Removing Cerebro's helmet, Professor Charles's eyes flickered slightly. Unlike when he had dealt with Senator Kelly, he did not rush to locate Erik. Instead, he hesitated over whether to turn a blind eye.
Professor Charles had been so anxious about Senator Kelly and the United Nations summit only because Magneto's device was defective and would kill people.
But now Magneto seemed to have solved that problem, and rather than carrying out the conversions openly, he was doing them in secret.
If that could slowly bring officials who opposed mutants over to their side, even Professor Charles would be tempted.
In fact, once Professor Charles deduced that Magneto had probably gone quiet to improve the Mutant Converter, he had already begun considering whether he should stop Magneto's plan at all.
Otherwise, Professor Charles would not have waited until now to consider using special methods to locate Magneto.
But if the truth came out, mutants would undoubtedly become everyone's target.
Awakening on one's own was one thing. Being turned into a mutant by someone else was another.
According to the research Professor Charles and his colleagues had conducted, more and more people would awaken their X-Gene over time, until everyone became a mutant.
However, most ordinary scientists had not accepted that theory. The main reason was that mutants generally would not hand themselves over to ordinary humans for research, so the theory had only been verified among certain mutant scientists.
Thus, when Magneto's actions were exposed one day, the ordinary humans who had not yet been converted would certainly react with some resistance.
After all, only a minority could awaken as Alpha- or Beta-level mutants. Far more people developed largely useless abilities, and they might also undergo changes to their appearance, something many people could not accept.
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