Chapter 561: Seeking Peace through Struggle and Peaceful Existence, and Seeking Peace through Compromise
Charles said calmly: "I have not given up on my goals. I still believe that mutants and humans can coexist well, but some people who go astray always bring unnecessary harm to both parties."
"Charles, what exactly do you want to say?"
"Don't worry, I'll finish talking right away. The current situation looks very harmonious on the surface, but in fact we have not seen the crisis hidden deeper. I believe that after experiencing many large and small battles in the past, some people will not
Give up the idea of exterminating us. They have been lurking in the dark. After they get what they want, we will only be attacked without any preparation. This kind of thing has not happened before. I still can’t forget it.
In 1973, they forcibly took away my teachers and students and sent them to a battlefield that was like a meat grinder.
We won before, but I don’t know if we can keep winning. If we fail one day, what will happen to us? More importantly, as time goes by, they know us better and better.
The more we learn, the more familiar everything becomes to us day by day. In contrast, our understanding of them cannot be deeper.
So what I want to say is that the crisis of mutants may never erupt suddenly, but slowly accumulate over time.
And its embryonic form may have arrived a long time ago.”
After finishing these words, the room fell into a long silence.
First of all, Charles rarely said such heavy words to everyone in public. In the past, even if the facts were more serious, he always upheld the spirit of a leader and resisted all the pressure on himself, and would not directly say such heavy words to others.
A worrying reality.
Secondly, what Charles said clearly deviated from, and even ran counter to, the ideas he had adhered to in the past. Didn’t he and everyone else know what he said in the past? It’s just that he had always insisted on guiding bad people to
A good direction, but what does it mean to say this suddenly now?
Magneto was probably the most surprised of all.
The people who know themselves best are often their own enemies.
Magneto and Professor
He knew very well how stubborn Professor X was. He was just as stubborn as him.
It can even be said that he has been constantly persuading and influencing Charles in the past, hoping that he would change his mind and stand on a united front with him.
It's just that he failed every time before, so that later he became a habit of persuading Charles, and Charles' rejection became a fixed process.
Could it be that it was really because of his death that Charles finally came to his senses and discovered that only by following my ideas can mutants exist forever?
With this thought in his mind, Magneto's eyes became more and more intense without even noticing it.
If Charles really changes his direction, then there is no need for Charles to take action personally. As long as he does not stop him repeatedly in the process, Magneto and the Brotherhood alone can overturn the world structure!
In the past, Magneto and the Brotherhood's operations have never been disrupted by humans as targets.
Every time, it was Professor X and the X-Men who obstructed him, causing him to fail.
Therefore, Charles Xavier is mankind's eternal best friend.
As for everyone else except Magneto, their status is indeed not that positive and exciting.
On the one hand, they felt uncomfortable because the reality violated the peace they had previously thought, and on the other hand, they were confused because of the changes in Professor X.
Beast Hank was the first to speak.
"Professor, I understand your concerns, but we have finally achieved some initial results. In the history of mutants, no one has ever stood up on stage as openly as today. I will promote relevant protections in the United Nations."
Many international agreements on mutant rights restrict certain people..."
"Wait a minute." Hong Fei suddenly stopped him from continuing. He shook his head and sighed: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt your statement. It's just that what you said is the same as what he said.
Things are obviously not the same thing."
Hank suddenly frowned: "Why is it not the same thing? Isn't it the survival and safety of mutants that we are discussing?"
"Yes, but this is in the general direction. What we are saying is that for mutants, the crisis already exists and cannot be eliminated, and what you said is to use some agreed contracts and the like to restrict the other party. This is different from
Our discussions are going in opposite directions, they are contradictory, do you understand?"
Hank looked at Professor
Before Professor
"I don't think what you said is correct. Even the vaccine that has just appeared is not permanently effective. Otherwise, Mr. Magneto will not recover in such a fast time. And I believe that as long as I am given enough time,
, I will definitely prepare its antidote. So, the crises you mentioned may exist, but they cannot cause a fatal blow to us."
