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Chapter 3893

~11 min read 2,125 words

"Long time no see, Logan. I'm very sorry to see you in such a way." Captain America sighs, sits in front of the interrogation window, looks at the reflection of himself and Logan's face overlapping, and thinks of the scene when they fought side by side back then.

Logan shakes his head. The texture of his facial muscles is all downward, like the roots of an old tree, and his eyebrows are even faintly white, really looking like a wolverine.

"It's entirely my fault," Logan says, "I swear, I didn't want to hurt any ordinary person. I feel sorry for their injuries. I know, it's not on the battlefield now. Even on the battlefield, slaughtering civilians is absolutely evil. I really didn't expect that I would actually..."

Speaking to the end, Logan is somewhat choked up. Captain America also lowers his head. Clearly they are thinking of the same thing. Back then, they received a mission to clear out the remnants on the Eastern Front battlefield; they chased the enemy until they were running for their lives, and as a result, they forced them into a low residential house. That was a hiding place for a mother and two children. Civilians were used as hostages. The two tried every means, but still couldn't save the mother's life. That was the first civilian who died because of them.

Since then, they have understood the importance of being cautious, and not chasing a desperate enemy. When going to the battlefield, people will always recite silently what they are fighting for, but war itself makes people forget this. On the way back, they made a pact not to let any more civilians bleed for them.

Logan looks very painful, Captain America has to grab his wrist across the interrogation window, helping him stabilize his breathing and adjust his state of mind, so as to complete this questioning.

If the matter wasn't too serious, Captain America wouldn't want to force his old comrade-in-arms at this time. But unfortunately, there are only two people involved, the other one is not very clear-headed, and is too deeply entangled with the Phoenix, not a good object for questioning. Logan is the only hope.

"I know I should say something, but the problem is I don't know what to say." Logan is simply roaring, "Scott suddenly went crazy, first came to scold me. At first it was fine, I just ignored him. Later it got worse and worse, suddenly started insulting my comrades, and even made personal attacks on my height and appearance. I really don't understand."

"Anything else?" Captain America asks.

"Then he started provoking the relationship between me and Jean. Of course they are boyfriend and girlfriend, when they haven't broken up, I can't be the third party. But Jean and I are also comrades-in-arms fighting side by side, is it too much for me to pour him a cup of coffee? And I poured one for everyone, I can't just not pour it for her alone, right? Wouldn't that be excluding her?"

"Is this the first time you and Scott have had a conflict?"

"You could say that. Maybe there were some conflicts before, but they were all his one-sided cold eyes toward me, and you know me, I'm not very sensitive, maybe I really ignored many details."

"Did he find you to fight after that day?"

"Yes. He cursed me with many words, just like shameless third party or something. But I really didn't do anything. I explained to him, but he wouldn't listen, and insisted on fighting me. I didn't dare to really fight him, so I had to hide from him. But the next day he actually rushed into my classroom and cursed me in front of the students. I couldn't get off the stage, so I pushed him, and he actually attacked me with a laser!"

Logan says to this point and rubs his head hard and says: "You have to know, there were more than a dozen underage children in the classroom at the time! He hit with a laser, the glass shattered, and it even scratched a child's face. I was almost pissed off! Jean was also very angry, she scolded Scott loudly. Scott actually cursed her... God, I can't say that word..."

Although he didn't say it, Captain America can probably guess. This kind of thing is actually very common; someone does something irrational because of jealousy, while their boyfriend or girlfriend stands on the side of justice and helps reason rather than family. Even if they know rationally that the other party is just kind, they still cannot accept it.

"After that, Scott went completely crazy." Logan sighs and says, "Originally it was a good camping trip, he went crazy again. I had to lead him to the beach next to us, and we had a fight."

"Who won?"

"In fact, I didn't fight him at all, he just hit me with a laser, and I dodged left and right."

"Why didn't you really fight him?"

Logan looks at him somewhat incredulously, simply saying with his face "Are you kidding me?".

"Scott although he can use his eyes to emit lasers, his body is an ordinary person, not that Superman, who is fine even after being punched by Magneto to Jupiter. If I go up with one claw, he will be cut into several pieces."

Captain America also reacts that he asked a stupid question. Although Cyclops is long-range and Logan is melee, Logan's claws are Adamantium, which would likely draw blood even if they scratched Superman, not to mention the physical fitness of an ordinary person like Cyclops.

If Logan really fought Cyclops, Logan could make mistakes many times, anyway he has self-healing ability, but Cyclops can only make one mistake; if he makes a mistake, he will be in pieces.

And usually when Cyclops's brain is working well, it's fine, but that time he was clearly going crazy, hitting randomly regardless of anything, I'm afraid he would be approached by Logan in minutes, and by then it would really be over.

Captain America rubs his temples and says: "Alright, what's going on with the thermal power plant?"

