[Chapter 375: Don’t Want Reversal, Want the Future]

A new world, a new story, a new experience. Without those hardships and experiences, you will naturally become a “different” person.

Professor X and Magneto’s plan is essentially to sacrifice everyone and then exchange for a better world.

If it weren’t too desperate and there was no hope of defeating the Sentinels and saving the world, no one would want to implement this plan.

For example, now.

Clarice’s accidental travel to another world gave mutants new hope for survival. If they have a chance to live, how could they be willing to die?

This is the survival instinct of life.

Therefore, when Professor X and Magneto proposed the plan to go back to the past and change the world line, it was not recognized like the original plot. Everyone was very entangled and was thinking about whether they could find a way to have the best of both worlds.

David gradually learned about these things when talking with Magneto and Wolverine.

Clarice also expressed the ideas of some mutants, and wanted to ask David, the Duke who can connect multiple different worlds, if he could come up with any solutions?

“There is no good way.”

Store everyone’s memory in a specific tool, and then wait until the new world line covers this world, and then let these people ‘retrieve’ their memories?

Even so, it is just to let ‘others’ have ‘their’ memories, which does not mean that these people are resurrected.

Unless it is like Professor X, the mental power takes away the control of the body with memories, personality and a lot of other things, but in that case it is equivalent to killing the original owner directly.

Let’s not talk about whether these mutants have that ability, they can’t accept this behavior, right?

Now the only thing that can be confirmed is that if they are going to send Wolverine Logan back to the past to warn their former selves, and then avoid the appearance of the Sentinels and create a new world, David can provide some protection appropriately to ensure that they will not be discovered and killed by the Sentinels before completing this task.

“Why do you want to help us so enthusiastically?”

After chatting for a while, Logan and Magneto followed David and slowly left the Winter Camp, sitting in the jeep and slowly visiting other places in Winter City.

The car drove all the way to the vast Winter River and stopped. Logan, who was sitting in the co-pilot, suddenly asked the most important question.

“Even if Clarisse came to your territory for some special reason, you don’t seem to care so much about us mutants, right?”

Logan, who has lived long enough, has seen too many things. He doesn’t believe that David wants to save mutants for no reason. After a conversation, David doesn’t behave like those so-called saints.

The reason why Logan is not so alert is that David doesn’t pretend to be a saint. He behaves very normally, so Logan asked directly instead of directly listing David as an untrustworthy person in his heart.

“Because I hope that Winter City will develop very powerfully, it is necessary to continuously increase the population of the city and obtain various resources. Mutants are a group of people with special abilities. You should understand what this means.”

“Mutants are not weapons.”

“Weapons themselves have no distinction between good and evil, right and wrong.” David used the other party’s situation as an example: “You and your companions use mutant abilities to fight the Sentinels and protect your companions and the remaining ordinary people. Is this also wrong?”

“…” Logan certainly understands this truth, but everyone can say the truth. When Stryker captured mutants for experiments, he said more beautiful words in a fair and aboveboard manner, but what about the result?

No matter how beautiful the slogans are, it is useless. What defines a person is always his actual actions.

As of now, David is at least honest enough.

Logan felt a headache. He really didn’t want to get involved in these things. He was not good at these things. He took out a cigar and lit it irritably, then looked directly at Magneto Eric who had not spoken much.

His meaning was very clear. I leave it to you next. I have nothing to say.

Magneto didn’t care about Wolverine’s strike. He knew what kind of character this guy was after all these years. This time he came with Wolverine, mainly because Wolverine’s immortal body could guarantee the safety of several people.

When the situation is not right, Wolverine can delay the enemy and buy time for Clarice and Eric to escape.

And Wolverine will not die, so there is no need to worry about him being sacrificed. You can find an opportunity to rescue him later.

So from the beginning, Wolverine came here to be a bodyguard, and things like conversations were originally supposed to be the responsibility of Eric.

Eric didn’t speak before, so Logan took the initiative to start the conversation. Now that the conversation has started, please start your performance, Magneto.

Eric did not talk about those meaningless topics. He directly asked David, if the mutants moved to Winter City and became residents of Winter City, how would David plan to settle these mutants?

