Maya soon left, and her focus is now on New York.

Before leaving, Maya told Anna that she was going to quit her job at MIT and move to Manhattan.

The initial interest is on the Madison Avenue side.

After all, Maya is now mainly working with the military, and it is easier to deal with the military in New York.

Of course, this is only a preliminary idea, and there are all aspects involved in moving, so it is not so easy to decide.

Anna didn't really want to move, she thought the New York subway was too smelly, dirty, messy, and full of rats.

The most important reason is that the wire she just pulled was scrapped in a few months.

It's time to make an appointment with S.H.I.E.L.D.

Mary Hill came to pick it up.

The prison mansion is located in a place called Long Beach in the eastern suburbs of New York State, close to the coast, with dozens of kilometers of beaches.

It's beautiful.

However, Dr. Octavius was destined to not enjoy it, and he was imprisoned and had to cross a 20-kilometer tunnel to get in and out.

According to Maria Hill, Dr. Octavius has been charged by the U.S. military, including the use of weapons of mass destruction, terrorist activities that killed 49 people, and if convicted, the death penalty will be electrocuted.

The defense argued that Dr. Octopus was mentally incapacitated at the time of the crime and could not be sentenced to death under U.S. law.

The two sides are at loggerheads.

The military is also unhappy with S.H.I.E.L.D.'s handling.

They believe that Doctor Octopus destroyed Lincoln Laboratories and caused significant property damage to the military, and they want to take care of it.

After many consultations, the current head of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury, and the U.S. military have formally reached an agreement that Dr. Octopus will be transferred to the Guantanamo military prison in a month's time.

In other words, a month later, Anna will not be able to see her even if she wants to.

Anna didn't want to see it: "I'm curious who is defending him." ”

According to Dr. Octavis's crimes, he should have been shot a long time ago, and there were still people who came forward to defend him.

"You know, he had a brief moment when he made the perfect energy. People like Duke, First Energy, and others are very interested in Dr. Octavis' technology. ”

"Wow... It's perfect, my windows are shattered. ”

Anna scoffed at this, the hydrogen bomb is also a clean and non-polluting energy source, why didn't Duke drop one in North Carolina.

After three hours on the road, Anna finally meets Doctor Octopus.

Today's Doctor Octopus is no longer the scenery of the Science Museum, wearing an electric shock suit, as long as there is a slight movement, a voltage of more than 10,000 volts will burn him into charcoal, the original metal tentacles with teeth and claws are bound in an electromagnetic closed metal box, and the edge of the box reveals four tentacles, the face is pitted, and the teeth can be seen through the gaps in the cheeks with the mouth closed, looking like crossbones after the explosion in the movie.

Because of his respiratory infection, Dr. Octopus is now on a ventilator.

It's a bit miserable.

"I attended the funeral of Dr. Friedman, whose daughter, Elena, is also a scientist."

Anna said, looking at Doctor Octopus, she remembered the 10,000-year-old dog, who was poked to death by Doctor Octopus, after crushing both feet.

"I'm sorry!" Dr. Octopus said, "Anger after losing one's mind is always hard to control. ”

Anna was expressionless.

After a long silence, Dr. Octopus shook his neck, revealing the chip behind his cervical spine: "Thank you, the chip you made for me brought me back to my senses." ”

Anna knew that Guantánamo Bay was almost a private prison for the U.S. military, and the U.S. military was happy to arrange some special programs for the Humpty Dumpty Doctor: "No thanks, after a month, you will feel that it is painful to regain your sanity." ”

"You shouldn't have come to me to talk about this, it's almost time for ten minutes to visit."

Dr. Octopus gasped: "I know you're interested in brain-computer interfaces, and you didn't do what you promised last time, but this time, you're here to give you the real thing." ”

Next, Dr. Octopus pulled out two 10-milliliter tubes.

The little short leg understood at a glance that the cerebrospinal fluid and serum were Dr. Octopus's own.

At that time, after getting the chip, the little short leg invested in research and cracked the chip circuit.

The result was disappointing, this is an ordinary neurocurrent suppressor, nothing special.

Later, when Doctor Octopus falls insane from radiation, he becomes one with the mechanical tentacles.

It is commonly said that the intelligent beings in the mechanical tentacles controlled Doctor Octopus.

Anna suspects that she knows the full structure of mechanical tentacles.

It's just a simple, flexible mechanical structure, nothing special.

At that time, she suspected that the problem was with Dr. Octopus, possibly at the genetic level.

Until today...

On the way back, Little Shortleg sat in the car with Maria Hill, silent.

She remembered what Doctor Octopus had said.

"My genes have a small fragment on the sixth pair of A monomers, and I can't remember exactly where they are. This little snippet is different and you can take it back and try it. ”

It reminded her of some of the past.

Three years ago, when she was four years old and fatter, she took Amtrak for the first time to find a professor in New York.

Later, he was detained by the NYPD (New York City Police Department) for photos and sent home.

The Massachusetts Child Protection Center still has that photo.

At that time, Maya was also furious about this and asked Anna to explain everything.

But there was one thing Anna didn't say.

The professor's name was Charles Francis Xavier.

When I saw him, just like I remembered, he was also a bald head, and he looked as knowledgeable as Hawking.

Like Hawking, he was in a wheelchair.

What is a little different from the impression is that because of a cerebral hemorrhage and stroke, he is hemiplegic and lying in a wheelchair, and he can't even speak clearly, he is a bad old man who needs to be served when he pees.

After returning, Anna checked his file, exactly like Professor Charles in the comics, a genius boy, graduated from Harvard University at the age of 16, also attended Oxford University and Columbia University, and obtained several doctorates in genetics, biophysics, psychology, etc.

He is a human rights activist who once preached the U.S. human rights record at the United Nations General Assembly in 1976.

Oh, and by the way, there's another one, his wife's name is Raven Duckholm, who died of pancreatic cancer six years ago.

Looks exactly like in the X-Men, right?

The only difference is that there aren't any superpowers.

Not only him, but Anna has also looked for other characters in the X-Men, Max Eisenhart, who died in 1963, Scott Summers, a middle-aged man working in a securities firm, Jean Grey, a housewife with two lovely children, Henry McCoy is a special expert at the National Advanced Research Projects Agency, and so on.

She has approached almost every character in the X-Men, without exception, who has either been reduced to mediocrity or died young, and none of them have superpowers.

Anna thought she was about to forget about the X-Men.