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The laughter of the city continued throughout the night, reaching as far away as the mutant academy in the suburbs of New York.

The sky was full of stars, the moonlight was like a hook, and only the whispers of summer insects were heard, and it was dark and quiet. In the corridor, Cyclops and Phoenix Qin walked together, carefully inspecting the student dormitories that had been rested, gently turning off the lights, and slowly moving away.

The two walked to the dean's office, and in the dark, Professor Charles sat quietly in his wheelchair, engrossed in facing the chessboard in front of him, unaware of their arrival.

On the black and white chessboard with 64 squares, the chess pieces moved and fought rapidly, as if a pair of invisible hands were controlling, and the fierce killing intent was revealed from the silent battlefield.

The two glanced at each other, and they could see the solemnity and worry in each other's eyes.

Charles has been obsessed with chess since he was a teenager, saying that the king, queen, rook, and horse each have their own duties, and contains endless philosophies of world affairs, which has led to the popularity of chess in the mutant academy and is widely spread.

It was only later, in order to set an example for his students and be wary of playthings, Charles stayed away from the chess game and put it in the cabinet. Now he is unusual, locking himself in the office, silently facing the chess game, and the depression and confusion in his heart are really unimaginable.

Phoenix Qin's eyes turned red all of a sudden, and she spoke, with a trace of doubt and panic in her eyes: "Charles, the students are worried about you, do you have anything to tell us?" ”

Unlike Laser Eye, who has been following Professor Charles for the longest time, Jean was born after World War II and did not experience the World War II period when mutant students were forced to be called into military service.

In Jean's impression, from the first day the two met, Charles has been a strong and gentle leader and wise man, relying on his outstanding personality charm to inspire countless mutants to fight in the dark without despairing.

And now, the pillar is crumbling.

"You may be seated! The two of you come over and see how this game should be played. Charles said softly.

The two looked fixedly, and the black and white chessboard suddenly blurred in front of them, and the strange expansion was magnified, and when the two came back to their senses, they were surrounded by an empty cosmic void.

Cold, desolate, vast.

In the void, there are two huge planets, one of which is water blue, which is the home of human beings, the earth, and the other end, Saturn, which is 700 times the size of the earth, is far away from the earth.

Professor Charles conjured up a phantom in this mental world and nodded. The two of them also took shape, and Jean's consciousness was in the form of a phoenix wielding flaming wings, the embodiment of the phoenix's power in her soul.

The laser eye on the side still maintains its original human appearance, and its eyes glow red, connecting to a different space that is "not Einstein". His eyes are the conduits that connect to this space, which is filled with a photon-like particle that has kinetic energy when it moves into real space, that is, it forms a red beam.

The two planets each stretched out dozens of thin lines, intertwining in the vast void. The two of them looked at each other, and their hearts were terrified, it was a space legion composed of countless creatures and space warships, like ants, climbing and fighting in the universe.

This is not a level of war, whether it is the level of science and technology, the strength of industrial manufacturing, the resources of the planet, or the strength and number of the strong, the earth that has just entered the interstellar civilization is completely unable to resist the surging Saturn civilization.

The war is silent, and tragic! Floating corpses and battleship wreckage can be seen everywhere. The overwhelming space junk dots the silence of the universe.

In the early stage of the war, from time to time, strong men broke out and won victories in some local battlefields, but this could not turn the overall situation of the war around.

Until the earth gathered a decapitation team composed of all the strong and was completely annihilated in front of Saturn's army, the earth could no longer form an effective counterattack, and the situation of the war turned straight down and turned into a simple massacre.

The Earth Army is retreating one after another, and the overwhelming Saturn Army, led by a man with a blue skin with a giant vertical jaw, sails towards Earth to launch a final attack on Earth.

The aqua blue star exploded into sparks in front of his eyes.

Silent.

Deathly silence.

"Is this the enemy that the Earth is about to face in the future?" Cyclops sat down on the ground in a dejected manner, and his speech seemed weak.

Previously, he and Phoenix Qin launched countless attacks on the enemy, using his powerful abilities to fight for a glimmer of life for the earth, but it didn't make sense.

Even in the past, the X-Men used to use the virtual training ground in the academy to simulate various scenarios to train the use of superpowers and cooperate with each other.

It is only in the midst of the war of civilizations on the scale of the planet that we truly realize that the power and wisdom of individuals are so small and insignificant compared to the universe and civilization.

In the war just now, no matter how hard they tried, no matter how perfect the response they made, they could not turn the overall tide of the war.

"This is the thirteenth thousand, twenty-four simulations, and the odds of victory for Earth are zero." Charles watched the situation develop wearily and was depressed.

This deduction based on the foreseen future has been repeated countless times.

