"Swish"
The moment Merlin walked out of the dock, a black raptor was coming.
With a beautiful and perfect tail swing, he stopped accurately in front of Merlin.
The doors automatically opened, and the escalator with pedals extended to Merlin's feet.
Merlin looked back at the battle on the dock.
The pier, which was almost engulfed by the sea, was in a mess, but the fierce confrontation continued.
Hydra soldiers were almost killed by the ambushed assassins, and the tyrants they brought were also entangled in the deep sea.
The battle between Superman and Thor is not over yet, and the Arthur trio is strong, but it is almost impossible to defeat Clark and Thor.
And the Iron Man has taken advantage of the chaos to leave the battlefield.
Something went wrong with his super mark...
Maybe Merlin should thank Jarvis, after all, that artificial intelligence is risking being discovered and dismantled, and she acted in a scene with Merlin.
Well, maybe Icarus communicated with Jarvis in advance.
But the battle here has nothing to do with Merlin.
"Click"
He sat in the car and the seat belt was automatically fastened for Merlin.
The doors were closed, and the steering wheel of Horus automatically deflected the next moment. It started smoothly, but rushed out of the war zone at the speed of a sports car.
"How is the family situation?"
Merlin leaned in the driver's seat, as if he was closing his eyes and resting.
He asked softly.
The next moment, Horus replied in a muffled voice:
"Everything is safe, everyone is waiting for you at home, Master Merlin, your friend Wolverine Logan and the Sons of Hell are protecting them. Are you going straight home now?"
"No."
Merlin shook his head and said:
"I have to find a place to clean up..."
He looked at the dust and blood left on his shirt and the pale, bloodless face reflected in the rearview mirror.
He said:
"Just go back like this, they will worry."
"Do you need me to find a door for you?"
Horus whispered:
"Maybe it's a good choice to enter the Mysterious House at this time."
"Door?"
Merlin chuckled, he took out the key of the mysterious house, inserted it into the keyhole of Horus' car from the inside, he twisted the key and said softly:
“There are doors everywhere in this world…”
The next second, Horus, who was running on the street of the world, disappeared strangely in place with the key as the medium.
Let three rockets attack from the sky be wiped out.
Amid the roar of flames blowing the earth, Horus appeared smoothly in the spacious hall of the mysterious house.
"Click"
The car door opened, Meilin walked down with a cane, and was held on his arm by Xuanlan who suddenly appeared.
"How did you make it like this?"
Xuanlan said in a dissatisfied tone:
"You respect the world and everyone. I hope you can respect yourself, just occasionally..."
"You really can't be nice to yourself?"
"It's just an accident."
Merlin didn't want to argue with Xuanlan.
He knew that Xuanlan was for his own good.
He was supported and sat on the sofa, and the flames in the fireplace burned more violently at this moment, making the hall warmer.
Xuanlan picked up the bell on her waist, and while shaking, the ghost servants appeared, brought hot towels to Meilin and put on new clothes.
He also served him a cup of hot tea with the right temperature and spare pastries.
"You are injured, why don't you come back as soon as possible?"
Xuanlan bent down and said while helping Meilin clean up her somewhat scattered hair:
"Do you know how worried I... the kids are?"
"I just don't want you to worry too much about me, and there's no big problem."
Merlin picked up the teacup, he sipped a sip of the tea, and he said:
"Just expected, I was ready for this, but it was coming with great force, and it was still a little beyond my imagination... But things have not yet gotten out of control, and it is still far from the time to lose control."
"The source of all chaos has been found..."
Merlin put down the teacup and said:
“The rest is simple.”
"Really?"
Xuanlan stood beside Meilin, she said:
"You should know that in this room, I can feel your thinking..."
"Why is your beating heart telling me that you are not sure this time."
The female housekeeper who had been with Meilin for almost ten years looked at her master and said seriously:
"Tell me honestly, Master Merlin, what is the real situation like? Tell me about your disorderly and complex fate..."
Xuanlan walked to Meilin's eyes, she squatted down and held Meilin's cold hands with both hands.
She looked at Merlin's dark red eyes and said:
"You know you can trust me, you can tell me... what's going on?"
Under Xuanlan's inquiry, Meilin was silent for a moment, and after a few seconds, a hint of gloom appeared in his eyes.
He seemed to have taken off all the disguise, and he said to Xuanlan:
"Okay, it's terrible."
"It's not because of this incident itself, Lan, because of that game... Although I haven't told you, I believe you can guess it."
"The endgame moment of the game is coming."
Merlin sighed, he raised his head and looked at the ceiling of the mysterious room above his head full of strange patterns, and he whispered:
"When you are forced to start playing a game..."
"You are forced to join the game as the worst possible person."
"You didn't know all this at first, you thought it was your life, everything was real."
"But then, you awaken, you become detached, you realize that it's all arranged."
Merlin lowered his head, and he looked at Xuanlan's face that looked very similar to Natasha.
He stretched out his fingers and stroked his smooth cheeks, and he said:
"And you don't want to just sink into illusory satisfaction. You want to have your own reality, and most importantly, you want to win..."
“Isn’t it just to win the game?”
"But now the problem I face is that the game is almost over, but I don't know what to do to win..."
"I don't know what wins, it makes it difficult for me to adopt a strategy. Hydra is just a small problem, but this... is a big problem."
A vain smile appeared on his face, and he stroked Xuan Lan's cheek.
As the flames burned in the fireplace and in that warm breath, he looked at Xuanlan and asked softly:
"Lan... are you real? Or are you just born in a dream like me?"
"It's like a soap bubble, just poke..."
"Bang"
“It just broke.”
Xuanlan listened to Meilin's narration, and her expression changed. Finally, under Meilin's gaze, Xuanlan stood up, she stretched out her hand and pushed Meilin on the sofa.
