Chapter 4078

Accompanied by the rich darkness surging up, Shiler heard the sound of paper being flipped, and some whispers of young people. When the scene lit up again, he found himself in a university classroom.

He turned his head left and right to look, determining it wasn't the university he attended, but it also looked like some American university. It was break time, students were walking out in twos and threes, and two or three students were sitting in their seats, still flipping through a book, talking in low voices while reading.

Shiler also pretended to walk toward the door, but when passing their seats, he glanced at the name of the book—"The Way of the Mind"—by Charles Xavier.

Shiler frowned slightly. He guessed this should be Charles's nightmare, but why was it like this? He thought they would appear on the beach immediately, and then Magneto would reach out to a pile of bullets, one of which would unfortunately shoot into Charles's lumbar spine, eventually leading to Charles's paralysis.

If that were the case, then no matter what Magneto explained, it would be useless. They would win this round without doing much. But unexpectedly, Charles's nightmare was not the famous beach divorce scene that had been widely known.

No wonder the Dream-Powered Doctor Strange dared to propose this competition method. Perhaps Charles had long known that his nightmare wouldn't be the day he broke up with Magneto. Otherwise, they had few people, and if they lost another round, they wouldn't have proposed the competition at all.

With few people, they must have the certainty of winning all three rounds and winning another round from the other side. But thinking about it, it is indeed the case. Charles and Erik know each other very well. In this case, going deep into each other's nightmares makes it easy to take the other party away, and the Dream-Powered Doctor Strange's round is a guaranteed win, so the certainty of these three rounds is very high. As long as they can grab another point from others, they will win.

But Arkham Batman's side didn't have long-term partners, all were half-way assembled. Except for the widely known alley gunshot and necklace, no one knew what the other's nightmare was, nor could they determine whether they could gain the other's trust. Fortunately, they won two rounds by relying on their understanding of Gotham, otherwise, it would have been really troublesome.

"Why are you reading this?" Shiler pretended to have just seen the book, stopped his steps, and then said, "You like this Xavier very much?"

"No, no, no," the two students quickly cleared their relationship, saying, "We all know he is a madman who uses mind intrusion to manipulate others' lives. We don't like him at all. We just want to see if there is any evidence of his crimes in his book..."

Shiler narrowed his eyes slightly. He seemed to know what was going on. So he also said with quite disdain: "It sounds like he is very strong. You are talking bad about him here, didn't he still not hear it?"

"There is a rumor that he was caught," a student lowered his voice and said, "It seems the military developed a brainwave shielding device and caught him. He can't hear anyone's inner voice now."

"That's impossible, right? Doesn't he have an old friend, called... what was it?"

"Oh, that German guy. Ha, he is the one who can't even protect himself. If it weren't for saving him, our good professor wouldn't have been exposed. I think they are both going to be finished together."

Shiler didn't spend much effort to get the information he wanted from these two students. He walked out with other students, thinking about the current situation.

If there were no accidents, it should be that Erik was plotted against, seriously injured or lost his powers. Charles exposed his powers to prevent him from being caught, and in an instant, he changed from a world-renowned psychologist to a widely criticized pervert and manipulator.

Everyone is tight-lipped about mind prying. Who would like a monster that can see through everyone's thoughts? And once someone has such an ability, people will definitely feel fear and disgust toward him, and all his previous achievements will be attributed to what he stole from others' brains. He will instantly become the most vicious madman and thief in the world.

The personalities of Erik and Charles when they were young were actually the opposite of when they were old. The young Charles was quite arrogant. After returning from the battlefield, he had been diligent in shining in the field of psychological theory research and had written books many times. Also, because psychology was a very young discipline, his works were highly valued, and he was already a famous scholar at a young age.

But at that time, his abilities were not widely exposed. Although he had cooperated with organizations like S. H. I. E. L. D. and wanted to start his own school, the public didn't know he could read minds. Then this time node should be when he was just exposed.

Thinking about what he would encounter, Shiler felt that the reason the Earth could live to this day was that Charles's temper was still too good. He was truly worthy of being Marvel's number one holy father.

Sure enough, as soon as he walked out of the school gate, he saw someone post a huge poster outside, which was the face of the young Charles, but someone had put a big red cross on it, and below it was written "The pervert who pries into psychology, get out of school."

Judging from the words of the two students just now, Charles should have become a professor already, but maybe not a full-time professor, but that kind of visiting professor who travels between universities to give lectures and speeches. Coupled with his good image and the ability to know others' thoughts at any time, he was welcomed and respected wherever he went. Falling from heaven to hell in an instant, I'm afraid no one would feel good.

Shiler knew that since he appeared at the university, Charles should be at this university now. He thought for a while, asked someone for the address of the teaching building, and walked quickly toward the teaching building.

