Chapter 50
For some reason, as Su Chen walked through the place, he recalled how, not long ago, several guards had shoved him out of his cell and into the laboratory where he was to be dissected.
In that short span of time,
he had already fought more battles than he could count.
Who could have imagined that just over a year ago, he had been a gentle, peaceful boy next door, someone who couldn't bear to tread on a single flower in the grass, only to be driven by reality into becoming the world's most wanted extremist Mutant?
Returning to this familiar research base, if he hadn't lost control of his emotions and caused his genes to begin transforming and evolving,
then...
his fate would have been to become a lab rat, endlessly dissected and carved up.
His undying, indestructible physique would have been like a curse, condemning him to a fate worse than death, a lifetime as experimental material like a perpetual-motion machine, endlessly supplying dissection data.
At the thought,
Su Chen's mood worsened, and the killing intent in his mind grew stronger.
He now had a clear plan for tomorrow's public execution.
Expressionless, he arrived at the prison area.
"You're free."
Snap!!
As a strange wave of Telekinesis swept through, chains snapped one after another.
During the wave of annihilation earlier, Su Chen had deliberately spared these poor people.
"This..."
The Mutants imprisoned in the cells changed expression, staring at the scene in disbelief.
At that moment,
not only the iron locks on the cell doors, but also the handcuffs binding their wrists and the shackles around their ankles, completely fell apart under a strange, invisible force of Telekinesis.
"Is this real?"
"No way, someone really came to save me?"
"It's the X-Men! They must have saved us. That's Phoenix's Telekinesis."
"Heh, them? I'd rather believe Magneto saved us than those good-for-nothings who only know how to suck up to humans."
Figures in prison uniforms walked out, one after another.
Their faces were excited, yet tinged with hesitation.
But when they saw the young man at the end of the corridor, they were completely bewildered.
None of them had guessed that the person who saved them would be a young man.
Was he alone?
"Who is he?"
"Oh my god, it's the number one Mutant! He actually came to save us himself."
Suddenly,
a tall young man stepped out.
He recognized Su Chen at once.
Unlike his fellow Mutants, whose skin was pale from a long lack of sunlight and whose malnutrition had left them exceptionally thin and frail, this guy was full of energy. It looked as though he had only recently been imprisoned.
"Were you locked up recently?"
Su Chen asked coldly.
"Yes. A few days ago, that damned Stryker's men grabbed me when I went to a fast-food restaurant..."
The young man spoke with great indignation.
Hearing this,
Su Chen frowned in displeasure. He hadn't expected Stryker's secret base to still be operating after the man had been detained for investigation, much less that it would dare continue its previous despicable practices.
Those bastards didn't seem to take his actions seriously at all.
Given public opinion around the world, many people saw General Stryker as the source of all the evil, and the public trial scheduled for the next day had put on a thorough show.
Yet behind the scenes, they were still doing such dirty things.
Meanwhile, the young man known as Multiple Man noticed the confusion on everyone's faces and excitedly began introducing Su Chen.
"He accomplished what even Magneto never could in the past. He walked out of a nuclear blast, knocked a whole group of superheroes flat all by himself, and even turned the capital into his playground during the fight."
"That's why he's called the number one Mutant."
Whoa!!
His words sent a shock through everyone.
He surpassed Magneto?
After all, the only recognized leaders of the Mutants were Magneto, Erik, and Professor Charles.
Both had extremely powerful abilities.
But had the young man before them actually accomplished something that even the extremist Mutant Magneto had never managed?
How old was he?!
"Gulp..."
For some reason, the sound of people swallowing rang out. Now that their restraints were gone, many were naturally eager to rush out of the base at once. But Su Chen stood at the corridor's only exit.
His exploits had overawed them. They were too frightened to pass him, afraid he might turn on them at the slightest disagreement.
A person's reputation cast a long shadow.
They thought about how not a sound of commotion had come from the stairs above all this time, as though the guards had vanished into thin air.
They thought about the masterful display of Telekinesis he had just shown.
Their excitement at escaping prison promptly cooled.
"Boss, do you have any orders for us?"
The middle-aged man who had almost walked past Su Chen bent low and ingratiated himself with the young man, who was at least twenty years his junior.
"You're the hope of Mutants. Our lives are yours, great king of the Mutants. You must have some orders for us, right?"
Multiple Man acted like a starstruck fan.
At the same time,
he hoped to hear instructions from Su Chen along the lines of "declare war on humanity."
He gazed at Su Chen with yearning eyes and a devout expression, as though looking upon a god.
But just then,
a furious shout rang out from the special cell in the deepest part of the prison.
"Who dares slander Magneto's name? Let me out! I want to see which little pipsqueak dares challenge the true king of Mutants!!"
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Chapter 50
Earthshaking roars kept coming from the deepest part of the prison.
"Let me out, now."
"I want to see who dares challenge Magneto!"
Clang!!!
Chains rattled and clanged against the floor.
As it turned out, there was a separate underground cell in this prison area.
This underground cell was no ordinary one. Its only exit, overhead, was fitted with a heavy steam valve, and its outer alloy shell could even block electromagnetic waves, as though it had been built specifically to prevent Magneto from breaking someone out.
Inside the exceedingly spacious cell, more than a dozen Adamantium cables stretched out from the walls, binding the limbs of a mountainously burly figure.
Not only that, but the spikes attached to the alloy cables had pierced vital points at his joints, preventing him from exerting his strength.
An ordinary person would have long since been unable to endure such torture.
Yet this monster was full of life, showing little sign of weakness.
He roared and struggled, venting his displeasure.
"That's Juggernaut. There's something wrong with his head."
The fanatical Multiple Man immediately explained.
"That guy's kind of slow. He spends all day and night banging his head against the wall."
"Yeah, he's a lunatic."
"His mental age is only in the teens, I guess. Anyway, he's a complete fool."
Amid the surrounding discussion,
Su Chen, having been provoked, silently raised his right hand, his expression indifferent. He clenched it in the air, and in an instant, a surging, invisible force of Telekinesis pierced the alloy wall.
Snap!!
In an instant, the chains binding the man snapped, along with the rivets piercing his joints.
"Good, very good..."
With a roar, Juggernaut, Cain Marko, freed of all his restraints, seemed to regain his strength.
He bent his knees sharply and leaped straight up, headbutting the metal door overhead with a boom.
A conspicuous bulge appeared in the metal door.
Boom!!
Another tremendous crash rang out.
The metal door burst apart, and a fierce, burly figure leaped out, landing at the end of the corridor.
"Who was challenging Magneto's position just now?!"
Wearing a stone helmet, his face wreathed in a faint red aura, Cain Marko strode straight toward them from a distance, fuming.
The Mutants around him didn't dare provoke the monster. They immediately pressed themselves against the walls, clearing the passage and letting the overbearing monster advance.
"It was you, kid!!"
Cain Marko's eyes fell on a young man wearing a black sweatshirt.
"If you can't beat me, I'll beat you to a pulp, even if you saved me. I won't let you insult my boss..."
This guy really was a little erratic, not quite right in the head.
His face beneath the stone helmet looked somewhat simple-minded, and even his speech had a sluggish drawl.
Watching the fuming figure charge toward him, Su Chen instinctively felt as though he were fighting a kindergartner.
However...
His expression and tone might have been a little abnormal, but he stood over two meters tall. Beneath his prison uniform were muscles like stacked blocks, a startling sight that made others wary of provoking him.
Su Chen looked at him without the slightest fear.
"One move is enough to deal with you."
With that,