The next moment, Xuanlan bent down and put her entire body into Meilin's arms.
She held Meilin's neck with her hands and kissed Meilin gently on her cheek.
She said in Merlin's ear:
"Now, you can feel my weight, my temperature, my feelings, do you think I am real?"
"I have no idea."
Merlin closed his eyes and said:
"But I hope you are true, just as I hope it's all true... not a damn story, a damn game."
"I hope you are flesh and blood, I hope all the time we have spent together is as real as steel, and I don't want to find that it's all my dream when I open my eyes the next moment."
"Or worse, it's all a dream belonging to someone else."
"Will we, who have completed our mission at the end of the game, still exist? Can we continue to move forward? Go to an unknown end."
This question caused the hall of the mysterious house to be quiet, and Xuanlan could not answer it.
In the quiet, Meilin and Xuanlan leaned on the sofa in a very ambiguous manner.
There is only the sound of peeling off when the flame burns.
Apart from that, there is only silence.
"Of course they will continue to exist!"
A few seconds later, a voice broke the silence, and that voice seemed to be answering Merlin's question, he said:
"But you may not be sure."
"Swish"
Xuanlan in Meilin's arms opened her eyes and turned her head to look at the person who appeared behind her.
Her face was full of surprise and a hint of fear.
As the companion spirit of the mysterious house, in theory, no matter how powerful the person entering the house is, he cannot hide Xuan Lan's perception, because she is the house itself.
But now, a guy who was not perceived by her appeared.
He was sitting on the sofa opposite, holding a cup of tea in his hand.
But in Xuanlan's perception, this guy seemed to not exist at all.
What appears before my eyes, it seems that it is just a ghost, a thing that does not exist in reality.
He was wearing a black suit and a gentleman's hat, which was slanted over his head, covering most of his face, making his face look like it was shrouded in shadows.
He wore black gloves, very suitable gloves, almost perfectly attached to his fingers.
Under the suit, there are white shirts, which are now rarely stand-up collars, but there is no matching bow tie or tie on the neck.
It is worth noting that he sat on the sofa in a big boss's sitting position.
The left leg is placed on the right leg, and the blue cloak behind it is scattered on both sides of the sofa in a smooth posture.
And the cloak of the cloak is under the collar.
The buckle is very strange.
Just like three unique silver coins are shaped together to form this clasp.
"Buzz"
Xuanlan subconsciously mobilized the power of the mysterious house to drive out the sudden and strange invader.
But as soon as she raised her hand, she was stopped by Merlin.
"it's useless."
Meilin held Xuanlan's wrist with his hand. He looked at the mysterious man sitting opposite him and said:
"He is not a person from this world, and the power of this world is useless to him."
"Maybe he is watching you do useless work with a sarcastic thought, and then he will take the opportunity to humiliate you hard."
"orchid..."
Meilin said to Xuanlan in her arms:
"Why don't you go and prepare a refreshment for your guests?"
Xuanlan understood what Meilin meant. She looked at Meilin with some concern, and then looked at the strange mysterious man.
She stood up and quickly disappeared into the hall.
“Wow…”
The mysterious man put down the teacup and clapped his hands while saying to Merlin:
"Compared with the last time we met, Merlin, you're really too mature..."
"The girls around you are really charming and are so loyal to you. If it weren't for your sad current situation, even I would have envied you."
"I think you really have no progress compared to the last time we met."
Merlin straightened his body, he looked at the mysterious man in front of him, and he said:
"As before, I always like to talk nonsense."
"But at least you finally appeared. Mr. Moke, I have been waiting for you for 19 years..."
"I've been looking forward to reunion with you."
"Ha ha."
In 1971, when Merlin was born.
And in 1989, when Merlin's real story began, the Phantom Stranger, who had appeared twice, sat on the sofa and laughed.
When he appeared for the third time, he looked at Merlin and said:
"You expected me to come long ago? Why are you so sure?"
"You are the messenger."
Merlin said:
"The command to convey higher will is their eyes, their hands reaching into the world, their weapons to correct mistakes, and their means to play with people in the game."
"The game is about to end. If you don't show up yet, I think you're too incompetent."
"Okay, okay."
The Phantom Mok spread his hands, and a strange expression appeared on his face covered in the shadow of the hat.
He said:
"I haven't seen you for so many years. You are not very capable, but you have a big temper. You are still sharp-tongued..."
"People always need to grow, Mr. Stranger."
Merlin said calmly:
"If I have experienced so many things and I still have no progress, it would be a disappointment for you."
“That’s right.”
Phantom Moke nodded in agreement, and he took out his pocket watch with extremely weird shape and interior installations, and looked at the time.
He said to Merlin:
"I don't have much time, so let's be more honest."
"I'm really here to announce to you something you must know..."
"But you're wrong, Merlin."
The Phantom Sticker showed a strange smile, and he pointed at the sky, saying:
“But I didn’t come on behalf of ‘them’.”
"Um?"
Merlin was a little surprised now. He looked at the Phantom Stucker with questioning eyes, and the latter explained softly:
"Although it's a two-person game in name, in fact, from the beginning of the game, there are far more than two people involved... Many people are paying attention to the results, of course you don't need to know too much about this."
"Where is me, I am honored to be a messenger..."
Moke picked up the teacup, took a sip of the tea, and he said:
"But the will behind me also has its own plans and ideas. I serve the voice of heaven, and the voice of heaven also has friends..."
"His friend is very concerned about you, and he wants me to help you at some point."
Phantom Moke raised his head and smiled at Meilin, saying:
"So, I'm here."
"Are you ready to ask questions? Merlin..."
The tone of the stranger became serious. He looked at Merlin and said:
"A friendly reminder! You have made a mistake once..."
Chapter completed!