Chapter 158 The Calm Before the Storm
"I can't imagine that Batman would choose a fast food restaurant as the venue for the negotiation."
Amanda Waller whispered to Steve Trevor: "This place is too close to the crowd."
"Come on, Waller, we should be lucky to be able to talk to Batman."
Air Force Colonel Steve Trevor was very open-minded. He looked at Diana Prince who was walking over with seven ice creams not far away.
"Put away your superhero threat theory and necessary balance theory. Really, haven't you learned enough lessons from Blake's incident?"
He said: "In short, I am the main person in charge of this negotiation, not you. Waller."
Waller looked at him steadily for a while.
Then there was no popular conversation such as "I am the person in charge" and "You will regret it."
Amanda Waller shrugged.
"In fact, if I put aside the factor of public office, I am a supporter of superheroes. I like them very much. They can do many things that the government cannot accomplish."
She chose to skip the conversation and said, "To be honest, why haven't Batman and Superman come yet?"
Diana came over and reluctantly handed the two cones in her hand to Steve and Amanda:
"Eat cones."
They took them.
Diana took the remaining five in her hand and swallowed three of them in one bite.
This appetite, like a glutton, made a little girl at the opposite table widen her eyes.
"Looks good, huh, you two?"
Amanda Waller turned her head and saw the man with a blurred face appear in front of him.
Steve looked at the man wearing a bat mask next to him with some vigilance.
Chen Tao, who appeared next to him, sighed.
"To be honest, I set the location of the conversation in the fast food restaurant for this reason." He said directly: "The optical camouflage of the naval snipers you arranged upstairs 200 yards to the north will not work. After all, Superman's visual range includes ultraviolet and infrared spectra. The high-speed bullets in the barrels of your sniper troops are made of kryptonite, right? You think we are causing trouble for you, right?" Amanda Waller and Steve both stood up, only Wonder Woman Diana Prince was still concentrating on dealing with the cold drinks on the plate and the ice cream cone in her hand. She picked up the hamburger, ate it expressionlessly, and swallowed three in one bite. The little girl at the next table showed a horrified expression on her face, and then little stars appeared in her eyes, and she began to try to imitate the wonder woman. Diana raised the other two hamburgers, raised them to the little girl as a demonstration, and then took another bite. She was very smart not to get involved in the conversation between the other four people. He came here only at Steve's invitation to protect him, and politics and negotiations were not her concern. Having lived for 5,000 years, even though she has never been exposed to politics, the Amazon princess still retains the most basic wisdom:
Don't get involved in things that you don't understand right from wrong.
"Don't think the government will turn a blind eye to what you do, Bat."
"And Superman." Amanda Waller followed up. Unlike Steve's aggressiveness, she wisely did not point the finger at Batman, but directly at Superman.
Chen Tao narrowed his eyes slightly. Compared with Steve, who seemed a little inexperienced, this old agent who looked like a black aunt seemed more experienced.
She knew very well that in a sense, Batman was not a good person, but Superman was. So she attacked Superman first, because she knew that Batman might visit her home at night, but Superman would not shoot her into slag with heat rays at once.
She tried to take the initiative in the negotiation at the beginning. To some extent, this is also a kind of "a gentleman can be deceived by a square".
Steve came up and asked, "What do you think you are doing by flying into Langyi? Do you know how passive your actions a few days ago made the government?" Superman's voice was steady and gentle: "Like I said, I have the habit of watching the news. I have read reports of the Langyi people's demonstrations. Last week, there was a bloody conflict there. The Ahmadinejad regime overreacted and some citizens lost their lives." "Some organizers of the demonstrations have disappeared for a long time. Needless to say, those protest leaders rely on social networks to organize the demonstrations, and the government has been monitoring those websites, so they know who to arrest. They also know where they are. The Langyi military keeps warning the public not to continue to participate in demonstrations. They claim that they will respond strongly." He reached out and knocked on the table. Wonder Woman stuffed herself like a hamster. She stared at his hand for a second without knowing why. After confirming that he was not trying to snatch food from her, she continued to stuff food into her mouth. "But these students, shop owners, mothers, fathers, and children, despite warnings and danger, still stand on the front line. I want them to know that they are not alone."
