24. Change
In fact, after waking up, Merlin felt his own changes.
During the detection just now, he concealed this change from Fury and Dr. Hall. Because he was not sure whether it was a transformation of magic or the impact of the particle-like gravity-dipped graviton in his body.
Now, while alone, Merlin closed the magic power in his body and tried to activate the strange power.
The vase floating in front of his eyes proved Merlin's guess.
Gravityonium had an impact on him, and after his consciousness was closed for 9 months, he could weakly manipulate the gravity around him.
This new force is still weak now, and it is already very difficult to hold up a vase, but it can be further explored.
Merlin still remembers that Dr. Hall once introduced to him about the characteristics of gravitonium. One of the important points is that gravitonium under normal conditions maintains a chaotic state, which will destroy the surrounding gravity field in a chaotic form. When current is applied, the particle form inside the gravitonium will be changed so that it can continuously and large-scale changes in the surrounding gravity.
"electric shock"
Merlin silently recited the word, and under his consciousness, the floating vase fell back to the coffee table.
Merlin applied the gravity generated by his body to his wheelchair in a changing direction, and as a result, the unanimous wheelchair moved forward. After a moment, Merlin was sent into his garage.
His official car was parked in the garage. The wheels of the black Ford were covered with a lot of mud, and it seemed that it was often used.
"Eric"
Merlin shook her head:
"This is a business car, you guy."
Merlin sighed, and his wheelchair pushed him to the garage. Merlin reached out to open the socket and pulled out a piece of wire from it. He pulled the wire off, looked at the broken stubble that exposed the metal wire, and then looked at the Ford behind him.
The next moment, Merlin closed her eyes and placed her left hand on the broken wire. As the arc was beating, Merlin raised her right hand.
The current kept stimulating Merlin's body, but the enhancement of magic and the super soldier's serum in his body made such household voltage not hurt him at all, and it could only make Merlin feel a slight numbness on his fingertips.
And as the current penetrated his body, the gravitonium particles distributed everywhere in his body became active.
While Merlin's fingers were moving, the heavy Ford car shook strangely, and then as Merlin's fingers were lifted, the heavy car seemed to be held up by an invisible hand, and its four wheels left the ground little by little.
It was not until the car, and the scattered parts around it, were all suspended in the air about 1 meter from the ground that Meilin opened his eyes.
He pinched the wire in his left hand and looked at the scene in front of him. A fleeting smile appeared on his pale face.
"Is this a blessing in disguise?"
"Clang"
When Merlin's left hand left the wire, the floating car lost its suspended thrust and hit the ground from the air, making a loud noise.
Merlin's wheelchair was pushed in front of the car. He pulled out his wand from his waist and felt his body. In 9 months, he had returned to normal magic. With the wave of his wrist, a cleaning spell was thrown on the car.
The dirt on the wheels and the dust on the windows were wiped out at this moment.
A few minutes later, the car returned to its clean condition again.
Merlin nodded with satisfaction. He took out his cell phone and called Eric who was wandering around somewhere and asked him to come back to pick him up.
It's been more than a year.
It's time to go and see your family.
"Merlin!"
More than ten minutes later, when Meilin came to Meilin's apartment with a crutch and under the support of Eric, his cousin almost rushed out of the kitchen in a running posture and looked at Meilin nervously up and down.
"You scared me to death, do you know? Seeing you lying on the hospital bed, I thought I had lost you."
There was a hint of scolding in my cousin's voice, which made Meilin feel a little guilty.
He said to Mei:
"Aren't I back now? And I'll come to see you right away. Don't be afraid, Mei, it's not until I see the god of death."
"Don't talk nonsense!"
Plum raised her waist and stared at Plumlin:
"I don't know what dangerous things are there for your Bridge and Tunnel Administration, but next time, don't work so hard!"
"I know, I know."
Merlin replied in a somewhat embarrassed manner:
"I will protect myself in the future, I swear."
"Come in quickly."
My cousin supported Meilin's arm and helped him into the living room. As a result, Meilin saw the child lying on the carpet and playing with toys at a glance.
He has curly, brown and black hair, black eyes, and white skin. He looks cute, like a doll.
This is Peter Parker.
Agent Richard Parker's son is fostered at May and Ben's home. He should be 2 years old this year. Merlin still remembers that when Richards and his wife left Peter Jr., he was just a few months old.
"Little Peter."
Merlin sat on the sofa and put the heavy blue-gray metal cane in his hand aside. He waved to little Peter who looked at him beautifully, and he said:
"Come here for my uncle."
Little Peter should call Mei an aunt, and Meilin is Mei's younger brother, so in theory, Meilin should be really Peter's uncle.
Under Merlin's gentle call, Little Peter, who was playing with building blocks on the carpet, slowly got up, opened his arms, and walked towards Merlin tremblingly.
This child is not afraid of having children.
He was held in Merlin's arms and let out a series of happy laughter.
Looking closely, Merlin's fingers actually did not touch Peter's body. He was holding Peter with gravity to play. And the strange sense of suspension made the 2-year-old child feel very strange, and he kept giggling.
The black eyes stared at Merlin tightly, as if they were looking at him.
"uncle"
The 2-year-old child can already say some simple words. Under Merlin's guidance, little Peter called Merlin in a confused manner, which made Merlin very happy.
He took it all over the magic pocket, and among the dangerous things, he finally took out something that a child could play with.
It was a vivid wooden deer sculpture.
It was a gift that Merlin got when she bought magic materials in Diagon Alley.
