“... Next up is Texas, Ohio, and finally Alaska... My God! Although the result has long been in doubt, the Democratic candidate, Robert F. Kennedy, still received more than 80% of the votes in the last three states! ”

"Never before has a single U.S. presidential race since its founding finally won... Oh, my God! The final figure is 87.45%..."

In every state, city, county, or small town in the United States, almost every household has a television or radio that is watching the results of the 37th president's election, and the voice of the host on the screen continues to broadcast excitedly and loudly.

“.. Mr. Robert F. Kennedy, who served as Attorney General during the former President John F. Kennedy and is now Vice President, was officially proclaimed the thirty-seventh President of the United States of America, and his predecessor, Lyndon B. Johnson, became the shortest-serving President in history..."

This year's U.S. presidential campaign has the highest voting participation in the country's history.

John F. Kennedy, who was shot and killed, was already deeply loved by the American people, and the catastrophe of the "Darkless Night" dealt an untold blow to the country's national and institutional self-confidence.

Americans in depression and fear believe that only Robert, the former president's own brother, can carry some special power of compassion and bring new light to the country.

.........

James sat in the living room of the Howlett mansion with Emma, Eric, Mr. and Mrs. Steve, Bucky and others watching the television broadcast of Robert F. Kennedy's oath of election and speech.

He also carried a newborn baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, who looked to be only a few months old, with pale brown hair already a little thick, eyebrows and eyes like Eric, and features more like her mother.

The little guy grinned and his eyes were crooked like crescents, and he looked at James with a grin, shaking his fleshy little hands.

"Anya! Little Anya! ”

James was not interested in the speech on television, and the new President Kennedy was making extremely encouraging remarks and promising the American people that he would be a "fire thief."

In the endless darkness of the night, climb the cliff and rekindle the flame of hope for Lady Liberty.

"Anya hasn't cried once in her husband's arms, and Eric and I have often been so noisy at night these days that I can't sleep."

Lady Magda Lanshel stood behind the sofa where James was sitting, looking at her daughter tenderly, and Anya Lanshell blinked at the man in front of her with round eyes, giggling from time to time.

Anya was the name James had chosen for the first third-generation member of the Howlett family, and James was also pleased that Steve and Peggy had good news in that regard.

"How can little Anya be noisy? Isn't it a little girl! ”

After a few more hugs, James kissed her little cheek and finally handed the child back to her mother.

He got up and took Emma's hand, along with the Rogers, Eric and Raven, and finally Asazzo took James' shoulder, and the group disappeared.

White House Rotunda in Washington.

Robert F. Kennedy, who had just finished his first official speech as president of the United States, withdrew from the campaign team that wanted to celebrate with him, and sat alone in the White House Rotunda wondering what was waiting for.

After a while, a large cloud of black and red smoke suddenly burst into the air, although they are both mutants, but when Kennedy saw the people of James and the Howlett family flashing into the president's office, he still could not hide the shock in his heart and the horror in the depths of his consciousness.

.........

“... At present, the proportion of mutants in society is still very limited, and the problems caused by the unrestrained mutant power are still exceptional, but the platform must be set up first..."

Everyone sat together in the President's Rotunda office, and Emma used the psychic barrier to disperse anyone who might approach the office, listening to James lay out some arrangements and ideas for dealing with mutants and supernatural life in the future.

Instead of sitting at his desk, Mr. President and Steve squeezed into the couch, leaving the chair, which symbolized the supreme power of the United States, empty.

“.

.. Starting from the most basic school, transfer the awakened mutant teenagers to a professional mutant school, in addition to basic cultural knowledge, learn and master the power of mutation, and standardize their moral concepts. ”

"At the same time, we will set up a violence and monitoring agency to deal with the dangers of supernatural forces, as well as super prisons, etc., all of which will be done by the Howlett Group, with the government's financial support from the state, and the relevant policy green light..."

James waved his hand casually, vaguely feeling that the sofa in the White House was not as comfortable as his old house, and finally said:

“.. You and Emma will discuss these in detail later, and the group will also release some cutting-edge new technologies and equipment products in various fields to help the United States further lead the world. ”

President Kennedy nodded silently, knowing that from now on, all the control and authority involving extraordinary forces in this country, except for the traditional security forces and military armament, will be in the hands of the Howlett family.

And they will use it to take root in the power and finances of the government, and further seize the resources and power of the country.

No matter which side the next president is on, he will not be able to shake the general trend of James Howlett.

"Professor Charles is a good teacher."

Emma said with a smile, looking at James, who was sitting alone at the top, and felt that he could hand over the affairs related to the education of mutants to this professional Mr. Professor.

"Forget it."

