In the underground space, the closed hatch of the training room slowly opened with a rumbling sound, and a group of mermaids rushed out.

"Xinhuo, remember the archery class in the afternoon, I still have something to do, so I'll go first."

At the forefront of the line, the Storm Girl quickly left after a brief greeting to Xu Yue.

Since Jean was swallowed up by the lake three years ago, and Scott became depressed and self-contained again, most of the affairs of the academy have piled up on her, and she has the posture of the head of the academy.

So most of the time she is very busy, especially at this moment when the storm is coming, there are too many things that she needs to arrange, but judging from her expression, she is comfortable with all this.

As for Logan, his self-styled personality doomed the other party not to spend too much effort in the academy, in fact, most of the time he was quite idle.

"Let's go, drink at night."

After patting Xu Yue on the shoulder, he also walked away.

Now it has been three full days since Xu Yue joined the X-Men, which is neither long nor short, but in the past few days of getting along, he and several people in the castle have basically become quite familiar.

Logan, in particular, may have learned some things about Worldline 2029 from Professor X, so he will take the initiative to ask him for a drink from time to time.

After all, in this academy castle, except for Scott, only Xu Yue can accompany him to drink freely, of course, most of the time he drinks and Xu Yue drinks tea.

Soon, as Storm Girl and Logan left one after another, the atmosphere in the corridor suddenly became depressing, and the four X-Men reservists who had just experienced a hard battle were standing obediently behind Xu Yue, although their expressions were a little cringe, but none of them were ready to leave.

Compared with other teachers in the academy, Xu Yue has the shortest teaching time, but in their eyes the majesty is the most important.

He is completely teaching this group of students combat lessons in the way of leading soldiers, and the army is the first to stand up, so the content of the first class is to test the combat power level of each student, as for the specific detection method, there is nothing more intuitive and effective than fighting.

That's right, on the first day we met, he relied on his pure fighting skills and strong basic attributes to knock out all the students in this class, and he didn't even use metallization in the whole process, so he single-handedly overturned a group of them.

With an absolute crushing posture, he showed them the dominance of martial arts in the battle, and at the same time, it also left an unforgettable psychological shadow on everyone.

Turning around and glancing at the four students who couldn't stay behind him, Xu Yue raised his eyebrows slightly, and said lightly:

"Something?"

The four of them flirted for a while, and in the end, the calm temperament of the steel force stepped forward, raised his eyes to meet Xu Yue's eyes, and asked respectfully:

"Teacher, I just heard you say that chaos is about to break out, and we want to know what other ways can we quickly improve our combat power in addition to strengthening cooperation with each other?"

When the words fell, the four pairs of equally eager eyes focused on Xu Yue, the academy would never persecute students, so it was their voluntary choice to become an X-Men reserve, and once they embarked on this path, they would definitely inevitably have all kinds of dangerous battles in the future.

Especially the sentry robots who have faced each other many times in the training room, they all know that this is not a completely imaginary opponent, and that there is a real threat, and they may one day fight to the death in reality, so the sense of urgency to improve their own strength is stronger in their hearts.

Sweeping the four equally immature faces in front of them one by one, an invisible viscous evil qi spread from Xu Yue's body, and at the moment of touching, their faces turned white, although their teeth were clenched, but fortunately, they did not retreat.

This kind of evil impact was not the first time they had come into contact, and compared to the embarrassment at the beginning, it was much calmer now, which also represented a significant increase in the willpower of the four of them.

The vicious aura was fleeting, and after retracting the overflowing evil qi, Xu Yue explained calmly:

"There is no shortcut to improving your combat power, but for you, how to develop your own variant abilities in depth and in many ways is the most effective way."

"Bobby, your freezing ability has the greatest potential among the four, and the effect is also the most comprehensive, freezing, controlling, shaping, killing, strengthening, and even changing the battlefield, there are no possibilities for elemental abilities, but now except for the most basic cold freezing, you have nothing else, and you are not refined."

"You could have been the Lord of the Ice, but now you're more like a jet tank full of liquid nitrogen, and you need more physics about temperature than rampage like a brute."

As he spoke, the boiling pure yang flame ignited in Xu Yue's palm, and with the flick of his fingers, the flame without solid form began to shrink and condense inward, and it gradually formed a golden-red arrow like a red jade.

"The nature of the flame is far less stable than the ice, but after controlling it to a certain extent, it can still be condensed and shaped, the ultimate ice blade is not inferior to conventional steel, if you can use this characteristic reasonably in battle, then your combat power will be significantly improved, and one point, to learn Piot's full-body tempering skills, it is not difficult for you to elementalize the body."

"Yes, Teacher!"

In the classification of mutants, Bobby the Iceman, like Jean, belongs to the highest level of omega, and can even freeze time at the peak, but the potential is just potential in the final analysis, and how much it can play depends on its own use, in the follow-up Sentinel Apocalypse, the Iceman has not been able to exert this power until death, let alone the present of his youth.

