Chapter 4745: X-Empire: Rebirth (Part 26)

Although the temperature in the cave is very high now, as soon as Shiler said this, everyone shivered together. Polaris rubbed her arms and said: "Don't scare me. Where is anyone wailing?"

"Not a person, but some kind of spirit," Shiler took a deep breath and said. "I am not a mutant, I don't belong here. So I can't hear clearly, you must calm down and feel the connection between this island and you..."

Polaris just wanted to open her mouth to complain, how could it be possible to calm down in this situation. But she also knew that complaining was useless, so she could only say to Iceman: "Cool me down, I'll try."

Iceman breathed a cold air at her, fearing that the cooling was not enough, and made a frost cover to buckle her. Polaris took a deep breath, her ability was restricted, unable to turn into a magnetic field form, so she could only hold her breath and concentrate.

At this moment, she suddenly felt that she was connected to some kind of huge consciousness. It was a bit like entering Professor X's spiritual world, but it was different. Because Professor X has a human main consciousness, while this one doesn't. It's more like suddenly falling into an empty space.

She heard faint wailing sounds here. To be precise, it was a kind of painful emotion. Such emotions poured into Polaris's mind continuously, making her sad too, but she still barely stabilized her mind and tried to communicate with this emotion.

After a while, she retreated and said: "It's the Krakoa totem. To be precise, it's the island itself. He doesn't want the volcano to erupt, but he can't control it..."

"Who on earth is it!" Iceman cursed. "He not only wants to hurt us, but also wants to destroy Krakoa!"

"Krakoa is very painful now," Polaris said anxiously. "We must find a way to appease him, this might help reduce the earthquake."

"Leave it to me," Shiler sighed. He looked at Strange and said, "Give everyone a spiritual barrier."

Strange naturally knew what he was going to do. Thus, he directly covered everyone with a shield, and at the same time isolated their spirits from the outside world to ensure they wouldn't be polluted.

Shiler turned into a gray mist state. When the Nameless Mist descended over Krakoa Island, all living things fell into stillness in their own spiritual world due to the indescribable terror. This also included Krakoa's soul. In an instant, the earthquake weakened.

Those underground were the first to discover this. And the group on the ground didn't escape the shock of the gray mist, almost falling into the crater. Fortunately, the gray mist immediately retracted its power. Otherwise, what the volcanic eruption didn't take away would have been taken away by him.

Shiler didn't return underground, but came to the crater. At this time, the crater was emitting rolling thick smoke; it could be said that the volcano had already erupted, just that the lava hadn't surged up yet. This smoke alone was not something ordinary people could bear.

"Can you swallow the smoke?" Shiler asked.

"Yes. Store it, or decompose it?" The gray mist asked.

"Store it, it might be useful later," Shiler turned into a mist form again, directly covering the entire crater, and swallowed all the thick smoke. The sky over Krakoa Island, which was originally filled with smoke, returned to clarity.

And accompanied by the weakening of the earthquake, the two Iron Men finally managed to dismantle the engine casing. The power core looked completely fine. But soon the local Iron Man discovered the problem and said: "Someone injected too much energy into it, causing an overload. This thing has become a giant cylinder. No wonder it triggered such a regular tremor. We must find a way to conduct the energy inside out."

The local Iron Man thought for a moment and said: "My armor can't carry much power, it must be you and me together. But such a situation is very likely to directly detonate our armor. Even if it's only exposed to such a high-temperature environment for an instant, we might..."

He didn't continue, but anyone could think that Tony Stark's constitution was an ordinary person, and there was absolutely no possibility of withstanding such a high-temperature environment, even for an instant. Even with mutants and magicians escorting, their bodies were still too fragile. Even if a little accident happened, they would probably explain it here.

"There is another way," the local Iron Man said. "Absorb the power until the armor is completely overloaded, this way only one person is needed. This matter is entirely my responsibility, I'll do it."

After saying that, he was about to open the energy channel on his hand armor to absorb the energy in the engine. But before he touched the engine, he was pushed away by Stark. He still wanted to say something, but Stark gave him an impatient look and directly pulled out the energy core from the arc reactor on his chest.

He pulled a wire from under the energy core and plugged it into the engine. Almost instantly, the engine stopped throbbing and slowly calmed down. The terrible shock wave and tremor also stopped.

All the energy in the engine was drawn into the energy core. And the energy core didn't change at all, not even lighting up, before being plugged back into his chest by Stark.

But after doing all this, he couldn't stand anymore and fell straight back. Strange was quick-eyed and fast-handed and supported him. Stark looked at the local Iron Man gloomily and said: "You'd better not be the culprit."

At this time, Shiler returned and flew out with Stark supported by gray mist. His current physical condition was not suitable for taking a portal. Strange opened a portal and took other mutants back to the ground.

Discovering that the volcanic eruption had stopped, the mutants on the ground also came down from the crater. After seeing their group, Apocalypse was the first to fly over and ask: "How is it? Is it solved?"

