Chapter 3424: Midnight Sons (Part 34)

One morning half a month ago, Shiler received a text message from Professor X: "The giant brain wave amplifier in the Andromeda Galaxy is complete. I am currently at the communication center and will conduct a mental contact with you in about half an hour."

The text was accompanied by a standard smile emoji often used by elderly people. Shiler, who was making breakfast, shook his head. Professor X was still as polite as ever, sending a text message to announce a mental contact.

Currently, human cross-galaxy communication technology is not mature, and communication between the Andromeda Galaxy and here is very troublesome. Text messages have to go through many communication stations to be sent, which is not a small expense, and there is also a significant delay in time. A text message sent from the Andromeda Galaxy takes at least half an hour to be received.

Sure enough, less than ten seconds after Shiler received the message, Charles's voice sounded in his mind.

"Good morning, Dr. Shiler."

"Good morning, Professor. Congratulations on completing the construction of the Andromeda Galaxy Communication Center. Is there anything I can help with?"

"Everything is very good here," Charles replied, "I contacted you mainly to express my gratitude. The golden apple you sent us completed the last piece of the puzzle for the successful operation of the cosmic-level brain wave amplifier. It kept my physical condition at its best, making the final experiment go much smoother than ever before."

"I think it's because you and Erik are reliving old dreams?" Shiler teased, "How does it feel to return to those days of shared ideals?"

"Not bad," Charles didn't avoid the topic, saying, "I used to think that appearance wasn't that important. Peering into the mysteries of the soul through superficial appearances is what people have to learn all their lives."

"That's not wrong to say. So what about now?"

"Erik told me that I had this idea because I enjoyed the benefits of beauty without knowing it. Because I didn't need to consider appearance, I had so much energy to study the soul."

"What do you think?"

"I reflected on it and felt he had a point."

Shiler couldn't help but laugh. While placing the freshly fried eggs on the island counter, he deliberately imitated the tone of a documentary: "Everyone has the most youthful and beautiful period of time in their own memories. But clearly, the young Charles Xavier amazed too many others' years. Erik Lensherr was one of them. Even decades later, this is still one of the rare things that can move him in his long, serious, and gloomy life..."

Charles sighed softly on the other side, seemingly feeling that Shiler was too exaggerated. To pick up the spatula for cooking, Shiler switched the phone to the other hand and continued: "How is Erik?"

"Same as usual. Busy with the construction of the communication center, occasionally going to other galaxies to stir up trouble, and when he's free, patrolling the sky islands, staring at those naughty little guys working."

"How is Anya? Is she okay?"

"Not bad. Because she is a pure spiritual existence, her intellectual development is very slow, and she is still studying primary school courses in the spiritual world's school. The children at the School for Gifted Youngsters also like her very much."

"That's good," Shiler said sincerely.

Previously, when he traveled back to the past, in Berlin, he had interacted with the young Magneto, Erik.

Because of the city blockade, Magneto's wife, Anya's mother, unfortunately had a difficult labor. Although with Shiler's help, it was barely considered safe for mother and child, Anya still unfortunately passed away due to congenital weakness. Later, with Charles's help, she remained in Magneto's spiritual world as a pure spiritual existence.

It cannot be said that this changed past had no effect on Magneto. Magneto was not a leader who was unscrupulous and cold-blooded from the beginning. He had a wife, a family, stable years, and expectations for a better life.

But in the original history, everything constantly left him. Wife and children separated, best friends turned against each other, hunted and fled, bloody and cruel; all these tragedies gradually lowered the temperature of his blood, casting a passionately beating heart into cold and ruthless steel.

But after modifying the original timeline, although Anya still didn't survive, the existence of the daughter's spiritual body preserved the last soft place in Magneto's heart.

Although later, he still parted ways with Professor X due to different philosophies, formed the Brotherhood of Mutants, and started his global wanted life. But Anya's existence still eliminated the most stubborn ruthlessness and cruelty in his personality, preventing him from being alienated into a monster without humanity after years of exile.

This allowed him to better handle issues regarding his children. If it were before, his desire for control would have made it absolutely impossible for him to tolerate Wanda and Pietro staying on Earth instead of coming to the Andromeda Galaxy.

"Is Lorna okay?" Shiler asked.

"She's been complaining a bit recently. Maybe because she just broke up and has a lot of work. I'm trying to persuade Erik to let her take a vacation. But her work needs someone to cover. I want to contact Wanda, but I'm worried that the children will make her unable to spare herself."

"Have you seen the Billy brothers?" Shiler opened his phone, put it on speaker, and started pouring the stir-fried vegetables from the pan into a deep plate.

