Bruce and his team came to Mexico, but the situation here was actually not as good as in the real world. The time point of the world created by Jack was around 1986, that is, before everything started to happen.
This time is not good for the Mexican people. Although 1986 was the year they hosted the World Cup, a year ago, two major earthquakes caused the country to suffer a huge disaster. Fortunately, the earthquakes did not affect the venues.
The World Cup matches will be held as scheduled.
At this time, Mexico's economic growth has been stagnant for a long time. After the glory of the World Cup has come to an end, it seems to have announced that the country's prosperous era has completely come to an end. The free market economy introduced during the de la Madrid administration failed to save the market. The government was slow to provide disaster relief during the earthquake. The Mexican Revolutionary Party
credibility is further reduced.
During this period, Mexico reached a crossroads of making a choice between left and right. The prestige of the left continued to decline, and the influence of liberals continued to expand. However, this had nothing to do with the living standards of the people at the bottom. Drug lords were still rampant in the south, and Gallardo, the godfather of Mexican drugs,
The leading southern drug cartel is extending its tentacles to more cities.
The problem faced by the group now is that now everyone has no superpowers and can no longer use magic weapons to deliver a heavy blow to drug dealers by force as before. Without the financial and personal support of Bruce and Oliver, everything will be lost.
It's even harder.
Ordinary people are always insignificant. The prerequisite for being able to shout slogans is to have the ability to stand up and shout out. The vast majority of people in this world cannot even do the first point. They need to spend almost all their energy on
No one can blame them for not taking a stand in changing the tragedy of the times.
But superheroes who are born with powerful powers never accept this. Their kindness and strength give them a stronger sense of responsibility than others. To a certain extent, the pioneers of the era must be arrogant and firmly believe that
You must be responsible for all the unfortunate people in this era, and then you can have the motivation to save them.
In this team, no one except Bruce has had similar experiences. Clark is naturally powerful, Diana is a god and a royal family, Oliver is as rich as Wayne, and Hal has long accepted himself.
As Green Lantern, Arthur is still a young man from a small town who has not seen much.
They thought everything was too simple and wanted to copy what they had done in the real world. But just like Bruce had experienced, the cruel reality gave them a blow.
They didn't even meet a drug lord who could be called a syndicate. The security personnel in a poppy plantation cost Oliver and Hal their lives.
They originally wanted to use this plantation as a basis to expand their power to the south, just like they did before. Oliver and Hal were the vanguard of the reconnaissance. Although they had made sufficient preparations for the investigation before, and both of them had weapons, they
Still underestimated the brutality of drug dealers.
The local who led the way betrayed both of them. Fortunately, the plantation security guards were only paid to do things and were not sadists like Gallardo. Oliver and Hal each received a shot and returned to their birthplace.
Gotham.
Maybe it's because they didn't participate in Gotham's game and were sent directly by God, so they were not reborn as children. This cut off their last thought. Rebirth will not bring back the superpowers. They are now
Just ordinary people through and through.
Bruce did not interfere with the plan they made at all, he just watched from the sidelines. In fact, he had a way to formulate a perfect plan to take over the plantation, but he knew that if his companions did not realize the cruelty of reality, their
Any plan will eventually lead to the sky loft.
Obviously, he was right. They did not reflect after a failure. Next came Clark and Diana, who planned to deal with a government official who had reached a black deal with the plantation. Diana had rich combat experience on the battlefield.
It gave her considerable strength, and even without divine power, she was stronger than the villa's security personnel.
They successfully found the official, kidnapped and beat him, and asked him who the boss behind the plantation was. 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 were no longer available, and the drug lords' informants in the city were almost everywhere, and their forces were intricately intertwined, making them visible to the locals.
They would be reported upon arrival, and the group of people would be driven out of the city in despair.
Oliver and Diana both had good strategic minds, and they began to move to the countryside. The farmers here had indeed been oppressed for a long time. Those who worked hard to help drug lords grow 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 fight off the little boss who had been withholding their income, but they faced another problem. After everyone got the money, they went back to their respective homes. Some said that they should let Oliver lead them to work alone.
Naturally, it’s still about drug cultivation.
