When Fury received the news, he rushed to the conference room and saw Jae-Merlin sitting in a chair and talking to Pierce.
Merlin also had black handcuffs on his wrist, just like a prisoner was communicating his experience with the lawyer. Agent Hitville, who was standing aside, had an awkward expression. He could not afford to offend these two big guys at all, but he could not just leave.
Fury walked into the conference room and gave Hitville a relief. The director waved his hand, and Hitville left the conference room as if he had been amnesty.
Fury closed the door and walked to Merlin and Pierce. He took out the key from his pocket and helped Merlin unshackle the shackles on his hands.
"Pearce, you should know that this is to protect him."
Fury turned his head and said to Pierce who looked at him:
"The news of Gideon's assassination has been blocked, but we don't have much time left. The World Security Council still needs you to preside over the overall situation, and I don't want to see the entire council get messy."
"Cannot?"
Pierce said with a firm expression:
"When a person with full energy is alive, everyone is surrounded by him, fears him, and is willing to be friends with him, and at least he cannot become enemies, but this does not mean that everyone likes him very much."
"Gideon's assassination may be bad news, but whether it is a good thing or a bad thing will disappear with death. Maybe there are indeed many people who want to cause some storm through this incident, but more people will only breathe a sigh of relief."
"Compared to investigating Gideon's death, the political legacy left by my old friend is probably the focus of the Council's next discussion."
Speaking of this, Pierce's expression was a little sad, and he whispered:
"This is politics. It's hard to win against the alive Gideon, but when he dies, many difficult problems are solved. Although I don't want to admit it, Merlin's private actions have indeed solved a big problem for us."
Fury nodded, and he looked at Merlin:
"Have you confirmed his identity?"
Merlin knew what Fury was asking, and he said:
"He called himself the 'speaker'. This is exactly the same as the codename of the Supreme Leader of Hydra we collected before. I couldn't see his memory, but I found this."
Merlin took out the pocket data card from his pocket, and he placed the thing on the table, he said:
"This is found in Gideon's emblem, and maybe it brings us some more 'surprise'."
"I'll let the data experts decipher it right away."
Fury put away the data card, he glanced at Merlin, then at Pierce, and he said:
“About today”
"Forget it."
Pierce suddenly stood up and said to Merlin and Fury:
"Nothing happened today, today is just a day that is not special among the countless meaningless days in this world."
Pierce said to Merlin:
"You can wash away memories, right?"
"Um."
Merlin nodded.
"very good."
Pierce pointed at himself, then at Fury, and he said:
"Wash away our two memories of this!"
"There are also agents outside who are responsible for escorting you back, erase their memories. Since it has never happened, let it be completely forgotten."
"this"
Merlin hesitated, but Pierce strengthened his tone, and he supported his hands on the table and said to Merlin:
"Today we cut off the last head of Hydra, which is a great victory. But everything that happens today must be forgotten. No one will remember what you have done, and no one will praise your sacrifice. The great actions you have made will be buried in time. That will be a secret that no one knows."
"This is necessary because only in this way can we protect you and we can protect our true heroes."
"really."
Fury hesitated a little, but he nodded, and he said:
"As long as it exists in the heart, there is a possibility of being leaked. Gideon Malik's death will cause Hydra to fall apart, but the thugs who have lost their leader will inevitably become even more crazy. Maybe they will try to avenge the leader at all costs."
"If anyone knows this truth, it will make your situation even more dangerous."
"I know, you are not afraid of their challenges, but you also have relatives, Merlin, you have to think about them more, like the tragedy of Richard and Mary, it can't happen again."
Fury took out the pocket data card in his pocket again and handed it to Merlin. He said to Merlin:
"You are responsible for this thing. If there is any information about the residual Hydra, you can handle it yourself. Also, remember to make up a better memory for me."
"You should start with a gentler move."
Pierce sat back on the chair, looking at Merlin who pulled out his wand, and he joked:
"Don't delete my other memories, it's very troublesome. I'm already a stalemate. I have enough diseases in my body. I don't want to suffer from amnesia."
“No.”
Merlin smiled at the two people in front of him, and he said:
"I'll be very careful."
Merlin waved his wand, and the white light of the forgetting curse leaped at the top of the wand, like a white aperture, and in the gaze of Fury and Pierce, the light expanded rapidly and then flashed away.
"Ahem"
Merlin's cough woke Fury up, who was distracted. He turned his head to look at Merlin, and then rubbed his forehead in a daze. He said:
"Where did you just talk about it?"
“A mission report on Yorkshire Blackstone.”
Merlin said seriously to Fury, who looked blankly:
"I have reported on the battle results of the evil god I encountered and the hive of Hydra origin. After completing the battle against the evil god, even if we destroyed the inheritance of Hydra from the origin, the organization might be about to fall apart. I also found something in the ruins of Yorkshire Castle."
Merlin waved the pocket data card in his hand, saying:
"The castle was destroyed by the power of the Black Stone eruption, and I doubt that Hydra's leader was also dead, but I will continue to track down this matter until everything related to Hydra is over."
"Yeah, very good."
Fury nodded. Although his unexpected distraction just now caused him to not hear Merlin's report at all, his majesty as the director made him not admit it.
He stood up and said to Merlin:
"You have to make another written report on this matter and submit it to me. If there is nothing else, you can go and do it."
Fury glanced at Pierce, who was sitting next to him, and said to Merlin:
"I will send this old man back to his office."
"It's better to send it home."
