Merlin's advice was gentle.

But Gordon has no right to refuse.

In many cases, a large number of people does not mean an advantage, and once a group of teammates who are not so suitable are selected, a large number of teammates can become a huge disadvantage.

In fact, if Gordon chooses to have a 1v1 battle with Merlin, then his elusive ability may not be able to defeat Merlin, but it is absolutely fine to leave with Lincoln calmly.

It's a pity that the teammates he chose have now become his biggest weakness.

As an instructor for these young Inhumans, he couldn't just give them up.

At Merlin's "friendly" suggestion, and in the struggle of the four young Inhumans with increasingly painful expressions, Gordon finally threw away the curved dagger in his hand.

He "looked" at Merlin, and he said:

"What do you want to talk about?"

"What I want to talk about is what this young man Lincoln desperately wants to know."

Merlin flicked his wand, and the young Inhumans who had been lifted up in the air landed on the ground, but the mist that drifted in the darkness still wrapped around their necks, representing Merlin still deciding their lives.

In a piggybacking tone, he said to Gordon the Eyeless:

"I don't know much about the Inhumans' style, but you can't just take a young man who doesn't know anything about you and forcibly take him from his home thousands of miles away. Not only does this not fit the definition of friendliness, it is against the law, Mr. Gordon. ”

"You're acting like a kidnapper!"

"Legal?"

Merlin's words caused Inhumans to let out a strange laugh.

"In the past 10 years, in North America alone, more than 260 awakened Inhumans have been imprisoned by you in your hospitals and psychiatric hospitals because they cannot control themselves, and 57 of them have chosen to commit suicide in the pain of unbearable drug torture."

"They deserve a brighter and freer future, but unfortunately, your laws don't give them a choice, do they?"

"Judging by Lincoln's reaction, I don't think we made the wrong choice by sending young people who can't control their irascible instincts to the hospital."

Merlin retorted:

"Their actions have created a threat to others. Gordon, if you or the organization behind you have a way to solve their problems, then you should step in to solve the problem before the situation gets worse, instead of waiting until now and throwing this black pot on me. ”

"I didn't kill them!"

"We sent people to talk to the parents of those young people!"

Gordon Says:

"We even talked to the doctors, but they couldn't understand and were even more reluctant to let their children accept fate. We saved the rest of the 260-odd young people in our own way. ”

"The leaders of the Afterlife organization realized early on that we should keep our distance from ordinary people. When faced with the unknown, the first thing you show is always the most direct malice. ”

The Eyeless Man said in an undisguised tone of hatred:

"Every stranger, including me, has had a painful life in the afterlife. We choose to live in seclusion, we choose to stay warm, we avoid you, but even so..."

He looked at the four young men who were controlled by Merlin, and his tone became a little colder:

"But you still won't let us go!"

"It's my personal behavior."

Merlin Says:

"Whatever you think, whatever you shout like a persecuted delusional madman, I don't care. What I want to know is, what exactly is Inhuman? You look a lot like mutants. ”

"Mutants? No! ”

Gordon shook his head:

"We're completely different from mutants. The awakening of mutants is uncontrollable, but Inhumans can choose their own lives. ”

He turned back to Lincoln, who looked wary next to him, and said:

"Actually, Lincoln. Campbell, I'm going to bring you back to life to address your instincts that want to awaken. But we don't force you, if you don't want the power in your bloodline, we'll help you through the most difficult period of awakening, and we'll send you back into your world after you can control your emotions. ”

Again, in a sarcastic tone, he said to Merlin:

"We are not like you, we know the pain of being forced, and we will not inflict this pain on our fellow citizens."

"Then you should make it clear in advance!"

Merlin said unceremoniously:

"The fact that this matter has deteriorated to this extent is all caused by your concealment."

"So what are we going to do?"

Gordon retorted:

"Casually revealing our existence to a young man who can't control himself? They won't believe it until they see the other Inhumans in the Afterlife. ”

"Ordinary people are like this, suspicious and conceited, and will always understand good intentions as malicious intentions. Over the past decade, many Inhumans have chosen to join us, but many more have been sent back to the world of ordinary people after being healed. ”

"They have to trust us before we can help them."

Gordon "looked" at Merlin, and he said:

"I never thought of hurting any ordinary person, and if it weren't for your brute obstruction, Lincoln would have been treated in the 'afterlife' by now. You think you're helping him, but in fact, you're just delaying his recovery. ”

"He's in his final awakening, Lincoln has dragged on for too long, he's almost 21 years old. If he has not learned to control his instinctive restlessness before the end of the awakening period, then that violent and restless desire for destruction will accompany him for the rest of his life like the most terrible mental scar. ”

'You're ruining him!' Good Samaritan'! ”

"So what the hell is going on?"

Hearing this, Lincoln finally couldn't help himself, and under the threat of self-insaneness, he asked sharply:

"Awakening period, mental scars and the like, what's going on?"

Merlin also asked:

"If you want to end this matter peacefully, Gordon, you should tell us everything we should know now."

"You're not an alien."

Gordon said to Merlin:

"I can't share our secrets with you, it would jeopardize our existence."

"He is!"

Merlin pointed to Lincoln and said:

"If you don't make it clear, I won't let you take him away, if your organization is really as kind and righteous as you say, then I don't think it should be a big deal to reveal some insignificant secrets in front of a young person's future. Or..."

Merlin's wand waved again, and the four young Inhumans were lifted into the air again, and he shrugged his shoulders and said to Gordon:

"You can understand that I am threatening you with the lives of your fellow citizens."

"Say it."

Merlin gently advised:

"Say it before things get any worse. You're not warriors, and I can feel that even you're not really warriors, so don't demand your warrior loyalty. ”

Gordon was still hesitating, but with Lincoln's pleas and Merlin's threats, he finally chose to compromise.

