Chapter 472
A day has passed in the blink of an eye.
A year has passed in the blink of an eye.
Twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye.
Su Quan was so happy that he didn't even realize what was going on. The young girls around him, like Mariko Yashida and Yukio, had already grown into beautiful young women, mature enough to blossom and bear fruit.
The number of Mutants on the island is increasing. In addition to the Gifted world sending Mutants over periodically, Jean Grey and Storm occasionally bring people back when they return to the Old Timeline.
Not to mention the new timeline where Void Island are located. Although Void Island are isolated overseas, the Hellfire Club has been developing.
Besides the Mutants brought back from the club, Void Island, a Mutants paradise, has long been famous among the general Mutants community.
Many people went to great lengths and overcame numerous difficulties to find Void Island and earnestly requested to join.
Today, tens of thousands of Mutants live on the Void Island, a scale comparable to many small towns outside the core areas, and they are completely self-sufficient and form their own community.
I won't go into all the details, but I'll just mention the few teams that were formed.
X factor.
X-Force.
And the Void Guard.
The X Factor is led by the White Queen, with the Little White Queen in charge, and Doctor Reyes and others involved. It is specifically responsible for training the New Mutants to master the ability.
The X-Force is led by the Black King, with Big Raven in charge, and Nightcrawler and others participating. Their special task is to fight against the enemy and protect the Void Island.
Although the Void Guard are called Void Guardians, they are actually Su Quan's private guards, specifically responsible for Su Quan's affairs.
This team also has the attribute of maintaining order in the Multiverse, but the relevant content and personnel are not yet complete, so we will ignore it for the time being.
The current squad members are quite impressive: the captain is the Red Queen, the vice-captain Phoenix, and the members include Polaris, Shadowcat, Lifeguard, X-23, Lauren, Rogue, Little Mystique, Twisted, and Big Blink.
Of course, this is just a provisional list of members and is subject to change at any time.
Cairo, Cairo.
In a certain market, Su Quan booked the best-class restaurant nearby.
It's said to be the best in terms of quality, but that's only because of its competitors. In reality, it doesn't even have decent doors and windows, making it practically open-air.
In addition, the roads outside are all dirt roads, and when the wind blows, dust flies everywhere, and yellow sand fills the sky!
If it weren't for Su Quan's clever measures to isolate the space, let alone the dining experience, just sitting here would mean getting a face full of sand.
Su Quan brought his own drinks and food, and while leisurely sipping his drink, he watched a girl with a mohawk hairstyle in the market outside the window.
"No wonder you didn't bring Storm with you. I really didn't expect the young Storm in this world to be like this."
Jean Grey sat opposite Su Quan, also looking at the girl, shaking her head teasingly.
Cairo, a mohawk—it's obvious this girl is the future Storm, Ororo Munroe!
If it weren't for Su Quan, she would have encountered the newly awakened Apocalypse soon after, and then had her abilities enhanced by Apocalypse, becoming one of the new generation of Four Horsemen.
Now, what Apocalypse can do, Su Quan can also do; what Apocalypse cannot do, Su Quan can also do!
Instead of following Apocalypse as one of the Four Horsemen with no future, wouldn't it be better to follow Su Quan?
Her good luck has arrived.
Of course, Ororo Munroe had no idea that such incredible luck was about to strike her; at that moment, she was looking for a target to take advantage of.
Suddenly, her eyes lit up slightly as she fixed her gaze on a money box at a nearby stall.
Looking around and seeing that no one was paying attention, her eyes instantly rolled back, and then a gust of wind carrying yellow sand suddenly blew up.
People around instinctively turned their backs to avoid him. Seeing this opportunity, Ororo Munroe rushed towards the target, opened the money box, grabbed a handful, and then ran away amidst the stall owner's shouts and curses.
"Damn thief, grab him!"
The stall owner called out to his friends and family while relentlessly pursuing them.
