[Zongyingmi] Accidentally fell asleep

The surrounding medical instruments made steady and regular noises. The professor was lying on the hospital bed with various tubes inserted into his body, perhaps dreaming of some sweet dream.

Martha pursed her lips, unable to bear to see such a professor, she looked away.

Her legs seemed to be filled with lead, they were very heavy, and she could only stand there blankly.

"What's wrong?" Storm asked seeing Martha standing still.

"It's nothing." Martha took a deep breath, adjusted her mood, and walked in slowly.

Storm lowered the curtains, leaving room for the two to whisper.

Martha walked to the hospital bed, but within a few days of seeing each other, the professor became much thinner, her cheeks were sunken, and she became much older all of a sudden.

The professor has been busy for most of his life and has been fighting for the interests of mutants. It shouldn't be long before he can sleep peacefully like he is now, without worrying about anything.

As if afraid of waking up the professor, Martha stood quietly beside the bed without saying anything.

After staying for a while, Martha came out from inside.

Storm may be too tired, or maybe because she is too worried about the professor, she seems a little absent-minded.

"Have you finished talking to the professor about everything you want to say?" Storm patted Martha on the back reassuringly.

"……No."

Storm was very surprised.

"Those words, I'd better wait for him to wake up and then talk to him."

"Martha..."

Storm hesitated to speak, worried that Martha could not accept this reality.

After Martha came out, Tony went in to visit the professor accompanied by Hank.

It is said to be accompanied, but in fact, the term surveillance is more suitable. The X-Men can't rest assured that the unconscious Professor X and Iron Man are alone.

Martha wanted to find out what happened that day, so she could chat with Storm just now.

"I... have something to ask you."

Storm could probably guess what Martha wanted to ask, "Ask, I'll tell you."

"What happened that day? Why did the professor..."

It was really hard for Martha to believe what Dr. Banner said in the hospital.

Storm sighed deeply, and her thoughts went back to that day.

After Batman successfully launched the genetic medicine, the superheroes wanted to defeat Loki and Magneto in one go, and decided to all go to Gotham to help.

The professor's ability was useless, and he was inconvenient to move, so he stayed in New York to act as a radio to provide remote support to other superheroes.

Because there is no underground device of the X Academy, coupled with the long distance, the professor must concentrate on helping them deliver the message.

The professor is old, and his ability is not as good as before. In addition, he put all his thoughts on other superheroes, and even broke into the Avengers headquarters without anyone noticing, so he was taken advantage of by the other party. .

The man who wounded the professor was a huge fan of Magneto, and he very much agreed with Magneto's opinion that mutants should be above ordinary humans.He once tried to seek refuge with Magneto, but because his ability was invisibility, which was not of much use, he was rejected by Magneto.

Still, he wanted to do something for Magneto.

He learned that Magneto and Loki cooperated to deal with Gotham, and thought it was a good opportunity, so he used his ability to sneak into the Avengers headquarters.

He originally just wanted to kill a few superheroes as an example to support Magneto and Loki's invasion of the earth. Unexpectedly, he met Professor X, Magneto's mortal enemy.

As we all know, although Magneto and Professor X both lead a lot of mutants, their thinking is completely different.

Professor X advocates that mutants should live in harmony with humans; Magneto advocates that the earth should be ruled by mutants, whose status is higher than that of humans.

Magneto's ambition has not been realized so far, and a large part of the reason is because of Professor X.

He had long disliked Professor X, and it was an ecstatic accident to meet the single character this time.

So he decided to seize the opportunity and get rid of Professor X here.

Fortunately, he was agitated at the time, and his attack was slow, so the professor managed to save his life.

"Have you caught the man who injured the professor?"

"No, he had already left when we arrived at the scene. After the professor was injured by him, he rolled down the stairs, and his injuries added to his injuries, so he became like this."

Thinking of the professor lying on the ground covered in blood that day, Storm couldn't help but hug her arms tightly.

"The professor's current state has no way to control his ability. He can only rely on Hank to inject him with drugs that inhibit the X gene at regular intervals. If his ability gets out of control, within a second, everyone here will be killed by him."

Storm knows how terrifying Professor X's ability is.

In his current state, it is easy to hurt others, or be used by some people with intentions to do things that endanger society or others.

The professor is kind by nature, and he must not want to see these things happen, so Storm agreed to Tony's proposal and settled him in a villa in the suburbs.

Knowing the ins and outs of the whole thing, Martha's heart became heavier.

Both Storm and the Beast should be blaming themselves.

If they hadn't left in the first place, maybe the professor wouldn't have been hurt, and things wouldn't have turned out like this.

But who would have thought that the strongest X-Men would be defeated by an unknown gangster, causing his life to be in danger.

Martha patted Storm on the shoulder and comforted: "Don't be too sad, it's not your fault."

Storm was a little surprised, she didn't expect Martha to see through her thoughts.

"At that time, I was also at the Avengers headquarters, but I didn't even notice the slightest crisis. I was the person closest to the professor at the time, let alone saving him. I didn't even know he was seriously injured until today."

Martha felt guilty too.

If her soul hadn't been controlled by the Mind Stone that day, maybe she would have woken up in time to find the intruder and remind the professor to be careful.

