"Buzz"
Silver-gray shaggy sports car parked by the street of Hell's Kitchen.
This concept of sports cars immediately attracted the attention of many people. Some young people whistled and picked up their phones, wanting to take a photo and post it on WeChat Moments, etc.
But when the door opened, Merlin, who was sitting in the passenger seat, waved his hand.
Just like magic, the gathering people around them lost interest in luxury cars, and they quickly dispersed and continued to do their own things.
This scene made the little girl Hope's eyes widen.
Wow!
Magician!
The cute little girl's big eyes were full of curiosity and excitement. She always knew that there were wizards in this world, but her father had a very bad relationship with those wizards.
So she has never had a wizard friend.
She envied her good friend Sharon.
It is said that Sharon's father and mother have many wizard friends. When Sharon celebrates his birthday, the wizards will also send great gifts.
Little Hope held her schoolbag, she looked at her father, and then at the wizard.
Her eyes turned, and the little princess made up her mind secretly.
Today, I must make this wizard Mr. become her good friend!
“This restaurant is good.”
Merlin patted the dust that did not exist on his clothes, and said to Tony who was holding his daughter's hand next to him:
"Although it's a new one, the chef who is in charge has a good cooking skills."
He glanced at the little Hope who was hiding behind his father and secretly looked at him. Merlin chuckled and said meaningfully to Tony:
"The child is growing up, so I will bring her here more in the future and eat something nutritious."
After saying that, Meilin opened the door of the restaurant and walked into it.
Tony raised his head, took off his brown sunglasses, and looked at the restaurant's signature.
It was a very strange string of words, like runes, which Tony recognized, was in Hebrew.
“????????????? Paradise Restaurant?”
Iron Man looked at the decoration of the restaurant. As expected, like this name, the entire white restaurant was covered with religious decorations.
But it doesn't make people feel annoying.
Those decorations are arranged on the corners of the decoration with a modern and simple style, and they cannot be seen without careful observation.
“A weird place.”
Tony complained, and walked into the restaurant with his little daughter. Merlin was already sitting by the window and ordered dishes.
A waitress in a black and white long dress with a beautiful face and a great figure stood beside Merlin.
She was very professional, holding paper and pen, recording the dishes Merlin chose.
"Wow, angel!"
Little Hope, who was following Tony, seemed to have discovered a new world. She grabbed her father's hand, pointed at the waiter, and whispered to her father:
"The sister has wings behind her back! It's white and feathers, so beautiful."
"Um?"
Tony glanced at the excited daughter and looked at the waiter again, but he saw nothing.
Merlin, who was sitting there ordering dishes, seemed to notice Tony's surprise. He snapped his fingers gently, and the scene in front of Tony's eyes suddenly changed.
The waiter, she was wearing a white robe, judging from the shape of her wings, she was a big angel.
Tony turned his neck and looked at the location of the restaurant bar.
The lady who was lying lazy on the bar and reading the comics was also an angel with wings.
"You took me to an amazing place."
Tony picked up Little Hope and placed it on the chair beside him. He looked at the "waiter" swaying his figure and left, and said to Merlin, who had finished the food:
"Is that Archangel Gabriel? Or who else?"
"Oh, that, she is Randkir, the Angel of Thursday."
Meilin looked at the scenery coming and going outside the window, and he casually said:
"Gabriel is the chef. She is busy in the kitchen now. The person in charge of the cashier is Archangel Hawen. She proposed the idea of ​​opening a restaurant."
"What's going on with your expression? Tony."
"Everyone has to have a hobby, and it is normal for angels to open a restaurant to pass on their eternal boring life."
"I just didn't guess that Gabriel actually knows cooking. It seems that they are really idle in heaven."
Merlin said, and he suddenly turned his head and grimaced at Little Hope who was looking at him.
The little girl laughed out loud.
He pinched his fingers again, folded them into a small paper crane with light, and put them into the air. The gadget flew around Hope, like a real bird, which made the curious little girl widen her eyes.
"Little Hope is really a smart and kind child."
