Volume 8: The Fourth Impact Chapter 59 Please allow me to sing a song "Little Bird" for my owner Mason to express my love and respect
Mason thought that with the Phoenix Egg as a direction indicator, he would at least not get lost when advancing in the high-energy space distortion zone, but it turned out that he had thought this task was a little too simple.
At this time, the captain was sitting on the Mobius chair, watching the flame on the top of the Phoenix Egg in his arms move left and right, like a dysfunctional compass, which really gave Mason a headache.
"Can you do it? One moment it goes left, the next it goes right? Look, look! Before I even finished speaking, your flame went to the left again. Did you sense it wrongly?"
He couldn't help but scold.
However, this slight anxiety on the emotional level may not only come from the uncertainty of the Phoenix Flame, but also be related to the surrounding environment.
The feeling of being in an area where space is being distorted and stellar matter is being transferred to a new dimension is quite terrible. Not only is the visual level like a "wasteland filter" covered with a layer of yellow sand, making it impossible to see the real world clearly among the shadows, but even the sensory level is restricted.
It was like a blind person walking in the house. What was worse was that Mason's Isu bloodline gave him extraordinary perception. He didn't feel it at ordinary times, but now that this keen perception was obscured, the captain felt uncomfortable as if he was a hidden dragon trapped in the abyss.
What’s more important is that the gray scene before my eyes gradually became outrageous.
For example, the X Parliament Hall that Mason had seen when he arrived in Utopia last time was now hanging in an upside-down manner on the ground at the end of Mason's eyes. The black building seemed to be broken into three parts from the middle but not completely split.
It maintains its barely intact state in a rather odd posture, like some kind of premature performance art.
Seeing such strange things all the time made Mason's danger foreboding warn him. The deeper he went into the space distortion zone, the stronger the warning became. However, due to the sensory seal, Hawkeye Precognition could not be activated. The experience of walking into the danger zone alone step by step was really indescribable.
"Fox's directions were correct, and he wasn't trying to trick you."
The Mobius Chair detected Mason's emotional change and said:
"The degree of spatial distortion nearby is close to level 8. The continuous space you are familiar with no longer exists in this area. Even my navigation system has been affected.
However, through environmental comparison, we can verify that we are indeed moving towards the ruling center of the X royal family.
This machine detected abnormal emotional fluctuations in the first passenger, which should be related to the unusual environment around him. Does it require emotional calibration? "
"You still have this function?"
Mason said in surprise:
"Are you going to give me some psychological counseling here?"
"This machine has temporarily determined that the first passenger's answer is 'yes'. Please remain seated and do not move. Close your eyes and relax... The emotional calibration procedure begins. Three, two, one."
"Sizzle"
The sound of high-power short discharge flashes by.
After a few seconds of silence, Mason, who had an afro, blew out a puff of black smoke and said expressionlessly:
"Is this what you call 'emotional calibration'? Did you know that the level of electricity just now is enough to kill an ordinary person like Batman?"
"The discharge is just a phenomenon. The specific principle is to stimulate the brain... Uh, forget it. This machine feels that explaining the principle is not an important issue right now. Also, before questioning this machine, please first feel whether your emotional fluctuations have stabilized?"
The Mobius chair said a bunch of things.
To sum up the meaning is that don't worry about the means, just tell me whether it works or not?
To put it in literary terms, "Don't look at the advertisement, look at the effect."
Mason twirled his hair and complained:
"Nonsense, who would have wild thoughts after being shocked so suddenly? I'm not saying anything bad about you, but your occasionally weird mechanical sense of humor should really... eh? Wait!
Why did the flame stop?
Mason looked at the flame on top of the phoenix egg in his arms, standing there like a pillar, neither moving left nor right, and was a little surprised.
But the captain reacted a second later.
The place he was in now was a distortion zone that could not be explained by common sense of space, so the Phoenix flame standing up at this time did not mean to stay, but...
up!
Mason looked up.
Sure enough, a broken tower suspended in the air, completely still from the ground, came into view. Unlike the other dead and deserted buildings in this ghost place, the captain could clearly see that there was still a flame flickering in the tower.
Someone is fighting out there!
"Go up! Quickly."
Mason pulled out the Ragnarok pistol he had found at the edge of the distortion zone and patted the armrest of the Mobius chair. The mechanical chair immediately activated its thrusters to accelerate, carrying Mason closer to the top.
The closer he got to the building, the more violently the phoenix egg in his arms beat. It was obvious that Fox had already smelled the fresh power of the phoenix on it.
It couldn't wait to eat as much as it did the last time it beat Madeline.
"You have to be patient this time."
