Shadow of the Beautiful World

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"Snapped"

The empty drinking glass was placed on the bar, and in the bar full of vocal sounds, Merlin was slightly deep, and the voice of Xiao Suo piggybacked.

"Continued Cup."

"It's not like you, Merlin."

Josie, the owner of the Josie Bar, turned to look at Merlin.

She and Meilin are old acquaintances, and when she moved to Hell's Kitchen in Meilin, she opened a bar here.

At that time, Josie was the famous long-sleeved elder sister of Hell's Kitchen, but now she has become a kind-hearted aunt.

And these years, almost every week, Merlin and a short-haired lady come here for a drink.

Well, and Hill.

Since Merlin brought Hill to the Josie Bar for the first time, picking one day a week to sit at the Josie Bar has almost become a common habit of the two of them.

The stout Russian aunt picked up Merlin's glass, and while pouring the wine for Merlin, she said:

"Why didn't you see your girlfriend today?"

"Josie, I have said that many times, Hill is not my girlfriend."

Merlin, who was sitting at the bar, smoking, said:

"I have to emphasize it almost every time I come."

"is it?"

Aunt Josie put a glass of wine with ice cubes in front of Merlin's eyes.

She lay on the bar and said to Merlin:

"But I always feel that you two are well matched, especially when you drink and chat together..."

"She likes you, Merlin. There is no doubt about it. Believe me. I have seen many intimate and internally disgusted couples in my life, but you are not the same as Miss Hill..."

"When you first moved in, you were still a young guy. At that time, Miss Hill was with you until now..."

"Look at you, Merlin, you are not young, and Hill is not young, but every time she looks at you, it is exactly the same as ten years ago."

The bar owner who was always very enthusiastic about acquaintances chatted with Merlin, she said:

"Don't blame me for talking too much, but the two of you really match."

"Maybe, but it's too late."

Merlin murmured and pressed the cigarette in the ashtray.

Then pick up the wine glass, lift the neck as before, and drink the wine from the glass.

There was a trace of depression in his eyes.

Like the middle-aged office worker who had a depressed life and no hope, but he had been booze, and he was not drunk.

Perhaps he was not here to buy drunk.

Maybe he was just looking for a place to relax.

"So, isn't Hill coming tonight?"

Aunt Josie glanced at the door, and then looked at Merlin, who was walking alone. She picked up the rag and wiped the bar, and said:

"You two quarreled?"

"Um, she has a job, tonight... well, maybe I can't come to drink for a long time."

Merlin shook the ice cubes in his life, he said to Aunt Josie:

"Hill has been promoted. She is now the commander... er, I mean, it's the department manager. There are a lot of people in his hands and they are running around the world. She must be busy recently."

"Oh, I was promoted."

Aunt Josie smiled, she said:

"It's natural for a capable girl like Hill to make a career."

"Then again, Merlin, I met your little Matt last time. He and Fuji came here to drink. I asked him what you did, and he refused to say anything."

"me..."

Merlin put the empty glass on the bar, he blinked at Aunt Josie, he said:

"I am in the same unit as Hill, and I am still her boss."

"Oh, office romance."

A meaningful smile immediately appeared on the bar owner's face. She gave Merlin a thumbs up sign. She said:

"Great, no wonder they have refused to announce their love affair, which is the case."

"I said you think too much, Josie."

Merlin folded his hands on the bar, and he turned to see the crowds in the lively bar.

The Josie Bar is about to become an iconic building in Hell's Kitchen, and people from other districts have fun here almost every night.

The business here is really good.

A few seconds later, Merlin looked at the barkeeper with some hindsight. He said:

"You just said that Matt and Fudge came to drink with you? Do you sell wine to them?"

"Uh, no, those two boys are coming to drink that day, but I refused, and I gave them a glass of watermelon juice. It is illegal to sell wine to minors..."

The bar owner Josie was so smart, she waved her hand forcibly to turn the subject to the other side:

"Speaking of it, Merlin, you seem to be in a bad mood today. What happened to someone who came to drink booze?"

"Huh? Is that obvious?"

Merlin motioned for Josie to pour him another glass of wine. He shook the glass while looking at the amber liquid in the glass, and there was a glimmer of light in his eyes.

