Mason is back at the base of Project Weapon X again.

He held the purple power gem in his hand, followed by Logan, who was staggering behind, and after the power fire was recycled back into the uncontrolled rough stone, he was also in a miserable state that began to heal quickly.

This immortal body is really covetous, and even the infinite stones can't kill the extreme self-healing, making Logan Hauntley truly a "perfect creature" in the true sense.

The old wolf dragged the chains behind him, and at the end of it restrained the red skeleton whose limbs had been severed but still roared.

The latter realizes that his hidden evil intentions have been snooped on by Mason, which makes the doomsday president almost insane.

He yells at Mason and defies Logan.

The ugly words really make people feel the quality of the Hydra commander's hair, and being commanded by such a bastard, no wonder the development of Hydra has been repeatedly frustrated.

"This Red Skull is a member of your organization, will killing him affect you?"

Logan was not provoked by the Red Skull's foul language, he said in a dumb voice:

"I don't mind letting this scum suffer a little longer."

"No, there are many factions in the Stars Society, and Red Skull himself is a poor creature who has been abandoned, and he is not the one who controls one side when he is placed in this world, Logan.

Even the evil companions who did bad things with him in the first place were wary of the Red Skull's madness and ambition, so they put him under house arrest in disguise.

He's just a pathetic bastard who was used and then abandoned. ”

Speaking of this, Mason glanced at the red skull that had fallen silent, and said sarcastically:

"It's like a used condom, ruthlessly thrown in the garbage heap waiting for it to rot."

"Are the young people of the Stars Society talking so badly now?"

The doomsday president, who was debunked all his intentions, said in a dumb voice:

"But what if you know? As soon as I die, the onslaught will be born! Charles Xavier wants to cover up the secret, but power will always find a way out!

It's a dead end, Mason Cooper.

You can't stop a stronger me from appearing. ”

"Then I can only say that your imagination is still a little worse, maybe you have been in prison for a long time, and your brain is not enough."

Mason scoffs at this argument.

He and Logan walked through the main control room of Weapon X, and the old wolf looked silently at the biopods on display below and the Hydra Troopers who were being bred.

His fists clenched, the power of anger surging to destroy the nest of evil at once, but then an even more pathetic emotion was born in his mind.

They were tricked after all.

Weapon X Project and all the preparations made by all the heroes seventeen years ago to fight the apocalypse are all unwarranted actions under the guidance of people with intentions.

An entire world has been reduced to a tool in the hands of conspirators.

Even the world itself has been used as a "world factory" to support the dark Ones.

Their resistance and hope, their persistence and suffering, all turned out to be meaningless in the end.

"That's why I chose to fight them, Logan."

The old wolf's outburst of emotion in silence was sensed by Mason, who whispered:

"Not only do they grab the resources of the entire parallel world system, but they are also greedy and wantonly spread despair, squandering the suffering of others as nourishment for their own growth.

This has gone beyond the definition of evil.

They are stubborn diseases that must be destroyed! It is the cancer born of this dark age, and what I see in my ruined hometown will only make me more determined, and it will also make our fellow travelers more determined. ”

As he finished speaking, the area in front of him where Mason's awakening pod was located quietly opened, and an Atlantis-style bio-energy pod was housed there.

A faint blue arc of light appeared in the darkness, and the energy was connected to the Weapon X base to allow the bio-energy pod to continue to function.

Mason stepped forward and motioned for Logan to come and have a look.

The old wolf dropped the chain in his hand and stepped forward, and was startled at first sight.

The state of Captain Atom kept in the energy chamber was much worse than when Mason found him before, before his limbs were chaotically transformed between the material and energy planes, and now even his entire body was already in a "quantum state" of existence and disappearance.

Only a blue-skinned head remains.

"Adam, are you alright?"

Mason tapped the lid of the energy chamber and asked softly:

"It's me, Mason."

"I can hear it, so you don't have to knock on this already fragile glass lest it break it and release my uncontrollable energy and blow you and me to ashes."

A weak, painful voice rang out from the bio-energy pod, with a hint of teasing, a testament to the good character of the hapless guy who had been weaponized in it.

Captain Atom opens his eyes in the energy chamber.

