Reborn with Steve Stand

Chapter 672: Back to X Academy

"... The Fuck?"

Fang Mo looked at Erik in shock and asked, "You said Charles is gone!?"

"I..."

Erik, who had been calm, almost lost his composure after hearing Fang Mo's words. He felt as if his chest was being squeezed, "I said Charles is missing... not gone!"

"Oh, I see."

Fang Mo instinctively touched his head upon hearing this, "You scared me. I thought his legs were healed."

"No... can't you be more serious?"

Erik couldn't help but hold his forehead, "The situation has become very complicated. It's not just anyone who's missing; it's Charles. Do you know what an Omega-level telepathic mutant means?"

"Does it mean..."

"I..."

Seeing Fang Mo's nonchalant attitude, Erik felt a headache coming on. But suddenly, he thought of a possibility and instinctively looked up at Fang Mo, "Wait... could this be within your expectations? Your ability to predict the future?"

"What?"

Fang Mo spread his hands in confusion, "No, I don't know how Charles went missing either."

"What?"

Erik was stunned.

To be honest, Fang Mo really didn't know how this happened.

The current timeline is obviously the old one, corresponding to the plot of X-Men 1. After some recollection, Fang Mo remembered that this movie's plot is about Magneto causing trouble and the X-Men defeating him.

When the movie was shot back then, due to budget constraints, there weren't any grand scenes. Professor X, Charles, just passed out and stayed unconscious until the end of the plot, waking up on his own. There was no missing scene.

But now, he's mysteriously disappeared...

To be honest, Fang Mo wasn't too worried.

After all, this old timeline is already full of bugs. With the timeline being rebooted later, it's normal for some chaos now. It might be related to the butterfly effect Fang Mo caused years ago. But no matter what, Fang Mo still has a resurrection skill up his sleeve, so he's not afraid of any accidents.

"You said you could predict the future."

While Fang Mo was thinking, Erik was getting anxious. Despite his words of animosity towards Charles, their relationship was more like love and hate, "If you can predict the future, why don't you know where Charles is now?"

"Hey, hey, I can only predict the future, okay?"

Fang Mo raised his eyebrows, "You're talking about omniscience... But if you really need to find an omniscient being, I happen to know someone."

"Who?"

Erik asked immediately.

"Another god, different from my system but a colleague of a friend." Fang Mo said, taking out a strange black statue, "Here, call upon Yog-Sothoth with this statue..."

"..."

Erik instinctively looked up.

Just one glance, and he felt a strange sense of bewilderment, as if the statue concealed some eerie and chaotic universal truth, sending chills down his spine.

In the next moment, a 'crack' sound was heard.

Erik felt an inexplicable lightness on his head. The helmet that had blocked telepathy for half his life shattered without warning, breaking in half and falling to the ground.

"This..."

Erik stared blankly at the broken helmet pieces, stunned.

Quickly, he averted his gaze and shouted at Fang Mo, "Alright, alright, I won't ask you anymore. I'll investigate this myself... Just put that thing away!"

"Tsk."

Fang Mo, a bit disappointed, put away the statue of Yog-Sothoth.

"Phew..."

Seeing Fang Mo put away the statue, Erik finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Honestly, he hadn't felt such terrifying mental pressure in a long time. The last time was facing Jean Grey with Charles. The energy within that girl was almost limitless.

"Anyway, I just have one last question, Fang Mo."

With a helpless sigh, Eric looked up at Fang Mo once again. "You... really don't plan on getting involved in the conflict between mutants and humans?"

"No, I don't."

Fang Mo nonchalantly waved his hand. "Whoever dares to provoke me, I'll destroy. It's that simple."

"But..."

"Oh, right. I forgot to mention one more thing."

As if he had seen through Eric's thoughts, Fang Mo added calmly, "I've recently mastered a lot of new abilities. If I find out someone is trying to use me as a pawn, I'll eliminate that side first."

"I understand."

Eric wasn't foolish. Hearing this, he understood what Fang Mo meant.

It wasn't good news for him, but it wasn't entirely bad either. At least Fang Mo wasn't siding with Charles this time, which gave Eric some room to maneuver.

"In that case, let's go see the senator."

After thinking for a moment, Eric suggested.

"Oh, sure." Fang Mo nodded. "I was planning to head back to the X Academy afterward."

"What? You're going back?"

Just then, a female voice came from not far away. Fang Mo turned to see Mystique, Raven, approaching, biting a piece of bread. "Aren't you staying a bit longer? We haven't even caught up yet..."

"No, I'm not staying."

Fang Mo shook his head. "The environment here is terrible. I can't sleep well at all. Back at the X Academy, I could fall asleep as easily as a husband in a softcore film..."

"..."

Even Mystique couldn't help but laugh at this.

She looked at Eric, then back at Fang Mo.

Raven hadn't heard the previous conversation between Eric and Fang Mo. She assumed Eric would want Fang Mo to stay a few more days, so she spoke in a seductive tone, "I remember decades ago, you said I was like a child, but now it's different. Do you want to stay and try?"

