Chapter 1024: The Couple Who Started Baiting (First Update!)

According to the plan.

Professor X and his group were preparing to head to Kennedy International Airport in Washington, board a private plane already ready there to fly to the Washington D. C. airport, and then, under the escort of the Pentagon, proceed together to the Capitol Building to participate in the hearing.

Yes.

Professor X has a private plane, but that is nothing worth remarking on, because Professor X is a wealthy man; otherwise, just the annual property tax on a single estate would likely be enough for an ordinary person's annual salary.

So Professor X is himself a vested interest holder of the Western Federation; perhaps for this reason, Professor X chose to attempt to reconcile mutants and humans.

Perhaps not.

Who knows.

Those who believe that at birth, human nature is good, might not think of Professor X this way.

But Hawk believes that at birth, human nature is evil.

So—

In any case, just on the second day, as everyone prepared to take vehicles together to the international airport, the daughter Jean, who was also among the group, received a phone call from her mother Wanda.

"What?"

"Let me go back right now?"

"Mom, you wouldn't..."

"Oh, oh, okay!"

Hearing Wanda's words on the other end of the phone, daughter Jean agreed, then looked toward Professor X and the others: "Professor, I need to go back first."

Professor X was just about to speak.

Yi Pang Yi Jing, having put on a suit and tied a tie, looking like a beast trying to imitate humans, said directly: "When we go to the airport, we can just pass by Palm Street."

Upon hearing this, Jean glanced at the speaking beast, then looked at Professor X: "Or you can go to the airport first and wait for me."

She knew that Professor X was somewhat afraid of her daddy Hawk.

After all!

The fake beast, trying to imitate humans, trying to make humans accept his beast McCoy.

The true beast, strikes and eats people, and even likes to deliberately let prey go after catching them to play with them, Hawk.

But the good news is Hawk is her daddy.

So!

Jean felt no fear toward Hawk at all, but rather a full sense of security, just like now; before Hawk came to this world, when she discovered she was considered a mutant, this world seemed full of malice.

But after her daddy descended, this malice suddenly disappeared.

Even if there was malice, she could even manage to ignore it.

Just like this trip to Washington D. C.; had Hawk not descended, she would have argued no matter what to prevent Professor X from going to the Washington D. C. airport, but now, for some reason, Jean suddenly felt inside that she was also somewhat expecting there to really be a trap over in Washington D. C.

She even felt somewhat eager to try her luck, wanting to court death and dive headfirst into this trap.

And all of this was the sense of security brought by Hawk.

Even if there really is a trap over in Washington D. C., so what? My dad is here; if you try any dirty tricks, then I'll just call the parents.

Jean thought in her heart.

Professor X, sitting in the wheelchair, glanced at the time on his wristwatch, and did not choose the proposal to split into two groups; after all, just as the beast McCoy said, rushing from here to Kennedy International Airport, they could pass by Palm Street on the way.

After Jean got out of the car from behind, pushing the door open, she saw her mother Wanda, who seemed to know she was coming and had already opened the door waiting for her.

But...

Jean's gaze swept over Wanda's shoulder, looking toward the second floor inside the house; hearing the low groans coming from the old father lying in bed on the master bedroom on the second floor, she froze: "Mom, what's wrong with Dad? Did he catch a cold again?"

Wanda followed Jean's gaze, turned her head to look inside the house, then withdrew her gaze, looked at Jean, and said with a smile: "Your daddy didn't catch a cold; he is enduring the Power Tide."

Jean blinked.

"Power Tide?"

"Mm."

Wanda nodded, speaking casually: "Your daddy's power is piercing through this world, so he is also enduring this Power Tide; don't worry, nothing serious, at most ten days or half a month and he will recover."

Jean's expression was full of worry: "I'll go see Daddy."

Wanda stopped Jean.

"No."

"But..."

"Your daddy's power is in a tide, out of control; I have now used magic to construct an energy barrier. If you go in, the barrier will break, your daddy's power will overflow, and at that time, most of Niuyuecheng will probably be destroyed."

Wanda explained seriously why she wouldn't let Jean go upstairs to see Hawk.

Because once Jean went up and saw it with her own eyes, she would discover that Hawk had absolutely no problem at all.

