That afternoon, Bucky and Anna arrived at Xavier School.

When I got out of the car, I saw that on the basketball court on the side, there were more than a dozen children of different ages playing with the ball, which seemed to be still playing, while Hank the Beast changed his usual formal attire and wore a set of casual sportswear, playing the role of a referee.

"Hey! Hank, it's been a long time since you've been doing your research in the lab, it's not very common! ”

Walking forward, Bucky greeted Hank warmly. In the past six months, Bucky has also visited the school several times, but has never met Hank, and according to Professor X, Hank is currently communicating with the U.S. government to try to convince the government to form an official, mutant governing body to handle all matters related to mutants.

"Barnes, and Anna, it's been a long time, and I haven't been to school very much lately, and it's been a long time since I've played with this group of kids, so I'm not here to be a referee for them today." Hank handed the referee post to an older student who was watching the game, walked up to Bucky and asked, "Barnes, is there anything going on with coming to school today?" ”

"Yes, Hank, there's something I'd like to ask the professor for a favor with, and maybe you'll have to trouble it."

Hearing this, Hank couldn't help but glance up at Bucky, nodded, and said, "Okay, I'll take you to Charles." ”

After sending Anna to the students she had a good relationship with, Bucky, led by Hank, walked into Professor X's office.

Professor X, who was reading a book at his desk, raised his head and asked Bucky with a smile, "Mr. Barnes, there must be something going on here during the school holidays, right?" ”

Bucky nodded and said straight to the point: "This time, I want to ask the professor for help." About ten days ago, a rat appeared in New York that had been mutating, and it ......"

Bucky gave the professor a brief explanation of the Rat's abilities and combat prowess, as well as the dangers that the Rats and the rat tide they controlled might bring to New York.

"Professor, now that this monster rat is lurking, we can't find its traces, Professor, you can lock every ordinary person and mutant on the earth through the brainwave enhancement machine, can you find the location of this mutant rat?"

After thinking for a moment, Professor X finally shook his head and explained his ability with a little apology: "I'm sorry, Barnes, my ability can only accurately perceive human brainwaves, and the brainwave enhancement machine is also designed and manufactured based on human brainwaves, and I can't accurately distinguish the brainwaves of other creatures, so I'm afraid I won't be able to help you this time." ”

Professor X's reply made Bucky a little disappointed, and continued to ask unwillingly: "That mutated mouse has no less intelligence than humans, maybe its brain waves will be more special, different from other ordinary mice, and different from humans, so maybe it can be found out." ”

"Maybe you can try, we've never thought of using brainwaves to find other types of creatures before, and it's not bad to do an experiment." At this time, Hank also reminded Professor X on the side.

Nodding, Professor X accepted the offer, took control of the wheelchair, and took Bucky and Hank to the brainwave search room.

"Professor, that strange rat should be hiding in a corner of the sewers in New York, you try to search for the abnormal brainwave signal located underground, maybe you can find it."

Professor X put on his helmet, turned on the brainwave enhancement machine, closed his eyes, and began to try to search for abnormal brainwaves. The walls around the brainwave search room immediately turned into a starry sky, and Bucky could see that blue points of light appeared all around, which were the brainwave signals of ordinary people.

Soon, blue brainwave signals began to become scarce, which is why the professor began to locate the signals under New York. Bucky noticed a dozen or so people gathering together in several places, presumably the rodent extermination team sent by S.H.I.E.L.D., still searching the sewers for clues left by the rats.

In the next moment, Professor X blocked out the brainwave signals emitted by ordinary people and concentrated on searching for abnormal signals. It's a pity that after blocking the brainwave signals of ordinary people, the entire brainwave search room fell into darkness.

"Sorry, Barnes, I couldn't catch any unusual signals." Professor X took off his helmet with an apologetic look on his face.

"Don't be such a professor, I'm grateful if you could help me try it."

The method of using the brainwave booster to search for strange rats did not work, and Bucky was not disappointed, he had originally tried this method with the mentality of giving it a try, and since it didn't work, then forget it.

"Is there anything else I can do to help?" Back in his study, the professor then asked Bucky.

Bucky was not polite to him, and said directly: "I want to borrow a few X-Men from the school." ”

"Borrow? X-Men? "This is probably the first time someone has made such a request, and Professor X is a little unresponsive.

