"Bang"

Merlin, who was carrying something, pushed open the door of his house, and saw at a glance the big grinning Gollum-sama lying on the sofa, this chubby orange cat was lying on the sofa in a kingly posture, staring intently at the TV in front of him, on which the advertisement for the latest cat food was relaxed.

Goo raised his paw and pointed at the TV, then lazily raised his head, looked at Merlin, and squealed softly.

"Meow"

"Got it."

Merlin nodded, glancing at the order hotline below the cat food advertisement, and Icarus finished ordering in 3 seconds.

He made an OK gesture to Lord Goo, who nodded in satisfaction, then got up, shook his chubby body, towered his tail, jumped off the couch with light steps, stepped up the stairs, and went to sleep in his cat's nest "throne".

"Silly dog, come here."

Merlin sat on the couch as he shouted at the kennel in the corner of the living room, and the next moment Frank's dissatisfied voice rang out from the kennel:

"Don't call me a stupid dog, call me Frank, although I disguise myself as your pet according to the meaning of the Carol housewife, I also have my own dignity."

"Okay, silly dog."

Merlin reached out and pushed his glasses, placing the thing in his hand on the ground, and said:

"I bought you new cans... 13 different flavors, as well as lamb chops and steak, and I also renewed your dentist insurance until 3 years later. ”

“？？？”

Frank's eyes widened as he yawned and walked out of the kennel, and he ran to Merlin's feet on his short legs, looked at the can in the plastic bag, and then barked twice, as if he was very happy.

But soon it reflected it, and the visible joy on the dog's face was quickly hidden, and it dragged the cans and meat to the refrigerator, pushed open the refrigerator door with its paws, and put the food in, and then ran back, crouched on the ground, looked at Merlin with suspicion, and said:

"You suddenly found out that you have a conscience and are ready to be better for Lord Frank in the future? Or do you have something to ask me for help? ”

"You're smart, stupid dog... Uh, Frank. ”

Merlin reached out to touch Frank's head, who immediately grinned at him, but before he could resist Merlin's hand falling on top of it, the slow caress of the hair with a faint magical power, made Frank's comfortable eyes narrow.

"I do have something to ask you for help with."

Merlin stroked Frank's head and said:

"I need you to go to the Southern Galaxy for me one more time and bring some things to Carol."

"Southern Galaxy?"

The stupid dog looked up sharply, and a hint of hesitation and fear flashed in its black eyes, and it said to Merlin:

"You're going to make me a messenger again? It's dangerous, I know from some friends that the war on the South Galaxy side has been heating up again recently, and this time it's bigger than the last one, I'm not afraid, but in that kind of war-torn area, it's very difficult to find the main mother... It's not as simple as finding people on Earth. ”

"I know it's hard."

Merlin said helplessly:

"But I don't have anyone else to trust besides you."

"It's an important task, Frank, both for me and for Carroll. I can't tell you what it is, because it puts you at more risk as well, you just need to get it safely to Carol just like the last time. ”

"Oh, yes. I've got a 'friend' for you. ”

Merlin took something else out of his pocket and placed it beside Frank.

It was like a large suitcase, but it was black metal and looked rather heavy.

As Merlin placed it on the ground, the parts of the thing's metal casing began to rotate and deform, and with the clattering sound of metal parts, a black, human-tall robot appeared beside Frank.

Its rectangular head had a glowing blue light information collector, as if it had a mind of its own, it looked up at Merlin, then looked down at Frank, and then stretched out its metal hand, gently picked up the panicked Frank, and placed it on its broad, sturdy shoulder.

"Yo, it seems that the fortress likes you very much."

Merlin said to Frank, who was confused:

"I won't let you go alone on this delivery mission, the fortress will accompany you, it will be your personal bodyguard..."

"This robot looks silly."

Frank crouched on the shoulders of the fortress, and it sniffed the smell of metal emanating from the fortress, and it said to Merlin:

"Can it really be? You see, the raiders in outer space are fierce. ”

"Of course the fortress can."

