amaotonovel Chapter 3435 Sons of Midnight (34)
Chapter 3435 Sons of Midnight (34)
Chapter 3435: Son of Midnight (Thirty-Four)
One morning half a month ago, Schiller received a text message from Professor X: "The giant brain wave amplifier in the Andromeda Galaxy has been completed. I am now in the communication center and will make mental contact with you in about half an hour."
The text was followed by a standard smiley face commonly used by the elderly. Schiller, who was making breakfast, shook his head. Professor X was still so polite that he had to send a text message in advance before making a mental connection.
At present, human intergalactic communication technology is not mature yet, and it is very difficult for the Andromeda Galaxy to communicate with this side. Text messages have to go through many communication stations before they can be sent, which is a considerable fee and there is also a large delay in time. It takes at least half an hour for a text message from the Andromeda Galaxy to be received.
Sure enough, less than ten seconds after Schiller received the message, Charles' voice rang in his mind.
"Good morning, Dr. Schiller."
"Good morning, Professor. Congratulations on completing the Andromeda Communications Center. Is there anything I can do to help?"
"Everything is fine here," Charles replied. "I contacted you mainly to express my gratitude. The golden apple you gave us completed the last piece of the puzzle for the successful operation of the cosmic-level brainwave amplifier. It kept my physical condition in the best condition, allowing the final experiment to proceed much more smoothly than before."
"I guess it's because you and Eric are revisiting the old times?" Schiller said jokingly. "How does it feel to be back in those days when you shared the same ideals?"
"Not bad." Charles did not avoid the topic. He said, "I used to think that appearance was not that important. To explore the mysteries of the soul through superficial appearances is what people have to learn throughout their lives."
"That's not wrong. So what now?"
"Eric told me that I had this idea because I was enjoying the benefits of beauty without knowing it. Because I didn't have to consider my appearance, I had more energy to study my mind."
"What do you think?"
"I reflected on it and felt that what he said made sense."
Schiller couldn't help laughing. While placing the freshly fried eggs on the island counter, he deliberately imitated the tone of a documentary and said, "Everyone has a most youthful and beautiful time in their memories. But obviously, the young Charles Xavier amazed too many other people. Eric Lanshere is one of them. Even today, decades later, this is still a rare thing that can move him in his long, serious and gloomy life..."
Charles sighed softly, as if he thought Schiller was exaggerating. In order to pick up the cooking spatula, Schiller changed the phone to another hand and continued, "How is Eric?"
"Same old. Busy with the construction of the communication center, occasionally going to other star systems to collect money, and patrolling the sky island in my spare time, watching those naughty little guys work."
"Where's Anya, is she okay?"
"Not bad. Because she is a pure spiritual being, her intelligence develops very slowly. She is still studying elementary school courses in the school of the spiritual world. The children in the juvenile school also like her very much."
"That's good." Schiller said sincerely.
He had traveled back in time before, and when he was in Berlin, he had an encounter with the young Magneto Eric.
Because of the city blockade, Magneto's wife, Anya's mother, unfortunately had a difficult delivery. Although with Schiller's help, the mother and child were barely safe, Anya unfortunately died due to her congenital weakness. Later, with the help of Charles, she stayed in Magneto's spiritual world as a pure spiritual body.
It cannot be said that this changed past has no effect on Magneto. Magneto was not an unscrupulous, cold-blooded leader from the beginning. He had a wife, a family, a stable life, and a hope for a better life.
But in the original history, everything kept moving away from him. His wife and children were separated, his best friends turned against him, he was hunted down and fled, and there was blood and cruelty. All these tragedies gradually lowered the temperature of his blood and turned a warm beating heart into cold and ruthless steel.
But after modifying the original timeline, although Anya still did not survive, the existence of his daughter's spirit preserved the last soft spot in Magneto's heart.
Although he later parted ways with Professor X due to different ideologies and formed the Brotherhood of Mutants, starting his global wanted journey, Anya's existence still eliminated the most stubborn ruthlessness and cruelty in his personality, preventing him from being alienated into an inhuman monster by years of exile.
This allows him to better deal with issues concerning his children. In the past, his desire for control would have made it impossible for him to tolerate Wanda and Pietro staying on Earth instead of coming to the Andromeda Galaxy.
"Is Lorna okay?" Schiller asked.
"She's been complaining a bit lately. Maybe it's because she just broke up and has a lot of work to do. I'm trying to convince Eric to let her take a vacation. But someone needs to take over her work. I want to contact Wanda, but I'm worried that the child will make her too busy to handle it."