The reason Jean currently saw Hawk lying in bed, sleeping deeply and groaning, was because of Wanda's Scarlet Hun Dun Mo Fa, which can alter reality.

Wanda altered Jean's cognition at the moment she got off the car; to be precise, the cognition of Professor X and the others was also altered by Wanda waiting already when their vehicle entered Palm Street.

So.

Professor X, currently sitting inside the car, also sensed Hawk, who was currently inside the house, with power and aura fluctuating, sometimes powerful, sometimes low, like the rising and falling of tides.

Power Tide?

Professor X's expression also became somewhat strange, after all, this was a term he had never heard of.

But after thinking for a moment, he felt relieved.

After all, Hawk and the others came from outside this universe, so their power system being different from this universe is a very normal thing.

But when Professor X heard Wanda and Jean's conversation, saying that at most ten days or half a month later, Hawk's power would completely finish descending, his heart suddenly skipped a beat.

The reason?

He didn't know, but intuition told him that, it seemed, once Hawk's power descended, it would not be a good thing for them.

This feeling came for no apparent reason, because before this, he had been thinking only of how Hawk could leave their world very quickly after the power descended.

Because Hawk was not Magneto.

No matter how much Magneto wanted to destroy the world, Professor X felt he could make Magneto choose to let go at the last moment.

But if Hawk wanted to destroy this world...

He had no confidence.

Not a shred of confidence.

So why did this feeling suddenly arise?

Like all people with powerful psychic energy, Professor X also believed this feeling would not come for no reason, but was a warning from the future, coming from some unknown source.

So—

While Professor X pondered the origin of this feeling, his expression grew somewhat solemn.

At the same time.

After Wanda reached out and touched her daughter Jean's forehead, Jean turned and returned to the car under her mother's assurance that she would take care of father Hawk.

Storm, who was driving, seeing Jean get back in the car, did not hesitate, pressed the accelerator, and drove the vehicle to chase the one already nearly at Kennedy Airport carrying Magneto and others.

Jean turned her head, glanced at Palm Street which was already far away, thought for a moment, looked at Professor X beside her, and was just about to tell Professor X that she might return to her own universe in half a month, when she noticed Professor X's solemn expression.

"Professor?"

"... Hmm?"

Professor X came back to his senses and saw the gaze Jean had directed at him.

Although the Phoenix Force had not yet arrived, Jean, who also inherited Wanda's powerful psychic abilities, felt the fear in Professor X's heart at this moment and couldn't help but laugh: "Professor, my daddy has never been a bad person."

Yes.

Just as her mother Wanda said.

Hawk might not be a good person, but he certainly wasn't a bad person.

"If nothing unexpected happens, in half a month, I will return to our universe with my parents."

"I know."

Professor X heard the subtext in Jean's words and forced a smile: "Congratulations."

Jean smiled and said: "Rest assured, Professor. My father has been here for nearly two years. Except for going out shopping and strolling with my mother every week, he has always stayed at Palm Street. Unless someone provokes my father, he will not cause trouble, let alone destroy this world."

Hearing this, Professor X felt the unease in his heart.

"I hope so..."

"Voom!"

Just as he had not yet finished speaking, a massive energy fluctuation instantly expanded and surged outward from Palm Street, which was already three kilometers away from them.

This power was formless, expanding in a ring shape in all directions, covering almost half of Niuyuecheng. Within this range, mutants with strong minds, such as Professor X and Jean, felt as if they saw a phoenix of golden flames soaring into the sky, racing through the universe, and any celestial body encountered on the path to Earth was instantly refined by this sky-piercing phoenix fire.

Similarly.

This impact of formless energy was not only captured by the magic-side mutants but also studied by the scientific-side federal department.

Demon King Laboratory.

This was a department secretly established two years after the Quantico, Pentagon, and Bai Gong crises, subordinate to the mysterious department, the Sentinel Special Operations Bureau.

The sole purpose of this department was one thing.

Research!

They researched Hawk, researched Hawk's power, researched Hawk's origins, and researched K's method to restrain Hawk.

When this formless energy impact was captured by the signal receiver of their safe house, secretly built right next to Palm Street, a message appeared that excited them.

"It has appeared."

"The Demon King's power signature has emerged."