Marvel Administrative Officer

Chapter 320 Public identity
In the city hall, in the mayor's office.

Jack is looking at the document, which is a document sent by the staff office about the rate of gun ownership in New York City.
Before this document, Jack only knew that most American families owned legal guns, but until he read this document, he did not know exactly that 50.00% of families in New York City owned legal guns.

This is simply shocking!
It is undeniable that during the Great War in New York, because many families owned guns, there was some resistance,

But the strength of this resistance is very weak.

No matter how weak a Kirita soldier is, he cannot be dealt with by an ordinary earthling with a pistol!

What's more, this document only records legal guns. Jack believes that there are at least several times as many illegal guns as legal guns in New York City.

With so many guns, it's no wonder that there have been so many shootings in recent years.

Just as Jack continued to think further, the death girl led Kano in,

"Mr. Mayor, Kano is here."

Waking from his own thoughts, Jack smiled brightly,

"Kano, long time no see!"

"Hello, Mr. Mayor."

After saying hello, Jack then said to the dead woman:
"Yuriko, please prepare a cup of coffee, and include the issue of gun control in the memorandum."

The dead girl nodded, turned and left.

Jack stood up and invited Kano to sit down on the sofa.

"Kano, are you sure you're ready?"

Because the relationship is different, Jack didn't have too much politeness, so he went straight to the topic.

And Kano nodded without thinking:
"Sir, I am willing to act as the vanguard to fight for more rights of my compatriots."

At this time, Kano has the expression of a devout self-sacrificer.

But this is not what Jack wants to see the most, so he still can't help reminding:

"Kano, our cause may not be realized in the short term, and it may even fail, but once you choose to disclose your information, then you will be in absolute danger. I can't predict what will happen in the future waiting for you!"

Kano was very moved by Jack's reminder.

From Jack's point of view, he really needs a mutant to stand up at this time, so that he can achieve his goal,
But he still chose to remind Kano that this could only be due to personal friendship.

But since Kano will come here, he naturally already thought it through clearly.
"Sir, any change always needs a victim. If the normalization of the mutant group needs a victim, then it can start with me!"

Jack was very moved by Kano's self-confession, and he also realized the mutant's determination to normalize his life!

Kano is just an ordinary delta-level mutant. Although he has always played an important role under Jack's command, he is just an insignificant figure in terms of the entire mutant group.

But it is such a small person who is willing to give everything for the entire group of mutants,
Jack doesn't know how to evaluate Kano, or rather, Jack is not qualified to evaluate Kano at all!

"Cano, if this is your final decision, then as the mayor of New York City, I formally extend an invitation to you to join the big family of City Hall."

Kano smiled brightly and said:

"It is my pleasure, Mr. Mayor."

Jack said again: "We will hold a press conference for this, and the time is set at nine o'clock tomorrow morning, please get ready."

"I'm always ready!"

After the conversation, Jack sent Kano out of the office in a rare way, and then he returned to his desk, but his mood could not be calmed down for a long time.
If he had a choice, Jack didn't want Kano to be the vanguard, but in the exam arranged by the city hall, Kano was the only one who reached the admission score above.
He became the only choice.

In the United States, if ethnic minorities are disadvantaged groups, then at least some of them are well-educated and able to join the upper class!

But mutants are basically on the verge of being displaced. In the past few decades, except for a very small number of mutants who were lucky enough to get basic education, the vast majority of mutants left school in adolescence, unable to complete basic education .

Therefore, although the difficulty of the city hall recruitment exam this time was not high, all the mutants who came to take the exam were "killed".

With Jack's sighs, the day passed quickly!
At eight o'clock the next morning, Miss Caddy made all the preparations in the press conference room. After checking the basic situation again, she reported to Jack Hui who had just entered the press conference room:
"All the preparations are ready, but do we really need to invite the media such as Global and Daily News? They have always had trouble with the city hall. I am worried..."

Jack's expression is very serious at this time, although the people and things involved in this press conference are relatively small things,

But Jack has no idea how much waves will be caused, but he also understands that he can't just use his own media to report,

"Miss Caddy, if they attack, maybe that's what we need!"

Caddy didn't understand what Jack was referring to, but that didn't affect her work.

When the time came to nine o'clock, the entire press conference hall was already full of media reporters. If you carefully distinguish, you will find that almost all the New York City media have arrived!
This is a very rare thing, after all, this is just a brief introduction to the affairs officer by the city hall.

From this aspect, it can be seen that this introduction meeting is not simple!
Just as the reporters were waiting in full force, Kaidi led the clerks recruited for this recruitment test onto the news station,

Then Kaidi began to introduce according to the script...

At the beginning, everything was normal, and the reporters simply took pictures and recorded them, but when Kaidi introduced Kano,
The reporters in the audience began to press the shutter of the camera continuously, and interrupted the introduction directly, raising their hands to ask questions!

Kaidi had been prepared for this, she took a light breath, closed the text, pointed directly at the reporter of the Daily Bugle and said,
"You can ask questions first."

In New York City, everyone knows that the Daily Horn is the property of Mayor Jack Murdoch. Although the reporters dismissed Caddy as the first to ask a question on the Daily Bugle, they did not stop him.

The Bugle Daily reporter immediately said:

"Miss Caddy, as far as I know, this Mr. Kano is not an ordinary person!"

Kaidi said: "Please ask the question in more accurate language, I don't understand, what's so special about Mr. Kano?"

Daily Bugle Reporter: "He's a mutant!"

Caddy: "The U.S. Constitution and New York State laws have never excluded mutants from human beings. You say that he is not an ordinary person. I don't know where the basis is!"

