Above the beautiful Acrylic Lake, a black fighter jet flew at high speed, and the people inside the jet were discussing their next plan.
"After learning that we were going to cause trouble for Stryker, Fury enthusiastically provided us with a lot of information. Besides telling us that Stryker was using the Acrylic Lake Hydropower Station as his Base, he also gave us the original construction plans for the Hydropower Station." As Lu Yifang finished speaking, Katie had already cooperatively brought up a 3D holographic map of the Hydropower Station.
"Of course, Stryker has been operating here for decades, and he has modified some internal structures. Fury also provided some intelligence on these, but the accuracy is a bit lower."
"I've already seen this map." Storm adjusted the 3D map at this point.
"The nature of a Hydropower Station building itself means it can't be extensively modified, so its main internal structure won't change. And based on the intelligence Lu Yifang found for us, I already have a general understanding of this Base."
Noticing everyone's gazes, Storm cleared her throat.
"This Base has anti-aircraft missiles, so direct landing is impossible. But we can activate our stealth equipment and land nearby. All entrances to this Base are actually sealed off; the only entrance is here—the spillway."
"In that case, if we go in, what if Stryker controls the floodgates from inside?" Logan asked at this moment.
"Exactly, that's the problem we're facing," Storm nodded and said.
"Then let me go. I have a feeling that guy shouldn't lay a hand on me," Logan said with firm eyes. He had been searching for his lost memories all this time, and now he was finally about to touch the truth.
"You go?" Magneto looked at Logan suspiciously. "The person who enters must know how to operate the spillway device. Do you? Or will you just dig with your claws?"
"Can You get us in?" Storm looked at Nightcrawler.
"No." Nightcrawler shook his head. "Although I can teleport, I can only teleport to places I've seen with my eyes, otherwise I might get stuck in a wall."
"Does this problem need to be considered? Getting inside isn't as difficult as You imagine," Lu Yifang said at this moment.
"Lu Yifang, I've never doubted your abilities," Magneto looked at Lu Yifang.
"And I'm not worried that You'll be harmed by the flood. I'm just worried that You might accidentally use too much force and demolish this dam, after all, Charles is still inside."
"I think You misunderstood my meaning. It's not me who's taking everyone in, it's Katie," Lu Yifang turned his gaze to Katie, who was manipulating the computer. Before Phantom Cat, no door could stop her.
"Then let's do this. Bobby, John, You two stay behind to guard the plane. Everyone else enters the spillway channel." Storm made her decision at this moment.
"Why can't Bobby and I go, but Lu Yifang can?" John immediately became anxious upon hearing this.
"Don't be silly, You're still children," Storm said with a frown. "As for Lu Yifang, he can already protect himself."
"Actually, I think it's fine to let them go. The Mutant Academy is a safe greenhouse, and these children won't grow without experiencing trials and tribulations," Magneto said to John. He had interacted with John for a while earlier and felt that this child was quite to his liking.
"Magneto, You have no right to dictate to my students," Storm said.
Finally, under Storm's firm stance, Bobby and John, though unwilling, could only remain on the plane.
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Inside the Base, several soldiers were monitoring the activity in the spillway, and at this moment, a man appeared on the screen.
"Officer, unknown personnel have entered the channel," the monitoring personnel reported to Stryker.
"Should I flush him out?"
"Oh, wait, let's see who it is. Our Wolverine is home." When Stryker walked over and saw the person on the screen, he was immediately surprised, but this surprise only lasted a few seconds, because behind Logan, there was a large group of people following him.
"Bringing so many people back without permission will be punished." Stryker's face turned cold.
"Open the spillway channel. Everyone else, increase vigilance to prevent any escapees."
Boom boom!
The group, who were currently walking in the spillway channel, soon heard the sound of a huge Water flow.
"They've opened the floodgates," Logan said nervously.
"Everyone just hold hands and connect with me," Katie shouted at this moment.
"Katie, that direction, I can feel someone behind this wall." Jean's eyes flickered, then she immediately reminded Katie.
Upon hearing Jean's words, Katie plunged into the wall. The surging floodwaters came at this moment, but Katie had already pulled everyone in.
At this moment, the soldiers guarding the Base's floodgate soon saw a girl pass through the wall. After a second of stunned, they all raised their guns the next moment.
Seeing this, Katie quickly activated her ability, re-entering the wall, and then pushed Lu Yifang out from inside.
"Da da da······whoosh whoosh whoosh·····Ah ah ah!!"
"What the hell?" Lu Yifang, looking bewildered, had just walked out when he saw countless bullets sweeping towards him, and then... there was no then.
The soldiers lay on the ground, wailing, one of them struggling to pull out a communicator.
"Officer, those Mutants have infiltrated the Base, the gate has fallen."
"Tell me, how many of them are there?" Stryker's anxious voice came through.
"They..." However, before the soldier could finish speaking, the communicator broke free from his hand.
"Stryker, we're here now," Magneto took the communicator and said in a playful voice.
"Hiss hiss hiss..." Listening to the busy signal on the phone, Stryker angrily threw away the communicator.
"Officer, what should we do now?" A military officer asked at this moment.
"Lieutenant, gather your men and meet me at the Cerebro room, and You few, seal off the main control room of the dam." Stryker finished speaking and hurried towards the Cerebro room.
At this moment, at the entrance of the Cerebro room, an Eastern woman in a women's suit was already guarding it.
"How is it?" Stryker asked her.
"Everything is going smoothly, Master." The woman bowed slightly, performing a Japanese female etiquette towards Stryker.
"Very good." Stryker opened the door and saw two wheelchair-bound patients sitting one after another. The bald one in front was naturally Professor X. And the one behind him, slumped in a wheelchair with his head tilted, resembling Hawking, was Stryker's son, the Master of Illusion—Jason.
This Master of Illusion was also a Level 4 Mutant; otherwise, even with auxiliary equipment to weaken Professor X's psychic power, it would not be so easy to pull Professor X into an illusion.
As Professor X's former student, it was regrettable that Jason eventually became lost in his own power, becoming insane and perverted. He used illusions to wantonly torment his parents, personally forcing his mother to her death.
Of course, in the end, it was his father, Stryker, who had the upper hand, catching him off guard and turning him into a semi-brain-dead vegetable, becoming Stryker's most convenient human weapon.
Speaking of which, it was precisely because of this incident that Stryker harbored such deep hatred for Mutants, and now his long-cherished wish was finally about to be realized.
"Jason, it's time, let him make his move," Stryker whispered into his son's ear.
Ch 53
What should we do now?" Lu Yifang asked, turning around after dealing with the Blocker.
