Chapter 824: Weighing the Trade-offs and Valuing Family Affection
The meaning of Charles's words is very clear, that is, his purpose now is only to save his own people. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć In this incident, there are only two compatriots he has arrested, that is, Quicksilver and Wanda, siblings. And they also have this special identity, which is the leader of the mutants, the children of Magneto Eric.
Needless to say, what kind of person Magneto is. To put it plainly, if there were no mutant cities created by Zhou Yi, there would be no era of great unification of mutants. Then Magneto is definitely still the number one terrorist in the world, and the leader of any country will have a headache when he hears the name.
And even today, Magneto and the mutant brotherhood under him have been whitewashed, and many countries are not willing to provoke such a guy easily. This is a ticking time bomb, not only because of the crazy things he has done before, but also because his ability itself is a major threat to modern civilized society.
Magnetic control, if this kind of thing is studied deeply, it can really easily send the entire human society to the Stone Age thousands of years ago. So whenever Tony thinks of Magneto, he can't help but want to thank the Nazis who once carried out cold-blooded, cruel and horrific genocide in Europe.
If it weren't for them, Magneto wouldn't have been determined to take revenge and become a terrorist with little culture. And if Magneto had been exposed to the miraculous existence of science, which transforms power through knowledge, and had penetrated the essence of microscopic physics, then really, mutants would have been able to unify the world long ago.
Tony was well aware of what it meant when magnetic control penetrated into the microcosm. To put it bluntly, Magneto can become a contemporary deity with this power. It's a pity that he is too stupid, he has been limited to what he knows in front of him, and fortunately he is too stupid, otherwise humanity would not have developed to this day.
However, even Magneto is limited by his own intelligence, which makes it difficult for him to go further and become an incredible existence. But now he is still a huge threat, an existence that Tony has to taboo. So, when Charles made such a request, he began to hesitate.
And seeing his hesitation, Charles immediately began to strike while the iron was hot.
"I know what your Excellency is worried about. Here I can assure you that once Pete and Wanda are picked up. Then we will never let them get involved in this again. In addition, including the protection of the Avengers in the future, we can also put it down temporarily. ā
This sentence is clearly equivalent to giving up on the captain of them. But Tony isn't just content for this level of trading. Because looking at it this way, he still loses money, especially since he is not worried that the mutants will trouble him. So he immediately shook his head and said.
"This condition is not good, and it is far from making up for my loss. You should know what kind of fluctuations will be caused in public opinion if I deliberately release these two people. That would be a huge shock to the entire government that I was in charge of. ā
"But the problem now is that Eric is already on his way. He knows you're going to send them to the Lonely Island Prison, so he's ready to intercept them halfway. Of course, if he had been allowed to act before us, then things would not have been as we have discussed now. ā
Charles's words were very calm, but the threat contained in them was not small at all. And such a statement naturally made Tony's heart angry.
He wanted to have a seizure, but when he thought of the consequences of his seizure, he could only swallow it stiffly. At this time, he really didn't have the need to provoke mutants, and it was more beneficial to compromise with these mutants than the results of his insistence.
Of course, this was in the case that he had no way to change the outcome. He knew very well that if Magneto made a move, it would not only be the Wanda siblings who escaped his control. If, at this time, let the captain and the Winter Soldier also escape from his hands, then things will really completely break his bottom line.
So this time he didn't need to hesitate, but directly nodded at Charles with a gloomy face.
"I can grant your request, but we have to discuss it again about what you said earlier about providing me with manpower."
"Of course, this kind of thing can be discussed slowly."
A smile was revealed, and the two of them reached such an agreement in private. And with the determination of the agreement between them, the plane that was originally in transit stopped directly, and the bound Quicksilver and Wanda siblings were also directly released.
It was strange to them, and strange to the others. And just as they were watching in bewilderment, the plane had already flown away directly from here with the rest of the captains.
