Chapter 18: A New Path (2-in-1)
New Orleans, Louisiana's "Thieves' Union" is known for its extraordinary diversity in the American South, where races, ethnicities, and beliefs are exceptionally diverse.
Of course, this fame spreads among gangsters, gray industries, and the most barren and chaotic neighborhoods.
It didn't take much time to get Remy's information, and with Raven, a natural perfect spy, she only needed to find a suitable identity to go in and mix around for a long time, and she could get all the information she wanted to know.
"He robbed the bank and went to gamble?"
Alex thought that he had the "qualifications" to go to a heavy prison, and he should be the number one in the current extremely rare mutant group, but he didn't expect that there would be such a lawless and purely indulgent guy.
"I'm about the same age, but I'm cooler than you!"
Revan jokes with Alex, who has always had a passion and interest in people and things with rebellious and crazy attributes.
James once mentioned that she and Asa Zuo can single-handedly create a "demonic" mutant, and their characteristics are extremely distinct in terms of appearance and personality.
"Don't teach bad boys, no, you're both about the same age... What you think of his abilities, it sounds a bit plausible. ”
Eric Lanshell drove all the way to Miami, and the car was much faster after leaving the area around New Orleans, which was originally a swamp underneath the city, and the roads in the city were repaired, but every now and then a big hole suddenly appeared.
Coupled with the confusion and incompetence of local governments, New Orleans has always passed the buck in the face of land subsidence, and New Orleans has a difference in road conditions that is unique in the United States.
He couldn't help but look forward to what his father said, that a universal "mobile" phone would be introduced within ten years, and that Asa Zuo would be able to be contacted at any time at that time, but it seemed that it would have to wait for the Orient Group's satellite to be launched.
"Remy Lebbo is very good at stabbing cards into wood as throwing knives, well... Like Bucky and them? The physical fitness is superhuman, and the fighting ability is strong. ”
"Will he be the same as Miss Frost if he is good at deceiving his opponents, who is skilled in gambling, and who is easy to believe unconsciously?"
Raven and Alex analyzed it one by one, and through the mouths of Mr. Lebeau's "partners" and acquaintances, they came up with some magical skills about him.
But just this kind of ability can't explain the heavy bank alloy vault door being blown out of a one-person-high hole, and this kind of skill that seems to be something that ordinary people can also have after training and camouflage is probably not a genetic mutation ability.
"I hope it's not a charlatan, it's good to run so far at least something real."
“... I'll have another meeting, teacher. ”
Eric yawned and nodded slightly, he had just been driving with Alex for more than an hour and was a little lazy, but it felt good to learn from his dad to take students.
This kind of teacher-student relationship is much stronger than in the university, and one by one "Eric" is called, no big or small.
Unlike this kid, sensible.
It was already past nine o'clock in the evening in Miami, the most lively and crazy time in this coastal resort city, and the three of them finally raised their interest, but the biggest hope was that Remy Lebo would at least be a mutant with real skills.
For him to be a "big fish", Eric has long been out of expectation.
Raven took on the form of a thin woman in a gang of thieves, with high cheekbones and a few taels of flesh on her body, but her appearance was not bad.
Through the exchange of information between her frequent gangs and stolen goods in the billiard hall during the day, the female thief named Sharon was relatively close to Lebbo, and a lot of his situation was known from this woman's mouth.
Outside the "Good Luck" casino, the three of them each bought a colorful shirt at the stall, Alex quickly strooped more than a dozen skewers of Mexican barbecue, and held the coconut all the way and drank it non-stop.
They staggered into the Miami casino, which Lebbo said had mentioned the other day.
His reputation in New Orleans and neighboring towns had become so bad that he had to run to Miami, which was more than a decade away by car, to have a casino that allowed him in.
The three of them roamed inside, carefully sifting through figures that resembled Remy Lebbo's.
It didn't take much effort, and the Texas Hold'em poker table in the innermost part of the "Good Luck" casino was surrounded by a circle of spectators and gamblers who were slapping the table and yelling.
Eric exchanged glances with Raven and Alex, and they all saw a handsome white guy with brown hair and a square face in the middle of the crowd.
He was laughing and grabbing all the chips as he roared around him to the shouting of his opponents.
There were just three people left at the table, and the remaining two hesitated for a while and scolded and stopped playing, and the young man who had won a lot of money happily shouted to the spectators around him:
"It's just four 3s, is it big? I think so-so, do you want to try it, gentlemen, tonight is just the beginning! ”
Eric and Alex sat down face to face, Raven sat directly next to Remy Lebeau, the young Mr. Thief's face changed, he blinked and leaned over and whispered:
"Why are you here?"
