Chapter 1779: S: Apocalypse (46)

Bruce and his party arrived in Mexico, but the situation here is not as good as in the real world, and the time point in the world that Jack created is around 1986, that is, before everything began to happen.

This is not a good time for the Mexican people, although 1986 was the year they hosted the World Cup, but a year earlier, two major earthquakes had devastated the country, but fortunately the earthquakes did not affect the stadiums and the World Cup matches were held as scheduled.

At this time, Mexico's economic growth had been stagnant for a long time, and the glory of the World Cup had come to an end, as if the country's era of prosperity had come to an end.

During this period, Mexico has come to a crossroads of choice, the prestige of the left is declining, and the influence of liberals is expanding, but this has nothing to do with the living standards of the people at the bottom.

And the problem that the group is facing now is that now everyone has no superpowers, and they can no longer send out gods from the sky as before, and deal a major blow to drug dealers by force, and without the financial and network support of Bruce and Oliver, everything is even more difficult.

Ordinary people are always insignificant, the premise of being able to chant slogans is to have the ability to stand up and shout loudly, the vast majority of people in this world can't even do the first point, they need to spend almost all their energy on the ground to eat, no one can blame them for not standing up in terms of changing the tragedy of the times.

But superheroes who are born with great power never accept this, their kindness and strength give them a stronger sense of responsibility than others, and in a way, the pioneers of the era must be megalomaniacs, firmly believing that they must be responsible for all the unfortunate people of this era before they can be motivated to save them.

In this team, no one except Bruce has had a similar experience, Clark is naturally strong, Diana is a god and a royalty, Oliver is as rich as Wayne, Hal has long accepted his identity as a Green Lantern, and Arthur is still a small-town youth who has not seen much.

They thought everything was too simple, they wanted to reconstruct what they had done in the real world, and as Bruce had experienced, the harsh reality gave them a blow in the face.

They hadn't even met a drug lord worthy of the syndicate, and a single poppy plantation security guard cost Oliver and Hal their lives.

They originally wanted to use this plantation as a basis to expand their power to the south, and as they had done before, Oliver and Hal were the vanguard of reconnaissance, and although they had prepared for the investigation before, and both had weapons, they still underestimated the ferocity of the drug dealers.

The locals who led the way betrayed the two of them, but fortunately, the plantation security guards were only paying for their errands, not the sadistic ones like Gallardo, and Oliver and Hal were shot and returned to their birthplace, Gotham.

Maybe it's because they didn't participate in the game of Gotham, and they were sent in directly by God, so they weren't reborn as children, and this cut off their last thought, and rebirth won't let the superpowers come back, and they're now completely ordinary people.

Bruce didn't interfere with their plans at all, he just watched from the sidelines, in fact, he had a way to come up with a flawless plan to take the plantation, but he knew that if he didn't let his companions realize the cruelty of reality, any of their plans would end up running to the loft in the sky.

Obviously, he was right, and they didn't reflect after a defeat, followed by Clark and Diana, who were going to deal with a government official who had made a black deal with the plantation, and Diana's extensive combat experience on the battlefield gave her a good amount of force, and even without divine powers, she was better than the villa's security guards.

They managed to find the official, kidnap and beat him, and asked him who the owner behind the plantation was, and the result was that they were wanted the next day.

Originally, they lived in an ordinary hotel with the deposit provided by Bruce, but after being wanted, all hotels and inns could not be lived, and the eyes of the city's poison lords were almost everywhere, and their forces were intertwined, and they would be reported if they were seen by the locals, and the group was driven out of the city in ashes.

Oliver and Diana, both strategically minded, began to move to the countryside, where the peasants had been oppressed for a long time, and the conscientious drug lords who had been cultivating poppies were always exploited, and many of them were on the verge of not having enough to eat.

The more experienced Oliver led them to beat away the small boss who had been deducting income, but they faced another problem, everyone went back to their respective homes after getting the money, and some said that let Oliver lead them to do it alone, naturally they were still engaged in drug cultivation.

Then Oliver found that in the real world, he was able to convince so many people to follow him, not because he was really charismatic, nor because they really believed that the vision depicted by Oliver could really be realized, but because he, Hal and Clark, especially Clarke, showed far more powerful power than ordinary people, which was the biggest magic weapon that made this group of people die.

