[12] Professor X's Surprise And Curiosity, Mystique Raven

In the Newman Bar at Oxford University.

Moira looked at Professor X, who was competing with a group of students by chugging beer from a large glass, with a grim expression.

Then she lowered her head to look at the precognitive comics Brian had handed her again.

"Is this really Professor X?"

Moira was a little skeptical.

The young man in front of her was completely different from the mature, composed, and bald wheelchair-bound Professor X depicted in the precognitive comics she had just read.

It wasn't just that this current Professor X wasn't bald or in a wheelchair.

It was also his personality.

The young Professor X seemed like a man who only cared about women and beer, with no sense of responsibility.

"This should be Professor X.

Darwin often blurred the line between the future and the present.

That's why some of the characters in my precognitive comics are shown as what they will be like in the future."

Brian shrugged casually, after spouting BS.

"I hope so."

Moira had a very poor impression of the young Professor X in front of her.

She looked at Professor X, whose eyes were slightly blurry from drinking, and her mouth twitched slightly.

However, out of her trust in Brian,

Moira was still prepared to approach the overly young Professor X.

"Professor X, we need your help."

Moira spoke bluntly as she walked up to Professor X, who was enjoying the revelry.

Professor X, already a bit tipsy, turned his head and looked at Moira instinctively after hearing her words.

When he saw Moira's beautiful blonde hair, his eyes lit up.

"Blonde genes—a very lovely genetic mutation.

Beautiful lady, given your blonde genes, I'm willing to spend five minutes listening to what help you need.

Also, 'Professor X'—that's a really good name, I like it." Professor X looked at Moira and said.

"No time to explain. Professor X, use your mind-reading ability to read my memory, and you'll understand everything."

Explaining everything she knew would take too much time for Moira.

So, she directly grabbed Professor X's right hand and pressed it against her head.

Professor X: "? ? ?"

Confused, Professor X subconsciously began to read Moira's memory.

The next second, Professor X's hazy eyes gradually turned serious.

His brain, which had been dulled by alcohol, began to fully reboot.

Through Moira's memory, Professor X saw everything that had happened to her recently.

The Hellfire Club's Black King, Sebastian Shaw.

White Queen Emma.

Riptide.

Azazel, the Red Devil.

Sebastian Shaw's conspiracy to provoke a nuclear war between the two superpowers.

Similarly, in Moira's memory, Professor X also learned about Brian and the "prophet" Darwin mentioned by Brian.

When Professor X's hand left Moira's head, he was completely sober.

At this moment, Professor X had mixed emotions.

On one hand, he was a little excited to discover a fellow mutant.

On the other hand, after learning about the conspiracy involving a fellow mutant, he felt helpless and angry.

After all, in Professor X's view, mutants were simply a symbol of genetic evolution—they were still human at their core.

He couldn't comprehend Sebastian Shaw's intention to use nuclear radiation to create a world of only mutants.

He also couldn't understand Sebastian Shaw's Mutant supremacy theory.

"Agent Moira, I will help you stop Sebastian Shaw's conspiracy."

Professor X took a deep breath and spoke to Moira with determination.

The mutants of the Hellfire Club were all extremely powerful.

An ordinary human army wouldn't be able to stop Sebastian Shaw.

Only mutants could defeat other mutants.

"Before that, can you introduce Mr. Brian to me?"

Professor X looked at Moira and said.

Compared to Moira, Professor X was currently very interested in Brian, as seen in Moira's memory.

No, to be precise, he was interested in both Brian and the late prophet Darwin.

Through Moira's memory, Professor X had learned about Brian's mutant ability.

Adaptive evolution.

Although Professor X had only seen Brian's shadowman state from Moira's memory, as a professor of genetics, he understood well what adaptive evolution meant.

It meant that Brian was the only mutant capable of continuous evolution.

This ability granted him a form of near-immortality.

However, at the same time, adaptive evolution also has various disadvantages.

Firstly, Brian has no way to actively control this mutant ability.

Secondly, it can only adapt to one extreme environment at a time.

After sorting through the information about Brian, Professor X made a summary:

Brian is very powerful, but with limitations.

Compared to Brian, Professor X was more interested in Darwin, the level 4 precognitive mutant mentioned by Brian.

Even though Darwin was dead. Professor X had seen the precognitive comics drawn by Brian in Moira's memory, titled Mutant First Battle.

Although Brian hadn't finished drawing the entire comic, Professor X had a feeling that Mutant First Battle represented their future.

That was why Professor X was eager to meet Brian.

He hoped to learn more about the mysterious prophet through Brian's memory: Mr. Darwin.

"Professor X, that's Brian."

As Professor X inquired, Moira led him to the bar counter.

At this moment, a young and handsome Asian man was sitting casually on a bench at the bar counter, smiling as he spoke to a beautiful girl with an angelic face and a devilish figure.

This man was Brian.

"As you can see, beautiful Angel, I am a mutant. God has gifted me with this ability~"

In front of the bar counter, Brian smiled as he dipped his fingers into a glass of alcohol burning with blue flames.

As Brian's fingers touched the blue flames,

his adaptive evolution ability activated instantly.

His skin rapidly changed into the same shade of blue as the flames in the glass, visible to the naked eye.

He looked like a blue elf.

Mysterious flame-like patterns also appeared on his skin.

This transformation made Brian appear even more handsome and mysterious.

"Cool."

The girl in front of Brian wasn't shocked or frightened by the transformation of his skin.

Instead, she looked at him with admiration, as if they were kindred spirits.

"But.. Brian, aren't you afraid that others will think you're a freak?"

In response to the concern of the girl, Angel, Brian didn't say anything. Instead, he stood up and whistled.

The shrill whistle echoed throughout the bar.

Everyone in the bar subconsciously turned to look at Brian.

When they saw Brian's blue skin, adorned with mysterious flame patterns, they were all stunned.

Their eyes were filled with astonishment and fear.

"Brian, let's go."

The girl next to Brian stood protectively in front of him, her face full of concern.

"Raven, what are you doing here? Go home right now."

Professor X had just arrived and saw Brian displaying his ability.

However, Professor X's concern at the moment wasn't for Brian.

He looked at the girl standing in front of Brian and spoke sternly.

"Charles, I'm an adult now. I'm not a child anymore."

The girl with the angelic face and devilish figure was none other than the future Mystique, Raven.

As soon as Brian entered the bar, his ability was already giving him a warning with Tick tick tick.

His ability to see through the laws of operation of everything made it incredibly easy for Brian to identify Mystique Raven, who was drinking and drowning her sorrows among the crowd.

Mystique Raven is every man's dream.

And she was also Brian's dream.

So, Brian approached Raven directly without hesitation.

He then revealed his identity as a mutant and easily gained Raven's recognition.

The reason for the current scene was that Brian intended to use his ability to make a lasting impression on Raven's heart.

He, Brian, wanted to become Mystique Raven's mentor—her guide.

And then transform Raven, both inside and out, into someone shaped by Brian's influence!