"Distinguished parliamentarians, according to the information collected by S.H.I.E.L.D. from various sources, there are currently more than 300 bioaugmentation experimental projects in the world, and this is only a project promoted by the government or a pharmaceutical consortium, and there are still some uncontrolled and vicious private projects in the private sector."

In a conference room in Washington, the members and members of the World Security Council sat together and listened to the deputy head of S.H.I.E.L.D., Mr. Merlin. Riley's report.

It's not a formal meeting, it's more like a high-level internal closed-door meeting, and only after a basic common understanding has been established will these things be brought to the formal meeting for discussion.

Of course, this is also because some of the information that Pierce instructed Merlin to come up with is not suitable for discussion in public.

"Like this!"

Merlin, who was wearing a crisp suit, waved his hand, and on the projector in the conference room, a mission report and some blood-soaked photos were released, which made many councilors in the audience can't help but exclaim.

"Abstergo Company, I'm sure many of you know about it, even myself at the company's charity reception."

Merlin pointed to the projection behind him with a serious expression and said to the councillors:

"But what you may not know is that this company has a project called 'New Fluoride' to develop a new type of drug that strengthens the human body and slows down aging, and they call it 'Order Enforcer' internally, which sounds great, right? Ladies and gentlemen. ”

"However, in order to conduct experiments on drugs, this company launched a completely unproven experimental drug in a small town in Central Asia in July last year, which directly caused the death of 475 people on the spot, including 87 minors..."

There was another murmur among the councillors, and it was clear that something was appalling about the matter.

"And most importantly, everyone!"

Sitting not far from the podium was the chairman of the board, Alexander. Pierce picked up Merlin's words, and he accentuated his voice, knocked on the table, and said with a hint of anger:

"This matter has been concealed!"

"The top brass of Abstergo have easily concealed this appalling affair with a web of money and power they have compiled in recent years. Over the past few months, many North American lawmakers have complained about the three senators who were recently removed, but my friends, you have no idea why they were removed. ”

"This..."

Pierce pointed to the projection behind Merlin, and he said:

"Here's why! If it had not been for the brave men who really cared about the service of social order to expose this, the deaths of 475 innocent people would have been covered up. But that's not the only thing that makes us feel mad, Mr. Merlin, please go ahead. ”

"Hmm"

Merlin nodded, the projection behind him changed again, and the video footage of the night of the Hulk incident was played, and Merlin said to the councillors:

"Speaker Pierce's anger is justified, folks. The next thing I'm going to talk about happened a week ago, and I think you've all heard about it. ”

"The military, the North American military, is pushing for some dangerous tests without permission, which led to a horrific nuclear material leak in the University District of New Mexico, which directly threatens the lives of hundreds of thousands of people."

"If it weren't for the quick response of our S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, and if it weren't for their sacrifice to use advanced technology to stop the spread of nuclear radiation, I'm afraid that the explosion that night would have become the most horrific homicide of this century."

Along with Merlin's description, the video on the projection is zoomed in. Agent Coulson commanding the agents in the midst of the fire is shown to be heroic.

"Everyone!"

Merlin's tone became heavy, and he said in a sincere tone:

"These dangerous events could have been avoided, we are no longer in the midst of a civilized civil war, and the pursuit of biological weapons such as the Super Soldier has now become a very dangerous symptom. Actually, I think it's more like an arms race between countries, with the difference that the focus of our competition has shifted from rifles and tanks to super soldiers. ”

"But how long are we going to ignore something like this?"

Merlin shook his head, and he said sincerely:

"In this era, in this era of advocating peace, the competition between countries and between forces should no longer be divided by pure force, and we are not beasts..."

"We are human beings, we are wise, and we should be kind to each other. I have a lot of material here about the terrible consequences of the various dangerous experiments that we have gathered, but for the sake of time, it is impossible to show them all. ”

Merlin put away his folder, nodded politely to the councillors, and looked at Pierce again, and after receiving a nod of approval from Pierce, he politely said to the others:

"That's the end of my remarks, thank you."

Merlin stepped down from the podium, and his final proposal for peace was applauded by some of the parliamentarians.

And after Merlin stepped down, Pierce also stood up and took over the leadership of the meeting, and the old man said solemnly to the parliamentarians present:

"Thank you, Director Merlin, for your disclosure, and this is the purpose of my temporary meeting today, and that's what I am doing today, and that's what we did, just as we did with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, we should make a treaty for these dangerous experimental projects that will endanger social stability and people's safety."

"We would love to see the development of science and technology, the progress of society, but this should not come at the cost of innocent deaths. Dangerous experiments like Abstergo's 'New Fluoride' project should be stopped immediately! ”

"At least officially, we shouldn't advocate or condone that kind of experimentation to continue, we have to!"

Pierce exchanged glances with several of the councillors around him, and then he said to the other councillors:

"Let's think about it, and in 15 minutes, we'll have a preliminary discussion and a vote."

At the back of the room, on the last row of chairs, Merlin, who reached out to untie his tie, took the water handed by Fury beside him, and said to Fury:

"Pierce, the old man, always dared to take on troubles that no one else even wanted to touch. The things he does will bring him a lot of trouble and pressure, and not everyone is bent on world peace. As I spoke, there were at least seven people in the audience trying to kill me with their eyes..."

"Hehe, it's a pity they can't, can't they?"

Fury smiled, and he replied:

"You're telling a wonderful story, and as for Pierce, when I knew him, he told me that somebody has to put their hand in the dirty stuff and find the good stuff that's hidden."

"That's what he told me, and that's what he did, so I admire him."

"But to be honest, I'm skeptical about the significance of this Dangerous Test Ban Treaty."

