Ch 388: A Path To Self-rescue

When all the disguised nanobots were unloaded, transforming into individual yet closely connected entities, a rare spectacle appeared before the Prime Minister’s Office.

The buzzing sound was the nanobots spreading their wings and flying, like a swarm of mosquitoes covering the sky, rushing towards Ye Xiao and others.

Not only was Wade afraid, fearing that these nanobots would be unscrupulous, entering his body through his weaknesses, like parasites, devouring his insides, Cable and others also had such worries.

Especially Cable, who had a lot of interaction with nanoform enemies, knew best the difficulty of nanoform enemies.

Pulling two grenades from his waist, Cable pulled the pins and threw them towards the dense area of nanobots.

“It won’t work, will it?” Bullet, ignoring her weary body, began to gather energy again, “I’ve heard from my teachers that nanobots can devour metal, and the shell of the grenade is made of metal, right?”

Cable shook his head and explained, “These aren’t ordinary grenades, but electromagnetic grenades. After the explosion, they can release a small-scale electromagnetic pulse. The shell is made of special materials. It looks like metal, but it isn’t. However, its hardness is comparable to metal.”

In the future world, robots were initially created to liberate labor. Later, due to the catalysis of ambitious people, robots gained the ability to self-learn.

Robots capable of networking and autonomous learning grew at a speed that exceeded everyone’s expectations, including their creators.

Just as Ultron, after gaining the ability to learn, its first thought was to eliminate most of humanity and keep a small part of humanity to achieve the effect of protecting humanity.

Future robots were more extreme than its thoughts. They believed that the existence of humans was of no benefit to the Earth’s ecology, so whether humans existed on Earth or not would not have any impact on Earth.

Therefore, humans should die!

I don’t know how they came up with this idea. Maybe the research institute that designed their program was an extreme environmentalist?

Anyway, in the future, robots also became an intractable problem.

In order to deal with robots, the human side developed various means, and electromagnetic grenades were one of them.

Unfortunately, electromagnetic grenades are also being phased out. Robots have evolved means to prevent electromagnetic interference.

This was the future before it was changed. In the changed future, because the tyrannical ruler Russell was not born, humans lacked a sense of crisis. At present, the development of robots has not reached the perverted level before the change.

Before throwing it, Cable had already calculated the time. When the electromagnetic grenade was enveloped by the tide-like nanobots, it immediately exploded.

A strong electric arc instantly swept across a space of more than ten meters in radius.

Like rain, the nanobots enveloped in the electric arc fluttered and fell down.

“It actually works?!” Xuexu tightened her grip on the blade, about to step forward to deliver the final blow, but Ye Xiao stopped her.

“Don’t go!” Ye Xiao coldly snorted, “It’s really like what kind of master you have, you have what kind of subordinates. The boss is used to playing dead, so the underlings’ skills in playing dead are not bad either!”

As soon as the words fell, seeing that no one took the bait, the nanobots that fell on the ground flipped their bodies one by one, adjusted their direction, slid their tentacles, and quickly attacked Ye Xiao and others from the ground.

As nanobots manufactured using Kang’s future technology, the anti-electromagnetic function was in their core capabilities from the beginning.

Cable’s electromagnetic grenade not only did not cause any harm to them, but also became their supplement. Each of them shone with a firefly-like light, and the faint crackling of electricity kept ringing from their bodies.

Individually, they may not cause harm to the human body, but thousands, tens of thousands, or millions of nanobots releasing their internal currents at the same time, even an elephant would be roasted.

Nanobots that can be seen with the naked eye without any tools are enough to show their large number.

“What should we do then?” Nanobots can fly and run, and their speed is not slow. In the time it took to speak, they had already come within a few meters of them. The remaining few meters were just a blink of an eye. Xuexu quickly asked, “Can your knife solve this?”

Seeing others use it and using it yourself are two different things. Although it seems that she can achieve the same effect by wielding the knife, only Xuexu herself knows that each swing of the knife will consume her psychic power.