Mason patted the phoenix egg in his arms and said:
"According to Supreme Cyclops, Madeline had already taken away three portions of the Phoenix Force from him, the White Queen, and Namor when he broke out. Adding to the portion she originally had, the Red Queen is now many times more dangerous than the last time we met her.
My sister had serious personality problems, and there was a darkness in her heart that she couldn't get over.
Now that so much Phoenix power is being applied to her, I wonder if she will transform into something more dangerous..."
"The Lord of the Universe's neural power armor is ready!"
Mobius Chair reports to:
"The engineer clone has designed a more convenient way to activate it. Currently, the armor is stored in the compressed space of this machine. The first rider can activate it now if necessary."
"It can only move for three minutes, and now is obviously not a good time."
Mason shook his head and took out the twelve talismans and put them in his pocket.
If things don't go smoothly later and they have to "apply the gods for help", Hei Qiyi has already assured that he has done some research on the power of the Phoenix before, and this time the transmission of power will definitely not be so easily suppressed by the Red Queen.
However, when the Mobius chair carrying Mason broke through the wall and rushed into the suspended tower, what came into view was not a fierce battle scene.
There was indeed a flash of fire, but it was not the raging fire during a battle. Instead, it was the Phoenix Apostle Mystic half-kneeling on the ground to heal .
The latter was in a terrible state, with most of its steel body melted as if it had been thrown into a molten iron tank in a factory.
Being injured like this fully proves that Colossus' career as a Phoenix Apostle is "over", and his share of the Phoenix force has been taken away by Madeline.
"Don't come over here!"
The Supreme Secret Guest, whose whole body was burning with the fire of the Phoenix, roared in response when she saw the person coming. She placed her left hand on her brother's chest to keep his heart beating, and with a flick of her right hand, the burning Phoenix sword jumped into her hand.
This secret agent was obviously younger than the swordsman Mason was very familiar with, and naturally more impulsive, but she calmed down after Mason threw the X-Knight Badge.
"Are you Mason Cooper? The man who spoke out in the X Council but was not punished and was instead escorted out of the country?"
The secret guest exclaimed:
"I was on a business trip when you came last time. I've heard your story, but why did you come to Utopia at this time? Are you here to save people?
Unfortunately, you are late. "
"I don't feel like I'm late. In fact, the last of the civilians are being moved by my people."
Mason jumped off the Mobius chair and quickly walked to Colossus' side to perform first aid.
But then he discovered an embarrassing problem. To give first aid to this mutant whose whole body was made of metal, he did not need the miraculous skills of first aid technician Mason. Instead, he needed to seek help from the blacksmith Mason's control over metal smelting and forging.
He really didn't expect that the internal organs of this steel warrior were actually made of metal.
But why do you still stubbornly keep this physiological system that is meaningless to Iron Man? Wouldn't it be more convenient to turn yourself into a solid lump of iron?
"Luckily I always have this with me."
Mason pulled out the Thunder Forge Hammer from the broken bag he had repaired.
This thing was originally the specialty of the blacksmith Mason, but that guy unlocked the secret treasure of Hephaestus and had begun to forge the "Hand of Vulcan" forging artifact hammer for himself. Naturally, this thunder forging hammer returned to Mason's hands.
Under Mysterio's stunned gaze, the X-Knight who seemed like a utopian urban legend in front of him applied flux to his brother's wound in a very professional manner, then swung the forging hammer and began to "heal" him with quite amazing forging techniques.
While using forging skills to hammer and fuse Colossus's torn body back together, Mason took the time to ask:
"You encountered Madeline? Where? Is the Supreme Professor still there?"
"The professor is still here! Not far down below, in the Hall of Meditation."
The Supreme Mystic quickly replied:
"It was the professor's other guard, 'Elixir', who helped us lure away the Red Queen. This gave me the opportunity to break out with my brother. The professor told us to ignore him and leave this world immediately.
He said that utopia is destined to be destroyed today, but the fire of hope has been ignited... I don't understand what he is saying. The professor is sometimes very mysterious.
But I am sure that the professor has made up his mind to die.
My brother and I are the professor's last guards. That bastard Lord Doom sent his super clones into Utopia to act as assassins.
The longest-serving of those guys had been lying in ambush here for nearly ten years, and the professor had been stabbed by them with vicious weapons before.
You must rescue him immediately, Mason."
"must?"
The captain glanced at the Supreme Mystic.
Although the latter is young, he is obviously smarter than the swordsman who just eats and waits for death in Star Castle every day. He immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing.
