Dr. Brian Xavier is a wealthy physicist whose castle-like mansion in West Chester is the ancestral property of the Xavier family.

The family came to the United States as one of the first British colonists and has been operating on the land for nearly two hundred years.

As early as the eighteenth century, the prototype of the future Xavier Mansion was built here, but by Brian Xavier's generation, the family was left with only a single seedling, or a sound single seedling.

Charles lived in England for many years during his studies, and after receiving his PhD from Oxford University, he lived with Raven in New York for several years.

Although the drive is not far from the old mansion, he prefers to work closer to New York University, especially now that he is also the chief consultant of the Mutant Force Research Department, and he has no time to travel between the two places.

Hank McCawayin hesitated for a long time at a townhouse near Greenwich Village, rehearsing how to greet him and how to say hello.

Charles had hinted to him that Revan would be home today.

Finally, Hank paused, took a deep breath, and just knocked twice, the door opened.

"I didn't expect you to knock on the door, hey, Hank! Charles has already gone to the institute. ”

Raven seemed to be about to go out, in front of the mahogany full-length mirror at the entrance of the door, smiling and tidying up her dress, she had just changed into a white off-the-shoulder dress, her hair was a lot softer, her complexion looked great, there was no bright makeup, and she was rarely elegant and dignified.

"I, hi... I was trying to ask if you were free for the evening, Marilyn Monroe's new movie premiere, I have two tickets..."

Hank was distracted by such a fast rhythm of opening the door, he looked at Raven, who was wearing a white slim dress today, which was particularly bright and moving, and his ears were even hotrup, and he squeaked and made it clear what he meant.

"Oh... I'm sorry Hank, I have arrangements for tonight, maybe you can ask Charles, and I-"

Burst!

There was a slight noise in the air, and Asa Zuo flashed with a thin wisp of red and black smoke, interrupting Raven's apologetic and hesitant words to explain something.

He was still wearing a slightly pompous black shoulder-to-shoulder slim-fitting suit, and his hair looked carefully groomed.

"The dress is so pretty, I think blue would go well with it."

"Oh! I'm used to it, I forgot to go to your house and don't have to keep it like this, is this dress really okay, I don't have a lot of clothes for formal occasions......"

Raven reverted to his red-haired and blue-skinned appearance as he spoke, and asked Asa Zuo with some concern if he was dressed appropriately, and she was still nervous when she went to Mr. Howlett's house for dinner for the first time.

Hank McCawayin was stunned in place, and the sudden red figure and Raven suddenly turned into a bright yellow-eyed, white-eyed, blue-skinned... appearance, all of which made him more and more unable to keep up with the rhythm.

From Charles, Hank already knew that Raven's mutant ability was the ability to change shape, but this was the first time he had seen Raven come in.

Mr. McCawan, a young scientific genius, suddenly felt empty, and he avoided his cheek and picked at the frame of his glasses, not just sad that Revan was dating the mutant man he had met once.

It was only at this moment that he realized that compared to Raven's true face, his feet were nothing.

"Hey, young man, let's go to dinner together, my family is very hospitable, and you've seen my dad."

Asa generously took the initiative to invite, this young mutant who didn't know where he came from looked like an honest man, and he was Raven's friend, so there was nothing wrong with getting together together.

Hank reluctantly tugged at the corners of his mouth, and said, "I remember that the institute has a project in a hurry, by the way, Raven, you look so good." ”

He finally smiled hard, praised Raven sincerely, and hurried away.

Asa shrugged his shoulders and took Raven's hand, and as soon as the girl closed the door, the two of them instantly exploded into a cloud of smoke and dust, disappearing without a trace.

.........

"How did you get back? Raven not at home? ”

Charles is writing the basic information of a mutant he has just discovered in the booklet, and they plan to start from New York, gradually contact the mutant people hidden in all corners of society, solve the problems and troubles in their lives, and invite the other party to participate in the research of mutant power to a certain extent.

At least that's what Professor Charles Xavier envisioned and considered.

"You still need to ask? You can't just think about it. ”

Hank sat on the swivel chair with his ass on his ass, squeaked and shook the chair by inertia, he staggered off his exaggerated leather shoes, and did not wear socks, and his thick toes, which were forced to curl and fold, slowly stretched out, without restraints, comfortably picking at the floor from time to time.

