"Bang!"
Inside the base, the entrance to the sewer pipe was propped up by a pair of arms. The heavy sewer lid was moved to the side. Logan exerted strength in his arms and jumped lightly to the ground.
He looked around vigilantly. The house was filled with heavy water circulation equipment. The dim light shone on top of his head. His nose twitched. He didn't smell anyone else. He breathed a sigh of relief. He found a set of work clothes in the cabinet next to the water room. He put them on, pulled down his hat, and walked out in a random direction.
For ordinary people, they had to rely on their sight to find a specific item. But for a mutant like Logan, even if he only relied on his sense of smell, he could still find the target he was hunting.
This was the potential of a top-notch warrior. When he passed by a crossroad, Logan's nose suddenly twitched. He clenched his fists. He found it!
He looked around and turned into the road on the right. After a few turns, a heavy metal door blocked his way. Even at the moment when the base was being invaded, four armed soldiers with guns were still guarding the door.
After Logan appeared from the corner, he was immediately pointed at by four guns.
"Who are you! Why are you here! "
The soldier shouted. Logan ignored him. He sniffed hard and finally determined that the person he was looking for was behind the door.
"Stop!"
"Don't come near! We're going to fire! "
"Zeng!"
"Ahhh!"
After a series of noises, the passage returned to silence. After two X-shaped holes were brutally carved in the door of the sealed laboratory, Logan kicked the door open. Then he saw Victor standing in the deepest part of the laboratory, in front of a metal box.
The saber-toothed tiger seemed to be studying the box embedded in the wall in front of him. His nails scratched the sturdy wall like a safe, creating a series of sparks.
"Victor!"
Six sharp blades popped out from Logan's fists. The murderous intent surging on his face was almost tangible. But Victor just held out his hand and motioned for him to be quiet. He said in a low voice,
"In the end, you still managed to find me, my little brother... However, before we start fighting, can you give me a bit of time? You know that when I've paid a lot and am about to receive a reward, I will always be impatient."
He turned around and looked at Logan with a face full of smiles, as well as the blood-soaked corpse on the ground behind him.
"I want to confirm one thing... you and your new friends have already killed their way in, right?"
Logan didn't answer, but the communicator beside Victor's hand suddenly rang.
"Victor, where are you? To stop that lunatic from charging in from the front of the base! Go and stop him. I'll immediately prepare the alloy injection for you! "
Stryker's voice sounded particularly anxious. Victor's face showed a trace of disgust, as if he had heard something disgusting. In front of Logan, he replied in an interested voice.
"Ah, Stryker, now you remember what you promised me … But I'm curious. Didn't you always tell me that I would reject the Adamantium injection and that I wouldn't be able to pass the ritual?"
"I'm curious. Are you lying to me, or... you didn't plan to do that!"
Stryker on the other end of the communicator also felt that something was wrong, and he emphasized his tone.
"Stop fooling around, Victor. I will definitely find a way to do what I promised you! Now, I need you to stop No. 13! "
"Thank you for your kindness, Mr. Stryker."
Victor's five fingers tightened, and the black communicator in his hand turned into pieces. He turned to look at Logan with a mysterious smile on his face.
"But I don't need it anymore."
He turned around, waved his claws, and slashed the metal wall, completely breaking the lock of the safe embedded in the wall. At this moment, the alarms of the entire base began to run wildly, but there was nothing that could stop Victor. He pulled the door of the cabinet back.
"Clatter!"
A pile of strange ores mixed with silver-white light rolled out of the safe and soon formed a small triangular pile of stones at Victor's feet.
"The Adamantium ore is only produced in Wakanda. Every year, the amount that flows out of the country can be counted on one hand … Stryker spent more than ten years to obtain this much. He spent a third of it on you, but the rest belongs to me!"
He picked up a stone and shook it in his hand. He looked at Logan.
"My brother, you don't really think that I'm Stryker's lackey, do you? You don't really believe John's nonsense that I stayed here to prove that I'm stronger than you?"
"No, of course not!"
Victor snapped his fingers, "I've never cared about the strength between us. After all, we are brothers and are connected by blood. I serve a higher power, and that has never been Stryker."
"But you killed Kayla!"
Logan strode towards Victor and lifted him up by the collar. Victor didn't resist and allowed Logan to pull him towards him. He smiled and said, "Let's go."
"Woah woah woah … did I really kill her? Poor Jimmy, you've disgraced the Houtley family. "
Victor raised his left hand and looked at the time on his watch. A playful smile appeared on his face.
"Time's up. She'll be here soon. Look back, you'll see the truth!"
At this moment, behind them, a closed door opened. When the scent appeared in Logan's nostrils, his face froze. He put down Victor and turned around. He saw... Kayla. She was wearing the base's uniform, holding a stack of documents in her hand. The moment she saw Logan, the documents in her hand fell to the ground.
