A black mist drifted through the swamp, and it spread very quickly, as if it had been blown by the wind, and swept over the foul-smelling swamp, but it did not disturb a single plant or tree here.

Since the new mutants were unable to provide valid coordinates, Merlin had to use the most primitive methods to find that "home".

Based on what Merlin had learned so far, the information about the organization that mass-produced the new mutant warriors must have the ability to monitor the swamp where they were, so a large-scale search was not advisable, and it would be easy to start.

Merlin wanted an annihilation, and he didn't really want to play hide and seek with the rats.

Luckily, Merlin has an almost omnipotent intelligent assistant, and Icarus uses the time they took the aircraft and the location of the butterfly attack as a reference to the clues provided by the new mutants, and finally identifies a search area for Merlin.

"This swamp is nearly 800 square kilometers in size, inaccessible to the people, and I suspect that the group may have some advanced technology that can hide their base, at least optically."

Icarus said to Merlin:

"This means that if you're on your own, it's likely to take hours to find that place... But it's been nearly an hour since Miss Spirit's team was wiped out, and if the group wasn't stupid, they must have made a plan to deal with it. ”

"They may have evacuated, or they may have prepared for an attack that might come after the exposure."

"Victor is staring at the exit of the swamp, and there is satellite surveillance."

Merlin Says:

"As long as they leave, we'll know. But seriously, I don't think they'd be so decisive in abandoning the base, I saw it from the memories of the fake White Queen, there were at least a few hundred children in that base, and it wasn't easy to get them all evacuated. ”

"Don't call her the fake White Queen, she has a name too."

Icarus reminded:

"The girl's name is Grace."

"Maybe I should call her little Emma."

Merlin smiled and said:

"Just enough to separate from the big Emma of the Hellfire Club."

"The real White Queen definitely doesn't like your joke."

Icarus complained:

"She's probably going to unleash a powerful mutant from the Hellfire Club, and they're going to block you in the alley and teach you a hard lesson."

"Then let her come."

Merlin said indifferently:

"She doesn't even know that I've already hammered a nail in her Hellfire Club, ah, my dear friend Asazzo."

"Maybe she already knows."

As if he was deliberately arguing with Merlin, Icarus said:

"The White Queen has the same powerful psychic power as Professor Charles, and Asazzo's relationship with you may not be hidden from her."

"Wouldn't that be better?"

In the midst of the rolling black mist, Merlin gave a strange smile and said:

"That doesn't mean Big Emma hasn't been planning to turn on us lately, and she and her Hellfire Club aren't planning to do anything during this time... Nothing happened, even if the world was peaceful. ”

"Huh... You agents, you are really cunning. ”

Icarus snorted, although she had the wisdom of data, she was obviously no more proficient than Merlin in these matters that mattered to people's hearts. While she was manipulating several satellites to scan the swamp, she said to Merlin:

"How long are you going to let that uninvited guy behind you stay with you?"

"Soon, isn't this already in the open?"

Merlin pushed his glasses, and the black mist that drifted together in the open space of the swamp, and in the still clear moonlight, those drifting fogs formed Merlin's figure like the most brilliant magic.

He hovered over the muddy swamp, looking back at the place behind him where the moonlight could not shine, and in the dark swamp, there was a living form that had been hiding since just now, secretly following him.

Like a child...

But it is impossible for a child to be able to move in this inaccessible swamp with harsh conditions and wild beasts.

"Come out, kid."

Icarus's lenses quickly switched detection mode, and in thermal mode, at the edge of the swamp behind Merlin, among the low vines, there was a little guy lying there, looking at Merlin vigilantly, like a vigilant little beast.

"You know I don't need thermal imaging to see her, right? The sound of her footsteps moving in the darkness sounded like thunder to my ears..."

Merlin Says:

"Turn it off, I'm dizzy with this blurry thing."

Icarus quickly turned off the thermal imaging module, and Merlin shouted to the quiet swamp behind him:

"Are you going to play hide and seek with me? Little girl, I'm not a bad person, actually, I'm looking for some bad guys right now, they're hiding in this swamp, and I think you might be able to help. ”

Merlin paused, and he saw that the little girl hiding in the mire was slowly retreating, as if frightened by him.

