Your ability is really cool, and you use it very skillfully!" Erik praised Li Yue.
"Li Yue, let me apologize first. The day I met you, I tried to read your mind, but I couldn't. I could feel a vast mental power in your mind, countless times stronger than mine, which directly blocked my mental energy. Can you tell me what's going on?" Charles asked, puzzled.
Charles wouldn't abuse his psychic abilities with friends, but he had no such restriction with Li Yue, whom he met for the first time.
"Professor, how is that possible? If Li Yue's mental power is stronger than yours, wouldn't that make him a more powerful psychic than you? How can that be!" Mystique was the first to exclaim in disbelief.
Li Yue also found it hard to believe. The Professor was a Level 4 mutant, capable of instantly killing everyone on Earth with a Cerebro. Li Yue believed his mental power was stronger than an ordinary person's, but to say it was stronger than Professor Charles, and by countless times, Li Yue truly didn't believe it.
"I don't feel like my mental power is vast. Because of my teleportation ability, my mental power and physical fitness have increased a lot, but it's only dozens of times more than an ordinary person. I've always thought that the more mental power I have, the heavier the objects I can teleport. There's nothing else that feels different."
Li Yue briefly explained his ability. He wasn't quite sure what was going on with his power, especially with the ability to copy others' powers appearing today. Li Yue also hoped that the intelligent Professor Charles could help him understand his abilities better.
"Charles, did you make a mistake? If Li Yue possesses mental power stronger than yours, that's truly unbelievable!" Erik also felt it was incredible. Li Yue was so young. If he had both the ability to teleport and psychic control more powerful than Charles, then no one would be able to stop him from doing anything.
For the first time, Erik felt a sense of vigilance towards Li Yue. If he were to do something bad, Erik would have to kill him immediately.
Li Yue, however, didn't know Erik's thoughts at the moment. He had a guess: the two times he had viewed the starry sky might be why Charles couldn't invade his mind. But Li Yue was also a little relieved. He hadn't expected Charles to not follow the usual script. He was supposed to be a good old man.
It was a good thing he hadn't been able to invade successfully, otherwise the secret that Li Yue wasn't from this world would surely be exposed. If Charles then saw that these people were merely fictional characters, who knew if he would go mad on the spot.
He remembered a scene in the comics on Earth where an elderly Charles, after learning in Deadpool's mind that he was just a character in a comic, couldn't accept it and caused his psychic abilities to go wild, harming many innocent people.
Of course, these were just Li Yue's thoughts at the moment. It was fortunate that Charles hadn't invaded his mind, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable.
"Forget it, we'll study Li Yue's matter later. The urgent task now is to find a way to stop Sebastian Shaw. I don't know what his plan is." The female agent interrupted their discussion about Li Yue and reminded them… In the end, just like in the original story, Charles and Erik went to the Soviet military base. Only the group of young men and women remained at the CIA base.
Sure enough. In the evening, Sebastian Shaw arrived with his two subordinates: a mutant who could transform into a tornado, and Azazel, whose ability was similar to Li Yue's, but Li Yue's ability was more at will, while Azazel's had some restrictions. For example, Azazel had to carry whatever he was touching when teleporting, a flaw Li Yue didn't have.
"What should we do?"
These young men and women, hearing the screams, gunshots, and explosions outside, huddled together helplessly. They were just a group of children under twenty, and experiencing these things for the first time, they were already terrified.
Li Yue also heard the sounds upstairs and immediately used his ability, disappearing from his spot.
He reappeared in front of the group of young mutants downstairs.
"Li Yue, what should we do?"
It was Mystique who asked. She wasn't the cold-blooded killer Mystique of later, but still a young girl experiencing her first crush, trying to remain calm in the face of such events.
Seeing Li Yue arrive and not showing the same panic as them, Mystique couldn't help but see Li Yue as their pillar of strength.
"Don't worry, I'll take you to a safe place first." Li Yue said to Mystique and the others, then approached them and, taking them with him, disappeared from the spot… "You wait here. I'll go back and check. I'll come back for you when it's safe." Li Yue said, then vanished.
When Li Yue returned, he saw Sebastian and his group mercilessly slaughtering the CIA personnel.
Li Yue still decided to follow his inner convictions: save those he could, and for those he couldn't, it was simply their fate.
So the situation became three mutants killing everyone they saw, and Li Yue saving everyone he saw.
At first, there was nothing unusual, but after a while, Azazel was the first to notice something strange. Sometimes he would clearly hear gunshots, but when he went to investigate, he found no one there, which puzzled him.
One or two times, it didn't seem odd, but after many consecutive instances, it would be foolish not to notice something was wrong. Sebastian Shaw and his group soon realized someone was secretly rescuing people.
"Boss, someone is saving people right under our noses. It might be a mutant with spatial abilities like mine." Azazel came to Sebastian Shaw's side and told him.
"Is that so? When did they find a mutant with spatial abilities? Azazel, can you sense his spatial trajectory?" Sebastian Shaw was surprised to hear Azazel's words, then asked Azazel.
"I'm sorry, boss, I can't sense it. Not only that, if it weren't for so many humans mysteriously disappearing, I wouldn't even have noticed someone was around us. His use of his ability seems to far surpass mine. I can't detect any spatial movement traces at all."
Azazel replied helplessly. He had lived for over a thousand years to master his ability to such a skilled degree, and now a mutant had appeared out of nowhere, even more abnormal than himself.
"Really? Even more skilled in using his ability than you? That's quite alarming." Sebastian Shaw listened to Azazel's words in disbelief. Azazel was his ultimate safeguard; as long as Azazel was there, he feared no danger.
"Now I really want to meet him. I hope I can bring him into our fold."
"Tell Riptide to stop. We'll wait for him here!" Sebastian Shaw ordered.
Then he shouted loudly to the surroundings: "My friend, we are all of the same kind. Why don't you come out and talk!"
One second… ten seconds… Soon a minute passed, and nothing happened.