Chapter 1577: 31. I. Raven. Shadow of the Stars (Part 2)

"Om"
The silver-gray pull-wind sports car parked on the side of the street in Hell's Kitchen.
This concept sports car immediately attracted the attention of many people. Some young people whistled and picked up their mobile phones, wanting to take a photo and send it to Moments.
But when the door opened, Merlin, who was sitting in the passenger seat, waved his hand.
Just like magic, those gathered around lost interest in luxury cars one after another, they quickly dispersed and continued to do their own things.
This scene made Hope little girl's eyes widened.
Wow!
Sorcerer!
The big eyes of the cute little girl are full of curiosity and excitement. She has always known that there are wizards in this world, but the relationship between her father and those wizards is very poor.
So she never had a wizard friend.
She envied her good friend Sharon very much.
It is said that Sharon’s father and mother have many wizard friends. When Sharon celebrates her birthday, those wizards will send great gifts.
Little Hope was holding her schoolbag. She looked at her father and then at the wizard.
Her eyes rolled, and the little princess secretly made up her mind.
Today, I must make this Mr. Wizard a good friend of her!
"This restaurant is good."
Merlin patted the non-existent dust on his clothes. He said to Tony, who was holding his daughter's hand next to him:
"Although it is newly opened, the chef in charge has a good cooking skill."
He glanced at his little Hope hiding behind his father, and Merlin chuckled lightly and said meaningfully to Tony:
"The child is growing up, so bring her here more and eat something nutritious."
After speaking, Mei Lin opened the door of the restaurant and Shi Shiran walked into it.
Tony raised his head, took off his brown sunglasses, and looked at the restaurant's sign.
It was a very peculiar, rune-like text, Tony recognized, it was Hebrew.
"מסעדהגןעדן... Paradise restaurant?"
Iron Man looked at the decoration of the restaurant, and as expected, the entire white restaurant was full of religious decorations.
But it's not annoying.
Those decorations are arranged in the corners of the decoration with a modern and simple style, and you can't see it unless you look closely.
"Weird place."
Tony murmured, and walked into the restaurant with his little daughter, Merlin was already sitting by the window to order.
A waitress with a pretty face and a good figure in a black and white dress stood beside Merlin.
She was very professional, holding paper and pen, and recording the dishes that Merlin chose.
"Wow, angel!"
Little Hope, who was following Tony, was like discovering the New World. She grabbed her father's hand, pointed to the waiter, and whispered to her father:
"That sister has wings on her back! White, and feathers, so beautiful..."
"Ok?"
Tony glanced at his excited daughter, then at the waiter, he didn't see anything.
Merlin, who was sitting there ordering food, seemed to have noticed Tony's surprise. He snapped his fingers softly, and the scene in front of Tony suddenly changed.
The waiter, with her wings folded and wearing a white robe, looked like an archangel from the shape of her wings.
Tony turned his neck and looked at the location of the restaurant bar.
The lady who was lying lazily on the bar and reading the comics was also an angel with wings.
"You brought me to an amazing place."
Tony picked up Little Hope and placed it on the chair beside him. He looked at the back of the "waiter" swaying away, and said to Merlin who had finished ordering:
"Is that the archangel Gabriel? Or who else?"
"Oh, that, she is Randekiel, the archangel of Thursday."
Merlin looked at the scenery of people coming and going outside the window, he said casually:
"Gabriel is the chef. She is busy in the back kitchen. The person in charge of the cash register is Archangel Haven. She came up with the idea of ​​opening a restaurant..."
"What's the matter with your expression? Tony."
"Everyone has to have hobbies, and it's normal for angels to open a restaurant to pass the eternal boring life."
"I just didn't guess that Gabriel still knows how to cook. It seems that they are really idle in heaven."
Merlin was talking, he suddenly turned his head and made a face at Little Hope who was looking at him.
Fighting made the little girl laugh.
He squeezed his fingers again, folded it into a small paper crane with light, and put it into the air. The little gadget flew around Hope, like a real bird, which made the curious little girl stare. eye.
"Little Hope is really a smart and kind child."
Merlin propped his chin with both hands, and the little Hope opposite him held the light-made paper crane in one hand, and followed the manner of Merlin, propping his chin with his hands.
Two people, one big and one small, stared at each other, as if they were playing a game.
Merlin said to the little girl:
"It is said that only souls with pure minds can see through the disguise of angels. From this point of view, Little Hope has a promising future. Your life is definitely much more exciting than your stupid dad."
"Huh, Dad is not a fool."
Little Hope pouted and retorted to Merlin:
"My dad is the smartest, he is the smartest person in the world!"
"He told you that?"
With a weird smile, Merlin glanced at Tony, who was turning away, and he said to Little Hope:
"He's bragging, girl, there are at least 4 people smarter than him in the world. When I knew your dad, he liked bragging, and it's the same now."
"I do not believe!"
Little Hope stared and said:
"Dad is the smartest! Uncle Steve said the same when he was drunk last time, and, uncle, are you a magician?"
Looking at the little girl's expectant eyes, Merlin shrugged, rubbing his fingers to make a small flame, and he said to Hope:
"Yes, I am a magician."
"Hi, guest!"
A call came from the bar, and the cashier Haiwen said in a voice that couldn't be refreshed:
"It is forbidden to play with fire or magic in the restaurant, put out the fire!"
"Alright alright."
Merlin put out the small flame on his finger, and he said to Hope, who looked regretful:
"Do you want to learn magic from me? Girl, I can teach you."
"My daughter doesn't learn any magic."
Before Hope finished speaking, Tony stopped:
"She is a genius of mechanics. Like me, she will inherit my title in the future."
"Really? It seems that you like the new world very much and you have accepted Hope's existence."
Merlin leaned against the chair noncommitantly, his eyes looking at Tony with reflected stars, and Tony looked at Tony a little hairy, after a few seconds, Merlin sighed lightly.
It's like the warmth of meeting old friends fades at this moment, and the flowing time pauses at this moment.
The pedestrians walking outside the window, the angels in the restaurant, the sun, the clouds, and even the blowing wind, the smile on Little Hope's face, and the light of the paper crane in her hand.
It's like the switch of time is turned off and everything stops.
Merlin picked up the coffee at hand and said:
"This morning, you learned that you have a daughter. There are two lines of memory in your mind. You are still in perceptual confusion."
"When your consciousness is restarted by the stars, it is transferred to this moment by the power of the Infinite Glove. You can't even be sure whether the world in front of you is real, or whether all this is a dream of you."
Merlin carried the coffee and walked to the window.
He looked at the life-filled landscape outside the window, he said:
"I'm here to answer your questions specifically, Tony."
"These beautiful things are true."
Tony followed Merlin's line of sight, and the whole world outside the window was rapidly changing.
The complete world is like being divided into countless piles of building blocks, which are randomly extracted and built in another location, as if two flexible hands are manipulating them.
In the dazzling reorganization, the whole world is placed among the stars.
Tony sat at the dining table, watching this unimaginable scene, Merlin was like a guide, he took Tony and the little Hope, who was suspended for time, flying among the stars.
Those starlights, they are twisting, twisting in the direction of Merlin, just like a black hole attracting those colorful beams.
"They don't remember you anymore."
Tony looked at Merlin's back and said:
"Steve said something that I couldn't understand at all. I guess you twisted their memory and stripped the part that belongs to you from the memory of sentient beings?"
"But Terry Ang clearly gave me the soul stone, he said, those who have experienced the arrival of an outside will never forget that battle!"
"He didn't lie to you, those memories are indeed preserved."
Merlin looked back at Tony. He smiled gently and said:
"But it's a pity...you can't remember me, Tony."
"why?"
Tony asked fiercely:
"This is not fun, Merlin! No one wants to forget you, no one will take the initiative to forget you, without you, this new world would never have appeared!"
"I know, I believe in you as if I believe in myself. Listening to me, this is also a last resort."
Merlin explained helplessly:
"Look at the stars, Tony."
"It is no different from the old times, but it has indeed changed."
"In the flames of the melting pot of the universe, I was also reshaped into another form. My body died out, but my spirit survived and was integrated into the new world."
"After experiencing the alternation of falsehood and reality, I was given a certain symbolism."
He turned around and said to Tony:
"That's a difficult meaning to explain. I can only tell you that the current me is... the stars in front of you!"
Merlin's fingers lifted, and under Tony's stunned gaze, the stars in front of him were shaking with Merlin's fingers, as if they were moving bodies following the will.
"The me in your eyes is just a projection on the symbolic level of the stars."
"You cannot understand the secrets of the stars, you cannot understand my existence."
The Raven put the coffee cup on the dining table among the stars. As the tablecloth swayed, he carried his hands on his back and said to Tony:
"For ordinary souls, remembering the pressure of a star symbol is terrifying."
"That kind of pressure will crush your entire soul, even if you barely bear it, you will be distorted because of early contact with the truth of the stars."
"I have to extract those memories about me... only in this way can you set sail again without being fettered in the new world."
Merlin stopped, he said with emotion:
"I, I am destined to be the remnant of the old age."
"But I remember you, and I didn't feel anything bad."
Tony probably understood what Merlin meant.
This forgetting of the raven is not malicious, but a kind of "protection" from Merlin to his old friends.
He rubbed his forehead and said to Merlin:
"According to you, I am a special soul?"
"No, you are not, stop being narcissistic."
Merlin chuckled lightly.
He walked behind Tony, put his hand on the back of Tony's head, and said:
"You can remember me only because of the power of the Infinite Gloves. The distortion of your soul has begun. That's why I want to eat this meal with you with great fanfare..."
"Huh"
One thing was taken out of Tony's mind by Merlin.
It was a gem like a crystal, in the form of an infinite rough stone.
It was pinched between by Merlin, as gorgeous as reflecting an entire universe.
"Look, the last false fragment of the old age, it stays in your head."
"This is just the beginning. If I come a few days late, you will be twisted into a shapeless monster by the pressure of this kind of star symbol."
Merlin put the crystal in Tony's hand, and he said to Tony in a tone of horror storytelling:
"You will grow a special thinking organ to understand the secrets of the stars. It is an evolution, but it is not controlled. You are likely to become a big octopus cursed by knowledge in your sleep."
"This is the curse of knowledge."
"But I think Little Hope is probably not ready to say goodbye to his father, right?"
Merlin paused, he said in a seductive tone:
"I give you the right to choose, Tony, or continue to carry this fragment as the price of remembering me, knowing the truth about the stars, and living among the stars in another terrifying form."
"Or, I'll take this fragment away, you, your little daughter and your wife will continue your lives, grow up with Hope, watch her grow up, and grow old with the one you love."
"My friend, how would you choose?"
Tony looked at the false fragments in his hand, then looked at the daughter who was sitting next to him, maintaining a smirk, blood.
He hesitated for a long time.
He raised his head, silently handing the fragments in his hand to Merlin.
He said in a tone of sadness that could not be concealed:
"I understand."
"You are here to say goodbye to me."
Merlin nodded, he didn't say anything.
Tony could feel the memory of Merlin in his mind quickly dissipating, and the man in front of him was becoming more and more unfamiliar. He held his forehead and asked loudly:
"Merlin, can we see you again in the future?"
"Of course it can."
Merlin breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at the dazzling stars in front of him and said:
"Didn't I say everything?"
"As long as you understand the truth of the stars, you can understand my form of existence...As long as you rely on your own research to develop knowledge that leads to infinity, we can always meet again among the stars."
Merlin looked at Tony, there was only a gentle light in his eyes, and his body floated up and merged into the stars, like the twinkling stars slowly enveloping him.
In the dazzling light feathers flying, he said:
"I will wait for you here, Tony, and those old friends."
"We will finally reunite among the stars."
"Set sail in the new world, Tony, use your wisdom and strength to open up the road to the stars. I will wait for you at the end of that road."
"My friends."
"Don't let me wait too long..."
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