Chapter 3122: Romantic

"Robert? Same name as Speedball." Polaris muttered to herself, but soon she said again, "If he's a human, that's not strange. Humans can always produce all kinds of weirdos; this is recognized by the universe. But how did he become an experimental subject of the Old Skrull Empire? He wasn't really abducted by a flying saucer, was he?"

"That's not very clear," Professor X said. "Everything has to wait until he wakes up. Alright, you two hurry up and set off."

Polaris and Iceman left. Not long after, a wormhole portal appeared in the office, and Iceman dragged out a huge stasis pod.

The door of the stasis pod was transparent, so Professor X could see a handsome young man lying inside. He didn't look old, but he was quite strong, and there seemed to be huge power contained within his body, the kind of power that would make even Professor X feel shocked.

Iceman placed the stasis pod and turned to look at Professor X, asking, "What now? Professor, should we activate this thing?"

"No, don't rush. Let me see." Professor X walked around the stasis pod. Soon, Beast walked in, clearly called in by Professor X.

"Is there a way to wake him up? Hank?"

Beast also studied it for a long time. Soon he said, "This thing should also have the effect of suppressing power. It's better not to activate it for now. Can't you detect his brainwaves?"

"Very weak, very weak." Professor X paced around the stasis pod and said, "His state is very peculiar. His brainwaves are very regular, not quite like the brainwaves of a normal person in a coma, but rather like... a code?"

"A code?"

"Yes, I can't describe to you what I feel. It's a kind of regular music. I think this might be used to activate something."

"Activate something? Could it be this stasis pod?"

"Can you find the activation method on the surface?"

"No, the activation I meant is to destroy it."

"Then it seems this brainwave might be the key. Do you have a brainwave oscilloscope?"

"You still need that thing?"

Professor X looked at Beast. Beast slapped his forehead. That's right, not everyone is a telepath; they definitely have to use tools to reveal the code.

Soon, Beast brought a portable oscilloscope. As the machine started, regular lines appeared on the screen.

"Ah, it should be a combination of numbers for the troughs and peaks, right? But where do you enter the code?"

Beast knocked and tapped around the stasis pod for a long time, finally finding a small button at the bottom seam. After pressing it, a panel finally appeared.

But at this moment, Beast was dumbfounded, because this thing wasn't for entering numbers, and he couldn't understand the text on it at all.

"This is the language of the Old Skrull Empire." Professor X recognized the characters on it. He said, "But it doesn't represent numbers, but characters of their language. You write down the numbers of the troughs and peaks first, and I'll see how to decipher it."

Beast did as told. Professor X deciphered it for a long time, suddenly showed a knowing smile, and then said, "Simple, this is similar to the Caesar cipher. Arrange them in order and push them back four places. Let me see the answer... 'Long live the Skrull'."

Professor X directed Beast to enter the characters, then heard two beeps. The stasis pod didn't open, but Professor X sensed a change in brainwaves.

"Are you awake?" Professor X asked. Knowing that this experimental subject was a human, he asked in English, but to prevent him from not knowing English, Professor X asked again in Skrull.

"Yes, I'm awake." A rather calm young man's voice sounded. He said, "May I ask what your name is?"

"Charles Xavier. Have you heard of me?"

"Professor X? I saw you in the newspaper when I was very young. You were still very young at that time."

Professor X immediately had a judgment about the era he was born in, so he said, "I hope you can tell me what's going on. Why did you go to the Skrull Empire, and why were you..."

"I didn't go to the Skrull Empire," this young man retorted. "At that time, this country was still called the Skrull Interstellar Socialist Republic."

Professor X was silent for a moment. Of course, he had heard of this history. At that time, the Skrull Empire upheld the spirit of interstellar socialism and was the sower of many higher civilizations today.

However, later this country was inevitably corrupted, triggering cosmic turmoil and causing many civilizations to perish. People thought this was just another form of empire, so they called it the "Old Skrull Empire."

"Why did you go there?" Professor X asked.

"It was an accident," the young man replied. "I was born in a slum in New York, but I had decent grades. Once, when I went to borrow books, I met a professor, and later followed him to his laboratory. Out of curiosity, I drank a kind of potion."

"Did this potion take you to Skrull?"

"Of course not. The professor took me there." The young man sighed and said, "That wasn't a potion at all. It was a liquid energy he invented, which compressed the power of a million stars. After I drank it, I couldn't control such power at all. To save me, he took me to the Skrull Republic."

"Was that professor not from Earth?"

"I'm not quite sure. I only know that he was the initiator of the Skrull Republic's founding revolution."

Professor X's breathing stalled.

