Chapter 63

"...So you were the one behind this!"

Twelve-year-old Su Chen sat on the bed, his face no longer showing any childishness. His expression was angry as he held out his right hand, using Telekinesis to restrain the man.

He recognized the man at once.

Wolverine, Logan!!

He was Weapon X's original product. The experimental facility had files on him.

Su Chen then read his mind and immediately learned of the so-called Days of Future Past plan. It turned out the remaining X-Men had been pulling the strings in secret.

"Damn bastard!"

Su Chen had realized that Logan had frightened his mother into fainting.

His uncontrollable emotions erupted in rage. Unable to suppress his killing intent, he twisted the living figure before him like a pretzel.

Su Shan was sleeping soundly on the other bed. To keep her from being frightened, Su Chen had placed her under mental hypnosis, so she did not stir.

But the twisted figure before him suddenly blurred.

He vanished as quickly as a ghost.

Outside, Shadowcat had sensed Wolverine trembling uncontrollably and foaming at the mouth on the stone platform, so she had cut off the energy sustaining his journey through time and space.

The entire timeline collapsed once more.

No new future was generated.

"Bastard..."

Su Chen could already feel a strand of his will being forcibly pulled toward the river of time. But he gritted his teeth and walked out of the room against the boundless force restraining him, just to see his mother one last time.

He had not seen his mother in a long time. Even catching a glimpse of her in this collapsing, shattered timeline gave him a little satisfaction.

After that one look, the strand of his will surged toward the river of time and returned to the future.

The X-Men's plan to reverse the future had failed once again.

Yet just like last time, the collapsing timeline sent ripples through reality, like a snapped string setting off waves of sound, causing some indescribable mental effects.

Reality had changed, if only a tiny bit.

Just that tiny bit...

That change was so slight, so insignificant even, yet it sent Su Chen into a sudden rage when he realized what had happened.

At that moment.

The sky over Earth suddenly darkened, the sun's rays mercilessly blocked out.

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The timeline Shadowcat had constructed abruptly collapsed, and everything that had gone wrong would be corrected.

The strand of Su Chen's consciousness was naturally forced into the river of time, traveling back to his own body one year later.

At that moment.

The figure standing motionless in the crater opened his eyes, which shone brightly.

The muddled feeling in his head vanished in the blink of an eye.

Wolverine, X-Men...

Two key terms immediately sprang to Su Chen's mind.

He naturally remembered that they had caused all this, trying to reverse the future and erase him.

But he had prevented all of it.

Of course...

His sensitivity to fluctuations in reality had still allowed him to detect a barely perceptible change.

After all, the faint fluctuations caused by interference with reality could not fool him.

With his previous experience, Su Chen went straight to the mental level, trying to find the faint fragment that had suddenly appeared.

Last time, a small memory had been "inserted."

It was the so-called "ghost from childhood."

But now, no new memory had appeared. Instead, a small part of one had suddenly been "replaced."

"Mother died a day earlier..."

Su Chen felt as though his head were about to split open.

Last time, the timeline had not completed its loop, but the aftermath of its snapping like a string had still rippled out across the scene, having some mental effect on his mother, who had been involved.

That was how the so-called ghost story had come about.

This time, Su Chen had disrupted the timeline, and the aftermath of its collapse had also spread like ripples in water, interfering with reality.

His mother, who had been frightened, had suffered a slight worsening of her heart palpitations as a result.

Su Chen's expression grew darker.

It was because of that tiny butterfly effect that his mother's death had come a day earlier.

Yes...

A day earlier.

That barely perceptible fluctuation in reality was that damned day.

If he had not been able to sense the fluctuations from the change in reality so keenly, he would probably have overlooked it without thinking.

A headache!!

His head truly hurt.

All of a sudden, Su Chen felt as though his head were a terrifying volcano, suppressed for a long time and waiting to erupt.

At the thought of the interference caused by the journey through time and space.

At the thought that his gravely ill mother had died a day earlier because of it, Su Chen felt pain far greater than what he had suffered in the laboratory tragedy that day.

His father had died early.

His mother, burdened by illness, had endured hardship to raise them on her own.

But...

It was because these people had pursued him without end.

They had no intention of letting him go.

Endlessly...

As though the world itself bore him ill will.

If he were the only one dragged into it, that would have been one thing; Su Chen naturally feared nothing. But what he could not accept most was that this battle had reached into the past timeline and even affected his mother.

Endless grief welled up in Su Chen's mind. More than anything that happened to him, he could not bear to have his mother caught up in it.

That was a wrong even harder to endure than being dissected himself!!

At that moment.

Su Chen felt the anger in his head erupt completely like a volcano.

"Why..."

"Why won't you leave me alone..."

"Why can't every last one of you die?"

She had already died of illness...

So stop disturbing her...

At that thought, his out-of-control emotions grew ever more frenzied.

A cold, blood-red gleam had appeared in Su Chen's eyes.

At that moment, his long black hair suddenly stood on end, and an unknown fluctuation swirled around him.

Driven by his raging, uncontrolled emotions, he had already sent terrifying reality-altering fluctuations rippling outward to vent the anger in his heart.

Buzz!!

It was like a drop of ink suddenly falling into a glass of clear water, staining the water black in an instant.

At that moment.

As the fluctuations of reality rippled outward, the clear blue sky suddenly darkened.

It was as if a cosmic beast larger than a planet had swept through outer space, its outstretched wings completely blocking the incoming sunlight and plunging most of Earth into darkness.

But in an instant, as it left, the vanished light returned.

From that moment on, however, the fluctuations of reality that had permeated the entire Earth began to interfere.

Why can't every last one of you die?

Su Chen's thought began to receive an answer.

Even he, in his uncontrolled frenzy, did not know what the arrival of this moment meant.

In the Marvel event comic "House of M," the Scarlet Witch, Wanda, who was likewise highly skilled at altering reality, had let out a final cry when she completely lost control of her emotions.

No more Mutants!

That one short sentence had driven the Mutants of the entire Earth nearly to extinction, leaving only a little over two hundred, many of whose abilities had also been weakened.

It was the Mutants' swan song.

And now.

The consequences of Su Chen's uncontrolled rampage were even greater.

His words had been directed at specific people.

However.

Because their power was simply too immense, and because the definition of their targets was not very clear, the fluctuations spread across the entire Earth.

At that moment.

Wolverine, Logan, was naturally the first to be affected. Far away in a town in the central region, he had not been awake long when he suddenly noticed that something was wrong with his body.

"Wait, something's not right..."

Logan's expression changed.

He immediately saw his hands suddenly beginning to disintegrate, while his pitiful healing factor could do nothing to stop it.

"No!!"

Logan had realized who was responsible. The cold, aloof face of a young man had already appeared in his mind.

He wanted to say more, but his rapidly disintegrating body collapsed into powder in an instant.

"Ah!"

Screams rang out all around.

Shadowcat, Amplifier, and the others also began rapidly disintegrating at the same moment.

They panicked, completely unaware of what was happening, and turned to look at one another as they crumbled entirely into powder.

That was not even the strangest thing.

At the same time, bizarre cases of people withering away were occurring all over the world.

Yet, surprisingly, this did not attract much attention.

For a very strange thing had happened: traces of countless people's existence, their names preserved on paper, and even everyone's memories of those who had vanished were gradually being lost.

It was as though an invisible hand were rewriting the world's reality.

For example, a supervillain called the Eradicator had died for no apparent reason, but the files and records bearing his name, his identity card, everyone's impression of him, and even the harm he had caused were all lost.