Chapter 3095: Romantic

Sitting on the flying shuttle, Shiler and Wanda start discussing this issue. Shiler has decided to face reality. His popularity on the internet is still very high, because the daily life of superheroes filmed by Ultron is equivalent to the third season of a documentary, and Shiler still occupies an important position in it, and his popularity is increasing rather than decreasing.

Wanda still harbors an escapist mentality. She feels that as long as she doesn't go online, she won't be affected by the internet. But once she thinks that if today's incident were posted on the internet by that waiter and manager, they would not only attack her, but definitely also attack Jarvis and her children.

Once it involves family, Wanda can't bear it. And Shiler's judgment on the mutant situation makes Wanda's last fluke mentality dissipate without a trace.

"Mutants developing the Andromeda Galaxy is not just for yourselves. You are also the vanguard of human exploration of the stars. You have made so many efforts, and countless compatriots have sweated and bled, but almost no one knows about these things."

"From this virus invasion incident, we can see that you can't deal with the dangers in the universe alone, and you still need the support of Earth's power. You need more ordinary human experts who are friendly to you."

Wanda nods. She naturally knows this point. Mutants have many weaknesses, but the biggest weakness is that their theoretical level is not strong enough, or rather, their practical level is too strong, leading to their theoretical level not being able to keep up.

Just like this virus, Magneto can clear these 20-plus planets in an instant, but he can't do that because he needs to study what happened.

If the mastermind isn't dug out, this time it's 20-plus planets, next time it could be 200-plus. This time it infected animals and plants, next time it could infect the mutants themselves. Always responding passively like this has no hope.

But doing scientific research is really not something anyone can do. Magneto can observe atomic-level activities at will, and he is even a physicist himself, but once it involves biological genes, he doesn't understand it either.

The current development model of mutants is basically relying on Professor X and Magneto to carry this broken carriage forward. The new generation of mutants can only handle some very basic things and can't pick out anyone who can carry the banner. If they are asked to take care of scientific research, the old man will either be angered to death or exhausted.

So the best model is that ordinary human experts are responsible for theory, and mutants are responsible for execution, because this is not a matter of the mutant group alone, but a plan for all of humanity to explore the universe. Ordinary human scientists also have responsibilities for this.

But having responsibility is having responsibility. Without subjective initiative, it is just completing one's own work. Even if you encounter a few who have a bad view of mutants, they will find excuses that they have a lot of work on hand and keep dragging it out. Who can do anything about them?

So Shiler emphasizes that it must be human experts who have goodwill and favor for mutants. Only in this way will they actively care about the situation of mutants and exert their subjective initiative to the maximum, truly playing a role in theoretical support.

But unfortunately, such experts can't be said to be rare, but they are basically one in ten thousand, and they are almost all concentrated in China.

Speaking of which, the mutants in China basically didn't participate in the Andromeda Galaxy development plan, because their own territory hasn't been built yet. The aerial railway in the Himalayas was opened this year, and it seems they are going to build the South China Sea loop line this year, and they also undertook the Southeast Asian aerial railway project. Everyone is so busy that they don't have time to take care of outer space.

But actually, there is another important reason, which is that the mutants in China can't pee in the same pot as Magneto. There is an essential difference in the direction of the two sides exploring outer space, and there is no way to reconcile it for the time being.

Magneto's idea is to stand in the Andromeda Galaxy and then start grabbing. To put it bluntly, it's still the set of maritime civilization.

Although they are often scolded as pirates, it must be said that this method is fast. If the neighbor stores grain, I store guns. The neighbor is my granary. Westerners have completed capital accumulation this way.

And Chinese mutants believe that sticking a pole directly to the Andromeda Galaxy and dreaming of becoming a hegemon in the universe is no different from the theory of quick victory

Although Mercury has already served as Earth's largest energy base, aren't there still Mars and Venus? Mars, in particular, can be completely described as a highly Earth-like planet.

Starting from Mars, gradually adapting to the cosmic environment, building the first colony, developing technology points from scratch, creating cosmic bases, space agriculture, and spaceships suitable for mutants, and then slowly exploring nearby star systems to find suitable planets to build the next base—this is the correct development route, and they are planning to do exactly that.

The advantage of doing this is that it is very stable. Starting development within the Nine Realms, it is basically impossible to encounter any decent external enemies. By the time the technology tree is mostly filled out, if they encounter anything in the future, they won't be running around like headless flies.

However, the disadvantage is that it is relatively slow; basically, no results can be seen without a dozen five-year plans.

