Hearing Shaw's complaints about Professor X, Old Magneto nodded beside him.
He still believes Professor X's abilities are the top among Mutants, but unfortunately his old friend keeps insisting he wasted his time in vain.
"Then leave it to me," Shaw said, having an idea. "I've just learned a few moves."
Old Magneto quickly asked, "What about the Sentinels? It's time for us to go to Trask Group."
In this World there is no Pioneer Company; Bolivar Trask directly founded his own company, dedicated to studying Mutants.
Although Trask was killed by Mystique in 1973, Trask Industries persisted and continued his research, eventually creating World‑destroying sentinel robots.
"Sentinels?" Shaw was puzzled; he didn't know about Sentinels in this World.
So Fang Yuan gave him a brief explanation.
"What?" Shaw exclaimed, shocked, looking incredulously at Old Charles and Old Eric. "You seized the World from my hands just to let humanity destroy it themselves?"
Hearing this soul‑searching question, the elderly Professor X and Magneto felt a bit embarrassed.
Although World destruction wasn't their intention, they were indeed partly responsible.
If it weren't for their mutual conflict, humanity wouldn't have grown so distrustful of Mutants, nor would humans repeatedly try to eliminate them.
It has been proven that extreme violence frightens humanity, while extreme appeasement makes it reckless.
Now the two suddenly felt some agreement with Shaw's earlier plan; at least after Sebastian Shaw's plan succeeds, a small number of Mutants will still survive, avoiding total extinction.
Ahem, the two quickly put away this dangerous idea.
"We learned of the Sentinels in 2013, but couldn't stop their emergence then. With a ten‑year head start now, we have a good chance to prevent them," Old Professor X continued providing crucial intel.
Fang Yuan recalled that this also happened at the end of Wolverine 2.
A weary Wolverine, returning from being ambushed by the little devils, met Magneto at the airport, along with the Professor X he thought had been killed by Jean seven years earlier, and they set out to stop the dangerous weapons humanity had created.
A year later Fang Yuan waited for Days of Future Past.
Although the X-Men‑versus‑human plot to kill the Sentinels wasn't shown, only the scenes of Sentinels brutally crushing the X-Men were aired.
Nevertheless, Fang Yuan still believes Days of Future Past and Wolverine 3 are the two best movies in Fox's X-Men series.
"Even though sentinel robots are almost fully designed, they aren't mass‑produced yet and are weaker than later models, we can completely destroy them!" Old Magneto added.
But Fang Yuan and Sebastian Shaw exchanged a glance and both shook their heads.
"Why are you all focused on how to deal with sentinel robots?" Fang Yuan suddenly asked.
Shaw smiled and explained, "Perhaps the sentinel robots you speak of will become very powerful in the future, but right now they're just a product being manufactured by a company."
Magneto understood, "Take down Trask Industries?"
"Eric!" Old Charles quickly interjected to stop him from walking the old path again.
He then added, "I could mentally control the top executives of Trask Industries."
Old Magneto was very surprised, because Professor X had never been willing to do that before.
It seems the changes brought by the apocalypse are still too great.
But Fang Yuan still shook his head; although Professor X has become enlightened, Fang Yuan naturally won't handle it so simply.
To him, everything usable is a resource.
Sentinels are a very good resource.
"I have an idea!" Fang Yuan said.
Of course, hearing this as "I have a bunch of bad water" would also make perfect sense.
"Lean in," Fang Yuan whispered to the three, "We are... like this..."
On the quiet school playground, Old Charles wore a solemn expression, Old Magneto was greatly enlightened, Shaw silently applauded... If any students sneaking through the woods at night heard their fragmented words, they'd likely have their hearts shattered on the spot.
Fortunately, thanks to Professor X's strict protection, they didn't collapse their plans before achieving any success.
The next day, Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters gained another Professor.
Old Charles personally brought Fang Yuan to the classroom and introduced him to the students: "This is Professor Fang Yuan. He founded a Vought Corporation dedicated to helping Mutants master their abilities."
"If you're interested, you can elect to take Professor Fang Yuan's courses."
As soon as Professor X finished speaking, many students raised their hands; looking closely, almost all the female students signed up.
Fang Yuan's outward qualities are outstanding; he's handsome, and after years of practicing magic, he exudes a profound aura, making him a lethal weapon in the eyes of these ten‑year‑old female students.
Especially Rogue, who not only raised her hand but kept waving at Fang Yuan, trying to attract his attention.
