Marvel: I Awake the Little Cosmos-Chapter 562 - 530: Hawk Goes Fishing

Not only was Hawk curious about this question.

Similarly.

Wanda was also very curious about Professor X’s stance.

Previously, because her daughter was safely under Professor X’s protection, although she was curious about his stance, she did not ask.

After all, this question is somewhat impolite.

As for now.

The favor Professor X has extended was completely exhausted the moment he came to the doorstep and knocked on the door.

As the saying goes.

If it were someone else telling them to repay grievances with virtue, not just Hawk, but Wanda would treat that person harshly on the spot.

It’s only because it’s Professor X.

As everyone knows.

Hawk repays kindness with kindness, and vengeance with vengeance.

The Phoenix Clan’s family values are just like that.

Therefore, after the favor is exhausted, Wanda naturally won’t consider Professor X’s dignity.

After all, it’s him who disregards dignity first.

Are you siding with humans?

Or siding with mutants?

Upon hearing Wanda’s blatant question, Professor X’s facial expression couldn’t help but change, and he looked at Wanda.

"Madam Phoenix, my stance has always been peace."

"Whose peace?"

"Human peace?"

"No."

Professor X’s face was serious: "Regardless of whether it’s humans or mutants, I always strive for coexistence in peace."

Wanda laughed.

"Are you sure? After all, before the Sentinel Special Service Bureau was capturing mutants worldwide, you didn’t step forward to stop them."

"Yet he did."

Wanda said this while glancing at Magneto standing by, and then looked back at Professor X: "Every time he tries to use violence to secure peace for mutants, you always show up to help humans stop him."

Professor X’s expression remained unchanged.

"Because violence cannot bring peace, Madam Phoenix."

"Violence can’t bring peace?"

Upon hearing Professor X’s words, Wanda smiled slightly: "So you want to be like Gandhi, non-violent non-cooperation, waiting for them to get tired of massacring mutants, hoping they would stop because they’re exhausted? Honestly, I’m very curious, Professor X, besides striving for so-called mutant peace agreements with humans, what substantial efforts have you made for the plight of mutants, outside of stopping Magneto and the Black King back then."

Upon hearing this, Professor X said: "Gandhi is a hero."

Yes.

No matter how Gandhi’s reputation is in Eastern culture, in Western culture, Gandhi is regarded as a hero.

Especially his non-violence and non-cooperation approach, which is highly esteemed.

It might be because the West thinks that by putting non-violent, non-cooperative Gandhi on a pedestal, they could colonize faster.

After all, non-cooperation wouldn’t hinder their colonial ambitions.

But when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back at you. Originally expecting others to believe this viewpoint, they unexpectedly found themselves believing it too.

Just like Professor X right now.

"Your hero, my disdain."

"To me, Gandhi is no hero."

"But undeniably, you are indeed a good person."

"That’s also why you can still speak now."

Wanda shook her head, smiling somewhat blandly, then looked at Professor X: "But next time, you’re not going to be so lucky if you dare appear before me again. If you don’t want this world to be completely destroyed by us, then leave!"

After finishing this sentence, Wanda ended the conversation with Professor X, raised her right hand, and instantly closed the door.

With a thud.

Sitting in the wheelchair, Professor X looked at the closed door, expression silent.

Standing aside, Magneto glanced at the closed door, retracted his gaze, and said to Professor X: "Not everyone is as easy to talk to as I am, Charles."

Professor X raised his eyes to look at Magneto.

"Washington can’t be disturbed, if Washington falls into chaos, the Federation will be chaotic, if the Federation is chaotic, the world will be chaotic."

"I see it as still intact now."

Listening to Professor X’s usual rhetoric again, Magneto’s expression became somewhat skeptical: "Washington’s death toll has increased these days, but those who should be there are still there, I don’t feel the world is about to be thrown into chaos."

Speaking of which, he couldn’t help but remember his friend’s previous rhetoric to stop him.

It was this rhetoric.

That convinced him that an upheaval in the Federation wouldn’t change the plight of mutants in any way, and that after military might, the people of the Federation would reconsider their relationship with mutants.

Magneto naively believed it.

And what happened?

Washington continued its way, repeatedly uncorrected.

Professor X shook his head: "Humans spent years learning how to stand and walk; they just need more time."

Magneto nodded: "So how many more compatriots’ lives do we need to sacrifice to wait for them to learn to think and coexist in peace with us?"

Professor X didn’t speak.

Magneto continued: "Or are you, as Wanda just said, always siding with humans, never with us mutants?"