"First, we go to the main control room of the hydropower station. Once we are there, we should be able to find out where Stryker has placed Cerebro and Professor X in the Base." Storm recalled the location and strode towards the main control room.
Although they encountered many enemies along the way, these elite soldiers, carefully selected by Stryker, were like babies in front of a group of Mutants who were at least V3 level.
The main control room had two super-thick doors made of special steel, which looked like they could withstand ten Rockets, but unfortunately, they were facing Magneto. In less than a second, they were torn in half by Magneto.
Katie strode to the control panel and quickly obtained the desired data.
"I found that most of the Base's power supply goes to one room. That should be where Professor X is," Katiesaid, turning around.
"How can there still be Mutant children here?" Stormlooked at one of the surveillance screens in surprise, and as if something clicked, her surprise quickly turned into anger.
"That bastard Stryker, using Mutant children as experimental subjects, it's simply unforgivable."
"Storm, you and Nightcrawler go rescue these Mutantbrethren first. Professor X's side is enough with us," Lu Yifang said at this moment.
"Okay." Storm nodded without any hesitation; after all, she had great faith in Lu Yifang's abilities.
"Lu Yifang, give that bastard Stryker a good beating."
"I don't think I'll need to do it myself, because Wolfie (nickname) has already gone to find that bastard," Lu Yifang said, looking at the door. After Logan saw Stryker on the surveillance footage, he decisively left the team, choosing to settle old and new scores with Stryker alone.
Watching Nightcrawler and Storm leave, everyone quickly headed towards Professor X's location. The guards left by Stryker were disarmed by Magneto in one encounter.
However, when everyone saw the final guardian, they were all stunned, because standing in front of the Cerebro room was a man of about thirty with scanner-like eyes.
"Scott, it's great that you're alright." Seeing the man, Jean immediately showed a surprised expression.
"No, I think he's definitely not alright," Lu Yifang's brows furrowed tightly.
"It looks like Cyclops has been controlled by Stryker."
"Whether he's controlled or not, the most important thing now is that our glasses guy is blocking the way," Magneto said, waving his hand. The guns on the fallen soldiers immediately floated up and flew towards Cyclops.
Watching this scene, Cyclops slowly adjusted his glasses, and the next moment, a dazzling blood-red light shot out.
Boom! With a loud bang, Magneto instinctively fell to the ground, and as for the guns, they had been reduced to nothing by this energy beam.
"Our glasses guy seems much stronger than last time," Magneto said with shock and bewilderment on his face.
"Last time on the metal structure, Liberty Statue, few people were your match. The most important reason is that Scott's ability has always been in a semi-uncontrolled state, so Scott is rarely willing to reveal his true power. But it's certain that if he goes all out, the energy beam Scott fires is enough to cut through an entire building," Jean explained at this time.
As Professor X's designated successor, how could Cyclops's strength be weak? It would be ridiculous if he couldn't even kill a person.
"Oh, this is not good news," Magneto glanced around, his face looking grim. "Especially in such a cramped environment."
As if to confirm Magneto's words, the next moment Cyclops had already gathered power and released an even stronger energy beam.
"Get down!" Lu Yifang shouted, already standing at the front of the group.
Cyclops's laser naturally couldn't harm him. The only thing Lu Yifang was worried about was that if he pushed the energy beam back, it might directly kill Cyclops.
The terrifying energy beam instantly enveloped Lu Yifang, and the next moment, this strong energy beam was like shooting at a perfect crystal, scattering in all directions like a celestial maiden scattering flowers.
To avoid harming Cyclops, Lu Yifang chose to scatter the energy beam.
Tear~ Boom!
The laser emitted by Cyclops became stronger and stronger. The blood-red energy beam tore through the Base's walls as easily as cutting tofu. They even penetrated the entire Base, extending all the way to the horizon of the sky and earth.
"Wake up!" Lu Yifang charged towards Cyclops, enduring his energy beam, and slammed his head against the wall.
"Scott." Jean quickly rushed over, looking at Scott lying on the ground.
"Don't worry, I controlled my strength; he's just knocked out. Of course, it's best to take him back to the plane and have him checked as soon as possible," Lu Yifangsaid seriously to Jean.
Hearing Lu Yifang's words, Jean glanced at Cerebro's room, and after weighing it, she finally nodded.
Watching Jean drag Cyclops away, Lu Yifang turned and walked to the door, forcibly tearing open Cerebro's door.
The moment Lu Yifang opened the door and walked in, a pair of heterochromatic eyes appeared in his vision, and at the same time, a buzzing sound echoed in his ears—that was the powerful psychic energy resonating around Lu Yifang.
"Hello, what are you looking for?" A cute little girl's voice sounded in Lu Yifang's ear.
"You pervert, I can't believe you've degenerated to this point, yet you still have a heart for cross-dressing lolis. It's absolutely disgusting." Lu Yifang felt goosebumps all over his body, because in his vision, what appeared before him was not a cute little girl with heterochromatic eyes, but a half-paralyzed, decrepit man who lay in a wheelchair like 'Hawking' every day—Stryker's son, Jason.
Although this illusion master's strength was good, Stryker even developed a mental confusion drug to control Mutants by studying the fluid secreted by his pituitary gland. However, this was clearly far from enough to affect Lu Yifang.
Hearing this, Jason's pupils involuntarily widened. Even though his own father had turned him into a weapon that was neither human nor ghost, he still had some intelligence, probably equivalent to a few-year-old child who absolutely obeyed their parents.
Therefore, seeing that Lu Yifang was not under his control and had broken free from the environmental illusion, he immediately shifted his target and looked at Magneto, who had just walked in. Although his situation seemed very bad right now, as long as he controlled this young man's friend, the situation would reverse, and he would be able to complete the order given to him by his "great father."
However, he miscalculated again. The old man in front of him was even more exaggerated; the psychic energy applied to him was like hitting a stone, with no reaction at all.
Noticing Jason's surprised gaze, Magneto's lips curved slightly upward, and he gently pointed at his psychic defense helmet. "Little guy, you still want to use psychic energy to cast illusions and control me? Do you recognize this symbol—bald, and artificial!"
Ch 54
Ignoring Jensen, the first thing Lu Yifang did was turn off the Cerebro to ensure it wouldn't activate. Just as Lu Yifang was about to remove the Cerebro's helmet, Magneto stopped him.
"What's wrong?" Lu Yifang turned to look at Magneto.
"Lu Yifang, don't you think it would be a great pity if this matter ended just like this?" Magneto said with a smile, looking at Lu Yifang.
