Chapter 1778 S Apocalypse Event (Forty-Six)

Bruce and his team came to Mexico, but the situation here is not as good as in the real world. The time point of the world created by Jack is around 1986, when everything has not started to happen yet.

This time point is not good for the Mexican people. Although 1986 is the year they hosted the World Cup, two major earthquakes a year ago caused the country to suffer a huge disaster. Fortunately, the earthquake did not affect the venues, and the World Cup was held as scheduled.

At this time, Mexico's economic growth has stagnated for a long time. After the glory of the World Cup came to an end, it seemed to announce that the era of prosperity in this country had come to an end. The free market economy introduced during De La Madrid's administration failed to save the market. The government's disaster relief was slow during the earthquake, and the credibility of the Mexican Revolutionary Party was further reduced.

During this period, Mexico came to a crossroads of choosing left and right. The prestige of the left wing continued to decline, and the influence of liberals continued to expand, but this had nothing to do with the living standards of the grassroots people. The south was still rampant with drug lords, and the southern drug cartel headed by the Mexican drug godfather Gallardo was extending its tentacles to more cities.

The problem now faced by the group is that everyone has no superpowers now, and they can no longer use force to deal a heavy blow to drug dealers as before. Without the financial and personal support of Bruce and Oliver, everything is even more difficult.

Ordinary people are always insignificant. The premise of being able to shout slogans is that they must first be able to stand up and shout out. Most people in this world can't even do the first point. They need to spend almost all their energy digging for food on the ground. No one can blame them for not standing up to change the tragedy of the times.

But superheroes who are born with powerful powers never accept this. Their kindness and strength make them have a stronger sense of responsibility than others. To some extent, the pioneers of the times must be arrogant and firmly believe that they must be responsible for all the unfortunate people in this era before they can have the motivation to save them.

In this team, everyone except Bruce has never had a similar experience. Clark is born strong, Diana is a god and a royal family, Oliver is as rich as Wayne, and Hal has long accepted his identity as a Green Lantern. Arthur is still a young man in a small town with little experience.

They thought everything was too simple, and wanted to copy what they did in the real world, but just like Bruce had experienced, the cruel reality gave them a blow.

They hadn't even encountered a drug lord who could be called a group. The security guards in a poppy plantation alone cost Oliver and Hal their lives.

They originally wanted to expand their power to the south based on this plantation. Just like they did before, Oliver and Hal were the vanguards of reconnaissance. Although they had done enough investigation and preparation before, and both of them had weapons, they still underestimated the cruelty of drug dealers.

The locals who led the way betrayed them. Fortunately, the security guards of the plantation were just paid to do things, not sadists like Gallardo. Oliver and Hal were shot and returned to their birthplace, Gotham.

Maybe it was because they didn't participate in the game in Gotham and were sent directly by God, so they didn't reincarnate as children, which cut off their last thought. Rebirth would not bring back superpowers. They are now just ordinary people.

Bruce didn't interfere with their plan at all, just watched from the side. In fact, he had a way to make a perfect plan to take down the plantation, but he knew that if his companions didn't realize the cruelty of reality, any of their plans would eventually go to the sky loft.

Obviously, he was right. After a failure, they didn't reflect. Next was Clark and Diana. They planned to deal with a government official who had reached a black deal with the plantation. Diana's rich combat experience on the battlefield gave her good force. Even without divine power, she was better than the security guards of the villa.

They successfully found the official, kidnapped and beat him, and asked him who was the boss behind the plantation. The result was that they were wanted the next day.

Originally, they lived in an ordinary hotel with the deposit provided by Bruce, but after being wanted, all hotels and inns could not be lived in. The drug lords' eyes were almost everywhere in the city, and their power was intertwined. If they were seen by the locals, they would be reported. The group was driven out of the city in disgrace.

Oliver and Diana both had good strategic minds. They began to move to the countryside. The farmers here had indeed been oppressed for a long time. They worked diligently to help drug lords grow poppies but were always exploited. Many of them were on the verge of not having enough food.

