Volume 9, Marvel World Adventure

Chapter 1: Welcome to New York!

New York, USA, has the cute nickname of "Big Apple" and is a world-famous bustling metropolis. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

It is a glamorous city that symbolizes wealth, freedom and modernity, and is a legend and pride in the hearts of the people of the United States of America.

-- Whether in the real world or in the Hollywood movie world, the image of the "Big Apple" of New York is so fascinating.

Of course, New York is also home to countless geniuses, talents, criminals, and madmen...... If it is in the Marvel world, then add superheroes and supercriminals, so that eight million New Yorkers can live a wonderful life of "pain and happiness" year after year......

――“…… Hey, man, what's there to envy about living in New York? My family lives in New York. It's been such a miserable time in this place! I really don't kid you! How miserable is it? I'll tell you. According to my personal statistics, over the past few decades, on average, every nine months, Manhattan has been destroyed, every thirteen months, Queens has been destroyed, and every fifteen months, Brooklyn has been destroyed!

Why is it so miserable? I don't think I need to explain why. Because, you must know, there are a lot of superheroes in tights! Well, there are also the supervillains who fight them, dressed up more differently than the other, and I guess the hippies' costumes are also inspired by them.

In short, for New Yorkers, our daily life is "always on the battlefield", and even if we were to move to Stalingrad during World War II, we would probably be able to live very tenaciously - in fact, New York during World War II was much calmer than it is now. At best, it is a mafia vendetta and Nazi agents engaged in espionage warfare, and the vast majority of ordinary people can deceive themselves into living in a peaceful world.

Unfortunately, for New Yorkers, such peaceful days are long gone since I was born in this city!

Today, on average, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s floating aircraft carrier lands at the Hudson Estuary three times a year, and once may land in Little Italy (a borough of Manhattan in New York, next to Chinatown), and if the station hasn't been smashed by all sorts of bizarre falling objects, we watch it live every year. It's almost like a reminder that Easter is coming, Independence Day is coming, Thanksgiving is coming, Christmas is coming. Anyway, almost every holiday in New York is full of casualties, like a war zone. Thanks to cruel fate, we see a bunch of refurbished villains every year. The electric light man, the sandman, the lizard man, the Hulk who swept the street by himself, the various robot riots at two ends in three days, the Hydra that is still haunted after 60 years of World War II, the big monsters and evil gods that Asgard did not control, etc., have all made indelible contributions to the destruction of the New York City area once a year on average. Of course, the occasional infighting between those superheroes also contributes.

Does this kind of daily life sound like a breakdown? But New Yorkers are well-informed, New Yorkers have seen everything, and New Yorkers don't care about anything. To live in New York, you have to have a heart of steel, and you have to be mentally on par with Stalin, the steel uncle of the Soviet Union! Even if you see Spider-Man in a straitjacket swinging over your head; Captain America punches the car in front of you into the sky, Iron Man's parts clange from the sky, Hawkeye Barton's long arrow shoots your office through the sky, and the oddly shaped alien spaceship drags the smoke all the way down Central Park; Your boss who loves mustard steak wakes up in the morning as a monster with a fly's head, like the Metamorphosis; Or a strange thing with a green glow and yelling "I want to rule the world" out of the subway station...... You shouldn't have raised even an eyebrow over such a trivial matter.

In fact, due to the endless variety of superheroes and supervillains, New York is so flooded that many out-of-class villains and unknown tight-suit heroes will refuse to take a taxi because Fifth Avenue is too congested. What's so unusual? Even any hot dog vendor in Times Square has survived at least seventeen or eighteen terrorist attacks, has experience with gas bombs, human self-explosive bombs, and robotic massacres, and may have autographs of Captain America and Iron Man on their bibs.

An Iraqi client once complained when he came to our company to discuss business that the US military stationed in his hometown of Baghdad under the banner of democracy and freedom, but instead of bringing them the "American life" of their dreams, they were plunged into unlimited gunfights and explosions. So, the boss asked me to take him on a tour of New York for a few days. In the end, the poor Arab went back crying, and at the airport he had to admit to me that the great American invasion of Iraq was indeed an effort to make the people of Baghdad enjoy the New York version of "American life......

Although New Yorkers have become numb to these never-ending wars, we New Yorkers are still afraid of going bankrupt in the war, so we New Yorkers always carry a New York Emergency Escape Guide with us, and the average person buys at least $50 million in insurance.

No way, the car and the house must be insured. In New York, I have never heard of anyone who has been able to drive a car for more than two years. Usually you go to the side of the street, park your car, go to the bank to get your salary, and when you go out, you see Iron Man holding your beloved baby car as a shield and defending against a group of robots! As for coming home from work and seeing a big hole in the roof, it is not worth complaining about at all. Life insurance and accident insurance, which far exceed the national average, are also indispensable, and even the most powerful superheroes cannot bring back the victims affected by the battle. And if you are crippled or die, then your family will have to count on insurance for the rest of your life. Unfortunately, in New York, the collapse of most insurance companies is as frequent as the rise of superheroes, and Wall Street here is still the world's financial center!

