He Fell from the Sky Like Thunder

Watching Logan plunge straight down from a thousand meters high like a meteorite, the children on the Blackbird temporarily forgot to breathe.

"He... he won't just fall to his death, will he?" Jonah couldn't help clicking his tongue, his voice somewhat dry.

"He's Wolverine, he definitely won't die!" Bobby's face, however, was written full of fanatical worship, and he reached behind his back to pull out that portable micro-stereo found from the X-Men base. "Guys, at a time this exciting, shouldn't we have some music?"

"Bobby, stop fooling around..." Richter spoke up, wanting to stop him.

Yet he was still a step too late; Bobby directly pressed the play button.

The next second, the ferocious electronic rock music exploded like a substantive shockwave, and the strong drumbeat and bassline instantly filled every corner of the cabin, making even the metal floor beneath their feet hum in response.

Fall Out Boy's The Phoenix!

The tense and oppressive atmosphere originally inside the cabin was completely ignited by this manic song. Outside the window was the howling vast sky, inside the window was boiling rock, and a group of teenagers about to step onto the battlefield!

That manic and powerful drumbeat, accompanied by the roaring sound of the Blackbird tearing through the sky, added another fire to everyone's heart!

"Guys, I like this!"

Delia, who had spoken very little before, said, unable to help giving Bobby a thumbs up.

High above, the wind howled fiercely by their ears.

Before Logan's eyes, the military buildings on the ground constantly magnified in his field of vision, and he could even already see those ant-like figures on the ground pointing at the sky in panic.

Until this moment, Logan only felt an unprecedented peace within his heart.

He no longer needed to consider where he should go, no longer needed to consider how to make money, and no longer needed to consider that damned Sun-Chaser; those heavy, messy things belonging to the past had already totally nothing to do with him.

Because he was—Wolverine!

Put on your war paint

You are a brick tied to me that's dragging me down

Strike a match and I'll burn you to the ground

"Boom—!!!"

Accompanied by a heaven-shaking and earth-shattering loud noise, at Whiteman Air Force Base, the roof of a hangar collapsed with a bang! The huge shockwave mixed with smoke and dust rushed into the sky, gravel and metal fragments scattering and flying like a rainstorm, and the massive smoke and dust surged into the sky!

"What's going on?"

"Did something fall down?"

The ground forces were instantly stunned by this sudden heavenly "meteorite." After a brief dead silence, all the muzzle points abruptly turned toward that pierced hangar.

A few seconds later, amidst a deafening roar, the entire door of the hangar was torn open by an irresistible brute force, twisting and flying out to both sides!

A black figure with claws extended from both hands rushed out from the rolling thick smoke!

"Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta!!"

The shrill alarm sounded through the clouds, and the nearby security forces shouted at the top of their lungs while frantically pouring firepower toward Logan. For a time, the fire net formed by a hail of bullets instantly swallowed Logan completely.

Yet Logan, having returned to his peak, seemed not to care at all, charging all the way as he withstood the bullet storm before him that was enough to tear apart steel! The bullets collided with the parts of his skeleton, making a dull thud-thud sound, and the bullets that shot into his flesh were forcibly squeezed out of his body by the rapidly healing skin and flesh after he ran a few steps, falling all over the ground with clattering sounds.

Setting fire to the sky

Here, here comes this rising tide

So come on

A soldier closest to him watched helplessly as a smoking bullet hole on Wolverine's chest rapidly stopped bleeding and closed before his eyes, fear instantly crushing his reason.

"Fire! Fire! Don't let him get close!"

Wolverine grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, that smile even more chilling than a beast's roar. His legs exerted sudden force, and he savagely rushed into the soldiers' formation! Screams and the sound of metal being torn apart mixed together, immediately slaughtering them into complete disarray!

Rushing out of this blockade zone, the blood-stained Logan took out the communicator and asked Aurora, "Aurora, can you control the command system here?"

"Whiteman Base's security protocols are very complex, and there is a supercomputing mainframe. I am forcibly cracking it relying on the Blackbird's main control system, but the computing power is somewhat insufficient... I still need a little time!"

"Fuck... then just tell me where to go next!"

"Southwest direction, Gamma Containment Sector!"

"Good!"

At the same time, the command center.

General Lake, who was preparing briefing materials in his office, heard the shrill alarm, and the next moment, the internal communicator on his desk was forcibly connected.

