Chapter 230: The Future

Jack opened his eyes and pointed his hand into the void.

Snap!

Space burst out, forming a spatial portal, and behind the portal was a dimly lit stone room.

The stone room had no lights, only a few scattered torches barely lit the small space.

The sudden appearance of the spatial portal startled the people inside the stone room, and they all turned their attention to it, ready for a possible threat.

"You are..."

A bald man in a wheelchair drifted lazily to the opening, but he didn't step through.

Instead, he looked at Jack and the others with a surprised expression.

"I have to admit, Charles, being bald makes you... look more smart."

Jack teased, but it was not clear which Charles he was talking about.

"Professor?!"

Logan seemed somewhat confused, especially when he saw another version of himself in the stone room, which made everything even more weird.

"Oh, I did not expect we would run into each other here."

A warm smile is always on Professor X's face.

However, when he saw Raven and Hank, his smile froze, replaced by a mix of sadness, pain, and regret.

"You are Charles? Oh my, you..."

Raven also walked up, and as she did, she looked at Professor X and then at Charles, who looked just as shocked as she did.

She couldn't help but notice the shiny bald head of Professor X, and she burst into laughter that she quickly stopped.

"Sorry, but... how did you become bald?"

About the bald question, Professor X didn't seem to mind.

He touched his own head and sighed,

"Ah, well, it's a side effect of excessive use of my abilities. I think it's quite good, it saves me shampoo."

Hank couldn't help but speak up, and he nudged Charles.

"Hey, will you also end up like this in the future?"

"Probably, since that's who I am."

"I mean, this version of you seems more like a leader."

"..."

Though he felt a bit sad about his future baldness, It was not the time to think about it now.

"You can come to our world, where there are no Sentinels, and it's safe."

He raised an invitation to his past self, but regardless of whether it was Professor X or the other mutants, they all firmly shook their heads.

They couldn't abandon their own people and run away.

Charles understood this, but he still wanted to make an effort.

However, at that moment, the stone room shook, and soon after, another elderly figure arrived at the door.

"They've found us, Charles."

This person's appearance caught Charles's attention, and he stared at the other man with a pause for a while before speaking slowly.

"Erik? Is that you, Erik?"

Older Magneto looked at Charles, gazing at his young friend, memories flooding back.

Just as he was about to say how he felt, Charles spoke again.

"Oh my, you look even older than me!"

The warm feeling that had started to appear from the reminiscing was suddenly replaced by a dark expression on Old Magneto's face.

He turned to Professor X and said, "You were really annoying when you were young."

At that moment, a loud explosion penetrated through the thick stone walls into the room.

It was obvious that a fierce battle was happening outside.

Seeing the situation, Jack knew there was no time for them to continue reminiscing. He took a step forward and entered the portal.

"I'll deal with the trouble first. Wait for good news from me."

With that, he waved his hand and closed the spatial portal, turning to face Professor X and Magneto.

"Alright, you two can talk whenever you want. I will go outside to see what is going on."

At the same time, outside the stone room, there was an intense battle going on.

Storm floated in the air, her white eyes sparkling, as lightning fell on her and wrapped around her like she was a god of thunder.

In the dim sky, dark clouds gathered, carrying the devastating power of lightning under Storm's control as they struck forward.

On the ground, a group of remaining mutant resistance fighters, including Colossus, Blink, Sunspot, and Bishop, stood in formation, ready for the coming battle.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on the same direction—the sky!

Dozens of rectangular shapes came slowly over the sky. Inside them was the Sentinel that had brought the whole world to the verge of the end of the world.

At that moment, Storm's lightning storm finally arrived as planned, fiercely striking the rectangular flying vessels.

Boom!

Boom!

The human aircraft burst like a piece of paper when it met the power of nature, setting off a chain reaction.

As a result, more than half of the vessels of flying ships, which had been strong before, stopped working immediately.

However, this didn't make the mutants breathe any easier because they knew that this level of explosion couldn't kill what was inside.

Sure enough, slender black figures quickly appeared from the falling wreckage.

Sentinel!

Storm slowly dropped from the sky, almost losing her balance, and her previously dark face turned pale.

She felt hopeless as she looked at the huge army of Sentinels.

"That was my strongest move, but it still wasn't enough."

Indeed, if it were so easy to kill the Sentinels, they wouldn't need to hide and fight.

"Everyone, prepare to fight for our lives. We need to buy some time,"

Bishop sighed, his expression slowly becoming determined.

"This time... we don't have a second chance."

"In fact, you do."

Jack's figure suddenly showed up on a wall, standing on a high spot and looking down at the incoming Sentinels.

"Who are you?"

When he suddenly showed up, the others did not know if he was a friend or a threat.

Bishop even aimed his gun.

Ignoring their reactions, Jack simply gazed at the approaching Sentinels.

He suddenly reached out his hand and grabbed into the air.

Then, everyone noticed that the Sentinels, which had been kilometers away, had suddenly appeared in front of them, frozen in the air like statues.

Seeing this scene, everyone looked at Jack in surprise.

This move... seemed a bit unfair.

Ignoring the gazes of others, Jack injected his power into the Sentinel, instantly revealing all the secrets hidden inside them.

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