He says:

"Well, it's really annoying..."

"Then talk about it."

The bar owner said:

"For the sake of being a regular customer, I would rather take the time to listen to your complaints."

Merlin was silent for a moment, and he remembered the advice of his private psychologist, Zatanna. It wouldn't work to keep these things in mind.

Perhaps, he really should find someone to talk about.

After a few seconds, Merlin took a sip and said to Josie:

"A friend of mine, um, a friend at work."

"Others are terrible. They belong to the kind of guys that almost no one likes. They are somber-minded and like to play with conspiracies, but... he is barely a good person. We had a very good cooperation before."

Merlin shrugged. He sighed and said:

"But overnight, he became an unreasonable bastard."

He remembered the quarrel with Fury again today. He took out his cigarette case a little anxiously, took out a cigarette and lit it.

Today in the Nubani Industrial Park, Fury is like a different person, stubborn, rigid, and does not know what evil is involved.

Witnessing Fury's stubborn unwillingness to give up the insight plan first gave Merlin an unspeakable worry and anger.

He was the one who said he refused the insight plan.

Now the person who restarted the plan is still him...

Merlin seriously suspects that the SSS serum that Fury has been taking has developed sequelae, plus that Fury may have hurt his brain when he was attacked. During this period of time, Fury's series of actions made Merlin completely incomprehensible.

In the rising smoke, Merlin said:

"He is doing a very dangerous thing, and I know the danger of that thing. I tried to dissuade him, but..."

Merlin sighed and said:

"I'm in a bad mood, but I still have children at home, so I can only come here to pass my breath."

"Is it work?"

The bar owner shrugged. She said:

"It's always annoying. I used to work before I opened the bar."

"But I always think, Merlin, this thing seems to be just an introduction..."

"In the past, you and Hill also talked about work, but at that time, Hill was always complaining, and you were listening, you don't seem to be a person who will affect your mood because of small things at work."

Josie looked at Merlin. The Russian aunt wiped the table and said:

"It must be that you are not very happy in your heart, just like a pile of gunpowder barrels, and encountered this terrible thing, a Mars falling into your heart, and then...Bang!"

The barkeeper made an explosive gesture.

Merlin pursed his mouth. He looked at Josie. He said:

"Wow, you are so powerful, Josie, have you discovered all this?"

"Ha, Merlin."

Josie snorted proudly. She shook the waist of the bucket and added a glass of wine to Merlin. She said:

"I have been dealing with people of all kinds for decades, and I can see at a glance what you think."

Merlin did not respond to Josie anymore.

He's been really bad this time. The parchment reminder gave him a kind of stormy depression, plus today he had a quarrel with Fury.

Indeed, as Josie said, it was thought that a Mars detonated all the negative emotions in Merlin's heart this time.

this is normal.

Merlin looked at the sloshing liquid in the glass in his hand, where he could see his slightly twisted face reflected in it.

Almost 40 years of his life have lived in a "game". He was born for this game, preparing for it, and thinking about the end of the game every day after guessing the truth.

Now, the end is coming.

In this case, if he is not nervous at all, it means that he has given up his resistance.

In the face of this moment of destiny, who is not nervous?

"I'm asking you for this glass of wine."

Josie stood up straight, she said to Merlin with her arms akimbo:

"The men in my hometown have this habit. If they are afraid, if they don't know what to do, they will drink some alcohol and let alcohol help them decide.

"Look, you guys look pretty good."

The bar owner knocked on the table and she said to Merlin:

"Drink this glass of wine and fight like a man! There are a few younger brothers and sisters in your family waiting for you to go home, what is it to me! Let's go after drinking!"

"it is good!"

Merlin raised his neck and drank a glass of wine. He stood up and put some money on the bar. He said to Josie:

"I may not be here for a long time...I mean, if I can drink here next time, why not just order one?"

"Let me have some luck."

"Okay."

Josie rudely gestured her **** at Merlin. She said:

"Next time I will charge you twice the alcohol."

"Hahaha"

Merlin shook his head with a smile, he pushed open the bar door, and went out.

At this moment, Icarus, who has remained silent, said:

"Alexander Pierce sent a text message 10 minutes ago inviting you to sit at his house, which is said to be related to the Insight Project and Nick Fury."