Merlin sipped the water and said:

"Law-abiding people don't do illegal research, and those who do illegal research don't stop because of a treaty. For example, the soldiers of our Ministry of Defense, one by one, have serious paranoia of persecution, as if they cannot sleep quietly without holding a nuclear bomb in their hands. ”

"Project X, this Hulk incident, maybe there are some other biological tests that we haven't found out, and so on."

Merlin complained:

"Who knows how many things they're hiding, seriously, you're putting Thaddeus. Before Rose left, he should have let me look at his memories, maybe I could find a lot of interesting things. ”

"It's just an initiative, and the meaning of this treaty is symbolic."

Fury Says:

"We just need that symbolic meaning, we can't intervene in the friction between the big powers, they can be resolved through negotiation and compromise, we just need them to agree to the implementation of this treaty on the surface, then those unregistered dangerous tests will be defined as a crime at the legal level, and that's what we're going to deal with next."

"For example. Private companies like M and Abstergo, the illegal research they conduct, are the targets of the ban. ”

Fury shrugged his shoulders and said:

"There are enough superhumans and supermonsters, and we need to stop the spread of the supernatural in the first place. Without all those messy experiments, those bizarre drugs, it's hard for ordinary people to become supercriminals or superheroes. ”

"Well, I guess that once this treaty is signed, there will be many scientists and scientific research consortiums who will angrily accuse the World Security Council of grossly interfering with their freedom of research..."

Merlin said in an odd tone:

"Maybe there's going to be a march or something."

"Like you said, Merlin, law-abiding people only need to file in advance to continue their research, and those who don't plan to file and plan to mess around with their temperament, giving them the freedom to study can only harm others and themselves."

Fury whispered:

"We're just stopping them from harming themselves and others further."

"That's a bit interesting."

Merlin smiled, and he said to Fury:

"I'm going out for a cigarette and I'm going to do a report on the changes in the number of superheroes and the dangerous state of affairs they've caused... Hell, you should let Hill do these things, she's better at this kind of speech than we can either. ”

"Hill is busy."

Fury Says:

"Negotiations with Wakanda have just made some progress, and she's been there lately."

Merlin shrugged, reached out and patted Fury on the shoulder, then walked to the balcony outside the conference room, where the wind blew and a cigarette was lit, and Icarus's lenses were bouncing pictures and documents to sort out the data Merlin needed for his next speech.

It's good to have an AI assistant, at least in terms of speech, you don't need Merlin to do it himself.

He stood on the veranda, looking out at the White House not far away, letting his thoughts drift away.

Merlin was thinking about what Fury had just said.

There are always people in this world who want to be free, more freedom, who think they can do something good in the name of freedom, but in reality, they are only hurting themselves and others.

As an agent, Merlin has seen this kind of thing a lot.

When everyone is shouting for freedom, who will speak for those who have been hurt by excessive freedom?

There are always cancers that need to be eradicated.

According to Merlin's many years of work experience, for ordinary people's lives, the so-called freedom is far less important than safety.

Fear can heal conflict.

Just as security always convinces freedom.

"Well, I'm still too emotional."

Lying on the railing, looking out at the night ahead, Merlin said:

"Stopping people from hurting themselves and hurting others is what it does."

"Drip, Drip"

A message pops up on Icarus's lenses from an old friend who hasn't been in touch with Merlin for a long time.

It's a spirit butterfly.

That pretty mutant mercenary with purple hair.

But the information attached to the message made Merlin frown, and there were only three letters in the message.

“. S”

"Icarus, confirm the source coordinates!"

Merlin pushed the frame, and the next moment, a communication coordinate from Mexico was located on the virtual map, which was the last point of sending the Butterfly's distress signal.

"The information launcher is destroyed, Merlin."

Icarus's data tracking was interrupted a second later, and she said to Merlin:

"Miss Spiritbutterfly may have been in danger, captured or imprisoned."

"Let Horus pass."

Merlin Says:

"Let it find the spirit butterfly, and I'll rush over as soon as I'm done with the rest of the report."

"No, Merlin."

Icarus marked another coordinate on the map, and she said to Merlin:

"Clark. Mr. Kent's location signal is not far from where Miss Spiritbutterfly last disappeared, and you can entrust him to help you find your missing friend. ”

"Clark?"

Merlin blinked in surprise, and said:

"What is he doing there? Interviews? ”

Icarus quickly connected Merlin to Clark's phone, and after a few seconds, Clark's deliberately muffled voice rang on the other end of the line:

"Hello? Merlin, what's the matter? ”

"Do you have a woman next to you?"

Merlin keenly captured the background of Clark's voice, there was a woman's voice, but he ignored this, who Clark was with, what he was doing, none of this had anything to do with Merlin, it was the freedom of Kryptonians.

He said to Clark:

"I have a friend who is in danger on the Mexican side, Clark, but I can't leave now, you go help her for me, I'll send the coordinates to your phone, act as soon as possible!"

"Okay, no problem."

On the Mexican side, Clark hung up the phone, looked at Louise, who was writing a press release on a portable computer, grabbed his hair, picked up his handbag, and said to Louise:

"Louise, I'm going to buy some drinks, do you need anything?"

"Bring me a can of coffee."

Louise waved her hand without looking back, and Clark walked out the door, closed it gently, and then reached out and pulled open his shirt, and under that shirt was his cool Kryptonian combat suit.

On the chest of the uniform, there was a large S-shaped marking, which was an abbreviation of the word "hope" in Kryptonian script.

"Can't let Louise suspect you..."

Clark rushed lightly into the night sky, and while he flew at supersonic speed, he used his super vision to search for traces of spirit butterflies on the ground, and he whispered:

"Well, it has to be done in 5 minutes! Speaking of which, who is this spirit butterfly? ”

"Tsk, Merlin's girlfriend, that's a lot..."