Chapter 425 The Hero's Twilight
The vast and dark sewers of New York have been built for hundreds of years. When the sewer was originally designed, it took into account the inconvenience of drainage after the super heavy rainstorm hit New York City. So under this idea, the sewer is wide enough for a BMW MINI to run in it.
The aging Nightcrawler pushes Tony Stark, who is on life support. They walk in this sewer, like dark mice, or those things that can't see the light. The superheroes of yesteryear are gone. When Magneto unified the mutants around the world and brutally suppressed the human government.
The original superheroes in this world either chose to submit to the rule of Magneto and became his pawns to slaughter their compatriots, and most of the rest were slaughtered by him.
Magneto is like the Auschwitz concentration camp built by the Communist Party, locking up all those who opposed him and throwing them together. Speaking of things like concentration camps, Magneto has quite a lot of experience in building this. Because he grew up in a concentration camp, he has very much experience of life in a concentration camp and knows the loopholes of the concentration camp.
So the concentration camp he built is the cruelest in human history. As Magneto said back then, the high-handed rule and suppression of the human government caused the mutants to rise up.
And Magneto's method, which is like reciprocating cause and effect, is difficult for many ordinary people to accept. But unlike mutants, when ordinary humans are suppressed and deprived of their weapons of resistance. They can't simply rise up like mutants.
Because every mutant is a weapon, and there are quite a few alpha and omega humanoid nuclear bombs. They don't use any weapons, relying solely on the strength of the mutants themselves can make people feel threatened by their force.
And ordinary people have no way to fight against mutants without the help of external forces. Except for some mutants whose genes are extremely inferior and whose fusion failed, most of the mutants will be stronger than ordinary people.
And those high-end combat powers are the existences that one person can overturn an army division or even cause greater damage. In order to fight against the mutants, those humans who resisted the mutants underground tried every means.
"I entrusted some people from the former military, and they found a technology that was covered up by the military decades ago." Tony in the wheelchair spoke very softly, and his vocal cord function had begun to degenerate, and he could no longer speak loudly. . And because of the lack of breathing ability of the lungs, it made him lack the breath when speaking.
"What?" Nightcrawler, who was pushing Tony's wheelchair forward, didn't have a very good tone, and his voice was always low.
"Project Sentinel! This is what Hydra wanted to use to wipe out all the mutants before." When Tony said this, a strange look suddenly burst out in the old and dim eyes.
"That's a killing machine specially made to deal with mutants! We can use it!" Tony said seriously.
"Hydra? They are not good things. Speaking of which, they are on the same level as Magneto." Nightcrawler's tone was dry and lifeless. It's like an elm tree that has begun to decay. Even the pests that were attached to the elm tree in the past have begun to leave this big tree that is about to wither and die. No matter how luxuriant it was before.
"Do you think it makes sense to say this now?" Tony suddenly raised his voice. But sadly, even though he roared vigorously, his voice was still so weak. It was like a faint spark from a candle that was about to burn out, and then it was fleeting. If you don't listen carefully, you won't hear the difference at all.
"At least Hydra is still human! Not mutants! Mutants ruined my life. They took my company, killed Pepper, and made me lose my legs! Even Jarvis was killed by them It's ruined!" Tony's tone was still very excited at the beginning, but by the end of the talk, he had already brought a crying tone.
"I have nothing left! Do we need to care about anything?! This world has become like this, how can it be so bad?"
"Nightcrawler, you forgot who burned your face, killed your family and friends. Everything about me was destroyed, so what about yours? Do you still care about anything?!" Facing Tony Asked, Nightcrawler was silent for a long time.
"Well, it really doesn't matter anymore. I'm afraid I won't live long with this old bone." Nightcrawler said lightly, without any emotion in his tone. When he lost everything, he had already lost the meaning of life, and living now is just like dead wood.
"How is Frank recently?" Tony suddenly asked about the Punisher. This made Nightcrawler look at him with concern. Frank had been killed years ago, and Tony knew about it.