With the eyes of a doctor of genetic mutation and genetics, Charles looked at Hank's strong calves and soles with interest.

Each of his toes is extraordinarily long and strong, some of which resemble the feet of a gorilla, and can grasp things as nimble as a hand, but with more force.

"We are friends, I will not take the initiative to probe your spirit and thoughts, and even if they do, most of them are only superficial to search for what they want to see, you must know that people's memories and thoughts are very complex and ......."

Charles stopped, he really seldom seldom peeked into people's innermost thoughts and secrets, because that often saw the most unacceptable truth.

It's like seeing her mother Sharon decide to remarry not long after her father's death, and the cruel truth that she has no nostalgia for herself deep down.

In this world, only the sun and the human heart cannot be looked at directly.

"Raven and that red-skinned guy left, saying they were going to his house for dinner, you know, the Howlett family."

Hank stretched out his legs, looked up at the ceiling, and looked at the fan blades with unfocused eyes, and the uninteresting rhythm of the fan blades flashed down without surprise, and he wanted to lie down a little.

"No wonder! The other day, I brought back a handicraft ornament from a so-called indigenous African country, not from the place of origin, and I laughed at her that she had been deceived by a gypsy vendor. ”

Charles put down the pen in his hand, and said a little angrily, as soon as he finished speaking, the room suddenly fell into a long awkward silence, and he, like Hank, just stared blankly at the ceiling, as if the boring fan blades could really have some new tricks.

Both men seem to feel like they have lost something, only the situation is not the same.

"What do you think of the situation at that Mr. Howlett's house, that man... and the people around him, compared to the so-called 'Black Emperor' Xiao, look much more terrifying. ”

After a while, Hank McCawan finally asked Charles beside him faintly, but it was more like talking to himself.

Charles suddenly got up, rolled up the sleeves of his shirt, and was about to walk to the brainwave machine in the center of the laboratory.

"No, Raven is too dangerous like this! That family is like a gangster, I don't know what kind of inhumane entertainment there will be, even smoking some drugs, I have to go and see! ”

As he spoke, he hurriedly put on his brainwave monitor, and Hank didn't even move his buttocks, and said:

"Didn't you say that the woman who also has the power of mind can stop all your prying eyes, and who knows where they will be in the world, and the person who takes Raven can teleport......"

Charles was deflated, and he muttered that he must ask clearly when Raven came back, even if he secretly carried her behind his back and took a look in his head.

Oldmond, Canada, Howlett House.

In the past few decades, the vicinity of the old mansion has long been no longer the same as when old Mr. Howlett first built the manor, only an endless wilderness and hills.

With the proliferation of generations of the Howlett family, whether it is the descendants of the earliest wolves or members in charge of business and other affairs, they have been building their own houses around the manor buildings of the old mansion.

Gradually, it became a bit like a medieval lord's fiefdom, a quiet town hidden away from the hustle and bustle.

Eric Lanshel walked up with a stack of plates floating beside him, placing them one by one on the table in the hall, controlling the metal cutlery to land flexibly in front of each chair.

There are not many servants in the old mansion on weekdays, after all, there are few people who need to be taken care of here except for the old housekeeper of Casper, who can barely walk.

Although they do the work of servants, they are all descendants of the old men of the family, and they are essentially members of the family, and they will choose their own future according to their own wishes, rather than being James's servants for generations.

When it comes to dinner days, there will always be some people who are short of manpower, and everyone will do something by themselves, just like ordinary people eat together.

Asa Zuo teleported from the kitchen, holding a bundle of slender sticks made of wood and delicate craftsmanship, and placed them on each plate in pairs.

"I've seen this! Is it called a fast child? I used it at a sushi restaurant, and it was a cutlery for Japanese people to eat. ”

"No, it's from China, all other places are learned from there, in ancient times, they would be very proud to say that this is a cultural creation from that country, but just like people, countries or nations can become very snobbish."

James smiled and walked down the stairs, correcting Raven's statement seriously, but not seriously, he looked at Raven's original face and happily praised Assa's eyes.

Miss Revane looked at Mr. Howlett who had finally appeared, still a little nervous, and stood quietly beside Asa to the left.

Although the other party is as young as Charles, that kind of deep and far-reaching temperament seems to come from another era, and it does not seem out of place with the present.