"No, I'm more interested in yuri with younger girls now."

Fang Mo bluntly refused. "Here, you're the only girl, and you're bisexual. But at Charles' academy, there's a group of female students... So, even if the king of heaven came today, I wouldn't be stopped from returning to my space to play with them."

"..."

Mystique's expression changed dramatically upon hearing this.

To put it mildly.

She looked like an old man on the subway, holding a cell phone.jpg.

"Alright, Raven."

Even Eric couldn't take it anymore and waved Mystique away. "Go handle some intelligence. Something big just happened. I'll take him to see the test subject."

"Okay."

Mystique nodded and left.

Soon, Eric led Fang Mo to a cell in a cave.

"Good morning, Senator."

Eric greeted as he waved his hand. The iron bars were forcibly bent open by magnetism, and he walked in. "I hope you've evolved... Hm? Where is he?"

Halfway through his words, Eric frowned.

The senator was nowhere to be seen. The cell was empty except for some strange slime and two old shoes.

"..."

Eric looked up at the skylight, then waved his hand.

With a loud noise, the iron bars of the skylight were torn off. He quickly walked over and looked down the cliff.

Fang Mo followed to see what was happening.

But the cliff was only smeared with some strange slime, and there was no sign of the senator hanging onto the cliff, as in the original story.

Eric stared at the slime on the cliff, his expression dark and uncertain.

After a long time, he withdrew.

"It seems like good news, but not entirely."

Eric frowned at Fang Mo. "The good news is my experiment worked. He's become one of our mutant brothers. The bad news is... Sabretooth, the fool, locked him in a cell with a window, allowing him to escape."

"Sabretooth is so dumb, why don't you just give him to me?"

Fang Mo laughed. "I can give you a suitable replacement, guaranteed to be a perfect match for you."

"Hm?"

Upon hearing Fang Mo's statement, Erik glanced at him curiously, seemingly not understanding why he suddenly focused on his subordinate.

However, curiosity got the better of him.

He couldn't help but ask, "What substitute are you referring to?"

"This one," Fang Mo replied after stroking his chin thoughtfully. He then reached behind him, pulling out a rather ordinary iron dagger.

In the next moment, a flash of white light appeared.

The object sealed within the iron dagger materialized in front of them.

Erik instinctively looked up and found himself facing a tall figure with a shimmering silver metallic sheen.

However, this metallic sheen was somewhat different from the mutant Colossus at Xavier's School, as this being's body was extremely angular. Its arms and legs appeared to be made of rectangular metal pieces joined together, bending and moving solely through spherical metal joints, clearly not human.

"What is this..."

Erik stared at the strange entity for a long time, noting its somewhat rigid demeanor but impressive strength. "Is it a robot?"

With this thought, Magneto used his ability to inspect the creature's head.

Yes, the rectangular head had two round holes resembling eyes. Erik guessed the control chip was hidden there and decided to probe.

To his surprise, upon probing, he was stunned.

"Huh???"

Erik's face displayed utter bewilderment. "Why...is it solid?"

"?"

The iron golem also seemed to hear this and glanced at Erik, scratching its head with a creaking noise.

Of course, the head was solid.

How could this person not understand such a simple fact?

"Let me introduce you," Fang Mo said, patting the iron golem. "This is Old Stone's brother, you can call him Old Iron..."

"Are you saying..."

Erik frowned. "Is this thing alive? Is it a mutant?"

"This thing," Fang Mo glanced at the iron golem. In the Minecraft world, he usually used it to farm iron. He thought for a moment and said, "You can think of it as a tool."

Erik said nothing.

He raised a hand toward the iron golem.

The magnetic field activated, and the iron golem floated into the air, manipulated like a puppet into various shapes.

"...?"

The iron golem seemed confused by the situation, turning to look at Fang Mo.

"Just consider him a villager," Fang Mo explained casually. He then added, "A villager in green clothes."

Upon hearing this, the iron golem immediately understood, turning to Erik with a look of wise compassion.

Erik didn't understand Fang Mo's reference. After a brief test, he found that this entity was indeed incredibly strong, far surpassing Sabretooth. Moreover, as Fang Mo had mentioned, the entire being was made of metal, making it highly resistant and perfectly controllable by him. It was an excellent match.

"I can lend my subordinate to you for a while."

With this thought, Erik spoke up, "But you must guarantee his safety... Can you do that?"

"Oh, that's no problem," Fang Mo replied with a cheerful nod. His interest in Sabretooth was mainly to reunite him with Wolverine. Given Erik's evident interest in the iron golem, things were simplified.

What followed was straightforward.

Erik called Sabretooth over, instructing him to obey Fang Mo. Given his altered state, Sabretooth, though somewhat intimidated by Fang Mo, ultimately agreed.

Similarly, Fang Mo instructed the iron golem to protect Erik as if he were a villager.

After these exchanges, Fang Mo had no intention of lingering with Erik. Having unlocked the necessary module, he was eager to return to Wolverine.

Soon, Fang Mo mounted his Little Momo and flew back to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.

To his surprise, upon his return, he discovered yet another incident had occurred.

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