Volume 5: The Young Wolf Seeks Home Chapter 76 At this point, a handsome observer asked: If it only affects the earth, why not run away?
"You're scaring me to death!
Next time you do something big like that, can you please let me know in advance? I almost fainted when I saw you bomb those big guys, don't you know?"
Outside the gate of the X Council Hall, when the swordsman saw Mason swaggering out with a frightened bird on his shoulder, the enraged swordsman was about to go up to him and argue with him with the Soul Sword in hand.
As a result, the responsible bodyguard Wade stood in front of his employer, opened his arms to stop the "violent fan", and was then kicked to the ground by the swordsman.
As expected, the dirty bastard took advantage of the moment he fell to the ground to peek under the swordsman's kilt, and was provoked to the point that the Lord of Hell's Border stepped on his head with his boots.
Facing Liana's angry shout, Mason shrugged and said to her:
"There are two Skrulls disguised as Professor X. Even if their psychic powers are pirated and not as strong as the original, the combined psychic force fields of the two are enough to capture what you are thinking.
It's not that I don't tell you, it's that I can't.
But I thought you would be smarter. Do you think that if I really had bad intentions, would I have the life to stand before the Council of X with the Supreme Professor in charge?
Aren't you too unconfident in your leader's ability?"
"Who said I didn't think of it? I obviously thought of it! Only a fool would fail to think of such an obvious plan, right?"
The swordsman refuted stubbornly:
"I just think that your behavior is like seeking death. Why don't you let Wade detonate the bomb? Do you know that if only one tenth of the energy thrown by those big guys just now falls on you..."
"I am a water person, Liana."
Mason felt that he couldn't have a conversation with a nagging person, so he could only sigh and say:
“Although he lacks the ability to attack, his ability to survive is among the best in the mutant community. Well, don’t worry, the misunderstandings have been cleared up, and I had a good talk with Professor Supreme.
He forgave me for my offense.
Now take me to see some of the 'hot stuff' before they kick me out of the country."
"Then we'll leave first."
The fellows of Team Ex were relieved to see Mason return safely. Miss Anna took the initiative to say goodbye. She said to Mason and the swordsman:
"The patrol mission assigned by Master Hunter can't wait any longer. After the Third Impact, conflicts among the worlds have become more frequent. Even many base worlds have rebelled. We have to go collect intelligence."
"It just so happens that Team K has a pioneering mission next."
Mason thought for a moment and said to Anna:
“I had originally planned to let Ertong, Barbara, and Zhakang lead the team and take the newcomers out for some training, but Zhakang got into trouble, and it was a bit too weak to rely on only Ertong and Barbara.
Could you please help the two veterans to guide the newcomers?"
"no problem."
Anna put on the starry sky mask and said to Mason:
"We are family, we can just ask for these little things."
“But not too often.”
The card king beside her was playing with some purple-glowing playing cards and said to Mason:
"We have our own things to do here, too. To be honest, Mason, when I first met you, I thought you were aloof and didn't seem like one of us. But after seeing your style of doing things with my own eyes today, I'm sure that you are the hot-tempered boy from our hometown.
Let’s play cards together when we have a chance.”
"Play cards with you?"
Mason curled his lips and said:
"My little treasury isn't that rich yet, but there's a small question I've always been curious about. I'm not the only experimental subject in the Weapon X project. What about the rest of them?"
"Not as much as you think."
The Rakshasa woman brushed her unique two-toned hair and explained:
"Because the X gene is highly uncontrollable, only the first three batches of test subjects were special creations with locked genes, and the rest were clones created based on a single X gene.
Most of what we rescued when the nuclear war broke out were subsequent creations, and there were only a few with extremely high numbers like yours.
Because your genes must undergo a unique awakening to be unlocked, and we did not have the ability to return to our hometown at that time, those who could not awaken were sent to different garden worlds as ordinary people.
Given the current situation, perhaps it would be a better choice to let them live out their lives in peace and quiet."
"I have the blueprints for the third phase awakening module of the Weapon X project."
Mason waved his hands and said lightly:
"If they need... I mean, you should at least ask them what kind of life they want to live? Aunt Anna, maybe they also want to do something for their hometown.
You can't take away their right to be heroes just for their own good, right?"
This answer stunned Anna.
Then she shook her head, put on her mask again, chuckled and said:
"Well, I will go and ask them myself, tell them your story, and ask your 'brothers and sisters' if they are willing to take on the same dangerous undertaking as you."
After saying that, Team Axe turned and left. Although they did not feel as extreme about this place as Wade did, they obviously did not want to stay in Utopia for too long.
The swordsman stretched out his hand towards Mason, motioning him to hold his arm, then swung the soul blade in his hand forward to open the jumping gate in the world, and disappeared on the spot with Mason pulling him.
A few minutes later, Wade, whose shattered head had recovered, climbed up in a daze.
But there was no one waiting for him there.
