Chapter 46: The Hellfire Club
"The Hellfire Club, the scum of a bunch of mutants. The legendary blacksmith said of everything about the Hellfire Club: "They are the most powerful of the mutants. Simply put, it belongs to the elite class. ”
"The members of the Hellfire Club are not just at a better level in the evolution of variants. Most of the members joining are alpha and beta mutants. At the same time, they also have a considerable status in society, such as Roberto Sunspot, who helped Tuvalu build the country. "Magneto's Alpha and Beta mutants don't mean how powerful those mutants are.
In fact, the division of mutant levels has nothing to do with combat effectiveness. It has nothing to do with the "X-Men" movie that Li Jie watched in his previous life, which divided mutants into level one to five mutants, and it was divided according to the strength of their mutant ability.
The real division of the five grades, from alpha to epsilon, is only to distinguish the ability of variants and the compatibility of genes. For example, Li Jie's father, Li En, has awakened his mutant ability because he has eaten the fake medicine of the fake medicine king.
And his mutant ability is that he can heat the palm of his hand to more than 100 degrees, according to Li En's words: I have learned the highest meaning of the iron sand palm without a teacher. Although this iron sand palm is often used by Li Jie's mother to bake breakfast bread or something.
This is not a very strong ability, if you want to talk about combat effectiveness or something, more or less, but if you want to say how powerful? Then there is nothing to boast about. If you divide the mutant level according to their combat effectiveness, Li Jie's father Li En definitely only belongs to the level of a first-class mutant.
However, if it is divided according to the level of alpha to ipsilon, Li En can be divided into the highest level of alpha. Because his abilities do not affect his daily life at all, he can keep his palms from turning into electric baking pans when Lee En doesn't need them.
Li En can go to work completely like a normal person, without any side effects and without worrying about the ability to run out or anything. So he's an alpha level. And although the laser eye in the X-Men is very powerful, if he takes off his glasses, it will cause devastating damage. There is no way for him to actively turn off his laser abilities other than to close his eyes. This mutant ability severely affected his daily life.
So even though Cyclops' combat power is much higher than Lee's, he can only rank the third level of gamma in the mutant hierarchy.
"The highest echelons in the Hellfire Club are all alpha and beta elites. Some of them may not have much ability to mutate, but they have considerable social resources. Magneto said to Li Kit and Tony, who were sitting in front of him. He himself was playing with a mass of metal with magnetism, and a piece of Edman alloy was being played with like plasticine.
"For the members of the Hellfire Club, it doesn't matter if they're strong or not. The key is whether we can master enough social resources. Because as long as you are rich and powerful, you can always raise a group of thugs. Magneto stared at Li Jie for a long time when he said this. As if it meant something.
"Of course, there are some powerful guys in the Hellfire Club. For example, the Black King Sebastian Shaw, for example, the White Queen Emma Frost. They're all quite tough guys, especially Emma, the White Queen, whose diamond-turning abilities make her almost indestructible. Of course, what I mean by diamondization is just an adjective, not that she actually becomes a diamond, but a kind of crystallization of the whole body. Magneto, Marx, thought for a moment and added.
"She also has the ability to read minds, although much weaker than Charles, but also a lot better than Jean Gray's. The Hellfire Club now operates under her and Sabastian Shaw's leadership, and they wield vast amounts of underground resources. It can be said that they have everything no less than the Hydra of the past. ”
Li Jie was a little surprised: "Then why haven't you heard about their organization all along?"
Li Jie's surprise was not without reason. A powerful organization made up entirely of mutants, and this organization has not been around for a short time. But the group never seems to have been positively presented.
Whether the mutants have good things or bad things, they never see their organization take action, as if they are completely out of this world.
"Whether it's the X-Men, the mutant school being closed, or the Tuvalu statehood later. Why can't I ever see any trace of these guys? If they were as powerful as you say, they could have helped the mutants earlier. It is even possible to alleviate social contradictions earlier. Li Jie asked questions, and this is what Tony and the others want to ask.
"Hah!" Magneto sneered, "Help mutants? Why?" he asked a rhetorical question, "Why are they helping mutants?"
Captain Rogers frowned, "Shouldn't the same clan help each other?"
"But do you guys in the Hellfire Club think the other mutants are of the same race?" Magneto smiled coldly. The metal he was playing with turned into various monster forms.
"For the members of the Hellfire Club, other ordinary mutants can only be considered thugs and vassals. They are all alpha-class mutants at the top, and they are the high-level products of evolution. And what are low-level mutants? Magneto's face showed an impatient look.
"To them, the common mutants are not of the same race as them. They live in another world. They look down on both ordinary people and low-level mutants. They claim to be the darlings of their time. They possess unusual abilities and at the same time have a large amount of social resources at their disposal, which is a pyramid in the entire social structure. Sabastian once asked me to be the White King of the Hellfire Club, but I refused. I feel sick because of this kind of person together. ”
As soon as Magneto's finger turned, Edman Alloy turned into a miniature electromagnetic cannon, and he continued, "So it's not impossible for you to suspect that the Hellfire Club has attacked the Dawning Metal plane. Because the products of Elixir X have liberated more ordinary mutants. There will be fewer and fewer low-level mutants in the future. If all of them are alpha-level mutants, how do they stand out from each other?"
When they heard this, Li Jie and the others nodded. Yes, if that's the case, then everything makes sense. The Hellfire Club guys are used to being on top, and they won't admit that times have changed. Maybe they're doing the final pinpricks.
Li Jie took a deep breath and said to Magneto, "Then Marx, can you help us contact the Hellfire Club?"
Magneto raised his eyebrows, "What do you want to do?"
"Don't do anything, just say hello and see. Times are different, and people with old ideas still need to open up modern wisdom to them. Li Jie smiled.
On the other side, Dr. Maya had already flown to New York and had passed the news that he was going to see Tony.