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The two explosions occurred one after the other, with an interval of less than ten seconds in between.

This fills the dilapidated neighborhood with flying smoke and flames that spread through the streets.

The crowd screaming and fleeing, and the cries of children, the shouts of adults, and even the messy gunshots.

It was as if a depth charge had been dropped on the otherwise peaceful area, turning it into boiling water in an instant, like a thick pot of bitterness and despair.

The Storm Maiden stood blankly in the dilapidated house.

She looked in the direction of the explosion.

She seemed to have guessed something.

The scorching wind that came from the scene of the explosion also smelled of blood and death.

She was a warrior, she couldn't distinguish between the smells of mistake, the smell of chaos, and her mind was down at this moment, making the white wizard's mind confused.

Her heart was filled with fear.

She didn't even dare to take another step.

She was afraid to see the shattered bodies in the explosion, the children... She should have taken care of them, but she was derelict in her duties.

She turned her head and looked at the few ordinary people in the house with an incredulous gaze.

The men looked away and didn't dare look her eyes.

The atmosphere of the room became extremely oppressive and extremely low at this moment.

A few seconds later, Storm Girl's voice rang out, hoarse, like a stone rubbing.

She said:

"I just saved you... That's how you repay me? ”

"We have a bomb in our stomach... Woo, that madman said, if we don't press the button, the bomb will explode ... We're going to die... We will..."

The man who pressed the button seemed to have lost his bones at this moment, and he sat down on the ground and said with tears in his eyes:

"I'm sorry, but I... I don't want to die, I don't want to die. ”

Storm Girl looked at him, a flame of anger burning in her heart, and the tragic deaths of several children made the light in her eyes even more cold.

She had been Professor Charles's best disciple and had inherited the Professor's gentle ideas.

But at this moment, in this room, in the midst of the turmoil and complexity, like the mental impact of a building about to collapse, she felt that her whole world had collapsed.

If she had asked the situation in advance...

If she had put away the remote control in advance...

If she chooses not to release these ordinary people...

Complicated thoughts echoed in the Storm Girl's heart, like a mess, messing up her mind entirely.

There was also a gloomy voice ringing in her head, stirring her mind and urging her eyes to become more and more indifferent.

"You don't want to die, do you..."

The Storm Girl crouched down, she reached out and gently helped the man who was slumped on the ground to his feet.

She stretched out her hand and patted the dust on the weeping man, and she said:

"I can understand that no one wants to die... I can understand that. ”

"I'm sorry."

The man kept his head down, he knew he had done something ugly, and he was almost crushed by guilt.

Presumably, the unknowable deity heard the confession of his heart at this moment, so the atonement he deserved came almost immediately.

"Just because you don't want to die... So my children, should they die? ”

"Poof"

The black-gloved fingers with the sharp wind blade pierced his abdomen in the next moment.

In the midst of the blood, in the hoarse questioning voice of Ororo, the bloodied fingers were withdrawn from the man's abdomen.

"Bang"

The coward, whose eyes still had pain and consternation, fell to the ground in a splatter of blood, splashing dust flying in the sky.

The Storm Maiden looked at the blood-soaked black stone in her hand.

That's a bunch of artificial gems on the side of the street that you can buy for a few dollars... It's not a bomb at all.

"Hehe..."

Auroro chuckled, a broken smile flashed across her face, and she said:

"It's a lie, you don't have anything in your stomach..."

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"Huh"

In the light and shadow, the X-Men from Utopia appeared in the neighborhood that still smelled of gunsmoke and death.

The new X-Men, the female mutant Flicker, has the ability to create portals.

However, she is not yet proficient in the use of her abilities, so it will take several teleportations to teleport the X-Men from the Pacific Center to New York City.

And the moment he entered the block, Cyclops, who led the team, saw that the angel was confronting several heroes suspected of being from the Hero Association.

Angel Warren, the contemporary heir to the famous East Coast wealthy Worthington family, and Tony. Stark-like wealthy young master.

