Chapter 35: The Silver Necklace
The blackout in New York also affected Xavier's School for the Gifted, and just as Li Jie was visiting the school with Katie, the power outage occurred suddenly. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
However, this did not cause everyone to pay too much attention, just thought it was an ordinary power outage.
Although New York experienced a major blackout in 1972, power grid changes over the years have resulted in very few blackouts.
However, occasional sudden power grid outages in some areas still occur from time to time, which does not arouse anyone's alarm, and no one knows the scope of this power outage and the magnitude of the losses caused.
When the school's backup power was turned on, Li Jie also left the power outage behind.
It was an open house that was really as Katie said, and not a lot of other people attended.
Only about 60 percent of the students invited their family and friends to visit the school.
And apart from the parents who are mutants themselves, the number of normal and unmutated people is actually very small.
The significance of Professor X's school open day is not difficult to understand, which is to take this opportunity to show that mutants and ordinary people can get along well.
Seriously, this is a solution, and it is very robust, so that everyone can see that mutants are controllable, and the quality of people is not divided by whether they are mutated or not.
But the disadvantage of this method is also obvious, that is, the effect is too slow, how many people can come to visit at a time? 100 or 200?
Li Jie has a question mark about this efficiency, but the mutant problem is a landmine in society, and it is simply who touches and who dies.
Li Jie is not ready to touch this thunder, at least not for the time being, so that he can't help the mutants when the time comes, but he puts himself in.
"Professor, do you think your approach will be of great help in improving the way mutants get along with humans?" This is a dinner hosted by the school, and Professor X is personally responsible for the expenses. It is used to entertain family and friends who come to visit the school.
The dinner was in the form of a buffet, and the dishes were not expensive, but it was obvious that he had put his heart into it, and Li Jie ran into Professor X again when he was picking up the dishes, so he had a question.
"What do you think?" Professor X did not answer Li Jie's question directly, but threw the question back to Li Jie.
"Maybe it's a little useful, but it's not easy to just get mutants into the lives of ordinary people, and not every ordinary person will come to the school to visit and learn about your practices. Li Jie expressed his thoughts.
"Maybe you should be a little more proactive, I know that quite a few mutants have special abilities, why not use their abilities to help others?"
The recent smooth sailing has made Li Jie a little arrogant and inflated, and he forgot that the old man in front of him is also a wise man.
And to put it mildly, Professor X is much smarter than Li Jie, and if he doesn't do it, then there must be a reason for him.
"Your idea is good. Professor X did not directly refute Li Jie's point of view, but first affirmed Li Jie's idea, because Charles Xavier could really see that Li Jie was sincere in talking to him for the purpose of mutant integration into society, and there are not many such people now.
"But in what ways do mutants help others?"
"Like the street heroes in New York City lately, they went to help people, and then I can tell you that I published their comics. What they do will be recognized by others. ”
"Under the subtle influence of comics or movies or even more entertainment carriers, it's not impossible for mutants to be accepted, right?" Li Jie has been wondering, he has never heard of X-Men after coming to this world for so long.
Either the X-Men are too deep to be known to ordinary people, or the X-Men have never existed, and this question has always been on his mind.
"Mutants aren't like those street heroes. Professor X still talked patiently with Li Jie. "Street heroes may have gained strength for a variety of reasons, whether it's consistent training or the use of clever brains to develop a suit of armor. ”
"Even mutations due to some special reasons. But they all have one characteristic: his experience is mostly not replicable. ”
"They are all individuals, and what they do is only an individual, or a small group, and people are more likely to accept them. ”
"But mutants are different, it's a large and complex population. Professor X's long conversation with Li Jie caught the attention of several of his students.
Including Lasereye Scott, as well as Jean Grey and Storm Girl, they all looked at this side, Laser Eye was a little curious to know what the two were talking about, but he was stopped by Jean Grey before he could get close, Jean motioned for the professor to talk quietly.
"The number of mutants is actually very large, and in this society, the government is not unaware. Professor X looked around the hall where the banquet was being held.
"Actually, there are still very few mutants in my school, and there are many more mutants who don't want to be in this school, they are self-repellent. ”
"If, as you say, mutants come together as a force and use their power to do good deeds, maybe some people will be happy, but some people will be unhappy because this power is not in their hands. ”
Charles's words were very vague, but Li Jie knew what he was referring to, and it was a bit wishful thinking on his own idea just now.
Mutants are a force, and he knows that Professor X knows it, don't those careerists know?
There will always be more highly intelligent people in the world than you think, what if the power of mutants is completely used by the government?
Or what about some unspeakable secretive and careerist in the government?
As mentioned before, mutants are not street heroes, they are not a single individual, but a whole group.
Although I don't want to say this, some people have artificially separated mutants and normal people into two different groups, and even caused ideological antagonism because of this separation.
Or in the eyes of a group of people in the government department, it is best if mutants are scattered like this, if there is really someone who has achieved great prestige in the group of mutants and normal people.
So will the power in the hands of some people be divided? Or even the loss of the hotbed of the right to live on them?
