Chapter 24 1407 Graymalkin Lane, New York

"How much longer until we get to New York?" Looking at the rapidly retreating scenery outside the window, Pietro's originally tense heart relaxed a bit.

"It's going to be a few more hours. I actually thought you'd be unconscious for a long time. I had already decided that if you were still not awake when we arrived, I'd just have to do a little bit of physical awakening on you."

"Hahaha." Without guessing, Pietro also knew that the so-called "physical awakening" was definitely not a gentle way to wake up. Fortunately, he had woken up in time.

Seeing that Pietro had basically calmed down, Austin continued. "Originally, we were able to arrive in New York this morning, but I don't know who spread the news of President X's death. Now the entire United States is in the midst of a war. So I have no choice but to bypass the war zone and take a small road back to New York."

"War!?" Pietro froze.

"Yes, War. At first, it was just gangs occupying cities and dividing up territory. Later, it even evolved into a nationwide melee, even the governments and militaries of the various states were involved. I heard that a gang raided a military experimental base and discovered a military experiment called 'Hulk' there."

"What's Hulk?"

Austin sighed. "If you ask me, I will tell you that in my memory, the Hulk is an 'anti-hero' in other worlds. After being irradiated by gamma rays, he possesses unmatched terrible combat power and is almost invincible. At first, he was a villain, and later he joined the Avengers."

"But here, the terrifying gamma rays turned him into an inhuman monster. His body underwent nauseating mutations before finally being recovered by the military and lying in the laboratory until he was discovered by those gang members."

"How could it, become like this," Pietro muttered with a sigh of disbelief.

"Who knows? When I saw the X-Men girls become bar hostesses, and the Avengers became a rich second-generation leading a group of lunatics, I already predicted that the world was gradually heading towards destruction."

Austin said, while his gaze went to the stack of file bags placed next to his calf.

Perhaps that was the source of everything and the beginning of this desperate world.

It was the Fantastic Four who contributed to the birth of the Heroic Age in this world. Although the Fantastic Four were not Marvel's first superheroes, they were the first real superhero team to open up this world that belonged to heroes.

But here, they may have been an important link in the creation of this sad world.

The file bag contained a long-standing evening newspaper and information, which was a special interview with former astronaut Ben Grimm. In the newspaper, he described in detail the unknown details about the air crash.

Many years ago, he had participated in a manned space project. It was during that project that he met the genius scientist Reed Richards, as well as the siblings Susan and Jonathan.

Reed was very obsessed with the space program. He was eager to explore the mysteries of outer space. After all, the Earth is too small compared to the universe, and everything in the universe is new and unknown to humans.

He wanted to sail towards the stars and embark on an unparalleled great adventure - observing fluctuations in cosmic energy.

Although everything was ready, the spacecraft built at that time obviously could not support him to carry out such dangerous research. But Reed couldn't wait that long. He was already prepared.

One night, Reed came to Ben's door, hoping that Ben could support his ideals and join his great experiment to observe cosmic energy, and hoped that Ben could serve as the pilot and accomplish this feat with him.

But Ben knew very well in his heart that the spacecraft was not stable enough at that time. It was too dangerous to start rashly. As a researcher specializing in aerospace technology and satellite orbit technology, no one knew the dangers of this trip better than him. Once the machine stalled, even he could not guarantee whether he could bring other people back alive.

So Ben resolutely rejected Reed's request, because this was completely joking about life safety.

As a result, What happened afterwards made Ben regret it to this day. Reed did not give up because of Ben's refusal, but continued to act according to plan. Perhaps he felt that even without Ben, a technology master, they themselves were more than enough.

So Reed took the siblings Susan and Jonathan, as well as another guy named Doom, and flew into space. And soon, while observing cosmic energy, they were enveloped by a radiation storm from cosmic rays.

Later, the news of the air crash was transmitted back to the project team. People spent a lot of manpower and material resources to find their whereabouts. Next to the wreckage of their spacecraft, people saw the siblings Susan and Jonathan. One was burned into a mummy by the terrible heat, and the other was altered by cosmic energy at the cellular level.

Susan's whole body could reflect light rays, which allowed her to achieve optical invisibility at any time. But this light reflection blinded her eyes and was completely uncontrollable.

Not long after the corpses of the siblings were recovered, Doom's corpse was discovered again. Compared with the previous two, the radiation on Doom was even more terrifying. It was in a state of constant change, with all the material arrangements in the body constantly changing randomly, which caused it to continually vacillate between mineral and living life.

And Reed was the last one to be discovered. His body was stretched like rubber bands, twisted and lying on the snowfield. When people found him, he had become a weirdly stretched skeleton.

Ben had always felt guilty about this aerospace disaster. If, if he could have persuaded Reed to wait a little longer, if he had become the pilot of the space mission, maybe, maybe the four of them would have become the real Fantastic Four according to the original script.

Austin silently sighed. And this world might not have become what it is now. But he also understood that everything had already happened, and there was no regret medicine to sell in this world, nor would there be regret medicine.

As time continued to pass, Austin and Pietro finally arrived at their destination.

1407 Graymalkin Lane, was a private territory, and from afar, one could only see a historic old castle reflected in their eyes.

Fortunately, this is a suburb of New York, and also belongs to the private territory, for a while there is no one to come over, otherwise, this building is estimated to have already been destroyed by that group of gangsters.

"No wonder this address is so familiar, so this is the Xavier Academy for Gifted Youngsters." Austin stopped the car and raised his head to view this exquisite castle.

"You know this place?" Pietro sat in President X's wheelchair and came to Austin's side.

"I guess I know it. This should be the school established by Professor X, specially set up for mutant children. Here they can receive a better education, and here are the teachers are the, the first X-Men."

Austin opened his mouth to explain, but he quickly sneered. "Originally this was the place where Professor X dreamed of humans and mutants building bridges, and now here it has actually become a treasure trove for him to collect his trophies. It's really ironic."

The two made their way to the main door, and the combination lock on the door quickly lit up with a six-digit string of codes.

"Leave it to me." Pietro pushed the wheelchair to the combination lock. "I can test all combinations of this password lock."

"Okay."

Austin nodded, he really wasn't very good at this kind of decryption.

Pietro's fingers instantly clicked the screen at a speed that the naked eye could not observe. However, his movements were very light, probably because he was afraid that his high speed would smash the password lock screen.

"Don't worry, just wait a little while~"

(End Of The Chapter)...To be continued.

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