At 5:55 a.m. the next morning, Merlin punctually opened his eyes from his slumber.

There was still a hint of warmth on the pillow next to her, but Elsa was gone, and the sound of torrential rain crashing on the ground outside the window was not common in this season.

Speaking of which, the temperature has dropped quite seriously in the past few days, and it seems to be a little abnormal.

Merlin got dressed and looked out on the balcony at the dark neighborhood under the rain, and he quickly walked down to the second floor, where Miss Bloodstone in her pajamas was busy in the kitchen connected to the living room, and a simple breakfast was almost ready.

Merlin stepped forward and hugged Elsa from behind, and he whispered in Elsa's ear:

"Why did you wake up so early today?"

"Your body clock is different from everyone else's."

Elsa whispered:

"I've got to make you breakfast, I can't make you do it every day, can I?"

"I'm used to it."

Merlin Says:

"The two girls are not here, you may be able to go and sleep for a while, and I will take over the rest."

"I'll go home and check it out later."

Elsa rested her head on Merlin's neck, and she said:

"I don't know how my parents are at home, he must be very uncomfortable when he suffers such a bad thing, in addition to accompanying you, I also have to find time to accompany him."

"Go, girl."

Merlin kissed Elsa on the cheek and said:

"We're not kids, we have to stick together all the time, you can go home and stay for a few days, don't worry about me, I'll be very busy these days."

"Trouble with Brimstone Harbor?"

Elsa asked in a low voice, then put the fried eggs on a plate, sprinkled some pepper to Merlin's taste, took out the toasted bread, cut the sausages, and finally poured a few more cups of yogurt, and cut the meat for Frank and Goo.

Merlin sat at the table to the side, watching Miss Bloodstone busy, and he replied:

"Yes, Brimstone Harbor, those outliers, the end of Dracula's affair only represents the beginning of a new work. It is not an easy task to restore order to a city of more than 2 million people. L.D.'s system for heterogeneity takes time. ”

Merlin picked up the yogurt and said:

"It's a long-term job, just like the ghost base."

"So, you're going to run on both sides of New York and Kansas in the future?"

Elsa stirred her fruit salad with a spoon, and she stared at Merlin, her pretty eyes blinking, and she said:

"Wouldn't that be tiring?"

"It's a bit exhausting at times."

Merlin slice open the sandwich and put a small piece in his mouth, and as he chewed, he said:

"But when you realize that you're moving something meaningful, when you realize that everything you're doing makes a difference, exhaustion becomes an option, and that's what work is all about."

"Hmm."

He nodded, shrugged his shoulders at Elsa, and said:

"All of the above is what Fury said, and my own actual thinking is that if you do the right thing, then you have to put your heart and soul into it."

"Of course, I also know how to self-regulate."

Merlin shrugged his shoulders and said:

"For example, when I'm on vacation, I don't pay attention to these things. Speaking of which, I'm going to take my annual leave after the incident at Sulphur Harbor is over, and we can go to Europe, New Zealand or the Maldives, I mean, just the two of us. ”

"You've finally got the hang of it, Merlin."

Miss Bloodstone smiled and said:

"It's finally become a little more romantic, and I deserve to be commended, keep up the good work. As for traveling, wait until you're done with the business at hand. I've also worked in S.H.I.E.L.D., and I know how difficult Fury's guy is, and it's not easy to satisfy him. ”

"Yes, he's like a black hedgehog."

When Merlin had finished eating the last piece of bread, he said:

"No matter how good you are with him, if you don't pay attention to some things, you will still be stabbed by that guy's sharp temper, but it doesn't matter, after so many years of thinking about him, I already know how to deal with him."

After saying that, he took out his pocket watch, looked at the time, and then said to Elsa:

"It's only 6:20... Maybe we can go sleep for a while and go together? ”

"Are you sure it won't disturb your work today?"

Elsa stood up and looked at Merlin, who shrugged her shoulders and said:

"I've always had a lot of energy."

"That's... All right. ”

Elsa hooked her fingers at Merlin, and then the two walked up to the second floor hand in hand, and Frank, who was lying in his kennel, was biting on the leftover bones from last night, and looked at the dog man and woman in front of him with a strange gaze.

