Chapter 4688: X-Royalty: Annihilation (Part 14)

"Nature reserve?!" In the hall of the UN General Assembly, the ambassador opposite Sebastian twisted the microphone and said: "Are you guys crazy? What is a nature reserve?!"

Although Sebastian couldn't understand it either, he was also an old fox, and his words were quite a set.

"Watch your attitude, Mr. Ambassador," Sebastian started by putting a hat on him, "your attitude, which is infinitely close to a personal attack, makes me feel that you and your country have serious discrimination against mutants. If you don't want to hear my speech, you can leave yourself. Okay?"

After speaking, he didn't care about that ambassador and continued: "In fact, I think the international community has misunderstandings about the activities of mutants on Krakoa Island. Mutants are just developing a newly discovered nature reserve. There are over 20,000 species of brand-new animals and plants on Krakoa Island, all of which are endangered species. As the first race to set foot on this island, although we temporarily use this island as a foothold, we want to contribute more to the human environmental protection cause. To this end, mutants have established the 'Krakoa Environmental Protection Foundation' to ensure that the animals and plants on Krakoa Island can be well protected..."

This statement left all the ambassadors of various countries stunned. Many ambassadors had already started whispering to each other. What's the situation with mutants? Suddenly enlightened? Or is there an expert pointing them out from behind?

Everyone had to admit that this move of advancing by retreating by not building a nation was already very brilliant, but establishing a nature reserve and a foundation was even more brilliant.

First, let's talk about not building a nation. Anyone who knows a little about diplomacy knows that it is very simple to target a country. Externally, one can increase tariffs, impose land, sea, and air embargoes, suppress trade, and unite to influence exchange rates. Internally, one can launch color revolutions, ethnic struggles, regional divisions, etc. It is also very simple to engage in these things within the mutants; after all, mutants were never of one mind.

In fact, all major powers were making two-handed preparations. On one hand, they were prepared to vote in favor, letting them establish a nation; on the other hand, they had already begun to send some mutants under their control to Krakoa Island, ready to make trouble at any time.

It can be said that once Krakoa builds a nation, it will immediately face an all-around siege from the international community. All countries will target them openly and secretly until the mutant nation collapses from the inside out.

But now, mutants don't build a nation, and things will become a bit difficult to handle. Because if they don't build a nation, there is no reason to change the current ruling mode.

The mutants' ruling mode is very primitive; simply put, whoever is strong is right. If they choose to build a nation, they have to connect with the international community and must update to a sufficiently modern ruling mode, which is the so-called democratic politics. They don't want to become electoral politics, but they have to change, and the space for operation becomes even larger.

But if someone comes and says "I am a barbarian," and just wants to be a primitive person, just doesn't want to connect with modern society, then you can't run into a primitive tribe and demand that primitive people vote for a chief. Then Magneto and Professor X will always be the absolute core leaders. With the powerful strength of these two people, it will be very difficult to shake the mutant group.

It can be said that modern human technology has developed so rapidly, and humans possess such high technology, yet mutants haven't been exterminated; this isn't because humans are kind-hearted. The existence of Magneto and Professor X and the mutant organizations they lead is the only reason. This group of people is truly too difficult to deal with; if you can't shake them, you can't completely exterminate mutants.

Therefore, not establishing a nation, or rather, delaying the establishment of a nation, can be said to be a very brilliant move of advancing by retreating. This has resulted in modern nations being unable to target mutants, and many of the suppression methods commonly used in modern society cannot be applied either, which instead has prevented them from falling into a trap.

Again, "establishing a nature reserve," this move can be called a wonderful strange move, immediately turning "selfish behavior" into "altruistic behavior."

Mutants aren't building a nation for themselves, but to protect the rare animals and plants on Krakoa Island, so they stay on the island. This is all to protect the Earth's ecosystem.

Of course, this will also have problems. Soon, an ambassador pointed out sharply: "Then why should mutants protect it? If there are such rare animal and plant resources, I'm afraid it would be better to let professional biological and botanical protection experts go."

"If they are mutants, of course they can also go."

"Why must it be mutants?"

"This is something you don't know," Sebastian seemed to have been waiting for them to ask, and he said, "Krakoa is a living island. You can understand it as a special mutant."

The hall was in an uproar, and everyone erupted with intense sounds. An ambassador asked: "What do you mean by saying it's a special mutant? How can an island be a mutant?"

"Turning into an island is Krakoa's mutant ability," Sebastian said, "there are many different mutant abilities in this world. Some can turn into diamonds, so naturally, some can turn into islands. It's a pity that Krakoa doesn't welcome ordinary people; it only accepts mutants to be active on its body for a long time."