Of course, he had heard of the Skrull Republic's founding revolution. That was the revolution that overthrew the earlier aristocratic rule of this civilization. There were several versions of the initiator, but they were undoubtedly Skrulls. How could a Skrull revolutionary come to Earth and become a professor?

"And then? Did he conduct experiments on you?"

"No, he didn't," the young man said. "You could say he did, but not to experiment for any results, but to solve my problem."

"The problem that you couldn't control your power?"

"That's right. The power in my body was too strong, not something a human could control at all. And once I lost control, it would be equivalent to a million stars exploding at the same time."

Professor X gasped. This was no joke. The nuclear bombs of the three major empires were about the same.

So, was this a humanoid nuclear bomb in front of him?

Professor X suddenly felt that bringing the stasis pod back was still a bit too risky.

"Oh, don't worry," this young man said. "Now I can control my power. The problem is almost solved."

Professor X didn't feel relieved. He just asked curiously, "Problem solved? How was it solved?"

"I don't know. The professor did it, but I can indeed control the power in my body now."

"Then why are you still lying here?"

"Because a new problem has appeared." The young man's voice revealed helplessness.

"What problem?"

"I split."

"What?"

"My personality split, and it has been unable to sew back together. And the other half of the split personality is now out of my control. He is very evil. If he controls my body, it might trigger a disaster."

Professor X now knew a little bit about why Schiller insisted on having him pay attention to this Life Fusion Project.

He knew that not a single word in the emergency call could be trusted. If he had known this patient was in such a situation, he definitely wouldn't have taken him.

But since he had already taken him, there was no other way. Professor X said as patiently as possible, "I don't feel anything wrong with your personality."

"That's the problem, because my other half is 'Void', and you have no way to detect him."

"Have you ever been controlled by him?"

"Yes, and this almost triggered the collapse of the Skrull Republic."

Professor X was shocked. There were many triggers for the collapse of the Skrull Republic, but one of the most famous was the explosion incident at a high-level energy research laboratory near the second most prosperous galaxy of the country.

This explosion incident almost leveled the entire galaxy, and this galaxy could almost be called the deputy capital of the Republic. Moreover, the energy radiation in it has not been completely cleared to this day.

The Kree Empire and the Shi'ar Empire also took advantage of this disaster to attack the Skrull Republic on the border and in public opinion, burying the final shovel of dirt for the collapse of this short-lived Republic.

To this day, that explosion remains the most serious experimental accident in cosmic history.

"Did you cause the big explosion?" Professor X asked.

"Yes. At that time, everyone thought I had controlled it very well, but I didn't expect Void to appear at that time, and then..."

Professor X sighed, and then he said, "So you haven't solved the Void problem yet?"

"Yes, but I think I didn't come here by accident. Do you have a way to solve this problem?"

This "not an accident" reminded Professor X that Schiller told him about the Life Fusion Project just to let him investigate. Now that he had investigated such a result, how could it not be intentional?

But how did Schiller know about this young man? There were no such things in Lila's mind.

"Do you know Schiller?" Professor X asked.

"No, I haven't heard of this name. Why?"

"What was the name of the professor who took you away?"

"Anatoly Shostakov."

"Wait a minute." As someone who had walked through that era, Professor X immediately found something wrong with this name. He said, "Are you sure he was a Skrull, not a Soviet?"

"I never said he was a Skrull. In fact, he fits my impression of a Soviet more."

"Shostakov..." Professor X muttered this surname. He always felt this surname was a bit familiar, and then he said as if he suddenly realized, "Seeing Natasha's ex-husband's surname was Shostakov, right? Alexei Shostakov?"

But Professor X thought for a while and said, "This seems to be a very common Russian surname. Do you still remember what that professor looked like?"

"He was tall and kind. I remember his eyes were blue."

Professor X breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing Natasha's ex-husband's eyes were not blue; he had just checked.

However, the same surname meant they might come from the same country. But how could a Soviet have a laboratory in America and pick up a New York kid to go to the Skrull Empire?

Professor X suddenly thought of that potion. He asked again, "You said that potion condensed the power of a million stars. Do you know what the potion he researched was used for?"

The young man was silent for a while, then said, "I asked him out of curiosity, but he didn't answer. He only told me it was a kind of energy."

"Energy? Used to drive what?" Professor X thought and said, "What needs the power of a million stars to drive?"

"Maybe it's a kind of weapon, I guess." The young man said.

"But this power of a million stars itself is a kind of weapon. Didn't you level an entire galaxy when you lost control? If it could maintain this intensity, the other two major empires would definitely be unable to sleep or eat in peace."

Professor X thought while speaking. Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something. He said, "Perhaps what he wanted wasn't large-scale damage, but to drive something more precise and controllable." ===== CHAPTER 3123 =====