The Hutterley family's farm was quiet, and the sound of the afternoon wind blowing in the desertified land caused by the nuclear explosion drowned out the screams of the Hulk trio who were being "taught a lesson" outside the door.

In the room, Mason was talking to the family.

The hostess of the House of Hautley was apparently less reticent than her husband, and in spite of the scarcity of supplies for the outsiders who had saved her family, she tried her best to entertain them as a token of gratitude.

Hallie has befriended the two Hutley children and is teaching them how to feed their two big circus dogs.

"Mrs. Hutterley, don't be busy, we're just passing by here and want to ask for directions."

Mason glanced at old Wolverine, who was busy in the kitchen, and knew that the guy didn't want to talk to strangers like him, so he put the breakthrough on the lady in front of him who didn't look very healthy.

He looked at the suspiciously colored cup of water in front of him, pushed it away quietly, and asked in a gentle tone:

"Is there a whole lot of Hulk territory around here?"

"Yes, Southern California is under their control, they occupy the clean water in the neighborhood, and we people have to pay rent every month to use it.

But their presence isn't a bad thing, and heading north is overrun by more ferocious ghostriders and monsters, who are savage but also drive them away.

It's hard to live here, but at least you won't die. ”

Mrs. Hauntley sighed.

She sat down beside Mason tiredly, feeling that the young man was very polite, which was rare in these days.

The hardships of life had left the once necessarily beautiful lady with gray hair, but Mason noticed the unusual gray on her face and realized that the ubiquitous radiation on the land was also harming her health.

"You look like you need treatment, and I happen to be a pharmacist."

Mason moved out of his identity as a doctor and offered to look at Mrs. Hauntley's body, but the lady didn't think much about it, she only felt that the image of Mason in her heart was better, and gladly accepted the captain's consultation and was prescribed a few bottles of potion.

After taking it, he felt drowsy and went back to the bedroom to rest, and it was not until this time that the old Wolverine, who had not shown up, came out of the kitchen with a wave of anger.

"Get out of my house!"

He yelled at Mason very unceremoniously:

"Take your freaks and leave!"

"Daddy! He's helping us, he's helping my mom with the doctor. ”

The teenage boy, perhaps in the midst of a rebellious period, was dissatisfied with his father's momentary outburst, and jumped up to argue with him.

But old Logan simply ignored his untouched son.

He reached out and grabbed Mason's left hand and lifted it up, revealing the golden apple still glowing from the penguin's umbrella, and he said in a sarcastic tone:

"Mind control, huh? Something is coming at me! You wretched! ”

"This is just to give Mrs. Hauntley a better night's sleep, her body is almost crushed by various diseases, Logan, your wife is not an 'eternal' like you, and she does not have a good body like you who will not be able to resist nuclear explosions."

Mason did not plead.

He looked up and down at the decadent old wolf in front of him, and said:

"The medicine I just gave her will make her much better for the next six months, but I suggest you take your family away from this nuclear desert immediately, and at least change to a place where you won't get radiation sickness.

The two children are also here, I have to help you and you too, this disease can't be delayed. ”

He turned his head and beckoned to the old wolf's sons and daughters.

Two children are not fools either.

After seeing his father dismantle Mason's trick, the older boy grabbed his shotgun again.

But just as this time, there was a seeping scream from Hulk's son outside the house, which made the boy shake his body. He suddenly realized that in the face of this group of people, an old gun whose rifling had to be smoothed seemed to be somewhat. Uh, a slight disadvantage?

"Mr. K told you to pass, cuties."

Hallie pushed behind them and screamed:

"My little sweetheart is the most conscientious person in Gotham City, so he won't do bad things, but Mr. K, I just showed the two cuties, and they are not affected by radiation sickness.

These two children are incredibly healthy, just like superhumans! ”

"Mutants?"

Mason looked at the silent but clenched fist of the old wolf in surprise.

In order not to arouse the hostility of the strange old Wolverine in front of him, he took out his weapon X object ID card from his pocket and put it on the table.

He took a step back and said to the old wolf:

"I'm also a mutant, but I'm in a special situation, this thing can prove my identity, Logan, I'm not here to find trouble, and it actually makes me very happy to meet you as soon as I come over.

Believe it or not, you were one of the two people I looked up to the most when I was a kid. ”

Old Logan's eyes jumped when he heard the word "mutant", and then he looked at the two cards on the table, as one of the former leaders of the X-Men, he could completely distinguish between the real and the fake.

And when he saw the card of the weapon X project, the shock on Logan's face couldn't be faked.

