Chapter 19: The Story of the Phoenix Girl

"Hey, Uncle Wolf, take it easy!" Using his index finger and thumb to pull up one of Wolverine's Edelman claws, the middle finger, Zorro pushed the arm that grabbed his breastplate out. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info"I'll give Gil Grey back to you." And Scott - if you still want him. ”

"What?!" The few people who had just put away the fighting state were vigilant again, of course, more nervous and worried.

"What happened to Scott?" Glancing at Professor X, Stormgirl asked Zorro again.

"On the surface, the energy is exhausted and the life is over......drawn," said Zorro, his gaze swept over the several mutants in front of him one by one, "Inside, I'm not sure if he can use the mutant ability in a short period of time, and I hope that the deep damage is not permanent." ”

Hearing the news, several veteran mutants were stunned. The same goes for Professor X. He knew that Scott was in a coma, but he didn't expect it to be that serious.

"What's going on? He and Jean were ambushed by political axes or army men? Hank asked hurriedly. More sensitive to political, he immediately thought of the political axe and Worthington Industries' "antidote" plan.

Under the gaze of several mutants, Zorro shook his head. But before they could ask any more questions, he smiled and spoke.

"Oh, you don't know, I can't wait to find out to you. However, it would be a lot less fun if I had spoken out. So......" With that, his gaze moved beyond Wolverine and the beast to Professor X, "Hey, hinderer, guess what's going on." ”

Professor X's face turned very ugly. After a few seconds, he made a dry sound from the bottom of his throat with great force: "Is it the piano?" ”

“Bingo!”

After Zorro's affirmative reply, Professor X seemed to have lost all strength, and he was now slumped back in his chair in a wheelchair.

Hank, who was closest to Professor X, was a little confused. He and Professor X have been friends for over fifty years, and although mutants naturally live longer than ordinary people, the hardships they have experienced together are enough to make their friendship even more precious. But never, not even in the hardest of times, he had never seen such a decline from Professor X. Except for the word "why" in his head now, he completely subconsciously rushed to Professor X's side and checked Professor X's body.

Stormgirl's reaction was similar to that of the beast, rushing to Professor X's side as soon as possible. She has been under Professor X for almost 20 years, and the other party is like a teacher and a father, worthy of her unconditional trust, and also the sustenance of her faith.

Only Wolverine. He was also concerned about Professor X's health, but after making sure that Professor X was not seriously ill, he wanted to know what was going on with Jean and Scott.

Professor X also knew that if he didn't talk about it, it would only become a knot in everyone's hearts. So, with a wave of his hand, he said the story so that neither the beast nor the Stormgirl had to take care of him anymore.

"Maybe you don't know the power of the phoenix. It is a mystical energy that is rooted in the depths of human consciousness. It can cause immeasurable damage to its host, enough to destroy the entire planet. And in Qin's body, there is this energy. ”

"In fact, it is not appropriate to define the power of the phoenix simply in terms of 'energy', it is actually all conscious. And this awareness has been influencing Jean as well. So more than ten years ago, he used his psychic ability to imprison the part that belonged to the phoenix and isolated it from Qin's consciousness. But the phoenix is so powerful that it has tried to break through my confinement many times, and even while it is still in confinement, it can slowly affect the piano. ”

"I don't know how much Jean knows about this. But I think that this time Jean was able to survive from the surging river, probably because she had overdrawn her own psychic abilities, forming an energy cocoon outside her body, blocking the terrible pressure and impact. The problem is that her psychic abilities are the basis of the energy that I have set for the imprisonment. So I think that the confinement I have set has been broken, and the phoenix has gained the upper hand in the contest with the consciousness of the qin itself, and has even begun to assimilate—or devour—the consciousness of the qin itself. And the consciousness of the phoenix is only pure animal instincts such as desire, anger, and jealousy. And, of course, gluttony. ”

Professor X made three paragraphs in a row, and he was stupid for listening to his three compatriots. Not to mention Wolverine, who has only joined for a few years, even the beast with a quilt good friend knows this kind of thing for the first time! Especially the last point. What does an energy-themed consciousness do when its gluttonous instinct "kicks in"?

"So Charles, you're saying that Jean, driven by the power of the phoenix, used Scott as a source of food, sucking the energy and even life force in his body?" Hank, a scientist, stammered. Then, without waiting for Professor X to respond, he whispered to himself: "If that phoenix power wants to develop and enrich itself after a long period of oppression, it does need a lot of energy......

Faced with the beast's analysis, Professor X nodded with difficulty.

"No, it can't be!" Stormgirl still can't accept this result, "Jean is still Jean, our companion." She's definitely not going to hurt anyone, not even Scott! ”

Wolverine thinks the same way.

"Don't speculate, that won't help!" "Why don't you just ask him?" he said categorically. He seemed to know what was going on. Speaking of this, he added: "As long as he doesn't take money." ”

So the focus returned to an uninvited guest.

Noticing that Wolverine was still waiting for him with those big copper bell eyes, Zorro shrugged helplessly. Sure enough, it's Wolverine, not King Kong Pig King Kong Tiger or something, and he maintains a high enough aggressiveness towards unfamiliar things at all times.

"I do know what happened. I was picnicking with my little maid by Lake Alcali and enjoying the beauty of nature, and it wasn't long before I saw the Scott come by in a Harley. When he arrived at the lake, he made a lot of noise, and at first I thought it was a lovelorn man who wanted to commit suicide by jumping into the lake. Then I saw him take off his glasses and shoot at the lake. Then a whirlpool appeared on the surface of the lake, bringing a strong wave of air, followed by a golden cocoon of light. Under the golden light, Scott's laser beam dissolves and disappears, and the light cocoon fades away, and a woman walks out. It's your phoenix girl. As soon as she came out, she hugged and kissed Scott, and the kiss was so intense and so realistic. Scott's skin was starting to turn gray and was still squirming in small strands, and I knew something was wrong at a glance, so I went over and interrupted them. Luckily, although Phoenix Girl sucked a lot of the 'essence' from Scott, she wasn't strong enough for me to knock her out. ”

After listening to Zorro's words, both Storm Girl and Wolverine's faces were not very good-looking.

"Thank you for your help in preventing a tragedy that is about to happen to my fellow citizens." Professor X nodded at Zorro and looked at him with a sharp gaze, "But according to you, you didn't communicate with them at all, so how did you know their names?" (The new book asks all kinds of support from book friends - click on the collection recommendation message~)