As Ororo Munroe ran out of the market and into the alley, Su Quan smiled slightly and ordered, "Lauren, Raven, go and bring her here."
"Good."
Lauren and Raven got up and left the restaurant, heading towards the alley.
Inside the alley, Ororo Munroe was trapped in a pincer movement.
In front of her were burly men wielding sticks, and behind her was a stall owner with a dagger. On both sides were towering mud walls, making her situation virtually impossible to escape.
"Do you know what happens to thieves?" The stall owner laughed heartily, looking smugly at the girl who had nowhere to run.
Call the police?
Lock them up?
No, no, no, there's an unwritten rule here: whichever hand steals the item, that hand gets broken!
"Which hand do you choose?" the stall owner asked, looking at her two hands with a mocking expression.
Ororo Munroe gasped in panic. Although she possessed special abilities, they were far too weak to help her escape, much less defeat the two men.
She was afraid—afraid that her hand would be broken, and even more afraid that she wouldn't be able to earn money after her hand was broken, and wouldn't be able to support herself and the children who were even younger than her.
Now, she only has two choices.
It's either fight to the death or beg for mercy.
Ororo Munroe took a deep breath, about to beg for mercy, when she suddenly heard a soft shout.
"Enough!"
Hearing the sound, the stall owner turned around, looked at the two young and beautiful women, and smiled.
He brandished a dagger and shouted, "This has nothing to do with you. If you're in cahoots, I suggest you get out of here!"
"You're in cahoots and you're telling us to leave? Heh, you're pretty fair," Lauren said with a grin.
Twenty years have passed, and Lauren hasn't changed much, except that she's grown up a lot, gotten taller, and her... well, she's gotten bigger.
"Get out of here before I change my mind!" the stall owner said impatiently.
Lauren shook her head and said regretfully, "I'm afraid that won't work. We're ordered to take her back. If you don't let her go, we won't be able to explain ourselves."
You're ordered to take me back?
By whose orders?
Where are you taking me back to?
Ororo Munroe was completely bewildered, but wisely remained silent. Regardless of who they were, she decided to get through this first.
"Get out of here, or I'll make things difficult for you!" The stall owner brandished a dagger at Lauren and Raven.
Raven snorted, shoved his hand away, and kicked him in the shin.
"Bang!"
The stall owner winced in pain, his lower leg arched backward, his knee bent, and he ended up kneeling on one knee.
"Bang!"
Raven's knee slammed into the stall owner's face, and the stall owner groaned and fell to the ground.
The man blocking Ororo Munroe's path saw the stall owner being knocked to the ground and, without thinking, swung his stick at Ororo Munroe.
It's obvious that he also considered Lauren and Raven to be Ororo Munroe's accomplices.
Since your accomplices have made a move, I'll make a move against you too. Is that reasonable?
Ororo Munroe: I don't know them.
To be fair, Lauren and Raven were clearly there for her, so it's not an exaggeration to say they were in cahoots.
Ororo Munroe wouldn't really protest her innocence, since, after all, they had come to save her.
"Buzz!"
Just as Ororo Munroe instinctively raised her arm to block, an invisible wall appeared out of thin air, blocking the falling stick for her.
Ororo Munroe was stunned, as was the man wielding the stick.
Immediately afterwards, Ororo Munroe stared wide-eyed at Lauren had raised her hand.
She did it!
She, she also has special abilities!
"Let's go, the master is waiting."
Raven called out to her, and Ororo Munroe walked over hesitantly.
"What about the stolen money? Give it back."
"..."
Ororo Munroe never expected that she would ask her to pay back the money. "I worked so hard to steal this, why should I pay it back?"
These two people may be of the same kind, but their skin color, temperament, and clothing clearly indicate that they are from a different world, so they naturally look down on his methods of theft.
Well, she only thought about it in her mind. She still obediently put the stolen money on the stall owner's body, then followed the two people out of the alley, through the market, and into the restaurant.