Chapter 715: You're an Angel (4,000 words)
Diego's head was a little dazed, his eyes were dry, and his thoughts paused, which was a normal reaction when faced with something he couldn't understand, beyond his imagination.
His eyes on his dirty face were wide open in confusion, his dry lips were closed one by one, and only after half a second did he shout like thunder: "You are talking nonsense, my mother is fine when I went out this morning!" β
The adult who worked on the farm next to him gasped and said, "I read that right, the whole farm was burned!" β
"And your mom ......"
"Mom!"
Throwing away the half-eaten avocado in his hand, Diego ran on two legs towards the farm.
"Mom!"
The area is all based on avocado farming, and Diego's family lives on an avocado plantation, and he is not tall, but he has the air of a footballer on two legs, driven by his eagerness.
"You're not talking nonsense, I saw Diego's mother this morning, too."
"Diego, wait for me!"
"Diego!"
The little friend behind him was left far away by Diego, and it took him less than three minutes to complete the distance that used to take more than ten minutes to complete.
Before he could reach the farm, Diego's running speed slowed down, and he looked at the burning farm in a daze.
Patches of avocado trees, a small dilapidated house where he and his mother depended for their lives, a small patch of corn planted behind the houseβthis was the ration for him and his mother to improve their lives.
But at the moment everything is burning in the flames, and memories are firewood, adding strength to the fire.
"Boom~"
Mitcheken is located in the tropics, and the hot weather is hot all year round, and the burning plantations add to the hot weather.
The tongue of fire spewed into the sky, and there seemed to be a figure wailing in the flames.
But everything is an illusion, let alone walking in such a big flame, even the smoke billowing inside can make people coma directly.
"This is the farm of Sanchez and his family......"
"Quick, put out the fire!"
"The water is coming!"
"Let's clean up Friday first, and don't let the fire continue to spread."
"It's hot! There's a barrel of gasoline there, hurry up and get that thing out of the way. β
The fire raged continuously, and the residents around Sanchez Farm came to extinguish the fire with various equipment, so as not to let the fire spread to other plantations.
"Mom, Mom!"
Seeing that Diego wanted to rush into the fire, the people around him hurriedly grabbed his small body.
"Your mom isn't in there!" A middle-aged uncle with a big beard shouted at Diego, "Diego, your mother is not in the fire!" β
"My mom ran out?!" Diego looked at the adult who called out to him in surprise.
"I knew my mom was fine, she was so religious, she prayed every day, God wouldn't let her die of fire......"
Like the former suzerain, Mecerica is also an evangelical country, and Diego wears a cross necklace from his mother around his neck.
People who believe in devout faith will not have bad luck, this is what my mother has always taught Diego, no matter how poor you are, you can't do bad things, all poverty and suffering are God's tests.
When the days get better, the test is over, God willing, and if the days are bad, the test continues, and God is still watching.
"It's not...... Your mom is hanging over there. β
After running a few steps in the direction of Uncle Beard's finger, Diego's big eyes almost cracked.
His little head was held high, his heart almost stopped, and his blood flowed backwards with coldness.
The kind mother was no longer kind, but stared at the ground with a painful face, her hands and feet folded back and twisted strangely, and her face turned white and purple.
Not only his mother was in the tree, but also the farmer Sanchez's family and other workers, and even his playmates his own age.
Even Dora.
The farmer's twelve-year-old daughter, the little goddess of Diego's dreams, was also murdered, and her clothes were torn and filthy......
She always likes to wear pink clothes, a blue-purple backpack behind her, and short hair, but at the moment all the good is suspended.
"Ahh
looked at Diego who was squatting with his head in his arms pitying, and the others on the lookers shook their heads and sighed.
"He's Diego, like he's the only one left...... If he was on the farm, it would be over. β
"It's so miserable, how could you do such a cruel thing."
"Seven-eight...... Nineteen people in total......"
"Amen."
"It was done by the Gitans family, and there is still a letter left by them, which is really not hidden at all, how did poor Sanchez provoke the Gitans ......"
