Chapter 284: Conspiracy in Progress

Magneto, wearing his helmet, ran rapidly in the tunnel. Under his feet were stones that had been blackened by energy erosion.

"Lord Magneto, is it necessary for us to walk so fast?" Mystique said, standing on tiptoe.

I don't know why, but the closer they got to the location of Cerebro, the blacker the stones here became. Even in the cracks of the stones, a series of flames would pop out from time to time.

These flames were very strange. When not in contact, Mystique couldn't feel any temperature, but she saw with her own eyes that a small stone was turned into a hot stone and melted into liquid under the erosion of the flames.

"These flames are very restrained, very strange."

Mystique dodged a flame spraying from beside a crack, fearing that she would be stained with even a trace.

"These flames, no, you can't call them flames. In fact, they are just energy existing in the form of flames." Magneto manipulated a piece of iron to touch the flames. In the next moment, his iron block turned into molten iron.

"It seems someone doesn't want us to get close to Cerebro."

Magneto stretched out his hand, and a large number of iron blocks flew over together, blocking a crack spitting out energy.

"Doesn't want us to get close? Is it General Stryker?" Mystique was shocked when she heard this. She originally thought this was naturally formed, a natural barrier, but listening to Magneto, this might be man-made.

"It can't be him!" Magneto shook his head, walking slower and slower. This wasn't because he didn't want to walk, but because the road ahead was too rugged. He felt as if he had come to an erupting volcano. There were flames everywhere on the ground.

He also tried to touch these energies, but in an instant, his body was eroded by the energy and almost turned into ashes, so he had to act cautiously and couldn't be stained with a trace of energy.

"If it were him, he would have sent that mutant out long ago. I understand his personality. Everything is calculated, and he won't waste a single bit of power." Magneto said, his brows furrowing, "And these energies are very familiar. I seem to have seen them on Ye Nan before."

"But the energy on Ye Nan. Doesn't have this characteristic. His energy is violent, while these energies are full of aggression. It shouldn't be him."

"Then who is it?" Mystique felt a hint of impropriety in her heart, and her whole person became irritable and uneasy.

Suddenly, a huge energy poured from outside the sky onto the top of her brain, and with it came a spirit, a spirit belonging to Professor X.

"This spirit is Professor X's. I didn't expect him to really make a move." Magneto's gaze condensed.

"No, there's not much time left. Mystique, take care of yourself." Magneto manipulated the iron pieces, changing the shape of the iron pieces, turning them into a small iron plate, and he jumped on it.

He knew that since Professor X had already acted, there wasn't much time left for him. If he still cared about these damn energies, his mutant brothers would be dead.

While Magneto was flying regardless of everything, Ye Nan was preparing for his own time.

He stuck one hand on the wall, and all the energy in his body was released.

"Since Professor X has already acted, I think Magneto will come over soon." Ye Nan muttered, and more energy surged out from his body.

These energies followed his arm, drilled into the wall, merged with the energy gathered in the wall, and swallowed these energies.

"General Stryker, close the door." Ye Nan said with a smile: "Although I am looking forward to Magneto's arrival, I am not ready yet."

"What do you want to do." Stryker looked at Ye Nan cautiously. Seeing that Ye Nan's face didn't look ugly, he became bolder, "If I don't do as you say, I will definitely suffer."

"Of course it's to give Magneto a surprise. I've prepared for so long and calculated everything. Naturally, I want to annihilate him." Ye Nan said coldly, "Make your Jason stop. Remember, don't play tricks."

Under Ye Nan's threat, Stryker had to whisper helplessly in Jason's ear: "Jason, stop."

Jason raised his head, his black eyes looked at Professor X. In Ye Nan's perception, the surging mental power suddenly stopped.

The energy originally affected by Cerebro also calmed down, and gradually, under the erosion of Ye Nan's energy, it became energy like a small sun.

"If I can swallow all these energies, how powerful will my power become?" A thought suddenly popped into Ye Nan's heart, and then his desire swelled uncontrollably.

Once Ye Nan's energy leaves his body, it will constantly expand, like the sun. The energies collide with each other, and then more and stronger energies are born.

But that's just an application of energy. In fact, Ye Nan's energy is a kind of aggressive energy. Like Ye Nan's cells, when it comes into contact with other energies, it will frantically swallow and assimilate other energies into its own energy.

This seems very beautiful, but Ye Nan knows very well that too huge energy will only lead to self-destruction, just like the sun. Once it can't bear it, it will erupt, bringing disaster to the universe.

"The improvement of energy should be consistent with the body. If energy is improved alone without improving the strength of the body, the final result is the collapse of the body."

Ye Nan muttered, suppressing the restless desire in his heart.

No one knows the potential of the ability he obtained better than him. In the eyes of outsiders, Ye Nan's ability is fire control, making fire and controlling fire. In their eyes, this doesn't count as any special ability, it can only be said to be ordinary.

But Ye Nan knows that his ability is not fire control at all, but swallowing energy and controlling energy.

