Body 54. Unexpected Attack

Yo, how do busy people have time to come to our little place? "

At the gate of Xavier Gifted Youth Academy, Ororo, who came to welcome Merlin, put his hands on his hips, and said to Merlin who was wearing a long black windbreaker with a playful face:

"Your new clothes are nice."

"certainly."

Merlin reached out and touched his sleeve, he said:

"This is a customized model. Most people can't buy it even if they have money... As for why I come here, the reason is very simple."

Merlin followed Ororo into the academy and said:

"I have to pick up my two younger sisters home for the weekend, and drop by Professor Charles. He has been very busy recently, giving speeches across the country, calling on mutants to join the moderate faction... That scene is similar to the presidential election. "

"yes."

Ororo nodded, and she said:

"The professor is very busy, but he is in a good mood. With official assistance, the strength of the moderate faction is increasing every day. Extremist ideas are being driven out of the mainstream of mutant society. Maybe soon, we can start to solve the problem. Those are the real problems."

"Those things have nothing to do with me."

Merlin waved his hand. He looked at the children playing on the grass in front of him and said:

"You guys have to talk to the authorities about those things. Speaking of which, are Ruiwen and Lorna still good? Have they caused any trouble?"

"Riwen is very good."

Ororo said to Merlin:

"That child is very mature, and she can handle her relationship with other children very well, but she is a little indifferent and doesn't like talking to other people. As for Lorna..."

Ororo said to Merlin with some headaches:

"She was very good at first, but...after John and Ruiwen had some small conflicts last time, this girl started to target John everywhere. Three days ago, she brought a few children who had a good relationship with her, and blocked John. In the utility room of the castle, she didn't know where she learned the method. She trapped John with those metal bars until midnight. If Qin hadn't heard John's call for help at night, the child might have died Been in the utility room all day."

Having said that, Ororo turned to look at Merlin with a calm face, and she said:

"Lorna has a strong sense of revenge, did she learn from you?"

"I'm more curious, how did that John survive after the conflict with Rui Wen?"

Merlin shrugged, and he said to Ororo:

"It seems that you have taught my sister well. In the past, if someone dared to provoke her, you would have to look for his buried body in the back garden."

Ororo stared at Merlin, and after a while, she shook her head:

"I know you're joking, but I still feel chills all over my body. Maybe, I should pay more attention to Raven."

"You'd better keep an eye on her."

Merlin says:

"Lorna is just a child with a temper and likes to do some mischief, but Raven... There is a giant soul living in her body, she doesn't care about the ant's provocation because the ant is no threat, once she realizes the threat, she The speed of action will catch you off guard."

"And that John, keep him away from my sisters!"

After speaking, Merlin took out a few delicate chocolate candies from his pocket and gave them to the chattering children, and then followed Ororo into Xavier's Castle amidst the laughter of the children.

There are still a few hours before school ends on Friday, and Lorna and Raven are both in class, so Merlin first visited Professor Charles who was preparing a speech in the castle.

"Oh Merlin, here you come."

When Merlin walked into the office, the professor was frowning and revising a manuscript full of words. He raised his head and showed a gentle smile to Merlin. He said:

"Sit down, I just need to consult your advice on something."

"What a coincidence, Professor."

Merlin sat on the sofa in the professor's office, and he said to the professor:

"I just happen to have some things to ask you for help, but please tell me first, let me see what problems you have encountered."

"It's about the Utopian Islands."

Professor Charles put down the speech in his hand, and the old man, who was in a very good state of mind recently, leaned on his wheelchair, and he said to Merlin:

"I have gathered a group of compatriots who are good at construction to go to the islands to build a town as the home of the first occupants of Utopia. But now, I am hesitant about how to promote the concept of Utopia to my compatriots , and will not arouse official vigilance...Although we are now in a cooperative situation, you also know that in the government, there are still a group of people who are hostile to mutants."

"Haven't we discussed this issue before?"

Merlin says:

"A reserved area for moderate mutants, a new home specially prepared for those mutants who cannot live in the world of ordinary people, a neutral zone that does not involve any political factors."

"Well, that statement is indeed very good, but there is a problem, Merlin."

The professor clasped his hands together and put them on the table. He said to Merlin:

"Recently, some gossip has been circulating among my compatriots. It says that the Utopia Islands are actually an exile area, which is the last resort for the official solution to the mutant problem. Some malicious people are exaggerating this Horror, they spread rumors, claiming that once the mutants arrive in Utopia, once the number of mutants in Utopia reaches a certain level, then the official will launch a clearing plan to wipe out all the mutants on the islands at once.”

The professor's expression became serious, and he said to Merlin:

"Summers has been looking for the source of such nonsensical rumors recently, but according to the information he has found so far, behind these rumors... there are official forces intervening."

"Um?"

Merlin also frowned, and he said:

"You mean, someone is secretly preventing the unification of mutants?"

"People like that have always existed."

Professor said:

"I've seen enough crazy people who want to see the world burn. I mean, these rumors are definitely just the first step. They may then launch a faster and more vicious attack. So, I plan to change our attitude. Utopian propaganda."

Professor Charles said gently:

"During this period of time, I learned a lot of things that I didn't pay attention to before. At your suggestion, I also talked with that Mr. Gordon. I got a lot of inspiration from the social form of aliens."

"Utopia shouldn't just be a place for mutants, it should be a place of learning and choice."

Professor said:

"Just like this academy, those mutants who have awakened their abilities but cannot control them well should be sent to Utopia to learn their abilities. After they can control their abilities skillfully, they can choose to stay there, or Go back to the world of ordinary people...no one will stop them, and leave all choices to them or their parents."

