We used to talk about loyalty, this thing comes from a kind of inner persistence, and many times, in the face of a loyal opponent, it is difficult for you to get the news you want from him.

Of course, this kind of "loyalty" is very much not out of the heart's true thoughts.

In the dimly lit room, there was nothing but a table, and Victor, wearing a blood-stained black trench coat, sat on a chair and devoured dinner, to be precise, a takeaway ordered from outside, but for him who was very tired now, his body urgently needed to replenish energy, and the taste of food was secondary.

And in the chair opposite him, with his arms propped up on the table and a lit cigarette in his hand, he looked at the saber-toothed tiger in front of him and whispered:

"Victor, how come I don't know, when did you go from a notorious mercenary to a loyal warrior?"

The saber-toothed tiger glanced at him, but did not speak, but continued to eat his own food, and the bastard hung him behind Pegasus, flying across the Atlantic back to the Americas, a journey that nearly suffocated him.

He didn't want to say a word to Cyber right now.

"Is it funny to be so stiff?"

Cyber took a puff of his cigarette and glanced at Victor, who was buried in his meal, and he whispered, "You and I both know that no matter what the process is, I will get everything I want to know, you know, I have the ability." ”

"Uh..."

The saber-toothed tiger tossed the fork aside and wiped his oil-stained hands on his tattered clothes, then took a cigarette from Cyber's cigarette case, held it in his mouth, and pointed lazily at his skull:

"Everything you want is here, come and get it yourself... Oh, forgot, once you break through Ares's divine power seal, it's all over, that's why you're sitting here and talking to me about many... I'll get straight to the point, Seber Hawke. ”

A flash of calm flashed in Victor's eyes:

"I've been prepared to torture me to confess, but I'll tell you the truth, my relationship with Ares isn't as close as you might think, in fact, I'm just hired by him, and I don't know much, so if you want to get top-secret information about Ares from me, you'll be disappointed. ”

He shook the fingers in his hand:

"I haven't seen him for three months... There are no directives, no goals, no contact, you see, I was also abandoned by him. ”

"Then tell me everything you know!"

Cyber stared at the mutant in front of him with some impatience: "What do you want, just say it, don't waste time!"

The fiery red ash cross jumped in Cyber's eyes, and in the vision of the Eye of Repentance, it could be clearly seen that a layer of golden light shrouded Victor's head, sealing his memory and soul, this thing is very tenacious, but not strong enough to be broken, after Seber caught the saber-toothed tiger, he also tried to forcibly read the memory, but at the moment when his consciousness broke through the divine power seal, Victor's soul showed signs of collapse.

In other words, if he forcibly reads it, he won't think of anything, which is why he and Victor are sitting here "chatting" now.

This guy in front of him is the only connection that Ares has left behind in reality, and once he is dead, no one really knows what the god of war wants to do and what he has planned.

"Refreshing!"

Victor had a smile on his face, he snuffed out the cigarette butt in the palm of his hand, and looking at the rapidly healing skin, he raised his head and shook his finger:

"First of all, you cut off my arm, and the new growth is only bones, so you have to compensate me with enough alloy for another operation, which I deserve!"

"Think beautifully!"

Cyber looked at the saber-toothed tiger in front of him: "To be cut off by my sword, I can only say that you are unlucky, and besides, this thing doesn't seem to be as strong as you say, besides, there are not a few Edman alloys circulating in the black market, I don't believe that with your connections, you won't even be able to get a little metal... Seriously, are you wasting your time, or are you really going to see if I can't break through that aperture?"

His fingers moved, and his eyes were full of menace:

"You wouldn't want me to try again, would you?"

Victor hesitated, he shook his head:

"Okay, you miser! But don't think about the next one, I want "power"!"

"Strength?"

Cyber frowned, "What do you mean?"

"Power is power! power that makes me stronger... It doesn't matter what form it takes!"

The saber-toothed tiger propped his chin with both hands, and said casually: "I don't pray to become as strong as you all of a sudden, at least after the transaction is completed, I will be stronger than now, the entire wizarding world knows that the Devil Gang is good at this... You see, I'm not a charity, and I'm never going to do business without a return. ”

"That's a good point, but I think you may have forgotten who you are, prisoner. ”

Cyber's tone became unceremonious: "And even if I am willing to give it to you, do you really dare to use it?"

"It's your business whether you give it or not, it's my business whether you use it or not... I won't worry about my business. ”

Sabertooth Yawned a little tiredly, "Say, agree or not?" and I think you're starting to become a mother-in-law now, Cyber, you weren't like that in the past. ”

"Bang"

As soon as he finished speaking, a test tube that glowed with purple fluorescence was thrown in front of the saber-toothed tiger's eyes, and Cyber leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms:

"85% concentration of the Desperate Virus, inject it, if you don't die, you'll get stronger... That's my sincerity, now let me see, what you can give in return, and I'm also curious, Victor, you seem to have been working as a tomb robber for the past few years, and you can see from the divine power of Hercules of unknown origin in you, you are collecting these things, why?"

