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Garrod was silent for a long time.

It seemed that the flame that burned everything appeared before his eyes again, devouring the white city and woods at the mouth of the river, and reflecting the night sky into a frightening bright red.It was not the worst scene he had ever seen, but it was absolutely unforgettable. It was like a river that split his life in two. From then on, he was no longer a child who could only rely on Glorfindel, and finally saw the cruelty of fate. With the pain of being unable to sleep in the dead of night.

"I thought you were dead."

Standing up slowly while leaning on the wet wall, it was hard to tell what expression he had on his face: "When I came back, the forest had been turned into a sea of ​​fire by the flames, and it was impossible for anything to survive such a fire. "

"But there are always exceptions, isn't it?" Shrugging, the half of the face of the man that was not burned by the flames was peaceful, but it made the elf feel a bit of coldness for no reason.

"The result of the matter is that I survived the massacre provoked by your family. As a price, I can only maintain this ghostly appearance forever, wandering in Middle Earth like a dead soul."

He smiled.

"You can't understand it, you can't even accept yourself, you can't even die. It took me a long time to complete this transformation, otherwise, you wouldn't have seen me until now— —”

"I should have wrung your neck long before the elves sailed west."

Garrod was taken aback.Not because of the hatred and threats hidden in his words, but because of a certain possibility he revealed.

change.

Can't even die.

There is also an extremely complicated dark aura about him that doesn't look like an elf or a half-orc.

"You..." He couldn't help frowning.

"It's incredible, isn't it?"

As if knowing what Garald was thinking, the man casually touched the iron bars of the dungeon where the elf was being held in front of him.With a slight force, the hard metal was twisted into a ball, as easy as pinching a piece of grass.

And this is by no means the power an elf should have, Garrod knew very well.

"I kind of like it now, to be honest...although it was a bit difficult to get used to at first."

Almost sighing, he tore down the iron door, and the man walked into the dungeon. The tall figure gradually approached the elf, enveloping him in a suffocating oppression and darkness:

"You should have experienced the pain of an elf polluted by hatred and evil, but it's not even one-thousandth of what I've ever felt - the body is destroyed, the best things are lost, and there is nothing but hatred Valinor will not accept a soul stained with darkness. I will never be reborn in the hall of Mandos, and I have become the most hated enemy I have ever been. release from longing."

He stretched out his hand like lightning, and strangled Jarod's neck before he could react.The man pressed him hard against the wall, and the half-angel, half-demon face slowly approached, allowing him to clearly see the thick shadows entrenched in his eyes: "So, Jarod, what do you think I am now?" ?”

He felt the hands on his neck tightening, squeezing out the remaining air in his lungs little by little.Jarod opened his mouth in pain, and managed to squeeze out a word. The voice was extremely soft, but it was still easily captured by the hearing of the elf, making the man squint his eyes in satisfaction.

"That's right." He let go of his hand in pity, and watched Jarod fall heavily to the ground: "I'm no longer an elf, and I don't even look like a half-orc, but there's nothing wrong with it. Well... In order to train the half-orcs they found to be monsters like me, Hydra took a lot of trouble to capture you for experiments, and I just need to wait for them to finish this thing, and then I can be with them. Get what you need."

"What do you want to do?"

Covering his bruised neck, Jialude raised his head and looked at him: "Kill me?"

"Why should I kill you? Let you return to Mandos completely and be reborn?"

Glancing at him strangely, the man pulled up the hood again, and once again hid everything under the black cloak, like a ghost that has been wandering for thousands of years:

"There are more things to care about in this world than you, Son of the Noldor. You have fought the Goblins so long, you should know that they are always driven by hatred, and have nothing in their eyes but destruction. This is what I The thing to do, and you, will watch everything you care about being buried, and then regret why you didn't do it when I asked you to kill me, because you were selfish and didn't want to let yourself bear the guilt. "

"In a way, you made me, Garrod."

He chuckled softly.

"So, in return, I will let you, like me, fall forever as an elf."

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"Depraved."

Sitting in the solemn conference room, Coulson, who was busy tinkering with the tablet, suddenly spoke up, scaring almost everyone.

"what?"

Turn your head back from a virtual screen full of data.Tony, who was already dizzy, pressed his eyebrows, glanced at Captain America who had been flipping through the documents at the table without looking up, and stared at Coulson with a bad expression: "What depravity?"

Since Garrod was taken away by Hydra, they have been gathering in the Avengers Building to track every piece of feedback and all the possible hiding places of Hydra, trying to determine where the elves were taken. .But because there are too many clues, nothing has been found so far, and every futile investigation will make the temperature in the building even lower. 90.00% of the cooling effect comes from the 90-year-old man who has almost never closed his eyes. Tony couldn't help feeling silently, all his complaints about the old Popsicle had come true in the past few days.

Therefore, in order to prevent Coulson from being thrown out by his idol's shield, the president's father felt that he had to remind him; "You can think it through before you talk, it's better to say something we need now."

