"Get Eric over here!"
Hearing Xu Mo's instruction, Emma finally pulled back her lingering gaze.
Only then did she notice that in the distant sky, Magneto Eric was floating in the air, and beneath his feet, a massive vessel comparable to a luxury cruise ship was slowly rising to the water's surface.
Clearly, they had already begun acting according to Xu Mo's plan.
In Xu Mo's view, White Queen alone was enough to completely take down the Hydra Base.
After all, the Hydra Base did not seem to have any formidable combat personnel to speak of.
It amounted to nothing more than some conventional combat weapons.
Inside were merely ordinary people.
Facing White Queen's telepathic abilities, with no specialized preventive measures, they could almost be said to have zero ability to resist.
However, Xu Mo's purpose was not to annihilate the base.
It was to make the entire base his own, including not only the researchers and soldiers, but also all the various equipment and machinery inside.
This involved a problem: all these things needed to be transported back.
Although Xu Mo was capable of handling all of this himself.
Yet when he had subordinates who could do the work for him, why bother exerting himself.
Weren't subordinates meant to be used.
Eastern Europe.
Sokovia.
The Hydra Base located on a certain mountain.
In the woods halfway up the mountain, a spatial gate slowly opened.
The three of them stepped out from the spatial gate.
Looking up at the vintage ancient building on the mountain peak, Xu Mo turned to look at Emma behind him.
"I'll leave the rest to you!"
"Of course!"
White Queen nodded, stepped forward two steps, and silver light flared brightly in her eyes.
In less than ten seconds.
The corners of Emma's mouth curved slightly upward.
"Found you!"
Before setting off, Xu Mo had already informed her that the person in charge of the base was a man named Strucker, and as long as he was controlled, this Hydra Base could be smoothly taken over.
"The room in the southeast corner on the top floor of the base!"
Just as White Queen's voice fell, another spatial gate appeared in front of the three of them.
Once the three of them passed through the spatial gate, they had already appeared in the room Emma mentioned.
This room looked like an office.
At this moment in the room, a middle-aged man with short hair was standing blankly in front of the desk.
Xu Mo walked forward, sat down on the chair behind the desk, and then gave Emma a look.
Emma nodded, and with a snap of her fingers, the man came to his senses as if waking from a long dream.
Noticing the three people who had suddenly appeared in the room, his expression changed.
His figure retreated a few steps without a trace, looking at the three of them with a cautious expression on his face.
"What people are you, and why did you appear in my room?"
At the same time, he put his right hand behind his back, touching the hard object in his hand, and his heart steadied.
Then he neatly drew his gun, took aim, and fired!
The entire sequence of actions took less than a second, and Baron Strucker was certain that even the most powerful mercenary could not move faster than him.
He was confident that the opponents could not possibly react in such a short time.
The reality was indeed as he expected.
The three of them made no dodging movements, letting the bullets pass right through their glabella.
Baron Strucker looked at the three corpses lying on the ground and let out a long breath.
Yet before he could even rejoice.
A sound of applause came from within the room.
Then the scene before his eyes dissipated like foam.
And the three people who had already died appeared in the room once more, still standing in their previous positions.
The one making the clapping sound was precisely the young man sitting in the seat.
Seeing this scene, a trace of cold sweat slid down Strucker's forehead.
How is this possible, I clearly...
His worldview received a massive shock.
Xu Mo watched his expression of doubting life, a trace of a smile appearing on his face.
I must say, using Emma's abilities to deal with these ordinary people was simply a dimensionality-reduction strike.
Even Emma before cultivating the Phantom Demon Secret Art could easily play them in the palm of her hand, let alone Emma today.
Give her a year or two of development time, and probably even Professor X would have no way to pierce through her illusions.
Compared to an Emma who cultivated the Phantom Demon Secret Art, it was equivalent to a barefoot doctor versus a PhD graduate from a regular medical university.
It wasn't that Professor X's talent wasn't strong enough.
Rather, it was the gap in their cognitive levels.
One relied entirely on self-exploration, while the other was the experience summarized by countless predecessors over hundreds of millions of years.
There was simply no comparison between the two.
"What, are you wondering why we had clearly died and yet came back to life?"
"You still have bullets in your gun, you can try again; perhaps this time we might actually be killed by you!"
Hearing Xu Mo's words, Baron Strucker gradually calmed down.
As a high-ranking member of the Hydra organization, he was not completely ignorant of these people with supernatural abilities.
Since the opponent was so composed, he could be certain that firing again would not change the result in the least, and might instead provoke the other party as a result.
Realizing this, Strucker simply threw away the gun in his hand.
"Since you didn't kill me right away, I must still be of some use to you all!"
"Speak, what do you want me to do!"
Hearing the other party's words, Xu Mo nodded with satisfaction.
As expected of a high-intelligence talent who could even research some tricks out of the Mind Stone.
His decisiveness in handling matters was indeed astonishing.
Recognizing the current situation so quickly and making the choice most beneficial to himself.
"Very simple, I want you and the entire base to work for me from now on!"
"Very well!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Strucker agreed directly.
Naturally, Xu Mo did not believe the other party would truly submit, but it did not matter.
With Emma around, even if the other party harbored any other thoughts, she would know about it immediately.
Moreover, Emma's ability had another function, which was to subtly influence the thoughts in people's hearts.
This ability was different from the Soul Seal, which could only quietly change a specific thought of the other party.
Such as the degree of loyalty to the organization.
Much like the brainwashing methods of pyramid schemes, through long-term psychological intervention of various kinds, it could unconsciously brainwash the other party.
The reason the Hellfire organization was able to grow so strong owed a great deal of credit to this ability of hers.
Under the influence of Emma's ability in the future, these people would soon become fanatical believers of the organization.
Next, under Strucker's command, the entire Hydra Base sprang into action.
All kinds of weapons and equipment, tanks, aircraft, and the like were all transferred to Death Island through the spatial gate.
During this process, Xu Mo also truly opened his eyes.
As one of the oldest organizations in the world, the foundation within the Hydra Base could not be called anything less than strong.
The independently developed fighter jets alone numbered seven or eight.
Various tanks and armored vehicles were too numerous to count.
And it even included complete production lines capable of producing such weapons and equipment.
It could be said that given sufficient funds, they could swell their forces in a short time to the extent of launching a war.
The relocation project lasted a full day.
By the time the sky grew dark.
The entire Hydra Base, aside from that vintage-looking building, was already completely empty.
Of course, the reason it could be moved in a single day was thanks to Magneto; if not for his ability to directly take away those tons of heavy machinery in one go, the process would have taken several more days.
Accompanied by the closing of the spatial gate, a massive explosion rang out at the base's location.
The remaining buildings also turned into a pile of ruins.
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