James sat in the center of the top, Emma sat down on his right-hand side, pulling Raven next to him, and as the chefs laid out the dishes one by one, Bucky, Steve, and a few of the Winter Wolf Warriors at the manor were all sitting in their seats looking at him.

"It's a holiday, everyone has a meal together, try these dishes, and the chefs have been studying in New York's Chinatown for several years."

There was no special speech or ceremony, it was like the most ordinary family dinner, or even more casual, Raven watched almost everyone skillfully use the fast seeds, eating fresh dishes with unusually attractive flavors and colors, and not only asked Asa Zuo in a puzzled whisper.

"What is today?"

She thought for a long time that she could not remember any special holiday on this day in September, could it be that this Mr. Howlett observed some other cultural customs.

"Our family will have festivals, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the traditional days of the East, no one knows which day it is, only my father knows, and the date is different every year, and our family will have another day alone on the New Year."

Raven nodded incomprehensibly, she was extremely curious and interested in everything about the Howlett family, and the atmosphere here was more relaxed and comfortable than she had ever been in for as long as she could remember.

can generously show his true appearance in front of so many people, without seeing any strange eyes.

"Raven, how do you feel when you change? Can I only change the appearance of my body? ”

Emma had become very familiar with Raven after an afternoon, and before Miss Peggy came, she was the only girl here, and Raven, who was also a mutant, was able to have dinner with him today, which made Emma very happy.

She asked curiously about the details of this magical ability, and as a woman, Emma was also very envious of this ability.

Well, Raven's white dress changed into the same black suit as Asa Zuo next to him, and then the person also changed into his appearance, with a large body and even a tail.

Everyone was amazed, Bucky and Eric even applauded and cheered a few times, and James watched Raven's changes carefully, and couldn't help but be amazed.

Only Asa looked at "himself" who winked playfully at him, and couldn't help but feel numb on his scalp and get goosebumps on his body.

"I can directly imitate the appearance of clothes, as well as the appearance of many substances, maybe my epidermal tissue is not the same, but if I wear other real clothes, I can only cover it up, I can't make any changes, it's okay to be lighter, it's okay to be too heavy."

Everyone was talking about Raven's skills, and even Bucky asked Raven if he could take off his body-modeled clothes, and was slapped on the back of the neck by Steve before he closed his mouth in amusement.

Raven chatted happily with everyone, asking Steve about his experience during World War II, how Bucky's metal arm felt with it, and even biting Emma's ear to wonder how she felt with Mr. Howlett.

James spends more time than watching everyone laugh and chat, that is, eating stuffy, with braised pork, sweet and sour fish, and stir-fried meat with green peppers...... Let the back kitchen serve bowl after bowl of rice.

Although he didn't speak much, there was a fiery emotion rippling in his chest.

That's the joy and warmth that home can bring.

......

After dinner, James took out an old black-and-white photo from more than half a century ago, and showed Revane the appearance of Asa being held in his arms when he was a child, and his skinny, small, and somewhat pitiful appearance attracted a soft light in the eyes of several women.

Everyone began to count Assazo's cripple now, and under the Red Devil's resentful eyes, James gave Steve and Peggy a look and went upstairs to the study.

Mr. and Mrs. Rogers sat at the antique desk, looking at the fluorescent purple serum potion bottle in a slender vibranium box in front of them, and looked at each other with some puzzlement.

"'Styx' serum, Steve knows, that's what Bucky uses, you already have the foundation, don't bother so much, I'll go back and make up for it later, but Peggy-"

James pondered for a moment, then said slowly to Madame Rogers:

"I can give you two choices, one is a mature and safe super soldier serum, and then one day you can enter the winter of wolves, and then thaw it when the time is right in the future and see him again."

"The other is 'Styx', which is very dangerous, the survival rate is less than half, Steve himself has undergone serum transformation, coupled with so many years of grinding and cultivation, the realm of killing is also very high, so it may be easier to bear, but if you inject it directly, ......"

After a long silence, the three of them did not make a sound, Steve suddenly smiled, and said generously and seriously:

"Teacher, I'm not interested in 'Styx', even now, Bucky is not necessarily my opponent, the original serum is enough, Peggy and I can live together for a long time."

James nodded, this result was expected by him, with Steve's personality is likely to choose this way, he said a little gloomy:

"Nothing lasts forever, maybe I can live a long time, but that is not a kind of happiness, eternal life is a very cruel choice, not for others, but for myself."

