Raven? Did you wake up? ”

Merlin, who was holding a breakfast, knocked on his sister's door and asked outside the door:

"Can I come in?"

At this time, it was 7 o'clock in the morning, the sun had already shone into the room through the window, and Merlin had already completed a series of activities such as morning jogging, swordsmanship practice and tidying up the room according to his own schedule, and also made breakfast for himself, and planned today's work by the way.

At this point, his newly moved sister should have just woken up.

It stands to reason that Raven, as a magical girl, should also have a healthy schedule, but the problem is that she is in a weak state and needs enough sleep every day to ensure that she is conscious.

"Come in."

Raven's tired voice rang out in the room, and Merlin pushed the door open, only to see Raven getting up from the bed.

The child's beautiful hair was in a mess, and his eyes were full of tiredness, as if he hadn't slept well last night.

"What's wrong with you?"

Merlin placed breakfast on the table, and with a frown, looking at Raven's slightly pained expression, he asked:

"Nightmares again?"

"Hmm."

Raven nodded, and the girl with a cold personality rubbed the diamond-shaped gem on her forehead that seemed to be decorative, and said with a haggard face:

"It's influencing me, even when I'm cut off, it's still calling me."

"Original sin?"

Merlin sat on the edge of Raven's bed, and he held out his finger and tried to touch Raven's forehead, but the girl dodged him. She grabbed the quilt, blocked her body, and looked at Merlin with a wary gaze, and she said fiercely:

"What do you want to do?"

"Don't make a fuss!"

Merlin accentuated his tone, and his fingers reached forward against the jewel on Raven's forehead, and with a wave of magic seeping into Raven's forehead, the haggard on the girl's face and the pain caused by the headache eased little by little.

After a moment, Merlin withdrew his finger, he looked at Raven, and he said:

"It should be okay now, go wash up and have breakfast. I'll send you to Elsa in a moment, I'm going on a business trip these days, and she'll take care of you for me. ”

"What was that magic just now?"

Raven, whose face had become more ruddy, looked at Merlin's finger curiously, and said:

"What kind of magic is that? How did you learn it? ”

"I've been working on a super-level spell lately."

Merlin stood up, picked up a few dolls from the floor in the room, put them on the shelves to the side, and said casually:

"That spell is a good way to stabilize the physical and mental condition of special energy users like us, if you're good enough for a while, I'll consider teaching you this spell when I get back."

"I'm not a child! Merlin. ”

Raven said dissatisfiedly:

"Don't talk to me in the tone of a child!"

"Okay."

Merlin raised his hand and looked at the time, and he said to Raven:

"You change your clothes first, we'll leave in 30 minutes, by the way, what do you want to drink?" Strawberry milk? Or hot chocolate? ”

"Hmm..."

Raven poked her finger in her face, looking indecided, and after a few seconds, she said:

"I'll have both!"

"Okay, I'll do it for you."

Merlin glanced at Raven's comic book next to the bed, a fleeting smile on his lips, and pushed the door open and walked out.

She's still a kid after all.

The little girl likes to disguise herself as an adult, but she doesn't have much resistance to the things that these children like.

After getting along for a while, Merlin has figured out Raven's slightly eccentric personality.

She is the kind of hedgehog child who has been trying to isolate herself from others, has her own little world, her own set of outlook on life and values, but as long as she doesn't touch a few taboo topics, as long as she masters the way of speaking, and can tolerate her always indifferent look, she is still very easy to get along with.

"Well, it's surprisingly similar to Damian."

Merlin took out the ingredients from the fridge to make the drink, and thought:

"But my sister is so much better than Damian's, at least she doesn't rush out recklessly and mess everything up... Speaking of which, I don't know how Damian is doing? The awkward father-son relationship between him and Bruce must be interesting. ”

Thirty minutes later, Merlin picked up the car keys from the table and said to Raven, who was drinking hot chocolate:

"You go and pack your things, I'll go drive, you're going to live in the House of Blood for the next few days, bring all the toiletries and stuff."

