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Chapter 10 The New Era Has Not Come
In the exercise room.

The barbell was released from her hand and was suspended to a height of more than two meters. Ruiwen was startled and sat up quickly.

"If half of your attention is trying to hide your difference, you can't do what you're supposed to do."

Magneto walked in slowly and said.

What he said meant that Mystique just lifted the barbell and worked hard.

"Your strength is more than that, why cover it up?"

Mystique has blue skin and fine scales. Unlike ordinary people, she has a certain degree of physical strengthening.

A heavy barbell would be strenuous for an average person, and it shouldn't be for her.

But she has been distracted to maintain the appearance of an ordinary person, concealing her original appearance, unable to use her full strength.

brush!
With a look in his eyes, Magneto relinquished control of the barbell.

call!
The heavy 100kg barbell fell from mid-air with the sound of wind.

Ruiwen was forced to change back to her original blue skin and yellow eyes, no longer maintaining her appearance, and she caught the barbell steadily without any effort.

Indeed, as Magneto said, she has been distracted to hide her original appearance.

But no one likes to be preached by unfamiliar people, especially Magneto's impolite behavior is annoying.

"I guess you could stand here and say that to me.

Because you have never been abandoned as a monster, wandering around since childhood, being thrown stones by children, yelling to go away, as a different kind, you will never be accepted by society. "

she said angrily.

"You want society to accept you, but you don't even accept who you really are."

Gently shaking his head, Magneto spoke seriously, with a contagious confidence and smile on his face.

"If I were you, I would never hide my appearance. You should be proud. You are born different. You are a miracle and a pioneer."

"We mutants are ahead of everyone at the forefront of evolution. Now you are like Copernicus after discovering the truth, afraid of being labeled a heretic, trying to hide yourself, and mixing with stupid laypeople."

Having experienced a lot of very sensitive Ruiwen since childhood, I can feel that Magneto is not just talking about it, he really thinks so, if he is like himself, would he really do that?

Are you wrong?Clearly the leader, but wants to blend in with ordinary people who are lagging behind on the evolutionary road?
After Magneto finished speaking, he turned and left, leaving Mystique in thinking and confusion.

"I have always only thought of covering up, but never accepted myself. Is it wrong?"

She lowered the barbell, her eyes struggling.

Button, there was a knock on the door, and Ron folded his arms and leaned against the door.

"Ron!"

Ruiwen exclaimed, because she was the real one now, she turned her head to change back, back to the beautiful girl with blond hair and brown eyes.

But thinking of the discrimination when she was a child, she was inexplicably sad and angry, stopped her movements, and turned to look at Ron.

"You see, in fact, this is my real appearance, ugly and weird, like a beast, like a devil."

"I did see it, and I heard what he said just now."

Lowering his arms and walking in slowly, Ron did not comfort him, indicating that he heard what Magneto said to her.

"Do you think he's right, I've been hiding myself wrong?"

But seeing that Ron's expression did not change, and he did not show any horror or disgust, Ruiwen seemed to be comforted, and asked a little nervously.

Confused, she now needs a recognized person to help her advise and get out of the fork in the road.

"He's not wrong in a sense."

Ron chuckled.

This time can be described as one of the key points in Mystique's life.

After listening to Magneto's call today, she refused Hank's development of a serum that claimed to restore her appearance to a normal person, and she has been showing people the appearance of blue skin ever since.

"Really? You also think I'm doing something wrong."

Lowering her head, Ruiwen murmured softly. She, who was already shaken, began to consider whether to show her true face to others in the future.

"No, you are not wrong."

He shook his head slightly, thinking that Rui Wen was right, and vetoed it.

"Everyone will say the truth, but very few people can do it.

People are often not as powerful as they think. "

There are a few people who can achieve a state of mind like a saint in theory, with terrifying mental toughness, don't care about honor or disgrace, don't care about the strange eyes cast by others, and live a peaceful life by themselves.

Magneto thought he could do it, but he thought that he hadn't really faced it.

"Copernicus was indeed a scientific pioneer, but after he concluded the heliocentric theory, he was afraid of the consequences of this theory, so he didn't publish it for 30 years, and he survived until he died in bed due to old age."

"On the other hand, his student Bruno vigorously advocated the heliocentric theory after his death, but was denounced as heresy by the church, and was burned alive under the applause of the crowd."

Talking about the example given by Magneto earlier, Ron spoke earnestly.

"Ruiwen, the new era has not yet come, and people who are too advanced will not be understood and accepted by people in the old era!"

People cannot be separated from society, and people's choices must consider the progress of the times.

"I... I understand."

Nodding her head, Ruiwen's eyes became firm after hearing this, and hesitantly asked a question of great concern.

"Ron, how do I look to you now?"

"Do you want to tell the truth?"

(End of this chapter)