"What do you mean by this?!" the director shouted. "You damned Mutants—are you trying to kidnap us?!"
"We're saving you," Magneto said calmly. "The two Avengers teams are fighting like mad out there. If you go out now, how is that any different from throwing your lives away? Even if the Avengers don't kill you, the people who don't want Orchis Forge falling into enemy hands won't let you off either."
Stark couldn't help giving Magneto a couple more looks. This universe's Magneto really did have a good temper. It wasn't even fair to call him emotionally stable—he could practically be considered a saint.
After all, the people in this laboratory were the ones who had developed Orchis Forge and Mother Mold. They could absolutely be called the enemies of Mutants. Yet Magneto could still stand here and explain things calmly. No wonder all the other Magnetos' uniforms were black, while his was white. A rare variant really was different.
However, a good temper also had its drawbacks. In the brief time it took him to explain those few sentences, the woman beside the director—the one holding a gun—suddenly pressed a button. Stark felt a faint tremor come from beneath the laboratory, as if something had been released.
Magneto also sensed something. His expression changed, and he whipped around. A burly figure smashed through the floor and flew into the laboratory. Magneto gritted his teeth and said, "Sentinel robot!"
Stark turned to look as well. It was an extremely tall, powerful, silver-gray robot. However, because the Mutants of the Central Universe had developed too smoothly, Stark had never researched Sentinel robots. He only knew that these robots seemed to be divided into several levels, and judging from Magneto's expression, the one in front of them was fairly high-level.
"You take