Upon hearing this, Professor X looked straight at Magneto.

"In my heart, humans and mutants are the same."

"But your actions indeed stand on the side of humans. I try to fight for rights, you step in to stop it. Humans slaughter mutants, you ignore it."

Magneto laughed, completing his statement to Professor X and then retracting his gaze: "I’m not dealing with this matter anymore, and you saw it, I can’t handle it either. I’m leaving, Charles. I advise you to go back. Maybe this time, it will truly let the humans you claim need time to think, learn how to coexist with us."

With that said.

Magneto didn’t pay any more attention to Professor X, and left Palm Street on his own, disappearing from Professor X’s view.

Retracting his gaze, Professor X turned again to look at the closed door.

Now, two choices lay before him.

Go back, turning a blind eye.

Continue, gamble with the entire Earth one more time.

When choosing between mutants and humanity, he could choose humanity.

But when Washington and Earth combined into a choice, Professor X hesitated somewhat.

At this moment.

Professor X suddenly thought of Hawk.

He remembered something Jean said earlier, that because of Washington’s scheme this time, Hawk had fallen on the edge of life and death, unsure if he could awaken.

On the edge of life and death?

That was familiar to him.

He had just recently experienced briefly being on the edge of life and death when he was instantly killed by the activation of a Sentinel robot.

Therefore—

If I can awaken Hawk, then, isn’t it possible to persuade them to change their minds?

With this thought, Professor X’s heart stirred, and he acted immediately. After returning to the Xavier Institute, he went to the underground room of the institute, put on the Brainwave Amplification Device, and closed his eyes.

In an instant.

His mind swiftly landed above Palm Street, and within, he saw Jean and Wanda, and also saw Hawk meditating under a sycamore tree.

Without hesitation, Professor X plunged his mind directly into Hawk’s sea of consciousness, attempting to wake Hawk, thereby stopping Wanda’s unprecedented revenge set to begin in twenty-four hours.

With a swoosh.

Professor X felt a flicker in front of his eyes, and then found himself seemingly within a cosmos.

The galaxy was boundless.

The universe vast.

Phoenix cries echoed.

Professor X gazed around at this dazzling starry sky filled with golden-red light, somewhat incredulous.

After all, the world of life and death he had experienced wasn’t identical to this, yet also was completely mismatched.

For an instant, Professor X even wondered if he had come to the wrong place.

But very quickly.

Professor X found Hawk.

At a glance.

In the center of this stellar cosmos, sitting cross-legged seemingly at the heart of Phoenix, Hawk instantly appeared in Professor X’s vision.

Professor X’s eyes brightened, and before he thought of how to get there, he felt the next second he was already stepping on this lush grassland, arriving at the sycamore tree nearby where Hawk was meditating.

He walked over.

"Hawk Phoenix."

"..."

Cross-legged Hawk listened to the voice, opened his eyes, looking at Professor X standing in front of him, without any surprise in his gaze.

"Professor X."

"Mr. Phoenix."

Professor X looked at Hawk who had opened his eyes and said directly: "I’m here to rescue you out."

Hawk raised a brow.

"Rescue me?"

"Yes, you’re stuck on the edge of life and death, follow me and you can leave here."

"Follow you?"

Hawk rose from beneath the sycamore tree, and under Professor X’s watch, stretched his body lazily.

In an instant.

The cosmos shattered.

The starry sky crumbled.

Everything Professor X saw started collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye, eventually the cosmos turned into two singularities blazing with golden-red flames, then under Professor X’s gaze, merging with Hawk’s eyes, decorating Hawk’s pupils into the form of heavy pupils.

"This..."

"Had I wanted to go out, I would have long gone out."

Hawk looked at a shocked Professor X, smiling slightly.

Professor X upon hearing, looked at Hawk.

"Then you..."

"Seeing if my enemies would show up personally."

Hawk’s tone was calm.

He was referring to the Celestial God Team members.

After all, those who appeared previously were merely the Eternal Race’s Icarus, created by the Celestial God Team.

Yet no Celestial God Team member actually appeared.

Initially, Hawk thought that this time, if he fell to the brink of life and death, the Celestial God Team members would show themselves.

Thus after retracing a path he had once tread, he wasn’t in a hurry to leave but continued waiting here.

He was waiting for the Celestial God Team members.

As a result—

The Celestial God Team didn’t come, but he did wait for Professor X.

Hawk looked at Professor X who entered his sea of consciousness, the corner of his mouth slightly lifted.

"So!"

"Professor X, you risked your life to find me, do you want me to spare those people in Washington?"

"..."