"This is your tip."
At the door of his house, Meilin, who was leaning on a cane, handed several notes to the driver Du Pengde, who said:
"Go home quickly, it's late."
"It's okay, I have to take on a few more jobs."
The taxi driver took the money and said to Merlin with a gaze:
"My car player is broken, I plan to save some money to change it. I have also selected a lot of new songs, and you will hear it next time."
""
Meilin glanced at Du Pengde, he aggravated his voice, and Chen Ken said to the young driver:
"Don't change, please, being a quiet taxi driver can make your business better, believe me."
After chatting with Du Pengde for a few words, Merlin turned around and walked towards his house.
Eric has already started school, and Matt was sent by Merlin to a boarding school and went home two days a week, so most of the time, Merlin was the only one at home.
But not tonight.
"Bang"
Merlin pushed open the door and saw Fury sitting in the living room eating at a glance.
A trace of tangle flashed across his face, he put his cane aside and took out a bottle of drink from the refrigerator, he said to Fury:
"You can't always come to my house when there is no one and eat what I prepared for myself. I mean, if you have to come next time, it's better to bring a few bags of bread and red sausage along the way and you're almost stolen all the things in my house!"
"I'll bring it next time."
Fury glanced at Merlin, and he forked the last piece of red sausage from the plate with a fork and put it into his mouth. Then he picked up a tissue and wiped his mouth.
"I'll come only if I have something to do, Merlin."
He took out a stack of bound documents from his handbag and handed them to Merlin, saying:
"I encountered some things that were difficult to choose. So I planned to ask you, but I suddenly found out that you were suspended, so after get off work, I came to see you. Well, you have recovered well recently and are not lame when walking."
"When did I walk?"
Merlin glared at Fury, and he sat on the sofa and opened Fury's file.
As a result, Merlin's face became weird after just one look. He waved the document in his hand and said to Fury:
"It sounds a bit fantastic to form a chain of semi-official blood banks throughout the Americas, providing blood assistance to all vampires willing to accept supervision at a low price to reduce the chances of vampires committing crimes. Are you sure those vampires are not kidding?"
“They are not.”
Fury raised his legs and put them on Meilin's coffee table. He rubbed his forehead and said with a playful look on his face:
"They are very sincere and are even willing to fully assume all the investments in the early stage of this chain blood bank project. As long as I nodded, a surprising amount of money will be immediately transferred to the official account of SHIELD. Really, I feel that after underestimating them, these guys are not inferior to us at all."
"Perhaps they feel the crisis, too."
Merlin flipped through the documents in his hand and said:
"If I remember correctly, the arrogant vampire Dickon Forrest, who paid a lot of money and offered a reward for my head, started his business by establishing many underground trading points for plasma supply in the dark world of New York with groundbreaking thinking. It provides enough plasma for civilian vampires to win them around them and fight against the Vampire Presbyterian."
"Now the Presbyterian Church is going to build its own blood bank, and it will join forces with the official, and join SHIELD to stand up for itself. Not only can it cut off all the retreats of Dickon Forrest, but it can also attract those swaying semi-vampires to them to weaken the power of the radicals again."
Merlin couldn't help but sigh:
"Tsk tsk, this trick is to remove firewood from the cauldron, killing two birds with one stone, and it's really awesome."
He threw the papers on the table and glanced at Fury again, it said:
"But in this way, SHIELD will face the radical vampires directly. I don't think Dickon Forrest would just give in. He is an ambitious man. He heard that his personality is unruly and has a group of arrogant, violent, and cunning vampire villains under his command. I mean, it will definitely fight back."
"It's all starting to offer a reward for Agents of SHIELD!"
Fury laughed, and a chill flashed in his remaining eyes:
"You said, is there any possibility of peace talks between us and it? It is engaged in various illegal businesses. Merlin, do you know that in recent days, there have been a group of weird things on the New York market and have begun to circulate widely among the addicts. This is it."
Fury took out a packet of weird red powder from his pocket and handed it to Merlin.
