Ten minutes later, Merlin put down the "Little Prince" storybook in her hand and looked at Laura, who was already asleep, this girl was unexpectedly quiet when she fell asleep, and she held Merlin's hand tightly, as if she had found something that could reassure her.

"If you have children of your own, then you will definitely be the best father in the world."

Logan leaned against the door of Laura's room, and he said to Merlin:

"It's really hard to imagine that you will be a secret agent who kills people without blinking an eye and makes the aliens flee."

"I don't know if you're complimenting me or mocking me."

Merlin reached out to help Laura cover the quilt, and he whispered:

"In New York's heterogeneous circles, my reputation stinks no more, and the vampires use 'raven' as a curse. But that's nothing, as long as you don't care what other people think of you, those gossips are not harmful. ”

"Speaking of which, you haven't told me why you're in such a bad mood when you come back this time."

Merlin gently dissolved his fingers into a mist and broke free from Laura's grasp, he looked back at Logan, and said:

"If I'm not mistaken, you've been looking for your son in Dongying for the past few years... I guess, if you're in a bad mood, it has something to do with him? ”

"Yes."

Wolverine shook his head, and with a look of loss on his wild face, he said to Merlin:

"Let's go out for a drink."

"Let's go to the backyard and drink."

Merlin said to Logan:

"Laura was in the house on her first day, and I was worried that she wouldn't get used to it, and I had to watch her."

"Okay."

A few minutes later, the two old men set up a table in the relatively spacious backyard of Merlin's house, opened the two bottles of wine that Logan had brought, and sat under the stars in the backyard.

"Do you want to play poker?"

Merlin pulled out the Gwent card and gave Logan a thumbs up, saying:

"I remember I taught you how to play."

"Forget it, I can't play with this thing."

Logan drained the glass in one gulp, and said:

"I hate all the pastimes that require the use of my brain."

"Is it such a coincidence?"

Merlin put away his cards, and he winked at Logan:

"In addition to Gwent, so am I. Tell me about that son of yours..."

"His name is Daken."

Logan poured himself a drink and whispered:

"Daken. Akihiro, a little cub, a little younger than Lola, but more dangerous, but I can't remember what his mother looked like at all, and I don't have a picture to take to remember, I forgot about the woman, but I should have loved her a lot at the time, before I forgot her... I definitely stayed there for a long time. ”

"Wow, that's what deep amnesia does."

Merlin pursed his lips and said:

"It's pitiful and pathetic... But then again, if I'm not mistaken, in Japanese, the word Daiken... That's not a good word. (Daken, Daken, ダカイン, the manga has the meaning of 'mongrel dog'.) ）”

"I guess your son must have had a bad time all these years, right?"

Merlin asked.

Wolverine's expression darkened a little, and he said:

"I don't know, he hides his background very well, I just know that he has appeared all over the world over the years, and now, he is messed up with a bunch of broken Japanese gangsters and ninjas, called 'Shimada Family' and 'Hand Club'."

"I met him two weeks ago, but I didn't find him, I felt like he came to me on his own initiative."

Logan Says:

"At that time, I had some 'small' conflict with the head of the Shida industry, and I was almost taken out of the self-healing factor, and at the most urgent moment, Daken appeared, and the kid helped me kill the ungrateful bastard, and then took me out of danger, and then took out my heart and intestines, and threw me in the wilderness to die."

"Your father-son relationship with him is so twisted."

Merlin says:

"First save you, then kill you... How should I rate this behavior? ”

"Madness, or revenge..."

Logan sneered, he looked at the starry sky above him, and he whispered:

"He told me that it was to get revenge for killing his mother, and he said that in the winter of 1994, I cut open the poor woman's belly and threw her and her baby in the snow to die."

"It's not like something you would do."

Merlin frowned and said:

"I mean, you're good at killing, but torturing people... At least in the information I've found, you don't have this hobby. ”

"But the problem is that I don't remember, Merlin."