Merlin supported her chin with both hands. The little Hope opposite him grabbed the paper crane made by Guang with one hand, and also imitated Merlin's appearance and supported her chin with her hands.
Two people, one big and one small, stared at each other, as if they were playing a game.
Meilin said to the little girl:
"It is said that only souls with pure minds can see through the disguise of angels. In this way, Little Hope has a bright future. Your life is definitely much more exciting than your stupid dad."
"Hmph, dad is not a fool."
Little Hope pouted and retorted to Merlin:
"My dad is the smartest, he is the smartest person in the world!"
"What did he tell you?"
Merlin looked at Tony who had turned his face away with a strange smile, and said to Little Hope:
"He is bragging, girl, there are at least four people smarter than him in this world. When I met your father, he liked bragging, and now he is the same."
"I don't believe it!"
Little Hope said with his eyes:
"Dad is the smartest! Uncle Steve said the same thing last time he got drunk. Also, Uncle, are you a magician?"
Looking at the little girl's expectant eyes, Merlin shrugged, and rubbed his fingers and made a small flame, he said to Hope:
"Yes, I'm a magician."
“Hi, guest!”
A call came from the bar, and the cashier Haiwen said in a voice that was incapable of lifting his spirits:
"There is no fire in the restaurant, and magic is no longer allowed, so the fire is turned off!"
"Okay, okay."
Merlin extinguished the small flame on his fingers and said to Hope, who looked regretful:
"Do you want to learn magic from me? Girl, I can teach you."
"My daughter doesn't learn any magic."
Before Hope finished speaking, Tony stopped him:
"She is a genius of mechanics. Like me, she will inherit my title in the future."
"Is that true? It seems that you like the New World very much and accept Hope's existence."
Merlin leaned on the chair without comment. His reflective eyes looked at Tony, and his eyes made Tony feel a little furious. After a few seconds, Merlin sighed lightly.
It’s like the warmth of meeting old friends fading away at this moment, and the time of flowing paused at this moment.
The walking pedestrians outside the window, the angels in the restaurant, the sunshine, the clouds, and even the blowing wind, the smile on Little Hope's face, and the light of the paper cranes she held in her hand.
It's like the time switch is turned off and everything stops.
Merlin picked up the coffee at hand and said:
"This morning, you learned that you have a daughter, and you have two memory lines in your mind, and you are still in the chaos of perception."
"Your consciousness is transmitted to this moment by the power of the infinite gloves when the stars are restarted. You cannot even determine whether the world in front of you is real, whether it is all your dream."
Merlin walked to the window with her coffee.
He looked at the scenery full of life outside the window and said:
"I'm here to answer your questions specifically, Tony."
“These beauty is true.”
Tony looked along Merlin's gaze and the whole world outside the window was changing rapidly.
A complete world is like being divided into countless piles of building blocks, which are drawn at will and built in another position, like having a pair of flexible hands manipulating them.
In the dazzling reorganization, the entire world is placed among the stars.
Tony sat at the dining table and watched this scene beyond imagination. Merlin was like a guide, flying among the stars with Tony and the suspended little Hope.
Those starlights, they are twisting, twisting towards Merlin, like a black hole attracting those colorful beams.
"They don't remember you anymore."
Tony looked at Merlin's back and said:
"Steve said something I can't understand at all. I guess you twisted their memory and stripped the part of you from the memory of sentient beings?"
"But Terion clearly gave me the soul stone. He said that those who have experienced the arrival of the outer gods will not forget that battle!"
"He didn't lie to you, those memories were indeed preserved."
Merlin looked back at Tony, and he smiled softly, he said:
"But it's a pity that you can't remember me, Tony."
"Why?"
Tony asked in a fierce tone:
"This is not fun, Merlin! No one is willing to forget you, no one will take the initiative to forget you. Without you, this new world would never have appeared!"
"I know, I believe you as much as I believe in myself. Listen to me, this is a last resort."
Merlin explained helplessly:
"Look at this star, Tony."
"It's no different from the old days, but it has indeed changed."