It would be too far for these uneducated peasants to say that one day people in the whole world will be able to live the life they want, but if a man with infinite power, eyes capable of firing lasers, and seemingly capable of punching through the earth with a single punch descends, the persuasiveness is obviously much stronger.

But when they all become ordinary people, they find themselves unable to come up with something that impresses these people.

The idea of the locals is simple, you helped us to defeat the exploitative people, we are grateful to you, in return, we can let you lead us, we are willing to work for you, you can also enjoy our offerings like those big city drug lords, isn't that the best reward?

As the saying goes, Mexicans have two dreams in their lives, either to be a drug lord or to be an American.

They will want to become drug lords, but they just think that selling drugs is the best job in the world, and if they become drug lords, they can also do nothing, take what the farmers have worked so hard to grow and sell, buy guns to encircle more farmers, sell drugs more widely, and just lie down at home and count the money.

In this case, Bruce has a deeper understanding of what Jack said, why the criminal industry is not sustainable in a certain country and a certain city, because when the use of violence to extract profits becomes the ultimate goal of a society, the real people who can get benefits are always very few, while the vast majority of oppressed people will be extremely difficult to wake up because of wrong values.

After the group hesitated on the land for half a month, almost twice each of them died on average, Oliver finally couldn't take it anymore, and he knew it was time to change the course of the war.

"I don't understand, why can't we contact the USSR?" Clark crossed his arms and said, "Didn't they give us a lot of support in the real world?" ”

Oliver sighed deeply and said, "That's because we've made achievements, and to be honest they will help us, and it's not because of faith or anything, it's because we can cause chaos for the United States, and they need someone to contain the United States." ”

"It is no longer time for the USSR to come to the aid of the whole world." Diana shook her head and said, "In the early years, it might have been okay, but now they are also a little chaotic internally, and I'm afraid they won't pay attention to us at all." ”

"Bruce, you haven't been talking much lately, do you have any opinions?" Oliver said, turning to Bruce.

Bruce was silent for a moment and said, "I'm sure you can see that it's not that simple. ”

"Of course." Hal nodded, and said a little decadently: "I was just an ordinary pilot, and I didn't think it was difficult to do anything at that time, but Green Lantern has been a long time, and now I suddenly have no green light energy, so I always think that it would be good to have superpowers." ”

"I don't think it's just that we don't have superpowers." Diana also sighed and said: "It is precisely because we are so convenient to do things in the real world that we do not have enough theoretical knowledge or experience. ”

"It's like a person's right hand, but when he takes the exam, he prefers to write with his left hand, even if he has already answered the paper, everything is still very difficult."

Oliver still stared at Bruce, who nodded lightly and said, "Actually, it doesn't mean anything, after all, you all have superpowers in the real world, how can anyone deliberately cut off an arm of their own?" ”

"No, I think the biggest problem is that ordinary people don't succeed, and it doesn't take long, so when we all have superpowers, shouldn't we shorten the time? But why isn't it even in the real world? ”

Oliver said to himself, and Clark reached out and patted Bruce lightly on the shoulder and said, "Bruce, don't hide it, I know you must have a way." ”

"We really don't need to get rid of our dependence on superpowers." Bruce shrugged his shoulders and said, "This is what I learned from a trip in Gotham, I am a rich man in the first place, why do I have to turn myself into an ordinary person, and then experience the suffering of the so-called ordinary people?" ”

"Suffering is not worth singing about, and there is no need to experience it, it is not that we can really stand with ordinary people if we have the same difficulties, all the things we have obtained beyond ordinary people are what we have obtained, and there is no point in giving them up to deliberately 'close to the people'."

"Then we said we were going to take you out of this dream world, and you didn't leave." Hal said angrily: "Back in the real world, don't we all have superpowers?" ”

"We can have that here too."

The others all turned their heads to look at him, and the batcat licked its paws and glanced at itself in the other universe, as if understanding what he was trying to say.

Bruce drew a few patterns on the ground and said, "Infinity is superpower, magic is superpower, and now you have lost them, but we can get another superpower." ”

"Another superpower? What is that? ”

"Money and power."