The development of this driver was always moving forward. He would not stop because of someone or something. The mutants' protests about the rebirth drug were getting louder and louder in the United States and other countries.
In particular, some people with ulterior motives were instigating. (Li Jie: I really don't know about this. Magneto: It has nothing to do with me.) Some people even shouted slogans like: You think mutants are a disease. Now that the drug to cure this disease has appeared, why don't you let us use it! In fact, you want to kill us at our core?!
This kind of argument was very popular. Because it wasn't just the mutants who shouted this, there was also a group of radical anti-mutants who shouted the same thing. They shouted: Now is the best time to eliminate the mutants, the Congress should not sit back and do nothing!
Well, a very ridiculous scene appeared. The mutants and anti-mutants actually joined forces to put pressure on the Congress. Not only ordinary people, but there were also some political and business celebrities. The Congress really felt like it was getting a headache. The impact of this incident had exceeded their expectations.
It was obvious that Tuvalu was trying to get a sum of money by doing nothing. Katie was very clear at the time and even used eliminating Russia's nuclear weapons as a metaphor.
Because the economic situation of Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States has always been bad, especially after the emergence of new energy, it showed a state of near collapse. Therefore, the United States and other Western countries provided some funds in exchange for the destruction of nuclear weapons.
In the past ten years, the United States and other Western countries provided a total of 6.4 billion USD in financial aid to Russia and other countries, most of which was free.
It sounded a bit incomprehensible at first, but it was not difficult to understand after thinking about it. The United States and other countries were using money to eliminate potential war threats. For a rich country like the United States, anything that could be solved with money was not a problem.
If you can throw money, don't complain. If you can complain, don't do anything. This was the attitude of the United States. Because if you do something, then the money will be spent like water. More than a decade of local wars in the Middle East seriously dragged down the United States' economy. Thousands of trillions of dollars evaporated just like that.
Therefore, after the emergence of new energy, the United States and other countries quickly withdrew from the Middle East. Everyone tacitly left the quagmire. It was a bottomless pit that burned money. And it also had to pay with human lives. It was not worth it no matter how one looked at it.
And now, the Congress was also bearing this kind of external pressure. Should he let Tuvalu take away a large sum of money empty-handed, or continue to fight to the death? Alright, fighting to the death was out of the question.
There was even a small riot in Kansas. It was a bit of an exaggeration to say that it was a riot. More than a dozen Epsilon-class and Delta-class mutants sneaked into a farm and burned the entire farm. Fortunately, there were no casualties, only some animals in the farm were burned to death.
Under normal circumstances, this would be an ordinary case of arson, but the difference was that this farm belonged to the current president of the United States. This was where he planned to retire at the end of the year. This incident made the President furious. But he couldn't lose his composure.
This was because these people had left messages on the internet before they were arrested after burning down the farm. This is their way of reminding the authorities that if you make life difficult for us, then we will make life difficult for you. No matter what kind of superior person you are, even if you are the leader of a country, we are not afraid. We have nothing left anyway!
The actions of these 16 mutants caused an uproar in the United States society. Some people were condemning what they did, thinking that this was a terrorist attack. But another group of people were loudly refuting.
"This is just a means to express their demands! Although the means are fierce, the meaning is very clear. Live or die! They are just using this method to express their desire to survive. "Some people were holding up the Constitution of the United States and shouting.
"The right to live is the most basic right of every citizen. This will not change whether the person is a mutant or an ordinary person. The government's silence is making us lose this most basic right. "
The actions of John and the other 16 mutated humans had once again pushed the government to the edge of the storm. The political impact of this incident was far-reaching because they were prepared to expose it to the major news media around the world from the beginning. Therefore, the United States government alone could not suppress this matter.
And as John said, what he did was not a terrorist attack, at most it was a planned arson case. There were no casualties in this incident, they even used their mutant ability to control the fire and did not let the fire spread out of the farm.
It could be said that there were no other victims in this incident other than the unfortunate president losing all of the farm's assets. This incident deeply motivated the Mutants who were originally watching from the sidelines, causing them to become even more united. Moreover, this incident also made some of the senior officials in the government panic. Today they could burn the president's farm, tomorrow they could burn their own house.
If people were forced to a dead end, they would do anything. Especially after Latveria learned about this incident, he fanned the flames behind the scenes.
The bigwigs on Capitol Hill could even hear Dictator Doom's proud laughter in their dreams: "Hahahahaha! Anyway, some people could not sleep because of this laughter.
The proposal to contact Tuvalu again was put on the table. This time, Tuvalu had the upper hand. It was foreseeable that all the countries in the world would be slaughtered because of this incident. Everyone suddenly realized that if they had negotiated with Katie back then, maybe this wouldn't have happened.
If it wasn't for Dum's interference, we should have taken the initiative! The leaders who were tricked instantly gritted their teeth in hatred.
However, Dum, who was far away in Latveria, did not care at all, even if he knew that so many people hated him and couldn't sleep because of it. Other than becoming happier, Dum would not feel anything else.
The incident with John and the other 16 people was considered a sudden change, it was an unexpected incident that exceeded the expectations of Li Jie and the other members of the Illuminati. Although the method was harsh, it pushed things in the direction that everyone expected.
The Illuminati still maintained respect for the actions of John and the others. What they did was the greatest protest within a reasonable range. Every time society changed, there would always be countless people like them standing up. The power of human nature always pushed the society forward while still maintaining the most basic morality.
Professor Charles had already begun to take action. He was contacting his students to see if they could help John and the others. Because they were already in court and were facing multiple charges.
Charles felt that he should help these people with the lawsuit. It was impossible to completely get rid of the charges, but at least they had to get rid of the charges of terrorist attacks and only admit to arson. Otherwise, if the other charges were added together, they might be sentenced to death.
Although arson was also a felony, ten years in prison would be enough to get them out. Charles and the others were busy with their own lawsuits. Li Jie and the others did not have time to help him. Because there was a more important thing coming.
Dr. Reed and the others had already set off from the Moon. They were about to return to Earth with tons of helium-3 ore. They set off on April Fool's Day last year.
On such a joking day, they set foot on the Moon with humanity's desire for the new century. And now they were coming back. On the same April 1st, they would return from the Moon to Earth with the world's expectations.
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