But in the past two months, his mind has been getting worse and worse. Many times he always forgets some things that happened before, and his memory begins to have some problems. Nightcrawler felt a tightness in his throat, as if it was stuck in phlegm.
Nightcrawler said in a calm tone as much as possible: "Tony, Frank is dead. He has been dead for a long time. We have no way to find a cemetery for him. We can only throw the ashes left over from his cremation into the Pacific Ocean. If If we want to mourn him now, we can only pray to the Pacific Ocean."
Tony fell silent. All of this should not be like this, why do my companions and comrades in arms die and disappear one after another. And his own brain began to become more and more dull?
He said weakly with a trembling voice: "Nightcrawler, is my brain starting to degenerate. Just like Charles, you all have to tie him up and lock him in a room made of lead blocks now. If I start The brain degeneration is severe, so don't make me like Charles, you can kill me directly. Kill me. "
The Iron Man who used to be is now just a helpless old man, chanting the word "kill me" repeatedly. Nightcrawler stopped pushing his wheelchair, and he gave Tony a hug and comforted him as much as possible: "We won't leave any of our partners behind, no."
The glass crystals of Tony's eyeballs were already very cloudy, so cloudy that he couldn't see his eyes clearly. You can only see the tearful eyes closed helplessly.
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On the other side of the sewer, this is the agreed place. After the transaction with the Hydra personnel of the military is completed, the Nightcrawler and Tony's people will come here with the information to join them and leave.
The people who traded with Hydra are also two old guys, but they are relatively younger. Already in his sixties, Spider-Man can no longer swing over New York City. Because as long as he dares to show his face, Magneto's men will kill him.
Moreover, in his sixties, he can no longer do so many difficult movements. The other is the only surviving guy in S.H.I.E.L.D. That Agent Hawkeye Patton. However, Hawkeye's name needs to be changed. It is more appropriate for him to be called Cyclops now.
He lost his left eye in the previous defense of New York. Because he was injected with infinite serum, Hawkeye's aging rate is slower than ordinary people. Now he looks only in his fifties, but he is the youngest among the group of people.
When Nightcrawler pushed Tony's wheelchair here, Hawkeye and Spider-Man had been waiting at the rendezvous point for almost three minutes.
"You two old guys are really slow." Spider-Man complained, completely forgetting the fact that he was also an old guy.
"Because we can't fly over New York City." Nightcrawler jokingly replied. This kind of silly joke has become one of the few ways of pastime and stress relief in this dark age.
"Have the things been exchanged?" Tony was more concerned about whether the sentinel's information had been exchanged. Hawkeye shook a USB flash drive with a capacity of almost 2TB.
"All the data is here, almost filling up 2TB. There shouldn't be any problem." Patton, who was blind in one eye, looked like a pirate captain with a blindfold on.
"In addition to this, I also found a good thing." Speaking of Hawkeye, he took out a small box like offering a treasure, he opened the box carefully and said: "An infinite serum! There are not many of these things anymore. See you. Especially after the last of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s power is gone."
"It took me a lot of effort to get this thing. It was produced thirty years ago. The activity of the medicine is already very low. But if you inject it." Barton pointed to Tony's brain.
"Then at least it will allow your brain to return to its peak state at the age of 30 within half a year. But I'm afraid it will accelerate your aging."
Tony glanced at the Infinite Serum, and said without any hesitation: "Give me the injection, I'm almost ninety. It doesn't matter whether you are old or not."
Everyone present did not stop Tony's decision, because everyone was an old guy. Even the coffin is ready, what else is there to be afraid of?
Nightcrawler took a look at the USB flash drive in Barton's hand and said, "It doesn't matter anymore. Let the world see what a group of old guys can do!"
"I like this sentence, but can you not add me?" Spiderman smiled and waved his hand. "I'm still young."
"Yeah~, you are indeed very young. I forgot, how many years are you going to celebrate your 70th birthday?" Nightcrawler pulled an ugly smile on his disfigured face.