"I knew that every time you called me, nothing good would happen."

The next morning, Merlin opened the door to find Miss Elsa, S.H.I.E.L.D., the S.H.I.E.L.D., dressed in her trench coat and hunting outfit, and looking ready to go.

"Don't worry, Elsa."

Merlin replied:

"My agents have been busy lately, and I need to find myself a trustworthy partner."

"Wait, don't talk yet."

Elsa's straight nose twitched, she approached Merlin, sniffed at his clothes, and the female agent said with a playful expression:

"You have the smell of perfume on you... Looks like you had a good night last night, is there a girl in your bed who hasn't woken up now? Do you want me to guess who that is? ”

"Don't make a fuss."

Merlin took a step back expressionlessly, and he explained:

"I just dropped my colleague home last night, uh, she drank a little more."

"Is it just to send it home? Didn't do anything else? ”

Elsa asked with a gossipy face:

"Tell me, Merlin, how did I not know that you, who don't pretend to all women, still have such a wonderful nightlife? Or with colleagues... Tsk, rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest, Chief Merlin, if I'm not mistaken, inside S.H.I.E.L.D., it's forbidden for staff to fall in love with each other, right? ”

"I said no, I just didn't!"

Merlin's eyes jumped, and he grabbed Elsa's wrist a little roughly, and at the screams of the witch, the two of them disappeared from Merlin's house under the flash of the Transfiguration Charm.

As for last night, things were really simple and not as complicated as Elsa thought.

He and Hill go to Hell's Kitchen to listen to the famous Josie's Bar after dinner, and the two have a drink before Merlin sends Hill home.

That's all there is to the story.

"Huh"

In the distortion of the light, Merlin appeared in the slightly scorching desert with Elsa, presumably to punish Elsa for being outspoken, this time Merlin used an ultra-long-range shapeshifting charm.

Straight from New York to the depths of the Nevada desert.

The oppression of both body and mind brought by this long-distance dislocation is terrifying, and the moment she landed, Elsa shook off Merlin's hand and rushed to the side to retch in the unbearable dizziness of the whirlwind of the world.

The girl with the long orange hair reached out viciously behind her and made a rude gesture to Merlin.

She knew that this must have been done on purpose by the evil-eyed Merlin.

"The next time you speak, be careful, my Elsa, you're a girl after all, don't learn from those rude men."

Merlin Shi Shiran stood beside Elsa, he took out a handkerchief and handed it to Elsa.

The latter took it in her hand and wiped her cheeks, she looked up and stared at Merlin, who almost screamed and said:

"I hate teleportation! Did you hear that? Merlin, I hate teleportation! Especially hate your teleportation! You bad-eyed bastard! ”

"It's a small punishment to teach you not to care too much about your boss's private life and to respect your friend's privacy."

Merlin looked left and right at the harsh surroundings, and he said to Elsa:

"Let's go, let's go a few kilometers further."

"Where are you going?"

Elsa asked with an unhappy face:

"Where is this damn desert? Did you send us to Africa? ”

"This is Nevada."

Merlin Says:

"There's a S.H.I.E.L.D. base here, I'm going to find something in there, your search senses will come in handy."

"Hate you!"

Elsa kicked the stone under her feet, as if it were Merlin.

But when Merlin stretched out his hand, she still hugged Merlin's arm as before, and then between the black mist rolling, the two of them rushed towards the direction of Base 084.

Base 084, this is not a strange place.

Merlin had been here several times, and a few years ago, when S.H.I.E.L.D. was first built, he was there with Fury to retake the base, which had stored too many secrets, from the Department of Defense.

With Merlin's current level of secrecy, he knew that there were at least 3 secrecy bases like Base 084.

In the desert of North Africa, near the Atlantic Ocean, there is a base known as the "Sandbox", which is also responsible for the containment and management of dangerous goods and the training of agents. Agent Black, who is also one of Fury's trusted Level 7 Agent Commanders.

But compared to Gatler and Victoria. Ms. Hand, Merlin didn't know much about and had contact with Agent Felix.

Also, in Barrow, Alaska, there is an alien shelter for dangerous but not deadly alien prisoners.

Finally, there is the island prison in the heart of the Atlantic. L.D. At the same time that the management of aliens is becoming more and more strict, I heard that there are already some people in the remote island prison.

However, after reading Jiaying's letter, Merlin was almost certain that the one who had been killed by Peggy. The obelisk that Ms. Carter recovered from the battlefields of World War II is supposed to be stored in Base 084.

This is the first secret base established during the period of the Strategic Science Corps, and in chronological order, the item 084 recovered in 1945 is probably the first batch of items to be put into storage here.

Merlin took out his agent ID, as well as the pass issued by Fury, and with little effort, was escorted by several heavily armed agents into the warehouse at Base 084.

It was an underground warehouse, four floors long, and the interior was exactly the same as the last time Merlin visited, each warehouse was filled with metal stands and iron cabinets, and on those stands were filled with all sorts of strange things.

These are item 084...

S.H.I.E.L.D. has inherited a system from the Strategic Science Corps, and they call everything that is incomprehensible, dangerous, and should not flow into the civilian population as item 084.

But really, the vast majority of SCP-084 items aren't as dangerous as they appear to be, and most of them are just mystical in their own right. But having said that, during the weekday containment process, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s special containment team occasionally encounters something very dangerous.

