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Chapter 446
Chapter 444: Threatening Me? Then I Don't Mind Getting You a New President!
Hank, standing beside Charles, took off his glasses. Immediately after, his entire body began to swell violently. In the blink of an eye, his appearance transformed from a refined scientist into a muscular blue beast.
As Hank's massive foot stomped onto the ground, he instantly lunged towards the charging A-Train like a giant blue ape.
*Bang!* After a muffled impact, Hank, transformed into a beast, was completely unable to withstand A-Train's impact. He suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest, as if his sternum had been broken, and was sent flying backward like a cannon shell.
At this moment, Charles, still in his wheelchair, was concentrating his mental focus, invading Erik's brain. However, when he saw Hank sent flying, he immediately abandoned Erik and attacked the A-Train in front of him.
Yet, the moment his mental power touched A-Train, he was surprised to find that the other party seemed to have an invisible barrier on his body that could isolate his mental power.
He had only encountered this kind of situation with Erik when he was wearing his helmet, and with the White Queen. Could it be that this guy in front of him also possessed mental power? "Give me two more seconds, and I can control him," Charles said through gritted teeth, fully activating his mental power.
At this moment, A-Train, feeling his mental barrier about to be breached, gave Charles a gloomy look before immediately turning around and leaving the battlefield at a speed difficult for the naked eye to capture.
From then on, Butcher and his group, including Magneto Erik, all left, leaving behind the messy combat scene.
"That was really too dangerous just now, Professor Charles." Xia Shang, who had flown to Charles's side, looked in the direction A-Train had left.
"I'm fine, but Hank is probably injured."
Charles shook his head, looking somewhat tired. This battle was more dangerous than he had imagined.
He hadn't expected the mutants under Butcher's command to be so strong. Not only did they possess incredibly high movement speed and a body as hard as steel, but they even had mental power.
Although that black person's mental power was far inferior to his, it would still take him at least two to three seconds to break through the opponent's mental barrier.
Just then, Quicksilver, carrying the small-limbed Deadpool, walked towards Xia Shang and Charles.
"Holy Shetty, did your dad take medicine or something? He's so fierce?" Seeing the half-collapsed The Pentagon, Deadpool couldn't help but exclaim.
"Shut your mouth if you can't talk properly."
The next second, Quicksilver stuffed a piece of rag into Deadpool's mouth.
"See? Guys who lost their father's love from a young age always have character flaws," Deadpool said seriously, pushing the rag out with his tongue. "If you want to experience fatherly love, I can satisfy you. For example, you could transfer your salary into my retirement account."
"Shetty! I need to find some underpants nearby?!" Deadpool's sharp tongue made Quicksilver a little frantic. He just wanted to use someone's underpants to shut Deadpool's mouth.
"There's a blonde, blue-eyed girl on your right. Use hers, thanks," said Deadpool, who was being held up, rubbing his index fingers together with a shy look.
"Gambit, I'll give you a hundred. Can you help me sew his mouth shut?"
Quicksilver tossed the Deadpool in his hands to Gambit, who was not far away. Gambit caught him, looked down, and immediately showed a face full of disgust. "What an ugly face. I'm definitely going to have a nightmare tonight." "How about this, I'll give you two hundred. Could you please drown him in the Toilet for me?" Gambit threw Deadpool back to Quicksilver without hesitation.
"Boss, come save me! These two guys are plotting how to kill your most loyal, most trusted, and most excellent employee!!!" Deadpool yelled at the top of his lungs.
However, Xia Shang had no time to bother with him.
"Mr. Jervis, your support was very timely. You helped us drive away Butcher's group of terrifying and dangerous individuals. Otherwise, if things had continued to develop, the situation here would have become very bad," Minister of Defense Gaston walked up to Xia Shang, speaking with an excited tone.
"You're too kind. We get paid to do a job; this is just what we should do," Xia Shang said with a smile.
"Don't worry, the money will be given to you down to the last cent. However, I hope our cooperation can change its form.
For example, I, representing the US Government, could jointly establish a national agency with your Jie Er Company, like a Mutant Security Bureau or something. You could serve as the director, with a very high administrative rank, belonging to the senior officials."
