The Counterattack of the Villains

"Every time the sentries attack, Halberd will find them. I send the bishop back to before the attack to warn us, and let Blink find a new hiding place, so that we are no longer there before they find them."

The phantom cat Katie explained to Charles and others the principle of how they could successfully escape from the encirclement of the sentries every time.

After listening to her words, James Zhanji added: "Because we haven't been together since."

Wolverine Logan didn't seem to understand very well and asked: "What does 'never have been' mean?"

Charles looked at Logan and explained: "She asked the bishop to go back to the days before the attack to warn them of future attacks, and then they would immediately move their positions."

"In this way, the past has been changed, and they are not there at all, and the sentry will naturally not go there again. This is what he calls not being there."

Logan understood and looked at the phantom cat in surprise: "Can she make the bishop go back to the past?"

Charles said: "Just letting his current consciousness return to his past body is equivalent to saying that he in the past predicted the future."

"Oh." Logan raised his eyebrows. He was a little surprised by the ability of the phantom cat.

Magneto suddenly said: "This might work, Charles."

Everyone looked at Magneto with doubts on their faces, and Phantom Cat subconsciously asked: "What would work?"

Charles slowly recounted: "The Sentinel Project was first proposed by Dr. Bolivar Traisco, who was the world's top weapons design expert in the early 1970s."

"Secretly, he is conducting experiments on mutants and using their abilities to complete his research."

"This kind of research is inhumane to mutants, just like the infamous human experiments in Germany during World War II, and a mutant discovered the contents of his research."

Just when everyone was curious about who the mutant who discovered the content of his research was, Magneto said the answer: "This guy can become anyone he wants."

Pyro John blurted out: "Mystique?"

A look of sadness flashed in Charles's eyes, and he said with a lonely expression: "The name I know of her is Raven. We have known each other since childhood and grew up together. She is like my sister."

"I wanted to help her, but instead I pushed her further and further away."

"After discovering the contents of that research, she traveled around the world to hunt down Trask."

"After the Vietnam War, at the Paris Peace Conference in 1973, she finally found Trask and killed him. That was her first murder."

Luo Gendan said calmly: "But it's not the last time."

Charles sighed and continued: "Trask's death did not lead to the results she wanted. On the contrary, to a certain extent, it stimulated the government's attention to the Sentinel Project."

"They caught her red-handed and used all means to torture her and conduct experiments on her."

"They discovered the secret of her shape-shifting ability in her DNA. Since then, they have mastered the key to creating weapons that can deal with any mutant ability."

"It only took less than 50 years for the machine that slaughtered so many of our compatriots to be born."

Speaking of this, Charles' eyes were slightly distracted, and then he said slowly: "Everything... began on that day in 1973, the day she committed her first murder."

"That day she completely transformed into...Mystique."

After hearing what Charles said, Phantom Cat looked at Charles with disbelief and said, "So you want to go back to that day?"

Charles nodded slightly and said: "If I can find her, prevent her from killing people, and prevent her from falling into the enemy's hands, I can kill the Sentinel Project in the cradle and end this war before it even begins.

"

Everyone was a little shocked by his whimsical operation, and the room became quiet for a moment.

However, at this moment, a strange voice suddenly sounded in the room: "Deceive yourself."

Everyone was shocked. They instantly stood back to back in a group, surrounding Charles and the phantom cat in the middle, paying attention in all directions.

Charles instantly dispersed his huge mental power, but failed to scan any targets in the room.

But he saw the golden shuttle hovering over the temple, and further away, swarms of spacecraft carrying sentinels coming in this direction.

Charles' face became very ugly. He had never seen that golden shuttle before, and it was obviously not one of his own.

A large group of sentries are rushing here, but they have no other hiding place.

Seeing that Charles' face was gloomy and he never pointed out the traces of the other party, everyone couldn't help but be shocked. Could it be that even the doctor couldn't find the other party?

Logan shouted angrily: "Who is it? Come out."

As soon as he finished speaking, a figure emerged from the ground in front of all the mutants.

The phantom cat looked at the man in front of him with a handsome oriental face in surprise.

She herself has the ability to transform between reality and reality, so she can also achieve abilities such as walking through walls and escaping from the ground.

But the feeling the other party gave her was completely different from the feeling she had when she turned herself into atomic components and could pass through any obstacle.