"What silly things are you talking about, you fainted that day too!"

Fortunately, Martha stayed in the room that day, and the gangster ran away after injuring the professor, and didn't find Martha's existence, otherwise she might have been poisoned.

It just so happened that after visiting the professor, Tony came out and interrupted the conversation between the two, "Hi, are you free now? I have something I want to talk to you about."

"Is it about the professor?"

Hank followed Tony, and then walked out.

"Correct."

Storm saw that Tony seemed to be about to say something important, so she said, "Let's go to the conference room and talk."

The four of them went to the conference room. Tony was afraid that the content of the conversation would be leaked, so he specially ordered Jarvis to close all the doors and windows, and turned on the anti-eavesdropping system.

He glanced around at the others, playing with the sunglasses in his hand, thinking about how to speak.

"You should be very clear about Professor X's situation. It's not an option to continue like this. Do you have any plans?"

Storm and Hank exchanged glances, "I will contact Xavier Group tomorrow to see if there is another place suitable for him."

"No, no, you misunderstood me, I'm not giving you an order to evict guests."

Tony let out a sigh, leaned back on the chair, and didn't seem to know how to speak, "I mean, the professor has become like this now, are you going to let him continue like this?"

"Then what else?" Hank was a little tempered by Tony's nonsensical question, "We have invited all the best brain doctors in the world. If they can't cure them, what can we do? You Think we want to see the professor look like this all the time?!"

"Hank, calm down." Martha felt that Tony was not the kind of character who would find trouble for nothing, "Mr. Stark, just say what you want to say, and don't have to go around in circles because you care about our feelings."

With his venomous personality, it is really difficult for him to comfort others and take care of other people's feelings.

Tony raised his eyebrows, with a rare helplessness on his face, "Then I'll just say it straight."

"You guys should know better than me how terrifying Professor X's ability is. With his current situation, he can easily be used by criminals. The US government believes that Professor X, who cannot control his ability, is a huge threat to his society. So I hope The X-Men can agree to give this superhero a glorious ending, and don't let his life be stained at the last moment."

After hearing these words, the expressions of the three of them changed drastically.

"We will never agree!" Hank slapped the table angrily, "You bastards! Who do you think the professor was injured because of? In order to save Gotham from becoming like this, you actually want him to be euthanized? !"

The professor's brain is damaged, his physical function is getting worse and worse, and he doesn't have many days left. They still want to send him to euthanasia? !

"Calm down, this is the meaning of the US government and has nothing to do with me."

"Fuck you! You're a running dog of the US government! It's a shame that we treated you as an ally before. I'm really blind!"

If it weren't for Martha and Storm, Hank would have rushed to beat him up.

Tony sneered, "As a beast, I can understand that you don't have the ability to think like a human."

"If I were a running dog of the U.S. government, I wouldn't sit in the conference room and talk nicely to you today, but would drive the steel suit directly over."

"Okay! Just bring your tin toys and watch me smash them to pieces!"

Hank didn't pay attention to his battle suit, and was very angry and provocative for a while.

Tony simply gave up communicating with him, turned to Storm and Martha and said, "From a personal point of view, I actually quite agree with this opinion. Professor X's physical function is declining day by day, and sooner or later he will not be able to hold on. It's better to let him leave quickly than relying on these instruments to survive."

The offer might have been cruel to the X-Men, but to Professor X, it might have been a relief.

Martha frowned, and was about to refute his words, Tony said again: "I guess none of you will agree to this proposal, so I agreed to the US government's proposal as a microphone. I came here specially to give you Some advice."

"advice?"

"I have also stood against the US government, so I know the actions they will take. If you reject them with a too strong attitude, maybe they will secretly send some hypnotists here, Let Professor X sleep forever."

"Thank you for your advice, I will ask other X-Men to come over and accompany the professor more."

Storm also guessed more or less, if the US government really set their sights on Professor X, according to Professor X's current state, they would definitely not give up easily.

However, the X-Men are not vegetarians. Although they need to strengthen their defenses, ordinary assassins will not be their opponents.

"Hmph! We are not afraid of the group of agents raised by the US government!" Hank snorted heavily.

Martha looked down at the table without speaking, but felt extremely chilled by the actions of the US government.

The professor has contributed so much to the society, and he should be killed for such a reason.How unfortunate, how cruel!

The meeting broke up like this.

After visiting Professor X, Martha had no other place to go, so she was about to go home, and it happened that Tony was going back too, so he thought of giving Martha a ride along the way.

Before leaving, Storm wanted to ask Martha one thing, "Martha, if you are free these two days, can I invite you to X Academy to see Pietro?"

"What happened to him? Was he hurt too?"

In the hospital, Peter only briefly talked about the follow-up of the day, and did not elaborate on the conditions of the other X-Men.

"He's fine. Ever since the professor was injured, he's been depressed. He's locked himself in the room all day long, refusing to come out, and refusing to visit the professor. I don't know what he's thinking."

Storm sighed deeply.

She saw that the relationship between Martha and Kuaiyin seemed to be good, so she wanted to ask Martha to untie Kuaiyin's knot and help him get back together.

After all... the professor may not have much time left.