Chapter 44 / Chapter 45

"Ah!!"

She screamed, but the protective mother quickly regained her composure and began searching a drawer for a gun.

Without a word, Logan steeled himself and lunged at her to kill her.

But Shadowcat, who was sustaining the journey through space and time, could barely hold on. Her power was still too weak, and the entire timeline began to collapse before it could finish converging and close.

The timeline collapsed.

That meant any interfering factors that had not yet completed their work would be readjusted.

Logan's figure vanished before Su Chen's mother.

"A ghost?"

Su Chen's mother felt a surge of terror.

Remembering that her two teenage children were still in the house, she woke them, then took up the gun and went outside to check that it was safe.

Though the timeline had not closed and had not truly interfered with reality, the aftereffects of the attempt to interfere with it rippled through the surroundings and were projected into Su Chen's mother's mind.

The ghost story had been passed down ever since.

And then...

After Logan returned to his own timeline,

Su Chen, who likewise realized something was wrong and sensed the aftereffects in reality, frowned.

The feeling of insecurity made him feel the world's malice all the more keenly.

Who exactly was targeting him?

PS: It shouldn't be too hard to follow, right? Logan did travel back into his past self, but the timeline didn't finish closing, so everything was reset, and his figure vanished. But the aftereffects of the timeline returning still caused a projection in the mind, which gave rise to the ghost legend.

PS2: Someone answered correctly, so I posted the update right away. It's an adaptation of the movie "X-Men: Days of Future Past," more or less.

Chapter 44

"Damn it, I was so close..."

After Wolverine woke up on the stone platform, he spoke in a fury.

So close.

He had been so close to breaking into their home and killing the young Su Chen once and for all, reversing the future and replacing the entire timeline.

"Sorry, my power is still too weak."

Shadowcat, whose inability to hold on had caused the entire timeline to collapse, spoke apologetically.

But she was also very curious. "Did I send you to the right point in time? Did you see General Stryker arresting Su Chen?"

Wolverine fell silent for a moment.

The timeline was naturally wrong.

But rather than save Su Chen, he had suddenly thought that slaughtering him before he awakened and ending it once and for all would be more satisfying.

"Yeah, keep it just like that."

Logan's eyes grew somewhat inscrutable.

He could hardly wait and pressed her, "How long until we can travel through space and time again?"

"About two days."

Shadowcat gave a wry smile.

She could not use this new ability from her second awakening with ease.

But Iceman, the X-Man in the tent, thought of a more reliable plan.

"If I remember correctly, a kid once came to the Xavier Institute asking for help. His ability was 'amplification'-he could strengthen the expression of the X-Gene, which means he could enhance our abilities. We might need his help."

"Do you remember his address?"

"Yeah, vaguely."

"Quicksilver, I'll leave this to you. Find him as soon as possible."

At the same time.

In a high-rise apartment in the Manhattan District.

Su Chen was now certain that someone was secretly trying to interfere with the timeline. There was no need to think twice: the other party must have gone to his old home in town, leaving an impression on his mother and sister.

"Damn it."

His expression grew serious.

Compared with facing a nuclear explosion and thousands upon thousands of enemies, an unseen killer secretly tampering with the timeline was far more alarming.

In any case, an act like this, aimed at secretly harming him, undoubtedly provided a stimulus, and his infinitely evolving genes began to transform.

"Are you all right?"

Hit-Girl, Mindy, who lived in the same large apartment, came over from the other side.

Su Chen shook his head.

Something involving the rewriting of reality and changes to the timeline could not be explained in a moment.

"General Stryker's case will be heard in public in another two days. What are you planning to do?"

The Rising Tide had publicly exposed a series of illegal acts General Stryker had secretly been involved in, including trafficking and human experimentation, as well as the fact that he had driven a thirteen-year-old child completely over the edge. Under pressure from public opinion, he had been forced to appear in court.

To appease public opinion, the entire case also had to be tried openly.

Over the past few days, Mindy had actually noticed Su Chen's hesitation. After all, he was no longer alone. The tenderness he had shown while spending those days with Su Shan made him look every bit like a big brother next door, nothing like the cold, ruthless person he had been before.

Sometimes she thought that retiring completely and walking away after taking revenge might not be a bad thing.

She could sometimes see a trace of uncertainty in Su Chen. The uncertainty of the future, especially now that he had a young sister by his side, seemed to have given him more and more to consider.

After all, the world was vast. Surely there was somewhere they could stay?

But Su Chen now gave her a ruthless answer.

"That day, I'll execute him in public with my own hands."

Execute his opponent before everyone's eyes, even in full view of the public?

Mindy opened her mouth.

And what were his plans after his revenge?

She did not ask any further.

Because at that moment, though she did not know what had happened, she sensed a suppressed killing intent coming from Su Chen.

"No matter what, I'll always support you."

A smile appeared on Mindy's flawless, fair face.

At that moment,

She waved the phone in her hand and said excitedly, "You remember that girl from the Rising Tide, right? She got in touch with me again somehow. I think you'll be interested in the information she sent about a base General Stryker built."

For the past few days, a girl from the Rising Tide had been contacting Mindy directly through secret means.

Startled at the time, Mindy had even planned to change her number altogether and leave the high-rise apartment where she was staying.

But...

To her surprise, the girl had expressed goodwill and was willing to help Su Chen, the so-called number one Mutant.

A fangirl?

Or a Mutant fan with top-notch hacking skills?

Mindy was somewhat astonished.

But given that the organization the girl belonged to had already released information highly damaging to the authorities to the public, she was probably not an enemy.

And now, the Chinese girl she had never met had sent over another set of highly important information about a secret base.

Early the next morning.

After breakfast, Su Chen traveled through space alone. In less than a second, he arrived in a scenic region of lofty mountains, straight from his home.

He was now at least several hundred kilometers away.

To avoid trouble and risk, Su Chen had not brought his sister Su Shan or Hit-Girl.

Danger Precognition!

He called this ability "Danger Precognition." It was an ability involving the mind that warned him in advance when his loved ones were in danger.

Su Chen did not know that, in a certain parallel universe, a fellow named Superman also had this ability.

This undoubtedly meant he did not have to worry about enemies truly threatening his sister.

"There really is..."

At that moment,

After more than ten minutes of walking, Su Chen stood atop a mountain at least a thousand meters high. His clear, black-and-white eyes had spotted traces of human excavation on the steep mountain cliffs.

A waterfall cascaded down like a strip of white silk. Above the water, a metal door, heavily concealed by vines, stood out before him.

"Good."

"It really is Stryker's secret base."

He had not been brought here back then, so even with his extraordinary memory, he had been unable to find it.

Now, unexpectedly, with the help of a young hacker, he had gotten what he wanted.

But just then.

Hum!!!

A strange ripple of magic spread through the air. The clear blue sky and the surrounding mountains seemed to be covered in layers of mirrors, stacked one upon another, dreamlike and unreal.

The rising mirrors quickly vanished, as though the dreamlike scene just now had been his imagination.

But Su Chen's keen senses had already told him that everything around him had changed.

"We've been looking for you for a long time, kid, vessel of an evil god!"

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Chapter 45

Hum!!

Brilliant fiery sparks traced an arc, and soon a spatial passage appeared before him.

"We've been looking for you for a long time, kid."

A figure dressed in crimson sorcerer's robes stepped out.