Chapter Summaries

Sing Sing tried to recruit Wolverine while Gambit sought refuge in Logan’s bar, but their confrontation was interrupted when Avalanche’s pursuers destroyed the building with an anti-tank missile. Wolverine fought back against the attackers as Gambit and Sing Sing emerged from the rubble, with Sing Sing lamenting his ruined suit.

• Gambit brought Sing Sing to Logan’s bar and asked Wolverine to let them hide there.
• Sing Sing tried to recruit Wolverine with promises of a steady job and benefits, then blocked Logan’s claws with his pig butchering knife.
• Avalanche’s pursuers fired an anti-tank missile at the bar, reducing it to burning rubble.
• Wolverine survived the blast and charged into the attackers, cutting through their line of fire.
• Gambit and Sing Sing crawled out of the wreckage, and Sing Sing checked his suitcase before grieving over his ruined suit.

Wolverine and Gambit slaughtered the gangsters who attacked them while Sing Sing treated the aftermath as a recruitment opportunity. After learning that Avalanche’s attack had killed a senior government official and could implicate them, Sing Sing pressed Gambit to sign a labor agreement and tried to recruit Wolverine, who ordered them off his land.

• Wolverine and Gambit killed the gangsters, while Sing Sing searched a corpse for cash and answered a radio call by claiming Squad Three had been killed.
• Sing Sing learned from the radio that Avalanche’s attack on the hotel had killed a senior government official, and he warned Gambit they might be blamed.
• Sing Sing marked Logan Howlett as a promising recruit and crossed Avalanche off his recruitment list before urging Gambit to sign a labor agreement.
• Wolverine threatened Sing Sing and Gambit and demanded they leave after blaming them for bringing trouble to his turf and getting his bar destroyed.
• Sing Sing pushed Wolverine’s claw aside and joked that he should wait in line to apply, provoking Wolverine’s anger.

Sing Sing, Gambit, and Wolverine planned to confront Avalanche after the explosion left them blamed for murder and terrorism. Sing Sing framed their pursuit as a legal rights-defense effort, and the group set out to find Miguel, though Gambit warned that the guide might betray them.

• Gambit treated his shrapnel wound while Sing Sing offered to stitch him up and recruit him for government work, and Wolverine warned that the government would experiment on mutants.
• A news report named Gambit and Sing Sing as suspects in the hotel collapse that killed government adviser Harold King, prompting Sing Sing to protest the coverage and his lack of a proper name.
• Sing Sing argued that Avalanche had framed them and destroyed Gambit's bar, and Gambit agreed to take him and Wolverine to Miguel, also known as Sand Rat.
• Wolverine threatened Sing Sing after he offered him a temporary security-consultant job, but Sing Sing said he was trying to give mutants a chance at stable lives instead of leaving them to be treated as expendable or imprisoned.
• Gambit warned that Sand Rat might flee or sell their location to Avalanche, and Sing Sing said he was ready to pursue their enemies.

Sing Sing and his companions found Sand Rat Miguel at a flea market, where a gang attack forced them to choose between catching him and saving civilians. Miguel gave them plans for Avalanche’s underground vault and revealed that another level beneath it held people.

• Gambit, Sing Sing, and Wolverine tracked Sand Rat Miguel to a flea market, but Miguel fled underground when he saw Gambit.
• Armed thugs attacked the market, and Sing Sing abandoned his pursuit of Miguel to rescue a woman and her daughter while Gambit and Wolverine fought the attackers.
• After the fight, Miguel gave Sing Sing a hard drive containing plans for Avalanche’s vault and a secret passage, impressed that Sing Sing had saved the civilians.
• Gambit agreed to Miguel’s demand for cash and safe passage out of Vegas, and Miguel warned them that the vault had another level beneath it, where people were kept.

Sing Sing and his allies planned to rescue the Mutants imprisoned by Avalanche and gather evidence of his illegal operations. As they entered the mine vault, Avalanche sprang a trap and sealed their way out.

• Sand Rat told Sing Sing and Gambit that Avalanche held debtors, traitors, and Mutants, while Wolverine warned that a cornered man would fight back.
• Silver Peak ordered Avalanche to capture Gambit and Sing Sing as scapegoats and clear the prisoners from the vault for incineration.
• Sing Sing persuaded Gambit and Wolverine to help rescue the prisoners, gather evidence, and force Avalanche to reveal himself.
• Sing Sing assigned Sand Rat to draw surveillance with underground vibrations, Gambit to break the cell doors, and Wolverine to handle armed threats.
• The group entered the abandoned silver mine, but Wolverine detected gunpowder before Sand Rat escaped into the ground and the entrance sealed shut.
• Avalanche welcomed the trapped group over a hidden loudspeaker.