"I know."

Raven returned to that cold state, she patted the small bag in her hand without raising her head, and said to Merlin:

"And I've already packed it up."

"Okay, I'll wait for you outside the door."

Merlin opened the door and walked in the direction of the garage, watching Merlin leave the living room, Raven put down the spoon in her hand, she looked left and right, like a little fox stealing chickens, and then quietly took out something from the bag around her waist.

That's an envelope.

It was found in the corner of Merlin's underground laboratory the other day.

It was supposed to be Merlin's, and there were a few spells attached to the envelope.

"Does this look like a magic letter?"

Raven's eyes blinked, she flipped the envelope over, looked at the sign in the corner of the envelope, and whispered:

"Violet pen pals? A small group of Earth wizards? ”

"Well, it seems interesting, maybe I can get some magic curiosities from other wizards..."

"Merlin didn't use it anyway, it's all dusty, if I use it, he shouldn't mind, right?"

The sound of the car horn sounded outside the door, Raven stuffed the envelope into her bag, drank the hot chocolate in her hand, then carried her small bag with the moon and stars printed on it, put on a soft hat, pushed the door open and walked out.

She opened Merlin's back door and sat in the back seat, as Merlin started the car and drove towards the House of Blood, which was a few blocks away.

Elsa's mystery item shop is still that deserted, and the female shopkeeper herself doesn't care much about the rewards from the last big deal with S.H.I.E.L.D., plus the monthly income from S.. L.D. receives a fixed stipend, so she doesn't have to worry about money at all.

When Merlin arrived, Elsa was already waiting for him in front of the store.

To be precise, I'm waiting for Raven.

"Yo, little Raven."

Miss Bloodstone happily took Raven's bag and took the child's hand. Elsa really likes Raven, and Raven is quite willing to get along with Elsa.

Merlin rolled down the window, he pushed his glasses, and said to Elsa:

"I'm going to trouble you again these days."

"It's okay, it's okay."

Elsa said to Merlin:

"Little Raven can live with me for as long as she wants, and I always wanted a younger sister when I was a child, but unfortunately my parents don't plan to continue to give birth. But then again, don't you need me to come with you this time? Can you do it alone? ”

"If I can't figure it out, I'll be the first to contact you, my S.H.I.E.L.D. Advisor."

Merlin laughed, he glanced at Raven standing behind Elsa, and said:

"Don't give her too much ice cream, she's still weak, don't take her out for a run, she doesn't have the ability to protect herself right now. You can take Daisy over, she's having a good time with her. ”

After a few words, Merlin restarted his car and headed for the 21st Century Bell Telephone Company.

He has one more important job to do before setting off to find the missing mutants.

Ten minutes later, Merlin arrived at his office, where Agent Coulson, who had not been seen for more than a month, was waiting for him.

"Hello, sir."

Coulson looked at Merlin, who walked into the office, and said:

"You look good, I heard you've found your sister?"

"Huh? Has the news spread now? ”

Merlin sat down in his chair with a smile and said to Coulson:

"How's it going over there in Philadelphia? Is it still going well? ”

"It's just a matter of setting up a district office, sir, and it's not a difficult thing to do."

When it came to work, Coulson's expression became a little more serious, and he took a report from the briefcase he carried with him, placed it on Merlin's desk, and said:

"The alien environment in Philadelphia is much more relaxed than in New York, and there are not many recalcitrant forces there except for a few werewolves hiding in the suburbs. But the further northwest you go, the more complicated it becomes, especially closer to the interior, where the economic decline has led to a somewhat chaotic social environment where the activities of the less peaceful aliens are more rampant. ”

"Well, what are you going to do?"

Merlin flipped through the work report and asked:

"Need help from headquarters?"

"Not at this time."

Coulson said in a very methodical way:

"Ross is in contact with those anomalous people, and now is the stage of finding out, and there is no rush to act. And it will take a while for rookie agents to get used to. According to my estimate, if we can't reach an agreement with them, then in three months at the latest, I will carry out a 'clean-up' operation in that area. ”

"You're going to wipe them out?"