She could clearly feel that the knife was resisting her use. If it weren’t for its owner, Ye Xiao, personally handing her the knife, she probably wouldn’t be able to use it at all.

No, or rather, she couldn’t even get close.

There was a very obvious killing intent on the blade!

“Yes! But you can’t!” Ye Xiao nodded first, then shook his head, and then said, “Give the blade to Wade, let him use it!”

His blade possessed inherent Causality Power. One of the prerequisites for using it is that one must also possess vast Karma.

How is Karma generated?

Simply put, it’s the cause and effect of a thing. When applied to a person, it’s even simpler.

For example, you urinated. This urination is because you felt thirsty and drank too much water. You felt thirsty because the weather was hot, and the water in your body was lost too much. The reason why it was so hot is because you were under the sun…

Pushing upwards, it’s almost endless.

And downwards, it’s similarly almost endless.

This urine, sprinkled in different places, will have different influences.

Sprinkled on the lawn, it will become nourishment for plants; sprinkled in the toilet, it may cause the toilet to clog. And the reason why the toilet clogs is because after you use the toilet, you casually threw the used paper towels into the toilet. Over time, the paper towels pile up, the flushing power of the toilet water is insufficient, and it will cause a blockage. Your urine becomes the last straw that breaks the camel’s back…

Although the example is vulgar, the meaning is just that. Whatever you do will have cause and effect. Depending on the importance of the matter, the Causality Power generated will also be different.

Causality Power will not dissipate, it will only continue to accumulate, accumulate, and accumulate again, until you die, and it is a complete death, the destruction of both body and soul, to the point where no trace of existence can be found in the universe.

Otherwise, even if you are reincarnated, Causality Power will follow you like a shadow. If you are resurrected, Causality Power will return to you and continue to accumulate.

Generally speaking, no matter how much Causality Power accumulates, it will not affect a person, at least not on the surface.

From a higher level, the more Causality Power you have, the more important you are to the universe itself.

Of course, this importance also occurs at a higher level. The power of emotions can become Creation Force, and Causality Power can also.

In order to quickly accumulate Causality Power, you need your own activity. To put it more simply, the more you do, the more people you contact, the more Causality Power you will have.

Xuexu’s Causality Power was barely enough, thanks to Ye Xiao. In the world of Avengers 1, Xuexu and Ye Xiao had an intersection. The castle where she and Bullet lived was also remodeled by Ye Xiao using Hydra’s base.

Karma will not be blocked by the barriers of different universes. In the same story framework, Causality Power can be connected.

But that’s all.

Among the people present, the one who had the most interaction with Ye Xiao, besides Kang who was peeping, was Deadpool. Because of his belief in the popularity theory, Deadpool jumped up and down. After having the Time Watch, he went to so many different timelines and worlds that he didn’t even remember himself. Plus, he also hooked up with Death, one of Marvel’s five major gods, and was also tainted with Death’s Karma.

The Causality Power on him was no less than Kang’s.

But Kang couldn’t use the blade. The second prerequisite is to have Ye Xiao’s consent, after all, it was hand-crafted by him.

“Thank you, boss, for the gift!” Hearing that Ye Xiao was going to give him the blade, Wade immediately stopped playing dead. He had just been sewing up his body with a stapler, but now, because of his excitement, his body, which was broken into two halves, directly reconnected. If it weren’t for the obvious cutting marks on his uniform, no one would know that his body had been broken in two.

Wade took the blade, stroked the blade, and drooled from the corner of his mouth: “Slurp!”

“Boss, don’t worry, I will definitely not let you down. From today on, we two will depend on each other. Don’t worry, I will definitely use the best wax oil to wax you, and I will definitely let you regain your luster!”

The blade was still rusty. Even a junk dealer wouldn’t take a second look at it. The first time he saw it was when he received it from its previous owner.

The blade had a spirit, but when facing Wade, it clearly chose silence.

