Chapter 3624

Looking at international history, most countries that succeeded in revolution certainly seized the opportunity at the critical juncture when agriculture and industry were transitioning, because at that time, production relations, social classes, and social customs were all being renewed, making it the easiest period to accept new ideas and complete new transformations.

Mexico's problem was that, aside from a few major cities, other places were truly too backward—so backward that everyone was generally poor, with no internal class contradictions and no external crises or stimuli; not even a spark could be lit, let alone a decent flame.

Even when Brainiac arrived, he had no particularly good solution for such places. The development process of carbon-based life is a spiral upward, which cannot be leapt over or achieved overnight.

To industrialize, talent is needed, and to get talent, education must come first. But human education cycles are long—often over a decade at a stretch. Even super artificial intelligence cannot rush growth; it can only be slowly transformed.

Now, Central and South America are Earth's farm and pasture. Fortunately, Brainiac can provide sufficiently advanced agricultural production tools, arranging them to farm where they should farm and graze where they should graze; the rest can only be done slowly.

Speaking of pastures, one cannot but mention Australia. This continent, isolated in the Southern Hemisphere, has vast area and sparse population—80% of its land is uninhabited, wasting so much land for nothing.

While nations still existed, others could do little about them, after all, it was their own country, and whether they developed or not was their internal affair; other nations could not arbitrarily interfere.

But Brainiac would not indulge their fault—having so few people on such a vast land is pure waste, isn't it? Even if inland desertification is severe, it is not impossible to develop; Siberia is already preparing to break ground, so Australia cannot fall behind.

Besides sending many robots to Australia for environmental transformation, Brainiac also relocated the population from relatively densely populated areas there. The world's most densely populated region is East Asia, and many Easterners were thus transferred to work in Australia.

If one were to speak of the greatest problem Brainiac encountered in the process of transforming the entire Earth, one cannot but mention a certain Eastern great power—indeed, it is India.

The process of transforming India was, for Brainiac, nothing short of an adventure; it could be said to be the greatest Waterloo of his artificial intelligence career. If he could dream, this would likely become one of his hardest nightmares to shake off.

Before the war began, India's population was approximately 1.06 billion—not the most populous country, but merely second.

After one war, only 700 million remained.

Someone might ask, aren't ordinary humans not supposed to go to the battlefield? How could so many people be lost directly? Was it Brainiac's massacre?

This is truly the extent to which Brainiac would loudly protest his innocence. He not only did not massacre, but he also exerted his utmost effort to save these people; it can be said that without him, perhaps not even 700 million would remain today.

First, at the war's outset, India could be called the most optimistic country globally. They thought extraterrestrials were no match, and as long as they dared come, they would surely defeat them soundly. I only need to slightly intervene, and I can certainly make Darkseid cry for his parents.

But unsurprisingly, even though Brainiac had already played many rounds, the early battlefield situation was unfavorable. Many of his preparations had not yet begun to take effect, and the front lines were even pushed to near the Moon at one point, with Earth's destruction just a hair's breadth away.

Although, to prevent ordinary people from panicking, most countries' governments that still existed at that time did their best to soothe the populace, telling them the situation was not that bad and humanity still had room to turn things around. But only in India did they truly feel the advantage was theirs.

They thought that since they had fought to the Moon, it was merely because we had not acted; once we did, dealing with extraterrestrials would be a matter of minutes. Moreover, they used this to look down on Brainiac, claiming their engineers should debug his program so he could have better combat ability.

At this time, Brainiac still had no intention of paying them heed. But he also paid a price for his contempt—the problem arose when he tried to transfer people to Krypton.

In the previous few rounds, Brainiac had also transferred people, but the scale was not as large as this time, nor was it a full mobilization. Basically, only relevant technical personnel were sent over. This also counts as his first attempt to conscript civilians.

Almost all other countries, including pampered Europe, underwent the process relatively smoothly. Certainly some were unwilling to go, but with alien warships pointing at their heads, staying on Earth merely meant being able to die closer to home—better to go out and take a chance.

Brainiac used the method of Green Lantern portal transport. Although Hal had left, he still left his trusted forces here. The Green Lantern portal, though relatively miniaturized, has no flow limit—ordinary people can use it, as long as they queue and walk in.

The mobilization order of most countries is: first the military, then the police. Civilians with middle age, physical laborers, and those with factory work experience are prioritized, followed by ordinary people, and finally university students of relatively young age.

India was different. They prioritized officials and nobles, high castes, and the wealthy.

This was not them leading from the front. They seemed to have completely misunderstood the matter—these people, because they were wealthy or powerful, knew more information than ordinary people; they knew aliens had already struck Earth's head—they thought Earth was surely about to be destroyed, so at this time, not fleeing would be foolish.

