Days as a Spiritual Mentor in American Comics-Chapter 4591 - 3672 - Christmas New Atmosphere (9)

Looking at international history, most countries that succeeded in revolutions seized opportunities at the juncture of the agricultural and industrial eras. This is because, at this time, the social structure, social hierarchy, and social atmosphere are all being revolutionized, making it the easiest period to embrace new ideas and complete new transformations.

The problem with Mexico is that, apart from a few major cities, other places are extremely underdeveloped. They're so underdeveloped that poverty is widespread; there are neither internal class contradictions nor external crises and stimuli. They don't even have a spark to ignite any significant flame.

Even when Brainiac arrived, he hadn't found an effective approach for such places. The development process of carbon-based life forms is a spiraling upward motion; it cannot leap forward or be achieved overnight.

To industrialize, you need talent, and to develop talent, education must come first. Yet, the education cycle for the human race is very long, often taking more than a decade. Not even super artificial intelligence can accelerate the process. It can only be slowly transformed.

Currently, Central and South America are the Earth's farms and ranches. Fortunately, Brainiac is able to provide sufficiently advanced agricultural production tools. They are arranged to farm or pasture as needed. The rest can only progress slowly.

Speaking of ranches, one cannot ignore Australia. This vast continent suspended in the Southern Hemisphere has a huge area but a sparse population. Eighty percent of the land is uninhabited, wasting so much land for nothing.

As long as countries existed, others couldn't do much about it. After all, it's their own country; whether they develop it or not is their internal affair, and other countries cannot intervene lightly.

But Brainiac didn't tolerate their inefficiencies; such a large area with so few inhabitants is pure waste, isn't it? Even if the inland desertification is severe, it is not undevelopable. If Siberia is already getting ready for construction, Australia shouldn't lag behind.

Brainiac, besides sending many robots there for environmental transformation, also transferred populations from densely populated areas to that region. The most densely populated areas in the world are in East Asia, and many Eastern people were relocated to work in Australia.

Speaking of the biggest problem Brainiac encountered during the entire Earth transformation process, one cannot avoid mentioning a certain Eastern great nation—yes, it's India.

The transformation of India for Brainiac was tantamount to an adventure. It could be said to be the greatest Waterloo in his artificial intelligence career. If he could dream, this would likely be one of his most persistent nightmares.

Before the war began, India had a population of about 1.06 billion, not the most in the world but still second.

After a war, only 700 million were left.

Some might ask, weren't ordinary humans not sent to the battlefield? How could so many people have been lost directly? Did Brainiac engineer a massacre?

This was truly to the extent that Brainiac would cry out in grievance. Not only did he not carry out a massacre, but he also did his utmost to save these people. It could be said that without him, maybe not even 700 million would be left now.

Initially, during the early stages of the war, India was arguably the most optimistic country globally. They believed aliens were nothing to fear; if they dared to come, they would surely defeat them soundly. They thought that with just a slight effort, they could make Darkseid weep in defeat.

But unsurprisingly, even though Brainiac had played many rounds, the initial battlefield situation was still very unfavorable. Many things he prepared hadn't yet come into play, and the front line even advanced near the Moon, just a hair's breadth away from Earth's destruction.

Although, to prevent public panic, most governments that still existed at the time tried their best to reassure the populace, telling them that the situation wasn't that bleak and that humanity still had a chance to turn the tide. But only India genuinely believed that the advantage was on their side.

Even when the enemy was at the Moon, they thought it was merely because they hadn't taken action yet. As long as they took action, dealing with the aliens was just a matter of minutes. They even used this to disdain Brainiac, claiming their engineers should calibrate Brainiac's programs, which could improve his combat capabilities.

At this time, Brainiac still didn't plan to pay them any mind. But he would pay the price for his contempt—problems emerged when he needed to mobilize people to Krypton.

In previous rounds, Brainiac had also mobilized people. But the scale was not as large as this time, nor was it a comprehensive mobilization. Basically, he only recruited relevant technical personnel. This was also his first attempt to conscript civilians.

In almost all other countries, including the privileged Europe, the process went relatively smoothly. There were certainly those unwilling to go, but with alien cannons pointed at their heads, staying on Earth just meant dying closer to home; they might as well take a chance to survive.

Brainiac used the Green Lantern Teleportation Gate for transportation. Although Hal had left, he still left his trusted troops here. The Green Lantern Teleportation Gate, while relatively miniaturized, imposes no restrictions on traffic, usable by ordinary people, who only need to line up and walk in.

The mobilization order for most countries was military first, followed by police forces. Among civilian adults, manual laborers and those with factory work experience were prioritized, followed by ordinary people, and finally relatively younger college students.

