Chapter 054: The Last Stand (2)
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The location is Lake Ekari.
The cause is a tsunami-like spiritual force that swept across the United States and throbbed the genes in the bodies of all mutants.
It is like the best alarm clock, allowing Zhou Dong to open his eyes for a second, and his eyes fall on the surveillance screen in the first block in the upper left corner.
An area of Lake Ekari had evaporated, and a pair of flaming winged phantoms appeared to grow behind the red figure, and she blinked like light in the direction of New York City.
Of all the mutants who felt the phoenix's resurgence, Professor Charles was the most shocked, and he immediately took Logan and Stormgirl to a certain place.
Jean only goes to one place, and that is her home, where she was born and raised in New York.
Zhou Dong watched all this happen calmly through the satellites in the sky, as if he was enjoying a three-dimensional movie, until the phone rang and shattered this feeling.
"Zhou, I'm sorry, the Nightingale Squad is disbanding."
"Why?"
"They tricked me into a weapon with mutant antibody pills, and I'm submitting my resignation."
"Henry, you knew there would be such a day, didn't you?"
After Zhou Dong finished speaking calmly, he took the lead in ending the call, and Henry was silent.
In his opinion, both the professor and Henry are too naΓ―ve, always thinking that no one will be hurt and then have a good peace.
The rest of Magneto, in Zhou Dong's opinion, is too extreme, although this is related to his separation from his parents due to the Nazi concentration camp when he was a child, but Zhou Dong never talks about personal feelings, but on facts.
Zhou Dong turned off the wall-mounted LCD and left the private study, and he was already very clear about what he would find next.
The professor and Magneto find Jean together, Charles is killed by Jean in anger, and Magneto takes Jean from the confusion and confusion.
Zhou Dong came to the hall and asked Steward Ivan to call Katie and Natalia over.
"Katie, go get ready, we're going to the Academy."
"What's wrong?"
"Henry has resigned, and the Nightingale Squad has been disbanded since then, so it's time for you to go back to the Academy."
"But ......"
"The professor is dead, and the academy will need your strength."
"What! The professor is dead? β
"Not now, but soon, they should meet Jean by now."
"Week! What the hell is going on! β
"Get in the car, I'll explain."
Zhou Dong drove the red BMW out of the garage, and Katie, who was shocked and confused, got into the car with Natalia, who didn't know what was going on.
The car starts up and drives quickly to New York.
"Jean resurrected from Lake Ekari and killed Sterco, and returned to her hometown in New York, where the Professor and Magneto went to look for her, so the Professor would be killed by Jean in anger, which was about to happen."
"Why don't you stop them? Don't you see the future! β
"No, Charles is going with the mentality of dying, wanting to seal the power of Jean's rampage, no one can stop it, and it is impossible for Magneto to take Jean away at will, and then use her power to harm humans."
Katie's body seemed to have lost all of her strength all of a sudden, and she thought of all the reports she had seen on the TV news in the past two days, as if even the air was filled with a smell of nervousness.
She didn't know what the future would become, and she kind of wanted to ask the dark-haired young people around her.
But Katie was timid, she was afraid to know the answer.
Natalia remained silent, she had been silently observing Zhou Dong, and for more than a year, she had learned that it was best not to take the initiative to ask this person questions, otherwise she would often fall into an extreme passive situation.
The powerlessness of being controlled made Natalia, who desperately wanted to defeat Zhou Dong, feel very humiliated, and she would rather observe the truth of the matter by herself than ask for help from that person.
By the time Zhou Dong took Katie and Natalia to the Genius Academy in New York, it had fallen into a sad atmosphere.
Katie got out of the car and immediately ran into the academy, found Storm Girl, and learned from her that the professor was indeed dead.
In the cemetery, the funeral is underway.
At this moment, the sky was sunny and cloudless, but everyone in the academy had sad faces and a heavy mood.
Stormgirl is presiding over the funeral, and in accordance with the professor's wishes, she will take over the academy as the new headmaster.
"We live in dark times, the world is full of fear, hatred and prejudice, but in every era, there are people who come forward.
Charles Xavier was born into a broken world, a world that he tried to heal, but he could not see the day of success, as if the fate of great men could not always accomplish their ultimate goal in person. β
Charles is not only a leader, he is a mentor, a friend, he gives us strong courage when we are afraid, when we are lonely, he leads us to this warm home, although he is gone, his faith and teachings, will always be with us.
In the future, no matter where we are, we will always remember his ideal, the ideal of peaceful coexistence between humans and mutants. β
The Stormgirl was speaking prayers sadly and emotionally, and some of the fragile children were already secretly crying.
Everyone stood up, and everyone took turns to lay down a pure carnation in front of the professor's tombstone, and the fragrance of flowers was soothing to everyone.
Zhou Dong did not offer flowers, but quietly took Natalia out of the academy after the funeral prayers.
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The red BMW continues to drive on one of the countless roads throughout the United States.
There was silence in the car, only the singing of the car stereo, playing Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven".
After driving a long distance, the mobile phone rang, and Zhou Dong turned on the hands-free in the quiet car.
"Boss, I've sent someone."
"Very well, Chauvin, you can rest for a few days."
"Yes, boss."
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At the gate of the White Horse Manor, after seeing the woman leave, the black-robed man drove a black car and quietly turned around and left.
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When it was dusk, Zhou Dong and Natalia came to the pier in San Francisco Bay and boarded a scheduled speedboat.
Zhou Dong, the all-round driver, drove it and slowly approached the islands in the bay.
The horizon was already a delicious orange, the setting sun was a particularly large yellow orange hanging from an invisible tree in the sky, and the sea level was covered with a layer of rippling soft golden silk.
At this time, the mutation is abrupt.
The Golden Gate Bridge, a few nautical miles away from them, suddenly broke off from the middle and slowly flew up out of thin air, and a black dot was faintly visible on the head of the broken bridge.
"That's Magneto, Natalia, do you think he's strong?" Zhou Dong only glanced at that side indifferently, then withdrew his gaze and looked at the Russian girl beside him.
"It's supposed to be a very powerful mutant." Natalia's eyesight was good, and she could see the figure floating in the air from afar, her gaze burning.
"But I can kill him a hundred times in an hour, in that case, do you still think he is strong?"
Zhou Dong confidently stated the things that were taken for him for granted in a calm tone, and then looked at Natalia, he wanted to know her answer.