Pursuers

Old Sam's house was only sixty kilometers from the main road as the crow flew, but the winding mountain roads had taken them a full three hours to travel.

Lin Xu opened his eyes. Agamotto had said two or three hours a day, and he was a man who took advice.

He quietly lifted his shirt and took a look. The abs he had lost through lack of exercise had reappeared.

His whole body felt refreshed.

"Sam, what's the nearest city to here? How far away is it?"

"Kamloops, about thirty miles, I think."

Lin Xu converted the distance in his head. Thirty miles was about fifty kilometers, which meant a little over half an hour at their current speed.

Logan was still speeding ahead, the roar of his motorcycle coming from the road in front of them now and then.

"What are you planning to do? Settle down in Kamloops, or go to Vancouver?"

Lin Xu's sudden question made Sam fall silent, even though he was usually a decisive man.

He had lived in the mountains for most of his life, and suddenly moving to a city was hard enough to adjust to. Now he had to decide where to go, too?

He slowed down and glanced back at his son, who was still somewhat weak.

"We'll go to..."

"Dad, don't go to Vancouver..." Carrett suddenly spoke up, a hint of guilt and nostalgia in his eyes.

"All right!"

"Slow down!!" Lin Xu suddenly shouted.

A helicopter was approaching head-on in the sky ahead!

"Drive into the woods!"

Old Sam didn't even need Lin Xu's warning. The moment he saw the helicopter, he had already become alert. He turned the wheel sharply, sending the pickup across the ditch beside the main road and straight into the woods.

"Stay in the car. Don't get out!"

Once the car came to a stop, Lin Xu gave them the warning, then quickly opened the door and sprang out.

Boom!

The thunder of an explosion came from the distance!

Lin Xu didn't rush over to help, though. Carrett was still weak and had no fighting strength at all. He wasn't about to make the mistake so often seen in movies and TV shows.

With an unknown space ability user in the mix, that sly fox Stryker definitely wouldn't send Agent Zero alone!

After a moment's thought, Lin Xu drew a portal beneath the pickup and sent the entire vehicle to Kamar-Taj in this universe!

It was the only place he had been to in this universe. The journey from the farm to here hadn't been very safe, so, to be on the safe side, he could only open the portal there.

Bang!

Seeing the bullet crumble to ash before his eyes, Lin Xu understood. It seemed the one after him was Stryker's most trusted subordinate, Agent Zero!

"I don't know whether you're lucky or unlucky. You escaped the tragic fate of dying at Wolverine's hands in the original story, only to run into me!"

No second bullet came. It seemed he wanted to run.

But you're not getting away!

A sniper's advantage was limited to the ground, not the sky.

In the blink of an eye, Lin Xu flew above the mountain from which the bullet had been fired. Seeing the figure still crawling slowly below, he appeared directly in front of Agent Zero and bound him in place with the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak!

He remembered how, in the original story, Cassia and Old Sam had died, and how this bastard had pinned their deaths on Logan.

"It feels great killing ordinary people, doesn't it? But to me, aren't you just an ordinary person yourself?"

Elsewhere, the corpse of a motorcycle lay quietly to one side. Logan knelt on one knee on the pockmarked road, his clothes shredded into strips. He looked utterly battered.

"Hey, Jimmy. Stryker said you escaped!"

"Victor!" Hearing the familiar voice, Logan immediately looked up at the figure strolling toward him!

"Why?"

"What do you mean, why? You mean that woman? She deserved to die! She wore down your will to fight. She kept us from fighting side by side again!"

"Victor, cut the crap. Kill him!"

Victor ignored Stryker's voice in his earpiece.

"Jimmy, you might not know this yet, but that woman doesn't love you. She was just a tool of Stryker's."

"Victor, do you even know what you're saying?"

Victor pulled out his earpiece and threw it to the ground.

"Planning to kill her was just to make you hate me, so you'd accept the Weapon X Program. Now you've succeeded, and you've seen that woman's true colors. Come back, Jimmy, my dear brother. Let's fight side by side again!"

Logan's expression was complicated as he listened. He got up and walked forward, ignored Victor's embrace, and picked up the earpiece from the ground.

"Stryker!"

"Hey, Logan, you know, I've always..."

"Is what he said true?"

"We can't afford to lose you..."

"Where is she? She's not dead, is she?"

"Are you willing to come back, Logan?"

"Tell me, where is she?"

"..."

Crack...

When he didn't get the answer he wanted, Logan crushed the earpiece.

He turned to Victor and said, "Fight side by side? Fine. Tell me where she is."

"All right!"

The corners of Victor's mouth lifted. He could finally fight alongside his brother again. There might be a woman with them later, but that didn't matter, as long as his brother was there!

Lin Xu, who had been hiding behind a large tree by the road, had watched the whole thing and exclaimed at how entertaining it was.

What a brother complex.

"In that case, you two go on ahead. I'll be right behind you!"

At Lin Xu's sudden appearance, Victor abruptly spread his fingers, a dangerous glint flashing through his eyes. "Jimmy, who is he?"

Logan instantly stepped between them. "Victor, he's my friend. I'd advise you not to do that."

Victor looked somewhat incredulous. "Jimmy, that woman was one thing, but now you're going to fight me over a man?"

Lin Xu: ...

What kind of explosive scene is this?

Rolling his eyes and ignoring the tension between them, he hurried forward and plucked a hair from Logan's head.

Seeing Logan's questioning look, Lin Xu explained, "I'm afraid I won't be able to find you. I'll use this to track you."

Then, clutching the hair, he shot straight into the sky. He was afraid that if he stayed any longer, the sour smell of jealousy coming off Victor would overwhelm him.

Thirty kilometers wasn't very far. With the help of the Levitation Spell, Lin Xu soon reached Kamloops.

He found a deserted alley and quickly opened a portal to bring the pickup back.

But to his surprise, there was an extra person in the passenger seat... or rather, a god!

Agamotto!!!

Why did this old geezer come over here?

"You..."

"What did you do?" Agamotto asked with some urgency, floating straight out of the passenger seat.

"What do you mean, what did I do?" Lin Xu looked puzzled!

"The time barrier of this universe has been reinforced!" Agamotto stared at Lin Xu in shock. "This hasn't happened in tens of thousands of years. You're the only variable I can think of, so what exactly did you do?"

"I... dunno!" Lin Xu scratched his head. If they were talking about changes, there were plenty.

For example, this family of three hadn't died. Then there was Logan learning the truth ahead of time, and Agent Zero dying at Lin Xu's hands instead of Logan's.