[Comprehensive British and American] Super British can't save the world

Alicia was startled, "Huh?" A 10,000+ year old monster, it's scary to think about it.

She had a cute expression, and Charles couldn't help laughing, "Don't worry, I'll find a way to confirm whether you are a mutant first." He looked at the living room casually, "Do you often live here now? You should go to the School for Gifted Youth Look, I invited you, but you never went."

"I want to experience life in a mortal school."

"Have you experienced it, how does it feel?"

"It's—well," she shrugged. "It's boring most of the time. A mortal life probably isn't for me."

"My invitation is still valid, you can come to school anytime."

"Now?"

"of course can."

Hanke said happily: "I have prepared a room for you a long time ago, you can stay for a few days and try it out."

There seems to be no problem.

There are not many permanent residents in the temple. Stephen Strange is regarded as the resident mage, and Master Wang is a special commissioner who walks back and forth in Karma Taj, New York Temple, Hong Kong Temple, and London Temple; Ordinary mages live or temporarily live in the New York Temple for various reasons, plus disciples and attendants, the resident population does not exceed 10 people.

Strange and Master Wang were not around these days, and Alicia didn't need to ask anyone for instructions, so she went upstairs to change her clothes, and went out to get into an unmarked jeep.

Hank drives, and Charles puts her in the back seat first, then in.

"Where's Eric?"

"He went to Toronto, where we have a campus. He doesn't like New York."

"Do you think it is too close to Washington DC and the Pentagon?"

Charles smiled, "Probably. Those big shots gave him an amnesty on the condition that he can't stay in the United States. Although he sometimes comes to New York."

Probably because they were afraid of him but couldn't kill him. As long as he didn't cause trouble, the relevant agencies pretended that he didn't exist and acquiesced to him running back to New York from time to time.

"Do you have any restraint or supervisory responsibility for him?"

"Supervision is impossible," Charles shook his head. "Eric, the most annoying thing is being restrained. Besides, he is an adult and doesn't need a nanny. You are the same. I will fully respect your rights and Freedom, anything about you, I will tell you in advance, and ask for your opinion and permission." This is a full lesson from Tony.

Alicia was very satisfied with his attitude, "I remember that he was imprisoned in the basement of the Pentagon for almost 10 years, but I couldn't find the opportunity to see what he looked like at that time. What does he look like now?"

"It's still the same, there is almost no change. Alpha-level mutants have a faster metabolic rate than ordinary Homo sapiens, which means that we live much longer than ordinary humans."

Alicia nodded, "Mutants should be the evolution direction of modern Homo sapiens. If you have superpowers but have the same lifespan as ordinary people, then it doesn't make much sense. I've read the information, and most mutants are of the same level as ordinary people. Very low, mutants at the beta level and above account for only one ten-thousandth of the mutants, or even less." This part of the information was also brought to her when Hank came last time, and even Tony hadn't read it. .

"Hank is a Beta-level, I am an Alpha-level, Jean Gray is an Omega-level, Eric is between Alpha and Omega, and there are no more than 10 known Omega-level mutants, so you know How rare are mutants with powerful abilities?"

She thought for a while, "So, I'm very likely to be an Alpha-level or Omega-level mutant? That's why you guys value me so much?"

Hank smiled at her in the rear-view mirror.

Charles laughed again, "Of course not. I mean, it's not because of how powerful you are, but because you may be a confused, ignorant and helpless mutant. The purpose of the school for gifted youth is to help people like you young people."

"Hey! You just said that I might be 10,000+ years old!" She pouted dissatisfied.

"Before you confirm, you are still a teenager." Charles smiled broadly.

The School for Gifted Youth is located in Westchester County, just north of New York City, near New Jersey, not far from the Hudson River.

Charles Xavier donated his own castle as a school building, and the students lived, boarded, and studied in the castle; every year, single-digit students were interviewed by Charles, and they were all teenagers above the Beta level.In addition to studying ordinary middle school courses, the juvenile mutants focus on learning to develop and master their own superpowers.

Mutant genes are revealed with the arrival of puberty. Most of the mutants are of very low level and can only have some irrelevant superpowers. , will be regarded as a different kind; a small number of children are powerful, but have not yet learned to control their abilities, thus causing some irreparable damage.

Using the brain wave booster, Charles can locate and mark most of the mutants on the earth.After 20 years of arduous negotiations and agreements, Charles has reached a verbal agreement with most countries in the United Nations through an intermediary. A special foundation dominated by ordinary humans will help mutants below the Delta level live a "normal" life as much as possible. Life.

