Chapter 37: Black Phoenix! Charles' Compensation!
After arriving by Jiang Bai's side, he spoke to him. Jiang Bai pouted his lips and replied helplessly, "Tony!" Hearing Jiang Bai's words, he fell silent and said nothing more, because Jiang Bai was indeed right; if he continued to use the Iron Man Armor, his palladium poisoning would only get worse.
Boom—!
Jiang Bai then ignored Tony, without hesitation, fully activating his Magnetic Armor. All the metal in the manor was controlled by him, and he began to continuously attack Ororo, Scott, and Jean! Coupled with the surrounding laser weapons, this made the trio's situation increasingly difficult.
Excluding Jean, Scott and Ororo were already injured, but Scott was still controlling Cyclops to destroy the metal being controlled by Jiang Bai. Ororo frantically summoned lightning from the sky to strike Jiang Bai, and also to destroy the metal he controlled.
Tony also began to attack Scott and Ororo with all his might. Various weapons within his armor started assaulting the three, and miniature missiles were fired without restraint! This also put Scott and the others in a very difficult position, but due to Jean's telekinesis, Tony's missile attacks never got close to them.
They were directly detonated in the air by Jean's telekinesis, which consumed a lot of Jean's mental energy, but Jiang Bai didn't need any mental energy to control all the metal! After all, he controlled the metal through his armor; as long as the armor's energy supply was continuous, he could keep fighting.
As the battle continued, Jean's face grew paler. Besides needing to resist Jiang Bai's metal attacks, she also had to watch out for the sniper in the distance! Because of Jiang Bai and Tony Stark, she couldn't deal with the distant sniper at all.
Scott's Cyclops had never stopped since the beginning, except for the initial attack on Jiang Bai. After that, he continuously adjusted his angle to destroy the laser attacks! Sometimes, he even failed to react in time and was hit by a laser attack, and because of his distraction, a leg was directly broken by metal manipulated by Jiang Bai.
Ororo's wound was constantly bleeding because Martin had shot her in the abdomen! Her face was also very pale. Looking at the trio's precarious state, Jiang Bai's eyes were indifferent. He began to consider whether to leave Scott and Ororo here directly.
Now that he had already offended the X-Men, he naturally planned to directly kill Scott and Ororo. As for why not Jean! She possessed fragments of the Phoenix Force within her. There were very few on Earth who could kill her, not even the Sorcerer Supreme from Kamar-Taj.
In the timeline, Jean had died once, and that time her primary consciousness and body were directly taken over by her second personality, Black Phoenix. She also controlled fragments of the Phoenix Force! She made the entire Mutant community helpless. If it weren't for Jean's first personality interfering with Black Phoenix at the end, she might not have been killed by Logan.
But this was not true Death; the Phoenix Force would never disappear. Even if Black Phoenix was killed by Logan under Jean's interference, the Phoenix Force could still be reborn through nirvana; it simply couldn't be killed! The most hopeful way to kill Jean was Black Phoenix.
Helping Black Phoenix eliminate her first personality would naturally lead to Jean's Death, allowing Black Phoenix's consciousness to be dominant, making her the controller of the Phoenix Force! Her strength would likely be even more terrifying than Sorcerer Supreme Ancient One, who possessed the Time Stone.
So Jiang Bai was still struggling with whether to kill Scott and Ororo. Generally speaking, he was unwilling to offend Charles. Mainly because his ability was too abnormal! Plus, he had a Cerebro.
When Charles used Cerebro in conjunction with his Mind Reading, he could almost instantly kill all humans or Mutants in the World! Although he had a trading system and wasn't afraid of Charles's mental attacks, the people around him were.
However, since he had already offended them, for the future, Jiang Bai still decided to leave Scott and Ororo here! And to kill Jean once, to make her second personality appear. Given Black Phoenix's hatred for Charles, she would probably immediately go to the Mutant Academy and tear Charles apart!
Boom—!
Having made up his mind, Jiang Bai began to launch an even fiercer attack on the three. Various metals formed attacks, rushing towards Scott and the other two. While Scott and the others were resisting the attacks controlled by Jiang Bai, a mechanism suddenly appeared in the wall behind them! Miniature missiles rushed towards the backs of Scott, Ororo, and Jean.
Boom—!
Boom—!
Jean was the first to react. The moment the miniature missiles exploded, she used her telekinesis to envelop herself and the other two. She output a large amount of mental energy to enhance the strength of her telekinesis, hoping to withstand the explosive power of the miniature missiles.
After the explosion, Scott, Ororo, and Jean lay on the ground. Jean had fainted due to excessive mental energy consumption. Scott and Ororo struggled to get up and looked at Jiang Bai and Tony.
"Wait! Mr. Jiang Bai, Mr. Tony Stark, stop fighting! I apologize for their three impulsive actions!"
"Do you think that's possible, Charles?"
"I am willing to compensate! Feel free to name your demands. I only let them come here to invite those three Mutants to join the Academy, and I had no intention of clashing with Mr. Jiang Bai!"
"Good, I want the genes of all your current Mutants, and ten billion U.S. dollars!"
"This... Good! I agree! Send them over immediately!"
At this moment, Scott suddenly spoke to Jiang Bai and Tony. Seeing the white light emanating from his eyes, Jiang Bai knew that Charles was using his ability to invade Scott's mind and speak to them, and immediately explained the reason for Scott and the others' presence here.
Tony, who was beside him, looked at Jiang Bai in surprise after hearing about the three Mutants, but Jiang Bai showed no reaction. With Charles willing to compensate, he took the opportunity to propose his own demands for compensation. The most important was the genes of all Mutants in the Mutant Academy!
Ten billion U.S. dollars was secondary. Given Charles's wealth, ten billion U.S. dollars was merely a drop in the bucket for him. Compared to Scott, Ororo, and Jean, it was worthless! After all, one was the Captain of the X-Men, one was the Vice-Captain, and another had terrifying abilities within her.
Any incident involving them would be a huge loss for the Mutant Academy. After hesitating for a moment, Charles agreed to Jiang Bai's terms! After instructing Scott and Ororo not to act rashly, he directly left Scott's mind. Jiang Bai also did not attack the recovered Scott again.
Instead, he quietly watched the two, while Tony was very confused.