Reincarnation Paradise: The Crucible

The light of day is going out and the night is getting dark.

In the Muir Redshirt Forest, when the night covered the sky and swallowed up the last ray of skylight, dense rustling sounds suddenly sounded outside the forest. People were wearing camouflage military uniforms, wearing night vision equipment on their faces, and holding various plastic weapons. Figures emerged simultaneously from all corners of the dense forest.

They gathered and dispersed, gradually forming a huge and tight encirclement, surrounding a bonfire camp on the southwest side of the forest, and began to advance rapidly, constantly narrowing the distance between them.

After a while, the encirclement had advanced to a position less than a few meters away from the central camp. Through the sparse shrubs and tree trunks, the soldiers could even clearly hear the noisy conversations and the large crowds of people who were silhouetted against the light of the camp fire. .

"hidden!"

The low voice of instructions was instantly transmitted to the ears of each soldier through the earphones. The advancing encirclement immediately stopped, and almost all the soldiers made half-crouching movements at the same time. The whole process was except for dead leaves being trampled by combat boots. Apart from the rustling sound caused by breaking, there was no other sound at all.

The left arm that was clenched and raised slowly lowered its left arm. After the leader of the team responsible for this encirclement and suppression operation gave the order, he narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at the faint fire not far away, but he couldn't help but feel a little bad in his heart.

So far, whether it is sight or hearing, what the encirclement and suppression team has seen and heard indicates that the camp in front of them is where the Brotherhood is located. But the only problem is that the advancement of the encirclement circle is a little too smooth. Not even a sentry on patrol was encountered.

It seems that after nightfall, the Brotherhood unsuspectingly and proactively dismantled all defenses. This is very unreasonable. Although according to intelligence, most of the current Brotherhood is composed of a group of rabble who hang out at the bottom of the city, but the gathering Magneto, who cares about everyone, obviously cannot make such a stupid mistake.

Thinking of this, he tapped the communication device beside his ear and started communicating with the command center.

"The encirclement and suppression team has arrived at the designated location and can launch an attack at any time. However, the entire advance has not been blocked. There may be anomalies inside the camp."

After a long time, the cold next command from the command center came from the earphones.

"The satellite images show no abnormalities. Prepare to launch a full-scale attack. Be vigilant. If necessary, you can fire without restrictions and kill any threatening target!"

The cold voice in his ears disappeared, and the instruction to kill any target made the captain's faint uneasiness completely subside. He took a deep breath of the cool air in the forest, and the corners of his mouth gradually curled into a cruel arc.

"Everyone is ready, regardless of whether all targets are dead or wounded, attack!"

As soon as the words fell, dense and rapid footsteps quickly sounded outside the camp, and then neatly lined up armed soldiers rushed into the camp from all directions. At the same time, warning shouts also spread.

"Don't move, mutant!"

"Raise your hands, bend over and squat down! Quick!"

Threatening shouts were mixed with the light sources shooting in all directions. Even if no shots were fired, the entire camp was boiling in the blink of an eye. What was extremely strange was that in the face of this sudden chaotic scene, the people in the encirclement circle Many mutants did not panic at all.

Through the green perspective of the night vision device, everyone in the camp turned to face the encircling army. They did not resist or speak, but they all had the same strange smile on their identical faces. Then all the figures began to merge with their nearby companions.

Soon, the hundreds of figures that originally crowded the entire camp were completely mixed into one, turning into a tall white man with a smile. He looked around, his eyes on the soldiers. They paused for a moment with their still-raised guns, then casually raised their hands and said with a nonchalant smile:

"Okay, don't be nervous, I surrender~"

"The doppelgänger—Jimmy Maduro."

Looking at the familiar face in front of him that he had seen in the information, the team leader's eyes were gloomy and he spoke the other person's name through gritted teeth.

A clone has the ability to copy a large number of its own body and create clones. The clones have independent consciousness and can be recovered freely, but the combat power of individual individuals is relatively weak. They failed to rob seven banks at the same time and were arrested. A few days ago, they were on the way to escort. Mystique was rescued by the Brotherhood of Mutants.

He recalled the detailed information about the clone in his mind. The moment he saw the target, he knew that his previous hunch was correct. This was a complete trap. They were all fooled by Magneto, who used the clone to pretend to be brothers. The main force of the meeting successfully diverted the military's attention.

"Report to the command center. The situation has been confirmed. The camp members are all disguised as clones. The main force of the Brotherhood is missing. There is a high probability... that they are preparing to launch an attack on Alcatraz Island."