"This is a good opportunity. We can do something Charles would absolutely never agree to, such as using this instrument to target ordinary people instead." As Magneto spoke, Mystique, having transformed into Stryker, walked in.
With Mystique's mimicry ability, Jensen couldn't discern her true identity, and his semi-paralyzed brain naturally couldn't doubt the authenticity of the Stryker before him.
"Do you think I would agree?" Lu Yifang's face immediately darkened upon hearing this.
"Lu Yifang, I understand you better than Charles," Magneto said with a confident smile. "To be honest, I really feel that you are very much like me in my youth, and perhaps you feel the same, which is why you subtly expressed your thoughts to me on Liberty Island, and I am certain that you would never say those words to Charles or S.H.I.E.L.D."
"Lu Yifang, in fact, before you awakened your abilities, you were a latent human evolutionist, and after you awakened as a Mutant, you transformed from a human evolutionist into a Mutant supremacist."
"I didn't expect you to be so perceptive," Lu Yifang spread his hands and also began to smile. "That's right, I am a human evolutionist. I believe Mutants are a hundred times superior to ordinary humans, and resisting powerful Mutants is simply a terribly foolish idea."
This point has never wavered since he learned that this World was the Marvel Universe. In this perilous Marvel World, only power guarantees survival, and resisting Mutants is resisting the future of humanity.
"Lu Yifang, I knew you were a good child." Magneto's hand reached for Lu Yifang's shoulder, and a relieved smile appeared on his face.
"I said, can you please let me finish speaking first every time?" Lu Yifang, with a strange expression, grabbed Magneto's hand.
"Precisely because of this, I will not agree with your idea. I ask you, do you think Professor X, relying on a Cerebro, can truly kill all ordinary humans in the World?"
"Impossible." Magneto answered without thinking. The Cerebro was built with his help for Professor X, and no one understood Professor X better than him.
"Unless Charles becomes a true 5-level Mutant, as it stands, even completely draining Charles's mental energy would at most kill the vast majority of ordinary humans. But once the number of ordinary humans drops to a certain level, their strength will fall into chaos, their power decreasing exponentially, and they will no longer be a match for Mutants."
"Are you joking?" Lu Yifang sneered upon hearing Magneto's explanation.
"Regarding the relationship between Mutants and ordinary humans, no one probably understands it better than you. The offspring of ordinary people have a chance of becoming Mutants, and the offspring of Mutants also have a chance of being ordinary people. Therefore, no matter how highly you talk about the prestige of Mutants, we are ultimately only a part of humanity. The so-called Mutant characteristics are no different in essence from the appearance of blue pupils in ordinary people.
Therefore, even if Mutants defeat ordinary people, what then? Without the large base of ordinary humans, the number of awakened Mutants will become fewer and fewer. Can you guarantee that it won't be the Mutants who decline first?"
This is Lu Yifang's view on Mutants and ordinary people. He is a human evolutionist, but he should not be classified as a Mutant supremacist, because he has never specifically separated Mutants from humanity.
Mutants are just powerful humans; this idea has never wavered for Lu Yifang.
And it was precisely for this reason that when Coulson secretly conducted a psychological test on him, he determined that he was not a dangerous Mutant.
"That's right, I know all that you've said, but things are different now." Magneto has led Mutants in struggles against ordinary humans for half a century. Naturally, no one has thought more deeply about the relationship between Mutants and ordinary people than him.
Precisely because of this, for the past half-century, no matter what he did, Magneto maintained a bottom line. Otherwise, considering he helped Professor X build the Cerebro, would he not have thought of what Stryker could think of?
If Magneto wanted to do it, would he do it worse than Stryker?
And now, even the bottom line that Magneto was unwilling to touch has been wantonly overstepped. An ordinary person actually wants to create a big news story that even Magneto didn't dare to touch, so Magneto simply couldn't tolerate it.
It's like a game: you're not playing by the rules, right? Fine, let's all flip the table and hurt each other. Who's afraid of whom?
When it comes to stirring up trouble, when has Magneto ever conceded defeat?
"Things aren't that serious yet. The conflict between Mutants and ordinary people hasn't reached an irreconcilable point." Lu Yifang comforted him. It wasn't entirely unreasonable for Magneto to think this way, but Lu Yifang knew the plot, which naturally allowed him to see further than Magneto.
Take the alien war in New York, for example. Lu Yifang didn't know the exact time it would happen, but since Iron Man had already appeared, it proved that this event was officially on the agenda.
And now Magneto wants to fight ordinary people to the death; what's the point when the Chitauri attack? Might as well just surrender then.
"Lu Yifang, what do you think?" Hearing Lu Yifang's comforting words, Magneto suddenly asked in return.
Even Magneto had to admit that he was old, and the future belonged to the younger generation. Therefore, Magneto wanted to know what this absolute standout among young Mutants was thinking.
It should be noted that Lu Yifang was no longer the naive newcomer to this true World he was last time. He had already had contact with both himself and Charles, and had also entered S.H.I.E.L.D. It could be said that Lu Yifang had reached a sufficient height, allowing him to see clearly enough, so he should also have his own views.
"Eighty percent of ordinary people are carriers of the Mutant gene, so don't you think that increasing the number of Mutants and finding a way to turn ordinary people into Mutants is the most important thing?"
"You should know that I've tried this on Liberty Island in New York; I failed. That thing has fatal flaws and is simply unfeasible." Magneto shook his head, saying disappointedly.
"And then you gave up?" Lu Yifang smiled, looking at Magneto.
"I don't mean to doubt your abilities. What I want to say is, why do you have to do this alone? After all, there's strength in numbers. Especially, don't underestimate the scientists among ordinary people, because they have no power, so they rely more on knowledge, and some of them are even more eager for evolution and power.
So, why don't you set up a research institute?"
"I've thought about that question a lot, but..."
"But you simply can't do it, right?" Lu Yifang spoke Magneto's unspoken thoughts.
"With everything you've done over the past half-century, which government, which spy agency in the World isn't watching you? And whether Mutants support you or despise you, they are inevitably paying attention to you. With so many people watching, how could you possibly have the opportunity to settle down and build a research institute to develop properly? Even if you wanted to stop and find a quiet place to rest now, you could only choose to do so while in prison."
And speaking of which, Professor X had the conditions to build a research institute, but unfortunately, he was busy teaching students and alleviating the conflict between Mutants and ordinary people, which consumed almost all of his energy.
"So, you can do it," Magneto said, staring at Lu Yifang.
"No, I know my own limits. I don't have that much ability." Lu Yifang shook his head seriously, but then changed the subject.
"But there should be many talents in your Brotherhood in this area, right? Introduce a few to me. I can't guarantee anything else, but I am very confident in helping out and contributing behind the scenes."