Looking back through the window at the children playing in the grass, he said:

"As far as I know, it's not uncommon for a lot of parents to struggle with the fact that their children are mutants."

The professor paused. He took out a document from the drawer and handed it to Merlin. He said:

"I also plan to publish some books. These books are not for mutants, but for ordinary people. Some of our previous propaganda behaviors are too rigid and can no longer adapt to the current status quo."

"I plan to use these books to tell ordinary people about the origin of mutants, about the explanation of our abilities, and about the prospect and function of utopia. People fear and hate something because they don't understand it, and once they understand it It seems a weird situation, but once they understand that mutants aren't born villains, maybe...the fusion between us in the future will be smoother."

"And this requires your help."

The professor said to Merlin:

"Many publishers are concerned about social factors, and they are unwilling to publish these books...I hope SHIELD can use some power to help us solve this..."

"boom"

Before the professor finished speaking, a loud noise sounded outside the walls of the Xavier Academy for Gifted Youngsters. Merlin's figure disappeared the next moment, and when he reappeared, he was already over the academy.

He looked down, and the children playing on the grass were terrified. They witnessed the scene where the wall exploded like a shell, and in the flying smoke, the man whose face could not be seen walked out. giant.

True giant.

It is a terrifying creature with a height of at least 3 meters, as tall as a walking meat mountain.

Merlin saw clearly.

It was a guy wearing a strange red leather armor and a stone-like red helmet on his head. He walked in the ruins and dust of the wall, like an ancient giant beast, and stepped into the Xavier College campus on the ground.

On Icarus' lens, the figure in the dust was quickly locked on, and lines of information appeared in front of Merlin's eyes, and in the column of personal combat effectiveness evaluation, there was a big, blood-red skull.

This meant that Icarus believed that this guy was powerful and would cause Merlin great trouble.

"Red Tank..."

Merlin muttered the name silently.

This guy in front of him is very famous on the most wanted list of s..l.d. He is not a member of the Mutant Brotherhood, but he has indeed caused many violent attacks around the world, and many countries are looking for this guy, but His ability to survive so many arrests and continue to act proves that this guy's strength is extraordinary.

And indeed it is.

In s..l.d.'s evaluation, the threat of the red tank is even comparable to Magneto.

According to the information Merlin has collected so far, the mutant ability of the red tank is very simple, that is, pure body strengthening, as well as the enhancement of strength and defense. Among the strange mutant abilities, it belongs to the type that will not be noticed at all. .

But these three ordinary enhancements of the red tank are not simple.

It is never easy to do anything to the extreme. Just like the red tank, his physical enhancement has been pushed to the real extreme. In the previous pursuit of the red tank by the Ministry of National Defense, those soldiers even used tanks and bombers, But still failed to leave this terrifying attacker behind.

He almost resisted the bombardment of shells and bombs all the way, brutally opened a way in the defense circle of the Ministry of National Defense, and then left the battlefield carelessly under the watchful eyes of hundreds of people.

Bullets, artillery shells, explosions, bombing, all these modern technological forces cannot affect the red tank's charge.

In the circle of mutants, there is another saying that is widely circulated.

Never, ever stand in the way of a red tank charge.

And some mutants who are afraid of the brute force of the red tank are even more fearful and respectful, calling the red tank "the god of destruction of the impact".

but...

There are also some gossip rumors that the Red Tank is not actually a mutant, and his terrifying ability comes from something more terrifying than the X gene.

Merlin didn't act immediately.

Because the red tank didn't seem to intend to demolish the castle in front of it arrogantly.

The brute in the red stone helmet stood on the lawn, slapping the dust on his body casually, while letting the children flee. He didn't care about the X-Men rushing out of the castle.

He stood on the grass like a statue, and shouted to the castle in front of him with a voice as low as thunder:

"Charles!"

"I heard that you are not well recently... so I went home to help you, why don't you come out and meet me?"

The moment the Red Tank's shout fell, Professor Charles' feedback sounded in the Red Tank's heart. The professor seemed unwilling to let others hear the communication between him and the Red Tank.

This also made Merlin interested.

He keenly sensed that there should be some strange and unimaginable connection between the dangerous thug, Red Tank, and Professor Charles.

"You are still like this, exactly the same as decades ago, cowardly!"

The Red Tank didn't seem to want to accept the professor's silent proposal. Even though he was already surrounded by Ororo, Summers and Iceman Barbie, the Red Tank still shouted indifferently:

"Come out, face me, Charles, face your demons...I'll smash it into a pulp like you, to relieve your pain!"

"They're all blind."

Red Tank looked at the surrounding X-Men sarcastically, and said:

"They can't see the change in you, but I can! You are not what you used to be.. come out, Charles, let me see, my dear..."

"enough!"

The professor's voice sounded at this moment. With the opening of the window, the wheelchair suspended in the air carried the professor and fell into the lawn below. He stared at the provocative red tank and said:

"Kain, that's enough, don't mention those old things again!"

"Ha ha ha ha."

The red tank laughed out loud, and his domineering posture looked like a guy who did all kinds of evil. He said to the professor:

"You're afraid... hahaha, you're afraid of what you did in the past being known by others, by your students who see you as a leader. You're afraid of them knowing that you buried me with bitch Raven In the ruins of the battlefield, you are afraid they will know the evil deeds you have done in the past, you coward!"

"swish"

At the moment when the red tank's shouts fell, a black shadow appeared on the battlefield strangely, and Merlin in the sky couldn't help rubbing his forehead.

Things got worse and worse.

Beside the professor, little Ruiwen was hovering in the air, her indifferent face was full of disgust, she stared at the red tank in front of her, and she questioned:

"You just said... who's a bitch?"