Madeleine is gone.

Or to the chagrin of Mason, who felt a sense of regret that he hadn't been able to do what he had promised Emma, but that would not be the time to think about it.

The captain took a deep breath to calm himself down, took off the unused Cosmic Power Armor, folded it and put it back away, thinking about the benefits, this thing was useless and saved the engineer from having to repair it.

Although it is a remodeling of the exterior structure, it is said that the man-hours and materials required are quite expensive, so I guess I can save a little.

"The vitality is really tenacious."

The captain looked at the "corpse" of the Gollum Empress who had been taken back by himself, and the other party was hanging under the super tenacity of the Predator and the self-healing factor of the symbiote serum.

But if left untreated, her death would have been within minutes.

"Since you are alive, let us continue to suffer."

Mason pouted at the wild phoenix hovering beside him, and the latter chirped and spewed a breath of fire at the Iron Queen, not destroying the corpse, of course, but wrapping and healing it into a "phoenix feather".

No matter what kind of legend in which world, things like the phoenix will always be linked to "resurrection" and "healing and purification".

The slightly hot firelight seeped into Gollum's body, partially closing the hole in her chest that had been broken by the alien, and the whole person was pulled back from the brink of death and thrown into the time stagnation capsule by Mason, who was happy to mention the identity of a "captive".

After doing all this, Mason turned around, and said to the Supreme Professor in front of him in a rather dissatisfied manner:

"You could have forcibly left you but you didn't, I couldn't understand what you were doing, but I was really shocked. Why? ”

The Captain asked:

"Are all the fighters who defended the survival of Utopia with their lives in vain? The war between Madeleine and her best friend has completely destroyed the supreme home you have left for mutants.

You're really not angry at all?

Or is it that all of Professor X's ultimate forms are Madonnas who can forgive all sins?

You're not that kind of person! ”

"I'm not."

The Supreme Professor was lying in his levitating wheelchair, and he didn't have to disguise himself after Madeleine left, his breath sliding off a cliff.

In a matter of seconds, he went from full of energy to a dying and decrepit weakness.

With difficulty, he raised his hand and handed Mason the diamond device he had just completed, and he said:

"They didn't die either. They're all here. ”

"Huh?"

Mason took the diamond-made device in surprise, and it was not cold but a little warm in his hand, and soon an information label popped up when he looked at it:

Diamond cradle consciousness memory

Quality: Engineering artifact, immortal craftsmanship

Traits: Forever, Never Wear, Consciousness Backup, Infinite Memory

Effect: It is made of a logic diamond unique to the Universe of the Xia Empire, made by the Supreme Antimatter Engine of the Xia Empire, and can be connected to the Brainwave Enhancer 7.0 and authorized to unlock the mutant consciousness pool.

This consciousness bank backs up the biological consciousness of all life in the entire utopia and the logical stamps that represent the essence of its existence, which can be downloaded to the body of a highly adaptive creature through the built-in "cradle program".

Prompt!

This item is a second-upgrade adaptor for Weapon X, and when connected to any Weapon X Item Gene Clone Cultivation Device, it can be used to complete the replication and rebirth of Utopian mutants in a short period of time.

Prompt!

The item has one and only one operator, and its unlocking privileges are tied to the Brainwave Enhancer, which must be used by a Psychic Strength Specialty mutant to unlock it.

The current authority holder is: Charles Francis Xavier (Leader of the X Royal Family)

Maker: Mutant "Artisan"

Item Description: Throw away the brainwave uploader and cyberspace you have at hand, when you get this thing, it means that cybertech is already an outdated product that can be eliminated. Of course, if you want to use the technology dedicated to the replication and cloning of mutant consciousness to ordinary people, you need to upgrade the technology, but I don't think it will be difficult for you, right?

"You can understand how it works."

The Supreme Professor, who was lying in a wheelchair, whispered:

"I can feel that you have already understood its effect in your mind, and I don't think I have to explain it anymore, you may have understood the truth when you saw it."

"yes, I think I understand."

Mason looked at the diamond logic consciousness bank that seemed to be burning with a fire in his hand, and his mind was full of thoughts, and after a few seconds of language organization, he said to the professor:

"When you responded to the first order of the conqueror's plea for help, you had already made this plan for the 'Golden Cicada Shell'?

The so-called backstabbing and betrayal that the clones have been resenting are actually used to cover up the backdoor you secretly left behind during the upgrade of Project X?

In order to make this confrontation seem more real and less suspicious, you actually fought with them.