I think it's more reasonable that Professor X didn't use the instrument. Anyway, I don't believe that Professor X activated the instrument, first confronted Mutants around the World, and then, because of Magneto, confronted ordinary people around the World. In this way, Mutants and ordinary people haven't even fought yet, they just met the U.S. President, and the matter is over? Just kill me.
Ch 55
While Magneto was thinking, Lu Yifang had already walked over and removed the helmet from Professor X's head, and this time Magneto did not stop him. Instead, he looked at Mystique, who understood and whispered something into Jason's ear.
Having received 'Stryker''s command, Jason finally released Professor X from the illusion.
"Alright, we've got the first experimental subject gifted by Stryker as a token of friendship." After circling this semi-paralyzed vegetative state individual, Lu Yifang had already decided to take away this 'human tool' that might be of great use in the future.
"Lu Yifang, Eric, you are all here." After looking around in confusion, Professor X finally regained consciousness.
"Professor, are you alright?" Lu Yifang turned around and asked.
"I'm fine, what's the situation now?" Recalling his previous experience, Professor X quickly asked in return.
"Don't worry, everything is under control." Just as Lu Yifang finished speaking, the ground began to shake violently.
"What's happening?" Professor X asked, gripping the armrests of his wheelchair.
"It seems there's a problem with this dam." Lu Yifang looked up at the cracks in the ceiling, and a drop of Water dripped onto his nose through a crack.
"Damn it, who the hell broke the dam?" Rubbing his nose, just as Lu Yifang finished speaking, he noticed that everyone's gaze seemed to be focused on him.
After a moment of stunned, Lu Yifang cleared his throat and wisely chose to change the subject.
"It looks like it's no longer safe here, we should hurry and leave." Lu Yifang said, pushing Professor X's wheelchair and striding outwards.
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"Stryker, don't think you can escape!" Logan was searching for Stryker's voice in the tunnel, but at that moment, he seemed to feel a summons from deep within his soul. Guided by instinct, Logan walked towards a large underground room.
There were a large number of instruments and documents placed here, and a pile of X-ray photos of human bodies appeared in Logan's sight, but Logan only glanced at them before focusing his attention on a claw mark, which was his claw mark.
Logan's eyes began to glaze over, and fragmented memories flashed at this moment.
"Are you reminiscing about the place where you were reborn? Wolverine." Stryker walked out from a corridor on one side, facing Wolverine, he wasn't overly panicked.
And behind him at this moment, his female secretary and combat tool was following closely behind him.
"You turned me into this." Logan extended his sharp claws and said coldly.
"Don't talk as if I owe you something, don't forget, you voluntarily participated in the experiment back then, in order to gain stronger power." Stryker said, then suddenly feigned surprise.
"Oh, I seem to have forgotten, you don't remember anything from the past."
"You're courting Death!" Logan was about to charge forward, but just then, the Woman standing behind Stryker suddenly blocked Logan's path.
"Did You know? Wolverine, I used to think You were unique, but later I found I was wrong, You are just a failed experiment. And now, perhaps You can see my latest work—Deathstrike!" Stryker said as he walked towards the exit.
"Get out of the way, or I won't be polite." Logan brandished his six sharp claws at Deathstrike as a warning.
However, Deathstrike calmly opened her ten fingers, and ten sharp, slender blades slowly grew out from her fingertips.
"Holy crap!" Looking at this Woman who pulled out more and longer things than himself, Logan instantly felt his momentum weaken significantly, but then Wolverine had a change of heart, what am I afraid of? Although she's longer than me, mine is clearly thicker and bigger.
So, having figured this out, Logan charged forward aggressively.
"Ha... Hmm!" Logan inserted three thick and hard things into Deathstrike's body, and seeing Deathstrike with a pained expression, Logan not only didn't stop, but also inserted the other three.
And just when he thought he had succeeded, who knew that Deathstrike suddenly raised her hands and protectively inserted ten long and hard things into Logan's body.
"Ah... Ah!" Wolverine also growled lowly, his painful groans mixed with long gasps. Both of them tasted the power of the other's thing, and their tempers were ignited.
So, accompanied by the splashing of bloody liquid, the two were already wrestling on the ground, engaging in a brutal hand-to-hand combat of mutual insertion.
"Wolverine, just enjoy yourself here." Stryker sneered and opened the escape door, and then... he saw a group of Mutants standing on the other side of the door.
"Yo!" Lu Yifang waved at the frozen-faced Stryker.
"Bastard!" Stryker instinctively pulled out his pistol.
"Bang... Ah!" The moment Stryker pulled the trigger on the young man, the pistol in his hand was shattered by the deflected bullet. Stryker clutched his hand and cried out in pain as he squatted on the ground.
"Done, captured an old bastard alive." Lu Yifang stepped on Stryker and then looked at the fighting Logan.
"Uh, do You think we should go up and help?" Lu Yifang said with a strange expression, looking at Wolverine and Deathstrike mutually inserting.
"Nonsense, what do You think?" Logan roared angrily.
It could be said that this was the second tough battle Wolverine faced. The first was Magneto, the misery of which goes without saying, but even so, Wolverine had never cowered.
But now Wolverine was truly a bit timid. A Mutant with the same steel bones and claws, and super healing ability as himself, and most importantly, her fighting skills were better than his. So after fighting for a while, Wolverine finally discovered with frustration.
He couldn't insert this Woman!
For the first time in his life, while being disgusted by his own abilities, Wolverine also began to doubt his life motto of 'Don't cower, just do it'.
"Deathstrike, come save me." Stryker shouted anxiously at this moment.
Hearing her Master's cry for help, Deathstrike decisively abandoned Wolverine and rushed towards Lu Yifang.
Five slender claws stabbed towards Lu Yifang's heart, but the expected sound of flesh tearing did not come. Her claws, which could cut through metal like mud, didn't even scratch the young man's clothes.
And in the instant Deathstrike was stunned, her hand was grabbed by Lu Yifang.
Tear! In this instant, Deathstrike's arm exploded, and even her Adamantium metal bones trembled, seeming to have reached their limit.
"A bit troublesome." Looking at Deathstrike's arm which had already started to heal, Lu Yifang suddenly extended his hand and pointed it at Deathstrike's forehead.
"You..." Fear filled Deathstrike's eyes for the first time. Even though she was controlled by a psychic illusion drug, this fear could not be suppressed.
She was seen opening her mouth, and then the light in her eyes dimmed, and Deathstrike fell to the ground with a bang.
