Chapter 1743

Bruce and his party arrived in Mexico, but the situation here is actually not as good as in the real world. The time point of this world forged by Jack is located around 1986, which is when everything had not yet begun to happen.

This time point is not considered good for the Mexican people. Although 1986 was the year they hosted the World Cup, a year earlier, two major earthquakes caused a huge disaster for the country. Fortunately, the earthquakes did not affect the venues, and the World Cup matches were held as scheduled.

At this time, Mexico's economic growth had been stagnant for a long time. After the glory of the World Cup came to an end, it seemed to announce that the era of prosperity for this country had completely ended. The free-market economy introduced during the administration of de la Madrid failed to save the market, and the government's disaster relief was slow, further reducing the credibility of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

During this period, Mexico reached a crossroads of choice. The prestige of the left wing continued to decline, and the influence of liberals continued to expand, but this had nothing to do with the living standards of the people at the bottom. Drug lords were still rampant in the south, and the southern drug trafficking group led by the Mexican drug godfather Gallardo was extending its tentacles to more cities.

And now the problem facing the party is that everyone has no superpowers, unable to be like the heavenly soldiers before, using force to deal a heavy blow to drug dealers. And without the economic and personal support of Bruce and Oliver, everything is even harder.

Ordinary people are always insignificant. The prerequisite for being able to shout slogans is to first have the ability to stand up and shout. The vast majority of people in this world cannot even do the first point; they need to spend almost all their energy scratching for food on the ground. No one can blame them for not being able to stand out in terms of changing the tragedy of the era.

But superheroes born with powerful strength never accept this point. Their kindness and strength give them a stronger sense of responsibility than others. To some extent, the pioneers of the era must be megalomaniacs, firmly believing that they must be responsible for all the unfortunate people in this era, and only then can they have the motivation to save them.

In this team, everyone except Bruce has had no similar experience. Clark is born powerful, Diana is of the god race and also royalty, Oliver is as wealthy as Wayne, Hal has long accepted his identity as a Green Lantern, and Arthur is still a small-town youth with little experience.

They thought of everything too simply, wanting to copy what they did in the real world, and just as Bruce had experienced, the cruel reality gave them a blow to the head.

They had not even touched a drug lord who could be called a group; just the security personnel inside a poppy plantation cost Oliver and Hal their lives.

They originally wanted to use this plantation as a base to expand their influence to the south, just like they did before. Oliver and Hal were the scouts. Although they had done enough investigation and preparation before, and both had weapons, they still underestimated the cruelty of the drug dealers.

The local who led the way betrayed the two of them. Fortunately, the plantation security guards were just working for money, not sadists like Gallardo. Oliver and Hal each took a bullet and returned to their birthplace, Cat Getan.

It might be because they did not participate in the game of Cat Getan and were sent in directly by God, so they did not reincarnate as children, and this cut off their last thought. Reincarnation would not bring back superpowers; they are now completely ordinary people.

Bruce did not interfere with the plan they formulated at all, just watching from the side. In fact, he had a way to formulate a perfect plan to take down this plantation, but he knew that if he did not let his companions realize the cruelty of reality, any of their plans would eventually head toward castles in the air.

Obviously, he was right. After one failure, they did not reflect. Next were Clark and Diana, who intended to deal with a government official who had reached a black deal with this plantation. Diana's rich combat experience on the battlefield gave her impressive force; even without divine power, she was stronger than the villa's security personnel.

They successfully found this official, kidnapped and beat him up, and asked from his mouth who the boss behind the plantation was. The result was that they were wanted the next day.

Originally, they relied on the savings provided by Bruce to live in an ordinary hotel, but after being wanted, all hotels and inns could not be stayed in. And the drug lords' eyes and ears in the city were almost everywhere, with forces intertwined. Being seen by locals would lead to being reported, and the party was driven out of this city in a dejected manner.

Oliver and Diana's strategic minds were both good. They began to shift to the countryside. The farmers here had indeed been oppressed for a long time, conscientiously helping drug lords grow poppies while always being exploited, and many were hovering on the edge of not being able to eat.

Oliver, who was more experienced, led them to drive away the small leader who had been deducting income, but they faced another problem: everyone went home after getting the money, and some said to let Oliver lead them to work alone, naturally still growing poppies.

