Eudemons Qinglong in American manga

Chapter 22 The real goal

After seeing the people around him standing motionless like wax figures, Little Rascal immediately said:
"Bobby, what did you do?"

Although everyone at the school knows that Professor X is a powerful telepath, not many people have seen Professor X use his superpowers to immobilize other people.

Because the Iceman had just displayed his super power, the little naughty instinctively thought that it was the Iceman who did it.

"I didn't do it."

Iceman also looked puzzled.

This was the first time he had seen such a weird scene.

After all the ordinary people in the venue were immobilized, the venue, which was extremely lively just now, suddenly became quiet.

Except for the auto-playing radio and video sounds, the venue was eerily quiet.

Quiet and weird.

"Yes, he didn't do it, I did it."

Just when the mutant students were looking at these ordinary people who were immobilized curiously, Professor X's voice sounded.

Professor X, who did not take the school bus to the venue with Roy and the others, did not know when he arrived at the venue.

At this time, he controlled the electric wheelchair and drove towards the three Icemen.

When passing by Roy, he turned his head to look at Roy, as if asking him why he didn't stop Fireman and Iceman just now.

Although he understood Professor X's eyes, of course Roy would not express his true thoughts and pretended not to understand.

After seeing Roy's deliberately confused expression, Professor X shook his head helplessly.

"Stop showing off in the future."

After arriving in front of the three Icemen, Professor X said to the Pyro with a serious face.

Before Pyro could answer, the TV inside the stadium interrupted an urgent news.

"Urgent news! Reports live from Washington. The Oval Office has been attacked. The President and Vice President are both safe and sound."

"Sources pointed out that this may be a terrorist attack planned by one or more mutants."

The sudden emergency news immediately attracted the attention of Roy and others.

It really happened!
After seeing this urgent news, Roy knew that the next few days would not be too peaceful.

"Professor, I think we should go."

Cyclops said to Professor X.

"Yes."

Professor X quickly replied.

……

two hours later.

Mutant School.

Principal's office.

In addition to teachers such as Professor X and Cyclops, Roy is also in the office now.

He thought he didn't have to participate in this internal discussion, but Professor X said that he was also an official member of the X-Men.

So, even though he is still a student now, he needs to participate.

So, he appeared here.

"The way I see it, this is what Magneto planned."

Cyclops gives his opinion.

"I don't think so."

Phoenix Girl said quickly.

Although Magneto is very suspicious, Phoenix Girl does not think that this time the terrorist attack was planned by Magneto.

"Jin was right."

"While Eric could manipulate these things inside the prison, doing so would be pointless and would hinder his goal of making mutants thrive."

Professor X explained.

"Professor, do you mean honors theory?"

Although his opinion was refuted by Phoenix Girl and Professor X, Cyclops didn't take it too seriously.

One is his girlfriend, and the other is a teacher who personally taught him how to become an X-Men.

When they refuted his views, he would have no opinion.

"Yes, if Eric continues to stick to his superior theory."

Professor X said helplessly.

"The assassination of the president will cause the government to introduce the mutant registration bill again."

Storm said quickly.

Mutant Registration Act!
From a certain point of view, the occurrence of the Liberty Island incident was caused by the Mutant Registration Act.

If it weren't for this bill, Magneto would not have had the crazy idea of ​​turning all the leaders of the countries attending the summit into mutants.

After the Liberty Island incident, the Mutant Registration Act was temporarily put on hold because of Magneto's arrest.

But now, the attack on the president will make the government reconsider whether to implement the mutant registration act.

This is undoubtedly bad news for mutants.

"Maybe it's worse!"

"The president can declare martial law and put all the mutants in jail."

Professor X said with a serious expression.

After hearing Professor X's words, Cyclops and the others also realized that this attack would be more troublesome than they imagined.

"That... can I express my opinion?"

Roy, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke at this moment.

"What do you want to say?"

Cyclops looked at Roy and asked quickly.

"I agree with the professor's statement."

"But I think the person behind the attack may not be targeting the president, but the school."

Target is school?
Roy's words immediately attracted the attention of Cyclops and others.

Even Professor X looked at him with a puzzled expression at this time.

"First of all, this is just my guess, and I don't have any evidence to prove it."

Roy said quickly.

"It's okay, just tell me your guess."

Professor X said in an encouraging tone.

"That's right, I have such a guess, mainly from the perspective of the planner."

"To give a simple example, if I were the one who planned the attack, I would definitely consider all possibilities."

"For example, what security forces are around the president, and how to determine the success of the attack after being blocked, etc."

"It's not that I look down on the security forces around the president. I just think that if someone really planned the attack secretly, with the power of mutants, the security forces around the president won't be able to play much of a role."

"Leaving aside, everyone here should be able to do it."

"Assassination of the president, if there is no absolute certainty, not many people would take the risk to do it."

"So, the fact that the president is safe and sound seems very suspicious."

Roy said unhurriedly.

Although he would have such a guess, it has nothing to do with him being a time traveler.

But even if he is not a time traveler, he will have similar doubts.

The reason why ordinary people are hostile to mutants is because mutants possess a powerful power that ordinary people can never contend with.

Although not every mutant can possess such powerful power, as long as there are one or two, it is enough to make ordinary people instinctively hostile to mutants.

The security force of the White House may be able to prevent attacks by conventional forces.

But for mutants with superpowers, the security of the White House is full of loopholes.

"You mean, someone deliberately planned this attack, and the goal was not the president in the first place?"

Cyclops asked quickly.

"Yes."

"If my guess is correct, this attack should pave the way for the next action."

"For example, arouse ordinary people's hatred of mutants, or let the government reintroduce the mutant registration bill."

"Of course, it cannot be ruled out that this attack was just to get the president to issue certain orders."

"For example, martial law, or the large-scale arrest of mutants, etc."

Although Roy knew very well what the real purpose behind this attack was, he couldn't tell Professor X confidently that the real purpose of attacking the president was to attack the mutant school.

In this process, he needs to add some proper guidance.

(End of this chapter)