Merlin looked at Coulson, who shook his head, and said:

"I'm going to drive them to the foothills of the Alabachian Mountains and set up a couple of alien reservations there."

"Sure enough, it's your style."

Merlin shook his head, he put down the papers, and said to Coulson:

Melinda has eliminated four outliers in Atlanta, and Sharon has taken several forced evictions in Miami, and their work has been remarkable, and the heterogeneous ecology in those two areas is recovering rapidly. Perhaps, you should learn from the two of them. ”

"Violence is not the only way to solve problems, sir."

Coulson replied with a little stubbornness:

"I believe that we can always find a better way to get along with the heterogeneous. Suppression leads to backlash, and backlash leads to conflict, which is not a good thing for us or for them. ”

Merlin stared at Coulson, and after a few seconds, he shrugged:

"It's your business what you want to do, I just need a good result. Okay, that's all for work. ”

Leaning back in his chair, with a cigarette in his hand, Merlin said to Coulson:

"Did you receive an order from the Trident headquarters before you came?"

"Hmm."

Coulson nodded, and he asked with some confusion:

"Agent Hill told me that there was a top-secret mission for half a month that required my involvement, but she didn't make it clear what I needed to do..."

"Smack"

Merlin took a document from his magic pocket and placed it on the table, and he said to Coulson:

"This is it!"

Coulson reached out and picked up the document, which had a special code name on its cover.

"Dress-up?"

He looked up at Merlin, who, while lighting a cigarette, said to him:

"Let's take a look at the content first. Of course, you have the right to refuse to participate, Coulson. ”

Coulson flipped through the document in his hand, and after only one page, he stood up from his chair in surprise, and he quickly flipped through a few pages, then looked up and said to Merlin:

"Is this true? Sir, does this 'mutation transformation' technology really exist? ”

"It's there, and it's technically mature."

Merlin flicked his cigarette ash, and he explained to Coulson slowly:

"Engaging in work with aliens is risky, and as a commander, I must find a way to reduce your casualty rate, after all, it takes more than time to train a qualified occult agent, and the loss of every veteran agent is heavy for the department."

"In the face of a thousand strange aliens, it is not enough to upgrade your equipment, I not only need to equip you with the best weapons, I also need to turn you into weapons!"

Merlin spat out a smoke ring, and he said to Coulson:

"That's what the 'Dress-Up' program is all about. After completing the mutation, you will have a body that is comparable to that of the other, and you will be able to cope with most unexpected situations, and in most cases, you will be able to keep your life safe. ”

"You can think of it as a special kind of 'life-preserving' measure."

Merlin extinguished the cigarette butt in the ashtray, crossed his fingers, and placed it on the table, and said to Coulson:

"Regarding the experiment itself, we have completed the stage of human trials, and the success rate of 100% can be basically guaranteed at present, of course, there are hidden dangers, just in the last part of the document, it describes in detail the possible sequelae of the experiment."

"Coulson, you're my most trusted secret agent."

Merlin stood up, and he said to Coulson:

"So I'll give you the first spot in the 'Dress Up' program. If you refuse, then Advisor Elsa will take you over as Subject 1, I've already asked her... Elsa Advisor did not refuse. ”

"I..."

Coulson looked at the top-secret document in his hand, and he hesitated.

This is normal, and anyone will hesitate to face a dangerous-sounding biomodification experiment.

Merlin walked up to Coulson, he reached out and patted Coulson on the shoulder, and he said:

"You don't really admire Captain America Steve. Rogers? ”

"You interpret this experiment as a super-soldier modification that Steve once undertook... In fact, in principle, this process of mutation transformation is safer than the transformation of super soldiers. ”

"Think about it, Coulson."

Merlin raised his wrist and looked at the time, and he said:

"Give you three hours, and after three hours, I'll leave here and head to the 'dress-up' point."

"I can go alone, but I prefer that you can walk with me."