Chapter 1026: A New Idea King Has Appeared (Second Update!!)

Good news.

For the next fifteen days, the Demon King's power will be in a state of being both present and absent.

Bad news.

The Demon King's power, his true power, will descend completely upon this world after half a month.

These two pieces of news were transmitted from Niuyuecheng to Washington, and by the time Professor X and his group's plane had just taken off from the runway, they had already been received by the Pentagon and the Bai Gong.

Ten minutes later.

In the secret bunker safe house of the white building, President Baron Turner looked at the generals appearing on the big screen who were participating in the "Sentinel Project," placed the note he had just received on the table, and then spoke: "My generals, there is not much time left for us."

Over the past two years, they had learned through various channels that two years ago, Hawk, who had razed the Quantico base to the ground, cut the Pentagon in half, and renovated the Bai Gong into a meteorite-impact style, had not shown his true strength.

Don't ask how they knew this news.

If you ask, it's Professor X.

Still the same saying.

Who let Professor X belong to the dove faction, always hoping to achieve peace between mutants and humans through non-struggle methods.

Even to promote the implementation of the Mutant Peace Act, in these two years, Professor X's X-Men had even become an unrecognized force of the federal government, specifically used to let the X-Men deal with those sudden incidents that humans could not handle.

Professor X thought this was a good thing.

But he did not know that in the eyes of President Baron Turner, and even the entire federal government, Professor X and his X-Men were just temporary workers.

If the matter was handled successfully, the credit was not the X-Men's.

But if the matter was botched, then the blame was entirely on the mutants. Even if the X-Men had succeeded countless times, as long as they botched it once, the federal government would stage a "face-changing" act on the spot, and could even take this opportunity to stir up the conflict between humans and mutants again, pushing all current problems onto the mutants.

Baron Turner intended to do exactly that.

But!

The dozen or so missions the X-Men had executed so far had all been completed perfectly, which left Baron Turner unable to find a reasonable excuse even when he wanted to lash out.

And because the X-Men had completed these dozen or so missions well, he simply couldn't find an opportunity to continue delaying the Mutant Peace Act that Professor X had been repeating these days.

After all, they needed Professor X as one of their backup plans.

A character who, after their "Demon Hunting Project" failed, could step forward and, as usual, act as a peacemaker and stand up to say a fair word.

As for what the Demon Hunting Project was.

That was naturally the plan to hunt the Demon King.

If it could be said that on the previous timeline of this universe, the Sentinel robots appeared because they wanted to eliminate mutants, then on this re-cycled timeline, the Sentinel robots appeared specifically to eliminate Hawk.

But now, their plan seemed to have a problem.

The good news was that the Demon King might be in a weak period for the next fifteen days.

The bad news was that their Sentinel Project had not been completed yet.

After finishing his opening remarks, Baron Turner frowned and tapped the table with his fist: "How is the Sentinel Project doing exactly?"

The African-American general in charge of the Sentinel Project quickly spoke: "The final mimetic gene modulation is underway!"

Baron Turner was expressionless.

"I need an exact time. Charles Xavier has already set off from Niuyuecheng and is preparing to participate in the congressional hearing."

"Ten... ten days!"

The African-American general hesitated for a while, then looked at Baron Turner with a difficult expression: "Mr. President, I guarantee you that ten days later, the Sentinel robots will be online."

Upon hearing this, Baron Turner was stunned for a moment, then laughed directly.

"Then tell me, what reason should I use to delay Charles Xavier for about ten days?"

After laughing, Baron Turner's expression became serious again: "The most important point is that the Demon King's daughter is also in this hearing. Originally, according to the plan, after our Sentinel robots were online, we could have captured the Demon King's daughter as a hostage, but now, tell me, what should we do?"

The African-American general didn't even think.

"Mr. President, since the Demon King's strength is in a void state within these fifteen days, let's just bring the army to the border."

"Hehe!"

Baron Turner laughed, looking at the African-American general who had formulated a brand-new plan in less than a second, a bright smile appearing on his face: "Very good, since this plan was formulated by you, then you execute it. The Bai Gong knows nothing about this plan."

A Pentagon general who was attending but had not spoken until now also spoke: "The Pentagon has not issued any authorization orders."

