Chapter 130 Fire Rescue, Scarlet Witch

The nights in the Middle East are chilly, with cold winds blowing past, carrying a bit of dust.

On a relatively busy street, people are enjoying this rare quiet night.

Suddenly, a dark shadow rushed out from the crowd, violently pushed away passers-by who were chatting, and knocked over many roadside stalls, and the fruits and vegetables on the stalls were scattered all over the ground.

“Hey!”

The stall owner stood up and was about to catch up with the black shadow to claim compensation when he heard a series of powerful voices behind him.

“Stop!”

“If you don’t stop we’ll start shooting!”

The patrolmen followed the black shadow closely, pistols in their hands. Due to the long chase, each of them had a red face and was out of breath.

Pedestrians stopped and watched the chase in amazement, but no one dared to step forward to help the patrolman stop the man in black robes.

boom!
The patrolman raised his gun to the sky and fired a warning shot, which frightened the pedestrians around him and made them squat down in panic.

In the Middle East, everyone subconsciously panics when faced with gunfire, even if they know the gun is not pointed at them.

But the dark figure wrapped in a black robe with a hood on his head completely covering his face was obviously an exception. He seemed to be fearless of the bullets in the gun. He moved nimbly among the crowd at an incredibly fast speed, leaving the patrolman far behind.

The patrol officers had no choice but to give chase again. After all, this was a busy city, surrounded by civilians. They couldn’t possibly shoot at the suspect in such a place, otherwise the person who fell might not be the suspect, but an ordinary citizen.

They followed the man in black robe closely, shouting “Stop!” in vain.

After chasing all the way, the man in black robe ran out of the busy streets and entered a sparsely populated section of the road. On the huge street, there were only a few figures gathered in the distance chatting.

The patrolman behind thought to himself that this was a good opportunity and was about to raise his gun and shoot.

However, just as they were about to pull the trigger, the man in black suddenly dodged to the left and ran into a dark alley.

“Damn it! Chase him! We can’t let that guy get away!”

The patrolman dropped his gun, cursed, and started chasing again.

As soon as they entered the alley, the patrolmen couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The man in black robe stopped quietly in the alley with his back to them. At the end of the alley was a high wall.

Seeing the black-robed man with no way to go, the patrolmen finally stopped and gasped for breath.

“Hand over the antiques, or don’t blame us for shooting!”

While he was gasping for breath, a patrolman had already raised his pistol and pointed the black muzzle at the man in black robe.

The man in black robe sighed slowly and turned around.

The loose black robe almost completely covered him, making it impossible to see his face.

“If you want it, come and get it yourself.”

A hoarse voice came from under the black robe, and he slowly raised a withered hand, holding an exquisite yellow-brown box.

“Put your things down and put your head in your hands!”

The patrolman stared at the box and laughed loudly.

But the man in black robe remained unmoved, and his eyes under the black robe stared at these people as if in a teasing manner.

“Damn it, shoot!”

The patrolmen were furious when they saw the man in black robe pretending to see nothing, but no one dared to step forward to take the things back. No one knew whether they would become the hostage of the man in black robe after paying the money.

However, just when their fingers were on the trigger to shoot, they suddenly found that they could not pull the trigger no matter what.

Just when the patrol officers thought they had forgotten to turn on the insurance.

hum!
Several pistols suddenly made a buzzing sound, and then began to shake violently and uncontrollably.

The patrolmen stared at the scene with wide eyes, holding their pistols tightly to prevent them from falling out of their hands.

But there were waves of strong power coming from the pistol.

Hu Chi.

click!
The pistol broke free from their hands and slowly floated in the air. The muzzle turned and aimed at the patrolmen whose legs were trembling with fear.

Looking at the pistol floating in the air and staring at the black muzzle, all the patrolmen had horror written all over their faces.

“Devil… They are right, the man in black robe is the devil!”

Several patrolmen had trembling legs and stared at the man in black robes, almost frightened to incontinence. They turned around and ran out of the alley in a hurry, disappearing in a flash, shouting words like “Devil… Help” in panic.

