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Kevin decisively and cleanly killed the guy with the mechanical arm.
Kevin didn't remember his name, but he had a slight impression of this person, a negative one of course.
He was the main villain throughout the main storyline of Wolverine 3, and Logan and the others were forced to abandon their leisurely reclusive life and flee for their lives, almost all because of him.
Therefore, after seeing him, Kevin didn't even think about saying a few more words to him, decisively controlling the blood in his brain to stir his head into a pulp, achieving 'brain death' in the physical sense.
What surprised Kevin was that this guy's death actually provided Kevin with four skill points.
A villain who could only be considered a minor character in the Wolverine world provided even one more skill point than Ego.
"You...who are you...?"
Kevin glanced at the skill points he had gained, and Caliban, after calming down, began to ask about Kevin's identity.
In the past 25 years, mutants have almost disappeared, even existences like Magneto are nowhere to be found, and as for other mutants, they have hidden themselves in unknown places.
Moreover, the abilities of mutants have almost all degenerated.
Caliban used to be able to sense the presence of all mutants within a forty-kilometer radius at any time.
But now, even though he knew the person in front of him was a mutant, he couldn't sense anything at all.
Most mutants' abilities have degenerated, and abilities like Kevin's, which can instantly kill any ordinary person, should barely exist now.
But he existed right in front of Caliban.
This couldn't help but make Caliban wonder, where did this guy come from?
"My name is Kevin."
Kevin introduced himself to Caliban and extended his hand to him, helping him up from the ground, then said:
"And who I am isn't important; what's important is that Professor X and Wolverine are in trouble right now, and we need to find them first."
"Trouble...that little girl?"
Caliban remembered the girl who came to find them today and suddenly realized something:
"She's a mutant too? A newly born mutant?"
"No, she's a mutant who was transformed later. I can't explain the specifics, but when we see Wolverine, he should tell you everything."
"Logan...he knows about this?"
"He didn't know originally, but after meeting that girl, he should know. Alright, Caliban, stop with the nonsense. Now quickly take me to find them. We're running out of time."
Kevin patted Caliban's shoulder and handed him the sunglasses.
Perhaps it was out of solidarity as fellow 'mutants,' or perhaps because Kevin saved him, Caliban didn't refuse this time.
He first searched for some things in the warehouse they called home, then went to a certain room to prepare, and only then came out to meet Kevin, saying:
"My...ability is very weak now. I can only pinpoint a rough direction."
"That's enough. Let's go, we'll get in the car."
Kevin casually found a jeep without a machine gun, found the keys among the piles of bodies on the ground, got into the jeep, and started the vehicle.
Caliban sat in the passenger seat, buckled his seatbelt, and pointed towards the distant wilderness:
"The last direction they left in was this way."
"Okay, hold on tight."
Confirming the direction, Kevin started the vehicle at full speed. The car shot out like an arrow from a bow, startling Caliban, who instinctively grabbed the passenger handle.
As the car sped along, Kevin thought about what to say when he met Wolverine.
The current Wolverine is very wary of everything. He is like an old man, stubborn and distrustful of anyone.
Or rather, the current Wolverine doesn't want trouble. He is unwilling to get involved with any corporations, new mutants, or similar matters. He just wants to live a stable life, save enough money, buy a boat, and spend the rest of his life at sea with Professor X.
Kevin was trouble for Wolverine.
Because by the standards of this world, he was a mutant, and a powerful one at that.
And the more powerful a mutant, the greater the trouble they bring.
So if Kevin and Wolverine met, he probably wouldn't listen to Kevin at all; he might choose to directly throw Laura to this 'powerful mutant' and immediately run away with Professor X.
This is something the current Wolverine might do.
But in fact, for Kevin, it didn't matter whether Wolverine ran or not; he just needed to know Jean Grey's burial place.
As Kevin was thinking about how to communicate with Wolverine, Caliban, after stabilizing his emotions, suddenly asked Kevin:
"Are you...a new mutant too? You look very young."
"No, I actually...can't be considered a mutant. I just gained all these abilities by being injected with a certain serum."
Kevin said tactfully.
Whether or not to admit his mutant identity was irrelevant for Kevin's interaction with Wolverine and his group.
But since he was about to ask them for a favor, Kevin felt it was better to be sincere.
"No wonder I couldn't sense you."
Caliban's confusion seemed to be answered at once, and he nodded in realization.
He didn't continue to ask. Being old himself, he had long passed the age of being curious about everything.
