In the courtyard of the Xavier School for Gifted and Talented. The two old friends were also the two leaders of the Mutated Humans. The moderate Charles and the radical Eric, these two old men are confronting each other.
"All this is for the Mutants. Old friend. You have to make the right choice. "Magneto Eric looked at Charles with a strange smile on his face.
The uneasiness in Charles' heart grew, and he vaguely grasped a bad idea. But he couldn't be sure at all. "What the hell do you mean, Marx!"
Magneto Erik heard Charles' questioning and just grinned silently. The old man with a stern face seemed kind when he smiled. "I heard that the students in your school have been a little naughty recently."
What Magneto said made Charles feel ominous.
"I heard that a student assassinated the New York City Councilman for the future of the Mutants, McCauley, the radical anti-Mutants faction." As soon as Eric said this, Charles' heart thumped and he felt that something bad was going to happen.
That was because it had only happened today. Paul and Deacon just went out in the morning, and they only killed McCauley at noon. Charles and the others only knew about it in the afternoon.
It was only because they were in school and Charles had used Mind Detection to find out about it. But how did Magneto know about this? And so fast! Charles thought about it and there was only one possibility, that is, Magneto was actually related to this matter.
"Magneto!" Charles, who thought of this, suddenly felt a burst of anger, followed by a sense of powerlessness. For the first time, he called his old friend by his nickname instead of his real name.
But even if he shouted with all his might, it didn't help now. Charles seemed to have been drained of all his strength at this moment. He leaned weakly against the back of the wheelchair.
Eric knew how smart his old friend was. As long as there was a hint of leakage, he could guess all kinds of things. But now the whole plan had begun, like a boulder rolling down from the top of the mountain.
When the boulder rolled down, anyone who stood in front of the boulder would be crushed into powder! So Eric didn't care what Charles guessed now.
Magneto enjoyed watching Charles' powerlessness now. He leaned in his wheelchair and was no longer as energetic as he used to be. Now he looked like a real old man.
"So, Charles. I've already helped you choose which side to support. The future of Mutants needs our efforts. "Magneto looked at Charles weakly leaning in his wheelchair and said easily.
"Why?" Charles lowered his head and said in a weak and puzzled tone, "Why? Why did you let the two kids kill McCauley? Everything you're doing now will only worsen the situation for the mutants! "
When Charles said the last sentence, he almost shouted it out.
Eric wasn't shaken or pitied by Charles' anger. He said in a calm and relaxed tone, "It's very simple, Charles. Because McCauley is also a mutant, and one of the members of the Mutant Brotherhood! "
Magneto's words were earth-shattering. Charles suddenly raised his head and looked at Magneto with an incredulous look in his eyes. "What did you say!" Charles couldn't believe what he had heard.
McCauley is a Mutant? And a member of the Mutant Brotherhood! So what's going on with his anti-mutant bill? More doubts appeared in Charles' mind.
"Yes, that's right, my old friend. Senator McCauley is indeed a member of the Mutant Brotherhood. And he is also a member who has a fanatical attitude towards the revival of Mutants. "Eric continued.
"Well, don't look at me with that kind of expectant eyes. Although some Mutants do have the skill of feigning death to deceive others. But McCauley is indeed dead, killed by your students. Your students' hands are stained with blood, and that hasn't changed. "Eric enjoyed watching the hope in Charles' eyes shatter.
"Why?" Charles asked again. There were many meanings in this sentence, such as why McCauley was a Mutant and did those things, why did he let his students kill McCauley, and what good would McCauley's death do for Eric? All of these questions were contained in this one question, "Why?"
Eric looked at his former friend's confused and even pained expression and said slowly, "For the Mutant Charles."
"Do you know, ever since I suffered so much in the concentration camp and slaughtered so many of my people, I should have understood one thing. Peace is never bought with compromise. "Eric adjusted the cuffs of his trench coat.
"I am a Jew, and a Jew living in Germany. When I was young. When I was a child. Everything I went through. "
"In the beginning, the Nazi law only forbade Jews from sitting on park benches. I never went to the park again. My mother told me: Bear with it, everything will pass. "
"Then, the Nazi law required all Jews to wear the symbol of Xingxing. From then on, I needed to wear Xingxing on my chest to show that I was different from other people. This made me lose my friends at school. My mother told me: Bear with it, everything will pass. "
"Then it was my father's grocery store. The Nazis issued a law that all Jewish stores would be heavily taxed, because they said that Jews earned ill-gotten money. Our living conditions became more and more difficult. But my mother still told me: Bear with it, everything will pass. "
"Then I was kicked out of school, and our family was forced to move away from the original community. Because the Nazis issued a new law, they required all Jews to live together, and all Jewish children must go to the same school. We were taught in school that Jews were born guilty, and they should use their lives to pay for it all. At this point, my mother continued to tell me: Bear with it, everything will pass. "
"Until we were put in the concentration camp, when my mother died in front of me. She finally couldn't say: Bear with it, everything will pass. Because in this world, some things will not pass! "
When Eric said this, his facial features began to distort.