"Sir, someone has broken into the base! Repeat, we have been invaded!"

"What kind of people?" General Lake was stunned for a moment, thinking he had misheard.

This was an air force base within the United States; what faction would suddenly go crazy to attack here?

"It's... Wolverine!"

"Ah?" General Lake found it even harder to understand. "That old thing?"

"Sir, you'd better see for yourself..."

The sound in the communicator came to an abrupt halt, and the main surveillance screen in front of General Lake was forcibly switched.

In the picture, that blood-stained figure wearing a black uniform was rampaging through the hail of bullets, and everyone who blocked his path would be torn apart and punctured by claws in the next second!

A personal rocket flew from the side and blasted onto that person, yet just over a second later, the other party roared again and rushed out from the firelight, tackling the soldier carrying the rocket launcher to the ground, and then stabbing down with a claw!

That was a monster purely born for slaughter! Absolutely no one could block his footsteps!

Watching this scene, General Lake's pupils suddenly contracted, his mouth opening unconsciously.

"WTF!?"

He heavily cursed a profanity, grabbing the communicator: "All heavy firepower units! Aim at that hangar for me! Blow him to pieces for me! Now!"

At the same time, deep inside the base's Gamma Containment Sector, Dr. Zander also saw that familiar yet unfamiliar figure through the internal surveillance. The warning lights inside the containment sector flashed wildly, the red light casting his startled expression into flickering light and shadow.

"His healing factor has recovered?"

A chill of fear crawled up the back of his head along his spine; he knew better than anyone what a Wolverine in peak condition meant.

Dr. Zander first fell into extreme fear, but soon, his expression began to change drastically again, a trace of fanaticism flashing in his eyes.

"This might... be an opportunity!"

He turned around to look at X-24, who was standing by in the shadows, stepped forward quickly, and issued an order in an unquestionable tone: "Logan is back, right outside. Go, tear him to pieces!"

"Prove to everyone that you are the more perfect Wolverine!"

X-24's hollow eyes lifted, meeting Zander's gaze for a moment, and he nodded mechanically. After that, he turned around, starting his heavy footsteps to walk outward.

Just as he was about to walk out the door, his steps paused, and he silently looked back, his gaze passing over Zander's shoulders to look not far away at Miles, who was sitting in a wheelchair and foolishly laughing hehehe.

"Hurry up!" Dr. Zander urged.

X-24 turned his head back, stepped away, and disappeared into the end of the corridor leading to the killing battlefield.

You know time crawls on when you're waiting for the song to start

So dance alone to the beat of your heart

As Logan continuously charged and slaughtered, a little over half of the air force base fell into chaos.

The Blackbird made a rapid dive in the wilderness outside the base, the airframe flying almost against the ground, the gale whipping up sand and stones, slapping against the fuselage. The rear cabin door then opened, and the piercingly howling gale mixed with dust poured in, blowing everyone's cheeks painfully.

"There is no landing window here, you have to jump directly!" Aurora's voice resounded in every child's ear through the communicator, as calm as a rippleless lake.

Before everyone, the ground flashed past rapidly in their field of vision, simply like a blurred strip of color.

"Just jump like this?" Bobby, the chubby boy, hesitated somewhat.

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Richter grabbed Bobby around the waist, not giving him any chance to react at all. The moment the Blackbird dived to its lowest point, less than two meters from the ground, he clasped the struggling fat boy in his arms and charged out with a loud roar!

Jonah and Rebecca exchanged a glance, also gritting their teeth and following closely behind.

"Warning! Incoming missile!"

The moment they jumped down, a shrill alarm resounded inside the Blackbird! An anti-air missile dragging a white exhaust flame shot out from the distant anti-air launch rack, its target pointing straight at the Blackbird that had just landed!

The Blackbird was discovered!

"Watch out!"

At a critical moment, Delia extended both hands forward, and an invisible telekinetic force instantly enveloped that missile!

The air seemed to freeze, the missile's head stalling abruptly less than twenty meters from the ground, and then it was actually forcibly twisted in direction by an unseen power!

A drop of nosebleed dripped down the tip of Delia's nose, yet she didn't care at all.

At the same time, the missile grazed the Blackbird's wing, roared and slid toward the sky on the other side, and finally turned to crash into the ground, exploding with a bang!