"Yes. Beast and I speculate that they should be Alpha-level mutants. It's just that Wanda doesn't like to hear this topic. We just talk about it privately."

"Then what about their maternal grandfather? What does Erik say?"

"Don't you know him yet? Seemingly unconcerned, but actually cares a lot. He discussed with me about changing back to the 'Eisenhardt' surname; I think he wants them to change to the same surname as his family."

"I think this is unlikely," Shiler wasn't very euphemistic, he said directly, "First of all, Lorna has deep feelings for her foster parents, and she strongly resents others calling her the girl of the Lensherr family. Changing to Eisenhardt is probably the same."

"Secondly, although Wanda looks gentler than Lorna, she is actually the most stubborn in her bones. She tries everything to make her life look unrelated to mutants. If she changes her surname publicly, her peaceful life will be broken again."

"And she is already married. Although Jarvis doesn't play that old-fashioned stuff, most people in her daily social circle think Maximoff is her husband's surname. Jarvis also went along with it and acknowledged this. How to explain it if she changes her surname?"

"I think so too, I persuaded him. Although he agreed on the surface, he still seems to want to do it. Perhaps you already know Erik well enough; he has been looking for a sense of belonging all his life."

"Have you considered finding a body for Anya?" Shiler asked seriously, "That way he can let Anya be called Anya Eisenhardt."

"We have considered it, of course, but it's hard to find a suitable one."

"Didn't many of David's personalities become independent using clone bodies before? Can't you customize one for Anya?"

"It's hard to achieve," Charles sighed and said, "Those personalities can use clone bodies to become independent because they are very strong themselves. Only if the spiritual body strength is high enough can they change bodies and immediately be lively."

"Anya is just an ordinary little girl. She isn't even a mutant. Because she was very young when her physical body died, her spiritual strength is very low. Even if she lives in my spiritual world, she needs regular maintenance to maintain her self. She can't withstand that kind of tossing."

Shiler also sighed lightly; he knew that if there was a way, Professor X and Magneto would definitely try it. There has been no movement so far, so the difficulties are probably more than ordinary people can imagine.

"Actually, Erik and I both want to ask you," Charles suddenly said, "How did you manage to reorganize your personality and spiritual world back then?"

"Hmm... this is a very complex process," Shiler thought for a while and said, "I can't say it's entirely my credit. A doctor played a big role in it, but I don't know where he is now."

"Do you think he can solve Anya's problem?"

"Perhaps," Shiler nodded and said, "But Anya's situation is completely different from mine. I can't guarantee it will work either. If I have news of him, I will contact you."

"Okay. After the Andromeda Galaxy Communication Center is built, I can conduct mental contact with you at any time. But to prevent unnecessary trouble, I have set a special brain wave frequency. As long as you repeat this frequency three times in your mind, I will answer."

"My regular psychological evaluation time is coming up. I'll call you then. Goodbye."

Some time later, Shiler dialed Charles's number, but not just for the regular psychological evaluation of a psychologist, but to ask Charles to help update the system.

He briefly explained his situation. In fact, this kind of skill-interoperability update is not difficult, but to ensure safety, it still requires someone to assist from the side.

Charles came to Shiler's high tower through his psychic ability and became the technical consultant for this update, helping Shiler solve some technical problems.

And after the update was completed, he didn't rush to leave, but after getting permission, he looked through Shiler's early memories. He still wanted to find a way to reconstruct the weak spiritual body from them.

It sounds like going to the library to check information, but it's not that simple at all. Because Shiler's early memories are very chaotic, a pile of shit-mountain code, it might be very difficult for him to find anything in it. It is estimated that only Professor X can swim in the sea of shit.

This takes a lot of effort. Professor X left a segment of thinking here to let him check slowly, while his main energy was still placed on the Andromeda Galaxy.

Shiler learned from the comic plot that Dario Agger cooperated with more than one alien. This kind of pure traitor is blooming in many aspects. And among his many partners, there is a very special one, that is, Samu, the lord of the planet Sam, who looks like a yeti.

Samu's skill is mental control, not Professor X's psychic ability, but pure mental attack.

That is to say, she actually doesn't have mind reading and cannot understand what others are thinking, but she can implant her own thoughts into others' minds, making others naturally feel that it is their own thought.

Roxxon Corporation cooperated with Samu, first creating disasters, then letting this guy appear as a hero, and at the same time implanting various good impressions of Samu into the minds of ordinary people around, and a man-made superhero was born.

If it was just boasting about himself, that would be it, but he had to step on Hulk. In the original comic, this move was used in conjunction with Roxxon Corporation's public opinion offensive to make Hulk notorious and reviled by thousands.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 3425 =====