Death Island, the Plan

Xu Mo did not care about Professor X and the others' speculations.

At that moment, he was sitting on a cruise ship, listening to Eric explain his plan for founding the Mutant Kingdom.

According to him, the reason he had gone to such lengths to obtain a large sum of money was to establish a nation for Mutants.

He had already chosen the location: an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.

Of course, putting it into practice might not be as simple as it sounded.

Construction could be done gradually, but they first needed their own defensive force.

So, he had found connections in Russia and planned to buy a few nuclear bombs.

After repeated failures, Eric had realized that relying purely on brute force seemed incapable of fulfilling his ambitions, which was why he planned to take a more roundabout route.

After hearing his grand plan, Xu Mo could not help admiring Magneto's persistence.

After giving it some careful thought, Xu Mo felt that although Magneto's idea was somewhat naive and unlikely to succeed, establishing the organization's headquarters on the archipelago was not a bad choice.

Besides, Eric had already purchased the islands through some means.

They were located a thousand nautical miles east of the United States and were called the Death Islands.

Death Island lay along the shipping route between the United States, Canada, and Europe. Since the waters around the archipelago were filled with dense reefs, they had formed a natural shipwreck graveyard, hence the name.

The main island of the archipelago covered more than two thousand square kilometers, more than enough space to construct all kinds of facilities.

They boarded the yacht.

Xu Mo and the others headed straight east.

Several hours later.

The yacht had entered the Death Islands.

With Magneto controlling it, the yacht docked smoothly at the main island.

The main island was roughly oval-shaped.

The island was thick with trees, and several houses made entirely of metal had already been built amid the lush jungle.

Clearly, these were all Magneto's handiwork.

Upon entering one of the metal houses, they saw more than a dozen piles of U.S. dollars as tall as a person.

"These are all the funds I've collected over the past two years. After deducting the cost of buying the island, this is all that's left—a total of 1.6 billion U.S. dollars!"

Neither Xu Mo nor the White Queen showed any change in expression.

Not to mention Xu Mo's fortune of hundreds of billions, even the White Queen had controlled wealth measured in tens of billions when she ran the Hellfire Club. Naturally, a mere one or two billion dollars would not move them.

Xu Mo stepped forward and picked up a stack of bills.

Thanks to Magneto's ability, the room was well sealed and kept out the moisture from outside.

Since they had decided to establish a base on the island, they naturally had much to prepare.

The island's buildings would be easy enough to handle.

Before buying the island, Magneto had already surveyed it. There were abundant metal deposits beneath it, and with his ability, he could easily establish a base forged from steel on the island.

All that remained were research and logistics personnel.

That would be simple as well. Recruiting them would be too troublesome; it would be better to abduct a batch from those underground organizations. As long as the White Queen helped wash their brains, they would become the most loyal subordinates.

Xu Mo tossed the stack of U.S. dollars back.

He looked at a twin-tailed girl standing behind them.

This girl was one of the Mutants they had brought back.

Her ability was nothing remarkable. Her movements were merely three times faster than an ordinary person's.

However, she had another identity: Shadow, a renowned hacker on the internet!

Her most brilliant feat had been infiltrating S.H.I.E.L.D.'s network and replacing Nick Fury's profile picture with a photo of a black bald egg.

"Shirley, if I give you the approximate locations of several underground organizations, can you determine the exact coordinates of their bases?"

Shirley confidently patted her flat chest.

"Of course!"

Xu Mo nodded in satisfaction, then turned his gaze toward Mystique, Raven.

"Record all the information you know about the Sentinel Robots headquarters!"

Since the island was to serve as a base, they naturally needed to strengthen its defenses.

Those Sentinel Robots were a good choice.

These robots were far from useful only against Mutants. Each one possessed the abilities of several Mutants, and their combat strength was no less than that of Level Four Mutants like Emma.

As long as they gathered enough of them.

Not only would defending this small island be no problem, even taking over the entire United States would not be difficult.

Upon hearing this, Raven showed a troubled expression.

"I don't think people like us can take down the Sentinel Robots headquarters. It has all kinds of weapons designed specifically to deal with Mutants. Even Emma's psychic ability can't penetrate the base!"

"Don't worry, you don't need to concern yourselves with that. I have my own way. You only need to organize all the information you know!"

Seeing that Xu Mo did not seem to be lying, Raven nodded helplessly.

"That's easy. I can give it to you tonight!"

Nodding, Xu Mo finally turned his gaze to Eric.

"Your next task is to first construct the main buildings of the base, then take the others to salvage the shipwrecks around the island!"

He could not understand what Magneto had been thinking before.

Instead of excavating the island's enormous treasury, he had relied on gangs like Kingpin to help him accumulate wealth.

The reason this place was called Death Island was because there were countless reefs within several hundred nautical miles around it.

And for that very reason, there were innumerable shipwrecks in those waters.

Some of them were shipwrecks from centuries ago.

They were all treasures.

Salvaging the treasure or antiques from any one ship would bring in more than those gangs earned in several years.

As he spoke, Xu Mo looked toward a Mutant named John beside him.

"The salvage work will mainly depend on you!"

John had previously been tortured unconscious by the White Queen, tossed onto the ship, and brought here as well.

Unexpectedly, he was now going to be put to great use.

Magneto could only salvage metal ships and objects. The rest would have to rely on John.

Upon hearing this, John hurriedly nodded.

After learning of Xu Mo's plan, these Mutants were all extremely excited.

Unlike Magneto, they only wanted to live somewhere safe and undisturbed, and this island was undoubtedly a highly suitable place.

Moreover, judging from the fact that even Magneto had submitted, Xu Mo was undoubtedly even stronger.

He was fully capable of protecting them.

Naturally, every one of them was brimming with enthusiasm.

After arranging everything and instructing Emma to oversee the overall situation, Xu Mo came to a cliff at the edge of the island.

After controlling his flying knives to carve out a small room of more than ten square meters in the cliff face, he flashed inside.

He had accumulated enough points. It was time to break through to Planetary Level.