James shook his head slightly, took the gin that Mr. President had poured for him, and said with a calm expression:

"In terms of education, Charles is better not to touch, his character... There will be a more suitable position for him in the future, if he wants to. ”

In addition to Mrs. Peggy Rogers, the Howlett family has entered the newly reorganized S.H.I.E.L.D., and the follow-up Eric Steve, Bucky and others will also be arranged.

In the first few years of Robert F. Kennedy's tenure, Emma and Revane will enter the White House as staff or secretaries, helping him set up the concept of the "new human", the popularization of ideology, and the initial establishment of a supernatural agency.

The Howlett family's 100-year accumulation arrangement has finally come to fruition.

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

"Three dollars and fifteen cents, looking for your change."

Sean Cassidy "The Siren" was not ultimately prosecuted for criminal proceedings.

Hundreds of New Yorkers who claimed to have had their hearing destroyed by Sean's high-frequency sound waves chose to settle the knot privately, with the intervention of a powerful group of organizations and the government.

However, only a few of these people have suffered permanent hearing damage, and through professional medical examinations, the vast majority of them only have temporary tinnitus and recoverable tympanic membrane perforation, and finally died down after receiving a large amount of compensation.

Through the investigation of the American government, it finally became clear that the citizens, including those who prosecuted Charles Xavier, were instigated by some kind of instigation and instigation, and the final source pointed to the former FBI that had just been dismantled.

Charles later approached Hank, Sean and others one by one, and they mostly sat there silently, while "Angel" Salvatore did not meet Charles again and left New York alone, not knowing where to go.

Sean sat bored on a small stool under the cash register in the afternoon, using some of his mother's savings and a compensation money that Sean himself received, to open a neighborhood convenience store, not far from home, but with little business.

During that time, the scenery of becoming an "X-Men" caused him to set a fire among his neighbors in the neighborhood, but as things quickly turned around, they and their entire family became the most unpopular family on the street.

Sean took off his Yankees baseball cap and shook off his fluffy and curly red hair, and he turned on the small TV set on the counter and changed the channel boredly.

A few months after the new president was elected, he did several "earth-shattering" things, withdrawing troops from the Vietnam region, and completely freeing the United States from the quagmire of the Vietnam War.

In order to establish contacts with the great powers in the East, the sense of polarity and antagonism was eliminated as much as possible, and a part of the cake was ceded in an attempt to seek cooperation rather than traditional American hegemony.

America's Congress and judiciary have unprecedentedly supported the president

The decision of the whole country, the state of the whole country's order and ban, is very similar to the era of President Roosevelt during World War II, when power was unprecedentedly condensed.

Smack, smack, smack..."variant", smack.

Sean pressed the button to switch channels, and when he heard a familiar word suddenly flashing out of a certain station, he subconsciously pressed it back.

On the TV, a well-known male host of a popular program is discussing the topic of mutants with a bald, thin professor majoring in genetic evolution and mutation at a university.

“.. Professor Baines, last year's plane crash in New York made the public aware of the concept of so-called mutants, but the subsequent resistance and resistance to them in society overshadowed the heroic act of the X-Men at that time and saved the entire plane, what do you think of this problem? ”

At the World Genetics and Genetics Research Forum, he denounced several academic colleagues, and Professor Baines, who had a bright skull, said eloquently:

"This is a kind of confusion and instinctive fear of the unknown, which I can certainly understand from the perspective of human nature, just as human beings first realized that the earth is round and life is constantly evolving, and new things must bring short-term pain."

Sean took a few steps back, sat down on a stool and continued to watch silently.

"You mean that mutant beings will exist like 'heliocentrism, and' evolution, is... Is it part of the truth?

The moderator looked at Professor Baines in amazement, and his words were as if people were questioning and hostile to the existence of mutants, just as the once decaying medieval church smeared Copernicus's heliocentric theory and refused to admit the existence of truth.

"Hehe, Tim, the word truth is too difficult to measure, the so-called truth of human beings is still very limited, and the topic is a bit far away, but the situation of mutants is very clear and clear, and it has been proven by rigorous scientific inference and research."

Professor Baines smiled and changed his posture to cross-legged, and continued to say seriously:

"Let's stick with the term mutant, although I think "new humans, it would be more appropriate, maybe today you will be afraid that there will be someone around you who will... Mutants who can discharge, but have you ever wondered how Tim would be going to deal with himself if he awakened a similar magical ability in a few days? ”

Thousands of miles away in New Mexico, a Mexican restaurant has a television set hanging from the ceiling, and the same show is playing, and a petite, dark-skinned waitress stares at the TV in such a daze that she forgets that she is rushing to serve the food to the guests.

"El Salvador!"

Miss Salvador, the "angel", was startled, and hurriedly ran to the back kitchen to do things under the shouts of the fat Mexican boss, still paying attention to the conversation between the host and the geneticist on the TV show between the back and forth of the meal.

