Above, a black dot emerges from the edge of the sky and rapidly expands into a streamlined jet black fighter.

The huge fuselage hovered over the ruins of the battlefield, the raging air currents stirring up the remaining smoke and flames even more chaotically, and in the cockpit, Scott, as the pilot, looked down through the porthole over the mess below.

Black smoke still wafted from the wreckage of large houses, and wisps of flames from the grenade bombardment lingered on the rubble like appendages.

Beyond the ruins is a chaotic courtyard that has been damaged by a self-detonation of a mine, with a shocking array of charred black craters, mixed with a large amount of metal shrapnel and two torn metal skeletons.

Looking at the various traces left here, it is not difficult to imagine how fierce the battle was not so long ago.

"Sentinel?"

His eyes focused on the two metal skeletons on the ground, although the skeletons were in tatters, but as an X-Men who had dealt with the Sentinels many times, Scott still recognized the specific identity of the skeletons at a glance.

Able to kill two heavily armed Sentinel Robots in a short period of time, and with such a high level of damage, it seems that the mutant that the professor asked him to pick up is quite good, but I don't know if he was injured.

His gaze shifted from the metal skeleton, and after a glance, he quickly locked onto a tall figure on the periphery of the ruins, surrounded by purple fire, and several silver diamond-shaped metal bodies suspended out of thin air, which was quite eye-catching.

'Fire, metal, composite variant abilities?' ’

"Scott?"

In the middle of his thoughts, a low male voice suddenly sounded in his head, Scott was immediately stunned, and the pupils of the figure below were slightly dilated, even through the vermilion goggles, it could be clearly seen that he was slightly surprised.

"Psychic ability?"

Psychic abilities are not a big commodity, and they are also a rare and dangerous type in the entire mutant group, let alone under the premise of having other mutant abilities.

"It's just a simple mental technique, limited to communication, and it can't be as intrusive as a professor, don't worry."

"You don't have to land, just open the hatch, and soon there will be trouble again, and we need to leave quickly."

The voice in his head sounded again, and Scott pursed his lips and did not respond, just silently hovered the jet fighter in mid-air, and then opened the elevator door in the rear.

Under the fighter, Xu Yue waved his hand and put several diamond-shaped metal bodies in front of him into the space, and then looked sideways at the black car that was quickly coming in the direction of the ruins in the distance, and didn't pay much attention to it, the metal wings behind him opened suddenly, and then took off into the air.

Soon, the flapping figure directly entered the jet fighter hovering in the air, the hatch closed, and the fighter plane quickly rose and flew away with the roar of the engine, leaving only two white clouds that slowly faded into the sky.

The fighter vanished, and the speeding car below came to a standstill, the windows rolled down, revealing a strange mutant with blue skin in the driver's seat.

Raven Darkholm, a demon girl, has the ability to transform into anyone at will, and is an indispensable legend in the entire history of mutants.

When she was a child, she was taken in by Professor X, and became the adopted sister of the other party from a lonely person, and because of her different ideas as an adult, she finally threw herself into the arms of the mutant brotherhood and became Magneto's right-hand man.

She specializes in assassination, disguise, and intelligence gathering, and is one of the best assassins in the world, having assassinated high-ranking human beings many times.

At the same time, she is also the key reason why the Sentinel can grow into a world-destroying natural disaster, the special ability of the Sentinel Robot to absorb simulation, and its genetic source is the deformed skin of the Demon Girl.

It can be said that without the Demon Girl, there would be no desperate future for future sentinels to destroy the world.

Of course, these are all later words, she came here today just to recruit combat power for the mutant brotherhood, but judging from the current situation, she is obviously a step late, and the target has been taken away by the X-Men in advance.

"Charles..."

Staring at the two remaining wisps of clouds in the sky, the demon girl whispered the professor's name, her eyes a little complicated.

After a few moments of froze, she withdrew her gaze and turned her head to look at the messy battlefield not far away.

After seeing the metal skeleton lying horizontally on the ruins, the demon girl's eyes froze, and the softness in her gaze turned to fierceness, of course she recognized what kind of wreckage this thing was.

In 1973, Bolívar Trisk, the founder of the Sentinel Robot, was assassinated by her, but the death of the founder did not prevent the creation of the Sentinel, but rather accelerated the speed of her existence, during which she was also captured for assassination, and was able to escape after a long research torture.

Her gaze paused for a moment on the pile of metal wreckage, and the Demonic Girl slowly withdrew her gaze, then rolled the window and drove the car away.

She didn't care about the failure of this recruitment, many powerful mutants suddenly appeared in the past two days, Xu Yue was not her only choice, and compared to recruiting strong people, she had a more important task - the new drugs that the Warxington Group was about to launch.

From the information she learned, it seemed that the drug was extremely related to mutants, and she needed to get the details of the other party in advance before the drug was completely disclosed to the public.

