Chapter 2: The Colosseum
I don't know how long it has been, but when Xu Yue finally woke up, it was still pitch black as far as the eye could see, and the square and small space around him seemed to be extremely familiar.
'Another coffin start? ’
Some absurd thoughts flashed through his mind, but they were quickly denied by Xu Yue, and although there was a thick metal partition as a barrier, he could still hear the faint cheers and noise from the outside world.
In this warm environment, the cabinet he is in obviously cannot be a coffin, even if the territory of "X-Men" should be located in the open Americas, but even if it is opened, it should not reach the level of having a party in the morgue and jumping in the mourning hall.
With his right hand stretched out and tapped lightly on the partition beside him, the perception instantly expanded along the ripples generated by the vibration, and quickly returned, centering on the iron cabinet he was in, and the black-and-white stereoscopic images within a hundred meters around him also poured into Xu Yue's mind.
It was a very large enclosed room, surrounded by a large iron cage in the center of the room, and the crowd cheered and moved to the beat of the music's rousing drums.
Inside the iron cage, two figures stood and fell, the standing one raised his hands high, roaring excitedly, while the lying down had a weak breath, and his body was still twitching slightly unconsciously.
This familiar scene quickly evoked Xu Yue's memory, and also allowed him to determine the specific environment he was currently in—the underground boxing arena, and he would most likely be the next fighter to appear.
Thinking of this, he temporarily extinguished the idea of breaking open the iron cabinet immediately, and sure enough, a few seconds later, the iron cabinet he was in began to be pushed by several people, and it continued to approach the iron cage in the center, and at the same time, a large piece of information was also brushed out in front of his eyes.
[Into the World: X-Men]
World difficulty: LV.4~?? (Open world, difficulty varies by region.) )
Origin of the World: 0% (Hunters will increase when exploring or communicating with characters in the current world, and when solving the world, they will calculate the difficulty of the task to form the final score)
World Resume: Humans, mutants, racial antagonism, mutant groups born out of human beings, either actively or passively have additional armed forces, and the power causes disparities, and the disparities naturally lead to fear, jealousy, greed, thirst and uncontrollability, and eventually inevitably produce conflicts and confrontations, and the entanglement and contradictions between the two races have never stopped since the moment of parting ways.
Mutants: Humans have a variety of special abilities through genetic mutations, regardless of whether the genes give blessings or curses, which make them a real outlier, and the aliens are destined to be excluded and persecuted by the mainstream, they are struggling to survive in the human world, through the specific situation and degree of control of the mutant ability, mutants can be divided into Ipsilon-level (inferior), Delta (weak), gamma-level (extraordinary), beta-level (control), alpha-level (top) , Omega (God).
X-Men: Under the leadership of the two mainstream leaders of mutants, mutants can be roughly divided into two major factions, among which the X Academy, founded and led by Professor X, is the representative of the doves, and the X-Men are the armed forces composed of elite individuals in the academy, advocating peaceful coexistence with humans, and taking the initiative to take on the corresponding responsibilities such as alleviating the contradictions between the two sides, smashing the conspiracy, confronting conflicts, and sheltering young mutants.
Mutant Brotherhood: Founded by Magneto, one of the leaders of the mutants, it is a representative of the hawks in the mutant community, advocating that mutants are an advanced form of human evolution, natural selection, survival of the fittest, and the intention is to destroy all humans and establish a new era for mutants.
Trask Industries: Founded in 1967 by Bolívar Trask, the technology group has a strong biological gene, mechanical structure and other high-end technology, behind the strong support of the government and the military, its founder first put forward the mutant threat theory, discovered the X gene, and led the development of mutant detection machine, sentry robot and other targeted technologies, with the intention of making all mankind regard mutants as a common enemy, in the confrontation and war to achieve the full cooperation and greatness of all mankind.
Main Quest: Faction Choice
Hunting Mission: Clean up the Violator 10021 Contractor, when the Hunter enters within one kilometer of the 10021 Contractor, the hunting function will be automatically activated.
Hint: The number 10021 violator is strong, and hunters must be cautious.
Warning: Please do not mention anything in Paradise in this world, if the warning is invalid, you will be forcibly terminated!
Tip: Detected that the Hunter does not master the language of the world, has consumed 100 Paradise Coins to automatically master the language of the world.
World, begin!
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Outside, the metal iron cabinet more than two meters high was slowly pushed into the octagonal iron cage in the center of the venue under the joint efforts of several big men.
As the iron cabinet arrived at its intended location, several people did not delay, but left quickly, leaving the venue for the next gladiatorial battle that was about to begin.