Sing Sing, Gambit, and Wolverine fought their way through a gas-filled passage and a mercenary squad guarding the underground facility. After Sing Sing destroyed a sonic device and captured the squad leader, the man hinted that the missing specialists might have been sent to the incinerator.

• Sing Sing gave Gambit a gas mask, then Gambit destroyed the Gatling guns while Wolverine cut through the blast door despite the poison gas.
• A squad of mercenaries opened fire from an overhead platform, but Sing Sing crossed the gunfire and incapacitated them without killing them.
• The crew-cut leader activated a sonic device that left Gambit and Wolverine in pain, but Sing Sing resisted its effects and smashed it.
• Sing Sing slapped the crew-cut leader into a rock wall and demanded to know where the infrastructure specialists were being held.
• The crew-cut leader pointed toward the underground depths and taunted Sing Sing to ask the incinerator how hot its fire was.

Wolverine, Gambit, and Sing Sing fought their way into the Weapon X facility’s second basement, where they found evidence that prisoners had been burned in the furnaces. Avalanche taunted them over the loudspeaker, threatening to bury them with the remains.

• Wolverine tortured the buzz-cut man for the route to the freight elevator, then killed him.
• Wolverine, Gambit, and Sing Sing fought through the facility’s guards and reached the locked door to the second basement.
• Gambit’s charged cards dented the armored door, and Wolverine’s claws could not cut through it.
• Sing Sing chopped an opening in the door with his Pig Butchering Knife, then entered the basement with Wolverine and Gambit.
• The trio found empty cells, burning furnaces, and the remains of prisoners, including a bloodstained hospital gown and a numbered wristband.
• Avalanche mocked the trio over the loudspeaker and threatened to bury them in the foundations of Las Vegas.

Gambit, Wolverine, and Sing Sing fought Avalanche as he reshaped the underground structure around them, but Sing Sing located Avalanche inside a hollow rock pillar and forced him out. Avalanche armored himself in rock and trapped Wolverine, while Sing Sing prepared to strike him in the middle of a closing wall of spikes.

• Avalanche softened and reshaped the underground structure, trapping Gambit, Wolverine, and Sing Sing as Gambit blasted the rocks and Wolverine held back the crushing dome.
• Sing Sing searched for the strongest point in the shifting rock, and Sand Rat emerged to reveal that the rock veins converged on a hollow pillar.
• Sing Sing cut open the pillar and exposed Avalanche, explaining that his experience handling meat and bones had helped him locate the rock's core.
• Avalanche covered himself in thick rock armor, trapped Wolverine's claws, and punched him into a wall.
• Gambit blasted away part of Avalanche's armor, but Avalanche instantly repaired it with surrounding rock.
• Avalanche sent stone spikes closing in on Sing Sing, who invoked the Safety Supervision Section of China's 749 Bureau and readied his Pig Butchering Knife.

Sing Sing, Wolverine, and Gambit defeated Avalanche and uncovered his crimes against the Mutants at the incinerator. After Avalanche offered information about the Silver Peak Consortium’s ledger and vault, Sing Sing killed him, and Sand Rat appeared with the vault’s spare key.

• Wolverine tried to attack Avalanche, but Sing Sing stopped him and explained how to break the rock armor without making it stronger.
• Sing Sing struck Avalanche’s knee, Gambit blasted the weakened joint, and Wolverine tore open the armor while Sing Sing cut away more of its shell.
• Sing Sing accused Avalanche of imprisoning workers, destroying evidence, and killing Mutants, then declared him permanently banned from China’s infrastructure industry.
• As Avalanche tried to escape through the earth veins, he offered the consortium’s ledger and vault riches in exchange for his life.
• Sing Sing killed Avalanche despite his offer, and Gambit asked who would open the vault.
• Sand Rat emerged from a crack carrying the vault’s spare key.

Sing Sing and his companions entered the vault beneath the incineration workshop and found four imprisoned mutants, along with records showing Silver Peak had targeted vulnerable people. As Silver Peak’s forces approached, Wolverine prepared to confront them.

• Sand Rat confessed he had turned back after hearing a child crying in the secret passage, then showed Sing Sing how to reach the vault through the maintenance shaft.
• Sing Sing, Gambit, Wolverine, and Sand Rat made their way through the shaft’s traps and opened the vault’s maintenance door.
• The group found four captives in the last makeshift cell and freed them, while the first two cells showed signs that prisoners had been dragged away.
• Sing Sing discovered files documenting Silver Peak’s targeting of poor and vulnerable people, and Sand Rat secretly pocketed an encrypted key.
• An explosion and approaching propellers warned the group that Silver Peak’s forces were closing in, and Wolverine readied his claws to fight.