“...... The mutant variant of the X gene is an evolutionary tide that has swept all of humanity, and the probability of mutation in our generation is still relatively small, but you and my children, our children's children... One day he will become a so-called "mutant." ”

Baines raised his hands sternly but slightly teasingly, and hooked his fingers in the shape of scissors.

"When you realize this, do you choose to prepare for the arrival of these miraculous beings in advance and give them a safer and more appropriate living environment, or do you put a label of hatred and hatred, so that they are born with the raging malice of this world?"

The audience and the host at the scene were all furious and pursed their mouths in horror, and even a few parents who led their seven or eight-year-old children subconsciously looked at their babies.

The camera also gives these cute and beautiful children a big and lasting close-up at this moment, focusing on their innocent eyes that seem to understand everything the adults are saying.

“... Soon! Tim, the American government will be at the forefront of the world, providing perfect education guidance, job recommendations, legal systems and protection policies for mutants, so that the new humans who have entered the door of evolution first can better give back to the society in the future, which is for the sake of our next generation and the future of mankind!"

Sean and Salvador each watched their television sets in silence in a corner of a city in the United States, and in many more unknown parts of the country and the world.

Those who are afraid to appear because they have some kind of special organs

In front of people, mutants who have certain powers and often cause trouble, their eyes staring at the TV screen seem to ignite a confused and expectant look that they have never had in their lives.

.........

The whole United States, and even Europe and the Americas, have surged into a huge wave of a new era of human evolution, and terms such as "genetic mutation" and "new human" have become the most lively topics in the media and on the streets.

When everyone may mutate and evolve, or their descendants will definitely become mutants in the near future, the idea is spread by the virus.

More and more slogans such as "I mutate, I am proud!", "Together to become a new human" and so on, one after another, began to be launched.

Many new drugs for intractable and terminal diseases claim to be a huge breakthrough through the study of mutant mutant forces and genes.

There are many more examples such as mutants rescuing women trapped in fires, children who were almost hit by cars, and factories that have escaped accidents.

Of course, there are still some countries and regions that raise doubts and even oppose them.

Except for the United States, which has gradually begun to endorse mutants from the government level, other Western countries have only raised a cognitive trend in society, and the government has not officially expressed its position and participated for the time being, holding a wait-and-see attitude.

Some of the obvious doubts that appear from time to time will be silenced quickly and silently.

And all the countries and organizations that clearly oppose this view have been branded by the United States with such loud and heavy hats as "no human rights", "no freedom", "racial oppression", etc.

Lady Liberty, once again raised the banner of "freedom and democracy"!

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

Sequoia Cemetery, Saxony, Germany, winter 1970.

A heavy basalt tombstone more than one person high is engraved with such a passage.

"Here sleeps a great man who has made great contributions to the peace of mankind and the progress of the life sciences, and what remains in the minds of those who love him is not only integrity, wisdom and perseverance, but also his eternal tenderness."

"The Tomb of Abraham Erskine, 1892-1970."

James Howlett and all the important members of the family, dressed in black suits and coats and wearing sunglasses, solemnly buried Dr. Erskine in his hometown, Saxony, Germany.

There are also the remains of Dr. Erskine's family who died during World War II, buried with him.

In the frosty and silent cemetery, a lead-gray cloud covered the overhead, and there was no one to see it except for the Howlett family, who stood silently mourning Dr. Erskine.

Mr. and Mrs. Rogers walked quietly and slowly, leading their six-year-old daughter, Sharon, the creator of the "Super Soldier Serum" and the founder of the research on the individual power of supernatural life, as well as their most important friend and elder.

Throw the first coffin soil.

Sharon Rogers' soft blonde hair was neatly combed back, and she was wearing a delicate black dress, her eyes red with sadness.

Anya Lanshel, who was only about a year older than her, was dressed exactly the same, hugging Sharon like a little adult and comforting her, with a few birds flying from nowhere on her shoulders, rubbing Anya's face with a flattering chirp.

The two little girls carved in pink and jade were extremely favored by James and the entire Howlett family, and the little blue guy who was just more than two months old in Raven's arms turned into a cloud of light blue smoke and dust, flashing into the air more than a meter away in front of Raven.

"Kurt! Really, the road doesn't go yet, just like your dad loves to run. ”

The red-haired and blue-skinned Raven quickly caught his son who was trying to "escape" from his arms.

With helpless and motherly doting eyes, she looked at her infant son, who had pointed ears and blue skin, and who had only three fingers on each hand that were thicker than an ordinary baby, and a thin little tail that was playfully drilling around the back.

Kurt Howlett inherited the abilities of his father Asazzo and the skin color and appearance of his mother Raven, but the apparently pointed ears and special fingers belonged to an unknown variant.

