First Meeting

As Alex let his thoughts run wild, Nick Fury suddenly seemed to remember something. Pinching the bridge of his nose, he looked at Alex with a puzzled expression. After hesitating for a while, he finally asked, "Alex, did you send people to cooperate with the US Government?"

"What?" Alex froze, staring at Nick Fury in astonishment as though he could not believe his ears. In both this life and his previous one, Alex had never held any favorable opinion of the US Government. Cooperating with them was even more impossible.

Seeing Alex’s expression, Nick Fury immediately understood. His single eye narrowed slightly, and his expression turned grave. "Not long after the Cuban Missile Crisis broke out, our people discovered that the US Government had gained some new people—mutants."

"Mutants?!" Alex looked at Nick Fury in shock, but a figure suddenly surfaced in his mind: the young Professor X played by James McAvoy in X-Men: First Class.

How could Nick Fury know that Alex had already formed a guess? He continued, "They’re all mutants, very young, and they’re very close to the CIA." Nick Fury paused slightly, then turned to Alex and continued in a low voice, "You know what government people are like. They won’t end well."

Nick Fury could not say certain things plainly, but Alex understood perfectly. Those government people were all political whores. For profit, they could recruit mutants; likewise, for profit, they could abandon mutants. In their eyes, mutants were nothing more than useful weapons.

"Don’t worry. I’ll go find them." Without lingering, Alex instantly vanished from Nick Fury’s office. When he reappeared, he was already in Washington.

Washington was America’s political center. The White House and the Pentagon were both landmark buildings in the city.

In the future, CIA headquarters would be in Langley, on the Potomac River at the border between Washington, D.C. and Virginia. But for now, it was still in Washington, near the Lincoln Memorial.

Alex strolled into the CIA. People occasionally stepped forward along the way, intending to stop him. Yet after meeting Alex’s gaze, they voluntarily moved aside, their attitudes exceedingly respectful.

Alex marched through openly, a faint smile remaining on his face the entire way.

But Alex soon could no longer smile. He found traces of the young Professor X in someone’s memories. At this moment, Professor X was not at the CIA, but leading his own team to the Soviet Union!

"Shit!" Alex could not help cursing. In a fit of frustration, he activated Teleportation and vanished from the CIA.

When he appeared again, Alex was already in Moscow.

Surveying the somewhat empty Red Square, Alex flashed away, found an unoccupied corner to change clothes, and only then emerged again.

"A military shelter… I wonder where exactly it is?!" From the memories of a CIA executive, Alex knew that the young Professor X had brought his team to the Soviet Union to find Sebastian Shaw. They had learned that Sebastian Shaw was meeting a general in the Soviet Union.

Unfortunately, even that executive did not know the exact location.

Muttering to himself, Alex headed toward the Kremlin. The CIA executive might not know, but the Soviet Union’s top officials should.

Just as Alex expected, after some effort, he finally found his target: a military shelter on the outskirts of Moscow. The general Sebastian Shaw intended to meet was there.

After learning this, Alex’s expression became extremely strange. He unconsciously muttered, "Sigh, what a bunch of kids!" Alex knew perfectly well that Sebastian Shaw was not in Moscow. He was not even in the Soviet Union. The information received by the young Professor X—and even the entire CIA—was all false.

Even knowing it was false information, Alex still had no choice but to rush over.

After spending some time, Alex arrived at the military shelter. Without question, Sebastian Shaw was not there, nor was Emma, the White Queen from the film. There was only a sexy, seductive female mutant. Her ability was unknown, but she was undoubtedly a fiercely loyal follower of Sebastian Shaw.

She was currently tied to the iron railing beside a bed. The young Professor X and several others had taken turns "torturing" her, yet they could not make her reveal Sebastian Shaw’s whereabouts. Even the young Professor X’s telepathy had failed.

Alex silently walked up behind them. Watching the youths fuss over Sebastian Shaw’s beautiful loyalist, he finally could not help sighing after a long while. With a troubled expression, he said, "What can you possibly get out of her by doing this?"

His words startled everyone present. They all spun around to face Alex, quickly gathering together and watching him warily.

"I mean no harm!" Alex shrugged casually and smiled faintly. Acting as if nothing had happened, he said, "Let me introduce myself. I’m Alex, also a mutant, from the X-Mansion." To make them believe him, Alex deliberately showed off a little, twisting the iron railing behind the beautiful loyalist into an X that happened to hang above her head.

X-Mansion was what the mutants of the Savage Land called the Savage Land. It was the true home of mutants.

However, the X-Mansion was not well known. Its reputation was not even comparable to that of the Brotherhood of Mutants led by Sebastian Shaw. Over the years, Emma had been taking in mutants from around the world, but most of it had been done in secret, and few outsiders knew about it.

The young Professor X and the other young mutants were all stunned, staring at Alex in astonishment.

Professor X and the others did not know Alex, but the beautiful loyalist did. After staring at Alex for a long while, she suddenly screamed. Her face filled with terror, and even her voice came out in broken fragments. "You… you…"

"You know me?" Alex looked at the beautiful loyalist in surprise. She seemed vaguely familiar, but he could not remember where he had seen her.

The beautiful loyalist paused, nodded, then shook her head. After hesitating for a while, she finally said, "I’ve seen you before, in prison."

Alex was stunned at first, then immediately understood. "So you’re from the Hellfire Club!" Alex had been to very few prisons. The only one he had likely entered was the observation chamber on Floating Giant Island, where countless mutants had once been imprisoned.

The beautiful loyalist’s expression darkened. Staring at Alex, she said coldly, "We’re no longer the Hellfire Club. We’re the Brotherhood of Mutants!"

"Tell me, where is Sebastian Shaw?" Alex could not stop the Cuban Missile Crisis, but that did not diminish his determination to kill Sebastian Shaw.

The beautiful loyalist turned her head away and firmly shut her mouth, demonstrating her loyalty to Sebastian Shaw through her actions.

"Then don’t tell me. It’s not like I care anyway." Alex’s words nearly made the beautiful loyalist cough up blood in anger.

Yet Alex showed no awareness of that at all. After tossing out those words, he turned to the young Professor X and the others with a smile. "Aren’t you going to introduce yourselves?"