American comics: Starting with mutants

Scorching flames surged forth from beneath the ground.

With a violent explosion, one of the arresting officers was thrown into the air and crashed heavily into a tree trunk. As the trunk cracked, he coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Another arresting officer landed like a toad taking flight, but unfortunately his head hit a rock, and the sound of a watermelon exploding rang out. He was killed instantly by the rock hitting his head.

In the face of mutants, especially a level 5 or even higher mutant, an ordinary person, even the most well-trained soldier, would be powerless to resist.

The Black Emperor's level is probably level four.

However, with the added power of Ethan's cheat code, his enhanced abilities after fusion and sublimation can be described as level five, or even surpass level five.

Just like a zither.

Putting aside the Phoenix Force, Jean Grey's mutant abilities are at the level of a Level 5 mutant.

However, because Jean is the inheritor of the Phoenix Force, her power actually surpasses that of a Level 5 mutant.

Level 5 mutants are extremely rare, even within the entire mutant population.

Professor X and Magneto, these two major mutant giants, are not Level 5, but Level 4.

and so……

This illustrates one point once again.

A mutant, especially one of high enough level and with enough power, can completely overwhelm an ordinary person in combat.

So there was one thing that Ethan never understood when he watched the X-Men movies in his previous life.

Despite their overwhelming combat power, mutants are still beaten so badly by ordinary people that they end up like stray dogs, hiding and running away.

Shouldn't it be ordinary people who are afraid of mutants? How come in the X-Men movies, mutants are afraid of ordinary people?

Just like it is now.

In the blink of an eye, the capture team that came to arrest Lincoln and Natasha, the two clones, had already suffered casualties, some dead and some wounded.

The leader, dressed in all-black combat gear, was muscular and on the verge of exploding. He was blown away and crashed heavily to the ground, but the shockwave had injured his internal organs. He looked at Ethan, who was walking towards him, with a pale face and fear.

That's more like it.

Barbarians have always feared power more than virtue.

Winning people over with virtue?

That was for people. To these barbarians, Ethan didn't need their respect, he only needed them to fear him.

Ethan looked at the fear in the eyes of the head of the arrest team and thought to himself.

At this moment, the arrest team leader finally realized who Ethan was.

"To...mutant!"

"You guessed right, here's a reward for you."

Ethan smiled slightly, then flicked his finger, and a tiny, rice-grain-sized hole instantly appeared between the captain's eyebrows.

Through the rice-grain-sized hole that runs through the arresting captain's forehead, one can clearly see the view behind the back of his head.

Boom!

The head of the arresting captain slammed hard against the ground, and he stared wide-eyed at the dense forest.

At that moment, Qin also walked to Ethan's side.

"They ran away."

"oh."

Upon hearing this, Ethan turned his head and glanced at the clones Lincoln and Natasha, who were holding hands and running towards the town. He smiled slightly, then looked away and said to Jean, "If I hadn't met you back then, I probably would have been just thinking about escaping the base like them."

Jean glanced calmly at Ethan.

"You're lying again. All you've ever thought about is how to destroy the X11 base. You've never thought about escaping."

"...Sweet words, these are sweet words, Qin."

Ethan said helplessly, then changed the subject, turning his gaze to the arresting captain lying on the ground, staring wide-eyed: "What's wrong with him?"

"There is indeed a cloning facility here."

"It's just below the lake inside, but this isn't a mutant cloning base."

"It was a cloning facility that William Stryker used to make money."

"The cloning base here provides perfectly healthy organs that will not cause rejection for wealthy people who are sick and need organ transplants and longevity."

"That is, using cloning technology to cultivate clones of wealthy individuals, because their genes are the same, so there is no rejection."

"Oh, right."

"They also provide longevity drugs, which are growth-suppressing drugs, to the wealthy."

Qin recounted the information she had just gleaned from the minds of these arresting officers. She paused here, then looked at Ethan with a serious expression.

"However, this isn't a lab for growth-suppressing drugs, but there should be growth-suppressing drugs inside, so I can't be your mother."

"..."

Ethan thought Jean was going to say something, but when he heard this, he was stunned at first, and then his lips twitched involuntarily.

But he wisely chose not to respond.

Ok.

Cold treatment.

Jean glanced at Ethan, listening to his plans, but didn't press the matter. Instead, she continued to recount the story of the cloning base.

After all, during the three-day road trip, she had become somewhat accustomed to the occasional wicked or even malicious thoughts that Ethan would have in his mind.

Sometimes even the Black Phoenix, who chose Jean as her successor, felt that she, who symbolized violence and destruction, was just like a green recruit in the face of Ethan's occasional evil thoughts.

No wonder her Phoenix Force, even after entering Ethan's energy world, struggled to assimilate him; in fact, she was assimilated by Ethan's energy world itself.

"William Stryker isn't here, and these people don't even know who William Stryker is."

"The commander of this base is a guy named Albert Laurent, and the person in charge of the experiments at this cloning base is a guy named Dr. Merrick."

"...Wait, Merrick?"

Ethan, who had been listening intently to the pre-battle intelligence sharing, paused slightly upon hearing this: "If I remember correctly, the chief doctor at the X11 cloning base was also named Merrick, right?"

Jean's expression remained unchanged: "Yes, the Dr. Merrick in these people's memories is exactly the same as Dr. Merrick in X11."

"Understood."

Ethan listened to the message that the piano was sending through his mind, nodded, and then looked into the depths of the wetland forest: "Let's go, we're already here."

He had originally planned to go back to the town hotel to rest for the night and come back the next day.

but……

It's better to come early than to come by coincidence.

What does this mean?

This shows that even God disapproved of William Stryker and his evil military gang's wanton disregard for life; otherwise, He wouldn't have sent Lincoln and Natasha, two clones, to him just as he was about to depart.

God is probably already itching to punish these guys.

and so……

His task was quite simple.

Send those beasts from this cloning base deep in the forest to meet God!

……