She blushed and tried to explain, but Mason shook his head and said:
"I will go find Professor Supreme and Madeline. I have something to ask the professor, and I also have some things to settle with my rebellious sister here."
"Then I feel relieved."
Hearing Mason's promise, Supreme Secret Guest relaxed for a moment, but she realized something was wrong two seconds later, and said to Mason with wide eyes:
"Who did you just say? Who is the Red Queen Madeline to you?"
"Sister, oh, no, there's no such gentle term for clones. I should have made it clearer. She is a little girl born in the same batch as me, in an adjacent biological tank."
The captain changed the question and asked:
"Do you understand what I mean? She and I do have a weak blood connection. Our maternal genes come from the same person.
That's why I say that she and I are half siblings.
She's obviously crooked, but maybe that's not her fault."
"Bang"
The forging hammer fell with lightning flashing, and at the moment when Colossus's torn waist was mended, Mason whispered:
"It's your fault that she went into darkness...
Even in Utopia, only five of you have something of the level of Phoenix Force. Madeline was subjected to some pretty cruel experiments in Utopia when she was a little girl.
She inherited the Phoenix Force from you.
This means that you also participated in that experiment, but your memories were erased. Therefore, as far as her revenge on you is concerned, I don't think she did anything wrong.
You are all perpetrators in this matter.
So, I would say, you deserve it!"
"Yeah?"
The Supreme Mysterious Guest did not refute. She bit her lip and said:
"But I have no memory of that at all."
"It's okay. I'm not here to seek justice as a parent. You don't have to apologize like this. But there is something I must tell you, Mysterio."
Mason took a look at Colossus, whose condition had stabilized, and swung the forging hammer to hit his cracked body a few times to trim the edges, while also giving him some [Thunder Infusion] energy enhancement.
He raised his head and said to the Supreme Mystic:
"I will go find the Supreme Professor for you. You can take your brother and leave here to reunite with your people. This world is destined to die today.
I was indeed a little late.
But before I set out to fight my horrible black sister, you must give me something that can fight her. You should know what I mean."
"You want the Phoenix Force?"
Mysterious looked at her burning hands, she lowered her head and thought for a moment, then said:
“Okay, I can give it to you, but this power is not very suitable for me. I got it not because I am powerful enough, but because I am lucky enough.
But you'll have to find a way to get it out of me.
To be honest, if it wasn't for the purpose of protecting Utopia, I would have stopped wanting such dangerous things a long time ago, as they would amplify all the thoughts in my mind.
I can even feel it tempting me to fall.”
"The will of the Phoenix is inherently chaotic. It is a high-dimensional creature. Don't use your own sense of good and evil to judge this power of creation."
Mason stood up and took the Phoenix Egg, which had already started to hum and sing, in his hand, signaling the Supreme Mystic not to resist and placed her hand on the Phoenix Egg.
The next moment, the greedy wild phoenix immediately began to impatiently absorb the delicious phoenix flame in front of it and the fragments of phoenix power hidden in it.
This isn't the first time it's done this.
This time it was very skilled, eating in big mouthfuls, causing the bright flames to continuously entwine and burn on its eggshell, rapidly raising the temperature in the tower and causing the Supreme Mystic's breath to rapidly weaken.
But as the latter said herself, after sensing that the dangerous force had left her, a look of relief appeared on the young girl's face.
"You will meet another you in the underground fortress outside the capital area. I call her the swordsman. I don't know if you have ever met before, but I believe she will take good care of you."
Mason said to Supreme Mysterio, who gasped:
"I know her. She is the Grand Battle Master of the Star Society. She has a very outgoing personality. She always liked to stay with Sister Mysterio. But after Sister Mysterio died in an accident during a fusion experiment, she never came back.
I also wanted to make friends with my own alter ego.
But my identity is very special, they always avoid me, as if they are afraid of being burned by my flames. "
"Then your wish to make friends will soon come true."
Mason stared at the cracks opening in the Phoenix egg.
This guy Fox ate a whole piece of Phoenix fragment, plus the scraps he had snatched from Madeline before, which was enough for him to complete his rebirth.
Secondly, because it is a phoenix.
The symbolic level of compatibility with the Phoenix Force is definitely much higher than that of Madeline, which means that Madeline cannot take away Fox's Phoenix Force as easily as she does with other Phoenix Apostles.
“You…”
The captain tapped the cracking eggshell, and amid Fox's delighted and flattering chirping, he said:
"You will be my 'Anti-Phoenix Force' tactical module from now on. Remember to pay attention. If you do well, I can help you get some Phoenix Flame from Madeline.
I have a good idea. Why don't we use combat performance as the basis for calculating commission?"
