Chapter 2608: Mayfly World (Part 13)

October in Mexico was still scorching hot. The first thing Schiller did after getting off the plane was to quickly put on the souvenir sun hat Clark had bought for him. It took him half a day to adapt to this terrible ultraviolet light and everything that was overly bright. Now he finally knew why the arrogant one would rather remote control than run here; this place could only be Superman's happy home. Batman would be dried into a bat jerky if he came here.

As soon as he walked out of the airport gate in Mexico City, a heatwave rushed toward him, and the ripples of the air were clearly visible in his field of vision.

Schiller's first target was the Great Jin Zita of the Aztecs, which was the most complete Aztec civilization relic preserved globally and also the largest pyramid in the world, once considered an alien relic.

Martin followed behind Schiller, seemingly very nostalgic for his hometown's climate, with slippers on his feet, a palm-leaf fan in his hand, a large hat a size bigger than Schiller's on his head, and wearing a T-shirt with cartoon patterns.

Schiller walked out the door and saw that the vast majority were dressed like Martin: short sleeves with 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 had a gaudy souvenir hat on his head, letting everyone know at a glance that he was a sucker here for tourism.

Sure enough, the black car driver at the door greeted him very enthusiastically, muttering in Spanish with a very heavy accent, which Schiller couldn't understand at all.

At this time, Martin walked up and shouted a few words at several drivers. Schiller could roughly understand some numbers; they seemed to be bargaining.

At this time, a dark and strong driver walked up to talk to Martin. Schiller could hear that their accents were somewhat similar. It seemed they were both southerners. After a while, Martin waved at Schiller and said, "Let's go, let's go to the hotel first."

Schiller said nothing, picked up his luggage, and walked toward the car. Along the way, Martin was chatting with his fellow countryman, and the driver would look back at Schiller from time to time.

The car had the air conditioning on, but because it had been parked in the sun for too long, all the parts were baked very hot, so it was still a bit stuffy inside. The driver turned on the radio and tuned to a music channel, from which cheerful Spanish ditties came.

The construction of Mexico City retained a lot of original flavor, almost without any modernization. One could see many Baroque buildings and traditional Mexican dwellings. The city was neat, clean, and atmospheric, and one couldn't even see many homeless people like in New York.

Martin was obviously very proud. He said, "All ancient nations in this world have backbone. We also pursue a sufficiently stable lifestyle and pursue the connection between community and family. We will help each other and support each other."

"We regard the existence of down-and-out 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 bankrupt. Most have congenital diseases. There are special shelters and relief welfare homes here to help them."

Schiller nodded. He knew that regarding Mexico, many people had stereotypes, thinking that all of them lived in slums, were destitute, and were chaotic.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, Mexico is a small transparent entity in international news. It is rarely heard that any turmoil happens here, and there are few reports of economic collapse. The most frequent words that appear are things like the US-Mexico border. 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 calm. After all, 100 million people are supported on nearly 2 million square kilometers of land, and such a large piece of land has an outrageously large area of arable land. Everyone planting a piece of land to keep themselves from starving still leaves more than half.

The vast majority of the population here is engaged in agricultural production, planting corn, beans, and coffee. The remaining small part is engaged in handicrafts, making pottery, lacquerware, wood carving, and weaving gold and silver.

This industrial structure is indeed difficult to have big ups and downs in terms of the economy. In terms of politics, as the backyard of the United States, the United States certainly cannot let this place be peaceful, but the problem is that when the US-Mexico War happened, they acted too ruthlessly, making the Mexican people completely united.

It was also a history of colonization that was written in modern times, and it was also a war where the country was lost. It was just that this country did not occupy the right time, place, or people, so naturally, it lost completely.

Mexico is similar to China that lost the War of Resistance Against Japan, having countless excellent lands plundered and continuously suffering from the oppression and infiltration of the United States, transferring countless criminal industries here.

Mexico also possesses an ancient history of civilization. The vast majority of people here are descendants of Indians. Such a nation, like most ancient nations in this world, attaches great importance to land and blood, so naturally, it cannot tolerate such humiliation.

According to statistics, the country in this world that has the least good feelings for the United States is not Japan, which was thrown an atomic bomb, but Mexico. It can't even be said to be no good feelings, but naked hatred.

American revanchists like Gallardo are the vast majority here. They push all the problems Mexico has onto the United States, but most of the hatred has no strength to support it and is just a joke.

After the era of space exploration arrived, the United States became stronger and further controlled almost the entire Americas. Mexico had no ability to resist. People could only watch as more and more companies with English words opened up, and more and more people who spoke English came here.