"Talk about it when we go back," Strange was in no mood to explain now, he kept staring at the local Iron Man, as if he was weighing the possibility of him playing tricks. But no matter what, he couldn't get rid of the relationship.

The local Iron Man naturally knew this too. He could be described as pale now, because he realized that he had very likely been tricked. The person who did it created a perfect trap of framing, and now he was simply unable to argue.

Designing the water diversion system was proposed by them, designed by them, and installed by them, without going through anyone else. If something went wrong, it must be them who did it.

What's more terrifying is that this plan was discussed within the Avengers. Then who leaked the news?

The other party must have obtained the information very quickly and accurately to formulate such a plan and successfully implement it. This means that there were big problems within both the mutants and the local Avengers.

When returning to the Central Throne, the local Iron Man was also a bit unable to stand. He sat down holding the armrest of the chair and began to think carefully about which link went wrong. And the mutants who returned looked at him with very unfriendly eyes. It can be said that if it weren't for Charles's appeasement to them just now, the local Iron Man might have been beaten by the mutants by now.

The impact of this incident was too great, and the consequences were too serious. Although nothing happened in the end, almost all the ambassadors of countries other than S. H. I. E. L. D. and Wakanda began to resign. And the hot spring banquet had just begun, and they hadn't even talked about business yet.

At the same time, the international public opinion on mutants was very unfavorable. After this incident, it would only be worse. Mutants would definitely be criticized again, and the favorability accumulated by Krakoa flowers would probably be cleared in one wave.

There would also be mutual suspicion within the mutants, and everyone would feel that the other party leaked the information. The mutant forces that were not united to begin with were now about to split.

Not to mention, mutants and the local Avengers were likely to break up because of this. Not seeing each other for the rest of their lives would be good, and it might even lead to war. The best case was that mutants would never fight for Earth again, and it could only be left to the ordinary human government and S. H. I. E. L. D. to deal with the alien soldiers still in the solar system.

Everyone felt more and more that this was really a poisonous plan, simply a multi-purpose plan. The person who could think of this method was simply evil and cruel to the extreme.

"This is indeed my responsibility," the local Iron Man opened his mouth with some loss of soul. "No matter what, I didn't expect the engine to have problems. Even if I didn't do it on purpose, this responsibility is also on me."

The Avengers were also silent. They were really irrefutable, because there was really no room for sophistry. Even if they didn't do it on purpose, not watching it was also hard to blame. The original gesture of goodwill was completely messed up, not only harming themselves but also implicating the mutants.

"Now is not the time to say this," Charles suddenly walked in. He hadn't shown up all along, seemingly doing something in the anti-gravity laboratory. After he walked in, he said, "I am willing to believe that you didn't do it on purpose. But you also have to admit that there is a problem within the Avengers. You need to study where the problem appeared."

"We are the same, mutants also need to self-check. If there is no mole, even if there is a plan, it is impossible to implement it so easily. After all, the possibility of an outsider executing it is very small, it must be someone on the island."

He said this, and the mutants were in an uproar. Wolverine stood out and asked: "Could it not be that Iron Man played tricks during installation?"

"If he really did it on purpose, then he didn't need to rush in to save the danger. Even if it was for performance, the risk was too high. What's more, he succeeded in the rescue and didn't cause any disaster."

Although some mutants were still questioning, most accepted this statement, after all, the performance of the local Iron Man after the disaster occurred was seen by everyone. To put it bluntly, an ordinary person wearing an iron shell dared to rush to such a place, completely playing with his life.

Not to mention the high temperature in the cave, the geological structure is full of randomness. This earthquake intensity, the cave could collapse at any time. And this cave is more than a hundred meters underground, if it collapses, there is no possibility of running out, and they would be crushed to death.

Not to mention, volcanic eruption doesn't just go from the volcano mouth. Almost all underground structures will be destroyed by the lava running around. If a crack opens somewhere, the lava rushes directly to the face, and that iron shell will definitely not be able to withstand it.

If the local Iron Man could really enter the game to this extent, the mutants could only admit it. But according to common sense, this is unlikely. Based on their understanding of the main universe Iron Man, this guy doesn't play conspiracy, he has always been openly disgusting, and is righteous, not like someone who would do this kind of thing.

And hearing Charles say this, the Avengers also breathed a sigh of relief, the mutants took half of the responsibility themselves, at least they wouldn't start a war on the spot.

But the more Charles said this, the more guilty the local Iron Man felt. He tried to restrain his emotions and said: "I will definitely find out the mastermind behind the scenes, I promise."

But Charles shook his head and said: "The investigation matter probably has to be put aside. We have to solve the current predicament first. The next situation will be even more unfavorable to Krakoa Island, we have to find a way to reverse the situation."

"Rest assured," the local Iron Man looked at him firmly and said. "Stark Industries will help, and the Avengers will too. No matter what Washington wants to do, we will stop them." ===== CHAPTER 4746 =====