Eric Lanshere disagreed with putting a similar agreement in writing, arguing that it would be a de facto "Mutant Registration Act" that would harm most mutants, who might become labs Guinea pigs, or worse, straight up beaten to death by panicked neighbors.For this reason, he had a big fight with Charles, both sides fought, and no one could convince the other, so Eric ran away to Europe for 10 years in a rage, and later, because of something, the two reconciled , or at least apparently reconciled.

Charles agreed in principle to go to Toronto to establish a branch school, which was also an agreement between the two after another quarrel.Eric insists that he can't have all the powerful mutant teenagers in one place, which is the principle of "you can't put all your eggs in one basket".The reason why Eric didn't say that he wanted to do it alone was that he was impatient to be a principal and manage a group of bad kids—even if they were mutant teenagers, most of them were bad kids, and because everyone had superpowers, The extent of this "bear" is quite impressive.

Xavier School for Gifted Teenagers has its own internal social network, and Hank McCoy gave her a tablet when she entered the hall, "The first step is to register for 'Eden', which is a social software developed by ourselves. , each student has a tablet computer, according to the MAC address, each student has a unique registered name—thanks to Sterk Industries for sponsoring.”

Alicia took the tablet computer: the bottom is Apple's LOGO, and the top is the Stark Industries' LOGO, which seems to be a special customized version of Stark Industries.

Find the icon of "Eden" and click it to register a new member.After thinking about it, I filled in "Dragon".The registered name is available, great.

Hank lowered his head and glanced, "This ID is very good."

"I was going to use 'Phoenix', but that ID should be Jean's. What about you? What's your ID?"

"Best."

"I like Best. We're very similar." She looked up at him with a sweet smile.

"Come on, I'll show you your room. If you're not satisfied, I'll rearrange it for you."

Garden of Eden is a bit like Facebook. Registered members have their own personal homepages, and there are message boards on the homepage; there are public chat rooms and private groups. Students generally create chat groups based on grades, and chat groups based on intimacy. Charles encourages students to strengthen social interaction. Except for a few students who are deeply socially phobic, most students have more than 3 chat groups.

There are new people in the school, and there are new registered members. This news is immediately updated on everyone's page.

Ice: Dragon?What the hell? !How could someone have such an ugly ID!

Witch: I think it's quite domineering.

Angel: Is it a boy or a girl?As I said earlier, gender should be added to the notice.

Polaris: Wow what do you mean?How about a boy?So what if it's a girl!

Angel: Nothing nothing.

Quick: I'll check it out later.

Quick: It's a girl!very beautiful!marvelous!She wants to live next door to P.

Polaris: Huh? Is the room prepared by B just for her?

Polaris Lorna Dane immediately opened the "We Are All Little Wooden People" private group.

Polaris: The next room has been prepared for almost half a year. Every time I ask B, he is always vague.People finally came today.

Witch: Shall we prepare some welcome ceremony for her?

Polaris: Come to think of it, what else have we not played?

The boys' private group is also discussing how beautiful the new girl is.

Quicksilver Pietro Maximoff swears that he is the most beautiful girl he has ever seen, even more beautiful than his sister Wanda.

Iceman Bobby Drake asked, can he be more beautiful than Jean Gray?

Pietro immediately answered decisively, more beautiful than Qin.

The angel Warren Worthington said very maliciously that no matter how beautiful we are, we can’t date her. Professor Xavier doesn’t allow students to fall in love with each other. Even the professor’s favorite student, Jean Grey, only fell in love with her after graduation. Scott Summers started dating.

Bobby wailed routinely, saying that Professor Xavier simply took too much care of him, and it was nothing to do with dating.

Pietro said, you are okay, I am the worst, Wanda is my own sister, Lorna is my half-blood sister, you all give way, I decided to invite the new girl to lunch.

Warren sent a "rolling eyes" emoji, saying that lunch is free, is it you or Professor Xavier?

Pietro ran over to spy on Alicia. She noticed it, but she didn't care. It doesn't matter if you take a look.

Hank didn't find Pietro, but after a few seconds, the monitoring program in the school reminded him that Quicksilver had sneaked away again.He was a little annoyed and decided to have a good talk with him about classroom discipline later.

Her room is the same size as the room next door. It has a separate toilet and a complete bathroom. The supporting facilities are very modern, which is different from the old appearance of the castle.

