"What is that?" Jean and the others followed the professor's gaze and immediately saw a different scene through the clear, crystalline mirror surfaces.
Around them, those mirror surfaces revealed that the original island had been bombed into smithereens, turning to dust. Amid the swirling water vapor, the sea surged in, flattening the surface of the water.
However, where the island once stood, the sea began to whirl madly, forming a huge vortex.
In the vortex, a never-before-seen monster gradually floated up.
The massive dark green body had fourteen eyes of varying sizes and eight huge tentacles. The eyes emitted an eerie light, as if a single glance could plunge one into depravity.
"Damn, what is that?"
"That creature looks really gross."
"Why do I think it looks so beautiful? It's mesmerizing."
"I agree. It's like it's showing me a different, beautiful side of the world."
"I feel a strong admiration for it, like I want to bow down before it."
The other people on the island stood still, looking at the non-human creature through the mirror surfaces. Some felt disgusted, while others inexplicably found it beautiful and developed a strange sense of reverence.
Bridge heard these discussions, keenly swept his gaze, and noticed that those experiencing these phenomena were all people exhibiting signs of mutation.
It was evident that they had previously suffered mental erosion on the island, affecting them.
Bridge immediately realized that this change was brought by the monster. Without Professor X and the recent inexplicable explosion, they would all have become monsters, controlled by that non-human entity.
"Dammit, what exactly is this thing?" Bridge cursed under his breath.
Just appointed by the director as the person in charge of mutant affairs, this was Bridge's first mission, and he encountered such a monster, almost losing everyone, including himself. His mood was understandably foul.
Thinking about how he almost lost his humanity, Bridge wished he could turn the ugly monster into a sieve with his gun.
"Look, who is that?"
Suddenly, someone exclaimed.
This drew everyone's attention. In the sky, a figure slowly descended while the monster slowly ascended. At several hundred meters in the air, separated by thousands of meters, the figure and the monster faced each other. Compared to the gigantic, ugly monster, the figure was merely dressed in a black leather jacket, white T-shirt, jeans, and white sneakers.
With short black hair and black eyes.
Due to the height, ordinary people couldn't see clearly. The agents, fully equipped with special helmets with long-range vision capabilities, saw that the person was a very young and handsome Asian.
"It's him."
The X-Men members immediately recognized who it was: Bi Xiao, known for his clear distinctions between right and wrong, rebellious nature, and the one who personally killed Magneto and Mystique, leading to this disaster.
Seeing Bi Xiao, everyone's thoughts were mixed, and their expressions were complex.
Even Professor X felt the same.
Because Bi Xiao killed Magneto and Mystique, the Brotherhood's base was exposed without the magnetic field's protection, leading to a massive siege by government organizations, causing this disaster.
Yet, it was Bi Xiao who, at the most critical moment, used some unknown means to save them all.
"You're quite timely. I didn't want to become a monster." Wolverine Logan was the most rational, having only fragmented memories of Sabretooth. Sabretooth's death did not affect him much.
Instead, he felt some gratitude for being saved by Bi Xiao.
Everyone remained silent.
A female member of the mutant guard, who could soften the ground, held Danny. Danny, after fully unleashing his uncontrollable power, was charred and severely injured all over his body.
After losing consciousness, he was most severely polluted by the mental power, his body covered with large eyes and tentacles, paired with the charred skin, making one nauseous at the sight.
Only she didn't mind, well, actually she did mind a lot. Holding Danny and noticing the changes in his body, she gently placed him on the ground and took a few steps back.
Seeing the other members' glances, the woman glared back. She was willing to live and die with Danny, but as a woman, she couldn't bear such disgusting changes.
If it weren't for Danny being a teammate and their deep bond, she would have kicked him far away.
What else could she do? Hold him in her arms?
Just imagining that made her feel sick. She glanced around, signaling anyone willing to hold him could do so, but she wouldn't.
The other guard members immediately looked away.
In the real world, several hundred meters above the sea, Bi Xiao looked with interest at the grotesque Cthulhu monster opposite him.
With his heightened senses, he could detect something special about this creature.
There was even a sense of immortality, a strong signal telling him that this thing seemed hard to kill.
Bi Xiao immediately grasped the key point. His senses and instincts wouldn't deceive him. The message was that it was hard to kill, not impossible to kill.
This meant that killing it would require significant effort.
But as long as it could be killed, no matter how difficult, he would fight.
The monster continuously emitted a vast amount of mental pollution to corrupt Bi Xiao, but Bi Xiao was unfazed. First, his mental defenses were well-constructed, and second, his magic seemed innately resistant to all negative forces, very dominantly so.
Whether it was black magic, demonic power, curses, and so on, as long as it wasn't related to magic, his magic would automatically generate a counterforce to restrain and eliminate it.
The Cthulhu monster's mental pollution tried to invade his mind and body, but his magic immediately reacted violently, like an automatic defense system.
It eradicated all the monster's mental power thoroughly and generated a protective barrier.
It was domineering, but Bi Xiao liked it.
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