"Ok."

Merlin reached out and pulled the collar, he said:

"I'm going to find him too."

"Uh"

The light of the street lamp was slightly twisted, just like a door opened by a hole, Merlin took a step forward.

The next second, he stepped into the living room of Pierce's mansion in Washington.

Pierce was sitting on the sofa reading a book, and Merlin's sudden appearance scared him.

The old man covered his heart and glared at Merlin. He said:

"Before you appear next time, please make a phone call and make me a little bit mentally prepared? I'm in my 70s, and I'm really afraid I will be scared to death one day."

"Don't say that."

Merlin was physically active. He sat on the sofa and said to Pierce:

"You are still healthy, Pierce, you can live a long time..."

"Don't comfort me."

Pierce put down the book in his hand, he waved his hand, he said:

"I'm very open-minded. I'm not afraid of death. I'm worried about other things. For example, I heard that you had a fight with Fury today?"

"how do you know?"

Merlin looked at Pierce in surprise. He said:

"That's what happened in East Africa. Did you, an old agent, put your eyes in the SHIELD?"

"What do you think?"

Pierce took the cane by his leg and said:

"Fery called me to tell me, he said that his language was a little too aggressive in the afternoon, and asked me to appease you... that guy, he couldn't bear his face, as if his face was so expensive."

"This is not a matter of appeasement."

Merlin shook his head. He looked at the old man Pierce. He said:

"What I want to know is about the restart of the insight plan... have you intervened?"

"I?"

Pierce shook his head calmly:

"I didn't. I went to Fury that day to do the abolition process of the insight plan."

"But I don't know what he thought, and suddenly told me that maybe the insight plan can be implemented..."

Speaking of which, the old man frowned, and he said to Merlin:

"This is not the point. The point is that Fury told me at the time that he would do a good job of communicating with you, but now it seems that he actually didn't tell you this at all, right?"

"He didn't tell me, but it's more than that."

Merlin looked at Pierce and he said:

"Have you noticed that Fury has become a little bit since being attacked by the Winter Soldier..."

Pierce's eyelids twitched, but he asked without changing his face:

"You mean, Fury was brainwashed?"

"No, he did not."

Merlin shook his head:

"When I quarreled in the afternoon, I took the opportunity to check that Fury's sanity was normal, and there was no sign of brainwashing or controlled thinking."

"But he suddenly became so extreme, which made me unable to think in a worse direction."

"for example?"

Pierce asked:

"What's worse?"

"For example, it was replaced."

Merlin narrowed his eyes and said:

"You shouldn't forget what happened in 1994..."

"Skuru?"

Pierce's face changed drastically. He snapped his cane. He said:

"This is a serious accusation, Merlin, do you have evidence?"

"I do not have."

Merlin shook his head:

"This is the worst place. Skullu's soul will change with the change of the body, and it's difficult to find the problem."

"Unless I kill Fury now and see if his body will change color, there is no way to detect whether he is the one we are familiar with."

"And if this bad conjecture comes true, what replaced Fury?"

"Is it the time of the Winter Soldiers' attack? Isn't the incident of the Winter Soldiers' attacks specifically set up by the Skuru to break into the SHIELD?"

Merlin made a series of assumptions:

"Is the Winter Soldier also posing as the Skuru, and most importantly, if Fury is a Skuru, how many people are really in the SHIELD?"

"What was he doing to restart the insight plan at this time?"

"do not talk!"

Pierce reached out and covered his forehead. He said:

"Your guess... even if you just think about it, it makes your scalp numb."

"Merlin, when did we first meet? Where?"

Pierce asked suddenly.

Merlin blinked and said:

"The embassy of Panama, the basement, you and others were tied together, and you were also punched twice by the rebels."

"Okay, you are real."

Pierce rubbed his forehead. Where Merlin didn't see it, a flash of light flashed in his eyes. He said:

"But what shall we do now? If that Fury is fake..."

"Wait!"

A trace of coldness flashed in Merlin's eyes, and he said softly:

"Up to another month... Carol will return from the stars!"

"She has the ability to distinguish the Skuru people and let Furi act this month. If he is real, it doesn't matter."

"But if he is fake, then let him call all his associates to SHIELD, a month later..."

"they..."

"Dead!"

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