Because of the excessive intake of uncontrollable energy, his pupils turned pale, dotted with scattered light. He looked at Mason, then at Logan, and then said with a hint of relief and helplessness:

"So, the time has come, right?"

"I'm sorry."

Mason whispered:

"Dr. Otto and Norman and Professor Stein have done their best, but we can't convert you back to a physical body from the quantum state.

The rough experiments that the Atlanteans have done on you have completely destabilized you. ”

"It's okay, no need to apologize, Mason."

Captain Atom Nathaniel Adam shook his head, and in the midst of his body's changing anomalous form, he whispered in a voice that reverberated with energy:

"I knew what they were going to do with me when I was captured by the Atlanteans, and my only regret was that I wasn't strong enough to break free from the shackles of fate.

I've had nightmares in the slumber of chaos one nightmare after another, without exception I've been weaponized to destroy the world I love.

It was the most terrible and saddest ending I could think of.

But when I woke up, I didn't see a shattered world, Mason, I heard from Lex Luthor about Team K's help to the world.

I have also seen the glorious Gate of Diversion displayed above the world, transferring the extinct civilization to other worlds, so that the people I have spent my life protecting can be continued.

You helped me escape the nightmare, and you helped me do my duty.

I was able to end up smiling, and I was no longer full of hatred for others.

Not to mention that you also gave me a chance to realize the value of my existence, although my ultimate value still has to be used to destroy a world, it really feels like an ironic fate. ”

He smiled, then looked at the silent old wolf, and said:

"Logan Houtley, I just learned about what happened to you through a database connection to this base, and I am deeply saddened by what has happened to your world.

But Mason's decision was the right one.

For such a tragic fate, it is the most decent thing to do to give this post-apocalyptic world a relief, and my final explosion will bury everything here.

It's like a funeral firework.

Honor is here, despicability is here, despair is here, greatness is here.

I am honored to be able to preserve the last vestiges of dignity in your troubled homeland with my death, and I know your decision, and you will stay here with me until the end, right? ”

"Hmm."

The old wolf already knew Mason's plan from the description of Captain Atom in front of him.

Deeply relieved and unresisted, he straightened up and respectfully saluted Nathaniel Adam in the Bioenergy Chamber, saying:

"It's an honor to work with you, Your Excellency."

"You're just wishful thinking!"

Red Skull, who had also listened to all this, felt a chill of a real crisis coming, and he screamed:

"A runaway Atom is terrifying, but it's not enough to really destroy a world, you'll blow it to pieces, but the Onslaught can survive in a shattered core.

Ha, you don't want to kill me! ”

"Well said!"

Mason pushed the frame on the bridge of his nose.

He glanced at the red skeleton who was still unwilling to accept his fate after shouting, waved the box in his hand that emitted a purple glow, and said softly:

"Then you might as well guess, Lord Red Skull, what am I here to do with this?"

"Nope! You can't! ”

True to the supervillain who destroyed civilization, Red Skull immediately realized Mason's thoughts, and he roared:

"That's an Infinity Stone! The wonder of the universe, possessing it can make you a god in an instant, you can't destroy it just to make me die.

You can call for the wind and rain, but you want to fall for it!

Don't do it!

Mason, you're stupid! ”

"God?"

Mason scoffed at this argument as he opened the entrance to Captain Atom's energy chamber and carefully pulled out special tweezers to place the purple gem into it.

While saying:

"Come on, I still have three 'gods of the world' as teammates, and they all have to call me captain, and I have to worry about them. Whoever wants to be 'God' should go.

I'm not unusual. ”

"Buzz"

The moment the Power Gem was placed in the energy chamber, purple sparks reverberated through Captain Atom's body, and were sucked up by Adam.

In just a few seconds, his original blue energy spark completely transformed into a purple like a flame.

"It's a powerful power."

Captain Atom said in a dumb voice:

"Give me twenty minutes, Mason, it only takes twenty minutes to suck me up and I can be sure to crush the world into the finest pieces of stardust when it explodes.

I promise, nothing will be left behind!

Whether it's the evil Hydra Warriors' factory, the mutant gene pool that has been properly stored in secret places, or a supervillain with a sinister heart bent on becoming an 'evil god'.

