Chapter 802: Together in the Boat
The city of Atlanta, which is both a historic city and a new industrial and commercial center. The headquarters of hundreds of major companies are here, as are the headquarters of television stations such as CNN and TBS, cable news networks and radio stations, and many news media outlets.
There are more immigrants in the city, white people have low fertility, and some are unwilling to have children, while black people have children like playing, and now the proportion of blacks in the city has exceeded 50 percent.
The gap between the rich and the poor in the city is huge, and although the superheroes don't talk about it, they actually don't like black people, which leads to thousands of heroes in New York, and seven or eight people can rush out to rescue when they drop a plane, while there are almost no superheroes in the big city of Atlanta.
The superheroes didn't come, and today Ultron's mechanical soldiers came.
More than a dozen mechanical soldiers rushed left and right, and in just five minutes, they defeated the group of fat policemen with big heads and thick necks.
"Be careful, ahead!" A high-pitched female voice rang out.
Reed with a very long face. Starak frantically played the steering wheel to avoid an oncoming truck, and the whole city was disrupted by the mechanical soldiers, and he had to turn another way to go home with his daughter.
As the prosecutor in charge of mutant cases, Reed. Straker had always considered himself a petty burgher, having lived in the United States for forty years, and he had intended to continue living here for the next forty years, but the recent events had seriously interfered with his peaceful life, and he had already considered immigration.
The city was in chaos, and the radio interspersed with news from time to time, and he listened carefully, adjusting his route from time to time according to the road conditions.
"I'm Jean. Grey, delay you for some time, now that the whole earth has been invaded by mechanical civilization, I am here to call on all capable mutants to stand up, I don't need you to join the armies everywhere, I just need you to come out and protect your family and friends, please believe me, please believe me, everyone believes me, mutants are not enemies of humanity, we have a common home. ”
Jean's speech was broadcast around the world, and she quickly repeated it.
Reed. Straker doesn't have a good impression of mutants because of his work, and with contempt on the corners of his mouth, he quickly tunes the channel, but unfortunately all the radio channels are Jean's speech.
"These mutants are a bunch of saboteurs, and they are destroying the order of humanity!" He casually turned off the radio, not noticing the strange face of his daughter in the back seat.
"Help! Who's going to help me! God, help me! "When they turned out of a fork in the road and passed Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza, they found a Ford sedan overturned on the side of the road, and a white bald man was holding a little brown-skinned girl and asking passers-by for help.
The little girl was covered in blood, and one of her legs was stuck in the car.
It is impossible to extend a hand of friendship to strangers, the city is full of unlucky ghosts, who helps whom, take care of yourself.
Reed. Straker was about to drive around when he heard his daughter shouting, "Stop." ”
He reflexively stepped on the accelerator and saw his daughter rushing towards the bald man who was calling for help.
"Lauren?" Reed. Straker shouted, hurriedly pulled the car aside, pushed the door open, and was about to run over to help.
As soon as he ran more than ten meters, he found that his daughter's hands exuded a pale white halo, and a translucent shield slowly lifted the deformed Ford sedan through a gap, and the middle-aged bald man hurriedly dragged the little brown girl out.
"Thank you, thank you for your help! I will never forget today's kindness......" The middle-aged bald man introduced himself as Jace. Turner, he was very interested in Reed, who had just learned that his daughter was a mutant. Straker was grateful, although the person was saved by Lauren, but it was really unpleasant for him to be a middle-aged man to hug an underage girl, and it should be the same for his father to give this thanks, Jace. Turner was flustered, but he was still very organized.
"You're welcome, you're welcome......" Reed. Straker looked at his daughter, who was nearly middle-aged, and knew what to say and what not to say, at least not now.
A few people have their own thoughts, Reed. Straker wanted to go home directly, but seeing that the middle-aged bald man's car had overturned, and he was holding his daughter, it was really hard to say that he would leave it alone, so he would just send them to the hospital.
Leng Buding handed over a microphone next to him, and a woman with heavy makeup suddenly came to them.
"Hello, I'm a reporter from CNN, I just witnessed that friendly scene, we still have time in the interview car, can I use the few minutes I went to the hospital to interview the two parties? ......”
CNN's interview report was quickly seen by Daisy, who sighed lightly, not expecting Baron Straker's great-grandson and great-granddaughter to meet Jace. Turner, the guy who would have been very hostile to mutants.
The little girl who would have died due to the mutant incident still encountered a catastrophe, but this time she was killed by Lauren. Straker rescues them, and the relationship between the two sides changes dramatically from the start.
Fate is truly wonderful.
Of course, CNN's report is not accidental, Daisy has shares in many news companies, reporters have always had no position, and this group is notoriously stupid and bold, and may not dare to interview in chaos, but in less dangerous places, according to the requirements of major shareholders, it is still okay to sing praises for the harmonious coexistence of mutants and humans.
Jean was very excited, and CNN interviewed Lauren. Straker and Jace. Turner, the image of a mutant girl bravely standing up to help is extremely well portrayed.
This is not an isolated case, many mutants are teenagers, they are hungry for heroes, eager to be recognized, and as Jean's speech continues to spread, mutants have come forward one after another.
There are few people who protect citizens, many people who protect their families and neighbors, except for those who are particularly heartbroken, most normal people will express a certain degree of gratitude to mutants after being rescued.
The data was fed back to S.H.I.E.L.D., and in just fifteen minutes, more than 1,000 mutants came out of the world, most of whom were young people under the age of twenty.
Some of them defeated the enemy, some saved only their relatives and friends, and some gave their young lives.
This is war, no one can hide from the sidelines, and if you want to reap, you must pay.
With many mutants joining the fray, the scales of victory begin to tilt in favor of humans, and Pepper points to several addresses that appear to be processing factories. Not long after, Jean led a team to blow up a secret Stark production factory.
Later, Hill and his agents destroyed a production plant.
The last factory was destroyed by the US military with a cloudburst bomb.