Chapter 242: Inhumans and Mutants
Texas, located in the southern part of the United States, covers an area of about 700,000 square kilometers and has a population of nearly 30 million, originally belonging to Mexico, and became the 28th state of the United States on December 29, 1845.
It has always been an important oil producing area, petrochemical industry center, and trade center in the United States, and ......has always ranked among the top states in terms of importance.
But recently, there has been a serious outbreak here.
It is a strange disease that spreads by breathing and is extremely deadly. In all patients, the lungs eventually become petrified into black stones.
And those who are infected but don't die in the end are even worse and turn into monsters. Moreover, each patient ends up with a different monster.
From the beginning, the medical system escalated the situation to the higher-ups, and then to President Rogers, one level at a time. Steve now has an idea of this kind of strange thing, and he casually checks it out, and sure enough, it is another good thing done by another snakehead.
And because the local power in Texas is very strong and has not been under the control of the Federation, Alexander is also happy to sell this part of the area outside his sphere of influence to the Hive in exchange for what he needs.
Of course, the matter was suppressed again.
Moreover, Steve is now worried about Shoki Carter's body all day long, not some faraway Texas epidemic.
After vomiting blood last time, she quickly returned to work and seemed to be completely well. But Steve always felt that Shoki's body was gradually getting weaker.
But whenever Steve mentions it, Shoki either diverts the conversation or puts on a straight face to reject people thousands of miles away.
Steve once secretly went to the hospital to check Shao Ji's medical records, but judging from the results of the physical examination, Shao Ji's body is completely a role model for young people, very healthy, and there are no problems.
In the end, Steve had no choice but to think that he was concerned about the chaos and misjudged Shao Ji's situation.
Without the federal stop, on the Texas side, the Hive's plan went very smoothly, and countless Terrigen crystal powder was sent into various cities by wind power.
And in the face of this epidemic, the federal government has not completely failed to respond. Anyway, only the people above know what the truth of this epidemic is and whether these coping measures are useful.
All kinds of epidemic prevention materials, medical assistance, everything that should be done has been done, everything that should be sent has been sent, and the process that should have been done is the same.
In particular, all pharmaceutical companies are almost going to send people to settle down in Texas. All kinds of masks, medicines and other things are pulled here by car.
But these things are completely useless, and damned people will die anyway.
Eventually, the disease became more and more severe, and the whole of Houston was paralyzed, and Hydra symbolically sent an investigation team down.
Then the black cauldron was thrown to the mutants.
Because those who didn't die eventually turned into aliens. Aliens and mutants, without genetic testing, I'm afraid it will be difficult to distinguish.
With their ugly and weird appearances and powerful and uncontrollable superpowers, it's hard to suspect that they are mutants!
For this reason, even the X-Men made a special trip to see if there was really a mass awakening of mutants, which led to the tragedy of the fall of the entire Texas.
But this time they are much more courageous than before, with the world's number one strongman Magneto in charge, and no one dares to be disrespectful to mutants anymore.
Even ordinary people, although they suspected that this tragedy was brought about by the awakening of mutants, they didn't dare to say it, for fear of attracting Magneto to come and slaughter it.
Twenty million deaths in Texas seems to be a lot, but compared to the souls of Magneto's hands, it is not enough at all!
Scott got off the plane with a team of X-Men, shook hands with the state officials he had contacted beforehand, and then got in the car and headed to the city hospital.
In order to facilitate the infection of Inhumans, the Hive specially asked Malik to use his connections to send all the infected and undead "patients" here.
When he arrived at the hospital, Scott couldn't help but sink his heart when he looked at the ordinary people around him who were glaring at him with hatred.
He whispered to the flickering behind him: "Look at the way they look at us, the hatred between us and ordinary humans is becoming more and more difficult to dissolve. ”
The burning man next to him interjected: "Why do you want to dissolve?" We have come this time to take away our compatriots, otherwise who knows if they will be treated unjustly. ”
Scott sighed and didn't say anything more.
Because of the existence of Magneto, the mutant kingdom can suppress the world's disobedience, and the mutants' sense of identity with their own race has reached its peak.
But because of this, mutants' identification with ordinary humans has fallen to a low point.
Now the people of the mutant kingdom only recognize non-mutants who are related by blood, that is, ordinary people living on Paradise Island. But for ordinary humans outside the island, many people are completely indifferent, and only treat them as another species.
But there are some things that Scott can't tell them, lest people talk too much and leak the news.
He shook his head silently and walked towards the hospital.
They were greeted at the door by a young doctor, and in Scott's senses, he knew that this man was a powerful magnetic field warrior.
Of course, Scott thinks that this magnetic field warrior was sent by the federal government to monitor this group of nascent mutants.
However, he is a dove in his own right, so he is not averse to these preventive practices, and as long as there is no substantial harm, he can completely ignore them.
"Welcome, I'm the director of this hospital, and you can call me Edison."
Scott shook his hand and said politely:
"Hello, Dean Edison, I'm Scott, the captain of the X-Men, and we want to see those who have awakened their superpowers."
"Of course, they're all here now, in a few buildings around here, where do you want to start first?"
Scott frowned, "How many buildings?" So many? I hope they are not treated unfairly. ”
"You can rest assured that they are completely free here, they have no worries about food and clothing, and live happily, let them leave, they may not be willing!" Edison smiled a little weirdly.
"I hope so."
Scott made his way to the building first, and the X-Men followed him.
Dean Edison, on the other hand, stood behind him and watched them enter the building.
When the X-Men were all gone, Edison, or the Hive, burst out laughing.
"What a surprise, what a surprise!"
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