The smile on the African-American general's face stiffened instantly, and his complexion turned black at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Although he was already black, he was even blacker at this moment.

What a joke.

Let him go directly to snipe the Demon King who had once destroyed their military base relying solely on his physical body?

Please.

Their IQ wasn't great to begin with, but as a prodigy among their tribe, although the African-American general's IQ couldn't compare to the other generals attending, his IQ was at least above the level of their tribe.

Simply put, he had some IQ, although not much, but enough to know that this matter was not as easy as he had just said.

After all, if he failed, his own life, and even the lives of his wife and children, would be lost.

This was also why the Sentinel Project, from two years ago until now, had always been handed over to the short Bolivar Trask to be fully responsible for.

Whether it was the Pentagon or the Bai Gong, at least on the surface, they were completely unaware of this matter.

This was also to prepare a step for themselves in case the plan failed and they had to ask Professor X to come forward to mediate.

If the plan failed and the Demon King wanted to hold someone accountable, they would not hesitate to throw all the responsibility onto the short Bolivar Trask, and this time they would also not hesitate to hand the short Bolivar Trask over to the Demon King to deal with himself.

After all, if the plan failed, it meant Bolivar Trask had no more utility value.

Since he had no value, he was not qualified to continue living in this world.

Therefore—

He didn't want to die either.

The African-American general thought to himself, then facing the gaze of President Baron Turner who was staring at him on the screen, he gave a forced smile, and then without hesitation threw all the responsibility onto the short Bolivar Trask: "This is all Bolivar Trask's fault. He did not complete his task according to the scheduled plan."

Baron Turner looked at this African-American general, whose name he still hadn't remembered, finding a step for himself, laughed again, then withdrew his gaze and landed on the other generals attending.

This African-American general was also a product of compromise. After all, if time were turned back a hundred years, or even less than a hundred years, this African-American would only be seen on a plantation and would have no way of being seen in this center of the federal government.

So Baron Turner still hadn't remembered this guy's name, and didn't need to now, because they had more urgent things to do.

"Generals, we need a new plan."

"Yes."

The Pentagon generals attending then spoke calmly: "Our plan must change, and we even need to consider whether the Demon King's fifteen-day void is real or fake. What if this is a trap?"

Although a trap banquet could make Westerners panic and scream.

But those who could participate in this kind of meeting at this moment were all top figures of the federal government, and they had the wisdom they should have.

Baron Turner also understood this point, but the most urgent thing right now was not to consider whether the Demon King was truly in a void or falsely in a void, but Professor X and his group who were already flying in the sky to participate in the congressional hearing: "Now the most urgent thing is this proposal. This proposal will definitely not pass in Congress."

As everyone knows.

In the federal government, there are ruling parties and opposition parties.

And congressional hearings are attended by both parties.

But there is another well-known fact: the opposition party only does two things in Congress: whatever the ruling party tries to push, they firmly oppose, and whatever the ruling party opposes, they firmly agree to.

So this time, the Mutant Peace Act went to Congress, and there was no hope of it passing.

Not to mention that the opposition party itself was firmly opposed to mutants.

Although Baron Turner's ruling party also used suppressing mutants to gain votes, their strategy was relatively vague, so when they were elected back then, they won the votes of those citizens who held reservations about mutants or were releasing goodwill towards mutants, thus winning by a narrow margin.

If it could be said that they were the kind who could distinguish between good and bad mutants, then the opposition party was purely shouting to expel all mutants from the country.

This was also why Professor X invested in them instead of choosing to contact the opposition party.

In short!

This bill went to Congress and was definitely not going to pass.

Who knows, Professor X and his group might land in the afternoon, and before dark, the bill would be rejected, and then they could return to Niuyuecheng.

The reason Professor X was full of confidence in this bill was ultimately because Baron Turner, when dealing with an incident at the time, because there were mutants involved and it could not be known to the public, found Professor X and promised at the time to do his best to support the implementation of this bill.

Originally, Baron Turner was planning to do what was just said: use you a hundred times, but as long as you do one thing wrong, he would reject all your efforts.

He didn't expect...

In short, this matter had now become very tricky.

"Congress cannot be opened, it can only be delayed!"

"I know, but how to delay it, generals, we really don't have much time left."

"I have an idea!"

"..." ===== CHAPTER 1028 =====