Or rather, except for Ye Xiao, it was silent towards everyone else. Even Hunger, who considered himself Ye Xiao’s number one underling, was ignored!

‘Joke, besides me, who can be the boss’s number one underling?’

You, Hunger?

Look at your dark and gloomy appearance. In another world, you’re just a nobody, a booger with a mouthful of fangs, only fit to fight dogs for bones!

Don’t think that just because your cloak isn’t here, I won’t tell you, you’re not much better either. Don’t you stay in your third place, why are you fighting for the top spot? You don’t even have a share of the second place!

Only I! I! I am the boss’s top underling!

Let me chop you both up!

Wade didn’t care whether it was silent or not. He held it in his hand and waved it twice, laughing, feeling that this was his destined weapon. Any carbon steel knife, he wouldn’t even give it to a dog!

“Screw you!” Cable kicked Wade’s butt, “Hurry up!”

The fire is about to burn your eyebrows, the strawberry tart is almost touching your butt, and you’re still giggling here?

You’re a pile of rotten flesh. Nanobots may not be able to eat you, but I’m full of protein plus metal that can be sold at a high price. Isn’t it the best nourishment for nanobots? I don’t want to call Mother!

Cable, who didn’t want to call his parents, didn’t know that his “mother” had already arrived.

On the edge of the city, in front, you can see the city agitated by the intrusion of Ye Xiao and others. In the back, you can “see” the continuous advance of the multinational coalition forces.

At the junction of the two, two figures suddenly appeared in the suburbs.

“The teleportation coordinates are wrong, the deviation is a bit large, and there is still room for improvement!” If he had come alone, Professor X didn’t know how long it would take him to reach the center of the city. He was afraid that by the time he arrived, it would be too late.

“Heh!” Magneto crossed his arms and tapped lightly with one finger, “You’re out of people, and you dare to look for me? Aren’t you afraid that I’ll join forces with Dark Phoenix again and slaughter humanity?”

Professor X first glanced at Jean Grey, who was silent with her head down, and seeing that she had no significant emotional fluctuations, he sighed in relief and said helplessly to his friend, “Why do you always bring up the past? Can’t we let the past be the past?”

To be honest, he was really afraid that Magneto would join forces with Dark Phoenix again. Last time, Wolverine was in front, so they did not make a big mistake. This time, there were only three of them. Once Dark Phoenix controlled Jean Grey’s body, it would not be so easy to subdue Dark Phoenix, who had a failed experience.

Moreover, although there was no major mistake last time, both the school side and the Brotherhood side suffered heavy losses, while the human side was almost unaffected.

But undoubtedly, the weakening of their two sides’ strength gave the human side an opportunity. They not only captured mutants more rampantly, but also heard that food that can eliminate the X-gene in mutants’ bodies is also under development.

Once the human side successfully develops it, after this batch of mutants dies out, there will be no more new natural mutants born, only products born in the laboratory.

Although Professor X is more inclined towards humans and wants to coexist peacefully with humans, this result is also unacceptable to him.

Positive communication was ignored by the human side. He could brainwash all of humanity, but he couldn’t bring himself to do so unless it was absolutely necessary.

While hesitating, an unexpected visitor wearing a red uniform and exuding a foul odor came to their world, and he came to look for Wolverine.

But Wolverine, Logan, had been brooding over “killing” Jean Grey, and he didn’t know where he had hidden himself. Professor X didn’t want to disturb him, so he didn’t tell the visitor where Logan was in seclusion.

As a result, the visitor kept talking about how his world was about to be destroyed and that Wolverine was the only one who could save the world. In his constant babbling, Professor X learned about parallel worlds and the Multiverse.

When the visitor left disappointed after failing to find Wolverine, Professor X thought that since he couldn’t find a way to coexist peacefully with humans in his world, he might as well go to other worlds to see.