"You are interfering with national sovereignty, Superman, you know our attitude towards this kind of thing."
Steve said: "Blake's incident has taught us a lesson. We will never, and the government will never allow superheroes to openly interfere with national sovereignty."
"Steve, you should know clearly..." Chen Tao was about to speak, but was stopped by Superman. So Chen Tao shut up, he knew that this was Superman's confession, and he should respect the other party.
From the beginning to the end, Chen Tao never felt that he was Superman's nanny.
"As a superhero, as the guardian of Metropolis, I will fight against all threats you can think of."
"Alien invaders, bandits wearing strange clothes and playing weird tricks, I am good at dealing with supernatural criminals."
"How about I solve the suffering that happens every day, save those who die of hunger, and those who are deprived of the most basic human rights?"
"I have never been able to play any role in such matters."
Superman's voice was low.
"So I showed up, I wanted to unite them."
"I swore to myself that I would never directly participate in the conflict. This was a non-cooperation movement, a non-violent resistance."
"I stood in Azadi Square for 24 hours. I didn't move, didn't speak, I just stood there, and the number of protesters increased from about 12,000 to 1 million."
"Someone left roses at my feet."
"Someone left green shoulder straps and flags, which are the symbolic colors of this protest."
"People who opposed the demonstration threw petrol bombs at me, but the Islamic Revolutionary Army did not fire a single shot from beginning to end."
"The demonstration started peacefully and ended peacefully. I left after 24 hours. I did not interfere in local politics."
"But what does it mean? Has the local regime promised to start promoting the process of democratization?"
Superman was silent for a while. "No."
"Then why are you making such a fuss? Your actions have caused an uproar internationally. The Longyi government accused you of acting on behalf of the president. They called your intervention an act of war."
"I found out, of course, that you were right. I was too stupid. So I plan to make a speech at the United Nations tomorrow to inform them that I am giving up my American citizenship."
"What?" Now it was Steve's turn to be surprised.
"I'm tired of my actions being interpreted as American political tactics. Truth, justice and the American way are no longer enough. The world is too small and too close."
"I'm an alien, Colonel Trevor, and I can't help but see more and farther. I now realize that I've always been thinking too small. You ask me if it's worth it to be so sensational? Can it bring any meaningful changes?"
Superman paused, then continued:
"Maybe not in the macro sense, but when I flew away, I saw two men below. One was a soldier from the Islamic Revolutionary Army, and the other was a protester. The protester handed the soldier a rose."
"I thought the soldier was going to open fire, but his behavior was unexpected and extremely brave."
"He took the rose."
He smiled.
"So I think what I did was probably of some use."
The atmosphere between the two was a little stagnant.
Steve took a breath, then said:
"But it still can't change you..."
Amanda pulled Colonel Steve's arm and shook her head. So Steve shut up.
"Let's stop the tension." Chen Tao, who had been watching them argue, stood up and stood between them, forcibly interrupting the dispute.
"We have to face the threat together." He said, "I'm here to seek your help."
His eyes stopped on Diana's face who was eating fried chicken: "I need your help."
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Death Shooter went to pick up his daughter from school.
At the bright and tidy school gate, his Zoe, his angel, waved goodbye to her classmates and happily ran to her father, Floyd Lawton Jr.
Death Shooter never went to school. A life that went astray will not have a green campus life. After his family died, he picked up a gun and shot and killed one person after another. He never thought he was a good person.
So Death Shooter was very lucky. He was very lucky that he was lucky to be able to live such a life now, which is a life that only good people deserve to live. You know, "good people are rewarded."
And a bad guy like him can actually have the luck to live a life that only good people can live. Isn't this a kind of luck?
Deadshot used the hands that had killed countless people to pick up his daughter and turned her three times in the air. Even though his daughter was so old now, he could still pick her up easily.
Deadshot knew that one day he would be too old to hold his daughter, and he also knew that he might die one day. So, he always cherished such time.
They walked hand in hand on the street. Metropolis is quiet and safe, a good place to live, unlike Gotham.
