22. Stranger
It's not far from Gotham to New York, and it only takes 2-3 hours to fly at the earliest, of course, if it's a private jet, it's faster, but as a Devil's Gang, it's a bit too cheap to fly when you travel.
Dressed in a casual suit that was easy to move around, with a casual trench coat that he loved very much, sunglasses, and a cigar in his hand, Cyber was dressed like a big man, and behind him, the little devils and a group of devil gang veterans who had been tested in the hell gate war were ready to go.
In the square in front of them, two members of the gang of demonic warlocks were preparing a large teleportation circle, and far away in the Hell's Kitchen in New York, an equally large and complex circle had been prepared, which was obviously a two-way circle.
The Devil's Gang contracted the demons' actions to eventually bring them more mysterious powers, and the mastery of portal techniques will make their mobility unparalleled, of course, with the current Devil's Gang, it is obviously unrealistic to build a permanent portal, and for the magic side forces, they are just able to be beginners.
"I'll make an appointment with you for three chapters first!"
Cyber turned to the little girl and her companions who were standing beside her, dressed in her armor and fully armed, and said, "Maybe you've been through a lot of challenges, but this time it's likely that you're going to face the old powerhouse like Magneto and the brotherhood he's carefully prepared for decades, so I probably don't have much energy to focus on you, first, protect yourself, second, protect yourself, third... I don't think I need to say more. ”
He snorted:
"I don't need you to contribute much, this time it's just to familiarize you with this level of warfare, to be honest, I don't know what kind of guy will be provoked in the end, but for the Devil Gang!"
Cyber lowered his head and lit his cigar and exhaled a puff of smoke, and the giant teleportation array in front of him emitted a dark green light, quickly forming a circular light curtain-like passage in front of him.
"Listen, you can repay your kindness later, but revenge must not be delayed... Revenge this dish, it won't taste good when it's cold!"
"Let's go!"
On the other side, Eric Lanshel and his three men walked through the prison where he had been held for most of the year, and he had a sense that things were wrong, but the high-tech passage in front of him had been destroyed by an incomprehensible force.
It's as if a hungry beast has wreaked havoc here, whether it's the wall or the bottom floor, there are some completely irregular bite marks, those vacant parts, as if they have been bitten down, although the person who caused all this has left, but just looking at the cracks, it still makes people shudder.
"Look here!"
Erik's hand caressed the edge of the uneven wall, and he whispered, "Look at the power of this to make you want to fall on your knees, that's what I want... This is the power of my dreams that truly belongs to mutants!"
"God-like... This is not a worldly force. ”
His emotion was like the chant of a cultist, and the three people who followed him couldn't help but get goosebumps, and the big man with the stone helmet whispered:
"My lord, will she already..."
"No, it won't!"
Magneto stretched out his hand to interrupt the big man's statement, he seemed to know what he was worried about, he took a deep breath and looked at the flickering exit in front of him:
"Charles isn't weak enough to be killed casually..."
Despite having said that, Eric picked up his pace and led his henchmen towards the darkness ahead.
At this moment, in the dark cell not far from them, through a layer of special glass, Professor X, who was in a wheelchair, looked up weakly and saw the woman suspended in the air 150 feet below, carrying a dead guy in prison uniform.
When he saw that man, Charles's eyes flashed with sadness that could not be concealed, it was Stryker's son Jason, he has the ability to influence other people's minds, construct false images in his mind, and is known as the master of illusions, but after he brutally killed his own mother, Stryker broke his limbs, amputated his forehead lobe, and completely turned him into an illusion machine.
Xavier Academy was attacked overnight, because Hydra extracted a potion from Jason's brain fluid that could weaken the sense of resistance, and with the control ability of the Purple Man, even Professor Charles, who was caught off guard, was not spared.
The tragic end of Jason's tragic life after the prison was destroyed by the forces of annihilation, he was also a disciple of Professor Charles, but now, he is separated from the professor's life and death.
The Professor's cage is specially built, and when this prison was built, the threat of top-level mutants was taken into account, so when Eric was imprisoned, the prison was trimmed to a completely special material, the kind with very weak molecular activity, and at the same time, Magneto was injected with special drugs every day to suppress the activity of the X gene in his body.
It is said that Eric Lanshell spent nearly $20 on S.H.I.E.L.D. for every day he spent in this prison, and now, when it comes to imprisoning Professor Charles, Hydra has taken a more extreme approach, reshaping the entire cage with materials that can insulate psychic power, while spraying debilitating drugs into the cell in the form of spray 24 hours a day.
That's just barely trapping this old mutant here.
Professor Charles was in a wheelchair, his face was yellow, his face was full of wrinkles, there was undisguised weakness in his eyes, from body to spirit, as if he was more than 20 years old at the same time, in fact, no one who saw him now would associate him with the entire mutant world's bipolarity, this is clearly a dying old disabled old man.
The woman in the dark red dress and hood threw Jason's body into the cage, and the corpse was completely torn apart by the invisible and violent force in mid-air, turning into dust and dissipating into the darkness.
Because the one who is suspended in front of him, who does cruel things, is clearly his proud disciple... Gray Jean.
"You're too weak. ”
Grey Jean was suspended in the air, and the psychic power around her even distorted the air, not the comfort and peace of Professor Charles's psychic power, but rather a smell of tyranny and destruction, which seemed to be a direct synonym for disorder and chaos.
