Luganohu, located on the border between Switzerland and Italy, is a shining jewel on the long Alpine line. With the exception of the area around the bay of Lugano, the wooded shores of the lake are steep, silent and inhospitable, and few people are willing to climb the mountains to catch a glimpse of the rocks and snow that grows on the shore. But for West, there's no better battlefield than it all begins, where it all begins and ends.

Look at the barren wilderness beneath your feet. After 20 years, I revisited the old place, but I unexpectedly didn't feel anything. The young man's gaze skimmed over the unchanging shores and ridges of the lake, and he could still vaguely see the shadow of his own lost soul many years ago. Although his chest still felt uncontrollably dull, it was much better than the worst he had ever imagined.

"In five minutes, we'll be there."

With goggles on his face and a joystick in his hand, Mr. 007 glanced at the data on the dashboard. Although he hadn't found anything so far, the coordinates showed that they were indeed close to some secret base hidden deep in the valley. In Bond's experience, if they didn't want to be spotted by possible surveillance equipment, they should have landed right now and surrounded the trees on foot.

However, this time Mr. Agent did not say anything. After all, this is West's battlefield, and as one of the best mutants in the X-Men with a keen sense of the big picture and a sense of war, he will always have his own considerations without being reminded.

"I see."

Nodding, at this point, whatever plan he had had to start executing. West stood up and moved his wrist, his face calm and expressionless. On the contrary, the laser eye next to him has been fiddling with his glasses since he entered the Alps, and even if his vision is completely blocked behind the red lenses, it is not difficult to see that the captain is actually glancing around now, and it is obvious that he is nervous.

was stunned, and then remembered that he seemed to have been here back then, and now he is not the only one who has revisited the old place. West shook his head a little amusedly, if he wasn't the victim back then, just looking at the reaction of the two of them now, he might really think that the person who had been imprisoned by Elizhe for several months and almost tossed to death on the laboratory table was Scott.

"What are you thinking?"

Leaning against the door of the cabin, he turned his head to look at the white ridge passing by the window, the hermit crossed his arms to his chest, his slender fingers were dotted with each other, and his tone was a little careless.

However, this does not mean that he is indifferent to the current situation of Cyclops, in fact, no matter what he is afraid of, the big war is coming, and he can no longer be harshly criticized for it.

I also know that my emotions are too obvious. What's more, the owner who came to collect the debt had nothing to do, but it was really not something to show off when he started to be irritated first. The captain, who has always known how to adjust himself, took a deep breath, and he was not stiff, but was willing to talk to West about his feelings.

"I hate it, Will."

Ten fingers are staggered on his knees, and Cyclops is lowered his head. Some things, in fact, are not difficult for people who have really experienced them, but the shadow that unconsciously leaves on the bystanders, no matter how long it has passed, will also make people feel palpitations:

"Twenty years ago, when Magneto rescued you, I went to the basement of the Elizhe base. You probably know what that looks like...... I've really, never seen anything like hell like this......"

The stumps were covered with blood, like a madman's slaughterhouse. A sharp and mournful cry wafted through the air with the strong smell of rust, and even if you didn't deliberately look for it, you could feel the resentment and despair that could not be dissolved in the tragedy. All sorts of strange human bodies are soaked in formalin, some of which can vaguely be seen before birth, but many more are twisted together and disgusting.

Twenty years ago, most of the X-Men were still childish children, including Cyclops himself. Therefore, when they saw such a bloody scene, the visual impact and psychological barrier made them unable to escape the shadow brought by the mad doctor for a long time later. While it may be unfair to West, anyone who participated in that mission is undoubtedly glad that the person who spent three months in this kind of purgatory is not himself.

So, when I was young, I left such a terrible impression of this place, and now I revisit the old place. Even though West was still standing by his side, he didn't have the same sense of urgency as he did back then, and Cyclops still felt that something was wrong with him, like falling out of the window into the snow that was lying on the top of the Alpine peaks.

"Wei, I'm a little nervous right now."

Tightening his fingers, it was rare for the captain to have such obvious mood swings anymore, raised his head and looked at the expressionless young man beside him, and his tone seemed a little hesitant.

His words are actually dispensable. This kind of small awkwardness is basically caused by his own mentality, and the laser eye, which has long been trained with a strong heart in countless big scenes, can actually be completely self-adjusted. The reason why he said it now is, firstly, because West asked, and secondly, because he no longer needs to take on the responsibility of captain anytime and anywhere in this mission. You don't have to be a teammate to rely on, but you can rely on this "elder" who brought you to the Tao, and Laser Eye, who has been taken care of by the hermit intentionally or unintentionally, also hopes to find some comfort and confidence from West at this time.

However, the Hermit's reaction was completely different from what Cyclops had envisioned.

"Do you want to stay outside and pick it up?"

His eyes finally retracted from the blue sky and white clouds outside the window. West's expression was calm as he looked at the captain, who might be coquettish, his right hand clenched into a fist, and his thumb pointed to the rough ground that was approaching behind him. There, black motorcycles scurried out of nowhere and roared along the rubble-strewn shores of the lake, keeping in line with the helicopter's path.

