"How is it, Logan? You shouldn't regret your decision to join the [Hyperspace Group] back then, right?"
After Logan Howlett finished speaking, Professor X held his hand and asked with a smile.
Logan Howlett subconsciously pulled his hand away, then hesitated for a moment before firmly grasping Professor X's hand again.
"Charles, you're wrong. I'm just a temporary worker right now, not officially part of the [Hyperspace Group] yet… but I certainly don't regret that decision."
The smile on Professor X's face grew even brighter. "I told you, sooner or later, you'd find a haven to shelter you from the storm, and a new home willing to accept you… and clearly, this is it!"
"Is that so?"
Logan Howlett knew what the other party wanted to say, and then smiled self-deprecatingly, "But now, apart from my sense of smell, I don't have any other skills to offer…"
"Charles, you don't know how terrifying the strength of young people is these days. Not to mention Frank, that kid is inhumanly strong… God knows when Mr. Karl will think I'm useless and kick us both out."
Recalling the battles he had experienced in the past few days, Logan Howlett increasingly felt that he was a bit out of touch with the current era.
This also caused a deep sense of self-doubt in the heart of this old man who once regarded fighting as his life.
"No, Logan, that will never happen."
Professor X shook his head slightly, reassuring him with a firm tone: "Have you ever considered that if Mr. Karl didn't sincerely want to accept you, he wouldn't have bothered to settle me here.
He could have just paid you a commission and left after you helped him find Sorin."
"You mean…" Logan Howlett's eyes suddenly lit up, as if he saw hope.
Professor X nodded noncommittally, actively guiding him: "But I want to remind you that if you want to seize the current opportunity, you must first treat this place as your new home."
Then, he jokingly teased, "Logan, whether I can retire here in peace depends entirely on you."
"Tch, give me a break…"
Logan Howlett curled his lip and raised his middle finger at Professor X, but then both of their faces were filled with hearty smiles.
Ring ring ring—
Just then, Logan Howlett's phone suddenly rang in his pocket.
"Who would be calling me at this hour?"
Logan Howlett took out his phone and found that the call was from an unfamiliar number.
He pressed the answer button, but before he could speak, a panicked child's voice came from the other end, "Is this Mr. Logan? Come to [Eden] quickly, those bad guys are trying to capture Laura… Ah!!"
With a scream, the phone abruptly hung up.
"Hey? Can you at least tell me what's happening there?" Logan Howlett roared into the phone.
"What's wrong, Logan? Who was that? Did something happen to little Laura?" Professor X asked with a worried expression.
"I don't know."
Logan Howlett shook his head with a grave expression. "The person on the phone only said that someone was trying to capture that little girl… I suspect it's probably the people from [Arclight Genetics] who have tracked down [Eden]!!"
"Logan, we absolutely cannot stand by and watch those thugs capture little Laura… they will kill her."
Professor X suddenly gripped Logan Howlett's hand tightly, saying with unusual seriousness: "She is your child, her blood flows with your lineage, so you must save her now!!"
"How am I supposed to save her?"
Logan Howlett helplessly and desperately shook off the other party's hand, shouting angrily:
"From [Sokovia] to the [Canadian] border is at least nearly ten thousand kilometers, even the fastest plane would take about a day…"
"What's more, I don't even know the specific location of [Eden], I only know that after crossing the border of [North Dakota], you have to continue walking forward for about 8 miles… Even if I set off now, by the time I get there, it'll probably be too late!"
Before Professor X could say anything, Logan Howlett seemed to suddenly think of something, and abruptly stood up, muttering to himself:
"Wait a minute… if Mr. Karl is willing to help, maybe everything will still be in time?"
Clearly, he had thought of the portal that Wanda had used before.
But the problem was, he wasn't sure if Karl would help.
After all, he was just a temporary worker right now.
Moreover, apart from using his sense of smell to help find a clue, he had always been in an awkward position of being a bystander in the subsequent battles.
So, it could be said that he hadn't helped much in this incident.
This made Logan Howlett somewhat unsure about asking Karl for help.
"Never mind, I can only bite the bullet and try."
As if he had made up his mind, Logan Howlett didn't even have time to explain anything to Professor X, and rushed out of the ward like a madman.
Seeing this, Professor X wasn't angry, but instead let out a long sigh, muttering to himself: "Logan, I knew you would be a good father."
…
A few minutes later.
Somewhere on the [North Dakota] border.
A sparking portal appeared out of thin air in the darkness.
Immediately afterwards, an open-top all-terrain tactical off-road vehicle burst out of the portal.
"Miss Wanda, thank you for your help."
Logan Howlett thanked the girl on the other side of the portal with a solemn expression. She smiled and nodded, then disappeared along with the portal.
To be honest, Logan Howlett really didn't expect that Karl would agree to his request so readily.
And in order to ensure everything was foolproof, he even specially sent Frank to help him.
This made Logan Howlett feel an unspeakable warmth and gratitude in his heart.
After all, it had been a long time since anyone had cared about his feelings so much.
Buzz buzz buzz—
During this time, Frank had already released three new drones equipped with infrared night vision devices into the sky, and they were flying rapidly in three different directions.
"Don't worry, I believe we'll be able to pinpoint the location of [Eden] soon."
"Thank you, Frank…"
However, Logan Howlett's slightly sentimental words were interrupted by Frank stepping on the gas pedal, "This pretentious look of yours doesn't look like the [Wolverine] I know at all!!"