Fang Yuan blinked at her, instantly making Rogue's eyes smile and squint with delight.
But aside from the girls, the boys raising their hands were basically just kids, and the slightly older male students felt a bit repulsed at the sight of Fang Yuan.
After all, he immediately drew all the attention of the female classmates.
This is behavior under the influence of the Low-Level Affinity Aura; without the aura they'd probably be outright hostile.
And Fang Yuan doesn't look much older than them, which makes the competitive male students a little disgruntled.
"Professor, we are already learning to control our abilities," a somewhat familiar male voice raised his hand and said.
Fang Yuan instantly laughed.
It's you, Lamplighter!
Of course, in the X-Men World, the Lamplighter's role is the Ice Man, a sort of alternative homage to himself.
Compared to the Lamplighter Fang Yuan met in The Boys World, the current Ice Man is much more inexperienced.
His face right now reads "jealous and competitive" in big letters.
As for the reason, it's naturally Rogue.
Rogue may not be particularly pretty in Fang Yuan's eyes, but to the Ice Man she is different.
She is a fresh, youthful new female classmate.
Soon after Rogue arrived, Bobby started fawning over her, but Rogue always brushed him off and roamed the school all day, as if looking for someone.
Now Bobby knows she's actually looking for a handsome guy.
So the Ice Man naturally dislikes Fang Yuan, and his normally gentle personality can't help but subtly target Fang Yuan.
"Bobby, what you normally learn at school is basic control; Professor Fang will teach you how to use your abilities in combat," Professor X explained kindly, "or to protect yourself and others."
He is always patient with the students.
But he has never truly protected the students' safety.
In the X-Men film series, almost every installment has students being kidnapped, sometimes with the military marching in to seize them, showing no regard for so‑called human rights.
Although human rights are already a joke, Mutants aren't even a joke.
For Professor X, who founded the school to protect Mutant teenagers, this is undeniably incompetent.
So when Fang Yuan suggested taking the chance to boost the students' strength, the older Professor X agreed.
Having survived the apocalypse, he knows all too well how fickle the World is; Mutants are now in the spotlight, and even if they aren't trained as soldiers, they at least need more self‑defense capability.
As for why Fang Yuan is so eager and why he dragged Vought Corporation into it, Old Charles didn't press the matter.
It's normal for Fang Yuan to have requests, as long as they don't harm Mutant interests.
And Fang Yuan's proactive offer to teach these students is obviously because of the Full Bloom Aura (A‑Grade).
[Guiding staff to develop abilities can yield ability feedback based on improvement level.]
To Fang Yuan, these students are all genuine treasures.
The enrollment at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters in this World is nowhere near the massive, multi‑campus, massive‑student system under Fang Yuan's Vought.
Here there are only about twenty to thirty students in total.
But many of these students are well‑known characters.
At this moment another youngster raised his hand: "But can he really mentor us? What is his ability?"
The speaker is actually this World's Lamplighter, also the Ice Man Bobby's old rival, Pyro John.
Water and fire don't mix, so it's normal.
Compared to Bobby, his personality is even more rebellious, constantly flaunting his fire‑control powers to attract attention.
Later in the story he even joins Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants.
So seeing the newcomer Fang Yuan hog the spotlight, the Pyro feels slighted.
It's rare for Ice Man Bobby and Pyro John to team up against the same person.
Old Charles glanced at Fang Yuan, saw he wasn't angry at all, and just chuckled.
Fang Yuan is long past the youngster phase, so he doesn't get upset with them; instead he finds the boys' jealous antics amusing.
But his attitude instantly provoked discontent among the male students, led by the Ice‑and‑Fire duo.
"Then show us!" Pyro John shouted, and the other students hooted along.
Rogue frowned at John and Bobby, finding them noisy.
Old Charles turned to Fang Yuan, smiling broadly, the meaning obvious.
You caused this, you deal with it.
Fang Yuan raised an eyebrow, unsurprised; he knew that without showing real power, these students would never obey.
Let Teacher Fang give you a lesson.
He waved his right hand forward, and an orange‑red spark‑ring portal appeared, swiftly moving toward the students and trapping them; in an instant all the students were transported to the playground outside the building.
Then Fang Yuan opened another portal in front of himself and asked Professor X, "Together?"
Old Charles shook his head, "Play at your own pace."
Since returning from the future, he still has a lot to prepare in advance.
Fang Yuan smiled, then stepped into the portal to go treasure‑hunting.
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