NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 153: Chapter 153
A suffocating tension gripped the plane cabin en route to Cairo, Egypt. The young Mutants sat stiffly, their nerves frayed. Embarking on a mission with Deadpool and Kurohane, two veterans whose experience felt more like a hurricane than wisdom, only amplified their apprehension. Deadpool, unbuckled, casually sharpened his twin swords in the cabin. Adamantium sparks flew everywhere, creating sharp, threatening flashes. The nearly indestructible metal, once damaged, was incredibly difficult to re-sharpen, except by grinding two Edman Alloy Knives against each other—a disturbing technical skill.
"Don't be so nervous!" Deadpool glanced at the pale faces around him, their heartbeats thrumming in the thin air. He flipped his swords. "See? There are only a few remnants of the first generation X-Men left. You guys could kick the bucket any time. Rather than going to the battlefield nervously, you might as well die with a smile. At least it won't be so pathetic! Just like me, the first time I went on a mission..."
Bang!!!
A gunshot exploded, cutting off Deadpool's chatter. Brain matter and blood splattered, coating the stunned young Mutants' faces. Kurohane holstered his pistol back on his hip, then flashed a bright smile at them. "Don't listen to this fool talk nonsense. It's just a mission. Not many people will die. Unless you're extremely unlucky, you won't die a particularly horrible death!"
"Enough!" Mystique wiped the blood from her face with the back of her hand, her eyes blazing with anger as she glared at Kurohane.
Kurohane, however, shrugged indifferently, his expression purely innocent. "Why are you so harsh! The effect of my shot couldn't be better. Not only is he quiet, but these youngsters aren't nervous anymore either!"
Indeed, after being messed with by Kurohane and Deadpool like that, the young Mutants were no longer nervous. They had all passed out! Leaving others aside for now, Cyclops was the worst! He already wore glasses, and his vision was indeed all red. Now, his whole body was red, his face smeared with sticky blood, and he was unconscious quite peacefully.
"In every war, the highest casualties are always among the new recruits." Kurohane said, his voice calmer now, a little reflective. "There's data to prove this. It's not just because new recruits don't know battlefield survival skills, but more importantly, they're too timid. Many times when they shouldn't die, they often lose their lives due to simple mistakes." Kurohane wasn't lying; none of the knowledge from his Hydra agent training back then was wasted. Plus, he himself had emerged from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, so he had a profound understanding of this lesson!
Big Sister Mystique was helpless and could only pull out a dirty towel from under the seat. She wiped the blood off these little ones one by one. They were going to save people, not refugees fleeing starvation! At this moment, Deadpool also got up from the floor, looked at the peaceful Cyclops, and nudged Kurohane.
"This Ready Player One's mental fortitude isn't great either!"
"Playing actor memes again! Hasn't he even made a name for himself yet?" Kurohane retorted, glancing at Deadpool.
"If it weren't for playing Cyclops, would he have been chosen as the male lead in Ready Player One?" Deadpool shot back with a smirk, as if winning the petty argument.
Kurohane barely resisted shooting Deadpool in the head again. He turned and said to Mystique and Beast, who were piloting the plane, "Let me be blunt first. If you just want to save people, it won't work. Apocalypse has gained countless Mutant abilities during his long existence, otherwise, he wouldn't call himself 'God.' Now having the ability to control all of humanity, he absolutely won't let Professor X go. Unless we kill the Professor first, so, what method are you prepared to use to kill him?"
"Let's go persuade Magneto to change his mind first, then save the Professor and defeat Apocalypse together!" Beast didn't turn his head, concentrating on piloting the plane. The smartest creature among the Mutants had stopped thinking, for he also didn't know how to defeat 'God'!
Big Sister didn't answer Kurohane's question but glanced at Phoenix, who was also unconscious. Although she had left the Mutant school, Professor X had told her about Phoenix's situation very thoroughly. And hoped that she could become Jean Grey's teacher and teach Jean how to control her powers. So Big Sister truly knew that if anyone could defeat 'God,' that person would only be Jean!
Seeing that everyone was unwilling to discuss this issue, Kurohane also wisely chose to remain silent. He began to check the energy storage in his Holy Scar. His life was his own, being careful wasn't wrong!
Hours later, the plane landed in Cairo, Egypt. Seeing the massive new pyramid before them, Mystique and the others finally had the most intuitive sense of Apocalypse's power!
"Quicksilver, come with me to find Erik and try to make him abandon the idea of destroying the world." Mystique instructed, her voice firm.
"All of you, find a way to save Charles. Beast, you're in charge of the team!"
Mystique glanced at the chaotic magnetic field around them, which caused countless metallic elements like iron and nickel to fly everywhere, forming a visible torrent of metal in the air. Magneto hung in the middle of several metal torrents. If no one stopped him, the Earth's entire magnetic field would be disrupted. At that time, human civilization would likely return to the primitive age, as modern technological products were inseparable from iron!
"Oh, right, I'll give you a little advice." Deadpool looked like he was enjoying watching the chaos, grinning oddly at the pale-faced Quicksilver. "If you really can't persuade him, you can just tell him Quicksilver's offspring, and then let Quicksilver go to Apocalypse to die."
Quicksilver thought of Deadpool's terrible personality and knew that even if he said nothing, it would be useless. This fool would definitely spill the beans! But, he seemed to have never said that he was Magneto's son! How did this guy know? Full of doubts, Quicksilver supported Big Sister's back and left. Because of his excessively fast movement speed, he could run with the metal torrent and arrive beside Magneto in the blink of an eye!
Magneto: "My wife and daughter are both dead! I want to destroy this sinful world!"
Mystique: "Charles and I will both help you!"
Magneto: "Humans must all die!"
Quicksilver: "I am your son."
Magneto: "Apocalypse is right—damn it!"
Kurohane used Super Vision to glance at the family drama there and offered his own commentary. "What an easy Mutant to deal with!"
Kurohane's rescue team also met the other three of the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse. Angel, whose wings had transformed into steel wings, Storm with a mohawk hairstyle, and Psylocke, wearing an outfit just like in the comics!
"Kurohane, you can also grow wings on your back. You go deal with Angel, and Psylocke is mine!" Deadpool sniffed hard, lifted his mask, and wiped away a nosebleed.
Kurohane glanced at the lewd Deadpool disdainfully, drawing a katana from his Spatial Ring. "I also have a katana in my hand, and I'm Asian! Psylocke is mine!"
"Bastard! That's my knife!"