He couldn't remember how they got into a fight.

When Sherlock and Watson read about their long-sought rivalry in their memories, West felt as if his mind had been cut off to another time and space...... His body remained here, calm in the face of all the dangers that had gone wrong; And his soul has long since gone back in time, back to the battlefield twenty years ago, and was fallen by lonely hatred little by little.

- He knew that the reason why he was defeated by Dr. Yi so easily at that time was because someone betrayed him.

When he was first caught off guard by an ambush, West thought it was just another panicked temptation by humans to take a path out of fear. He has always been cautious in his daily life, taking the name of 'Hermit', and just like a hermit, he has disappeared into silence, except for Charles, Eric, and some of the X-Men, no one knows exactly what his abilities are. Therefore, in the face of this completely unequal number of sneak attacks, even if you can't get out of the way, you should not have any problem relying on surprise to delay time, and hold on to the support of your companions.

However, what he didn't expect was that all of his hole cards were known before they were used. Thoroughly, leaving no room for anything, even the last trace of struggle was easily seen through by the opponent, and finally fell to the fate of being sent to the real yàn platform to be slaughtered.

West didn't dare to wonder why Elizhe knew everything about him. Because either possibility, it is a betrayal that he cannot bear. Even though he had woken up from nightmares countless times in the past twenty years, and hated him countless times along with the person who had betrayed him, he still didn't have the courage to carefully explore who had pushed him into the abyss from which he would never recover.

- That's right, he's so cowardly and cowardly...... So afraid of the loss that comes with such a cruel truth, and so selfishly wanting to pretend that nothing has happened, and that he is still loved by all the people he cherishes.

"After all these years, you still haven't grown at all."

Coldly watched the brown-haired boy being hit in the chest by a bionic soldier, and directly smashed into a big tree surrounded by several people. Dr. Yi pushed the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose with a disappointed expression:

"I thought you'd be a little more interesting than you are now, at least not like you'd be suicidal, rushing forward knowing it wasn't working...... Want to see your cute face again, maybe I need to find another Adelaide for you? ”

As he expected, hearing this name, the young man's face turned blue in an instant.

"Shut up." Wiping the blood from the corners of his mouth, West staggered to his feet from the mess, his eyes unprecedentedly cold.

"Elizhe, you don't deserve to mention her name."

Brush away the sweat-soaked hair on your forehead. Raising his arms, the faint afterglow scattered in the air peeled away from the void and slowly pulled into the shape of a thin, long blade. The killing intent in his pupils became heavier and heavier, and he urged the air flow to hold up those life-threatening fragments of light, and sneered, like the evil ghost Shura who had returned from hell in blood.

He stepped forward, ignoring the sharp weapons pointed at him by the bionic soldiers. There seemed to be a burning fire burning under West's eyes:

"I don't repent of my sins, but I continue to appear here blatantly, and dare to appear in front of me again...... When you did that to her and to us, didn't you think that one day you would repay yourself?! ”

"Huh."

Snorted nonchalantly. The man didn't seem to take the boy's anger seriously, but as if he was satisfied, a flash of light in his long, dark pupils: "Remember, West. Even if there is retribution, it will not be retribution on me - there are people around you who you should hate more than me. ”

"And, I haven't seen you for twenty years, and you haven't grown, but your claws have grown again...... I hope you haven't forgotten how you knelt on the ground and begged me—"

"Elizhe !!"

Touched by the deepest humiliation buried in his heart, he was torn open along with the once bloody wounds, and West's expression became furious in an instant. Without hesitation, he stretched out his hand and pointed at the corner of his forehead, and at the same time, in this inaccessible forest, everyone saw a powerful vortex rising from the ground. Time freezes where it passes, implying the arrogant murderous intent that the world has not felt for a long time, belonging to the 'hermit' West.

At that time, because he didn't expect that the X-Men who were waiting for him in the apartment would be countless times more difficult than Sherlock Holmes, and at the same time, he was unwilling to go to war directly with mutants in downtown London, so as to expose his whereabouts. At Dr. Yi's direct signal, the 'ghosts' unfolded a spatial levitation circle and sent them to a sparsely populated area. And the teenager obviously doesn't have much of an opinion on this...... While the chances of escaping in such a place are almost nil, and the enemies he faces are undoubtedly far more intractable than those he had encountered in New York not long ago, West did not have no chance of winning - yes, he hated Elizhe to the extreme. But after living for so many years and passing by for such a long time, he will not be carried away by love lightly, and he will really come to death without any preparation.

What's more, more than 20 years have passed, and what he holds in his palm is not just those wasted years.

"This generation of 'ghosts', but that's it."