Immediately afterwards, the off-road vehicle disappeared into the dark night like an arrow.
…
And at this moment, in a camp a few kilometers away.
A massacre of mutants was in full swing.
"Dr. Rice, we have successfully controlled the situation in this area, and I believe it won't be long before we can take down that building…"
The mercenary leader, who was assisting the [Marauders] in completing the capture mission, pointed to several mutant teenagers who had been captured and asked with some uncertainty:
"But is it really necessary to kill all of these mutant teenagers?"
"Idiot, watch your words."
Dr. Zander Rice's gaze swept over the mutant teenagers, and after discovering that X-23 was not among them, he corrected with a gloomy expression:
"I warn you, they are not children, but efficient and ruthless killing machines, even if they have not fully grown up yet, they can still easily kill your entire family!!"
"This… shouldn't be the case for all of them, right?"
The mercenary leader looked embarrassed. Although their principle has always been to do things for money, without asking the reason or the result.
But if they were to point their guns at these teenagers now, he would feel somewhat uneasy… even if they were all disgusting [mutants].
Dr. Zander Rice suddenly stopped, stared into the other party's eyes, and said word by word:
"I said, except for X-23, get rid of all the remaining damn mutant trash. I don't want to repeat the same words a second time!"
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"Under… understood."
The mercenary leader nodded helplessly, then gestured downwards to his subordinates.
Bang bang bang—
With a few gunshots, the mutant teenagers who had been captured earlier fell into a pool of blood.
Not far away, teams of heavily armed mercenaries were rushing into a five-story building in batches, and engaged in fierce battles with the adult mutants guarding the stairwell on the fourth floor.
"Quick, children, remember not to look back after landing, run directly into the mountains, we will help you hold off the enemies."
In a room on the fifth floor, a middle-aged woman with long blonde hair and a pale face, opened a window while sadly saying to a few mutant teenagers including X-23:
"I'm really sorry, we couldn't protect you… you are the last spark of [mutants], I hope you can live a normal life in the future, without having to live in constant fear like us."
With that, she raised her hand and aimed her palm at the ground outside the window, forcibly activating her mutant ability.
An invisible energy wave shot out from her palm, and a simple staircase formed of mud and stones rose from the ground, slowly climbing towards the window they were in.
However, perhaps due to the influence of the [M43 virus], her mutant ability was not as good as before, and the earthen staircase of more than ten meters high stopped four or five times before barely completing.
And at this time, her forehead was already covered with sweat, and her face was so pale that it was almost bloodless. Clearly, she had succeeded by burning her life.
"Go."
The woman squeezed out a word with difficulty, and then helped the mutant teenagers to transfer out of the window.
"Petra, aren't you coming with us?"
When it was X-23's turn to leave, she asked with a reluctant expression.
Although she had only spent about a week with the woman in front of her, the other party treated them like her own children.
And the current situation reminded the little wolf girl of Gabriela, the nurse who had protected her and escaped from the laboratory like a mother.
She hated separations… because separation meant death!
But the young her was powerless to do anything about it.
"Don't worry, Laura, I'll find you later."
The blonde woman named Petra gently stroked the little wolf girl's hair, and then urged the other party to hurry up and leave here through the stairs.
Bang—
At this time, the door was pushed open violently, and a man dressed like a Native American stumbled in.
"Petra, the bullets are gone, the downstairs has completely fallen, you hurry up and escape with the children…"
The man said, while moving tables, chairs and other objects from all around to block the door, trying to delay more time as much as possible.
However, blood kept flowing from his abdomen, and soon gathered into a small pool of blood on the ground.
"John, you're injured?"
After sending the last mutant teenager out of the window, Petra came to the man with a concerned expression, looking at the blood constantly flowing from his abdomen, a look of sadness appeared on her pale face.
"We must buy as much time as possible for those little guys… What's more, [Eden] is gone, where else can we go?"
John slumped to the ground weakly, nodding with difficulty, "Yes, this world has long been without a place for us [mutants]… I really hope those children can be safe this time."
Just then, a noisy scolding sound suddenly came from the corridor, obviously the mercenaries had already attacked.
Da da da—
Without any nonsense, a group of mercenaries fired a burst of fire at the door of the room where the two were.
The Native American man named John didn't even have time to say goodbye to his beloved woman, and was directly beaten into a sieve.
"John…"
Petra let out a wail, and then before the door was about to be broken open by the mercenaries, she used the last bit of strength on her body to activate her mutant ability to control the bricks and stones to completely block the door.
Then she crawled with difficulty towards John's body… because she didn't even have the strength to stand and walk now.
Boom—
With a violent explosion, a large hole was blown open in the thick wall, and then a team of heavily armed mercenaries rushed in from the corridor.
"Fu*k! Those mutant little bastards escaped through the window."
The mercenary leader opened the window and glanced outside, then pointed to his soldiers to chase down the simple stairs.
But as soon as a few soldiers stepped on the stairs, Petra raised her hand and removed the remaining power on it, and the stairs instantly collapsed.
"Ah ah…"
Several soldiers fell directly from the fifth floor, their life and death unknown.
"You bitch!!"
The mercenary leader, enraged, directly took out his gun and pulled the trigger at Petra's head.
Bang—
After a gunshot, the female mutant's head slammed heavily on the ground.
"Everyone put on their night vision goggles and chase me!!"
With the order given, a grand melee, akin to a hunt, officially began.