"Have you met Brother Billy?" Schiller turned on his cell phone, put it aside on speakerphone, and started pouring the stir-fried vegetables in the pot into a deep plate.
"Yes. Beast and I both speculated that they should be Alpha-level mutants. It's just that Wanda doesn't like to hear about this topic. We just talked about it in private."
"And what about their grandfather? What does Eric say?"
"Don't you know him? He seems not to care, but he actually cares a lot. He discussed with me about changing his last name back to 'Eisenhart'. I think he wants his whole family to have the same last name."
"I think it's unlikely." Schiller said directly without being tactful. "First of all, Lorna has deep feelings for her adoptive parents. She really hates being called the Lancher girl. I'm afraid it would be the same for Eisenhart."
"Secondly, although Wanda looks gentler than Lorna, she is actually the most stubborn. She tries her best to make her life seem to have nothing to do with mutants. If she changes her last name publicly, her peaceful life will be disrupted again."
"And she's married. Although Jarvis is not a stickler for old fashioned things, most people in her daily social circle think that Maximov is her husband's last name. Jarvis also admitted this. How do you explain the change of last name?"
"I think so too. I have persuaded him. Although he agreed on the surface, he still seems to want to do it. Perhaps you know Eric well enough. He has been searching for a sense of belonging all his life."
"Did you ever consider finding Anya a body?" Schiller asked seriously, "so that he could call Anya Anya Anya Eisenhart."
“We certainly considered it, but it was hard to find the right one.”
"Didn't David have many independent personalities before using cloned human bodies? Can't he customize one for Anya?"
"It's hard to achieve." Charles sighed and said, "Those personalities can use cloned bodies to be independent because they are very strong. Only when the spiritual body is strong enough can it change bodies and immediately be alive and kicking."
"Anya is just an ordinary little girl. She's not even a mutant. Because she was very young when her body died, her mental strength is very low. Even if she lives in my spiritual world, she needs regular maintenance to maintain herself. She can't stand that kind of torment."
Schiller also sighed. He knew that if there was a way, Professor X and Magneto would definitely try it. There was no movement so far, so the difficulty was probably beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
"Actually, Eric and I both want to ask you," Charles suddenly said, "How did you manage to rebuild your personality and spiritual world back then?"
"Well... this is a very complicated process." Schiller thought for a moment and said, "I can't say it's all my credit. A doctor played a big role in it, but I don't know where he is now."
"Do you think he can solve Anya's problem?"
"Maybe." Schiller nodded and said, "But Anya's situation is completely different from mine. I can't guarantee that it will work. If I have any news about him, I will contact you."
"Okay. After the Andromeda Galaxy's communication center is built, I can make mental contact with you at any time. But in order to prevent unnecessary trouble, I have set a special brain wave frequency. As long as you repeat this frequency three times in your mind, I will answer the call."
"My regularly scheduled psych evaluation is almost up. I'll call you then. Bye."
Some time later, Schiller called Charles' number, but not just for the psychiatrist's regular psychological evaluation, but to ask Charles to help update the system.
He briefly explained his situation. In fact, this kind of skill-interoperability update is not difficult, but in order to ensure safety, someone still needs to assist.
Charles came to Schiller's tower through his psychic powers and became the technical consultant for this update, helping Schiller solve some technical problems.
After the update was completed, he did not rush to leave, but after getting permission, he looked through Schiller's early memories. He still wanted to find a way to reconstruct his weak spiritual body.
It sounds like going to a library to look up information, but it's not that simple. Because Schiller's early memories were very chaotic, and there was a lot of shitty code, and he himself probably couldn't find anything in it. Probably only Professor X could swim in the sea of shit.
This would take a lot of effort. Professor X left a thought here, asking him to slowly investigate, and his main focus should still be on the Andromeda Galaxy.
Schiller learned from the comics that Dario Agger was working with more than one alien. This pure traitor had many partners. Among his many partners, there was one who was very special, that was Samuel, the lord of the planet Sam, who looked like a snow monster.
Samuel's skill is mind control, not Professor X's psychic ability, but pure mental attack.
In other words, she doesn't actually have the ability to read other people's minds and can't understand what other people are thinking, but she can implant her own thoughts into other people's minds and make them naturally think that those are their own thoughts.
Roxxon Corporation cooperated with Samuel, first creating a disaster and then letting this guy appear as a hero, while at the same time writing all kinds of good impressions of Samuel into the ordinary people around him. In this way, an artificial superhero was born.
It would be fine if he just boasted about himself, but he had to step on Hulk. In the original comics, this trick was used to cooperate with the Roxxon Company's public opinion offensive to make Hulk infamous and reviled by everyone.