Deadshot listened quietly to his daughter telling stories about school. What classes were taken today, who won the first place in the long-distance race. These daily routines made him feel like a normal, real father, not an executioner with blood on his hands.
Then he received a call. A call from Batman, he avoided Zoe and talked to the other party for a while.
"Dad, what did you say on the phone?" Zoe asked him.
Deadshot smiled and touched her head.
"Nothing."
Yes, for a bad guy like him, there is a price to pay for wanting to live a good life.
And he is ready to pay this price.
"Zoe's a good kid, isn't she?"
He touched his daughter's head, which was furry, like an elf walking in the forest.
"Dad is going on a business trip for a while, you have to be fostered for a while."
"Zoe will wait for Dad to come home, right?"
Then he saw his daughter crying.
After a few minutes, Deadshot finally coaxed the child.
"Good boy Zoe." He said.
"Good boy."
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Hollywood Studios.
Killer Croc was wearing a Hawaiian plaid shirt, and the largest size couldn't even cover his hem.
He had a new girlfriend, June Munn, and they stood together like a real version of Beauty and the Beast. They had a very good relationship, and Killer Croc liked it here. At least in Hollywood, no one would be surprised by his unusual appearance.
There were strange makeups everywhere, all kinds of ugly looks, which made Killer Croc look handsome.
To be honest, Killer Croc had always had a dream of performing. Many years ago, when he was a circus wrestler, he always liked the feeling of being surrounded by the crowd.
Although this dream of acting was shattered into dust when the circus owner owed him wages and ordered the gangsters to beat him up. He bit off the circus owner's arm and permanently bit off his acting career. But fortunately, now he may be able to start again and continue to pursue his unfinished dream of being an actor.
Batman gave him a lot of money... Although this money is not very abundant for making a big movie, it is different if it is used to make a low-cost R-rated horror movie. He is now a big star, although it is limited to the category of horror movies.
Killer Croc also wants to enter the field of superhero movies during this period. He has already thought about what his movie should be called, Crocodile Man, and the image setting refers to Batman.
He has been beaten in Gotham for so many years, and he almost memorized what Batman should look like when he appears!
As for the content of the story, it is even easier to write. In Gotham for so many years, how Batman beat up those villains in various ways, no one knows better than him, Crocodile Man, who is an insider.
Just replace Batman's actions with yourself, and then put a skin on the screen and make a lot of money, right in front of you!
Thinking of this, Killer Croc couldn't help but laugh cunningly.
"Hahahaha..."
"What are you laughing at?"
He heard his girlfriend Joan asking him, so he subconsciously answered: "Of course I'm thinking about how to copy Batman."
"What? Copy Batman?"
"That's right, I will not only copy Batman's previous operations, but also set the villain as a human-shaped big bat. The righteous Crocodile Man will fight against the evil big bat, and finally win and get the beauty, hehehehehe!"
Killer Croc said for a while before suddenly realizing that the second question just now was not the pleasant voice of his girlfriend Joan.
He turned his head suddenly, and then showed a look as if he had seen Batman, and saw Batman quietly appear behind him.
The crew and actors around screamed, hid by the side, and quietly watched the black-clad visitor who appeared here.
Killer Croc then realized belatedly that Poison Ivy also appeared in the crowd, holding a glass of water. Seeing his eyes find her, she raised her head slightly to signal.
"Waylon, are they...?"
"Some work partners." Killer Croc stood up, patted his girlfriend's shoulder, and comforted her: "Just some minor problems, I'll be back soon."
He paused, then rejected himself: "Well, of course it could be a big problem, but at least I will come back to film for a while."
He said: "When I'm away, you can film the scenes without me first. That's it." He lowered his head and gave his girlfriend an amphibian kiss: "I will definitely come back to continue filming, our career has just started."
"Okay." His girlfriend said: "You must come back soon!"
"Yeah."
He turned and walked towards Batman.
"So, Bat, what do you want from me?"
"I need you to help me connect to the Red of All Creatures." He heard Batman say, his voice sounded a little helpless: "I may need a big green dinosaur, only the Red of All Creatures can satisfy me."