If you want to say that New York is smashed like this, why don't you move? So why don't the people who live in the tornado corridor move? It's not about us law-abiding citizens who want to move, it's about letting those tight-suit freaks and mysterious organizations move, right?

And to be honest, New York was smashed fast, and it was rebuilt quickly, after all, there are many super scientists here, and human resources are the only driving force for social and economic growth. Like Tony. Stark and the like have invented a whole bunch of weird robots, plus all sorts of nanotechnology, that can quickly fill in the big holes in buildings in the blink of an eye, and tinker with underground pipes, so that if the streets are shattered, the Hulk Hulk will lie on them and roll over them. If the steel beam is soft and falls, then find Iron Man to top it. The whole city is destroyed once a year, so it will naturally be rebuilt once a year, so that the architecture of New York is always changing with each passing day, always standing at the forefront of the world, or how to call it newyork?

Not to mention, post-war reconstruction has always been the only way to boost economic growth. Think about how many jobs and orders the Marshall Plan brought to the post-war United States when it rebuilt Europe! And our New York will always be in the process of post-war reconstruction! Orders for infrastructure construction are never-ending!

So, in our New York, which hasn't experienced a wave of unemployment since World War II, even if the global economy is sluggish, as long as you have the strength and the ability to put your foot down, New Yorkers will always find jobs – just so many construction sites that have been built, smashed, and smashed, and smashed before they have been built, and then destroyed, are enough to provide hundreds of thousands of jobs for the great boys. In addition, the demand for police and security guards in New York is also staggering, and the salaries and benefits are quite good, but the death rate is of course very high, and it is said that it is only slightly better than Baghdad. Then, because of Stark Industries' new reactors, electricity in New York is so cheap that it seems that it doesn't cost much, which can be regarded as a perk of living in the Great Battlefield of New York.

Don't think that such an exciting life will be unbearable, many people who live in other boring places are still very envious of us New Yorkers! Every year, thrill-seekers and foreigners come to New York by car, train, plane and boat to watch superheroes and villains brawl up! This is many times more thrilling than the gladiator fights in the ancient Roman Empire!

From what I've seen, some ill-informed redneck people faint with excitement just by seeing Hawkeye Barton limping across the street at a red light to pick up their arrows, or Captain America sipping a latte and walking out of a dry cleaner with a leotard in his tights, even though that kind of thing is as trivial to us New Yorkers as seeing a pigeon eating bread crumbs on the street in the morning. In order to develop the specialty tourism industry for superheroes, our town hall has developed special routes and signs, as well as sightseeing buses and guides for such tours, with tickets for only $49 and a lottery ticket. It is unlikely that New York will be able to become financially self-sustaining with this tourism revenue alone.

Sometimes I think the White House and Capitol Hill have probably given up on New York. This place is hopeless, and you can make do with yourself. It is said that the supervillains who shout "I'm going to destroy the world" (if you want me to say, these supervillains' goals are so uniform and monotonous that it's boring, why has there never been a bad guy whose goal is to destroy the whole world's talk show?). Occasionally, I would smash other places like Washington, Los Angeles and Houston, or go for a walk in a foreign metropolis. But on the whole, compared to those of us New Yorkers who are often on the battlefield from morning to night, the daily life in those places is still as calm as the kind of nursing home where retired accountants live.

It is said that political scientists, psychologists, physicists, and economists all over the world are studying why so many superheroes and supervillains are inexplicably rushing to New York, whether it is destroying the world or saving the world, they have to try their best to start in New York? All kinds of epoch-making events that change the face of the world always happen first in New York? This is a hot topic in contemporary probability, psychology, chaos theory, geostrategy, and institutional economics. New Yorkers are proud of that, and as I've already said, they've seen everything and don't care about anything.

While it makes New York seem like an oversized disaster magnet, it doesn't matter to us New Yorkers, as long as the Mexican-American vendors in Central Park can sell New York Emergency Escape Guide and Superhero Guide to Alabama visitors.

But it's unrealistic to say that New Yorkers have never looked forward to any other way of life, because no citizen of Baghdad or Kabul would tearfully say that I love street bombings, I love religious killings, and that I am happy in the midst of bullets.

According to one statistic, more than 95 percent of the eight million New Yorkers have dreamed of living in a peaceful New York while sleeping — well, not too peaceful, there are still robberies, shootings, murders, etc., but at least there are no superheroes, aliens, pagan gods, or other superhumans. People don't grab a seat with Spider-Man when they take the subway every day, they don't see a group of muscular men in tights fighting with gangsters when they get off work, and they don't have masked weirdos on fire smashing into your office or apartment...... To be able to enjoy a life like this for a while is a dream shared by eight million New Yorkers.

As a standard New Yorker, I certainly have a desire to live a peaceful life in my heart, and I often dream about it. But one time, I dreamed of that mediocre and ordinary New York. The weather in the dream was very clear, people were rushing to work, and the streets were bustling with traffic. Then, all of a sudden, two planes crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, one after the other!