The adult holding the letter was just about to read the contents carefully, but his lower abdomen was suddenly shocked, and Diego hit his stomach like a rocket.
Diego grabbed the adult's clothes with both hands: "Who is Gitans and what is written on it?" β
Diego didn't read much, so he could only read letters from adults, and the world was not yet formed in his mind, and he couldn't understand what adults were saying.
The Oriental woman also walked to the fire at some point, and her eyes under her sunglasses didn't know what kind of gaze they were, but she was alone in a chaotic country but there was no panic.
Even looking at the hanging corpse, the Oriental woman is still so calm, and such a cruel picture that even the natives of Mitcheng can't bear to look at it.
The death of a rabbit and a fox is sad and sad, who knows if it will be ordinary people like them who will be poisoned next.
The crowd around the fire also saw the strange Oriental woman, but now it is important to put out the fire, and everything else will be put aside for now.
Her gaze then turned to the hanged men, whose bodies resembled the vines of the countryside.
"Gitans is...... Big drug lord, you're still young, you don't understand. β
"It should be that the Sanchez family's avocados were not sold to them, or they did not pay the protection money, or they were made to show us......" The man with the letter analyzed all possibilities, cruel things always happen in this land.
Whether it is avocado or mountain silk seedlings, as long as it is a business that they fancies, it will be involved in blood and war.
When killing people in the street, the mayor who was sitting in a private car was shot to death, and the body was dismembered and the pieces were mailed to the family...... These are the daily tasks of the Mexilica Gang.
In the past, Diego dared to mess around like this, and this adult would have slapped Diego on the head.
But at this moment, adults only have mercy in their hearts, and it is good to let this little guy vent his emotions more, after all, without his mother who is the pillar of life, Diego may not be able to live in this land for too long.
"I'm going to kill them, I'm going to kill Gitans!!"
Little Diego was like a young beast, with a hideous face, even if the adults tried their best to stop him, he still frantically bit the adult's arm with his teeth.
"You little bastard! What to bite me! β
In pain, the adult had to let go of his hand, and Diego climbed up the high fallen feather fir in three steps and two steps.
Tears mixed with snot, and the sweat of running, Diego frantically bit the hemp rope with his teeth and hands.
The hemp rope fibers slowly snapped, and the body fell heavily to the ground.
"Mom!"
Diego rolled down the tree, holding his mother's hand, the cross necklace around her neck glistening in the firelight.
Such a pious person has not passed the test of the gods after all.
The figure of the Oriental woman disappeared again at some point, and she was like a mysterious shadow that appeared in the shadow.
With the power of shadowing, Takahashi and Iris stood side by side on the small cliff.
From the cliff can completely overlook this small village and town, the fire is only a corner of the village and town, and it is an insignificant part of the whole land, which is painful for the people in it, and it is only a moment to put it in this world.
There are avocados everywhere, and each fruit symbolizes wealth, although the profit is not as good as Mexilica's 'national flower', but there is no danger, and there is no need to worry about being attacked by the national government, especially the Amelica government, so it is 'right' to be targeted by the gangs.
"This is the chaotic Mexilica." The kite looked at the sky-high flames with emotion and sighed, "The government has lost power, and the middle and grassroots levels are all occupied by various groups and organizations, even the regular army can't compete with the group organizations...... Even the regular army and the police have been infiltrated by them, and there is collusion everywhere, and the country can be said to be rotten to the bone. β
"This time the slaughter is avocado-driven interests, and the next time it can be blood-stained mountain silk seedlings, or even wheat."
"As long as wheat can bring good profits, they will also assassinate, war, and slaughter villages for the sake of wheat, and whoever does not hand over wheat to them will be slaughtered bloodily."
"This is the truth about the blood in your human world."
Takahashi was pitiful and speechless, still looking at the burning plantation.
This massacre was nothing to the human lives in her hands, and it didn't matter to others, she was a calm neutral, chaotic neutral.
