Nick Fury and Professor Charles both frowned; White Queen and Red Devil were surprisingly stubborn and refused to budge.
At this moment, White Queen said again, "We have no intention of breaking our promise. If you don't agree, you can find others, or agree to Mystique's request."
"I need to consider it."
Nick Fury hung up the phone and said to Professor Charles, "Professor, the Tesseract is very important and cannot be given away casually. I think it's better to use the Cerebro."
"With Barton personally taking action, your students will almost certainly not be in danger."
"Director Fury, no matter how important the Tesseract is, it's just an external object, and Red Devil is only borrowing it for a while; he will return it."
Professor Charles shook his head repeatedly. In his heart, those students were no different from his own children, and he would never let them take even the slightest risk.
Nick Fury was helpless. To be honest, he didn't want to lend out the Tesseract at all. After all, if the other party borrowed it, they might not return it—he often did such things, ahem.
At this moment, Hill walked in and said, "Mystique is here to threaten us."
Let's push the time back a bit. The space shuttle successfully arrived at the Space Station. Mystique breathed a sigh of relief and left the shuttle with Dr. Reed and others, entering the Space Station's main base.
The Space Station has artificial gravity. Except for Mystique and others whose bodies glowed with black light, everyone else would not float.
"According to predictions, the Cosmic Storm will arrive in ten hours, Mystique, you promised me you'd allow me to do experiments."
Dr. Reed said to Mystique, who was recovering from weightlessness—besides the future Fantastic Four, Frank, and Mystique, those who boarded the Space Station also included Iron Man Tony, Assassin Brotherhood leader Sloan, Mutant Toad, Sabretooth, and Duan Dian.
"Don't rush. First, you and Tony Stark transfer the Space Station's authority to me and teach me how to control the Space Station."
Mystique said, "Dr. Reed, Tony Stark, don't play tricks. Otherwise, you will all die. I've come this far, and I have no retreat, nor do I plan to retreat."
Tony, who was being carried on Sabretooth's back, couldn't help but ask, "What exactly do you want to do?"
"Threaten humanity, establish a country for Mutant, that's all."
Mystique said, "Stop talking nonsense, transfer the authority quickly."
Dr. Reed glanced at Susan and didn't do much else, honestly helping Mystique control the Space Station. Tony was the same; he had no power to resist now.
After completely taking control of the Space Station, Mystique led Toad and others to deploy Earth-based weapons. To be honest, this was not difficult because Earth-based weapons are very simple; they work by gravity.
Once all preparations were complete, Mystique used the communication system on the Mark Armor to contact the World Security Council and state her demands.
"Release all Mutant. Additionally, we Mutant want to establish our own country."
"That's impossible."
The council members exploded. The first demand could be discussed, but the latter was absolutely impossible. With the strength of Mutant, once they established a country, the entire world would fall into turmoil.
"I'm not asking you, I'm demanding you."
Mystique sneered, "If you don't agree…"
Nick Fury said, "If we don't agree, you'll bomb ten Cities with tungsten rods, right?"
"How did you know?"
Mystique was startled, then reacted and sneered, "You got the news from Horn TV Station, right? I heard your S.H.I.E.L.D. employees all have Kuaidou installed on their phones?"
"Can we not bring that up?"
Nick Fury's face was grim. Have you heard of not hitting someone in the face? He said, "Mystique, doing this will only cause us humans to fully confront you Mutant."
"What's the difference from what you're saying now?"
Mystique sneered, "The Rod of God is ready. If you don't agree, in half an hour, the first tungsten rod will strike New York. If you still don't agree, in an hour, the remaining nine tungsten rods will strike nine major Cities worldwide."
The council members looked grim but dared not refuse directly. Nick Fury thought for a moment and said, "The time is too short; it's not enough for us to discuss. This is not a small matter."
"That's your problem. You only have half an hour."
After Mystique finished speaking, she prepared to cut off communication. At this moment, Sloan stepped forward and shouted, "You also have to return the loom to me."
"Loom?"
Nick Fury and the World Security Council were utterly bewildered. In such a serious meeting, why would someone suddenly pop up demanding a loom? This style was completely different from before, wasn't it?
Gideon mocked, "Is S.H.I.E.L.D. so down and out now? They even steal other people's looms?"
Nick Fury remembered last month's operation and said, "I remember now, you're from the Assassin Brotherhood?"
Sloan said, "That's right. You must return the loom to us and promise never to interfere with our Assassin Brotherhood again."
"We need to discuss it."
Nick Fury said. If he remembered correctly, the mysterious loom seemed to have been stolen?
"You don't have much time left."
Mystique snorted coldly and cut off communication. She looked at the people behind her, full of suspicion. How did The Daily Bugle get the news exactly?
The World Security Council also wanted to know the answer to this question—the negotiations had just finished, and the content was immediately broadcast live by Horn TV Station.
"It's New York again. Why am I not surprised at all?"
New York citizens complained while speeding up their escape. The streets and alleys were filled with vehicles leaving the City, and the airport was even more packed.
This rotten place, New York, has such good feng shui.
Gideon shouted, "Nick Fury, didn't you say you had a way to solve this? Solve it quickly. Also, find out who leaked the secret. S.H.I.E.L.D. can't be a sieve."
"To solve this, we must lend the Tesseract to Red Devil."
Nick Fury explained Red Devil's request. In fact, he had the authority to use the cube, but he applied for it to drag the World Security Council into sharing the blame.
The World Security Council discussed it and chose to agree. Then, Nick Fury called White Queen and said, "We agree to lend the Tesseract, but Emma Frost, I solemnly warn you here, if the Tesseract is lost, the whole world will hunt you down."
"Director Fury, don't project your own thoughts onto others."
White Queen snorted and said, "Give us the address. Red Devil will teleport there to get the Tesseract. Don't play tricks; we're not that stupid."
Nick Fury didn't waste words and directly gave an address. Red Devil teleported there and received the box containing the cube from the Person in charge.
Then, Red Devil teleported back to Hell and respectfully handed the box to Andrew.