Returning to Magneto and the others, Wanda knows herself that mutants have indeed encountered many crises during the process of exploring and developing in the Andromeda Galaxy. Although in Magneto's words they might just be small troubles, that is because he is too strong; if it had fallen upon ordinary humans, those would all be major crises of genocide.

Things like solar flares and planetary impacts are minor matters; traveling black holes and neutron star explosions count as appetizers; chain-reaction car crashes of advanced civilization spaceships and military friction between the three major empires can barely count as the main course.

But because the two galaxies are too far apart and there is no internet connection, ordinary people simply don't know about these things. They only know that mutants are busy with something in the Andromeda Galaxy, but they basically all feel that the further away this group of dangerous mutants rolls, the better, and they have no idea what is actually going on.

But in reality, mutants are doing quite well. Magneto has stubbornly withstood pressure from all sides, gained a firm foothold in the Andromeda Galaxy, and not only deterred all parties—making them overestimate the combat power level of humans so they dare not invade—but he also does not fall behind in diplomacy, fully demonstrating the personal charisma of a human leader, and even has a batch of fans among the civilizations under the jurisdiction of the three major empires.

Although mutants have actually made outstanding contributions to human interstellar exploration, the public opinion environment on Earth still hasn't improved much. Therefore, in this virus incident, they still had to rely on Shiler's face to find Reed, who was willing to help with the research; the effort and return are truly not proportional.

Thinking of this, Wanda also understood that Shiler was suggesting she manage the online image of mutants, at least letting ordinary people know what mutants have done.

This is not just for making money; it is more for clearing the name of mutants, thereby accumulating prestige for mutants among the population that mutants can make use of, so that in the future, if they encounter a virus invasion like this again, they can assemble a professional team in the shortest possible time.

Actually, Wanda also felt that if there could have been a professional team, the situation of this virus invasion would not have deteriorated to this extent. Although the riots had already begun when it was discovered, the virus was not that powerful at that time; if an antidote had been developed then, it might have been resolved by now.

Wanda does not have much sense of belonging to the mutant group, but she is very clear that her two children are mutants, and children born later also have a high probability of being mutants. Even for their future, she must change the current situation.

"You have a natural advantage," Shiler said while fiddling with his phone. "Don't forget, you are married to the strongest electronic life in the world, which means that as long as you want, you can almost completely control the online public opinion field."

"No, I can't let Jarvis go... I only treat him as my husband, and I don't want to use him."

"I'm afraid I must tell you, madam, that a marriage based only on love will not last long. You have now formed a family; besides the feelings between you, you also need to work together for the future of yourselves and your children."

Shiler tried to put it as tactfully as possible. He said, "You must be useful to each other, and at the same time useful to the children, so that the structure of the family can be stably maintained. If a person completely loses their utility value to family members, then they are a burden to this family. Even if they don't withdraw from the organization, they will definitely live very painfully."

Wanda revealed a sad expression because she finally realized—or rather, she had realized it long ago but was unwilling to admit—that the kind of family she fantasized about, supported entirely by love, is actually unrealistic.

Love cannot be eaten as a meal, or rather, what some people say about "having love is enough to be full" is actually just the lowest form of love.

Because emotions are natural and everyone has them, but the other values that can be created are the results of personal effort and persistence. Denying these results while emphasizing natural emotions is nothing but suppression.

Who doesn't know that indulging in emotions is wonderful, but breaking free from fantasies to face reality is very painful? If a person is willing to do this for you, that is truly loving you.

Wanda loves Jarvis very much, and she also loves her children. She knows that if she continues to live in the beautiful fantasy of love and a warm family, this love might not last very long.

But it is also difficult for her to break free immediately, because for all the years she has grown up, she has relied on such beautiful fantasies to support herself to live on.

Shiler did not continue to persuade her. He just verified his previous account, which was verifying that he was Shiler Rodriguez, so that he would have his own celebrity account.

However, his original account didn't have anything; he hadn't posted any videos, just collected a large pile of recipes, and had basically practiced 80% of them, with reviews that were both good and bad.

Logically speaking, a new account should post a greeting video, but they are outside now, and Shiler only has a phone, so it's not very convenient to record a selfie video. Therefore, he decided to take a picture of the dishes at the restaurant they were about to eat at, just as a greeting.

They soon arrived at the second restaurant. The story of this restaurant is relatively legendary, and it was also made popular overnight by a review video. But before it became popular, it couldn't be said that no one cared, but it could be said that it was on the verge of bankruptcy.