Washington, America.
Inside the Pentagon, Chief of Staff Minister Pete received a military order from the Supreme Council, a decision unanimously passed by the President and most of the members of Congress.
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"I think those guys in the White House are insane! They made this completely policy-altering decision without even informing me beforehand!"
Minister Pete, a typical politically correct Black man, felt his head buzzing as he looked at the proposal.
This plan, from beginning to end, talks about one thing: suspending several Mutants -related programs that the United States. military has been quietly carrying out.
This includes, but is not limited to: researching Mutants genes, creating weapons to combat Mutants, and developing super soldiers or super robots based on mutants.
The America has been pursuing the path of utilizing the power of Mutants. Although it outwardly proclaims equality for all, and politicians even compromise with Mutants and some self-righteous individuals for reasons such as voting, they treat Mutants in a friendly manner.
But in reality, those Mutants are never ordinary citizens, but rather a series of high-ranking officials who control the country.
These people are too dangerous; they possess the power to shake the very foundations of their rule and are a complete destabilizing factor.
In most people's eyes, Mutants and ordinary humans are two completely different species, and there is no possibility that they can live together peacefully.
Therefore, the United States military, both envious and fearful of the other side's capabilities, has been secretly conducting various Mutants experiments.
The famous Colonel Stryker actually received covert support from powerful figures.
Otherwise, how could a mere colonel like him possibly be so active and free-roaming around the world, capturing Mutants for experiments?
Those advanced laboratories and large-scale military guerrilla organizations—how could a mere colonel possibly have the authority to mobilize them without authorization from higher-ups?
At this point, after receiving instructions from those in power, Minister Pete finally distributed the document to all departments of the military.
"There must be some mutated scum influencing the thinking of the higher-ups to make such a brainless decision!"
Stryker's face was cold; he immediately blamed everything on the Mutants.
Having fought against Mutants for a long time, he understood better than anyone the magical powers these scum possessed, and influencing the minds of the United States elite was not difficult for him at all.
But what can you do even if you know?
Those American soldiers who, like Colonel Stryker, had a deep-seated hatred for Mutants were furious upon learning of this, but individual will could never prevail over collective decision.
They could only watch helplessly as the project they were in charge of came to a standstill, everything concerning Mutants was temporarily taken over by those above them, and they themselves were stripped of their authority and given a leave of absence.
Even if some people disagreed and secretly carried out their plans, they would be sent to a military court if they were discovered. In an instant, everyone could see the determination of the United States high command.
This time, it wasn't just talk. Although there wasn't a grand announcement of policy changes towards Mutants to the public, it was demonstrated through concrete actions.
And the one who started all of this was Apocalypse.
At this moment, inside the Supreme Council, Apocalypse sat in the same position as the President, and the next session of the council was underway.
Of course, his mind wasn't in the meeting room; instead, he was reporting on the progress of his plan through the Seed of Desire.
"You did a great job. I have high hopes for X Project, and it's not high-profile, which makes it an excellent choice."
"With Magneto as the apparent leader drawing attention, even if some busybodies from other worlds come along, they won't be able to detect your presence for a while."
"Be careful to cover your tracks. Until X Project is complete, let Magneto take all the limelight."
Xu Xiao, far away in the Naruto World, maintained his attention to this world through the Seed of Desire, and he was quite satisfied with Apocalypse's actions.
That's the kind of stealthy infiltration into the village, without firing a shot.
Many villains die before they even begin, revealing everything about themselves so that those self-proclaimed righteous individuals can directly disrupt their plans.
After Apocalypse was fused with the Seed of Desire, he also adopted some of Xu Xiao's style of doing things.
"That's what I'm thinking too. Once the initial reagent for the X-Gene is developed, I will distribute it widely around the world to quickly induce the birth of Mutants."
"By then, all of humanity will have become Mutants, and I will be using the world's entire population as a basis to study the relationship between that mysterious dimension and Mutants abilities."
Apocalypse told Xu Xiao about his entire plan.
"No, no, no, there's no rush. When it comes to researching dimensional power, your abilities are still a bit lacking. Let me handle it."
"Your most important task right now is to figure out how to travel to other Marvel Universe. They say that if even an artificial Mutants like Deadpool can do it, you should be able to too."
" Apocalypse, don't let me down. All you have to do is stir up this Marvel mess as much as possible, and make good use of Mutants. They're a very interesting group."
Xu Xiao, however, didn't need Apocalypse to start researching so quickly; how could one world's Mutants be enough?
It would take at least ten worlds. Anyway, Apocalypse is just a puppet in action, so losing him won't be too painful.
Once Apocalypse's X-Gene is fully developed, all he needs to do is travel to other Marvel Universe and spread the power of Mutants.
Mutants are a group with considerable potential, but they don't exist in every Marvel Universe.
Xu Xiao intends to use Apocalypse's power to artificially spread this species to every universe, and then use his own strength to connect them together.
Xu Xiao was also somewhat concerned about what Apocalypse had told him—that the laws of power in that special dimension might be the source of Mutants power.
Although according to the information he found, the origin of Mutants came from the Celestials ' genetic experiments, the concept of dimensional power sounded very familiar!
For example, a fool, the Lord of the Dark Dimension who was manipulated by someone using the Time Stone.
The chaotic laws governing the Marvel Universe have given many supernatural concepts a sense of self.
The Phoenix is a good example.
The Phoenix is the underlying concept of life energy and emotional power in the Marvel Universe, and it's somewhat unreasonable to say that the Mutants ' power was only from a Celestials experiment.
The resurgence of power in another dimension is not entirely impossible.
His research on the Phoenix Force during this period was not entirely fruitless; he had begun to understand how the Phoenix Force is connected to the life and emotional forces of the entire Marvel Universe.
This wasn't too difficult for him, but it required some initial experimentation, and Marvel was his first testing ground.
Perhaps, he will have the opportunity to make Mutants a synonym for himself in the Marvel Universe.