Looking away from the low-browed iceman, Xu Yue casually threw the golden red arrow in his palm to him, and the latter hurriedly prepared to take it.

But after perceiving the terrifying temperature contained in the arrow, his complexion changed, and he hurriedly spewed out cold air from his hand, evenly wrapping it into an ice crystal arrow.

"After wrapping it in ice, this arrow should be able to be stored for seven days, take it back for study, remember not to bump it, you will not be responsible for being killed."

After mentioning the iceman, he looked sideways at Katie, the phantom cat, who was looking at him expectantly, the smaller girl was the most lively of the four.

"Don't look at it, this flaming arrow can't be saved, and it's useless to give it to you."

"Katie, your ability is the most suitable for dealing with large targets, but you don't use it correctly, the void ability can make you the most terrifying assassin, go to Oloro to ask for some miniature bombs, when facing the enemy, just stuff these bombs into the target's body, then the victory is basically decided."

"But if you want to achieve this level, the first condition is that you must maintain your ability for a long enough time and be flexible enough, so practice more."

"Understood, Teacher!"

After listening to Xu Yue's words, the phantom cat's eyes lit up, nodded again and again, and used the void ability to blast from the inside, which sounds like a rather buggy ability, as long as you can get close to the opponent, it is impossible to prevent it, as for cruelty, how can it be cruel to deal with robots.

She definitely wouldn't use this method against humans, just replace the bomb with an anesthetic.

"Piot, your mutant ability is the most stable, the defense and strength after metalization are good, just focus on improving your fighting skills, you don't need any bells and whistles, I will teach you to practice your boxing skills well."

"Yes, Teacher."

"As for Anna, what you need is not to improve your combat power, but to overcome your disgust and fear of your own abilities, and if you dare not face it, you will never be able to master it."

Anna Marie, nicknamed Little Naughty, her ability to absorb other people's energy, mutant abilities, and even memories through physical contact is very powerful, but the flaws are equally fatal, and this ability is passive and ineffective, and she can't control it at all.

At the beginning of her awakening, she almost killed her boyfriend, which also led to her extreme disgust with her own abilities, and she could never reach those close to her, which is the most vicious curse for an adolescent girl.

Feeling the scrutinizing gaze coming from directly in front of him, the little mischievous eyebrows lowered and nodded yes, but his heart was full of bitterness.

She has no sense of identity with the mutant ability, or even the identity of the mutant, from the awakening ability to the present, the ability has brought her only the pain of displacement and the loneliness of being forced to stay away from everything, and the reason why she joined the X-Men's reserve is only because her current boyfriend is Bobby the Iceman.

However, as the training progressed, she felt more and more that the Iceman seemed to be closer to the Phantom Cats, at least they could hug unbridled in battle, which her legitimate girlfriend couldn't do, and this damn ability was not the talent the professor claimed, but a vicious curse.

Xu Yue was keenly aware of the complex emotions of the little naughty, but he didn't care, the reason why he spent his time guiding this group of reserve students was just to improve the comprehensive strength of the camp he was in, and to gain some prestige by the way, he had no interest in the thankless task of guiding teenagers' psychological problems.

"That's all for the advice, go back and practice more, chaos is coming, and there is not much time left for you."

With that, he ignored the unknown people in front of him, and walked straight into the depths of the hallway, the dull footsteps echoing in the metal hallway, and soon faded away.

The four people who stayed in place looked at each other for a few seconds, and then left one after another, and the little mischievous quickened his pace, always maintaining the position at the forefront of the team, as for the iceman, he didn't pay much attention to his girlfriend's emotions, but walked slowly at the end of the line, carefully looking at the ice crystal arrow in his hand, his eyes flickering.

"Elemental shaping........."

…………

In the deepest part of the corridor, the heavy metal door slowly opened, and Xu Yuemai stepped inside.

Behind the gate is a completely hollow sphere space, with only a metal corridor extending from the doorway to the center of the space.

Looking around, the whole space seemed unusually empty, except for this suspended metal corridor, only the countless neatly arranged square metal plates on the inner wall of the space remained.

Continuing along the metal corridor, at the end of which is a circular suspended platform, on which Professor X, who is wheelchair carried, is located, and above his head is a bizarrely shaped high-tech helmet, several small pipes embedded in the helmet, which is closely connected to the control platform in front of him.

"Is this a brainwave amplifier? It looks very ordinary. ”

Hearing the faint voice of words coming from behind him, the professor with his eyes slightly closed opened his eyes and looked around with a nostalgic gaze.

"The mysteries are often hidden in the ordinary."

"The brainwave amplifier was created by Hank McCoy in 1962, and it has been with me for more than 40 years, and it is because of it that I lost my precious hair, but that was a long time ago......"

The old man was nostalgic for the past, and Xu Yue didn't bother quite knowingly, just listened silently, and when the professor's words were paused, he took over the conversation and continued:

"Hank McCoy? The current head of the Department of Defense Mutant Administration? ”

"Hmm."