After so many failures, even if he is as strong-willed as he is, facing the human beings who died in the flames in front of him again, what rises in his heart is not grief, but a boredom from the bottom of his heart.

Because in the bottom of his heart, his sympathy and sense of responsibility for the world and humanity are slowly being consumed by successive failures.

It's like there's a mountain in front of you.

And everything you have, strong ability, strong will, and ideals, seem to be beautiful and strong, but you are always unable to do it.

He even began to doubt the meaning of the first half of his life and questioned the value of his existence, but in the failure again and again, he couldn't get the answer he wanted.

At the bottom of my heart, it is a kind of nothingness.

"Professor!?"

Phoenix Qin suddenly scolded.

Charles's soul body suddenly trembled, and he was startled in a trance, and looked around.

Because of his inner changes, the original colorful colors are gradually disappearing, leaving only monotonous colors like black and white.

Like a long river of fate, ruthless, dead and silent!

Charles was stunned for a moment, and then reacted, and his heart was cold and piercing.

As a result of being polluted by the high-dimensional existence of the long river of fate, death is not the most terrible, being polluted, controlled, changed, and reduced to a subordinate of other existences, which is a nightmare that no strong person can accept.

Ironically, this kind of high-dimensional pollution and change of low-dimensional, without even any malice, is like the wind blowing from a car, moving the leaves of the ants lying on the ground to the rockery, silently and imperceptibly.

When you are staring into the abyss, the abyss is staring at you.

"You once taught us that the world we see is not the real world, but the world we feel is real." Phoenix Qin looked around and said.

"In the East, there is a saying that the Great Dao is fifty and the heavens are forty-nine, and the West also has the hope treasured in Pandora's box. If this is the future we are facing, then there must be something in the future that we see that we have overlooked. Just by finding the missing piece of the puzzle, we might be able to know what we want. ”

Charles's heart moved, the long river of fate made him see the picture of the future, it was definitely not useless, and the hand that appeared in this world by double clicking through the interval of time and space was obviously a human being.

The future of mankind has not ended, and there are variables hidden in the direction of fate that he has ignored.

In the future he saw in a trance, the fleeting giant ship suddenly appeared in his mind, and an impassioned war song echoed in the void, and the song rumbled and shook the heavens and the earth.

"Onward! Warrior! The horn of war has been sounded, and the warriors will go to the bloody battle together!

Fight! Warrior! There has never been a superhero, we are the masters of this world!

Evolve! Warrior! Let the mind break through the cage, and the Kovuin Nawi will finally be realized!

Victory! Warrior! This is an eternal war, and the glory of science and technology shines all over the world! ”

"There has never been a savior and no superhero!" Charles looked mocking, laughing with tears.

They have been going around and around countless times, trying to increase their strength in every possible way, only to find that they have been ignoring the power of the most vast part called ordinary humans.

Thousands of failures, now seeming, are more like a wordless irony.

It's like he's been satirizing Magneto's contempt for humans, but it's not a contempt for humans that he founded the Mutant Academy himself, formed the X-Men, and taught mutants to use their superpowers to contribute to society.

In the past, he loved his clansmen and the tropical world, but he was closed and self-contained, using the so-called love to confine his clansmen in a lonely world.

He thought it was love and peace.

Even as conflicts between mutants and humans continue to erupt, he still turns a blind eye to the fundamental contradictions between the two races, believing that this is the work of bad mutants and careerists among humans who rely on their own abilities to do illegal things.

As long as these mutants and the careerists among the humans are struck, the two races can sit together amicably and become a lumberjack.

With his and the mutants' strong strength, he is enough to protect the world and humanity in the midst of the changes of the situation.

However, the enemy is more powerful than he can imagine, and there is unimaginable danger and unbridled force in this real universe.

War! Disease! Technology!

The so-called protection is actually a cage woven in the name of love, a shackle that hinders the integration of mutants and humans.

It was his choice to disband the X-Men, join the Six Doors Alliance, and promote the integration of mutants and human society.

With his powerful psychic abilities, he pays attention to the existence of every mutant, and even if he wants to, he can feel the emotions, joys, and anguish of every mutant that exists in the world.

But after that, Storm Girl and Iceman, Phantom Cat and Decoder, and even Phoenix Qin, who stayed in the academy, these clansmen began to be influenced by Matthew, showing bold and reckless actions and whimsical thoughts, which deeply shocked him.

He respects their choice, but his heart is extremely confused and painful! Therefore, he has always turned a blind eye to the invitation to "Kewu Transformation" brought back by Phoenix Qin.

Isn't this a kind of irony, so that he can see clearly.

The pain of failure, day and night, in the deepest part of this soul.

PS1: As readers should see, this article is anti-superheroism.