OBS Chapter 1886: Underground (Please give me a monthly ticket!! Please subscribe!!! Please recommend!!!
Chapter 1886: Underground (Please give me a monthly ticket!! Please subscribe!!! Please recommend!!!
Chapter 1886: Underground (Please give me a monthly ticket!! Please subscribe!!! Please recommend!!!)
Black Manta is not a good person. Apart from being loyal to his so-called family, this guy is a born criminal! When he was very young, he was destined to take over the family business, because Black Manta started killing people when he was very young.
That was when he was in elementary school. His family lived in a place where most of the students were white, so he naturally became a minority in school. In fact, for children, black and white are all nonsense, and most of them can't understand this kind of discrimination. But once there is an outlier in a group, this outlier will inevitably be excluded.
This is equivalent to the evil of human nature!
The Great Gatsby begins with this sentence: Whenever you want to criticize someone, remember that not everyone in the world has the advantages you have.
However, the reality is that we often look at people or things that do not meet the public's standards with strange eyes. We not only belittle and criticize them in our hearts, but also criticize the things that the public does not like in words or behavior. Many times, what most people think is "abnormal" and "inappropriate" is assumed to be wrong, not glorious, and should not be under the sun. When more and more people stand on the so-called "justice" and "correctness", even things that are hypocritical and wrong in moral terms are glorified and permitted.
Sometimes, we will unknowingly join a seemingly "just" "confrontation", because Gustave Le Bon has already explained in "The Crowd": the group is blind and extreme. People are unwilling to understand "outliers", and as a minority of "outliers", they are often not accepted by society. However, in such a "hunt", some people have become victims of unreasonable prejudice.
Black Manta was such an outlier. In the entire class, not to mention the black people, he was the only one from another ethnic group. He stood out like a sore thumb! He became the biggest outlier, and he was bound to be excluded! This was almost inevitable. Excluding outliers might be an instinct deep in the genes.
Many people say that children are the kindest, but this is actually not true. There is no distinction between good and evil in children... Even for the entire human group, kindness and evil are false propositions in themselves!
We often think that a person is the most innocent and lovely when he is a child, and there is only kindness and no evil in his eyes. Therefore, we infer that a person is the purest when he is just born. In psychoanalysis, Freud divides our hearts into the id, the self, and the superego. The id refers to the most primitive and animal self, and the superego refers to the self with higher moral standards. The self can restrain itself with social rules, and the ego constantly balances the id and the superego in the middle to keep itself in a comfortable state.
There is no doubt that when a person is born, he only has the id, without the ego and superego. Because humans are animals, we are born to follow the instincts of animals and produce corresponding behaviors. For example, when a person is young, he will cry constantly when he is hungry to find the source of food, that is, his mother. When we just learned to crawl and walk, when we are thirsty, we will look for water. When we find that the water source is trapped in a container, we will even pour it out. Or directly break it to get this part of the water source. We will not consider whether breaking this container will cause discomfort to our parents. What is the value of this item? Is it right or wrong for me to do this? Because for myself, the behavior that allows me to survive is instinctive and natural.
Our current society sees animal instincts as the enemy. What makes us human is the sophisticated structure of our brains, which enables us to think, learn, and empathize with others. This allows us to control animal instincts.
Therefore, in the eyes of children, there is no good or evil at all. Even their rejection of Black Manta is not based on some kind of autonomous choice, or what Black Manta did, but simply a rejection of things that are obviously different from themselves.
At this time, someone is needed to guide and educate them.
But Black Manta's teachers were clearly derelict in their duty, and they rejected Black Manta even more than the children themselves.
So, the teacher died. When Black Manta went to his teacher to complain, the teacher not only did not give him justice, but also spoke ill of him, so the ten-year-old Black Manta killed his teacher. Then he calmly called his father and uncles to deal with the scene.