But. Why? ”

The captain couldn't help but ask:

"If you never thought about persecuting clones, why didn't you actually include them in the utopian system when they called for help?

This is definitely not due to the consideration of insufficient strength, with your strength and the combat power of the first order of the conquerors, no one in the group of the Council of Hope will dare to speak disrespectfully to you.

It was supposed to be a strong combination. ”

"But you've seen the end of our powerful entity with your own eyes, push me through."

The Supreme Professor said in a dumb voice.

Mason put away the diamond consciousness bank in his hand, reached into the hovering wheelchair, and pushed it to the edge of the crumbling contemplation hall.

Flying behind the two of them, Phoenix Fawkes had found the shivering xenomorph larvae beneath the cracks in the ground, the creature had not yet eaten to activate its fast-growing biological instincts, so it would be like a strange black bug with exoskeleton claws, pecked by Fawkes's sharp beak.

But instead of eating it, the wild phoenix, which had a bad character, picked up the ugly creature and threw it around as if it were playing.

It's like a cat playing with a mouse.

Ignoring the noise of the wild phoenix behind him, Professor Supreme lay down in his slowly rising wheelchair, and with Mason's help he removed the brainwave intensifier that he almost never left his body, finally revealing his youthful face and the same intelligent and gentle and tired eyes as the other professors.

He stared with his eyes at the yellow sand in front of him in the temporal distortion zone, covered with a wasteland filter, and the buildings that had been transformed into various strange models in the spatial distortion were filled with the sadness of the moment of withering.

"This is how we ended, and maybe it was foregone when Nick Fury invited me to join his savior group.

We can't expect the wrong way to get the right result, and everything we do has consequences, and those consequences will eventually turn into judgment over time.

justice

This seemingly ethereal thing awaits everyone at the end. ”

The Supreme Professor coughed and whispered to Mason:

"I can hear the sound of your hat, it's right, we deserve it."

"I didn't say it!"

The old hat on Mason's head recessed a vague face, and retorted:

"I'm relieved!

This mutual destruction and the revenge and revenge that arise from each other for various reasons are by no means pleasant.

When I saw you on the brink of destruction, I didn't have the slightest joy in my heart. ”

"You're a complex conglomeration of consciousness."

The Supreme Professor shook his head weakly and said:

"I can hear the turmoil in your heart, like the wraiths of a world of destruction howling to see my death, but it is indeed what I deserve.

I deeply regret the cost of surviving the destruction of a world that had nothing to do with it.

Be patient, I'm dying.

Let me say this before I die, the truth cannot be blocked or buried, and I hope that at least one person will know this.

Mason, Conqueror Sequence 1 is a 'backup'!

When they called on us for help, we learned for the first time that the evil project that was born in your homeland continues and thrives at the behest of the Council.

It's like a flower of evil.

We realized the value of this, and as you mentioned, we were divided into two factions that were engaged in heated discussions, one led by my dear friend Magneto, who advocated absorbing them as part of the utopia.

The other faction, led by Mr. Horrified, advocates the implementation of the 'backup' plan.

In the end, I chose the second suggestion.

We've fixed some of the inherent flaws in Project Weapon X to bring the clones closer to the original and even reach the exact same level as the original after several generations of iterations.

And when correcting the defects, the access to the 'cradle' program was secretly added.

That way, if things take the worst, if utopia is destroyed by war as it is today, then all the people we have in our custody can be reborn with the help of Weapon X Project.

It's the people who matter!

Civilization is a human being, not a specific astral body, and as long as people are alive, civilization can continue forever, so the pursuit of existence has become the first priority of utopia in this dark age.

As it turned out, we made the right choice. ”

"But you've deepened your obedience to the process, and you've made them weaker."

Mason looked at the brainwave booster that was handed over to him in his hand, and said:

"It was because of the refinement of that procedure that the newborn clones could no longer break free from the shackles of the command, and it was because of their continued weakness that they had to become more attached to the Council.

But when Mr. Disgust gave me the methods of using the X gene to disrupt the obedience program, I realized that this program is not permanent for you.

You're also leaving some sort of secret door in your upgraded obedience routine? ”

"When the 'cradle' program is activated, the first sequence of obedience procedures is overridden and neutralized."

The professor said:

"As for the so-called weakening, you should be able to understand that it is not to control them, it is to protect them! Only when the program is in the hands of the Council can the First Order be truly trusted without suspicion, annihilation, and dismantling.

In this way, there will always be one of the utopia and the first sequence that will survive.

And no matter which organization survives to the end, the main body of mutant civilization will not die.

