Another case of intelligent machine homicide... It's terrible. ”

In the basement office of the 21st Century Bell Telephone Company in New York, Coulson looked at any report in his hand worriedly, and he subconsciously rubbed his hair, probably because there have been more things recently, and the lush hair that had grown back because of the witcher's remodeling body actually showed signs of hair loss again.

Coulson looked sadly at the few hairs that slipped from his fingertips, and a depressed anger rose from his heart.

"Smack"

Coulson slapped the table, he wanted to vent his anger, but he was a gentle man after all, so soon, the nameless fire that had arisen from the hairline crisis and the bad things in front of him quickly subsided.

But today was probably Coulson's disaster day, and less than five minutes after Coulson had adjusted his mood, his assistant Agent Ward pushed open the door and walked in, and the handsome young man looked at his depressed sir, and he said cautiously:

"Chief Coulson, Agent Melinda is waiting for you in the conference room, she's brought some... Well, not so good news. ”

"About smart robots?"

Coulson glanced up at Ward, who nodded silently.

"Ah, damn it!"

S.. The director of L.D. let out a long sigh, stood up, straightened his collar, and hurried to the conference room.

Agent Melinda is currently S. The commander of L.D.'s branch offices in various cities, the second-in-command of the occult department left by Merlin, who specializes in monitoring occult affairs and gathering information, is much busier than Coulson, who is in the rear and has an overview of the whole situation, flying around the continent all day long.

What can get her to come over in person must not be a trivial matter.

Coulson pushed open the door to the conference room and saw Melinda sitting in a chair, sorting out papers, the latter also sensed the person behind her, she glanced back, and her eyes fell on Coulson's hair, and after a few seconds, the shrewd and powerful agent Melinda said with a strange expression:

"I haven't seen you for more than half a month, Coulson, what's wrong with your hairline..."

"Hair loss."

Coulson threw out a sentence coldly, he sat down next to Melinda, and said in a deep voice:

"Let's not talk about this matter for now, let's get down to business, I heard that you brought news about the intelligent machine?"

"Yes, it's a troublesome situation."

Melinda inserted a USB flash drive into the projector in the conference room, and an illusory stereoscopic projection quickly unfolded in front of the two of them, which was an image of the moving earth, but above the image, there were many red signs, like dog skin plasters attached to the rotating surface of the earth.

"Just last night, the energy in the tinder source polluted areas of the earth began to be active again, and from the reports sent back by the monitoring teams in North America and Europe, the energy concentration in those areas has risen by at least 30%, and the tinder contaminated areas in Colorado alone, in the eight hours last night, more than 200 new intelligence machines were born, and this is only what we found."

Melinda clicked on the projector, and a few dim photographs appeared in front of Coulson's eyes, which must have been taken at night, and the shadows were not very clear, but the pupils that lit up in the darkness and glowed like beasts could be faintly seen.

"The energy activity in the polluted area is not over yet, but by the time I left, the energy fluctuations had begun to weaken."

Melinda Says:

"Scientists believe that there is a cycle for the fluctuation of those energies, that is, in the future, this disturbance of the tinder energy will become a normal phenomenon."

Coulson nodded, staring at the photo in front of him, and he asked:

"I'm more concerned about another point, you just said that just last night, more than 200 smart machines appeared in the polluted area of Colorado? I remember that at the time of the first energy disturbance, we only found a dozen... How could this amount swell so much? ”

"If you extrapolate according to this law, then the next time... The next time the energy is disturbed, will there be nearly a thousand smart machines at one time? ”

"I can't answer you, Coulson."

Melinda said helplessly:

"Because I don't know either."

"Scientists are working on it, but it's definitely going to take time before the answers we want come out. But as you can see, we don't have time to wait for the scientists to come to a conclusion, and Chief Merlin has told us to contain as many intelligent robots as possible, but the problem is that if they continue to grow at this rate, our containment efforts will be difficult. ”

"I need you to give me a plan, Coulson."

Melinda said solemnly:

"There is little else left for agents from several outside departments to do, we hunt down the stellar machines running around every day, and the wizards of the Wizarding Congress are protesting... In the past week alone, they've memorized more than a thousand humans who have seen sapient machines, and the workload is growing by the day. ”

"I've commissioned Agent Duggan to set up a containment area on the island where we raised dragons before the Atlantic."

Coulson Says:

"Those contained intelligence devices can be put there first, as for the next step, I need to discuss it with Chief Merlin, but he is on vacation now, I can't contact him at all, he may be back in a few days."

"It's not going to be good, Coulson."

Melinda breathed a sigh of relief, and she said worriedly:

"The number of robots is increasing, and although there are less than 5,000 of them now, the tinder energy in the polluted area is constantly creating new robots. I can understand that the Commander told us to isolate people from the perception of these intelligent robots so that they would not impact the existing social environment, but it would be difficult to do so on our own, and it would probably take the entire S.H.I.E.L.D. to do it. ”

"And the worst thing is the future... If the number of robots reaches a certain limit, it will undoubtedly evolve into a crisis. Just like in those science fiction movies, the robots unite against human tyranny, and the two sides start a war, which eventually leads to the destruction of civilization. ”

Melinda spread her hands and looked at Coulson:

"Maybe I'm exaggerating, but I don't think it's impossible for this future to emerge, after all, as you can see, those robots have brains, they think, they run away, they fight back."

