Wolverine

"Buzzzzz..." The shrill air-raid siren shattered the peaceful life carried by the sea breeze and waves.

It was a coastal city in Japan called Nagasaki City. As for why the air-raid siren had sounded, that went back to the underhanded dealings of a certain arms dealer. Although Tang Tian did not fully participate in the war, he would show no mercy toward that twisted people who were "born beneath mushroom clouds and died beneath mushroom clouds." Dying beneath a nuclear mushroom cloud was the best choice for them.

Japan's sentries reacted quickly. The moment they spotted the distant United States B-29 bombers, they sounded the air-raid alarm. When Japan had first heard that the United States had developed a weapon of mass destruction called the "atomic bomb," it had dismissively believed it was merely a slightly larger bomb. After the United States military's warnings proved useless, however, the arrogantly self-assured Hiroshima had been erased from the map. While Japan was still horrified by the deaths of over a hundred thousand people, another devastating disaster arrived.

After the Japanese sentries sounded the alarm, Ichiro Yashida, an officer, also rang a dull bell.

In a dark, lightless deep well, Wolverine Logan had been separated from his brother Victor after the war. During the Pacific War, he and some United States soldiers had been captured by Japan's elite forces. Captured—yes, captured. Although Wolverine possessed a body with a healing factor that allowed rapid recovery, even he could not withstand the attacks of several thousand regular soldiers. After the Japanese discovered the monster's special physique, they imprisoned him in the deep well, leaving him unable to escape.

Logan extended his bone claws and lodged them across the mouth of the well, expressionlessly observing the chaotic scene outside the concentration camp. At times, he watched the officers' movements; at others, he watched the officers in the sentry towers. Wolverine Logan naturally was not afraid of this nuclear explosion. The blast's power would weaken in the deep well, so he only needed some time to recover.

"Fuck! Where are you going? Help us! Let us out!" As the Japanese soldiers ran about in confusion, the United States prisoners of war in the concentration camp grew anxious and cursed at them. They were not fools. They naturally understood that such chaos among the Japanese meant something terrible had happened. They wanted to get out as quickly as possible. Of course, most Japanese soldiers did nothing, instead preparing to commit seppuku and die for some idiot.

Ichiro Yashida, unlike the other officers, drew his katana and came to the gate holding the prisoners. "Over here!" Seeing someone coming to save them, the prisoners quickly called out in fluent American English. "Bang!" His faintly glowing red katana severed the iron chains, freeing the prisoners of war, who scattered and ran in every direction.

The Yashida Family was one of Japan's great families, possessing corporations rich enough to rival a nation. Though it could not compare to an Umbrella branch, it was still far from weak. Ichiro Yashida was the son of the current family head and also a mutant. He could produce an energy similar to superluminal ions, channel it into his katana, and use it to cut through any metal except Adamantium. He was also the future Silver Samurai, Wolverine's greatest enemy.

"Bang bang bang bang bang..." As rifles fired from the sentry towers, some of the United States prisoners of war who had just escaped fell. But compared to the danger to their lives that was about to arrive, it was nothing. The prisoners kept running.

"Cease fire! Cease fire immediately!" Ichiro Yashida, barely in his twenties, was still kind-hearted, so he ordered the sentries to stop firing. Otherwise, he would not have released so many prisoners in the first place. This formed a stark contrast with the future ruthless Silver Samurai, who would do anything to live forever.

Ichiro Yashida smiled as he watched the prisoners run farther and farther away. Having regained their freedom, they ran toward the shore. Then he spotted Wolverine, tightly confined in the deep well at its mouth. Ichiro Yashida hurried to the well and, to Wolverine's astonishment, cut through the chains sealing it. As Ichiro Yashida cut the chains, Wolverine jumped back down. He understood that nowhere was safe; the power of nuclear weapons was not something one could simply run away from.

"Go! Go! Get out of here!" Ichiro Yashida shouted to Wolverine in the deep well.

"Brother, that's a weapon carried by a B-29 bomber. You can't escape it." Wolverine looked at Ichiro Yashida as if he were an idiot, proving the terror of being uneducated. Clearly, the nuclear blast could not be avoided, yet he had released those prisoners like a fool.

"Yashida, come here! The time has come to die for XX! Japan, banzai!" the commander of the Japanese concentration camp cried fanatically. In sight, several other officers had also prepared to commit seppuku for some idiot.

"You're safer down there. If I were you, I'd move faster." Although Wolverine had always been a loner and did not care about people unrelated to him, Ichiro Yashida's release of the United States prisoners had left him with a favorable impression. So he decided to give him a way to survive.

However, Ichiro Yashida was still called over by his superior. On the way, he swallowed with difficulty. Watching the Japanese officers die and seeing the B-29 bombers draw closer, Ichiro Yashida hardened his heart and prepared to kill himself.

At that moment, the B-29 bomber had already dropped Little Boy. The instant the nuclear weapon exploded, it was as though ten million little suns had erupted, producing a massive mushroom cloud. Within a few microseconds, endless heat, super-pressure, radioactive debris, shockwaves, light radiation, nuclear rays, nuclear electromagnetic pulses, and more surged outward. Faced with the world-ending weapon before him, Ichiro Yashida lost even the courage to kill himself and stared blankly at the mushroom cloud rising into the sky. Of course, one could not run from a world-ending weapon. All one could do was put on sunglasses and quietly wait for death to arrive. Tang Tian himself also greatly admired mushrooms—though not ordinary mushrooms, but the gigantic mushroom clouds created by nuclear explosions.

"Run!" Watching the mushroom cloud draw closer and closer, Ichiro Yashida truly wanted to kill himself this time, because no one wanted to die beneath such a terrifying weapon. Wolverine rushed out in time, dragged Ichiro Yashida into the deep well, and used the well's cover to shield him from most of the shockwave and heat that followed.

"No, we still can't go out. It isn't safe outside yet. We'll go out later," Wolverine explained as he looked at the tense Ichiro Yashida.

What Wolverine did not know was that the person he had saved would find him before his death in the future. On the surface, it would be to repay him, but in truth, he wanted Wolverine's power. The future Silver Samurai was born here.