Sentinel

Chapter 122
At the dam base of Lake Akalia, the guards outside the detention room vaguely felt that something was wrong. The closed iron door made a vibrating buzzing sound, and the pipes erected above shook off dust. Thinking of the dangerous mutants that the officer said, I couldn't help feeling nervous.

With the detention room as the center, the invisible force spreads rapidly in all directions. The powerful spiritual force interferes with reality, and time seems to stand still for an instant. Everyone's eyes are empty, and their thoughts are all stagnant at this moment, as if the world has been frozen.

The three people in the room, except the illusion master Jason who passed out completely, the professor sitting in the wheelchair, and the standing Sean looked at each other, and their spiritual power collided and confronted. When it comes to manipulating the mind and reading consciousness, young people Certainly not the opponent of the bald old man, but his purpose was not to defeat the professor.

"Professor, please go to the future with me—the future of mutants!"

The floating light is like a long river, surrounding the majestic and majestic sacred hall, the bald old man sitting in the center raised his head slightly, and he saw a familiar figure from the flickering light and shadow fragments.

"Logan..." the professor called out Wolverine's name.

It’s just that compared to the rude and rude lone wolf with a cigar in his impression, Logan in the future time will look much more desolate, unshaven and unkempt. If he is not wearing a cheap black suit, he looks like a street vagrant Han, this strong man who has gone through hundreds of years, actually exuded an aura of old age.

The overwhelming spiritual tide suddenly subsided, the professor stared blankly at Logan who was facing a group of car thieves, this ferocious lone wolf who would never grow old, was actually knocked down by a few third-rate gangsters, even for a group of car thieves. Rent a car to use your body against incoming bullets.

"...What happened?" The professor murmured, as a perfect weapon made by Stryker, how could Wolverine Logan be reduced to such a state?

Then the bald old man saw a Wolverine that was completely different from what he remembered. He was no longer as rampant as before, never backing down, and even his fiery temper was restrained a lot.Logan had a gray beard and coughed non-stop. He took off the suit, showing old injuries on his body, and his infinite healing ability in the past seemed to be gradually lost.

He didn't even use the name Logan anymore. He used the real name "James Howlett" as an online car-hailing driver, opened the door for passengers with umbrellas, and his vision was so blurred that he needed to wear glasses to see the medicine bottle clearly. label, where there is still a little bit of demeanor when he was young, today's Wolverine is like a down-and-out middle-aged man.

The professor's spirit continued to deepen, and he glimpsed the timeline of the future along the light and shadow fragments. His consciousness turned into a pair of nihilistic eyes, overlooking the future world from top to bottom, silently watching Logan return from Texas. To the Mexican border, and seeing myself—Charles Xavier decades later.

The huge water tower fell down in the sand, and the professor "watched" Logan walking into the dark and dilapidated room with the medicine. The wise and kind Professor Charles has now become a crazy old man full of nonsense, just like those old people in the hospital , paralyzed in bed, lingering on his last breath, who would have imagined that he was once the leader of mutants.

"What's going on?" The professor mumbled to himself in a daze. He couldn't believe that this was his future!

The spiritual tide gradually subsided, and Xiao En walked into the sacred hall. This is the spiritual fortress built by the professor, which is indestructible and difficult to shake, but he walked in easily.

"Don't you understand? Professor, even if you reverse the future and create a new timeline for mutants, the ending is destined to remain unchanged."

"Humanity in the future once again found a way to completely exterminate you, mutants gradually returned to normal, and no new mutants were born for a full 20 years, and your race was strangled and wiped out... and you, Charles Xavier, have The mutant leader with the strongest brain in the world is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, is this a mockery of fate?"

The eyes of the bald old man flickered with grief. He saw himself lying on the bed in the farmer's house, expressing his guilt and pain. The professor once lost his mind when he became ill and killed hundreds of innocent people. With a self-protective psychology, he forgot this painful experience, but the warm dinner at the farmer's house finally made the professor remember it again.

When Logan's clone pierced the old man's heart with steel claws, Charles was silent, and he was in the void consciousness of the past and the future, as if converging here, just like in the timeline of reversing the future, the young professor was face to face with himself Same as talking.

The fleeting images disappeared quickly, and the eyes of the bald old man were full of tears. He fell into confusion, hesitation and self-doubt. If Xiao En wanted to kill the killer at this time, he could easily take the professor's life.

Looking back on the future he saw, Professor Charles felt pity. Logan, who could not escape the erosion of time, hid himself on the Mexican border with his anonymity. In every corner, the only hope is to save enough money to buy a yacht, far away from the crowd, go to the high seas, and spend the final years in peace.

In this story full of sadness and melancholy, he and Logan fled all the way and everywhere, but still could not change the final outcome - he was buried by a small river with lush water and grass, and Logan was also covered with scars Die as you wish, and return to eternal tranquility.

Decades later in the world, mutants have become characters in comics, and no one believes that they really existed. The X-Men and Brotherhood have all disappeared with the passage of time, turning into mottled bricks buried in dust stone.

"Why do you know all this?" The professor raised his head, the sadness in his eyes couldn't be concealed, he still didn't want to believe that he could only end up like this after struggling all his life.

Even to the point of death, I never saw the dove of peace descend.Even if you overwrite the old timeline and create a new future, you still can't change the ending of mutant extinction.

"You can understand me as a traveler traveling back in the long river of time and space. This world is probably my end." Sean smiled warmly.

He looked at the bald old man with a complicated expression, and said softly: "Peace never depends on praying, but on the initiative to strive for it. I hope mutants can join my camp—at least in my future territory, mutants will not Exterminated, they can live in the wonderful utopia you imagine."

"Do I still have a choice?" The professor said bitterly.

He is well aware of the situation of the mutants. With Eric's debut, the government is determined to solve this threat. Even if they escape from the dam base, what can they do next?Find another place to hide, or join the Brotherhood of Magneto, and carry the banner of rebelling against the human government with your friends?

Charles has already figured it out, it is useless to flinch, but can fierce resistance lead to a better future?

"Professor, you can try to trust me first. Although I am not a good person according to your moral standards, most of the time I keep my promises." Sean saw through the hesitation in the bald old man's heart and smiled. said.

No matter how much Professor Charles tends to be on the human side, when his compatriots are facing the crisis of extinction, the spiritual leader of the Academy of Mutants will eventually make a choice that goes against his original will.

"You can convince me, but Eric will never compromise." The professor knew very well that if the friends could not settle down, the mutants would not be able to reach a consensus.

With a smile on the corner of Sean's mouth, he said in a relaxed tone: "I've always been good at persuading others, whether it's in terms of words or other aspects."

(End of this chapter)