Chapter 195: The Hellfire Hotel
Fury and Coulson stood side by side, staring blankly at the sky. The sky was so blue, as blue as an endless ocean, as blue as a pure jewel.
The sudden feeling of emptiness contrasted sharply with the dark and cramped chamber that had been before, and for a moment the two agents could not recover.
Fury couldn't help but secretly marvel in his heart, he had learned about the super speed ability of this silver-haired man named Pietro from the slow-motion Sanfei videotape, but he was still deeply shocked by his own experience, and the feeling of quickly crossing tens of kilometers to another place was like magic.
Coulson stood aside, blinking his eyes and exclaiming, "Oh my God, that Pietro's speed is unbelievable!" It's a lot more interesting than gamma monsters! ”
"Don't stare at the sky, this is a little different from the Xavier Genius Academy I imagined." Bai Ye said quietly, and at this time he was standing in front of a whole luxurious hotel, which was magnificent, towering, with a gorgeous appearance and exquisite decoration.
The lobby is full of luxury, with tall crystal chandeliers hanging from the ceiling and illuminating the spacious marble floors.
High-end furniture, paintings, and decorations adorn the lobby for a luxurious look. Crowds come and go, from male and female guests in stylish dresses to hotel employees in professional attire, everyone busy in the lobby.
The place where they were located was in a parking lot densely packed with parked vehicles, and a tall tree cast a shadow through the canopy, just so that they were ignored by the crowd of people who came and went.
"What do you mean?" Fury touched his blindfold, it was good that the thing hadn't been blown off by the wind, and then he looked at Bai Ye and asked with some confusion.
Xavier Gifted Junior Academy? It sounds like it has nothing to do with that Charles Xavier.
"This means that this is supposed to be a place where a group of mutant students are fighting each other in class and being attacked by mutant hate groups or heroes from all walks of life, no matter how bad it is, it should be an ancestral home, not anything. Uh, luxury hotels. ”
Bai Ye squinted his eyes and said while touching his chin as he looked at the hotel.
Although the hotel is a modern building on the surface, on closer inspection, it seems that a little bit of the castle's old appearance can be faintly seen.
The walls of the hotel, although covered with high-quality paint and delicate oil paintings, reveal the texture of stone bricks in some places.
Beneath the marble floors, perhaps with centuries-old traces of history and mutants, this luxury hotel is clearly a castle remodeled from a unique blend of ancient traces and modern luxury.
At this moment, a uniformed security guard noticed the group of people who were obviously dressed abnormally, and he quickly walked to the location of the big tree, his hand already pressed to the walkie-talkie on his waist, and at the same time shouted loudly: "Hey! You shouldn't be here! This is a membership system, and outsiders are not allowed to trespass! ”
When Coulson heard this, he immediately put on a friendly smile, found a pair of documents out of nowhere, and then leaned over confidently.
"The General Directorate of Territorial Strategic Defense and Logistics Support is on a mission, please don't disturb us."
It's the kind of work he's best at, and it's the skill he's developed over the years as a field agent.
He knows how to remain calm in times of emergency, and uses the authority of official institutions and his own confidence to create a deterrent that those around him will not easily question.
The security guard, visibly struck by the good-natured old man in front of him, swallowed his spit and stepped forward to examine Coulson's papers, trying to identify any flaws or problems.
However, the documents do look very real.
"Captain, I have a self-proclaimed territorial strategy here." The security guard had just started to report, but on the other side of the intercom, there was a series of gurgling sounds, as if he had received some instructions or information.
With the sound of the voice on the other end of the intercom, the security guard's face instantly became serious, and his eyes at everyone couldn't help but change a little.
Coulson looked at all this with a smile, he was all too familiar with this situation, the CIA and the FBI had to make way for S.H.I.E.L.D., and it was naturally impossible for a hotel security system to stop them.
Eventually, the security guard hung up the intercom and said in an admonishing tone to the crowd: "You can pass, but please keep a low profile and don't disturb the guests here." ”
Bai Ye shook his head with a smile, walked to the front of everyone and said, "This is nature. By the way, if you don't mind, I'd like to ask what is the name of your hotel or this membership-based establishment? There doesn't seem to be a plaque here. ”
And the security guard, who was about to turn around and leave, turned around, shrugged his shoulders and said without hesitation: "Hellfire Club. It's a weird name, right? But a lot of upper-class people like to come to this place. ”
Fury and Coulson didn't react in any way, but White Night and Quicksilver immediately glanced at each other, and they both saw surprise in each other's eyes.
The Hellfire Club, an international social club controlled by mutants, is open to all kinds of influential and wealthy people, whose main purpose is to influence the world through the political connections they have acquired.
Among their most famous members are Sebastian, the Black King, and Emma, the White Queen, but the luxury hotel in front of them doesn't seem to have much to do with mutants, except that it seems to be the ancestral castle of Charles Xavier's family.
Bai Ye shook his head imperceptibly, signaled Pietro to be calm, turned his head and led everyone towards the hotel. Fury keenly caught White Night's surprise, and he leaned over and whispered, "Hellfire Club?" You seem to have a reaction to the name, is there anything special about it? ”
"Do you know this club?" Bai Ye asked rhetorically.
But he didn't expect the black braised egg to nod directly, and said very naturally: "You know, I have written down the places that those big people like to go to in my notebook, and this is just one of them, and I have written down at least a dozen pages by myself." ”
"Anyway, why the hell did you react to that name?" The black braised egg squinted, he wouldn't let this little detail slip through his fingers.
"It's nothing, you heard the security guard say it, it's weird. You see, he listened, and he didn't know how many years it had been. Bai Ye shrugged and casually brought the question over.
If there's an elite club called the Hellfire Club, it's probably just a coincidence.
But a Hellfire club built on the site of Professor X's former academy?
(End of chapter)