Chapter 6: Human Nature (I) [2-in-1 Chapter]
In New York, time has passed in tandem with that of Los Angeles.
At this time, Shen Zhu was already in the hotel in the high-rise near Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, and its specific location was next to the library in the movie "The Day After Tomorrow".
When he saw the picture of Mark Jason's high-profile appearance on TV, Shen Zhu smiled on the corner of his mouth, he couldn't imagine that Mark Jason was quite talented, and it was a kind of ability to give full play to this inferior version of Superman.
However, when Shen Zhu saw the scene of the dark clouds in Los Angeles dispelling this picture, his brows couldn't help but tighten, and soon it was the scene of the tsunami ravaging New York, Mark Jason was really not afraid of sudden events, and he actually spent most of his physical strength to pretend to be cool; Apparently, Shen Zhu had forgotten about "instilling the wrong information in Mark Jason himself".
To know the limits of Mark Jason's ability, Shen Zhu is very clear, he is afraid that the World Tree will keep nagging in his ear that it hates these mundane things in the world.
In addition, the World Tree currently does not have enough energy to immobilize its basic abilities in someone else's body, unless it costs a leaf of the World Tree.
Therefore, Shen Zhu set Mark Jason's physical strength as the source of energy in terms of superpowers.
In other words, every time he activates his superpowers, the World Tree secretly exerts them behind his back, and at the same time, he also absorbs some of Mark Jason's physical strength, so as not to disturb the mood of the World Tree by endlessly absorbing water and extinguishing the wind.
In Shen Zhu's heart, compared to the happy mood of the World Tree, Mark Jason's thoughts are not worth mentioning.
With a feeling of being out of sight and out of mind, Shen Zhu turned off the TV and went directly to the roof of the high-rise building.
At this time, the sky was raining heavily, and it was getting more and more urgent.
Looking down, the surrounding neighborhood can be clearly seen, the road is full of crowded people and vehicles, and some people are in a hurry to go home, ignoring the road traffic problems, and walk back directly through the slits left by the vehicles.
It can be said that people and cars walk on the road together, but the pedestrians move faster than the vehicles, although their pants are soaked by the rain from the road 30 centimeters high.
I don't know if it's the World Tree secretly helping, Shen Zhu found that he had some changes recently, his complexion gradually became delicate and fair, and after a while, his skin would be crystal clear.
In addition to this, there are also changes in the perception of the five senses, just talking about eyesight, he found that he can clearly see things in the distance.
For example, at this moment, Shen Zhu stood on the top of the building more than 100 meters high, and he could see the facial expressions of those pedestrians downstairs.
There were three people on the road like crossing a river about half a meter deep, one step at a time, one raised his head and shouted haughtily, with a look of disdain or contempt or annoyance, and two walked quietly behind him, until the man's words were too much before he stopped for a while.
As a result, Shen Zhu listened to it, and the man's complaining words at this time suddenly came to his ears clearly: "Damn, a raincoat of 15 dollars can't stop the rain......
These words made Shen Zhu smile, and suddenly, Shen Zhu found a group of people.
At this time, the protagonists of the "The Day After Tomorrow" movie actually passed by the three people, and they really came to the library like the original book.
Then, his previous random layout has a conclusion.
But Shen Zhu was also very distressed, still wondering if all this was the inertia of Gaia's consciousness driving fate.
But...... If it existed, why did it ignore Superman and not erase him?
Therefore, at this time, Shen Zhu still didn't believe that there would be Gaia consciousness in this movie world, and would rather believe that it was the protagonist's father who asked them to find a safe place to stay first.
Because in the original.
The male protagonist's father, Jack Hall, has now deduced the changes in the global climate and knows that they will not have time to safely retreat to the south.
In addition, Shen Zhu believes that as long as Jack Hall is not blind, he will definitely know about the existence of Mark Jason, a superman, and he will not consider Superman's ability?
So.
No matter what disaster happens in New York, as long as they dodge it in the first place, they can survive more safely than if they traveled south.
Even if Superman can't save the disaster in time, Jack Hall, who is confident that as a professor who has lived in an extremely cold region for a long time and is doing research, he can save his children with the survival skills he has accumulated over the years.