The thing was subjected to activation technique. As long as the spell was recited, the wooden deer would run like a real living creature.
Merlin held Peter, placed the fist-sized deer on the carpet in front of him, and recited a spell gently.
As Little Peter looked at him curiously, the deer raised her head the next moment, shook her body vividly, whispered toward Merlin, and then began to run around the carpet.
"I want to play! I want to play!"
Little Peter twisted and twisted in Merlin's arms. Merlin placed him on the carpet, and the child began to clumsyly chase the flexible deer.
"You guys are having a good time."
Mei came to the living room with a plate of washed fruit. She glanced at the running deer, but didn't care. She thought it was a clockwork toy, like a clockwork frog.
She sat beside Merlin, looking at Little Peter who was having fun, a smile appeared on her face.
She said to Merlin:
"It seems that Peter Little likes you very much."
"I like this kid very much, too."
Meilin picked up a grape and put it in his mouth. He looked around and said:
"Is Charlie not here?"
"Charlie goes to school today."
Mei brushed her hair and replied:
"She should be back for dinner today. I just saw Eric going out with your car keys. He might have gone to pick up Charlie. The two children get along well, but they are so sticky. Do you think they will?"
"fall in love?"
Merlin smiled, and he shook his head:
"Let them go, we should not interfere in the young people's affairs."
"But Charlie only came to adulthood in November this year."
Mei said with some concern:
"She is a little too precocious."
"This is normal. That girl has experienced many things, and maturity is inevitable."
Merlin said:
"She knows how to take care of herself, so you don't have to worry too much. Of course, don't let her go out at night. Girls of this age need special attention. Moreover, the order in New York has not been very good recently."
"yes."
Mei sighed:
"A few days ago, several homeless people disappeared in this neighborhood. There were also a few young people who disappeared without reason at work, which is really worrying."
"Don't worry too much."
Merlin looked at Peter Little, and a light flashed in his eyes, and he said:
"I guess, order will be restored soon."
"I won't say this."
Mei waved her hand and said to Meilin:
"Stay for dinner tonight. I have told Ben to buy more vegetables when I get off work."
"certainly."
Meilin leaned against the sofa, he rubbed his stomach, and he said to Mei:
"Today, I came here just for dinner. Ah, one year and four months, I almost missed the pizza you made."
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At 9 o'clock in the evening, Merlin finished her meal at Mei's house and was sent home by Eric.
This kid is going to have a reunion with his classmates at Imperial High School tonight, so after sending Merlin home, he ran away in Merlin's car.
Merlin didn't stop him, Eric was not him, that young man needed to have his own life, and any normal person needed to have his own life.
After Eric left, Merlin stood up with a heavy cane. Although her legs were still weak and she could not walk too fast, Merlin didn't want to sit in a wheelchair.
This feeling of being only cared for is too bad.
"In a wheelchair, everyone thinks I'm a patient."
Merlin spent a few minutes changing into a windbreaker and casual outfit. He stood at the door with his cane and looked at the dark night outside the door. He whispered to the raven Victor, who had fallen on his arm:
"The worst thing about being a patient is that even if you are surrounded by people who care about you, even if you know they want to help you, the more they do, the more you feel weak you will feel."
"Victe, do you think I'm weak?"
"Woooooo"
The Raven Spirit yelled at his master, and then flapped his wings into the dark sky under Merlin's gaze.
Merlin didn't plan to waste his time. Since he knew that the vampires were raging, he planned to go out and take a look.
"Should I tell them how strong I am?"
Merlin said to himself, a few seconds later, he smiled, just like a weak ordinary man, walking into the darkness with his cane.
But I haven't been back for more than a year, and Hell's Kitchen still looks like it's so unpleasant to be interested.
Merlin walked on a street with almost no people in the darkness. This neighborhood was like this since he moved in a few years ago. The security at night was very, very bad. Anyone with sensible people would not come out to move after nightfall.
It is also bad to do business in such places. The residents have no money, have poor purchasing power, and most of them have the habit of stealing. Therefore, there are few new shops here. I really don’t know how the only supermarkets and other old stores in Hell Kitchen persist in the face of meager profits.
Merlin walked slowly along the street, and his perception continued to spread outward, like a moving radar, looking for clues related to vampires.
But to his surprise, he spent more than an hour and walked around the Hell's Kitchen, but found no signs of vampire activity.
Very clean.
It's like someone has cleaned it up here.
"It's not normal."
Merlin rubbed her chin and said softly:
"The flames of chaos always ignite from the most disorderly places, but when did this hell kitchen, this ghost place be so orderly? Was it made at midnight?"
Merlin suspected that it was Midnight's father who took action to rectify the order of Hell's Kitchen, but after thinking about it carefully, the nightclub owner who could not get up early would probably not have such a high awareness.
Or, when he was away, did some "voluntary police" come from Hell's Kitchen?
With this question, Merlin continued to wander the streets. After turning the intersection of 7th Street, Merlin unexpectedly saw a small shop that he had never remembered.
Just between two narrow apartments, two stories high, it looks a bit old.
But in Merlin's memory, there should be no buildings between these two buildings?
He walked towards the newly opened store.
On the surface, this should be an antique collection shop. The glass windows are filled with various antiques, but most of them are fake. Although they are made vividly, the details of deliberately making old can not be hidden from Meilin's eyes.
He looked up at the store's signboard.
“bloodstone?(Bloodstone?)”
Meilin read out the strange name. He was a little puzzled enough to think about what the signboard meant. After hesitating for a few seconds, he reached out and pushed open the empty store door and walked into it.
Chapter completed!