Marvel Salted Fish Kryptonian

"I'm calm now. Too damn calm. I don't feel like flying to Switzerland and beating you to death right now."

"Calm down, ma'am. I thought we had settled our little misunderstanding a while ago. The best way to get along is to have no contact from now on. Now you're calling my boss at his house, which puts me in a difficult position."

Audrey Hepburn's mouth twisted into a circle, and she looked at the side with a look of sudden realization. She didn't think this was some kind of romantic debt.

Okay, my words were indeed misleading, but it was better than bringing the troubles of mutants into a woman's life.

"Misunderstanding! The misunderstanding you're talking about is the misunderstanding that you wiped out all the X-Men. Do you think there will ever be an even accord?" the voice on the phone said in a hoarse voice.

"Hey, hey, hey, talk nicely. I didn't kill anyone, no one died, I'm gentle."

"Gentle." Audrey Hepburn mouthed the words without making any sound. Then she walked past Henry with an auntie's smile and a playful look in her eyes and went into the kitchen.

Henry, who felt he had fallen into the abyss of social death after being hit by a few looks and expressions from the Oscar-winning actress, suddenly thought about whether he should really wipe out the X-Men.

Let the world explode!

The voice on the phone said dissatisfiedly, "If you want to be even, come and help me now. I'll see how you behave and then decide whether to let you go."

"Hey, big sister, are you kidding me? Our relationship isn't that close, and I don't owe you that much. There's no reason for me to be there whenever you call me. Oh, no, there's no reason for me to be there just because you call me."

"Am I being reasonable with you? Do I need to be reasonable with you? Are you crazy? Why do you think I'm being reasonable?"

What should I do if I suddenly feel that what the other person said makes a lot of sense?

Henry felt uneasy for some reason. Especially when he saw Audrey Hepburn peeking out from the kitchen, her attempt to hide something only made it more obvious, which made Henry think he should kill a few X-Men.

Mystique on the phone continued, "Anyway, what you said before is right. We really have a problem here. So I need your help."

Henry looked helpless and said, "I'm used to talking nonsense. What am I saying? Ah, no, sister, you have a problem, solve it yourself.

"The X-Men are pretty impressive, aren't they? They just dealt with a solar flare in outer space. But let me ask, who wrote that PR copy? It must have cost a lot of money to silence so many astrophysicists."

Mystique said, "There's a problem with the X-Men. There are some people I don't trust, so I need support from forces other than the X-Men. Besides, a lot of what you said before was right. You must explain to me what you know."

"I……"

Henry, who was about to continue making excuses, was interrupted. Mystique interrupted him and said, "You owe me. At least I didn't mobilize the X-Men to come after you. If you don't come, you should know the consequences."

Threatened, Henry gave up trying to reason with the woman. He said helplessly, "You have to let me know where to find you. Or are you really going to come to Switzerland to pick me up?"

"We are on a plane, heading to..."

"Click!" After hanging up the phone for the third time, Henry felt a little relieved and his mood eased a little.

"Are you going out?" asked Ms. Hepburn as she came out of the kitchen.

"In short, it's just a troublesome person who caused trouble and asked me to help them solve the problem. This is really troublesome." Henry said reluctantly.

"Want to save you dinner?"

"I don't think so. I'll take care of it outside. I don't know how late they'll be."

"Can I call a taxi for you?"

"No, it's too late to take the bus. I'll figure it out myself."

Audrey Hepburn finally said: "Child, be careful."

Chapter 145: Rage on the Fighter Plane

"Fuck! You hung up on me again!" Mystique, wearing a yellow and blue X-suit, was aboard the X-jet fighter, the Blackbird. She glared angrily at the disconnected receiver, still attempting to hack into the satellite signal and make an international call.

Hank McCoy, transformed into a blue beast, advised, "Raven, are you still going to try? I really don't think asking him for help is a good idea."

"Yeah. I think it's better than someone who uses 'for whose good' as an excuse to control other people's memories and thoughts regardless of their will. That guy just has a foul mouth, but at least his current behavior doesn't seem dirty."

"I told you, I was trying to protect Jean!" Professor X, filled with regret, resisted the urge to bite his nails and rubbed his lips. "You should know that he was still young when this happened."

"Then when are you going to tell him? He's an adult now, and he didn't become an adult today. Are you going to hide this from him forever, and have him live in this fake world you've created for the rest of his life? He's a human being with his own thoughts, not a puppet in your hands."

"I...I can't find the right time."

"Ha!" Mystique, her whole body exploding, was furious. Most of the X-Men on the Blackbird were his juniors, and at this moment they could only cower in silence, not wanting to be caught in the storm of the big guys' quarrel.

The only other person of his generation, Hank the Beast, was panicking and didn't know what to do, while Professor X was being trained like a dog and couldn't even lift his head.

Just as Mystique turned back and was about to continue her rage and cursing, she suddenly heard a "bang!", interrupting her emotions.