"It's hard to imagine such a thing in the peaceful country where you live, but in my opinion, your entire Oriental and Europa region is the outlier of the world, in an eerie peace."
"The land area is one-tenth of your whole world, and of this tenth of the fifty million square kilometers of land, the land area of real peace is only fifty million, and the rest is in hunger, war, chaos, poverty, despair, one percent peace, ninety-nine percent chaos."
Mizuno has chosen a clever proportion, after all, 90% of the world's area is ocean.
"Is there no solution?" Takahashi finally spoke.
"It's too embarrassing for you to ask me about a person from another world, you big people in the world haven't come up with a way, what can I do."
"This kind of thing, even if the real gods appear, there is no way to solve it."
Mexilica's problem is ostensibly political instability and loss of control over the people, but in essence it is driven by the economy, and the great powers of the north have crushed Mexilica's own industry and agriculture with an unrivaled situation, and almost all of its 120 million citizens are unemployed, except for the service industry.
The industrial products produced are not as good as those of the northern neighbor in terms of quality and price, not to mention agriculture, which is self-produced and self-sold, and is vulnerable to the big agriculture of the northern neighbor, whose agricultural products are transported to other countries across the ocean for much cheaper than those produced in their own country.
Mexilica's unemployed surplus labor force was simply organized by groups to grow mountain silk seedlings, which were then processed and exported to Ameirika, and then used the funds in exchange for Ameirika's industrial and agricultural products.
From production, sales, organization, supply and demand, the whole link is perfectly harmonious and closed, the economic base determines everything, and the chaos has been engraved in the foundation of the country, which is already a dead knot that cannot be untied.
Even if one day a political strongman appears in Mexilica and destroys all the groups in the country and destroys the mountain silk seedling industry with a million-strong army, as long as a set of industrial and agricultural systems is not established, it will not be long before the unemployed will spontaneously give birth to new groups again, and the country will fall into chaos again.
This is the objective law of the economy, like the gears of industrial machinery, ruthlessly pushing forward.
Even with the external factors of her neighbor to the north, Mexilica's future can only be described as bleak.
"So what did you ask me to come to Mexilica for, just to see a human tragedy?" Takahashi pitifully took off his sunglasses.
Kite pursed her lips: "You are really a ruthless woman, and even this kind of human tragedy can't awaken your sympathy." β
"No, it's not as you say." Takahashi looked at the kite pitifully, "If we don't solve the problem at the root, this kind of tragedy will still happen every day, it's just a matter of probability." β
"yes." In Takahashi's impression, the kite is a very jumping weirdo, with nervousness in the jump, making people unpredictable about the next move, "I haven't told you what my goal is." β
Takahashi was slightly interested, she knew that Hela's desire was to reconstruct Norse mythology, which was probably known to everyone around the world.
"My wish is world peace, never more strife, just like Mexilica."
This is the wish of the kite, not the wish of Mizuno, who is not ashamed to use the wishes of the characters in the original book.
"Why can't we turn Mesilica into a peaceful country, and if humanity can't do it, then let's transform it."
The kite's emotions stirred: "Don't you find this wish wonderful, to free more than 100 million people from the sea of suffering, first Mexilica, and then we can continue to the south, and turn the whole of Central and South America into a peaceful country, where there is no war, and everyone lives and works in peace." β
"......" Takahashi was pitifully silent, and she reacquainted herself with the strange man in front of her.
It's not just a weirdo.
is still a naΓ―ve weirdo with his head in water, and he even holds this kind of idea that elementary school students will not have.
"So what are you asking me to come here for? I don't have the power to help you achieve world peace, and ......"
"A feather isn't worth that much."
The kite suddenly clenched his fists and became elated: "No, you have this ability, there is no one more suitable than you, don't forget your identity!" β
"You are an angel, an angel of the Gospels, an angel who brings peace and dissolution to the world, and in Mesilika not only the commoners, but even the gangs bow down to you."
"Poor Takahashi, you completely don't realize your own strength!"