Since it was no longer possible to openly suppress or even hunt mutants as before, Gaston thought of changing his approach, just as he had tried to win over Charles in the past. He wanted to win over Mr. Jervis and make mutants tools in the government's hands.
Unfortunately, this approach only worked on Charles, because Charles sided with the government mainly to gain a legitimate identity for mutants and raise their social status. But Xia Shang was different; he didn't care about these things.
Moreover, holding shares in several major newspapers, his ability to manipulate public opinion was stronger than the US Government's. Raising the social status of mutants would be incredibly easy for him.
"I'm afraid I cannot accept your suggestion,"
Gaston's intention to get something for nothing was seen through by Xia Shang at a glance. "If there's nothing else, I'll take Homelander and the others back to the company. There's still a lot of work waiting for me to handle there."
"Mr. Jervis, there's something I must remind you of. Although you've helped the US Government a great deal this time, some Representatives still hold significant prejudice against you mutants. Some Representatives have even proposed restarting the Sentinel Program.
Of course, if you choose to cooperate with the US Government, I believe they will abandon that plan and gradually change their view of you mutants."
Gaston looked into Xia Shang's eyes, smiling as he spoke each word.
"Threatening me? Then I don't mind getting you a new President. How about Homelander? His image is quite good. I believe if he participated in the election, he would get a lot of ballots."
Xia Shang narrowed his eyes, a hint of coldness in his voice. "I don't care about that Sentinel Program at all. They're just a few robots made of iron. Forget about using them against mutants, they'd struggle even to clean a Restroom."
"Of course, you can indeed restart the Sentinel Program. But given your current R&D progress, it will probably take decades before the Sentinels can actually be put to use. By then, do you think Butcher will have stormed the White House and be sitting in your Presidential Office drinking coffee?"
After hearing Xia Shang's words, Gaston's complexion immediately turned grim.
He understood that Xia Shang was right. The Sentinel Program was a useless endeavor that couldn't be put to use in the short term. Meanwhile, the threat posed by Butcher and others was immediate. He could only rely on the superheroes under Jie Er Company to deal with Butcher and his group.
(End of Chapter)
Hank, standing beside Charles, took off his glasses. Immediately after, his entire body began to swell violently. In the blink of an eye, his appearance transformed from a refined scientist into a muscular blue beast.
As Hank's massive foot stomped onto the ground, he instantly lunged towards the charging A-Train like a giant blue ape.
*Bang!* After a muffled impact, Hank, transformed into a beast, was completely unable to withstand A-Train's impact. He suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest, as if his sternum had been broken, and was sent flying backward like a cannon shell.
At this moment, Charles, still in his wheelchair, was concentrating his mental focus, invading Erik's brain. However, when he saw Hank sent flying, he immediately abandoned Erik and attacked the A-Train in front of him.
Yet, the moment his mental power touched A-Train, he was surprised to find that the other party seemed to have an invisible barrier on his body that could isolate his mental power.
He had only encountered this kind of situation with Erik when he was wearing his helmet, and with the White Queen. Could it be that this guy in front of him also possessed mental power? "Give me two more seconds, and I can control him," Charles said through gritted teeth, fully activating his mental power.
At this moment, A-Train, feeling his mental barrier about to be breached, gave Charles a gloomy look before immediately turning around and leaving the battlefield at a speed difficult for the naked eye to capture.
From then on, Butcher and his group, including Magneto Erik, all left, leaving behind the messy combat scene.
"That was really too dangerous just now, Professor Charles." Xia Shang, who had flown to Charles's side, looked in the direction A-Train had left.
"I'm fine, but Hank is probably injured."
Charles shook his head, looking somewhat tired. This battle was more dangerous than he had imagined.
He hadn't expected the mutants under Butcher's command to be so strong. Not only did they possess incredibly high movement speed and a body as hard as steel, but they even had mental power.
Although that black person's mental power was far inferior to his, it would still take him at least two to three seconds to break through the opponent's mental barrier.
Just then, Quicksilver, carrying the small-limbed Deadpool, walked towards Xia Shang and Charles.
