Chapter 62
Damn it!!
Nick Fury screamed inwardly, his mind filled with regret.
He never should have been so overconfident.
He had held the most crucial trump card. If he had been more cautious and used that vital emergency signaling device right away, he would not have ended up in this predicament.
But now there did not seem to be enough time.
Who could have imagined how ruthless the other side would be over the past few days?
"Damn it, in my own vehicle..."
Nick Fury had no choice.
However.
At that moment, an Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. spoke up.
"Wait, Number One Mutants has stopped moving. He seems to be frowning, thinking, and a little confused..."
The unexpected words made Nick Fury's expression change.
As if he had seen the first glimmer of victory, a lifeline to save his life, he immediately leaned forward to look at the holographic screen projected in the air. It showed live footage captured by a drone.
Sure enough, the young figure in the crater had stopped moving.
His brows were tightly knitted, and he seemed to be pondering something. There was also a faint hint of annoyance.
But...
Even with Number One Mutants standing still, all of S.H.I.E.L.D. was at a loss.
That raised the question.
What was he doing now?
A short while earlier.
In a hidden village in the central region.
The remaining X-Men had fled here with some of the students.
At that moment.
They were watching the livestream of the public trial. Before long, everyone witnessed Su Chen fearlessly overcome one crisis after another, cutting down anyone who stood in his way. Superhero after superhero died at his hands.
As they looked at the young figure hovering in the air, their feelings were complicated.
On the one hand, there was pure hatred!!
Professor Charles's death alone had left them with an irreconcilable blood feud.
On the other hand, their feelings were hard to untangle.
After losing several elite core members of the X-Men and the protective umbrella over their heads, they had suddenly been cast out of their peaceful ivory tower. The relentless pursuit had forced them to ask themselves whether Professor Charles's approach had been wrong.
Was the rift between the two races truly beyond repair?
"No matter what, it should all end."
Quicksilver and the others looked inside the wooden cabin before them. Wolverine had been lying on a stone platform there for some time.
With the support of a mutant nicknamed Amplifier, Shadowcat was finally able to maintain her ability to travel through time.
"It'll be soon."
"Time flows differently between the two. It'll probably all be over in ten or twenty minutes."
If they succeeded in changing the future, the new timeline would completely overwrite everything happening now.
Let all the tragedies end!!
Let Professor Charles and the many X-Men they had lost be returned to them.
And they would forget a young man who had turned to darkness.
Of course...
Iceman, who had learned of Wolverine's intentions, knew there probably would no longer be a thirteen-year-old boy named Su Chen in the new timeline.
Chapter 62
Huff!!
Wolverine Logan, who had traveled through time and space to arrive more than a year in the past, breathed heavily.
Not everyone could travel through time and space unscathed.
Even Professor Charles's brain might have been torn apart during the journey.
It was only thanks to his healing factor that Logan endured the agonizing process and successfully returned to the past timeline.
As quickly as possible.
He knew time flowed at completely different rates in the two worlds.
But to prevent the timeline from collapsing again and leaving Shadowcat unable to maintain it, he had to reach the town on the West Coast as quickly as possible.
This time.
He stole a Mustang and set off for his destination.
With his previous experience, Wolverine Logan naturally knew exactly what he was doing.
Even so, the journey meant he did not reach the East Coast town until midnight.
"This is the place."
Wolverine Logan roughly sorted out his thoughts and decided how to proceed.
In the night.
His burly figure was like a lone, proud wolf of the night as he approached a detached house nearby, filled with killing intent and a fierce will for revenge.
Creak!!
The wooden gate to the property was easily forced open. Logan's expression grew fiercer. His mind was filled with thoughts of avenging Charles, and he did not even realize how savage his face had become.
Under the cover of night, he stepped onto the cobblestone path in the small yard.
Too impatient to bother quieting his footsteps, he moved faster and faster, his breathing growing more and more rapid as he hurried toward the door on the other side.
He had learned his lesson this time. He would definitely not break in through the window on the other side.
Because that was the room where the middle-aged woman slept.
He went around to the back of the yard.
He planned to use his Adamantium claws to slice through the back patio door.
If his deduction was correct, Su Chen would surely be lying in the bedroom behind it.
Brat!!
Prepare to die!
Logan pressed his clenched fist against the back patio door. With a metallic ring, his Adamantium claws easily pierced the lock on the security door.
He gently pushed the door open.
Having been warned, Logan knew that Su Chen, who had yet to awaken, posed little in the way of surprises. His younger sister Su Shan, on the other hand, had already displayed the ability to pass through things using molecular mimicry, so he had to be careful that she did not take her brother away.
Careful!!
He held his breath, desperately keeping it in, but that only made his murderous face grow even more savage and red.
He crouched and crept forward, his styled hair rising like two horns on either side of his head. At that moment, Logan truly looked like a starving beast cautiously approaching its prey.
And at that very moment.
Su Chen was still lying on his bed inside the house.
But his slightly drowsy eyes were growing clearer. Soon, after receiving the memories in his mind, his youthful face grew colder.
He understood why he was here.
Several dozen seconds earlier.
He had still been in a crater in the capital.
He had been brimming with confidence after mercilessly killing a group of superheroes who had deceived him.
But then, he had sensed boundless killing intent through Combat Intuition. It felt more dangerous than at any other time.
He quickly realized that the threat did not come from his present reality.
Someone hiding in the shadows was trying to alter the timeline of reality.
His keen senses had warned him of it.
Naturally, that would not have been possible before.
But the other party had already tried once, hadn't they?
And so, Su Chen completely relaxed his mind, allowing a strange mental fluctuation to carry away a strand of his consciousness, as if it were traveling through an endless tunnel.
He immediately realized that his consciousness was traveling through the river of time, constantly tracing its way back to the source, carrying a strand of his will to a point more than a year in the past.
He woke up.
The mind of Su Chen, who had only recently turned twelve, was completely taken over by a strand of his own will from a year in the future.
He moved his right hand slightly and immediately felt a surge of power.
With a thought, surging Telekinesis welled up.
It seemed that the strand of will that had traveled here had brought power with it as well.
"Ah!~!"
Just then, a startled woman's voice came from the hallway outside.
His mother, carrying a basket of clothes to be changed on her way to the balcony, had suddenly been frightened. In the dim hallway, she had spotted a monster crouching at its edge, its face twisted like that of an evil spirit.
Uh...
She had happened to forget to take her blood pressure medication. The fright made her head spin, and the world whirled around her. She suddenly fell to the floor with a thud.
This had to be the butterfly effect.
Wolverine had arrived a little earlier, and this time they had happened to run into each other again.
But this time, Su Chen's mother, who was already ill, had not taken her medicine.
Thus, she was startled by Logan's savage, ghastly face and fell unconscious to the floor.
"Damn it..."
Wolverine Logan cursed under his breath. Ignoring the middle-aged woman, he lunged straight for another bedroom a few meters away.
Her sudden cry of alarm must have woken the children inside.
He had to kill Su Chen before he could react.
Bang!!
Logan's tall, muscular figure burst through the bedroom door. But before he could charge any farther toward the figure inside, his whole body suddenly became unable to move another step, as though he had been caught in a quagmire.
Soon...
He was completely immobilized, then lifted clean off the floor by an invisible restraining force.