Infinity of flame

() As if by magic, the layout of the surrounding rooms has changed drastically.All the surrounding furniture disappeared, replaced by large expanses of emptiness and desolation; the carpet on the ground also disappeared, and what appeared was only dead and cold concrete, covered with black blood that had not been cleaned.

Sure enough, just like the old man in the wheelchair said, there were only the two of them in this room from beginning to end.The friends who celebrated the birth of her child, her husband, and even the two newborn children were all gone.Just like everything just now was just a phantom in a dream, but now it is the cruel reality after waking up from the dream.

Wanda, who was slumped on the ground, stared at the empty room dully and sadly. She had just fallen into confusion and was forcibly suppressed, reawakening her original memories...the most painful memories that she least wanted to recall. !

"I... what have I done..."

"I killed them... I killed my husband! How could I do such a terrible thing..."

"I actually killed those Avengers..."

"I killed my friend...I killed my husband..."

She muttered sadly to herself, and as she spoke, she cried out so terribly that one couldn't help but cover her ears, and the terrific cry resounded throughout the room!The crying contained indescribable sadness and remorse, which made people feel compassionate.

Big and big tears of regret kept sliding down my cheeks...

The man sitting in the wheelchair was exhausted due to mental exhaustion. His head was covered with sweat, and his head was still aching, but his expression was still calm and calm. He gradually moved the wheelchair, regardless of his tiredness and the pain in his head. Slowly approaching this sad woman, slowly hugging her tightly.

"I killed them...I killed them...I killed them...I killed them..."

Listening to the repeated murmurs of regret and remorse coming from his arms, his voice became lower and lower, and finally became inaudible, completely silent.His face changed for a moment, and he sighed, a trace of unconscious sadness was added to his calm and calm expression.

He picked up the sleeping Wanda, and put her gently on the bed...

As he slowly moved the wheelchair out, he couldn't help but think of what happened half a year ago...that was the worst long day ever...

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On that day, a long-dead member of the Avengers suddenly appeared at the base of the Avengers, and he blew up the entire building like a human bomb... This is just the beginning of the nightmare...

Then came a series of bad events. Hawkeye, Ant-Man, and Vision were all killed in battle; Iron Man Tony Stark was ruined, the female Hulk went crazy, and many members of the Avengers were seriously injured. Almost razed to the ground.

The impact is not limited to this, all kinds of mutants with abilities in the whole world are all affected, and the situation has deteriorated beyond any means.

In the end, this led to the Avengers, the most powerful organization ever...disbanded.

The culprit of all this is the Scarlet Witch, the daughter of Magneto and one of the earliest founders of the Avengers Alliance, Wanda Maximoff.

She was eager to have children, and used her ability to create two children, but died unexpectedly, and learned that her children had never existed, but were just thought bodies created by herself; not long after, her husband's illusion—— A robot with its own thinking——Because of a fierce battle, it was destroyed badly, and when it was repaired later, it was found that the memory module was severely damaged, and the system could only be formatted. In a sense, he lost all memory, which is equivalent to dead up.

One heavy blow after another caused Wanda, whose spirit had begun to become unstable because of his own abilities, to finally have a complete mental breakdown and fall into a loss of control over his abilities.

Out of control, she used the ability to adjust the probability of things to change the ongoing development trend of things, so that bad, bad things with small chances happened to the Avengers one after another, and finally forced the strongest organization to disband .But she was also knocked down, and would have been torn to pieces by the enraged Avengers if her father, Magneto, hadn't taken her away at the last moment.

In the end, Magneto found Charles Francis - the world's most powerful psychic, known as Professor X himself - to heal his daughter...

But how long will this last...

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"How is it?" The voice that appeared suddenly was tired but calm and steady, but the frustration in the bones of the voice could not be concealed.

On the dilapidated and dilapidated balcony covered with bloody scars, Professor X, sitting in a wheelchair, looked at the dead and silent ruins of the city in the distance, but his eyes were a little wandering, and he fell into memory meditation, until the voice overwhelmed his memory. interrupt.

Professor X turned the wheelchair and looked at a gray-haired old man who appeared. He was tall and dressed in simple clothes. Although he was old, his cheeks surprisingly didn't have many wrinkles. If you ignore his gray hair and just look at his face If it is said that he is only a middle-aged man, some people will believe it.

But now, although he straightened his waist like an unyielding steel gun, he couldn't hide the decadent and disheartened aura. That kind of dead air was like the setting sun that was about to fall to the horizon. , making people really feel that he is an old man whose days are numbered.