"No, let's have fun, I can't play with you when you get rich."
Raven shrugged his shoulders casually in the form of Sharon the female thief, ignoring Lebeau's strange eyes and glancing at the man's approximate size.
Remy Lebo was tall, about the same as Eric, 1.85 meters tall, not strong but well-proportioned, with solid muscles in his exposed arms, a burgundy shirt with three buttons, a silver necklace, and a cynical smile on his lips.
The curvature of the eyebrow bone and the bridge of the nose is great, and he is a typical American tough guy handsome.
Eric motioned for the dealer to start dealing the cards, and talked to the young man with a match.
"You've been lucky tonight? It's not easy, there is no trick. ”
Remy looked at this and smiled, a typical rich boy and a man directly took out a dozen dollars, and asked the waiter to exchange for a thick stack of chips, and thanked Fun Lehe for chatting.
"The trick is faith and optimism, and a little bit of puzzling trash talk."
Remy winked at his "acquaintance", as if to convey some hint, but Raven pretended to look at his hole cards carefully and ignored him.
After playing back and forth a few times, Alex's little "pocket money" had been lost, and his disgruntled expression seemed to be about to overturn the table at any moment.
Eric had already roughly figured out what this Mr. Lebo was up to, looked at the silver ring on the little finger of his right hand, and smiled slightly.
"Huh?"
Remy was accustomed to relying on extraordinary dexterity and hand speed, trying to change a flush, but the ring on his finger seemed to be soldered to the table, and he nailed his palm to the table, not moving at all.
He shook his shoulders and rubbed his ring strangely, only to let his hole cards show and lose to Eric with a straight.
"Damn..."
Remy LeBeau desperately took off the silver ring on his little finger, but he couldn't twist it off, and even the ring began to shrink tighter and tighter, seeing that the front end of his little finger was swollen with purple red.
Eventually, Remy's iris gradually changed color, and even faintly revealed a dark red light.
Peng!
Mr. Lebbo, who was in pain, suddenly shook his right hand, and a purple-red light flashed,
The tiny ring burned red like a soldering iron, and suddenly exploded and shattered, with considerable power, shattering the solid wood table out of a plate-sized gap.
The surrounding spectators and passers-by shouted noisily, and Raven also screamed in surprise.
She and Eric were close to concluding that this Mr. Lebbo was quite limited in his abilities, maybe just a masterful old man, and he didn't expect to come to this hand out of nowhere.
Remy LeBeau watched as the crowd of onlookers, as well as the casino's security guards and the thugs who were watching the scene, grabbed a large bag of chips and Raven's arm at his feet, and ran out quickly.
Eric and Alex glanced at each other and chased after him, knowing in his heart that the silver ring he controlled had suddenly exploded into powder and had no purpose.
"You, what are you running!"
Raven gasped and followed Remy frantically into the depths of the secluded alley, her physique was only at the level of an ordinary person in her form of changing into other forms.
But when reverted to his original blue skin, Raven's speed and strength, especially agility, flexibility, and coordination, can reach levels beyond human limits.
"Run for what? That man has a quirk! You don't understand! ”
"No, I understand, Remy, we're just like you, there was some misunderstanding, but no malice."
Swish!
In the moonlight and dim street lamp, Remy Lebbo turned to see that his accomplice of female thieves suddenly stopped, and suddenly his skin cracked inch by inch and protruded into scales.
Quietly turned into a female devil with indigo skin, bright yellow eyes and white eyes, and dark red hair.
"Mom! Hell! ”
Remy pushed Raven away and ran, many times faster than just now, but suddenly the metal necklace around his neck wrapped around his neck like a living snake and tore it to the ground.
"I'm sorry Remy, it was a joke, I didn't expect you to react so much, my name is Ari-"
Rumble!
Remy LeBeau ripped off the necklace in a panic and threw it at Eric, who had just suspended from mid-air.
When he landed, the silver necklace exploded into a cloud of sparks, but Eric's reaction was quick, and he noticed that the crimson and extremely unstable necklace was close to him, and waved it into the air.
"Who are you scolding just now?"
Raven watched the fireworks burst out like grenades in the sky, and rushed towards Remy in a hurry.
The young thief had no intention of stopping for a "friendly exchange", he threw away the necklace and ran away without looking back, and even jumped on the roof more than three meters high.
"Interesting."
Eric Lanshell smiled happily.
This young man's abilities seem to be exceptionally comprehensive, and he is a good seedling.