The guy was cursing and raising his middle finger to the sky, but soon a sly smile appeared on his mask with an overly expressive face. He first looked around pretentiously, then activated the Venom suit to transform himself into Wolverine with a helmet, and then imitated the low posture of the old wolf when speaking.
Only then did he walk into the intercontinental subway station in the Utopia capital area with his hands behind his back.
I finally came back, how could I leave like this without doing something bad? The whole world is trying to catch Skrull spies, so it's a good time to do it.
Hey, idiots in Utopia, your Deadpool grandpa is here!
——
"Whoosh"
Amidst the flashing light and shadow, the swordsman led Mason in a series of jumps to a mysterious space.
Everywhere they looked were shining stars, and the place where the two of them landed was like a floating island in the sea of stars. Mason could clearly feel a sense of lightness and weightlessness, which made him feel like he was in outer space.
When I looked up, the scene before me was astonishing.
The broken star body of an entire world that collapsed from its core was suspended in the dark sea of stars, like the desolate corpse of a giant beast that drowned in the sea lying on the beach.
Around the stellar wreckage, there is a huge device that covers the world like an unfinished Dyson sphere. Mutant spaceships of all sizes are flying around in it, searching for usable materials in the stellar wreckage like industrious little bees.
This was an extremely huge project. Mason quickly discovered the clues after observing it for more than ten seconds.
He looked at the swordsman beside him, frowned and said:
"This is not the shattered remains of one world, these are two worlds... two worlds that are merging but have not been completely merged. Is this the self-rescue plan for the mutants that you told me about before?
Have you been experimenting with world fusion?
Any progress?"
"Well, Mason, where is your imagination that you are so proud of?"
The swordsman snorted, feeling that he had a rare advantage, so he stretched out his voice, patted Mason's shoulder, and said:
"We are not just trying. The first stage of world fusion has been completed. Haven't you found any clues in the main world force of Utopia?"
"Indeed, the gravity is slightly different from that of a normal planet, but Professor Supreme told me that this world was what they exchanged for."
Mason raised his eyebrows and said:
"You merged the two worlds in a closed 'laboratory environment'?"
"Not two! There are three worlds with mutant civilizations!"
The swordsman raised three fingers and waved them in front of Mason's eyes, saying:
"If you have a world map of Utopia, you will find that this world has three continents, each of which is equivalent to 70% of the land area of other Earths, and there are also demiplanes similar to the 'Secret Realm'.
That is a byproduct of the fusion of worlds, a strange space formed by overlapping parts of the real world. "
“Awesome!”
Mason could only use the most primitive emotions transformed into the most real words to praise the truth revealed by the Swordsman. He gave a thumbs up and congratulated this group of mutants on their private achievements.
It seems that although the X royal family is racist, xenophobic, unsympathetic, and authoritarian, they do indeed do real things.
The successful case of the fusion of this world alone made their status in Mason's heart catapult to a high level, instantly surpassing Old A and his group of people who could only talk.
At this moment, Mason sadly discovered that he was actually quite hypocritical.
However, there is one problem that cannot be ignored at the moment, and that is the remains of the two fused worlds in front of us.
The swordsman said that they merged the three worlds in a closed environment, so the two obviously failed cases in front of them were probably experiments conducted in real conditions.
"Was this an experiment done during the Third Impact?"
Mason pushed the frame of his glasses on his nose and asked. The latter sighed, and helplessly took Mason up the stairs of the starry floating island to a platform covered with tombstones.
Here there was also a thin man in a white researcher's coat mourning in front of a new tombstone. The swordsman ignored him and took Mason straight to the cemetery area at the back.
She squatted down in front of a tombstone carved into a cross, and with a wave of her fingers, she produced a bouquet of flowers and gently placed it in front of the tombstone.
"Remember when I told you that I had a time-space alter ego in Utopia who chose to become a nun?"
The swordsman whispered and Mason nodded. He looked at the tombstone in front of him and, as expected, the name on it was "Liana Rasputin".
"She is buried here. She died in one of the fifteen world fusion experiments that Utopia conducted simultaneously during the Second Impact. All the experiments failed.
But they left behind valuable data that will allow us to come closer than ever to a successful third impact.”
Liana gently stroked the tombstone in front of her, which in a sense also belonged to her. She said to Mason who was silent behind her:
“All the tombstones here are to commemorate our compatriots who died in this experiment. Most of them have no remains left, but once they were recruited, no one would choose to quit.
Mason, I don't like utopias either.
This place is nothing like our old home, but we choose to stay here and keep this identity not just because we are all mutants.
Before I met you, the X Royal Family was the only force I had ever seen that dealt with the impact disaster in the most pragmatic manner.
If you hadn't shown up, I would have probably gone down the same path with them forever."
"Your praise makes me feel terrified. Compared with these pioneers, I haven't even really put my ideas into practice."