"Yes, Professor, I actually have another way to lure that monster out......"

Bucky tells Professor X and Hank about the "special care" of the monsters, and Bucky has nothing to hide from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s decoy plan.

"Regarding this plan, I think it is feasible, but for S.H.I.E.L.D., I can't completely trust myself to them, so I hope to borrow two X-Men to help me complete that decoy plan."

Hearing this, Professor X and the beast were silent, the situation of mutants is not good now, most of the time, including Professor X and Hank himself, they can only act as low-key as possible, and try to fade out of the world of ordinary people. Participating in the mission of S.H.I.E.L.D., such a high-profile thing is not in line with the school's current code of conduct.

"I'm sorry Barnes, it's not in line with our school's philosophy, and you know the current social situation, the rejection of mutants by ordinary people is still serious, and we can't take that risk."

For decades, the teachers, students, and X-Men in the school lived an almost secluded life, and only when mutants endangered ordinary humans did the X-Men go out to quell such incidents. This time, Professor X still sticks to his usual style, the mutant monster is not a mutant, and he will not let anyone in the school get involved in this matter.

Hank, who was on the side, also echoed and said: "Barnes, maybe you should know that in the past six months, I have been hoping to cooperate with the government department to establish an official organization managed by mutants to deal with the increasingly irreconcilable contradictions between ordinary humans and mutants. However, my progress has been very slow, even stagnant, and no one in the U.S. government, from a small employee to a governor or a member of Congress, is willing to stand up and say a word of justice for mutants. In such an environment, we can only do our best to avoid being exposed to the public. ”

Bucky didn't expect Professor X and Hank to be so resolute in their approach to this matter. After looking down and thinking for a long time, Bucky said, "Professor, Hank, what do you think is the reason for the current contradictions between ordinary people and mutants?" ”

"It's because of our abilities, ordinary people don't understand our abilities and are afraid of our abilities, plus some mutants will be overly self-aggrandized because of their abilities, and they may embark on the path of crime."

Hank's analysis is very accurate, in fact, most ordinary people reject mutants because of this.

"Didn't you think about solving the problem at its root?"

At this time, Professor X sighed deeply, and said in a gloomy tone: "I have thought about it, but there is really nothing we can do, we can't stop the criminal behavior of mutants across the country, as long as this kind of thing happens, the mutant race will be burdened with black cauldron for a very small number of people." Our abilities will be unconsciously guessed by ordinary people in a malicious way, but in fact, most mutants will not use their mutant abilities to commit crimes. Rather, Eric, his Brotherhood has absorbed those mutant criminals, and has grown much faster than our school, and now, the X-Men have fallen into the disadvantage, and if the Brotherhood does anything out of the ordinary, I'm afraid we really don't have the ability to stop them. ”

In the face of Magneto's actions, Professor X will always have a deep sense of powerlessness, although the two are both for the development of the mutant race, and they are each other's best friends, but the difference in philosophy has caused them to have countless large and small conflicts, and in the end, not only did not improve the living environment of mutants, but became worse and worse.

Listening to Professor X's deep voice about his past efforts, Bucky couldn't help but sigh, as he got older, Professor X became more and more conservative, coupled with the current social situation, Professor X put most of his energy on the acre and third of the Xavier School.

"Professor, to be honest, the living environment of mutants has reached this point now, and it will not change in the previous way." After a pause, Bucky continued: "To put it mildly, now Xavier School has professors you and Hank to support you, but in the future, if the two of you are gone, who can hold up a sky for the academy, and who can hold up a sky for mutants?" ”

Listening to Bucky's words, Professor X and Hank's eyes also dimmed, indeed as Bucky said, if the current state continues, the living environment of mutants can only deteriorate, and the students in Xavier's school, as Bucky said, although there are a few good seedlings with excellent talent and hard enough, but to say that students who can stand up for mutants, so far, Professor X has not found one.

"Instead of slowly dying out in silence, take a little risk, make a little change, and fight for the future of mutants!" Bucky continued in an excited tone: "Ordinary people ostracize you because of the criminal behavior of mutants, so why don't you try to be a superhero and use your abilities to tell the world that mutant abilities can not only be used to commit crimes, but also help everyone." Let the world gradually change from fearing and disgusting the abilities of mutants to appreciating and envious, and at that time, do you still need to worry about the living environment of mutants? ”