Because of albinism, Caliban also looked quite young, seemingly under forty years old.
But in reality, as early as the 1980s, Caliban was already almost thirty.
Now he was rapidly approaching seventy.
Having lived for so long, Caliban had seen everything there was to see and not to see; there was no need to delve into a stranger's background.
He just needed to know that this person was here to help him.
"Have you...lived here all these years?"
Caliban was silent, and Kevin continued to search for a topic.
Caliban looked out the window and replied:
"It's been like this for the past year. Charles...he has Alzheimer's, and when his symptoms flare up, his abilities are completely out of control. To prevent him from harming more people, Logan chose to settle him here."
"What about Magneto? Where did he go?"
"Erik? I don't know. I haven't seen him for a very long time, and neither have the X-Men. Perhaps...he's barely surviving somewhere due to his degenerated abilities. He was a wanted man, after all."
When Magneto was mentioned, Caliban's tone didn't change at all.
The disputes between the Brotherhood, once led by Magneto, and the X-Men, led by Professor X, two mutant factions, had now become an irreversible past.
Their former identities, the future of mutants—these things were no longer important.
Now, Caliban had to rack his brains just to think about what to eat every day.
But Caliban felt that there was nothing wrong with that.
At least they could still obtain a brief period of stability. If Logan bought a boat and went to sea with Professor X, they might be able to live peacefully forever.
That is, provided... Laura didn't come knocking.
"Are Magneto's Brotherhood members also gone?"
"Magneto is gone, so of course his Brotherhood members have also left, fled... Now there are no mutant organizations. By the way, don't you know any of this?"
Caliban asked curiously at the end of his explanation.
Even if Kevin became a special 'mutant' by injection later, he shouldn't be completely ignorant of these things.
After all, from Kevin's appearance, he didn't look like someone who had been locked in a laboratory since childhood.
"Is it strange that I don't know these things? After all, I haven't paid attention to their whereabouts before this."
"Then why do you want to find Charles now?"
"There's something I want to ask..."
"What is it? Can I know?"
Perhaps seeing Kevin's approachable demeanor, Caliban no longer hesitated and asked about Kevin's purpose.
Kevin thought for a moment and did not hide anything:
"I'm looking for Jean Grey."
"Phoenix Jean Grey?" Caliban was stunned and asked back, "Why are you looking for an X-Man who died twenty years ago?"
"?"
Twenty years?
Kevin was stunned.
Kevin knew that Jean Grey had died, but he had originally thought that Jean Grey was killed by Professor X when he had an episode.
But now it seemed that Jean had died long ago?
Twenty years ago...2009?
Was the timeline of Wolverine 3 following the timeline after the old X-Men trilogy?
Not the future of Days of Future Past??
Kevin couldn't help but frown for a moment.
The X-Men film series actually had several timelines.
One timeline was the old X-Men trilogy, with Wolverine as the protagonist.
Another was the new quadrilogy, with Charles, Erik, and Raven (Mystique) as the protagonists.
And within the new quadrilogy, there were two timelines.
One was the timeline where Wolverine returned to the present after Days of Future Past, and Jean Grey was still alive.
The other was the timeline of Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix that followed.
That is, the timeline where Jean Grey finally merged completely with the Phoenix Force, unable to take human form, and protected Earth from the sky.
Jean Grey in the latter timeline certainly wouldn't die, because she herself was the embodiment of the Phoenix Force.
Therefore, Kevin thought that the current world was connected to the timeline after Days of Future Past, and only then would Wolverine and Professor X become like this.
But he didn't expect...
"A standalone universe...?"
Kevin quickly realized that perhaps Wolverine 3 was different from the other X-Men films.
This should be a personal story world belonging only to Wolverine himself, with no connection to any other worlds.
Just like the DC Universe's Joker movie, which also had no connection to the main universe.
However, even though he understood this, Kevin felt it was even more troublesome.
If Jean Grey had only died for a year, it would be fine; the Phoenix Force might still be in Jean Grey's grave, and it wouldn't be difficult for Kevin to approach it.
But now, Phoenix had been dead for twenty years.
In twenty years, the Phoenix Force had probably changed hosts many times over.
How was Kevin going to find the Phoenix Force and touch it?
Could he find it by following Wolverine and them?
As he sorted out everything about the X-Men world, Kevin finally felt the trickiness of this matter.
Although the overall combat power of this mission world was not high, in terms of difficulty, it was probably far more challenging than the Marvel Universe.
It was possible... Kevin would have to stay in this world for a very long time.
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