"hope so."

Already accustomed to Tony's eye attack, Coulson put the tablet back on the table, looked up at Steve and nodded slightly: "I suddenly remembered something Jarod once told me about those things he called The origin of the orc monster."

When Feanor led the Noldor who followed him to the land of Middle-earth, he was immediately hunted down by the orc army and other dark forces.Although Garrod was actually following Fingolpan, another leader of the Noldor, this did not prevent him from hearing about the tragic battle from others later.According to the rumors of the elves, the ancestors of those half-orcs were all servants kept in captivity by the Lord of Darkness, and they were the sons of Iluvita who was seduced by Melkor and fell.They were instilled with hatred for the creatures of Arda from birth, and whenever they had the opportunity, they would pour out their anger on all the creatures in Middle-earth, and destroy everything in sight without hesitation.

"Most elves and men alike believe that orcs are descended from the first humans to fall."

After thinking carefully for a while, Garrod gave a statement that he thought was more credible:

"Some of them were bewitched by Melkor, betrayed their creators, and made the enemies of Iluvatar their kings. They made their souls and bodies weak, and gave the darkness a good chance to corrupt them. And when they were enslaved And after suffering, they gradually turned into half-orcs, and began to reproduce in large numbers in Middle-earth."

in this way.

"Then have you heard anything else?"

Coulson remembered that he asked at that time:

"For example, do those monsters have anything to do with elves? Since they are derived from humans, is it possible that elves are also created by your god?"

"……I have no idea."

After thinking about it, although those elders who have lived in Middle-earth for a long time did have rumors that Melkor captured the elves and made them degenerate through torture, but no one confirmed it for sure. Jarod shook his head:

"The elves can choose to self-destroy because their souls will return to the palace of Mandos after death, but Mandos will not accept things that are contaminated with darkness. If an elf is also corrupted due to torture or hatred, then his soul will be destroyed. Trapped in the body of eternal life, I can only wander in Arda in despair...I can't imagine what kind of pain that would be."

"That's what he told me back then."

Coulson tapped his finger on the table: "According to his statement, although it has not been proven, but after suffering a huge blow and pain, elves will also fall."

"Degenerate into something as disgusting as a half-orc?"

The expression was a bit ugly, Tony stood in front of the virtual screen with his hips crossed, his eyes widened: "What's the use of telling us this other than making us worry about the old man?"

...and I'm not done yet.

Shaking his head helplessly.Coulson opened his mouth, but before he could finish what he said, Captain America frowned, as if he had figured something out, and interrupted him.

"So, you want to explain why Garrod's blood can mutate half-orcs, and this may be why Hydra wants to take him away."

Putting down the information in his hand, Steve's expression is not very good now:

"I remember you once said that there is a subtle difference between the two batches of half-orc samples we seized before, and the key to this difference is related to Jarod. So, at that time, Hydra should have known that elves can help They cultivated more powerful monsters, but it was a little later when you discovered this and asked Garrod to go for a blood test. Their information must not have come from S.H.I.E.L.D."

"Yes, yes, how did Hydra know that the old man's blood can be used as a super serum?"

After hearing what he said, Tony touched his chin and thought about it. There are only two possibilities: "Either they got the same blood sample for research before they found Garrod; or They already have a template after successful mutation, and want to carry out transformation according to the methods and possibilities provided by this template."

"so--"

Looking at each other, they all found the same answer in each other's eyes.Steve stood up from the table at once, while Tony turned back to the screen, eagerly asking Jarvis to retrieve what he needed.

"They must have dug up more than just half-orcs... The mine with the Balrog we went to last time, there should be records of this in the Hydra base above... Ah! Found it! Yes That's not it!"

Enlarging the retrieved information on the screen, they looked up.It should be something like Hydra's transportation records. From the list and photos left behind, it can be clearly seen that in addition to the images of a large number of half-orcs and their clones, there is also a whole body covered The figure wrapped in a black cloak, the photo was specially marked with a special symbol, obviously for some special purpose.

"It is [-]% similar to the image captured by street surveillance when Mr. Garrod was kidnapped, sir."

A metallic sound sounded from the ceiling, and Jarvis quickly gave the answer Tony wanted.

"Continue to check his shipping records."

Steve said without hesitation: "Then send this information to Natasha, she will know what to do."

The AI ​​responded politely.

And Black Widow apparently never let him down.Not long after, she called from SHIELD headquarters, and appeared on the screen with the news that everyone could hope to hear.

"found it."

After sending a series of precise locations, she said: "In Southern Europe, Albania, your old friends are just around there, and they have rushed there first."

"receive."

While opening his mouth, he reached out and picked up the shield that had been leaning against the table.Waiting for this moment for an unknown number of days ago, Steve nodded, immediately turned around, and walked towards the Quinjet machine that was parked on the roof of the building and was on standby at any time.

And Tony immediately followed behind him, calling Jarvis to get his armor ready, and summoning all the Avengers to gather.

They were going to take Garald home.