24. Quint under the moon
Elsa came to Wayne Manor with a body of flesh.
When she stepped out of the taxi, Merlin was already waiting for her at the gate of the manor.
"Why are you so embarrassed?"
Merlin frowned, looking at Miss Bloodstone with a few scratches on her face in front of her, and said:
"Got in trouble?"
"It's not a hassle."
Elsa wiped the wound on her face, and she grinned at Merlin:
"I tracked down the Batmen, and they were in Gotham, in that abandoned stadium, where they were in their lair, and there were some Assassin League members guarding there, and I didn't alarm them, so I came back first. I suspect that Dr. Douglas, who was taken away, was also being held there. ”
"Okay, thank you for your hard work, go change your clothes first, and then have a meal."
Merlin reached out and threw a healing and cleansing charm at Elsa, causing Miss Bloodstone's trench coat to quickly become clean, and he said:
"Let's go over together after dinner, it's time for this matter to be over."
"This manor is good."
S.H.I.E.L.D. advisor followed Merlin into Wayne Manor, where she walked through the beautifully landscaped garden dotted with fountains and tree-lined paths, and said to Merlin:
"It's a place that reminds me of my family's estate, where I grew up and everything is familiar, it's just not as big as here."
"It seems that you are also a rich girl."
Merlin shrugged his shoulders and said:
"I'm miserable, I don't have a manor at home, I grew up on a farm."
"Ha, it's not bad to be a farmer."
Elsa shook her hair, and she said indifferently:
"When I was a kid, I envied the sons of the farmers, I thought they were free. You don't have to train swordsmanship every day, and you don't have to be forced to learn the obscure alchemy. ”
"I think they'll envy you too."
Merlin and Elsa were walking side by side in the garden, and he slowed down and said to Elsa:
"After all, not everyone has access to those mysterious knowledge, and in the eyes of children, those things are cool."
"Bang"
As soon as Merlin finished speaking, he heard the sound of broken objects coming from the castle-like house in front of him, and he suddenly stopped. Elsa looked at him and said suspiciously:
"What's wrong? Sounds like someone has dropped something, aren't you going to take a look? ”
"It was a father and son arguing."
Merlin turned around and sat down on the edge of the small fountain next to him with a little headache, and he patted the place beside him, and said to Elsa:
"Let's not get involved in other people's family affairs. Sit down, Elsa, and we'll go over when they're done. ”
"How did I not know about Gotham's eldest young master, Bruce. Wayne got a baby? When he was in the car just now, the driver kept saying how much he admired Bruce. Wayne, and also told me a lot of lace news about the sons of Gotham. ”
Elsa sat beside Merlin, and she glanced at the mansion in front of her, and asked with interest:
"But it seems that their father-son relationship is not good, is it an illegitimate child? Or is it something else? Is this some kind of ancient family secret? And how did you meet Bruce. Wayne this kind of dude? Hear about Bruce. Wayne is very handsome, and he is the dream girl of all women. Tell me, I'm interested in these things. ”
"I'm handsome, okay?"
Merlin glanced at his gossipy subordinate, shook his head, and said to Elsa:
"It's not as complicated as you think. Damien wasn't an illegitimate child either, his mom had been in a relationship with Bruce a few years ago, and that lady was also my friend, and it was... Well, they came from a big family, in short, for various reasons, they didn't get together in the end. ”
Merlin sighed, and he said briefly:
"My friend has been in the middle of the family for a few years, so she asked me to send her and Bruce's son to Bruce. That kid has a weird temper, Bruce, this guy has a weird temper, in short, I underestimated the difficulty of getting along between father and son, I only sent him over in the afternoon, and by this evening, I had already quarreled several times. ”
"A rebellious teenager?"
Elsa's eyes widened, and she said:
"It's a lot like the plot of those soap operas. I guess Bruce. Wayne and his son will definitely encounter something, and then reconcile with each other, and when the relationship between the two gets better and better, Master Damien's mother will definitely suddenly appear and take her own son... That's how those stories played. ”
"Watch less soap operas."
Merlin glanced at Elsa, he looked at the time of his watch, and said:
"That's burning out your brain. By the way, have you seen what I gave you last time? ”
"Well, I've read it all."
Elsa moved her fingers, and she looked at Merlin:
"But I'm curious, where did you find those witchers' skills? There are some records of alchemy and magic seals in it, which have been lost in my family, how do you know? ”
"I have my own channel."
Merlin waved his hand, and he said:
"You don't need to know how they came to be, you just need to learn them. And then take the knowledge that tracks the aliens, I mean, what can be learned by ordinary agents, and compile it into a book. ”
"You want me to train your agents?"
Elsa was a very smart girl, and she immediately understood Merlin's plan, and she said:
"That seems like more than my job responsibilities, right?"
"We don't pay you so much money every month, we don't invite you to watch soap operas in our own shop, Elsa."
Merlin Says:
"You also see S. The internal structure and personnel of L.D. are complete, and you should understand the problem I'm having right now. I can't find a second one for an excellent assistant and warrior like you, and it's impossible for those demon hunters who follow their own rules to enter our system, so I can only use the resources at hand to the maximum. ”
"I don't need you to train them all to be as good witchers as you are."
