Miss Hope was a sharp-minded girl, and she had inherited some of her father's wisdom.

Therefore, after being caught at the base of Pagassos with the portkey, Merlin quickly entered a rather "cooperative" posture after realizing that Merlin was not an ordinary person.

"Come, cooperate, Miss Hope, be a little more frightened, yes, keep your eyes open, and maintain this position."

"Click"

With a soft sound, a photo of Miss Hope's frightened face was recorded on the computer's camera and then put into the e-mail she was writing.

After the shoot was finished, Miss Hope's expression calmed down again.

She was controlled by the puppet to sit on a chair on the edge of the laboratory, completely immobile like a beautiful sculpture, only her cheeks freed, so she had to cooperate with the demands of the two eccentrics in front of her to make her situation better.

"You're looking for Hank. Pym... What does this have to do with me? ”

This capable-looking urban woman, in a rather rational tone, said to Dr. Foster, who was operating the computer, and to Merlin, who was standing beside him:

"I've been out of touch with him for a long time, I haven't seen him for almost 7 years, and I suspect he's probably dead."

"Hey, girl."

Merlin looked up, he looked at Hope, who was sitting on the other side of the desk, and he whispered:

"Be quiet, we're working. Also, Hank. Pym is your father, even if he's a real jerk as legend has it, have some faith in him. ”

"You certainly don't know him."

Miss Hope stared at Merlin, and she said:

"If you knew him, you wouldn't have done such useless work. There is no one in this world who he cares about, and believe me, if you give him a choice, he will definitely have an experiment with him for the rest of his life, not with his loved ones. ”

"There's a lot of resentment."

Merlin watched as Dr. Foster sent a picture of Miss Hope's arrest to an email address, which was when he and Hank. When Pym cooperated, Dr. Pym's work mailbox was more than ten years ago, and I don't know if the guy who hid it was still using it.

But there are so few channels through which the outside world can contact Dr. Pym.

Merlin went up to Miss Hope, and he looked at the pretty lady, and he said:

"We're not villains, Hope, and I'm not 'asking' you here to hurt you, we're just asking for help. But unfortunately, maybe in this world, only your unkind father can help us. ”

He placed his hands on Hope's shoulders and turned Hope's body so that she could see the honeycomb in the corner of the lab, and the anguished Ava, who said to Hope:

"That kid, do you see? She was only 17 years old, and 6 years ago, she was affected by an illegal quantum entanglement experiment, and she entered a bad quantum state, and every cell in her body was going through the process of tearing and healing, which was painful, but the child has persevered until now..."

"Your father once designed a quantum restraint device for her to make sure she wouldn't fall into the quantum sea. But now, the restraint is out of order, and the kid needs Dr. Pym's help. ”

Merlin snapped his fingers, and the manipulation that had imprisoned Hope vanished, allowing the young lady to regain her ability to move, saying:

"She needs your help too, Hope."

Miss Hope, who was free, moved her wrist and gave Merlin a slap in the face when she turned her head.

Unfortunately, she didn't really touch Merlin except for a cloud of smoke, and Merlin's cheeks, which looked like smoke that had been scattered, were restored to their original state in the next moment, which made Miss Hope take a step back with a little fear.

Gritting her teeth, she said to Merlin:

"If it's for life-saving things, then maybe you should treat me to a meal, tell me what happened, ask me for help, and I'll try to help too. And not in such a coercive way ... It almost scared the hell out of me, you know! ”

"I already said that, Miss Hope."

Merlin was not angry, he whispered:

"We don't have much time and can only use some coercive measures. What's more, the Pym Tech Building is not so easy to get into. ”

"I'm telling the truth."

Miss Hope flicked her wrist with an unhappy look on her face, and she said to Merlin:

"I really haven't seen him for 7 years, in fact, I was sent to a boarding school by him since I was 7 years old, and we have only seen each other a handful of times over the years, and we have not even had very few phone conversations, and I doubt that he has forgotten that there is still his daughter in this world."

"He's a bastard!"

Facing a disappointed Hope, Merlin shook his head and said:

"Your father used to be a good tech agent, and for a while, he was a superhero. He knows exactly what to do to protect those he cares about, and he knows very well that the farther away you are, the safer you are, at least that's what I think. ”

"Wait, you say my father was a secret agent or a superhero?"