Someone was faster than him. Arkham Batman discovered that this was at the university, so he walked toward the teaching building at the fastest speed. Because judging from the current era, Charles must have become a professor. No matter what, he would have an office most of the time. Going to the teaching building to find him was definitely right.

Arkham Batman's attire was a bit strange, so he used a grappling hook to reach the roof and then climbed down along the outer wall. Fortunately, one side of the teaching building was close to the forest, so he saw those familiar blue eyes while climbing.

At this time, Shiler had also slipped in. His method was much simpler. First, go to the shop next door to buy a cup of coffee, take off his hat, put away his handgun, button up his trench coat, and walk in carrying the steaming coffee. He smiled and nodded at everyone he saw. No one knew what he was doing, but no one stopped him either.

He strolled all the way to the door of the principal's office, and then heard intense arguing coming from inside.

"I said, all the theories were discovered by my own research, and they were all recognized by other psychology experts. My teaching ability has never been questioned by anyone either. Before this, everyone loved my classes, and they couldn't even grab a seat. Why can't I continue teaching?"

"Mr. Xavier, please calm down. I also said, the school's course schedule is very full, there really is no position."

"I originally had three more classes, which were set last semester, but now you tell me to cancel them temporarily, and don't give me a reason..."

"Sorry, but... you also know, the school has to consider public opinion, after all... after all, the students are protesting very fiercely..."

"I've said many times, I won't pry into others' inner hearts at will, and I'm not some manipulator or madman."

"Yes, but some people also question the source of your research materials for your works..."

"You don't think I read others' minds and then wrote these theories, right? I..."

Arkham Batman stood on the balcony and saw that the principal took a step back in fear the moment Charles showed an angry expression. But this seemed to anger Charles even more.

"Let me go back to class!"

"...... Okay."

Arkham Batman couldn't help but cover his forehead. This principal and the students didn't wrong you at all.

Charles rushed out of the office angrily. Shiler, who was hiding not far away, followed him immediately. Logically speaking, following Professor X is very unwise, because as long as he pays attention, he will definitely discover it. But Shiler bet that he didn't pay attention, because he was already miserable enough now.

But this wasn't all, because not long after walking out of the teaching building, Charles saw that large poster. His expression was terrifyingly cold, and an ice storm blew in those blue eyes. Even Shiler and Arkham Batman, who didn't have mind-reading abilities, could feel his angry brainwaves.

Shiler sighed in his heart. The young Charles was still too young, cared too much about others' opinions, and had true teacher's ethics and medical ethics, feeling that he had been betrayed by his students, both angry and sad. No wonder he would have nightmares.

But Shiler didn't expect Charles to lose his mind to this extent, because soon, that male student who posted the poster walked over and tore the poster off.

This was in full view of everyone. The poster hadn't been posted for half an hour, and that male student was a well-known troublemaker in the school, and Charles's face was exceptionally eye-catching. With all these states superimposed, who didn't know what was going on?

Terrified screams came from all around immediately. I don't know who took the lead in running, anyway, everyone was running away in a panic, shouting "monster" while running.

But the next second, everyone quieted down, or rather, the whole school was silent. All the students, teachers, and the principal stood straight in place. Charles was as cold as an ice sculpture.

Shiler felt Charles's brainwave intrusion, and he didn't resist, just stood in the crowd. Because he knew from the final result that Charles shouldn't have done anything too excessive, otherwise he and Magneto wouldn't have broken up, and the two terrorists would have long since flown away together.

Sure enough, about half a minute later, Charles made a decision, and the teachers and students returned to normal. However, it seemed that Charles deleted their previous memories. After recovering their memories, everyone didn't continue to run away, but went to do what they should do.

However, it wasn't just because the young Charles's ability was limited, or he didn't do it thoroughly enough in his anger. Not only were people with strong willpower like Shiler and Arkham Batman not deleted cleanly, but some students and professors with psychological knowledge and prior precautions were also not deleted cleanly.

This was completely broken. Soon, many phone calls were made to the New York Police Department, claiming that they were manipulated, they said Xavier manipulated their spirits and deleted their memories.

At first, the ones making the calls were indeed teachers and students, but later it was different. Many people started to fish in troubled waters. Some said Xavier manipulated them to make work mistakes; some said Xavier controlled them to rob a bank; some said because of Xavier's mental manipulation, they completely forgot the knowledge needed for the exam; others said because politicians were manipulated by Xavier, they would want to restore the rights of black people.

Later, it developed directly into that as long as there was any bad thing, it was Xavier manipulating them to do it, whether it was breaking an egg while cooking or hijacking a police helicopter, if you ask, it's Xavier manipulating my brain.

With things developing like this, S. H. I. E. L. D. couldn't sit idly by anymore. But just at this time, the existence of mutants was exposed.