Chapter 55: Time Passes Like Water
The Demon Girl has good personal abilities, as the patriarch of the Mutant Brotherhood and the right-hand man under Magneto, she actually has a limited voice within the Mutant Brothers. The fundamental reason for this embarrassing situation is that the transformation ability possessed by the Demon Girl is not a powerful combat power. With the earth chariot that Li Yunlong leased to her, the demon girl made up for her shortcomings in strength, and when she spoke again, she couldn't help but be ignored by Magneto.
Magneto's temper is not good, he lacks flexible wrists, and he likes to be just front when fighting. Magneto's ability to be the boss of the Mutant Brotherhood is more due to his ideals and magnetic field control ability, as the leader of the Mutant Brotherhood, he is not very qualified. Because of the change in strength, the Demon's status within the Mutant Brotherhood has suddenly risen, and her opinion Magneto must be taken seriously. The result is that the mutant brotherhood's style of action has changed instantly, it is no longer a brainless and rigid front, flexible and changeable at the same time, it is still trying to make benefits for itself, and the counterfeiting operation has been successful at the beginning, and the profits obtained are like lubricants, dredging up and down, eliminating contradictions, so that the entire mutant brotherhood, thinking in one place, and working in one place, burst out with amazing power to sell fakes to the whole country.
This kind of expansion speed and expansion results, even Li Yunlong was dumbfounded, as soon as the little blue bottle was spread out like this, a general trend was formed, and to this extent, even if S.H.I.E.L.D. made an all-out move, it would be impossible to exterminate the little blue bottle! At this point, Li Yunlong had actually achieved his ideal goal.
The world is so big, God knows how many bigwigs are throwing their own pieces into this chessboard. Li Yunlong knew very well that he could be regarded as an apprentice-level junior chess player at most in these two moves, and if he rashly threw his chess pieces into such a super-large and complicated chess game, 99.9 percent of them would be lost! But one cannot do without ideals, and if one does not have ideals, how much difference can there be between a person and a salted fish? Li Yunlong threw in so many investments that if he loses it, he will consider himself unlucky, what if he succeeds?
Just as Li Yunlong said to the Demon Girl, in Li Yunlong's opinion, the biggest problem of mutants is that the number is seriously insufficient! The little blue bottle is the key to solving this problem! Don't think that the little blue bottle is nothing great, in fact, compared to the little red bottle, the little blue bottle can better represent Li Yunlong's growth. Each little red bottle must be equipped with a special functional module that is invisible to the naked eye in order to play the role of treating human injuries, and this special functional module can only be manufactured by Li Yunlong himself through the soul structure. In contrast, the medicinal materials used to make the small blue bottle are all things that can be easily bought, and although it is a bit laborious to synthesize, it is not a problem at all to produce them on a large scale under modern technology. What is hidden in this is Li Yunlong's in-depth study of the X gene and the human body, and it is precisely with this kind of in-depth research that such a miraculous effect can be achieved simply with medicine! Just as the same art of war says: "A good fighter has no outstanding feats, but he holds the land of death and life!"
What will happen if the number of mutants increases on a large scale? According to Li Yunlong's projections, new classes will be added to society, but it is not sure how long it will take in the process, and at what cost?
If you look through the history books, you will find that there are no immortal people in any large-scale change! The rise of a new class means that the original interests need to be redivided! Cutting off people's financial routes is like killing their parents, who can endure such a thing? It is strange if they do not draw a knife and fight with you! If mutants want to enter the stage of history as a new class, it is impossible not to shed blood, whether it is the blood of others or their own!
In Li Yunlong's view, this kind of price is completely worth it! What is the situation of the earth in other worlds, Li Yunlong does not know, but there are many aliens in the Marvel world, and this kind of environment on an interstellar scale determines that the earth cannot be left alone, and even if the governments of the earth's governments say hello, hello, hello, everyone, they cannot change the dangerous situation of the earth in the interstellar environment. Even if the plot of Marvel does not happen, sooner or later Earth will have to face aliens. In Li Yunlong's view, in the face of this bad future, whether it is superheroes or all kinds of black technology, they can only be regarded as miracle soldiers, not regular soldiers. There are forces that can be used as regular soldiers, and only human beings have the power that can be used on a large scale!
If before all this happens, mutants join human society as a class. Mutants with strong combat effectiveness can become the decisive force at key nodes! Those mutants who are not strong enough in combat power have all kinds of strange mutant abilities because of their numerical superiority, and what tremendous power can they provide to human society when used in production, scientific research, entertainment, and so on! For the development of human society, it is completely an accelerator!
Li Yunlong himself summed it up, in the future, when aliens come, if they can't run, Li Yunlong will have to take the blame with him. If there are mutants in front, then at least a weight can be added to the balance of victory and defeat. The number of mutants has risen, and now we have to carry out reform, and no matter how much blood is shed in this revolution, Li Yunlong's own blood volume will not be lost! With such a calculation, it is naturally clear how to choose at a glance!
