"You can call me Remy. I mean you no harm."
Remy slowly walked forward.
"Remy?" Lynn furrowed his brow.
He wasn't very familiar with Marvel, but the name Remy did ring a bell.
If he remembered correctly, the mutant Remy Etienne LeBeau was Gambit.
He could charge any object with kinetic energy and then detonate it.
Gambit Remy stopped five meters away from Lynn and slowly asked:
"I came to invite you. Would you like to join our mutant organization?"
"You want me to join a mutant organization?"
Lynn narrowed his eyes. He knew a little about the mutant organizations in Marvel from his previous life.
Most mutant organizations took in weak, first- or second-level mutants, giving them a chance to survive being hunted by armed personnel from the bases.
Remy nodded and said:
"That's right. You're being hunted, but the place where our organization is based is completely safe. Those guys will never find it.
"And there are plenty of fellow mutants there. You're not alone."
Lynn happened to need somewhere to settle down and train in Electric Current Drive so he could grow stronger.
Since Gambit Remy's mutant organization had a safe place, he could go there for now and lie low.
Thinking it over, Lynn nodded. "Sure."
Just as Lynn was following Gambit to the mutant safe house in the city—
"Shit! Did that kid really get away?"
The bald man scratched his head, looking around the streets in confusion.
They had searched the entire city from end to end today, but hadn't found a trace of that mutant.
Could Subject 52 change into someone else?
How was that possible?
Subject 52 wasn't Mystique.
"Don't worry, Regan. I've calculated it. Unless he can keep moving at that super-high speed, he can't escape the city."
Cavan sat behind the tank's driver's seat, holding a tablet.
Looking at the information on the screen, Cavan's lips curled into a cold, cruel smile.
"His ability is astonishing, and his potential is immense, but he hasn't developed it yet. So Subject 52 is still weak. That's why he's hiding from us."
He believed that although Lynn's demonstrated ability was terrifying, it was still only within the range of a Level Three mutant.
Just like that Wolverine: hit him with heavy weapons, missiles, and tanks, and you could capture him.
Then—
Dissect his body and uncover every secret of his ability.
"Besides, before we came out, Commander Black Skull gave me a device that can detect mutant energy."
As he spoke, Cavan took a drone out of the backpack beside him.
"If we use this to patrol the area, it'll detect the mutant energy in those damned mutants."
Whirrrrr!!
As its propellers began spinning, the drone slowly rose out of the tank.
The mutant-energy detector mounted on it began operating as well.
Soon, it transmitted the mutant-energy readings in the surrounding area to the tablet in Cavan's hands.
Beep! Beep! Beep!!
Suddenly, an alarm sounded from the tablet.
Cavan looked at the cluster of mutant energy displayed on the screen.
A sinister grin spread across his face. "Found them! And there's more than one. There really is a mutant organization here!"
Looking at the dozens of red dots indicating mutant energy on the screen, Cavan was overjoyed.
He hadn't forgotten the state his brother-in-law Grant had been left in after those damned mutants blasted him.
This time, no matter what, he was going to take all those damned mutants back with him.
With that thought, Cavan gave his men their orders:
"Head east across the city. Don't alert them! This time, we're taking every last one of those damned mutants back with us!"
The eastern slums.
Low, filthy houses stood everywhere, and pale severed hands and feet occasionally drifted through the open sewers.
Inside an abandoned factory.
Lynn looked around at the factory's crumbling, dilapidated interior and asked:
"This is where your mutant organization is based?"
Remy raised an eyebrow and explained:
"Of course not. This is just a place to hide. The Brotherhood isn't based here."
"The Brotherhood?"
"Of course. The Brotherhood of Mutants was founded by Magneto, a Level Four mutant.
"Its purpose is to unite all our mutant brothers and sisters and build a New World where mutants can survive."
Hearing Gambit Remy's explanation, Lynn nodded, growing curious about the Brotherhood of Mutants.
He was planning to fight the base, and fighting the base meant taking on all of America.
The Brotherhood of Mutants might be a good choice.
Soon, Gambit led Lynn deeper into the abandoned factory.
Along the way, Lynn saw many deformed mutants living there.
There were mutant children too, who could barely manage to live normal lives with the help of others.
Following Lynn's gaze, Gambit saw a mutant boy with a chicken-like head, dressed in overalls.
The boy was struggling to peck at the black bread on his plate with his beak.
Remy sighed.
"They don't have any powerful abilities. Their X-Gene just mutated, deforming their bodies, and now those heartless bastards hunt them down."
Lynn nodded. Back in prison, he'd seen plenty of deformed mutants being humiliated by the guards.
Even some mutants looked down on their deformed kind.
Those deformed Level One mutants not only faced discrimination and ridicule from ordinary people, but were often bullied by their fellow mutants as well.
"Get some rest here for now. In a while, I'll take you to meet our leader—Magneto."
After showing Lynn to a room, Gambit Remy left.
"Whew... A mutant organization..."
Sitting on the bed, Lynn began thinking over everything he'd seen.
He was a pretty selfish person. He'd chosen to join this mutant organization because he would eventually have to face the base and all of America.
But after seeing everything on the way here, he couldn't help feeling troubled.
"Forget it. I need to train in Electric Current Drive as quickly as possible."
With that thought, Lynn began to stir the golden current between the cells throughout his body.
Stimulated by the current, his cells began rubbing together at high speed.
Even the air seemed to fill with countless tiny golden snakes of lightning, darting about.
Time passed, second by second.
Crackle!!
Golden lightning coursed over Lynn's body and spread throughout the room.
Bang!
The terrifying current shattered the glass window, sending shards flying into the walls.
Thud! Thud! Thud!!
The tiny pieces of glass embedded themselves in the walls, making for a shocking sight.
Lynn slowly opened his eyes, a brilliant gleam flashing in them.
"I can't believe that simply feeling empathy brought my Electric Current Drive straight up to 80,000 volts."
The 80,000-volt Electric Current Drive was still weak.
But combined with Lightning Release Chakra and DC Lynn's incredible physical strength—
Perhaps he could beat the Hulk outright now.
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