Samuel's treatment was indeed far beyond others.
William Stryker almost never assigned him tasks, and even if there were tasks, he would act with the squad, and he wouldn't be required to take action.
The secret prison where Mutants were held was almost undefended against him; he could enter and exit freely without needing to specifically greet William Stryker.
If he wanted to bring Keira out, he would bring Keira out; if he wanted to give special care to someone, he would give special care to someone.
Although William Stryker couldn't truly trust him that much, at least the trust on the surface was fully given.
Samuel also didn't play any small tricks; he truly did as he said at the beginning. Anyway, these people couldn't leave alive, so it was better to create more value and satisfy himself.
The secret prison became a place for him to find amusement.
Keira also gradually got used to it from the initial resentment and numbness, no longer resisting, and became relatively much more normal.
When interacting with Samuel, she would also show expressions and emotions that a normal girl would have, as well as some actions that normal men and women would do when interacting.
How to put it, Keira is still young and had no emotional experience before this, so no matter how vigilant she was, she would slowly be influenced by long-term interaction.
Especially when Samuel did some actions that exceeded her understanding of his identity, she would naturally feel touched.
If a woman hasn't received a gift from her partner for decades and has already gotten used to it.
Suddenly one day, her partner gives her a gift, do you think she will be touched?
Ten good times are not as effective as one bad time, and ten bad times are not as effective as one good time. The effects are the same.
Samuel is the latter!
Keira was still a prisoner held captive, and when Samuel didn't need her, she still had to return to her cell.
But Samuel could allow her to escape this status, although it was only temporary, it was enough to make her feel dependent and trusting.
Understand Stockholm Syndrome?
Although Keira hasn't reached that point yet, in her heart, Samuel has gradually changed from the bad guy who captured and held them to one of their own.
After all, Samuel joined later, and the matter of capturing Mutants had nothing to do with him; he just... just couldn't do anything about it!
Time flew like a white steed passing a crevice; two or three months passed in the blink of an eye.
"Bang bang bang!"
A knock sounded, and Samuel and Keira, who were preparing to rest in the room, stopped.
Keira said nervously in a low voice, "No one has ever knocked at this time. Could something have happened?"
"We'll know when we open the door."
Samuel already knew who was knocking; he was also a little curious why the other party would come at this time.
The two went to open the door, and William Stryker outside smiled, saying somewhat apologetically to Samuel, "I need to talk to you about something."
"Come in and talk."
Sitting down on the sofa, Keira consciously poured a cup of Water for the two of them and turned to go into the bedroom.
"You stay too; the matter is also related to you."
Keira was stunned for a moment, then sat down next to Samuel nervously.
William Stryker asked Samuel, "Do you remember James?"
James is Wolverine.
Samuel nodded, "I remember, what about him?"
"I have a plan!"
William Stryker's trust in Samuel was increasing day by day, and besides, his plan couldn't bypass Samuel, so he explained it in great detail.
The ultimate goal of the plan was to use Adamantium to transform Wolverine into the strongest weapon.
The technical aspects had been overcome; the current difficulty was how to make Wolverine willingly accept the modification.
Yes, willingly!
Because injecting Adamantium was too dangerous; even with Wolverine's powerful Self-healing ability, there was still a very high risk of failure.
According to their research and speculation, if Wolverine was willing and had the active belief that he wanted to succeed, the effect would be better than forcibly modifying him after capturing him, and the chance of success would be greater.
It was not easy to make Wolverine willingly accept the modification. William Stryker planned to disband the Mutant Squad, let Wolverine know the news, completely put his mind at ease, and let go of the past.
Then he would design and arrange for Samuel to defect, allowing the angry Samuel, who was focused on revenge, to hunt the Mutant Squad.
Especially, he had to kill Sabretooth!
He would go to Wolverine beforehand to warn him, wait for Samuel to thoroughly defeat Wolverine once, and then he would take the opportunity to instigate Wolverine, making Wolverine voluntarily accept the modification to avenge himself and Sabretooth.
William Stryker's plan had some differences from the original movie, but the overall idea was still the same.
In the original version, the one hunting the Mutant Squad was Sabretooth, because he was the strongest in the Mutant Squad. Having him hunt squad members, kill Wolverine's girlfriend, and force Wolverine to accept modification for revenge was simply perfect.
But now Samuel was the strongest in the Mutant Squad.
If Sabretooth were still to play the role of hunting the squad members, it would be impossible to make Wolverine risk accepting the modification!
Secondly, the main reason Wolverine would agree to the modification was that his girlfriend was killed by Sabretooth, and he couldn't defeat Sabretooth.
Now, perhaps William Stryker felt quite satisfied with Keira, and he didn't have any other suitable candidates.
So he changed the role of the person forcing Wolverine to seek revenge from a girlfriend to a family member.
Sabretooth was Wolverine's half-brother, although they had gone their separate ways. However, if Samuel killed Sabretooth and also tried to kill him, it would likely also force him to accept modification for revenge.
There were also some other details, such as the Mutant Squad genuinely being disbanded, and no one knew the truth except Samuel, including Sabretooth.
In the movie, when Sabretooth killed Keira, Keira faked her death, but now Samuel killing Sabretooth? Heh heh, that would be real.
Although Sabretooth was easy to use, if he could make Wolverine accept the Adamantium injection and become the strongest weapon, William Stryker didn't care about his life or death at all!
There was also the most crucial point.
The reason for Samuel's defection and revenge!
This reason had to make the Mutant Squad believe that he had truly defected and that he genuinely wanted to kill all the members of the squad.
"What reason have you arranged for me?" Samuel asked with interest.
William Stryker glanced at Keira and said with a smile, "There are so many female Mutants in the prison for you to choose from, but you only chose her. Did you fall in love with her?"
"Yes, you fell in love with her! So you will be because I killed her, and because of loving the house and its crow, you rescued her sister!"
"To get revenge, and to avoid being hunted afterwards, you decided to first hunt the Mutant Squad who are familiar with you, and then wipe out me and this Base completely to erase your traces."
William Stryker asked with a smile, "How do you think this reason is?"
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