Mystique saw that everyone in the plane had their eyes wide open, with a look of disbelief on their faces, so he turned around to look. This look also frightened him.

Because there was a man lying on the windshield in front of the Blackbird fighter. It was Henry Brown, who had hung up on him not long ago and was still in Switzerland.

"Why are you..." Giving up thinking about why the man was lying outside the plane, Mystique turned around and said, "Nightwalker, bring him in."

Everyone's original surprised expressions were now doubly exaggerated, with their mouths opened so wide that they could fit a fist in.

Mystique turned her head again and saw that Henry was like a blurry afterimage, which penetrated the glass, entered the cabin, and then returned to normal.

"How did you..."

Speechless for the second time, Mystique looked at the helper she had called.

Quicksilver, who was most touched by the action just now, asked in astonishment: "How did you do that?"

Henry replied, "Using ultra-high frequency micro-vibrations to penetrate the gaps between molecules, objects can be transported. By the way, are you studying well?"

"Anyone who has studied a little high school physics should be able to imagine something like this. And then using your own abilities to realize it, wouldn't that expand your capabilities?

"I just don't know if high schools teach this under the Happy Education program. Isn't your X-Men's base that gifted school?

"Didn't that school teach that? What did you learn there? Did you only learn how to control your abilities and not endanger society?"

Another ruthless knife stabbed into the frustrated Professor X, making him even more depressed.

Henry didn't know who he had hurt with his knife, nor did he care. He just winked at Quicksilver, and the sensible Speedster immediately moved to another empty seat and gave up his chair.

Henry plopped down in the vacant seat and said to Mystique in the passenger seat, "Tell me, why did you have to ask me to come here? I'm not taking a salary from you X-Men. Do you guys get a salary?"

"How do you know?" Mystique asked directly.

"What do I know?" Henry looked bewildered. It was a nonsensical question, and it would be a miracle if he could answer it.

"Knowing what Charles did!"

"Who is Charles? What did he do?" Henry knew roughly what he was talking about, but he continued to play dead. However, he didn't even notice that the previous question of playing dead was already the second time.

Fortunately, Mystique, who was furious, didn't notice this guy's deliberate behavior, and didn't want to cover up for her own people at all. She pointed directly at Professor X and said, "That bald guy modified other people's memories."

Henry took a look to confirm Professor X's condition. He was not as young as the actor in the movie, but an old white man in his fifties.

He had a bit of the air of an English aristocrat, and if it weren't for his gloomy expression, he could be said to be quite gentlemanly. But now he had a worried look on his face, his brows furrowed.

"I can say it's not surprising at all."

Looking at Mystique's blue, pimpled face and her severely jaundiced eyes glaring at him, the power of her death stare was much stronger than that of a normal person. Henry explained:

"I don't know what this Mr. Charles did. But the moment he heard I was an alien, he directly invaded my brain. Judging from his behavior, I can guess that he is a person who thinks he can get away with it for the sake of his own justice.

"So when someone around him encounters a problem, will he act cautiously, or will he uphold the goodness and justice in his heart and choose what he believes is the most beneficial course of action? That's why I say that good deeds by good people are sometimes more terrifying than evil deeds by evil people."

This isn't a case of hypocrites using good deeds to disguise their ill intentions. Rather, some people simply don't understand how their actions can cause inconvenience or harm to others, so they insist on carrying out their "good deeds" and then hurt others.

Professor X wasn't someone who would just stand by and fight back. Furthermore, the other person was a stranger, unlike Raven, who knew him inside and out.

So Professor X retorted: "You don't understand the situation at all, so why do you criticize my choice?"

"Well, let me ask you, do you think the medieval law of cutting off the hands of thieves and repaying a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye, is correct?" Henry asked.

"Of course that's wrong! The purpose of punishment should be to teach people to correct their mistakes, not to hurt others."

Clapping his hands, Henry agreed, "That's very well said. I agree with you. But why do you think it's right to dig out bad thoughts from other people's heads?"

"This is different!" Professor X shouted excitedly.

"What's the difference? Physical injury is injury, but mental injury is nothing. Cancer is a disease, but mental illness is not. How do you think about all the mental hospitals and psychiatrists in the United States?"

"You know what!"

"I don't know anything, but I at least know your arrogance. You still think you are right."

Henry was not sure why, but he was delighted. Opportunities like this to lash out at Professor X didn't come around every day, and there wasn't even any support from the other X-Men. Having suffered a setback once, Professor X didn't dare use his telepathic abilities again, so he could only hold it in.

Henry was just so happy that he didn't notice the situation he was facing...

Chapter 146 The Original Sin of Mutants

"We're here in Red Hook." Beast Hank stopped the confrontation in the fighter plane from escalating further and began the landing procedure.

The X-Men's vehicles can perform vertical takeoff and landing, with no runway required.

This began in the 60s when the tactical thinking that emerged in Europe in response to the US-Soviet Cold War influenced fighter jet design.