"What did You do?" Wolverine walked over at this moment, seeing a Woman with almost completely the same abilities as himself being taken down by Lu Yifang with a single finger, how could he not be curious.
"Just gave her brain a complete physical reboot. With her recovery ability, she shouldn't die, but the recovery time might be a bit longer than before."
Ch 56
Colonel Stryker, we meet again." Magneto squatted down, smiling at Stryker. "But this time, I promise we'll never meet again."
"Wait, this bastard can't just die like this." Lu Yifangpromptly intervened to stop Magneto.
"What do you want?" Seeing Lu Yifang blocking him, Stryker immediately became vigilant. He knew very well that with his methods against Mutants, falling into the hands of Mutants would be even more miserable than Death.
"Of course, I want you to work for us Mutants." Since we're building a Mutant research institute, we naturally need some talented scientists. Stryker was able to create Wolverine and then replicate Deathstrike, which shows his extraordinary abilities. It would be a pity to kill such a talent.
"What a joke, do you think I would succumb to you Mutant monsters to save my life?" Stryker said angrily. He hated Mutants the most in his life, and he was willing to pay any price to destroy them. This could be seen from how he had turned himself into that half-dead tool.
"You seem to have misunderstood something, Colonel Stryker." Lu Yifang squatted down, smiling at Colonel Stryker.
"We want your knowledge and talent, not You. I can guarantee that when I see You next time, You will have a new name and identity. What identity do You think is good? How about a radical human evolutionist, and then You have a wife and daughter, both of whom are Mutants, and both died at the hands of stubborn human conservatives. Hmm, just like You are now." Lu Yifangpointed at Stryker, watching his eyes grow more and more terrified, and continued slowly.
"So You hate them, and Your lifelong research has only one goal: to make all of humanity complete their ascension and become Mutants."
"No!" Stryker shouted, filled with anger, terror, and unwillingness. He was not afraid of Death, but he absolutely refused to be erased in such a way. But unfortunately, his struggles were powerless and ridiculous in front of this group of Mutants.
"Katie, how's the data copying going?" After knocking out Stryker, Lu Yifang turned to look at Katie on the other side.
"Give me five more minutes." Katie said without looking back. This was Stryker's lair, storing half of Stryker's life's research data on Mutants. It would be a waste if these data were to be washed away by the Water.
"Five minutes is too long." Magneto looked at the already shaking walls. He could already feel some moist Water vapor in the air.
"This dam might only last for five more minutes, and we still need some time to escape. There's still some distance to the flood discharge channel, so we won't make it in time. So let's just give up." Magneto advised with some regret.
"No, we have enough time to escape." Lu Yifang said as he walked to the wall, seemingly fumbling for something.
"Lu Yifang, You need to know that sometimes we need to make choices." Magneto shook his head. He thought that the impetuous Lu Yifang was just expressing his unwillingness. Young people, it's normal to encounter some setbacks.
However, he soon found that Lu Yifang was not just talking. Lu Yifang stood firm, and the next moment he clenched his fist and suddenly punched the wall.
Boom! With a loud bang, a hole three meters in diameter and more than ten meters long was punched into the wall.
"Now we have time, right? Sorry, I prefer to take the most direct path." Looking at the blue sky, White clouds, and forest outside the big hole, Lu Yifang turned and said.
"Uh, I think so." Magneto said in a daze.
"Lu Yifang, will You affect the entire structure of this dam?" Professor X frowned and said, "This dam has already been forcibly demolished by You once, and now You're doing this again. Don't tell me this dam will collapse in the next second."
"Don't worry, I controlled the direction of the force. All the power is concentrated in one direction, not diffused throughout the entire dam, so the impact on the dam is negligible." Lu Yifang explained with a smile.
"Alright then, we'll wait a bit." At this time, Professor Xhad already noticed that Ororo and Jean had already left the dam and were about to board the plane. Therefore, without this concern, Professor X also relaxed a lot.
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Boom~bang!
Loud noises kept ringing out. It was the sound of the Hydropower Station being squeezed by immense pressure, deforming and breaking. At this time, downstream of the Hydropower Station, flocks of birds were startled and flew away, and even animals felt the impending disaster and began to flee frantically.
The Acrylic Lake Hydropower Station, a product of Roosevelt's New Deal during the Great Depression, has existed for nearly eighty years, and now it has finally reached its end.
This behemoth, with a dam height of 105 meters, a water storage of 95 meters, and containing nearly 4 billion cubic meters of Water, let out its last wail before finally being completely torn apart by the out-of-control flood.
At this moment, it was as if Hell's Gate had been opened, and the raging flood was like a giant fierce beast that had been suppressed for decades, wantonly venting years of anger.
The 4 billion cubic meters of Water had now stirred up a land tsunami. The forest downstream was uprooted almost instantly. This "fierce beast" had completely lost control, and under this immense potential energy, even if the Acrylic Lake Hydropower Station were still intact at this moment, it would be torn to shreds again in the blink of an eye.
And at this moment, above the remains of the Hydropower Station, a damaged steel gate floated quietly in the air, and standing on this steel at this time, was naturally Lu Yifang and his group.
"Phew, that was close, almost didn't make it." Looking at the USB drive in Katie's hand, Lu Yifang let out a long sigh of relief.
With these research materials, the foundation of the research institute is laid. This wave is not a loss!
"Next, we'll meet up with Teacher Ororo and the others…" Lu Yifang's voice trailed off, and his pupils suddenly contracted.
He felt a powerful energy burst forth in the raging Water. In his vision, the raging Water, which could pulverize everything, was forcefully torn open by another even more terrifying force, creating a huge opening in the middle.
And in this opening, he could see a plane that hadn't had time to take off, and a woman whose body was bursting with Fire-red energy.
"These guys are really slow." Lu Yifang frowned, then leaped up and descended towards the direction of the plane.
"Lu Yifang, this child, is really impatient." Magnetosmiled slightly at this, and was about to control this piece of steel to fly towards the plane.
But at this moment, Professor X suddenly reached out and grabbed Magneto. "Don't go, we can't go now."
"Charles." Years of familiarity made Magneto instantly notice that Professor X's hand was trembling slightly, and his expression was more solemn than ever before.
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Ororo, open the hatch quickly!" Cyclops anxiously shouted at Storm, who was piloting, as he watched Jean Grey resist the terrifying flood outside the hatch.
"I'm not controlling it." Storm had already left the pilot's seat, and the buttons were operating on their own, as if an invisible person was sitting in the pilot's seat.
And in fact, it was close to that; the entire plane was now completely controlled by Jean Grey. She knew Storm and Cyclops wouldn't abandon her, but if she didn't step forward, the plane would likely be torn to shreds by the flood in an instant.