Merlin stretched out his hand, grabbed a strand of Elsa's hair, put it in his hand and played with it, and said:
"I just need you to teach them the necessary knowledge that can turn the tide of the battle at critical moments, so that they can have a little more self-protection when facing aliens."
"Hey!"
Elsa opened Merlin's hand, and she said in disgust:
"I'm not familiar with you to this point."
"Uh, then I apologize."
Merlin raised his hands and said to Elsa seriously:
"I was wrong."
"Hey."
Elsa looked at Merlin's serious look, she suddenly laughed, she stretched out her hand, put it on Merlin's shoulder, and said:
"I guess you don't hang out with girls very often, right? You're such a smart person, and you're still so slow to think about girls... Don't talk about that, if you want me to help you train your agents, it's not impossible, but this favor can't be in vain. ”
"Well, witchers, are they all philistines like you?"
Merlin Says:
"You see, I've asked Blade for help, and there's never been any such extras."
"That's because neither he nor Whistler are orthodox witchers."
Elsa yawned, and she said solemnly:
"We witchers have our own set of rules and ways of doing things, the work of getting rid of evil or helping others cannot be done in vain, even the legendary white wolf master of the original witcher followed these rules, hundreds of years ago, we used our own methods to make money, hundreds of years later, we just changed the way. Even if we get acquainted with each other, if I help you, you will pay me. ”
"It's tradition!"
"Okay."
Merlin looked at Elsa's face, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Elsa:
"But I'm not going to give you money, I'm going to give you something else. I've recently commissioned some of my friends to study the mutation process of witchers using biological experiments, and if it goes well, maybe after a while, they will come up with a plan. ”
"I mean, that would greatly increase the chances of success for the witchers when they take the Grass Trial... If you wish, you can be the first test subject. ”
"Huh... How could you suddenly be interested in this? ”
Elsa looked at Merlin with a little surprise, and said:
"Did you do this for me to help you?"
"No, I have my own plans."
Merlin looked at Elsa's shining blue eyes, and he shrugged:
"Of course, there's nothing wrong with your understanding this way, after all, you are the only demon hunter I can find who faces the grass trial."
"You didn't lie to me, did you?"
Elsa looked at Merlin suspiciously, and she said:
"My mother told me that many men would deceive girls like me with clever words."
"I can show you the lab."
Merlin Says:
"There's no need for me to lie to you about this kind of thing."
"Hmm... Let me think about it. ”
Elsa didn't answer Merlin right away, she had to be cautious about the most important grass trial for witchers.
The two men sat by the small fountain, and in the mansion, the quarrel between Damian and Bruce continued, and the father and son seemed to enter a stalemate. A few minutes later, Elsa touched her stomach, and she said weakly:
"It's so boring, can't we just go to dinner?"
"Let's wait."
Merlin was also a little bored, and he said:
"Leave alone time to Bruce and Damian, and I'm sure they'll reconcile, after all, they're connected by blood... Well, speaking of which, you're also a witcher, so, do you want to play GWENT? ”
Merlin took out the silver, gold-rimmed Gwent card that the White Wolf had left for him from his pocket, and Elsa glanced at it, and she said to Merlin:
"You've learned even this, and it seems that you're really interested in witchers."
As she spoke, Miss Bloodstone was in high spirits, took out a set of green card-backed quint from her magic pocket, waved it in front of Merlin's eyes, and said proudly:
"You've got a deck of cards from the Northern Realm, a novice. I'll tell you, in the French quint circle, there's no one who beats my squirrel party. ”
"I'm not really good at playing."
Merlin Says:
"Maybe you can teach me... We don't have much to do right now anyway. ”
"Okay."
Elsa unfolded her cards on the stone platform by the fountain, and she stretched out her hand to coil her dangling hair, like a female warrior about to go into battle, and with a sly smile, she said to Merlin:
"Abuse vegetables or something, the most interesting. Also, there are wageres to play GWENT, which is traditional. ”
“emmmm...”
Merlin fumbled in his pocket, and finally found a jewelry box, which contained all the things he had taken from Vlad III's hand collection a few months ago, and he placed the jewelry box between the two of them, opened it, pointed to several jewel pendants inside, and said:
"That's my bet, what about yours?"
"I use this!"
Elsa took out a crystal bottle full of potions from her pocket, and said:
"This is the Hekhna decoction I made the other day, it's the standard battle potion for witchers, and it's worth a hundred Galleons on the black market in Bucket Alley."
Merlin uncorked the crystal bottle and sniffed it, the decoction smelled very good, with the aroma of flowers and plants.
"Okay."
Merlin took out a card and said to Elsa, who was laughing like a little fox who had stolen a chicken:
"If I win, you'll give me the recipe for this decoction."
"You win first."
Elsa grabbed a hand, and said to Merlin with great satisfaction:
"As a beginner, you're talking a lot."
"I had a hunch that I was going to win."
Merlin smiled mysteriously, and on the branch behind Elsa, where Miss Bloodstone didn't have an idea, Victor, the spirit raven, was standing quietly, and in its place, the cards in Elsa's hand could be clearly seen.
Victor's vision, on the other hand, is shared with Merlin.
Uh, of course, it's not cheating.
If you don't get caught red-handed, how can it be called cheating?