Even though Brainiac emphasized countless times that Earth would not be destroyed and that going to outer space was not for refuge, it was of no use. They had their own interpretation, their thinking ossified to the point that Brainiac could not change it.

If it were only this, it would be fine—after all, going there meant militarized management, where high or low caste alike had to tighten screws. Brainiac thus let it be.

But then a major problem arose—upper-class people were not few; you wanted to flee, I also wanted to flee. You brought your family, so I also wanted to bring relatives. You brought wealth, so I also wanted to bring mine; otherwise, after I went over, wouldn't I be poorer than you?

But the problem is that the portal is limited. Brainiac, after precise calculation, placed portals at important transportation hubs in various countries, then arranged for people from surrounding cities to pass in order.

Only in those few major cities were there portals. Moreover, the portals were relatively miniaturized; although they could work without interruption, only a few people could pass at once. In India's view, fleeing early was certainly safer than fleeing late!

So they utterly ignored Brainiac's arrangement, rushing at first to those few cities, not only bringing families but also bringing everything they could carry—gold, antiques, luxuries were trifles; they brought cars, safes, even cruise ships were nothing; someone even dug up their own house and brought it along!

Such behavior directly caused panic domestically, leading most Indians to believe that as long as they could pass through that door, they could survive, without having to die with Earth.

Consequently, the result was that within national borders, a real battle royale involving one billion people was directly triggered.

If you reached the portal's edge, would you let your enemy pass? To be precise, would you be willing to let more people pass?

High castes were obviously unwilling. Assuming the other side of the portal was the Earth they imagined, naturally, the fewer people, the better. They cared nothing for production relations and productivity; they just felt that the fewer people, the more resources they could occupy. So before leaving, they began mass slaughter of the poor and low castes to prevent them from passing through the portal.

They even had their own reasoning. After all, you originally had no qualification to pass through the portal. Is dying with Earth not the same as being killed by me?

Moreover, the religion there was also peculiar—they emphasized that if a low caste could perfect their cultivation in this life, they could be reborn as a high caste in the next. Many low castes sincerely believed this, and they actually found the upper class's words reasonable.

After all, they originally could not pass anyway; rather than wait to die together with Earth's destruction, it was better not to resist the high castes and still add bricks and tiles to their cultivation; perhaps they could even be reborn on another planet someday.

Brainiac discovered this immediately, but he could not stop it, because his combat robots still had to hold the front lines. Other countries were also diverting manpower—who had the leisure to manage other nations' affairs?

Moreover, they were a case of one willing to strike and one willing to endure. One truly dared to kill, the other truly dared not to resist. In two days, nationwide, several million died, with no one managing anything.

Actually, the number truly killed was not that high, after all, there were so many low castes—even with machine guns, it took time. But after social order completely collapsed, the dead bodies were not handled by anyone; heat and decay spread pathogens, and there, no one had epidemic prevention awareness—even burning was neglected, leaving them as they were. Contamination of water, food, and even air then led to the deaths of tens of millions more.

Moreover, many remaining people had sick minds. They thought that if killed by extraterrestrials, they could not be reborn; doctrine forbids suicide, so they killed each other instead, and families had to be whole, mutually poisoning each other. Or two families, or even an entire community, mutually poisoning each other.

There were also some fanatics who thought that if their own people were killed by extraterrestrials, they might be reborn among the extraterrestrials, defiling their doctrine, so they did not allow others to wait until extraterrestrials invaded to die, but instead insisted on dying now, thus directly initiating slaughter.

Then entered a vicious cycle: the more people died, the more hopeless ordinary people felt, so more died, the environment worsened, more pathogens spread, leading to even more deaths.

During this period, Brainiac was not without attempts to stop it—he diverted some robots to maintain order. He had the robots burn the corpses spreading pathogens, but those people thought he wanted to steal believers' souls. Facing low castes who offered no resistance to high castes, they dared to launch suicide attacks on the robots. Brainiac's killing a chicken to scare the monkeys did not frighten them; in short, they had simply gone completely mad.

In the end, Brainiac could only choose to increase manpower to forcibly drag survivors into the portal, escorting them to tighten screws. And those who entered the portal who were high castes were even more outrageous, with all kinds of sneaky operations that completely refreshed Brainiac's understanding of humanity as a species.

Thus, now, the other ethnic groups and races on Krypton can pack up and go home to celebrate the New Year, only India is not allowed to leave. Brainiac truly fears that if they return, they will again give him big news, and judging from that group's bizarre thinking, his concern is absolutely justified.

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