Chapter 582: Charles (3 Updates, Requesting Monthly Tickets and Flowers)

By throwing money at the problem without regard for consequences, he succeeded.

Someone under his command developed an enhancement factor.

This enhancement factor can strengthen a mutant's genes.

Synthesizing this enhancement factor is very troublesome, and the cost is also high.

But Xiao, who controls one-third of the casinos in Las Vegas, is not short of money.

Under his heavy investment, a considerable amount of the enhancement factor was synthesized.

Not only did he use it to strengthen his own mutant genes, improving his abilities.

Those around him also received improvements.

And naturally, the one he trusted most, the White Queen Emma Frost, also received an upgrade.

Compared to the two in the original "X-Men: First Class".

Both of their mutant levels have now improved significantly.

They have both been upgraded to Alpha level.

This is almost the highest level a mutant can reach, because Omega-level mutants are born that way; even the enhancement factor, which strengthens mutant genes, cannot raise a mutant from Alpha to Omega.

But for Xiao, rising from Beta level to Alpha level is already a significant improvement.

Even so, Xiao still lacks full confidence in defeating Jiang Hao.

Even though twenty years have already passed, the psychological shadow Jiang Hao left on Xiao.

He still cannot forget it.

It feels as if the event happened just yesterday.

The fear of Jiang Hao has been deeply imprinted in the depths of his heart.

Las Vegas

Xiao is receiving Emma and Jenos Quist; both are his subordinates and people he trusts relatively.

As for the Red Devil Azazel, he currently has other missions to execute.

"Do you have news of that guy?"

Both Emma and Jenos know who the person Xiao is referring to.

The two shook their heads.

"Still haven't found him. Regarding that person's information, we have searched for many years, but until now, we haven't found a single piece of information about him."

"Even a little bit. Xiao, could it be that this person simply doesn't exist?"

To be honest, Emma really does not believe the person Xiao speaks of exists.

Even though she has seen Xiao's memories, she sometimes suspects that he might be a person Xiao imagined.

That is not impossible.

"You have seen my memories, Emma."

Xiao had allowed Emma to see his memories.

Emma is a mutant; she possesses telepathy and mind control. Telepathy allows her to know what is in others' hearts and to view their memories.

Mind control allows her to control others.

Besides that, she can turn her entire body into diamond.

After turning into diamond, she will be immune to most physical attacks.

In diamond form, even heavy sniper rifles cannot harm her in the slightest.

The only imperfection is that when she transforms into diamond form, she cannot activate telepathy or mind control.

"But now I strongly suspect that is merely your imagination," Emma said.

"Even for the most secretive person."

"It is impossible for them to leave absolutely no information about themselves."

"We have investigated him for so long, yet we have never found even the slightest bit of information related to him."

"How can such a person exist in the world, unless he simply does not exist."

Xiao said nothing.

To say Jiang Hao does not exist is just nonsense.

If Jiang Hao did not exist, wouldn't everything that happened to him in the concentration camp be fake?

But how could that be possible?

Back then, when Jiang Hao left, he took Eric and his mother with him.

Perhaps I can change my train of thought.

Start by looking into Eric and his family.

However, finding Eric and his mother is not simple either.

After all, twenty years have already passed.

He has no idea where Eric and his mother went.

He doesn't even have a clear direction on which way to investigate.

It is even possible that Eric and his mother are with Jiang Hao.

Of course, this possibility is not very high.

But whether looking for Jiang Hao or looking for Eric and his mother, neither is simple.

Forget it, I won't think about these things anymore.

Just thinking about it gives me a headache.

Although he is somewhat reluctant to admit it, Xiao actually does not want Jiang Hao to appear before him.

Even now, he was at least ten times stronger than he had been twenty years ago.

And he had a capable ally by his side.

But to be honest, he still lacked the confidence to face Jiang Hao directly.

Ordering others to seek out Jiang Hao was, in truth, mostly his own pride at work.

Las Vegas.

A bar.

Charles was drinking with the shapeshifter Raven.

Charles was a top-tier second-generation rich heir.

Although his parents had passed away when he was very young,

they had left him an extremely vast fortune.

Just from the fact that he lived in a massive ancient castle, one could tell how wealthy his family was.

A top-tier second-generation rich heir was exactly the kind of person Charles was.

At the same time, Charles possessed excellent investment acumen.

When he was ten years old, he had used the assets left by his parents to make several investments.

And all of those investments yielded returns.

Although most of the returns were not particularly substantial.

Yet among them were a few investments that yielded extremely generous returns.

Moreover, over these years, he had never given up on investing.

Few people knew that Charles was, in secret, a shareholder in numerous large listed companies.

Every year, the dividends alone, when added together, amounted to an extremely vast sum.