Hope looked at Merlin in surprise, and the pretty young lady asked with great disapproval:

"Are you sure?"

"Did he never tell you that?"

Merlin asked rhetorically:

"Didn't tell you about what he used to do?"

"No, there isn't."

Hope said calmly:

"In my memory, he was a very smart guy, he and my mother would travel a lot, in fact, before the age of 7, he was not so cold, so asshole, but after my mother died on an accidental business trip, he became a completely different person. I asked him, but he never told me what he was doing in those years. ”

"Okay."

Merlin Says:

"Looks like he's really protecting you... Hope, your father's past is magnificent, he's not as ordinary as you think, and of course, I shouldn't tell you these stories. ”

"Actually, you can use your current situation as a 'test'."

Merlin closed his eyes, maintaining a perception that spread throughout the base of Pagassos, and he whispered:

"Let's test if your father is paying attention to you, if he is as ruthless as you think... Well, someone's coming! ”

An unfamiliar aura suddenly appeared in Merlin's perception, but it was weak and not at all like the breath that a human should have.

Merlin sensed that the intruder was agile and swift towards the lab without alerting any security procedures at the Pagassos base.

"Huh"

The moment that faint breath entered the laboratory, Merlin's figure disappeared in place, and when he reappeared, he already had one more thing in his hand.

An ant...

To be precise, an ant with wings that can fly.

It was lying in Merlin's palm, and its appearance was completely indistinguishable from that of an ordinary ant, but Icarus's lenses quickly magnified the details of the ant, allowing Merlin to clearly see that behind the black ant, there was a very pocket-sized, similar to a video recorder.

"He's coming."

Dr. Foster stood up, took a pair of tweezers from the table, and said to Merlin and Hope:

"This is Pym's 'messenger', he has a special device that allows him to talk to ants and control them. He definitely got the message we sent him. ”

While Dr. Foster was removing the pocket device from the ant's back with tweezers, Merlin turned back to Hope and said:

"Look, he still cares about you."

Hope didn't answer, she looked seriously at the ants lying there quietly in Merlin's hands, she never knew that her father could manipulate these little creatures, just as she never knew that her father, who was so cold that he was almost autistic, was actually a superhero.

At this moment, Miss Hope suddenly realizes that she does not seem to know anything about her father, and she indulges in the hatred of his indifference, but instead of taking the time to explore his past, she confronts him with the same indifference, so that the relationship between the two finally comes to this bad point.

Perhaps, his father was not as ruthless as she thought.

"Click"

There was a soft thud.

As Dr. Foster placed the tiny instrument on the test bench, a holographic projection of light pulsed, and the upper body of an old man with gray hair, gold-rimmed glasses, a brown suit, and a beard appeared in the laboratory.

He belongs to the kind of guy who can be remembered at a glance, and his expression at this time is not friendly, just like that kind of fierce old man, with eyes as sharp as a young man.

This is Hank. Pym, one of the world's most profound scientists in quantum science research.

"Hello, Dr. Pym."

Merlin said something about the projection in front of him, but it completely caught Pym's attention, and he didn't pay any attention to Merlin at all, but turned his head to look at Dr. Forster, who was standing on the other side, and said:

"Bill, we haven't seen each other in over a decade. But I didn't expect that under your poor scientific research standards, there was actually a thug's soul hidden, and it seemed that it was the right thing to kick you out of my laboratory in the first place. ”

The old man's voice was a little sharp, and he spoke mercilessly, and with his indifferent eyes, he seemed to be unapproachable, which was indeed unpleasant.

"Look, I said it."

Dr. Forster was not very concerned, and turned to Merlin and said:

"This guy is a bastard. I almost forgot why I quit my job more than a decade ago, and now I remember that it was because I couldn't stand the bastard's stinky temper. ”

"You, S.H.I.E.L.D. dogleg."

Dr. Pym turned his gaze back to Merlin, to whom he unceremoniously:

"Peggy told me about you, and she praised you, but now it seems that I was right in my suspicions about you, that you are no different from the thieves and villains of S.H.I.E.L.D., and that you are even more hopeless than them. Listen, you kidnapper, my daughter has nothing to do with this, let her go, and then we'll talk about other things. ”

"I think you should control the cynicism that has nowhere to be placed in you on this occasion, Lord Pym."