He was very calm throughout the whole process, which made Black Manta's father believe that his child would have a bright future... Well, his father thought that this was a manifestation of blood, and he didn't care that his son killed people. So you can imagine what kind of person this person is.
It’s even more outrageous now. After completely abandoning his humanity, Black Manta is just a monster named Black Manta.
He doesn't care about Nick Fury's intelligence network, he just wants to know what he wants to know, and he doesn't care what Nick Fury pays and sacrifices. When you are repairing something, do you care about the feelings of the repair tool?
This is probably what Black Manta thinks.
"Go on, I want to know more detailed information!" Black Manta no longer paid attention to Nick Fury, but quietly hid back in the darkness: "Also, I need more sacrifices! Do it for me immediately!"
Nick Fury lay on the ground watching Black Manta hide in the darkness, and he felt terrible.
Black Manta is already dead. Although the Dark Trident has many magical effects, there is only one thing it cannot do... and that is to reverse life and death!
The power of the god of death is very strong, but at the same time, the god of death must abide by an iron rule, that is, they are in charge of death, but not life. The god of death in any civilization cannot reverse life and death. (As far as I know, most gods of death in mythology cannot reverse life and death)
The Dark Trident is even less capable of this. It is just a divine weapon given by Hades, the god of death, to Triton, the son of Poseidon. It is not even the artifact of the god of death, let alone the power of the god of death. Therefore, it is even more impossible for it to reverse life and death.
After Black Manta was cut in half by Kai, he was essentially dead.
The reason he can still move is that the Dark Trident needs him. His identity is still dead.
Unlike the corpses controlled by the Dark Trident, he is special in one respect: he still has the ability to think independently and is not just a simple puppet.
But this also requires a price. It is equivalent to maintaining some of the characteristics of a living person, so the Dark Trident must expend power to maintain this part. Where does the price come from?
More death of course!
So it needs sacrifices.
Sacrifices were needed every day, and more and more were needed. Black Manta's body had decayed a lot since the beginning.
Black Manta could feel that he was sliding into an abyss of despair, a true death, a death of ignorance and nothingness. In order to maintain his 'self', Black Manta had to make constant sacrifices.
Perhaps this is why the Dark Trident has not abandoned him. It is a good thing for the Dark Trident to be able to receive sacrifices all the time. Otherwise, the Dark Trident and the ancient king living in it would have abandoned Black Manta long ago!
Why did Nick Fury come to New York?
It's not because of the darkest place under the lamp... In fact, the most dangerous place is the safest, which is pure nonsense. If they really want to hide, there are plenty of places to hide. The world is so big, there is no need to stick to New York. The real reason is... It's easier to do things in New York.
That's right, Nick Fury's New York intelligence network is still operational!
New York is the center of the world. It is impossible for Nick Fury to not value this place. So even though his power has been shattered, he still has a trick up his sleeve in New York!
It was first when SHIELD was driven out of New York. In order to prevent such an important place as New York from slipping out of his control, Nick Fury began to weave his own intelligence network here. Unexpectedly, it actually worked.
But even so, Nick Fury is still under a lot of pressure.
There was no other way. Black Manta's consumption of human sacrifices was too high. Although New York had a large floating population, people disappeared every day in such a large city with a population of tens of millions. But if he continued like this, he would be exposed sooner or later!
But what can Nick Fury do?
He must follow orders!
The only consolation is that Black Manta is not smart. If it were Nick Fury, he would stay away from New York instead of staying. But this is also just right. If Black Manta fails, then he will be free. He can't go against Black Manta, but he can plot against him!
Nick Fury never cared how many people would die in the process.
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Keith is unhappy lately!
Not for any other reason, but because her small business has been going bad recently.
Don't underestimate the underground city of New York... She and many people who live underground in New York call the space composed of the complex underground tunnels and sewer pipes in New York the underground city. In fact, this broken place is really a bit like that.
No one knows how many pipes and underground spaces there are under New York.
Some of them can even be traced back to when New York was first established. Those ancient tunnels or sewers have not seen the sun for many, many years, and no one knows what is inside.
