Chapter 366 This Time, for Mutants! (The First Update of 3,800 Characters, Please Vote~)
In the courtyard of Xavier School for the Gifted. The two former friends are also the two leaders of the mutants. The moderate Charles and the radical Eric, these two old men are confronting each other.
"It's all for mutants. Old friend. You're about to make the right choice." Magneto Eric looked at Charles with a strange smile on his face.
However, the uneasiness in Charles' heart was getting bigger and bigger, and he vaguely grasped a bad thought. But I can't confirm it at all. "What the hell do you mean, Max!"
When Magneto King Eric heard Charles' question, he just opened his mouth and smiled silently. The stern-faced old man looked a little kind when he smiled. "I heard that the students in your school have been a little naughty recently."
What Magneto said made Charles feel ominous.
"I heard that a student assassinated that New York city councilman, Macaulay of the radical anti-mutant faction, for the future of mutants." As soon as Eric said this, Charles felt a thump in his heart. Something is wrong.
Because it just happened today. Paul and Daken just went out in the morning, and they killed Macaulay at noon. And Charles and the others knew about it after the afternoon.
This was because they were at school, and Charles also used thought detection to know about it. But how did Magneto know this? And so quickly! There is only one possibility for Charles to think about, and that is that Magneto is actually related to this matter.
"Magneto!" Thinking of this, Charles suddenly felt a burst of anger, followed by a sense of powerlessness. For the first time, he called his old friend by his nickname instead of his real name.
But even if he was yelling hard, it didn't help now. At this moment, Charles seemed to be drained of all the strength in his body. He leaned weakly on the back of the wheelchair.
Eric knew how clever his old friend was, as long as there was a little bit of clues leaked, he could guess all kinds of things. But now the whole plan had begun, like a boulder rolled from the top of a mountain.
When the boulder rolls down and charges, anyone who stands in front of the boulder will be crushed to powder! So Eric already doesn't care what Charles guesses now.
Magneto enjoyed watching Charles' powerlessness. He was no longer as energetic as he used to be when he was leaning on the wheelchair. Now he looked like a real old man.
"So, Charles. I have already helped you choose the direction of the team. The future of mutants needs our efforts." Magneto looked at Charles leaning weakly on the wheelchair, and said easily.
"Why?" Charles lowered his head and said in a weak and bewildered tone: "Why? Why did you let the two children kill Macaulay? What you are doing now will only make the mutants The situation is even worse!"
When Charles said the last sentence, he almost shouted it.
Eric was not shaken or pityed by Charles' anger, he said in a calm and relaxed tone: "It's very simple, Charles. Because Macaulay is also a mutant, and he is a member of the Brotherhood of Mutants." One of the members!"
Magneto's words were as shocking as stone breaking. Charles raised his head suddenly and looked at Magneto with an unbelievable look. "What did you say!" Charles couldn't believe what he heard.
Macaulay is a mutant? And a member of the Brotherhood of Mutants! So what's up with his anti-mutant bills? More doubts appeared in Charles' mind.
"Yes, that's right, my old friend. Senator Macaulay is indeed a member of the Mutant Brotherhood. And he is also a member who is fanatical about the revival of the mutants." Eric continued.
"Well, don't look at me with that kind of expectant eyes. Although some mutants do have the ability to fake death to deceive others. But Macaulay is indeed dead, killed by your students. Your students have their hands dirty The fact that it's full of blood has not changed." Eric watched the hopeless eyes in Charles' eyes shattered, and felt very happy.
"Why?" Charles asked why again. Why does this sentence contain many meanings, such as why Macaulay is a mutant and still does those things, why his students are asked to kill Macaulay, and what good is it for Eric if Macaulay dies? ? All kinds of problems are included in the why of this sentence.
Eric looked at the bewilderment of his old friend, and even said slowly with a painful expression: "For the mutant Charles."
"You know, ever since I suffered so much in the concentration camp and slaughtered many of my people, I should have understood one thing. Peace is never bought with compromise." Eric straightened his windbreaker cuffs.
"I'm a Jew, and a Jew living in Germany. When I was little. When I was a kid. Everything I've been through."
"In the earliest days, the law promulgated by the Communist Party was only for allowing Jews to sit on the benches in the park. I never went to the park again, and my mother told me: just bear with it, everything will pass."
"Then the next thing the government came up with was a law that required all Jews to wear a star. I've since had to wear a star on my chest to show that I'm different from everyone else. It cost me my friends at school. My My mother told me: Just bear with me and everything will pass."
"Then my father's grocery store, the government came up with a law that all Jewish stores were taxed heavily, because they said Jews earned ill-gotten gains. It was getting harder for our family to survive. But my My mother still told me: Just bear with me and everything will pass.”
