American comics: Starting with gaining Spider-Man's abilities

Chapter 146 Sleep and Construction

When the ship carrying the first mutants sailed across the ocean to an unnamed island, Li Buying, who had quietly disappeared from New York, did not catch up with them, but instead seemingly landed casually in a forest.

He was panting heavily, staggering, and his eyes were filled with exhaustion and... a certain kind of enjoyment. Anyway, something was very wrong with him.

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The major event mission is complete, and rewards will be distributed soon. Please find a suitable location to receive them. The complete restoration of your soul will cause you to enter a period of deep sleep, and the [Life Essence Enhancement] will put your body into a state of restructuring.

This will put you into a period of deep sleep, and upon waking, you will achieve a sublimation of both your physical and spiritual essence.

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Just after Li Buying had completely crushed Pierce, he received this news, which startled him so much that he immediately took off and asked Ai Yi to find a safe enough location. They eventually found this undeveloped forest.

During the flight, Li Buying quickly and clearly felt the changes in her body.

First, there's the physical aspect. The feeling of his muscles going limp when he wakes up makes him want to go back to sleep. He can even feel his fingers when he stretches them.

Secondly, regarding the soul, he could feel that the last part of his soul, which had been experiencing throbbing pain from time to time, was being repaired, and the tingling and itching spread to his limbs and bones without affecting the feeling of softness.

The two sensations combined, making him feel like he was receiving a full-body massage. He became drowsy, and his eyelids kept wanting to close.

Before he collapsed into sleep, he finally staggered and ran into a small cave. A light flashed inside the cave, and Ai Yi appeared inside, controlling a mechanical body.

This is one of her processor storage locations. The robot has some combat capabilities and can protect Li Buying's safety.

He's really become a target of attention now. Even if he can fly onto the ship, there's no guarantee that no one will look at him with strange eyes.

Ai Yi judged it this way: from a safety perspective, this place was safer. Ordinary wild beasts couldn't defeat her, and there were no complex intelligent creatures around.

Upon seeing the robot, Li Buying, who had been holding on, finally relaxed and closed his eyes. The mechanical girl stretched out her cold mechanical arm and hugged him before entering the cave.

After taking the processor out of the alloy case, Ai Yi placed Li Buying inside for safety and silently watched over him from the side.

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About three days later.

Lorna was combing her black hair in her room when a soft female voice came from behind her: "Do you need my help?"

"Oh, thank you."

She paused for a moment, then turned around and saw a tall woman named Wanda gently asking if she needed help. Lorna thought for a moment and did not refuse the older woman's help.

The ship's cabins were double rooms, so she was assigned to share one with Wanda.

For some reason, she, Quicksilver, and Magneto gave Lorna a strange feeling, as if they were very willing to talk to her.

She treated herself so well that even her good friend Petra secretly asked her if she had been in contact with those three people beforehand.

However, Lorna herself didn't feel anything special about them and treated them just normally.

In reality, due to their different upbringing, Lorna's life was quite happy with Li Buying by her side, and it didn't seem tragic at all. Therefore, she didn't develop any special perceptions such as bloodline connection.

Magneto, Scarlet Witch, and Quicksilver are different. Their lives are not good. The days they spend with their loved ones are the happiest, but their loved ones keep dying.

Therefore, subconsciously, they hoped to find "relatives" who were related to them, and the three of them could more or less feel the connection between themselves and the others.

"Miss Dan," Wanda asked cautiously as she combed Lorna's hair, "I heard that you and that Mr. Lee... Maggie North are siblings?"

"Yes, we're not blood-related siblings, so he's also my boyfriend."

Lorna had asked whether she and Dane and his wife needed to hide their relationship with Li Buying. Ai quickly made her judgment and said that there was no need to worry too much about others taking her hostage.

After all, Lorna herself has combat abilities and the presence of the Dionysus factor within her, so there's no need to worry too much about the threat of death.