After a few minutes, Gordon said in a deep voice:

"'The Afterlife' is an Inhuman organization. We were formally established ten years ago, but we are not the orthodox organization of the Inhumans, and you can understand that the Afterlife is just a shelter for the Inhumans. ”

"I don't really know how many Inhumans there are in the world, and as I said, we're not like mutants. Our evolution and awakening can be controlled by some kind of substance, and after the evolution is complete, we are almost indistinguishable from ordinary people. Therefore, if our compatriots try to hide their existence, then no one can detect them. ”

"And what about your origins?"

Merlin asked:

"You should at least know where you're from, right?"

"Actually, we don't know."

Gordon said with some regret:

"There has never been a specific piece of information about the Inhuman's ancestry, all I know is that the history of the Inhuman's appearance is no later than that of the mutants, and in fact, we appeared almost in the same era as the ancestors of the mutants. According to the information we know now, the first group of Inhumans existed as early as the ancient Egyptian period. ”

"As for awakening, it's a hard thing to describe."

Gordon said to Lincoln:

"The awakening of an Inhuman in childhood is the easiest, and it only takes contact with that mysterious substance to complete the awakening very quickly. As we get older, the greater the danger of awakening. ”

"In our experience, there is a concept of an 'awakening period' in the resurgence of the Inhuman, and this time is uncertain. I've seen 57-year-olds go awake, and I've seen 15-year-olds go into awakening. ”

"It's a deadline, a premonition from the power of the Inhuman bloodline that it is about to disappear, and a warning to the host itself."

"It takes the form of an otherwise normal person who suddenly can't control his instincts, just like you, restless, restless, and full of destructive desires. If, at the end of the post-awakening period, you have not yet entered the awakening process, then along with the loss of instinct, there is also a part of your will. ”

"You will be completely transformed into a madman who cannot control himself in the last madness of your instinct. Of course, this is not the case for every Inhuman. ”

Gordon "looked" at Merlin, and he said:

"We suspect that it has something to do with the number of certain genetic fragments present in the bloodline. The signs of sudden awakening are all individuals with fewer Inhuman genes, and for those Inhuman bloodlines that have been passed down from generation to generation, they can awaken at any time from childhood to old age. ”

"So what should I do?"

Lincoln looked at Gordon, who said to him:

"Follow me to the 'afterlife'. If you are willing to accept the awakening, then we will help you, and if you are not willing to embrace the power of your own bloodline, we will use secret methods to help you completely remove the influence of instinct. ”

"We're not going to force you."

"And how do you tell the difference between an alien?"

Merlin asked:

"You must have some way of detecting if an ordinary person is your own."

"We don't!"

Gordon said with regret:

"That's the problem, in the last decade, all we've been able to find are people with very few genetic fragments of inhumans. It is only when they show signs of awakening that they can be spotted by us. For those who are truly pure-blooded Inhumans, whether they choose to awaken or not, they don't need our help at all. ”

"And in the eyes of those ancient Inhuman families, we are just a group of inferior people who are not worth paying attention to. As I said, the strangers in the 'afterlife' are just a group of poor people who report to the group to keep warm. ”

"No wonder."

Merlin nodded, and he waved his wand to let go of the four bound young Inhumans. He said to Gordon:

"No wonder the warriors you brought are so weak, it turns out that you are not really elite Inhumans. As you just said, your 'afterlife' organization is not orthodox for Inhumans, so the last thing I'm curious about is that among you Inhumans, is there an absolutely orthodox organization? ”

"Yes."

Gordon Says:

"Although I don't know where they have migrated now, the Inhuman Dynasty is real!"

"In our legends, the dynasty formed by the most orthodox and powerful Inhumans is the most orthodox inheritance of the Inhumans from ancient times to the present. We have a King of Inhumans, and legend has it that he is powerful enough to destroy the world with ease. ”

"In fact, the location where the 'afterlife' now exists is the same location where the Inhuman Dynasty was located hundreds of years ago. But they have enough strength to move their positions, they don't want to get involved in the affairs of human civilization, they have enough power to protect themselves, and they still maintain their independence. As for us..."

Gordon said lonely:

"We're just a bunch of exiles who don't get recognized."

"It seems that you don't know much about it, which is a pity."

Merlin nodded, he had basically no doubts, and even if he wanted to know more, the Gordon in front of him would definitely not tell him again.

So Merlin turned his head to Lincoln, and he asked:

"So, now it's up to you to decide. Lincoln, is it with them? Or do you want to stick with it yourself? ”

"I don't trust them, but they can help me."

After listening to Gordon's words, Lincoln still didn't trust this group of aliens, but for now, if he wanted to solve his own problems, there were really not many options left to him.

Merlin also understood Lincoln's concern, and he turned back to Gordon and said:

"I can't care about the other Inhumans, but since I've met Lincoln, I can't do anything about it. I will keep an eye on him, and you will make sure that he comes and goes freely. ”

"It can't be!"

Gordon said toughly:

"Once he chooses to become an Inhuman, he has to stay in the 'afterlife'."

"We don't need his strength to do bad things, but to protect him. You are not an alien, you cannot comprehend the ugly things that ordinary people have done to us, and during the time of your Second World War, thousands of our compatriots died in your laboratories. ”

"It's not World War II, you diehards."

Merlin said with a headache:

"And even if he comes back, he will no longer be an ordinary person, he will be under the supervision of my organization. We can't let a person with eccentric powers run around in the world of ordinary people. ”

"Your organization?"

Gordon "looked" at Merlin suspiciously:

"Does your organization specialize in managing these wacky things?"

"Of course."

Merlin took out his papers, shook them at Gordon, and whispered:

"S.. L.D., specializing in supernatural affairs, understand? ”