Logan pointed to his head:

"I don't have any impression in my mind, it's like I've been cleaned, I have forgotten all those things, I have lived for more than 200 years, but I can only remember the events of the last ten years, the ones in the past, the ones I have done with my own hands, only some fragmented shadows, and often contradict themselves. For example, I remember seeing Charles when he was younger, and he seemed to beat him, but he told me that he didn't see me when he was younger. ”

"Maybe what Dyken said is true?"

Logan took a sip of wine, and he said to Merlin:

"Maybe those memories are forgotten not because someone else is meddling, but because I want to actively forget? Maybe I was once a heinous fellow? ”

"You're thinking too much."

Merlin took a sip of his wine and said to Logan:

"As long as you find the right way, memories can be modified, but the nature cannot be erased, just as the endless anger surging in your heart cannot be set by the day after tomorrow. There are also basic rules to modify memories, unless you're confronted by some indescribable power, which is all too rare. ”

"Logan, you may not be a good person, you may have done bad things, but you are certainly not a villain who takes pleasure in violence."

"Huh."

Wolverine smiled and said:

"Thank you for supporting me, brother, but... There are some things that I can't explain. ”

"Go ahead and talk about Daken, talk about your son."

Merlin Says:

"You're not the kind of guy who gives up easily, so I'm guessing you come back this time and have other work to do besides seeing Laura?"

"Yes."

Logan Says:

"I suspect my son, he may have been brainwashed by some people, you know what I mean? Young people, especially those in adolescence, are always impulsive and easily indoctrinated with dangerous ideas. ”

"According to him, he was not born when I killed his mother, and he could not have known what happened to his mother when she died, and someone must have told him... I've got to find that guy, find the guy who raised my son to be a killer and a villain. ”

"Need my help?"

Merlin Says:

"If you use the power of S.H.I.E.L.D., your tracking will be easier."

"No, no."

Logan refused:

"It's my family affair, and I can feel that there must be a conspiracy against me behind this, you guys have enough trouble, I'll do it myself this time."

"Okay, whatever you want."

Merlin raised his glass to Logan, and he said:

"But don't forget, you're also someone who has friends, and when you can't do it alone, remember to ask for help. Where are you going to start? ”

"Where it all began."

Logan breathed a sigh of relief, he drank the wine in his glass in one gulp, he touched his mouth, and said:

"Canada, Hauntley Estate, and then the first test site for Project X. Daken revealed that he had been there..."

"You know what? Merlin, I have a feeling now that Project X isn't as simple as it seems, and when I killed Stryker, the bastard told me that he was just a trivial pawn, and that there was even more terrible darkness ahead of me. ”

"Actually, I've had a question for a long time, why you?"

Merlin played with his glass, and he questioned:

"There are so many mutants in this world, you are not the most powerful, you are not the most unique, you just live a long time and have a self-healing factor, so why you? I've read the files on Project X, and from an outsider's point of view, it feels like the entire Project X that has been going on and off for decades seems to revolve around you..."

"I don't know, Merlin."

Logan gave a wry smile as he shot himself in the head, saying:

"There's no answer here, I'm walking in a fog and I don't know what's ahead, but I can't stop until I get to the end. Oh yes, one more thing. ”

Wolverine scratched at his messy hair, and he said to Merlin:

"There's bad news, the saber-toothed tiger I killed a few years ago, he's also resurrected, I've seen him in Japan, he's with Daiken, and it seems that he's plotting something, it seems to have something to do with some big things that the Hand is going to do, but I remember very well that I killed him completely by cutting off his head with Muramasa."

"Muramasa? Saber-toothed tiger? ”

Merlin was surprised and said:

"Is he dead? No wonder that undead mercenary has been so inactive in recent years, but you said that the legendary demon knife can kill a mutant with a self-healing factor? Is it so magical? ”

"It's not the legendary one, but it's really made of special steel."

Logan pulled a palm-sized broken blade out of his pocket and tossed it to Merlin, who held it in his hand as cold to the touch, as if he were touching an ice cube.

"It's not the knife I'm using, but it has a magical effect, it prevents the healing factor from working, and a weapon made of this material can theoretically take out those who are just like me."