His right hand firmly pinched the neck of the black-robed young man, watching his pale face gradually cover with a suffocating thin red, and West's eyebrows were full of murderous indifference. Slightly raising the corners of his mouth, his gaze paused on the scattered body tissues of the bionic soldiers around him, and as the almost materialized airflow slowly extended, it fell to the white-haired man who was standing with his arms not far away.

"By the way, you've failed in twenty years of research, doctor."

An quietly watched the young man's eyes sparkle, but in the blink of an eye, he threw the ghost in his hand under the tree beside him. The man only pretended that he didn't hear the sarcasm in his words, laughed softly, slapped his hands lazily, and there was no sincerity in his tone: "Good job." ”

-- Why don't you do a good job......

Looking at the ghosts under the trees that were obviously under mental attack, and even the countless large and small blood holes on the bionic soldiers, the smile on the corner of Dr. Yi's mouth deepened. At the beginning of the battle, he accurately induces the air current, completely imprisons the opponent in the invisible cage road, and then uses the synchronization of consciousness to dodge the ghost sneak attack, and completely brainwashes the opponent while seizing the opponent's life...... can use his abilities skillfully to this point, it seems that he is not the only one who has been thoroughly polished by the past twenty years.

"After the war with you in New York, you weren't so domineering in the report that the angels hunted me."

Shrugging his shoulders, Dr. Yi opened his mouth so indifferently, it seemed that he had just been put down by all the thugs in an instant, and the person who was now at a disadvantage was not himself at all.

"You shouldn't try to provoke me." Answering indifferently, West turned around and let the man's gaze stay on him with fanatical inquiry, "Those lackeys of yours are not worth my full effort. ”

"Really?"

Finally laughing, the man spread his arms and exaggerated gestures in mid-air. There are countless ways to destroy a person, and there are enough cages to imprison a soul in hell. And the most cruel and effective of them all is to give the drowning a glimmer of salvation in the dark, and then completely break it and sink into the bottom of the sea in a deeper and more desperate state.

-- The relationship between life and righteousness is only affection and righteousness.

He shattered all of West's pride with these two simple words, imprinting bitter hatred on the once pure and immaculate heart. And that man was just as he thought, in the past twenty years, he never looked back at the road, only with a heart full of barren grass and grass, all the way down.

He was glad to see that he was still living in the hell he had been given.

"If Adelaide saw you as he was, would you suppose she would resent that she died too soon, or would she be honored to be able to force Professor X's adopted son like this alone, boy?"

With a snap of his fingers, the bionic soldiers around him, who had just been dismantled by West, staggered to their feet again. As the boy said, these things are the crystallization of Dr. Yi's twenty years of hard work, if he can really defeat it so lightly, he will not risk offending the two mutant leaders in the first place, and he must catch West to make a real body.

"Again—West, you don't have to hate me at all."

He said so lightly, and the brown-haired boy who had been standing quietly raised an eyebrow.

"Then I will also sue you, Yi Laizhe, there is only you in this world, and I will never forgive."

Holding a finger against his temple, vigilantly watching the bionic soldiers who had repaired themselves surround him again, West knew it wasn't that simple. He has his own body in mind, and Charles has said that if Dr. Yi wants to use any of the properties in his DNA, it is undoubtedly the ability to mutate and restore all the time...... Glancing at the 'ghost' not far away under the tree, he quietly gathered the air currents at his side, alert against any attack that might come at any moment.

These bionic soldiers are not living beings, they have no autonomous consciousness, and naturally they cannot be controlled by their psychic abilities. And Elizhe himself doesn't know if he has transplanted some ability to shield the mind, and West has never been able to perceive his will. As a result, from the very beginning, he had to go hand-to-hand with his opponents and decide the winner by external means - which was anything to be happy about for a mutant who had always relied on superpowers rather than physical powers.

With his right hand, he swung out an air blade that directly tore half of the body of a bionic soldier. West dodged the long cone that had been split behind him, and with the help of the wind, he tossed himself high and landed on a branch not far away.

- Odd.

Seeing the bionic soldier repair itself in the blink of an eye, and even go further, attaching a layer of armor that he had just torn apart that was known to be very hard at first glance, West's brow furrowed.

Charles once reminded him that these genetically modified bionic soldiers were more eccentric than he could have imagined. Now, it seems that this is not an exaggeration. They have intelligence, know how to cooperate, know how to find weaknesses to attack, can repair themselves, and can even instantly transform and transform themselves according to the damage they suffer, but fortunately, their attack power is not very strong...... Otherwise, let alone one against three, he would most likely have been killed long before the battle began.