In Eric’s opinion, David would most likely settle the mutants in a specific community to avoid conflicts between mutants and ordinary people.

Unexpectedly, David was not prepared to do that.

Except for the Cybertronians because of their size, he always treated all races who came to Winter City as “normal.”

As long as you are willing to join Winter City and become a resident of Winter City, you can enjoy all the treatment of Winter City, no different from other people.

“No discrimination?”

Logan was not going to speak at all, but he couldn’t help but speak after hearing this.

Eric was surprised and thought that David, the Duke of Winter, didn’t know what mutants meant at all: “Mutants will be rejected or even hated by many ordinary people. Not only will some mutants change in appearance, but there is a very important reason that when mutants awaken their own abilities, there is a certain risk of losing control.”

It can be said that the biggest contradiction between mutants and ordinary people is this, and the others are all false. Only this point is the most critical, because it will actually threaten the personal safety of ordinary people.

Because no one would like to return home happily one day, only to find that their house was bombed into ruins because of the awakening of the superpowers of the naughty kid next door, and even worse, there were still people at home at that time.

This kind of thing is not an exception in the world where mutants live.

Now David wants to bring mutants to Winter City. How is he going to solve this hidden danger?

Even if the surviving mutants can control their superpowers very well and will not lose control and hurt ordinary people, what about the new generation of mutants born after the mutants multiply?

“This is actually not difficult to solve.”

To a certain extent, mutants suddenly gain certain superpowers because of the awakening of their own X genes. Although these abilities are different, the reason for losing control is very simple: suddenly gaining an extra ability is like suddenly gaining an extra arm or leg on your body. There will definitely be a period of discomfort.

However, when this ability is acquired, there are also signs. The X gene also needs energy to give the host ability. In many cases, it directly draws cosmic energy, which means that it can be detected in advance.

Not to mention that David’s Winter City can easily produce similar equipment. One of the most critical abilities of the Sentinel is to detect the X gene, and even the X gene that has evolved to be hidden can be discovered by it.

“So, as long as it is confirmed that the child has the X gene, then installing a small detection and restriction device on the child can effectively prevent bad things from happening.”

According to David, this restriction device does not deprive mutants of their abilities, but “weakens” them. For mutants like Cyclops who directly use energy, using this device can greatly reduce their output power.

If some mutants who have just awakened their abilities are suppressed by this device, they may not be able to use their abilities, and naturally they will not pose a threat to ordinary people around them. Even if they have powerful abilities, they will not cause too much harm after being suppressed.

“This suppression range can be adjusted continuously. It is also a device for mutants to learn how to use and control their abilities correctly.”

“It sounds good. Can Winter City make such a device?”

“It’s not difficult.”

Winter City brings together many cosmic civilization technologies, Cybertron technologies, and a lot of alchemy and magic knowledge in the Marvel Universe, plus various strange materials. It is really not difficult to make such a thing.

After talking for a while, David realized that Magneto gradually tended to come to Winter City.

After all, the plan he and Professor X made to save the world was actually no different from destroying the world. When Magneto discovered that he could truly save the existing mutants, he began to waver.

Especially when he learned that the technical reserves of Winter City were not as “medieval” as they seemed on the surface, and had a large number of advanced technologies at the level of cosmic civilization, including gene adjustment and optimization technologies, which could not only allow mutants to better master their superpowers, but also eliminate some “side effects” and even make mutants stronger.

This was obviously a brighter future, so bright that Magneto had evil thoughts.

However, he was keen and knew that he was no match for the Duke of Winter, and the oppression from the other party frightened him.

After realizing the huge gap in strength between the two sides, Magneto decisively gave up the dangerous idea and began to pay more attention to how to lead the mutants onto this new bright road.

Being able to help his compatriots choose the right path forward was also a contribution to the mutants.

Now, the biggest problem for Magneto is how to convince his old friend to give up the plan they had previously formulated? Come to Winter City together and work hard to create a real future for the surviving mutants.

“I may need some time to have a good talk with my old friend.”

(End of this chapter)