Chapter 3133
Legion soon arrived at Professor X's office. He was also stunned when he came in, but obviously, he wasn't a talkative person, so he didn't ask anything.
Professor X was very depressed. Why didn't anyone care about how he suddenly became younger?
But he still started talking about business: "David, I remember you can absorb other people's consciousness and abilities and transform them into your own personalities, right?"
Legion was slightly stunned, but still nodded and said: "Even if I don't absorb them, new personalities will be generated. Three new personalities have been generated during this period, but none of them are dangerous."
"See if you can absorb his personality?" Professor X glanced at Apocalypse, who was thrown on the ground by Magneto. Legion walked over, placed his hand on the back of Apocalypse's head, closed his eyes to feel for a while, and then said: "No problem, but I need some time."
"About how long?"
"About three hours."
"Then after converting him into your personality, will he still have his original memories?"
"It depends on whether you want them." Legion said: "I can copy, cut, and delete."
"Then what about his personality itself?" Professor X was worried that Legion didn't quite understand, so he added: "I mean, will he be more like you, or his former self?"
"No one will be like me." Legion said: "This is the biggest problem. All personalities are themselves, so I have no way to completely control them."
Professor X pondered for a while and said: "I can teach you a method that will allow you to re-nurture their personalities. This won't change their personalities themselves, but it can make them loyal to you."
Legion frowned. He glanced at Magneto, the only outsider here, but then put his gaze back on Professor X's face.
Professor X knew what he was thinking.
All along, in front of all his students, Professor X had been very gentle. He was a kind, elegant, and even slightly indecisive person.
He often taught his students that they must respect the human heart, as it is a miracle of life, not a toy that can be experimented with at will.
His current performance obviously didn't fit this argument, but fortunately, his own son wasn't a good person either. David's emotions were very thin. Apart from being relatively close to Franklin, he didn't care much about the life or death of others.
Legion nodded without further reaction, obviously tacitly agreeing.
And the method Professor X mentioned that could re-nurture other personalities naturally came from Hecate.
It's just that this method had very high requirements for the user's mental power. Ordinary humans could never use this method. Apart from gods, it was probably only powerful psychic ability users who could use it.
And Professor X and Legion happened to be such psychic ability users.
Legion could continuously generate new personalities, but his weakness was that the new personalities didn't completely obey him, and even after there were many of them, they would unite to oppose him.
With this method, Legion could completely select some sufficiently powerful new personalities to re-nurture and control them, which made his already strong mutant abilities go to the next level.
Professor X knew that since there was an alarm put by the Skrulls in Apocalypse's brain, then when it came time to deliver the goods, they would definitely have a way to check if Apocalypse was the original Apocalypse and if he had been controlled.
So it was not safe for Professor X to directly control Apocalypse to deliver the goods. It was best to let the original body and the original soul go together, so that everything would be foolproof.
But it was impossible to persuade this idiot Apocalypse. If he were a little smarter, he wouldn't have lived for thousands of years and ended up being someone else's lackey.
So he had to do something to his original soul, let Legion absorb him, and then regenerate him as a new personality. It was equivalent to formatting a mobile phone, and re-nurturing him was equivalent to resetting a password.
The phone was still that phone, and the system was still that system, but the kernel was completely different.
By then, Apocalypse would still be Apocalypse. He would possess his former normal personality and all his memories, but he would firmly stand with them.
Thinking of this, Professor X hurriedly reminded Legion to find a way to add some IQ to Apocalypse. Even if he didn't have to be very visionary and have a big picture, he shouldn't be as stupid as before, otherwise, he would be a drag.
Of course, although most of the memories had to be preserved, some details had to be modified, otherwise, some things would be hard to explain. Legion was still young after all and didn't often do such things, so he had to keep an eye on him.
Another day passed. When Apocalypse woke up again, although his body and soul hadn't suffered any trauma, he was already like a different person.
The most troublesome problem was solved. Next, it was time to close the net. Professor X invited Loki and Thanos, who were staying here, over. The next things were extremely critical and could not afford any mistakes.
Because the virus Apocalypse released would take effect in three days, the third night was the final deadline. And now the news of Magneto and Polaris causing a scene in the Shi'ar Empire territory had spread. In the eyes of the Skrulls, the item was already in hand.
Apocalypse contacted them to deliver the goods as planned, but the Skrulls were obviously prepared. They didn't set the delivery location in the mutant territory, but found a very remote star system within the Skrull Empire territory.