"Thank you, Miss Delia..." Aurora's voice came from Delia's communicator. "Next, let me provide cover for you!"

The unmanned Blackbird violently pulled up vertically, its maneuverability played to the ultimate limit, simply like violating the laws of physics.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak!"

The piercing sounds of the air tearing rang out one after another, and the few anti-air missiles that followed closely behind chased relentlessly after the Blackbird!

After the teenagers left, Aurora finally had no more scruples, acting like a top-tier ace pilot as she continuously rolled and spiraled in the air, her wings cutting through the firelight of missile explosions multiple times, drawing a burst of exclamation from the teenagers on the ground.

Wearing our vintage misery

No, I think it looked a little better on me

I'm gonna change you like a remix

Then I'll raise you like a phoenix

"Aurora, you're so awesome!" Rebecca, having just steadied herself, watched the air combat show in the sky and couldn't help speaking out.

"The one who's awesome isn't me, it's Mr. Hank; I am merely playing out the theoretical limits he designed." Aurora's voice sounded again. "Also, get down!"

Before the words finished, while shaking off the pursuit, the Blackbird threw an air-to-ground missile from its belly!

"Boom—!!"

The missile accurately hit the outer wall of the base, and accompanied by a loud bang, the thick concrete wall was blasted open with a huge gap, gravel and steel bars splashing in all directions!

"Five hundred meters forward is the Gamma Containment Sector, good luck, warriors!"

Leaving behind this sentence, Aurora manipulated the Blackbird to rush toward the other side of the base amidst the fire net interwoven by increasingly more anti-air machine guns and missiles, attracting the vast majority of the anti-air firepower with herself.

On the other side, just as Logan rushed outside the heavy metal door of the Gamma Containment Sector, a black shadow lunged fiercely from the shadows beside the entrance of the containment sector.

The speed and power of that figure were extraordinary, the heavy impact making even Logan stagger.

After that, the two heavily tumbled to the ground, tangling and crashing into the wall on the side, the sturdy concrete wall vibrating and cracking open!

It was X-24!

"Logan, hello..." Dr. Zander's figure slowly emerged from the side. "Can you tell me how you recovered your ability? Frankly speaking, I am quite curious..."

"Ugh, ah!!"

Yet before he could finish speaking, the next moment X-24's cry of pain interrupted his words!

After merely rolling twice, a sharp gleam flashed in Logan's eyes, and he stubbornly withstood X-24's claws stabbing into his chest. At the same time, he twisted his body at an unfathomable angle, one hand firmly clamping X-24's punching arm, and then exerted violent force!

The expression of pain appeared on X-24's face for the first time! His right arm was forcibly snapped in the opposite direction by Logan!

"Ligaments can't be replaced with alloy... Thank you for making me feel this painful last time, fuck!"

Logan let out a low roar, flipped over to stand up, pinned X-24 firmly to the ground, and then the Adamantium claws instantly popped out. Amidst flashing cold light, they accurately stabbed into the joint connections of X-24's double shoulders and double hips, twisting fiercely!

The sound of tendons tearing was teeth-setting.

As fellow possessors of a healing factor and an alloy skeleton, Logan knew all too well how to deal with "himself."

Following that, he single-handedly hoisted up X-24, who was as limp as a puddle of mud while also slowly healing, and with a swing of his arm, directly threw him at Dr. Zander's feet.

"Bang!"

The big guy's heavy body smashed onto the ground, deeply reflected in Dr. Zander's eyes.

He lowered his head to look at this "perfect creation" at his feet that had been completely disabled by Logan in two or three moves, then raised his head to look at that blood-soaked Wolverine walking step by step toward him. The composure and confidence on his face collapsed instantly, leaving only endless fear.

"Don't come over!!"

Dr. Zander screamed in alarm, turned around, and fled, scrambling and crawling toward the interior of the containment sector.

Logan was just about to step forward to chase when the air behind him suddenly twisted. Accompanied by a slight explosion of sulfur bursting, a slender figure appeared out of thin air.

Night Demon, one of The Purifiers!

"Bang!"

Night Demon teleported and appeared, sharp finger-claws aiming straight for Logan's back!

Yet Logan seemed to have anticipated this long ago, his muscles instantly tensing. The moment those claws were about to touch his skin, he fiercely thrust his hand backward in reverse, accurately grabbing the attacker's wrist.

