0076 It's Useless to Hold On!
Listening to the words of 'Copour' Marcos Diaz, these dozen or so mutants immediately made a fuss.
"Sonia, you should find someone to treat him right away...... Let's stop the bleeding first. "First he gave this order to 'Sweet Dream' Sonya, who had been staying on the periphery and had not moved, and 'Thunderbird' John then grabbed Diaz's arm and took him to the other side." Marcos, that's not our way of doing things. ”
Seeing that the big brother was facing him with a serious and preachy appearance, Marcos Diaz, who was actually about the same age, also lost his temper: "Then what can I do?" I can't stop the organization's right confession, it's completely my fault, how you punish me, I admit it, but since there is an opportunity to correct all this, I can't still watch you die, right? ”
If you really want to say that John Thunderbird is the big brother of all the mutants in the base, then Marcos Diaz is almost the same, if not second-in-command. In the entire base, except for John Thunderbird, Sonia Dream, and Lorna, the most senior, it is his turn. These four people are also a small group that came out to make decisions when the base was faced with a more important choice in the past.
Now the two of them in this small group are arguing.
"But...... That's not how we do things. Thunderbird John said patiently. The X-Men chose us for a reason. We can't pass it on to innocent people just because we're wrong. There will always be another way......"
"There's no other way, John, you don't understand the horror of that mysterious organization!" Diaz stiffened his neck to interrupt and retort, and there was a hint of palpitation in his eyes, obviously thinking of the experience of being a captive and a test subject, and finally suppressed it. "Besides, as I said before, this guy caught me and handed me over to that organization, and he is far from being an innocent person."
"Even so, ......" John could say something to get Diaz back to his normal state of mind, but seeing that Diaz didn't want to say anything more and "I'll do it again", he could only sigh and look at the other person. "Lorna, what do you say?"
If there was anyone else who could calm down Marcos Diaz at this time, there was no doubt that person was Lorna Dane, the North Star.
Seeing Thunderbird John ask, Lorna first glanced at Rollo, who was still slumped on the ground and motionless, receiving the simple treatment of Sweet Dream Sonia and them, then turned around and shook her head slightly.
"I don't think that's the point — at least not right now." Here's what she said, "Marcos's problem, we can talk about it later, and now the most urgent thing we need to think about is how to deal with that mysterious organization." Marcos, you say they already know where we are here? ”
Hearing this question, Diaz was silent for two or three seconds: "Not only that, they have already laid an encirclement at a distance of one kilometer outside, and they have blocked the surrounding traffic arteries......"
Before he could finish speaking, there were several inhalations from the side, as well as angry. One of them rushed to the crown in a rage, ran over directly in a few steps, and punched Diaz in the face: "You SOB!" ”
Diaz didn't resist — he didn't have the courage to do so. The punch hit him in the cheek, causing him to bleed from the corners of his mouth.
Seeing the bright red at the corner of Diaz's mouth, Polaris Lorna instantly felt a little heartache, and her eyebrows frowned as if she wanted to say something. However, she couldn't help but let herself step forward, but straightened her face and looked at Thunderbird John again, waiting for the latter to speak.
At this time, Thunderbird John also frowned. Sighing again, he stopped the people who were still trying to hit Diaz to get angry, and then he spoke.
"Marcos, tell me what you know about that organization. Also, how did they tell you about this? ”
Diaz's body shook several times involuntarily.
"That organization...... I've only been exposed to very little, mostly between the lab and the cell, but I also find it terrifying. They have top scientists, and then, not to mention sodium thiopental, they have all kinds of tricks to extract confessions, some of which I couldn't have imagined before...... In the first few days, they injected something into my body that I don't know what it was, and that thing was flowing inside me, trying to burst my veins, muscles, skin, or something, and that feeling ......" At this, Diaz trembled again, and you can imagine how terrible the torture he had been at the hands of that organization. It wasn't until Lorna, the North Star, held his arm that he stabilized.
"S.H.I.E.L.D.?" Shaji next to him suddenly said this. Although this small woman with short black hair is not one of the four members of the 'decision-making team', she will give advice from time to time. Her mutant abilities are largely useless in combat, but she has excellent computer skills. So she still knows something about the existence of S.H.I.E.L.D.
"It shouldn't be S.H.I.E.L.D. Not to mention, S.H.I.E.L.D. seems to have an agreement with the X-Men, and if they were to do something to us, they wouldn't wait until now. And ......" made such an analysis, it was 'Big Brother' Thunderbird John. At this, he paused and glanced over to Rollo. "And now the mysterious organization that threatens Marcos doesn't seem to be targeting us, but the guy we want to hand over. I think if it's S.H.I.E.L.D., to deal with such a person, we don't need to cooperate at all, just pull that Iron Man and Thor out. ”
Or Lorna Dane, the North Star, was the most simply: "Marcos, tell me how many people they came." ”
"At that time, I was thinking about apologizing and bringing this person (Rollo) here, and I didn't count them seriously, but ......" Diaz's face was gloomy, "but there were no less than a hundred, and they were all armed, with smoke grenades, riot shields and even grenades, and even snipers......"
Even the mutant who punched Diaz before couldn't care about his anger, only worry.
100 people may not sound like much, especially for those who are used to playing strategy games or know something about history. But in modern warfare, a hundred people is already a force that can attack a city. From the perspective of mutants, a mutant may be able to easily defeat an ordinary person, if this is a mutant ability mainly in combat, then three or four may be fine, but when the ordinary person is thirteen or fourteen, thirty or forty or even more, especially if they have received professional training, wear enough equipment, and have excellent command, even if the mutant has more people, it may not be able to get benefits. What's more, mutants and ordinary people, this is not a game of shopping to the end / see who dies less / the winner is king, even if it is just the loss of a compatriot, for John, it is an unacceptable loss.
So......
"Trust me, I don't want to do that, but like I said...... There is no other way. Diaz said in a slumped voice.
Polaris didn't say anything more, and John sighed again after looking at Diaz and forgetting the motionless Rollo.