“Cough cough cough.”

After seeing those patrolmen fleeing in panic, the man in black robe finally couldn’t help but cough violently. His hands in the robe were forced to loosen and he tightly clenched his mouth.

Click!

All the suspended pistols fell to the ground and were scattered on the ground in a mess.

The man in black robe seemed to have used up all his strength. He took two steps back and leaned against the wall of the alley. He took deep breaths and gasped heavily, coughing violently as if he was going to cough out his lungs.

After calming down for a while, the man in black robe looked outside the alley vigilantly, hugged the stolen antiques tightly, and quickly jumped over the high wall of the alley and disappeared into the night.

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The city of Acre.

In a hotel with pretty good specifications.

Logan and others gathered in the hotel room, where Melanie was telling everyone about the plan for the rescue mission.

“I have already found out that Hydra is lurking in the city of Acre, but unfortunately, I don’t know the exact location of their base.”

Melanie sat on the sofa and told everyone the information she knew, but this information was obviously not very helpful. After all, although the city of Ackley was not big, it would be difficult for just a few of them to find a base.

Lorna, who was sitting on the sofa on the other side, frowned. “You don’t want us to find out the location of Hydra, do you? Those guys are not easy to find. We alone can’t do it.”

There is an entire city. If they want to find a base in it, and it is a Hydra base, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. It might take several months.

Logan and others also nodded, indicating that what Luna said was right.

None of them has any reconnaissance ability. They may be good at fighting, but they are useless at finding people.

Melanie smiled and shook her head. “Don’t worry about that. I know there’s a man named Loiter in Hydra. I have his photo. As long as we find him, we can find the Hydra branch stationed in Acre City. That man often roams around the nearby West City, so it’s not difficult to locate him.”

Hearing this, Logan nodded in relief. As long as there were clues, everything would be easy.

Melanie continued, “I will take responsibility for this matter. I will inform you when I find him. In the meantime, I’m afraid we will have to stay here for some days.”

Logan had no objection to this.

Now the professor and his team have been settled in, and during a phone call last night, he learned that the shelter is starting to get back on track. In addition to building the shelter, the members have also begun to think of ways to make a living for the shelter, and he is even starting to look for a good place to start teaching again.

In the short term, Logan doesn’t have to worry about the problems at the shelter.

As for Hank, he has his three sons to protect him, so he shouldn’t be in any danger.

So there is no problem even if Logan stays in the Middle East for a while.

“Since there are no plans for the short term, I suggest that we go out for a walk first.”

Logan looked at Melanie and said, “We are all unfamiliar with this area. We can go out and walk around to familiarize ourselves with the terrain so that if something unexpected happens, it will be difficult to evacuate.”

He did this mainly for Clarice’s sake. After all, Clarice’s skill was teleportation, and being familiar with the nearby terrain would allow her to better display her abilities.

Otherwise, if something really happened later and she needed to teleport, it would be terrible if she teleported them to a dead end in a panic.

Melanie had no objection when she heard this. “Okay, but you have to be careful about everything. It’s best not to let others recognize you.”

While it’s unlikely that people in the Middle East would know Wolverine, that’s not necessarily the case within Hydra.

What’s more, because of Logan, Hydra lost a base in Canada. This matter may have already spread within Hydra. Maybe the list and photos of the main members in the Maca Farm have already circulated within Hydra.

If Hydra discovers that Logan and others are in the Middle East, it will not have a good impact on this mission.

“Don’t worry, we will be careful.” Logan smiled and was about to stand up to take Luna and the others out for a walk.

“and many more.”

Melanie spoke again, pulling out her phone and saying, “I’ll send you Loiter’s photo, and you can keep an eye out for it when you’re out there.”

As she spoke, the phones in Logan and the other three’s pockets vibrated.

Logan took out his cell phone and looked at the photos sent by Melanie. He nodded, stopped talking, and walked out of the hotel with Lorna and the other two.

