Texas, located in the southern United States, covers an area of approximately 700,000 square kilometers and has a population of nearly 30 million. It was originally part of Mexico and became the 28th state of the United States on December 29, 1845.
Prosperous and prosperous, this place has always been an important oil producing area, petrochemical industry center, and trade center in the United States... and its importance has always been ranked at the forefront of the states.
But recently, a serious epidemic broke out here.
This is a weird disease that is spread through breathing and is extremely deadly. All patients who develop the disease will eventually have their lungs petrified into black stones.
And those who are infected but don't die in the end are even worse and turn into a kind of monster. Moreover, the monster each patient eventually turns into is different.
At the beginning, the medical system reported the situation to its superiors, and then level by level, it was reported to President Rogers. Steve now has some experience with similar weird things. He checked it out and found out that it was another smuggler who did it.
And because the local forces in Texas are very powerful and have never been willing to submit to federal control, Alexander is also happy to sell this part of the area outside his own sphere of influence to the Hive in exchange for what he needs.
Of course, this matter was suppressed again.
Moreover, Steve is now worried about Shaoji Carter's health all day long, rather than some distant epidemic in Texas.
After Shao Ji vomited blood last time, she quickly returned to work and seemed to be completely healed. But Steve always felt that Shao Ji's body was gradually getting weaker.
But whenever Steve brought up this matter, Shao Ji would either change the subject or stay away from him with a straight face.
Steve once secretly went to the hospital to check Shao Ji's medical records, but judging from the physical examination results, Shao Ji's body was completely a role model for young people. She was very healthy and had no problems.
In the end, Steve had no choice but to think that he was careless and misjudged Shaoji's situation.
Without federal obstruction, the Hive's plan went very smoothly in Texas, and countless amounts of Terrigen crystal powder were sent to various cities through wind power.
In the face of this epidemic, the federal government has not failed to respond at all. Anyway, only the people above know what the truth is about this epidemic and whether these response measures are effective.
All kinds of anti-epidemic materials and medical assistance have been done, everything that should be distributed has been distributed, and all the procedures that should be followed are not missing.
In particular, almost all pharmaceutical companies have sent people to station in Texas. Various masks, medicines and other things are being pulled here by car.
But these things are completely useless, and the damned people will still die.
In the end, the disease became more and more serious, spread more and more widely, and the whole of Houston was paralyzed, so Hydra symbolically sent an investigation team down.
Then the blame was thrown on the mutants.
Because those who did not die were eventually transformed into aliens. As for aliens and mutants, it would be difficult to distinguish them without genetic testing.
With their ugly and weird looks and powerful and hard-to-control superpowers, it’s hard not to suspect that they are mutants!
For this reason, even the X-Men came here specifically to see if there was really a mass awakening of mutants, which led to the tragedy of the fall of Texas.
But this time they are much more courageous than before. With Magneto, the world's strongest man, in charge, no one dares to show any disrespect to mutants.
Even ordinary people suspected that this tragedy was caused by the awakening of mutants, but they did not dare to say it out loud for fear of attracting Magneto to come and massacre them again.
Twenty million deaths in Texas may seem like a lot, but compared to the dead souls under Magneto, it's not enough!
Scott got off the plane with a team of X-Men, shook hands with the state government officials he had contacted in advance and exchanged greetings, then got in the car and headed to the city hospital.
In order to facilitate the infection of aliens, Hive specially asked Malik to use his connections to send all infected "patients" here.
When Scott arrived at the hospital, he couldn't help but feel his heart sink when he looked at the ordinary people around him who were glaring at his group with hatred.
He whispered to Flash behind him: "Look at the way they look at us, the hatred between us and ordinary humans is becoming increasingly difficult to resolve."
The burning man next to him interjected: "Why do we need to resolve it? We are here this time to take away our compatriots. Otherwise, who knows whether they will be treated unfairly."
Scott sighed and said nothing more.
Because of the existence of Magneto, the mutant kingdom can suppress the world's dissatisfaction, and the mutants' sense of identity with their own race has reached its peak.
But because of this, mutants' identification with ordinary humans has dropped to an all-time low.
Now the people of the Mutant Kingdom only recognize non-mutants who are related by blood, that is, ordinary people living on Paradise Island. But for ordinary humans outside the island, many people are completely indifferent and only treat them as another species.
But there were some things that Scott couldn't tell them, lest people talk too much and leak the news.
He shook his head silently and walked towards the hospital.
What greeted them at the door was a young doctor, and from Scott's induction, he knew that this man was a powerful magnetic field warrior.
Of course, Scott believed that this magnetic field warrior was sent by the federal government to monitor this new group of mutants.
However, he is a dove to begin with, so he is not averse to these preventive measures. As long as there is no substantial harm, he can completely ignore them.
"Welcome, I am the director of this hospital, you can call me Edison."
Scott shook hands with him and said politely:
"Hello, Dean Edison, I'm Scott, the captain of the X-Men. We want to take a look at those who have awakened their superpowers."
"Of course, they are all here now, in several buildings around here. Where do you want to start?"
Scott frowned, "How many buildings? So many? I hope they haven't been treated unfairly."
"Don't worry about this. They are completely free here, have no worries about food and clothing, and live a happy life. If you let them leave, they may not be willing to leave!" Edison smiled a little weirdly.
"I hope so."
Scott walked into the building first, and the X-Men followed him and filed in.
Dean Edison stood behind him and watched them enter the building.
When the X-Men were all gone, Edison, or Hive, burst into laughter.
"What a surprise, what a big surprise!"
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