Chapter 341: S: The Radiant Event (Part 16)

In a space full of white mist, a very abrupt building rose from the ground. It looked like the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, but it was different. The exterior of the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters was basically composed of dark red bricks, but here it turned into deep blue. Besides that, most of the structures were the same.

Looking into the windows of this color-changing version of the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, the scene inside was shocking.

It was not surprising that Iceman, Rogue, Storm, and others appeared here, because they themselves were members of the Xavier school. But the remaining Polaris, Blink, Quicksilver, and others should have been closer to the Brotherhood of Mutants, but at this time they were also sitting in the classroom.

What was even more surprising was that the person standing on the podium was not Jean Grey or Professor X, but Stark.

Stark stood on the podium, with Bruce Banner standing next to him. Stark touched his eyebrow, looked at the students below, and sighed deeply.

At this time, Professor X walked in. Iceman saw him walk into the classroom with big strides, widened his eyes, and then his expression returned to calm as if he reacted.

Professor X walked to the side of the podium and scanned the students below. Most of the students who graduated from the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters sat quite upright, while the remaining few thorns from the Brotherhood of Mutants were whispering to each other.

Professor X cleared his throat and said: "Just like I entered your dreams and told you before, welcome to the mutant school."

Polaris rolled her eyes, seemingly wanting to say something, but before she could speak, Stark said: "Yeah, school. I really hope this place can transform you group of losers to be smarter. Even if it's an improvement from negative to zero, I'll be thankful."

His wording was very straightforward, and his tone was also very aggressive. Logically speaking, those mutants who hung out with Magneto had bad tempers, but this time, the few people led by Polaris just made a short breath from their noses, crossed their arms, and said nothing.

And what exactly was going on with all this, and why they had this attitude, had to start from three days ago.

After Captain America's speech at the Security Council, Nick obtained the greatest power in the special period, so the Radiant Plan was officially launched.

Before this official plan was launched, scientists represented by Banner, Connors, Stark, and the foreign aid Reed had already made most of the preparations, just waiting for field investigation.

But the problem was in this field investigation.

Going to Mercury is not like landing on the moon, just finding something to bring people there. Stark possessed a mecha that could operate in the universe, and he also prepared a suit for Banner who went with him.

This armor could resist high and low temperatures and provide life support data, ensuring they could move freely on Mercury.

But having these was not enough. The cosmic environment is unpredictable, and entering the universe for the first time is accompanied by great danger. To ensure that these precious scientists could ensure safety no matter what situation they encountered, several mutants went to Mercury with them.

Polaris, Iceman, Havok, and Blink could be said to be very powerful, and each of them had their own strengths, almost including the ability to deal with all dangers. Logically speaking, such a combination of brains and power should not have any big problems landing on Mercury.

Originally, they also expected this. The first half of the Mercury landing plan went very smoothly. The mage opened a portal and sent them to the surface of Mercury.

But the landing point was still a certain distance from the south pole of Mercury, and they needed to walk there. At this time, Blink's ability could come in handy. Her ability was to teleport people. The advantage over the portal was that the landing point was very accurate, and there was no casting time, which was very suitable for dealing with some dangers that required quick evasion.

Stark's original plan was to let the mage open the portal at a certain distance from the south pole, and they could also investigate the terrain of Mercury along the way. After collecting enough data, Blink would teleport them to the pole.

But after the data was collected, when Stark asked Blink to teleport them, Blink raised a very soul-searching question: "... Where is the south pole?"

Stark widened his eyes and asked: "The pole, it's the south pole. Don't you know?"

"I of course know the south pole. I've even been to Earth's south pole. The penguins there are quite cute. But this is not Earth, how would I know where the south pole is?"

Stark opened his mouth. In his view, this was a very simple question. He only needed to know Mercury's orbital period and axial tilt.

He wanted to open his mouth to explain to Blink, but as soon as he thought about it, to explain the orbital period and axial tilt, he had to talk about revolution and rotation. To talk about revolution and rotation, he had to start from the gravitational field. To talk about the gravitational field, he had to mention the four fundamental forces...

In an instant, these pieces of knowledge passed through Stark's mind. He glanced at the sun close at hand, felt the heat coming from the mecha, looked helplessly at Polaris, and said: "Your ability is to control magnetic force, right? Mercury has a global magnetic field. You can find the north and south poles along the magnetic field lines. Find the south pole, and then let her take us there."

Polaris closed her eyes. A few seconds later, she said: "I found it."

Then several mutants looked at each other. Polaris asked: "How should I describe the point I found to you?"

Stark covered his forehead, but Banner was more patient. He said: "Do you know positioning methods? We can adopt one of the relatively simple ones..."

"... What positioning method?"

Banner looked at Polaris and said: "It's point positioning. Don't you know? It's finding three points..."

Banner just wanted to explain, but he thought that to explain what three-point positioning is, he must first talk about what a triangle is. To talk about what a triangle is, he had to mention trigonometric identities and trigonometry. And mentioning trigonometric identities, he had to talk about trigonometric functions...

Banner also sighed. He looked at Blink and said: "Even if we give you a complete map now, you can't locate it, right?"

"Actually, there is another way. You just need to give me a direction, and then I will teleport you little by little. It will definitely pass by the south pole, because the planet is round." Blink shrugged and said.

Stark was almost suffocated. If he learned anything from his first landing, it was never to pin his hopes on others, especially mutants.