Merlin said to Fury:
"World Security Council Director Gideon Malik was assassinated today. That was his old friend. This incident had a great impact on him and he might need to rest. After all, he was busy next."
"Talk about the assassination of Director Gideon Malik"
Fury looked at Merlin and he asked:
"Do you think this matter is related to Hydra?"
"Maybe."
Merlin said ambiguously:
"It is very likely that Hydra will suddenly go crazy. Director Gideon Malik has always supported S.H.E.L.D.'s pursuit of Hydra. Moreover, the director has a complex political background. After being assassinated, it will inevitably cause chaos in the world Security Council. This chaos can be used by Hydra."
"From this point, it is reasonable for those Hydra elements to regard Director Gideon as the target of assassination."
Meilin analyzed it randomly and put the shit basin on the Hydra's head as usual.
Fury felt that Merlin's statement was a bit far-fetched, but when you think about it carefully, it was not unreasonable.
But Gideon Malik's assassination was so sudden that it was so sudden that it was like a headless unsolved case that made an experienced agent like Fury not know where to start.
"I'll leave first."
Merlin took out his pocket watch and looked at the time. He moved his shoulders and said to Fury:
"I just fucked an evil god. I'm tired now. Maybe I have to take a few days off."
"Ask leave again?"
Fury glanced at Merlin and said:
"Your work attitude has been a problem lately, Merlin."
“But my work worked so well.”
Merlin shrugged, and he said:
"Just think I took annual leave early. Before taking a vacation, I will arrange a handover for work."
After saying that, he quickly walked out of the conference room. Fury looked at Merlin's back and shook his head, but he was not saying anything.
"Bang"
The door of the conference room was closed behind Merlin, and the camera in the corridor was temporarily blocked by Icarus at this moment. Merlin held the wand, and he pinched the Axifer seal and said to Agent Hitville who was guarding the door:
"Come on Hitville, I'll show you something good."
"Swish"
The white light flashed.
More than ten minutes later, Meilin came to the rooftop of the Trident Building alone. He looked at the city that had just been shrouded in the evening. The black night took over the gorgeous and short dusk, bringing the world into darkness. However, the lights lit in the city made the night no longer feel fear.
Merlin walked to the edge of the rooftop, bent down slightly tired, sitting there, his legs hanging in the air.
The wind in the night blew his hair and stroked his cheeks, making him breathe a sigh of relief.
He looked at the stars that were not very clear above his head, and the moon that had just risen, after washing away the memories of his companions with his own hands and hiding those secrets that should not be known in his heart, the feeling of loneliness also rose in his heart.
This is the price of keeping secrets. You cannot talk about it, you cannot share it, and you can bear the heavy pressure alone.
He knew that what he did was right, and he knew that in the world under the light, people like Gideon Malik were destined to be judged, so he carried out justice with his own hands.
As Pierce said, he accomplished what they wanted to do but could not do, which violated the law and did not seem so fair. No one in this world knows what happened today, but Merlin will not forget it.
He embarked on the road of assassin, but he kept walking on this road.
Every step I take is getting heavier.
Every step I take is becoming more and more lonely.
Maybe, that's it
The price of this road?
—
Alexander Pierce returned to his home in Washington. The old man's wife had passed away more than ten years ago. His children also had their own families. Because of work, Pierce lived alone in a mansion.
But tonight, the room was very quiet.
"Are you back?"
A voice suddenly sounded from the darkness, which scared the old man. He looked back and saw that in the dark living room, a woman in a wheelchair was staying there, with her back facing him, looking extremely mysterious.
"Why are you here?"
Pierce asked in a hesitant tone:
"You should be in charge of the Umbrella Company's affairs in Raccoon City now. I don't remember that I summoned you."
"Of course you don't remember."
The woman said calmly:
"You are also powerful, Pierce. In order to completely gain his trust, he dares to let him release the forgetting curse on you. It is really a ignorant. If Merlin checks what is in your mind when he erases your memory, then you will really send yourself into the tiger's mouth."
"What are you talking about?"
Pierce said in confusion:
"What kind of forgetting curse? Why don't I know?"
"Oh, the wisdom of mortals."
The woman shook her head and let out a sarcastic laugh. She picked up a strange crystal bottle from her hand. A pale light ray turned around in the crystal bottle, like a sealed ghost.
"Open it!"
Mrs. Larson, the former Mrs. Hydra, raised her fingers and used magic to hold the crystal bottle into Pierce's hand, she said:
"Open it and you know what I'm talking about."
Pierce hesitated, but in the end, he reached out and twisted the lid of the crystal bottle. The white light rushed out like a snake, and merged into his body along Pierce's breath.
The memories that were copied and extracted in advance returned to his mind. A moment later, in the revival of memory, Pierce shook his head, and in the darkness, he whispered:
"The heroes' eyes always stay on the enemy, and they trust the people around them. You can say I'm taking risks and saying I'm trying to kill myself, but I've always been very confident in Merlin. The facts have proved that Merlin is a real hero, and I, I am the one who stands in the shadow of a hero."
“What should I do next?”
Mrs. Larson did not respond to Pierce's statement, she asked:
"You told me before that Gideon Malik's death represents the complete destruction of Hydra. What about us? Are we no longer villains?"
"We are never villains, we never serve evil, keep that in mind, Madam."
Pierce took out a box of milk from the refrigerator and poured it into a cup. He drank it while saying:
"We have truly integrated into the darkness, and no one will stop us from moving forward. Next, we should devote all our energy to the real right career."
"We will build a world protected by the new order, without crime, no chaos, no discrimination, no war."
Chapter completed!