Night Demon only felt his wrist locked by a clamp cast of steel, unable to move at all, a trace of astonishment flashing in his eyes.

The next second, Logan exerted force from his waist and abdomen, emitting a low roar, and actually swung Night Demon's entire body around like a chain ball, tracing an arc in the air before smashing him heavily into the ground!

BOOM!

The hard concrete ground was smashed into a shallow crater, and spiderweb-like cracks spread in all directions.

CLANG!

The steel claws at Logan's wrists popped out on cue. With a flash of cold light, he was about to stab down at the figure on the ground to finish off this trouble. But the moment before the claws fell, Night Demon's form transformed into smoke once again, vanishing instantly.

Teleportation abilities were such a pain...

The next instant, the smoke re-condensed behind Logan, and Night Demon's figure appeared once again!

He had just prepared to launch a second attack, only to find in horror that a face filled with murderous intent had already been waiting for him right in front of him! Logan did not even turn around completely, executing only an extremely swift backhanded claw strike, and three sharp blades had already met him head-on!

Agh!

Night Demon failed to dodge in time, and three deep, bone-revealing wounds were savagely ripped open across his face, flesh rolling outward. The excruciating pain made him let out a miserable scream, and instinctively teleporting once more, he appeared dozens of meters away.

Clutching his bleeding face, his eyes were filled with incredulous terror. He could not understand how this monster before him... how could he possibly keep up with the speed of his teleportation?

That was not prediction, it was entirely intuition—a beast-like, unreasonable combat intuition!

Watching Logan stride forward once again, radiating an unrivaled oppressive might as he charged toward him, the last shred of fighting spirit in Night Demon's heart was thoroughly crushed by fear. He realized that he was definitely no match, and if he did not leave now, he would die right here today!

Thus, without the slightest hesitation, he transformed into a wisp of purple smoke. This time he vanished completely, leaving not even a trace of sulfur smell behind.

Losing Night Demon's tracks, Logan did not mind it much. Although a teleportation-ability user like Night Demon was no match for him, Logan likewise could not catch up if he chose to run.

Thinking this, Logan looked back and discovered that Dr. Zander had long since fled without a trace in the chaos. In the empty clearing, only X-24—its limbs crippled—was left lying on the ground, letting out beast-like, unwilling low growls in its throat as it struggled, wanting to crawl up.

Logan took a deep look at X-24 and muttered in a low voice, "Shit... considering you've helped us before, I won't kill you this time. Get lost."

With that, he ignored this dying beast no longer and strode toward the Gamma Containment Sector.

Just as he stepped through the gates, he saw a familiar figure walking slowly toward him at the end of the corridor.

Impact Elias.

...Finally, a decent guy.

Logan whispered softly to himself, likewise walking slowly toward him.

Just as Wolverine broke into the Gamma Containment Sector, the internal alarms here were also raised to the highest level.

Harsh buzzing and flashing red lights enveloped every alloy passageway, mixing with the explosions and the roars of automatic turrets coming from afar, making the entire base tremble.

Lightwave Davis had just walked out of the medical ward. He was preparing to rush to the front lines to join the battle when the communicator on his wrist suddenly rang.

"Davis, it's Lake!" General Lake's voice carried static noise through the current as he said to him, "Ignore the chaos outside, the real target of that gang of mutants is X-0! Until my next order is issued, you are not going anywhere, and you watch over him for me!"

"Yes, sir!"

Davis replied earnestly, then forcibly suppressed the irritability in his heart and turned around, walking toward the experimental zone where Miles was imprisoned.

"Hurry! Move..."

"The mutants are about to break in!"

The route was filled with fleeing researchers and soldiers entering combat readiness. The chaotic scene made Davis furrow his brow tightly. When he finally arrived at the experimental zone, however, he discovered that the reinforced glass door that should have been tightly closed was left ajar, and absolute silence reigned inside.

The room was completely empty, and the teenager who had previously been sitting in the corner giggling at empty air was already gone.

A wave of anger surged straight to his head. Davis abruptly turned around and grabbed the collar of a researcher who was about to slip past the door, hoisting the fellow right up from the ground.

"Speak, where is X-0?!" Davis's voice was low, carrying suppressed anger.

"It's... it's Dr. Zander!" The researcher shrieked, pointing toward the doorway. "Just now! The doctor said... said he wanted to transfer X-0 to another place... and then he pushed him away..."