Chapter 115: Bitter Search
With the disappearance of Alex and others, the United States and the Soviet Union also died down, and after a simple exchange, they returned directly as if nothing had happened. The soldiers of the fleets on both sides were even given gag orders by the government, and no news came out.
The fact is also that there is a lot of speculation about the Cuban Missile Crisis, but there have never been rumors of "mutants involved".
When Alex learned of this, he thought that both the United States and the Soviet Union had accepted his threat, "if people don't offend me, I won't offend others", and he was bent on developing in the wilderness. Alex didn't know that the real news about the Cuban Missile Crisis had already spread to governments around the world, and an undercurrent was quietly surging around the world, so hidden that even S.H.I.E.L.D. did not receive any news.
After returning to the Floating Temple with Charles, Alex didn't get a moment to rest and soon became involved in a new operation, targeting the Mutant Brotherhood and AIM in the Savage Lands.
There are many forces in the Wild Lands, with Alex as the leader of the floating temple as the boundary, the forests and swamps on one side are occupied by various humanoids, and the plains on the other side were originally the capital of the descendants of Atlantis, but with the arrival of Sebastian Shaw and Straker, the descendants of Atlantis have long been reduced to vassals of the Mutant Brotherhood and AIM.
Emma paid little attention to the wildlings in the forests and swamps, and only sent a small number of personnel to guard against them. There were few clashes between the two sides, and relations were not too strained. However, Emma has always been extremely wary of the mutant brotherhood and AIM in the plains of the Savage Lands, especially the mutant brotherhood.
This time Sebastian Shaw was captured. Naturally, Emma will not let go of this opportunity. Immediately ask Alex and the X-Men to take the opportunity to subdue all the Brotherhood mutants. Take advantage of the situation to solve the group of people in AIM again.
For Emma's request, Alex naturally had no reason to refuse, so he could only postpone his commitment to the crystal again and start leading the X-Men around the battle.
The battle didn't go as easily as Alex expected, and even with the loss of Sebastian Shaw as the leader, the Mutant Brotherhood showed great cohesion and fought a long and protracted battle with the X-Men under a new leader.
On this day, Alex retreated from the front line. He was about to go to find Eric and Sebastian Shaw to copy the ability, but he was caught by the crystal that he had been waiting for a long time.
Seeing the crystal with a cold face, Alex was a little embarrassed, he didn't expect that this battle would be fought for so long, and half a year had passed before he knew it! Half a year has passed, and the Mutant Brotherhood's sphere of influence has been greatly reduced, but their combat effectiveness has increased a lot, and the battle between the two sides has inevitably fallen into a standoff, so that the war will continue for a long time.
Crystal didn't say a word, just looked at Alex without blinking. After talking for half a year, she really didn't want to speak again.
"Okay, I'll take you to my sister today!" Alex smiled wryly. Holding Crystal's shoulder, he walked out. Alex really can't stand being complained by Crystal every few days, so it's better to find Medusa and send people back.
At first, Crystal thought that he would return in vain, but when he suddenly heard Alex agree, he couldn't react a little, knowing that he was pushed away by Alex's shoulders before he could come back to his senses.
Alex did what he said he would, without even trying to replicate Sebastian Shaw and Eric's abilities, and went straight to X Pictures in New York with the crystal.
Since actively cutting off contact with S.H.I.E.L.D., Alex has basically not appeared in S.H.I.E.L.D., but Nick Fury still shares some news with Alex, which usually goes to X Pictures and then back to the Floating Temple, including Medusa's news. Alex had handed over the search for Medusa to Nick Fury, and in the past six months, S.H.I.E.L.D. has been distracted by the search.
After saying hello to Vivien Leigh, Alex took the crystal directly to the intelligence center underneath the X Pictures Building.
"Wait, I'll see what the news is." The news of S.H.I.E.L.D. has been coming, but Alex has been busy fighting the mutant brotherhood for half a year, and he has paid little attention to it, and it has been backlogged for a long time. After explaining a word to Crystal, Alex plunged headlong into the information.
After searching for a while, Alex found a thick folder in a row of bookshelves, with the word Medusa specially marked on it.
When I opened it, the first thing I saw was a photo, and below it was two lines of text.
"India, Bihar, suspected target found!"
"Three days of contact, elimination!"
"It's hard work for them!" Muttering, Alex quickly flipped through the documents, most of them were ruled out, a few of them could not be determined for the time being, and the last few pages were recently discovered targets, and there was no time to determine yet.
Picking out these targets that were not excluded, Alex counted them, a total of seventeen, and the target locations were all over the world, but fortunately, each target had a photo, which saved Alex a lot of trouble.
Putting away the seventeen photos, Alex immediately took the crystal and set out on a verification journey.
"What is this place?" For more than half a year, most of the crystal stayed in the floating temple, knowing little about the outside world, looking at the unfamiliar environment around him, he subconsciously repulsed a little, and couldn't help but get closer to Alex.
Alex patted Crystal on the shoulder for comfort, turned his head to look around, looked at the photo in his hand again, shrugged and said, "First target, let's go!" ”
With that, Alex picked up the crystal without saying a word and walked quickly towards the small village in front of him.
Ten minutes later, Alex and Crystal walked out with disappointed expressions.
"Don't worry, there are sixteen more!" Seeing that Crystal was a little disappointed, Alex waved the remaining sixteen photos in his hand, smiled and comforted, "Maybe, your sister will be next!" ”
Crystal glanced at Alex, the expression on his face not softening at all, clearly not believing Alex's comfort.
Alex was a little speechless, looked down at the photo in his hand, activated the teleportation, and took the crystal to the second target.
Disappointment, disappointment, constant disappointment, only two of the seventeen photos were left in an instant.
Looking at the only two photos left in Alex's hand, the expression on Crystal's face grew colder and colder.
Alex didn't expect such a result, he thought that with the ability of S.H.I.E.L.D., how could there be a result in half a year, but after looking for it in a circle, he still found nothing, and Alex began to doubt the ability of S.H.I.E.L.D.!
Of course, thinking so in his heart, Alex still had to comfort a few words: "There are two more, both in Huaxia, I feel that the possibility is very high!" ”
Hearing this, Crystal's heart moved, and a trace of memory appeared on his face, which had been expressionless, and he was silent for a long time before he said, "Huaxia? That valley? "Crystal has no concept of the countries on earth, but the word "Huaxia" is still fresh in my memory.
"The valley?" Alex was stunned when he heard this, and immediately thought of something, and nodded, "It's Huaxia!" (To be continued......)