"Drip, drip"
Accompanied by the unique whistle of the taxi, the two taxis drove into the underground garage of the 21st Century Bell Telephone Company. They went down the rotating road. When they reached the 5th floor of the underground, a group of fully armed agents were already waiting there.
The new director Phil Colson, carrying a huge pulse gun, looked at the two taxis in front of him with vigilant eyes until Merlin opened the door of one of the cars that he relaxed his guard.
"What are so many people doing here?"
Merlin glanced at the fully armed agents, and waved his hand and said to Colson:
"It's no danger to let them go back to work, there's no need for so many people here."
"Uh, OK."
Colson made a gesture, and the other agents quickly turned and left.
"Prepare two special affairs consultants contracts, which will be set for 10 years."
Merlin whispered to Colson:
"In addition, now we will start investigating the social relationship between Dupend and Chas Chandler. The review process... there is no need for it. The two of them have special circumstances. By the way, we will prepare two permanent parking spaces for these two cars, and then book a cleaning and paint change service. Change the interior and exterior decorations, give them new license plates, and put them in official vehicles."
"Where is the level of confidentiality?"
Colson asked, apparently, he already knew the true identities of the two taxis.
"The confidentiality level is set at...7."
Merlin said:
"The confidentiality level of Dupend and Chas' personal information is also set at Level 7. If there are any extra safe houses, divide them into two rooms to make new apartments for them."
"OK."
Colson responded, and he looked at the four people behind Merlin again, and he said:
"Do you need me to lend the office to you? Sir."
"No, just give me a conference room."
Merlin smiled and patted Colson on the shoulder, he said:
"You are the boss here. Go and have your assistant deliver the things I need to the conference room later."
After saying that, he looked back at the four people behind him and said:
"You guys, come with me."
Dupont, Chas, Jessica and Luke Cage, the four of them did not know Merlin's true identity, but when they saw the 5th floor underground, covering such a huge office area, the agents who came and went, had serious temperament, uniforms, and those agents who were passing by Merlin, would take the initiative to make way for Merlin.
Well, this is not difficult to guess. Mr. Merlin's true identity must be a big man with a great background.
They soon arrived at the conference room, and while Merlin was sitting in the chair, a beautiful young lady soon delivered a drink, then left, and closed the door again.
"Sit down."
Merlin said to the four people in front of him:
"You have to know some things, and there are some rules. It's time to tell you. Especially you two, Dupont, and Chas, you two have been involved in an accident, and now you can't get out of here."
Dupend and Chas sat in front of Merlin with fear, with Jessica and Cage's expressions better. After all, these two guys are capable, which is different from real ordinary people like Chas and Dupend.
"Let me explain it to you first."
Meilin picked up the teacup and sipped a sip of tea water just right. He said to the two taxi drivers:
"Just last night, the world suffered an invasion from alien civilizations, some robots that invaded the earth from the stars... Well, don't be afraid, this storm is about to subside, and we have the upper hand."
"What I want to tell you is that the changes in your car are related to these mechanical lives, but don't worry, your car, uh, I mean, your robots are not part of those bad guys. In fact, they were still ordinary taxis before this morning, but they were just mutated by some kind of energy."
He knocked on the table and said to Chass and Dupend:
"You must understand that your taxi belongs to you, but I cannot let you let the Cybertrons who have completed the 'awakening' be driven by you to continue carrying passengers on the streets of New York..."
"I understand, I understand."
The timid guy, Chas, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and a bad smile appeared on his fat face, and he said to Merlin:
"I can hand over my car to the government and your department, Merlin, just give me some money, uh, it's okay if you don't."
"Me too."
Du Pengde nodded suddenly, and the guy knew the danger, he said:
"I don't want money anymore, just drive away my car."
"It would be fine if things were that simple, my friends."
Merlin sighed, and he said to two taxi drivers who were just ordinary people with some headaches:
"These robots, Cybertrons, have advanced technology, but their culture is traditional."
"In the Cybertron civilization, there is a vassal relationship. Whenever the Cybertron finds friends worth following or can be trusted, they will regard them as their own 'knight'. Once this relationship appears, it will be engraved in the thinking logic of those robots and cannot be violated."
"Apart from the death of the knights, the Cybertrons will always follow them. The problem now is that your two cars have just woken up and they do not have much complex cognitive abilities, so they set the original taxi owner as their own 'knight', which means that you two now have robot followers."
"Bang"
The door of the conference room was pushed open at this moment. The tall, handsome, handsome and mighty assistant to the director, Agent Grant Ward walked into the conference room with two documents, and he placed the documents in front of Merlin.
Merlin looked at the young man and said softly:
"How is that old man Gatler doing well recently?"
"He's fine."
Ward said to Merlin in a respectful tone:
"He has already started to live a half-retirement life, and he is tired of being with Aunt Liv every day. The two of them travel around Europe. I heard that they are going to get married next year or sometime in the year after tomorrow."
"Oh, that's great."
Merlin smiled and said:
"That's a life that I envy. You say hello to Gatler for me. I may be busy lately and don't have time to see him."
"Well, I will."
Ward nodded, glanced at the person in the conference room, and then stepped out.