India is different. They prioritize dignitaries, high castes, and wealthy people.

This doesn't mean they lead by example. They seem to have completely misunderstood the situation — these people, because they have money or power, know more information than ordinary people. They know that aliens have already attacked Earth — they think Earth is definitely going to be destroyed, so when better to flee than now?

Even though Brainiac has emphasized countless times that Earth won't be destroyed, and that going to another planet isn't for refuge, it was completely useless. They have their own interpretation, so entrenched that Brainiac can't change it.

If it were just this, it could be tolerated, for on that side, everything is under military management, regardless of high caste or low caste, everyone has to screw. Brainiac doesn't care.

But it has led to big trouble — there are quite a few upper-class people, if you want to run, I want to run too. You run with your family, then I must bring my relatives. You bring property I must bring too; otherwise, I arrive there poorer than you?

But the problem is that there are limited teleportation portals. Brainiac meticulously calculated before placing them at major transportation hubs in various countries, arranging for surrounding city residents to go through them sequentially.

There are teleportation portals in only a few major cities. Moreover, the portals are relatively small, although they can work continuously, only a few people can pass through at a time. In the eyes of the Indians, escaping first is surely safer than later!

So they don't listen to Brainiac's arrangement at all, squeezing into those few cities first, dragging their families along and bringing whatever they can. Gold, antiques, luxury goods are insignificant; they're bringing cars, safes, and even yachts. Some even uprooted their houses and took them over!

Their behavior directly caused domestic panic. It led most of the Indians to believe that if they can pass through that door, they can survive, without dying along with Earth.

And the result was a real-life survival game involving a billion people within the country.

If you reached the door, would you let your enemies pass through? More precisely, would you be willing to let more people pass through?

High castes clearly wouldn't be willing. Because if what's beyond the door is indeed another Earth as they imagine, then fewer people is better. They don't care about relations of production and productive forces; they just feel fewer people means more resources for themselves. So before leaving, they start large-scale carnage against civilians and low castes to prevent them from going through the teleportation portal.

They even have their own justification. In any case, you never were qualified to go through the teleportation portal. Whether to be destroyed along with Earth or be killed by me, isn't it the same?

And the religion on that side is also peculiar; it preaches that if low castes can practice perfectly in this life, they can reincarnate into high castes in the next life. Many low castes sincerely believe this, and they even think the upper-class people make sense.

After all, they couldn't go through anyway. Rather than waiting for Earth's destruction and dying together, it's better not to resist the high castes, and even contribute to their practice. Who knows, maybe they can be reborn on another planet?

Brainiac noticed this immediately but couldn't stop it because his battle robots were busy on the front lines. Countries were also pulling manpower; who had time to manage other nations?

Ironically, they are willing participants. One really dares to kill, while the other truly dares not resist. Over two days, millions died nationwide, with no one paying attention.

Actually, the number of those truly killed doesn't account for much, considering the vast number of low castes, even with machine guns it'll take time. But after the complete collapse of social order, no one handled the dead bodies, and high temperatures caused decay and spread bacteria. Over there, people had no concept of epidemic prevention, and without even burning, they just left the bodies there. The pollution of water sources, food, and even air subsequently led to tens of millions of deaths.

Then there were quite a few crazy ones. They believed that being killed by aliens would prevent reincarnation. The doctrine forbidding suicide led them to mutual killing instead; families insisted on unified actions, mutually poisoning each other. Some families went as far as poisoning other households, even entire communities mutually poisoned each other.

There were zealots who thought if their people were killed by aliens, they might reincarnate into aliens, tainting their religious doctrine, so they wouldn't allow others to die waiting for the aliens to strike, but instead, they had to die now, thus initiating the carnage.

As a result, it entered a vicious cycle: more deaths, ordinary people felt increasingly hopeless, so even more died, the environment worsened, more kinds of bacteria spread, causing even more deaths.

During this period, Brainiac tried to stop it by sending some robots to maintain order. He ordered robots to burn those bodies spreading bacteria, but those people thought he was stealing the souls of their followers. Facing high castes not resisting, low castes dared launch suicide attacks against robots. Brainiac's deterrence failed; they were entirely mad.

In the end, Brainiac could only choose to send more manpower to forcibly drag the survivors through the gate, compelling them to screw. Those high castes entering the gate were even more outrageous, totally refreshing Brainiac's understanding of the human race with their absurd antics.

So now, while other nations and races on Krypton can pack up and go home for the new year, only the Indians can't leave. Brainiac genuinely fears they'll return and create another big news, and viewing their quirky way of thinking, his concern is undoubtedly justified.