blunt speech, his fists were lit with flames, and Merlin looked at the fiery young man in front of him with interest.

He didn't know what kind of personality Jonathan had before, but there was no doubt that after turning into fire, his personality seemed to be as restless as a flame.

It seems that the energy that changed the life forms of these four people also seemed to have a deeper impact on them.

Jonathan!

Dr. Reed, who had remained silent all this time, stretched out his hands, his arms stretched rapidly, like a freely stretched rubber, and appeared between Merlin and Jonathan, making a pause gesture.

Seriously, this scene is utterly eerie.

I just don’t know if Dr. Reed’s other parts can expand and expand at will. If so, then Susan will

Ahem, I can't think about it anymore, it's too evil.

Dr. Reed didn't notice the change in Merlin's expression, he said in a deep voice:

Be quiet, this is Mr. Merlin, the deputy director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Merlin, please don't pay attention to Jonathan's attitude, he is still in the adaptation period just like us, we have all been changed, we need time to adapt

Susan, who was sitting next to Dr. Reed, also said to her younger brother in a bad tone:

You'd better not piss off Merlin, Jonathan, he can beat you to the point of paralysis with one finger.

And, according to the laboratory records, it was Mr. Merlin who saved us from a bad situation, and he brought us back to Earth from space. He is our savior

ah?

Hearing what his sister said, Jonathan immediately put away the burning flames. He looked at Merlin with a trace of rebellion in his eyes, but he still obediently leaned over Merlin slightly, and said:

Thank you for saving us, Mr. Merlin.

Well, it's nothing, it's my job.

Merlin would not care too much about a young man, and judging from Jonathan's performance, this young man's nature is not bad, it's just a problem that some young people have.

I understand, Reed.

Merlin walked up to Dr. Reed. He stretched out his hand and squeezed Reed's arm curiously. His skin and muscles were indeed like rubber and could be stretched.

And Susan next to Dr. Reed didn't seem to adapt to her new ability. She raised her fingers, and the five fingers disappeared during the movement, and then reappeared quickly, just like magic.

As for Ben on the other side, uh, he doesn't need to look at it.

He is the most alienated of the four. He has lost his human flesh and blood. His whole body is covered with stones glued together, and he still has five fingers, but it is so strange no matter how you look at it.

I know what it's like to be hit by a superpower package. We've helped a lot of superheroes through the adaptation period. If you need help, I can introduce you to a great therapist.

Merlin sat beside Reed, and he said to the silent wise man:

But before that, I still have a lot of things to ask you, including some things you encountered during the voyage, those weird stones, and whether there is anything dangerous on the crashed spaceship of the Life Foundation.

Merlin pushed his glasses and said softly:

Our brother department shared with us the search results after the crash of the ship. It was destroyed by an explosion during the crash and set fire to a small island in Borneo. It seemed to be fine, but I always feel that the fire Somewhat too coincidental.

have.

Reed rubbed his forehead and said:

There are four strange and indescribable samples of alien life inside, like wriggling liquid, but it is extremely malleable, and it is precisely because I am too curious about those things that I have never seen that lead to It's all my fault that caused our disaster.

And Paul, we lost Paul, the omnic sacrificed himself to save us, we owe it a debt.

Squirming liquid life?

Merlin's expression changed, and he said:

Describe to me the samples you saw.

Uh, ok, they come in different colors

A few minutes later, Merlin left the Baxter Building and returned to the Trident Building. He sat on a chair, thought for a moment, and said to Icarus:

Notify Coulson, send 'ghost' agents to conduct a secret search of all the laboratories of the Life Foundation, collect evidence, and take immediate measures once a life sample suspected of being a symbiont is found!

Do you suspect that the Life Foundation carried out a 'smuggling' operation of alien life under the nose of .b?

Icarus asked:

That sounds a bit unbelievable.

I'm just skeptical too, Icarus.

Merlin stretched out his finger, and Beowulf made a gurgling sound, and crawled into Merlin's hand in a silly and cute gesture, forming a shape of a ball of slime, and shaking it back and forth, with a very Flattery.

Merlin stretched out his hand to tease Beowulf, and he said softly:

Symbionts are afraid of flames and sound, so it is possible that the four suspected symbiont life samples were indeed destroyed in the flames on that island. After the symbiont died, all that was left was a lump of solidified protein. People who are not familiar with them are indeed It's easy to miss these traces in the field of fire.

But if our hypothesis is true, and the restless pharmaceutical company really played a game of cheating, then the Life Foundation is playing with fire.

Merlin looked at Beowulf, the symbiote twisted and twisted in his hands, and said:

Don't look at the little guy so cute, it's scary when it's ruthless, and the biggest problem with the symbiont is that it needs a host to survive in the oxygen-rich environment of the earth, but while strengthening the host, it will also affect the host

The good ones are better, and the bad ones are even worse. Once the host that the Life Foundation finds is not so 'friendly' and not so firm, if there is a history of crime or intentional injury.

Then we have to face four crazy super criminals who can easily destroy a city, and are very good at hiding and hiding, and they can't be killed no matter what.

Merlin shook his head and said:

This is a dangerous situation and must be taken seriously. But fortunately, we still have time. It is not that simple to find a host that can match the symbiote, so let Coulson not rush to act, first determine whether they exist , if present, lock the position.

He clenched his fingers tightly, and the oozy Beowulf gurgled along Merlin's wrist and quickly transformed into a black windbreaker.

We solve problems one at a time, and 4 symbiotes means we can make four more heroes

Wait, I suddenly had an idea, Icarus, you said, if you equip Clark and Bruce with a symbiote suit to strengthen their strength and their wisdom

Wow, this idea is a bit too scary, but it's worth trying.