Chapter XVII

Outside the courtyard, it was when the moon had set in the west and the sky had not yet risen

It's the darkest period before dawn.

Just as Donald's heart was now filled with fear, darkness shrouded it like a curtain of death.

"Whew, whew......"

Suppressed gasps rang in his ears, and Donald couldn't tell whether it was his men or his own, but he didn't have any thoughts of inquiry now, and he didn't even dare to make any noise.

The moist and greasy touch slid over the cheeks, like a mucus-stained tentacle from the forehead to the brow bones, eye sockets, and lip corners......

The sweet smell crept from the tip of his tongue into his heart, and Donald knew that it was not a tentacle, but a brain mixed with blood, which had been sitting in the mind of a marauder not long ago.

It wasn't until an arrow shattered his entire head that it smeared Donald's face.

Hell, for the first time, he learned that in addition to heavy sniper rifles, bows and arrows can blow a person's head out.

Blood began to burrow into his eyes, and a sour sensation continued to come from his eyes, but Donald still widened his eyes and scanned around, even though the deepest darkness was all around him.

Ten minutes ago, the situation was good, and he was bombarding the room where the archer and X-24 were with his men.

He didn't care if the X-24 survived, anyway, the left and right were just experiments, and even if it was scrapped, it could be remade, but the archer had to die.

The phantom pain in his right arm from time to time made his hatred grow like a weed.

The flames of the explosion made him extremely excited, and he couldn't believe that the damn mutant could survive under such firepower.

But with the flick of a pickup truck, everything changed, and they went from predators to prey.

When Donald and the others recovered from the pickup's collision, the nightmare came.

Two arrows appeared silently, and the two marauders, who had just risen from the ground, lay back on the ground again, and had no chance to get up again.

Donald witnessed the arrow piercing the skull and then the head exploding, which was only 20 centimeters away from him.

In the panic, no one paid attention to where the arrows were flying from, but just strafed indiscriminately in front of them.

It wasn't until two arrows quietly appeared again, this time extinguishing the two street lamps in the courtyard, that darkness poured like a tide, enveloping the entire courtyard, and everyone forcibly calmed down.

But then came the beginning of the nightmare, a carnage in the dark.

Arrows flew out from all over the darkness, like the scythe of death harvesting life, silent, silent, but deadly.

One by one, the marauders fell in the darkness, pierced through their throats, eye sockets, and eyebrows.

There were no footsteps, no sound, they didn't even know which direction the enemy was, and fear seemed to turn into a poisonous snake that held their hearts firmly.

It's useless to shoot, it's useless to run away, they are wrapped in darkness, they only know that they will die if they shoot, they will die if they make sounds, and the light and sound are the best beacons in the dark.

In just a few minutes, the entire group was left with Donald and one of his men alive, who hid in the back of the pickup truck, but still did not relax in the slightest, and even gasped cautiously.

Donald looked left and right, but there was nothing but darkness around him.

Shout!

A subtle sound of breaking the air was heard, and Donald's pupils shrank, and then a warm, slippery touch came from his face.

He stiffened his head, and the last of his men was pierced by the side of the neck with the arrow, and now the whole arrow was still stuck across his neck, the tail of the arrow bobbing up and down with the twitching of his body, like a vicious snake.

His men were not dead, and they wanted to say something, but they couldn't speak, only blood-colored foam kept overflowing from their mouths.

Looking at the gradually gray eyes of his subordinates, Donald suddenly calmed down, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly got up, and the assault rifle in his hand fired wildly in all directions.

The muzzle tongue of fire roared loudly around it, dazzling in the dark night.

"Damn mutants, give me ......"

Before he could finish speaking, there was another soft sound, and the arrow had already shot through Donald's mouth, straight through the back of his head.

As the body fell to the ground, silence returned to the courtyard.

You killed Marauder leader Donald Pierce. 】

[Donald Pierce is a key character in the plot, and he has obtained 6.3% of the Source of the World, and now he has a total of 6.3% of the Source of the World.] 】

Xu Yue calmly walked out of the darkness, concealment was the advantage of bows and arrows over guns, coupled with the extraordinary perception brought by his intelligence improvement, this completed an elegant slaughter in the dark.

Put away the Xiaoyun Bow again, Xu Yue first put away the green treasure chest suspended on the corpse, Donald's individual strength is not outstanding, but the marauder organization led by him has a lot of energy, which is why this green treasure chest is burst.

After putting the treasure chest into the savings space, Xu Yue didn't leave directly, but roughly rummaged through Donald's corpse.

More than ten seconds later, looking at the green elixir in his hand, Xu Yue's eyebrows were slightly raised, and sure enough, touching the corpse was a good habit, and he had to continue to maintain it.

After putting away the medicine, Xu Yue looked in the direction of the truck in the distance, where there was still one last trouble.

Just as he was about to leave, there was a sound of footsteps behind him.

The visitor was Logan who had come out of the room, and he could see that he was angry now, his eyes were scarlet, and his body was trembling slightly uncontrollably.