"When I was at the lowest point of my life, I met you and Hank. You persuaded me to join the organization, wash away the blood of the past, and we could use a peaceful way to let the mutants rise. But look at what I got! Charles! "
Magneto put his hands on the armrests of Charles' wheelchair, and his face was so close to Charles. His roar was like the roar of a dragon, as if he wanted to swallow Professor Charles alive.
"My wife and children are all dead! All dead! Since then, I have understood. My situation hadn't changed with time or with my abilities. I am still the little boy who was kicked out of the park, kicked out of school, and finally put in the concentration camp! "
"And the current government is no different from the Nazis. Charles, you seem to advocate peace, but just like my mother, you are saying to the mutant children in another way: Bear with it, everything will pass. But Charles, some things can't pass! "
"For various reasons, the life of the mutants now seems to be passable, but Charles. This is just like boiling a frog in warm water, just like how I was put into the concentration camp step by step. If we had resisted at the beginning, maybe my parents would not have died in the concentration camp! And that kind of forbearance, that kind of concession is what really kills us! "
Eric looked straight into Charles' eyes and looked at him with a firm gaze.
"When the mutants are used to this kind of life and continue to endure the increasing interference and control of human society. By the time everything starts, everything will be over for us! So I have been thinking about this problem for the past few years. "
Eric suddenly said something that surprised Charles. "I understand that violence does not solve problems, Charles."
The professor felt a huge shock today. Eric had done so many things, but he still said that violence could not solve problems. So why did he use violence?
Fortunately, Eric's next sentence answered the question. "Violence cannot solve problems, only revolution can!"
"My real name is Marx. There is also a philosopher with this name in my hometown. The idea he founded, the communist idea. It once ignited the flame of revolution in Eastern Europe and Asia. "Eric calmly recounted his thoughts.
"A revolutionary from the East once said something that I agree with: Where there is oppression, there will be resistance! The more intense the oppression, the stronger the resistance! "Eric finally began to tell his thoughts on the whole thing.
"Boiling a frog in warm water is to let us mutants die slowly. When we want to resist, we are powerless to resist. In this case, why don't we simply push all the mutants to the edge of life and death in one breath? Only in this way can we unite our comrades and strength! "
Magneto's idea seemed very crazy, and Charles had been shocked by Eric's idea to the point of speechlessness.
"So many years ago, I was thinking about how to do this. In the days when I formed the X-Men with you, I learned a lot from those US government officials, those dirty and despicable political skills. "Magneto said with a smile on the corner of his mouth.
"So I thought of the current method. Since the human government can design a Weapon X program against mutants, why can't I design an anti-X program! Use drugs to control the X genes in mutants and make them recessive. As long as they don't use their mutant abilities, they won't be exposed. "
"We can organize companies and elect politicians. Introduce new bills. The implementation of those cruel and tyrannical laws will make all the mutated humans realize how illusory their current lives are. "
"Only in this way can they give up their false illusions and come together with me. And McCauley's death is a very good incentive. I am very grateful for Senator McCauley's sacrifice, for the sake of our great cause. "
Charles was silent for a long time and finally spoke at this moment. His voice was hoarse and weak. "Do you understand how many mutants will die?"
"Great causes require noble sacrifices, Charles." Magneto didn't seem to care.
"So, in fact, Master of Illusions and Stryker are also fake, right? It's a trap to lure me. "Charles felt deeply powerless at this moment.
"Yes, Jason is an important force. I had rescued him a long time ago. Including Paul, I had found him before he got out of control. Because of the mutants who got out of control, you began to look for those mutants who got out of control. The reappearance of the X-Men gave me an opportunity. Do you really think that Paul just lost control of his mutant abilities? "Magneto had a victorious smile on his face.
"Presumably by now your students, the new generation of X-Men, have razed Stryker's secret base to the ground. But this is good because I also hate the Weapon X program! Think about it, Charles. "
"When Stryker went to Washington to try to persuade members of Congress to pass the bill, his base was destroyed by a group of mutants. What do you think will happen to him? And your students killed a city councilor, and your teacher destroyed a base of the US military. What position will your school be in? "
Magneto said in a tone that could not be refused. "Eastern proverb: the torrent of history is vast, those who go with it prosper, those who go against it perish. Now the wheel of history has begun to turn. "
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