"The period was from September 1945 to July 1946."

Merlin said to Elsa:

"What I'm looking for is in a black box with the standard gray eagle insignia, you can look for it in chronological order, and wait for me here when you find it."

"What about you? What are you going to do? ”

Elsa asked.

"I'm going to fetch something that's been left here."

Merlin's expression became a little sad at this moment, and he said a few words to Elsa, and then returned to the surface, led by the base staff, to the storage room in the test area.

He hadn't forgotten that Richard and Mary had told him that they had left some of their usual things here that they hadn't had time to take out, and that they had asked Merlin to bring them back to May and Ben's house.

Merlin hadn't had time to fetch these things, he had time now, but alas, his family was gone.

A few minutes later, the staff brought out what Richard and Mary had left behind.

A black handbag, all a little dusty.

In that handbag, there were a few books, a few documents, and a few small contraptions.

These have been checked by the staff here, and there is no danger of leaks, and Merlin intends to take these things back and pass them on to little Peter when he grows up.

A moment later, Merlin returned to the underground warehouse, and Elsa seemed to have found what Merlin needed, but the girl was standing in front of the black box, looking down at the box in front of her with her head down and frowning.

"What's wrong?"

Merlin stepped forward and asked.

"That's what you want, 45084-7."

Elsa pointed to the box at her feet and said to Merlin:

"But it's kind of weird."

"How?"

Merlin crouched down and looked at the box in front of him, which was metal, and there seemed to be a special sandwich substance inside, which could shield Merlin's dark perception.

Facing his question, Elsa also crouched down, she reached out and touched the welded interface of the box, and she said to Merlin:

"It looks like it's closed, but if you look closely, you'll see that the closure has been opened... These weld traces were resealed later. You see! Judging by the degree of oxidation contrast of this metal layer, it was opened at least 5 years ago. ”

"Huh?"

Hearing Elsa's words, Merlin immediately reached out and felt around the fully enclosed soldering interface. Sure enough, as Elsa said, although on the surface, the interface of the secondary soldering seemed seamless, but the touch from the tips of the fingers told Merlin that the slightly thick soldering layer was indeed the traces left after the two soldering.

Merlin's expression immediately became unsightly, and he stood up and shouted to the agent standing aside:

"Call the director of the base! Lock down the warehouse now! ”

A few minutes later, under the watchful eye of several high-ranking agents throughout the base, an agent armed with a crowbar stepped forward and opened the box with a little roughness. At the moment when the metal box was uncovered, there were several exclamations from the scene.

Elsa guessed right.

In the chest that was supposed to contain the dangerous obelisk... Nothing!

"Thing, where did it go?"

Merlin's face was grim and terrifying, and he turned his head to look at the several agents behind him, who were also staring at each other, their faces full of surprise and innocence.

"Chief Merlin, we can come up with all the surveillance data to prove that no one has touched this box in the years before you!"

A female agent supervisor explained:

"It's placed on the lowest level of the base, and there is a layer of steel in the concrete of the walls around this warehouse, and the warehouse is supervised 24 hours a day, and there are 27 cameras inside, and the picture is directly synchronized with the monitoring department of the headquarters, unless it's a ghost, no one can take that thing away, unless... Unless the contents of this box are lost before we take over the base again. ”

"Let's wait until the review is completed! Ladies and gentlemen, you have made a terrible mistake in your work, and may it be remedied! ”

Merlin interrupted the female agent's explanation with a wave of his hand, and he stepped aside, pulled out his phone, and informed Fury about the incident.

To Merlin's surprise, Fury didn't show a very angry tone.

"Merlin, Agent Tricy was with you for a year, and she had any reason to betray our secrets, and I think she was right... The time of the theft of that obelisk should indeed have happened during the time when the Ministry of Defense took over the base. Of course, the review still has to be done, and Hill is in charge of this matter. ”

"No, Fury, I'm not just worried about that."

Merlin said to Fury:

"The obelisk to be honest I'm not too worried, no matter who took it, it hasn't moved for several years, which means that they haven't found a way to open it, and we still have time to make up for this mistake."

"What I'm really worried about is what else this has caused."

Merlin said in a serious tone:

"Just because we lost a 084 item means we've lost other 084 items at the same time? I don't believe that those guys will just take an obelisk ... Fury, give me a permission! ”

"I'm going to go and check all the 084 items we have in our possession..."

A twinkle flashed in Merlin's eyes, and he whispered:

"I want to confirm how much precious things we have been robbed of in a daze."

On the other end of the phone, Fury hesitated, and after a few seconds, he said:

"Okay, I'll give you permission. But don't make a fuss, you have to do it privately. ”

"Well, Ciel will be in charge of this with me."

Merlin Says:

"If necessary, I would also welcome other colleagues to oversee this internal review."

Four hours later, Hill entered Base 084 with a team and took over control of the base from Merlin. When Ciel entered the underground warehouse, Merlin was already waiting for her with a list.

The two met a little awkwardly, but Hill was a mature agent after all, and she quickly adjusted her mood and took the list handed by Merlin.

With just one glance, Hill frowned.

"In addition to the obelisk of 45084-7, 65084-2, 87084-1, 89084-1, all stolen?"