Merlin reached out without showing any weakness and put his hand on the back of Miss Hope's neck, and he whispered:

"I hope this calms you down a bit... I hate to say that, but your daughter is indeed in my hand, and with the slightest movement of my fingers, you're going to say goodbye to her... After losing your wife again, you don't want to lose your daughter again, right? ”

"Whatever you want!"

Dr. Pym was not at all intimidated, he looked at Merlin indifferently, his projection flickering, and another window split below the projection, which looked like a surveillance camera.

In the center of the shot, Fury is talking and laughing with Pierce, and with the shift and continuous magnification of the camera, on the table next to the two people, several ants with strange instruments are lying there.

It's like a death squad soldier with a bomb on his back.

"You have hostages, and so do I."

Hank. Pym gritted his teeth and said:

"As long as my daughter gets hurt even the slightest, you'll have to get ready for two funerals, Agent Merlin!"

"You should know who they are, Dr. Pym."

Merlin's eyes narrowed, and he said:

"You should also know what horrible consequences can be caused when those bombs explode... You're a sane person, and you're not going to do that. ”

"The last of my sanity is in your hands, Merlin."

Dr. Pym's projection shone a little as he said:

"Let her go, she shouldn't be involved in these things."

Merlin and Hank. Pym's projections stared at each other, and the atmosphere in the laboratory became very frozen at this moment, and both Dr. Foster, who was watching from the sidelines, and Miss Hope, who was being taken hostage, were more nervous than the two parties.

After a suffocating 10 seconds, Merlin voluntarily let go of his hand. Pym Says:

"Well, you win."

The atmosphere suddenly relaxed.

"Alright, you can go home, Miss Hope, and the rest is none of your business."

Merlin patted Hope on the shoulder, and he said to the young lady:

"Also, you see, it turns out that your old father, though he is a little crazy, does care about you."

The next moment, Dobby the leprechaun appeared at Merlin's beckon, and placed his hand on Miss Hope's calf with a perfect arc, and then the light of the shapeshifting charm lit up, and Miss Hope was sent back to her home in California in a daze.

After Hope left, Merlin pointed to the binning beside him, and he said to Dr. Pym:

"Ava, you should remember her, I commissioned Ms. Carter to ask you to design a quantum restraint for her, but now, the restraint is not working."

"One isn't enough, why not add a few?"

Dr. Pym, who is in the projection, turns his head impatiently to look at Dr. Foster, and says:

"I haven't seen you in more than ten years, Bill, have you finally thrown away the only brain you have left? I've given you my drawings, don't you even have the slightest inspiration? ”

"That restraint can be recombined into a special quantum restraint field, you just need to activate your rusty brain and design a system for it that can work stably! Don't tell me, you can't even do this! ”

"Of course I thought about that, Pym."

Dr. Foster seemed enraged, and he muttered:

"But Ava's body is too weak, she can't bear more than 3 restraints at the same time, which will increase her mental burden."

"Oh, you're a genius!"

Pym said in a sarcastic voice:

"Who told you to put a restraint directly on this girl? Wouldn't it be possible to make it a detachable external device? Without the need for physical contact, an energy field is formed on her body to isolate quantum activity... Is it difficult? ”

"It seems that in the ten years since you left my lab, Bill, you really haven't made any progress, and you haven't learned anything from me at all. In the past, you were a little wise, but now, look at you, it's like a recent graduate student, your mind is full of weeds! ”

Pym's words were very polite, almost like five squirts a second, but the problem was that Dr. Foster, who was sprayed by him, had nothing to say.

Because, what Pym said was right.

That's embarrassing.

"Alright, the problem is solved."

After squirting Dr. Foster to the point of near-autism, Dr. Pym turned his head and looked at Merlin with disgust in his eyes, and said:

"I know you're coming to me to get me to solve Ava's problem once and for all, but I'm going to tell you, Merlin, I can't solve it, at least not at the moment. But if my experiments go one step closer, maybe it's possible... So I'm going to ask you for one thing. ”

"Say it."

Merlin made a "please" gesture.

"If you really want to save this child..."

Pym stared at Merlin, the projection of the real grumpy dude stretched out his finger and unceremoniously pointed at Merlin's chest, and he said:

"Then pray that my experiments will go ahead, I mean, don't bother my daughter again, stop distracting me with these damn things..."

"You idiot, understand?"

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