Quickly stood up and squeezed to the window, Scott almost just glanced down, and his face suddenly turned extremely dark. Although he was not surprised to see Wolverine here, and he was not surprised that Logan was riding his precious motorcycle now, ...... Who can tell him why that stupid big guy has his girlfriend in the back seat?! Jean, you still look up and smile and wave at the helicopter?!!! Don't you know that the bastard in front of you is my lifelong rival!!

"Jean applied for it herself, and I just found out." Facing Cyclops' almost fire-breathing gaze with a calm expression, West shrugged. Although I also think that Charles is probably trying to entertain himself by putting this triangle in Switzerland, since this is the case, he will also be a good elder who is very considerate of his children, "That's right, Scott, let your position on the piano cooperate with Logan." You've followed me for most of Europe, and you really deserve to take a break......"

"Nope! I'm okay now!! ”

Interrupting West's suggestion almost with a scream, Cyclops' nervousness just now was gone, and instead he impatiently urged Mr. 007, who was flying the plane, to land quickly and let him go down to fight Wolverine. In Bond's eyes, it's like the cat in Q's house whose tail has been stepped on.

"Actually, you already knew, right?" Squinting at the hermit-sama with a look of 'everything under control', 007 asked in a low voice. And West didn't hide it, ignoring the squad leader who was so angry that he was about to smash the plane, and his voice was very soft: "If you say Jean, I suggested that Charles let Logan bring her." ”

“…… It's good to be young. ”

Choking, Bond sighed with a low sigh. Although the Great Triangle Shura Field is terrifying, but being able to put this Shura Field together lightly, and can also use the Big Triangle to achieve its own goals, it is clear that West's scheming is the most fatal.

Silently glancing at the laser eye that was still jumping on the other side, Mr. 007 expressed great sympathy.

And the hermit didn't give him a chance to express any more feelings, at this moment they had already descended to the right height, and whether or not to land was up to their own judgment. West simply put his finger on his temple, ready to see if he could gather some information. But before he could release his spiritual power, in this valley where only the roar of helicopters and motorcycle engines roared, another strange and piercing sound suddenly sounded.

In a world where there is only snow and lake water, any sound will be amplified without limits.

The foot that stepped on the accelerator left a black mark on the snow. Wolverine took off his windshield goggles and looked with Jean at the place where the sound came from, frowning. Scott could see more clearly than they could in mid-air, on the shores of Lake Lugano, in the valley of snow thistles, a red point of light that did not belong to nature jumped in the Alps, and even though it was hidden among the bushes, it still revealed where they came from.

And this scene, this sound, whether it is the laser eye that has lifted many secret bases these days, or the West who was deeply trapped here twenty years ago, they are all too familiar.

"They sounded the alarm." Startled, he reflexively looked at the young man next to him who instantly sank his face, and Scott's tone was eager: "Someone else has attacked here?" ”

"It's not."

The almost crazy psychic ability covered the entire lakeshore in the blink of an eye, and it was so oppressive that it directly made Wolverine and 007 frown. Looking up at the helicopter hovering in mid-air worriedly, Jean, who is also a psychic person, leaned over and said something to Logan, this scene fell exactly under Scott's eyes, but he was no longer in the mood to care.

There was a heavy haze under his eyes, and it flickered. West clenched his hands, and around them, the originally gentle air flow suddenly became unstable for a moment.

"Elizhe has found Merlin and Raven, we must act immediately."

Eventually, he spoke to Cyclops.

… …

Raven's premonition that she found herself bad had come true once again.

The countless experiences of infiltrating various secret bases had allowed her to let her guard down even when she was able to retreat, and this caution carved into her bones also played a role at the last minute - she had planned to wait for the signal from West outside to open the cell door and fish Merlin out, but when they heard the sound of footsteps coming from far and near, mixed with the faint crisp sound of a gun loading, she already realized that Elizhe must have been suspicious of Merlin. Whether it's to kill people and kill people, or to threaten a hermit who may appear at his door at any time, it is obviously not a good choice for mages.

No longer hesitated, and directly broke the door lock and pulled out the boy who was still a little unresponsive. At the moment when the alarm sounded abruptly at the base, the two of them also fell to the ground by inertia, just in time to dodge a row of bullets fired in this direction.

"It must be that bad boy from West who went too far out there!!"

Caught off guard, he fell off the ground. Merlin got up from the ground in a bit of a daze, and before he could stand still, he heard the Demonic Mutter like this, and then he was pulled out of his legs and ran wildly, leaving behind the rain of bullets. For a moment, only countless shouts and the crackling sound of bullets shooting into the wall could be heard rampant in this not too empty underground, and even the shrill sirens seemed to be suppressed and made people's hearts tremble.

"So, is this situation in your plan?!"

looked back at the remodelers who were chasing after him, and did not ignore Yi Laizhe, who was cold-eyed and gloomy under the light. Dragged and run wild without the slightest preparation, Merlin now only felt a throbbing pain in his right lower abdomen, which was obviously a fork...... After all, he is a magician, and he can usually do things with just his mouth and recite spells, and this kind of high-intensity exercise, whether it was during the Carmellot period or now a thousand years later, is not what he is good at, and it is understandable that he can't breathe.

