Steve Older said Ms. Carter left some information for Merlin.

But in fact, this is a slightly "moderate" statement. When leaving Carter Manor, Merlin's car's trunk was almost filled with cardboard boxes, and those cardboard boxes were filled with some confidential information from the Strategic Science Legion.

After returning home, when Merlin was sorting out the information, he also found a key with an address and a message.

"Merlin Riley, please keep these information properly and transfer it to Nick Fury if it is confirmed that it is safe. In addition, please take good care of Sharon Carter Page for me."

When he saw this sentence, Merlin suddenly felt an unknown premonition.

He rushed out of the house, drove the car, and rushed to Carter's manor. As expected, the house was empty.

Old Steve and Ms. Carter are gone.

Merlin had a premonition that this might be the last time he met Ms. Carter and the mysterious old Steve.

"Ms. Carter"

Merlin looked at the quaint key in his hand and said softly:

"What do you mean?"

Merlin felt that he was involved in a bad incident. The reason why Ms. Carter left was probably because of his sudden arrival, and he accidentally discovered the old Steve who had been hiding.

But who is Old Steve?

Merlin stood at Ms. Carter's empty house, and he was a little confused for a moment.

He stood on the wall full of photos, looking at the last photo, Steve Rogers in that photo, and old Steve in Merlin's memory, was indeed somewhat similar.

But Merlin could not confirm that the mysterious old man was really Captain America who had been missing for more than 60 years.

He himself said that SHIELD's expedition has been searching for the missing Captain America in the Arctic Circle.

But if he wasn't Steve Rogers, who was he?

"Damn!"

Merlin became more and more confused as he thought about it. In the end, he decided to leave all these troubles to Fury.

But when he thought of old Steve's warning, Merlin was a little hesitant. Perhaps the current S.H.E.L.D. is not really safe. After thinking about it, he put the information in his basement and decided to wait for a while before connecting the key to Fury.

Of course, the news of Ms. Carter's disappearance still attracted Fury's extreme attention.

In the next few days, Fury launched the resources of S.H.E.D. to find Ms. Carter, but the lady in her 70s and her mysterious husband were like a real world evaporated.

Sharon Carter knew about his aunt's disappearance, and she was also very sad. Merlin had talked to her several times. From Sharon's answer, he knew that Ms. Carter did not tell Sharon the existence of old Steve, and she did not know much about her aunt's secrets.

This is natural.

Ms. Carter was a figure who was the king of agents in the last era. If she wanted to hide secrets, it would probably be difficult to discover.

Merlin stayed in New York for the next half month, and he underwent several reviews on tactical missiles launched in the British Wizard War, but as Fury said, after Pierce of the World Security Council helped him stand on the platform, these reviews were nothing more than a formality.

Merlin did the right thing and did not accidentally hurt any ordinary person, so he should not be treated as a criminal.

As for the little girl Ava Starr, she is now placed in Dr. Bill Foster's laboratory. The doctor created a simple depression cabin for Ava. When she stays in that cabin, the irregular movement of her body particles will be temporarily suppressed, and the little girl can also avoid the pain of her body being torn apart.

Merlin went to see her every three days, and each time she would release a sleeping spell for her so that the suffering little girl could have a good rest.

The British Wizard War also entered a rather boring stage. Voldemort and the Death Eaters hid themselves, and their previous unscrupulous actions became much more low-key.

The wizards of the Order of the Phoenix, with the help of Gatler's agents, searched for Voldemort's fatal weaknesses throughout the UK.

Both sides are very restrained, but according to a recent letter from Hermione, under the step-by-step oppression of the Order of the Phoenix wizards who have the upper hand, Voldemort is desperately gathering the dark creatures, dementors, werewolfs, etc. of the wizarding world.

Both sides are recruiting soldiers, and they are expected to stage a final decisive battle soon.

But these things have nothing to do with Merlin for the time being, and he continues to live a peaceful life.

Unfortunately, peaceful days are always short. In May 1998, a month after Merlin returned to New York, he encountered another bizarre thing.

This happened on a rainy night.

"boom"

The loud thunder was raging throughout New York with the storm outside the window. In this season, such heavy rainstorms are rare. Under such strong storms, no one will risk going out, but will choose to stay in a warm and comfortable home.

Merlin was also staying at his home, but now he is in his basement, studying some taboo things.

Bright light shone on the basement, and at the desk, Merlin was sitting there, holding the green gem ring in his hand. It was given to him by the crazy witch Bellatrix Lesterlanch as a trade for protecting his children. It recorded some rare black magic and some of the Death Eaters' secrets in the form of memories.

Merlin closed his eyes, his fingers touched the ring, and in the circulation of magic, memories belonging to Bellatrix Lestrang were browsed by him.

The things recorded by the crazy witch were very complicated and completely unorganized. Merlin even discovered the scene of her having an affair with her master Voldemort in those memories. To be honest, the scene was really disgusting.

Merlin browsed these memories quickly and quickly found what he needed.

It was a book, a heavy magic book that looked very evil and gloomy. The name of the book was "Decrypted by the Tips". In this memory, Bellatrix seemed to have found the book in some secret place and was flipping through the contents on it.

