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Caliban's Mutant ability was to track other Mutants within a certain range.
However, no new Mutants had appeared for twenty-five years, and like Wolverine, he believed that only the three of them were left in the World.
So, when he saw a tail behind Little Goku's butt, he didn't think Little Goku was a Mutant.
He just thought it was a toy tail that could move around attached to the little boy's butt.
But Little Goku's appetite just now made him suspicious.
Could a normal little boy eat more than a week's worth of food for two adults?
So, he decisively used his ability.
"Huh, he isn't, she actually is!"
Caliban, with an expression of disbelief, shifted his gaze from Little Goku to Little Wolf Girl Laura.
Since his ability was to track Mutants, it naturally came with the ability to identify Mutants.
After using his ability, he found that the incredibly hungry Little Goku was not a Mutant, but the little girl next to him was a Mutant.
Sarah was also surprised; she hadn't expected Little Goku's appetite to be so frightening.
It was then that she realized why the barbecue restaurant owner's expression had been so strange when she paid that morning.
"Poor Goku, you must have been hungry often before."
Sarah stroked Little Goku's head, her face full of sympathy.
With such a huge appetite and being penniless and wandering, Little Goku naturally found it hard to get enough to eat.
"Hungry? No, when I was training, I could catch wolves and tigers to eat. Sometimes, if I was lucky, I could even catch dinosaurs.
It's just that they don't taste as good as these foods, but I can eat my fill, and I have more strength afterward."
Little Goku explained.
"Wolves, tigers... dinosaurs???"
Caliban and Sarah looked at each other, wondering what nonsense this child was speaking.
"I'm going to exercise!"
Having eaten and drunk his fill, Little Goku jumped from his chair and ran towards the factory's open space.
From his appearance in the alley that morning until now, he had been in a few battles, but the enemies were too weak to provide any real training.
Since he had nothing to do now, he wanted to seize the time to train; he couldn't be lazy with his training.
Seeing Little Goku go out, Little Wolf Girl also grabbed her precious little ball and followed him out. She also wanted to play with her ball in the factory's open space.
"Don't leave the factory, just play over in the open space."
Seeing this, Sarah didn't stop them, but just called out a reminder to the two children.
At this moment, Wolverine also pushed Professor X, who was in a wheelchair, into the factory hall.
"Sarah, please describe the situation at the Institute in more detail. We need to plan a safe route to North Dakota."
He had already told Professor X everything, and Professor X also hoped he could help the poor Mutant child.
So he no longer hesitated.
"What route? What are you talking about?"
Caliban looked bewildered.
Wolverine then briefly recounted the situation, and then the four began to discuss the subsequent details.
El Paso is in the southern U.S., while North Dakota is in the northern U.S..
To reach their destination, they would have to cross the entire United States.
Therefore, devising an efficient and safe route was essential.
To prevent being tracked by the Institute's mercenaries, the four quickly packed their belongings after discussing the route.
Although Sarah said she was very cautious during her drive from the border to El Paso and shouldn't be easily tracked.
However, based on Wolverine's many years of experience, it was better to be careful.
So, they dared not waste too much time. They simply packed some clothes, took the medicine Professor X needed most, and prepared to set off.
They didn't bring food or Water, as these could be bought at supermarkets in roadside gas stations as long as they had money.
In fact, there was nothing to bring even if they wanted to; Little Goku had just devoured everything.
When the four of them emerged from the factory hall with their bags and arrived at the open space, ready to call Little Goku and Little Wolf Girl to get in the car and leave, they were stunned by the scene before them.
Little Goku was seen carrying a discarded heavy-duty machine from the factory and performing frog jumps in the open space.
And Little Wolf Girl was sitting on the machine, looking at Little Goku below with a curious expression.
The discarded heavy-duty machine was estimated to weigh twenty to thirty tons, yet Little Goku didn't seem to struggle much while frog-jumping with it on his back.
This showed how terrifying his physical body was.
"I now believe he can defeat two dozen fighters armed with submachine guns."
Wolverine took a deep breath and said with some emotion.
When Sarah was recounting her experiences earlier, she mentioned something about Little Goku, which he hadn't quite believed.
As a former history teacher at a school for gifted teenagers, he was very familiar with the situation of Mutant students.
Most Mutants awakened their abilities during adolescence.
But except for a very small number of extremely high-level Mutants, it was generally unlikely for an awakened ability to immediately be used at its maximum power.
Even if it did, it would be accompanied by the danger of losing control.
To fully utilize one's abilities, the body needed to slowly grow and adapt, as well as constant training and use of the ability.
Even Magneto only gradually developed his abilities fully after becoming an adult.
Especially Mutants with physical enhancements; they needed to be adults to fully unleash their strength.
But Little Goku was only twelve years old. Logically, even if he awakened his ability and his body was enhanced, it couldn't be as exaggerated as Sarah described.
But watching Little Goku frog-jump with a twenty to thirty-ton heavy-duty machine on his back, he felt that Sarah's description might even be too conservative.
The strongest Mutant in terms of physical strength he remembered was named Fred Dukes, who could block a tank's cannon with his fists and unleash a maximum of about twenty tons of force.
But training with twenty tons on one's back via frog jumps and unleashing twenty tons of force at maximum were not the same concept.
This indicated that Little Goku's physical strength far surpassed Fred Dukes.
And looking at Little Goku, the twenty to thirty-ton heavy-duty machine was clearly not his limit; it was just the heaviest thing available in this factory.
"Caliban, are you sure he's not a Mutant?"
Professor X, sitting in his wheelchair, asked Caliban.
Except during an attack, he could no longer use his psychic powers in a normal state, nor could he detect whether Little Goku had the X-gene within him.
"I... I'm not sure either..."
Caliban fell into deep doubt about his own abilities.
A boy with a tail, who could eat more than a week's worth of food for two adults in one sitting, and could also perform weighted training carrying twenty to thirty tons of items.
If you say he's not a Mutant, then what else could he be?
He couldn't possibly be an alien, could he?
"I sense a Mutant approaching! This is bad, it's X-24! Let's go quickly!"
Suddenly, Caliban's expression changed.
Ever since he knew he might be hunted by the Institute and learned of X-24's existence, he had kept his Mutant detection ability active...