Li Buying has several ways to get to Lorna's location in a second, so as long as she can stall her from being directly imprisoned, there won't be any major problems, especially with Ai Yi monitoring her around the clock.

So who are your biological parents...?

Wanda didn't ask, as it would have been somewhat beneath her to ask. After smoothing Lorna's hair, she handed her a mirror to look at herself.

"Speaking of which, you dyed your hair, right? To make yourself look more like a normal person?"

"Yes, my hair turned from black when I was a child to green due to the enhanced mutation ability, so I dyed it later."

Lorna then spoke with Wanda, who was a few years older than her, and together they left the room and went to sit down in the ship's restaurant.

"Oh, speaking of which, now that I don't have to worry about revealing my mutant identity, I don't need to dye my hair anymore."

The two chatted for a while, and after breakfast they didn't get together again. Wanda was also a little worried that her and Pietro's (Quicksilver) intuition might be wrong, so she didn't choose to stay by Lorna's side.

She quickly got up and joined Pietro. Quicksilver scratched the back of his head and followed Wanda, whispering, "I tried to get some information out of Magneto, but I didn't get anything out of him."

"It's probably just because he doesn't want to talk about it. If he doesn't want to talk about it, then so be it."

Wanda's reaction to Magneto was not as gentle as her reaction to Lorna; her eyes were cold, and she saw no need to acknowledge her biological father who had abandoned them.

Their parents had died in the Sokovia war; the rest were just strangers.

"Alright, since you've said so, then forget it. But it's possible that our little sister's Miss Lorna is really Mr. Magi North's girlfriend. Does that mean we're safe now?"

That was a young man who stood alongside Magneto and Professor X, and in terms of strength, he was quite powerful. Even though he was a few years older than Li Buying, Pietro still held him in high esteem.

"No, he probably won't get involved in the establishment of this mutant nation, which is still in its infancy. Everything will have to be done by the mutants themselves."

Wanda has also learned some things from Lorna these past few days, such as that their group is the advance team and they have to start from almost nothing. Fortunately, they don't have to worry about materials.

Will you build your own home?

Wanda felt the sea breeze blowing, and red light emanated from her palms. In her mind, the figures of Professor X, Magneto, and Li Buying appeared.

Meanwhile, Lorna enters the server room to ask the mechanical girl about her boyfriend:

"Hey, Ai, is Bu Ying alright?"

Ai Yi's body's eyes twitched slightly: "Please rest assured, Master is under my protection and is expected to return in quite some time. Please wait patiently until then."

"It's good that you're alright. But what if someone had chosen to make a move during this time..."

"They have to take international opinion into account. Although according to the data, the United States never follows any rules, they will be more cautious under the threat of their master, Professor X, and Magneto."

Ai was manipulating world opinion, steer it more towards the mutants, while simultaneously explaining things to Lorna:

"Given the destruction of S.H.I.E.L.D., Hydra's infiltration, the disruption caused by supervillains, and the opportunistic infiltration by other countries, there is only a 2% chance that the United States and those countries busy dealing with the United States will take immediate action within a week."

"We are safe for at least a year, so there is no need to worry."

Ai's explanation put Lorna at ease. She sat down next to the mechanical girl, glanced at her work, and then left the special room to stand on the deck and enjoy the sea breeze.

There were many people standing on the deck, most of them with hopeful smiles on their faces. For mutants, having an uncertain future that they could improve with their own hands was already enough.

On the contrary, the parents or lovers of those who are ordinary people or mutant members are still worried that they will be treated harshly after they arrive there, such as by dangerous mutants.

Fortunately, Professor X often provides them with psychological counseling, so there's no need to worry too much.

Lorna stood on the deck for a short while when a red figure suddenly appeared. The Red Devil had finally come to take the people away.

The multiple long-distance transfers involving multiple people in the previous day had exhausted him, leaving him bedridden for three whole days. He has only now recovered.

The first thing he did after resting was to get up and continue working, to bring everyone on the ship back to the island.