Li Jie shook his head. "There are always people who are constantly working on the road to death, creating new heights. His tone was a little clear, but also a little helpless.
Professor X's words finally made him understand that there was a problem with this matter, and I am afraid that the crux of the matter was more than that. Charles looked at Li Jie with a smile, and Li Jie was so happy that he could understand his words.
But he is also very helpless, unless he really decides to carry out a violent coup like his old friend, otherwise he will use this time-consuming and laborious way to change the living environment of mutants.
Near Flushing, Queens, the villa of the Marvel company.
Thor was powerlessly cleaning the toilet bowl in the women's restroom, and he was calling it in Odin's name, the biggest humiliation he had ever received in his life.
No one had ever dared to let the God of Thunder do such a thing, to clean the toilet for a woman! If this matter reached Asgard, then Thor's reputation would be stinky.
He's going to be the object of everyone's teasing, Thor is furious at the thought of this, but he can't resist now, he's just a mortal at the moment. And the mana that Odin still blessed him with made it impossible for him to refuse Loki's orders.
Well, at the thought of Loki, this hateful brother appeared in front of him.
Loki was not sealed by Odin, and although some psychic magic could not be used, it did not prevent him from using other spells.
He flashed in front of Thor, watching Thor laboriously clean the toilet bowl, using detergent to make the toilet a lot of foam.
Loki leaned against the wall very leisurely, whistling in an Asgardian ditty, a song in praise of Thor composed by the elves after Thor defeated the plague god on a certain planet and saved the entire planet from the plague.
Well, Loki was adding fuel to the fire by doing so, and Thor's fists clenched tightly. "Can you shut your mouth, Loki!"
"My dear brother, this is your hymn. Loki said with an innocent expression. "I remember when you were in Asgard. ”
"Yes, but it's not like it when you're flushing the damn toilet!" Thor was a little angry. "You actually helped a mortal to tease me, you wait, Loki, I'll find a chance to teach you a lesson. ”
"Well, I was actually here to see if the great Thor would be interested in taking a break from what he was doing and joining me on a short expedition in the atrium. Loki spread out his hands, revealing a ring in his palm.
"It's a ring with the breath of the god of Asgard, and although it's faint, it looks like it's been thousands of years. ”
Loki's possession caught Thor's attention, but he said with some disdain. "Just an ordinary silver ring, maybe some god forgot to take it with him when he came. ”
"Perhaps, the god was careless, and he left behind a little too much. Loki also had a small piece of silver in his hand, which looked like a piece of jewelry.
"The last time Asgard came to the atrium was a god other than us, it was nearly a thousand years ago, and the aura of this god has not dissipated for a thousand years, there are only two reasons. Loki held out two fingers.
"Either he was incredibly powerful, like Father Odin, or he remained in the atrium and never returned to Asgard, perhaps a fugitive from Asgard. Thor spoke both of these words on Loki's behalf.
Although Thor is impulsive and uses violence to solve problems more than his brain, this does not mean that Thor's IQ is necessarily negative.
"So what do you want to do, Loki?" said Thor, dropping his toilet tools.
"Of course, to find this god, if he is gone, then perhaps there is his treasure in the atrium, if he is still there we should find out who he is, and perhaps telling Odin this message will save you from mortal servitude and return to Asgard sooner. "Loki knows Thor too well, and if he wants to do something with him, he has to let Thor know what these things are first.
Especially if this is good for Thor, whether it is to gain fame, or to find treasure or to return to Asgard.
Loki didn't care about Thor's re-education plan, what did it matter to him if Thor didn't learn to learn? He volunteered to be Thor's guardian but accompanied him to work here as a coolie.
Although there was a sense of pleasure in humiliating Thor, Loki had come down to earth to have fun. Far away from the Asgard Palace, the Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother are here to give themselves a break and play freely in the atrium.
For example, it's interesting to find a vanished god, but as for whether this will anger Odin? Come on, isn't there a Thor here? The god of thunder can withstand Odin's thunderous wrath.
In the morgue of a hospital in New York, Max's body, which had been electrocuted, was on the morgue.
Although the cause of death has been clarified, the procedure still has to be followed, and this time the blackout he caused caused a three-hour power outage in the greater New York area.
Fortunately, Stark and Osborne reacted quickly to restore power to the vital public sector first, so that the chaos in New York could not continue.
"This guy looks like he's a bad guy. The police coroner said to his assistant because Max was so electric that he couldn't see a human being, and was completely a pile of charcoal in human form.
"yes, even all the clothes are burned, but what's shining on his neck?" the assistant carefully noticed that there was still a light on Max's corpse.
He carefully flicked what was hidden by the charred smudge, what appeared to be a silver necklace. This is very strange, it stands to reason that the melting point of silver is not very high.
Fusion under a strong current is long overdue, and this necklace still retains its intact form.
The assistant tried to take the necklace off, just as Max's neck had just been removed.
A jet-black arm gripped the assistant's arm, and Max, who was supposed to be dead, actually sat up. "This is my necklace, do you want to take it too!" (To be continued.) )