"But after I killed the Sabertooth Tiger last time, I left my knife at Xavier's Mutant Academy."

Logan said to Merlin:

"I remember giving it to Charles because it was the only thing in the world that could stop me from doing bad things, and I had to give it to the most trustworthy people who wouldn't use it at will."

"I can understand, good man, but maybe you should have been more cautious."

Merlin played with the broken blade in his hand, and said:

"But what's the matter with this fragment?"

"I don't know."

Logan explains:

"When I left Toei, I vaguely remembered something, I went to a small island on the side of Okinawa, and found this in a ruin on the coast, maybe it was a weapon I used to use, maybe the answer was in those memories that have been completely forgotten, I don't know, I can't remember."

Wolverine sighed regretfully, and he said to Merlin:

"I've handed this thing over to you, so let's take it as a gift from me to the little wolf girl."

"The saber-toothed tiger is a complete lunatic, and he hates me a lot, especially after the women I have a relationship with, and has a perverted desire to torture, just as I always fall into the arms of those red-haired people of the opposite sex, which may be an ineradicate nature."

Logan made a rare joke, and he said to Merlin seriously:

"The saber-toothed tiger may come looking for the little wolf, you have to protect her, or let her have the ability to protect herself, the thing in your hand can really kill the saber-toothed tiger, promise me, if he does appear, then absolutely no mercy..."

"I'll reforge it."

Merlin put the jet-black shard before his eyes, and he said:

"While the man who is best at manipulating metal is gone, we have a new option... I'll give it to Laura, that child doesn't need my protection, she has the ability to protect herself, she has the same self-healing factor as you..."

"Self-healing factors are not a panacea."

Logan poured the last of his wine into his glass, and he said to Merlin:

"Laura is not me, she has the weakness that all self-healers have, she doesn't have the skeleton of Edman, and if she is cut off and can't be picked up in time, she will die, but now that she has survived the injection of Edman alloy into her arms and feet by those madmen... That proves that she can survive the same full-body infusion as me, maybe, you can..."

"No, I wouldn't do that."

Merlin Says:

"I'm not going to turn my child into the same weapon as you, it's too painful."

"Whatever you want."

Logan stood up, he moved his body a little, and said to Merlin:

"I'm just suggesting, okay, I'm done drinking, it's time for me to go."

"I won't send you."

Merlin stood up, drew his wand, and said to Logan:

"But I can give you a gift, stand still!"

The dark red wand Lola lightly tapped on Logan's forehead, and in the beating of Merlin's characteristic dark red magic, a temporary spell was applied to Logan's body.

"A temporary version of Occlumency, which allows you to be exempt from all spell casting abilities, psychic infiltration, and amnestics, but only once. Of course, when facing an enemy like Professor Charles's psychic powers, you'd better not expect it to protect you for long. ”

Merlin Says:

"But it might make your journey a little easier, and I'll give it to you for free this time, and you'll have to charge for it next time if you need it."

"Thank you."

Logan touched his forehead, he could feel a wall-like power in addition to his chaotic spirit, he nodded to Merlin, then grabbed the leather jacket in his hand and quickly disappeared into the backyard.

"When will you bastards learn to walk through doors?"

Merlin spat as Logan nimbly jumped over the wall, then returned to his study, changed into his pajamas, and prepared to rest.

In the wee hours of the morning, Merlin was suddenly awakened, he looked down and found that Laura in her pajamas had run to him at some point, and the child was curled up beside Merlin, holding his arm tightly with both hands, and judging by her expression, she should have just had a nightmare.

This reminded Merlin of the time when Lorna first moved in, and Lorna was just like Laura at that time.

"Ugh..."

Merlin sighed, adjusting his position, and without affecting Laura, he leaned against the head of the bed, then waved a magic book and read it in the night.

Thankfully, he's a wizard... I don't need much sleep to replenish my spirits.

"Don't grow up like that rebellious Dacon."

Merlin levitated the magic book in front of his eyes, gently stroked Laura's black hair, and whispered:

"That would make me very sad."