The sun was shining brightly outside. As soon as I stepped out of the hotel door, a heat wave instantly hit me in the face, accompanied by gusts of sand in the hot wind.

The Middle East is like this. It is summer during the day and winter at night all year round. There is yellow sand and desert everywhere, and the living environment is extremely harsh.

There are many people setting up stalls on both sides of the street. In addition to local fruits, vegetables and other items, most of the stalls are handicrafts. There are no relatively valuable items. There are even very few butcher shops. It can be seen that the quality of life of the people here is not very good. In fact, this can be seen from the houses on both sides.

Most of the houses are very old and simply decorated. Some windows don’t even have glass windows and are separated by wooden boards. There are bullet holes and shrapnel marks on some walls. Some houses in the corners have even been turned into ruins by artillery shells, but it looks like it happened a long time ago.

Cars and motorcycles pass by on the road from time to time. Most of these cars are very old, and some of the antique cars even have traces of bullet holes on them.

Many people in white robes were walking on the streets. From time to time, a curse would be heard on a street, followed by a chase. The person in front would hold the stolen wallet tightly, and the person behind would chase him while shouting loudly, while the people around him turned a blind eye.

This is Akle, a city with a skyrocketing crime rate, especially after the war. The public security here is even more chaotic. Even the police department has just been established, and the so-called police officers are actually soldiers left over from the war.

Some militiamen who don’t even have proper military uniforms are wandering around the streets with AKs in their hands. In the name of maintaining public security, they occasionally take some fruits from some vendors’ stalls and eat them in big mouthfuls. When faced with theft or robbery, they turn a blind eye and instead look like they are watching the fun. The people dare not say anything because of their anger.

Logan and the others were obviously too lazy to pay attention to these situations and walked on the streets with indifference on their faces. Most of the locals were very curious about them. After all, in a place where the war had just ended, foreign faces were obviously rare.

Some children who were buying cigarettes or vendors who were selling candy came up bravely, with an open box hanging on their chests, indicating that Logan and the others could buy something.

Most of the children were driven away by Logan, but a little guy selling newspapers took the initiative to patronize them. He wanted to get a better understanding of the local situation through the newspapers.

Fortunately, there is an English version of the newspaper here. I think it is specially prepared for the mercenaries stationed here. After all, the war here has just ended and some foreign mercenaries have not yet evacuated.

There was nothing in the newspaper that interested Logan. A large part of the newspaper was about how the government planned to rebuild the city, some politicians’ responses to the citizens, and the war situation in surrounding countries.

Just when Logan was losing interest, a piece of news in the corner of the newspaper aroused his interest.

The news mentioned that a theft occurred in a museum that was not affected by the war, but according to the description of the police, the theft was not man-made, but the work of the devil, who could not only fly, but also take objects from a distance, etc.

Logan couldn’t help laughing as he read the obviously exaggerated report. “Satan is actually interested in antiques from the human world and even sent demons to steal them?”

Hearing this, Lorna leaned forward to read the report in the newspaper and shook her head, saying, “It could be a superhuman or a mutant. The people here may have mistaken mutant abilities for the devil’s magic.”

Marcus also came over, took a look, and suddenly smiled at Luna: “It looks like you did it.”

Luna can also fly and pick up objects through telekinesis. By controlling the iron pieces and stepping on the ground, she can stay in the air and move for a short period of time. Picking up objects through telekinesis is even easier. As long as the object is made of iron, she can control it.

Lorna rolled her eyes at him.

Clarice said naively, “It’s impossible. If it was Sister Lorna who did it, the report would call her an angel, not a devil.”

This made Lorna couldn’t help but smile, and she touched the girl’s head affectionately.

Logan couldn’t help but smile, put away the newspaper and sighed: “It seems that there are many mutants or people with super powers in the Middle East.”

This made him think of the guys he met in the Middle East last time.

The group of masked guys were obviously an organization, and they were clearly quite powerful and very difficult to deal with.