The woman who lived with him in the mountains of Quebec for five years, the woman who died in front of him, the woman who would lie gently in his arms and tell him those old stories, the woman who called him Wolverine.
The figure who fell in his arms and was covered in blood overlapped with the lively and beautiful figure in the Stryker base's uniform in front of him. This false contrast instantly shattered the beliefs that had supported Logan until now. He suddenly felt that he was like a Joker on the stage. Everyone knew the truth, but he was still living in his own world.
In a false world that was wantonly arranged and changed by others.
He was not an idiot. The moment Kayla appeared here, he understood a lot of things. The truth that made him despair, and all the pain he suffered, all the pursuit, John's serious injury, all these appeared because of a false reality. He felt like a joke.
Logan looked at her in disbelief. He felt that his mind was in a mess. An indescribable feeling surged from his heart, making him dizzy, and even his body swayed. He couldn't help but hold on to the table next to him and sit on the chair with unimaginable weakness.
Vidocq sat next to him gracefully, reached out his hand, and comforted his brother.
"Look, look, Jimmy, you'll never learn to trust your instincts … Everyone, everyone involved in this matter has their own purpose, including Saber who joined halfway. His purpose has always been very clear, but only you, poor Jimmy, everything you did, everything you thought you had, was just a trap set by Stryker for you, and you've never been able to step out of it."
Kayla looked at the absent-minded Logan. Her eyes were red. She turned her head away. She didn't want this to happen, but she was powerless to stop it. She used the last of her strength, as if she didn't want Logan to see her tears.
"Her name is Silver Fox, my brother. Do you know what her ability is?"
Vidocq lowered his voice and said in Logan's ear.
"Hypnosis … Every time you come into contact with her, you'll give her a chance to hypnotize you. Do you think you spent five quiet years in that deep mountain forest? You're wrong … The danger has always been around you, but you never noticed it. Stryker, that old fox, hid your address very well. Do you remember? When we met, I reminded you of this … but you were so blinded by anger that you didn't even bother to examine her body. "
"Why?"
Logan whispered, "Why me?"
"There's no why! Stryker's weapon X was in danger. He thought you could help him, so he did that. "
Vidocq played with the ore in his hand and said lightly, "In fact, Silver Fox didn't lie to you voluntarily. Her sister was imprisoned here by Stryker, and she was also forced, so maybe you can forgive her … But will you do that?"
"No, you won't! We have the same instincts. I know you won't. The beast won't be fooled a second time. "
Vidocq turned his gaze to Kayla, who was crying silently, and a malicious smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"She was between you and her sister, and in the end, she chose her sister, didn't she? She betrayed you, my brother. You see, I've told you a long time ago. We're never the same as them. "
After that, he stood up, grabbed an empty suitcase from the side, put all the ores on the ground in it, then put it on his shoulder and patted Logan's shoulder.
"I'm leaving, Jimmy. Do you want to come with me? That existence also has feelings for you. "
"No!"
Logan stood up in a daze and walked to the door. "I also promised someone something. I want to finish it."
When a person suddenly realized that the perseverance that had supported him to walk out of the most hopeless adversity was just a scam, that kind of crazy disappointment and ridicule was enough to drive the most determined warrior crazy. Logan was no exception. People like him looked boorish on the outside, but their emotions were very delicate. Because of that, the disappointment after being deceived was more despairing than anyone else.
True numbness.
When he walked past Kayla, she pulled his arm.
"I've never … I've never used the ability to make you like me … I've never lied to you about this …"
Logan looked at her and saw the tears on her face. He saw her sincere expression, but his eyes were no longer gentle and loving. There was only a touch of calm, a calm that could drive people crazy.
"Catherine went to save the children. Go help her."
After that, he reached out his hand and firmly, stubbornly, and slowly pulled Kayla's hand away from his arm, then strode out of the laboratory. Vidocq carried the suitcase and walked past Kayla. He said in a low voice, "Tsk, tsk.
Little silver fox, look at you. You killed a man's deepest love with your own hands. How cruel, how cold-blooded. I should have killed you because you played with the feelings of a member of the Houtley family. But it doesn't matter. I suddenly realized that to you, this punishment is worse than death. "
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Vidocq laughed maniacally as he walked out of the laboratory. When there was no one left, Kayla's body shook. She covered her face with her hands and squatted on the ground, crying silently. Sadness flowed freely in the room. But just as Vidocq said, everyone involved in this matter had their own motives. Kayla was no exception.
She wiped the tears off her face and ran towards the prison. Logan wouldn't lie to her. She was her sister. She had done everything she could for her. Did she regret it?
Maybe she did, but … what could she do?
The world would never change because of tears. It was cruel and cold. If there was a God presiding over all of this, he must be a lover of tragedy.
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