PFC Chapter 2636 Mayfly World (36)
Chapter 2636 Mayfly World (36)
Chapter 2636 Mayfly World (Thirty-Six)
After returning to Kamar-Taj, Schiller took Oliver on a brief tour of the place, but Oliver obviously didn't care much. He was not very interested in magic and thought that it was just a tool like science and technology. However, no matter how good the tool is, it will be useless if the person using it is not capable.
Schiller really wanted to take Oliver out for a tour, but Kamar-Taj was short-staffed and he had to help with work, so he found the students in the magic academy who liked to go out and play, talked to their teachers, gave them a holiday, and let them take this country bumpkin from another universe to Sichuan for a tour.
The students immediately cheered. After all, which student doesn’t like holidays? And they can also travel at public expense. Isn’t this a godsend?
They immediately arranged the itinerary. Of course, they had to go to Chengdu first, then go to see the pandas, Chongqing was also indispensable, as well as Jiuzhaigou and so on, and finally take a trip along the Sichuan-Tibet line to ensure that they would have a great time.
Of course, Schiller also reminded them that they must register with the relevant department after landing. Although he has already informed the S.H.I.E. Bureau, Oliver is an illegal resident in this universe after all, so he still needs to be careful when entering and leaving.
Oliver thought they were going to take a plane, but unexpectedly, several students took him to the skytrain. He arrived before he could even start to be surprised by the railway flying in the sky.
That's right, they arrived in less than two hours, and it took them an hour and a half just to find seats, check tickets, buy some food, and introduce themselves to each other. They arrived before they could even sit down.
As soon as Oliver got on the air train, he had a feeling: What the hell is this? Is this still Earth?
It may be that all Chinese people have a fetish for railways, that is, they are very keen on building railways. When building railways on the ground, they will cut through mountains and split water, and they will build them no matter how difficult it is. Now that there are no difficulties in the air, they can't wait to build a railway all over the sky above China, just like covering it with a lid.
However, there are also some requirements for skytrains. They cannot be built on the same plane, but must be divided into different speeds and purposes and built at different heights. Moreover, the lifting method is more complicated. It is best to use cargo lifting rather than rail lifting.
Taking the passengers' experience into consideration, the aerial railway cannot be built like a roller coaster, so most of the aerial railway tracks are straight without any rise or fall. You only need to take the elevator up and down in the station when transferring.
This means that the platform cannot be a building standing on the ground, because almost no building can reach such a height, and it is not safe enough to build it so high. Currently, all skytrain platforms in China are islands floating in the air.
This has resulted in the sky above many major city transportation hubs being like the stars in the sky, with countless sky islands floating overhead and countless tracks and trains surrounding them.
For the sake of operational efficiency, many airports and shuttle stations are built together with air-rail concentrated areas, which makes it even more lively. The flight altitude of airplanes is generally higher than that of air-rail trains and shuttles. The three do not interfere with each other, but very complicated scheduling is required during takeoff. They are often adjacent to each other, and there is a beauty of order in the chaos.
As soon as he came out of Tianfu Airport, Oliver was dazzled by the scene in front of him. The bus station, taxi stand and parking lot that he usually saw near the airport had completely disappeared. What appeared in front of him was a whole empty space with people coming and going, and everyone was looking for the elevator to the skytrain platform.
Several students pulled Oliver to the bottom of one of the sky islands. When they got closer, Oliver realized that it was not an sky island, but a large floating flying saucer.
And it's just like in those alien movies, a beam of light descends from the middle of the flying saucer and sucks people up. This is what they call an elevator.
If there hadn't been any process of passing through a portal, Oliver would have thought that Schiller had sent him to another planet.
In fact, he now also doubts whether the train he is riding has some ability to travel through time and space. This doesn't seem like 20 years later, but more like 2000 years later.
While he was still confused, he was pushed into the elevator. Oliver didn't feel anything, and found himself in front of a door. He walked forward instinctively, and when he came out he saw an even more sci-fi scene.
A circular hall, half of which was covered with a blackout layer, while the other half was slowly opening to allow bright sunlight to shine into the hall. Everywhere you looked were unfamiliar equipment.
Although he didn't recognize the robots running around on the ground and the small planes flying in the air that kept speaking something in Chinese, Oliver knew pandas.
There are pandas on all the equipment, bamboo and panda decorations not far away, and further ahead there are pandas, pandas and more pandas.
It was not until now that Oliver realized that this was China, because panda is synonymous with China.
The students were already chattering and looking at the route signs, but Oliver took out the cell phone that Schiller had stuffed into his hand, a small square worn on the wrist, which could be called a cell phone. A holographic screen would pop up when pressed.
Oliver was searching for the news in a panic, but because he was connected to China's intranet, all the results were in Chinese, which he could not understand, and the translation was completely irrelevant.