In this regard, the two sisters and brothers became more and more strange, they didn't understand why they were released so easily, and they were still in this deserted, unpopulated corner.
"What the hell is going on? Stark: What does this mean? Are we exiled? Hair from lightly? ā
Quicksilver grumbled, the confusion in his tone palpable. Wanda replied to his doubts while staring at the plane that was slowly disappearing in the distance.
"Perhaps, but I wonder how Stark could be so kind. And it's just the two of us. ā
As she said this, the five fingers of her hand were still bending. Obviously, she is now very impulsive to get on the plane that has not yet left her sight, and directly rescue her companion who is still inside. But after much hesitation, she gave up on this tempting idea, sighed and fell silent.
Not to mention that Serena, who accompanied her all the way, is still inside, even if she does it, she may not be able to rescue the captain. But Tony put them in one yard, and what it meant was enough to dispel the idea.
Wanda is not stupid, she knows very well that since Tony will settle the two of them in this matter, it must be because he made a deal with someone. Otherwise, judging from the violence and unscrupulous means he showed in this matter, he would never let the two of them go so easily.
In Wanda's opinion, it is obvious that the only one who can help them at this time and force Tony, who is already about to go crazy, to let them go, is obviously mutants, a major force that is now important in the whole world. But what reason do mutants have to help them? This is not a playhouse, and if you want to appease Tony, who is the head of a country, it will take a lot of money. In other words, the person who can make this decision must be a very critical presence among the mutants.
And who will this person be? With a little thought in her head, Wanda got the answer. And this answer made her heart suddenly become extremely complicated.
Wanda can figure out this kind of thing, and Quicksilver can naturally figure it out too. And compared to his sister, his city is not so deep. So soon, he couldn't help but ask Wanda.
"I said, could this be the old man's doing?"
Old man is what he always called Magneto, and the reason why he is called this is because until now, Wanda and Quicksilver have not restored the father-daughter relationship with Magneto. A large part of this can be attributed to Magneto.
First of all, after the birth of these two children, he did not fulfill his responsibilities as a father. He's busy running for his own cause, fighting for the future of the mutants as a whole. In comparison, his two children are really insignificant existences.
This can be seen from Quicksilver's name, Quicksilver's full name is Pete Django Maximov, and Wanda's full name is Wanda Django Maximov, the two of them were completely raised by their own adoptive father and adoptive mother, so naturally, even the surname is different from Magneto's Lancel.
The last name is different, although it doesn't say anything. Because the mutant race often has some special circumstances that have to give up their children. What really made the Quicksilver siblings and Magneto part ways was Magneto's consistent attitude towards them.
At that time, Magneto simply regarded these two siblings as tools, although he knew that they were his own flesh and blood, but in his heart, he didn't mean to treat them as his own children at all. Moreover, several times, he gave up these two siblings because of his great cause.
Among them, the one in Canada is the most important. It was precisely because of that time that Wanda and Quicksilver completely severed their relationship with Magneto, and they were strangers to him.
Sometimes, though, fate just likes to joke. Magneto had obviously given up on these two children, or rather, he had given up all his private emotions for the sake of the future of his race. This is the key to his being respected by mutants, because he really thinks about them wholeheartedly.
However, as the future of mutants settled and brightened, he couldn't help but think of the joy of family again. As an old man who was dying of old age, he knew very well that his time was numbered. In this case, he wants to get Quicksilver's forgiveness more and more, and taste the taste of family affection that he hasn't felt for decades.
He worked as a slave a lot, but it never helped. There is a saying that it is difficult to recover from the water, and this is probably the real situation he is facing. However, after all, it is a father-son relationship linked by blood, and his efforts cannot be said to be completely useless. Especially when guessing that he was the one who made the deal behind this scenes, Quicksilver and Wanda's feelings became even more complicated.
"Maybe we should give him a chance?"
Wanda said this to her brother, and when she said this, an old man with gray hair had gradually appeared in their sight. (To be continued.) )