After a cleanup team arrived to incinerate the underground facility and everyone in it, Sing Sing organized an escape while Wolverine stayed behind to fight. Wolverine slaughtered the cleanup squad in the flames, and the story ended with him killing its leader in an explosion.

• A broadcast ordered the Silver Peak cleanup team to incinerate the underground facility, its biological samples, and its records.
• Sing Sing assigned Sand Rat to carry the feverish young man out, Gambit to widen an escape route, and Wolverine to hold off the cleanup team.
• Gambit collapsed part of the corridor and blasted open a side wall while Sand Rat and Sing Sing led the survivors toward the escape route.
• Wolverine charged into the flames, killed the cleanup team members who attacked him, and fought through a barrage of fire and bullets.
• The cleanup team leader called for backup and identified Wolverine as Weapon X, but Wolverine seized him and smashed his head into a burning tank, causing an explosion.

Sing Sing, Gambit, and Wolverine hid with four survivors from Silver Peak’s cleanup crew, then fought off the armed team and seized a helicopter. The chapter ended with Gambit proposing they use the captured aircraft to escape.

• Sing Sing reassured the survivors and led them toward a heat-shrouded fissure as two cleanup helicopters approached.
• Gambit charged a piece of ore and destroyed one helicopter’s tail rotor, sending it crashing into the mine.
• Wolverine attacked the cleanup crew and killed the five armed members who fired at Gambit.
• Gambit inspected the remaining helicopter and called Sing Sing over to prepare to use it as their transportation.

Sing Sing brought the rescued survivors to a hidden wine cellar and established an emergency relief station, treating their injuries and learning their names and abilities. The shelter’s brief calm ended when Nina sensed a silver line connected to Sand Rat, and the group discovered he had taken a cryptographic key that could unlock an offline database.

• Sing Sing guided the group to a concealed wine cellar beneath the Redstone Beach Motel, where Sand Rat dug an escape tunnel and Sing Sing organized stolen cash into emergency funds.
• Sing Sing recorded the survivors’ names and abilities: Nina Stewart could see lines, Harry Kane could breathe underwater and detect toxins, Martha Barton could sense soil moisture, and Luke Shaw had insect wings and could detect pesticides and crop diseases.
• Sing Sing assigned the group tasks, treated Luke’s infected burns, and used money from Avalanche’s vault to obtain medicine and burritos for the survivors.
• Martha invited Wolverine to eat with the group, and he eventually accepted a burrito.
• Sand Rat reported that Silver Peak’s team was destroying records at Avalanche’s base, and Nina revealed a silver line connecting him to locked doors.
• Sand Rat dropped the cryptographic key he had taken, and Gambit recognized it as a tool for accessing an offline database while Sing Sing prepared to question Sand Rat.

Sing Sing tried to recruit Wolverine by showing him how his claws could save lives in engineering and rescue work instead of only taking them. Wolverine agreed to return with him and observe the job, but reserved the right to leave if he found it boring.

• Wolverine returned with Sing Sing to the burned ruins of the Severed Finger Bar and retrieved a deformed glass from the ashes.
• Sing Sing salvaged whiskey and peanuts, then explained that the 749 Bureau would assess Wolverine's health and background before discussing a suitable job.
• Wolverine confessed that William Stryker had turned him into a weapon, and Sing Sing argued that his claws could help with disaster recovery and emergency rescues.
• Wolverine put the glass back on the remains of the bar counter and said he would not sign an indenture, so Sing Sing proposed a verbal probation agreement.
• Wolverine asked whether the bureau cafeteria served alcohol, then agreed to return with Sing Sing and watch the work before deciding whether to stay.

Sing Sing recruited Wolverine and Sand Rat for the China delegation while Gambit declined, though Sing Sing left him a contract and travel money. Blue-skinned Wandering Girl arrived by teleportation to join them, carrying milk tea.

• Sing Sing announced that Wolverine had joined the delegation and reassured Martha that the group would be protected by the unit.
• Sing Sing offered Sand Rat a chance to work for an outsourced drilling crew if he stayed out of trouble.
• Gambit declined to go to China, but Sing Sing gave him a contract and two hundred dollars as emergency travel funds.
• Sing Sing contacted Blue Elf and arranged for Wandering Girl to bring food and drinks to the wine cellar.
• Wandering Girl teleported into the wine cellar and told Wolverine that she had quit drinking and now drank full-sugar milk tea.