"Holy Shetty, did your dad take medicine or something? He's so fierce?" Seeing the half-collapsed The Pentagon, Deadpool couldn't help but exclaim.
"Shut your mouth if you can't talk properly."
The next second, Quicksilver stuffed a piece of rag into Deadpool's mouth.
"See? Guys who lost their father's love from a young age always have character flaws," Deadpool said seriously, pushing the rag out with his tongue. "If you want to experience fatherly love, I can satisfy you. For example, you could transfer your salary into my retirement account."
"Shetty! I need to find some underpants nearby?!" Deadpool's sharp tongue made Quicksilver a little frantic. He just wanted to use someone's underpants to shut Deadpool's mouth.
"There's a blonde, blue-eyed girl on your right. Use hers, thanks," said Deadpool, who was being held up, rubbing his index fingers together with a shy look.
"Gambit, I'll give you a hundred. Can you help me sew his mouth shut?"
Quicksilver tossed the Deadpool in his hands to Gambit, who was not far away. Gambit caught him, looked down, and immediately showed a face full of disgust. "What an ugly face. I'm definitely going to have a nightmare tonight." "How about this, I'll give you two hundred. Could you please drown him in the Toilet for me?" Gambit threw Deadpool back to Quicksilver without hesitation.
"Boss, come save me! These two guys are plotting how to kill your most loyal, most trusted, and most excellent employee!!!" Deadpool yelled at the top of his lungs.
However, Xia Shang had no time to bother with him.
"Mr. Jervis, your support was very timely. You helped us drive away Butcher's group of terrifying and dangerous individuals. Otherwise, if things had continued to develop, the situation here would have become very bad," Minister of Defense Gaston walked up to Xia Shang, speaking with an excited tone.
"You're too kind. We get paid to do a job; this is just what we should do," Xia Shang said with a smile.
"Don't worry, the money will be given to you down to the last cent. However, I hope our cooperation can change its form.
For example, I, representing the US Government, could jointly establish a national agency with your Jie Er Company, like a Mutant Security Bureau or something. You could serve as the director, with a very high administrative rank, belonging to the senior officials."
Since it was no longer possible to openly suppress or even hunt mutants as before, Gaston thought of changing his approach, just as he had tried to win over Charles in the past. He wanted to win over Mr. Jervis and make mutants tools in the government's hands.
Unfortunately, this approach only worked on Charles, because Charles sided with the government mainly to gain a legitimate identity for mutants and raise their social status. But Xia Shang was different; he didn't care about these things.
Moreover, holding shares in several major newspapers, his ability to manipulate public opinion was stronger than the US Government's. Raising the social status of mutants would be incredibly easy for him.
"I'm afraid I cannot accept your suggestion,"
Gaston's intention to get something for nothing was seen through by Xia Shang at a glance. "If there's nothing else, I'll take Homelander and the others back to the company. There's still a lot of work waiting for me to handle there."
"Mr. Jervis, there's something I must remind you of. Although you've helped the US Government a great deal this time, some Representatives still hold significant prejudice against you mutants. Some Representatives have even proposed restarting the Sentinel Program.
Of course, if you choose to cooperate with the US Government, I believe they will abandon that plan and gradually change their view of you mutants."
Gaston looked into Xia Shang's eyes, smiling as he spoke each word.
"Threatening me? Then I don't mind getting you a new President. How about Homelander? His image is quite good. I believe if he participated in the election, he would get a lot of ballots."
Xia Shang narrowed his eyes, a hint of coldness in his voice. "I don't care about that Sentinel Program at all. They're just a few robots made of iron. Forget about using them against mutants, they'd struggle even to clean a Restroom."
"Of course, you can indeed restart the Sentinel Program. But given your current R&D progress, it will probably take decades before the Sentinels can actually be put to use. By then, do you think Butcher will have stormed the White House and be sitting in your Presidential Office drinking coffee?"
After hearing Xia Shang's words, Gaston's complexion immediately turned grim.
He understood that Xia Shang was right. The Sentinel Program was a useless endeavor that couldn't be put to use in the short term. Meanwhile, the threat posed by Butcher and others was immediate. He could only rely on the superheroes under Jie Er Company to deal with Butcher and his group.
(End of Chapter)
