Chapter 173 New York Blackout
Max is about to do something big, and he has never been noticed in his life.
Whether it's at school or after work.
He was always the one who was ignored, at school he was always running errands to buy drinks for his classmates on field trips, and was also the one who was ignored.
In the company, he was always the one who was given the most jobs and never got promoted.
Today he decided not to be like this anymore, he wants to make an earth-shattering event, and let the whole of America remember him and his great Max.
Of course, he still made some preparations before doing big things, such as buying a silver necklace that was said to be the spoils of war that year.
He believed that the heroes of the war would bring him good luck.
The Osborne Group was previously responsible for one-third of the power supply in the Greater New York area (the Greater New York area includes the surrounding satellite cities radiating from New York.).
And Max has always been a worker who inspects the pipeline, and he knows exactly where the relay points of each circuit are.
He also knows how to paralyze these lines. He wants to let those who don't value him know the importance of Max.
But poor Max may have overlooked one point, that is, the more unstable the grid line, the less safe it is.
It will promote the sales of Stark's new energy modules faster.
After all, this kind of energy module no longer needs to build expensive substation hubs and UHV lines.
Maybe he knew, but it didn't matter, he got himself a head-mounted video camera, and he was going to film everything he did.
Then upload it on the Internet to let the world know what he did! It must be said that sometimes cowardly and humble people are fiercer than those who look fierce.
Li Jie doesn't know anything about it, who is Max? Well maybe seen The Amazing Spider-Man in a previous life. I probably knew that there was such a villain, but he was too weak in the movie, and he didn't leave any impression on Li Jie at all.
It's not as impressive as the two generations of Green Goblins of Osborn and his son.
And please, Li Jie hasn't had a good rest these days. All kinds of things happened one after another, and he was always busy.
He had long forgotten about the little villain who might be hiding in the Osborne Group.
Well, Max can be forgotten as a villain. Is it true that he is a mutant, and his ability is to reduce his sense of existence?
Li Jie was driving to the Xavier School for Geniuses, while Loki walked to the shop where he saw the silver necklace with the suspected Asgardian smell last time.
"Sold?" Loki frowned a little, although he didn't see which god the necklace belonged to.
But as a member of Asgard, Loki was still planning to take back that necklace. But it was just such a coincidence that the silver necklace was sold just one day later.
"Can you describe the appearance of the buyer?" Loki asked the shop owner.
"Eh? I can't remember that person's appearance. Although he just came here, I'm sorry, that client seems to be easily forgotten." It seems that Max's passive skill was triggered again.
Loki was a little upset. The weapon he was carrying was the Sword of Reality, which was stored in the magic space when not in use.
Although this is a very powerful artifact, once the sword is pulled out, it is enough to make the gods under Odin avoid its edge.
But for Loki, this is not a convenient weapon, because his ability is a magician, although he also has a good melee ability.
But Loki is better at mental magic and illusion. But now because of the sword of truth, Loki can't use the mind magic he is best at, and he can't spy on the appearance of the customer deep in the heart of the shop owner.
New York is so big and it is very difficult to find this necklace. Loki sighed and prepared to give up looking for it. It is not very important anyway, so it doesn't matter.
Li Jie's car drove for nearly an hour before arriving at the address of the Xavier School for the Gifted.
"Hi! Jason is here!" Katie had been waiting for Li Jie's arrival at the intersection early.
"I'm so glad that you can come to the open day, especially after you know that this school is specially opened for mutants." Katie said a little moved.
"Of course we are friends, and the school will invite family and friends to participate in the party on the open day of the school. If no one comes to accompany you, I believe you will definitely feel uncomfortable and weird." Li Jie smiled and patted Kai Dee's shoulders.
Katie also had a smile on her face, but a bitter one. "Jason, in fact, most of the students have no way to invite their friends or even family members to come here."
Li Jie and Katie walked side by side on the road leading to the gate of the school, the old house of Professor X and Charles Xavier.
This is a very beautiful old-fashioned manor with a strong pastoral style. As a school, the vegetation density here is very high, and it can even be regarded as a park.
But Li Jie was attracted by Katie's words, and he didn't have much mood to appreciate the scenery here. "What do you mean by that, Katie?"
"You know, it's hard for us to make friends with normal people, as long as we expose our abilities." Katie pointed to herself.
"Not everyone is as willing to accept mutants as you are, even the parents of mutants. Especially when some mutant children have obvious physical defects, or uncontrollable destructive power. Some parents are inherently discriminatory Mutants, even if they are their own children, they will try to get rid of them."
"But that's not your fault, is it? I remember you said when you called me that the school can teach you to control your own power so that you won't lose control." Li Jie and Katie had already walked to the school gate.
"And I've heard that mutants don't just happen suddenly, and most of the time it's caused by the inherited x gene."
"The X gene in the children is inherited from their parents, which means that their parents are actually mutants, maybe it just didn't break out."