The latter took it in his hand and sniffed it gently, and his face became ugly. Merlin threw the powder into the fireplace, and the next moment, the sudden flames burned the powder cleanly.
“There is vampire blood added there.”
"right!"
Fury nodded, and he looked at the burning flames in the fireplace with disgust, and he said:
"That thing is called 'blood powder' by addicts, and it is a new type of poison. The feeling of sucking it is stronger than that of ordinary evil things. The most important thing is that it will cause those addicts to get bloodthirsty, which will make them bite people like vampires. What's so bad is that it will also be contagious."
"Didn's people made it?"
Merlin narrowed his eyes and said softly:
"That vampire scum is really impatient to live."
"There is no doubt that this is a counterattack against the clearing operation we launched."
Fury said:
"This gives us another reason to get rid of it, and this is the reason I come to you. I hope you can find out the source of this extremely dangerous 'blood powder' and then destroy it!"
"Why not let others do it?"
Merlin bounced his finger and said:
"I was suspended, aren't I? I'm on vacation, I'm still a patient."
"Colson is busy cleaning up those ghost fans, and he will soon clean up the Brooklyn area."
Fury explained:
"Sl.d. You can't find any man to take advantage of the current state of preparing for war and horses. Besides, you won't be relieved to let them do such dangerous things, right?"
"You can't come to me whenever you have trouble, Fury."
Merlin looked at the watch on his wrist and said:
"Where is your Avenger? If it really doesn't work, can't Natasha or Patton come and deal with it?"
"Everyone has something to do, and Merlin Natasha and Patton are in charge now are not easier than what you do."
Fury shook his head, took Merlin's agent's ID from his pocket and placed it in front of him:
"This is your stuff, pack it up, don't throw it around next time. Your review will end in 10 days, and if you want to go back to sl.d, everyone is welcome. But once a thing like estrangement appears, it is not that easy to re-bridge it."
Fury looked at Merlin and said:
"But it doesn't matter, we all have time. But contradictions are contradictions, and work has to continue to do it."
Merlin looked at the ID on the table. At this moment, he was a little irritated and wanted to tell Fury what he found about the truth about Hydra. But when he said that, Merlin still held back.
He had already suffered a loss due to impulse.
Without finding the exact evidence, it is better not to just talk about the news he found with the soul-absorbing spell.
"Where did that blood powder come from?"
As Fury walked to the door, Merlin asked in a low voice:
"You have to give me an address, right?"
Fury's steps stopped, he turned around, and a smile reappeared on his dark face, he said:
"Brooklyn and Manhattan have both, and no one knows the specific source. You may be able to check it out your way."
"I'll check it out."
Merlin nodded and said to Fury:
"But that doesn't mean that the disagreement between us is over, Fury. Regarding Richard and Mary, I'm still waiting for your findings."
"I'm not that naive."
Fury replied:
"I won't just think that if you take on the task, you're relieved. But I'm still happy to see that you continue to be loyal to your duties."
"Come on, Fury."
Merlin sneered, and he said coldly:
"From the beginning of entering S.H.I.I knew that what I did was a job that focused on ideals. So only ideals could support me."
“It’s no difference.”
Fury opened the door and said to Merlin at the moment he left:
“In my opinion, ideals and responsibilities are the same thing.”
The sound of Fury's car starting sounded in the night, and soon his car drove off the streets of Hell's Kitchen.
Merlin also stood up at this moment. He picked up his cane, glanced at the watch time on his wrist, and then activated the moving spell. The next moment, he appeared in the private room of the Midnight Daddy Nightclub.
After a moment, an acquaintance swayed his waist and dragged a few drinks into the private room.
It was the little succubus who was teased by Merlin a few years ago. She is now the front desk manager of this nightclub. Merlin still remembers that her name should be Mandy.
"Hi, Mandy."