But unfortunately, in this extremely chaotic situation, they really have to distance themselves from the enemy like this before they have the opportunity to think of other ways.

"If only I had known!!" Stepping on the iron door next to her to avoid the attack, Raven's voice had become a little muffled.

At this time, in addition to the guards in the base, the two newly transplanted transformers with superpowers behind Dr. Yi have also been pressed, one controlling fire and one controlling ice, directly following the trajectory of their running one left and one right outflanked, and the place they passed was completely the two heavens of ice and fire, and they knew that it was not easy to mess with at a glance. With no other choice, Merlin could only make a wrong step, turned to face the roaring flames and ice edges, the golden light flashed in his eyes, and in the blink of an eye, he blocked all the opponent's attacks!

The collision of magic and superpowers caused a lot of vibrations under the Alps, and made West, who had just jumped off the helicopter, frown, and ran towards the base without thinking. Among the transformers who were more intuitively facing the open mage, Yi Laizhe stared at the black-haired boy not far away who had defused two deadly attacks with one move, waving his hand behind him, his eyes gloomy and vicious.

In an instant, Adelaide, who had been quietly watching behind him, seemed to be pressed the start button, spread the huge metal wings behind him, and rushed over without hesitation.

"Tsk."

Nearly being dazzled by a flying blade, and accidentally slashing the left shoulder while dodging on the ground, Merlin looked a little irritated at the blue-eyed girl who was looking down at him condescendingly. Because of West's scruples, and because of the memories he had seen not long ago, he was actually reluctant to hurt her. But now in the face of such a relatively undead position, if he wants to retreat in his entirety, he must first break through Adelaide's block.

"Get out of the way!!"

Shouted at the Demonic Girl who was overturning the guards who rushed up for him. At the moment when she was conditioned to be short, the air flow around the mage suddenly boiled. Reciting a graceful and powerful spell aloud, Merlin did not hold it up this time, but instead used his talent as a child of magic to the fullest. Controlling the cyclone that formed in front of him to whizz across the hallway, not only dispersing the flames that struck again, but also rushing away Adelaide, who was balancing in mid-air with his wings, Merlin saw the gap and let her fall on top of her fire-controlling companion, while she couldn't wait to retreat, turning over to dodge the ice blade stabbed in the back. The whole process of counterattacking only took a few seconds, clean and neat, at least, when the demon girl raised her head again to observe the situation, she only saw that none of the reformers who had just arrived like a tide could stand, and they fell to the ground crookedly, covering almost the entire corridor.

…… This combat power is a bit terrifying.

If it weren't for the wrong time and place, Raven really wanted to bring West over and ask him where he found such a murderous boyfriend. Obviously it looks like a harmless little white rabbit to humans and animals, but it turns out to be more terrifying than Magneto, who likes to make big scenes. Although she was not unprepared, and West had warned her a long time ago, when she really saw such an impactful scene, the Demon Girl still felt that she was scared

And Merlin didn't give her that much time to sigh. Although he seemed to have scattered the attacks of Adelaide and the Reformers, Elizhe was still at the very end. The mage saw it clearly, there was no annoyance in his eyes, no impatience, maybe some surprise at his magic, but it was not a sign of fear and jealousy, but a kind of interest and desire. The thirst for hope.

"Let's go." Intuition doesn't want to be exposed to so red. With naked eyes in his eyes, Merlin rolled over and got up from the ground, and took advantage of the efforts to transform the chaos of the people and motioned for the demon girl to leave quickly.

"Looks like I've found another magical test subject."

His eyes followed the back of the mage who was about to run to the end of the corridor, and Elizhe chuckled softly. At this moment, he didn't want to investigate why Adelaide would hide it from him, and he was in no mood to think about whether Merlin used this wonderful ability to pass information to the X-Men. He just wanted to get him to the bench now, just as he had been hungry for West's genetic data twenty years ago, and he couldn't wait to see what secrets were hiding in the boy's body that excited him.

A flash of crimson flashed in his eyes, and the man who smiled contemptuously and carelessly finally moved. Without looking at the group of rubbish on the ground, he raised his right hand and held it flat in front of him, the expression on his face could not tell whether it was distorted or happy. In the blink of an eye, a terrifying force spread around him, and everywhere he passed, as if time had stood still, even the shattered glass shards on the side of the wall and the droplets of water dripping from the top of his head were frozen in mid-air, which was extremely strange.

And when this force catches up with the Demonic Girl and Merlin, they both feel like they're locked in something. It seems that there is a force weighing more than a thousand catties that binds their hands and feet unreasonably, and directly presses people to the ground, not to mention that Raven can't break free, even Merlin, even with the help of magic, can't shake off this terrible power at all!

"I guess I didn't say let you go, did I?"

Step by step, slowly and steadily. Elizhe slowly paced to the stunned mage, leaned down, and said with the usual careless cruelty in his tone:

"Keeping you here is the worst decision West has ever made."

No matter what the original intention was, when all this was punctured, the hermit who was pinched on the weakness had no room to turn the tables.

He will regret it for the rest of his life.

Absolute.