Alex ran down the alley, watching Eric float in mid-air with his hands behind his back, clinging to Remy.
and Raven, who has changed into blue skin and calls herself a "demon girl", rolls and leaps on the roof of the building, like a cougar in the mountains and forests, and can't help but feel that his abilities are really too boring.
Zila! Zila!
Eric Lanschelle waved his hand at the streetlights and the various metal pipes or barbed wire fences on the roofs of residential buildings, and the squeaky sound of his teeth squeaked towards Remy Lebbo's shop.
Remy's scalp was numb as he watched these things "come to life" one by one, dodging without relying on his churning skills and speed, and sometimes the iron nets attached to his body also flashed under the purple-red light on his body, and instantly exploded.
"Alright, Mr. Lebeau, it's downtown ahead, so let's stop here."
Eric Lanshell hooked his palms with his hands flat as if he were directing traffic, and with a bang, the ground in front of Remy crumbled and shattered into dry and earth.
The heavy underground pipes are like a pitch-black jungle python, winding and twisting its coiled body.
Peng! The cylindrical pipes burst into long strips of snakes, spraying and splashing large patches of water.
Fortunately, this is domestic water, and if it is a sewer pipe, this "downpour" alone can make Mr. Lebbo faint...
"The modern city is a jungle of steel"
This common description became a kind of reality at this moment, and Remy looked at the metal branches rising from his claws like a rabbit trapped in the devil's vine net.
Whoosh....
Finally, after a few seconds of difficult dodging, Remy Lebbo was tightly covered in a circle of steel wire and iron sheets, revealing only one head.
The crimson between his child's holes became brighter and brighter, but only his head and feet could move, and he no longer dared to "point" the steel restraints around his body like he did just now.
"At this distance, you will be injured yourself, right?"
Eric looked at the rebellious Remy, slowly landed on the roof, and with a wave of his hand, moved the young mutant wrapped in a mummy to the secluded street corner next door.
"What are you running! And who did you just scold? ”
Raven tapped the iron shell on Remy's body, holding his arms and not reluctantly.
"How do I know what you want to do, I've been in this business for a long time, and running fast is the most important thing!"
"Eric Lansell, this is Raven, Alex."
Eric tilted his head and introduced Alex Summers, who had just arrived, and then said tentatively:
"I'll just let you go, but can you say a few words quietly? You should understand that we are 'one of the kind'. ”
Remy nodded slightly, and the layers of metal wrapped around his body were softly separated, floating and thrown aside, and the smashed street surface was dented.
"How much do you know about your situation? Remy. ”
Remy Lebbo looked at a wire wrapped around the money bag he had just lost, and sent it to him, his face was much better, he straightened his clothes, shrugged his shoulders casually, and said:
"I don't know, at first I just thought I had a talent for thieves, hehe, I can look at those techniques once, and they are better than anyone else's, until a few days ago I started to be able to 'detonate' objects that I touched, and it seems that I can charge them at any time and turn them into explosives......"
Young Mr. Lebbe listened to Eric's explanation of the term mutant, and then looked at the strange-looking Raven, he smacked his mouth, and suddenly asked:
"What you say is true? Just with me... Getting to know me doesn't limit my choice and freedom, doesn't take me to you for you... Stealing? ”
“... Yes, Mr. LeBeau, we're not a gangster, and for some longer-term reasons, we're going to make appropriate contacts and invitations to some of the best individuals in the mutant community, but like I said, the choice is yours. ”
Eric put his hand in his pocket and said indifferently, in fact, the arrangement of the Howlett family is systematically laid, so that they come out from time to time to contact some talented mutants, just an idle hand.
"Can I go now?"
Remy grew up like this, and people who mingled in the most chaotic corners of society would not simply have good intentions towards the so-called same kind like Alex, and the gang of thieves would more often guard against their own people.
"Take this, you can make this call if you are in trouble."
Eric pulled out a card from his bosom and threw it to Remy, but turned around and walked away.
Raven glared at him one last time, and suddenly changed into his usual appearance as an ordinary person, and the figures of the three quickly disappeared at the end of the dark street corner.
Remy sneered and just wanted to throw away the card, looked at the H-shaped special emblem on it, and a line of numbers, hesitated for a moment or stuffed it into the pocket of his chest, and subconsciously muttered.
"The Organitra Group... Howlett... What are you kidding, this is..."
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Kama Taj's Library.
Listening to the traditional Chinese Peking opera singing and the sound of instrumental music, James really has a strong sense of time and space at this moment.
