What the heck! Could it be Jean Grey reappeared?" Huang Wen's eyes flickered with suspicion, unable to confirm for a moment. "No, that's not right. Shouldn't Jean Grey be looking for Cyclops and then killing her husband to achieve enlightenment? Why would she be clashing with Wolverine in a place like this?"
"Could it be that the Phoenix Force sensed that Wolverine had flirted with her too many times in her previous memories, so she came looking for him? But why did the watch lose contact? Was it destroyed by the Phoenix Force… Hmm?"
Huang Wen was deep in thought when he suddenly noticed someone spying on him nearby. Huang Wen's expression remained unchanged, and then he released his telekinesis, beginning to sense his surroundings.
In Huang Wen's perception, there was a child in a corner not far away, looking in his direction, as if attracted by the flames he had just created.
"I was being overly suspicious…" Huang Wen shook his head with a smile. It was just a child, after all. He had thought he might find a clue.
However, just as Huang Wen was about to retract his telekinesis, his gaze sharpened. When his telekinesis swept over the child, he noticed that the child's breathing was extremely calm, showing no excitement or fear at the sight of the flames.
"What are you looking at?" Huang Wen instantly vanished from his spot and reappeared behind the child, asking with a smile.
"You!" The child's pupils constricted slightly, but when he turned around, his expression instantly changed. He looked at Huang Wen with a hint of curiosity on his face. "Uncle, are you an envoy of God?"
"Interesting, you're quite good at character portrayal, but unfortunately, I already saw your expression before you turned around. You don't need to act anymore. Do I need to expose your true identity?" Huang Wen asked faintly, a confident smile on his lips, as he looked at the child.
"Hmph!" The child snorted, and his body began to transform. However, Huang Wen's lips subtly twitched. Huang Wen had originally thought that the child in front of him was Mystique in disguise, but unfortunately, Huang Wen was wrong.
The child in front of him transformed into a man with a skin tone similar to Mystique's. From his wild muscles and unruly hairstyle, Huang Wen guessed that this was Raze, the dramatic son of Mystique and Logan.
"So you're that Huang Wen? You don't seem like much!" Raze narrowed his eyes, scrutinizing Huang Wen from head to toe, a trace of disdain appearing at the corner of his mouth. "Teleportation and acupoint striking? I've already figured out your acupoint striking ability; it simply won't work on me…"
"Snap!" As soon as Raze finished speaking, there was a sudden soft sound. Raze's body clearly stiffened for a moment, but this stiffness was due to the impact of force, not because he was struck by an invisible acupoint and rendered immobile. Raze was right, acupoint striking really had no effect on him!
"It seems my previous deductions weren't wrong. Acupoint striking really can't be used against these guys whose bodies are different from ordinary people." A thought flashed through Huang Wen's mind. "And this Raze is even more inhuman than Mystique; at least I could still pinpoint Mystique…"
"Hmph hmph! You really only have this much strength. My mother and the others overestimated you too much!" A triumphant smile appeared on Raze's lips. He instantly extended his bone claws, looking at Huang Wen with a ferocious expression. "I don't believe your teleportation has no limitations…"
As he spoke, a pair of wings actually grew from Raze's back, allowing him to barely float in mid-air. The next moment, Raze disappeared from his spot. These wings not only allowed Raze to barely float but also helped him accelerate!
With a "crack!", Raze's bone claws pierced into Huang Wen's body. Huang Wen did not use teleportation to escape as he had expected, but his bone claws also failed to penetrate Huang Wen's body. Even though Huang Wen hadn't activated his Indestructible Divine Art, the nearly two thousand points of legendary vigor he once possessed were not something an extraordinary-level Raze, without adamantium, could pierce. In fact, his bone claws had already snapped in half.
"You!" Raze's pupils suddenly constricted.
He gritted his teeth, suppressing the pain, and instinctively tried to escape, but his wrist was caught by Huang Wen. The disparity in strength made it impossible for Raze to escape, even if he made his wrist as soft as rubber.
"That's somewhat interesting. It's a bit like Mr. Fantastic's rubber abilities, but nowhere near as exaggerated as his…" Huang Wen raised an eyebrow as he looked at Raze's shapeshifting arm, saying with a smile, "Since you're Wolverine's son, I won't kill you. Tell me, where is Wolverine?"
"Since you know I'm his son, you should also know that you can't kill me!" Raze's bone claws were slowly regrowing as he gritted his teeth and looked at Huang Wen.
"It's true that Wolverine isn't that easy to kill. After all, to kill Wolverine, you have to completely destroy the adamantium on his body. But you don't have an adamantium skeleton…" A smile appeared on Huang Wen's lips. He stretched out his hand, and the nearby trees instantly froze over.
"Moreover, I can freeze you and bury you in the Antarctic, so you'll never see the light of day, yet you'll never truly die. How about it, do you want to experience that kind of taste?"
"You!" Raze glanced at the nearby trees, a hint of apprehension flashing in his eyes. He knew he might survive being frozen, but countless years of solitude would be too terrifying for this young man under twenty.
"So, let's talk properly." Huang Wen, seeing that he had finally broken through, his seductive voice echoed in Raze's ear. He took advantage of this opportunity to hypnotize Raze, after all, Huang Wen didn't want the result he painstakingly obtained to be false information.
After a long while, a glimmer of understanding flashed in Huang Wen's eyes. Based on Raze's account, he finally understood the whole story. Things were indeed somewhat similar to what he had guessed.
It turned out that because Huang Wen had left Chinatown, Mystique's plan to have Huang Wen unseal Magneto's acupoints through Logan's connections had failed.
So Mystique directly took Magneto away from the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters because she keenly sensed that many students had a less-than-favorable attitude towards Magneto, especially some injured students who blamed all their misfortunes on him.
After Mystique left with Magneto, they had nowhere to go. The Brotherhood of Mutants was also out of the question because Magneto had lost his powers, and those people might not obey a powerless Magneto's commands anymore.
But what Mystique didn't expect was that they actually encountered Jean Grey—a Jean Grey who hadn't appeared at Alkali Lake at all but was instead wandering aimlessly.