"In this universe, only pure and emotionless beings will choose like this, but what is the difference between that kind of life and earth, stone, gold and iron? Let's do this first, the technology will improve in the future, and I believe that there will be more choices at that time. ”

James felt that the matter had basically been settled, and just as he was about to get up, Peggy, who had been silent, said seriously: "Sir, I hope to try 'Styx'." ”

"Don't talk yet!"

Peggy's white fingertips covered Steve's eagerly open mouth, turned to look at James, and continued for a moment:

"You said that this choice is left to me, and I now have my own pursuit, if I didn't meet you, I would be happy to do a job that is helpful to society and the world, and accompany Steve to old age, but you let us see a way and open the door to a new world."

"I don't want to miss the excitement of this journey, I don't want to grow old after a few years, or to wake up in the frost and let the world become strange in my eyes."

Steve finally spoke out urgently, and his handsome appearance was a little deformed.

"You can use the original serum first, and then try to supplement a shot like me in a few years, the technology will definitely be more perfect at that time, and I will wait for you together!"

Miss Peggy smiled softly, her husband, who was a little too upright, had not thought through many joints.

"Do you think Mr. will be stingy with a few heart-shaped grasses, with the vibranium meteorite, you can continue to cultivate this magical plant in the future, but even with the super soldier serum as a foundation, it is difficult to superimpose the power of this serum, right, sir?"

James didn't say anything, just looked at Steve, and his eyes said it all.

The evolutionary power of the human gene cannot be simply calculated as one plus one equals two, and the two sera are both related but mutually exclusive.

Adding the Styx Serum to the Super Soldier Serum can be even more dangerous.

Unless you break all the secrets of the physical body and advance your cultivation to the level of energy, that is, the Gang Qi realm, you can resist the double rejection of the will and the body.

"I know it's not fair to you."

Peggy stroked Steve's face, looked at her husband's lonely eyes, and couldn't help but loosen the thought she had just made in her heart.

"It's that I ignore your feelings too much, to be honest, in those days on the battlefield, I always felt that your inner strength was more suitable than me to be a so-called 'hero', but this era and people's concepts have bound you."

"Harm ......"

James sighed and sprinkled this in front of my old man, if it weren't for the fact that there were more and more people around me now, it would be really uncomfortable for a while.

"Okay, you can accompany Peggy to practice the killing technique for a while, although the low-level body mastery is not much help for serum fusion, but at least the training of martial arts can sharpen the will."

James felt more and more the temptation of supernatural power to every person with ideals or ambitions, and this pure power imposed on himself was not at all comparable to ordinary material wealth.

Nowadays, the major powers have more or less mastered certain evolutionary means and research.

The confrontation between the two poles is not over, and I can't grasp what forces are still hidden in this world, and what moths will come out.

Fortunately, the layout and means over the years have finally grasped the cosmic Rubik's Cube and vibranium meteorites in their hands.

James Howlett would like to see if one day he would say that the sky is dark, and who would dare to say it.

..........................

After World War II, the American "Paperclip" program recruited a large number of German scientists, and almost all of them served in the former German Ministry of Weapons and Equipment, later known as the Hydra Force.

In addition to John Schmidt, the only leader of the period, Dr. Arnim Zola, as chief scientist, was also the leader of these Naqu scientists.

However, after the defeat, Dr. Zola disappeared inexplicably, and these people were also in a state of being in a state of snake masterlessness for a long time.

But the spirit of Hydra has been taking root, gradually spreading to the new organization that adopted them, known simply as S.H.I.E.L.D.

Chop off one head and regenerate two.

There can never be a truly immortal life in this world, only faith and will can last forever.

Edgar Hoover is attending the highest-level meeting of S.H.I.E.L.D. for the first time today, and this organization does not yet have a full-authority director or chief, who is nominally only responsible to Mr. President, and the heads of several departments are temporarily coordinated by the heads of several departments as directors.

Since Director Hoover learned about the Super Soldier program and now the mutant secrets, he has become more and more aware that the FBI is still dealing with the nation's big names and supervising senior officials, and the pattern is too small.

Although he is old, behind the increasingly mysterious veil of this world, it is revealed to this "shadow leader" a more wonderful role, which makes him rekindle the desire and ambition of his youth to get ahead and climb the ladder of power.