Chapter 34: The New York Blackout
Max is ready to do something big, and he hasn't been noticed by anyone else in his life. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Whether it's when you're in school, or after work.
He's always the one who gets ignored, the one who always runs errands and buys drinks for his classmates on outings at school, and he's ignored.
In the company, he was always given the one who had the most work and didn't get promoted.
Today he decided that he couldn't do this, he wanted to do something earth-shattering, and he wanted the whole country to remember him, to remember 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 trophy of the Nazi war.
He believed that heroes in war would bring him good luck.
The Osborne Group was previously responsible for the Greater New York District (Greater New York encompasses the surrounding satellite cities from which New York radiates. One-third of the electricity supply.
Max, on the other hand, has been inspecting the pipeline, and he knows exactly where the relay points of each circuit are.
He also knew what it took to paralyze these lines, and he wanted to show those who didn't value him that Max was important.
But poor Max may have overlooked the fact that the more unstable the power grid is, the less safe it is.
It will promote the sales of Stark's new energy modules as soon as possible.
After all, this kind of energy module is no longer necessary to build expensive substation hubs and UHV lines.
Maybe he knew, but it didn't matter, he got himself a headset and he was going to film everything he did.
Then upload it to the Internet and let the whole world know what he did! It must be said that sometimes the cowardly and humble people are even more ruthless than the people who seem to be fierce.
Li Jie didn't know anything about it, who was Max? Well, maybe he had seen the amazing Spider-Man in his previous life. probably knew that there was such a villain, but he was too weak in the movie and left no image for Li Jie at all.
It's not at all as memorable as the two generations of Green Goblins of Osborne and Sons.
And please, Li Jie hasn't had a good rest these days. All sorts of things happened one after another, and he was always busy.
I've long forgotten about the little villain who may be hiding in the Osborne group.
Well, Max can be forgotten as a villain, is it actually that he is a mutant, and the ability is to reduce his presence?
Li Jie was driving to Xavier's school for the gifted and gifted, while Loki walked to the shop where he had last seen the silver necklace with a suspicious Asgardian scent.
"Sold?" Loki frowned slightly, though he didn't see which god the necklace belonged to.
But as a person from Asgard, Loki was still ready to recycle the necklace. But it was just such a coincidence that the silver necklace was sold just one day apart.
"Can you describe the person who bought it?" asked Loki to the shopkeeper.
"I can't remember what that guy looked like, but he's just been here, but I'm sorry, that client seems to be easily forgotten. "It looks like Max's passive skill has been triggered once again.
Loki was a little upset, the weapon he was carrying now was the Sword of Truth, which was stored in the magical space when not in use.
Although it was a powerful artifact, once the sword was drawn, it was enough to make the gods beneath Odin avoid its edge.
But it's not a handy weapon for Loki, as his ability is that of a mage, although he also has good melee abilities.
But Loki is better at psychic magic and illusion. And now, because of the True Sword, Loki can't use the mind magic he is best at, and he can't peek into the shopkeeper's inner heart of the customer.
It's hard to find this necklace when New York is so big, Loki sighed and was ready to give up looking for it, anyway, it's not a very important thing, it doesn't matter.
It took more than an hour for Li Kit's car to arrive at the address where Xavier's school for the gifted and talented was located.
"Hey, Jason here!" Katie was waiting for Li Jie's arrival at the intersection early.
"I'm glad you're here for the open house, especially since you know that this school is for mutants. Katie said with some emotion.
"Of course we're friends, and family and friends are invited to parties at open houses at school, and if there's no one to accompany you, I'm sure you're going to be uncomfortable and weird. Li Jie smiled and patted Katie on the shoulder.
Katie also had a smile on her face, but it was bitter. "Jason, in fact, most of my classmates don't have the means to invite their friends or even family members here. ”
Lee Jay and Katie walked side by side on the road to the gates of the school, the former home of Professor X, Charles Xavier.
It's a very nice old-fashioned manor house with a rustic feel, and it's so dense for a school that it's even a park.
But Li Jie was attracted by Katie's words and was not in much of the mood to enjoy the scenery. "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 if it's a mutant parent. This is especially true when some mutant children have obvious physical defects or uncontrollable destructive powers. There are also parents who are born to discriminate against mutants, even if it is their own child, they will try to get rid of it. ”
"But it's not your fault, is it? I remember you called me and said that you can be taught in school to control your power so that you don't get out of control. "Li Jie and Katie have already walked to the school gate.
"And I've heard that mutants don't happen simply, and many times it's caused by the inherited X gene. ”
"The X gene in the children is inherited from their parents, which means that in fact their parents are mutants, maybe they just don't have an outbreak. ”
"As a child's parents or family members, they also have X genes in their bodies, what right do they have to discriminate against their own people?" Li Jie's words are very clear, everyone can be mutants.
