Chapter 4744: X-Empire: Rebirth (Part 25)

If we talk about how much crisis awareness superheroes and mutants can have, and what kind of fast on-the-spot reaction ability they have honed in various disasters, just look at now.

Clearly there was no sign, and most people were immersed in the comfort of the hot spring, but Ma Te roared like that, and everyone rushed up with a "whoosh", not caring that they were still bare-chested, some even lost the bath towel wrapped around their lower bodies, running out in a hurry.

Contrary to the scene in those disaster movies where everyone is stunned as if they were scared silly after someone gives a warning. Every superhero and mutant was as if they had practiced countless times, coming with a perfect hero exit at the same speed as their appearance. Just hearing "swish swish swish swish", everyone in the sinkhole ran away in an instant.

Don't look at the fact that Stark's illness hasn't fully recovered, his reaction was ridiculously fast. Before Ma Te's voice even fell, he was instantly armed with armor, holding Steve in his left hand and Bucky in his right. When passing Natasha, Bucky pulled Natasha, Natasha pulled Shiler, and Shiler was worried about Ma Te, so he also pulled him. The people from the Central Universe were like a string of candied haws, flying directly outside the sinkhole.

The main universe Avengers were not bad either. Iron Man picked up Spider-Man, Spider-Man stuck to Captain America with spider silk, Doctor Strange pulled Black Widow and Banner, and Lei Shen carried Hawkeye in a big jump. The only flaw was that the bathrobes of Captain America and Lei Shen fell off. Fortunately, it was very dark above, and no one could see.

The local Avengers reacted a bit slower, and because they were socializing with mutants, they were separated. Spider-Man shot a spider silk and pulled himself up, Black Widow also used a hook to go up. Iron Man wanted to save people, but the mutants didn't need him to save them, so he flew up himself. Winter Soldier, Captain America, and Hawkeye were all brought out by the mutants who were talking to them.

The remaining mutants had their own tricks, basically one bringing a large group. Just Polaris pulled more than 20 mutants and came to the top of the sinkhole in a row.

And in just a second or two, the ground began to tremble. And it wasn't shaking horizontally, but up and down like shaking a spoon. That kind of tremor even made modified humans like Captain America unable to stand still, almost flying up from being shaken.

"Not right!" Stark stepped forward first and said. "This tremor is too regular, it can't be a natural phenomenon, there is something... the volcano! Something is triggering a volcanic eruption!!!"

Everyone's face changed. You have to know, the volcano on this Krakoa Island is an active volcano, and geological activity is quite frequent. If this erupts, the entire island might be buried under volcanic ash. Even if there are no casualties, Krakoa's long-term construction can be considered in vain.

And now they are so close to the volcano, they might not be able to run in time. Besides superheroes and mutants, there are a bunch of ordinary people here. In addition to the previous ordinary scientists, there are also people from S. H. I. E. L. D. and Wakanda. In addition, there are some ambassadors from small countries who have a good relationship with mutants. If all these people are buried here, the mutants can only leave Earth overnight.

Stark hadn't even finished speaking when he was about to jump down. Steve hurriedly pulled him. "What are you doing!"

"I have to go down and dismantle that thing," Stark shouted, raising his voice. "Volcanic eruption isn't that fast, there's still time!!!"

Hearing him say this, the mutants also reacted. Iceman and Pyro rushed forward, and other young mutants also gathered around.

"I'll go with you!" Iceman said. "No matter what that is, I can freeze it. If it really doesn't work, I can also find a way to freeze the magma!"

"That's right!" Polaris said. "I can stabilize the underground magnetic field to buy you time. We must not let the volcano erupt!"

Stark stepped back two steps, "Stephen!"

"No," Strange stepped forward and said. "I don't understand the specific structure underground; if I open a portal, it's possible to throw you directly into the magma. And the explosion might destroy the portal, and you won't be able to come back!"

"No time," Stark gritted his teeth and said. "We fly down!"

Several figures flew towards the bottom of the sinkhole at high speed. And at this moment, another figure followed him. Stark looked back while flying and found that it was actually the local Iron Man. The other party lifted his faceplate and roared: "The underground water diversion system was designed by me, I must go over!"

Stark didn't say anything, but he knew that what could trigger such a regular tremor must be a man-made device, and the only man-made device underground now was the water diversion system. This must have something to do with the local Iron Man's design.

Although there were too many doubts, Stark had to be on guard. When flying into the cave before, he specifically blocked the local Iron Man's position. The other party keenly noticed this and wanted to say something, but time was pressing, and Stark flew away with a "whoosh", not giving him a chance to argue.

"Others follow me to the crater," Erik opened his mouth. "If the volcano is destined to erupt, we can only find a way to guide the lava. Captain, you take others to take refuge."

"Come underwater," Namor suddenly said. "I built a temporary bubble chamber in the deep sea below the island. Even if the volcano erupts, it will never be affected there. Follow me."