"In the current legends of the wizarding world, the famous black wizard in ancient Greece, the despicable Heerbo, was the first person to discover the method of nurturing a basilisk in history, and he was also the first black wizard to make a Horcrux. We have enough reason to believe that the Horcrux and its evil production method were invented and passed down by Haierbo."

In the pages of that book, Merlin saw a record of the mysterious Horcrux.

"No sensible wizard should try to make a Horcrux, or even explore the secrets of this evil creation. But it is indeed powerful and useful, especially for wizards who want to escape death, Horcrux is the cheapest and most likely the most useful way they can find."

"The so-called Horcrux means splitting one's soul and storing it in different objects."

"There are many disadvantages to doing this. It will unstable your soul, it will cause your magic to get out of control, it will distort your mind because it violates the rules of nature. From the moment of its birth, the soul should and must be complete."

"But there are many benefits to doing this. When you have a Horcrux, you no longer need to worry about the arrival of death. Even if your body and will are destroyed, as long as the Horcrux are still there, as long as the soul fragments in the Horcrux are still there, you still have the possibility of resurrection. But be careful, please remember the wizards who are reading this record!"

"Once your body is destroyed, your soul is still there, but even the lowest ghost is not as good as you cannot feel the existence of life, you cannot feel the beauty of the world, you have no taste of drinking water, you eat meat and chew wax. The warm light is deadly to you, and even the fireworks waved by children will make you feel extreme pain."

"That feeling is really worse than death."

In Bellatrix's memory, Merlin saw the complete process of making the Horcrux and the complicated and cumbersome spell after the warning from the author of the magic book.

To his surprise, the seemingly complex Horcrux is actually not difficult to make.

There is no need for other magic items to assist. The only hard condition is to conduct an evil murder and cooperate with complex spells to ensure that your soul can be split.

As for the materials used to make the Horcrux, it is the same as the door keys made by Merlin, and anything ordinary is fine.

In subsequent records, the knowledgeable author also tells the past of the despicable Heerbo, the ancient Greek black wizard who invented the method of making the Horcrux.

It is said that Haierbo made the Horcrux to make himself immortal.

But what his Horcrux was and whether it was destroyed was still a mystery.

If Haierbo's Horcrux is still there, it means that the ancient Greek wizard may have lived since ancient times to the present.

"It seems like this is an unreliable method."

Merlin was a little disappointed. After learning the secret behind him, he urgently needed to find some trump cards that could be useful at the most critical moment, but judging from the knowledge recorded in this memory, the Horcrux was probably not what he needed.

“The sequelae is too great.”

Merlin shook his head, and he continued to look through Bellatrix's memory, just as he was learning more taboo knowledge from this crazy witch.

After all, black magic has always been known for its powerful lethality, and all the magic that Merlin learned comes from Mr. Arthur's magic textbook, and there are no records of black magic in it.

And in Bellatrix's last memory, that is, the memory of her initially becoming a little wizard, Merlin finally discovered something interesting.

That's Animagus's secret!

The so-called Animagus is the spell that can turn himself into a small animal like Professor McGonagall, and it is also a general term for this type of transformation wizard. It is the most advanced and difficult to master among all transformation techniques, but the effect is also extremely extraordinary.

Merlin has seen Professor McGonagall change with his own eyes, and even his dark perception cannot tell the difference between this cat and an ordinary cat.

But Gugu seemed to have discovered it.

But Gugu just looks like a cat. It is actually an alien creature and its existence cannot be judged by common sense.

Merlin was very interested in this method of hiding himself very well, so he planned to learn more about the method of becoming Animagus.

But while Merlin was immersed in that memory, a harsh thunder suddenly sounded very close, and the lights in the basement completely went out at this moment, directly awakening Merlin from that immersion state.

Merlin stood up, putting the ring on his fingers, and he walked out of the basement.

The loud and harsh thunder just now seemed to have happened above his head, which means that a lightning bolt hit his house. The lightning strike may have caused the room's transformer to be overloaded and completely lost power to his house.

"Unfortunate thing!"

Merlin walked in the dark living room, and he planned to go to the place where he was struck by lightning.

He pushed open the door to the backyard and saw his garage destroying the roof of his house by lightning, and there was a bad smell of burnt odor.

The worst part is that the classic Dodge Challenger muscle car that was almost repaired by him seemed to be hit by the lightning. In the dark, Merlin could see the scattered parts around him.

This made him feel very, very upset.

He repaired the car intermittently for several years, but he finally encountered such a thing.

Merlin breathed a sigh of relief, and he walked into the dark garage. He picked up a part of the lightning-melted part from the ground. In front of him, the car that had been repaired was broken, which made Merlin shook his head in disappointment.

But the next moment, Merlin suddenly pulled out his wand Lora and pointed it at the deepest part of the garage filled with darkness and heavy rain.

In the darkness, he felt a strange energy fluctuation.

A dark red light jumped at the top of the wand Lora, like an arrow that could not be fired. Merlin shouted:

"Who is there!"
Chapter completed!