………

The cars on the ground were getting farther and farther away, and the jet fighters in the sky were rapidly approaching in the direction of Xavier's Genius Academy, which took about half a day's journey by car, but at the speed of this black technology fighter, it might take less than thirty minutes to arrive.

In the cabin, Scott focused on piloting the fighter, while Xu Yue quietly overlooked the outside scenery through the porthole, and the overall atmosphere was a little dull.

Neither of them was enthusiastic and cheerful, so after Xu Yue entered the cabin, except for a brief chat at the beginning, the two were speechless.

Especially Scott, even through the scarlet goggles, Xu Yue could really feel the deep sadness that lingered on the other party.

In the process of rescuing the professor three years ago, because of the sudden collapse of the dam, a huge amount of flood water rushed down, and the exaggerated amount of water that could not be resisted by human beings even threatened the lives of all the X-Men for a time, and it was Scott's girlfriend Jean Gray who stepped forward.

She used her surging psychic power to temporarily resist the impact of the flood, allowing the jet fighter carrying everyone to take off smoothly and finally escape.

However, after the fighter plane escaped, Jean was completely engulfed by the raging flood and disappeared under the vast lake, becoming the only X-Men to die in that incident.

Even after three years, Scott is still immersed in extreme grief and cannot be removed, and has even begun to have auditory hallucinations recently, and they are becoming more and more frequent, and his mental condition is very unoptimistic.

In the past, he was calm and determined, and he was a well-deserved No. 2 person in the X-Men, and he was also the successor that the professor has been carefully cultivating.

But now he is sad and melancholy, unkempt, and can no longer see the slightest bit of mutant elite bearing, which is why the professor specially sent Scott to pick up Xu Yue.

When he didn't go out to do some tasks, the professor was worried that he, a student, would torture himself to the point of a nervous breakdown in self-isolation.

Time passed minute by minute in silence, and Xu Yue withdrew his gaze from looking out and looked sideways at Scott beside him.

Scott's external title is also called Cyclops, which comes from his mutant ability, which can release almost endless beams of energy through his eyes, and the lethality is amazing, somewhat similar to Superman's thermal vision.

But Superman's abilities can be freely controlled, but Scott can't, since he awakened his mutant ability when he was a teenager, his eyes have been permanently changed, as long as he opens his eyes, he will automatically emit a powerful beam of energy, and he will physically see who dies.

Therefore, in order not to affect his normal life, the other party always wears a pair of special goggles, and only the lenses made of red quartz can effectively suppress his uncontrollable mutant ability, so that he can see freely.

His eyes paused for a moment on the rather eye-catching goggles, and then his gaze moved downward, I have to say that in addition to his strong combat power, Scott's external image is also extraordinarily capable of fighting, with sharp edges and corners, and the bridge of the nose is straight, but the sparse and messy stubble at the jaw destroys a bit of beauty, which looks a little decadent.

Even if he couldn't see the fine blood in his eyes, Xu Yue could deduce that the other party should have not slept well for a long time, and through the psychic communication skills he learned from the queen ant, he could clearly perceive the other party's chaotic and sad thoughts.

"Although I can't look up memories like a professor does, it's still not a problem to simply perceive emotions, and I can sense that your mind is in pain."

The deep male voice slowly echoed in the cabin, and in the case of reining in the evil spirit, Xu Yue's overall temperament was quite gentle, so these words did not appear to be inconsistent with him, but had a bit of the unique temperament of a psychological counselor.

But it is clear that Scott does not accept this set, and in his current state, his psychological defense mechanism is always in a state of tension, and he resists any rash approach.

"The professor doesn't hack into other people's brains casually, and I don't need help, so ...... Please keep your telepathy away from my thoughts. ”

Xu Yue didn't care about Scott's aggression in his words, the professor didn't comfort the other party for three years, he was not arrogant enough to think that he could succeed, he was still good at physics than verbal persuasion.

Besides, he wasn't going to be a physical therapist who healed his wounds, and he brought up the topic just to draw in another X-Men.

So what is the cause of such pain in your soul? The dam incident three years ago? Your Flood-Swept Girlfriend Jean? ”

"I said... Get out of my head! ”

The story of Qin's death in the flood was not a secret, but it was limited to spreading within the academy, so when Xu Yue took the initiative to mention it, Scott obviously misunderstood something.

He jerked his head to look at the figure in the passenger seat, and the goggles even lit up with a blinding red light, and the threat was self-evident.

This is also the reason why the psychic mutant ability is so special, in front of this kind of person, your mind seems to be naked.

At the moment when he was locked by the dazzling red light, a strong aura of death suddenly surged into his heart, which was a strong sense of crisis that none of the three sentinel robots had brought to him.