Wandering Girl teleported Sing Sing, Wolverine, and four rescued patients from the United States to the 749 Bureau headquarters, where the medical team prepared to treat them. Director Wang confronted Sing Sing over the chaos he had caused overseas.

• Wandering Girl demanded milk tea, roast duck, and paid leave before agreeing to teleport the group to headquarters.
• Wandering Girl brought Martha, Nina, Harry, Luke, Wolverine, Sing Sing, and a large case through a rift into the medical corridor.
• Wolverine threatened the approaching doctors, but Sing Sing reassured him that he was safe and persuaded him to retract his claws.
• Sing Sing handed the briefcase to Xiao Liu and told him to preserve the bone spikes for Da Vinci to study.
• Director Wang accused Sing Sing of causing an international shootout, raiding a gang's vault, and looting casino supplies, while Sing Sing claimed he had acted in self-defense.

Director Wang ordered the four critically ill foreigners treated and placed under the 749 Bureau’s protection, while Sing Sing tried to secure supplies and reimbursement. Wolverine bathed, changed into an ill-fitting uniform, and sat quietly in the hallway as the Bureau cared for the patients.

• A doctor reported that Logan, the boy, Martha, and Nina had severe medical needs, and Director Wang made treatment their priority.
• Logan distrusted the authorities and revealed his claws, but Sing Sing identified him as a reserve recruit and Director Wang ordered him to bathe.
• Sing Sing requested body wash and other supplies, but Director Wang rejected the imported products and threatened to audit Sing Sing’s accounts.
• A nurse gently checked Nina while Martha sang to soothe her, and Secretary Liu brought warm water and candy.
• Director Wang issued a level-one protection order for the four patients and authorized treatment costs from an overseas relief fund.
• Sing Sing tried to claim reimbursement for his expenses, but Director Wang refused without receipts; Logan then emerged from his bath and sat quietly on a hallway bench.

Sing Sing welcomed the newcomers to the Siheyuan, assigning them rooms and hosting a hot pot dinner that strained his budget. As the group settled in after the meal, the Mutants began to feel at home.

• Sing Sing told Director Wang he would temporarily house the newcomers in the Siheyuan and host a welcome dinner, but the director refused to reimburse him.
• Sing Sing assigned rooms according to the newcomers’ needs, while Sand Rat was placed beside the storeroom under surveillance and Wolverine received the room by the front gate.
• Sing Sing arranged a hot pot feast, but Xiao Liu informed him that the bill would be deducted from his salary.
• Wolverine ruined the black tripe and dumped raw lamb into the pot, prompting Sing Sing to demonstrate how to cook the tripe properly.
• Martha and Nina helped clear the table after dinner as the newcomers relaxed around the courtyard, and Sand Rat decided the place was not bad.

Sing Sing and Director Wang began assigning jobs to the rescued outsiders, introducing a translation device that revealed their unspoken thoughts. Wolverine rejected the placement process and insisted he only wanted to be left alone.

• Director Wang arrived with Xiao Liu, who brought a prototype cross-language communication device, and Sing Sing distributed the earpieces for testing.
• The device translated Sand Rat Miguel Roque’s speech into an honest confession that he would work without overtime pay, while Wandering Girl’s test produced a wildly inaccurate translation that made Wolverine laugh.
• Director Wang ordered Sing Sing to hold a job assessment meeting and prepare placement recommendations for the rescued newcomers.
• Sing Sing set up a whiteboard listing Luke Shaw, Harry Kane, Nina Stewart, Martha Barton, Sand Rat Miguel Roque, and Wolverine Logan Howlett for job assignments.
• Wolverine stood up, rejected any assigned job, and told Sing Sing he wanted only to stay somewhere no one would bother him.

Sing Sing persuaded Director Wang to let Wolverine hunt legally at Peach Mountain Natural Wildlife Breeding and Hunting Grounds as an ecological recuperation trial. Sing Sing, Wolverine, and Wandering Girl set off by teleportation to Northeast China, with Sing Sing responsible for ensuring the permits were filed.

• Wolverine said he wanted trees and prey, not beds, interrogations, or people asking about his kills.
• Sing Sing proposed legal hunting at Peach Mountain and showed Wolverine the grounds’ official document and list of permitted prey.
• Director Wang approved the trial on the condition that Sing Sing accompany Wolverine and arrange all required paperwork.
• Sing Sing warned Wolverine to check the protected wildlife list and assigned Blue Elf to teleport them to the nearest county town.
• Wandering Girl grabbed Sing Sing and Wolverine, and the three vanished as Wolverine protested the teleportation ride.