Mutant Annie

A dozen minutes later.

Xu Mo received the information Hill sent over on his phone.

After reading the contents of the file, Xu Mo waved his hand.

A Spatial Gate slowly opened to the side.

Xu Mo looked down at his hands in surprise.

With this spellcasting, he discovered that after advancing to a Planetary Level Spirit Reader, although his total spiritual power had not increased by all that much, its quality was several times greater than before.

Casting spells was much easier than before.

He opened his attribute panel.

[Name: Xu Mo]

[Age: 20 years old]

[Strength: 1,425,320 kg]

[Speed: 1,360 m/s]

[Telekinesis: 1,260,000 kg]

[Special Ability: Space Freeze]

[Points: 23,420 pts]

[Rank: Planetary Level One]

The extent of the telekinesis increase was roughly around twenty percent.

I wonder if I can successfully cast Dreamwalking now!

Xu Mo muttered to himself.

However, now was not the time to consider this; it was better to rescue Annie first and talk later.

Thinking of this, he stepped into the portal before him.

Florida.

Palm Bay.

Inside a rundown motel by the street.

Two figures stood by the window, observing the scene on the street outside.

Confirming that the enemy had not followed them, the two of them sat down on the bed in the room.

The two were none other than the missing Annie and S.H.I.E.L.D. senior agent Natasha.

"What on earth were those things, and why are they hunting me down?"

Annie looked at Natasha across from her with lingering fear.

Natasha reloaded the firearm in her hand, then slid it into the holster on her thigh.

"Those things are called Sentinel Robots, and they're specifically used to capture mutants!"

Upon hearing this, a startled expression appeared on Annie's face.

"Aren't humans and mutants living in peace with each other now? Why is something like this still happening?"

"You believe what those politicians say?"

Natasha wiped a wound on her face and said casually.

"Fine!"

Annie sat on the bed, her right hand gently outstretched as the moisture in the air rapidly converged toward her fingertips, forming a large chunk of ice crystal in moments.

"This mutant ability is simply too magical!"

The reason she went missing was that a few days ago she suddenly discovered she had awakened this ability to condense ice out of thin air, and with no way to control it temporarily, she had hidden herself away.

During those two days, almost everything she touched would shatter into ice shards.

She couldn't even contact her family.

Having finally managed to control her ability, she hadn't expected to be targeted by several robots trying to capture and take her back.

Fortunately, her ability was not weak, and coupled with the fact that the person in front of her who claimed to be a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent had saved her at the critical moment.

"I advise you to conserve some stamina!"

Natasha got up and lay down on the bed, offering a word of advice.

"At the fastest, reinforcements won't arrive until tonight. During this time, we can only rely on ourselves!"

As soon as her voice fell, her expression changed abruptly.

She got up, came to the door, and looked out through the crack in the door.

The motel was located by the sea. If you walked out past the fence surrounding the backyard, the beach was less than a hundred meters away.

At this moment on the beach, three Sentinel Robots over five meters tall were slowly descending from the air.

"Not good, let's go!"

Natasha hurried to the window and pushed it open.

"Follow me!"

With that, she jumped down from the window.

Their room was on the second floor, a mere three to four meters from the ground.

Hearing this, Annie hurriedly came to the window as well.

Benefiting from her experience filming action movies, she landed lightly on the ground too.

Without pausing after landing, the two got straight into a car parked by the street, and the car then accelerated away toward the intersection.

An alarm sound emitted from the body of the robot positioned behind the motel.

"Mutant traces detected!"

Afterward, the three figures took flight once more.

Thanks to the mutant detection device, in less than two minutes, the Sentinel Robots captured Annie's whereabouts.

At this time, Natasha was driving the vehicle along a coastal highway in another direction.

The three Sentinel Robots did not care about the pedestrians, directly accelerating and landing in front of the car, their arms slamming heavily onto the vehicle's front hood.

The car almost flew straight up into the air.

The two people sitting inside the car were nearly sent flying out of the windows under the instantaneous deceleration.

Fortunately, their seatbelts fulfilled their purpose.

A moment later, rubbing the places where the seatbelts had pressed against them, the two climbed down from the car.

"Shit, I'm about to be squeezed to death!"

Natasha let out a cordial greeting to the Sentinel Robots.

The opposing Sentinel Robots showed no reaction at all, their gazes locked entirely on Annie.

They walked toward her position.

"Run!!"

Natasha shouted to Annie, drew her specially made pistols from both thighs, and fired right at the robots.

The bullets struck the robots' bodies and bounced off entirely.

They could not inflict any damage on them at all.

However, this action of hers successfully drew the attention of the Sentinel Robots.

"Come over here, you bunch of fools!"

Having finished shouting, Natasha ran toward another direction without looking back.

She knew very well that relying solely on the two of them was not enough to be a match for these Sentinel Robots; she could only buy time and wait for the arrival of reinforcements.

The three Sentinel Robots watched the two people running in separate directions, and ultimately decided to split up.

One pursued Natasha's position.

The other two charged entirely toward Annie.

After all, capturing mutants was their primary duty.

Annie turned her head to look at the two Sentinel Robots chasing from behind, and hastily spun around to run toward the seaside.

The reason the two of them had chosen to rest in the seaside motel was precisely because of Annie's ability. Although she could condense ice from the void, it also required sufficient water vapor to exist in the air.

Inland, a single release of her ability might well exhaust the moisture in the vicinity.

It was different by the seaside, which without a doubt counted as her home turf and could vastly boost her combat power.

Having run less than fifty meters, the robots behind her were already less than five meters away.

At the sight, an ice-blue flash crossed Annie's eyes.

The surrounding moisture rapidly condensed on the robots, turning them into two ice sculptures in less than two seconds.

Yet before Annie could heave a sigh of relief, a trace of a crack appeared on both ice sculptures.

Noticing this scene, Annie did not hesitate and activated her ability once more.

The moisture within a radius of a hundred meters around her was completely drained by her.

The thickness of the ice on the two Sentinel Robots had already reached nearly a meter thick.

Even so, Annie did not lower her guard.

Enduring the wave of physical exhaustion washing over her, she fled toward the distance.

On the other side.

Natasha kept running while occasionally firing a few shots behind her to hold the enemy's aggro.

Unlike Annie, she always picked out narrow little alleys.

Even though along the way, the Sentinel Robots made the buildings on both sides of the road unrecognizable.

Pedestrians were also startled into scattering in all directions.

Yet this made it so the enemy couldn't do much to her for a time.

However, Natasha, who had escaped out from a small alley, looked at the three Sentinel Robots appearing before her once again, and her expression instantly froze.

"No way!"