[Comprehensive English and American] Ripples in time and space

Eric just opened his mouth to answer, but was stopped by Charles with a smile: "There is no need to be so businesslike, Ms. Cosmo? Mutants are rare, and I think we are like brothers and sisters, rather than simple Relying on the cooperative relationship restricted by the contract. Eric just speaks a little rigidly, and he has no malicious intentions."

"Of course, just call me Kelly." Kelly smiled slightly. "Speaking of brothers and sisters...Mr. Lanshere, are your mother and sister okay?"

"Oh, it seems that you have investigated our situation quite thoroughly." Charles asked with a smile.

"It's just a casual concern." Kelly smiled at him. "After all, I was the one who gave that necklace to Mrs. Lanshere. Does she still have the silver chain?"

As soon as this remark came out, the faces of the three people across from him suddenly changed. Eric put his hands on the armrests of the chair and almost stood up: "How do you know—it's a family heirloom from my mother's family! How could it be given by you?" ?”

"I modified your mother's memory back then." Kelly said calmly, "Otherwise, how could she have believed that Hitler would persecute the Jews at that time? If I handed it to her directly, she would definitely be completely inappropriate." It's the same thing. Of course, I didn't have enough strength back then, so this approach is still somewhat inappropriate, if possible, I hope to apologize to her in person."

Eric's hands gripping the armrests of the chair turned white, and the metal tea spoon on the table shook, knocking the porcelain cups to jingle.Charles put his hand in front of his temple and looked at him with comforting eyes, and the vibration of the tea spoon subsided slowly.Kelly smiled, and reached out to take out the tea spoon in her cup: "Can I ask you for a spoon, Mr. Xavier?"

"Oh, please call me Charles, of course."

Kelly pulled out her wand, and with a small tap, transformed the spoon into a long silver chain.Immediately, the silver chain moved in her hand and was about to fly in Eric's direction.Kelly grabbed it, gave him a reproachful look, drew a complex pattern in the air with her wand, and finally tapped the silver chain: "Please protect us from the evil torment and go to the paradise of freedom."

She said the words in German, waved her wand, and completed the spell.Almost as soon as he let go, the chain rushed to Eric's eyes with a whoosh. He stretched out his hand to spread out the silver chain, carefully looked at every buckle of it, and finally stretched out his hand to hold it, and read that sentence again .

In a flash of blue light, he disappeared.Both Charles and Raven stood up abruptly: "Eric!"

"Don't worry, he's outside under the tree." Kelly said calmly.Charles put his hands on his temples, his expression calmed down quickly, and he nodded to Raven.Soon, Eric strode in, clutching the silver chain tightly in his hand.He glanced at Kelly and the others with indescribable eyes, rushed upstairs, and shouted in German: "Mom! Ruth!"

"Ruth is Eric's sister." Charles explained, turning to look at Kelly in surprise and joy, "We used to pay attention to the Wire Cutter Project, the incident where you rescued the Jews with the Portkey-but because Lanshe Mrs. Hall insisted that the necklace was her heirloom, so we ended up giving up on this path. Didn't expect it was really you!"

"Why do you look happier than him." Bucky laughed.

"Of course I'm happy! Oh, my friends, I'm so thankful for sending Eric to me!" said Charles with great enthusiasm.But before he had time to say more words of thanks, there were already chaotic footsteps upstairs, and a tall, thin middle-aged woman and a girl with short brown hair ran down.Kelly smiled: "So, now we can talk about cooperation?"

Since discovering Roxie's ability, Kelly and Hank have set up a secret research and development team to study the brainwave augmentation device in private. However, after all, the time is too short, and the machine is just a prototype, far from being completed.Therefore, what she came here this time was not to ask Charles to help find more mutants, but to discuss with them how mutants should be positioned in the future.

To put it bluntly, the mutants in the movie chose a very inappropriate time to expose their existence: First, they exposed the evil and brutal group of mutants in the first place, that is, they almost killed all of them. Sebastian Shaw and his subordinates of the entire CIA branch; second, they showed that mutants have powerful abilities that are incomparable to ordinary people, and this ability may directly threaten the security of ordinary people and even the national army; Third, they happen to be in a very vulnerable, and superficially, very easy position.Without any public relations in advance, this kind of appearance is undoubtedly a very bad foreshadowing, but at the time it was the best they could do.

