In a certain room, the Sainte-Croix sisters stood to Samuel's left and right. Samuel sat on a chair, looking with interest at the girl in the electric cage before him.
This Base was mainly used by Bolivar Trask to research Big Raven, or rather, to develop Sentinel Robots.
The Mutants who could be held here were basically related to the research of the Sentinel project. Samuel swept around with his Mind Manipulation Ability and found only one Mutant.
He didn't know if she was the only extra Mutant originally, or if the other Mutants had already died in the research.
The Sentinel Robots that brought about the apocalypse for Mutants in Days of Future Past were so terrifying because they could change abilities and specifically counter Mutant abilities.
Moreover, the number of Sentinel Robots was large, and they could share abilities, perspectives, information, etc. Ordinary Mutants had no power to fight back when encountering Sentinel Robots.
The reason why Sentinel Robots were naturally countered by Mutants was mainly related to two abilities, or rather, two Mutants.
One was Mystique Raven, whose shapeshifting ability was the key for Sentinel Robots to freely switch abilities.
The other was Anna Marie, known as Rogue in the comics.
Anna Marie could absorb the life force and abilities of others through physical contact.
In the first X-Men movie, she and her boyfriend were studying in the bedroom, and it happened to be when her ability awakened. As soon as they touched, her boyfriend was almost sucked to death and remained in a coma for several weeks before waking up.
After running away from home, she met Wolverine and then joined Xaviers School for Gifted Youngsters.
Later, she was captured by Magneto, who wanted to use her ability to operate a machine that could turn humans into Mutants, but it was eventually destroyed by the X-Men.
In the second movie, she developed feelings for Iceman, but how could young boys and girls endure a utopian love affair?
In the third movie, Iceman gradually fell for Shadowcat. To win back Iceman, she accepted the cure that could heal Mutants and gave up her ability.
However, this did not win back her relationship with Iceman. During the Days of Future Past era, she broke up with Iceman and was later captured by Sentinel Robots and imprisoned in Xaviers School for Gifted Youngsters for research.
At that time, Xaviers School for Gifted Youngsters had been abandoned.
Someone attempted to rescue her but failed, so many people believed she was dead until Shadowcat sent Wolverine back to the past. With Shadowcat, Magneto, and Iceman, they risked their lives again to rescue her.
By this time, she could obtain the abilities of others. With her help, Wolverine was able to successfully reverse the future.
Similarly, it was her ability that allowed the Sentinel Robots to absorb the abilities of other Mutants, which is why the later Sentinel Robots were so terrifying.
Currently, Anna Marie should not have been born yet.
Getting back to the present, the girl in the cage had some unknown Mutant ability that made Bolivar Trask imprison her here, and she was still alive.
"What's your name?" Samuel asked with interest, looking at her.
The girl's appearance was not bad, with a youthful and beautiful feeling. Her long golden hair, combined with her anxious little expression at the moment, would make any normal man feel pity.
"I, I'm Paige Guthrie," the girl said nervously. "You, you're not from the laboratory, are you? Please, can you let me out?"
Paige Guthrie - that name sounds a bit familiar!
Samuel pondered, searching deep in his memory, and then chuckled under her anxious gaze and pleading eyes.
"It's you!"
Among the vast number of Mutants, there are definitely a few 'mosts', just like the strongest Mind Manipulation Ability user. The first person people think of is definitely Professor X.
And this Paige Guthrie is also one of the 'mosts'. She is the person who loves to'shed' the most in the X-Men!
Every time she appears, the first thing she does is shed her skin.
That's right, not clothes, but skin!
She has a codename called Husk. As the name suggests, her ability is to shed her outer skin and form a new layer of skin underneath.
She can simulate many solids with her skin, including diamond, granite, steel, wood, rubber, brick, glass, and even Adamantium.
At certain times, she can even turn into a liquid!
Simply put, her ability is somewhat similar to Absorbing Man.
Absorbing Man can turn himself into the same material just by touching it, while she doesn't need to touch, but she needs to first shed her outer layer of ordinary skin.
Her ability is somewhat limited, and since it's her own transformation, even simulating Adamantium, the destructive power is relatively limited.
But in terms of being weak, through simulation, she can enhance her strength, speed, senses, and resistance.
Through "molting", she can also get rid of external injuries, but deep wounds are still difficult to eliminate.
Overall, she meets Samuel's recruitment conditions - yes, mainly because of her appearance!
Speaking of this, Samuel couldn't help but complain about Magneto in X-Men 3. In the battle on Alcatraz Island caused by the cure, what kind of unattractive female Mutants did he recruit?
...
The one who used Shockwave was so hard to distinguish between male and female at first glance. Just looking at her figure, you could barely say she lacked ambition, but looking at her face?
Good heavens, even men don't look like that. Seeing her, Samuel couldn't help but marvel at the wonders of nature!
Yes, you Old Wan are aloof, you Old Wan are old, and you are willing but unable.
Yes, you believe that without women in your heart, drawing your sword is naturally divine.
But you are a man of the world. Not to mention having a few flower vases around to please your eyes and others', at least you shouldn't bring her out to scare people, right?
While Samuel was silently complaining with various thoughts, Paige Guthrie in the cage couldn't help herself anymore.
What does it mean to say "It's you" and then fall silent?
You know me?
Is this knowing good or bad?
"Sir?" Paige Guthrie waited for a long time but didn't hear Samuel say anything else, so she couldn't help but speak.
Samuel turned around and asked her with a smile, "When were you captured?"
"To, today. They sent me here after they captured me," Paige Guthrie said quickly.
Samuel nodded. Capturing her was probably because her molting ability might be helpful for the Sentinel Robots' ability to change.
In other words, she hadn't been experimented on after being captured, and then Samuel came to rescue Big Raven.
One has to say, girls who like to shed are indeed more likely to meet helpful benefactors!
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