It whispered:

"I've written it all, Merlin..."

"Have fun, hehe, wait until Mistress Carol returns, you look good!"

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"It's cold today."

In Brimstone Harbor, in a neighborhood controlled by S.H.I.E.L.D., Coulson stood by the window of the Temporary Command with a cup of hot coffee and looked at the rain-covered city, the weather in Brimstone Harbor remained the same as the weather outside, through a special magical barrier above the city, which made the aliens in the city feel more comfortable, as if they were actually living on the surface, not underground.

Agent Coulson took a sip of the hot drink, then said to his colleague behind him:

"I've added an extra piece of clothing today."

"You're a witcher, Coulson."

Sitting on the table, tapping data on the keyboard, Sharon pushed her brown sunglasses and said:

"The change in temperature has had little effect on you, and I wonder if you've been overindulged lately, causing your body to weaken... I heard that you are living with a girl? ”

"Yes, that girl's name is Audrey, and she's a musician."

Melinda, who was sitting across from Sharon, immediately answered:

"Our Coulson was fascinated by the girl the first time he saw her, and for a while he would run to the bar where Audrey was performing as soon as he got off work and stay until midnight."

"You know, Phil, like our chief, is the kind of person who is introverted, and I really don't know how he managed to pursue the girl who has many suitors."

Hearing Melinda's words, Sharon stopped tapping on the data, she propped her chin with her hand, and said:

"Well, maybe it's a special method? Coulson is very good at the French seal, and he is also very skilled in using the Yaxi French seal, and ordinary people can't resist that kind of spiritual inducement. ”

"Hey!"

Seeing that his colleague was getting more and more outrageous, Coulson put down the coffee cup in his hand, and he said with a dissatisfied face:

"Don't speculate about me so maliciously, and don't discuss my private life in front of me, do you have nothing to do all day?"

"Ha, I just like to see him angry but can't do anything about us."

Melinda said to Sharon with a smile on her face:

"It's fun, isn't it?"

"No, it's not fun at all. Melinda, seriously, it's working time. ”

Sharon shook her head expressionlessly, and then began to enter the data seriously, this sudden seriousness made Melinda pause, she subconsciously turned around, and saw Merlin standing quietly behind her.

"I've heard you're idle, Agent Melinda."

Merlin reached out and touched the black ring on the little finger of his left hand, and he said to Melinda:

"It just so happens that I'm dealing with the affairs of Brimstone Harbor in New York recently, and there is a lack of a chief officer on the ghost base, you can pack up your things and go over there to partner with Barbie and Tripp, and maintain order in the base before I go back."

"Uh, okay."

Melinda glared at Sharon and Coulson, who were snickering, and she stood up and said to Merlin:

"Sir, I'm going to take 2 days off to accompany my husband to Europe for a psychology exchange meeting, and go home to see my parents by the way, and after the vacation is over, I'll go straight to the ghost base, and, the Atlanta branch, who will be in charge?"

"You can do it part-time."

Merlin Says:

"The neighborhood of Atlanta is calm, and there should be no major events in the short term."

After saying that, Merlin turned his head to look at Coulson, and said:

"How's it going in the city?"

"Not well, sir."

Speaking of work, Coulson quickly got into the groove, he picked up a few sorted forms from the table, handed them to Merlin, and said:

"This is a report on the current situation of Brimstone Harbor that our agents compiled overnight, and the city has lost at least 90,000 people in yesterday's cleanup operation and the subsequent Night of the Long Fangs, and the inhabitants of the city are currently in a state of extreme panic due to the simultaneous attack of vampires and blood illusions in all corners of the city."

"They either hide in their homes and refuse to communicate with the outside world, or they reunite in small groups of their own races, clinging to one or a few streets and refusing to talk to us."

"The good news, though, is that since we sheltered a lot of at-risk anomalies during the Fanging Night event, things are much better in the neighborhoods we control."