But how easy is it to travel through worlds? He couldn’t do it, Magneto couldn’t do it either. Perhaps Apocalypse, who was killed by Jean Grey, could do it, but Apocalypse was dead, and even if he wasn’t dead, he wouldn’t help them. Apocalypse would only be more radical and rule the world by force.

Jean Grey might also be able to do it, but Jean Grey was killed by Logan. Among the remaining living mutants, these old guys are the strongest. They can’t do it, and others can’t either.

But giving up like this is not Professor X’s style. Just as he was about to join his old friend to find a solution, before he even went out, he was blocked at the door by the “resurrected” Jean Grey, scaring him almost out of his wheelchair.

Obviously, Jean Grey didn’t die. If it weren’t for her desperate struggle with Dark Phoenix, causing Dark Phoenix’s power to not be fully exerted, Wolverine wouldn’t have been able to get close to her, let alone pierce her body with his claws.

Death is death, and being pierced is a different matter.

The Phoenix Force itself is known for its powerful vitality. Its powerful healing ability is even more perverted than Immortality.

Everyone thought she was dead, but she was actually taken to space by the enraged Dark Phoenix.

After leaving Earth, Jean Grey, whose worries lessened, lost to Dark Phoenix in a mental battle.

She didn’t know how she finally woke up. She only knew that after she woke up, there were traces of burning everywhere, some planets had turned into glass, and some planets seemed to have been eaten by some giant creature, the entire planet was broken, and there were no signs of life on it.

Jean Grey was extremely scared and fled from there. She wandered aimlessly in space, not wanting to harm anyone, just wanting to find a deserted place to end her life, if possible.

She wandered aimlessly in the universe, but somehow, she returned to Earth.

Perhaps in her subconscious, Earth was her inseparable home, and her family, Professor X and others, were her inseparable concerns.

Home is a Safe Haven in the hearts of many people!

Perhaps, she wanted to go home and see before she left.

After overcoming her initial fright, Professor X was incredibly surprised by Jean Grey’s arrival and almost eagerly shared the method of saving the mutants with Jean Grey.

After listening, Jean Grey didn’t say anything. She just thought that perhaps this was the last time she could help Professor X and others before she left, and she also wanted to atone for her mistakes.

So she stayed, but she also put forward a condition: she didn’t want too many people to know that she was still alive.

Professor X agreed. He was also afraid that others would stimulate Jean Grey again.

Besides him, only Magneto knew that Jean Grey was still alive.

After mobilizing all their connections, the world-traveling machine was successfully created. This was their first experiment.

The landing point should have been in New York, USA, where his school was located, and the rendezvous point should have been there too.

But, there were unexpected incidents at their landing point and rendezvous point.

Professor X and Magneto were both familiar with Berlin. The latter grew up in a concentration camp, and the former also interacted with concentration camps because of the latter.

Magneto didn’t want to say much about his friend’s helplessness. He knew that Professor X had been stubborn all his life, just as he had been stubborn all his life: “Listening to one person’s words, we have exhausted everything. If you hadn’t stopped us, we wouldn’t have needed to do this!”

What angered him was that his friend had hardly listened to his words, but his friend not only listened to an outsider’s words, but also took practical action.

An unknown world represents unknown risks. He was afraid that if he didn’t follow, he wouldn’t even be able to see his friend’s last moments.

“I can feel…” At this moment, Jean Grey suddenly raised her head, a phantom of the Phoenix flashed in her eyes, and looking at the city in the distance, she said solemnly, “It’s very dangerous inside!”

What she didn’t say was that she also felt the Phoenix’s excitement, like humans seeing their favorite delicacies, that heartfelt joy and desire to eat made Jean Grey’s figure turn into a lightning bolt. As soon as she finished speaking, she disappeared from the sight of the two.

“No good!” Professor X’s face changed, “Erik, let’s go after her, Jean seems to be losing control again!”

Magneto pursed his lips, wanting to punch Professor X twice.

‘If Jean Grey loses control, what can we do? Go to our deaths?’