Merlin waved to the cold-faced succubus, who snorted, put a few drinks on the table, then held his arms and looked down at Merlin with a condescending discomfort in her watery eyes, and she said coldly:
"Midnight boss is not here today. If you have any questions, tell me."
"oh?"
Merlin glanced at the succubus in front of him and said:
"Really? Are you sure you can handle the trouble I'm causing?"
"You talk first!"
Mandy glared at Merlin, her hidden tail swaying behind her, representing her extreme impatientness and disgust of Merlin.
She hasn't forgotten how Merlin embarrassed her in public a few years ago.
Succubus, this is a very vengeful and slim race.
"Blood powder."
Merlin picked up the wine glass and he said to Mandy:
"You probably don't have that kind of thing here, right?"
"Of course not!"
Mandy said with a serious look on her face:
"We are a legal business place. We know that selling those things is illegal, but I know where there is blood powder for sale, and it is a large-scale type that attracts almost all the addicts around."
Speaking of this, the front desk manager of the nightclub gritted his teeth and said hatefully:
"I suddenly lost a lot of customers, and the turnover this week is already very ugly. Hell, do you law enforcement officers not care about it? Those guys sell very dangerous things that will kill people!"
"I came for this. Tell me, Mandy, where is that place?"
Merlin ignored the little succubus' complaints and asked directly:
“And what background are they?”
"Oh, it's a good thing."
The little succubus' expression became vivid at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the tail behind her also flicked lighter and lighter. She said to Merlin in all his words:
"That place is called the House of Pain, it is the place run by the madman Dickon, which is not found by ordinary people. But I've worked there before, uh, I mean, I've inspected there!"
"It is at the junction of Brooklyn and Long Island. It is a surviving underground air raid shelter. The vampire has transformed the place. The building on the surface is a warehouse. The most powerful villains under Decan are guarding it at all times. Only vampires, semi-vampires and Hagichi, oh, according to your words, they are called 'ghost fans' and can go there."
"But recently, the place has also been open to others. They sell blood powder there, and that thing is disgusting, and even the dwarfs can't resist the temptation and madness brought by that powder. The midnight boss does not allow those things to appear in his business, which also causes us to lose a lot of turnover. Oh, it's so heartbreaking."
"Is this how?"
Merlin nodded, and he looked at Mandy:
"Is there any other news about Dickon?"
"Yes, I have."
Mandy shook her tail and she looked at Merlin:
"But why should I tell you?"
“I’m going to 'chew' that place."
Merlin explained to the little succubus:
"I will 'persuad' them to give up those dangerous businesses, they don't sell blood powder, your guests will come back, and the turnover will recover next week and you can get more rewards. So, you see, Mandy, this is a good thing for you and me, why not say it?"
"Well"
Mandy thought about it and felt that Merlin was right, so she shook her tail and said to Merlin:
"Okay, I can tell you."
"Dicken and his dog-legged men are looking for something near New York. It is said that it was a ruin left by the first vampire pioneers who immigrated to the North American continent with the Puritans. There are some powerful things sealed inside. Dicken hopes to use that thing to destroy the American Vampire Presbyterian Church and then take the throne himself."
"Um?"
Merlin raised his head, he looked at the succubus in front of him, and he said:
"I don't doubt the authenticity of this news, but how did you know such a secret news?"
"I heard it from my boyfriend, uh, it should be my ex-boyfriend."
Mandy said indifferently:
"That guy would be talking nonsense when he was excited, he had worked for Dickon for a while."
"Ex-boyfriend?"
Merlin was even more curious, he said:
"Who would reject a succubus girlfriend? Why did you break up?"
"The reason is not him."
Mandy said to Merlin without hesitation as if she was talking about homework:
"It's mainly me. After I had been with that guy for a while, I suddenly realized that I seemed to like more women than men. So I broke up, but his sister is now my girlfriend, so we are still getting along well."
""
After hearing this explanation of ruining the three views, Meilin stood up expressionlessly and said to the bold little succubus in front of him:
"I know enough, it's time for me to leave."
Chapter completed!