The driver obviously regarded Schiller as one of them, with the vigilance unique to locals in his eyes, but he was also cautious in his scrutiny. They knew that the scholars and technicians who came here recently were simply not people ordinary people could afford to provoke.

Soon the hotel arrived. Schiller got out of the car and saw a brand-new building next to the hotel. Martin said, "This is the latest logistics center, mainly doing corn processing, product packaging, and export business. It was built only two months ago. The driver's family works here."

Schiller nodded, walked into the hotel, and as soon as he walked up the stairs, he saw a group of unexpected people—the Brotherhood of Mutants.

Magneto rarely did not wear his black suit, nor did he wear a helmet. His silver hair was neatly combed back, he wore a crisp suit, and he even wore glasses, looking very much like a highly respected scholar.

A strange blonde woman followed behind him. Schiller saw that it was Mystique. Strange, she wasn't the Queen of the Shi'ar Empire, so why did she run back?

The few behind were also old acquaintances, the configuration of the traditional Brotherhood of Mutants. However, Polaris was not there, and Scarlet Witch and Jarvis were nowhere to be seen. What did they run to Mexico for?

At this time, Magneto had already seen Schiller. He also seemed a bit surprised, but soon he collected his emotions, walked up, and shook hands with Schiller.

Schiller finished the hotel registration and did not go to the room immediately, but followed Magneto and the others out of the hotel. Mystique took the car keys to drive, while Magneto and Schiller found the nearest coffee shop and sat down.

"What's wrong? Erik, why are you in Mexico? How is the Andromeda Galaxy?"

"This is the reason why I appeared here," Magneto answered concisely. "The Andromeda Galaxy has a food crisis."

Then, under Magneto's introduction, Schiller finally understood what had happened in the Andromeda Galaxy during this period.

After the Andromeda Galaxy completed its preliminary development, it began the first phase of immigration work. However, so-called immigration did not mean moving all mutants there; it mainly involved selecting those mutants who had special roles in construction and production.

There were not many such people, and the vast majority were concentrated in China. In the decades since its founding, the Eastern power had gathered countless construction-type talents, tightening 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 severely persecuted, China became the last utopia for mutants. Many mutants even worked for free without pay just to come here for refuge.

At that time, European and American countries thought these mutants would definitely cause extreme turmoil in Chinese society, so they were happy to see it happen, even actively driving these mutants to China so that they would make trouble here and drag down China's energy.

Unfortunately, their wish fell through. No matter how troublesome the mutants were before, once they settled in China, they had no more movement. So Europe and America began to preach that China was exterminating mutants.

Because they simply couldn't understand how the pests that were stirring up trouble on their own turf became pure and good after going to another country. How did they turn over a new leaf and stop making trouble? China must have killed them all.

That is to say, European and American countries regarded these people as complete pests, and the only way to solve them was to kill them all.

However, as time entered the 21st century, they gradually realized something was wrong. How was this big guy developing faster and faster?

Along with the development of network technology, they finally got a glimpse of the mystery. Among those shocking super projects that people felt were completely impossible to complete, the figures of mutants were indispensable.

Those terrorists who, in their view, could blow up a mountain with one blast, built one tunnel after another leading to the depths of the mountains. Those super weapons that could destroy a city when two sides fought became the gods of the world who protected the farmland and ensured good weather.

The management of mutants within China had completely reached a virtuous cycle. The stronger the ability, the more they could participate in major projects. The more major projects were judged to be promising, the more mutant positions could be provided, and mutants would bring their families to rush here.

The more people there were, the easier it was for ordinary people to understand what mutants were all about, and the less likely they were to have misunderstandings and discrimination. The more super projects were completed, the greater the impact on the lives of ordinary people, and the higher their favor for this special group. The society's tolerance for mutants was greater, making it easier to attract more and stronger mutants.

After decades of virtuous cycles, any mutant who could find an ability beneficial to engineering construction was basically accepted by China. Now, there were very few such talents scattered outside.

When counting the first batch of relocation lists, Magneto and Professor X finally found the problem. There were pitifully few people who could participate in infrastructure construction, and some old friends they could contact also indicated that they were doing well in China now and there was no need to run so far.

So Magneto had no choice but to settle for the second best, using quantity to make up for quality, or simply, it didn't matter if you didn't have corresponding mutant abilities. As long as you were willing to come over to engage in infrastructure construction, then we were willing to accept you. ===== CHAPTER 2609 =====