William Stryker is a very traditional American soldier, always with a straight face, cold eyes, solemn and silent, abiding by military discipline and dogma, and his out-of-shape with age does not detract from his tough guy temperament.

This old man with a little white temples is the person in charge of the X Weapon program.

The X Weapon Program first originated in the Cold War period, in order to win the competition with the woolly bear, the federal government at that time spent a lot of money, one after another wild arms plans were proposed, and the X Weapon Program was born.

Mutant races can be divided into several tiers based on their abilities.

The first is the Delta level, where mutants have weak abilities and normal appearance, accounting for 50% of the total population

The second is the Beta level, where mutant abilities are powerful but not well controlled, and their appearance is normal, accounting for 10% of the total population.

Then there's the Gama level, where mutants have powerful abilities but a weird appearance that often creates obstacles to normal life.

Alpha-level mutants have the appearance of ordinary people, powerful abilities, and can control abilities at will, and they are the most valuable in the X Weapon Project.

As for the last Omega-level mutants, they can already control huge amounts of matter and energy, and have extremely terrifying potential, no less powerful than weapons of mass destruction, and are difficult to control.

The main direction of Project X is to analyze the principle of mutant abilities and copy abilities above the beta level to ordinary soldiers to create super soldiers with special abilities.

The Weapon X program looked promising, but it encountered considerable resistance during the experiment.

First of all, there is the moral factor, the X weapon program will inevitably damage the lives and property of some mutants, and once exposed, it is likely to have an indelible impact on the reputation of the federal government.

Stryker, who had a bright future at the time, defied public opinion, worked out the ultimate secrecy measures, gambled his personal future, and finally persuaded the Pentagon's top brass to approve the X weapon program.

To this day, the project has indeed produced some "products", such as Wolverine, which is infused with Edelman metal in its bones, Deadpool, which has gained self-healing powers, and even X-23, a female clone based on Wolverine cells.

However, these so-called products are really nothing compared to the huge resources invested in the X weapon program and the huge risks they carry.

If Weapon X doesn't convince Washington's upper echelons within a year, the plan will be mercilessly shot, and William Stryker himself will be thrown into the cold and retired with the title of general on his back.

This is absolutely unacceptable.

Thinking of this, Stryker's hand holding the razor shook slightly, and the blade was wrapped in foam and cut through the wrinkled old skin, leaving a trail of blood.

It was a restroom in an underground base, dilapidated and cold, most of which had been built during the Cold War twenty or thirty years ago.

Because of the lack of output, the financial support for the X-weapon program has become more and more dismal.

The American soldier, who looked like an aging lion, looked at his back in the mirror, which was no longer straight, sighed silently, and continued to clean up the remaining beard.

After a few moments, he stepped out of the bathroom and walked to the office under the guard's arch.

"General, this is this issue of the X weapon evaluation report."

A thin scientific researcher in a white lab coat stood up and handed a stack of dossiers to Stryker, his voice unconcealed with joy, "With the help of Memetic Corporation's stem cell artificial organ cultivation technology, we have been able to copy some Beta mutant genes with combat value into normal soldiers, and we can 100% ensure that the postoperative rejection reaction is within the tolerable range." ”

Memetic Inc. balances its interests by providing the U.S. military with a certain amount of artificial organs each month for its use.

And the X weapon program is half secret at best, and enjoys a certain priority.

In order to make a breakthrough, William Stryker applied for the transfer of some artificial organs as an aid to the Weapon X program.

"Oh? In other words, is the surgery basically safe? William raised his eyebrows, flipped through the photos above, and muttered, "That's good news." What about alpha-level genetic modification surgery? Is there hope? ”

The scientific researcher pursed his lips and hesitated for a moment before gritting his teeth and saying: "According to clinical trial estimates, the genetic modification of alpha-level variants will only have a 10% success rate, and there is no guarantee that there will be a strong rejection reaction after surgery." ”

"Is there a 10 percent success rate? It's high enough. William Stryker said with a blank face: "So what are you waiting for, why don't you go and do it?" ”

The scientist replied hoarsely: "General, the share of the last batch of artificial organs has been depleted. Without the new artificial organ as a buffer, the experimenter would have died from violent rejection. ”

"Without sacrifice, there is no gain." William Stryker's eyes were extremely cold, and he said without a trace of emotion: "When they joined the X Weapon program, they already signed the relevant agreement, didn't they?" ”

"General!" "For experimenters, it's a gamble with a 10 percent survival rate, and no one wants to accept it," the researchers exclaimed. ”

"Did I say I had their consent?" William said indifferently: "Once they step into this base, every hair and blood of them belongs to the state, along with their will and soul. ”

It is not only the smugglers captured at the U.S.-Mexico border, the death row inmates in the prisons, but also some mutants who have been secretly kidnapped.

These people formed a huge library of experimental materials, and used their lives to pile up the path to victory in the X weapon program.

Hearing William's words, the scientist's face suddenly turned pale, and the soles of his feet were as if they were rooted, and he didn't move.

Stryker looked at him, sneered, and said, "What, your conscience has found out?" Do you need to remind you that the earliest mutant human experiments were led by you alone, and you have bloody hands like me, pretending to be a good person? ”

After all, the researchers couldn't resist Stryker's gaze, lowered their proud heads, and silently retreated.

It wasn't until Stryker left that the researchers collapsed on their office chairs like puppets that had been stripped of their souls, staring at the light bulbs in the ceiling in a daze.

Faintly, he seemed to hear the screams of the underground cell again, and the terrible sound was getting louder and closer.

Click.

The door to the office opened.

Dressed in a lab coat, Leon walks in like a leisurely stroll, followed by the Brotherhood and the X-Men, as well as a large group of mutants who have just been freed from an underground cell.

"Hello, do you know where General William Stryker is?"

The scientist stood up, and through the gap in the crowd, he could faintly see the river of blood flowing across the corridor.