Old soldiers like Captain America and Winter Soldier didn't need to communicate at all, spontaneously forming a formation. Several people opened the way, several people broke the rear, maintaining the team formation like sheepdogs, and retreated to the destination at high speed. Ordinary people without superpowers and relatively weak mutants could only grit their teeth and follow.

In the blink of an eye, they retreated to the lakeside. Namor swam to the center of the lake, waved his trident, and an underwater passage was opened. Mutants with superpowers began to take ordinary people down. Because there was no seawater throughout the whole process, and there was no need to adapt to pressure changes, they successfully arrived at the deep-sea shelter Namor mentioned.

"You can see here, there is a continuously rising water flow, leading directly to the center of the lake," Namor opened his mouth. "I wanted to build a high-speed water flow channel between Atlantis and Krakoa, and it was only half-built when this happened."

"I'm still not at ease," Apocalypse said. "I'm not afraid of volcanic eruption, you wait here, I have to go see."

After saying that, he flew up again. Several other powerful mutants were the same; they couldn't hide in the shelter like ordinary people, and after sending people there, they flew up one after another.

However, everyone went to the crater to find Erik, and they didn't dare to go down easily. Because they didn't understand the underground structure, nor did they know what the thing that was vibrating was. Going down was purely adding chaos. If it really exploded later, it would be hard to run out.

However, Strange and Shiler from the Central Universe were bold, mainly because they were too worried about Stark, whose illness hadn't recovered. The two flew into the cave at the fastest speed, and the temperature here was far beyond before.

Before it was just not suitable for ordinary people to live, now it was a bit not suitable for super-powered people. Strange added several layers of shields to himself as soon as he entered, then said: "The lava river in Mephisto's hell isn't this hot. Can Stark's armor withstand it?"

"They also brought Iceman and Polaris, it should be no problem," Shiler said, although he said so, the gray mist had already spread, starting to search for Stark's figure in the entire cave.

The gray mist didn't like hot places, but that was just his psychological effect; in reality, temperature had no effect on the Outer Gods. Or rather, most things in the real world couldn't affect him at all. And the gray mist was good friends with little Morgan, and little Morgan's father might be in danger, so he was too anxious to care about the heat, and directly went all out.

"Found it!" The gray mist suddenly shouted. "Wait a minute, I need to shrink my ability, otherwise it will affect their spirits..."

Shiler condensed into a human form, and several mutants were startled by him, almost making a move. Iceman's ice cone had already been fired, fortunately, it didn't have any effect on Shiler.

"Oh, sorry, I..."

Shiler hurriedly made a silent gesture to him, because now the two Iron Men were studying the engine of the water diversion system there. It was precisely this thing that continuously released shock waves, triggered underground heat, and was about to cause a volcanic eruption.

Iceman was anxious, gritted his teeth and said: "Can't you just freeze this thing? The volcano is really erupting!"

This is no joke. The tremor on the ground is getting more and more serious, the entire cave is starting to collapse, and the road on the left has collapsed halfway. What's more terrifying is that the ground is also starting to crack, which means magma might be surging up.

Pyro, who was very sensitive to heat, suddenly shouted: "Get out of the way!"

Polaris pulled in a second, directly taking all mutants and the two Iron Men and flying back quickly. Strange, who had just arrived, put up a shield. At a distance of less than ten meters from the engine, a huge crack directly sprayed lava.

Fortunately, they retreated quickly, and with the shield blocking it, otherwise they might have been sprayed by now. Being able to accept the heat here is one thing, being directly hit by lava is another. It's the same principle as working near the sun and entering the sun directly; the nano-armor Stark is wearing is too thin, and might not be able to withstand it.

"Must shut down the engine!" Stark shouted. "You guys stop the lava, I'll go take another look!"

After saying that, he was about to fly out. Strange gritted his teeth, wanting to pull him back, but couldn't make a move. Seeing him fly out, the mutants had to bite the bullet and fly out. Polaris gritted her teeth and stomped her foot, the magnetic storm formed a huge vortex, directly pressing the lava in the crack back.

Iceman immediately followed up to control it, an ice blanket spread out from his feet, instantly sealing the crack. But Pyro said: "No, the accumulated lava will look for another weak point to spray out, this can't solve the fundamental problem!"

"Where is the next point?!" Polaris turned back and asked.

Pyro felt the heat change and pointed forward: "There!"

Just as he said that, the place Pyro pointed to cracked open a seam. Polaris waved her hand, and a magnetic arrow shot out, but it didn't stop the erupting lava, just weakened the momentum. Iceman took a deep breath, and when he exhaled again, thick ice mist sprayed out, and the entire space dropped by more than ten degrees, and that crack was barely frozen.

"You're right, this is not a way," Polaris looked at the crack that was still restless, but she had no better way. Originally, due to Krakoa's restrictions, their abilities couldn't be fully exerted, and they had to be careful enough, fearing to destroy the entire Krakoa Island, so they could only barely support it.

"Something is wailing," Shiler suddenly opened his mouth. "Do you hear it?" ===== CHAPTER 4745 =====