Obviously, she didn't trust Merlin.

She's running away.

"I have no ill intentions, girl."

At this moment, Merlin's voice suddenly sounded in the mind of the little girl who was covered in mud and water, like some kind of evil magic, which frightened the little girl to turn around and run.

She was so fast that she was like a little monkey, jumping and running between the vines and trees of the swamp, and almost in the blink of an eye, she disappeared from Merlin's field of vision.

"She's a mutant, there's no doubt about it."

Icarus intercepted the girl's running motion and projected it onto Merlin's lens, and she said:

"The movements are very fast, definitely exceeding the explosiveness that a child of her age should have, and the reaction speed is also very fast, more than several times that of an adult."

"A little mutant, hiding not far from the villains, is still so vigilant."

Merlin's figure dissipated into a black mist, and he whispered:

"Looks like we're going to have a little guide... Well, maybe even God can't look past those evil deeds, and specially sent this little angel to help us carry out justice. ”

"Don't freak out her."

Icarus advised:

"Something terrible must have happened to that kid, you have to be gentle."

"I'm very good at dealing with children, Icarus, I like children, they love and hate, they don't hide their thoughts like nasty adults, if you are good to them, they are good to you... How nice it would be if the world was full of children. ”

Merlin, like a ghost of the black mist, followed the direction of the little girl's escape, and said:

"When I first picked up Lorna, she was about the same age as this girl, how well-behaved Lorna was at that time, and Raven, uh, Raven is a special case, she was very bad at first, but now she is much better, but the obedient Lorna is a headache when she grows up... She's been sneaking away to Ireland to play with Wanda these days, and she thinks I don't know..."

"People are sisters... It is also normal to be naturally attracted. ”

Icarus Says:

"Wanda. Django. Maximov is very good to Lona, don't think about it, I've been 'borrowing' satellites to observe them. And Wanda was clearly aware of this observation, and she did not resist, which was a sign of her overture. ”

"I'm not worried about Wanda, Icarus."

Merlin was like an older brother who was worried about his sister, and he said:

"I'm worried about Quicksilver, Lona's brother, the guy who always gets into trouble, sooner or later he will get into trouble that he can't solve, and maybe even involve my lovely Lona."

"And Raven, my sister is pretending to be a good girl to reassure me, but actually, I know exactly what she's been up to lately... She's already discovered the three magic artifacts I've hidden in the mystery house, and she's just waiting for a chance to unseal it, ah, it's so uneasy. ”

"Raven is also here to protect herself."

Icarus Says:

"Raven is born with great strength, after being sealed by the Supreme Mage, it is normal for her to feel uneasy, didn't you peek at her diary? She just wants to help her brother share some of the pressure, and just as you are wary of the shadows that the world breeds, Raven has been worrying about whether the seal she released on the Three Palaces Demon is still intact. ”

"Alas, don't talk nonsense! When have I read my sister's diary? I'm not a voyeur. ”

Merlin said dissatisfiedly:

"That time it was just Raven who accidentally forgot the diary on the table, and I just helped her put it away."

"How many pages did you read by the way?"

Icarus teased:

"Come on, Merlin, you're a big fan of peeping into other people's privacy, you don't respect other people's personal space in the slightest, and if Matt knows that he and his only friend were admitted to Columbia early because you helped them clear the relationship, then you're done."

"I didn't! Don't talk nonsense, Icarus. ”

Merlin quibbled:

"I was just chatting and 'accidentally' leaked it to Fury... I swear I didn't interfere, it was all a spontaneous action of the director of the boiled egghead, and it had nothing to do with me... Oh, I found her. ”

"Shhhhh That girl is hiding on a branch trying to sneak up on me..."

Merlin stopped at a fork in the swamp deep in, and as if he had spotted something, he crouched down and stretched out his gloved hand to flick the remaining marks on the ground.