And the energy level of this energy has long exceeded the extreme of the alpha mutant, she has crossed the ordinary level and entered the ranks of the most mysterious omega-level mutants, and the biggest feature is the power trait of "making something out of nothing".
"You're not Jean, you're not a phoenix... Who are you!"
Professor Charles looked weakly at the woman who was floating quietly in the air, and a trace of pain flashed in his eyes: "You put the piano... What's wrong?"
"I'm her!"
The woman stretched out her fingers, and a ball of pure black power wrapped around her fingertips, like a poisonous snake out of a nest, and quickly tore a large hole in the composite cage in front of her, like the most terrible marching ant, and the crack corroded quickly enough for an adult to pass freely.
She stretched out her feet in the void and stepped on the floor of this cell, her black hair fluttering in the air, looking beautiful, but when she raised her head, those eyes that were already completely black made people shudder, she calmly looked at Professor Charles in front of her, and a happy smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
"I'm your disciple Grey Jean, but I won't be fooled by you anymore, Charles, you've deceived me for 24 years with the seal you put in my mind!
"I didn't lie to you!"
Professor Charles, with his hands clasped on the armrests of his wheelchair, retorted, "I'm just saving you!"
"You locked me up in chains, made up a world for me with lies, and intended me to spend my life in lies, and you call this help me?"
Hearing the professor's rebuttal, the black-eyed Grey Jean couldn't help but raise her left hand, and with her anger, what spewed out was the psychic power that the now weak professor couldn't resist at all, lifting his body directly from the wheelchair and lifting him into the air, forcing his body to open extremely open, as if he was being tortured.
The death of the tyrannical force suppressed the professor's resistance, and she looked directly at the professor, her face already full of anger:
"Enough is enough, I've had enough of your lies! Apologize to me now, and take back the death you deserve!"
"Don't do that! Grey, you shouldn't fall into the darkness! It's not you!"
The professor endured the tearing pain coming from his body, and he shouted, "Let me help you!
The Professor's psychic power tried to enter the mind of Grey Jean in front of him, but was blocked by a thick layer of unbreakable barriers, and Grey Jean looked at him with a hateful gaze and let out a low and menacing roar:
"Don't come near me!
"Get out of my mind!"
"Boom"
The entire cage door behind it shattered in an instant, as if it had been smashed by an invisible fist, and everything that could move around it was suspended into the air under the support of this force, and it spun around Gray Jean and Professor Charles, and disappeared.
It was a terrifying scene, looking at Grey Jean in the eye of the storm, looking at her hair flying everywhere, and the ground beneath her feet that began to crack and deform, it was like the end of the world.
"Charles, hold on!"
Magneto's voice came from around the corner, and when he saw Professor X, who was about to be torn apart by the Annihilation Storm, Magneto immediately threw out the metal cane in his hand, and the silver-white cane quickly split into hundreds of metal fragments in the air, and under the manipulation of the majestic magnetic force, it pierced into the Annihilation Storm, trying to save the precarious Professor Charles from Grey Jean's hands.
Magneto and Professor X, this is a very interesting pair, they were close comrades-in-arms in the early years, and even organized the Cuban nuclear crisis together and fought against the most powerful mutant Apocalypse, in this respect, they are definitely a lifelong friendship.
But both of them belong to the kind of ambitious people who want to save the mutant community in their own way, and their ideas are very different, so after the conflict, neither of them will budge, so they have become two hostile existences, but we can't deny their friendship because of this.
In fact, the friendship between Professor Charles and Magneto has long gone beyond the scope of enemies, just like Charles will subconsciously let Magneto go when he has an advantage, and now when Professor X is on the verge of death, the first to jump out to save is also Eric Lansell.
"Don't irritate her!"
Magneto manipulated the magnetic field with both hands, struggling to weaken the mental power barrier around Grey Jean, and the addition of this strong reinforcement made the power exerted by Grey Jean suddenly weaken, and also made Professor Charles see an opportunity.
He should have withdrawn from the Storm of Annihilation, but instead of doing so, he gritted his teeth and summoned all his strength to break through a rift in the spiritual defense line of Grey Qin in front of him, projecting his consciousness into the spirit of this alienated disciple again.
"Abandoned! I'll help you! I'll take you... Go home!"
"I don't have a home! Get out!"
The price of this invasion was that Gray Jean's already manic power exploded again, smashing Magneto, who was maintaining the movement of the magnetic field, into the air, and Professor Charles even bled and rolled to the edge of the destroyed cage.
The next moment, his body was lifted up by the violent force, and Grey Jean's face was already undisguised hideous:
"For your lies... Die!"
Magneto raised his head from the ruins of the passage and looked at the scene in front of him, he stretched out his hand, and the huge magnetic force converged into a dark lightning bolt and slashed at Grey Jean, breaking three layers of psychic shields in a row, but in the end, he could not stop the fatal explosion of manic psychic power.
"Jean... Don't let it control you!"
A wisp of smoke floated from Professor Charles's skin, a fragment of annihilated skin, and despair flashed through the eyes of both Professor Charles and Magneto.
"Charles!
At this moment of annihilation, a figure suddenly appeared into the cage that was about to be destroyed, and landed on the ground in front of Professor Charles in a superhero style, he looked left and right, his eyes stayed on the alienated Gray Jean for a few seconds, he glanced back at Charles, and then saw Eric not far away, and the voice of sadism sounded in this hellish space.
"Hey, guys, are you having a farewell party?"