In May 2002, the Osborne Group suddenly had turmoil, which made the already severe economic situation of the United States even worse, and the federal government urgently rescued the market, and finally did not form a collapse, but the economy of the United States in 2002 has been unable to recover!
On 20 March 2003, under the pretext that the Iraqi Government was using weapons of mass destruction and supporting terrorist activities, the United States bypassed the United Nations and joined forces with Britain and other countries to launch a war against Iraq! Because this can be regarded as a continuation of the Gulf War, this war is also called the Second Gulf War! On 9 April 2003, the Lao and US troops invaded Baghdad. On 1 May 2003, the Federal Government declared the military operation against Iraq a success. However, the US troops have not withdrawn from Iraq, and in the name of rebuilding Iraq, they still have a large number of troops stationed in Iraq.
In June 2004, because of the defeat of the evil scientist Doctor Octopus, the superhero Spider-Man became famous! At the end of 2004, according to statistics, the economic situation of the United States recovered in this year.
In 2005, the economy of Laos and the United States showed a significant recovery. In 2006, the economy of Laos and the United States continued to improve, but some noise began to appear.
In May 2007, the well-known Spider-Man seemed to have some problems, and recently everyone's evaluation of him began to decline significantly. In July 2007, many sensitive financial practitioners began to feel that something was wrong, and they anxiously tried to find a solution.
In fact, as early as February 13, 2007, the U.S. New Century Financial Corporation issued a fourth-quarter profit warning, which triggered a turbulent decline in the stock market. On April 2, 2007, New Century Financial, the second largest subprime mortgage company in the United States, announced that it had filed for bankruptcy protection and laid off 54% of its workforce. On July 10, 2007, Standard & Poor's downgraded subprime mortgage bonds, causing major turmoil in global financial markets. On August 2, 2007, the German Industrial Bank announced a profit warning with an estimated loss of 8.2 billion euros. On August 6, 2007, the 10th largest mortgage lender in the United States, the American Home Mortgage Investment Corporation, filed for bankruptcy protection. On August 8, 2007, Bear Stearns, the fifth-largest investment bank in the United States, announced the collapse of two of its funds. On August 9, 2007, BNP Paribas, France's largest bank, announced that it would freeze three of its funds. On August 13, 2007, Japan's Ruihui Group announced a loss of 600 million yen. On August 16, 2007, the stock price of the largest commercial mortgage company in the United States plummeted and faced bankruptcy.
Despite the fact that the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Reserve Bank of Australia, and the Federal Reserve have repeatedly injected money into the financial system, and the federal government has promised to implement a package to save the financial crisis, the economy has not shown a positive trend!
The Mutant Brotherhood has not been able to survive this economic crisis, mainly because the Mutant Brotherhood is now too bloated and large. The smooth implementation of the food truck project has given the Mutant Brotherhood a network across the United States. According to the Brotherhood of Mutants' own statistics, the number of mutants in Lao Mei has now exceeded 10 million, of which about 7 million have benefited from the Little Blue Bottle Project and have gradually awakened over the years. Professor X relied on his spiritual strength and shamelessly cut off his beard, pulling many potential newcomers to his side. The Mutant Brotherhood relies on a network of food trucks to unite mutants from all over the world, and today, the Mutant Brotherhood has grown into a large organization with more than 5 million registered members, but because the Mutant Brotherhood used to have a bad reputation, it has now had to be renamed the New Century Brotherhood. Although the total number of people has gone up, there is a big problem inside, the Brotherhood is now full of mountains, the organization is bloated, and the people are superficial, although it is still nominally led by Magneto, in fact, the local branches do their own thing, and the power of Magneto's president exists in name only!
In fact, it's a miracle that the mutant brotherhood can support it until now that it hasn't collapsed, and even Magneto himself is not sure if the mutant brotherhood will split tomorrow, and the mutant brotherhood was called the evil brotherhood before, with few core members and many peripheral members, no matter what happens, basically Magneto can make a decision in one word. Now the number of people has gone up, everyone has their own ideas, although there are not too many people who can challenge Magneto, but it's not that no one can challenge Magneto, today you help, tomorrow I will form a faction, plus all parties have reached out, the mutant brotherhood is now a huge bloated but powerless giant, looking strong, but completely incapable of resisting, it depends on who will make up for the last sword!
Magneto sat alone on his throne, knowing in his heart that the mutant brotherhood could no longer hold on. The financial crisis is too widespread, most of the members of the mutant brotherhood are living at the bottom of society, and the purpose of joining the mutant brotherhood is nothing more than to huddle together for warmth, and the information received by Magneto alone shows that about eighty percent of the members of the mutant brotherhood are involved in this economic crisis, and two percent of them will be repossessed by the bank. Logically speaking, the Mutant Brotherhood must help them, otherwise they will be cornered, and no matter what they cause, the Mutant Brotherhood will be implicated. But in fact, in the past two years, Magneto has lost control of the mutant brotherhood, and even if Magneto wants to help, he is powerless!
And Magneto has a feeling that now he is already a self-protecting, and he has a lot of black history, and now he is a target to hang high, no matter who wants to do anything with the mutant brotherhood, the first thing to deal with is himself!