Cyber tilted his head and looked at Victor in front of him:

"Why are you collecting power so frantically? Do you know something, or feel something?"

Victor didn't answer immediately, he picked up the purple reagent on the table, spun it in the light, watched the light refracted by the liquid, his eyes narrowed, and then injected the thing into his arm in front of Cyber.

"Click"

Magma-like light began to flow in his veins, like a burning light rushing down his arm into his heart, and then from the heart to all corners of his body, the process was undoubtedly painful, and Victor's fingers clasped against the steel table in front of him, and a clear paw print appeared on the surface of the table.

While enduring the burning pain in his body, he gritted his teeth and said in a low voice:

"Ten years ago, I was a butcher in Stryker's Special Operations unit, when Jimmy had just left there, and I wanted to get him back, but Stryker kept sending me missions, I remember very well, it was an assassination attempt on the Greek peninsula, I seriously suspected that Stryker was sending me to die, my operation failed, I escaped, and I met the remnant of Ares's newly awakened soul in a collapsed Greek temple. ”

"It was my first encounter with him, and he saved me and seduced me with his strength to serve him. ”

Victor leaned back in his chair, his body's temperature rose rapidly, causing the air around him to begin to distort, and he muttered to himself like a hypnotized guy in a fantasy realm:

"I was in a hurry to find Jimmy, so I said yes and helped him do some weird things... For example, to provoke local wars in various countries, such as opening the closed secret realm of Europe, or to provoke civil wars between mutants... Why did Magneto's first invasion of New York go so well? Why was Professor Charles captured by Hydra so easily? Why was Lucifer so accurate when he opened the gates of hell in New York?"

His eyes swirled and eventually landed on Cyber, a strange smile on the corner of his mouth:

"You've heard his voice when Hell invaded the Sanctuary, haven't you? He had favored you, he had said that you were more of a spokesman for the war, but alas, after the Ancient One had his eyes on you, Ares gave up on any further contact with you, but remember the broken body from the abyss that you had to fight with all your might? That was his real goal that time. ”

"And the Battle of Alcatraz that you participated in, and the stillborn U.S. intervention in Mexico, behind all this, there is the shadow of Ares, Seber Hawke, in a place you don't know, Ares is like a ghost, outlining the cobwebs of war in the whole world, I was just acting as an executor at first, but later, I began to understand the meaning of Ares's actions. ”

"He is the god of war, Cyber, he is the embodiment of war, if the world has been calm, he will be weakened without limit, and once the war breeds, his strength will increase rapidly, why did the First World War happen? Is it really just because of the shot in Sarajevo? No!"

Victor raised his arms:

"That's not it! Ares planned it all! At that time, he still had his own divine body, and he was armed with a war scepter, and that time, he was only one step away from destroying human civilization... However, it was destroyed by Princess Diana, a demigod with the blood of Zeus, who was supposed to be his best ally, but became his opponent because of mortal love, and finally with the help of the Ancient One, Diana killed Ares... It's just a little bit off. ”

"Now, his strength has returned to what it used to be, if not better, he wants to reclaim the half of his authority, he wants to recover the scepter of war, he has a more powerful body than before, he wants to start his second revenge on this world, you may already know the war between Atlantis and Paradise Island... Let me tell you, he told me personally that Diana would be the first victim, and then the world!"

"He's a sane madman! Cyber, he can plan all the details in advance for revenge, and then abandon everything completely if necessary! But I'm not!"

In Victor's eyes, the part of reason slowly returned, and his breathing became slower: "Uh... I'm not going to destroy the world with me for some hellish hatred, he sensed that, and after I helped him get the War Scepter back, he cut ties with me, but what he said, what he did, proved that this guy really was on a mission to destroy the world. ”

The saber-toothed tiger raised his hands, looking at the blood flowing like magma under the skin of his ten fingers, and the irrepressible strength in his body, he clenched his fists, and he looked at Cyber:

"I followed that madman for 10 years, I believe in his execution and his judgment, so I crazy chase all power, if he fails, in the next troubled times, power can make me live better, if he succeeds, in the face of the inevitable death, there is strength can also make me die more dignified. ”

The saber-toothed tiger moved his arms, his hands propped up on the metal table in front of him, ten fingers forced, and a scorching breath burst out from between his fingers, melting the solid steel like butter that had met a scorching flame, letting his fingers dig deep into it.

Victor let go of his hands with satisfaction, letting the temperature outside of his skin cool, he opened the window, feeling the cold wind blowing in from the window, he looked back at Cyber:

"As for what you want to know... Cyber, I can only tell you that the last time Ares appeared was near Rome, where he made a secret pact with some peering beings, and I don't know the exact details, but once he was ready, even the Supreme Mage could no longer stop what would happen next, and now, according to his execution, this plan must have reached the final step. ”

"So hurry up and go to Paradise Island to save your little lover, the war between Atlantis and Paradise Island is 100% from Ares, all with one purpose, to lure Princess Diana, the only one who has the power to stop him, into his trap... If you're not happy, maybe you'll never see her again. ”