"Then I was kicked out of the school, and our family was forced to move out of the original community. Because the Communist Party issued a new law, they required all Jews to live together, and all Jewish children must go to the same school. .We were taught in school that Jews were born sinful and that they should spend their lives paying for it. At this point, my mother continued to tell me: just bear with it and it will pass.”
"Until we were imprisoned in a concentration camp, when my mother died in front of me. She finally couldn't say: bear with it, everything will pass. Because in this world, some things will not pass! "
When Eric said this, his facial features had already begun to twist.
"When I was at the bottom of my life, I met you and Hank. You persuaded me to join the organization and wash away the previous blood. We can use a peaceful way to make mutants rise. But look what I got! Charles!"
Magneto put his hands on the armrests of Charles' wheelchair, his face was so close to Charles. His roar sounded like the roar of a giant dragon, as if he was going to swallow Professor Charles alive.
"My wife and children are all dead! All dead! Since then, I have understood. My situation has not changed with time and ability. I am still the one who was kicked out of the park and kicked out of school. Get out, the little boy who ends up in a concentration camp!"
"And there is no difference between the current government and the government of the past. Charles, your seemingly peaceful proposition is just like my mother. You used another way to say to those mutant children: bear with me, everything Everything will pass. But Charles, some things cannot pass!"
"For a variety of reasons, life for mutants seems to be okay now, but Charles. It's just boiling frogs in warm water. It's like I was put in a concentration camp step by step. If we resisted in the first place, maybe my parents You won’t die in a concentration camp! And that kind of forbearance, that kind of concession is what really kills me!”
Eric looked Charles straight in the eyes, watching him with a determined gaze.
"When mutants get used to this kind of life now, and continue to tolerate the increasing intervention and control of human society. When everything has started, everything is over for us! So these years I've been thinking about it a lot."
Eric suddenly said something that surprised Charles. "I've learned that violence doesn't solve problems, Charles."
The professor felt that he had received a huge shock today. Eric had done so many things, but he still said that violence could not solve the problem. So why would he use violence?
Fortunately, Eric's next sentence answered the question. "Violence cannot solve problems, only revolution!"
"My real name is Marx. There is also a philosopher with this name in my hometown. The idea he founded, the communist idea, once ignited the flames of revolution in Eastern Europe and Asia." Eric calmly narrated himself idea.
"The revolutionary in the East once said a word, and I agree with it: Where there is oppression, there is resistance! The more intense the oppression, the stronger the resistance!" Eric finally began to talk about his thoughts on the whole matter.
"Boiling frogs in warm water makes us mutants die slowly. When we want to resist, we are powerless to resist. In this case, why don't we just push all mutants to the brink of life and death in one go. Only in this way can we unite my comrades and strength!"
Magneto's idea seemed very crazy, and Charles was so shocked by Eric's idea that he couldn't speak.
"So many years ago, I was thinking about how to do this. In the days of forming the X-Men with you, I learned a lot from those officials in the US government, those dirty and dirty political skills. " Magneto said here with a smile on the corner of his mouth.
"So I thought of the current method. Since the human government can design a weapon X program against mutants, why can't I design an anti-X program! Use drugs to control the X genes in mutants and make them recessive. As long as there are no mutants They won’t expose their abilities.”
"We can organize companies, elect politicians, and implement new laws. The implementation of those cruel and tyrannical laws will surely make all mutants realize how illusory their current life is."
"Only in this way can they give up their hypocritical illusions and come together with me. Macaulay's death is a very good inducement. I am very grateful for the sacrifice of Senator Macaulay for our great cause. sacrifice."
Charles was silent for a long time, and finally spoke at this moment. His voice was hoarse and weak: "Do you understand how many mutants will die here?"
"Great causes require noble sacrifices. Charles." Magneto seemed unconcerned.
"So, in fact, Master Illusion and Stryker are also fake, right? They are traps to lure me." Charles felt deeply powerless at this moment.
"Yes, Jason is an important force. I rescued him a long time ago. Including Paul, I found him before he lost control. Because of the mutants out of control incident, you started looking for those The out-of-control mutants, the reappearance of the X-Men gave me an opportunity. Do you really think that Paul is just a mutant with out-of-control abilities?" Magneto had a victorious smile on his face.
"Presumably by now your students, the new generation of X-Men has leveled Stryker's secret base. Good job though, because I, too, hate the Weapon X program! Think of Charles."
"When Stryker went to Washington to try to convince Congressmen to pass the bill, his base was destroyed by a bunch of mutants. Guess what happened to him? And your students killed a city councilman, your teachers destroyed A U.S. military base. Where will your school be located?"
Magneto said in an undeniable tone. "Eastern proverb: The torrent of history is vast, and those who follow it prosper and those who oppose it perish. Now the wheel of history has begun to turn."
"You have always been indecisive and indecisive. This time, as your old friend, I made the decision for you, Charles. This time, let us join hands, for the sake of mutants!"