260、Drumming and Passing the Pot
There is a problem! There is definitely a problem!
Wearing contact lenses and bandaging his head tightly, William Stryker walked out of a well-known company and fell into deep thought.
This is the fourth person he visited today. Like the previous few people, this big businessman who had promised to support him has become ambiguous today. When Stryker asked him for investment, he began to push back and forth, and he was talking about him.
When visiting the first businessman, Stryker thought that dealing with it was because of his feelings for money and fear of being wasted investment, but four people in a row had similar situations, which could not have attracted his attention.
Someone is targeting me!
William Stryker did not expect that these people, like himself, would awaken the X gene overnight and become the mutants they hated. He just thought that because of public opinion, his enemies and those guys who were deceived by mutants and began to sympathize with mutants were secretly making trouble and winning over the collaborators he liked.
It was also said that Stryker was unlucky. Although his collaborators have become mutants, they have not changed much in appearance. Only Stryker himself has mutated.
Originally, Craft was thinking that if he only targeted Stryker's collaborators, he might be noticed by Stryker, but he didn't care about Stryker's discovery. Anyway, he would have a global evolution soon, so it doesn't matter whether he would be discovered.
I can only say that Stryker's luck was so bad that he encountered such a small probability.
Moreover, after this secret trouble, Craft discovered that these people were not the same as Stryker. The reason why they opposed mutants and supported Stryker to conduct mutant human experiments was basically due to interests.
For example, some lawmakers rely on opposing mutants to obtain votes, while others position their products as a route to fight mutants. They naturally have to devalue mutants in various ways.
A small number of military people are wary of the power of mutants. Their ideas are similar to those of S.H.E.L.D. and General Ross. They want to take this power into their own hands.
There are even many people who oppose mutants because they do not have superpowers and are envious of jealousy and hate.
So after they found out that they had become mutants, they did not continue to fight with mutants like Stryker, but quickly changed their positions. Some people who were inconvenient to change their positions quickly began to leave room for themselves.
In this way, these people naturally cannot support Stryker's experiment on persecuting mutants. What if their mutants' identity is exposed one day?
Isn’t this kind of public opinion environment that sympathizes with mutants now very good?
Several opposition lawmakers even began to consider whether to create a person who was touched by the exposed information, opposing Stryker's support for the image of mutants to attract votes.
William Stryker, who didn't know all this, did not give up at this time and continued to visit his former collaborators one by one. Unfortunately, the attitudes of these people were all similar. Some even turned aside Stryker directly, and he couldn't even see him.
"What's wrong! This is definitely not right!"
After visiting the last person, Stryker still gained nothing, felt that this was no longer something that could be done by simple coercion and inducement. It was impossible to make so many people change their positions at the same time in such a short time.
unless……
They were brainwashed!
This is the first thing Stryker thought of, who used to use this trick in the past.
He also clearly knew that a mutant could indeed achieve such large-scale brainwashing.
That is Charles Xavier, known as Professor X, the leader of the dove mutant, and the most powerful mental abilities known to him.
As for why Professor X broke through the bottom line and began to control human thoughts on a large scale, Stryker's main reason was mostly his exposed experimental base.
Normally, Stryker's speculation was not a problem, but what he didn't expect was that Professor X's Virgin Heart was no less than his hatred for mutants.
With Professor X's personality, he would rather brainwash mutants than attack ordinary people.
For ordinary people, the more mutants like Professor X, the better, but for mutants, he is the best teammate of cheating.
"Do you think this will stop me?"
Stryker showed a hint of sneer, and the exposure of the Alcalie Base taught him a lesson, and sometimes using public opinion can achieve unexpected results.
So Stryker anonymously contacted some media people who were famous for making up random things and vaguely revealed some content to them.
The main thing is to reveal to them the strength of Charles Xavier's ability and how much he can do with the help of a brain wave enhancer.
Then I mentioned it in a vague way that the current public opinion is very abnormal, and there is almost no objection from the official...
This is not in line with the national conditions of the United States at all!
When the media person who thought it was another Onion News heard this, he suddenly realized it.
This person is very reasonable!
What kind of virtue does the official and media in the United States have? Don’t you know that these people who are engaged in the media have to find a way to jump out and curse, but why are they so consistent in dealing with mutants?
There must be something wrong here!
A group of media people who started by fabricating news suddenly felt professional honor. Based on Charles Xavier's ability and the strange trend in public opinion recently, they fabricated articles about conspiracy theories and published them.
In fact, Stryker's speculation is not wrong. Although Charles did not brainwash the official senior management, the official still had some concerns about Charles' ability. In addition, they covered Stryker, so they did not intend to stimulate Professor X in such a thing.
In addition, Craft asked Angela to control public opinion in a certain way, which led to most media obtaining wrong data, believing that publishing articles that sympathize with mutants can earn traffic and money, which is why the current one-sided public opinion is happening.
In fact, if Stryker waits for a while, the official will take action to cool down the public opinion. However, Craft's actions are too fast and Stryker is not familiar with the operation of public opinion, so this misunderstanding occurs.
"Professor! Something big happened!"
Professor X was worried about what Magneto was secretly hiding, and he saw Storm girl rushing to his office with a scream.
Before Charles could ask, Storm put several newspapers of today in front of him.
After reading the front pages of these newspapers with a serious expression, Professor X immediately picked up the phone and began to contact the officials who were close to the mutants.
However, after a few phone calls, Professor X's face became even more serious.
Because the attitudes of those officials who once supported mutants changed significantly, Charles speculated that they were influenced by public opinion.
Actually not.
Like those who oppose mutants, most of these support mutants are not due to sympathy for mutants’ choices and cooperation with Professor X.
To be precise, the official is generally alert to mutants, but some people advocate gentleness, while others are more radical.
And these officials of the Huairou faction suddenly discovered that many of the radical officials seemed to have changed their attitudes and positions recently.
They didn't care about it at first, but they just changed their positions, which is common for people like them.
But after recent public opinion, they found that the situation seemed not that simple, because these people who changed their positions were once very tough opposition parties.
Without any special circumstances, this transformation seems too unnatural.
The conspiracy theories in the newspapers now became very credible, but the brainwashing target was not themselves, but their former opponents.
"I have to talk to Eric!"
Although Professor X does not know the specific thoughts of those officials, he also understands that the current direction of the wind is beginning to be detrimental to the mutants again, and Magneto is still hiding in the dark at this time to plan to make trouble for the wind and rain.
So he decided to have a good talk with Magneto, and Professor Charles used a brain wave enhancer to forcefully read the memories of Magneto supporters.
However, when Professor Charles put on the brain wave enhancer and began to search for mutants all over the world, he suddenly found that the number of mutants in America suddenly increased.
Charles checked their identities curiously and found that these newly added mutants were officials and wealthy businessmen who once opposed mutants, and even William Stryker, who is now unemployed at home.
"Didn't it say... Eric did he succeed?"
Chapter completed!