Beneath the 21st Century Bell Telephone Company building in Old Town, New York, in the surveillance room on the third basement floor, Agent Coulson walked briskly into the room, his arms crossed, standing in front of the huge screen in front of him.

On the screen in front of him, a floor plan of the entire New York city was displayed, and more than 30 conspicuous red X's were dancing on the screen.

Coulson knew that every X in front of him represented a place where there was a fierce firefight.

"Agent Rost! Report the situation! ”

Coulson asked the agent on duty next to him, and the Level 3 agent, whose face was gentle and the corners of his mouth were always raised, immediately reported:

"Chief Coulson, in the last 2 hours, there have been more than 40 cases of wounding and kidnapping with guns in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan, but both the attackers and the kidnappers are vampires. In our judgment, this is a precursor to the eventual conflict between the Vampire Radicals and the Bloodline Elders. ”

Agent Rost glanced at the statistics, and he said to Coulson:

"The Radical vampire warriors have launched a ferocious and precise assault on their fellow citizens, and so far the Lord's Mansion of the Blood Elders' Church has suffered heavy damage, and their warriors have launched a fierce counterattack against several Radical strongholds in the Bronx."

"Hmm."

Coulson looked at the big screen in front of him, he frowned and asked:

"What about the casualties of ordinary citizens?"

"Not much."

Agent Rost quickly replied:

"We promptly informed N. D. (New York police), who cordoned off the downtown area in time, so that there were almost no civilian casualties, except for a dozen wounded who were accidentally involved in an exchange of fire between the two sides. Judging from the surveillance footage found at the scene, those radical vampires were just trying to capture the leader of the Presbyterian Church, and they were fast in and out, and the fastest kidnapping operation did not even take more than 5 minutes from start to finish. ”

"Hmm."

Coulson was relieved to hear the news.

His greatest concern was that civilians would be affected by this vampire war, and that in the event of large-scale civilian casualties, S. L.D. is going to have a terrible question.

He didn't want Chief Merlin to return to his post and the first thing he would do was be pulled into question by a bunch of old guys who were picky in eggs. That would make it seem that Coulson's group of acting agents are too incompetent.

Coulson looked at the red X's on the big screen, and after a moment, he raised his wrist to look at the newly issued watch, and said:

"It's a good opportunity to get Melinda and Sharon's action team ready to go."

Pointing to the Brooklyn borough, Coulson said:

"Taking advantage of this vampire civil strife, we're going to purge Brooklyn! Pull out all those vampire strongholds! ”

"Yes! Sir. ”

Agent Rost received the order, and he immediately used his computer to give the task order to the task force.

And just as Coulson was thinking about the specific plan for this operation, the cell phone in his pocket suddenly rang. Coulson wasn't a well-connected person, he didn't have many friends on his phone, and no one called during work hours.

Coulson picked up his phone and looked at it, then walked out of the monitoring room, he put the phone to his ear, and asked:

"Chief Merlin, what's the matter?"

"Are there any operatives available?"

Merlin wasted no time in greetings, and he got straight to the point:

"I need some people to help out on the outskirts of the city."

"Yes."

Coulson replied:

"But... Permissions..."

Merlin knew what Coulson was worried about. He is currently on suspension and, in theory, does not have the authority to transfer S.S. L.D. of the Action Group.

"This is the temporary permission that Fury gave me, you can call Hill to confirm."

Merlin Says:

"Also, this is a rescue operation, I don't need too many people, but it must be elite! Also, Coulson, if you're going to take action against today's vampire mayhem, you can omit the Bronx, which has our 'new friends' in charge of cleaning it up. ”

"I'll confirm right away."

Coulson hung up the phone and sent a message to Agent Hill, and after a few moments, Agent Hill confirmed that Merlin did indeed have temporary clearance for a mission, so Coulson no longer hesitated, and he immediately took 5 old agents from his operation team, brought weapons, and rushed to Merlin's place in a helicopter.

Twenty minutes later, in the evening darkness, a heavily armed Coulson jumped out of a sturdy helicopter.

On the beach in front of him, Merlin and Elsa were already waiting for him.