On the other side of the iron cabinet, the gladiator, who was the winner of the last game, removed his grim gaze from the backs of the humans, and the eyes that looked at the iron cabinet first flashed a trace of sadness, and then were covered by a strong killing intent.
He knew that it was his compatriots who were imprisoned in the iron cabinet, and a month ago, he also boarded this octagonal iron cage in this way, but since he entered the iron cage, the identity of his compatriots has become an opponent who needs to fight to the death.
In this underground boxing arena, all the captured mutants are just beasts for humans to fight for fun, and the law and human rights will not shelter them as a group of outliers who have been excluded by society, and if they want to continue to live pathetically, killing their opponents is the only way to survive.
And he didn't want to die.
"Zi~"
Just as the gladiator looked at the murderous intent of the iron cabinet not far away, the coverage of the octagonal iron cage where several humans in charge of transporting it had also completely left, and as the iron door closed, fine electric light began to swim on the barbed wire on the outer edge of the ring, and the sound of electricity was faintly audible.
At the same time, a somewhat exaggerated voice instantly spread throughout the venue under the spread of the microphone.
"The stone-man with rock-hard skin killed his third opponent tonight, and he'll face another powerful mutant next."
"What is harder than rock? That's steel, of course! ”
"Let's welcome a new fighter in the Deadly Gladiatorial Arena, a mutant with the same steeliness as the X-Men Colossus, Flame!!"
Accompanied by the host's high-pitched and passionate speech, there were bursts of frenzied sound around the iron cage, although I haven't seen the main protagonist yet, but the three words of X-Men alone are enough to arouse the extreme excitement of these spectators.
The X-Men are the most famous of the mutants, and even if it's just a pirated version on stage, it's enough to evoke their human superiority and arrogance, and watching these powerful freaks fight like beasts in an iron cage for fun, that sense of spiritual supremacy is above all else.
"Bang Bang ......"
In this frenzied cheer, four loud metal landing sounds sounded in the ring one after another, and the square cabinet where Xu Yue was imprisoned automatically disintegrated into four metal iron plates and smashed to the ground, revealing a tall figure standing inside.
The bright light that suddenly pierced in made Xu Yue's eyes squint slightly, and after getting used to it, the first thing that caught his eye was the opponent not far from the ring, which was a sturdy stone man, different from the stone man image in the Fantastic Four, the stone man opposite him was composed of gray-white rocks.
Although the body is strong, it is not bloated, and the mottled blood stains on the arms that have not yet dried up make it look particularly fierce and hideous.
The changes given to the host by the mutant gene are unpredictable, and even bring irreversible changes to the host's image, once a small number of mutants awaken, their appearance will become a complete monster under the effect of genes, this kind of person is the most tragic part of the mutants, and the different images completely cut off the possibility of their integration into normal society.
The reason why human beings call mutants aliens and freaks is that these mutants occupy the main inducement, and they use the most intuitive and different images to tell the world that although humans and mutants come from the same origin, they are two completely different species.
Obviously, the stone man opposite Xu Yue was one of these unlucky mutants.
When Xu Yue was looking at the stone man on his side, the stone man was also looking at the opponent, listening to the previous host's introduction, he originally thought that the other party was also a mutant whose image was completely modified by genes, but he didn't think that he looked no different from ordinary people.
This shows that the other party has been able to fully control their own mutant abilities, and this part of the people is often quite strong, coupled with their tall size, the situation looks quite bad.
The only thing to be happy about is that the other party has a calm breath, and he shouldn't have experienced many life-and-death fights before he was caught in this underground boxing arena.
In the face of this kind of opponent, it is the best plan to take the initiative to attack and inflict heavy damage or even kill the opponent as quickly as possible, and there is only one winning general in this ring, and there can only be him!
"Let's fight, mutants, let's see who's the most powerful monster, hahaha......"
"Gladiatorial fight, begin!"
The host's excited shouts resounded in the ring, and the aftermath had not stopped, and several muffled noises had exploded again opposite Xu Yue, accompanied by rumbling footsteps, the stone man was like a rock chariot, carrying an indomitable ferocity and rushing towards him.
Although the speed is not fast, the surging power gives people an unstoppable sense of intimidation, and the mutant gene distorts the appearance of the stone man, but also gives the opponent great strength and exaggerated weight measured in tons.
In a ring environment surrounded by high-voltage power grids, his abilities can be put to the fullest, and as long as he can successfully slam his opponent into the high-voltage grid, he basically wins most of the time.
"Bang!!"
Unfortunately, reality is often much more brutal than imagined, and the strength and weight he prides himself on are nothing compared to the opponents he faces.
