Chapter 22: "The Birdcage"
"Charles, what's that?" While Charles and Lorna were chatting with each other, the next wave of attacks was already ready on the other side, and radar-like devices appeared in front of Charles.
"Sonar attack, can you withstand it?" Charles glanced at it, and guessed the opponent's attack pattern, since the physical attack is ineffective, it is natural to try other attack methods, and the sonar attack is a very effective non-physical attack.
"Can't ......" Marcos replied to Charles with a helpless face, in addition to having superpowers, their bodies also belong to humans, so in the face of this attack that can deal with the Hulk, they can only escape.
"Then cover your ears, remember, follow me, don't get too far away from me. Charles glanced at the distance, then released the Ruyi Dragon Pattern, which turned into a very large vibranium shield, and walked towards the other party.
The two immediately followed Charles' advice, covered their ears with their hands, and then looked at the large shield released by Charles and stood behind the shield.
"Listen, the people inside, you have been surrounded, put your weapons on the ground, and surrender immediately!" After ensuring the safety of Lorna and Marcos, Charles turned on the loudspeaker mode and began to shout into the inside, shouting the kind that American police often shout to criminals, and Charles also tried his best to imitate those righteous tones.
Charles naturally didn't expect this kind of joke to really make the other party put down his arms, the words were just playing, what really worked was that Charles's voice was blessed with the "Lion Roar" special effect, and the vertigo effect brought by the "Lion Roar" made the people in the Capitol Building After hearing this sentence, except for a few military personnel who needed to operate sonar weapons, they were not affected and even their angry expressions did not appear, they began to stagger, they were just ordinary people, and the words shouted by Charles could interfere with those martial arts masters.
"The other side also has sonar weapons, be careful. Seeing that Charles's sonar weapon actually put down everyone on his side, those soldiers who were not disturbed immediately reminded the people around them to be careful, but unfortunately those people were already stunned by Charles's "lion roar", and these soldiers reminded a little late.
While he was still panicking here, Charles had already withstood the attack of sonar weapons, and walked to the gate of the Capitol with Lorna and Marcos step by step, stopped about ten meters away from each other, and shouted to the government personnel who had just recovered from their dizziness: "Are you quiet, it's too disturbing to the people?" ”
Although Charles shouted loudly in this sentence, it was okay that it did not have the effect of blessing the "lion's roar", so the other party just felt that the voice was loud and did not dizzy again.
And Charles's action of stopping also made the other party's commanders see that Charles was not here to start a war, although Charles's actions were very bad in nature and seriously threatened the security of the government, but his own attack was ineffective, and if Charles wanted to hurt people, now was the best opportunity.
After all this consideration, they decided to listen to Charles's purpose before deciding whether to continue the war with the mutants.
The men stopped the useless sonar attack, and after discussing with each other, the current president of the United States pushed away the soldiers in front of him, stood in front of Charles, and asked, "Tell me what you mean." ”
"Meaning...... "Lorna, what am I here for?" Charles also withdrew his shield, then scratched his head, and asked Lorna, who was beside him, what he was here for, whether he was here to be an ambassador of peace or to save mutants.
Lorna looked at Charles with an angry face, very dissatisfied with Charles's current state of being okay.
"Oh, I remember, ahem, we just saved a compatriot who was captured by the Sentinel SWAT Department, this compatriot had a serious rejection reaction after being rescued by us, and then died right in front of us, originally I always thought that you were just worried that you were arresting mutants just worried that mutants would use their power to break the law, so I didn't have any resistance to the mutant bill, I just felt that it was nothing to be harsh, and it wouldn't interfere with my life anyway.
But yesterday's events made me no longer able to ignore the mutant bill, some of you use this unreasonable bill to covertly capture mutants and then conduct all kinds of inhumane experiments, so it is necessary for me to discuss with you the human rights of the mutant race. ”
After some initial reflection, Charles began to talk to the president about his purpose in an official tone.
"Is that all?" the president asked, puzzled.
"Yes. Charles nodded, agreeing with his guess.
The president in front of him was silent for a moment, their meeting this time was to discuss the earth that appeared above their heads in an instant yesterday, and now there is a powerful mutant who wants to fight for the rights and interests of mutants, this situation makes the president feel that Charles is not too confident or arrogant, does he really think that the government has no means to target mutants?
"Mr. President, the mutant bill has been judicially reviewed, there is nothing unreasonable, and what he said is not the truth of the matter, I have received news from my side that a mutant employee of the Sentinel SWAT Department was savagely captured by them, and now it seems that they have killed him......"
At this time, a staff member standing behind the president began to advise the president, he was a staunch racist, and the Mutant Act was promoted by the consortium behind him, and if Charles proved that it was indeed true, and finally changed the government's attitude towards mutants, they would be dealt a very serious blow, and even seriously affect his political future, and even said that the Sentinel SWAT would be disbanded.
"Can you prove that what you said is true?" the president interrupted the advice of his aides, and Charles proved with his own strength that he had the right to talk to him, in this case, it was still necessary to investigate, as a president, he would not play the game of brutal governance.
"It doesn't seem like so, but it doesn't matter, I don't care if you believe what I say, I'm just here to tell you that if you don't change your attitude towards mutants, I'll stand on the side of mutants, and tell everyone what a powerful enemy you politicians have set up for the United States and even for all of humanity. Charles said kindly.
"You're starting a war...... the president said incredulously as he heard Charles' words.
"You started this battle first, didn't you? You also saw it, I just wanted to meet you, and I was directly attacked by your weapons, if it wasn't for my good temper, you would have been killed by me a long time ago, so, think about it, whether to continue to enforce your laws, or to be my enemy, first of all, your methods against mutants are useless to me. Charles continued to laugh, not feeling how domineering he was at all, because the truth of the matter was that Charles forced his way into the Capitol before he was attacked.
"There's no way the U.S. government can accept this threat, and neither will I, you've made the wrong choice. "Faced with the threat to Charles' life, the president did not give in, but told Charles that he would fight to the end.
"I've heard the saying that if there's just one choice, it's the best choice, no matter how stupid that choice is. Charles laughed and told the U.S. government that he didn't feel how wrong he was in his choice.
Then the Ruyi dragon pattern in Charles's hand began to deform, erupted from Charles's hand, covering the sky above the Capitol, and then, like Doflamingo's birdcage, transparent silk threads fell from the connection points above and penetrated deep into the ground, completely cutting off everyone's entry and exit.
"Alright, let's go in and talk about how to change the Mutant Act, after all, none of you can get out of here now, can you?"