Chapter 302: Red Pill and Blue Pill
Bo boarded the ferry to Tuvalu with about 200 people. These include both general travelers and journalists who have gone on expeditions to Tuvalu. There are also general mutants like Bob who want to join Tuvalu.
Bob saw at least five of them. Because the changes in their bodies are too obvious, for example, one person has a respiratory organ like a fish gills on his neck.
He is mostly an amphibious breather. However, the gills on the man's neck must have affected his daily life. Gills men can't completely cover their gills even if they wear high-necked clothes.
There must have been a lot of people who thought of him as an outlier. Bob sighed inwardly, because he couldn't see any expressions related to emotions such as happiness and joy on the face of the gill man. He had been frowning and grimacing.
It's no surprise that Bob, a man who looks like a fish, guesses that he hasn't been very popular in his life. It's just that my ears can breathe, and I look no different from ordinary people from the outside. Even so, there are people yelling at themselves.
Bob was a little sympathetic to the gill man, but he didn't intend to talk to him. Because of the other party's bitter and hateful appearance, he stepped forward to talk to him, which might cause the other party's disgust.
There are a couple of other more obvious mutants, one guy with weird ears. It's like a wolf's ears, but I don't know if there is a wolf's hearing.
There was also a guy whose arms were abnormally thick, much thicker than his body, and it looked like two giant bear arms were mounted on a normal person's body. This probably has the strength of a bear?
There is also a guy with very keen eyes, and the shape of his pupils is like that of an eagle. This probably has eagle eyes?
The last guy walks strangely on two legs, and Bob inadvertently observes that he appears to have a pair of recurved legs. Like some cats, long and powerful. Bob wouldn't be surprised if he could run as fast as his old Harley-Davidson bike.
After all, there are all kinds of mutants. Maybe this person has the speed of a leopard.
Well, the wolf's ears, the bear's strength, the eagle's eyes, and the leopard's speed, I don't know if these four people can combine to become [Sheriff Brest] (note). Oh, if you include that gill man's ability, maybe Sheriff Brest can have one more [Fish's Breath!]
Bob was thinking about these things in a mess, and he was a little uneasy about his future. Is Tuvalu a home for mutants? He was already looking out to the edge of the island in the distance, and Tuvalu was getting closer.
The five people, including the gill man, also walked to the side of the boat, and they saw that Tuvalu was already close in front of them, and everyone's breathing was a little heavy.
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"Why do you want to join Tuvalu?" greeted Bob and his party with a handsome man. He was sunny and smiling. If it weren't for the angel wings on his back reminding him that he was also a mutant, Bob would have thought he had met some well-bred rich boy.
Bob knew the man, he had seen it on TV. The angel known to the media as one of the Four Horsemen under the Queen's Throne: Warren Warsington.
The gill man looked at Angel Warren with some envy and even some slight extremes, the other party is also a defective mutant, according to the division of mutant evolution, Angel Warren actually can't reach the gamma level, that is, he has powerful abilities but is accompanied by huge defects. The representative of this category of people is the little naughty kind.
Warren has wings to fly, and then has some abilities to speed up recovery from injuries and some additional small abilities, but he is still far from having a powerful ability. If it's true, Warren is actually between the Epsilon level (which has weak abilities, but has huge defects that affect life) to the gamma level, which has failed evolution.
Maybe the gill man can't fly, but his mutant ability allows him to stay in the water for a month without any problem. He was able to live a perfect life underwater, like a fish.
But the treatment of a fish is very different from that of an angel. The gill man is twenty-five years old, but he doesn't even have a girlfriend until now. Everyone hated the gills around his neck.
And Angel Warren just posted two selfie photos on Weibo, and a bunch of female fans left messages below, saying that they wanted to have a little angel with Angel. Countless people think that the big wings of the angel are cool!
Obviously, diving is also a cool ability, okay? Why can't it compare to a pair of beautiful wings?! They are all mutants, why is the difference in treatment so big? The gilly man is desperate for this face-looking world.
It's the same epsilon level, but the side effects of the evolution failure of the five people such as the fish gill man are much worse than growing a pair of big wings. No one thinks they're cool.
So for Warren's questioning, the gill man was a little uncomfortable: "Obviously, the five of us are not welcomed. People pointed at my nose and called me a catfish monster. And the four of them, I think it's a similar situation. We just want to find a place to live with less discrimination and find a proper job. My ability is to dive, and I can dive up to 120 meters without equipment, and the pressure will up if I go deeper. ”
The gill man briefly talked about his ability, but in fact, this ability is already amazing. Ordinary people don't wear any equipment, diving up to 20 meters is already the limit.
And the four people who followed the eagle's eyes, the wolf's ears, the leopard's speed, and the bear's strength also introduced their abilities. Their reasons are the same as those of the gill man. Although they have the ability to mutate, their physical mutations make them unpopular among the general population.
So they wanted to find a safe haven. When it was Bob's turn, he suddenly couldn't open his mouth. Can you breathe with your ears?Well, compared to the five people in front of him, Bob thinks he's a fake mutant.
As for the five men with fish gills, the general place could not accommodate them, so they chose to come to Tuvalu.
Angel Warren nodded, "Understood." But here I would like to offer you a small choice. Have you seen The Matrix?"
As the pinnacle of R-rated films, the "Matrix" trilogy is well-known all over the world, and few people don't know about this movie.
Looking at the few people in front of them, they all nodded to indicate that they knew about this movie. Angel Warren continued: "Now there are two more choices in front of you. It's like the choice that was placed in front of Neo (the male protagonist of The Matrix) back then. Red pill or blue pill? You have a chance to do that. ”
"We have made a batch of drugs that can alleviate the sequelae of the defect caused by the removal of the X gene. However, the side effect is that it will wear out all the X abilities to zero. You will still have the latent X gene in you, but it will be a state to be activated. So by the current standard of inspection, you will no longer be mutants. ”
Angel Warren threw out a huge temptation: "Choose one of the two, become a normal person and return to a normal life, or do you want to continue to join Tuvalu?"
Bob looked at Warren in surprise, and the breathing of the five people including the gill man became heavier and heavier.
PS Note: Sheriff Bresta is an American cartoon released in 1987. The main character of the anime, Sheriff Bresta has the strength of a bear, the eyes of an eagle, the speed of a leopard, and the ears of a wolf. This is Bob's favorite cartoon to watch as a child, and he thinks it's cool.
Much better than the crazy SpongeBob SquarePants that kids are showing right now, and the inexplicable Rainbow Pony and the Powerpuff Girls—— above are from the description of Bob the Submarine.