The Mutant God in American Comics.

Chapter 42 Protests
It only took him a few minutes to read the entire report, then he smiled and shook his head.

This is a report from a well-known TV station.

The TV station invited several experts to discuss the impact of his existence and actions on the younger generation of mutants in a live broadcast during prime time last night.

Shortly after the show ended, this report appeared on the Internet, summarizing the opinions of those experts in words.

Then, he was given the eye-catching new label of "the new leader of mutants."

From a communication perspective, the TV station used the words "New Mutant Leader" as the title, mainly to attract other people's attention and curiosity, thereby increasing the click rate of the report.

Although the label "new mutant leader" is a bit exaggerated, it is not an unfounded clickbait.

The experts who participated in the program all expressed similar views.

Today's mutants are mainly divided into two factions.

One faction is the doves, represented by Professor X and the X-Men, who advocate peaceful coexistence with the U.S. government and ordinary people.

The other faction is the hawkish group represented by Magneto and the Brotherhood of Mutants, who advocate the use of force to fight for fair rights.

Although between the doves and hawks, there are some fence-sitters who jump back and forth, as well as mutants who have no opinions or ideas.

But in general, the vast majority of mutants either support the doves or the hawks.

And now, a whole new faction has emerged within the mutant community.

That is the liberal group represented by him, who neither accepts the Mutant Restriction Act and the management of the Department of Mutant Affairs, nor attacks other U.S. government agencies like the Brotherhood of Mutants did. They advocate the principle of "I will not offend others unless they offend me."

More importantly, most of the mutants who support him are young people among the mutants.

To put it simply, they are people of the same age as him.

Although he knew before that there was a new liberal in the mutant community who imitated his style of doing things and advocated "I will not offend others unless they offend me", he never thought of himself as the leader of the liberal group.

He never thought about becoming the new leader of mutants, nor did he intend to use his own power to help the mutant community.

Mutants are indeed being treated unfairly now, but from a certain perspective, this is also their own fault because most mutants dare not resist.

If these mutants united and used force like Magneto to protect their legitimate rights and interests, neither the Mutant Restriction Act nor the Department of Mutant Affairs would appear.

Fairness must be achieved with fists!

If you don’t even dare to resist, don’t expect everyone to have high moral standards.

Although Richard is also a mutant, he is a time traveler. He does not have a strong sense of belonging to either the mutant community or this world.

For him, traveling to this world was like playing a real game that couldn't be reloaded and had no system administrator.

Whether it was Wolverine, Sabretooth and others, the mutant agents of the Department of Mutant Affairs, or other people who died in his hands, they all gave him the same feeling as the NPCs in the game.

It was also because of this that he did not feel any discomfort about killing even though he started killing people on the first day of his time travel.

Although I know that this world is not a game, and the people I killed were not NPCs made up of data, but living humans.

But in a short period of time, it is difficult for him to change his mindset from playing games.

In his opinion, he would have to stay in this world for at least several years before he would gradually change this mentality.

After browsing the reports released by the TV station, he put the laptop into the system space, picked up the knife, fork and dishes and went to the kitchen to wash them.

Then he returned to the table, took out $1000 from the system space, placed the money on the table, and pressed it down with a cup.

The $1000 was the accommodation fee he left for the owner of the cabin.

It is very impolite to live in a cabin without the owner's consent.

It would be a bit unreasonable to just leave after staying for a few days without leaving anything behind.

At least in his opinion, it was inappropriate to do so.

When he was cooking just now, he found that there was not much food left in the system space, and it could only sustain him for one or two days at most.

Considering that he had lived here for five or six days, he planned to leave here today, go to downtown San Francisco to purchase new daily necessities, and then head to the next city.

After leaving the accommodation fee for the past few days on the table, he returned to the kitchen and picked up the garbage bag containing kitchen waste.

The next second, he decisively used teleportation and disappeared out of thin air.

Downtown San Francisco.

I have to say that teleportation is much more useful than flash.

In just a moment, he arrived at the city center of San Francisco from the wooden house dozens of kilometers away.

Although he had never been to San Francisco before, it didn't matter to him who had the ability of teleportation.

Unlike flash, when performing teleportation, you need to lock the location you want to teleport to in your mind in advance.