Moreover, as the terrifying power within her continuously surged out, she had already realized that this might be the best outcome.
However, just as Jean had made up her mind and was about to make the plane take off, a Shadow suddenly leaped down from the sky and stood in front of her.
"Lu Yifang!" Jean was stunned when she saw this figure, but then her expression changed again.
"Get out of here quickly, you'll die!"
However, facing Jean's shouts from behind, Lu Yifangdid not turn around. Instead, he looked up at the Water wall, which was five or six stories high, and a rare serious expression appeared on his face. Although the Water level had decreased due to diffusion, the nearly ninety-meter drop undoubtedly strengthened its destructive power.
The latest material plane from the Mutant Academywould probably not last even a second in front of it, and everyone on the plane would be torn to shreds along with it.
Lu Yifang did not want to see this outcome. He retracted his gaze, raised his foot, and took a step forward.
"This place—no passing!"
Boom~ Boom~ Rumble! The flood surged violently, as if countless torpedoes had been detonated at once, and a terrifying vortex hundreds of meters in diameter appeared. If one stood above the vortex, they could also see a huge Shadow slowly emerging within it.
The shaking grew more intense; it was an earthquake, an earthquake caused by a single person. In this earthquake, the flood visibly expanded, rising more than ten meters in just a few seconds.
But although the Water level rose, Jean clearly felt that the force of the flood's impact was rapidly weakening. And the increasingly clear huge Shadow in the vortex finally revealed its true appearance: a rapidly rising landmass, an area nearly the size of two football fields.
At the critical moment, Lu Yifang forcibly changed the terrain, raising the overflowing ground to create this small mountain. With this small mountain blocking the way, the flood was easily torn apart and diverted to both sides.
"Is it... over?" Jean stared blankly at the small mountain, which was ten stories high, and then, as if exhausted, she knelt directly on the ground.
"Pretty much, it's safe now," Lu Yifang said, looking back at Jean.
"Oh, right, what were you shouting earlier? The sound of the flood was a bit loud just now, I didn't hear it." Lu Yifang rubbed his ears, suddenly asking curiously.
However, Jean did not answer Lu Yifang's question. At this moment, she lowered her head, seemingly in a daze. And from her body, increasingly powerful energy slowly overflowed.
"Dr. Jean, are you alright?" Lu Yifang frowned, about to reach out to help Jean up.
But at that moment, Jean suddenly looked up sharply and grabbed Lu Yifang's hand. From her eyes, Lu Yifangcould see endless rage and destruction.
"You've got the wrong person, I'm not Jean, I am—Phoenix!"
The moment the crisis was resolved was Jean's most relaxed moment, and the mental seal, which had been damaged due to excessive use of power, was finally completely broken at this instant. The Phoenix personality, as the embodiment of desire and destruction, launched an attack when Jean was at her weakest, instantly suppressing Jean's humanity.
A sharp shriek echoed through the sky; it was the cry of the Phoenix.
In the turbulent Water flow, a huge Phoenix phantom appeared, its burning Fire dyeing the Water surface a fiery red.
"Boom!"
With a loud bang, the huge Phoenix phantom shattered, and a fiery red figure transformed into a blazing Fire meteor. Its terrifying speed cut through the Water flow, leaving a long trail of Fire in its wake.
"Cough, cough!" Lu Yifang, standing at the center of the explosion, coughed, unable to resist taking two deep breaths. The Phoenix's sneak attack naturally didn't harm him, but the sudden burst of Phoenix Fire consumed a lot of oxygen in the air, making him feel a bit hypoxic.
Of course, this level of oxygen deprivation could at most only make Lu Yifang cough a couple of times.
Crack!
And just as Lu Yifang caught his breath, a crisp sound suddenly caught his attention. Following the sound, Lu Yifang looked back and saw that the small mountain Lu Yifang had forcibly raised had been blasted with countless cracks due to the sudden burst of Phoenix Force.
The flood also took the opportunity to start tearing apart this small mountain, showing a strong tendency to disintegrate it.
"Damn it." Looking back at the plane carrying Storm and Cyclops, although it wasn't in the direction of the energy burst, the plane was still completely paralyzed by the powerful energy fluctuations.
Looking up at Magneto in the air not far away, Lu Yifangdecisively rushed to the front of the plane. Grabbing the bottom of the plane, Lu Yifang lifted it up.
"Magneto, catch this." Just like throwing a paper airplane, Lu Yifang grabbed the plane and threw it towards Magneto.
At this moment, the flood had also breached the temporary dam Lu Yifang had created, completely submerging Lu Yifang the instant the plane was thrown.
"Stop!" Seeing the plane flying towards him at high speed, Magneto quickly activated his ability, stopping the plane, and then controlling it to quickly move away from here.
Because he had already seen that the Phoenix on the other side had rushed out. The Phoenix stood in the flood, and the turbulent Water flow within ten meters of her was as calm as a mirror.
And behind her, a Phoenix phantom with a wingspan of dozens of meters appeared. Some Fire feathers could be seen falling, and as soon as they touched the Water surface, they exploded, turning into expanding masses of Fire. This place had already become a sea of Fire.
"Lu Yifang!" Katie's eyes flashed with worry as she watched Lu Yifang being swallowed by the flood.
"Don't worry, you've seen that child's power. This situation isn't enough to harm him," Magneto said reassuringly.
And as if to verify Magneto's words, the Water surface below suddenly churned, forming another huge vortex, and at the very center of the vortex, a Water pillar slowly rose, and the figure standing on this Water pillar was precisely Lu Yifang.
"What an surprise, I thought you would run away quickly now, after all, fighting me is completely not worth it." Lu Yifang looked at the Phoenix and said calmly.
"You... die!" The Phoenix stared at Lu Yifang, coldly uttering these two words.
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You can barely speak coherently. It seems Jean's humanity is resisting you, which is disrupting your thoughts." Lu Yifang observed Phoenix with interest.
"This is good. At least dealing with you now won't be as troublesome." As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Yifang charged towards Phoenix like an arrow released from a bowstring.
"Die…" The stimulated Phoenix roared, and the calm water around her, as if sensing Phoenix's anger, began to boil.
Clusters of small water streams floated into the air, then condensed into long, sharp water spikes, which shot towards Lu Yifang with a piercing whoosh, faster than bullets.
Although it was only water, with the blessing of the Phoenix Force, it could easily pierce through armored tanks.
However, facing these incoming water spikes, Lu Yifangdidn't even blink, meeting them head-on. All the water spikes that touched him were easily reflected back. Such an attack didn't even delay Lu Yifang.
