Chapter 4683: X-Royalty: Annihilation (Part 9)

"It's not time to give up yet, Emma," Professor X said, his tone still gentle. But it seemed that in the White Queen's eyes, he was already a dead man.

The White Queen was immersed in her own fear and couldn't speak for a moment. Professor X continued: "We are working on completing a top-secret plan we didn't have time to finish before—the Totem Resurrection Plan."

The White Queen still wasn't listening to him, so Professor X had to say: "We asked Mr. Sinister to preserve the genes of all the mutants who joined, and the Krakoa Totem can use these genes to hatch brand-new bodies. And I only need to inject the backups of the mutants preserved in my brainwaves into the brand-new bodies, and they can be resurrected."

These words finally woke the White Queen up. She swallowed, used all her strength to suppress her chaotic thoughts, and then said: "Resurrected?"

"That's right. Now mutants can be resurrected infinitely," Professor X said. "So even facing the incomparably powerful Mother Mold, we are not completely without the power to fight."

"Why didn't I know about this plan?" the White Queen asked.

Professor X sighed and said: "Sorry, Emma, this is my fault. Previously, taking time to participate in the multiverse war caused many of our plans to be delayed. We only completed the totem test two days ago; before that, we weren't sure if it would succeed, so naturally, we didn't tell you."

Shiler knew that this plan played an important role in the comics. Because the assault team in the comics was also wiped out, and it was by relying on the Krakoa Totem and Professor X's psychic backups that they were resurrected.

At the same time, this act of resurrection gave mutants great encouragement, making them unafraid of fighting, which led to Krakoa's bright future.

It was just that the butterfly effect was too powerful. Professor X put part of his energy into the multiverse, causing this plan, which should have been completed long ago, to be shelved until today. If Shiler hadn't brought it up, Professor X wouldn't have planned to do it.

This wasn't because they didn't want to resurrect the team members, but in the comics, although people died, the assault was successful. As long as people were resurrected, their side had zero losses. But the current situation was that people died, and the assault didn't succeed, so the first thing they had to face was the powerful enemy produced by the Orchis factory, and there weren't so many resources to use for researching resurrection.

In fact, it hadn't been researched yet. Professor X was deceiving the White Queen. They didn't have the ability to perfectly hatch bodies yet.

"Then... have they been hatched?" the White Queen asked.

"The totem is fine. The problem lies in my mind," Professor X said somewhat helplessly. "My mind was severely injured, and the psychic backups of the mutants in my mind were also lost. If I can't recover, even if the bodies are hatched, they won't be able to move."

The White Queen wiped her face forcefully. She tried to cheer up and then said: "What on earth happened to your mind? What on earth can recover it? Would the Krakoa flower be useful?"

Professor X shook his head and said: "The Krakoa flower is not a panacea that cures all diseases. Emma, I need your help. You have to help me sort out the chaotic psychic world and find the psychic backups of the mutants to save our kin."

"I'm certainly willing to do that," the White Queen stepped forward and said, "but tomorrow is the UN General Assembly, I..."

"You cannot go," Shiler suddenly spoke up.

The White Queen immediately looked at him. She hadn't noticed Shiler at all before, thinking he was some student of Professor X; after all, Professor X had countless students, and it seemed all mutants had studied under him, so it was normal for an unfamiliar one to suddenly appear.

However, the little brats taught by Professor X wouldn't speak in this tone. Although they were sometimes rude, they were always hesitant and lacked decisiveness. The White Queen didn't like people with this kind of personality, so she wasn't very willing to deal with the X-Men. Instead, Shiler's decisive tone caught her attention.

"Who are you?" the White Queen asked, squinting her eyes.

"I am a friend of Professor Xavier, and also a psychologist, here to help him."

"Are you human?"

"Not entirely," Shiler said. "We'll talk about me later; we have to talk about you. What do you think will happen at tomorrow's UN General Assembly?"

The White Queen's expression darkened. She felt Shiler was touching a sore spot, but she wasn't willing to admit that all the spots were sore, so she just kept a straight face and didn't speak.

"There won't be any good results," Shiler said. "The assault team failed to complete the mission and was wiped out instead; this is a shot in the arm for humans. They were already unwilling to acknowledge Krakoa's statehood, and this victory will inevitably make the opposition rejoice, and they will use this failure of the mutants at the UN General Assembly to mock and suppress you as much as possible, to make you give up the plan of statehood."

"We won't give up!" the White Queen said. "Absolutely not!"

"Yes, I believe that completely. You can argue your case at the UN General Assembly, debating with the scholars, madam. But as a successful diplomat, you also know you can't win, don't you?"

The White Queen pursed her lips tightly, looking at Shiler with murderous eyes. Shiler continued: "Magneto and Professor X couldn't bear to see you humiliated, which is why they brought the Black King over."

