Smith Zhou, who was so irrelevant to his own preferences, placed the ulterior motive behind the disaster that shocked the world directly in front of everyone. With such a truth opposite, everyone who saw everything he said fell into unimaginable chaos.

Some people could not believe what he said, and completely regarded it as a devilish word. This made them extremely hostile to Smith Zhou's existence.

Some people believed his words, which made them feel emotional about the government's explanation. They felt that they had been deceived and began to attack the government. In this kind of attack, various museums became their first target of venting.

Compared with ancient historical relics and precious classics, the safety of one's own life is the issue that everyone is more concerned about. If the lives of one's and one's own family are threatened by some collections of cultural relics that are not related to one's own, then no matter what the origin of the cultural relics are or how valuable it is, they will definitely not be allowed to exist.

It can be said that since Smith Zhou said that on the talk show, the United States, Europe, and all historic museums have been under pressure from different aspects. There are marches organized by the people, orders from the big companies behind them, and pressure from the government. These pressures are unbearable for any museum. Under this heavy pressure, the museum can only helplessly start to return these cultural relics to its birthplace one after another.

However, they are willing to publish, but people from the origin countries may not be willing to accept it. In addition to China, which has always refused, only Egypt expressed its willingness to accept these returned cultural relics to a limited extent. As for the cultural relics that exist across Europe and the United States, they are completely in a state of dispute.

It would be fine if it was just some artistic paintings with mysterious nature. Those cultural relics that were themselves mythical or various religious things were completely rejected.

This kind of dispute between each other not only makes the collection world chaotic, but also makes the people of various countries full of hostility. However, Smith Zhou, the initiator of everything, disappeared without a trace without anyone knowing it.

Of course, it cannot be said that it is without a trace. Because if you really want it, the Skyhammer Bureau can still contact him. At the same time, some other people can also find him, such as Alexia. For example, Hydra Captain Steve Rogers.

In a small town in North India, Steve Rogers sat in a street seat.

He was well-dressed and held a thick book in his hand. In this small town where the dirty and inferior Indians gathered in the crowd, he looked so eye-catching. But he looked calm and had no worries about being seen through his identity.

Of course he doesn't need to worry about anything. Because this is a place that is almost impossible to be monitored by modern technology. No one will focus on this poor, backward and conservative place. Not to mention any agents of the Skyhammer Bureau, even smart machines that have been promoted worldwide will be difficult to insert into one step under its conservative and superstitious atmosphere.

Staying in this place, as long as you don’t make any big noise, it’s basically impossible to be discovered. Steve came here just to have a meeting, so he naturally couldn’t make any big noise.

Almost early in the morning, he sat here. In the middle, he sent out a group of begging children, a few half-grown young men who were idle and wanted to steal things, and a group of men who kept selling useless products at you. It was not until midday that Smith Zhou came over leisurely and sat down next to him.

"You're late. Compared to the appointment time, you're two hours late!"

When he said this, Steve's expression did not fluctuate much, but Smith Zhou could still understand the anger contained in his words. This made him grin, and then explained to him while covering Steve's shoulder.

"You know, as long as I want to come here, I can come here in just a moment. And since I haven't been able to show up on time, it can only explain one problem, that is, I was dragged down by something."

"Will you be held back?" When asked, Steve's tone was obviously rising a little. Obviously, he did not believe Smith Zhou's explanation. "Did you meet Zhou Yi? Or did you see Mephisto who was resurrected from the dead and was forced to chat with him for a while?"

"Please, your words are so mean!"

Although he was ridiculed, the smile on Smith Zhou's face did not change at all. He looked at the group of ordinary Indians around him with pale faces and thin clothes, almost as old as refugees, and then pointed at their proud look and smiled at Steve.

"Do you know? The people in this country are very interesting. If you say it seriously, it should be the only remaining country with obvious class division in this world. I came here more than a thousand years ago, and this is like this. I came here again more than a thousand years later, and this is still like this. It has no change at all, including the people here. Do you know what this means?"

"What does this mean? Do you have the necessary connection with you when you are late?"

Steve asked this, but in response to his rhetoric, Smith Zhou smiled slightly and continued.

"Let me do this. I'll tell you an interesting story, and it's something I saw on the road. Yesterday, when I was having dinner with Alexia, I gave one of the thin children who looked just adults a bill as a tip. I originally wanted to give him another copy this morning, but I didn't see the child this morning. I thought he had changed classes or something. But the waiter next to me gave me such an answer."

"They called the child the lucky one, and in the chat, they said that because I gave him a bill as a tip, he wouldn't have to work here and go and have fun for a while. To be honest, I was puzzled, I didn't write him a check worth a million. That one hundred dollar bill that had depreciated would be at most two or three hours of hard money in any developed city. Is it necessary to be as outrageous as they said?"

"With this curiosity, and the time I agreed with you was still early, I went to see the child's situation. Just as the waiters said, he was really enjoying the same joy in life. Playing cricket and picking up girls. You may not imagine that even a hundred dollar bills would have spent a million dollars. It can even be said that many millionaires are not as comfortable as he does."

"Does this mean anything?" Frowning his brows, Steve asked Smith Zhou like this. He didn't understand what Smith Zhou meant. Regarding his doubts, Smith Zhou just patted his shoulder and said to him seriously.

"This shows that this young man is very satisfied with his life. He is actually just a microcosm of this country. You may not believe it, but I want to tell you that Indians like this young man who are willing to enjoy it in time account for a huge proportion."

"They rarely want to think about anything else, whether it is the future or anything, it is too far away for them. They only care about the present and only want to enjoy it in time. At this point, Indians can be said to have reached the limit. Not everyone can live as brilliant as having millions of properties with a hundred dollars. For them, even if tomorrow is the deepest hell, as long as I can live happily today, everything is good. As for tomorrow, it is naturally something that needs to be considered tomorrow."

"What do you think about this attitude for the entire human race?"

"horrible!"

As soon as Smith Zhou asked, Steve immediately gave his answer. It was obvious that his answer could not be just these two words. So soon, he added.

"I think this is a numb idea, a state that is almost as terrible as eating too many drugs. Optimism is not wrong, but as you said, you don't even care about the future that is a little further and only care about enjoying it in time, that is the biggest mistake. You don't even think about your own future, what is the difference between human life and beasts? You can give up the job that guarantees your life just because of a little benefit. Is this stupidity? Or is it ignorance in your thoughts?"

"It can be said that based on your description, I can think of the future of this child. He must have no future. Because he doesn't have such things in his own eyes. This is the case today, and he will still be like this in the future. Even in the past few decades, I'm afraid he will still have nothing. If such an attitude towards life appears in the entire human being, then I can only say that human beings are probably not too far from destruction!"

"You're right!" Nodding, Smith Zhou agreed with Steve's analysis. Then he asked. "So do you know what causes this?"

Before Steve could give an answer, Smith Zhou said to himself.

"I tell you, all this is because of religion. When I came here more than a thousand years ago, it was still the period of rule of the Kushan Kingdom. When I came here more than a thousand years later, it had ended its colonial rule and entered a new era. Although it seemed like this on the surface, for me, there were only two things here that had not changed!"
Chapter completed!