"...Retreat immediately and bring back the mutant criminal."

"yes!"

Responding to the instructions from the earphones in a deep voice, the captain raised his eyes to look at the clone in front of him who was still smiling. His eyes suddenly widened, and the hard butt of the gun in his hand was violently swung by both arms. Hit the target's head hard.

"Bang!"

The clone had no way of reacting to the sudden attack at close range. The opponent only felt the strong wind roaring in front of him, and then his vision turned black and he fell straight to the ground.

With just one strike, the clone fainted before he could even groan. Glancing at the figure lying on the ground, whose life or death was unknown, the captain calmly retracted the butt of the gun, which was stained with mottled blood, and said lightly:

"Take him with you, and prepare to evacuate."

"Pah pah pah..."

As soon as the captain finished speaking, a crisp applause suddenly sounded, and the atmosphere that had just calmed down instantly became tense again. All the soldiers in the camp quickly looked in the direction of the applause.

I saw a tall tent in the center of the camp with its door wide open, and in the deep darkness behind the door, a pair of slender hands with distinct joints appeared first, followed by a tall body in a black evening dress, and a pale mask on the neck that completely covered his face.

As the strange figure wearing a mask walked out of the darkness, an invisible and strange atmosphere quickly swept the entire camp, and every soldier who was scanned by the pale mask felt inexplicably cold all over.

"Stop! Hold your head with your hands and squat down, quick!"

The loud shout came from nowhere. The masked man separated his patting hands, but did not follow the command to hold his head and squat down. Instead, he opened his arms and raised them in a big character shape, and said loudly:

"Everyone, welcome to hell!"

After the words fell, the figure raised his head high, and the pale mask on it instantly exploded and scattered, but under the mask was not a normal human face, but a deep black vortex.

The next second, the sharp and miserable ghost howl resounded, and countless black ghosts rushed out from the vortex.

"Damn it, attack!"

"Devil! This is a devil! Ah!!"

The deafening and dense gunfire spread, but it stopped abruptly after a few breaths. The thick black fog surged outward with the figure as the center, and in an instant it completely enveloped the entire camp. The ghosts in the black fog howled, and the soldiers' wailing continued.

It was not until several minutes later that the sticky black mist slowly dissipated, and the cold moonlight passed through the sparse branches and leaves and fell into the forest. Under the clear light, the originally lively camp was now dead silent. Looking closely, the camp was full of corpses and bones.

………

Federal government, underground strategic command post.

The command center at this time was very similar to the Brotherhood camp 10,000 meters away. They were all silent, and everyone looked at the empty picture on the satellite image in a daze.

Just a few minutes ago, there were hundreds of human-shaped white dots on the screen representing the vital signs of the encirclement and suppression troops, but now it has turned into a dark black, which means that all the encirclement and suppression soldiers were completely slaughtered by an unknown existence in the past few minutes.

Compared with the anger caused by finding that they were played by Magneto not long ago, everyone in the command center felt a chill at this time. The shrill wails and the high-pitched screams of "devil" transmitted through the communication channel just now seemed to be constantly echoing in the air.

After a long time, a violent slapping sound broke the silence inside the room. The President of the Federation, with a face full of anger, slammed the table and said sternly:

"Fuck! The Brotherhood must be destroyed today. Turn the satellite to explore Alcatraz. I want to know where Magneto is!"

"Yes, sir!"

………

The time goes back to an hour ago. Before the night completely covered the sky, when the encirclement and suppression troops near the forest had not officially set out, all members of the Brotherhood had quietly escaped from the encirclement through the underground passage below the base, leaving only the clones used to confuse and lure the enemy to watch in place.

As for the guy wearing a pale mask, that was Xi Ming's back-up plan, and Magneto was unaware of it.

After successfully getting rid of the encirclement, the Brotherhood's thousands of troops, led by Magneto, headed straight for the Golden Gate Bridge over the Golden Gate Strait and soon arrived at their destination.

The Golden Gate Bridge, known as one of the seven wonders of the modern world, was built and put into use in 1937. It is a cross-sea passage connecting downtown San Francisco and Marin County in the north. It is the main symbol of the region and is also famous throughout the world.

But in addition to the above honors, the Golden Gate Bridge has another most important feature. It is an all-steel structure and is also known as the "world's first steel bridge". The length of the bridge body has reached an astonishing 2.7 kilometers, and the steel output consumed during the construction process is countless.