Merlin handed Chas and Dupend the two contracts he had just drafted, saying:
"From today, you two will become special affairs consultants for the SHIELD department, Supernatural Affairs Defense Observation and Logistics Department, for a period of 10 years. The monthly salary is $8,000, plus field grants and bonuses and a range of medical insurance. After you officially join the company, s..l.d. will be distributed to your new apartment and your social information will be hidden."
"In addition, you need to come to S..l.d regularly to learn various skills, including a series of training. At present, we do not have a complete tactical system on how the Cybertron fights side by side with the Knights, but I believe that sooner or later we will find a suitable way to become qualified Knights."
"Is there anything else to ask?"
Merlin closed his fingers and said:
"If you want to ask, hurry up... Oh, by the way, you don't have the right to refuse."
"Uh, I have!"
Du Pengde raised his hand and said to Merlin:
"I think my home is pretty good. Can you not move?"
"No, I have to move."
Merlin said:
"This is to better protect you. You are just ordinary people who are powerless now. Once you are in danger of your life and cause the Cybertron to lose control and go wild, the problem will be very serious."
"Then my cousin..."
Du Pengde said a little embarrassedly:
"I still have family members."
"Let her move together."
Meilin took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, and he said:
"I believe you can convince her that if you can't, then I can only wash away all her memories of you."
"Uh, I'd better advise her."
Du Pengde was completely out of temper. While he was flipping through the documents, when he saw the work treatment, to be precise, when he saw the string of zeros, his bad mood became strangely better.
Alas, although losing freedom makes people feel sad, thinking about it from another perspective, the problem of money that I have been worried about can be considered temporarily solved.
This is not a bad thing.
"Hi, Chas, do you think it's reliable?"
Du Pengde was already a little shaken, and he whispered to Chas beside him:
"Maybe, joining them is a good choice."
"Wake up, Du Pengde."
Chass didn't look at the documents, but almost signed his name on the documents with his eyes closed. He said to Du Pengde:
"We have no choice at all... Mr. Merlin can talk to us in another way. Have you never watched the agent movie? Do you think you can survive waterboarding?"
"It's better to follow them honestly than tortured, brainwashed into tool people and finally surrender."
Chas pessimisticly held the pendant left to him by Constantine on his chest, and he said:
"If it weren't for our kindness with Merlin..."
"Well, you're right."
Du Pengde thought about it and felt that there was nothing wrong with what Chas said, so he simply turned to the last page of the document and wrote his name neatly.
"Yeah, very good."
Merlin took back the documents and said to the two funny guys:
"Now you can go out, turn left and find Agent Ward, who will take you through the entry procedures. In addition, we don't have any waterboarding here, and the life of the agent is not as terrifying as you think..."
"By the way, I've thought of a new code for you two, and you'll call it, Old Driver 1 and Old Driver 2... Are there any problems?"
"No."
The two guys looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time.
They have no choice at all.
After the two funny drivers left, Merlin turned his eyes to Jessica and Cage who were sitting quietly on the side, and he whispered:
"Isn't it exciting to listen to these secrets?"
"If there is a choice, I don't want to hear it at all."
Jessica complained:
"But I heard it all. I guess it would be difficult for the two of us to get out of here as if nothing had happened?"
“So smart.”
Merlin looked at Jessica and exclaimed:
"You girl, besides drinking, smoking, gambling scams, and having bad luck, have advantages... Then I'll just say that I want you two to join the S.H.E.L.D. like Dupend and Chas. Of course, as non-staff members, I don't need you to be agents, but if you want to contribute to the worse and worse order in Harlem, then I'm willing to help you."
"You can continue to be street heroes, and I am happy to see more people bravely stand up when bad things happen, but I hope your actions will be more legitimized."
Merlin turned his head and looked at Luke Cage with a cold face, and he said:
"Especially you, the Divine Power Man... Every time you fight crime, you will create a massacre."
"I refuse!"
The Divine Power Man snorted:
"No one of you guys is good!"
"Okay, I met a tough guy, and I just happened to be in a bad mood now."
Merlin stood up, stretched out his fingers and unbuttoned the first button of the collar, and he said to Jessica:
"You can go out first, Jessica, there are some things I have to 'talk' with Cage."
Jessica stood up without hesitation, patted Luke Cage on the shoulder and said softly:
"Good luck, friend."
Then the girl opened the door without any nostalgia and walked out. She had just met the Divine Power Man, so she didn't have to get into a terrifying enemy like Merlin for an unfamiliar guy.
After Jessica left, Merlin moved his neck and said to Luke Cage, who was also standing up:
"Just on the road, I checked your social information. Luke Cage is a pseudonym. Your name is Carl Lucas. He grew up in Harlem. He was a gangster and a complete villain scum, but he suddenly realized when he became an adult."
"In the past few years, you've been framed and thrown into prison, but for a few months what's going on has been blocked, and the source of the blocking is a certain information station of the Ministry of Defense... So I'm curious about what happened in those months that has turned you from an ordinary person to an invulnerable superpower."
"Although I know you certainly won't say it."
Merlin moved his fingers and said:
"But before beating you, the program still has to go, so I'll ask again, would you tell me?"
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Chapter completed!