"As the parents or family members of the children, they also have the X gene in their body, what right do they have to discriminate against their own people?" Li Jie said very clearly, everyone may be a mutant.
Discriminating against or closely monitoring mutants is a foolish thing to do to cut yourself off.
"What you said is very good. Few young people have such a clear vision." A magnetic voice came from the side.
This is an old man with neat clothes and extraordinary appearance, even though he is sitting in a wheelchair, he still shows an extraordinary posture.
"This is our professor, Professor Charles." Katie introduced to Li Jie.
Without too much introduction from Katie, Li Jie knows who this is just by watching it, spanning the entire series of mutant movies.
Professor X, the mutant leader who established the X-Men and is committed to the peaceful coexistence of mutants and normal people.
"Hello, Professor." Li Jie shook Charles's hand politely. He has always admired this kind of person who has great power and sticks to morality.
According to the strength of the professor, if he wants to, he can completely modify the ideology of human beings around the world, just like hypnosis, setting mutants as the mainstream values of this world.
Ordinary humans are failures on the road of evolution and are destined to be eliminated.
However, Professor X has never done this, even though he has been hit and troubled a lot, he still sticks to his bottom line and does not do evil.
When Li Jie was visiting the mutant school, Loki was about to leave the store that sold lucky charms and jewelry. Now that the silver necklace was gone, he was not interested in other items in the store.
"Wait, if you're interested because it's a booty, I have one more thing here." The shopkeeper stopped Loki and took out a silver ring at the same time.
"This is also an ornament made of silverware seized from the police, but it is more expensive than the necklace, and it costs twenty dollars."
Um? Another thing that smelt of Asgard? Could it be that a god of Asgard fell in the atrium, and his treasure was discovered?
Loki picked up the ring and played with it, just as Loki was bargaining with the shopkeeper.
At a substation in New York, Max secretly placed the prepared device on the substation.
As a former electrician, he knows what little gadgets can overload or short out electricity.
In the past two hours, he has installed these gadgets in several important substations in New York.
These hubs were originally under the jurisdiction of the Osborne Group before, and he knew very well the time for personnel inspections here, after all, he had done this before.
He had timed all the gizmos, and now it was time for the show.
At this moment, Max is like a superstar who is about to take the center of the stage. The spotlight has been prepared for him, and he is only waiting for the moment when he takes the stage.
"It's time." Max said softly, looking at his watch.
As his words fell, the substation boxes of several substation hubs in New York had problems at the same time.
All the instruments for detecting current intensity were overloaded in an instant, and all protection measures were activated at the same time, cutting off all transmission lines.
The huge current carried by the UHV line did not have a suitable release window for an instant, but the powerful current supply was not cut off at the same time.
Many expensive UHV lines were burnt in an instant, and many valuable electrical equipment were broken down by the current.
With New York as the center, the destruction of the entire power transmission network caused a terrible chain reaction.
The whole New York City waited until the power bureau was going crazy, countless red lights sounded, and the entire power supply network was destroyed.
The blackout began in Brooks, where the circuit is most aging, and then spread to Queens, and then Manhattan.
The frenzy of blackouts spread throughout New York, and this was just the beginning. With New York as the center, the damaged lines expanded in a chain reaction.
Atlantic City, New Jersey City, and Buffalo were all plunged into power outages.
Once there is a shortage of energy in modern society, the disadvantages that will appear are fully exposed in this blackout.
Not every hospital has a UPS backup power supply, and there are more than 300 important clinical operations performed at the same time in New York every day.
The momentary power outage puts the lives of many critically ill patients at risk.
What's worse is the traffic. The sudden loss of traffic lights has caused a surge in traffic accidents in the Greater New York area. Serial rear-end collisions caused countless deaths.
Factories near New York also had innumerable scrap products in an instant due to the major power outage. Precision parts that had to be processed at one time and cost up to millions of dollars were scrapped.
As the world's financial center, Wall Street has always been the most important financial center in the world, and any disturbance here is enough to affect the direction of the world economy.
The New York Stock Exchange was also affected by the blackout. Although the backup power supply of the UPS was activated quickly, the entire power outage lasted less than three seconds, but these three seconds instantly evaporated hundreds of dollars of wealth.
And as the instigator of all this, Max is laughing crazily.
"Hahahaha! Let the world witness Max's greatness!" His smile was morbidly insane. He has a morbid hunger for attention, good or bad.
He's happy when people look at him, and he's jealous of guys who always get the attention of others.
And behind his crazy laugh, he didn't notice a high-voltage wire that was blown due to an electric current overload was coming towards him.
With sparks and arcs, hit Max laughing maniacally.
The powerful high-voltage electricity instantly turned Max into a piece of black coal.
But his death does not undo the damage done by his madness.
The world is like this sometimes, an insignificant villain can always do something extraordinary.
This unprecedented blackout has become an indelible scar in New York City.