Katie had been very busy recently. She was so busy that she didn't even have time to sit down and have a quiet meal. Especially after meeting with the super-rich Roberto of Brazil.
On the surface, Roberto was one of Brazil's top tycoons and one of the world's most important raw material suppliers. In addition to his superficial identity, his most important identity was that he was also a Mutant. Moreover, he was an Alpha-level Mutant with a relatively high degree of evolution.
He had a super strong flame (or more accurately, atomic fission) ability. His nickname was Sunspot. When Katie asked him for help, this proud young man originally refused. Because compared to ordinary low-level Mutants. With the identity of the world's richest man, he would not be discriminated against Mutants.
But in the end, he was convinced by Katie's words and agreed to help her complete her seemingly impossible plan – to build a country!
Yes, the super-rich Roberto proposed a bold and more practical plan – to buy a country!
Doesn't it sound ridiculous? Countries were not goods. How could they be bought and sold at will? And which sovereign country would give up their own territory? Wouldn't they be afraid of being humiliated by future generations?
In fact, in the real world, sometimes, it was more ridiculous than novels and movies. In fact, it was even more magical. For example, things like buying and selling countries could be done in real life.
Especially in today's society, because of the large-scale human activities, it caused a variety of greenhouse gas emissions, causing the glaciers of the North and South Poles to begin to melt, and the sea level to begin to rise.
This made many coastal countries, especially island countries, face an awkward situation. The sea was encroaching on their territory. For mainland countries, or large island countries like the East Ocean, for these two countries, a few centimeters of sea level rise was not a big deal.
But for some small island countries, every centimeter of sea level rise was enough to make them tremble in fear. For example, the world-famous tourist destination of the Maldives.
This picturesque island country was facing such a problem. According to the most optimistic estimate, the Maldives would be completely submerged in 2100, and before that, in 2070, the country would become uninhabitable.
This was the countdown to the destruction of the entire country. Most of the citizens of the Maldives would be able to see their country drowned by the sea and completely disappear in their lifetime.
The president and the government of the Maldives had long begun to buy land overseas. They bought pieces of land from countries that were willing to sell land, and were ready to move all the people out before the sea completely submerged the country.
It must be said that the Maldives were still lucky. Although they might be drowned by the sea, at least they still had time. Most importantly, they had money!
As the world's most famous tourist destination, the Maldives relied on tourism to accumulate considerable wealth, which was the main reason to ensure that they had the financial resources to purchase land overseas and could also obtain international bank financial loans.
Although they were also island countries, not all island countries had unique natural conditions like the Maldives.
For example, Tuvalu, an unknown small island country. The entire country was only 26 square kilometers. The population of the country was about 11,000 people. The total annual output of the country was less than 17 million US dollars, and the per capita output was less than 2,000 US dollars.
The fourth smallest country in the world was also the least developed country in the world. The tragedy of Tuvalu was so small that the speech made at the United Nations General Assembly would be directly ignored.
The president of the country had countless appeals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and slow down the rise of sea levels. But because the country was small and weak, the words spoken were like farts.
The president of the country was so anxious that he even publicly criticized the United States at the United Nations General Assembly. Because the highest place in the country was only 4.7 meters away from sea level. Most of the country's land area was only a few centimeters or a dozen centimeters away from sea level.
And according to the current rate of sea level rise, the most optimistic estimate was that by 2050, 60% of the country's land area would be swallowed by the sea.
In fact, the rate of sea level rise this year was in a progressive state. If calculated according to the current increment, half of the country's land area would be submerged in the Pacific Ocean by 2030 at most.
And the countdown to the country's demise was only 13 years away. Sadly, as the least developed country in the world, Tuvalu had no funds to build dams to resist the sea, or to improve the terrain of their own land.
And it was even more impossible to buy land overseas. International banks had repeatedly refused the country's loan requests, and later simply treated the country as if it did not exist in the world.
And many countries had made it clear that they refused to allow Tuvalu nationals to enter the country as refugees. The global media turned a blind eye to this small country, pretending that this country did not exist in the world.
Even if this country did have a seat in the United Nations and was a globally recognized sovereign country.
No country was willing to lend a helping hand to Tuvalu. After all, this was a matter that had no benefits at all. And accepting a group of refugees, how to settle them was also a big problem.
No one would be a saint for no reason. This was not the Libyan refugee incident. There was still fame and political capital to be gained in that incident. Whoever cared about Tuvalu's mess would be unlucky.
Therefore, the world watched with an unusually indifferent attitude as this country began to walk into the abyss of death.
2017-2030. In just 13 years, half of the country would be lost, and the remaining land area would not be suitable for human habitation. All of Tuvalu's residents lived in fear and depression.
A few citizens who had money or overseas connections had already tried every means to escape the country. Now the people left in this country were poor people with nowhere to go.
The only way this small island country communicated with the outside world was an airport built here by the US military during World War II. Every month, there would be a 30-seater aircraft that had been in service to transport residents here.
And today, Katie and her companions set foot on this island country for the first time. When Roberto's luxury plane landed in this poor and backward country, a major event that would change the sad fate of this country and its people, and would completely rewrite the history of the entire mutated human race was about to happen.
Katie wore light sneakers as she walked in Tuvalu's old airport that even looked like it should have been scrapped a long time ago. Following her was a group of companions that she summoned.
A group of young but passionate and hot-blooded mutated humans. They knew what they were here for today. And the only middle-aged man who looked older was the guardian of a young student named Flash. He was the leader of the West Coast Assassin Alliance and the Thieves Guild, Remy, nicknamed King of Cards.
This was a crazy world, this was an era of turbulence. As a veteran mutated human, King of Cards would never have thought that one day he would be dragged by such a group of young people to such a backward country in such a way.
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