Sebastian paused and continued: "The Krakoa flower that can heal diseases is a magical plant on Krakoa Island. This kind of plant is quite rare and scarce, and has very high economic value. And there are many more like this on Krakoa Island. Mutants must make efforts to protect these rare animals and plants, which is also protecting precious Earth natural assets. Establishing a nature reserve and an environmental protection foundation is also reasonable."

The ambassadors below started whispering again, obviously wanting to pick faults. An ambassador asked: "But if ordinary people aren't allowed on the island, how do we know that there are natural resources that need protection there?"

"We never said we wouldn't let ordinary people on the island; we just said they couldn't be active there for a long time. In fact, ordinary people probably can't adapt to Krakoa's environment. The climatic conditions and natural environment there aren't suitable for ordinary people without superpowers to live for a long time. There will be many trace elements and nutrients needed by the human body that cannot be supplemented in time. However, if you bring your own supplies, you can still stay there for a short period."

"In fact, mutants sincerely invite ambassadors from various countries to go to Krakoa for sightseeing and inspection," Sebastian paid special attention to his word choice, not mentioning any words like "visit" or "come to visit," just calling it sightseeing and scientific investigation.

Saying it this way actually made that questioning ambassador shrink back. People had already said that it wasn't suitable for ordinary people to survive there; if you go, you have to bring your own supplies. If you get sick and die there, the mutants might not even pay, after all, they had already fulfilled the warning obligation.

What's more, they had already said there were tens of thousands of new plants and animals; what if there were aggressive ones? What if there were poisonous ones? Those flying mutants aren't afraid, but ordinary people go up, encountering a rabbit or cat is one thing, but encountering a black bear or tiger, I'm afraid they can't even run. Wilderness survival is also an extreme sport.

The discussion below became much smaller, but soon another tricky ambassador raised a question: "How can mutants guarantee that your activities there are protecting rare resources and won't cause damage to the environment?"

This caused many people to echo. After all, there are quite a few mutants, and there might be more later, and each of them has superpowers; they need to build some things to survive there, right? Isn't that destroying the environment?

Sebastian was actually a bit stumped, because he really didn't know much about environmental protection. He was nervous, his palms were sweating, and he wanted to use some words to prevaricate, but at this time he received Magneto's information again. He looked closely and almost choked himself.

"Cough, cough, cough, cough..."

Sebastian gasped several times before recovering. He tried hard to breathe deeply, calmed his emotions, and then said: "Sorry, you might have misunderstood. The Krakoa nature reserve we want to establish includes mutants."

The hall was silent for a second; many people didn't understand what he meant. An ambassador grabbed the microphone and asked: "What do you mean by including mutants?"

"That is, we are also one of the rare animals that need to be protected," Sebastian said, feeling a bit unable to hold it together when he said this. He said, "Establishing this nature reserve is mainly to protect mutants."

Visibly, a large row of question marks appeared in the seats. Sebastian was a bit ashamed to speak, scolding Magneto, this old thing who had whimsical ideas, ten thousand times in his heart, but he still had to bite the bullet and say: "The nature foundation established is also used to protect all rare animals and plants on Krakoa Island, including mutants."

"But... but..." some ambassadors were already incoherent, and he said, "you aren't wild animals..."

"We are," Sebastian also let go, "now, the mainstream international view and mutants themselves think that mutants don't belong to humans. We have genetic differences from modern Homo sapiens. Mutants and modern Homo sapiens should be a parallel relationship, not a subordinate relationship, that is, Homo mutant and Homo sapiens. Since this is the case, from the perspective of Homo sapiens, mutants and the chimpanzees of the Hominidae subfamily should both belong to wild animals."

These words stunned everyone, including Sebastian himself. When he said it, he thought about it and found that it seemed to be exactly like this.

Currently, most humans and mutants feel that humans and mutants are not the same species. However, basically no scientist has made a clear distinction, because this sort of thing is very difficult to study. Chimpanzees are already hard enough to contain, let alone mutants. It is too much effort to study.

Although there are some organizations privately conducting human experiments on mutants, the conclusions of such research cannot be made public, otherwise Magneto would definitely kill his way to their door. Many of Magneto's so-called terrorist attacks were actually to save captured mutants; who would dare to expose themselves?

This has led to a lack of systematic categorization of mutants in the academic world. Everyone feels they are different from humans, and they feel the same way themselves, but they have never carefully studied exactly what class or order they belong to.

But now, the mutants have provided a conclusion. They believe they are another species within the genus Homo, that is, mutants parallel to late-stage Homo sapiens. Of course, if one were to be more scientific, late-stage Homo sapiens should be divided into two types: one is mutant, and one is non-mutant. After all, these two types of people have neither reproductive isolation nor any differences other than the X-gene, so they should be of the same genus.

But for the sake of mutant independence, they were separated from Homo sapiens and became another genus of human parallel to Homo sapiens. This can be said to be a very astonishing conclusion.