[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-kryptonian-slacker-in-marvel":3,"chapter-the-kryptonian-slacker-in-marvel-the-kryptonian-slacker-in-marvel-chapter-85":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Marvel's Salted Fish Kryptonian",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2231279,4185,"Chapter 85: A Heated Confrontation on the Jet","the-kryptonian-slacker-in-marvel-chapter-85",85,"\u003Cp>\"Fuck! Hung up on me again!\" Mystique, wearing her yellow-and-blue X-Men uniform, was aboard the X-Jet—the Blackbird. She glared viciously at the disconnected receiver, still wanting to hack the satellite signal to place another international call.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hank McCoy, transformed into his blue, beast-like form, advised from the side, \"Raven, do you really want to keep trying? I truly don't think asking him for help is a good idea.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is that so? I think it's better than someone who uses 'for your own good' as an excuse to override others' wills and manipulate their memories and thoughts. That guy just has a foul mouth; at least his actions don't look dirty right now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I told you, I did it to protect Jean!\" Professor X, filled with regret, fought the urge to bite his nails and kept rubbing his lips. \"You should know, he was still young when it happened.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then when do you plan on telling him? He's an adult, and he didn't become one just today. Are you going to hide it from him forever, living his whole life in a fake world you constructed? He's a human being, he has his own thoughts, he's not a marionette in your hands.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I... I couldn't find the right time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ha!\" Mystique, completely exploding, was imposing and aggressive. Most of the X-Men on the Blackbird were her juniors, and at this moment, they could only shrink their heads like quails, not wanting to be caught in the storm of the big shots' argument.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only two peers, Beast Hank, was panicking, not knowing what to do. And Professor X was being lectured like a dog, unable to even lift his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Mystique turned around, wanting to continue her tirade, she suddenly heard a \"Plop!\" sound, which interrupted her mood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mystique saw everyone in the jet widen their eyes in disbelief, and she turned around to look. This one glance also startled her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because on the windshield directly in front of the Blackbird, a man was clinging to it. It was Henry Brown, the man who had just hung up on her and was supposed to be in Switzerland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How did you...\" Giving up on pondering why the man was clinging to the outside of the plane, Mystique turned back and said, \"Nightcrawler, bring him in.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The expressions of everyone, already shocked, were now doubly exaggerated; their mouths were open wide enough to fit a fist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mystique turned her head again and saw Henry, his whole body like a blurry afterimage, pass right through the glass into the cabin, then return to normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How did you...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speechless for the second time, Mystique looked at the helper she had summoned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quicksilver, who felt the most about the move just now, asked blankly, \"How did you do that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry replied, \"By using ultra-high-frequency micro-vibrations to penetrate the gaps between molecules, you can achieve object traversal. By the way, did you study properly?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you've learned a little high school physics, you should be able to think of something like this. Then, by using your own abilities to realize it, you can expand your capabilities.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's just that I don't know if high schools teach these things under 'happy education.' Isn't your X-Men base that 'Gifted School' thing?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Doesn't that school teach it? Then what have you been learning there? Just learning how to control your abilities so you don't harm society?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another ruthless knife stabbed into the frustrated Professor X; he felt even more stifled now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not knowing whose heart his knife had wounded, Henry didn't care; he just gave Quicksilver a look. The sensible speedster immediately moved to another empty seat, giving up his chair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry sat down in the vacated seat and said to Mystique in the co-pilot's seat, \"Speak, what's the reason you insisted on finding me? I'm not on your X-Men payroll, am I? By the way, do you guys even have a salary?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How did you know?\" Mystique asked directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Know what?\" Henry looked blank. It would be a miracle if he could answer such a brainless question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Know what Charles did!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who is Charles? What did he do?\" Although Henry had a rough idea, he continued to play dumb. He didn't even notice that this was the second time he had played dumb on a question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, Mystique, who was in a rage, didn't notice this intentional behavior, and she didn't want to cover for her own people at all, pointing directly at Professor X and saying, \"That bald guy, he modified someone's memory.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry glanced over to confirm Professor X's condition. He wasn't as young as the actor in the movies, but an old white man in his fifties.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He carried a bit of British aristocratic air; if not for that dejected look, one could say he had quite the gentlemanly demeanor. But now, he was full of sorrow, his brows tightly locked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can I say that's not surprising at all?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at Mystique using her blue, bumpy face, combined with those jaundiced eyes to glare at him, the power of this death stare was much stronger than that of a normal person. Henry explained:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't know what this Mr. Charles did. But from the fact that he invaded my mind the moment he heard I was an alien, I can guess that he is someone who thinks he can act on his own authority for the sake of the justice in his heart.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So when problems arise with those around him, will he act cautiously, or will he uphold the kindness and justice in his heart and choose the most favorable course of action as he sees it? That's why I said that good people doing good can sometimes be more terrifying than evil people doing evil.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This isn't about hypocrites using good deeds to disguise their malice. It's that some people simply don't understand what inconvenience or harm their actions will bring to others, so they insist that their 'good deeds' must be carried out, and then they hurt others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Professor X wasn't someone who would just take the verbal abuse without fighting back. Especially since the other party was a stranger, unlike Raven, an old friend who knew him inside and out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Professor X retorted, \"You don't understand the situation at all, what right do you have to criticize my choices?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heh, then let me ask you, do you think the medieval law of cutting off a thief's hand, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, is correct?\" Henry asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That is of course wrong! The purpose of punishment should be to teach people to correct their mistakes, not to hurt others.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clapping his hands, Henry agreed, \"Well said, I agree with your statement. But why do you think it's a correct thing to dig out a piece of someone's brain when they have bad thoughts?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's different!\" Professor X shouted excitedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What's different? Physical harm is harm, but mental harm is nothing? Cancer is a disease, but mental illness isn't? Then what are all those mental hospitals and psychiatrists across America supposed to do?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do you know!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't know anything, but at least I know your arrogance, that you still think you're right to this day.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For some reason, Henry was extremely happy. Opportunities to roast Professor X like this didn't come every day, and there were no other X-Men to chime in. And Professor X, having been burned once, didn't dare to use his telepathic abilities again, so he could only hold it in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's just that the happy Henry didn't notice the situation he was facing for a moment...\u003C\u002Fp>",1279,"2026-06-18T01:36:48.144Z","2026-06-18T03:18:02.290Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","179df00a16707686fb63ac6030ea197c77468c063d2a19fd1c50c0cb99ee6e27","the-kryptonian-slacker-in-marvel-chapter-86","the-kryptonian-slacker-in-marvel-chapter-84",253,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmarvel-s-salted-fish-kryptonian-cover.jpg"]