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Chapter 447 Mystique
Chapter 447 Mystique
"Believe it or not, Miss Dane, I'm here to help you."
Reed Strucker said.
He was accompanied by a female partner assigned by the "Sentinel" organization after his promotion.
At this moment, in the ears of this partner, all he thought was that Reed Strucker, like all the other officials who had ever fooled mutants, was trying to trick "Polaris" Lorna Dayne into cooperating with the Sentinels' human experiments.
So she stood silently behind Reed Strucker with a smile, watching her partner, who had been promoted by the Sentinel's Supreme Commander Darkholm just hours before, perform.
Polaris Lorna just smiled dismissively and didn't take Reed Strucker's words seriously.
She knew exactly what being arrested and imprisoned in "Sentinel's" jail meant: torture, forced confessions, blood draws...
No experiment will be omitted.
Lorna only hoped that she could hold out as long as possible; the longer she could hold out, the more likely she would be to find a chance to escape.
"As long as metal appears, I can use it to escape this cage—"
As Polaris Lorna was pondering, she saw Reed Strucker suddenly step forward, reach out and open the transparent cage that imprisoned her, and walk in.
"Buzz!"
The moment Reed opened the cage, the alarm blared, and the sound of footsteps from the guards outside immediately filled the air. They burst in a moment later, and were even more alarmed to see Reed Strucker and Polaris Lorna in the same cage.
Polaris Lorna remained motionless, watching Strucker walk into the cage with a smile, even a little curious about what this high-ranking "Sentinel" officer was up to.
"Strucker!"
Her female partner was squeezed at the back by the prison guards, and she couldn't help but shout.
Reed Strucker turned to his colleagues and gave them a reassuring gesture: "Don't worry, there was no escape."
As a senior "Sentinel" officer, Reed is now able to command the prison guards even in Garland Prison.
Seeing that Strucker seemed confident, the prison guards did not continue to harass him and left in an orderly manner.
Seeing that his words had indeed worked, Reed Strucker turned to look at Polaris Lorna, seemingly wanting to say something but then stopping himself.
Polaris Lorna raised an eyebrow, looking all ears.
Strucker took a deep breath, stepped forward again, and stood face to face with Polaris Lorna. His voice was so soft it was barely audible that Polaris had to turn her ear to hear him.
"I will help you escape from prison in three days."
A strange glint flashed in Polaris's eyes. She looked at Strucker and couldn't help but laugh out loud: "You personally led the Sentinel SWAT team to arrest me, imprison me in this jail, and even got promoted because of it—why should I trust you?"
The female assistant watched Strucker whisper something from outside the transparent cage. Her vigilance immediately rose, but after hearing Polaris Lorna's words, she quietly relaxed and did not doubt what Strucker said.
Reed Strucker didn't want this to happen, but he had no other choice.
A few days ago, his son was bullied at school when his potential was unexpectedly unleashed, turning him into a mutant with superpowers.
Fortunately, the Sentinel SWAT team did not target him for the time being. During dinner with his family that evening, Reed Strucker learned that his daughter had long been a mutant and that she had played a part in protecting her brother from being discovered by the Sentinels.
As a member of the Sentinel special forces, Reed Strucker knew that his children could not hide their identities forever and that they would be discovered sooner or later.
He had to find a way to move his family to a mutant settlement.
When his superior, Darkholm, contacted him to capture Polaris Lorna, Strucker pondered a question:
Even though Polaris, a mutant, prevented the disaster caused by the Earth-Moon tides, the Sentinels still wanted to take this opportunity to capture her.
However, he dared not disobey orders and thus came up with a solution:
He captures Polaris, promotes himself, and uses the advantages of his new position to move his family, citing the perfectly legitimate reason that he is "fearing that the mutants might take revenge on his family."
The plan is now halfway to success. Polaris Lorna has been successfully captured, and I have successfully become a high-ranking "Sentinel" officer.
The next step was to use the power of high-ranking officials to transfer family members without having to be questioned one by one by the "Sentinel" SWAT officers.
As for Polaris Lorna, who was imprisoned, Reed Strucker also tried to help her escape. Otherwise, even if Strucker, who had personally captured her, moved her family, they would become targets of mutant revenge.
"Why should I?" Polaris Lorna's question did not surprise Reed Strucker.
He kept his voice down so the female assistant outside the cage wouldn't hear: "You noticed me the moment I stepped into the cage, didn't you?"
"I can help you escape from prison because of the steel pins in my leg."
That was left in Reed Strucker's leg after surgery for a broken bone during a mission six months ago.
Why should I believe you?
Polaris Lorna looked at the high-ranking "Sentinel" officer with amusement, unsure of what he was up to.
"I captured you for a promotion so I could move my family—my children are mutants."
"
Reed whispered what had happened to him.
Polaris Lorna almost burst out laughing: "Haha, are you sure you're serious? You're not kidding me?"
Reed Strucker said sternly, "You can choose not to believe me and use your abilities to remove the steel pins from my legs and try to escape."
"But I need to tell you that this prison seems to have been prepared for your arrival for a long time. There are prison guards everywhere outside with special guns. Without my help, a single steel nail would not be enough to support your escape from here."
"Furthermore, as the leader of the mutant underground, you should be aware of the incident that happened at the school a few days ago, Sentinel," who is now checking each student in the school—that incident was caused by my child.
Reed Strucker was gambling; he was very confident that Polaris Lorna would choose to cooperate with him after listening to him.
And indeed, when Reed Strucker left the cell with his female assistant, Polaris Lorna secretly manipulated the steel nail in his leg, making it vibrate rhythmically.
If translated using Morse code, the frequency manipulated by Polaris Lorna means "0K".
At the Sentinel headquarters, Supreme Commander Darkholm lounged in his boss's chair with his legs propped up on his desk, looking quite relaxed.
With his thick beard, long, narrow face, snake-like eyes, and meticulously combed black hair, Darkholm looked exceptionally dangerous.
The computer screen on the desk displayed an image of Polaris Lorna's prison.
"Polaris" — I've finally caught you.
"You'll be indispensable in the war against the Inhumans."
Darkholm muttered to himself, then got up and went to the French windows to look at the scenery outside.
The window reflected Darkholm's image. A rustling sound came, and his face turned dark blue, his black hair turned red, and his body changed from a man's shape to that of a woman with slender branches bearing abundant fruit.
The Supreme Commander of the Sentinels, Darkholm, whose real name is Mystique Raven Darkholm.