Well, this will be the most glorious ending show I can imagine, and thank you for giving me this opportunity. ”

"Thanks, Adam."

Mason stood on the edge of the energy chamber and said to the poor man who had volunteered to die:

"I will bring your story back to Osborne, and I promise that your compatriots will all know of your great devotion, and they will all sing your name"

"No, let them forget me, a loser who almost ruined the world is not worth remembering."

Captain Atom whispered:

"But if there's to be an exchange to make you feel comfortable with my sacrifice, then I want you to promise me one thing, Mason Cooper."

"You say."

Mason listened with a solemn expression, and then heard the Atom Man in the biological chamber whisper:

"Let's make it to the end.

If you think that all this is still saved, if you believe that the dark times will eventually pass away and the future will be full of light and hope, then go to the end.

Show me that new era.

I'm kind of a part of it coming, right? ”

"I promise!"

Mason took a deep breath.

He bowed to the creature pod that emitted a purple glow in front of him, and said:

"Even if death is inevitable, I will fall on my way."

"Alright, it's time for you to leave!"

The old wolf waited until Mason's goodbye to Captain Atom was over, he picked up a cigarette and pulled the red skull's chain to tie the wretched stick to the purple power chamber, guaranteeing that the bastard would feel the true touch of annihilation firsthand.

While saying to Mason:

"Twenty minutes is enough time for you to leave, Mason, let's go! Leave here with the last blessing this world gives you, and walk with your head held high!

Be open to the big things you have to do, and I'll make sure that this plan goes to the last step. ”

"Logan, you."

Mason looked at the old wolf with a determined face.

He tried to persuade him again, but Logan turned his back on the body bags he had brought out of the ruins of Xavier Academy, one by one, and placed them nearby.

It's like you're placing tombstones.

He knew that this was the end of the old wolf's plan for him, and he chose this place as his grave, which in itself was an answer to Mason's retention.

In the face of such a stubborn bastard, any of Mason's words seemed so redundant.

He sighed and said:

"Is there anything you want to leave for Vanessa and the two children?"

"It's been said along the way."

Logan paused and said without looking back:

"Just if you can, teach my son for me, don't let him follow my old path, and don't let him make the same irreparable mistake as me.

Do your best to protect your loved ones and friends, and never swing your claws in the wrong direction.

So be it. ”

"Hmm."

Mason threw out a pack of Sika cigarettes as a farewell gift, and walked into the darkness alone, and after a few minutes, the door to the base was completely locked, making it quiet again.

Like a sealed tomb, it is full of coldness and panic.

"Logan, you know, you can actually follow Mason away."

Captain Atom waited until Logan had placed all the body bags beside him, and he said:

"You still have a chance to pay for the terrible guilt in your heart in a better way than to stay here and wait to die."

"I'm tired, Adam."

Logan stood up, popped out a cigarette and put it to his mouth, and while walking to the railing and looking at the bio pods of the Hydra Men on display in front of him, he responded in a dashing manner:

"No matter how harsh fate is, it can't require an old man who is hundreds of years old to embark on a difficult journey. You see, my brothers and sisters are here, and this is where I belong and where I go. ”

He took a puff of smoke and looked at the body bag behind him, as if he saw the former X-Men standing beside him, and at the forefront was himself seventeen years ago.

He grinned and moved his body.

For the first time, the torture of the past was so calmly opposite.

In the thick rising smoke, he said:

"Go to TM's atonement and future, Lao Tzu is tired, Lao Tzu can't move, the future will be handed over to Mason and them."

"yes, even though they always secretly call me 'Captain Bomb."

Adam in the energy pod complained:

"But I know that they are good people, and it's always a lot more reassuring to entrust your future to someone like that. Alas, uncontrollable self-detonation, explosion after explosion, can always cause all kinds of trouble.

That's probably my fate.

But who would have thought that the journey to death would be so exciting, and that there would be two people with me on the last journey.

Tsk, Red Skull, howl louder!

Didn't you eat!

Everyone is dying, okay?

Logan, kick him and stab him again, I want to hear him wail. ”

"Okay."

(End of chapter)