"You've already betrayed me once, why should I trust you?" William Stryker asked in a deep voice.
Samuel said frankly: "Because I didn't kill you!"
"..."
Good medicine is bitter, and truth hurts.
Although William Stryker was a little embarrassed, he had to admit that Samuel should be sincerely wanting to continue cooperating with him.
With Samuel's strength, no matter what his purpose was, he didn't need to deceive him.
Uh, William Stryker's mindset was the same as those who are scammed.
If you know someone who spends tens of thousands on you every time they treat you to dinner or entertainment, and gives you valuable gifts.
Then one day, they ask to borrow tens or hundreds of thousands from you under the guise of capital turnover, you definitely won't even suspect them and will lend it.
Because the money they usually spend on you is more than that!
A few days later, they return the money to you and even give you high interest. In just a few days, you might have earned tens of thousands in interest for free.
Next time, when they ask you for turnover again, although the amount is relatively large, because of their previous credit and the high interest, in nine out of ten cases, you will still lend it, right?
Then, there is no 'then'!
To put it bluntly, this kind of scam actually has no technical content; it just preys on people's psychology.
This person is so rich, they shouldn't scam me out of this little money!
William Stryker's situation was the same. Samuel's strength was so great. If he wanted to do something, no one could stop him. There was no need to resort to deception.
In fact, Samuel really didn't deceive him; at most, he was just using him.
William Stryker was different from Bolivar Trask. Although the latter created the Sentinel Robots that almost wiped out the Mutants, he didn't really target many Mutants.
William Stryker was different.
Firstly, he himself was a General. Not to mention his high position and power, he also had his own forces and was in charge of the X-Weapon program.
Secondly, his son was also a Mutant, named Phantom Master, who could use illusions to affect others' senses. Moreover, the brain fluid extracted from his body could control the thoughts of Mutants.
Death Woman, the female Wolverine later modified by William Stryker, was controlled by this brain fluid and was completely obedient to his commands.
The main reason Samuel returned to find William Stryker and wanted to continue cooperating with him was to use him to find Mutants!
He wasn't looking for the Mutants who appeared in the movies. If Samuel wanted to find them, he could easily find those known Mutants by specifically scanning the entire globe with his Mind Manipulation Ability.
He was looking for existences like the Sainte-Croix sisters and the Outer Shell, but who didn't appear in the movies.
You have to know that there are at least twenty years until the X-Men era. Samuel doesn't think that after the Mutants currently captured by William Stryker are rescued by Wolverine and Professor X, he will give up capturing and researching Mutants!
The X-Weapon program will not be halted because of Wolverine's escape!
"Happy cooperation?"
Samuel raised an eyebrow and looked at William Stryker with a smile.
William Stryker sighed a little reluctantly and said, somewhat unwillingly, "Happy cooperation."
Of course, Samuel didn't think he was truly unwilling. For people like him, to achieve their goals, they only look at the advantages and disadvantages, not their reputation.
However, the unwillingness should be real. He doesn't care about reputation, but that doesn't mean he doesn't care about it, and it certainly doesn't mean he can accept someone, especially a Mutant, being beyond his control.
So, the so-called cooperation, both sides are clear, it's just that each takes what they need, just out of necessity.
Samuel's strength is too great, William Stryker doesn't dare to truly fall out, and he also needs him to complete his plan.
If he was confident he could deal with Samuel, do you think he would cooperate with Samuel again after Samuel's betrayal?
He would have killed Samuel directly long ago, or used Samuel as experimental material!
"I'm taking Agent Zero's body with me, as for him..." Samuel looked at Sabretooth and said with a smile, "Do you hope he's truly dead, or just pretending?"
Sabretooth was a little flustered.
Although he has strong Self-healing ability and won't die easily, that doesn't mean he truly can't die. Samuel's certainty proves he has the confidence to kill him!
William Stryker: "He's still useful."
Understood, so it's a fake death!
"Stay here obediently during this time. I'll tell everyone outside that I killed you, the kind where there's no body left."
"If I hear that someone knows you're not dead, I'll kill you, understand?"
Samuel's rude threat made Sabretooth lose face. He was always the one threatening others. When had he ever been threatened?
But when you're under someone else's roof, you have to bow your head. Even though Sabretooth was extremely unwilling, under Samuel's silent gaze, he could only humiliatingly make a promise.
"You know where the Mutant Squad is, right? Give me the address, I'll go find them later. Also, you can start your operation with Wolverine."
"Okay."
William Stryker took out paper and pen, wrote a few addresses, and handed them to Samuel: "I'll wait for your good news."
Samuel put away the addresses, smiled, and disappeared with a whoosh.
"Thud!"
After Samuel left, Sabretooth felt his body lighten and fell directly to the ground.
"You, do you really believe he'll honestly cooperate with you? If he can betray you once, he can betray you a second time!"
Sabretooth didn't trust Samuel and couldn't stand Samuel being so arrogant.
William Stryker looked at him and calmly asked, "Can you kill him?"
Sabretooth was speechless.
Kill Samuel?
He couldn't even defeat Samuel who was only controlling gravity before, let alone now that he has also shown Teleportation ability, he's even less likely to win.
"Since you can't do it, then don't say anything more."
After William Stryker finished speaking, he sat down in silence.
Samuel's abilities are definitely not limited to controlling gravity and Teleportation, which made him think of Wade who was undergoing modification.
Originally, Wade's modification was Self-healing ability plus Adamantium dual blades similar to Wolverine's bone claws.
Now, he felt it was necessary to add Teleportation and long-range attack capabilities to Wade.
And, he already had targets for these two abilities.
First, for long-range attack capabilities, he remembered that among the Mutants he was holding, there was one whose eyes could emit high-temperature lasers, which were quite powerful and could increase Wade's attack methods.
For Teleportation, he thought of Phantom from the Mutant Squad, but this depends on when Samuel makes his move. If it's after Wolverine's plan succeeds, then he'll have to let Wolverine make the move.
"Whoosh--"
Samuel returned to the hotel suite and smiled as he told the awakened people about his cooperation with William Stryker.
They didn't have much of an opinion. On one hand, Samuel wasn't genuinely cooperating with William Stryker; his goal was to save more Mutants.
On the other hand, the Mutant Squad were William Stryker's accomplices. Regardless of whether they were good people or not, basically everyone had innocent blood on their hands, so hunting them down wouldn't cause any psychological burden.
Their only worry was whether Wolverine would turn against them after being modified.
Uh, that seems like something that's bound to happen.
So, would the modified Wolverine be strong enough to defeat Samuel?
Uh, that also doesn't seem very likely.
After all, Samuel's strength is the kind that makes people unable to see the distance, even Xiao Ruiwen, who came to this timeline with him, doesn't know how strong Samuel actually is!
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