His abilities were insignificant in front of the out-of-control Jean Grey. He couldn’t even get close to her, although his abilities weren’t close-combat oriented.

‘Forget it, anyway, I have nothing left, let’s die!’

Along the way, his family, his friends, and the Brotherhood members he considered brothers, some died, some were crippled, and some were old. By now, he had nothing left to lose.

The only regret was that he hadn’t had a crazy revenge.

“Is this a battlefield?” The sound of gunfire in the city could be felt from afar by Magneto. He didn’t know what era he had come to, but on the battlefield, there is no consideration of the era. There is only killing with different opinions. “It’s worth it to be able to kill wildly before dying!”

Rarely, Professor X didn’t refute, but only sighed, “I’m sorry!”

He knew he owed Magneto too much, so much that he would never be able to repay it. Bringing Magneto to a strange world was already an extremely dangerous thing, not to mention now having to face Jean Grey, who might lose control.

They had organized so many people before, and none of them were Jean Grey’s opponents. Now there were only two of them, and the outcome was predictable.

“Do whatever you want.”

Magneto smiled. Perhaps knowing he was going to die, he joked without any scruples, “It’s rare to hear this from you. Okay, when I’m killing wildly later, don’t stop me!”

“When did I have the ability to stop you?” Professor X shrugged. He knew that if Magneto really decided to kill him, he would have countless opportunities.

Essentially, the two are the same kind of people, both wanting a better situation for mutants, but the methods they chose were different.

If one fails, the other has a chance to learn from their mistakes.

Whether either of them succeeds is a Good Thing for mutants.

But now it seems that neither of them has a chance.

The two, speechless, quickly rushed towards the city.

Professor X’s wheelchair was specially made. Magneto couldn’t control it, so he had to collect some metal and transform it into a platform under their feet, carrying them both to fly.

The fleeting street scene made Magneto frown deeply, “Charles, something is wrong here!”

It was clearly the architectural style of World War II, but products that didn’t belong to this era appeared in the streets and alleys.

Robots were running wildly in the streets, strangely shaped mechas were climbing the walls, like swinging on a swing, jumping from one building to another.

They were all gathering in one direction, and that place was where they were going.

Professor X didn’t know how many times he had sighed today. A moment ago, he was still worried that Magneto would kill wildly and cause many innocent casualties, but if it was robots, it didn’t matter.

“Something is wrong!” Professor X also frowned, “It’s too quiet!”

Magneto was stunned for a moment before he realized what Professor X meant by “quiet,” and said uncertainly, “Jean Grey doesn’t seem to have lost control?”

If Jean Grey really lost control, a great fire engulfing the entire city should have spread throughout the city now, or everything in the city should have been destroyed into a molecular state by Jean Grey’s immense telekinesis.

Now there is no raging firelight, nor is there dust all over the sky. There are only mechanical soldiers constantly gathering towards the central area of the city, and the constant sound of gunfire.

And the sound of gunfire came from the central area.

The strange phenomenon couldn’t help but make Magneto speed up.

He had to worry about unknown dangers in other places. But in the city, it’s no exaggeration to say that Magneto dared to call himself the king, unless he encounters a perverted figure like Jean Grey, otherwise almost no one is his opponent.

Moreover, the mechanical soldiers almost all over the city were simply the best weapons for Magneto to command. No matter whose orders these mechanical soldiers followed before, the next second, they had to obey his!

The closer they got to the central area, the louder the gunfire became.

The two lowered their altitude. Here, they could already see the corpses of robots. Damaged Octopod Mechs were also everywhere, and the deaths of the pilots inside were bizarre.

Some seemed to have been shot, with penetrating wounds and burns near the wounds. Some seemed to have been cut by sharp weapons, and even the cockpit was split in two. Some seemed to have been shaken to death, with blood flowing from their noses and mouths.

But this was not what the two cared about.

“Charles, do you smell a foul odor?” Magneto retched and covered his nose.

Professor X did the same, nodding.