Inside the Professor's luxurious mansion, a group of people suddenly appeared in what was previously an empty space. It was the mutant team who had teleported back with Li Yue.
"Li Yue, they are all living, breathing lives. How could you...? It will be very difficult for mutants and humans to coexist peacefully from now on."
Even now, the Professor still couldn't believe that Li Yue would truly stand by and do nothing. It wasn't that he absolutely had to save those humans; although he was benevolent, he wasn't indiscriminately so. He simply wanted mutants and humans to live in peace.
Now, with such consequences—countless soldiers dying at the hands of mutants—mutants have been fully exposed to human sight. The power of mutants will cause some humans to fear and dread them. The relationship between mutants and humans will be very difficult to mend. Humans will retaliate savagely against mutants, and countless mutants will suffer unfair treatment, especially regarding how mutants will interact with their own families...
"Professor, I think Li Yue did the right thing. Sooner or later, we mutants will stand on opposing sides with humans. If it weren't for Shaw and my irreconcilable hatred, I think I would have joined his team too."
The first to speak was not Li Yue, but Erik. His ideas were quite different from the Professor's. He now understood that mutants and humans could not coexist peacefully. Humans would never want a species more powerful than themselves to appear on Earth.
Just as humans protect wild animals, if a certain animal suddenly evolves to have the same intelligence as humans, the first to act against them will definitely be humans... They will not only capture and imprison them but even conduct inhumane experiments on them.
"Erik, do you think so too?" The Professor looked at Erik, somewhat incredulous. Had his good friend's ideals also diverged from his own?
"Charles, I joined your team back then because we needed to fight Shaw together. Now that Shaw is dead, it's time for us to go our separate ways."
After Erik finished speaking to Charles, he turned to the mutant team and invited, "Charles's society won't accept us. Then let's create a new society. If humans want to go to war with us, we'll fight them to the end!"
"Now, does anyone want to come with me to create a kingdom belonging to us mutants!"
After Erik spoke, he extended his hand to the mutant team.
Angel's eyes flickered, and without much hesitation, she walked directly to Erik's side, disregarding the others' attempts to stop her.
Everyone else's expressions changed, but no one else stepped forward.
Erik looked at Mystique, his eyes full of encouragement.
Mystique finally walked out, but she walked towards Charles.
"You should go with him. That's your true desire."
"You promised not to read my thoughts anymore."
"I've promised you many things, but I'm afraid..."
"Take care of yourself!"
Finally, after Mystique embraced Charles in farewell, she still walked towards Erik. This was her choice...
"Li Yue, what about you? Your thoughts should be consistent with mine. Do you want to come with us?" Erik, seeing no one else come forward, finally turned his gaze to Li Yue and invited him.
"I'm sorry, Erik, I won't join you, nor will I join Charles. I've decided to travel alone." Li Yue directly refused. He was not from this world and saw no need to get involved in the war between mutants and humans.
"I respect your choice. Until we meet again!" Although Erik was disappointed by Li Yue's refusal, he still showed respect for Li Yue.
"Charles, I hope that when we meet again, we won't be enemies." Erik turned and said to Charles.
"Erik, take care of Raven!" Charles also urged.
"I will!"
Finally,
Erik, taking the two girls with him, turned without hesitation and slowly walked away without looking back.
Everyone watched their backs until they disappeared from sight, then withdrew their gaze and looked at Li Yue, only to find that Li Yue had disappeared at some unknown point...
"Just yesterday, a mutated species called mutants, in the waters off Cuba, cruelly took the lives of countless of our soldiers. They are declaring war on us, and we humans will never let this go unpunished!"
In the end, Professor X still founded the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters to take in mutant children and protect them from the harm of some humans.
Erik also established the Brotherhood of Mutants, recruiting powerful mutants to fight against humans...
Li Yue had no way of knowing what happened next. He was currently enjoying skewers at a barbecue stall in a night market somewhere in China. Just as he was eating with great relish, his mind was suddenly pulled into that unknown starry sky again, and an irresistible suction force came from ahead. Li Yue only felt a light spot getting closer and closer to him, and then he suddenly plunged into it.
At this moment, behind Li Yue, who was eating barbecue, a blue wormhole appeared, taller than a person. The center was as dark as a black hole, making it impossible to see what was inside.
The blue energy at the edge of the wormhole slowly flowed towards Li Yue's body, coiling around him and making his body emit a faint blue glow. Then, it suddenly pulled Li Yue's body into the dark wormhole, and immediately all phenomena disappeared, as if it were just an illusion.
Only an old man, with only a few teeth left in his mouth, was left staring dumbfounded at everything that had happened before his eyes, blurting out, "Wo cao, ruthless!"
"Damn it, where did that person go? He hasn't paid yet!"
...The first two times Li Yue traveled through, he was in an unconscious state. This time, he was finally clear-headed. But he wished he hadn't been clear-headed.
Li Yue only felt as if his soul was forcibly pulled out of his body by an unknown force. He became light and slowly floated towards the sky.
But before he could float far, that force grabbed him again, and it was as if several large hands were kneading him like dough, flattening him, then rolling him into a ball, then flattening him again, over and over. Every now and then, it would even hit him twice with a rolling pin.
And he was unable to resist in any way, only allowing that force to knead him. It felt like pain, yet not pain; like an itch, yet not an itch. It was an indescribable feeling, but in short, it was very uncomfortable.
This state lasted for an unknown amount of time, as if tens of thousands of years had passed, or perhaps less than a second. That force finally stopped torturing him.
Li Yue suddenly felt himself falling rapidly out of control. After an unknown period, he finally stopped abruptly.
It was then that Li Yue felt as if he had returned to his body and could control it freely. Li Yue hastily opened his eyes, wanting to see where he was now.
But as soon as Li Yue opened his eyes, he saw a huge, shit-yellow fist smashing down directly at him.