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"Has Merlin's communication been restored?"
At the medical point nearly a kilometer away from .M's bunker base, Elsa looked nervously at the beast Hank, a beast mutant with a high IQ and a very violent fight, who was repeatedly adjusting the frequency of the communicator.
Just a few minutes ago, they had completely lost communication with Merlin, and the time for the base to self-destruct was getting closer and closer, but Merlin's sudden disappearance cast a shadow over what seemed to be a victorious mutant rescue operation.
"There is no problem with the communicator and the frequency is correct."
Hank, with his gold-rimmed glasses, reassembled the communicator he had disassembled with dazzling speed, and the blue-haired monster dressed in black said to Elsa:
"It's not a device problem, it should be Merlin who actively blocked the communication."
"Why did he do that?"
Elsa looked back at the base in the distance with some irritation, and she complained:
"He's always like this, acting out of his own way, but he makes us worry about him."
"Calm down."
The spirit butterfly sitting next to Elsa, wiping her katana, also looked at the base in the distance, but compared to Elsa, she was much calmer, she said:
"Ten years ago, that little man was not afraid of the damage of explosions, his ability made him almost impossible to be hurt by pure gunpowder weapons, and now that guy is too strong, he will be fine."
She said with a determined face:
"Since he is sure to stay there, we should trust him. Perhaps, he is dealing with something that is inconvenient for us to know. ”
Butterfly looked back at Hank, and she asked:
"Wolverine is there, too, right?"
"It should be."
Hank took off his glasses on the bridge of his nose and said:
"This explosion doesn't hurt Logan either, and now we have more trouble."
Hank glanced back at the mutants behind him who were being treated urgently, and said with some concern:
"The White Queen and Domino left after the battle, and perhaps they had a premonition that we had to get out of here as well. This is Canada, after all, the territory of the Brotherhood of Mutants. ”
"There aren't so many people on a plane."
Auroro, the storm woman who was manipulating the warm wind and maintaining the temperature on the side, whispered:
"Many of our compatriots who were rescued were seriously injured, not to mention that we still have so many prisoners."
The prisoners Storm Girl is talking about are the ones who escaped from the base later. M researchers and some soldiers, knowing that the base was about to explode, threw off their armor and rushed out, only to be killed by S. L.D.'s agents caught it.
Now the guys are outside the treatment site, guarded by Agent Jimmy and other agents.
"We've contacted headquarters."
In Merlin's absence, Elsa, as a S.H.I.E.L.D. advisor, took on the task of communicating with the X-Men, and she said to Hank and Auroro:
"Soon there will be special staff members who will take over this matter, and they will all be involved in dangerous biological experiments and illegal detention and malicious harm, and they will be put in jail and then tried by the law."
"That's good news."
Hank nodded, and he looked at Elsa:
"How long will it take for your people to come?"
"About two hours later."
Elsa looked at the time, and she said:
"It's an emergency, so it takes time."
"2 hours..."
Hank shook his head:
"It's been too long. Although we have imprisoned those Mutant Brotherhood agents in advance, the movement of storming the base cannot be concealed from Magneto, and we must leave now. ”
"Huh"
As soon as Hank's words ended, Dobby, a leprechaun with a toad mirror, appeared next to Elsa and handed Miss Bloodstone a quaint key.
Others couldn't see Dobby's magical creature, but Elsa had been tempered with some potions since she was a child, so that she had psychic perception before she completed the Grass Trial.
She is one of the few people who can see Dobby and hear it.
"Chief Merlin asked Dobby to give this to Miss Bloodstone."
In his high-pitched voice, Dobby said to Elsa:
"He said the key would get you out quickly, provided you found a door. The chief also said that he had some important business to attend to, so that Miss Bloodstone and Miss Spiritdie should not worry about him, and that he would return to New York on his own when the business was over. ”
"This key?"
Elsa took the key from Dobie, she glanced at it, and said with some confusion:
"I've seen Merlin use it before."
"Yes, the chief said, he gives you the right to use the key, but only this time, when using the key, you must think about the landing location in advance, preferably in an absolutely safe place."
With that, Dobby disappeared in a flash.
Merlin gave it another task that it had to rush in. M's base self-detonates before completing it.
"We need a door, any door, as long as it's locked!"
Elsa did not hesitate to get the key, and she had always trusted Merlin in business.
Looking at the key in Elsa's hand, Lingdie pursed her lips, and the beautiful mercenary said with some dissatisfaction:
"It seems that he still trusts you more, obviously I met him first, what a ruthless little man."
"Hmph."
Elsa said proudly:
"He and I are true friends, and we've been through a lot together..."
Spirit Butterfly gave Elsa a strange look on her face, and she said:
"It's... What's there to be proud of? I'm not jealous of you... Besides, that little man has the shadow of another woman in his heart, and until that shadow dissipates, you won't stand a chance at all, poor Miss Bloodstone. ”
"Let's go, stop arguing."
Hank stopped the two women arguing by pointing to the black plane parked outside the canyon that belonged to the X-Men mission, and said:
"That's the closest door to here, though I don't know how you're going to get us out."
"It's simple."
Elsa grabbed the key and rushed to the plane, which was parked hundreds of meters away, and said:
"We just need to open the door."
Moments later, Elsa was standing on the beautiful, futuristic X-Men plane, the ramp of which had been opened, and behind her, an agent escorted a man dressed in yellow. Researcher M waits for the door to open.
"Send us back to S.. 5 basement floors of L.D. Base. ”
Elsa said a word to the key in her hand, and then, following Merlin's example, inserted the key that did not match the lock at all into the lock of the plane's cabin door.
With the sound of the key twisting, Elsa pushed the door open, and in front of her, behind the door, was the inside of the base that the agents were familiar with.
