"Darwin, the first thing you need to do is to release your ability, not hide it."
Brooklyn, Coney Island.
A green taxi is quietly parked by the bay.
Next to the taxi, Brian and Darwin are leaning against the door of the taxi.
While smoking, they enjoy the beautiful scenery of the bay and have a good chat.
Yes, they have a good chat.
In the past hour, Brian has successfully shaped himself into a genetics professor who is looking for mutants.
And in this hour, Brian also made Darwin believe in himself.
He made Darwin firmly believe that he, Sera, was Darwin's mentor.
It is the sole mentor who can shape Darwin into a hero.
This is not difficult.
Because the mutants of this era originally were in a state of confusion and desire to be recognized.
They are afraid that their identity as mutants will make people around them label them as freaks and monsters.
And they are eager to understand their mutant abilities.
That is why when Brian proposed the mutant glory theory to Darwin, Darwin was deeply involved in it.
Everyone has a heroic dream, especially a mutant like Darwin.
"Release your ability?"
Darwin took a deep breath under Brian's encouraging gaze.
He, Darwin, wanted to show Professor Sera his ability.
He wanted to be a hero.
"Mutation and glory."
At this moment, Darwin's eyes were full of spirit.
He chanted the slogan Brian taught him in a deep voice.
Then he resolutely walked to the front of the bay and jumped directly into the water.
Plop.
As Darwin jumped into the water, gills quickly evolved on his two cheeks.
The gills opened and closed, allowing Darwin to breathe freely in the water.
"Professor, this is my ability.
I call it survival of the fittest.
My body can automatically adapt to the surrounding environment and then evolve corresponding organs."
Darwin emerged from the water and introduced his ability with some excitement.
Brian could see that as Darwin left the water, the gills on his face were rapidly degenerating and disappearing.
"Very good ability, Darwin.
Of all the abilities I have seen, yours is the best."
Brian did not hide his admiration; he gave Darwin a thumbs up and praised him.
Brian was not lying.
Darwin's survival of the fittest ability, in terms of potential, even surpassed Magneto, Professor X, and others, reaching the Omega level.
The ability to adapt to any extreme environment and evolve corresponding means of survival is simply a bug-level ability.
If developed properly, even if Darwin is thrown into space, he can evolve to absorb cosmic radiation and thus obtain the ability to survive in the vacuum of the universe.
However, even such a BUG variant ability was used to bits by Darwin.
Until his death, he was only in the ranks of the first-level variant ability.
It was simply a waste of natural resources.
This further strengthened Brian's determination to kill Darwin and plunder his variant ability.
However, before killing Darwin, Brian needs to test the limit of Darwin's current ability to adapt.
This is why Brian tried his best to make Darwin believe in himself.
Darwin has the ability of survival of the fittest.
Even if he is still very weak now, it will take some effort to kill him.
"Darwin, do you mind if I test your body?"
Looking at Darwin walking out of the water, Brian said directly.
"Professor."
Darwin, who believed in Brian, readily agreed.
It must be said that some of the success stories that Brian learned in his previous life are still very useful; at least they have a significant effect on Darwin.
Darwin now can't wait to become a superhero.
Brian turned back to the taxi and picked up his toolbox from the co-pilot, which contained a complete set of watch repair tools.
Brian took out a sharp knife from it, then walked in front of Darwin and nodded to Darwin.
Swish.
Brian unexpectedly used a knife to cut Darwin's right artery, and when the knife touched Darwin's arm, his arm suddenly became as hard as leather.
The knife did not leave a trace on Darwin's skin.
It was not until this moment that Darwin reacted belatedly. He looked at Brian and did not expect that the genetics professor's actions were so fast and fierce.
He was simply not like a professor.
"Test record: a knife to the artery is lethal, which will be automatically judged by your body as entering an extreme environment state.
Thus activating the ability of survival of the fittest, the body automatically undergoes adaptive evolution, and your skin becomes as strong as leather."
Brian ignored Darwin but instead began to record data seriously.
Such a professional scene made Darwin, who had never seen the world, subconsciously obey Brian's orders.
In the following time, Brian conducted various tests on Darwin.
When burnt by fire, Darwin's body will instantly enter an adaptive state, thereby gaining the ability to resist high temperatures.
When a taxi collides, Darwin's body will be completely petrified in an instant, thereby offsetting the kinetic impact of the taxi.
Shooting Darwin's heart with an M1911 pistol will cause Darwin's body to metalize, and the bullet cannot penetrate its defense.
According to Brian's test, as long as it is a lethal attack, Darwin's body will automatically adapt and evolve, thereby acquiring the corresponding confrontation characteristics.
And through Brian's repeated tests, he found that Darwin's survival of the fittest is not fixed.
Just like the same flame burning, Darwin's body adapted to develop flame-resistant skin that can withstand high temperatures for the first time.
And the second time, Darwin's body skin directly absorbed the flame.
After a long period of testing, Brian finally found that Darwin's survival of the fittest ability is also limited.
First of all, it must be an extreme environment to stimulate Darwin's survival of the fittest ability.
Scratching Darwin's finger with a knife, for example, will not stimulate his survival of the fittest ability.
Secondly, Darwin's body can only adapt to one extreme environment at a time.
In simple terms, if he is in water, his body will grow gills, giving him the ability to breathe in water.
But if a gasoline bomb is dropped into the water, the water will be set on fire.
Even if Darwin is in an extreme environment, his survival of the fittest ability will not allow him to adapt to the fire resistance ability but will be burnt to death by fire.
Even if Darwin's survival of the fittest ability is very buggy.
But now Darwin is just a level one mutant who has never developed his ability.
This gives Brian a chance.
"Darwin, contribute the first mutant ability to me now."
Now that Darwin's weakness is known, Brian is not going to waste time.
In his brain, the mechanical ticking sound rang again. After so long, he is finally going to hunt for the first time.