Just looking at his disheartened despondency, no one would believe that he is Magneto, the Magneto who has led countless mutants to fight against humans with extraordinary charm and passion for a lifetime for the revolutionary cause of mutants!

"I heard crying inside, come out and have a look." The voice was tired and steady, without any urgency of concern, just a simple inquiry.

Facing Magneto's question, Professor X sitting in the wheelchair didn't speak, but the shocking nosebleed kept gushing out on his indifferent and calm face, and he wiped it slowly with a handkerchief.

"I'm sorry, Charles." After a moment of silence, Magneto said.It's just that his face is still expressionless, and his voice is still tired and indifferent.

Wanda's ability is out of control, and her ability to go berserk has surpassed the limit of a fourth-level mutant. In order to appease her emotionally, Professor X has overdrawn her mental power. As the price, nosebleeds are only the most insignificant part; and this is no longer For the first time, his mental strength has been exhausted for a long time, and his ability has begun to decline, and even his vitality has been consumed.

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"Eric, every time your daughter uses the ability to modify reality, she will lose more of what she cherishes in reality. And I have tried my best, but the situation still hasn't improved."

Without saying anything about Magneto's apology, Professor X moved the wheelchair and turned around, looking at the black and red sky above the distant sky, which was the trace of the death dust brought up by the nuclear explosion several months ago that still lingered .

"Is she asleep?"

Standing next to Professor X, Magneto also looked at the gloomy black-red sky stained by the nuclear bomb dust, as if he saw the blood and tears shed by countless dead mutants...

"Yes, I used my ability to 'sleep' her."

Professor X turned his thin cheeks, looked at Magneto who was standing beside him and said slowly: "Stop blaming yourself, Eric. She is no longer a little girl, but an adult, one who should know herself What to do, know what you're doing, and be a responsible adult for what you're doing."

"Don't read my mind without my permission."

"I didn't read minds, Eric!" It seemed that because of the intense rebuttal, the nosebleed that had stopped flowing slowly suddenly started to flow again, forcing Professor X to pick up the handkerchief that had been put down and wipe it again My own nosebleed: "But as someone who has known you for more than half a century, I know what you are thinking even if I don't read your mind."

"Things can't go on like this. In the past six months, I just kept using drugs and my psychic powers to make her fall into a coma."

"This is too cruel, and it won't solve any problems. It's just a stopgap measure. Besides, Wanda's body has begun to develop serious drug resistance, and my ability has also begun to decline due to constant overdrawing. At the beginning, I can put her in a coma for more than a week at a time, and now I'm not even sure about letting her go for more than a day. It's time for you, Eric."

Magneto didn't speak, but his body became more and more tired, like a candle that could be extinguished in the wind at any time, he aged ten years in an instant.

After an unbearable silence for a while, he finally spoke: "Because of what I firmly believe, I threw my child into hell."

"I destroyed their hope that they could have had a good life..."

"...Because of my faith, because of the war against humanity..."

"I have never done my father's duty and kept ignoring them. I have devoted myself to the war against mankind."

"But what have I got?"

"I got nothing. Look at this city. There were millions of mutants fighting with me here a few months ago. I thought the war would give mutants a place in the world. I dreamed Build a nation of mutants."

"But look now, I have lost the most important battle, those millions of mutants who believed in me, thought that I would bring new hope to the mutants, and gathered with beautiful dreams, all of them have lost their bones. Flesh and blood dyed the entire city into what it is now, and the irony is that I, the culprit of everything, survived."

"Now I've lost the war and I've lost the children."

......

"I've sacrificed them for what I believed in. And you know, I did."

"...But I never thought that the final outcome would be like this..."

"All sacrifices become worthless... worthless..."

"Many people think this is my karma..."

"...maybe...but she shouldn't have to suffer..."

The dim light shone on his body, making him look more and more aged.

Magneto is really getting old.

Not just the body, but the mind.

Completely disheartened.

"...Eric, do you feel it? A special mental fluctuation suddenly appeared half a kilometer away, it seems..."

"I just want to be with my daughter for a while now. I don't have any interest in the rest."

Professor X, who was sitting in the wheelchair, looked at Magneto's particularly old and sad back, and sighed silently. He didn't turn his head until he watched his figure disappear. His thin face had regained its seriousness and calmness. Looking at the direction in which the special mental fluctuations were sensed... This is the direction where Ye Guanhuo and Luo Li are...