After locking the transmission location, whether you have been there before or have an impression of the transmission location in your mind will not affect the performance of mind transmission.

To put it simply, as long as it does not exceed the maximum transmission range of mind transmission, he can choose the transmission location at will.

On the rooftop of a building in the city center.

Richard stood on the edge of the roof and observed the surrounding situation, and began to look for the nearest large supermarket.

Without much effort, he saw a branch of a large supermarket chain.

After discovering the supermarket, he did not teleport there immediately, but teleported to a nearby alley first and threw the garbage bag in his hand into the trash can. Then, he teleported to the inside of the supermarket.

telepathy!

After being transmitted into the supermarket, he immediately used telepathy to freeze everyone in the supermarket.

The supermarket, which was originally noisy and bustling with people, suddenly became much quieter.

Apart from the music playing in the supermarket, the TV playing in the home appliance area, and the sounds made by various devices in operation, the entire supermarket fell into an eerie silence.

Whether it is a customer coming to the supermarket to purchase, a staff at the cashier counter, or a security guard in the monitoring room.

At this moment, they all remained motionless in their previous postures, just like the exquisite wax figures.

After using telepathy to freeze everyone in the supermarket, Richard slowly began his shopping.

This is not the first time he has done this.

He wasn't worried about the Ministry of Mutant Affairs finding out about him either.

Because after shopping he would leave San Francisco and go to the next city. Even if the Department of Mutant Affairs knew that he had appeared in this supermarket, it would be impossible to track his whereabouts.

Time passes little by little.

After using teleportation to purchase the daily necessities he needed in different areas of the supermarket, he pushed the shopping cart and teleported to a cash register.

Although zero-dollar shopping is very popular in the United States now, he does not intend to do the same as those people.

Don't do good deeds because they are small, and don't do evil deeds because they are small!
Taking the barcode scanner from the staff, he started scanning the code to check out.

Every time he scanned the code to pay, he couldn't help but complain in his heart.

Supermarkets in the United States are now fully capable of setting up self-service scan code checkout areas, but whether it is large chain supermarkets in the United States or those small supermarkets, they are still using "primitive" manual scan code checkout.

He scanned the codes of all the items in the shopping cart and took a look at the amount on the screen. He took out the corresponding cash from the system space and placed the cash and the receipt on the counter in front of the cashier.

Then, throw all the purchased daily necessities into the system space.

Teleportation!

After purchasing daily necessities, Richard disappeared in an instant.

The next second, all the people who were fixed by telepathy returned to their original state.

This is?

Looking at the extra cash and receipts on the cash register, the cashier in a supermarket uniform and a hat showed a puzzled expression.

On the rooftop of a building near the supermarket.

Richard sat on the edge of the roof and took out a bag of potato chips and a bottle of frozen Fat House Happy Water from the system space.

Which city are you going to next?

As he put potato chips into his mouth, he was thinking about which city he would go to next.

Although three months have passed, he is still in California, just not staying near Los Angeles.

How about a trip to Las Vegas?

Las Vegas is located in Nevada, next to California, not far from San Francisco.

If you want to use teleportation, you only need to do it once.

When he was bored before, he deliberately tested the maximum transmission distance of mind transmission.

200 km!

This is the current limit of the distance of his telepathic transmission.

If he remembered correctly, San Francisco was only about 900 kilometers away from Las Vegas.

This means that he only needs to perform teleportation five times at most to successfully reach Las Vegas.

Of course, the premise is that he doesn't get lost.

Just as he was thinking about going to Las Vegas, known as the "Entertainment Capital of the World" and "Gambling City", to experience the local customs and culture, he heard sirens coming from a distance.

No matter which city in the United States, police cars whizzing by with sirens blaring are a beautiful sight.

Richard didn't take the sirens seriously at first.

But after seeing police cars whizzing down the street and surrounding a group of mutants protesting at an intersection, he suddenly became interested.

Although he didn't know the mutants who were protesting, the signs and banners they were holding caught his attention.

Freedom is not a crime!

Oppose the Mutant Restriction Bill!
Mutants should have the freedom to use their super powers legally!
Stand against the Department of Mutant Affairs' excessive use of power!

Richard Wesley should not be wanted!

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(End of this chapter)