We're all from the same source.

Even if we are driven to part ways by hatred, we have the same power, the same heritage, so whether the clones want to admit it or not, they are mutants from the moment they are born!

But we don't seem to be doing it perfectly.

At least he couldn't hide it from the Divine Monarch Doom, who had designed a more advanced cloning program of his own with the blueprint for Project Weapon X, and was assembling a dark super mutant who was truly loyal to the Council.

That's really uncontrolled chaos, and you have to deal with that threat. ”

Mason fell silent.

After a few seconds, he said:

"You have really developed existentialism to the limit, and the starting point for making all choices, good or evil, is to perpetuate this existence.

If I'm not mistaken, when I first arrived in Utopia, you were able to accept me because you also saw me as another possibility of continuation?

It's like you're using Deadpool's hand to smuggle your chosen 'seeds' out of Utopia in a way that won't be suspected by anyone, and let them spread out in all planes. ”

"Yes, Wade's madness makes anything he does not go unsuspected, no matter how weird."

The Supreme Professor smiled and said:

"Because of his activism, we've sent over seven hundred Pioneers to all planes over the past few years, and perhaps we should award Wade a medal of honor mutant for that.

After all, in theory, Wade Wilson is not a real mutant.

He's some sort of more complex creature. ”

"But what about Madeleine?"

When Mason finally asked the question, he looked at the professor and said:

"I admit that there are natural flaws in Madeleine's personality, but the suffering she suffered in Utopia cannot be fake."

"She was also another possibility that our extreme existentialism wanted to presuppose."

The Supreme Professor was dying, apparently completing the last backup of the Cradle of Diamonds and the impact of the Phoenix's power and the previous assassination had drained all his energy, and the black-red blood flowed from his nostrils without being wiped.

He said:

"Madeleine's birth is a miracle, just like you, Mason, we didn't expect to make the perfect phoenix host in your hometown's initial project.

When she was secretly sent to Utopia by the Omega clones, experiments on the power of the phoenix began simultaneously.

We didn't mean to torture her.

We just want to use some biotechnology to perfect Madeleine's control of the power of the phoenix, and the reason why she can so easily extract the phoenix power of the other Phoenix Apostles is because of the gift of this experiment.

We tried to use her as a model to make the omnipotent 'White Phoenix', in order to complete the transcendence after fate and Brainiac's plan, so as to lead the mutant civilization through the cosmic change.

But that trial. In the end, it was not completed.

The mutants of the first order launched an attack on us under the guidance of Doom, and when they entered the world of Utopia, we realized that our actions were at risk of being discovered.

We can only release Madeleine.

The clones also need a strong leader to avoid their hopeless fall into the hands of the Council.

I gave the order to start the White Phoenix project.

Madeleine was right to hate me, but I don't regret making that decision. ”

The professor lowered his head and whispered:

"Save her, Mason, as you did when you came to our rescue in times of need.

The psychic protection I left her with can't stop the Phoenix power from continuing to erode her, and if you let it go, she'll soon become a true Dark Phoenix.

Destroy everything, destroy yourself.

You have to save her."

"Does it really have to?"

Mason whispered:

"The two encounters with her didn't make a good impression on me, she tried to control me, she wanted to take advantage of me, and I didn't feel any emotion in her heart."

"Disappointment, perhaps?"

The professor sighed and projected an image into Mason's mind.

It was the scene of Madeleine's experiments in Utopia a few years ago, and the girl in the red dress was crying in the midst of the phoenix fire, begging in pain and despair:

"Don't let me go, you bad guys! No brother!.help me. Brother, where are you? ”

The image made Mason clench his fists.

He knew who Madeleine's 'brother' was, and the Red Queen had explained it to him when they first met.

The professor shook Mason's hand as he lay dying, and he whispered:

"I can't sense what she's thinking now, but at least at that time, Mason, you're her only hope in the dark. I'm sorry, Mason.

I'm sorry we did that to your sister, I'm sorry, we made a miracle as brilliant as you turn evil.

We deserve to blame for today's calamity.

But there is.

The civilization of mutants cannot perish. Let's go, get out of here! A utopia full of darkness and pain must die today, and all the wheels of hatred of the Primordials and clones must collapse.

Only in this way can you, who are truly innocent, be reborn from the ashes of civilization.

I've been walking in the dark for too long.

It's time for me to go back in time and be reunited with my family.

I wish you all a smooth journey and may you find the perfect place for you. Maia, lead them. They need you more than they need me."

(End of chapter)