lerbook Chapter 2613 Mayfly World (Thirteen)
Chapter 2613 Mayfly World (Thirteen)
The sun was still scorching in Mexico in October. The first thing Schiller did after getting off the plane was to put on the souvenir sun hat Clark bought for him. It took him a long time to adapt to the terrible ultraviolet rays and the overly bright everything. Now he finally understood why Pride would rather be controlled remotely than run here. This place can only be Superman's happy hometown. Batman will be dried into a bat if he comes here.
As soon as he left the airport gate in Mexico City, a heat wave hit him in the face, and the ripples of the air were clearly visible in the field of vision.
Schiller's first stop was the Great Pyramid of Aztec, which is the most complete relic of the Aztec civilization in the world and the largest pyramid in the world. It was once considered to be an alien relic.
Martin followed Schiller, seeming to miss the climate of his hometown very much. He was wearing slippers on his feet, holding a palm leaf fan in his hand, wearing a big hat on his head that was a circle larger than Schiller's hat, and wearing a T-shirt with cartoon patterns.
When Schiller walked out of the door, he found that most of them were dressed like Martin, with short sleeves and big shorts, slippers and sun hats.
Although Schiller was also wearing short sleeves, he wore sun protection sleeves, long pants, and sneakers. More importantly, he wore a fancy souvenir hat on his head, which made people know at a glance that he was a tourist.
Sure enough, the black car driver at the door greeted him very enthusiastically, mumbling Spanish with a very heavy accent, which Schiller could not understand at all.
At this time, Martin came up and shouted a few words 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 a bit similar. It seemed that they were both from the south. After a while, Martin waved to Schiller and said, "Let's go, let's go to the hotel first."
Schiller said nothing, carrying his luggage and walked towards the car. Along the way, Martin was greeting his fellow countryman, and the driver would look back at Schiller from time to time.
The car was air-conditioned, but because it had been parked in the sun for too long, all the parts were heated up, so there was still a hint of stuffiness inside the car. The driver turned on the radio and tuned to the music channel, where a cheerful Spanish tune came from.
Mexico City's construction retains a lot of its original flavor, with almost no modern transformation. You can see many Baroque buildings and traditional Mexican houses. The city is clean and tidy, and you can't even see many homeless people in New York.
Martin was obviously very proud. He said: "All the ancient nations in the world have pride. We also pursue a sufficiently stable lifestyle and community and family connections. We will help each other and support each other."
"We regard the existence of downtrodden people in this society as our shame. The government and community managers will help some homeless people as much as possible, but they are not bankrupts. Most of them have congenital diseases. There are special shelters and welfare homes to help them."
Schiller nodded. He knew that many people had stereotypes 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 small transparent in international news. It is rare to hear about any turmoil here, and there are few reports of economic collapse. The most common words are the US-Mexico border and the like. 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 the people's lives are also calm. After all, only 100 million people are supported on nearly 2 million square kilometers of land, and the available arable land area for such a large piece of land is ridiculously large. If each person grows a piece of land that does not starve to death, more than half of it will be left.
The vast majority of the population here is engaged in agricultural production, planting corn and beans. Coffee, and the remaining small part is engaged in handicrafts, making pottery, lacquerware, carving wood carvings, and weaving gold and silver.
This industrial structure is indeed difficult to have big ups and downs in terms of economy, and in terms of politics, as the back garden of the United States, the United States certainly cannot let it be peaceful, but the problem is that when the Mexican-American War was at the beginning, they were too ruthless and made the Mexicans completely united.
It is also a long history of colonization in modern times, and it is also a war that led to the loss of territory. However, this country did not have the advantages of time, place, and people, so it naturally lost completely.
Mexico is similar to China, which lost the Anti-Japanese War. It was plundered of countless excellent lands and continued to be oppressed and infected by the United States, which transferred countless crimes here.
Mexico also has an ancient civilization history. The vast majority of people here are descendants of Indians. Such a 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 good impression of the United States is not even Japan, which was dropped with an atomic bomb, but Mexico. It cannot even be said that there is no good impression, but naked hatred.
American revanchists like Gallardo are the majority here. They blame all the problems that Mexico has on the United States, but most of the hatred is not supported 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 regarded Schiller as one of them. His eyes were full of the vigilance of the locals, but he looked at them 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, which 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 rarely wore his black clothes or a helmet. His silver hair was neatly combed behind his head. He wore a straight suit and glasses, looking like a respected scholar.
A strange blonde woman followed him. Schiller saw that it was Mystique. It was strange. She was not the queen of the Shi'ar Empire. Why did she come back again?
The people behind him were also familiar faces, the traditional configuration of the Brotherhood of Mutants, but Polaris was not there, and Scarlet Witch and Jarvis were nowhere to be seen. Why did they go to Mexico?
At this time, Magneto had already seen Schiller, and he seemed a little surprised, but he quickly calmed down and walked up to shake hands with Schiller.
Schiller finished the hotel registration, but did not go to the room immediately, but followed Magneto out of the hotel. Mystique took the car keys to drive, and Magneto and Schiller found the nearest coffee shop to sit down.
"What's wrong? Eric, why are you in Mexico? How is the Andromeda Galaxy?"
"That's why I'm here." Magneto answered concisely: "There is a food crisis in the Andromeda Galaxy."
Then, with Magneto's introduction, Schiller understood what happened in the Andromeda Galaxy during this period.
After the initial development of the Andromeda Galaxy, the first phase of immigration work began, but the so-called immigration did not bring all mutants over, but mainly selected those 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. Even if it tightens its belt, it still offers extremely high conditions to recruit these mutants with special abilities in production and construction.
As early as the last century, when mutants were still severely persecuted, China became the last utopia for mutants. Many mutants did not even ask for compensation and came here to seek refuge 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 make trouble here and involve China's energy.
Unfortunately, their wishes were dashed. No matter how difficult the mutants were before, they would stop making any noise after entering China, so Europe and the United States began to advocate China's extermination of mutants.
Because they simply couldn't understand how the scourge that stirred up trouble in their own territory could become pure and kind when they went to other countries? How could they turn over a new leaf and stop making trouble? It must be China that killed them all.
That is to say, European and American countries regard these people as complete pests, and the only way to solve them is to kill them all.
However, as time entered the 21st century, they gradually realized that something was wrong. Why did this big guy develop 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 make people feel completely impossible to complete.
Those terrorists who, in their opinion, blew up a mountain with one bomb built tunnels leading to the depths of the mountains one after another, and those super weapons that could destroy a city when fighting between two parties became gods on earth who blessed farmland with good weather and good harvests.
The management of mutants in China has completely reached a virtuous cycle. The stronger the ability, the more they can participate in large projects. The more large projects are judged to be promising, the more mutant jobs can be provided, and the mutants will rush here with their families.
The more people there are, the easier it is for ordinary people to understand what mutants are, and the less likely they are to have misunderstandings and discrimination. The more super projects are completed, the greater the impact on ordinary people's lives, the better they like this special group, and the more tolerant society is to mutants, which makes it easier to attract more and stronger mutants.
After decades of virtuous cycles, all mutants who can find abilities that are somewhat beneficial to engineering construction have been accepted by China, and there are very few such talents scattered outside.
When counting the first batch of relocation lists, Magneto and Professor X discovered the problem. There were very few people who could participate in infrastructure construction, and some old friends they could contact also said that they were doing well in China now, and there was no need to go so far.
So Magneto could only settle for the second best, using quantity to make up for quality, or simply it doesn't matter if you don't have the corresponding mutant ability, as long as you are willing to come here to do infrastructure construction, then we are willing to accept you.