Chapter 29 Speed
Leon took William Strykty, who had fainted due to lack of oxygen, out of the laboratory in his left hand, picked up a puddle of rotten flesh at random, and threw both of them to Magneto.
Later, he went to the lab where Abel was being held and scavenged a large pile of Edelman alloy, a strange metal with indestructible properties, far more than the same amount of gold or even diamonds on the black market.
The roof of the underground base has been submerged by the pouring floodwater, and the murky water has seeped through the cracks in the reinforced concrete structure, and small pools of water have formed in the lower part of the corridor.
The underground passage was filled with shrill alarm bells, and tens of millions of tons of water flowed through the rock formations of tens of meters, stirring above.
Left unchecked, the underground base would be completely submerged, trapping the survivors as if it were a waterboarding cell, until the U.S. military arrives and searches for the drain valve that was designed to open the drain from the outside.
Luckily, there were enough mutants and abilities to escape.
Magneto first scavenged for metal particles to create a hollow iron ball for everyone to enter, and then the iceman created an ice layer on the surface of the iron ball to prevent floodwater from seeping in.
When the water above calmed down, the iron ball broke through the rock formations and surfaced, carrying the group to a nearby hillside to board the Eagle Falcon courtesy of the X-Men.
Leon sat in the cabin seat, leisurely flipping through the newly captured information files related to the X Weapon Program, and on the cold floor at his feet lay a large group of hostages who had been tied up by the flowers, all of whom were scientific researchers from military bases.
"Mr. Leon, I still don't understand why we didn't just kill William Stryker."
Laser, who was the commander on the spot, looked at General Stryker who fell on the floor of the cabin, hesitated for a moment, frowned, and said: "In addition to the identity of the leader of the X weapon program, William Stryker is a mediocre and incompetent bureaucrat, and he has lost his usefulness.
And he's a card erected by thoroughbred human chauvinists, and his presence only deepens the divide between mutants and humans. ”
As the leader of the X-Men during the operation, Cyclops did not ask Professor Charles questions, but asked Leon for instructions, which says a lot.
Professor X, who had once been the leader of Xavier's Academy for Gifted Children, has largely been overturned, and most of the moderate mutants are now at the behest of Leon like the Brotherhood.
After all, Professor X's propaganda of "love, understanding and peace" is, to put it bluntly, right-leaning capitulationism, and he himself is a big capitalist who enjoys the fruits of capitalism, so naturally he will not instruct his mutants who have armed forces to destroy the current social order.
At the same time, Magneto's long-standing three-day fishing and two-day net-drying terrorist attacks have also proved to be ineffective and ineffective.
This kind of guerrilla-style left-leaning adventurism has no other use than to deplete the strength of the mutant race and further exacerbate the contradictions between ordinary people and mutants.
And Li Ang, who is not a mutant himself, is different from the previous two, with solid theoretical knowledge, rich experience in conflict struggle, and imaginative and steady action strategies, so that these confused mutants do not hesitate to join his command, willing to become pawns and sacrifice their loyal hearts.
Faced with Laser Eye's question, Li Angwan smiled and said gently: "This little comrade, you still have a big misunderstanding of our transformation strategy. We are carrying out mutant reforms, not to intensify the contradictions between ordinary people and mutants, but to adjust the contradictions, resolve the contradictions, and even turn the contradictions into a driving force for progress. ”
Lasereye looked dazed, puzzled.
Leon put down the scroll in his hand, looked at the mutants with different looks in the laboratory, and said loudly: "I know that you all hate General William Stryker, he is the instigator of contradictions, the representative of purebred human chauvinists, and the symbol of the federal government's persecution of mutants for many years.
Leon kicked General Stryker, who was lying on the ground, causing the old man, who had pretended to faint, to curl up under the blow, moaning and screaming in pain.
"William Stryker did deserve to die, but he shouldn't have died in obscurity, his death should have been more valuable and meaningful."
The direction of the fighter was not Xavier's Academy for Gifted Children, but the Brotherhood's hidden base on the outskirts of the city.
The news of the fall of the military base where the X Weapon program was located is now estimated to have reached the ears of the federal government, and the politicians who had been contemptuous of all living beings are busy negotiating, compromising, questioning, decrees being issued, orders being accepted, and countless secret services are ready to investigate the attackers.
Everyone knows that the X weapon program is widely implicated, and if the news of the taboo human trials leaks out, not to mention the US military, even the owner of the White House in Washington will have to take off at least a layer of skin.
Perhaps many bureaucrats in the CIA, FBI, and even S.H.I.E.L.D. are accustomed to fishing in troubled waters and enriching themselves, but under the pressure exerted by the top, these salary thieves also have to devote 120 percent of their energy to solving problems, or solving the people who cause problems.
Whether the mutants are the first to spread information about Project X, or the federal violence agencies are the first to find and defeat the mutant resistance, the future of both mutants and ordinary humans will be determined.
Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night.
Although everyone in the cabin was mentally prepared before stepping into the military base, the act of challenging the state apparatus head-on inevitably caused them great psychological pressure.
The silence and oppression slowly spread in the cabin, and the mutant children who had just been freed from their cages were infected by the atmosphere, fidgeting and staring restlessly at the churning sea of clouds outside the portholes.
The suburbs of New York, arrived.
The wings of the fighter swept up smoke and dust and slowly drove into the tarmac, and Leon commanded everyone to bring everything in the cabin into the underground laboratory, clearing a clean area for stacking materials related to the X weapon program.
These materials are not only valuable experimental materials, but also evidence of the federal government's persecution, and the key to solving the social contradictions of mutants.
Quicksilver, who has a very high speed of movement, is responsible for cleaning, Colossus is responsible for carrying heavy objects, and Scarlet Witch is responsible for setting up the equipment, and in just a few minutes, a temporary photo studio is put together.
Magneto was standing in the middle of the studio, his expression indifferent, as if he had seen it all before.
He's the star of the night.