Coulson glanced at Merlin's expression, and he said:

"One more thing... In yesterday's chaos, the leaders and commanders of several of the major forces in Brimstone Harbor were assassinated in unexpected ways, and I suspect that forces that we did not find out about also joined yesterday's war, trying to muddy the waters and bring order to Brimstone Harbor, and they did. ”

"After the sudden loss of the leader, the dwarves of the Great Mine, the wild mages of the Half-Dimensional Zone, and the elves who monopolized the commerce of Brimstone Harbor have all experienced internal chaos, and now the city is full of hills, and in just one night, our agents and agents of the High Family have observed at least 27 fires and incidents."

"Hmm."

Merlin nodded, and he said:

"That's a good thing, at least for us. They are no longer monolithic inside, which gives us the opportunity to intervene. ”

He returned the papers to Coulson, who said to Coulson and Sharon:

"Open shelters and treatment sites in the neighborhoods we control as soon as possible, and if we can, let the Logistics and Medical Department work with us to open a modern hospital in Sulphur Harbor, people need physical and psychological comfort after the war, and we need to show our kindness."

"In addition, mobilize a batch of food and daily necessities into Brimstone Harbor, which is now divided into the neighborhoods under our control, or sell them to the aliens at a low price in the form of buying and selling, and then contact the sheriffs of the alien reservation in New York City to see if they have any plans to help Sulphur Harbor, the chaos in the city is estimated to continue for a while, and I don't want to see the city's economic system collapse first."

Merlin gave his opinion, and he looked at Sharon again, and said:

"Has my invitation been sent? How many forces have responded to us? ”

"It was sent out last night, sir."

Sharon replied:

"So far, the Fairy Chamber of Commerce has been the first to reply, followed by the Wild Mages, and the Monster Forces are the last to reply, and the dwarves in those pits are as stubborn as the legend says, they drove our messenger out of the depths of the Great Cavern, but did not harm him."

"I've heard that the dwarves are divided among themselves, too."

Sharon explained to Merlin in detail:

"The three clans are not on the same page, and their leaders and elders were assassinated by mysterious forces during the war, and now they are also in internal chaos, and there are two clans that want to keep their mines, but they are clearly still waiting."

"Then leave them alone and talk to the other delegates first."

Merlin looked at the time, and he said:

"In 30 minutes, I'll be waiting for them in Blood Street, and besides, invite the representative of the Magical Congress to come over, I'll talk to him first."

A few minutes later, in a slightly cramped meeting room in Command, Merlin met with a representative of the Magical Congress, unsurprisingly, an old acquaintance of his.

"It's you two again."

Merlin sat on the sofa and looked at the two high-ranking Aurors in front of him, one tall and one short, one fat and one thin, and he said to the people in front of him:

"Sit down, Aeginus and the raven... Don't keep a straight face, let's have a good talk. ”

"Do you know, Merlin?"

Essinus, who was always smiling, had a bad look on his face at this time, and he sat down on the sofa and said to Merlin:

"Your threat to the Wizarding Congress has drawn the ire of many councillors, and some radical guys have even wanted to cancel your membership and put you on the blacklist of the North American wizarding community."

"I don't know, and, my friend, do you think I'll care about the barking of those fools?"

Merlin waved his fingers, and two cups of freshly brewed hot tea fell lightly on the table in front of Aeginus and the Raven, and Merlin crossed his legs and placed his fingers on his abdomen, and he said to the Aurors:

"They made a stupid deal with Dracula, and that alone was enough to get them blacklisted by S.H.I.E.L.D. And I did, the radical guys better be careful not to get caught by me again, there are still a lot of beds in the S.H.I.E.L.D. prison. ”

"Merlin!"

The crow, who had always been indifferent, also spoke at this moment:

"Why bother? We don't need to be so opposed, we are allies, we have always been friends. ”

"You were the ones who abandoned us first."

Merlin whispered:

"Believe me, Raven, I didn't take revenge on you, and I already show that I mean well. Once trust is betrayed, it takes more time to heal, and the relationship between each other is no longer back to the beginning. ”

"Okay, let's not talk about these things today, now, let's talk about something more meaningful."

Merlin picked up his teacup and said to the two delegates in front of him:

"The sulphur harbor of the future... Which piece are you going to want? ”