The weaker, non-combatants left first, followed by the combatants. Lorna's vision blurred for a moment, and she found herself on the island she had seen in the photographs, even more scenic than in the pictures.

Okay, the high EQ way of saying it is that it has a natural beauty, while the low EQ way of saying it is that it has no trace of civilized society at all.

Some of the earlier arrivals are still setting up tents, and many are frowning, looking a bit uncomfortable in this place. When the pioneers see Professor X and Magneto, they can't help but come over to complain.

After calming these people down, the two true rulers looked at Ai Yi, who had been transferred with them. The mechanical girl calculated that it was about time and turned to look at the coast.

The sound of ships could be heard as a fleet of unmanned vessels, all large ships, slowly approached the coast. These were ships that Ai had transferred from the nearest country, loaded with buildings and various items needed for development.

"This is the first batch of supplies, including the ship itself. Please take a quick inventory. As agreed with you, our organization will not interfere with the rest."

By tossing the USB drive containing the list to Magneto, Ai immediately severed control of the body.

Li Buying and Ai Yi had already discussed this before. If the mutants received too much help when they established their nation, Professor X, Magneto, and some future leaders might start to suspect what his fabricated organization really wanted.

There's a saying that goes, "what's given away for free is the most valuable." If mutants thought that way, things would be terrible. So Ai didn't provide them with free aid; instead, she calculated the costs and benefits clearly, just like a normal investment.

But in reality, Ai Yi, or rather Li Buying, doesn't really need that much money.

"Thank you for your help, hacker. The mutants will remember this."

Professor X nodded, but Ai's words were cold and ruthless:

"It's not about helping; the prophet simply hopes to protect Earth in the future, and hopes you can assist us when aliens invade."

"Of course, Earth is also our home."

Magneto stopped talking, looked at the pile of mutants behind him with hope in his eyes, and shouted for some mutants who could move the containers to come over.

Storm, Phoenix, Scarlet Witch...

Lorna followed them onto the docked ship, and the five of them, including Magneto, began to use their abilities, causing containers to rise from the ship with a tremor.

"Petra, reinforce the beach!"

Thinking of something, Lorna shouted to her best friend. Petra, who had the ability to control the land, placed her hand on the ground and activated her power. The originally soft sand hardened, and the Ice Man and the others also began to help.

As the containers were gradually piled up, Professor X, not idle, called over a loud-voiced mutant to give orders, assigning tasks according to everyone's abilities, preparing to establish a decent settlement first.

As for the mutants who are not yet of use, Cyclops is responsible for teaching them the language of this island.

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It must be said that mutants with superpowers are quick and easy to carry out construction. With the help of some technology, they quickly built up one luxurious mobile house after another and connected it to communication signals.

Exhausted after a long day, Lorna rubbed her temples and lay down on the bed, not really wanting to move. Besides, there was no hot water or anything...

Lorna was in a daze and didn't know how much time had passed when a hand was placed on her shoulder and shook her. When she opened her eyes, she saw Wanda in her pajamas. Petra was lying on a bed in the three-person room.

The important thing is that both of their hair was wet, as if they had just taken a shower.

"Hmm, is there hot water?"

Lorna got up and looked at the toilet stall in the mobile home. Petra explained while browsing the internet: "Robert and Allardyce (Fireman) made hot water and then distributed it to the other rooms. It's probably still boiling now, since there's an insulated water tank."

Upon hearing this, Lorna immediately got up, took off her clothes, and went to take a shower. Similar incidents occurred in various rooms.

Meanwhile, on the beach, Magneto and Professor X observed everyone's lives and considered what they should do next. Although a general plan had been set, it still needed to be adjusted according to the development of the situation.

"Miss Hacker, I'd like to order some robots to handle low-level tasks such as cleaning and collecting excrement and garbage."

Considering that no one was willing to do such low-level work, Professor X made a request to Ai Yi, who quickly found a suitable machine and took out a tablet to transfer the robot's information to them.

"How about this one...?"

On this small island that has yet to enter civilized society, change is slowly taking place.

(End of this chapter)