It's been more than half a year since the last time in New York, and the impact of the incident has finally spread from the East Coast to the West Coast.

Not long after the Cherita invasion, there were several robberies of banks with alien energy weapons on the East Coast, and although S.H.I.E.L.D. dealt with it in a timely manner, there were more and more such incidents.

Even the West Coast has recently been home to several bank robberies, armed with modified alien energy weapons.

Most of the energy weapons left by the Chirita people on the earth are damaged and cannot be used for inexplicable reasons, but a small part still falls into the hands of criminals, and after the transformation of some scientists, although the power of the energy weapon has decreased, it has been able to be used normally.

Ordinary police officers can only be beaten in this kind of robbery using energy weapons, and the gunpowder guns in their hands can't even fight back.

More and more intelligence shows that behind this series of things, there is a mysterious organization manipulating these things, but inexplicably, S.H.I.E.L.D. has conducted several raids based on intelligence, but it has always come up empty.

Perhaps because of the current dire situation, or perhaps because of an alien invasion, President Ellis signed a document easing restrictions on certain biological and technological research, even though he is now at a critical stage of the election.

If it had been placed in the past, this practice would have inevitably attracted strong criticism and protests from all sides, but in the context of alien invasion, people's tolerance has suddenly been greatly amplified. As soon as such a document came out, President Eris's support not only did not fall, but rose sharply, and if the current election results are concerned, President Eris's re-election is a foregone conclusion.

The disturbances of the outside world did not interfere with Ling Xiao, who was in a semi-secluded state, and after the breakthrough in cultivation, his life routine was still the same as usual, staying in the pharmacy during the day and returning to the villa at night to continue his cultivation.

In the evening of this day, Ling Xiao was in the hangar, reading the manual, and maintaining various parts of the aircraft.

The butterfly-shaped flying machine had already arrived in his hands a few months ago, and Ling Xiao also enrolled in an airplane driving school to study, and during this time, he also sent the flying machine to Stark Industries, and spent a sum of money to let them help load the stealth system.

Although this stealth system is not necessary at the moment, it is better than nothing in the future in case something happens.

After the flying machine came back again, Ling Xiao engraved the name he had thought about for a long time on its body: Destiny, Destiny.

With the Destiny plane, it's much easier to travel between Los Angeles and New York. Two hours, at the speed of the Destiny, two hours was enough for him to fly from Los Angeles to New York, which was much more convenient all of a sudden.

"Ringing Ringing ......" Suddenly, Ling Xiao's phone rang, he frowned, and pressed the answer button: "Hey, Catherine, what's the matter?" ”

"Ling, I need your help, hurry up, something is wrong!" Beckett's voice that could be lowered was eager, and Ling Xiao could hear her anxiety in her voice: "The location is in the center of Ventura, you hurry up." ”

With a "snap", Beckett hung up the phone, Ling Xiao's brows furrowed, what happened to make Beckett so anxious.

Although the matter may be very urgent, Ling Xiao did not rush to the place of the incident immediately, he first entered the underground secret cave, put on the Heavenly Soldier Battle Armor, and brought the gods and demons before driving to the center of Ventura.

Ventura is located in the northwest of Los Angeles, half an hour's drive, Liang Dong came to the periphery of a five-star hotel according to the address given by Beckett, frowned, and used his mental power to find Beckett's location at this time.

Beckett actually took Kevin Ryan and Esposito to hide in a white truck, and the group sneakily didn't know what they were doing, Ling Xiao saw something strange in his heart, so he walked towards the location of the truck.

"Bang bang bang!" Beckett, who had been staring at the screen closely, suddenly heard a noise outside, and immediately subconsciously pulled out the pistol in his waist, Kevin and Esposito also made the same action, and just after Beckett opened the door, it was Ling Xiao who appeared outside the car with a frown.

"What are you doing here, why are you so nervous!" Ling Xiao's gaze swept over the three of them before he asked in a deep voice. He had long sensed the rivalry between the three of Becket, and Ling Xiao had already secretly used his spiritual sense to check all the people in the vicinity, including the villa, but he didn't find anything like that!

"It's you. Insult! Beckett put away his gun, waved his hand at Ling Xiao, and said, "Come in quickly, don't stand outside." ”

"Good!" Seeing that the three of them looked nervous about to fight, after Ling Xiao entered the carriage, he closed the door with his hand. His eyes fell on the surveillance screen in the car, which showed the surveillance footage of a certain floor inside the hotel.

"What the hell is going on, can any of you explain it to me?" Ling Xiao looked at the three of Beckett and asked in a deep voice.

"That's right." Beckett turned around and whispered to Ling Xiao: "Yesterday at noon, there was a strange robbery in downtown Los Angeles!" ”

"Weird?" Ling Xiao couldn't help but ask, "What kind of weird way to let you, the policemen in the urban area, come to Ventura to handle the case?" ”

"Yesterday at noon, in a bank in the city center, a middle-aged man walked directly to the counter and asked the staff to prepare $100,000 in cash for him, but the strange thing is that the staff member did not hesitate at all, and directly took out $100,000 and handed it to the middle-aged man, without even going through any procedures. If it weren't for the fact that such a sum of money was missing, such a thing would not have been discovered at all. ”

"Could it be that the staff over there colluded with someone else?" Ling Xiao blinked and made his own point.

Beckett shook his head slightly, and said with certainty: "No! One of the staff members who happened to be a family member of one of the bank's shareholders had no need to collude with outsiders to steal his family's money, and afterwards, he had no memory of what had happened, and he would not have remembered seeing the middle-aged man if it weren't for the video surveillance footage. ”

"Do you suspect that middle-aged man has special abilities?" Ling Xiao somewhat understood why they were so nervous!

"Maybe it's some special weapon." Esposito interjected that they had to take it seriously no matter what.

"Did you call me to do you anything?" Ling Xiao scratched his head, Beckett didn't know about his own special abilities, so he shouldn't have asked him to help.

"Hmm!" Beckett turned around and pointed to the corridor above the screen, and said in a deep voice, "Ling, that guy lives on the eighth floor, room 803. We once mentioned the hotel's occupancy records, but it showed that room 803 was not occupied at all, and we also found out its location through hacking into the surveillance system. ”

Ling Xiao touched his chin and said softly, "You mean that the hotel staff was also confused?" ”

"That's how it should be." Beckett nodded and said, "We monitored for most of the day, and found that the hotel service staff was bringing lunch and dinner to the room, but when they came out, it was as if they didn't remember anything. Ling, I need you to help me get close to him. ”

"What do you need me to do?" Ling Xiao readily agreed, he also wanted to see what kind of person this person could easily control the minds of others.

In this world, the only mutants with spiritual abilities that Ling Xiao has seen are Professor Charles and Jean Grey, and of course there are only two spiritual mutants in the world, and this one is the third one he has encountered.

(End of chapter)