……
At the same time, when Shen Zhu was thinking about the existence of Gaia's consciousness.
Looking over New York to Manhattan, the city is getting rained so much that it has flooded the doors and windows of taxis, and a massive power outage has begun.
The water is deep, there are many people, and the traffic lights are not on......
At this time, traffic roads in all areas of the city are paralyzed. So, except for the owner who was still in the car, the passengers of the taxi and bus got out of the car and walked home.
When it comes to the traffic situation on the ground, then we can't help but talk about the situation of the underground subway, without using many words to modify the description, just one fact: the passengers are all dead halfway, swimming to escape, and they are afraid that they will be drowned in the carriage one second late.
However, the roof leak happened to be rainy and cloudy.
Near the Hudson River estuary on Liberty Island in New York, a tsunami of 90 meters high gradually arrived.
Soon, almost in the blink of an eye, the water almost submerged the Statue of Liberty, leaving only the upper part of the Goddess's head.
The sudden tsunami left the people on the coast too late to react, and they were drowned in it by the tsunami of the towering wall of water after only a few steps.
So the tsunami spread rapidly from New York's traffic road network, and every few seconds, it came to the next intersection and then diverted.
Even so, the neighborhoods near the coast, with the exception of some of the people who remained above the two dozen floors, were almost completely wiped out, either in the buildings, or in the streets, or in the cars.
Not long after, the tsunami reached Manhattan, the seat of New York City's central business district, and the world's most important financial center, Wall Street, which is full of skyscrapers and branches.
In addition, the height of the tsunami has dropped a lot, so Manhattan is where most of the people survived, and the people who died were in the middle of the street, or in the car.
They will react in various ways in the face of a sudden tsunami attack -
Pedestrians on the sidewalk tried to run, leaving the tsunami more than ten meters high far behind;
Pedestrians in the driveway jumped over vehicles to escape, and as a result, some people accidentally tripped over;
Some pedestrians who are close to high-rise buildings want to push open the door of the building next to them, but find that the door cannot be opened for a while;
What's worse is that the owners or passengers in the cars blocked on the street can only watch the tsunami carry some debris and vehicles rush over.
As a result, whether they wailed or frightened, they could not stop the tsunami from struck, and soon the tsunami passed through Manhattan.
From the beginning to the end, the tsunami hit in just ten minutes, and as a result, the whole of New York became the land of water.
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At this time, on the Manhattan side, the surviving personnel almost hid on the floors more than ten stories high, and some ran directly to the top floor, slumped on it, and began to cry and sad as they looked at the sea below.
Suddenly, they remembered the existence of Superman, why did he show up in time for the hurricane in Los Angeles? For the tsunami in New York now, can't?
Sometimes, especially after a disaster, there are some things that cannot be compared to each other, because even if the inferior side is on a good level, it can be misjudged as inferior by the person who has lost his mind.
So, at this time, the survivors began to vent, resentment, why Superman couldn't help them in time, otherwise their relatives and friends would not have died tragically in the tsunami.
Just as the survivors were resenting Superman, it was also when Mark Jason had just finished his message about the planetary crisis and was wondering how to answer the crowd.
Soon, Mark Jason learned the bad news of the tsunami in New York from the government personnel, and his face suddenly turned ugly, how could the situation be like this, how could this be the case, how could this matter be remembered two or three days later, how could it suddenly be advanced.
The sudden attack of this incident made Mark Jason's mind distracted, causing everyone to see that something bad was happening, and then the situation in New York quickly spread, and the scene was suddenly chaotic.
Superman's information is true, but I didn't expect the disaster to come so quickly, and now that something happened in New York, is it that the whole United States will be frozen from the north to the south.
As soon as I thought of this, everyone at the scene had relatives and friends in New York, and they were busy calling to contact, some were happy to thank God when they connected, and some began to be anxious when they saw that their mobile phones could not get through.
At this time, Mark Jason recovered from the blow, calmed down his panicked emotions, gave the agent a look, and signaled the agent to clean up and go to New York.
So, Mark Jason jumped into the sky and went straight to New York as fast as he could.