Of course, Warren, as a mutant who graduated from Mutant Academy early and joined the X-Men, has a much more low-key style than Tony.

But it is undeniable that this big boy with angelic wings is still a powerful guardian and warrior.

He also received the message from Storm Girl before, and since she lives at home in New York, the angels will come faster than the X-Men.

"You are not allowed to touch her!"

Warren, dressed in a suit, clenched his fists, his wings spread out behind him, struggling out of the shattered room.

"We have no ill will!"

In front of the angel Warren, Agent McRae said helplessly:

"I just wanted to find out about the situation, about what's going on here..."

"Don't go in!"

Warren stubbornly stood in the doorway, and Ash behind Agent McRae was already impatient, and she gave a look, and her loyal lackey, the Roman, raised his fist and shouted at Warren:

"If there is no ghost in your heart, get out of the way!"

"What's going on?"

Cyclops walked briskly with Colossus and Iceman, as well as Twinkle and Phantom Hat.

The new X-Men leader looked at Warren and asked:

"Where's Auroro?"

"Inside."

A hint of hesitation flashed on Warren's handsome face, and he turned his body slightly and whispered to Cyclopeal:

"But things are not good..."

"Huh?"

Laser-eyed glanced at the room, and his expression froze.

In the broken room, there was a strong smell of blood,

Storm Maiden Auroro was sitting on her knees in despair, her body covered in blood, and beside her, five corpses that had been almost completely shredded by the Wind Blade.

In her previous anger, she did something terrible.

"This..."

Cyclops immediately realized why Warren was standing in the way.

He's trying to cover up everything Storm Girl has done, and these heroes of the Hero Guild are coming so fast that Warren doesn't have time to cover up anything else.

"What about the children?"

Laser-eyed glanced at the heroes in front of him, and he said:

"Are the kids okay?"

"The kidnapped children were saved by the cloaks before the bomb exploded."

The Divine Man who came with Agent McRae said in a deep voice:

"The children were frightened, they are now in the hospital, but there are innocent people who died in the explosion, and there are several missing people in the house behind you..."

"I seriously doubt you X-Men have muscles in your heads!"

Ash also sneered coldly:

"With such a strong smell of blood, fools know what's going on inside... Those missing people are dead, right? And he was killed by the Storm Girl herself. ”

"Ash!"

McCree reached out to stop Ash's sneering, he stepped forward, took out his agent ID, and said to Cyclops:

"I'm S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Jesse. McRae, listen to me, I know you want to protect your fellows, and I can understand your actions. ”

"I now suspect that His Excellency Auroro may have been tempted by some kind of spirit to do so."

He said:

"She's not the first transhuman to be affected, I'm investigating the same type of event right now, and I need to talk to her."

The agent looked at Cyclops, and said:

"You should be able to understand, Lord Summers, that our confrontation now has no point."

Cyclops, Warren, and Colossus looked at each other, and after a few seconds, he raised his hand and said:

"Okay, you can talk to her, but we have to be there."

"Okay."

McRae looked at the time, and he said:

"Let's talk in another place, notify the local police department, and clean up this place."

"Before we can figure out the truth of the matter, Ms. Auroro needs to be taken to the police station, after all, she did kill five people... You don't have any doubts about that, do you? ”

"Summers!"

Warren grabbed Cyclophalo's wrist, and the angel's face shone with undisguised concern, and he said:

"We have to take her back to Utopia instead of leaving her here alone! Look at her situation, she needs our help now! ”

Summers hesitated, Auroro's situation was really bad.

This was evident from the shattered light in her eyes, she had collapsed.

"Don't do anything stupid! Lord Summers. ”

McRae whispered:

"This incident is obviously maliciously planned, definitely not only for Auroro alone, the mastermind behind the scenes obviously wants to use this incident to cause another confrontation between mutants and humans..."

"You can't take sides with her in this matter, or things will only get worse."

"But..."

The angel Warren wanted to continue to say something, but the next moment, Cyclops raised his arm, and he said in a deep voice:

"Don't talk about it."

"Auroro can be sent to the police station, but I'll stay with her!"

