mtl008 Chapter 2613 Mayfly World (3)
Chapter 2613 Mayfly World (3)
Chapter 2613 Mayfly World (Thirteen)
It was still scorching hot in Mexico in October. The first thing Schiller did after getting off the plane was to put on the souvenir sun hat that Clark bought for him. It took him a long time to adapt to the terrible ultraviolet rays and the overly bright environment. Now he understood why Pride would rather be controlled remotely than come here. This place can only be Superman's happy hometown. Batman would be tanned into a dried bat if he came here.
As soon as I walked out of the airport gate in Mexico City, a wave of heat hit me in the face, and the ripples in the air were clearly visible in my field of vision.
Schiller's first stop was the Great Pyramid of Aztec, which is the best-preserved relic of the Aztec civilization and the largest pyramid in the world. It was once believed to be an alien relic.
Martin followed behind Schiller, seeming to miss the climate of his hometown very much. He was wearing slippers, holding a palm-leaf fan in his hand, a big hat on his head that was a circle larger than Schiller's, and a T-shirt with cartoon patterns.
When Schiller walked out the door, he found that most of the people were dressed like Martin, with short sleeves, big shorts, slippers and sun hats.
Although Schiller was also wearing a short-sleeved shirt, he wore a sun-protection sleeve, long pants, and sneakers. More importantly, he wore a colorful souvenir hat on his head, which made people know at a glance that he was a tourist who was being taken advantage of.
Sure enough, the black car driver at the door came to greet him enthusiastically, muttering in Spanish with a very heavy accent, and Schiller could not understand him at all.
At this time, Martin came up and shouted something to several drivers. Schiller could probably understand some numbers. They seemed to be bargaining.
At this time, a dark and strong driver came up to talk to Martin. Schiller could hear that their accents were somewhat similar. It seemed that they were both from the South. After a while, Martin waved to Schiller and said, "Let's go to the hotel first."
Schiller said nothing and walked towards the car with his luggage. Along the way, Martin was chatting with his fellow countryman, and the driver would look back at Schiller from time to time.
The air conditioner was on in the car, but because it had been parked in the sun for too long, all the parts were heated up, so there was still a little stuffiness inside the car. The driver turned on the radio and tuned to the music channel, which played a cheerful Spanish tune.
The construction of Mexico City has retained a lot of its original flavor, with almost no modern transformation. You can see many Baroque buildings and traditional Mexican houses. The city is neat, clean and grand, and you don't even see many homeless people like you see in New York.
Martin is obviously very proud. He said: "All ancient peoples in this world have pride. We also pursue a sufficiently stable lifestyle, the connection of community and family. We will help each other and support each other."
"We regard the existence of destitute people in this society as a shame. The government and community managers will help some homeless people as much as possible, but they are not bankrupt. Most of them have congenital diseases. There are special shelters and welfare homes to help them."
Schiller nodded. He knew that many people had a stereotype about Mexico, thinking that all of them lived in slums, were poor and chaotic.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, Mexico is a little transparent in international news. We rarely hear about any turmoil here, and there are few reports of economic collapse. The most frequently appearing words are the US-Mexico border and so on. People know very little about the more than 100 million people living here.
In fact, this is mainly because the situation in Mexico is very stable and people's lives are uneventful. After all, nearly 200 million square kilometers of land can only feed million people, and the arable land area on such a large piece of land is ridiculously large. If everyone plants a piece of land that allows them to survive, more than half of the land will be left.
The vast majority of the population here are engaged in agricultural production, planting corn, beans and coffee, and the remaining small part is engaged in handicrafts, making pottery, lacquerware, carving wood carvings, and weaving gold and silver.
This kind of industrial structure is indeed unlikely to experience big ups and downs in the economic aspect, and in terms of politics, as America's backyard, the United States certainly cannot allow peace here, but the problem is that during the Mexican-American War, they were too ruthless, which led to the complete unity of the Mexicans.
It is also a long history of colonization in modern times, and it is also a war that resulted in the loss of territory, but this country had no advantage of time, place, or people, so naturally it lost completely.
Mexico is similar to China, which lost the Anti-Japanese War. Countless good lands were plundered from it, and it continues to be oppressed and invaded by the United States, which has transferred countless crimes here.
Mexico also has an ancient history of civilization. The vast majority of people here are descendants of Indians. This nation, like the vast majority of ancient nations in the world, attaches great importance to land and blood, and naturally cannot tolerate such humiliation.
According to statistics, the country in the world that has the least favorable impression of the United States is not Japan, where the atomic bomb was dropped, but Mexico. It cannot even be said that they have no favorable impression, but rather naked hatred.
American revanchists like Gallardo are the majority here. They blame all the problems Mexico has on the United States, but most of this hatred is not backed by strength and is just a joke.
