Chapter 3425: Midnight Sons (Part 35)

When cold sweat slid across the lenses of his sunglasses, it was like a drifting, helpless little boat floating weakly on the black ocean. And when the sweat drops fell, the water stains left on his forehead were like swaying mugwort, looking pale and helpless.

Dario saw the mysterious man raise a hand and take off his hood, revealing the face of the young Professor X.

Black holes swallow all light, so naturally, there are no colors. But if one day human eyes could distinguish colors beyond light, then perhaps Charles's eyes would make people feel that the most mysterious and powerful celestial body in the universe is blue.

Shiler didn't actually move, nor did he take off his hood. Everything the two saw now was because Charles had directly modified their brain waves. To put it plainly, it was a hallucination.

Shiler didn't remember Charles having such ability before. After possessing the cosmic-level brain wave amplifier, he had indeed evolved again.

And Shiler didn't know if it was his own illusion, but Charles, who had become younger in appearance, also had a much younger mindset.

For most people, this should be a compliment, because a young mindset represents breaking through stubborn ideas, flexible thinking, and the courage to try and innovate.

However, the young Charles Xavier couldn't be called gentle and magnanimous; he could only be said to have just taken human form.

Among the many image analyses of Professor X, one viewpoint once became mainstream: that when Professor X uses his psychic ability, he is not only influencing others but also being influenced.

His seemingly saintly viewpoint is actually not entirely his own, but because he is too deeply influenced by the thoughts of ordinary humans, so he is unwilling to use his powerful ability to brainwash the whole world to create a good living environment for mutants.

After contacting the real Charles Xavier, Shiler believes this statement is wrong. Charles is not influenced by the thoughts of ordinary people to have such a gentle concept.

Ultimately, it's just because he doesn't lack love.

Although it cannot be used as an iron rule, many studies in the field of psychology show that people who lack care, lack recognition, and lack racial and family belonging are more likely to go to extremes because they are always seeking care, recognition, and belonging.

If they are incompetent, that might be okay. If they happen to be very strong and hold power, it is easy for them to do some things that seem completely crazy to outsiders.

Conversely, those who do not lack these are relatively easier to become gentle and inclusive, and their concepts will not easily go to extremes. Or rather, they can choose to go to extremes, but they prefer to remain neutral and tend toward every win-win choice as much as possible.

Charles Xavier's concept looks so naive, not because he has no choice, but because he is willing to choose this way.

Or rather, he chooses this way because he is arrogant and idealistic enough. He feels that he can find a win-win method to solve the contradiction between ordinary humans and mutants, rather than having to destroy one side.

In contrast, Erik is more realistic because he has been beaten by reality more often and always feels that he doesn't have the energy to think about the distant future, and finding a way out in the present is the only way to survive.

Therefore, Charles's stance is more neutral and tolerant, which doesn't mean he is kind himself. Slightly different from the stereotypical image of Professor X in popular culture, the Charles Xavier in the comics is not a saint. If you have to say it, Nyarlathotep is more like a human than him.

Many literary works have such characters because their existence and abilities are too far above ordinary people, their wisdom is too high, and their minds are too deep, making them seem inhuman. Professor X is a typical example.

The young Charles Xavier has typical characteristics of antisocial personality disorder; although he cannot be called mentally ill, he is certainly not a normal person.

In summary, Charles is a born madman, while Erik went crazy later. Otherwise, how could they play together?

When they were young, they also had a long time of colluding and having a tacit understanding. If it weren't for some misunderstandings later, it's really hard to say who would be the big devil.

To use a common metaphor, when they were young, Charles was a cat and Erik was a dog. When they were old, it was the other way around; Erik was a neurotic cat, and Charles was an emotionally stable dog.

The fact that Professor X's mindset has returned to youth is also a bit terrifying. The only one who would simply feel happy is probably Magneto alone.

For example, now, Charles could have directly used his mental attack ability to punch them both, but he insisted on creating hallucinations, appreciating the way the two were afraid but powerless.

Shiler didn't know what Charles did in the hallucination. After waiting for him to play enough, Shiler said: "Help me see what specific transactions they made, and the relationship between Dario and the Dark Elves."

"They have a plan," Charles said, "Dario wants to use Samu's ability to whitewash the Dark Elves and let them enter Earth openly."

Shiler took a light breath; this Dario Agger was even more shameless than he thought, almost catching up to Nick.

"What do they plan to do?"

"Dario wants to create a navigation accident during the starship's maiden voyage, and then let the Dark Elves come to the rescue..."

Shiler raised a hand to signal a pause and said: "The Dark Elves come to the rescue; how does he plan to rescue? Or rather, how do they plan to have a chance to rescue when all the superheroes are present?"

Charles paused and said: "Dario doesn't seem to know who will escort the starship's maiden voyage, at least he doesn't know that Erik and I will come. So he only let the Dark Elves prepare a gravity trap."