At the moment when he crouched down, on the branch behind him, a small figure swooped down like a predatory female leopard, and the girl whose whole body was covered with mud and water did not say a word, her hands were open, and on the clenched little fists, strange claws poked out from under the skin.

Much like Logan's six steel claws, but this girl has only four claws, scattered over two fists.

"Poof, poof"

There were two soft sounds, and the claws on the fist of the girl who fell from the tree pierced Merlin's neck left and right, and her movements were fierce and precise, obviously not the first time she had done such a sneak attack.

The problem was that the deadly steel claw didn't touch any entity at all, as if it had stabbed a cloud of air.

"Hah, got you."

Merlin seemed to be playing with this child, and his body exploded into a billowing black mist at this moment, trapping the little girl who couldn't dodge in it. The girl knew she had fallen into a trap, she screamed like a beast, waving her claws in the black mist, and Merlin noticed that the girl actually had six claws.

In addition to the four on her fists, there is also a steel claw protruding from each of her two feet.

This makes this girl like a living spinning knife wheel when she rolls, a deadly weapon, the kind that hurts people when they touch it.

"Watch her paws, Merlin."

As the black mist continued to compress and gradually restrain the girl, Icarus reminded:

"Her claws are almost identical to Logan's steel claws, and this kid has gone through the same Edelman infusion process as Logan... I can't imagine her surviving the test that drove adults crazy. ”

"She doesn't have Erdman alloy in her body, only her arms and feet..."

Merlin's spiritual vision could clearly see the abnormal distribution of life force in the child's body, and he said:

"Those bastards did it on purpose, and obviously, they knew that the child couldn't get through it, so they did a staged infusion first... The crumbs! ”

Merlin's figure appeared beyond the black mist, and he looked at the girl in front of him who was bound by the black mist, who was still trying to wave her claws with difficulty, but the black mist's restraint made her unable to move, and she could only stare at Merlin fiercely with her own eyes.

Merlin crouched down, half-kneeling in front of the girl, he looked at her, and then reached out and threw a cleansing charm on the girl's muddy face.

A moment later, a face with South American characteristics appeared in front of Merlin's eyes, the child had chestnut hair, large black eyes, she grinned, bared her teeth, her nose turned up, she looked fierce, her expression was unexpectedly strong.

But the panic and fear in her eyes couldn't be hidden from Merlin, and the child was scared now.

"Don't be afraid..."

Merlin reached out and stroked the girl's hand, the cold Edman claws extending from her hand bones, Merlin caressed the slightly deformed hand bones, he could imagine the unspeakable pain that the twelve-year-old child had suffered as he was infused with piping hot Edman.

Logan, Wolverine has undergone such a modification experiment, that is in the 20th century, Logan was tricked into the X weapon experiment, at that time he was an adult, strong and determined, but even that Logan, in the Erdman alloy infusion because of extreme pain lost his mind.

"This must be painful..."

He gently stroked the girl's hand, he raised his head and looked at the poor child in front of him with the gentlest smile, his fingers touched the girl's forehead, and the power of the Axifa seal gently penetrated the girl's nervous spirit.

"Don't be afraid, kid, no one can hurt you."

Merlin calmed the tension and fear in the child's heart little by little in a manner similar to Professor Charles's psychic interference, and it took him several minutes to calm the girl in front of him.

He untied the black fog and said to the girl who was standing in front of him and looked at him suspiciously:

"What's your name?"

The girl did not answer, and Merlin took an apple from her pocket and handed it to the girl, who looked at the apple, and her throat moved up and down, but she did not immediately reach for it.

"Take it, I'll give it to you."

Merlin smiled and handed the apple to the girl, and he said to her:

"It's okay, eat, I'll protect you."

And as soon as his finger came close to the girl's hand, the girl seemed to be stimulated, and she stepped forward, waved her hand and plunged her paw into Merlin's chest.

Merlin looked down at the paw that had sunk into his chest, and then at the surprised girl in front of him, he shrugged his shoulders, pinched the seal of Axipha, gathered his spiritual power, and said to the child:

"Ah, a good girl who knows how to protect herself."

"Well, I'm starting to like you, kid... Come, look me in the eye. ”

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