At the sight of this, Magneto immediately levitated a mass of metal and aimed it at Li Shimin and the others. "Put that girl down!"
Si Zi was their future now. Yet this stranger had inexplicably come through the Light Gate and picked her up without a word. They were not about to stand for that.
Li Shimin glanced at Magneto. "Oh, metal manipulation? A bit like a Magnet-Magnet Fruit user."
Then he looked at Pyro, Iceman, and Stormfront...
After looking around, Li Shimin's eyes gradually lit up. These were all talented people.
They looked like foreigners, admittedly. But Li Shimin did not care about that. If they were useful, he would take them back first.
Did it matter what your workhorses looked like?
They just needed to work hard.
There were still plenty of castrated Kunlun Slaves building roads back in the Great Tang, and he had never turned his nose up at them.
Blink suddenly flicked her hand, and a hole appeared out of nowhere in front of her. A matching hole appeared beside Li Chengqian, and she reached through it, trying to take Si Zi from his arms.
Li Chengqian merely glanced at the hole beside him and looked through it at Blink, then paid her no further attention. Holding Si Zi, he vanished in a flash and appeared beside Empress Zhangsun, handing Si Zi to her. "Mother."
Empress Zhangsun took Si Zi with a smile. Seeing her child sleeping so soundly put her much more at ease.
Although she knew no one could hurt Si Zi, as her mother, she still instinctively worried.
Li Chengqian's speed left everyone present stunned. Professor X finally reacted and said, "Everyone, stand down. They aren't our enemies."
"Charles, they have Si Zi!" Magneto was getting anxious. Si Zi was practically