Discriminating against or keeping a close watch on mutants is a foolish thing to cut yourself off.
"You said it very well, few young people have such a thorough vision. A magnetic voice came from the side.
This is an old man who is neatly dressed and has an extraordinary appearance, even if he is in a wheelchair, he still shows an extraordinary posture.
"This is our professor, Professor Charles. Katie introduced Li Jie.
Without too much introduction from Katie, Jie Li knows who this is just by watching it, spanning the entire mutant series of movies.
The X-Men were established, and Professor X, the mutant leader who is committed to making peace between mutants and normal people.
"Hello Professor. Li Jie shook hands with Charles politely, and he has always admired this kind of person who has great strength and adheres to morality.
According to the professor's strength, if he wants to, he can completely modify the ideology of the global human race, just like hypnosis, setting mutants as the mainstream values of this world.
Ordinary humans, on the other hand, are failures on the path 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, but he still sticks to his bottom line and does not do evil.
While Jack was visiting the mutant school, Loki was about to leave the store that sold lucky charms and jewelry, and since the silver necklace was gone, he wasn't interested in anything else.
"Wait, if you're interested in the fact that it's Nazi trophies, I've got one more thing here. The shopkeeper stopped Loki and pulled out a silver ring.
"It's also an ornament made of silver seized from the Nazis, but it's more expensive than a necklace, at twenty dollars. ”
Hmmm? Another thing that smells of Asgard? Could it be that the god of Asgard fell in the atrium, and his treasure was discovered?
Loki picked up the ring and played with it as Loki haggled with the shopkeeper.
At a substation in New York, Max secretly installed the equipment that had been prepared on the substation.
As a former power worker, he knows what kind of gadgets can overload or short-circuit current.
In the past two hours, he has installed these things at several important substation hubs in New York.
These hubs were originally under the jurisdiction of the Osborne Group before, and he knew very well the time of the personnel patrolling here, after all, he had done this before.
He's set a time for all the gadgets, and it's time for the show to begin.
At this moment, Max is like a superstar who is about to take center stage to perform, and the spotlight is ready for him, just waiting for him to take the stage.
"It's time. Max looked at his watch and said softly.
As his words fell, problems arose at the substations of several substations in New York at the same time.
The instruments that detect the intensity of the current are all overloaded in an instant, and all the protective measures are activated at the same time, cutting off all transmission lines.
The huge current carried by the UHV line has no suitable catharsis window for a moment, but the strong current supply is not cut off at the same time.
Many expensive UHV lines were burned down in an instant, and many valuable electrical equipment were broken down by electric currents.
With New York as the center, the destruction of the entire transmission and transformation network caused a terrible ripple effect.
The entire city of New York City was already going crazy by the time the power bureau arrived, countless red lights sounded, and the entire power supply network was destroyed.
The wave of blackouts began in Brooks, where the circuits were most aged, and then spread to Queens, then Manhattan.
The blackout frenzy spread throughout New York, and this was just the beginning, with New York as the center, the destruction of the line into a chain reaction of expansion.
Atlantic City, New Jersey City, and Buffalo are all in the midst of power outages.
The drawbacks of energy shortages in modern society have been laid bare in this blackout.
Not every hospital has UPS backup power, and more than 300 critical clinical procedures are performed at the same time every day throughout New York.
Instantaneous power outages put the lives of many critically ill patients at risk.
To make matters worse, the sudden loss of traffic lights has led to an explosion of traffic accidents in the greater New York area. A series of rear-end collisions have caused countless deaths.
Factories near New York also had countless scrap items in an instant due to the power outage, and they had to process multi-million dollar precision parts in one go.
As the world's financial center, Wall Street has always been the world's most important financial center, and the wind and grass here are enough to affect the direction of the world economy.
The New York Stock Exchange was also affected by the blackout, although UPS's backup power was quickly activated, and the entire blackout lasted less than three seconds, but these three seconds made the wealth of hundreds of dollars evaporate in an instant.
And as the author of it all, Max is laughing maniacally.
"Hahahaha! Let the world witness Max's greatness!" his smile had a sickly madness. He has a pathological craving for attention, whether it's good or bad.
He is happy whenever someone looks at him, and he is jealous of those who always get the attention of others.
And behind him laughing maniacally, he didn't notice that a high-voltage power line that had been burned by an overload of electricity was coming at him.
With sparks and arcs, he crashed into Max, who was laughing maniacally.
The powerful high-voltage electricity instantly electrocuted Max into a piece of black charcoal.
But his death does not make up for the damage caused by his madness.
The world is sometimes like this, but an insignificant little person can always do something extraordinary.
This unprecedented blackout has become an indelible scar in New York City. (To be continued.) )