Chapter 764: Rogue and Shell (Second update, seeking subscriptions!)

In a room, the St. Croix sisters stood on Su Quan's left and right, and Su Quan sat in a chair, looking at the girl in the electric cage in front of him with interest.

This base was mainly used by Bolivar Trask to study Big Raven, or rather, to develop Sentinel robots.

The mutants who could be locked up here were basically related to the research of the Sentinel program; Su Quan scanned the area with his psychic ability and found her, a mutant.

He didn't know if she was the only extra mutant originally, or if other mutants had already died in the research.

The Sentinel robots that brought the end to mutants in Days of Future Past were so terrifying because they had transformation abilities and targeted suppression of mutant abilities.

Moreover, the number of Sentinel robots was numerous, and they could share abilities, perspectives, intelligence, etc., with each other; ordinary mutants had no power to fight back when encountering Sentinel robots.

The reason Sentinel robots were the natural enemy of mutants was mainly related to two abilities, or rather, two mutants.

One was the shapeshifter Raven; her transformation ability was the key to the Sentinel robots being able to switch abilities at will.

The other was the one called Rogue, Anna Marie, in the comics.

Anna Marie could absorb the life force and abilities of others through physical contact.

In the first X-Men movie, she and her boyfriend were studying in the bedroom when her ability awakened; just as they made contact, her boyfriend was almost sucked to death and was in a coma for several weeks before waking up.

Having run away from home, she met Jin Ganglang and then joined the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters.

Later, she was captured by Wan Ciwang, who wanted to use her ability to operate a machine that could turn humans into mutants, but it was finally destroyed by the X-Men.

In the second movie, she developed feelings for Iceman, but how could young boys and girls endure a utopian love?

In the third movie, Iceman gradually fell in love with Kitty Pryde; in order to win Iceman back, she accepted the cure that could heal mutants and gave up her abilities.

Only this didn't save her relationship with Iceman; during the Days of Future Past period, she broke up with Iceman, was later captured by Sentinel robots, and was held in the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters to be studied.

At that time, the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters had already been abandoned.

Someone tried to rescue her but failed, so many people thought she was dead, until Kitty Pryde sent Jin Ganglang back to the past, and Kitty Pryde, Wan Ciwang, and Iceman risked their lives to rescue her again.

At this time, she could already obtain others' abilities; with her help, Jin Ganglang could successfully reverse the future.

Similarly, it was her ability that allowed Sentinel robots to have the ability to absorb other mutants' abilities, which was why the later Sentinel robots were so terrifying.

Nowadays, Anna Marie should not have been born yet.

Back to the present, the girl in the cage didn't know what kind of mutant ability she had that allowed Bolivar Trask to lock her here and keep her alive until now.

"What is your name?" Su Quan sized her up and asked with interest.

The girl's looks were not low, and she had a youthful and beautiful feeling; with her long golden hair and her anxious little expression, any normal man would feel pity upon seeing her.

"I, my name is Paige Guthrie," the girl said constrainedly: "You, you aren't from the laboratory, right? Please, can you let me out?"

Paige Guthrie—this name seemed a bit familiar!

Su Quan pondered, searching deep in his memory, and then, under her anxious and pleading gaze, he laughed lightly.

"It's you!"

Among the vast number of mutants, there must be a few 'mosts', just like the strongest psychic, the first one people think of is Professor X.

And this Paige Guthrie was also one of the 'mosts'; she was the one who loved to 'peel' the most in the X-Men!

Every time she appeared, the first thing she did was peel off the skin on her body.

That's right, not clothes, but skin!

She had a codename called Husk; as the name suggests, her ability manifested as peeling off her outer layer of skin and forming a new skin layer form underneath.

She could simulate her skin into many solids, including diamond, granite, steel, wood, rubber, brick, glass, and even Adamantium.

At certain specific times, she could even turn into a liquid!

Simply put, her ability was somewhat similar to the Absorbing Man.

The Absorbing Man only needed to touch to turn himself into the same material, while she didn't need to touch, but needed to peel off the ordinary skin on her outer layer first.

Her ability was said to be strong because it had certain limitations, and plus it was a change of herself; even if she simulated Adamantium, the destructive power was relatively limited.

But it was said to be weak because, through simulation, she could enhance her own strength, speed, sensory ability, and resistance.

Through "molting", she could also get rid of the trauma on the outer layer, but deep wounds were still difficult to eliminate.

All in all, she met Su Quan's conditions for recruitment—well, mainly because of the bonus points for her looks!

Speaking of which, Su Quan had to complain about Wan Ciwang in the third X-Men movie; because of the Battle of Alcatraz triggered by the cure, what kind of ugly monsters were the female mutants he recruited?

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The one who played with shockwaves made people unable to tell if she was a man or a woman at a glance; looking only at her figure, one could barely say she had no ambition, but looking at her face?

Good guy, even men don't grow like that; seeing her, Su Quan really couldn't help but sigh at the uncanny workmanship of nature!

Yes, you, old Wan Ciwang, are noble; you, old Wan Ciwang, are already old and have the heart but not the strength.

Yes, you believe in having no women in your heart, and your blade will be divine.

But you are a man of the world; not to mention bringing a few vases by your side to please your own eyes and others' eyes, at the very least, you shouldn't bring her out to scare people, right?

Su Quan was complaining to himself with various thoughts, and Paige Guthrie in the cage couldn't help it anymore.

What did it mean to say "It's you" and then fall silent?

Do you know me?

Is this knowing good or bad?

"Sir?" Paige Guthrie waited for a long time without seeing Su Quan say anything else, and could only speak up.

Su Quan turned around and asked her with a smile: "When were you captured?"

"To, today; after they captured me, they sent me here," Paige Guthrie said hurriedly.

Su Quan nodded; capturing her should be because her molting ability might be helpful to the Sentinel robots' transformation ability.

In other words, she hadn't been experimented on after being captured, and just happened to catch up with Su Quan coming to save Big Raven.

It must be said that girls who love to peel are indeed more likely to encounter the help of noble people!

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PS: The picture shows Husk.