But it had to be said that the method Blink proposed was also a way. The limit of Blink's teleportation ability was the distance from Earth to the moon, and Mercury's diameter was only two-fifths of Earth's. Therefore, even if it was teleporting one by one, it wouldn't take too long to circle around. And as long as one of the landing points was close to the south pole, Polaris would have a sense, and then they could land on the south pole...

But Stark never dreamed that when he needed to determine a position, he would still need to use the exhaustive method.

Blink took this group of people and busied herself for a long time, and finally arrived at the south pole. At this time, Banner and Stark were both a bit dizzy. They were still ordinary humans, and they were a bit carsick from the rapid teleportation.

But fortunately, they arrived at the destination. At this time, it was Havok's turn to go on stage. The south pole of Mercury had craters. Havok needed to hit a tunnel downward here and then conduct exploration downward.

The reason it wasn't machines doing this work was because Mercury's density was very high. To go deep underground, exploration drills could only use Vibranium or Adamantium, and the loss would be very great. In order to save money for Earth, Stark still chose mutants who didn't need costs.

But facts proved that there is nothing in this world that doesn't need to pay a price. Havok's ability was indeed very strong. He didn't need to wear a mecha at all to move freely in the universe, and he could also absorb the sun's energy and convert it into shock waves.

The only problem was that he couldn't quite understand the survey map drawn by Stark. He took the survey map and flew into mid-air, looked at the drawing, looked at the ground, looked at the drawing again, looked at the ground again. After looking for a long time, he didn't take action for a long time, but flew back and asked Stark: "Why is there no crater on your drawing?"

"No crater?... Isn't it right here?" Stark walked over and pointed to the drawing: "Look here, see this string of data? You have to follow this..."

"What is this string of data?... What is this again?"

"This is the scale. See this point I drew? You have to open a perfect circle at a ratio of 1:1000, and at the same time, you have to open a tangent with only half the depth here, and here..."

Half an hour later, Havok flew into mid-air again, and then used his arm to shoot a scorching ray shock wave. Stark stood on the surface of Mercury with his hands on his hips, looking at the pattern on the ground, shouting while looking: "Stop! You drew it wrong!! What is that in your hand? That's a drawing, follow the drawing!!!"

"I am following the drawing!!!" Havok shouted.

"But I want a perfect circle, what shape is this you cut? Bread slices?!"

"But I am controlling it manually, how can it be so accurate?!"

"I marked the allowable error on it! Didn't you see it? The allowable error on the west side is larger, why do you want to deviate to the north?"

"This is not Earth, how would I know where the west is?!!"

Half an hour later, Stark and Banner sighed again. Banner helped Stark's shoulders and said: "Let's do it like this. Anyway, it's just a preliminary exploration. Being able to enter the bottom of the crater is already okay."

Stark said nothing, stepped forward, and walked into the pit created by Havok.

Havok opened a hole in the middle of the crater. When Blink took a few people to teleport down, Bruce screamed and sat directly on the ground, because there was a protrusion where he landed, which tripped him directly.

"Jian Lai"

Stark looked back and sighed again. He said to Havok: "Don't you know the importance of safe operation?"

Before Havok could retort, Stark said: "Come, hit a tunnel toward this."

Then he turned around, pulled Iceman over, and said: "When he hits a bundle of tunnels, you use your ability to create ice to build a support structure to prevent the tunnel from collapsing."

Stark took out the drawing again. This time, before Iceman could say anything, Stark looked at the drawing himself, then threw the drawing back and said: "Forget it, anyway you can't understand it. Simply put, he hits a tunnel, you get something to prop up this tunnel, so we can go in."

"Alright, no problem." Iceman nodded.

Havok made a thinner ray and started to chisel the tunnel slowly. As a tunnel appeared in front of several people.

Iceman squatted down, touched the ground with his hand, and instantly, the ice layer spread along the tunnel. At this time, Banner stopped his next action and said: "Your support structure like this won't work. It will collapse if you go further. According to structural mechanics, you must make a support point here, and here, it needs to bear weight..."

Although Iceman didn't understand, his temper was better than the others. Banner said how to do it, and he did it. After delaying for several hours, several people finally walked into the tunnel.

Then it was repeated work. Stark looked for possible ice layers in the underground of Mercury, and at the same time recorded the underground rock layer structure.

After grinding for half a day, several people finally cooperated well. But just when Banner and Bruce were collecting data in an underground cavity, a fierce quarrel broke out between Havok, Polaris, and Iceman.

Not long ago, they had already had a fight. If it weren't for Charles and Magneto reaching a temporary consensus, letting them come over to execute the mission together, the three would still be in a cold war.

And what would be the consequence of forcibly squeezing a few people in a cold war together goes without saying. Havok suspected that Iceman was prying his wall corner, Polaris felt that Havok was completely making trouble out of nothing, and Iceman felt sorry for Polaris. As a result, Havok felt even more that the two betrayed him...

Stark was collecting rock samples well, when he heard a "boom" from behind. Immediately after, the ice pillar supporting this underground structure began to collapse layer by layer. In an instant, Blink appeared beside the two, and with a "sou" sound, teleported them to the surface.

Just as they sat on the ground, a rumbling sound came from the center of the crater in front of them, and with a "boom", the entire center of the crater collapsed...

Havok, Polaris, and Iceman crawled out with gray faces, facing Stark's face that was as black as the bottom of a pot. ===== CHAPTER 342 =====