After the advent of the era of space exploration, the United States became stronger and stronger, and further controlled almost the entire Americas. Mexico had no ability to resist, and people could only watch more and more companies with English words printed on them open up, and more and more English-speaking people come here.
The driver obviously thought Schiller was one of them, and his eyes were full of the vigilance unique to locals, but he looked at him carefully. They knew that the scholars and technicians who came here recently were not people that ordinary people could afford to offend.
Soon they arrived at the hotel. Schiller got off the car and saw a brand new building next to the hotel. Martin said, "This is the newest logistics center. It mainly deals with corn processing, product packaging and export business. It was built two months ago. The driver's family works here."
Schiller nodded and walked into the hotel. As soon as he walked up the stairs, he saw a group of unexpected people - the Brotherhood of Mutants.
Magneto was rarely wearing all black, nor was he wearing a helmet. His silver hair was neatly combed behind his head. He wore a well-ironed suit and glasses, looking like a respected scholar.
A strange blonde woman followed him. Schiller realized it was Mystique. It was strange. She was no longer the queen of the Shi'ar Empire, so why did she come back?
The people behind me are also familiar faces. They are the traditional configuration of the Brotherhood of Mutants. However, Polaris is not here, and Scarlet Witch and Jarvis are nowhere to be seen either. What are they doing in Mexico?
At this time, Magneto had already seen Schiller. He seemed a little surprised, but he quickly calmed down and walked up to Schiller and shook hands.
After Schiller checked into the hotel, he did not go to the room immediately. Instead, he followed Magneto and the others out of the hotel. Mystique took the car keys and drove the car, while Magneto and Schiller found the nearest coffee shop and sat down.
"What's wrong? Eric, why are you in Mexico? How is the Andromeda Galaxy going?"
"That's why I'm here." Magneto replied succinctly: "There's a food crisis in the Andromeda Galaxy."
Then, with Magneto's introduction, Schiller understood what had happened in the Andromeda Galaxy during this period.
After the initial development of the Andromeda Galaxy was completed, the first phase of immigration work began. However, the so-called immigration did not mean to bring all mutants there. The main focus was to select mutants who had special roles in construction and production.
There are not many such people, and most of them are concentrated in China. The Eastern giant has gathered countless construction talents in the decades since its founding, and it is willing to tighten its belt to offer extremely high conditions to recruit these mutants with special abilities in production and construction.
As early as the last century, when mutants were still suffering from severe persecution, China became the last utopia for mutants. Many mutants even came here to seek refuge without asking for compensation and working for free.
At that time, European and American countries believed that these mutants would definitely cause great turmoil in Chinese society, so they were happy to see it happen, and even took the initiative to drive these mutants to China so that they could cause trouble here and distract China's attention.
Unfortunately, their wish was dashed. No matter how difficult the mutants were before, they would disappear once they were sent to China. So Europe and the United States began to advocate the extermination of mutants in China.
Because they simply can't understand how the evil people who stir up trouble in their own territory can become innocent when they go to other countries? How can they turn over a new leaf and stop causing trouble? It must be China that killed them all.
In other words, European and American countries regard these people as complete pests, and the only way to deal with them is to kill them all.
But as time entered the 21st century, they gradually realized that something was wrong. Why was this big guy developing faster and faster?
With the development of network technology, they finally got a glimpse of the mystery. Mutants are indispensable in those shocking super projects that seem completely impossible to complete.
Those terrorists who, in their view, could blow up a mountain with one bomb built tunnels one after another leading deep into the mountains. Those super weapons that could destroy a city when the two sides were fighting each other became gods on earth that protected farmland with good weather and harvests.
The management of mutants in China has completely achieved a virtuous cycle. The stronger their abilities, the more they can participate in large projects. The more promising large projects are judged to be, the more mutant jobs they can provide, and the more mutants will rush here with their families.
The larger the number of people, the easier it will be for ordinary people to understand what mutants are, and the less likely they will be to have misunderstandings and discrimination. The more super projects that are completed, the greater the impact on ordinary people's lives, and the more favorable they will be towards this special group. The society will be more tolerant of mutants, and it will be easier to attract more and stronger mutants.
After decades of virtuous cycles, any mutant who can find abilities that are somewhat beneficial to engineering construction has basically been accepted by China, and there are very few such talents scattered outside.
When compiling the first list of people to be relocated, Magneto and Professor X discovered the problem. There were very few people who could participate in the infrastructure construction, and some old friends they were able to contact also said that they were doing well in China now and there was no need to travel so far.
So Magneto can only settle for the second best and use quantity to make up for quality, or it doesn’t matter if you don’t have the corresponding mutant abilities, as long as you are willing to come and do infrastructure construction, we are willing to accept you.