After leaving the Himalayas, Grant found the nearest locker and took out a special satellite phone.

Looking at the things in the locker that he put in when he was still a small agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., I couldn't help but feel a feeling.

However, the sensation only lasted for a few seconds before it ended. That's all.

Grant then made several phone calls.

The first call was to Theron's, the South African beauty in freedom and peace. Her superpower is that she can control all kinds of machines to the limit, and this ability can also ignore the limitations of distance, and can generally be transmitted over the network with code. With her help, Grant can learn most of the secrets of this world in the shortest possible time. This will undoubtedly play an important role in his future action plan.

The result is an empty number.

The second call, addressed to Nadim. This Arab buddy was the one who introduced Grant to Freedom and Peace. While his ability to sneak through the dirt at high speed may sound like a bit of a frustration, it can still be used for reconnaissance or infiltration rescue. Even if he is not allowed to attend the school due to his lack of strength and experience, he is still capable of doing it as a sentry. Anyway, in the team that Grant is about to pull up, a place has been reserved for him.

It's an empty number again.

What the heck!

At this point, Grant already felt that something was wrong. He quickly dialed the next phone - Hawke. It is hard to imagine that the eyes of this English gentleman with glasses for hundreds of degrees of myopia are even more powerful than ordinary high-power microscopes; Mutombo purifies the air in a way that no one would have thought would know. Although both of these abilities are relatively out of the ordinary, they are not completely useless.

This time it wasn't empty, both numbers were dialed. However, it was not Grant's two friends of freedom and peace who were talking to him at all.

What the hell is this. If you want to say that one or even two of the numbers have a problem, this can be regarded as a coincidence. But now, that's all four numbers! Don't...... What happened to them so they were forced to change their phone numbers en masse?

It's really possible! Now the whole world knows that there are mutants. Of course, there will be careerists, research freaks, and so on who will find ways to study mutant bodies. Maybe Theron and the others had to hide because they were being targeted.

To make sure of this, Grant decided to leave for Monaco immediately. The villa of the chief, Aaron Johnson, was over there, and he himself had been recuperating or sleeping there because of the injuries inflicted on him by the Ancient One. There are quite a magnificent underground chambers and complete evacuation equipment. If something really happened to the free and peaceful people, even if they had already left there, they should have left some traces that only a few of them knew.

The result was that Grant hit a wall again.

It's not because Theron they're not here. And not because they didn't leave any clues. In fact, Grant asked a lot of people in the neighborhood and even leaked into politics for several days in a row. In the office, he finally determined one thing—no one named Aaron Johnson had ever owned the villa, and no one of the same had ever appeared there. Originally, Grant thought that this was just because Aaron had been living in seclusion all these years, but in the end, he found that the current owner of the villa had lived in the villa for more than ten years and had a good relationship with the neighbors around him.

Grant had met the butler he remembered as Aaron. But the man didn't know any Aaron Johnson, and he himself was a detective who had been serving for more than twenty years......

Never had an Aaron Johnson been over there. No one had seen the Theron and Nadim described by Grant. By all indications, everything that Grant experienced related to freedom and peace was all in the past.

Grant hurried back to the Himalayas without stopping.

This trip is to ask the teacher for sin. Grant, who was super angry, no longer bowed to the mountain politely like the last time, but directly pierced through the magical energy that the magicians used to hide the entrance to the paradise. Then, with his hands raised, several magicians who rushed over flew into the air, and he walked in with a murderous spirit.

In that hall, Grant saw Strange again after five days. But this time, the mood was completely different.

"Strange. How dare you! ”

As soon as they met, Grant pointed at each other's faces and scolded. Strange, who sat on the stone pedestal, was not angry either. Instead, he asked, "Friend, what's wrong?" ”

Looking at Strange's innocent face, Grant became even more angry. Barely holding it down, he spoke word by word.

"Say it. Did you and the Ancient One know that after I go back in time and change the history of mutants, Aaron will disappear? ”

"Aaron? Who is Aaron? ”

"You!"

"Well, I'm kidding. Don't take it seriously. ”

Seeing that Grant was about to make a move, Strange hurriedly became serious: "You mean, all the traces that Aaron Johnson left in our world have disappeared?" ”

"You're still ......"

"No, I don't know!" Strange quickly defended, "I really don't know. As for whether the teacher knows or not. I don't know. But I don't think the teacher knows. ”

Hearing this, Grant stared at the other party's face for a long, long time. Strange looked uncomfortable, and he was holding back a sentence.

"How do you know that the Ancient One doesn't know."

Well, these two are like tongue twisters.

"Since the teachers are bent on bringing mutants back from the dust of history, how can they bother Aaron Johnson?" Strange spread his hands and said, "And you don't know, the teacher has always felt guilty about Johnson. He never gave up looking for a cure for Johnson, he just couldn't do anything about it. ”

"Are you sure what you're saying is true?"

Facing Grant's skeptical gaze, Strange nodded solemnly, "Every word is true!" ”

"Okay, Aaron's side won't talk about it for the time being." Listening to Strange's words, Grant waved his hand, "What about Theron and them." Without Aaron, there would be no freedom and peace. I remember Theron: They weren't doing well before they met Aaron. Now, I need you to help me figure out ......"

"Stop, stop!" Strange looked distressed at this time: "It's true that I am the Supreme Magician, but the Supreme Magician is not a god!" If you're talking about someone from another dimension, or a time traveler or something, maybe I can help you find them. But these natives of this world, how do you ask me to track down and lock down? ”

Grant was also stunned for a moment. He had thought that Strange would use all kinds of excuses to prevaricate, but he really didn't expect that the other party would not find Theron's way. So, that's it? Let those few people who have known each other for a short time but have a deep friendship fend for themselves in hardship, and they don't know each other now anyway?

Just as Grant was struggling, Strange suddenly said something that made him stunned again.

"That's right, Grant. Who told you that without Aaron Johnson, there would be no freedom and peace? (To be continued......)