"You try mine too." Lu Yifang said, already grasping a giant redwood tree swaying in the flood. This ancient tree, dozens of feet tall and too wide for ten people to embrace, was easily lifted by Lu Yifang and smashed down on Phoenix's head.
Bang! Crack!
The giant redwood tree hadn't even touched Phoenix before it shattered into countless fragments under her immense telekinetic power, and then these fragments were annihilated into powder invisible to the naked eye.
Phoenix extended her hand, and her flaming fingers slashed forward, condensing a thin line of fire that rapidly expanded at an imperceptible speed, easily slicing the remaining body of the giant redwood tree into two halves.
At this moment, Phoenix's eyes flickered, but then a look of disappointment appeared. The enemy did not seem to be incinerated into ashes by the Phoenix Flames as she had expected.
This also made Phoenix realize that the enemy before her was not as fragile as she had imagined. So she raised her hand, and the Phoenix Shadow behind her suddenly flapped its wings, beginning to rapidly solidify.
As if gaining sentience, the Flaming Phoenix let out a sharp shriek, then pounced on Lu Yifang.
"This thing can't stop me either." Lu Yifang sneered, extending his hand towards the scorching Flaming Phoenix. High temperatures couldn't harm him. Instead, the energy within it was instantly redirected by Lu Yifang, breaking free from Phoenix's control.
The sentient Flaming Phoenix struggled fiercely, but it was useless. Lu Yifang grabbed the Flaming Phoenix by its neck and smashed it down onto the red-haired woman before him.
Witnessing the out-of-control Flaming Phoenix above her head, a strong sense of danger arose in her heart, and this sense of danger intensified the rampage of the Phoenix Force.
"Get lost!" Phoenix roared, blocking her chest with both hands. Stronger Phoenix Force surged out, colliding with the Flaming Phoenix.
With a loud bang, the water surface once again surged with dozens of meters high waves, and in the center of the waves, a large amount of floodwater was evaporated by the high temperature. Scalding boiling water splashed everywhere, making hissing sounds, and quickly formed a thick white mist.
At this moment, a figure was moving rapidly within the white mist.
For Lu Yifang, the continuously surging Phoenix Forcefrom Phoenix was as conspicuous as high beams in the darkness. Even with his eyes closed, Lu Yifang could easily locate Phoenix.
"The Phoenix Force shouldn't appear at this time. Go back to your nest and lie down obediently."
"Never!" Phoenix, possessing telekinesis and psychic power, could also sense Lu Yifang's rapid approach, and Lu Yifang's words deeply stimulated her.
"You… and Professor X, and everyone else, you will never control me, use me. All… everything must be destroyed."
At this moment, in her eyes, Jean's personality had been locked into the deepest part of her mind. Her angry and destructive nature was stimulated to the maximum extent, and the continuously surging Phoenix Forcecompletely enveloped her body.
"Always talking about destruction. I think you're having a chuunibyou attack. Let me correct you (physically)." Lu Yifang said, clenching his fist.
Watching Lu Yifang's incoming fist, Phoenix did not move an inch. Instead, a crimson barrier shield condensed half a meter in front of her.
Lu Yifang's fist struck the shield. The crimson shield just flashed suddenly, then shattered with a crisp sound as its energy structure was disrupted.
Her carefully constructed shield was easily broken, and Phoenix was momentarily stunned. But before she could say anything, Lu Yifang's fist had already landed heavily on her face.
Whoosh! A red fiery meteor flew out again, raising two high waves, and slammed heavily into the wreckage of the Acrylic Lake Hydropower Station.
"It's over." Professor X murmured to himself. He could feel the power on Jean rapidly weakening, and Phoenix's consciousness was brutally suppressed by Lu Yifang.
At this moment, Lu Yifang slowly walked out of the white mist, and Magneto, seeing this, controlled the large iron gate "flying carpet" to fly over.
"Lu Yifang, are you alright?" Professor X asked with some concern.
At this moment, he was truly very grateful, grateful that such a controllable 5-level Mutant had awakened among the Mutants, one who could confront Phoenix face-to-face.
Otherwise, a 5-level Mutant raging due to uncontrolled power would be a huge disaster for both ordinary people and Mutants.
"Of course I'm not alright!" Lu Yifang clasped his hands behind his head, smiling at Professor X.
"Professor, didn't you see that my clothes are ruined? I fought too fiercely just now, and I couldn't save them. By the way, does this count as an accidental loss due to improper handling of a school-organized extracurricular activity?"
Of course, with Lu Yifang's words, Professor X couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, smiling and nodding at Lu Yifang.
"Of course it counts. The school will take responsibility for this. Now, let's go back."
"We have to go back, but how do we go back now?" Hearing Professor X's words, Lu Yifang suddenly asked curiously.
"That would naturally be… uh." Professor Xsubconsciously looked at the Academy's exclusive fighter jet. After taking a missile, being swept by the aftermath of the Phoenix Force, and finally being thrown as a paper airplane by Lu Yifang, this fighter jet, which was written as a plane but read as a cockroach, finally threw in the towel.
"Hmm, there are cars nearby… should I say a bus?" After all, besides them, there were also some rescued Mutantcompatriots in the plane, totaling twenty or thirty people.
Of course, after glancing at the flooded land below, Professor X quickly abandoned this idea and turned his attention to Magneto.
"Eric, can you fly a plane?"
"Charles, although I mocked your students for not being able to fly a plane, the situation now is that this plane is already broken." Staring at Professor X, Magneto felt somewhat bewildered.
But soon he seemed to think of something and turned to look at the plane suspended in the air under his control.
"Charles, I don't think this is fun." Magneto said, opening his mouth.
"But I believe it's not too difficult for you." Professor Xgrabbed Magneto's long red cape, his expression becoming serious.
"Eric, leaving the plane here would be troublesome. It might reveal some of our secrets, and… building another one is even more troublesome, don't you think?"
Watching Professor X persuade Magneto, Lu Yifangcouldn't help but look at the plane. So the question is, would Magneto be flying inside the plane, or supporting it from below, or perhaps standing on top of the plane with his arms crossed, facing the wind?
Ch 59
At seven in the morning, Obama sat upright in his White House office chair, surrounded by a bustling group of people: security guards, secretaries, executives, and live broadcast staff.
Everything was being prepared intensely, because in half an hour, he would deliver a live speech on Washington TV's morning news, a live speech about Mutants.
Regarding the extremely egregious incident of a Mutantinfiltrating the White House to assassinate the President, the White House had officially decided to make a statement, sending the strongest message to Mutants.