And this also means that this behemoth that cannot be shaken by human power will become the most terrifying sword in the hands of Magneto.

………

The sunset is gradually disappearing, and the afterglow will go out.

As the only channel connecting the two sides, the Golden Gate Bridge is always a lively scene of traffic, regardless of the time, and a large number of dense vehicles are constantly passing through the two ends of the bridge body.

Today, this continuous flow of traffic has completely stagnated with the arrival of a group of mutants.

The orange sunset glowed on the bridge. As the dark crowds of people rushed onto the bridge, the sound of cars braking and honking and the chaotic escape of the crowd gradually spread to the entire bridge.

At the front of the crowd, Magneto, wearing a red helmet, led the way. He just waved his hands slightly, and the invisible magnetic force pushed the many cars blocking the road in front of him to the left and right, until they hit the metal guardrail at the edge and stopped. However, this stopping process was a bit too rough.

For those who were lucky, only parts flew everywhere, and the drivers inside the vehicles had a chance to escape. For those who were unlucky, under the chain collision of several cars, all flesh and iron were squeezed into a pile of waste, and there was no possibility of survival.

Magneto did not kill. He often had an extremely indifferent attitude towards these human civilians, just like a human looking down at an ant from a high place. He did not care if the ant slipped away from his feet, but if he accidentally crushed it into meat paste, he would not feel the slightest guilt.

It took him less than ten breaths to clear a wide flat land at the end of the bridge. Outside the flat land were crowded and scattered vehicles. Survivors kept opening the car doors in panic, and then bypassed him from a distance to try to escape the bridge quickly.

The sound of hurried running, uncontrollable crying, suppressed screams caused by injuries, and other sounds all rang in Magneto's ears one after another, but he did not care about it, and even the dark mass of Brotherhood members behind him were also calm.

Compared with the life and death of these humans, they are more concerned about how Magneto, the leader of the Brotherhood, will lead them to Devil's Island, which is surrounded by the sea.

However, the next moment, they saw the most shocking scene in their lives. Magneto, who was at the front of the crowd, raised his arms slightly, and then the vast magnetic force was driven by his tiny body. The whole bridge shook violently, and the deafening roar resounded throughout the bridge.

Then the foundation collapsed, the suspension cable broke, and in the stunned eyes of the people on both sides of the strait, this behemoth with a history of nearly 70 years lying on both sides of the strait flew into the air. Under the control of Magneto, the more than 2,000-meter all-metal bridge forcibly tore apart all parts connected to the surface, began to float in the air and slowly turned, and kept approaching Devil's Island, which was called the isolated island in the sea.

In the Devil's Island sentry tower, the soldiers stationed on the island looked at the giant bridge suspended in the air from a distance, and their faces turned gray in an instant. This almost divine power was no longer something they could contend with.

What does it mean to have a giant metal bridge that is more than 2 kilometers long? Let's put it this way. The overall length of Alcatraz is only 0.55 kilometers, the widest part is about 0.2 kilometers, and the area is about 0.0763 square kilometers, which is much inferior to the bridge in the sky.

This also means that if Magneto, who can control the entire giant bridge, wants to completely destroy them, he doesn't even need to spend any effort. He only needs to control the bridge and smash it on the island a few times, and the entire island will be doomed. Their weak weapons face this giant weighing hundreds of thousands of tons, and the damage is almost the same as that of an embroidery needle.

Above the island, it is not just the soldiers on Alcatraz who are shocked by Magneto's power. The same is true for the X-Men who are hiding in the sky in the Sun Chaser and overlooking the sea below on the deck.

At the edge of the deck, Xu Yue stared at the huge metal bridge across the sea below, his face slightly gloomy. Although he had seen this scene in the movie, the shock he brought when he saw it with his own eyes was completely different.

The nearly 100-meter Sun Chaser was already a behemoth, but compared with the Golden Gate Bridge, it was like a grass carp compared to a giant whale. The other party only flicked its tail once. If it could hit, he estimated that both the man and the boat would die on the spot.

This is the horror of the mutant bipolar. Although the professor can directly wipe out all mankind, the spiritual energy is silent, so it is difficult to actually observe the opponent's majestic power, but Magneto is different. His magnetic control can often burst out the most pure and intuitive extreme violence.

"Hehe, Magneto's nickname of the scene man is really not taken for nothing. Faced with such a crushing power gap, how should the human side deal with it?"

"Now it can be regarded as the beginning of the good show."