At first, Ye Nan also thought his ability was fire control, but later he discovered that his energy and fire control were two completely different things.

The energy in his body was the energy leaked after Dr. Octopus's nuclear fusion experiment failed.

After this thread of energy drilled into his body, it became a part of his body. Later, after radiation, this thread of energy completely merged with his body cells. It not only has the original self-expansion characteristic but also has the swallowing characteristic of Ye Nan's cells.

And the reason why he mistakenly thought he was a fire control ability was entirely because this energy was expressed in the form of fire. But now he understands that his ability is not fire control, but controlling and swallowing energy.

"What on earth do you want to do? If I remember correctly, you shouldn't be Magneto's opponent." General Stryker looked at Ye Nan cautiously. Seeing that Ye Nan's face didn't look difficult, he became even bolder, "Even if you set a trap, you can't be Magneto's opponent. Instead of waiting for him here, it's better to use Professor X to kill Magneto in one fell swoop."

"Professor X can't kill Magneto." Ye Nan shook his head, "Professor X's Cerebro is Magneto's masterpiece. He knows very well how to avoid Cerebro's search. So your plan has had loopholes from the beginning."

"As for you saying my trap can't do anything to Magneto..." A bright smile appeared on the corner of Ye Nan's mouth, "That's entirely your imagination. In fact, my trap is beyond your imagination."

Hearing Ye Nan's words, Stryker immediately fell into deep thought. He felt a thick confidence from Ye Nan's words. This was a confidence that had been calculated for a long time and was finally about to show results...

"What kind of trap can bury a strong man like Magneto?"

Stryker thought, but no matter how he thought, he couldn't figure out what kind of trap Ye Nan would set to deal with Magneto.

For Ye Nan, he was completely in the dark, knowing nothing. What he saw were just some superficial information collected usually. He didn't know about the power hidden by Ye Nan himself. And in the case of knowing nothing about Ye Nan, no matter how smart he was, he couldn't guess.

"However..." A fawning smile appeared on General Stryker's face, "Respected Mr. Ye Nan, I think I can serve you."

When a person is under the bridge, they have to lower their head. And Stryker also understood this truth very well, so he directly expressed in front of him that he could defect to Ye Nan and work for Ye Nan.

"I know the ICQ financial group doesn't have much power in the military, and I once commanded special operations during the Vietnam War and have some power in the military. I can completely help the ICQ financial group support its own people in the military."

General Stryker said all his advantages.

Last time when many financial groups purged the power in the military, he relied on his connections to gain Douglas's favor. Similarly, he believed that Ye Nan also needed him, so he said to Ye Nan what he had said to Douglas back then. His heart was full of confidence.

"Defect to you now, and then I'll clean you up later."

Stryker's evil thoughts were like a poisonous snake, sticking out its tongue in the dark, looking at Ye Nan coldly, ready to open its poisonous fangs at any time, bite Ye Nan fiercely, and inject fatal venom into his body.

"If it were before, I would really need it. After all, military power is very tempting to me." Ye Nan looked at Stryker playfully, "But now, I don't need it anymore."

Since knowing that the end of the world was coming, Ye Nan had lost interest in things like power. In his eyes, power was to protect wealth, but in the coming end of the world, power didn't seem as safe as military force. Instead of spending a lot of manpower and material resources to gain power, it was better to work hard to earn wealth, turn wealth into supplies, build a large number of Noah's Arks, and prepare for escaping the earth.

"And you can betray Douglas, so you can betray me. For a fickle villain like you, I'll only give you one sentence." Ye Nan retracted his hand from the wall, walked to Stryker, and grabbed his neck in Stryker's fearful gaze, "Die in illusions."

Ye Nan threw Stryker onto the wall and put his watch to Jason's ear, "Jason, make him fall into illusions."

"No, Jason, don't, I am your father." Stryker screamed when he heard Ye Nan let Jason make him fall into illusions, "I am your father, your biological father, don't listen to outsiders."

"Jason, he is not your father, I am your father. He is a mutant, he is Mystique." A cold voice came from the watch. At the same time, Ye Nan took out earplugs from his pants and blocked Jason's ears.

"General Stryker, you can scream, even if you scream until your throat breaks, he won't hear you."

General Stryker's eyes widened suddenly, as if he had seen something terrifying, and his whole person lay softly there, not moving at all.

"Entered illusions so quickly?" Seeing General Stryker lying on the ground, Ye Nan muttered, opened Jason's earplugs, and handed his watch to Jason's ear.

"Jason, you are a master of illusions by nature, so fantasize to your heart's content, use your illusions to envelop this place, and turn this place into your fantasy kingdom."

After Ye Nan finished instructing Jason, he walked to Professor X and said gently: "Professor X, it's over, everything is over. Now you can put down your burden."

After Ye Nan finished speaking, he put his watch on the ground, faced the gate, and waited for the final moment of the decisive battle. ===== CHAPTER 285 =====