This made it even more convenient for Professor X. If the Shi'ar Empire fleet had an accident in the Andromeda Galaxy, it would be difficult for the mutants to shirk responsibility. But if they were completely wiped out right within the Skrull Empire territory, that would be the best excuse for starting a war.
The mutants sent a fleet. Of course, there were no starships, just the previously modified Kree guard warships, led by Magneto. All the mutants who had some ability and could be dispatched went.
Of course, these people weren't really going to trade, but to destroy the five noble starships. Although the fleet was under the Empress's command, there were also good fighters on board. They wouldn't be willing to die, so someone had to send them to hell.
Everything was ready. Professor X, Loki, and Thanos sat in the office together, watching the images transmitted by the cameras.
After Apocalypse left, he soon went to the meeting point with the Skrulls and sent back the good news that the item was already in hand. The Skrulls indeed carried out an inspection of Apocalypse, but as expected, nothing was found.
The Skrull Empire's technological level was indeed very strong, but in terms of psychic abilities, they definitely couldn't play against Professor X. Charles Xavier was the genuine strongest psychic ability user in the entire universe, and now he had Legion's assistance and Hecate's nurturing method, so he was already invincible in this regard.
Discovering that Apocalypse was fine, the Skrulls didn't suspect anything, but still brought three fleets and set off towards the target location in a grand manner.
Magneto had already been waiting here.
He floated above the guard ship at the very front. His pitch-black figure was incomparably tiny among the stars, but all the Skrulls in front of the portholes of the huge starships that had jumped here with the light of the jump became incomparably solemn.
Magneto had never been anyone's opponent because he was the cosmic magnetic field itself. No matter how powerful a civilization was, it didn't think it could go against the entire universe.
Magneto's gaze locked onto Apocalypse's face in an instant. He said as if he didn't notice: "Give me the antidote."
Apocalypse was not to be outdone. His figure flashed, and he also came above the fleet, saying coldly: "Give me the item first."
Magneto looked at him coldly. The Skrull commander said in Apocalypse's earpiece: "Don't provoke him. We aren't here to fight him. Let him take the item out first."
"Verify the goods first." Apocalypse said: "If you don't take the item out, how do we know if you succeeded?"
"Give me the antidote." Magneto repeated again.
"Is it really okay for him to act like he can't understand human speech?" Loki, sitting in the office, said with some doubt.
"When has he ever understood human speech that would make people feel something was wrong?" Professor X said: "He has always acted directly."
Loki glanced at the screen again. Obviously, the Skrulls accepted it well and didn't feel at all that Magneto's attitude was too overbearing. The longer a civilization lived, the more it understood that it was best not to offend people who could be so arrogant and still be alive today.
"Forget it." The Skrull commander said: "Give him the antidote. We have already blocked the space here. He can't run."
Apocalypse took two test tubes from his belt, shook them gently in his hand, and then said: "Where is the item?"
Magneto narrowed his eyes slightly and glanced back. The door of the transport hold of the guard ship behind him opened, and a smaller spaceship flew out.
Of course, what was inside wasn't Reynolds. Reynolds was the patient Schiller handed over to Professor X. Although he didn't want to take him, he couldn't just give him away like that.
What was inside was a big gift for the Skrulls—Beast Hank was also a chemist and biologist.
The small spaceship flew towards the Skrull fleet bit by bit. When it flew to the center, Apocalypse suddenly said: "Stop, don't get any closer."
Although it was said to be a face-to-face delivery, the two fleets were actually still very far apart. This was to leave enough safety distance, otherwise, if the mutants really threw some bomb over, the Skrulls would be in big trouble.
The small spaceship stopped, and the Skrull fleet also split off two small spaceships, flying towards the spaceship dispatched by the mutants.
They were cautious enough not to let unknown things enter their fleet range. Since it was a delivery, of course, it had to be verified face-to-face.
"Wait a minute." Apocalypse said to the earpiece: "There are no living things in that spaceship of yours, right? Be careful they don't poison us too!"
The Skrull commander was stunned. He hurriedly said to his subordinates: "Call the spaceship back and send two mechanical engineering boats over."
"Use machines? Are you crazy?!" Apocalypse said incredulously: "The one standing opposite you is Magneto! What if he uses electromagnetic interference?"
The Skrull commander didn't speak for a long time. He didn't expect Apocalypse to be so cautious.
Apocalypse let out a cold snort and said: "How could I cooperate with you idiots?! You want to receive goods from mutants without making full preparations?"
The Skrull commander's face became a bit ugly, but he still waved his hand and said: "Go, drag out the electromagnetic shielding equipment inside the engineering ship and start it now!"
End of Chapter
