Chapter 488: Gathering the Population
The bomb attack outside the White House added fuel to the fire, instantly amplifying and polarizing the situation. Rorschach is right, it is not only China that the world wants the United States to be in turmoil, but the United States has offended more people over the years.
In the past, the U.S. dollar was the center of the global economy, tying the world's economy to itself, with both prosperity and loss. Therefore, even if they hate the United States in their hearts, many countries can only swallow their anger.
But as the earth enters the cosmic age, the emergence of the Burning Planet brings terrifying cosmic trade opportunities. The economic impact of this change on the entire world is disruptive.
In the past, the US military could use the threat of force to ensure that the lifeline of the world economy was still in its own hands, and the tens of billions of dollars in military spending were often to play a role at this critical time.
However, the U.S. aircraft carrier fleet found that they could only pounce in the sea, unable to travel through time and space to fight the Burning Planet.
And if they want to stop other countries from conducting space trade by force, this seems to be impossible, because of the popularization of space teleportation technology, if they want to stop a portal that they don't know is hiding there, the Americans can't do it.
It is like this, gradually encroaching, and when the United States is completely in chaos, it finds that it is difficult to return, and it has lost any possibility of resistance.
To add insult to injury, then there was this serious incident of government dishonesty, and the whole country was in chaos.
California, the first to declare independence.
This neurotic move was not too surprising. One after another, many states have declared their independence. Although nominally able to maintain communication with other states, it no longer listens to the advice of the White House.
Some of the policies and laws that were originally counterparts across the country are now all up to us.
The once huge United States is so divided. Originally, the president of the United States had prepared a declaration of resignation, but suddenly found that the whole country was scattered.
Then this person thought about it and simply didn't resign.
"With regard to the states that have declared independence, this is a grave violation of the spirit of the U.S. Constitution, and in any case, we should work together to get through this difficult time, and not to coerce the people to achieve their own selfish interests at this time. Therefore, I declare that the use of force in response is not excluded. ”
This is a declaration made by the White House, and then Washington is completely taken over by the White House Guard.
Although it is a small land, it still has the name of orthodoxy, so many states are still willing to listen to the command of the White House. And those states that have declared independence seem to have been prepared for a long time, and they have begun to dig through the old accounts of the White House, blaming the bad things done by previous presidents on institutional problems, that is, the problems of the White House.
The battle has been fought for a long time, but the real thing has not happened for a long time. In fact, everyone is not stupid, now that the whole United States is on the verge of collapse, it doesn't make much sense for you to be nominally independent, and how to trade with other states still can't be stopped.
It's just that many politicians have already smelled the wind and rain, so let's take political capital first. The pioneer of democracy and independence, this name can be blown for a lifetime. As for whether he really wants to cut ties with Washington in private, a fool would do that.
The president of the United States also meant the same thing, and everyone still seemed to blame each other, shifting the public's attention from human experiments to the issue of state independence. As a result, everyone is worried about whether there will be a war, whether there will be a day of nuclear peace, and not many people will march in the streets.
This trick really has some effect. People who fear the turmoil are cautious because they know that previous demonstrations have divided the United States. They dare not continue to go out into the streets and become sinners who cause war.
Even if there are still a small number of stubborn people, whether it is Washington or the state capital, they will definitely not be merciful to this kind of people.
Catch what should be caught, and close what should be closed.
If all goes as the politicians want, things will soon subside, and fears of war will overshadow the anger that preceded them. When the time comes, we will sign some treaty to divide the interests of the people below again, and everyone will continue to be capitalists.
Politics is supposed to be played like this, and they have played it very slippery.
But alas, the world has changed. Among the people, it is no longer civilians who are defenseless in the face of the army, who not only have small pistols, but also superpowers.
Thanks to the existence of the Hero Society, mutants and Inhumans have come to the forefront. Countless people no longer hide their powers, and even become stronger because of regular use, many times of practice. When the politicians have already discussed how to calm the emotions of the leeks and then reap the next wave, the mutant group has stepped up to make trouble.
The first to do it was a group of mutants who were not chaotic for the horror of the world, and they did not join the Hero Association, but felt that the ** idea of mutant supremacy was very correct. Taking advantage of this troubled time, hundreds of mutants rushed directly into the government building in California and killed the governor.
Then they declared that the white-left and politically correct state in all of America was officially independent and ruled by mutants.
Less than five hours after they became the ruling class, the mutant thugs who occupied the government building were razed to the ground along with the building by missiles.
It's messed up, it's all messed up.
For a time, there was tension between ordinary people and transcendentals. One after another, conflicts between mutants and ordinary people appeared, like the first domino fell, and then the whole of California fell into turmoil and began to enter wasteland mode ahead of schedule.
Ordinary people and transcendents began to fight each other, but most of them were inferior to a small number of transcendents in individual combat effectiveness, and the two sides began to tug of war.
Instead of Washington's nuclear bomb strike, California was reduced to ruins because of its own people beating its own people. And as the war intensified, the contradictions between the transcendents and ordinary people in other states began to become acute.
There are violent clashes every day, and people are killed every day.
Even if the superheroes fight the fire day and night, they can't extinguish the hatred that has been provoked.
At this critical time, Rorschach did only one thing as the one who single-handedly drove all this. That's – to bring in the population.
Countless Tinder Fighters have landed in those chaotic state capitals, and anyone who is willing to put aside strife and stay away from this war-torn place can go directly to another planet to settle through the portal on the warplane.
It has everything Tinder has to offer, a new house, new furniture, a new environment, and an astonishing abundance of resources.
But once they choose to go through the portal, they will automatically give up their identity as Americans and become citizens of the real Burning Planet.
No one can fault this kind of thing. It's just that no one knows that not all of these refugees were sent to the Burning Plains Fire Planet, and a small number of them were sent to another nascent universe.