Chapter 42 Protests

It took him only a few minutes to read the report completely, and he smiled and shook his head.

This is a report from a well-known TV station.

The TV station invited several experts to discuss the impact of his existence and actions on the younger generation of mutants in a live broadcast during prime time last night.

Not long after the show ended, the report appeared on the Internet, summarizing the views of the experts in words.

Then, he was labeled with the eye-catching new label "New Leader of Mutants".

From the perspective of communication, the TV station used the term "New Leader of Mutants" as the title, mainly to attract the attention and curiosity of others, thereby increasing the click rate of the report.

Although the label "New Leader of Mutants" is a bit exaggerated, it is not a groundless title party.

The experts who participated in the show all expressed similar views.

Today's mutants are mainly divided into two factions.

One faction is represented by Professor X and the X-Men, who advocate peaceful coexistence with the US government and ordinary people.

The other faction is represented by Magneto and the Brotherhood of Mutants, who advocate the use of force to fight for fair rights.

Although there are some fence-sitters between the doves and the hawks, and mutants who have no ideas or opinions.

But in general, most mutants support either the doves or the hawks.

And now, a new faction has emerged in the mutant community.

That is the liberal faction represented by him, who neither accepts the Mutant Restriction Act and the management of the Department of Mutant Affairs, nor attacks other US government agencies like the Brotherhood of Mutants, and advocates "I will not offend others if others do not offend me."

More importantly, most of the mutants who support him are young people among mutants.

To put it simply, they are peers of the same age as him.

Although he knew before that there was a liberal in the mutant community who imitated his style of doing things and advocated "I will not offend others if others do not offend me", he never thought that he was the leader of the liberal faction.

He never thought about becoming the new leader of mutants, nor did he intend to use his own power to help the mutant community fight for anything.

Mutants are indeed being treated unfairly now, but from a certain perspective, this is also the fault of most mutants who dare not resist.

If these mutants unite and use force like Magneto to protect their legitimate rights and interests, neither the Mutant Restriction Act nor the Department of Mutant Affairs will appear.

Fairness must be achieved with fists!

If you don't dare to resist yourself, don't expect everyone to have a high moral level.

Although Richard is also a mutant, he is a time traveler. He does not have a strong sense of belonging to the mutant community or to this world.

For him, traveling to this world is like playing a real game that cannot be reloaded and has no system administrator.

Whether it is Wolverine and Sabretooth, or the mutant agents of the Department of Mutant Affairs, or other people who died in his hands, they all give him the same feeling as NPCs in the game.

It is precisely because of this that he did not feel any discomfort about killing people even though he started killing people on the first day of his journey.

Although he knew that this world was not a game, and the people he killed were not NPCs composed of data, but living humans.

But in a short period of time, it was difficult for him to change his mindset from playing games.

In his opinion, he would have to stay in this world for at least several years before he would gradually change his mindset.

After reading the report released by the TV station, he put his laptop into the system space, picked up the knife and fork and dishes and went to the kitchen to clean them.

Then, he returned to the table, took out $1,000 from the system space, put the money on the table, and pressed it with a cup.

This $1,000 was the accommodation fee he left for the owner of the cabin.

It was already very rude to live in the cabin without the consent of the owner of the cabin.

If he patted his butt and left without leaving anything after living there for a few days, it would be somewhat unreasonable.

At least in his opinion, it was inappropriate to do so.

When he was cooking just now, he found that there was not much food left in the system space, and he could only live for one or two days at most.

Considering that he had lived here for five or six days, he planned to leave here today, go to downtown San Francisco to buy new living supplies, and then go to the next city.

After leaving the accommodation fee for the past few days on the table, he returned to the kitchen and picked up the garbage bag containing kitchen waste.

The next second, he decisively performed teleportation and disappeared out of thin air.

Downtown San Francisco.

It must be said that teleportation is much more useful than flash.

In just a moment, he came to the center of San Francisco from the wooden house dozens of kilometers away.

Although he had never been to San Francisco before, it didn't matter to him who had teleportation.

Unlike flash, teleportation requires locking the location you want to transfer in advance in your mind.

After locking the transfer location, whether you have been there before or have an impression of the transfer location in your mind will not affect the performance of teleportation.