Fortunately, Oliver is a native English speaker, so even if the sentences are not fluent, he can still get the general idea. It's just some news about what was built today and what was built tomorrow.
Oliver couldn't figure it out at all. He felt like part of his brain was blocked, so he had to seek help from one of the students who had a good command of English. After the two of them talked for a long time, Oliver realized that this was China, and its history was no different from the East Asian history he knew.
That is, they experienced war in the early 20th century and have been very poor ever since. I heard from the student that until around the millennium, his family was still an ordinary farmer, working hard in the fields every day, and could only eat meat during festivals.
More than ten years have passed in both worlds for Schiller. It is now 1998 for DC and 2018 for Marvel, a difference of exactly 20 years.
The China that Oliver knew was similar to what the student said, which was a period when most people still had to worry about food. What happened in the past 20 years? Did the aliens successfully attack the earth?
For an individual, twenty years is neither long nor short, but for a country it is a bit too short. Even the United States, which has a short history, has not seen any particularly big changes in the past 20 years, not to mention Europe and the United States.
Oliver felt very confused. This was a huge mystery to him because it was simply impossible. How could it develop to this point in just 20 years?
He could say that the rest of the journey was tasteless and a pity to leave. The place was incredibly developed, the pandas were cute, and the people lived a happy life. There was simply nothing wrong to find fault with.
The only problem is that it shouldn't be, it can't be.
It’s not that Oliver has any prejudice against this country, but with his current vision and knowledge, he can’t see any way to achieve this goal.
In fact, when studying Mexico, Oliver discovered that China and Mexico have countless similarities, such as the same long history, long-standing civilization, living next to the same huge country, the same historical aggression, the same internal revolutions that rose up in resistance, and the same peasant revolutions.
To some extent, these two countries are cut from the same mold, but why are their development so different? What exactly is the difference?
Oliver racked his brains but couldn't figure it out.
On the way back, listening to several Chinese students reminiscing about the past, Oliver suddenly realized that for them it was the past, but for him it was the present.
In the universe where he is, China has not yet entered the millennium, and is still in that era where everyone has to worry about food, as they say. Wouldn't it be enough for him to go back and take a look?
It just so happened that he had a good relationship with the Soviet Union in his own universe. Because the Soviet Union was weakening, China and the Soviet Union were in a honeymoon period of jointly resisting the pressure from the United States. As long as he took this path, going to China would not be difficult.
Oliver made up his mind. After returning to Kamar-Taj, he ran back through the portal without stopping for a moment as if his butt was on fire.
And Clark and Magneto happened to encounter difficulties at this time - they had achieved success in fighting, but how to defend it?
Of course, Clark would say that he wanted to farm. Under the powerful military deterrence of the two of them, there was no internal strife, farming went smoothly, and the people under him could easily get enough to eat.
To put it bluntly, there are only a few people in Mexico. Even if Clark and Magneto don't come, one person can find a wasteland and plant a field using the most primitive slash-and-burn method without starving to death. And what Mexico lacks the least is wasteland.
After the most basic problem of food and clothing was solved, both of them were at a loss. They were full, but what should they do?
This is a good question, because once people are full, they start to have nothing to do, and then they start to look for something to do because they are full.
Clark and Magneto wanted to add fuel to the fire of the bald eagle, not to burn themselves. They saw that some of these farmers started to drink and gamble, some started to fight for power, and some thought it was enough to go back to their wives and children, and there was no need for them to stir up trouble, as shit would spread all over the place on their own. The two were quite helpless.
To put it bluntly, neither of them knows how to build infrastructure. If Magneto knew a little about the Brotherhood of Mutants, he wouldn't have been wandering for decades. In the comics, there was no resistance to building a country, but he struggled for several issues without building a decent country, and it just broke up halfway.
Clark is even less likely to do that. After all, he is an American. He learned farming from what he saw and heard on his own farm. He is fine with the farm industry, but it would be a bit difficult for him to deal with the national level.
Just at this time, Oliver had landed in China in his universe and began to follow the Soviet investigation team to the grassroots level. At that time, China was building a village-to-village network, and Oliver was like a traveling frog, constantly sending photos to Clark.
In fact, he didn't want to give Clark any guidance. The main reason was that when Clark was here, he kept sending him photos to show off that he had found a new place to farm. So why couldn't he show off back?
Clark took a look and thought, yes, now they have food, people and land, so of course they have to send people to connect all these lands together to transport the food.
This will not only solve the problem of people having nothing to do, but also open up transportation lines for exchanging what they have and what they don't have, and it will also strengthen control over the region to prevent the infiltration of troublemakers. The benefits are enormous.
What else is there to say? Just copy it.
Recently, there have been a lot of people coming to my house, so the update may be late, sorry