"Dark Elves' gravity trap..."

"Yes, the location is on the outer side of the solar system, in the Kuiper Belt. I didn't see the specific coordinates in his brain; it's possible they haven't fully prepared yet."

"How do they know the spaceship will fly toward the outer solar system? What if we fly toward the inner solar system?"

"As far as I know, surface civilizations starting extraterrestrial exploration generally go from inside to outside. The starports of primary interstellar civilizations are also basically built far enough away from the stars, and navigation must avoid the stars within the mother star system as much as possible."

"Because for a civilization at this stage, stars are still quite dangerous and very important. If some accidents affect the stars, it would be a disaster of racial extinction. So he might think that our first voyage will also open outward."

"But the range of the Kuiper Belt is also very large; how do they know which direction we will go out from?"

"Dario's memory doesn't have these; it seems he doesn't know much about space science. All this should be arranged by the Dark Elves. However, Erik mentioned some to me before; it seems that it is possible to calculate an optimal navigation route based on the orbital trajectory of the celestial bodies in the star system. I think we are no exception."

Shiler doesn't know much about this knowledge either, he just roughly imagines it. In general, the solar system is not the kind of big disk that stays in one place and is dotted with many planets as many people imagine.

The sun is also constantly revolving, although the speed is not fast, it is definitely moving. When navigating, it is not a simple moving object avoiding a stationary object, but a moving object avoiding a moving object, and the influence of gravity must be considered in between.

Even if the Neptune starport is indeed at the outermost circle of the solar system, the starship has to consider a lot when flying outside. There will be specialized experts to calculate the best route, and if there are no accidents, it will fly according to this route.

The data of the solar system is not a secret; humans can measure it, and other civilizations can also measure it. Dario may not be able to measure it, but the Dark Elves definitely can. Then they only need to set traps around the best route, and the probability of affecting the fleet is still very high.

"Delete the memory of my appearance here tonight from their brains," Shiler said to Charles, "Don't let them find any abnormalities; we will investigate privately."

"Don't you plan to bury some mines in their brains?"

"Cough, cough, I am a superhero now. Superheroes should be open and aboveboard; brainwashing is a very evil method, I won't use it."

"Alright, alright," Charles's tone revealed a smile, "Evil things are all done by me, Mr. Superhero, you don't have to feel guilty at all... if you really have a conscience."

Ending the contact, Shiler returned to the surface of New York, flew all the way back to the Moon Temple, and silently thought in his heart that Charles had also learned to be bad.

After returning to the Moon Temple, he called Loki.

"Is the Dark Elves' gravity trap using Asgardian technology?" He asked.

"Yes, most of their weapons use Asgardian technology, why?"

"Is the gravity trap very strong?"

"Average. Thor would trip if he jumped into it," Loki made the sound of flipping files again and said, "But the premise is that he is completely unprepared, didn't take his hammer, and it's best if he drank alcohol the night before and was woken up early the next day, and his eyes weren't open when he went out. If he falls into it, he will definitely trip."

"Don't think I'll ask you why you know so clearly," Shiler hummed and said, "I have no interest in what happened between you two; I just want to know the harm of this trap to the Midgard."

"Why do you want to know this? Gravity traps are military weapons, equivalent to missiles on your Earth. If there is no war, no one will use this thing against you."

"Are you sure?"

Listening to Shiler's tone and looking at the investigation about the Dark Elves in his hand, Loki was really not sure. He frowned and said: "Do you think the Dark Elves will use gravity traps against you?"

Shiler briefly told him his guess. Loki said: "It's not that simple. Your first voyage must be a demonstration voyage. In order to let more Earth people know about technological progress, you will probably choose to fly near the mother star so that all humans can see the full view of the starship."

"If they want to act, the best time is when the starship approaches Earth, so that more humans can see their heroic side. Then how could the trap be set on the outer side of the solar system?"

Shiler thought for a moment and had the answer.

Although Dario is bad, he is not stupid. He probably anticipated that someone on the human side could read minds, so he deliberately found Samu to modify his memory in advance, so that the mind reader would be misled into thinking that the Dark Elves would set traps on the outer periphery of the solar system, thereby relaxing vigilance elsewhere.

Then it seems that his appointment to go to the Roxxon Energy Industrial Tower tomorrow should also be calculated by him.

Although the fact that he can read minds has not been disclosed to the public, it is not a secret among the high-level officials. Many people in Congress know it, and it leaks like a sieve, so Dario can investigate it with a little time.

Shiler wants to eavesdrop and catch leverage; Dario wants to use Shiler's mind reading to mislead humans; it's another drama of the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.

It's a pity that even if Dario is really an oriole, in front of this Tyrannosaurus Rex Charles, he is just a small snack to fill the gaps between teeth.

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