To put it simply, as long as it does not exceed the transmission range of telepathy, he can choose the transmission location at will.

The rooftop of a building in the city center.

Richard stood on the edge of the rooftop and observed the surrounding situation, and began to look for the nearest large supermarket.

Without much effort, he saw a branch of a large chain supermarket.

After discovering this supermarket, he did not immediately perform telepathy to go there, but first teleported to a nearby alley and threw the garbage bag in his hand into the trash can.

Then, he performed telepathy to come to the inside of the supermarket.

Telepathy!

After transmitting to the supermarket, he immediately performed telepathy and fixed everyone in the supermarket.

The supermarket, which was originally noisy and bustling with people, suddenly became much quieter.

In addition to the music played in the supermarket, the TV playing in the home appliance area, and the various equipment in operation that were still making sounds, the entire supermarket fell into a strange silence.

Whether it was customers who came to the supermarket to purchase, the staff at the cash register, or the security personnel in the monitoring room.

At this time, they all kept their previous movements motionless like the exquisite wax figures.

After using telepathy to freeze everyone in the supermarket, Richard began his own shopping slowly.

This was not the first time he had done this.

He was not worried that the Mutant Affairs Department would find him.

Because after the purchase, he would leave San Francisco for the next city. Even if the Mutant Affairs Department knew that he had appeared in this supermarket, it would not be possible to lock his whereabouts.

Time passed by little by little.

After using teleportation to purchase the daily necessities he needed in different areas of the supermarket, he pushed the shopping cart to a cashier counter.

Although zero-dollar shopping is very popular in the United States now, he does not intend to do zero-dollar shopping like those silent ones.

Do not do good things for small things, and do not do evil things for small things!

Taking the barcode scanner from the staff, he began to scan the code to check out.

Every time he personally scanned the code to check out, he could not help but complain in his heart.

Supermarkets in the United States are now fully capable of setting up self-service code scanning checkout areas, but whether it is large chain supermarkets in the United States or those small supermarkets, they are still using "primitive" manual code scanning checkout.

After scanning all the items in the shopping cart and taking them out of the warehouse, he took out the corresponding cash from the system space and put the cash and receipts together on the cash register in front of the cashier.

Then, throw the purchased daily necessities into the system space.

Mind transmission!

After purchasing daily necessities, Richard disappeared instantly.

The next second, the people who were fixed by telepathy returned to their original state.

What is this?

After looking at the extra cash and receipts on the cash register, the cashier wearing a supermarket uniform and a hat showed a puzzled expression.

The roof of the building near the supermarket.

Richard sat on the edge of the roof and took out a bag of potato chips and a bottle of frozen fat house happy water from the system space.

Which city should I go to next?

While putting potato chips into his mouth, he was thinking about which city he would go to next.

Although three months have passed, he is still in California, but he is not staying near Los Angeles.

How about going to Las Vegas?

Las Vegas is in Nevada, next to California, not far from San Francisco.

If you use teleportation, you only need to use it once.

When he was bored before, he deliberately tested the maximum transmission distance of teleportation.

200 kilometers!

This is the current maximum distance of his teleportation.

If he remembers correctly, San Francisco is only about 900 kilometers away from Las Vegas.

This means that he only needs to perform teleportation 5 times at most to reach Las Vegas smoothly.

Of course, the premise is that he does not get the wrong direction and get lost.

Just when he was thinking about whether to go to Las Vegas and experience the local customs and customs in Las Vegas, which is known as the "World Entertainment Capital" and "Gambling City", he heard the sound of sirens from a distance.

No matter which city in the United States, the police cars whizzing past with sirens are a beautiful landscape.

Richard did not take these sirens to heart.

But when he saw the police cars whizzing through the streets and surrounding a group of mutants protesting at the intersection, he suddenly became interested.

Although he didn't know the mutants who were protesting, the signs and banners held by these mutants attracted his attention.

Freedom is not a crime!

Oppose the Mutant Restriction Act!

Mutants should have the freedom to use their superpowers legally!

Oppose the Department of Mutant Affairs' excessive use of power!

Richard Wesley should not be wanted!

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