Charles Xavier invested all his family property in the school. Because of financial problems and because of the need to keep a low profile, there were not many students, and not all students graduated smoothly.Some children are abandoned by their families, and some children are still the treasures of the family.For example, Warren, he is the third generation of the Worthington family, and his full name is Warren Kenneth Worthington III. Worthington Industries is one of the world's top 500 companies with its headquarters in Manhattan. In terms of value and ranking, it is second only to Sterk Industries and Osborne Industries.Because of Warren, Worthington Industries is also currently a major sponsor of X Academy.

Bobby wasn't so lucky, his parents freaked out when they found out he was a mutant, his neighbors almost killed him, Charles went and brought him back, and brainwashed his parents into forgetting I have a mutant son.

Bobby has no family.

Hank didn't want to mention these anymore, and didn't talk about the situation of other students.

"It's inevitable." Alicia said objectively: "Mutants are 'heterogeneous', a minority, an unstable factor, and too powerful. Of course, they must be eliminated or be supervised. But you don't want to Being supervised, and secondly refusing to die, this makes those human beings very embarrassed."

Hank frowned, "Mutants certainly have the right to live, we can coexist without conflict."

"In theory, but modern Homo sapiens ruled the earth only by eliminating their close relatives. Of course, mutants must die. I heard that someone has developed a synthetic agent that suppresses the genes of mutants, right?"

Hank looked very disturbed, "Where did you know? Most mutants—including the students in the school don't know this. Let's go, the professor let us go."

He motioned for Alicia to follow him, and went to Charles' room.

Charles lived in a suite on the northeast corner of the third floor.

"Alicia, sit." Let her sit on the sofa in the living room, and waved Hank to leave.

Hank backed out, closing the door gently.

"Do you know what a mutant means?" Charles pondered for a while before speaking slowly.

"evolution."

"In theory, we are the direction of evolution, but in modern society, people's hearts are unpredictable, and if the state machine decides to kill a certain group, we have no way out. Eric... he doesn't quite understand this, He always thinks that we are powerful enough to ignore all repression and massacres, he is too radical and thinks I am too gentle."

"It's hard to say. I don't know much about this, but I might agree with Eric. If you are strong enough, you can ignore the persecution of others or the state machine."

"For some individuals, it can be ignored, but the vast majority of mutants are still unable to resist the state machine."

"What about you?" Alicia is also very curious about him. It can be said that a guy who can brain other people is quite scary, and it is the nightmare of those big people: Who knows when your brain will be messed with, and it will be used as a tool up?

Half of the members of the Senate are panicking about this, and several staunch opponents have always wanted to pass the "Mutant Registration Act", wanting to register all mutants with their real names so that they can be supervised and even eliminated when necessary; but fortunately, there are also A few senators sympathetic to the mutants resisted throughout, which avoided the predictable mass of rebellion and bloodshed.

"I can protect myself," Charles said with a sad faint smile, "but I want to protect as many children as possible. For example, I hope you are a super powerful mutant, but I don't really want you to be a mutant." Mutant."

She smiled, "Then let's figure out whether I am a mutant or not."

Charles agreed, "Hank didn't find your mutant genes, which means you're either not mutant or have mutant genes we don't know about yet. What superpowers do you have?"

"I can fly, and I have the ability to manipulate objects, metal or not. Is immortality a superpower?"

Charles nodded, "'Immortal' is of course a superpower. You are not old, and this is also a superpower."

"No, I've grown up," she was rather pleased. "I've grown a little over an inch. Gained weight! And entered puberty."

Charles raised his forehead, "Okay, I see, I will update your body data. Also, you know my ability is telepathy. Except for very few mutants, I can directly 'see' when others are Thinking, including his memory. But I can't see you, so from this point of view, you should also be a mutant."

Alicia took off the hanging ring and bracelet and put them on the coffee table in front of the sofa, "Can you see the difference between these two things?"

Charles carefully looked at the hanging ring and bracelet, "I can't see it. But this is not ordinary jewelry."

Looks like mutants can't see magic paraphernalia either, well, that's fine.

"Other superpowers... It seems that I don't need it, I don't need it. Tony—uh, Tony said, I am the strongest superpower if I don't die."

"Using online games, immortality is just a passive skill, and flying is an active ability. Just because you haven't tried it before doesn't necessarily mean you don't have other abilities. If you were a mutant, what kind of abilities would you like to have? ?”

