American comics: Starting with mutants

"What happened?"

"What exactly is going on?"

William Stryker was utterly disgusted by the sight of Ethan holding the piano.

He suddenly had a strange feeling.

The daughter he had painstakingly raised to be exceptionally talented, even surpassing his original daughter, ran off with a blond-haired man without looking back after just one encounter.

How could this not make William Stryker angry?

God is my witness.

He had even made plans and preparations on how to use Jean Grey to wipe out Professor X and the other mutants in one fell swoop.

But right now...

William Stryker suppressed his anger towards the blond-haired man and, watching Ethan walk towards the elevator with his violin through the surveillance camera, quickly gave instructions.

"Destroy the data. All personnel, evacuate on your own."

"Boss, what... wait..."

William Stryker didn't give the X11 base manager any chance to speak, cutting off communications and ordering the staff beside him, "Immediately sever all contact between X11 base and us, and ensure the destruction of all data."

A Black Emperor No. 66 who surpasses the original body, plus a Qin Liuliu who also surpasses the original body.

The X11 base is definitely doomed.

But it's okay!

He left a backdoor in the clone, which required daily injections of growth-inhibiting drugs. Once the daily intake of these drugs was stopped, the clone would naturally die of old age within a hundred days.

not to mention……

The X11 base was already designated as a decommissioned base due to an accident five days ago, so its early decommissioning is not a big deal.

The thought of the piano that Ethan had taken from him made William Stryker feel a tightness in his chest.

"Fire! Fire! Fire!"

"Pfft pfft pfft!"

Ethan, with Jean following behind without saying a word, stepped out of the elevator and arrived at a laboratory. He opened his right hand, ready to absorb the kinetic energy of the bullets, when the bullets that were whistling toward them suddenly froze.

next second.

The dense volley of bullets fired at them turned around and pierced the bodies of the soldiers who had fired them, one after another.

Ethan watched this scene and subconsciously looked at Jean who was standing next to him.

Qin Qiao's face was indifferent, and her eyes were devoid of any color.

"Well done."

Ethan looked away and walked toward a bespectacled researcher who was raising his hands.

The researchers with glasses held their hands up, their expressions horrified.

"Don't kill me, don't kill me..."

"Where can I find growth-inhibiting drugs?"

"……That!"

The bespectacled researcher pointed to the transparent freezer in the laboratory, his voice trembling.

Ethan followed the direction the bespectacled researcher was pointing and arrived in front of the transparent freezer. He saw that the freezer, which was originally packed with medicine, now only had a few dozen bottles left.

He didn't mind, grabbed the insulated bag next to him, put the two rows of growth-inhibiting agents into the bag, and then looked at the bespectacled researcher again.

"And the rest?"

"That's all."

The researcher with glasses dared not hide anything, and still held up his hands, saying in a trembling voice, "We don't have any growth-inhibiting drugs here; they're all brought in from outside. I don't know where they are."

Ethan didn't speak, but looked at Qin beside him.

Qin felt Ethan's gaze and looked at the bespectacled researcher.

The eyeglasses researcher froze.

Qin withdrew her gaze.

The voice was icy, much like an ice volcano buried beneath a glacier.

"He's telling the truth."

Do you know where else you can find them?

"have no idea."

"..."

Upon hearing this, Ethan frowned and looked back at the researcher with glasses.

If we were to kill everyone in this cloning experiment base one by one, some of them might be innocent.

But if we kill every other one, there will inevitably be some who slip through the net.

and so……

Better to kill the innocent than let the guilty go free!

As Ethan was thinking this, just as he was about to snap his fingers, a piercing alarm suddenly appeared in his field of vision, accompanied by flashing red lights everywhere.

"What happened?"

"Self-destruction."

The researchers were startled. After realizing what was happening, they shouted and ran outside without looking back.

Seeing this, Ethan flicked his right finger.

Bang!

The bespectacled researcher, with blood seeping from his brow, staggered a few steps on the ground before collapsing to the floor with a thud, his eyes wide open, awaiting his death.

In the monitoring room.

Through the explosion-proof glass of the laboratory, Ethan could see the cloning experiment building across the cloning factory constantly flashing with flames of explosion.

And this trend of explosions is gradually spreading towards the cloning factory and the underground building where he is now located.

Not long after.

The entire cloning experiment building has been completely engulfed in flames and is beginning to collapse amidst the fire.

If nothing unexpected happens, the remaining surviving clones inside probably have no hope of survival.

"Walk!"

Ethan thought to himself, then looked away, said something to Qin beside him, and then, carrying a thermal bag containing more than sixty growth-inhibiting drugs in one hand and Qin's hand again in the other, he ran forward, stepping over a pile of corpses and the body of the bespectacled researcher.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

"Sir, the aircraft is ready."

"it is good."

"The data was not destroyed."

"It has already been destroyed."

"A self-destruct system?"

"Three minutes."

That's enough.

"Shit, sir, number sixty-six is ​​coming up soon."

"Fuck."

"Evacuate! Evacuate! Everyone, evacuate immediately!"

"clear."

"yes!"

At this moment, the control center of the X11 base was in complete chaos. All the computer mainframes were flashing with electric arcs, and even the monitoring system, life detection system, and ventilation system had been shut down.

Thirty-odd male and female staff members of all kinds, carrying large and small bags and even holding a bag in their hands, looked anxious and wished they could sprout wings on their legs under the angry shouts of the base soldiers.

They only just realized one thing.

Clones can fail countless times, but once they succeed and break free from their constraints, the end will come for these ordinary humans who claim to be the creators of clones.

Because they were shocked to discover that they had absolutely no way to subdue a mutant who had been cruelly tortured by them for two years, enduring the torture and honing his mutant abilities to their peak.

Even Jean Grey clone number sixty-six, whom they all thought had been tamed and had always been obedient, betrayed them the moment she came into contact with Ethan.

Having lost their last means and strength, the group realized that all they could do now was flee in panic.

……