"Who is this?"

Coulson walked up to Merlin with five agents, he looked at the beautiful girl beside Merlin, and the ID on the girl's chest, he asked with some confusion:

"Our new advisor?"

"This is Miss Bloodstone."

Merlin explains:

"A 'professional' who only joined yesterday."

Merlin accentuated the words "professional", and Coulson nodded knowingly, stretched out his hand to Elsa, and introduced himself:

“S.. L.D. Agent Commander Phil Coulson, first meeting, Miss Bloodstone. ”

"You can call me Elsa."

Elsa shook hands with Coulson, she looked at the silver crossbow around Coulson's waist, and said:

"Is this thing easy to use?"

"Okay."

Coulson replied in a slightly surprised way, and Elsa shrugged her shoulders and said:

"You'd better find a new bowstring for it, this thing was used by my grandfather back then, although it is well maintained, but there is no way to avoid loose bowstrings."

"Okay, you can talk about this gossip later."

Merlin patted Coulson on the shoulder, and he pointed to a villa by the sea in the distance, and said to Coulson and the agents around him:

"There, it's the target of our operation this time, I've confirmed the news, the fighters of the Vampire Radical faction, some members of the Blood Elders' family are imprisoned there, your task is to bring them out, and the operation team directly under S.H.I.E.L.D. will hand over you at a dock near Long Island, just hand over those vampires to them."

Merlin Says:

"Your task is only to rescue and escort, break in and put the finishing touches on what Elsa and I will do. Is there a problem? Agents. ”

If no one answers, it means that there is no problem.

Merlin nodded in satisfaction, he looked at his watch, and said to the agents and Elsa:

"Now check the weapons and equipment, we'll be on the move in 5 minutes!"

"Sir."

Coulson gave Merlin a look, and the latter followed him to the side, and Coulson asked in a puzzled tone:

"On the way here, I received a message from Melinda who told me that she had seen a band of vampire warriors in black uniforms operating in the neighborhood between the Bronx and Flushing, and that their symbols belonged to neither the Radicals nor the Presbyterians, and that they were attacking both the Presbyterian and Radical strongholds in a siege and raiding the city."

Coulson looked at his commander and said:

"If I'm not mistaken, it's our 'new friend'?"

"That's right."

Merlin replied:

"That's the warriors of the Supreme Family, Director Fury and the 'High Duke' Elisa. Maquinos made a deal. After tonight, the radical faction will cease to exist, and the Council of Elders will be greatly damaged, but the Supreme Family will not be able to take advantage of the opportunity to rise. ”

"At least in Queens, and in Brooklyn, I don't allow any vampire strongholds... Exceptions are made for heterogeneous reservations. ”

Merlin said to Coulson:

"We can't solve the problem of the vampires in New York all at once, but Fury's advice to me is, for now, the best way to weaken the vampires. You should be able to understand that, right? ”

"I understand."

Coulson Says:

"But I think we can take this opportunity to clean up the underground situation in Manhattan beyond Queens and Brooklyn."

"Nope."

Merlin looked at his watch, he shook his head, and said to Coulson:

"The situation in Manhattan is more than ten times more complicated than you think. But don't worry, Coulson, even if the Supreme Duke comes to Manhattan himself, he'll have to be honest..."

Speaking of this, Merlin sighed, he looked at the handful of sea water under the dark night in front of him, and he whispered:

"The water in Manhattan is really deep."

"I can't understand it, sir."

Coulson asked with some dissatisfaction:

"Perhaps, you should tell me more."

"Okay."

Merlin patted Coulson on the shoulder, and he reached out and pointed in the direction of Manhattan, and said:

"Do you know what's under Manhattan?"

"Uh, I don't know."

Coulson replied honestly, and then he heard Merlin's faint voice coming:

"I also just learned that there is a monster city, hidden in the half-plane between the waters and the ground in Manhattan. The full size of the place was no smaller than New York, it was called Brimstone Harbor, and it was inhabited by at least 2 million monsters of different races, and they also named the place 'Monster Metropolis'. ”

"It's a territory that even the Magic Congress can't get its hands on, and the most hateful thing is that the wizards of those chicken thieves have hidden the existence of that place from us, and if it weren't for an old hunter, we would have been kept in the dark."