He picked up the card and put it in front of his eyes to look at some details in a special way, and after a few seconds, he looked at Mason and said:

"I thought you were all dead. That night, I received a signal that the secret project was being attacked by Hydra, but you guys were gone! You disappeared seventeen years ago, and the transfer of outsiders took everyone with you.

They say you'll never come back.

But why?

If you're out of this hell, why come back? ”

"Looks like you're finally willing to talk to me, that's good."

Mason pulled out his chair and glanced at Hallie.

Robin Lady immediately grabbed the two children and walked out the door, but the children were reluctant to leave but Harley dragged them away by the collar one by one, so that they would not disturb the conversation between Mr. K and the old wolf.

"Listen to you, Logan, haven't any other outsiders entered here in the past seventeen years?"

Mason asked.

Logan, holding the card in his hand, confirmed Mason's identity, and he was no longer as rejecting people as before, but not as enthusiastic.

In the face of Mason's inquiry, he nodded a little hesitantly and said:

"I've lived here all these years, and I haven't had any contact with the outside world for a long time, but there really isn't much news of outsiders in this world, after all, the great transfer of seventeen years ago took almost everything worthwhile.

All that remains is a group of sinners to rot to death in this hell. ”

"What about you?"

Mason asked:

"Why are you here? I asked Liana and Anna, and they both thought you were dead. Anna also asked me to investigate the massacre that happened at Xavier College in 17 years.

She said that an unknown killer had slaughtered all the X-Men in the academy that night, leaving them with no chance to participate in the fight against the nuclear war.

It even indirectly led to the defeat of the Avengers who needed support.

Do you know who did that? ”

"I don't know."

The old wolf lowered his head, moved his lips, and said in a dry tone:

"I missed those."

"yes, I guess you weren't there that night."

Mason sighed and said:

"If you were really here, with your character and vigilance, you would certainly not allow those murderers to slaughter their fellow soldiers so cruelly"

"Say no more!"

The old wolf interrupted Mason's words with a sudden roar, and under the surprised gaze of the captain, the old wolf waved his hand as if he had lost all his strength at once, and he said in a dumb voice:

"That's not something that makes people feel happy, don't talk about it, talk about you."

He picked up the card and bent it into a peculiar arc in which Mason could see a line of hidden text appear on the card.

The old wolf said to him:

"They gave you a code name during the trial, and lo and behold, they called you 'Maia.'"

"The god of wind and rain, one of the twelve main gods of Olympus?"

Mason suddenly thought of the special situation in which it would rain every time there was a big battle, and he said with a strange expression:

"Okay, barely suitable, but I'm more used to you calling me Mason, Mason Cooper."

"Okay, Mason."

The old wolf sat down across from Mason again.

He didn't look much into Mason's eyes, but he accepted the cigarette that Mason handed him, and after lighting it, the dwilight ex-X-Men said to him:

"I guess what you're going to do when you come back, I did work on Project Weapon X, which was recreated from the evil one I had back then.

Although it inherits the name of Weapon X, it is not intended for evil purposes.

This plan was facilitated by the Illuminati and was one of a series of prevention plans that were set up after Doctor Strange, Scarlet Witch, and the Inhuman prophet Ulysses predicted the 'end was coming'.

Its purpose is to raise omega-level mutants through human intervention, as a way to strengthen our ability to deal with unknown risks. ”

"Can this really be done?"

Upon hearing the words "Omega-level mutants", Mason sat up straight and asked:

"Has the technology of this world advanced to that point?"

"No, of course it can't be done, but the plan is like this, if you want to cheat enough funds from Stark Group, you must always think in a good direction, and exaggerate it appropriately."

The old wolf shrugged his shoulders, pouted, and said:

"It turns out that the restarted Weapon X project is the same as what I participated in back then, and no matter how we preset the conditions, the mutation ability of the X gene is highly uncontrollable.

As a result, the plan was eventually transformed into an attempt to awaken as many mutants as possible before the end of the world to strengthen the population.

However, your nameplate is relatively high, which means that you are the subject of the first three batches, Mason, and it is rare that you have reached the third stage.

This means that if we can artificially create an omega-scale mutant, you're definitely one of the closest samples to the target.

But unfortunately, this thing is the same as opening a blind box.

Until you finally complete the third stage of unlocking ability, no one knows if what you get is a great power that can control the common people, or if it is just a small trick that is dispensable. ”

"Well, I knew it wasn't that easy."

Mason sighed, okay, Bai was excited just now.