In order to avoid the runway being damaged and thus affecting the take-off and landing of fighter jets, countries such as Britain, France and Germany have been developing fighter jets with vertical take-off and landing capabilities, and finally the British Falcon was officially put into service.

The jet fighter developed by the mutant X-Men, which integrates many black technologies, naturally will not miss this very convenient function.

It should be noted that the British Falcon of the same period had drawbacks such as a small payload and inability to fly at supersonic speeds. The X-Jet Blackbird did not have these issues, and even had a cabin capacity that was that of a small passenger aircraft, not a typical fighter jet.

Without some black technology, this thing cannot be made.

But Henry, who was sitting on the plane, did not appreciate or analyze this high-tech achievement that was right in front of him, but suddenly remembered what he might face next.

When we saw our landing destination, as expected, it was a typical American suburban town.

All the X-Men followed Professor X out of the fighter plane in a wheelchair. Henry was the last one to leave, and he peeked from the fighter plane's lift door. As expected, they came here to find Jean Grey, the X-Men who had run away from the team.

If this is the event of the movie Dark Phoenix, then the solar flare that previously destroyed the space shuttle Endeavour is actually the Phoenix Force of the Marvel Universe.

According to the plot of the movie, Jean Grey, who absorbed the power of the Phoenix, broke through the mental shackles set by Professor X and remembered her parents.

It turns out that in 75, when he was 8 years old, Qin was in a car accident and both his parents died. But his father was still alive, so he ran home to find him.

Little did he know that he was taken in by Professor X because his father's lack of understanding made him unable to accept this daughter, and this was the reason why Professor X corrected his memory.

From this perspective, we can see that the plight of mutants is more serious than the plight of black people in the United States.

Black people are very likely to come from single-parent families or be orphans, relying on the mutual support of the neighborhood to grow up safely. The kind of environment such people grow up in and the direction they develop in depend on their personal circumstances.

However, mutants usually do not awaken their mutant abilities at birth, but rather develop them at a certain stage of their growth due to some stimulus. Because the changes are drastic and uncontrollable, the first people to be harmed are usually their family members.

Compared to black people who have mothers or brothers in the neighborhood who help each other, the saddest thing about mutants is that those who reject them the most are usually their closest family members.

So, between a child who originally lived in hell and a child who originally lived in heaven but fell into hell because of awakening mutant abilities, which group has deeper hatred in their hearts? The answer is self-evident.

This is also the reason why Henry thinks that mutants are more difficult to deal with than black people and does not want to get involved at all.

Because the greatest suffering of mutants is that their birth is often accompanied by betrayal, not just discrimination. Black people know how to stick together, but mutants hate each other. How can this be improved?

At this time, Jean Grey faced a triple blow. First, Professor X concealed the truth, making her believe she was an orphan. In fact, she had a biological father. This was also a betrayal in a sense.

Secondly, after seeing her biological father, Jean finally remembered, with some prompting, that her mother's death was caused by her own inability to control her abilities. Even more hurtful than betrayal is the guilt of patricide.

Third, he was abandoned by his father. He had thought his biological family would bring him more love, but instead, he found only hatred and resentment. This was another betrayal.

Any one of these three blows could have shaken a young man whose values ​​were still not yet solid, causing him to suffer a psychological trauma as if he were facing a cataclysmic collapse. Furthermore, all three of them struck at once.

In addition, the recent crisis of the space shuttle Endeavour, although it ended happily, at the time of its occurrence, as the main force in resolving the crisis, Jean Grey faced a life-or-death crisis.

Having survived a catastrophe, he is now at his most vulnerable. After suffering three more blows, it can be said that Jean Grey is at her most dangerous and most likely to lose control.

If you really want to help him, you should never rely on your strength to beat him up, and then preach to him when he can't move.

Jean Grey is not willing to listen to any of the claims that she is doing this for your own good, or any of the other profound truths she is preaching.

Instead, it takes time for those around him to rebuild their trust and redeem him with sincerity, only then will there be a chance to save Jean Grey's soul. Henry, an outsider, is neither qualified nor suitable to intervene in this matter.

Although it is cliché to use love as an excuse, this is definitely not the reason why Henry does not want to verify which is better, the Kryptonian's Man of Steel or the Phoenix Force.

I'm not really afraid...

Absolutely not...

As for Henry who was called by Mystique, he now feels like he is driving a max-level character to the Novice Village, and the Novice Village bully says to him: Look, the GM is over there, go and beat him up for me!

You are embarrassing the max-level boss! What should people who have never been a boss before ask those who have been?

Without the means to top up or buy shares, is there still a chance of winning?

Waiting online, urgent~

Following the principle of never taking action if he can just talk nonsense, Henry got off the Blackbird fighter, but he crouched down and hid behind Mystique, making Mystique, who was looking for help, doubt who she had found.

Professor X didn't give up on saving Jean Grey just because he was criticized on the fighter plane. Unfortunately, his clichéd "we are family" didn't convince the angry Phoenix Girl.