The Bugle Daily reporter was here to complete the task, and between him and Kai Di, he had already blocked the way for the latecomers!
Now that his goal had been achieved, he took advantage of the situation and sat down.

Caddy then appointed a New York Times reporter to ask questions.

New York Times reporter: "Miss Caddy, is there any other consideration for the city hall to recruit mutants to become affairs officers this time?"

Caddy: "This is just an ordinary exam. From the announcement of the exam, everything is open to the people of New York City. I don't understand what you mean by other considerations?"

New York Times reporter: "My point is very simple. Does the recruitment of the city hall mean that more mutants will become affairs officers in the future, or simply become administrative officers?"

Caddy laughed and said: "You keep saying that mutants are like this or that, and this goes back to the first question. At this time, I want to ask you, are mutants deprived of political rights in law, or are you also like the first question?" Like a journalist who wants to exclude the mutant community from being human?"

Some things are established by convention, but when these things are put on the table, they are actually untenable!
In the past few decades, no mutant has ever become an official, and the world, including the mutants themselves, will feel that mutants cannot become officials!

But in fact, this should not be a taboo, either legally or morally,
This is the inherent image at work!
But this time, Jack wanted to break this inherent image.

When the New York Times reporter sat down, Caddy pointed to the Daily News reporter.

Compared with the first two and Kaidi who have a tacit understanding with each other, the reporters behind are the real test.

Daily News reporter: "Miss Caddy, we all know that mutants have super powers, they can do things that ordinary people can't do, may I ask if the test this time is fair!"

This question is very tricky, and it can even be said that there is no way to answer it, because no matter what Kaidi says, the other party can express that he does not believe it.

The so-called fairness of the exam is to ask Kano whether he cheated in the exam...

Ordinary people have more or less heard of Professor X's deeds. As a mutant capable of telepathy, as long as he wants, he can "hear" the answers to all questions.

Then it is obviously very unfair to ordinary people who take the exam with him!

Facing this question, Kano himself stood up, and he answered uprightly:
"Mr. reporter, first of all, I have to admit that I am a mutant. I used to be a police officer of the 49th Precinct of New York City. Secondly, my mutant ability is super sense of smell. In order to let more people know about me, I have been in the municipal government. I have published all my information on the hall’s website, and if anyone has any questions about me, they can search online, and I have posted many of my social accounts on it.”

Kano's words caused a commotion. The reporters in the audience hurriedly took out their mobile phones and started to log in to the city hall website.

Then they saw all of Kano's information on the homepage of the website!
This is an extremely outrageous thing in the United States.

So the reporters couldn't help discussing in private, and the entire news hall was buzzing.

Americans pay attention to their personal privacy. They regard it as a symbol of freedom and a guarantee of safety.

And what Kano is doing now is to put himself "naked" in the spotlight, but if someone thinks badly about him, he can't even protect his own safety!
In the Marvel world, many people hate mutants, and there were reports not long ago;
In Maryland, a farmer has been secretly trapping and killing mutants for more than ten years because his daughter died unexpectedly when the mutants awakened. More than a dozen mutants died at his hands.
But because most of the mutants are homeless, the police department didn't discover this case until recently.

There are countless people like this farmer, and perhaps the extremists are only a minority, but it is a common method for them to abuse and smear Kano on the Internet.

The reporters could have predicted that Kano had already died socially in the United States from the moment he fully disclosed his personal information!
The following introduction meeting was completely chaotic, and the reporters shouted their own questions disorderly. Although Kaidi maintained the discipline of the meeting many times, it didn't work at all.

She had no choice but to arrange for security to escort the entry officers to leave.

And this is just the beginning, soon, public opinion began to ferment.

The public was naturally divided into two factions: those who supported the city hall's initiative, they took a rational view of the issue and applauded Kano's courage.The other faction is naturally those who do not support the city hall’s initiatives. They cannot understand the fact that mutants will become New York City affairs officers, and have produced many rumors of conspiracy theories.

For example, the famous New York City Mayor Jack Murdoch, also known as the Black Knight...he is also a mutant,

How else would he try to get mutants into government structures.

Under such circumstances, Jack and the city hall remained silent, not saying a word about the media's questioning of the public.

At the same time, the work of mutant grid members has become extremely difficult, and many communities have begun to organize themselves to resist mutant grid members from entering their own communities.

However, the mutants have maintained great restraint in this, they have repeatedly advertised their identities to the resisters, and patiently explained the importance of their work,
Slowly, some communities began to waver, and they tried to make contact with mutants.

In fact, most mutants are essentially indistinguishable from humans except for some useless superpowers!

Especially gamma-level mutants, because of the X-gene out-expression, they usually differ from humans in appearance,

For this group of people, ordinary people initially rejected them, but after getting in touch with them for a long time, when they really entered the inner world of these mutants, they developed great sympathy for this group of mutants.

Just when the situation was getting better step by step, a more important news was broadcast on New York TV stations:
New York City star duo, idols of a new generation of teens, all members of the New X-Men take off their masks and reveal their identities on TV!

Compared with Kano, the popularity of the new X-Men is not the same...

Since the Battle of Hate on Broadway, the New X-Men have been active in New York. Although it has long been reported that all members of this superpower group are mutants, the parties have never admitted it.

This time they collectively took off their masks and admitted that they were mutants, which caused an uproar.

Many ordinary people rescued by the new X-Men immediately expressed their support for their actions!

In New York society, positive reflections have also begun. How mutants and humans should get along is more beneficial to both parties!

The origin of this kind of reflection was the scholars of Cornell University, and one of them, a professor named Huta, clearly proposed that Cornell University could accept applications from mutants.

For a while, mutants became a hot word in New York City!
(End of this chapter)