Oliver, who was more experienced, led them to beat away the small boss who had been deducting their income, but they faced another problem. After getting the money, everyone went back to their own homes. Some even asked Oliver to lead them to work alone, and of course they still engaged in drug planting.

Then Oliver found that in the real world, he could convince so many people to follow him, not because he was really charismatic, nor because they really believed that the scene described by Oliver could really be realized, but because he, Hal and Clark, especially Clark, showed a powerful force far beyond ordinary people, which was the biggest magic weapon that made this group of people die hard.

To tell these uneducated farmers that one day people all over the world can live the life they want, this argument is too far away for them, but if there is a person with infinite power, eyes that can shoot lasers, and power that looks like a punch through the earth, it will obviously be much more persuasive.

But when they all became ordinary people, they found that they could not come up with anything to impress these people.

The idea of ​​the locals is very simple. You helped us beat away the exploiters, we are very grateful to you, in return, we can let you lead us, we are willing to work for you, and you can also enjoy our offerings like those drug lords in big cities. Isn’t this the best reward?

There is a saying that Mexicans have two dreams in their lives, either to become drug lords or to become Americans.

They want to become drug lords simply because they think that drug trafficking is the best job in the world. If they become drug lords, they don't have to do anything. They can sell the products that farmers have worked hard to grow, buy guns to attract more farmers, sell drugs more widely, and just lie at home and count money.

In this case, Bruce understood more deeply what Jack said, why the criminal industry is unsustainable in a certain country and a certain city, because when using violence to gain benefits becomes the ultimate goal of a society, the people who can really benefit are always very few, and the vast majority of oppressed people will find it extremely difficult to awaken because of wrong values.

After the group hesitated on this land for half a month, and almost everyone died twice on average, Oliver finally couldn't stand it anymore. He knew it was time to change the battle plan.

"I don't understand why we can't contact the Soviet Union?" Clark said with his arms crossed: "In the real world, didn't they give us a lot of support?"

Oliver sighed deeply and said: "That's because we have made achievements. To be honest, they will help us, not because of faith or anything, but because we can cause trouble for the United States. They need someone to contain the United States."

"Now is not the time for the Soviet Union to help the whole world." Diana shook her head and said: "Maybe it was okay in the early years, but now they are also a little chaotic internally, I'm afraid they won't pay attention to us at all."

"Bruce, you haven't said much recently, what do you think?" Oliver turned to look at Bruce and said.

Bruce was silent for a moment and said, "I believe you can see that this matter is not that simple."

"Of course." Hal nodded and said a little decadently, "I was just an ordinary pilot. At that time, I didn't think anything was difficult, but I have been a Green Lantern for a long time. Now I suddenly have no green lantern energy. I always think that it would be great if I still have superpowers."

"I think the current situation is not just caused by our lack of superpowers." Diana also sighed and said, "It is precisely because we are too convenient to do things in the real world that we have insufficient theoretical knowledge and experience accumulation."

"It's like a person's dominant hand is the right hand, but he is asked to write with his left hand during the exam. Even if the paper has been answered once, everything is still very difficult."

Oliver still stared at Bruce, and Bruce nodded slightly and said, "In fact, this doesn't make any sense. After all, you all have superpowers in the real world. Who would deliberately cut off one of their arms?"

"No, I think the biggest problem is that ordinary people have succeeded, and it doesn't take long. So if we all have superpowers, can we Shouldn't the time be shortened? Why didn't you do it even in the real world? I taught me in a trip in Gotham. I was originally a richest man. Why do you have to turn yourself into an ordinary person and then experience the so -called ordinary people's suffering? " It is meaningless to deliberately 'close people'. "" Then we said to take you away from this dream world, and you don't go. "Hal said angrily:" Back to the real world, don't we all have super powers? "

Bruce drew a few patterns on the ground and said, "Super strength is a superpower, magic is a superpower, now you have lost them, but we can get another superpower back."

"Another superpower? What is that?"

"Money and power."