I grumbled in my heart boredly, oops! Now I can't even live in my dreams, and now I have to face a world where S.H.I.E.L.D. ships drop once a month, but I soon realize that something is wrong - the New Yorkers around me, these New Yorkers are scared stupid! Do you know? Not at all the way we are normal, knowledgeable, and non-caring New Yorkers (after all, the Statue of Liberty and the Rockefeller Building are smashed and rebuilt every year). These guys all behaved at a loss, crying and shouting, and even distracted, like flies without a head.

I was stunned, what's going on? Why are these New Yorkers' sense of risk avoidance and life-saving in the dream so bad? No one knows what to do, how to face this war that is happening on your doorstep, all with a miserable look like the end of the world is coming?

But that's just two planes down and a few buildings! This little thing happens every month here in New York, so what's all the fuss about? Why do people seem unprepared, panicked, and even turned into a bunch of poor creatures who are mentally fragile?

What about the police? What about the National Guard? What about the people of S.H.I.E.L.D.? And I haven't seen a single superhero appear!

Then I realized that this should indeed be my dream, the New Yorker's dream, the world without any miracles and superheroes.

The New Yorkers of that world were unprepared for such a devastating impact.

The New Yorkers of that world have never seen the real end of the world.

The New Yorkers of that world don't know how to save themselves when such a disaster strikes.

The New Yorkers of that world are far more fragile than we are, and they can't afford to be stimulated a little more.

When I woke up, I still couldn't let go. This dream haunted me for three months, and finally I figured it out.

The world is fair, and if God gives you one thing, he will make you lose another. If you want to live a peaceful and peaceful life, then you will gradually become sluggish in the ordinary daily life, lose your vigilance and tolerance for all kinds of disasters, and finally be overwhelmed by the sudden disasters, like a lamb slaughtered. In the real New York, dealing with all kinds of unexpected disasters beyond imagination has become a spontaneous reaction of every New Yorker, and citizens who do not have such coping skills are usually unable to survive in this cruel society.

To be honest, I don't know if this stress response is good or bad. Is it something to be proud of? Or should I be sad about it?

But in any case, most of us are not superheroes who can save the world, nor supervillains who can destroy the world, nor are we superscientists who can change the world, but just ordinary people who commute to and from work on time every day. Then you can only adapt to the world, but not the world, otherwise you will live badly. Do you think that's the truth?

Well, just as I was typing these words, Bobby in the next office, the neurotic young man, suddenly burst in, saying that on the top floor of the Stark Industrial Building in the distance, a blinding blue beam appeared, rushing from the ground all the way to the sky! So everyone gathered in front of the window to watch this scene, although according to experience, this probably does not represent a good thing, but I have to admit that the blue light is indeed quite beautiful.

Then, although they didn't get any further warnings, their colleagues all figured out the latest version of the New York Emergency Escape Guide and began to prepare for emergency evacuation according to the latest escape routes indicated above - this is an important experience of living in New York, you can't always wait for the police and superheroes to kick you in the ass, but learn to judge for yourself, or risk losing your life...... Okay, I'm going to turn off my computer and leave the office, and hopefully when the next log is updated, I and this office will continue to be in good condition......"

――The above is a personal Facebook content of a company employee in Manhattan, New York, USA, who secretly updated his personal Facebook content during working hours.

Then, while this unprofessional guy fled in a hurry with his briefcase, Wang Qiu and his teammates traveled to this world and landed in a certain women's toilet in this building...... Immediately, in the blast of alien shelling, he was blown up into a trapeze act......

- Welcome to New York, a fantasy city filled with superheroes and supervillains that will get your adrenaline pumping in no time......

Well, just as I was typing these words, Bobby in the next office, the neurotic young man, suddenly burst in, saying that on the top floor of the Stark Industrial Building in the distance, a blinding blue beam appeared, rushing from the ground all the way to the sky! So everyone gathered in front of the window to watch this scene, although according to experience, this probably does not represent a good thing, but I have to admit that the blue light is indeed quite beautiful.

Then, although they didn't get any further warnings, their colleagues all figured out the latest version of the New York Emergency Escape Guide and began to prepare for emergency evacuation according to the latest escape routes indicated above - this is an important experience of living in New York, you can't always wait for the police and superheroes to kick you in the ass, but learn to judge for yourself, or risk losing your life...... Okay, I'm going to turn off my computer and leave the office, and hopefully when the next log is updated, I and this office will continue to be in good condition......"

――The above is a personal Facebook content of a company employee in Manhattan, New York, USA, who secretly updated his personal Facebook content during working hours.

Then, while this unprofessional guy fled in a hurry with his briefcase, Wang Qiu and his teammates traveled to this world and landed in a certain women's toilet in this building...... Immediately, in the blast of alien shelling, he was blown up into a trapeze act......

- Welcome to New York, a fantasy city filled with superheroes and supervillains that will get your adrenaline pumping in no time......