Lasereye glanced at the heroes behind Agent McRae, and said:

"If anyone wants to take advantage of the opportunity to hurt my siblings, he must step over my corpse first!"

McRae glanced at the stubborn look on Summers the Cyclops, he nodded, and a moment later, several police cars drove up, and the dejected Storm Girl, accompanied by Cyclops, was escorted into the police car.

McRae and they left in a car, and in the street behind them, the usually gentle Steel, who also had a cold expression on his face at this time, looked at the silent Divine Man.

He asked:

"About the guy who is manipulating it all behind his back... Do you have any clues? ”

The Divine Man glanced at Colossus, who said in a deep voice:

"He provoked the X-Men, and we're going to respond to it!"

"If his harm to our brothers and sisters means that this war has begun, then..."

"We're in the war!"

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"Open your heart, Auroro."

In his cell at the Queens Police Department, under the watchful eye of Summers the Cyclops, Merlin is trying to awaken Storm Girl's broken will.

Merlin's fingers caressed Auroro's expressionless cheek, and there was a hint of unbearability in his eyes.

He and Auroro had known each other for a long time, and when they were younger, the two had exchanged each other's magic.

The two of them have a good relationship, although he and Auroro have seen each other much less often after the Utopia migration, but this does not affect the friendship between the two.

Auroro is a good person in the true sense of the word, and because of this, after sobering up, he realizes that he has done something evil, which makes Auroro's heart collapse in extreme pain.

"Being able to affect Auroro's sanity proves that the guy hiding behind the scenes should be a spellcaster, or that he has some kind of powerful magic weapon in his hand that can invade his sanity."

Merlin said to the Cyclops beside him while infiltrating his spiritual power into Storm Girl's mind:

"Auroro is a skilled white wizard, and although she prefers to use her natural powers to magic, it is undeniable that her will is much stronger than that of the average person."

"I don't believe Auroro would do anything like that."

With his hands behind his back, Summers said:

"Even in that situation, Ororo would never have killed those people under normal circumstances, and the worst thing is that the witnesses are all dead, and we still can't figure out what happened."

"It will soon be clear."

Merlin stretched out his fingers and lifted Auroro's delicate chin, and he looked at the godless eyes, and he reached out to remove them.

The next moment, the Dementor Curse was activated.

In the event of a nervous breakdown, the Soul Charm entered Storm Girl's mind almost unhindered, and her memories opened up to Merlin.

Merlin searched through it, and soon he found memories from a short time ago.

Merlin could even feel Auroro's mood swings at the time.

He could feel that in the midst of her extreme shock and anger, a special force had silently penetrated Auroro's mind when she saw the second explosion take place.

It's like a hand, teasing the anger that has been ignited.

And it was probably Merlin's search for the most painful memories that forced Storm Girl to relive the pain, so that her broken will finally responded, her eyes closed in pain, and tears slipped down from them.

She whimpered, covered her face, and couldn't even say a word.

"It's all right, girl, it's all right."

Merlin patted Storm Girl on the shoulder, and he said to Auroro:

"The kids weren't hurt, the heroes of New York rescued them before the explosion... Don't beat yourself up. ”

"But I... I killed someone..."

Auroro wept silently and said:

"I shouldn't have done it, but I can't control it, I..."

"It's fine."

Merlin hugged the Storm Girl softly, and he whispered:

"It's okay, we'll find out everything, don't worry."

He comforted his friend, but Merlin's mind still echoed what he had seen in Storm Girl's memory.

Xavier's Genius Junior Academy's Joker, the Kid Who Strangely Disappeared During a Nap, the Strange-Voiced Communication Phone.

Explosives in a conspicuous place, innocents tied up, and a remote control on the table.

The test of human nature, the crazy behavior, the imagination but the chilling.

"Hmm... I kind of know who it is. ”

Merlin stroked Auroro's long white hair, a cold glint flashing in his eyes.

"I made a mistake that now leads to another mistake."

"Joker, I should have pinched you to death in the first place..."