The blackout in New York also affected the Xavier School for the Gifted and Talented. Just as Li Jie was visiting the school with Katie, the power outage suddenly happened.
However, this did not attract too much attention. They just thought it was a normal blackout.
Although New York experienced the blackout in 1972, the power grid transformation over the years had made it rare for a blackout to occur.
However, sudden power outages in some areas would still occur occasionally. This did not attract anyone's attention. No one knew how widespread the blackout was and how much damage it caused.
When the school's backup power was turned on, Li Jie also forgot about the blackout.
Just as Katie said, there were not many people attending the open house.
Only about 60% of the students invited their family and friends to visit the school.
Excluding the parents who were also mutated, the number of normal people who were not mutated was actually very small.
The purpose of the school open house set up by Professor X was not difficult to understand. He wanted to use this opportunity to show that mutated people and ordinary people could also get along well.
To be honest, this was a method, and it was very stable. It let everyone see that mutated people could be controlled. The good and bad of people were not divided by whether they were mutated or not.
However, the drawback of this method was also very obvious. It was too slow. How many people would come to visit each time? One hundred or two hundred?
Li Jie had a question about this efficiency. However, the problem of mutated people was a landmine in society. Anyone who touched it would die.
Li Jie did not want to touch this landmine, at least not for the time being. He did not want to be unable to help the mutated people in the future and get himself killed.
"Professor, do you think this method of yours is very helpful in improving the relationship between mutated people and humans?" This was a dinner hosted by the school. Professor X personally paid for it. It was used to entertain family and friends who came to visit the school.
The dinner was a buffet. The dishes were not expensive, but it was obvious that a lot of effort was put into it. When Li Jie was taking the dishes, he once again met Professor X, so he asked.
"What do you think?" Professor X did not directly answer Li Jie's question. Instead, he threw the question back to Li Jie.
"Maybe it is useful, but it is not easy to integrate mutated people into the lives of ordinary people. Not every ordinary person will visit the school and understand what you are doing." Li Jie expressed his thoughts.
"Maybe you should be more proactive. I know that many Mutants have special abilities. Why don't you use their abilities to help others?"
The recent smooth sailing made Li Jie a little arrogant and arrogant. He forgot that the old man in front of him was also a wise man.
And to be blunt, Professor X was much smarter than Li Jie. If he did not do this, he must have his reasons.
"You have a good idea." Professor X did not directly refute Li Jie's point of view. Instead, he affirmed Li Jie's idea first because he could really see that Li Jie was really talking to him for the integration of Mutants into society. There are not many people like this now.
"But in what way do Mutants help others?"
"For example, like the Vigilantes in New York City recently, they went to help others, and then I can tell you that I published their comics. What they do will be recognized by others. "
"Under the subtle influence of comics or movies or even more entertainment carriers, it is not impossible for Mutants to be accepted, don't you think?" Li Jie has been wondering. He has not heard of X-Men since he came to this world for so long.
Either the X-Men are hidden too deeply for ordinary people to know, or the X-Men have never existed. This question has always been on his mind.
"Mutants are not the same as those Vigilantes." Professor X still patiently talked to Li Jie. "Vigilantes may have gained power for a variety of reasons, whether it is through persistent training or the use of a smart brain to develop a suit of armor."
"Or even because of some special reasons caused by mutation. But they all have one thing in common, most of their experiences cannot be replicated. "
"They are all independent individuals. What they do represents only an individual, or a small group, and people are more likely to accept them."
"But Mutants are different. They are a large and complex group." Professor X's long conversation with Li Jie attracted the attention of several of his students.
Including Laser Eyes Scott, Jean Grey, and Storm, they all looked this way. Laser Eyes was a little curious to know what the two were talking about, but he was stopped by Jean Grey before he could get close. Jean motioned for the professor to talk quietly.
"There are actually a lot of Mutants in this society, and it's not unknown to the government." Professor X looked around the hall where the banquet was being held.
"In fact, Mutants in my school are still very rare. There are more Mutants who don't want to enter this school. They are rejecting themselves."
"If, as you said, Mutants gather into a force and use their power to do good things, some people may be happy, but some people will be unhappy because this force is not in their hands."
Charles's words were vague, but Li Jie knew what he was referring to. It was his own wishful thinking.
Mutants are a force. He knows that Professor X also knows that. Don't those ambitious people know that? Don't underestimate the smart people in this world.
There are always more people with high IQs in this world than you think. What would happen if the power of Mutants was completely used by the government?
Or what would happen if some unspeakable secret people and ambitious people in the government used it?
Can Charles really avoid the government's entanglement by forming X-Men? As said before, Mutants are not Vigilantes. They are not a single individual, but a complete group.
Although I don't want to say this, some people have artificially divided Mutants and normal people into two different groups, and even caused ideological opposition because of this division.
Or in the eyes of a group of people in the government, Mutants' current state of disunity is the best. If there is really someone who has achieved great prestige in both Mutants and normal people.
Then will the power in some people's hands be divided? Or even lose the hotbed of rights that they rely on for survival?