The White Queen was slightly startled. Magneto then realized what Shiler and Professor X were trying to do, and he immediately chimed in: "That's right, Emma. The UN General Assembly is destined to be a purgatory that humiliates mutants. All the vicious words you can imagine will be used by them to refer to us. And your rebuttal won't bring victory. Failure in war is destined to bring failure in diplomacy; since failure in war is our fault, the consequences of failure in diplomacy cannot be borne by you; that's unfair to you."

"But I at least have to try," the White Queen said. "I cannot let them humiliate us; at least I have to give them a good look!"

"That is precisely the problem, madam," Shiler spoke up. "If you lose control at the UN General Assembly, that will be a total failure of diplomacy, and those who lean toward you and your allies will not dare to contact you again. We aren't letting you go, hoping that your absence will preserve your last political resources for the future."

The White Queen frowned and fell into thought; she finally broke free from her emotions and began to think seriously. She also had to admit that what Shiler said made sense.

This UN General Assembly would definitely be a diplomatic siege against mutants, and it was likely that all countries would unite to oppose mutant statehood. To achieve this goal, they would definitely criticize them in every way, counting the mutants' sins, and they had to scold them until they were bloody.

The White Queen knew her temper very well. If anyone dared to humiliate her like this, she would definitely not let them off. But she also knew very well that the UN General Assembly was not a place for her to act tough. Killing or mind-controlling all the ambassadors of all countries wouldn't solve the fundamental problem.

The White Queen even suspected that to prevent her from acting, they might lay an ambush of Sentinel robots in advance. Once she dared to have any unusual movement, those people could legitimately kill her without bearing any responsibility.

Every move she made at the UN General Assembly would be judged. If something really went wrong, those supports that had already been won, especially the support for her and the Hellfire Club, would fall apart in an instant.

So the best way now was not to move. If she didn't show up, her supporters would still have room to wait and see, rather than having to risk the world's condemnation to support a terrorist who committed a massacre at the UN. She couldn't give humans the opportunity to slander and judge her.

"But why Sebastian?"

When the White Queen asked this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. This meant she agreed, just still dissatisfied with Sebastian attending the assembly.

"We aren't letting the Black King go to be humiliated either," Professor X explained. "I have already instructed Sebastian to emphasize the grudge between the two of you. This is no secret within the Hellfire Club, and the ambassadors of various countries must have heard of it."

"What's the point of this?" the White Queen frowned.

"This can make humans think that mutants are still fighting internally," Shiler spoke up. "Originally, it was Magneto and Professor X. But ordinary people already know that the two of them have united; if they pretend to break up again, it won't be credible enough. But you and the Black King are different; you two have always been mortal enemies, and you even really kicked him out of the Hellfire Club; this is ironclad proof that you two don't get along."

The White Queen still didn't fully understand, and Shiler continued to explain: "In the past, Magneto and Professor X didn't get along, so humans would feel that mutants weren't strong enough, because no matter what one side wanted to do, the other would go and make trouble. This is the so-called 'using mutants to deal with mutants,' a plan they have always been implementing."

"However, at the beginning of the Krakoa statehood plan, you showed your unity too early, which made humans think that the plan to provoke mutant infighting had failed, so they created the Orchis factory and the Mother Mold to deal with the united mutants."

The White Queen frowned deeply. She found that it seemed to be exactly like this. Mutants hadn't appeared just yesterday, and it wasn't even the first time they wanted to build a nation; they had tried twice before, but humans hadn't created any factories or Mother Molds.

And what was different this time from the previous few times was that the old rivals Magneto and Professor X worked together. Even the Hellfire Club, which had been relatively independent before, had united with them, and the whole mutant race seemed to be an iron plate. Humans were also forced to have no choice; after all, how much power could defeat completely united mutants? If they didn't build a powerful enough superweapon, humans might go extinct. In the face of an extinction crisis, humans had always been able to erupt with amazing potential.

The White Queen finally understood, and she said: "It seems we were too high-profile before; we shouldn't have announced the statehood matter so early, and even less should we have let them know we had united."

"That's right, but it's too late to say this now. The remedy is to create a divided mutant population again," Shiler said. "They must be made to believe that mutants are still not of one mind and that their strength has been greatly weakened, currently busy with infighting, with no time to exterminate humans, so they can relax their vigilance."

"I understand," the White Queen tilted her head slightly. "You want to build me and the Black King into the new Magneto and Professor X to confuse humans."

"Even further than that," Shiler smiled. "After all, no matter how much Magneto and Professor X didn't get along, they never damaged each other's fundamental interests. But you completely kicked the Black King out of the center of power, which proves that the grudge between you two is deeper than theirs. Any shrewd politician wouldn't give up using this point." ===== CHAPTER 4684 =====