As soon as Shang finished speaking, Ruiwen and others looked surprised, and some of them were already tempted.
This was also the main purpose of Shang's attack. He did not want to kill the mutants recruited by Charles, but to plant a seed in their hearts, the seed that would make them rebel and fight as mutants at any time.
Chapter 534 The Strongest Teacher
Except for the residential building in the middle of the base which was still intact, the surrounding area was in ruins. Smoke and flames were everywhere, and the bodies of the agents were lying on the ground.
After Shang unexpectedly expressed his purpose honestly, Riven and the others fell silent, and everyone was shaken in their hearts.
"No one? Forget it, let's go."
Seeing that no one came out, Shang did not show any disappointment. He turned and walked out towards the broken floor-to-ceiling window. The White Queen and Jiliu followed him on his left and right.
"Wait a moment!"
After Shang and his group walked into the yard, one of Riven and the others finally walked out.
"Salvatore, you?"
Darwin opened his eyes wide in disbelief. The one who decided to stand on Shang's side was the nightclub girl Salvador.
"You may not know this, but I actually hate humans. Instead of fighting for them, I'd rather fight for mutants and for myself."
Salvador smiled calmly and walked out of the window with a determined mind. Shang also extended his hand to her and happily accepted her: "Welcome to join us. May I ask, what is your mutant ability?"
After untying the restraints on his back, Salvador stretched out his four wings, and his feet left the ground, his whole body suspended in the low air, making the White Queen and Torrent look at him in surprise.
"Flying, good, good, you are like an angel, from now on your code name will be Angel."
Shang took out a remote control button from his pocket and pressed it. With a strong wind blowing downwards, a retro fighter plane slowly landed in the square behind them.
After losing the Red Devil Azazo, the Hellfire Club can only rely on various means of transportation to transfer, which is also a helpless move.
"Let's go." Shang patted Salvador's shoulder and took her to the rear cabin where the fighter jet was descending.
Darwin saw that Salvador was really going to go with him, and he got really anxious. He said hurriedly, "Wait, I'll join in too!"
As he said this, he walked out from the hall of the house.
Shang turned to look at Darwin and nodded, "Oh? Welcome, what are your abilities?"
"Adapt to the environment. My body can switch into different adaptive forms depending on the environment."
Darwin walked slowly, deliberately delaying time, glancing at Alex behind him, who immediately understood what he meant.
Since the combat experience of each other is not proportional, just use the strongest ability and moves to kill the opponent's leader instantly without thinking.
"Oh?" Shang keenly caught something wrong.
Darwin continued to approach him, and Alex, who was hiding behind him, quietly raised his hand. When he was two meters away, Darwin suddenly moved away and shouted, "Alex, now!"
Buzz—
A high-energy beam as bright as day, like an energy blade, slashed towards Shang at high speed. Shang shook his head slightly. He was well prepared and subconsciously stretched out his hands to directly disintegrate and absorb the high-energy beam.
"This?!" Darwin's face changed drastically. His calculations were already powerful enough, but he still failed due to insufficient information. He didn't know what Shang's mutant abilities were.
"I hate being deceived. Adapt to the environment, right? I hope you can adapt to this."
Shang looked indifferent, took a step forward, and pointed a light at Darwin's chest. Then he turned around and walked into the rear cabin of the fighter with the newly joined Salvador, the White Queen, and the Rapids.
The engine ignited and started, and the fighter plane hummed, hovering upward and flying towards the end of the northern sky, leaving behind a ruined research base.
"Plop!"
Darwin stared blankly at the plane flying away, then suddenly knelt down on the ground, and his chest began to burn from the inside out. It was a high-energy beam condensed into a point and was about to explode.
"Darwin!" Raven, Hank, Alex, and Sean rushed towards Darwin anxiously, wanting to check on his condition.
"do not come!"
Darwin coughed violently and reached out to stop them. His entire upper body had been infected by the internal energy. If it weren't for his mutant ability, he would have exploded like a human bomb. But his natural adaptability couldn't resist the violent energy. It was just a matter of dying sooner or later.
"Darwin..."
Hank grabbed Riven, who had a sad face, and they stopped a few meters away, watching Darwin's life come to an end.
"In the next life... let's be friends for a longer time."
The surface of his upper body was about to explode, and Darwin forced a smile. At the last moment when the energy in his body exploded, his eyes blurred and he inexplicably saw the figure of a blond boy appear.
Is it an illusion
While Darwin was still conscious, he saw the blond boy stretch out two fingers and point them at his left chest where his heart was.
In just a moment, the violent high-energy beam energy in the body immediately became extremely docile, and then flowed upstream along the body towards the opponent's fingertips.
Darwin stared blankly at his chest. The energy in his body had been absorbed by the reverse flow. He opened his mouth wide, "I... am alright?"
"If you come one step later, you will be gone."
Caesar calmly withdrew his two fingers, looked at Darwin who was kneeling in front of him, and shrugged.
"You are... Caesar?"
Riven covered her mouth in surprise. Before she could ask any questions, a ball of red flame appeared in the square and several figures with their shoulders linked appeared from it.
Azazo stood in the middle, with Charles, Eric, and Logan on either side.
"Young Master, you are faster!"
Azazo saw Caesar who arrived earlier and sighed.
"Just a little bit, those people have already run away." Caesar looked up and looked in the direction where the fighter jet left.
"Those bastards..."
Charles' face turned pale, he clenched his fists, and scanned the ruins of the base that were littered with corpses. This time, it was undoubtedly a warning from the Hellfire Club.
"Charles. Genna is dead, and Salvador has joined the Hellfire Club."
Raven sobbed sadly, and Hank beside her gently supported her shoulders. The others also looked pessimistic. The battle had not even started yet, and they had already lost most of their combat power. This was not a good start.
"Caesar."
Charles took a deep breath, looked sideways at Caesar, and pleaded, "I hope you can stay and help us."
"If it's to deal with Shang and the others, I'm sorry to refuse." Caesar said calmly.