July 28, 2040, Gulf of Mexico, North America.
The waves crashed against the rusty bow of the ship, and a wrecked ship that looked like it was a few years old sailed on the calm sea.
Yan Xiuze sat cross-legged on the deck alone, looking at the endless sea level, silent, not knowing what he was thinking in his heart.
The two Latino brothers secretly observed the mysterious man who jumped out of the "bottom of the sea" from behind, still guessing Yan Xiuze's origin in their hearts.
Through a brief inquiry before, Yan Xiuze already knew that the two men who went out to sea were two brothers, the elder brother was the one with two mustaches, his name was Francie, and the younger brother was the younger one, named Fronton.
They are fishermen from nearby urban areas, and today they are also used to fishing in the offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico, but they didn't expect to meet Yan Xiuze who came back from crossing.
As for the two brothers, they didn't know anything about Yan Xiuze It's not that Yan Xiuze deliberately concealed his identity, but the two brothers really didn't seem to have heard of the "eye of the storm" "The eye of the storm really doesn't have much of an impression," his brother Francie mused, "It seems like I've heard it somewhere, but I just can't remember it." ” "I've never heard of it."
His younger brother, Fronton, who felt that he was only eighteen or nineteen years old, shook his head more dryly.
"It's only been twenty years, and my name has basically been forgotten" Yan Xiuze's face fell, and he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart: "It's too real." ” Of course, at this moment, Yan Xiuze, who has a strong psychological quality, has basically accepted the fact that he has traveled through the "twenty years", after all, he has even experienced parallel worlds, and crossing time is not too exciting news Fortunately, it wasn't two hundred years Yan Xiuze complained silently in his heart, otherwise he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to find anyone he knew.
While pondering, Yan Xiuze suddenly raised his head and looked at the sea in front of him.
A vague silhouette gradually enlarged, it was the port of the coastal city "We're going back to the port," Francie said with a little joy on his face, "Lord Superpower, we're going to Black Star Harbor soon." ” "Black Star" Yan Xiuze was excited, and wondered: "This port is called Black Star Port" "Well, that's right, this is a subsidiary port of Black Star City."
"Black Star City" Yan Xiuze had a faint bad premonition in his heart, and asked: "This is in Mexico, right, why don't I remember that there is a Black Star City in Mexico City" "Ha" Franci glanced at the supernatural who fell from the sky with some suspicion: "The Mexican government has long since dissolved, this is something that the whole world knows" "The Mexican government has disintegrated" Yan Xiuze opened his mouth wide and couldn't speak for a long time.
"This was ten years ago, a part of the original northern Mexico is now under the Yankees' takeover, and the rest of the area has completely become anarchy, and Blackstar City is one of the most prosperous cities, which has long surpassed Mexico City and become the economic and cultural center of the region."
"If I'm right, Black Star City is called Black Star City" "Eh, this is the boss of the Black Star Society, the city led by the Black Star."
Yan Xiuze exhaled lightly, his face became a little gloomy, his mind was extremely confused now, and he didn't know what had happened to his hometown in the twenty years of "vacuum period" when he disappeared Getting closer and closer to the port, his younger brother Fronton, who had been bored, suddenly jumped up: "There is a signal" The pocket communicator in his hand finally lit up at this time, and it should have crossed the no-signal area and could be used normally.
And in the next second, Yan Xiuze, who was originally sitting cross-legged on the deck, also flickered, and appeared in front of Fronton without warning, so that the young man was startled: "Is there any superfluous?"
"Superfluous" Fronton still seemed to be a little apprehensive about Yan Xiuze's previous appearance, and trembled unnaturally, stretched out his arms stiffly, and handed over his only electronic communicator: "I only have this one to use mine."
Yan Xiuze took Fronton's electronic communicator, and the light and cold touch made him a little uncomfortable.
This thing can be regarded as a "mobile phone" twenty years later, of course, it is several orders of magnitude richer than the mobile phone in terms of functionality, but in any case, its control method is still the touch screen control that was popular twenty years ago, although the design is more lightweight and more portable, but the core has not changed much.
Therefore, Yan Xiuze did not encounter too many obstacles, and almost within a few minutes he became familiar with the basic usage of the electronic communicator in his hand.
Then there is relying on keywords to search for information, which is already an area that Yan Xiuze can no longer be familiar with.
Soon, he had a general understanding of the changes in the world, and after understanding it, he felt even deeper.
In just 20 years, the whole world's science and technology tree is soaring First of all, the research and development of hovering aircraft is undoubtedly a remarkable initiative, although today's "aircraft series" is still a high-tech achievement that can only be enjoyed by the wealthy class, but in recent years, manufacturers have been reducing costs and devoting themselves to the development of cheap aircraft have allowed more and more ordinary people to enjoy the convenience brought by such scientific and technological improvements.
Of course, while the power system has made breakthroughs, intelligent AI is undoubtedly at the forefront.
Nowadays, the research of "strong artificial intelligence" has entered a period of rapid development, more and more simple jobs can be replaced by robots, and the appearance of human-like "bionic robots" is enough to confuse the real with the real, although it has not yet obtained the real "thinking" ability, but on the road of imitation, it has reached the point of reaching the peak.
In addition to the progress of science and technology, the number of superpowers has also greatly increased, from only more than 3,000 superpowers to more than 30,000 in 20 years However, this number was actually a bit unexpected by Yan Xiuze, he originally thought it could be more.
But he soon realized that although the abilities of the superpowers were far beyond those of ordinary people, the mortality rate of superpowers was much higher than that of ordinary people because they were almost all involved in dangerous activities According to incomplete statistics, in the past 20 years alone, the number of recorded deaths of superpowers has reached a staggering "20,000".
In other words, in addition to those "nuclear bomb-level" superpowers who stand at the top of combat power, among the ten superpowers, there may only be six who can survive safely in the past twenty years: