Chapter 898: 56. Dancing with Snakes [26/40]

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"Uh"
At the moment when the illusion of the form of Eiken in the mysterious house dissipated, Merlin emerged from the shadow on the edge of the room.
He had just ended his conversation with the priest. Father Paul’s logic did not match Merlin’s usual view of things, but he did help.
Moreover, so far, everything that should be done has been done.
Merlin looked at the empty house. After the decorations in the room had been put away, the place became empty and strange.
There are no more familiar people here, and there are no more things to worry about here.
It can no longer be called home here.
Merlin reached out to open the refrigerator and took out a can of beer.
He walked over to the sofa and turned on the TV.
The news being broadcast echoes the chaos of New York.
Those superheroes who are out of control and disturbed by fear and spiritual power have become a source of turmoil in the city again.
And the criminals who fled the first clearance, they also went through the city under the hunt of the tyrant, tried their best to escape, and then made everything worse.
In the sky, there was a continuous wave of high-pressure rays.
But after the initial chaos, when people's inner fears and malices were urged and released by the chaotic outside world, various crimes appeared in endlessly.
Some of them did not even come from the people's intentions, but some of their acts of irrationality were also convicted of crimes, and then the rays from the sky knocked down on the ground.
Instead, they are powerful villains who can escape from the eye of insight again and again.
The insight system is ultimately flawed...
It is very effective for preventing ordinary people from committing crimes, and can even forcefully intervene before the crime begins.
But for those superhumans, it is not so magical.
Whether it's a bullet or a ray, as long as someone escapes the first time, as long as the aura of omnipotence is broken...
There will be a continuous comeback of maliciousness.
Merlin was drinking cold beer, and he stared at the screen in front of him.
He looked at the city struggling in chaos. He didn't need to close his eyes to hear the wailing and pleading from the city.
But now, it is not time.
A few minutes later, Merlin, leaning on the sofa, felt the unstoppable sleepiness hit him. He closed his eyes and fell into a sleep.
A familiar sense of falling struck him. He stretched his body in the drifting clouds. This always gorgeous dream world was as colorful as ever.
It looks like a graffiti for novice children, but it is full of freshness.
Full of some kind of weird vitality.
Merlin landed on the ground, and the fog in front of him turned to the sides.
The golden palace appeared. On the balcony of the palace, Merlin leaned against the railing. He looked at the sad Zatana who appeared in front of him.
This time Miss Magician appeared exceptionally dignified, and there was no more amorous gesture before.
She also seems to predict that something will happen.
"Why cry with a sad face?"
Merlin beckoned to her, he said softly:
"I'll say goodbye to you, Zatana, you should at least smile."
"Have you really reached this point?"
Zatana looked at Merlin, and she stepped forward, she said:
"Is there no other way? Maybe you can hide here, or I will send you to a dimension they can't find..."
"Evasion will not solve the problem."
Merlin stretched out two fingers, stroking Zatana's smooth, long black hair. He said:
"This is a game for victory. In the past, I always thought about how much I had to pay for victory. Now it seems that I may have to pay everything for this."
"Last night I felt restless."
Miss Magician said:
"I did divination for you, all kinds of divination, from the most common tarot cards, to summoning the omniscient, I tried to spy on your destiny, Merlin, but I couldn't see anything."
She looked at Merlin, her beautiful eyes were full of worry and weakness, she said:
"Your destiny is like being wrapped in mist, I can't see clearly, and I can't predict its direction. There is neither good nor bad."
"That's hard to guess, maybe you should avoid it."
"Oh, we are talking about fate, Zatana."
Merlin did not care about the persuasion of Miss Magician, he said:
"The more you want to escape it, on the other side of the gap, the faster it will chase you, rather than fighting the trapped beast when the mountains and rivers are exhausted, it is better to fight now."
Merlin turned around and he looked to the edge of the dream world.
Beyond the curtain of mist, the black glare has inflated to a terrifying level, and it has begun to squeeze the dream, as if roaring maliciously.
Here, as in this world, it is not peaceful, and horrible things will happen here.
There is also an upcoming war here.
Merlin says:
"This is destiny. It made me born with a weak attitude and experienced hardships. Then, surely, it is looking forward to a story of breaking cocoons..."
"The end has come..."
"How can I let it down?"
At the moment when his words fell, Zatana hugged him from behind.
The two had been intimate with each other many times. Although it was only in a dream, despite being driven by the power of Sandman, that intimacy still changed the relationship between the two.
But this time, this hug did not have much lust.
It's like another farewell.
Miss Magician put her face on Merlin's back, she said:
"Why are you always? Poor man."
"Because I am the source."
Merlin put his hand on Zatana's finger, he said softly:
"When I came to this world, disasters followed. I didn't stop moving forward, and so did the bad things that happened to me."
"It's like a storm of movement, brewing power, and finally involving everyone in it."
"Only when the storm dissipates will there be silence."
Zatana didn't answer Merlin's words with emotion.
She just wanted to hug him again.
Remembering the familiar taste, maybe...
This is the last time.
"The power of the nightmare is increasing day by day, maybe it will soon invade this dream."
The two maintained this rare silence. After a few minutes, Merlin looked at the black glare in the distance. He said:
"I should have solved this threat with you, but..."
"In short, if I can come back, I will do my best to help you, but if unfortunate things happen, then you have to be prepared in advance."
"I have a preliminary idea."
Zatana released her hand and took a step back. She said:
"You don't need to worry about me anymore. At this time, you should focus on your future."
"Merlin..."
"As a friend, I hope you will be safe and sound, and I will look forward to seeing you next time..."
There was a smile on Merlin's mouth, and it was a warm blessing.
He recovered and said to Zatana:
"Well, I will try my best."
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"Drop, drop"
The black cell phone was beating on the empty coffee table, and it kept buzzing.
After a few seconds, Merlin, who returned from the dream, reached out and picked it up. He looked at the number beating on the screen, and he put the phone to his ear.
After a moment of silence, he said:
"I thought we had nothing more to say."
"Of course!"
Pierce's hoarse voice came from the other side of the phone, he said:
"To this day, I still haven't given up my efforts."
"Efforts?"
Merlin looked at the fire flaring on the TV screen in front of him. At the scene of Louise's interview, a mob lit an apartment, and the fire was rising.
He said quietly:
"Do you try to destroy the world?"
"Protect it!"
Pierce's voice was full of stubbornness, he said:
"Before things get better, they will always deteriorate first, but the chaos in this city is being suppressed every minute and every second. Those criminals are stubbornly resisting, but they have been forced to despair."
"This is their last madness!"
"I did not see it."
Merlin put the phone's voice modulation outside and dropped the phone on the coffee table. He said:
"I only saw the calm city turned into a battlefield, and the dangling fearful was forced to the chaotic side."
"The person who once vowed to protect becomes a destroyer, and the protected can only cry helplessly in the ignited flame."
"One city has become a battlefield, and another city is about to become hell, and it's all because of your wanton actions!"
"I haven't seen you protecting the order, nor have you tried to rebuild it."
"I only saw the destruction..."
"Pierce, I only saw the coming of chaos. Is this the new order you are after?"
Merlin shook his head, and he said sarcastically:
"Shit-like stuff!"
"Patience, Merlin."
Pierce was not angry, he explained:
"Any greatness takes time."
"You used to be a member of this system. You also know that this order system is not a caterpillar. It declines, pales, and falls behind. It will not cocoon itself, and then it will become a butterfly and become more beautiful!"
"It has no vitality. Someone must push it. It must die once before it can be reborn in the flames ignited by us!"
"Come back, Merlin."
The old man said in a sincere tone:
"When I came back to stand with me, the incident in Raccoon City was an accident, which made people feel sad and painful."
"But you see, after your S.D.O.L.D. is integrated with the insight system, we can easily control the situation."
"In just a few hours, we saved 600,000 people! This proves that when we stand together, we are enough to push the world!"
"You are a believer in order, and so do I. We all have a obsession to make the world better and more perfect. We are natural allies."
"Merlin, come back, we can accomplish our common ideals together."
Pierce stopped, he said:
"Look, there are problems with my plan, unexpected problems, which shows that I can't do it all by myself, I need help."
"I need your help! I will give you all the power in my hand, and you will turn bad things into good things."
"You will turn the tide as before and become the hero of saving this country, this continent..."
"You're insulting me just because you feel empathy, watching a city experience the torment of change, that makes you feel pain, it is a beautiful character."
"But I know that deep down, you understand... after the chaos is over, something better will be born."
"This is a decisive moment, Merlin, this city, this country, this world, it has come to the brink of order, and we only need to push it lightly!"
"The new world we desire will come!"
"Having seen the arrival of hell, I would long to return to the world, indulgent freedom and comfortable security, after all, I can only choose the same...you and I know how the people we protect will choose."
"You know, this is right!"
"If you still feel fooled, if you feel pain, it's no big deal if I give you my life!"
"Come on, Merlin!"
The old man added a tone:
"I have arranged all the stages for you, and I will also take all the blame, take my life, let me compensate for the past deception and concealment, and then you do what I should do for me... ."
"You will be a hero, and you will also be my best heir!"
"I have arranged everything for you."
"I beg you, accept it!"
"..."
Pierce's words silenced Merlin.
After more than ten seconds, he sighed and said:
"What the is wrong with you? All of you..."
"I don't need it, I don't want it, Pierce, I used to do a lot of things for order, but besides the desire for an order that will not be destroyed, I have a conscience and I can tell right from wrong."
"This is wrong, you are doing the wrong thing!"
"Ideal is not your reason for destroying the world and hurting others; and whether the perfect order in your heart is good or not is not yours."
"What's the difference between you and the city thugs?"
"Pierce, if I choose to walk with you, what is the difference between me and you?"
Merlin coughed a few times, he said:
"Many people call me a cruel conspirator, but I know, I am not, I am not blind, I am not drunk, I still know what is right and what is wrong."
"I reject!"
"Pierce, I will destroy everything you have created, I swear!"
"Wait for me in your hiding place, I will pass by soon."
Merlin stood up. He stretched out his fingers, and a green ray burst from his fingertips, annihilating a superhuman thug howling across the sky.
The trench coat behind him fluttered at this moment, and the blood-red cane jumped into his hands.
He says:
"It was I who saved you personally, Pierce, I don't know if it was a conspiracy you arranged, but it doesn't matter now."
"I personally released a terrible mistake, and now, I will also solve it and everything it has created."
"Pierce, we used to be friends, best friends..."
"But now, we are not!"
Merlin raised a sharp blade in his heart and cut all worries at this moment.
In an increasingly cold voice, he said:
"Today, we..."
"Unforgettable!"
"then..."
"My own hands, take you on the road!"
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