The surrounding atmosphere instantly became tense, but Xu Yue seemed to be unaware, his expression was still flat, and after shrugging his shoulders slightly, he continued:

"Take it easy, I don't have the ability to look up your memory, I have another source of information about the piano."

"Also, if you still want to save her, you'd better calm down."

"Save the piano?"

Scott laughed miserably and spoke coldly.

"I don't know where you got the news, but Jean was completely swallowed up by Lake Alcali three years ago, so what is the purpose of approaching the professor?"

"Being engulfed by the flood does not mean death, you should have seen the scene where Qin resisted the flood with one person at the end, such a majestic spiritual power will not die in the flood so easily, besides, have you recovered Qin's body?"

"As for the purpose of approaching the Professor, with the Professor's psychic ability, he can naturally tell whether I have malicious intentions or not, and since he will send you to pick me up, it has already shown that I am at least trustworthy."

"I can save Jean!"

As the words fell, the stagnant atmosphere in the cabin suddenly froze, the anger on Scott's face slowly subsided, and the red light in the goggles disappeared.

He obviously believed in the professor's affirmation more than his own judgment, and although Scott did not believe Xu Yue's last words intellectually, he had great expectations emotionally.

When a man is drowning, he instinctively grabs at all the straws that can save him, even if he knows that it is probably just a lie.

But what maybe?

In the past three years, at least, he has traveled back and forth to Lake Alcali I don't know how many times, but it is true that Jean's body has never been recovered.

Although the professor had told him with certainty that he could not perceive Jean's brain activity; Although it is more likely that the body was washed downstream by the flood and disappeared.

But Scott still subconsciously ignored these possibilities, he only had one thought in his mind now, maybe? Maybe what this fire says is true?

"What proof do you have that Jean is still alive?"

"I'm a future student of the professor, and you can ask the professor in person when you arrive at the academy, and he will give you a definite answer."

"Future?"

muttered the word "future" softly, although Xu Yue did not say it explicitly, but its specific meaning is self-evident, if the other party is really from the future, then the argument that Qin is not dead is no longer empty and false, but it is indeed possible.

After staring at Xu Yue for a long time, Scott nodded heavily and said in a deep voice:

"Okay, I'll ask the professor when I get back, and I'm willing to do anything if I can save the piano!"

When the words fell, Scott didn't speak, but silently turned his head and continued to fly the fighter, but its flight speed was instantly raised to the extreme, and the recoil brought by the rapid increase made Xu Yue can't help but lean back.

On the other side, feeling the restless thoughts beside him, Xu Yue's eyes flashed with a hint of satisfaction, and then he closed his eyes and began to refine his plan and the words he would say when he met the professor later.

Taking advantage of knowing the plot to impersonate a prophet is a cliché, but quite practical.

Of course, all of this is premised on the fact that you have the power to be equal and the means to win the trust of others, otherwise the outcome will be unpredictable.

The reason why Scott initially believed his words was that he had seen the ruins of the battlefield not long ago, so Xu Yue had the qualifications to talk to him on an equal footing, and on the other hand, it was because of the professor's affirmation.

Gaining the professor's trust through a unique psychic barrier was the biggest reason why Xu Yue could convince Scott, and he didn't say a single lie during the conversation.

He is indeed a future professor student, there is no doubt about this, as for how the other party specifically makes up for it, it has nothing to do with him.

And Jean did not die.

The other party has one of the world's top powers, the power of the phoenix, which can destroy everything, distort reality, and the flood cannot help the host of the power of the phoenix.

But the power of the phoenix is too strong, Qin can't control it at all, not to mention, and will even be affected by the phoenix's thoughts and magnify the beast's nature.

Jean's phoenix power first exploded, and he inadvertently killed his mother, and when the professor found her, the other party's power became more and more uncontrollable.

The power that can destroy the world is in the hands of a little girl, like handing over the trigger button of a nuclear bomb to a second-year teenager, what a terrible thing.

Therefore, in order not to be abused arbitrarily, and in order for Qin not to be completely reduced to a beast under the attraction of the phoenix, the professor at that time decisively used the power of the phoenix together with the memory of Qin's killing of his mother, and used his psychic power to build a cage located deep in the brain domain and seal it to death.

But blindly containment can not solve the problem, will only magnify the problem savings, just like Dayu's father Kun flood control general, the rising levee can not solve the flood, once the levee is washed away by the flood, the final consequences will only be more serious.

Three years ago, it was not only the real dam in Lake Alcali that had collapsed, but also the mental dam that blocked the power of the phoenix.

And in the blockade and shackles day after day, the unbearable memories have transformed into a new personality.

Infused with the power of the Phoenix, she is a lustful person, a devotion to destruction, and a hatred of everything, especially Professor X, Charles Francis Xavier, who sealed her with her own hands.

(End of chapter)