In Li Jie's villa, Lan is waiting for Li Jie's return. It wasn't until about ten o'clock in the evening that Li Jie came back from his parents' house. Arashi was sitting on the couch reading a book.

After seeing Li Jie come in, she asked, "How is the situation?"

Li Jie pouted: "It's not good, my father has been genetically transformed, and my mother hasn't yet." I've already brought back the vitamin tablets they ate, and I'll check them out later. I'll have to figure out how to get Harry to help me make some special vitamin tablets. ”

"Regardless of whether or not the X gene is activated, I can't accept the fact that the raw material for this kind of thing comes from the fake drug king Marx. There are uncontrollable risks involved. Li Jie handed Arashi a bottle of Nutrilite multivitamins in his hand, and Arashi glanced at it and placed it on the coffee table.

Li Jie sat on the single sofa on the side, pinching his Qingming acupoint a little tiredly. Lan stood up, sat on the armrest of Li Jie's sofa, put one hand on Li Jie's shoulder and said, "But this is a symptom but not a cure, Magneto's medicine is still circulating." Even if you don't take vitamins, there are all sorts of other things. Whether it's antibiotics or vaccines, as long as people are alive, they can't escape contact with these medicines. ”

Li Jie sighed: "Yes, even the son of my father's colleague has inexplicably awakened the X gene, and got a memory-enhancing ability to offset his amnesia." That's a good thing, but I can't guarantee that anything else bad will happen. Even I don't know how many people have actually been recruited. ”

Lan grabbed Li Jie's shoulder with one hand and said, "So you want to go to Magneto to solve this matter?"

"Yes, the biggest problem is actually with the Inhumans. In essence, as long as the negative impact of the X gene can be eliminated, and some physiological diseases - after all, no one can determine the direction of the mutation caused by the mutant gene - then I am actually not very opposed, as long as the X gene is developing in a good direction. Because if everyone in this world is superhuman, then there will be no superman. ”

Li Jie patted Lan's hand on his shoulder and said, "But the Inhumans are what I'm worried about. Their Terrigen Mist is highly toxic to mutants. And it is not known whether there is a way to reverse this possible thing. ”

"If the king of the Inhuman race, the man called the Black Bolt King, finds out that all the people on Earth have become mutants, and there will be no one of his people, that is, the Inhumans, then what will the Black Bolt King think?"

"I guess the reason why Black Bolt still has a crush on Earth is largely because there are people who were born here. I would even venture to guess that if the Inhumans had the ability to enter the universe long ago, that is, in the era of the last civilization. ”

"So why did they just colonize the universe? Why did they have to retreat into the solar system? I don't think it's simply because the Earth is their home planet, so they can't leave their homeland. This explanation is too simple, and it also imagines the Inhuman too beautifully. ”

Lan pulled out the hand that was being held by Li Jie and gently stroked Li Jie's cheek, she liked the way Li Jie looked when he was seriously thinking about the problem and making inferences. Arashi asked softly, "So, what's your idea?"

"Guess a little, maybe it's because of the demographic problem. Interstellar colonization and interstellar voyages are conditional. One person can travel to the stars, but a civilization cannot rely on one person alone. When a civilization wants to explore and colonize the universe, then the population base must be guaranteed. ”

"When the population base is too small, interstellar colonization and interstellar voyages will not bring prosperity to civilization, but are likely to accelerate the demise of this civilization. Maybe there are different life forms in extraterrestrial life, and they may be different from us. But humans can't. ”

"Whether it's mutants or Inhumans, they're all born based on humans. Human beings are social creatures, and our basic characteristics determine the form of our civilization. ”

Li Jie leaned his face against Lan's hand, feeling the warmth of her hand: "What if, I mean what if." Suppose the Inhumans do not guarantee their fertility. Or that the descendants of the Inhumans are not all Inhumans, and may be ordinary people. Or maybe the transformation process of the Inhuman is not as completely harmless as Black Bolt King said, and this process may also have various accidents like mutants. ”

"Well, they can't reproduce the population on their own. So they need the earth. As soon as Li Jie's words were finished, Lan already understood.

"So, you mean. It is very likely that the so-called Inhumans rely on the huge population of the Earth, especially the Inhumans that may be born in this huge population to supplement their population?!" Lan realized that Li Jie's inference was not impossible.

Although, for now, it's all hypothetical.

Li Jie patted Lan on the back: "Yes, only in this way can it be explained why a remnant of the last civilization era has been circling the earth." ”

"Perhaps to put them another way, they are a parasite outside the earth. It's just that what they need is perhaps not the resources of the earth, but the awakened inhuman population on the planet. And that's what I think is the biggest contradiction. ”

"If the whole world evolves into mutants, then the source of the Inhuman population will be cut off. And this would be disastrous for a civilization that could not grow its population on its own. I don't know what the reason for the negative population growth of the Inhumans is, maybe it is reproductive isolation or something?"

"Gaining power comes at a price, and there are very few mutants who are powerful and have no side effects. The Professor, for example, when he first gained his abilities, was driven crazy by the ideas of other people who kept creeping into his head. It took twenty or thirty years of training for him to really master it all. Most mutants come at a cost to gain abilities, such as Cyclops, like Wolverine. ”

"I don't believe that the Inhumans are really that perfect, if they are really that perfect, why would the Black Bolt King ask Nick to cooperate? Maybe some people will become dogs when they transform into Inhumans. It's not surprising that someone in a mutant can turn into a fish, and someone in an alien can turn into a dog. This reproductive isolation may also be an important key factor in influencing their population base. ”

"And without the earth's population supply, what do you think will happen to the Black Bolt King?" Li Jie said as he gently hugged Lan.

Lan didn't push Li Jie away, but said softly: "I think he will probably go crazy, if his civilization is cut off in his hands." This is an irreconcilable contradiction that may even lead to a war. ”

"yes, so I thought a lot about it when I was talking to my parents today. Including it all. For the three races of ordinary people, mutants, and Inhumans, Magneto's actions are a crisis. But crises often contain turning points. Maybe I've figured out how to get Magneto to be obedient. Li Jie looked at Lan and said.

Arashi smiled, "So why don't you go to your companions now and start saving the world right away?"

Li Jie looked at Lan, staring at her eyes closer and closer to her: "Maybe you don't need to be in such a hurry to save the world." ”