Li Mu, who used the Five Elements Escape Technique to sneak into the temple from the ground and came to the front of the mutants, glanced at everyone and then focused his eyes on Charles' face.

He said in a deep voice: "Instead of placing hope on changing the past with little chance, it is better to seize the present."

"The Sentinels are not invincible, and the mutants are not completely hopeless. It just depends on whether you are willing to cooperate."

The mutants looked at each other in confusion. Logan did not dare to relax at all. He stared at Li Mu and asked: "Who are you? What do you want to do?"

Li Mu looked solemn and said slowly: "You can call me Mu, but as for my identity..."

Li Mu paused, then suddenly spun around in a circle, and a cloud of mist rose up around him, completely covering his figure.

When the clouds and mist dissipated, Li Mu reappeared, transformed into the image of an ancient man wearing pure white ancient clothes and long flowing hair.

In this image, Li Mu looks elegant and full of fairy spirit.

The mutants looked at this scene with some astonishment.

It is not that they have never watched Chinese movies, and they are not unfamiliar with Li Mu's appearance and the process of his transformation.

They were no strangers to him, but they couldn't understand the principle of Li Mu's transformation at all.

Li Mu continued: "In words that you can understand, my friends and I are all mutants who survived from ancient times. It is not an exaggeration to say that we are the ancestors of mutants."

"Originally, we lived in an independent space called Cave Heaven Paradise, free and uncontested. It was the war between the Sentinels and the mutants that alarmed us."

After listening to Li Mu's words, Phantom Cat said with a strange expression: "You don't need to use Westerners' cognition to describe it. Our knowledge is not as shallow as you think."

"So you want to say that the immortal cultivators in Chinese legends are actually a group of mutants?"

Seeing this, Li Mu smiled to himself, turned around again, and transformed back into a vibranium battle suit. Then he nodded to the phantom cat and said, "You can think so."

"In the eyes of us cultivators, the so-called mutants are just a group of people with spiritual roots who are suitable for cultivating immortals."

As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed at the mutants one by one and said: "For example, Storm, she has the Wind Spirit Root and the Thunder Spirit Root, Eric has the Golden Spirit Root, Bobby is obviously the Ice Spirit Root, a branch of the Water Spirit Root, and John has the Ice Spirit Root, which is a branch of the Water Spirit Root.

It’s the fire spirit root and so on.”

"Every mutant has one or more spiritual roots. Of course, there are good and bad spiritual roots."

"Some spiritual roots are very powerful, and they will achieve great achievements if they cultivate immortality. Some spiritual roots are useless spiritual roots. Although they can cultivate immortals, they will not achieve any great achievements."

Wolverine couldn't help but ask: "Then what spiritual root am I?"

Li Mu affirmed: "The best wood spirit root is characterized by having infinite vitality. No matter how injured it is, it will recover immediately."

"One of my friends also has a top-quality wood spirit root. Through cultivation, she can reach the point where she can be resurrected even if there is only one cell left."

Li Mu was naturally talking about Master Bachi, and during the process of their journey here, Master Bachi had left the team alone. The purpose was naturally to complete their origins.

After listening to Li Mu's words, the mutants took a deep breath.

Even if only one cell is left, it can be resurrected. Isn't that true immortality?

Storm asked curiously: "What kind of spiritual root do you have?"

Li Mu smiled slightly, spread out his hands, and condensed a spherical lightning out of thin air in his left hand, and condensed a fireball in his right hand.

"Obviously, I have the twin spiritual roots of thunder and fire."

Feeling the terrifying energy emanating from the thunderballs and fireballs, the mutants swallowed their saliva.

Pyro John sensed a terrifying energy aura from the fireball. If the fireball exploded, its power would probably not be weaker than that of a missile. This was a power beyond his reach.

Storm also sensed the huge energy in the thunder ball, and her doubts about Li Mu's identity were basically eliminated.

The other mutants were about to speak and ask what spiritual root they belonged to, but were interrupted by Charles.

"Okay, let's put aside the matter of spiritual roots and cultivation of immortals for now. Then, Mr. Mu from the mysterious East, what is your purpose of coming here to see us?"

Li Mu said seriously: "It's very simple. I hope that you will come forward to gather the few remaining mutant compatriots."

"My partners and I will be responsible for solving the Sentinel problem and then find a way out for the mutants."

Having said this, he turned around and raised his head slightly, looking at the temple roof covered with ancient murals, and sighed: "This world is very complicated, and what you see is just the tip of the iceberg."