Alicia thought for a long time, "I don't need to eat every day, I can eat about 40 people's meals at a time, or more, and then I can not eat any solid food for half a year, and occasionally add a little water, mainly electrolytes."

"This is also a passive skill. Think again."

"I still have this." She didn't reach out, but the glass water cup on the coffee table began to deform, turning into a funnel, a flat plate, a glass unicorn, a glass knife, and finally turned back into a water glass.

"Oh!" Charles exclaimed a little, "very good. Okay, I can now confirm that you are a mutant, at least an alpha level. Next, I will let the computer program start comparing your genetic sequences and see Where exactly is your mutant gene expressed?"

She hesitated for a moment and didn't tell him that she still had a super powerful magical talent.

Alicia turned down an offer to spend the night at X Academy, so Charles Xavier called Hank again and asked him to take Alicia back to Greenwich Village.

"I have to go to class, or you can sit in on a class before leaving." Charles smiled kindly.He has always considered himself to be very convincing. Over the years, as the leader of mutants, he has encountered many things, and some negotiations were difficult, but he can use his charm to resolve them one by one—the ones that cannot be resolved, Just use telepathy to brainwash the other party, but he is very cautious about the use of abilities, and he doesn't want to brainwash people unless it is absolutely necessary.

There are only a handful of people who can not be affected by his ability, and Alicia is one of them.

Charles went to class.

Hank asked: "There is still one class until lunch time. Would you like to try our cafeteria? It's delicious. Charles has found a very good chef. I can show you around the school first."

Alicia agreed.

So they walked around the castle, up and down the stairs.

The 1st to 3rd floors of the castle are classrooms, the students live above the 4th floor, and only Charles lives on the 3rd floor.

Next door to Alicia's reservation was Polaris Lorna, Eric's youngest daughter; next door to Lorna was Wanda, Eric's other daughter, a little older; next door to Wanda was her brother Pietro, the boy with super fast movement speed, it was Pietro who came to spy on her just now.

"Are they all the same mom?" Alicia wondered.

"No, Lorna's mother is someone else. Lorna didn't know who her father was at first, and all students had to test their DNA when they entered school. After the gene sequence report came out, Charles didn't know that Lorna was also Eric's child."

She nodded. "Eric is such a playboy. And what about Charles? Does he have kids?"

Hank almost fell over, "As far as I know, no."

"I find Charles very charming and I like him a lot."

"Everyone likes him." Hank is a veteran fanboy. "As long as he's not drunk."

Now she was more interested, "Can he get drunk? I thought he would be very restrained."

"He will also have troubles. He always feels that he has huge pressure on the survival and continuation of the mutants on his shoulders. Sometimes he can't help but feel discouraged and wants to get drunk. Let me say that he shouldn't put everything on his shoulders. He is too tired to hold it on himself."

She sighed. "Indeed. If I were responsible for an entire group, I would be very troubled."

After thinking about it again, "Tony also drinks a lot sometimes, does the man think that drinking can solve the problem?"

Hank laughed, "No. Drinking alcohol is only to anesthetize yourself temporarily, but it's actually not good, it's not healthy."

Alicia couldn't help feeling that Charles was really too good at embarrassing herself.Tony seems to be the same way. He is the first ordinary person to publicly declare that he is a superhero. Unlike an enhanced person like Captain America, his body can also be injured and die. Without a suit, he is just a mortal. .

The author has something to say: *Little professor with no broken waist, no wheelchair, no bald head.

*It is set that the lifespan of mutants above Beta level is twice or even higher than that of ordinary humans.Mystique, Wolverine, and Phoenix are all mutants with super regenerative abilities.

*In "X-Men Future Past", Lao Wan said that President Kennedy was a mutant, so it was very reasonable to be assassinated. How can ordinary humans let a mutant be the president of the United States? He must be killed; besides, there have always been conspiracy theories that Kennedy was assassinated. The assassination was done by the CIA, nothing wrong with it.

*In the comics, the Phoenix Girl is powerful. She can resurrect the dead, and she can resurrect others. It can be said that she will never die. The Scarlet Witch Wanda is also super strong, and she is at the Omega level. Her strongest words are directly obliterating mutants. Existence, in the movie version, Wanda's ability has been weakened. It is said that she can confront Thanos head-on; Mystique Raven can change into anyone, and theoretically she can be forever young.

*Ice, Angel, Quick, Witch, Polaris.

*Is Alicia a mutant?Not sure, she acts like a mutant, but not necessarily a mutant.