Then Oliver discovered that in the real world, he could persuade so many people to follow him, not because he really had leadership charisma, nor because they really believed the scene Oliver described could be realized, but because he, Hal, and Clark, especially the far-beyond-ordinary powerful strength displayed by Clark, was the biggest magic weapon to make this group of people loyal.

Going to tell these farmers who had never received any education that one day everyone in the world could live the life they wanted, this kind of argument was too far away for them. But if at this time a person with infinite strength, eyes that could fire lasers, and strength that looked like he could punch through the earth descended, the persuasiveness would obviously be much stronger.

But when they all became ordinary people, they found they could not take out things to move these people.

The locals' thoughts were very simple: you helped us drive away the people who exploited us severely, we are very grateful to you. As a reward, we can let you lead us, we are willing to work for you, and you can also enjoy our offerings like those drug lords in big cities. Isn't this the best reward?

There is a saying that goes well: Mexicans have two dreams in their lives, either become a drug lord or become an American.

They would want to become drug lords, nothing more than feeling that selling drugs is the best job in the world. If they became drug lords, they could also do nothing, take the things farmers worked hard to grow and sell them, buy guns to enclose more farmers, sell drugs more widely, and just lie at home counting money.

In this situation, Bruce understood more deeply the words Jack said, why in a certain country and a certain city, the crime industry is unsustainable, because when using violence to seize benefits becomes the ultimate goal of a society, the people who can truly get benefits are always a very small minority, while the vast majority of oppressed people will find it extremely difficult to awaken due to wrong values.

After the party hesitated on this land for half a month, and almost everyone died twice on average, Oliver finally could not stand it anymore. He knew it was time to change the combat policy.

"I don't understand, why can't we contact the Soviet Union?" Clark said, hugging his arms: "In the real world, didn't they give us a lot of support?"

Oliver sighed deeply and said: "That's because we had already achieved results. To be honest, they would give us help, not because of any belief or anything, but because we could cause trouble for the United States; they needed someone to contain the United States."

"Now is no longer the time for the Soviet Union to aid the whole world." Diana shook her head and said: "It might have been possible in the early years, but now they are also a bit chaotic internally; I'm afraid they won't pay attention to us at all."

"Bruce, you haven't said much lately. Do you have any views?" Oliver turned his head to look at Bruce and said.

Bruce was silent for a moment and said: "I believe you have also seen it; this matter is not that simple."

"Of course." Hal nodded and said somewhat decadently: "I was originally just an ordinary pilot, and I didn't feel anything was difficult at that time. But after being Green Lantern for a long time, now that I suddenly have no Green Lantern energy, I always think it would be good if I still had superpowers."

"I think the current situation is not just caused by us not having superpowers." Diana also sighed and said: "It is precisely because we did things too conveniently in the real world, leading to insufficient accumulation of both theoretical knowledge and experience."

"It's like a person's dominant hand is the right hand, but during an exam, they are forced to write with the left hand. Even if the paper has been answered once, everything is still very difficult."

Oliver still stared at Bruce. Bruce nodded gently and said: "Actually, this also has no meaning. After all, you all have superpowers in the real world. Who would deliberately cut off one of their own arms?"

"No, I think the biggest problem lies in the fact that ordinary people are not without success, and the time used is not long. Then, under the condition that we all have superpowers, shouldn't we shorten the time even more? But why didn't we do it even in the real world?"

Oliver said to himself, and Clark reached out and patted Bruce on the shoulder gently and said: "Bruce, don't hide it anymore. I know you must have a way."

"We indeed don't need to get rid of our dependence on superpowers." Bruce shrugged and said: "This is what a trip to Cat Getan taught me. I was originally a big tycoon, why must I turn myself into an ordinary person and then go to experience the so-called suffering of ordinary people?"

"Suffering is not worth praising, nor is there a need to experience it. It is not that having the same difficulties as ordinary people means you can truly stand with them. All the things we have obtained that exceed ordinary people are what we have already obtained. Giving them up to deliberately 'be close to the people' has no meaning."

"Then we said we would take you away from this dream world, and you still won't leave." Hal said unhappily: "Back to the real world, wouldn't we all have superpowers?"

"We can have them here too."

The others all turned their heads to look at him. The Bat-Cat licked his paws, looked at himself from another universe, and also seemed to understand what he wanted to say.

Bruce drew several patterns on the ground and said: "Infinite strength is a superpower, magic is a superpower. Now you have lost them, but we can find back another kind of superpower."

"Another kind of superpower? What is that?"

"Money and power."