Then Oliver discovered that in the real world, he could convince so many people to follow him, not because he was really charismatic, nor because they really believed that the vision Oliver described could really be realized, but because
He, Hal and Clark, especially Clark's powerful strength far beyond that of ordinary people, is the biggest magic weapon that makes this group of people desperate.
To tell these uneducated farmers that one day people all over the world will be able to live the lives they want, this argument is too far away for them, but if at this time there is a person with infinite power and eyes
If a man who can shoot lasers and whose power seems to be able to punch through the earth comes, his persuasiveness will obviously be much stronger.
But when they all became ordinary people, they found that they could not come up with anything to impress these people.
The idea of the locals is very simple. You helped us fight off the exploiters. We are very grateful to you. In return, we can let you lead us. We are willing to work for you. You can also be like the drug lords in big cities.
Enjoying our offerings equally, isn't this the best reward?
There is a saying that Mexicans have two dreams in life, either to become a drug lord or to become an American.
They want to become drug lords because they think selling drugs is the best job in the world. If they become drug lords, they don't have to do anything and just sell and buy the things that farmers have worked so hard to grow.
The gun can attract more farmers, sell drugs more widely, and just lie at home and count the money.
In this case, Bruce had a deeper understanding of what Jack said, why the criminal industry is unsustainable in a certain country and a certain city, because when the use of violence to obtain profits becomes the ultimate goal of a society
, there will always be a very small number of people who can really benefit, while the vast majority of oppressed people will find it extremely difficult to awaken because of wrong values.
After the group of people wandered around this land for half a month, and almost everyone died twice on average, Oliver finally couldn't stand it anymore, and he knew it was time to change the battle strategy.
"I don't understand, why can't we contact the Soviet Union?" 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 have already made achievements. To be honest, they will help us. It's not because of belief or anything. It's because we can cause chaos to the United States, and they need someone to contain the United States."
"Now is no longer the time for the Soviet Union to assist the whole world." Diana shook her head and said: "In the early years, it might have been possible, but now they are also in some internal chaos, and I am afraid they will not pay attention to us at all."
"Bruce, you haven't spoken much lately, what do you think?" Oliver turned to look at Bruce and said.
Bruce was silent for a moment and said, "I believe you can see that this matter is not that simple."
"Of course." Hal nodded and said a little decadently: "I was just an ordinary pilot, and I didn't find it difficult to do anything at that time. But I have been a Green Lantern for a long time, and now I suddenly have no Green Lantern energy.
, I always thought it would be nice to have super powers."
"I think the current situation is not just caused by our lack of superpowers." Diana also sighed and said: "It is precisely because it is so convenient for us to do things in the real world, that both theoretical knowledge and experience accumulation are at a loss.
not enough."
"It's like a person's dominant hand is his right hand, but during the exam he is asked to write with his left hand. Even if he has answered the paper once, everything is still very difficult."
Oliver still stared at Bruce, who nodded slightly and said, "Actually, this doesn't make any sense. After all, you all have superpowers in the real world. Who would deliberately cut off his own arm?"
"No, I think the biggest problem is that ordinary people are not unsuccessful, and it doesn't take long, so when we all have superpowers, shouldn't we shorten the time even shorter? But why even if
Hasn’t it been done in the real world?”
Oliver was talking to himself, and Clark reached out and patted Bruce's shoulder gently and said: "Bruce, please stop hiding it, I know you can definitely find a way."
"We really don't need to get rid of our dependence on super powers." Bruce shrugged and said: "This is what my trip to Gotham taught me. I am already a rich man, why do I have to turn myself into an ordinary person?"
People, and then experience the suffering of so-called ordinary people?"
"Suffering is not worth praising, and there is no need to understand it. Having the same difficulties as ordinary people does not mean that we can truly stand with them. All the things we have gained that are beyond ordinary people are what we have already gained. Give up
It makes no sense for them to deliberately be 'friendly to the people'."
"Then we said we were going to take you out of this dream world, but you still didn't leave." Hal said angrily: "When we return to the real world, don't we all have super powers?"
"We can have it here too."
Several other people turned to look at him. Batcat licked his paws and glanced at himself in another universe, seeming to understand what he wanted to say.
Bruce drew several patterns on the ground and said: "Infinite strength is a superpower, and magic is a superpower. Now you have lost them, but we can get back another superpower."