Li Jie shook his head. "There are always people who are constantly on the road to death and create new heights." His tone was a little clear and a little helpless.
Professor X's words finally made him understand the trouble of this matter, and I'm afraid there is more than one crux of the problem. Charles looked at Li Jie with a smile, and Li Jie could understand his words, which made him very happy.
But he was also very helpless. Unless he really decided to carry out a violent political change like his old friend, he would have to use this time-consuming and laborious way to change the living environment of Mutants.
Near Flushing, Queens, Marvel's villa.
Thor was powerlessly cleaning the toilet in the women's room. He announced in the name of Odin. This was the greatest humiliation he had ever received in his life.
No one has ever dared to ask the God of Thunder to do this kind of thing, to clean a woman's toilet! If this matter is spread to the Immortal Palace, then Thor's reputation will be unbearable.
He will be the object of everyone's ridicule. Thinking of this, Thor is angry, but he can't resist now, he is only a mortal. And Odin also blessed him with magic, so he can't refuse Loki's orders.
Well, when he thought of Loki, his hateful brother appeared in front of him.
Loki's divine power was not sealed by Odin. Although some of his mind magic could not be used, this did not affect his use of other spells.
He flashed in front of Thor and watched Thor working hard to clean the toilet, using detergent to make a lot of foam.
Loki leaned against the wall leisurely and whistled. It was an Asgardian song, which was created by the elves to praise Thor after Thor defeated the God of Plague on a certain planet and rescued the people of the entire planet from the plague.
Well, Loki's actions were simply adding fuel to the fire, and Thor's fists were clenched tightly. "Can you shut your mouth, Loki!"
"My dear brother, this is your hymn." Loki said with an innocent expression. "I remember you liked it when you were in Asgard."
"Yes, but I also liked it when I was cleaning the damn toilet!" Thor was a little angry. "You actually helped a mortal to tease me. Just you wait, Loki, I'll find a chance to teach you a lesson."
"Well, I actually came to see if the great Thor was interested in temporarily stopping his work and going on a short adventure with me in the atrium." Loki spread his hands, revealing a ring in his palm.
"This is a ring with the aura of Asgard. It's very weak, but it looks like it has been around for thousands of years."
The thing in Loki's hand attracted Thor's attention, but he still said with some disdain. "It's just an ordinary silver ring. Maybe a god forgot to take it with him when he descended."
"Maybe. This god was a little careless, and he left too many things behind." Loki also had a small silver piece in his hand, which looked like a piece of jewelry.
"Other than us, the last god to come to the atrium was almost a thousand years ago. There are only two reasons why this god's aura hasn't dissipated after a thousand years." Loki stretched out two fingers.
"Either he's unbelievably powerful like Odin the Father, or he's been staying in the atrium and never returned to the immortal palace. Maybe he's a fugitive from the palace." Thor said the two reasons on behalf of Loki.
Although Thor was impulsive and used violence to solve problems, it didn't mean that Thor's IQ was in the negative.
"So what do you want to do, Loki?" Thor dropped the toilet cleaning tool in his hand.
"Of course I want to find this god. If he's already left, then maybe he has his treasures in the atrium. If he's still here, we should find out who he is. Maybe telling Odin this information will save you from mortal labor and let you return to the immortal palace sooner." Loki knew Thor too well. If he wanted to persuade Thor to do something with him, then he must first let Thor know what it was.
Especially if it was beneficial to Thor, whether it was to gain fame, find treasures, or return to the immortal palace.
Loki didn't care about Thor's re-education plan. What did it have to do with him whether Thor learned to be humble or not? He volunteered to come to the mortal world to become Thor's guardian, and to accompany him to do hard labor here.
Although humiliating Thor was a pleasure, Loki came to the mortal world to have fun. The Father and Mother, who were far away from the immortal palace, wanted to give himself a break and play freely in the atrium.
For example, looking for a missing god. This was a very interesting thing. As for whether this would anger Odin? Please, wasn't there still Thor here? The God of Thunder could withstand Odin's lightning wrath.
In the morgue of a hospital in New York, Mike's body, which had been charred by electricity, was on the morgue table.
Although the cause of death was clear, the procedure still had to be followed. The blackout he caused this time caused the greater New York area to be without electricity for three hours.
Fortunately, Stark Industries and the Osborne Group reacted quickly and restored power to important public departments first, which prevented the chaos in New York from continuing.
"This guy looks really unlucky," the police coroner said to his assistant. Mike had been electrocuted to the point where he couldn't even tell that he was human. He had completely turned into a pile of charcoal.
"Yes, even all his clothes have been burnt. But what's shining on his neck?" The assistant carefully discovered that there was still light on Mike's body.
He carefully fiddled with something that was covered by the charred stains. It looked like a silver necklace. This was too strange. Logically speaking, the melting point of silver wasn't very high.
Under the powerful electric current, it should have fused long ago, but this necklace was still in its complete form.
The assistant wanted to take the necklace off. Just as the necklace was taken off Mike's neck, the necklace suddenly disappeared.
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