Hong Fei said calmly: "You are too optimistic, Doctor. Do you know all the research conducted by humans to deal with mutants? Can you guarantee that the final results of some of these projects will not be fatal?"
Hank's blue forehead wrinkled tightly. He paused and thought for a few seconds, then slowly shook his head: "I don't know, and I can't guarantee it. But we ourselves can't explore how much preparation humans have made. If
According to your statement, the conflicts between us and humans cannot be reconciled at all. But the reality is that even human countries have projects that target each other, and even they behave more nakedly. This in itself is a problem that cannot be ruled out. We
You can't go to war over something that hasn't happened. If humans thought like you, then I think World War III would have broken out a long time ago."
After he finished speaking, Hong Fei did not refute him in time, but turned to look at Charles.
So Professor
Facing Charles, Hank's attitude became more respectful: "Professor, tell me."
"The struggle between human countries is first limited to the concept of ordinary human beings, and secondly, before countries. But even some countries we knew back then have now disappeared in the long river of history?
You may say that although the regime has changed, those people still exist, but you have to know that they are all the same ordinary humans, not mutants. We cannot arbitrarily say that humans will definitely exterminate mutants, but we cannot either
Don’t consider that such a situation may indeed happen.”
Magneto raised his lips when he heard this.
He was very happy that Professor X could think of this, and even more happy that he would say it in front of these X-Men.
At this point, Charles's understanding is very similar to the philosophy of the Brotherhood.
The confusion on Hank's face still existed, but when facing Professor X, he had to consider his answer.
But on this question, the more I think about it, the less likely I am to find an answer.
Just like Hank said himself just now, no one can be sure about something that has not happened.
In this room, only Hong Fei truly knew that it would happen, of course without him.
In silence, Hong Fei stood up.
"Okay, everyone, I understand your confusion very well. It is nothing more than a sudden change in the concept that you have insisted on for a long time, and the results you just won suddenly become worthless. But the reality is so cruel. More to the point.
In other words, mutants cannot place their hopes on others for their survival.
To give another example, when it comes to security between countries, we can never hope that others will not attack me. Instead, we should try our best to make ourselves as strong as possible so that the other party cannot bear the price they may pay after attacking me, in order to deter the other party.
Don't dare to act.
Let me finally say something about the knowledge I learned from my motherland. If there are still people who object to it, then forgive me for not being able to continue wasting time with you.
We love peace, but if we seek peace through struggle, we will survive in peace, and if we seek peace through compromise, we will perish in peace."
After that, Hong Fei walked directly to the window and looked at the lush lawn outside and the quiet forest in the distance, waiting for their decision.
When hearing Hong Fei's last words, everyone present was moved.
It's not because they don't understand the truth. On the contrary, whether it's the X-Men or the Brotherhood, they are all working hard to achieve this goal, but sometimes they either don't act thoroughly enough, or they are simply too reckless.
Now, it is the first time that someone has summarized the direction of their efforts and the program of action in one sentence.
The people in the scene were probably the most excited.
At this time, he kept muttering this sentence in his mouth, as if he wanted to immediately turn it into the slogan of the Brotherhood, and immediately convey it to every mutant in the world and even humans.
Hank, Ororo, and Katie were all deep in thought.
Logan blinked thoughtfully, and then suddenly realized that he seemed to have heard this sentence somewhere a long time ago.
Charles was the quickest to figure it out. Judging from the look in his eyes, he should have known the origin of this sentence, but what he was more concerned about now was Hong Fei's other sentence.
If anyone still refutes it, then he won't waste time here.
But if he leaves, then shouldn't it be time to take action against the X-Men and the Brotherhood?
If he joins forces with Magneto, who is currently in poor condition, can he be stopped?
In other words, he has even passed his own hurdle, is it really necessary to go that far?