But it’s normal to think about it. After all, the Middle East is a very chaotic place with warlords dividing the country and frequent wars. Various forces and countries make a small fuss every three days and a big fuss every five days, as if it’s a life-and-death struggle.

In fact, this kind of place is more suitable for mutants to hide. After all, the government has been overwhelmed by the chaos, so how can it have time to care about mutants?

Peng!
Just as Logan was thinking, a sudden explosion in the distance brought his attention back to his senses.

The rumbling sound of the explosion shocked the people. Pedestrians on the street panicked and ran home desperately. Even some vendors were so scared that they threw away their belongings.

The ground shook and the surrounding houses were affected by the shock wave of the explosion, causing some vibrations. Yellow soil fell off the walls and sand and wind rose up.

Along with the explosions came screams of panic from the public.

“Fighting again?”

Marcos looked in the direction of the explosion, his brows furrowed.

It is not surprising that a war suddenly breaks out in such a place. From time to time, the remnants of some hostile government forces will create human bombs, car bombs and other things and rush into government buildings to detonate them.

“Go and see.”

Logan was somewhat interested. Although he didn’t want to take part in the fight, he wanted to join in the fun, mainly because he was curious.

Luna and the others had no objection, and they rushed towards the direction of the explosion together.

Fortunately, there was only an explosion and no gunshots were heard.

The explosion site was not far from Logan and his friends. They could see it after turning a corner.

There was an explosion in a building. Thick dust and fog rolled up, the ground was covered with broken glass, and the entire building was burning with fierce flames. The raging flames spread throughout the building, but fortunately the building was still strong and did not collapse due to the explosion.

The streets were filled with frightened pedestrians, some of whom pointed at the building anxiously.

“Put out the fire, put out the fire!”

“There are still people inside, still alive, save them!”

“Oh my god, why did it explode? Someone come quickly!”

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Inside the building, some people were wailing in the fire, while some others rushed out despite the fear of the fire, but were swallowed by the fire in an instant. When they rushed out of the building, their bodies were already wrapped in the horrible fire, turning them into a fire man and falling down in pain.

In some high-rise buildings that were not affected by the fire, people stood by their windows, begging for help.

Logan frowned, and his ears were filled with the panicked voices of passers-by. Some people had already run out of their homes, holding basins of water and pouring them on the building, but this amount of water was nothing compared to the raging fire.

The fire became more intense as time went by and was gradually spreading to the buildings on both sides.

Seeing this, Luna frowned and immediately spread out her hands. Green light appeared in her palms and she was about to rush forward to find a way to save people.

“and many more.”

Marcos was quick to grab Luna. Just as Luna frowned, he pointed to the distance and said, “Don’t worry, they will take action.”

Several people looked over.

“the Avengers?”

Logan looked at the figures walking over there, led by Steve.

He was rushing over with a few people, his eyes fixed on the tall building that was burning in flames.

Why are the Avengers here?
Seeing Steve, Logan couldn’t help but frown.

Just as he was wondering, a hot figure in a scarlet windbreaker suddenly flew out from behind Steve, floating in the air with red light all around her.

He looked at the two water pipes on both sides of the building, raised his hands suddenly, and red light instantly scattered out, wrapping around the water pipes.

With her strong pull, the hard water pipe broke and water gushed out.

Peng…Shh!

Under the control of red light, water pipes sprayed into the flames that filled the sky. Every fire point was washed by the water, and the flames were completely extinguished in a short while.

“That’s…Scarlet Witch.”

Logan recognized the figure wrapped in red light. It was Wanda whom he had met before.

At the same time, Steve on the opposite side was relieved to see the fire was out. When he looked around, he saw Logan in the crowd and was obviously stunned.

Logan didn’t want to get entangled with them too much. When he saw Steve paying attention to him, he turned around without saying a word and said, “Let’s go!”

After saying this, he was about to lead his men away quickly.

And Steve hurriedly caught up.

“Logan, wait.”

He shouted at Logan from behind, saying, “We need to talk.”

(End of this chapter)