As soon as he approached his opponent's horrified gaze, his forward charge came to a standstill uncontrollably, and a large silver hand simply pressed lightly on the shoulder that acted as a 'ramming angle', directly canceling out all the kinetic energy he had accumulated during the collision.
There was a sharp pain in the shoulder, and under the hedge and tear of the two forces, the gray and white rock in the shoulder made a 'click' cracking sound, and the slightest crack grew and spread from the silver fingers until a faint blood stain oozed.
Even if Xu Yue was simply blocking the impact, under the passive blessing of 'Piercing the Mountain and Breaking the Mountain', the opponent's hard rock armor was fragile to him.
"You ......"
Some interfering voices came out of Shi Shi's mouth, and he looked up, but suddenly found that the opponent's original gentle temperament had long disappeared, and what appeared instead was a cold and evil aura that made people's hairs stand on end, and in a trance, he seemed to see a viscous black air flow slowly overflowing from the opponent's body.
Thanks to the powerful spiritual control brought by long-term cultivation of the mind space, coupled with the buffer of the real world, Xu Yue has been able to restrain his own evil qi almost perfectly, and when he does not move, he can be regarded as mild, but once activated, the vicious evil qi contained in the evil barbarian body can even directly erode the opponent's mind.
Looking at each other, facing Xu Yue's indifferent lilac eyes, the stone man's pupils trembled slightly, and in the next moment, the fear inside was all transformed into madness on the verge of despair, in this gladiatorial ring, there was no room for retreat, and if he didn't win, he would die.
A roar erupted from his throat, and the stone man ignored the big hand that was tightly clamping around his shoulder like iron pincers, but instead pinched the huge rock fist and blasted towards Xu Yue's front door.
But before the fist arrived, there was a whistling first under him, and at the moment when he swung his fist, a black combat boot had already kicked him in the abdomen with the sound of the wind, and if you looked closely, countless vertical scales crisscrossing the soles of the boots could even be faintly visible.
"Boom!!"
It was as if a muffled thunder exploded in the ring, and in an instant, smoke and dust rose everywhere, rubble flew, and scattered rock powder mixed with blood and water formed a floating blood mist in mid-air.
As the main bearer of this heavy kick, the stone man immediately turned into a phantom, and flew backwards at a speed far exceeding the speed of the previous charge, until it hit the high-voltage power grid behind him, and then he could stop flying backwards.
Another more violent muffled sound rang out, and the iron net crumbled under the ferocious impact of the stone man's rock cannon, and protruded outward, producing an extremely severe deformation, and even the iron net that enveloped the entire ring trembled.
The electricity flowed in all directions, and even some of the electric light splashed outside the ring, causing the surrounding spectators to retreat in horror.
Inside the iron net, the current has little effect on the stone man whose body surface is rock, and after hanging on the iron net for a few seconds, his heavy body fell directly to the ground, and the gurgling blood continued to gush outward.
The stone man only turned into a rock-like substance, as if he was wearing an irremovable rock armor, and the inside was still wrapped in soft flesh and blood.
After the rock armor in the abdomen was kicked and shattered by Xu Yue, the flesh and blood below were inevitably torn into a mess by the scales at the bottom of the combat boots.
Just one kick, the winner has been decided, this kind of clean and neat second kill scene, so that all the audience in the field couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, or the gladiatorial host on the second floor was the first to react, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva deeply, and after sensing the dryness in his throat slightly relieved, this time he roared with his throat:
"The winner is decided!!"
"Wonderful spikes, let's cheer for the new king of gladiatorial fighting in the deadly gladiatorial arena."
"He's just—Fire!!"
The host's roar swept through the entire underground like a violent wind, and also woke up all the spectators present, a pair of bloodshot eyes moved away from the bloody and tragic wound of the stone man, and looked at the only tall figure standing in the ring, and then they realized that the other party did not even seem to move.
The underground gym could not contain the weak emotions of sympathy and pity, and all that was left was a primal thirst for bloody violence and a pure quest for absolute victory.
The high-sounding humanity has no stand here, and only the savage and intuitive beast nature can lead the song here.
So no one cared about the tragic situation of the loser, all the audience's attention was focused on the only standing winner, the fanatical flush gradually climbed up the cheeks, the disguise of civilization was torn apart at this moment, and the scarlet eyes revealed only the undisguised primitive beastliness.
Driven by the host, they roared with the same name with their surging necks.
"Gladiator King—Flame!!"
The roar of the mountains and the tsunami echoed in his ears, but Xu Yue in the ring was always flat, his indifferent eyes swept over the group of hideous spectators in the audience, and there was only a cold in his eyes.
"No matter what world it is, the primitive beastliness under the disguise of civilization are still so ugly."
(End of chapter)