Three minutes later, when Mark Jason arrives in New York, he finds that New York has been submerged by the sea, and only some tall buildings are left in it.
However, at this time, it was important to save people, and he didn't care about the consumption of physical strength.
The whole person was like a Hulk transforming, instantly swelling into a Hulk, falling down, standing on the street through the sea, opening his mouth and roaring, one after another invisible gravitational fluctuations shrouded New York, and began to attract the sea water towards him.
Soon, at a speed visible to the naked eye, the sea level of New York gradually descended, until the last drop of sea water on the ground entered Mark Jason's body, and he suddenly shook his body, and the whole person fell straight back, lying unconscious on a messy street.
I don't know if it's a coincidence, New York is so big, there are many areas, Mark Jason is here in Manhattan, and he is near the library to activate his superpowers, so when he gradually sucks the sea water, the protagonists of the library see this scene outside the window.
So, when they saw Superman fall to the ground, they didn't care if there were other disasters in the outside world, so they hurriedly rushed over and carried Superman into the library.
Ever since Mark Jason came to New York, Shen Zhu knew that New York would soon return to normal.
However, the aftermath of the tsunami took a long time for the American government to deal with. By the way, it's too late in time, tomorrow there will be a blizzard, and the day after tomorrow will be the advent of the Ice Age. (note 1)
Standing on a tall building at this time, seeing the mess on the street and the corpses lying in it, Shen Zhu was a little sad and sad.
He had also struggled between reminding him or not, whether to pick up small fish on the beach like a child, and save one of them.
But in all angles.
From the root, Shen Zhu and the World Tree don't have the ability to directly erase the plot of the movie, otherwise they wouldn't have to go through the trouble to get a superman out;
In terms of purpose, the World Tree needs to develop believers and an extremely pure source of willingness.
In terms of reason, this is a makeover of the earth's self, and only in this way can the greenhouse effect of the fantasy world of "The Day After Tomorrow" be dissolved;
In terms of strategy, to capture the origin of the fantasy world of "The Day After Tomorrow", a change in the plot is required, plus a purpose, then, for the current Shen Zhu, it is better if the general trend of the plot in New York does not change.
In addition to the above ideas, the last point is the weight that overwhelms the balance of the balance (Shen Zhu's entanglement) -
It all goes back to the background of the movie, where humans don't pay much attention to the environment.
He remembers the opening scene of the film, in which the UN lawmakers at the United Nations Conference on Global Warming flouted Jack Hall's reminder that the global economy was more fragile than the air pollution.
Even in the original movie, after the accident in Los Angeles, even though Jack Hall had reminded the vice president of the United States to evacuate the North to the south as soon as possible, the vice president replied with a "psychotic" and left.
It is precisely because of this that their government does not pay attention to it, and Shen Zhu, who is entangled in guilt, does not bother to remind the people of America to flee, and he, an outsider, does not need to bother to do this thankless task.
Therefore, Shen Zhu didn't have the idea of appearing in front of anyone, so he pushed Mark Jason to the table and asked him to do it.
These helpless and sad thoughts only stayed in Shen Zhu's mind for a while, and then he remembered the scene he saw before - for the sake of speed, Mark Jason poured the seawater that covered the entire New York City and was more than ten layers high into his mouth.
couldn't help but feel a chill in Shen Zhu, although it would be dissolved by the World Tree afterwards, but the stomach boss was swollen in a panic.
Shen Zhu followed the protagonists of the movie into the library and looked at Mark Jason, the boss of the belly.
He knew that Mark Jason would be fine, so he easily thought to the side, this is the belly of several children, five or six? Or ten children?
At this time, Sam Hall, the male protagonist of the movie, also noticed Shen Zhu's existence, and saw that he was just watching quietly, and he didn't seem to have any malicious intent.
But Sam Hall is still not at ease, because Shen Zhu felt very mysterious to the male protagonist before, and he was the kind of person who was sometimes kind and sometimes malicious.
So he focused his three-point attention on Shen Zhu, and then used his seven-point attention to discuss with his friends and partners how to deal with Superman Mark Jason.