"It's... It's amazing. ”

Coulson's eyelids jumped at the news, and a moment later he said:

"No wonder we've been collecting anomalies in New York, but we haven't been able to count them for 5 years, and the number of monsters in this city is more than three times more than we expected."

"yes."

Merlin moved his fingers and said:

"If we are also going to move forward with a new order of heterogeneity, then S. . . L.D.'s expansion is imminent. ”

Merlin said to Coulson:

"After this vampire conflict is over, you shift your focus to Naxin. I plan to recruit at least 200 more agents by June next year. The number of L.D.'s field agents in the East Coast region must exceed 5,000! ”

"It's... The director wouldn't agree so easily, would he? ”

Coulson looked at his commander with some embarrassment, and said:

"There are only 4,500 people in the entire European branch, and the resources that need to be invested in this kind of expansion are too many."

"No, trust me, Coulson."

Merlin said to his most trusted subordinates:

"After Fury learned the news, he was only more anxious than I was. He's a natural control freak, can't control the situation, and for him, it's nothing short of torture... Okay, we'll talk about that later, so let's get ready for action. ”

Shrouded in the mist of Merlin's incarnation, the heavily armed agents approached the heavily guarded seaside villa almost silently.

Coulson held his breath and held his pistol and crossbow, and beside him, Miss Bloodstone held two large-caliber pistols in both hands, and three long guns on her back, two crossbows and a row of sanctified silver nitrate grenades hanging from her waist, as well as two short swords for hand-to-hand combat.

It's like a mobile arsenal.

I don't know how this slender Miss Bloodstone can afford such heavy weapons and equipment. And looking at her expression, it seems to be very relaxed.

"Whoosh, whoosh"

With two soft sounds, Merlin's hand crossbow in the sky fired, and two vampires standing at the door of the villa with guns in their hands fell in response, their heads pierced directly by the sharp holy silver crossbow arrows.

That's the signal for action!

Elsa rushed out of hiding, this beautiful girl's long orange hair swayed in the dark, she waved her hand, and a grenade jumped over the walls of the villa and exploded in the inner garden, which directly alarmed the vampires of the entire villa, at the moment when they swarmed out, a trace of coldness flashed on Elsa's face, and her figure rushed forward in this second, like a silver arc of light in the darkness.

This is a Witcher's unique dashing technique.

In the next second, Elsa appeared in the center of the crowd of vampires, the girl with two guns raised her arms, like a dancing spinning top, and in the constant sound, the low-level vampires around her didn't have time to react at all, and were pierced through the body by the scorching holy silver bullet.

"Elsa, get down!"

Merlin shouted in mid-air, and Miss Bloodstone lay on the ground without hesitation, and at the same moment, Merlin's storm knife from Blade was also thrown to the ground by him.

The double-edged S-shaped flying knife, like a silver butterfly flying in the air, hovered lightly in the air at high speed, as if flying back and forth, crossed an arc filled with blood light in the garden of the villa, and then crossed a silver trajectory in the air between the flutters, and returned to Merlin's hand.

In front of him, the vampires who had rushed out of the house stood still, their necks scarred like thin red lines.

"This thing, it's good."

Merlin fell to the ground and stood back-to-back with Elsa with her magazines swapped, surrounded by radical vampires. On the other side of the villa, Coulson and his agents had already crossed the wall at the back of the villa and were breaking into the main building.

"Are you ready to go big?"

Merlin put away the Tempest Throwing Knife, he held his crossbow in one hand and his wand in the other, and said to Miss Bloodstone behind him:

"And, is the life of an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. exciting?"

Miss Bloodstone snorted, she clenched the twin guns in her hands, and said:

"So far, it's not bad... Merlin, look at their eyes, these vampires are afraid of us. ”

"Huh"

Merlin chuckled, and raised his wand in his hand, and in the light of the Diamond Heart Charm, he said:

"Isn't this how it should be?"