In addition to the best Eastern and Western teas and utensils, Emma brought gifts, as well as some occult books and some modern technological products.
A gramophone that can play all kinds of Peking opera vinyl discs is particularly fond of the caretaker of the Kama Taj Library, Master Wang, who politely thanked him and moved it to his desk where he worked in the library under the resentful eyes of the young mages.
Since then, Master Wang's life has become "lively".
"Lao Wang, is there any analysis of the most basic node structure of these spells?"
James placed the "Fundamentals of the Spells of the Emperor of the Mountains", which recorded the early and intermediate techniques commonly used by secret mages, in front of Master Wang, interrupting his comfortable state of immersing himself in the tactful singing.
"What do you want to do with that, you don't need those forgery spells..."
For the sake of the gramophone's face, Wang still carefully explained the difference.
"Find it, I'll use it."
James waved his hand and urged, and after a while, Master Wang, who had been rummaging through the cabinets for a long time, used magic to draw a disc, held up a thick stack of books, and put it in front of James.
"It's all here, a mage hundreds of years ago didn't know what to think, and he didn't know if it was right or not, the secret mage's spells were all perceptions and imitations of Emperor Weishan's power, don't be too forceful, the Tao is not the same."
James flipped through it casually, and the detailed spell nodes in it were as complex as a star map, but this was the most basic magic principle he wanted, and it was also the foundation of this energy use structure.
He thanked Master Wang and went to the cliff where Kama Taj was deserted and pondered for himself.
Through the Rune Principle of the Aesir Protoss, James was greatly inspired that his life energy was born on the condensation of the incomparable flesh, but it could not be supported by the power of the magic dimension like the arcane mage, and it remained in the void.
Therefore, the rune runes, which are also attached to weapons or various object entities, are very compatible with him, but the magic effect of these runes is connected by the power of the hidden Asgardian gods, and it is useless to simply imitate and draw.
So can the structure of the arcane mage's spell that is biased towards the principle of "program" to a certain extent bring more changes to his body.
"Raggador's Red Ring..."
James looked at the fancy name, which was actually a hand-held basic magic energy shield spell formed by both hands, and had an intuitive understanding of the form of the spell formed by its dozens of magic nodes in series.
This magic shield, which is very commonly used in the hands of Kama Taj Mystics, has two tiers, and with the strength of the mana, it can form the most basic bright yellow magic shield, or a crimson enhanced version, and the construction nodes are exactly the same.
James pondered for a moment, wrote down the model of the entire spell structure, closed his eyes cross-legged, and sensed the bioelectricity, qi and blood strength, and energy flow in his body, like a magnificent scene of the vast galaxy reflected in "front of him".
The blood-red life energy modeled the node network of the Raggador mana round shield, and in the flesh and blood on his chest, the figures and shapes were connected one by one.
James once misunderstood the meaning of "Dan Fa" in the stage of martial arts "Holding Dan", relying on the infinite self-healing mutant gene, he took his body to experiment with the qi vein nodes that condensed qi and blood everywhere, and obtained an unprecedented understanding of the mysteries of the flesh.
Coupled with the fact that after "seeing God", he completely revealed the secrets of the body and spirit, and James is like a clever engineer at the moment, in the acupuncture points or nerve points that are close to and adapted to the magic nodes in the anterior chest.
The tandem outlines the structure of the magic shield.
Airplanes... Airplanes...
Suddenly, there was a faint red glow through his clothes, James's brows were raised, and he was a little uncomfortable and patient, and gradually, with the Qi Sea Cave as the center, the red circular ring energy map floated in front of his chest,
The flesh of his chest burned with scorching red lines, outlining a scarting iron-like arcane shield.
Rumble!
"Poof..."
James Howlett's chest suddenly burst into a blood mist, the front of the black mage robe was burned to tatters, and a mouthful of crystal clear blood spurted out of his mouth.
The internal damaged organs, as well as the fascia of the skin, healed instantly, James gently wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth, and showed four slightly pointed canine teeth.
The laughter is extraordinarily satisfying.
The life energy is connected through the acupoints, qi veins and nerve points of the body, and the magic nodes of the magic shield of Kama Taj are constructed, which really forms a new energy structure.
Although there are still a lot of false connections and incomplete connections, there are reactions, which is the biggest good news.
"The general composition direction of the Weishan Emperor's spell, the operation of biological energy to find similar physical nodes to communicate and connect, and adjust the wrong and unsuitable positions......"
James subconsciously touched the jade-colored skin on his chest, which was hairless and porous, he knew.
I finally stepped out of a new path.
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