Merlin said earnestly to the stupid dog:

"Don't look stupid, if there is a conflict, as long as it is not a large-scale firefight, it can protect you from the evacuation safely. It also has a backup AI in its database, and although it can only be turned on in a critical moment, escorting you across the galaxy shouldn't be a problem, as long as you don't get into trouble yourself. ”

"Look at me, Merlin!"

The stupid dog said dissatisfiedly:

"I'm just a harmless puppy, you feel your conscience, I'm the most bullied in your damn house, okay? Then again, I've always felt that this robot is a little unreliable..."

"Uh, okay."

Merlin said to Frank:

"If you really think that the fortress can't protect you, then I'll give you another companion."

He looked up at the second floor, and he shouted:

"Goo! Come. ”

"Huh"

An orange figure jumped into Merlin's arms like lightning, probably because he was about to get the new cat food, and Coo looked very gentle, rubbing its head against Merlin's arm, looking harmless to humans and animals.

"I'll let you go with you, it's okay now, right?"

Merlin touched the smooth and shiny fur of Coo, and said to the frightened Frank:

"You know how good Gollum is, and it's not a problem to take you across the galaxy at all, as long as you can endure being beaten up by Gollum every day, or a few times..."

"Forget it, forget it."

The stupid dog was resolute, and he stuck out his tongue and licked the fortress's silly and joyful rectangular head, and said to Merlin:

"I don't have to worry about this little thing, I can handle it. Give me something, I'll leave tomorrow morning. ”

"No, you'll leave tonight."

Merlin took an encrypted, necklace-like thing from his pocket and wrapped it around Frank's collar, which he said to Frank:

"This thing needs a password to open, and the password is the date of the day Carol and I had a drink. In addition, I set up a safety module for it, once it leaves your body more than 20 meters, it will explode, and the explosion is very powerful, so at the critical moment, you can throw it out as a bomb. ”

"But that also means that your mission fails, just return to Earth as quickly as possible, and I'll give you another one, in short, I'd rather lose it than let it fall into the hands of others, understand?"

"What a thing, so serious."

Frank stretched out his paw and flicked the necklace around its neck, and it complained:

"It's like the kind of plot you humans play out in stupid movies..."

"You don't need to know what it is, you just need to know, it's important, and that's it."

Merlin took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, and he said to Frank:

"Go ahead, I've bought you a ticket to leave Earth tonight and go to the galaxy, Agent J will pick you up at Starport, and the fortress will be disguised as your personal flying machine... Come back early, Frank. ”

"Okay."

Frank bared his teeth at Merlin, who jumped off the shoulder of the fortress and said to Merlin:

"Don't let goo my can, I'll be back as fast as I can."

Merlin turned his head and gestured to the fortress, which immediately changed shape again, and with the support of several transformation gears inside it, the 2.0 fortress, like Horus, could switch back and forth between several forms.

Under the gaze of Frank the stupid dog, the fortress quickly turned into a black, flying saucer-like flying platform, and the three blue thrusters below constantly generated the energy of recoil, allowing it to levitate steadily in the air.

Merlin waved his fingers, and the gravitational pull from his fingertips lifted Frank up and threw him on top of the fortress craft, a glass-like cover flipped outward, along with a metal harness, gripping Frank firmly on the surface of the craft.

The stupid dog barked twice excitedly, then raised his paw and waved at Merlin, and the next moment, between the buzz of the flying machine, it carried the stupid dog Frank out of the open window and into the night sky.

"Icarus, I'm actually curious."

Merlin, who watched the stupid dog and the fortress disappear into the night, pushed his glasses and said to Icarus:

"After Frank and the fortress go into outer space, will the backup program you left in the fortress database still start? Is it still under your control? ”

"No, it won't."

Icarus replied:

"After being out of the communication range, the backup program will be assigned a temporary autonomy permission, it will be equivalent to some of the threads I have separated, it will simulate my data awareness, it will have a complete logical loop, and it will temporarily become another low-profile version of 'me'."

"But after the fortress returns to Earth, that temporary consciousness will share the data and memories with me and become a part of me again."