"In the flames of the cosmic furnace, I was also reshaped into another form, my body disappeared, but my spirit remained and was integrated into the new world."
“After going through the change of falsehood and reality, I was given a certain symbolicity.”
He turned around and said to Tony:
"That's a very difficult meaning. I can only tell you that I am the stars in front of you now!"
Merlin raised her fingers, and as Tony looked at her in shock, the stars in front of him were shaking with Merlin's fingers, as if they were following the body moving with their will.
"In your eyes, I am just a projection of the symbolic level of stars."
"You can't understand the secrets of the stars, you can't understand my existence."
Raven placed the coffee cup on the dining table among the stars, and while the tablecloth was swaying, he said to Tony with his hands on his back:
"For ordinary souls, it is terrifying to remember the pressure that a symbol of stars bears."
"That kind of pressure will crush your souls. Even if you can barely bear it, it will be distorted due to premature contact with the truth of the stars."
"I have to extract those memories about me. Only in this way can you set sail again in the new world without being bound."
Merlin stopped, and he said with emotion:
"I, I am indeed destined to be a remnant party in the old era."
"But I remember you, and I didn't feel anything wrong."
Tony probably understood what Merlin meant.
This forgetting of the raven is not malicious, but comes from Merlin's "protection" to his old friends.
He rubbed his forehead and said to Merlin:
"According to your words, I am a special soul?"
"No, you are not, stop being narcissistic."
Merlin chuckled.
He walked behind Tony and reached out to the back of Tony's head, and he said:
"You can remember me because of the power of the Infinite Gloves. The twist of your soul has begun, which is why I want to have this meal with you with great fanfare."
"Swish"
Something was taken out of Tony's mind by Merlin.
It was a gem like crystal, which looked like the form of an infinite raw stone.
It was pinched in Merlin's two fingers, as gorgeous as reflecting the entire universe.
"Look, the last false fragment of the old era, it stays in your mind."
"It's just the beginning, if I come a few days late, you'll be twisted into a monster without body by the pressure of this star symbol."
Merlin put the crystal in Tony's hand, and he said to Tony in a tone of telling a horror story:
"You will grow special thinking organs to understand the secrets of stars. It is an evolution, but uncontrollable, and you will most likely become a big octopus cursed by knowledge in your sleep."
"This is the curse of knowledge."
"But I think, little Hope is probably not ready to say goodbye to his father yet?"
Merlin stopped, and he said in a seductive tone:
"I give you the right to choose, Tony, or continue to carry this piece of fragment as a price to remember me, understand the truth of the stars, and live among the stars in another form of horror."
"Or, I'll take this fragment away, and you, your little daughter and your wife continue your life, grow up with Hope, watch her grow up, and grow old with the one you love."
"My friend, how would you choose?"
Tony looked at the illusion fragments in his hand, then looked at his daughter sitting next to him, maintaining a silly smile on her face and connected with blood.
He hesitated for a long time.
He raised his head and handed the fragments in his hand to Merlin in silence.
He said in a sad tone that he could not hide:
"I understand."
"You are here to say goodbye to me."
Merlin nodded, he didn't say anything more.
Tony could feel the memory of Merlin in his mind disappearing quickly, and the man in front of him was becoming more and more unfamiliar. He covered his forehead and asked loudly:
"Merlin, can we see each other again in the future?"
"Of course."
Merlin breathed a sigh of relief, and he looked at the dazzling stars in front of him, and said:
“Didn’t I say everything?”
"As long as you understand the truth of the stars, you can understand my form of existence. As long as you rely on yourself to develop the knowledge leading to infinite, we can always meet again among the stars."
Merlin looked at Tony, with only a gentle light in his eyes. His body floated and merged into the stars, just like the starry wings slowly wrapped him.
Amid the dazzling feathers of light, he said:
"I'll wait for you here, Tony, and those old friends."
"We will eventually reunite among the stars."
"Set sail in the new world, Tony, use your wisdom and strength to open the road to stars, and I will wait for you at the end of that road."
"My friends."
Chapter completed!