Little Kurt's natural ability to teleport allows him to be frequent

He couldn't control himself, and sometimes he would teleport a meter or two away when he sneezed, but now his strength was still very weak and he wouldn't run far.

Emma was wearing a loose black dress, caressing her high bulging belly, and she looked at Anya and Sharon with a grin, and teased little Howlett with Raven, fantasizing about what her and James' soon-to-be-born child would look like.

The unintentional playfulness of the little "blue devil" dilutes the calm and solemnity of the moment, and the culture of Westerners is already very indifferent to death, and it is often a peaceful farewell to deceased relatives and friends.

Asazzo chuckled triumphantly, the corners of his mouth raised.

The lines on his skin have changed greatly, more complex and gorgeous, with a natural complex beauty, the long tail is thicker, and the tip of the tail is like a short knife, much wider than the spike-like hideous and hideous before.

From the current point of view, his son Kurt has inherited his size and ability, which makes him feel a little "raised eyebrows", and his wife Raven has complained about it.

"Let's go back."

James held Emma's arm, and did not rush to let Asazo teleport everyone back to the old mansion, leading everyone to walk out slowly, strolling through the empty and silent Redwood Cemetery garden.

"In recent years, the proportion of teenage mutations has increased significantly, and the transcendent colleges in various states should begin to consider expansion, and I plan to set up another top college that is only for mutants with good enough potential, and you will be the principal, so that it will not be too hard in the future, and I can spend more time with my children."

Emma was held in James's arms and walked slowly, happily holding her belly, in addition to being busy with the laying of the structure of mutant affairs in the past few years, she was working hard for the baby in her belly.

Emma's face has not changed much, her figure is a lot plump, full of mature and beautiful charm, and the diamond incarnation seems to lock the aging of the body, maybe after breaking through to the second mutation, there will be further improvement.

"The effect of the evolution technique is very good, and now the children who have mutated rely on the learning control in the transcendent academy will rarely cause a negative impact on society, and as the number of mutants continues to increase, they will all become teachers in the regional colleges in the future."

Emma and James chatted softly, the work at the beginning was the hardest, they could only personally train the new mutants to practice evolution one-on-one like James did back then, and it was much easier after gradually becoming a system.

She also hopes to have more time to focus on her ability breakthrough. Like Eric, it is extremely difficult for the top-level mutant talent to go one step further to the second level of evolution.

It took so many years for Asazzo to go to the Wolf's Lair base two years ago, relying on his long-term experience and understanding of the cosmic Rubik's Cube, to further improve his space power, find his own "ability source", and achieve a second mutation.

"Daddy."

Eric looked more mature and handsome, and the sense of oppression on his body also had a bit of James's atmosphere, and he groaned seriously:

"I wanted to go to the magnetic pole of the earth to go on retreat, feel the power of the planet's magnetic field, and see if I could go further."

James turned to look at Mrs. Lanshel and Anya, and asked softly, "Got it all figured?" You may not see each other more than a few times a year. ”

"Think about it, anyway, it's very convenient for Rubik's cube-powered planes to come and go, and I'll leave enough time to spend with them every year, and I won't-"

"Oops!"

Emma suddenly clutched her stomach, her legs went limp and she almost sat down, and was firmly held by James.

"James... I feel like I'm going to give birth..."

The tension on Mrs. Howlett's countenance was greater than the constant pain in her stomach.

Asazzo stepped forward, a black-red light flashing in his hand and bounced in the air, splitting a spatial portal that shimmered with a glowing boundary, and at the other end was the scene of the bedroom of the old mansion of Howlett.

James picked up Emma and rushed over, and everyone hurried to follow in turn, Peggy, Magda, and Raven, three experienced women, neatly prepared in the room.

With Emma's physical condition, giving birth to such a major event that ordinary people are extremely afraid and worried about can be easily solved at home.

With the exception of James and a few women, everyone else went outside the house to wait.

No matter how long he lived, he watched Emma inhibit the pain from time to time

Unable to stop his strength, his face and arms turned into diamond forms one after another, James could barely control the flow of qi and blood, and his heart trembled like a drum.

Finally...

"Wow! Wow..."

An unusually loud cry finally came, and he stepped forward to cut the baby's umbilical cord himself, and in a panic, Peggy, Raven took care of Emma, who was constantly gasping for breath, and cleaned up his first blood-related child.

It was a daughter, not lightweight, with a somewhat ugly wrinkled face, and wet black fetal hair on her head, and the vaguely recognizable silhouette looked like James.

James, who didn't know what to do with himself for a while, stared blankly at the little thing in his hand, and suddenly-

Poof!

The little guy couldn't open his palm, and his small fist trembled, and two tiny spikes a few centimeters long pierced from between the finger bones of the flesh.

It was a pair of little paws that sparkled with a sparkling diamond.