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Chapter 448 Diamond Foreskin

Chapter 448 Diamond Foreskin

"family?"

"no."

"spouse?"

"no."

"friend?"

"No, nothing at all—or rather, they've completely forgotten about me."

Inside the headquarters of the mutant underground organization, Max looked at the ordinary-looking mutant boy opposite him and asked, "#

"What are your abilities?"

"It's hard for me to describe—if you take your eyes off me, you'll forget me immediately, and you won't be able to remember me no matter what you do," the mutant boy said dejectedly.

Max's eyes lit up when he saw Omega, the mutant boy who called himself "Forget-Me-Not".

Polaris Lorna Dane, the leader of the mutant underground, has been captured by the Sentinels. Max needs to gather some helpers to break her out of prison, and Omega is one of those recruited.

This ability sounds like it was made for a prison break. With Omega around, Max doubts he could walk in empty-handed and bring Polaris out unharmed.

"From now on, you will stay with us to prevent us from forgetting you, and wait for the prison break to begin," Max said to Omega.

"Hehe." Omega smiled helplessly.

If simply being around someone could negate his abilities, then he wouldn't have been forgotten by all his relatives and friends.

"Forget-me-not," Omega suggested, "I recommend you find a recorder and record your own voice about me and play it on a loop. Otherwise, I'm worried that one second you're sincerely trying to recruit me, and the next second you'll kill me as an intruder."

Max glanced around instinctively, but didn't see the tape recorder. He then turned to Omega and asked, "—Who are you?!"

Omega: "—A mutant who came to apply to join the team after hearing that you were planning a prison break."

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Do your family, friends, and loved ones know about your mutant identity? What are your abilities?

Omega's mouth twitched, wanting to laugh but unable to. He knew that "Eclipse" Max had completely forgotten about him under the influence of his abilities.

So he walked towards the refrigerator on his own, intending to take some food from it.

Max watched Omega warily, about to intervene, but John the Thunderbird interrupted him: "Max, there's something new."

The moment Eclipse Max shifted his gaze from Omega, he once again forgot about this new mutant companion and instead asked Thunderbird John, "What's going on?"

"Do you remember the explosion that happened at the nearby school a few days ago?"

"The Sentinels suspect the incident is related to the newly awakened mutants," John Thunderbird said.

Max nodded; he certainly remembered the matter of mutants. "Have you found that newly awakened mutant?"

"We've only identified the target, but haven't confirmed it yet," John Thunderbird said. "Sound" suspects that two new mutants appeared in that incident, not just the one we and the Sentinels currently believe."

"Keep receiving the new mutants for me. I'll go see them myself," Max said, immediately preparing to head to the location of the two suspects provided by John Thunderbird.

John Thunderbird didn't even call for the outside, immediately agreeing, while glancing out of the corner of his eye at the Omega "Forget-Me-Not" that was rummaging through the refrigerator for a bottle of wine and looking for a bottle opener: "The bottle opener is on that table over there."

He pointed in a direction, and at the same time noticed that the mutant's face was unusually unfamiliar, so he quickly asked, "Are you a new member?"

"Hmm," Omega responded.

John Thunderbird said "Oh," turned and sat down in the chair Max had just been sitting in, then looked at the other new mutant.

He also completely forgot about Omega.

"Name?"

"Connors Paterson."

Connors, wearing a Gotham-style trench coat, replied with a chuckle.

"ability?"

John Thunderbird's interrogation-like questioning did not displease Connors, who still responded with a smile: "The ability to turn the body into an indestructible diamond, and telepathy."

He took the abilities of the "White Queen" Emma and applied them to himself.

Since he has the ability to mimic polymer chains, he can perfectly simulate the appearance of a diamond-like body.

As for telepathy, it's an ability Connors possessed himself, so there's no need to imitate it.

While answering the question, Connors couldn't help but glance at the refrigerator. He felt something was off, as if there was an invisible person next to him.

Even using telepathy, Connors couldn't detect this guy at all.

"Do your family and friends know you're a mutant? Where are they?" John Thunderbird continued to ask.

His tone softened considerably at this point. Connors' abilities, "diamondization" and "telepathy," are extremely rare among the few remaining mutants.

Even without breaking him out of prison, Connors could still make a lot of contributions to mutants.

"They're very far away and probably can't be of much help," Connors said, somewhat frustrated. His teleportation ability was still unusable.

"Tell us about your experiences. We hope our companions are people we know well. Of course, you can have some little secrets, as long as they don't harm anyone," Thunderbird John said.

Connors rubbed his temples.

By altering the spectrum of stars within the Red Sun system, Supergirl regains her powers and travels through various universes before the Darkseid War, gathering hundreds of superheroes to confront the Dark Lord.

Even the most insignificant act of simply observing the chaos in Atlantis was still a personal experience of the near-apocalyptic nuclear reactor activating.

If he were to tell his own story, wouldn't that scare this young mutant to death?

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After a moment's thought, Connors began to fabricate a story: "The first thing I did after I awakened my abilities was to turn into a diamond, then cut off my foreskin and sold it for a good price—and from then on, my family lived happily ever after."

John Thunderbird looked at Connors with a strange expression. He simply couldn't imagine that such abstract words would come from the mouth of a man who was outstanding in both temperament and appearance.

But that didn't stop him from celebrating Connors' arrival. He quickly got up, went to the refrigerator, opened the door, took out a beer, and grabbed two glasses from the side: "Come on, the mutant underground welcomes you!"

Connors took the glass and saw John Thunderbird searching for a corkscrew: "Huh? I distinctly remember putting it here?"

A hand reached out from the side, holding a bottle opener: "Here you go."

John and Connors simultaneously looked up at the owner of the hand.

John frowned as he looked at the unfamiliar face. "Who are you?"

Connors had a sudden realization: he had found someone who could evade even telepathy.