"Because of the war between the mutants and the Sentinels, some terrifying entities that originally existed only in nightmares were released."

"This world will soon undergo a catastrophe. If we don't respond properly, the world will even come to an end."

"If mutants can become heroes who protect ordinary people and save the world in this catastrophe, I believe the future of mutants will be completely different."

After hearing what Li Mu said, the beautiful and charming Li Mu said angrily: "They massacred so many of our compatriots, and we have to protect them in turn? Why?"

Pyro John echoed: "Yes, they started this war in the first place, and they themselves caused the catastrophe. Even if ordinary people become extinct, what does it have to do with us? We are also victims."

Li Mu turned around, looked at Shuang Shuang and frowned: "Why don't you understand? Saving ordinary people is not for the ordinary people themselves, but for ourselves."

"There are less than 1.5 million mutants left. If ordinary people become extinct, will it really be good for us?"

"And you have no idea how terrible the catastrophe is. If ordinary people are really allowed to become extinct, then the situation we need to face is that the whole world is our enemy."

Charles frowned and said: "What exactly is the catastrophe you are talking about? Why can't I find any sign of it when I scan the world?"

Li Mu asked back: "Can you see the microscopic world with your mental scan?"

Charles said: "No."

Li Mudao: "That's right. The main cause of the catastrophe was called demonic energy in ancient times when technology was underdeveloped."

"And according to modern people's understanding, it is actually a virus, a virus that is countless times more terrifying than any virus currently known on the earth."

"This virus will turn ordinary people into demons, devouring the flesh and blood of living people, and its ability to infect is terrifyingly strong."

"Even if you are just scratched by an infected person, a living person will be infected and transformed into a new demon."

"Once a catastrophe breaks out, the number of demons will increase exponentially. If no intervention is carried out, in a few years, only demons will be left on the entire earth."

"What's more, mutants may not be able to resist this virus. When mutants are infected, they will become more terrifying demons than ordinary people."

Storm frowned and said, "Don't they have sentries? Can't even sentries solve the catastrophe?"

Colossus said: "Yes, if the Sentinels can solve the catastrophe, then the doomsday will not come at all."

"If the sentinels cannot solve the catastrophe, how can we, who have been beaten back by the sentinels, have the ability to deal with it?"

Li Mudao: "First of all, the Sentinels are just a group of machines after all. Although they have extremely high intelligence, they cannot be compared with humans."

"Secondly, we will not allow this thing that has slaughtered more than 90% of our compatriots to continue to exist."

"So we must eliminate the sentinels and even the lighthouse government."

"Only by changing a group of people in power who are not hostile to mutants, or even directly letting mutants take power, will mutants truly have a way out."

Regarding what Li Mu said, among the mutants present, the one with the highest recognition is Magneto.

In fact, he has been trying to do this for many years, but because of the obstruction of Charles and the X-Men, he has been experiencing failure and has never achieved anything.

So after Li Mu said these words, Magneto was the first to express his position: "I support your approach. If Charles had been willing to cooperate with me thirty years earlier, maybe this goal would have been achieved long ago, and the Sentinels would not have appeared at all.

Chance."

After saying this, Magneto looked at Charles with a somewhat subtle look. He said expressionlessly: "If we have to dig deeper, it is not an exaggeration to say that the X-Men are the sinners of mutants."

Hearing this, Storm, Wolverine, Phantom Cat, Iceman, Colossus, Sunspot and other X-Men all had ugly expressions.

But they couldn't say anything to refute it, because it was all true.

Charles sighed and said: "Maybe from the perspective of mutants, we did make a mistake, but I don't regret it."

"You Chinese have a saying, it's up to people to make things happen, and it's up to God to make things happen. Eric and I are both looking for a way out for mutants, but the methods are different."

"I underestimated the fear that ordinary people have towards mutants. This is a fundamental problem. They are all good children. They are not wrong. It is me who is wrong."

Li Mu's expression changed, and he suddenly turned to look out the door and said: "The issue of right and wrong roads is already a thing of the past. There is no need for us to pursue it anymore."

"Let's face the present first. Maybe you don't know us well enough and you may have doubts in your heart."

"You don't need to take action in this battle, just watch from the side. When this battle is over, I hope you can give me a clear answer."

After hearing his words, others were still confused, but Charles and Zhan Ji both changed their expressions.

The sentries are coming, many of them.