Obama was staring intently at the teleprompter, familiarizing himself with the script to avoid any awkward situations during the upcoming live broadcast.
"President, this is bad! New York's morning news has started," his personal secretary suddenly rushed in.
"So what?" Obama frowned, thinking, not only do I know New York is broadcasting morning news now, I also know Washington, San Francisco, and most other cities and states are too.
"But they're broadcasting this," the secretary nervously handed over his phone.
"Just last night, a horrific tragedy occurred in New York: a U.S. Military special operations team suddenly attacked a boarding school, causing significant civilian casualties."
"Damn it!!" Hearing this, Obama's face turned White, and he snatched the phone.
As he watched the news footage, Obama's complexion gradually changed from White to red, and then from red back to black.
What the news reported was even worse than he had imagined: not only had Stryker's people attacking the Mutant Academy become known, but it had also been successfully photographed and video recorded.
The television repeatedly showed the badly damaged school and the children lying in pools of blood, some of which were even blurred out due to their excessive gore, such as the one with a shattered brain and another with exposed intestines.
At this moment, Obama felt a voice screaming in his mind, Stryker, this bastard, is screwing me over!
He had clearly hinted for him to do things cleanly, but this is what he calls clean? Even those Terrorists in the Middle East are more efficient than you.
And although the news also stated that it was a Mutant Academy, so what if they were Mutants? Even some people who disliked Mutants would side with them in the face of such a tragedy.
And based on Obama's experience, this statement was definitely made intentionally, with the purpose of inciting public anger and sympathy for Mutants. The public always sympathizes with the weak, and this news had clearly portrayed Mutants as oppressed, and as for the Mutant assassination of the President, hehe, the public is forgetful.
Those with wilder imaginations might even conjure up scenarios where the U.S. Government cruelly oppressed Mutants, leading them to rise in rebellion. In any case, all the mistakes, countless mistakes, were the fault of this damned U.S. Government.
"President, some TV stations have already started rebroadcasting the New York TV station, and according to intelligence just received from New York, due to soaring viewership, the New York TV station plans to re-broadcast after the morning news ends. They have also urgently prepared an expert program discussing this matter."
"What about online?" Obama asked with a dark expression.
In this era, the internet is the easiest and fastest place for the public to express their opinions.
"President, this video is currently going viral online, with over ten million views in such a short time. And our White House government website has crashed due to the influx of angry citizens."
"These bastards!" Obama slammed his fist on the table.
It was obvious what would happen next: the media, both on and offline, would unanimously bombard the U.S. Government, and the ultimate target would naturally be him, the President. And his political rivals, at this moment, would naturally be eager to kick him while he was down and throw dirt on his name.
Although Obama made this decision after careful consideration and with the public's best interests in mind, it was clear that the ignorant public would absolutely not appreciate it. They would not care that this so-called academy was actually a Mutant training institution with private armed forces, and they would even selectively forget the fact that the President of the United States was almost assassinated by a Mutant.
All they would think was – oh, these children are so pitiful, the hateful U.S. Government officials are indeed murderous, perverted animals. The public only ever wants to see what they take for granted.
"President, should the live broadcast continue?" the secretary beside him quietly asked at this moment.
"Continue what the hell?!" Hearing the secretary's question, Obama immediately roared in anger.
Anyone with a brain should know that at this critical juncture, if another bill targeting Mutants were introduced, you could bet that tomorrow, a hundred-thousand-person anti-discrimination march would appear outside the White House.
After all, while many people disliked Mutants, many also accepted them, and after today's news, the neutral parties' stance would clearly shift.
"The situation at this academy is currently under S.H.I.E.L.D.'s control. It is said that they happened to be conducting an anti-terrorism exercise nearby last night, which allowed them to arrive in time to prevent the continuation of this atrocity. S.H.I.E.L.D. revealed that they are now comforting the survivors."
"S.H.I.E.L.D.!" Obama said, gritting his teeth, enunciating each word.
Stryker decided to act against the Mutant Academy that night, and you were conducting an anti-terrorism exercise there? Do you take me for a fool?
Well, he had just warned these guys yesterday, and today they created such a big news story. This was clearly stirring up trouble.
"Connect me to S.H.I.E.L.D. immediately!" Obamaordered his secretary.
"Beep~ Hello!" After a few seconds of ringing, Nick Fury's voice came from the other end.
"Director Fury, I need you to explain this matter," Obama demanded.
"President, are you referring to the Mutant Academyincident?" Fury's leisurely voice came from the other end of the phone.
Fury's understated words further fueled Obama's anger.
"Director Fury, I hope you can give me a satisfactory answer, otherwise I will immediately complain about you to the World Security Council. Perhaps I should remind you that half of the World Security Council's funding is provided by the U.S. Government."
"Of course, I know that, President." Facing this blatant pressure, Fury, lying on his chair in the S.H.I.E.L.D.Director's office, still appeared very relaxed.
He naturally knew the U.S. Government's influence on the World Security Council, and the reason he could remain so calm in front of Obama at this moment was because he had confidence.
Playing with a file bag in his hand, Fury slowly spoke; "President, if I told you I already knew the mastermind behind yesterday's assassination, would that answer satisfy you?"
"What? Tell me quickly, who is it?" Hearing this, Obama's face changed, and the anger on his face quickly turned to surprise.
"The real planner is Colonel Stryker, who incited you to sign the Military action order."
Hearing this, Obama's brow furrowed slightly. After a moment, he said with a somewhat displeased tone; "Director Fury, I must clarify that I am not interested in your S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Military's dog-eat-dog antics."
"President, I must also clarify that the reason I dare say this is because I have absolute evidence, and this evidence includes Stryker's complete plan. In fact, just now, I had someone send this document to your secretary; you can judge for yourself."
Hearing Fury's extremely serious words, Obama fell silent, and his hand had instinctively clenched into a fist. "Stryker, this bastard, dared to deceive me!"
Obama was truly furious. He knew that the Military's audacity was not small during peacetime, but he never expected these bastards' audacity to have grown to such an extent.
"President, if you want to pursue Colonel Stryker's matter now, you don't have to," Fury said calmly, and he believed Obama would understand the implication in his words.
"The most important thing now is that this information I have was compiled with the help of Mutants, so President, you…."
"I understand." Obama was not a fool; he certainly knew what it meant.
Being tricked like this by Colonel Stryker was definitely a dark history that could not see the light of day. Neither the public nor the U.S. Government elite would ever want an incompetent person to be President.
And regarding both Stryker's deception and the Mutant Academy incident, he had to handle them carefully for his reputation and political future.
"Director Fury, I hope you can introduce me; I need to have a good talk with the Mutants."