"Pyro was working there." Logan says, "Ever since the two Earths merged, the rent in New York has risen. Before, ordinary mutants, as long as they could have a stable job, it was about enough. But it won't work after the merger. Either work two jobs, or find a high-paying job."

"Pyro had been working at an American barbecue restaurant, the salary wasn't high, but the work was leisurely, sitting in the yard and helping customers who came to barbecue control the heat. You understand, right, like a pool lifeguard. This job was actually quite suitable for him."

"But ever since the weekly rent rose by 100 dollars, his meager salary couldn't afford it at all. He couldn't rent a house in the suburbs either, so he had to find a new job with a higher salary."

"So he went to the thermal power plant?"

"Yes. Osborn Corp offered a high price, basically all mutants who can control fire will go there. Of course they aren't going to set fires themselves to generate electricity, but to do some temperature measurement experiments. I don't understand this aspect either, anyway Pyro was hired."

"Pyro got a new job, and after getting his first paycheck, he also remembered that quite a few people in Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters were not very well-off, so he wanted to treat everyone to barbecue, of course also bringing his colleagues. So at the time, Scott and I, one after another, drove to the entrance of the thermal power plant to pick up his colleagues, and then something happened..."

"How did you two fight?"

"I'm afraid you'll laugh at me when I say it. You also know I drive quite fiercely, and when I arrived at the entrance, the speed was quite fast, I was afraid of overshooting so I slammed on the brakes, but Cyclops didn't know what he was thinking, he didn't step on the brakes at all, and hit my trunk lid off. Then he insisted I was provoking him, and we fought. My claws couldn't cause any damage to the thermal power plant, it was his laser that hit something and ignited it, directly blowing up half the building."

Captain America is indeed dumbfounded. Logically speaking, the rear car is fully responsible for rear-end collisions, even in the United States. Although Logan slamming on the brakes is not quite right, keeping a safe distance is also the responsibility of the rear car. What's more, Cyclops didn't step on the brakes at all; this is very wrong.

Normal people see they are about to hit, at least they will step on it. Not stepping on it at all, hitting straight on, and knocking off the other party's trunk lid, this force is not small, simply outrageous.

Asking around and asking out a bunch of outrageous operations by Cyclops, but the problem is no one knows the reason for his outrageous operations, and Logan knows even less.

Really having no other way, Captain America asked several people who usually have a good relationship with Cyclops under Professor X's guidance, but the other party said he was a good person before, and didn't know why he changed his temperament drastically.

Captain America had to take these materials back to S. H. I. E. L. D. to ask professionals for help with analysis. S. H. I. E. L. D. also has a behavioral analysis department, but unfortunately they don't do work all year round; the people in the department have two brushes, but there is no hair on the brushes. Even if they emailed their teacher, the other party couldn't determine anything based on these few words.

Peter also took back a stack of materials, but he actually doesn't understand these. His interpersonal relationships have always been quite simple, and he basically hasn't been a rival in love with anyone, Harry doesn't count.

But the nature of this matter is indeed too serious; if he doesn't figure out what is going on, Peter really doesn't dare to start building the magical defense network. What if the mutants really lose control, then the magical defense network built halfway won't be dismantled by them? That loss would be huge. If any accident really happens, there is no way to explain it to the mages.

Peter holds the materials and scratches his head, until it is the time he was going to sleep yesterday. He turns his head and sees the bright moonlight spilling into the room along the windowsill.

Peter also seems to be bored in the room, walks out along the windowsill, and the curtains behind him flutter. He supports his hands on the balcony railing and looks down; many figures busy until late at night are just returning home now.

Suddenly, he feels his left side light up, so he knows someone is here. He turns his head and sees the long cloak covered in wind; although he can't see the face, he can feel the person under the hood is smiling.

"Hello, I still don't know how to address you."

"Call me Moonlight." The other party says.

"Moonlight? Are you Moon Knight? No, I've seen Moon Knight, his figure seems to be more burly than yours, and his clothes are also a bit different."

"I am Moonlight."

"Alright, Moonlight. I don't want to put pressure on you, so just treat it as me talking in my sleep. Today during the day I went to the accident scene of the explosion, and then Captain America asked about the various abnormalities of Cyclops Scott from Logan's mouth. But we don't know why he went crazy..."

"Trapped by love." Peter hears the other party say.

"Yes, I guess so too. Probably because of the competitive relationship with Logan..."

"No." Before Peter finished speaking, he was denied by the other party. He heard the other party say: "He discovered he didn't love that much. He started just wanting to possess, but possession is never satisfied, so he went crazy."

Peter pauses, he cannot help but want to peek at the eyes under the hood, because the other party's tone is too firm. But the other party didn't even look at the materials, and his own brief summary just now was absolutely not enough to infer these things. Then how did he infer them?

A sudden gust of wind makes Peter somewhat dazed, and by the time he clears his head, the other party is gone. He only hears a sentence faintly coming from the moonlight:

"Go ask them if they have ever had an argument, and you will get the answer you want."

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