But now, since Captain America, Howard and many other forces can be drawn to their side and they can take the initiative, the situation is different.Not to mention, Kelly also disclosed her identity as a magician first, which made a good foundation for them.Kelly came here this time to explain to them what might happen in the future, and discuss what practices they can accept and what kind of exposure they need.In the future, she will also contact more professional people-invite the best public relations and marketing personnel that money can buy, and carefully plan how to carry out this exposure step.

Another purpose is that she hopes that Eric, Charles, and Raven, as older mutants who have successfully integrated into society, can provide for the three children Roxie, Chris, and Alex, and Hank explains their path.How mutants recognize themselves has always been a difficult problem.People are originally social animals, and when they are young, they realize that they are fundamentally different from other ordinary children, which often brings great pain to people.When Kelly herself was learning magic, her actual age was already over 20 years old, and her self-awareness was quite solid, so she was able to face the media and the government's inquiries as the only magician with calm and self-control, but these Children may not be able to do it.

After learning and confirming her identity, Eric's family was very grateful to her. Charles was quite easy to talk to, and Ruiwen was young and hadn't experienced many things. The first thing was negotiated very smoothly.Charles agreed to almost all their requests very accommodatingly, and incidentally set a time for the next round of discussion and planning.

However, the second goal disappointed Kelly greatly.

Although she has long known that such young Magneto, Professor X, and Riven in the movie have chosen different paths, she somewhat hopes that after they met in childhood, the personalities and ideas of Charles and Eric can influence each other, Find a compromise, or a path that will lead to mutual approval - she is disappointed.Charles, who is young, talented, and has not experienced many setbacks, is more like a naive idealist than the calm and stable Professor X who has gone through storms and hardships in the later period; and although Eric is no longer like the movie Like Ruiwen, she takes revenge on the society at every turn, but like Ruiwen, she is having doubts and confusion about her own path. ——They are all just young people in their 20s. It is already very good to be able to withstand the pressure of being a mutant and do this at this age.But for Kelly, they are far from qualified to be teachers to guide their children. It is barely enough to communicate with Hank and find resonance.

She naturally looked normal in front of Charles and Eric, talking and laughing at Yanyan, but during the conversation, Kelly, Peggy and Bucky occasionally looked at each other, and they could understand each other's meaning: they were both disappointed, distressed and worried. concern.Apart from Sebastian Shaw and his men, it is rare to find mutants older than Charles and Eric.Kelly can still use her magical skills to guide the growth of a pair of twin daughters, and she may even be able to take over Chris's training together, but what about the children of other Roaring Commando members?What about all the other mutants in the world?Is she going to leave medical research and Erskine prosthetic company business behind for the rest of her life, and start a mutant school with Charles instead?

It is true that the current Charles is qualified to teach students in terms of character and knowledge, but Kelly cannot agree with his current view that mutants need to hide and suppress their strengths to integrate into society.She can't bear to let him grow into the future Professor X at the cost of paralyzing the blow-Kelly can only comfort herself, no matter what, at least this time there is help from others, and Peggy Steve They helped find Sebastian Xiao, and the result couldn't be worse than the original plot, right?

On the way back, she was also in deep thought.Finally, Bucky couldn't stand it anymore, and put his arm around her shoulder: "What's the matter, are you still worrying about Charles? Actually, I don't think you need to expect too much from him. To guide mutant children, you don't have to A perfect figure on Professor Dumbledore's level, isn't he?"

"Oh, I'm not thinking about Charles..." Kelly shook her head, "As long as society accepts them, Charles and even Eric are qualified to lead students. But how society accepts them is a big problem. We can control public opinion, but what about science? Will the real scientists be easily persuaded by PR people?"

"Kelly." Bucky's face became serious, "You don't want to introduce the technology from the world of Star Trek, do you?!"

"If it's just medicine...if it's just genetic engineering..." Kelly said slowly, "if I can try to control it on a small scale...do you think it will work?"

The author has something to say: In fact, triggering a technological explosion in a technologically backward world is an easy way to earn points...but it is also too dangerous, so Kelly has never done this before.

The next chapter explains it in more detail.However, if you have ST fans and compare the highest guiding principles, you should understand~