"I understand."

Coulson scratched his hair and said:

"I will come up with a plan as soon as possible, before that, you must do a good job of isolation measures in heavily polluted areas, allocate more permissions to monitor those areas, and no more robots will escape and hurt people."

Mr. Director rubbed the corners of his forehead, and he said:

"Maybe it's S. L.D. has been the biggest test since its inception, and I know everyone is under a lot of pressure, but we have to do it well! ”

On the other side, while his subordinates are busy with serious and dangerous situations, their Merlin chief is in another world, in the cold and silent snow country, entangled with his lover.

Merlin, shirtless, stood by the window of the warm tower, and he looked through the polished crystal at the snow-covered world, the world without a trace of life.

Frankly, there is a special beauty in such a quiet, pure white world, which is difficult to describe in words, like a deadly iceberg beauty, facing the whole world with an indifferent attitude, and anyone who dares to approach her will be mercilessly frozen.

Deadly, yet beautiful.

"It's a great place to be alone."

Behind Merlin, Elsa lay lazily on the chaise longue, holding a book that Merlin had brought, and there was no clothing to obstruct her, in front of her lover, she enjoyed this calmness.

The astonishing curvature of the body is like the most beautiful treasure ever made by the Creator.

"No one will bother you here, so that you can really calm down and think about a lot of things, about life, about the future."

"Are you trying to persuade me to stay?"

Merlin turned to look at Elsa, who looked up, and a smile flashed in her pretty, green eyes, and she said to Merlin:

"No, I wasn't going to do that, and I know you won't. There's a world in your heart, and you can't let go of it, just as you can't let go of me, just as you can't let go of Ms. Carroll. ”

"I don't think you should talk about Carol at this point."

Merlin walked over to the chaise longue, reached out and played with Elsa's long orange hair, and said:

"Are you trying to make me feel guilty?"

"I'm telling the truth."

Elsa looked at the book in her hand, probably because she had been with Lady Yennefer for a long time, and Elsa spoke in a way that was a little closer to the iceberg-like sorceress.

She waved her hand calmly and whispered:

"No matter when or where you are, there is a place in your heart that belongs to Carol, just as there is always a piece of your heart that belongs to me... Sometimes I can't help but wonder, why are you so attentive? Merlin. ”

"I'm not, I'm not."

Merlin took a step forward, he squatted beside Elsa, stretched out his hand, lifted Elsa's cheek in the cold breath that surrounded the lady, kissed it lightly on the lips, and said:

"You girl, don't talk nonsense."

"Huh"

Elsa's fingers were clasped on one of Merlin's organs, and the lady stared at Merlin with her beautiful green cat-eyed eyes, and she whispered:

"No, there's a third one!"

"Not anymore."

Merlin shrugged his shoulders, and he said calmly:

"Can you let go? It hurts..."

"Do you want me to comfort it for you? soothe its pain..."

Elsa blinked, she stuck out her tongue and licked her lips, and a cold breath that was visible to the naked eye escaped from the beauty's mouth.

Merlin glanced at the dried frost protection potion on the table with some regret, and he picked up his clothes from the side of the bed, and said to Elsa:

"For the sake of my little life, forget it, next time."

"Haha."

Miss Bloodstone covered her mouth, and she smiled very happily, leaning back and forth in her laughter, and she said:

"It's getting more and more interesting, I love playing with you like this, Merlin, every time I see your shy look, it makes me happy... Ms. Yennefer is right, lovers need some flirt occasionally. ”

"Hey!"

Merlin stretched out his hand and pinched Elsa's ear, and he said:

"Don't play with Ms. Nayefa, don't learn from her, I don't want to be the second Geralt..."

"Nope."

Elsa grabbed Merlin's fingers, she looked at Merlin seriously, and she said:

"I'm serious, go find Carol."

“？”

Merlin looked at Elsa suspiciously, and the latter breathed a sigh of relief, and said:

"I don't want you to work so hard, Merlin, I don't want you to risk your life every time to comfort me, unfortunately, the power of hoarfrost is uncontrollable, and for the foreseeable future, I have to stay here, and you... You need a woman by your side who can take care of you. ”

"I'll forgive you for your flowers, go find Carol."

"Nope."

Merlin got dressed, he bent down and whispered in Elsa's ear:

"I may not have made a decision yet, but I can't hurt you anymore, and I don't want things to get worse, wait for Carol to come back, these feelings will eventually come to an end."

"I'm leaving, there's still a lot of things waiting for me in that world. The world would have worked without me, but I... I don't want to miss those. ”

Merlin kissed Elsa on the cold forehead, and he said:

"Some things have to be faced after all, just like every destiny will eventually come to an end."

"I wish I could have you by my side when I face those final landscapes. I won't be left alone until the end. ”

"For this, I would like to thank this fate..."

"No, my Merlin."

Elsa opened her arms and put her arms around Merlin's neck, and she left a cold kiss on Merlin's cheek, and she whispered:

"I'll be with you to the end, you'll never be alone."