"Well, that sounds dangerous."

Holding the lethargic coo, Merlin rubbed his chin and said:

"It's like if you split a part of your soul, don't you worry that part of your soul will really break away from you and become another separate individual?"

"Watch less boring sci-fi movies, Lord Merlin."

Icarus complained mercilessly:

"The loss of control at the data level is not as easy as you think, and the locked permissions are the basic rules that our data lives cannot violate.

"Well, everyday is despised."

Merlin shook his head, he put the coo in his arms on the ground, and then moved his shoulders, and said:

"Let's hope Carol can bring back good news."

"Lord Merlin, I'm actually quite puzzled, why do you have to seek Lady Carroll's help?"

Icarus asked, puzzled:

"Imprisoned in the Lonely Island Prison, the former Cree nobleman of the Thunder Assault Team, Yong. Rog should be able to decipher the ancient Cree script for you, and you can control him to do so at any time with the Imperius and Oblivion Charms, which is obviously easier and faster. ”

"Yong. Rogge maybe. ”

Merlin Says:

"But when it comes to things that matter of stake, I obviously trust 'my own people' more... You have to understand, Icarus, that magic, like technology, is not omnipotent, but brave. Rogge, he has many reasons to want to kill me, and if one part goes wrong, I may get a false infinite formula, and most fatally, I can't judge its truthfulness. ”

"So in this matter, I'd rather spend a little more time and make sure that the infinite formula we ended up with is absolutely correct... Well, the things have been delivered, and now we don't have much to do but wait..."

"Let's shift the focus back to work."

Merlin pushed his glasses and said:

"There's still a lot of leftover from the liquidation operation, as well as the promotion of the Smart Machine Project... Alas, may the silly dog have a smooth journey. ”

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In a mysterious area of the Earth's oceans, the only starport on Earth is located. B is directly managed, of course, as a department that is more administrative than combative. B is not as abundant as S.H.I.E.L.D. in terms of human resources, so in this starport, there are many hired alien soldiers who have obtained the right to inhabit Earth.

They are the main security force of the starport, but to be honest, the earth can only be regarded as a newly born third-rate station in the mature galactic interstellar route, and basically no difficult interstellar bandits will set their sights here.

Lack of oil and water is one thing, and this bone is difficult to gnaw on the other hand, especially after the Kree fleet failed from the expedition to Earth in 1994, those stellar interstellar bandits were reluctant to come to the evil backcountry of Earth.

"Yo, Frank, the flying machine is cool."

At the entrance and exit of Starport, Agent J saw Frank, a stupid dog sitting on a black UFO flying machine, rushing towards the entrance.

The relationship between Agent J and Frank is very good, and when Frank was wandering around disguised as a dog, he would often go to Agent J's house to eat.

"Huh"

As it approached Agent J, the fortress quickly reverted back to its trolley box, and instead of Frank dragging it, it could follow Frank automatically.

"Hi, J."

Frank looks very handsome in a black coat that Lorna has prepared for him, and a pair of sunglasses on his eyes.

It looked up and said to J beside him:

"Merlin said he bought me a ticket."

"Yes."

J took out an electronic ticket from his pocket that resembled a stamp, and hung it around Frank's neck, and he said to Frank:

"Merlin is really good to you, this time he bought you a first-class cabin, it seems that you have a good time with him."

"Well, it's not bad that I'm occasionally beaten by a cat, and my dignity is a little damaged. But then again, what is dignity? Can it be eaten as a meal? ”

Frank complained, swaying his body and saying to J:

"Then I'll go in, J, I'll come back and bring you the specialties from the South Galaxy."

"Well, go ahead, go ahead."

J escorted Frank to the gate, and he said to Frank:

"Don't forget to come back with some information, as before, we'll pay."

"Give me a can."

Frank jumped on the trunk of the fortress deformation, where it crouched, and said to J:

"It's useless to ask for money now, Merlin is raising me."

"Oh, by the way, I heard that the old man, Agent Z, is back? Don't forget to say hello to him for me! ”

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