Seeing Logan's state, Xu Yue also roughly guessed the reason.

"With the ability of a professor, how can it be ......"

With the Professor's psychic ability, after he stopped X-24, he didn't think that the group of marauders could do much damage to the Professor, even if it was X-24, it was only because it was a clone of Logan that he could sneak up on it.

Logan was silent for a moment, then spoke:

"It's a small, programmatically controlled robot."

Xu Yue didn't speak again, he wasn't very good at comforting, not to mention that the current Logan had basically lost everything, and his language was sometimes too pale.

The atmosphere was dull for a moment, and Logan spoke again:

"Charles isn't dead yet, but time is running out, and I want to take him to the hospital, but he doesn't want to."

"He didn't want to live for a long time, since he killed the X-Men with his own hands, he begged for death every time he was sober, and I forcibly kept him."

Logan's voice was soft, but Xu Yue heard it clearly.

"Huh! Maybe I should have freed him, I've just seen too many deaths, but I've been the only one who survived every time......"

Logan paused, as if recalling something, a hint of bitterness appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then continued: "Scott once said that no one's wounds heal as fast as I do. ”

"But I seem to be losing my ability to heal now......"

Logan said as he played with an Edelman metal bullet in his hand, the last one he had left for himself.

Now his body is full of wounds that can't heal, but this is far less than the blood in his heart.

His tone was very calm, as if it was just ordinary small talk, but Xu Yue didn't know how to speak.

"Charles wants to see you one last time, Flame."

Rogan looked at Xu Yue's gaze a little complicated, he already knew Xu Yue's ability from Charles.

"Okay."

After Xu Yue agreed, he pointed to Rogan in the direction of the truck in the distance.

"There's a truck there, and if nothing else, the planner of this arrest is there, and you should be happy to solve it."

“…… Of course! Logan gritted his teeth, his eyes glazed out.

Xu Yue then turned around and walked towards the room, passing by the living room, X-24 in the corner had been bound by iron chains, this should have been done by Logan, now X-24's legs are basically only bones left, the flesh and blood at the section are blurred, and the flesh and blood are faintly visible, and the flesh and granes are faintly entangled and twisted, which looks particularly infiltrating.

However, this is not ordinary for Xu Yue, although the mission goal is in front of him, he is not in a hurry, and the harvest of this world is more than that.

Walking up the stairs, Xu Yue came to the professor's room, the door was full of mess, and what he saw was a corpse lying on the ground, in a tragic death, surrounded by broken mechanical parts.

Taking advantage of the battle between Xu Yue and X-24, the marauder climbed over the wall in the backyard to the professor's room, and after being controlled by the professor, he used the robot on his body to successfully shoot the professor, and then was almost torn to pieces by the enraged Laura.

This is an additional arrangement that is detached from the original book, even though Xu Yue has worked hard to maintain the plot, his existence still brings a lot of variables, such as making Dr. Rice and others more cautious.

Stepping over the corpse, the professor was still lying on the big bed, but now the big bed was covered with blood, and Laura tried to press the professor's abdomen, but the blood continued to seep through her fingers.

The professor's face was pale, and he was whispering something to Laura, and when he saw Xu Yue enter the door, he smiled at Xu Yue, looking like he was not afraid of dying at all, but very relaxed.

"Fire, you're here."

"I'm sorry, Professor."

Xu Yue didn't say why he apologized, but the professor could understand the reason, and he patted Laura's blood-stained little hand with a kind gaze.

"Is everything out there settled?"

"Settled, Laura's next journey won't be hindered anymore." Xu Yue said yes.

"That's good, that's good......"

"With children, mutants have a new future."

The professor's tone was full of hope, but Laura pressed the wound tighter.

"Kill me."

The professor's words were flat, as if they were ordinary greetings, with a hint of a smile in his tone.

“…… Good. ”

"Remember, it's you who harness the power, and finally, help Logan, I've troubled you along the way."

"Don't worry."

"Go all the way."

A moment later, a raging fire shot into the sky, almost filling the entire second floor.

[You killed Level 4 Mutant Professor X, Charles Francis Xavier.] 】

[Professor X is the key figure in the current world, and has obtained 12.8% of the Source of the World, and now has a total of 19.1% of the Source of the World.] 】

【You get a treasure chest (blue)】

Looking at the boiling fire in front of him, Xu Yue swallowed his saliva, he felt that he might be cold on this fire.

Before absorbing, Xu Yue looked at Laura, who was a little at a loss.

"Laura, tell Logan, don't kill that clone downstairs, I'm of great use."

Then the flames in the sky began to retract, sweeping Xu Yue away, and he seemed to feel the spiritual shock of the landslide and tsunami again, and then he was unconscious.

"That's ...... What? ”

Downstairs, Caliban, who had just escaped from the cage, looked at the boiling purple fire on the second floor and asked in surprise.

Rogan didn't speak, just clenched his fists tighter, he and Laura both knew Charles's intentions, but there was no reason to stop them.

With Charles's physical condition, he can't survive the hospital at all, which is the last thing Charles can do for them.