There is even an adventure activity in New York, which is underground exploration. It is a bit like the public fundraising exploration of the Paris underground, which attracts many people who are not afraid of death. Every year, many people disappear in the crisscrossing underground passages.
As for what happened to them, no one knows. Maybe they got lost and starved to death.
Maybe it was given by the residents of the underground city... This is normal. Those residents living in the underground space are not law-abiding gentlemen. They have their own set of survival rules here. Many people who come down to explore must find "locals" as guides, otherwise it is hard to imagine what they will encounter down there.
Another reason is that some people are poisoned to death. After all, there are no ventilation facilities downstairs. Even many "locals" may accidentally inhale methane, carbon dioxide or other messy waste gases, leading to poisoning to death.
It's very dangerous down there anyway.
But at the same time, it's a huge treasure trove. It's really hard to imagine what's in those sewers.
In the 20s, there was a world-famous urban legend called "Gator in the Sewer": an American boy used the toilet to dispose of his pet alligator. Years later, he happened to pass by a sewer and had his arm torn off by the grown alligator. However, the truth is... there really could be such a thing in the sewer.
In addition to crocodiles, there are also pythons, goldfish, hamsters, foxes, raccoons. In short, there is everything!
After all, sewers are actually quite suitable for the survival of many creatures. For example, the temperature in sewers is constant... The temperature down there is very constant, and many tropical creatures can live comfortably in it.
There is no shortage of food in the sewers, as there are plenty of rats, cockroaches and insects. In addition, all kinds of messy things will be washed into the sewers, resulting in the biodiversity of the sewers far exceeding the imagination of ordinary people.
Of course, in addition to these messy things, there are real treasures!
You can never guess what people flush down the sewer. You can find gold watches, US dollars, coins, human corpses in the garbage in the sewer... Yes, human corpses are also valuable. The demand for human bone specimens in the United States alone is huge!
There is even an industrial chain in India that specializes in reselling human skeletal specimens to European and American countries!
This stuff has been disclosed by the media. On some Indian websites, human hand bones are priced at 200 US dollars, spine bones are priced at 400 US dollars, skulls are at least 1000 US dollars, and a complete human skeleton costs at least 2700 US dollars. Those in good condition can even reach tens of thousands of dollars. This is the price at the source in India!
It’s even more expensive here in the US!
Therefore, when seeing a corpse in the sewer, the 'locals' would not scream and shout like those people on the ground, but would drag the corpse away very calmly and then sell it to the corpse collector.
In addition to these, there are many other things that can be sold for money! And these have formed an industrial chain!
As long as there is a market, there will naturally be consumption.
Keith specializes in providing some "technological products" to acquaintances, such as nail guns that do not require gunpowder to be activated, because gunpowder is a bit too dangerous in the dungeon. After all, no one knows whether there is methane in your place. If there is, once the gun is fired, you and your enemy will be finished. Therefore, the dungeon has its own favorite weapons, and this nail gun that does not require gunpowder to be activated is very popular.
Another example is various gas detectors and gas masks, which are hard currency! After all, if you want to pick up garbage, you must go to some dangerous places. Without these two things, going there rashly is almost like gambling with your life.
There are also various electrical appliances and things like TV signal crackers.
In short, the needs are diverse, so Case just uses the collected waste components to make various things by hand.
The profit is not bad. After all, this is a real technical job. Most people would not serve the rats in the dungeon.
After losing his big customer Andrea (Liz's father, the arms dealer who resold alien weapons), Keith can only rely on the residents of the underground city to make a living.
But recently, the atmosphere in the dungeon has been a little off.
Someone is missing... This is normal. In this place, death is really not uncommon.
But many sensitive people felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere.
Don't underestimate these people living in the dark underground. They may not have any amazing skills, but their perception of danger is as good as that of sewer rats!
Very sensitive.
(End of this chapter)