"You go back first."
Miss S.H.I.E.L.D. turned back to Agent Jimmy and said:
"Merlin means that these prisoners will be held first, and the headquarters will send someone to receive them soon."
"Hmm."
The combat helmet agent nodded, and he escorted the yellow-clad prisoner into the door in front of him.
It's an airplane's door, so it's narrow and only one person can be allowed through at a time.
Underneath the plane, the beast Hank looked at the unscientific arbitrary door, and the quaint, rusty ordinary key, he rubbed his mane with a little headache, and said to Auroro beside him:
"That's why I don't like magic and wizards, you're always using completely unscientific things to destroy my seriousness about the world. I have no way to explain these phenomena with my knowledge. ”
"That's because you're too stubborn, Hank."
The White Wizard Auroro shrugged her shoulders, and she said in a calm tone:
"Magic and science are two systems, and if you have to explain magic with science, you're asking for it. And this magical artifact of the spatial attribute that Merlin has, even in the knowledge of wizards, belongs to the kind of extremely complex and extremely high-end creation, even in my family secret, there are few such high-level alchemy products, this must be from the hand of a certain master, it is priceless. ”
"Magic, technology, in my opinion, are just different ways of explaining the world."
Hank the Beast said to his companions:
"And there is always only one truth in the world, so magic and technology will eventually go the same way... They will merge together and reveal the truth of the world to us at some point in the future. ”
"I don't care much about that."
Glancing at the mutants who were being supported by the agents and waiting to leave the snowy mountain canyon, Auroro said:
"Looks like we'll be out of here in just ten minutes. Hank, you and Warren, and Summers are back at the academy with your compatriots, and I'm going to stay here to make sure Mr. Merlin is safe and sound in the end... He helped us a lot this time. ”
"Hmm."
Hank did not object.
A few minutes later, a mutant who looked to have broken his leg walked up the gangway with the help of Sommers the Cyclops, and the mutants who had been imprisoned for months, if not years, looked at the door in front of them, most of them with a longing for freedom and a fear of the catastrophe of the past.
Mutants, this race, are really calamity.
"Thank you, kind young lady."
The mutant old lady who was supported by Cyclops weakly thanked Elsa who was standing at the door:
"Your God will bless you."
"Nothing."
Elsa said with a stiff face:
"It's our duty, get in here, get out of here and start a new life."
"Hmm."
The frail old lady nodded, and she said:
"But it's not home across the door... I suddenly didn't want to go again. ”
"Huh?"
The moment Elsa heard this, a sense of danger surged through her mind, and she jerked backwards, leaning back with a standard tactic, narrowly avoiding the old lady's sudden fist.
And the laser eye that was holding her was not so lucky.
The young mutant was pushed into the hatch in front of him by the old lady who suddenly burst up, and in a flash, the powerful mutant fell into the door, he got up, pressed the tactical eyepiece, and saw that the dangerous laser rays were about to shoot out, but the door was closed by the agile old lady.
The key to the mystery house was pulled out of the hatch by her, tossed up and down in her hand, and then put in her pocket.
She glanced back at the storm woman Auroro, who was riding the wind towards her in the chaos below, and the old lady's face and body changed rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, she became another man with an ordinary complexion.
'He' smiled at Auroro with a strange expression, and then, like a nimble monkey, jumped off the gangway of an airplane, blending into the chaotic crowd like ink in a pool of water.
"It's Raven!"
Auroro, who was in the air, shouted to Hank below:
"She snatched the key! Stop her! ”
"Be careful, get out of the way!"
The next moment, Elsa screamed as she got up from the ground, and pounced on the Storm Girl, sending Auroro from the air to the ground on the side. Just as the two entangled girls left the place, a heavy, whistling scrap of steel, like a sharp sword falling from the sky, slammed into the X-Men's plane.
It was like a giant's fist that smashed the wings of that beautiful plane.
"Compatriots, don't panic, no one will hurt you."
A muffled voice rang out over the snow, covered in blood, pierced by several twisted steel bars, and the angel Warren, who bound the wings behind his back, fell from the sky like a falling eagle, and smashed precisely at Hank's feet.
White, bloodstained feathers scattered in the air, bringing a different kind of desolation.
Between the chaotic magnetic reverberations, Magneto, wearing a dark red helmet and wearing a black robe, is Eric . Lancheel, like a savior, spread his hands and slowly fell from the sky.
"Magnit!"
Hank shouted angrily:
"What the hell are you going to do? They're our countrymen, are you crazy? ”
"Silence!"
Magneto Eric, hovering in the air, glanced at the beast Hank with an indifferent gaze, and said:
"That's why I'm here to bring our compatriots, our brotherhood home... Return to their true home, a realm that belongs only to mutants. ”
"Only there will they not be persecuted. Charles, my stubborn and soft-hearted old friend clings to the belief that you are also weak, and you alone cannot save thousands of people who are suffering. ”
Magneto's fingers flicked in the air, and behind him, the plane impaled by the steel began to tremble rapidly.
Screws, steel bars, complex and sophisticated instruments, engines, cockpits, etc., as if it were real magic, countless pairs of invisible hands acted at the same time, and in just a few seconds, the huge plane was easily disintegrated, and then reassembled under the control of Magneto's will.
Solid metal is easily twisted, and intricate instruments are reshaped, as if the world's greatest engineers were designing something astonishing.
As Elsa watched, the plane was quickly transformed by Magneto into a bizarre, oversized bus-like thing.
"Bang"
The door of that car opened outward.
Magneto looked at the rescued mutants below, and he whispered:
"It's time to hit the road, brothers."
"From here, the road to our utopia is very long."