"He's a real genius, the brain amplifier in the academy, the simulation training room, and the Blackbird fighter plane, etc., are all developed and produced by himself, he is not really good at politics, but we ...... No other way. ”

"Mutants can only have their own voice if they join the upper echelons of government, and they don't dare to let me leave the academy, and Hank is the best choice at the time."

"But the mutants' situation doesn't seem to be much better?"

"He has done a lot of things silently, but he has never been able to disobey the general trend, after all, we are only a minority after all."

The professor's tone was a little melancholy, in order to allow mutants to integrate peacefully into the human community and have an equal and just social status, he had spent almost his life, but human prejudices have never changed, and the future of mutants has never been hopeless.

The atmosphere in the sphere space suddenly fell into a dullness, and after a moment, the professor suddenly smiled softly and said softly:

"Do you want to look at the concrete sea of minds, the knowledge that I haven't taught you in another timeline, now we can continue to learn."

"Of course, let's get to class, Professor."

As soon as he finished speaking, the surrounding light disappeared in an instant, and the entire space became dark, as if he was in a deep universe, so deep that even the overclocking vision he had raised to the apex still couldn't see through the end of this dark space.

The deep darkness lasted for a few seconds, and then the first blue star quietly lit up, then the second, and then the third, until it was a continuous patch, converging into a sea, and soon, the originally deep universe became a magnificent blue star sea, and countless stars flowed through the darkness like quicksand.

And he and the professor in front of him are the only two lifeforms in this sea of stars.

"Just like the sea of stars in the mind space, each star around it represents a human mental body, and with the enhancement of the brainwave amplifier, I can simultaneously connect all the living organisms on the planet and visualize it through illusions."

In the next second, the surrounding sea of stars began to expand infinitely, and at the same time, each star in the sea of stars also extended and changed, gradually evolving from dense points of light to illusory figures, and in a trance, the sea of stars became a bustling city.

As far as the eye could see, countless dense blue phantoms were moving in the darkness, like a grand drama, but the characters involved in this conversation were all kinds and endless, and when he listened carefully, he could even clearly hear the whispers of each phantom, which were different.

"With this power, I can observe the movements of each human being, hear their conversation at this time, and even penetrate their thoughts, go through their memories, and manipulate everything about them, and sound like a god, right?"

Looking around at the illusory and real spiritual world around him, Xu Yue nodded silently.

Although he didn't turn his head, the professor still saw Xu Yue's response, and he slowly shook his head and said:

"In fact, my ability is far less powerful than you think, in the face of a huge number of hundreds of millions, I can only do a simple connection, and then filter the target through the addition and deletion conditions, and I can't accurately monitor everyone, once I try to do this, then the unimaginable huge flow of information will directly crush my thinking in an instant."

"The human mind is not able to process so much messy information, this is a natural limitation, so I can't see the various conspiracies against mutants in advance, and I can't forcibly change the prejudice and malice of human society towards our entire race, Eric has always hoped that I can use my psychic power to completely control the governments of the world, but I can't."

"The body can be imprisoned, but the mind cannot, I can see into the mind, delete the memory, and even destroy their soul, but I can't permanently manipulate their minds, and the mind is like a bird that always yearns for the blue sky and freedom, it can never be closed, because every feather of them is stained with the brilliance of freedom, even in the face of the iron wall, they will eventually spread their wings and fly high."

"The Shawshank Redemption?"

Listening to Xu Yue directly say the source of the words just now, the professor laughed, his eyes full of approval.

"Haha! That's right, The Shawshank Redemption, I like this story very much, the mind cannot be imprisoned, it either dies itself in captivity, or breaks the cage to break free from everything. ”

"From the moment the cage was born, it was destined to be abandoned in the end, and if mutants really embarked on this path, it would completely cut off all hope."

Speaking of this, the professor's tone began to become solemn, and at the same time, Xu Yue behind him also felt an obvious scrutinizing gaze facing his heart.

"Xinhuo, the 'heart-to-heart communication' skills you have mastered are a good foundation, and I can teach you how to expand on this foundation until you reach the point of penetrating the mind."

"But I only have one request, never have the idea that you can imprison your mind forever, manipulate your mind, and don't try rashly."

"Those with psychic abilities are not gods, and even if they are gods, in the face of the mind that breaks free from all shackles, they will eventually smash the altar and fall to the dust, understand?"

The Professor's aftermath still reverberated in this mental world, and in addition to countless illusory figures in the surrounding darkness, there were many more pictures that seemed to be false and real.

Amid countless shouts, flags, slogans, statues, books, and even palaces of all kinds burned in flames, and the crimson flames seemed to burn everything, and even the surrounding darkness was dispelled.

Under the illumination of the boiling fire, Xu Yue solemnly replied:

"I promise, Professor."

(End of chapter)