The question is who puts him in his place, and who can not get excited when he learns that he has the potential to become an omega-level mutant? That's basically a step to the sky.

What a super, what a wonder woman, I saw that I would bury you with a wave of my hand.

"You'll have to go to the base of Project Weapon X."

The old wolf returned the card in his hand to Mason, and he spat out the smoke ring, and said:

"It's been sealed off since the nuclear war, and with the current situation of this technological water section fault, no one should be able to open it yet, and you have to go over and complete the last stage of ability awakening.

It's not far from Xavier's former site, and I can draw you a map. ”

"No, Anna gave me the full map."

Mason waved his hand, he looked at the old wolf, and said:

"But it's a terrible situation right now, this apocalyptic new world seems a little too wild, so, if you can, I hope you can"

"No!"

Before he could finish speaking, the old wolf rejected him.

"I'm not going to leave here again."

Logan dropped the cigarette butt at his feet, stepped on it and said:

"Wolverine is dead, Mason, he died that night seventeen years ago, and by the time my wife pulled me back from the tracks, I was no longer the man you worshipped when you were a kid.

I'm too old.

I'm too weak to even have the courage to fight in the face of the Hulks' provocations, and while that disappoints you, I think you're probably going to have to go it alone. ”

Speaking of this, the old wolf glanced at Mason and said:

"But you have those three powerful bodyguards, and you can probably run rampant in this wasteland, so you don't need me to worry about your safety as a bad old man."

The refusal was resolute.

There was something in his eyes that made Mason feel heavy, and they all said that the eyes were the windows to the soul, so the old Logan in front of him was basically equivalent to closing the window and locking the door, refusing to allow everyone to enter his heart.

Mason, who was familiar with Logan's character, knew that this was no fun, but he still asked curiously before getting up to leave:

"Don't you ask me how those compatriots who left this world seventeen years ago are doing? You shouldn't be such an indifferent person. ”

"Don't ask."

Old Logan, who seemed to have really no trace of wolf nature, waved his hand and said:

"It's definitely better than this hell.

Mason, you see, I really just intend to die of old age in this place, I'm not interested in everything out there, and I also thank you for your treatment of my wife and the intimidation of my children.

If you can, please don't bother us, okay? ”

"What about the Hulks?"

Mason Says:

"Do you need me to do the old-timers a little favor to get rid of them?"

"If you destroy them, others will come, as I said earlier, this is hell, Mason, and those who remain here will suffer and rot to death.

We all deserve it. ”

The old wolf bent down.

The shadow cast in the dim light seemed to break a backbone, and he said:

"I'll find a way to solve this matter, let's kill those three guys, it's a problem to stay, I have a bit of a friendship with Banner, and I'll go and meet him."

"Well, if you insist on it, at least I should help you pay the signed rent."

Mason reached into his bag and took out a small bag, placed it in Logan's hand, and inside was a few golden precious metals, and said:

"There should be a black market in this place that can swap out these things, right?"

"Well, I know what to do."

Logan didn't turn down the gift.

Judging by the dilapidated state of his house, he was in great need of the money, and after getting up and sending Mason out of the house, he whispered to his fellow foreigner:

"Kindness is the most useless thing in this land, and don't hesitate when you encounter things in the past, violence is the only language left in this world.

Finally, don't go near Neo-Babylon. ”

With that, Logan patted Mason on the shoulder, took his children into the house and closed the door.

Hallie walked up to Mason, chewed bubblegum and rolled her eyes and whispered:

"This old man has a lot of things he doesn't want to say, he's afraid to talk to you, little sweetheart, he's afraid of something about you, and he even looks at you with a dodge look."

"Yes, he's withholding a lot of information."

Mason nodded thoughtfully and said:

"Gotta find a way to ask."

"So we're leaving now?"

The Batgirl leaned against the post of the farmstead and said:

"Go to a nearby city and ask for news, or?"

"You go first, Barbara will lead the team, and I'll stay here alone."

Mason took out the invisibility cloak that he hadn't used for a long time and put it on his body, and said to his teammates:

"I finally met my childhood idol, and it's a bit of a pity to leave without a few autographs."

"Captain!"

Just as he decided to split his troops into two ways, Jaime Reyes, a blue beetle that had been spinning around in the air and familiarizing himself with the newly adjusted scarab combat system, fell from the sky.

He put away his mechanical insect wings and pointed to the dusk desert in the distance, reporting to Mason:

"There's a strange car over there! The destination is this farmstead, but the driver seems to be a blind man."

(End of chapter)