"My research hasn't been completely successful, and now it seems that you're getting cheaper."

Standing lazily with his hands on the side and watching the battle, how could he not see that the young man was reluctant to parry, Dr. Yi sneered, "--Evolution and mutation, the eternal mystery pursued by human beings. You probably never knew that there was such a key to the future hidden in your body...... Professor X has protected you too well, West. You are destined to dedicate yourself to a greater cause, not to huddle out of the crowd and live in silence forever. ”

"On the contrary, it's because of people like you that I have to learn to hide."

Roll over and land firmly on the ground. West's blue eyes flashed as if there was nothing, like the blue-gray clouds soaked in fine rain in summer, time stood still, only the pain engraved in the sky was eternal.

- He came with countless souls on his back, and all he asked for was revenge on those who should have paid the price.

"Remember, Elizhe...... As long as you can't kill me, then no matter how long it passes, no matter where you chase me, I will definitely break your neck with my own hands. ”

"For the insignificant who are not worth mentioning?"

His eyes finally changed a little. The man unconsciously pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, but the smile on the corner of his mouth was still weird and careless.

"For all those who are in pain because of you." So lightly corrected. West's slender knuckles brushed over the pure black stud in his right ear, and he chuckled softly for the first time, "For Adelaide, for Eric, for Charles......"

One of you and I will fall before the other, and we will not fight against each other, and we will not die.

"It's a pity, I was hoping to catch up with you for a while."

With a snap of his fingers, the forearms of the bionic soldiers standing in front of West suddenly changed shape like fish scales, faintly revealing a little light blue fluorescence. At the same time, West keenly felt that the air around him began to freeze little by little, as if he had been sunk into the dark and deep depths of the deep sea, and even time gradually stood still in front of his eyes until he returned.

The scene in front of me blurred for a moment, and the grass beneath my feet became barren in an instant. There was a faint wail from all directions before the law was broken, as if the karmic fire on the Biliang slope was burning endlessly. He furrowed his eyebrows, tentatively releasing a little power, but in the next second, he was shocked by the explosion of energy that could not be seen in the air.

…… Time is really distorted.

"If you want to go, let's go thoroughly." A sinister and mocking smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and Dr. Yi waved his hand, his tone full of regret that could not be hidden:

"Don't be afraid, dear...... When you go to Adelaide for a reunion, I will be sure to remember for you what you have done for our new world. ”

Before the words fell, the attack of the bionic warriors had arrived. Everywhere he passed, not only was everything that was affected turned into nothing, but also a space-time collapse visible to the naked eye was formed in mid-air, crushing everything into powder in an instant.

How can I not know how powerful it is? There was no time to dodge, and he could no longer use ordinary abilities to defend against these three consecutive blows, West had to grit his teeth and reluctantly stepped into the forbidden area that Charles had demarcated for him. In the blink of an eye, the powerful ability to manipulate time was cast again, bordering on madness more than ever. At the same time that the beam wave arrived in front of him, his ability was also the first to come, holding back the attack that distorted the force of the space-time field, trying his best to counteract the impact on himself.

In the end, however, it was a step too late.

At the moment of the exchange of energies, it turns out that something is not good. Although West tried to normalize the gravitational field and restore order to space-time, it is clear that what he did only accelerated the distortion process...... Feeling the confusion of time, it reached an unimaginable point in an instant, and the brown-haired boy's face changed drastically, and he wanted to get out of the scope of the force field distortion, but he was only deeply involved.

The entire body seemed to be torn in half, and all he could see was a blur of light and shadow, as if it could be crushed to pieces at any moment with the distortion of time and space. Before he lost consciousness completely, West tried his best to wrap the last bit of strength around himself, and he was no longer able to struggle, disappearing into the fault line of time dislocation.

"West!!"

Before being completely overwhelmed by the darkness, he seemed to hear the sound of a break in the air whizzing past his cheeks. It seemed as if someone was calling his name, and the tail note was raised, with a familiar low and anxious tone, but it was difficult to recall his gradually blurred consciousness.

…… Eric?

“NO！！”

Holding the metal to interrupt the movements of Dr. Yi and the bionic soldiers, he still couldn't make time. At the moment when the space-time distortion stopped, Magneto, who had belatedly arrived, stood at the place where West had disappeared out of thin air, looking at the empty clearing, his face gloomy as never before.

Meanwhile, Xavier School is underground. Ceraboro stopped, Charles pressed his knuckles against the corners of his forehead, unable to close his eyes. Thousands of miles away, in Oxford, England, the black-haired boy with high cheekbones suddenly stood up and stumbled out of the classroom with a white face, ignoring the repeated inquiries of his companions.