Mason sighed, took off his glasses, put his hand on the tombstone in front of him, and looked up at the remains of the two earths that failed to merge in the distant starry sky.
A silent pressure surged in my heart.
As Liana looked on in astonishment, as Mason closed his eyes, a gentle raindrop began to fall from all around, like a soft breeze blowing through the star-bathed cemetery, making the flowers among the green grass bloom.
It's like some kind of respect for predecessors based on one's mutant identity.
"When did you connect your abilities to such a detailed level?"
The swordsman asked:
"It's only been less than three days since you unlocked your ability, right?"
“I am short on time, perhaps because I am used to becoming familiar with new knowledge in a short period of time, or perhaps because I am good at learning.”
He chuckled and said:
"Okay, the sentimental time is over.
Now I need to ask you some more academic knowledge, about the fusion of worlds... I want to know more, I am an absolute beginner in this regard. "
"Mason Cooper! The miraculous man who brought hope to the desolate and desperate Fox Nest at the end of the Third Impact."
A man's voice sounded behind Mason, with a hint of inquiry and appreciation, he said:
"The speed force matrix model you brought back caused a sensation among those researchers. They believed it was a highly complete theory.
There are already radical people who are planning to apply for funding to build a speed force network across the entire parallel world system to resist the next impact. "
Mason turned around and found that the person who spoke was the man who was standing next to the new grave in the cemetery.
He is tall and thin, with a gentle and elegant demeanor, and has a rather pretty boyish temperament. With a pair of black-framed glasses, he looks like a nerd in the laboratory.
But when Liana saw this guy, she pulled Mason warily, which meant that the person in front of her was definitely not an ordinary character.
"Henry McCoy, Chief Scientific Officer of the X Royal Family, Senior Researcher of Fox Nest, Leader of the 'World Fusion' Project Team. You can call me Hank."
He extended his hand to Mason and introduced himself, and Mason extended his hand and shook the wise man of the X-Men, saying:
"The knowledge of the Speed Force Matrix is just something I gained occasionally. I am an explorer, not a researcher."
"Of course, I know. He's a member of the Star Society."
"Beast" Hank laughed and said in a cheerful tone with his eyebrows furrowed:
"Even if you don't count the important data you hid, the matrix does have major flaws. It's close to the truth, but it's not the answer.
At least not a complete answer.
You seem to know this, so I guess you're more inclined to the theory of our world merging than toying with time?"
"First of all, I am not hiding any knowledge, and what you describe is a pretty horrific accusation."
Mason corrected him seriously and said:
"Secondly, I am a layman in both theories, so there is no such thing as one is better than the other. This is not an academic dispute. If they are both useful, why not use them at the same time?"
"You're oversimplifying, Mason."
Hank shook his head and said:
"Come with me, and I will explain to my new people the stage we are in. Liana, will you come too?"
"No, it gives me a headache just hearing about this stuff."
The swordsman shook his head and said to Mason:
"I'll wait for you at the entrance, and I'll take you back when we're done."
"Um."
Mason nodded and followed Hank forward. When leaving the cemetery, he saw the tombstone in front of him that Hank had just paid tribute to, and asked:
"Is it your friend buried here?"
"Yes, Eric Lansherr, he is not only my best friend, but also the professor's best friend. He and the professor founded the X-Royal Family together. Just as the professor is honored as the Supreme Professor, he is also known as the Supreme Magneto."
Hank explained:
“The experiment conducted during the Third Impact was led by him, and we thought that we had set up a perfect experimental process and everything would be foolproof.
But when the fusion test reached the final stage, accidents still inevitably occurred. "
"Isn't that right?"
Mason pointed to the wreckage of the world in the distance, frowned and said:
“If you had completed the fusion process of the three worlds in a laboratory environment, then even if you were subject to time constraints when the impact occurred, you should not have failed to this extent.
Look at these two worlds, they are almost crushed.”
“Two mistakes.”
Hank, who was leading the way, raised two fingers and said to Mason without turning his head:
"First, the biggest difficulty in merging worlds during impact is not time. With our current technology, the thirty-six seconds between the impact brewing and the collision occurring is more than enough.
Second, we did not make mistakes during the integration phase.
The two worlds were indeed merged together, and for a time we thought we had succeeded..."
The Chief Scientific Officer of the Royal Family of X sighed.
He turned to look at Mason, and said with a sense of fatigue:
"Mason, just because the impact event happened on Earth doesn't mean it will only affect Earth. Look at this special area of the sky. We used the Phoenix Force to capture them after the experiment failed and put them together .
What do you think this is?"
Mason looked up at the sky, and after a few seconds of silence, Hank took the initiative to reveal the answer.
He whispered:
"These... are the remains of the two planes squeezed together. The collision of the earths is only the beginning of the disaster, but the annihilation of the planes follows closely. This has never been a simple crisis on infinite earths.
Honestly, if it only affected the Earth, it would be a much simpler problem.”
