Chapter 227 Black Adam Enjoys Darkseid’s Treatment
"I think the discussion about the Cyborg Superman can stop here."
President Clinton once again gave a premise and general outline for the discussion.
Waller likes this new president very much. At least he always expresses his opinions clearly instead of letting others guess.
"So the topic now is whether we should recover the Kryptonian codenamed Supergirl from Batman."
But the president's next sentence soon silenced the entire venue. Amanda Waller did not speak. She knew very well that there was another hidden meaning in the other party's words:
Attitude towards Batman.
Amanda Waller wanted to take back the comment she had just made, and the other party was still asking her to guess what he was thinking.
In fact, it was not that Amanda Waller wanted to guess, but in response to the president's different ideological tendencies, she had to make corresponding adjustments in language organization to ensure that if the president wanted to take action against Batman, she could dissuade him.
Her political stance has always been to launch superhumans affiliated with the government to maintain order, rather than directly fighting Batman with real swords and guns, causing greater chaos and disruption of order.
Therefore, if the president does not express his position, she cannot express her position first.
So she turned her head and blinked twice at Steve next to her.
So, a question mark floated gently on the forehead of Colonel Steve Trevor, a former Air Force colonel and current head of superhuman affairs, who had never received systematic agent training and was accustomed to military style.
Flirting, what does this mean? ? ?
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Finding that Colonel Steve was just staring at her in a daze and didn't understand her eyes at all, Amanda Waller could only helplessly turn her waist, cover her mouth with her hands, and whispered to him: "Stand up first and express your evil views on superheroes..."
"I think Batman is very good!"
Waller slapped her head.
She originally made the worst plan: the president had ill will towards Batman.
Then Colonel Steve Trevor stood up and issued a "Bat-Anti-Bat Declaration", and then he refuted the other party's words as the head of the superhuman control department and a superhuman research expert, and persuaded the other party one by one with reason and evidence, and then "on the spot" made the other party reverse his views, so as not to contradict the president's opinion on the surface, and at the same time persuade the other party.
This is a very typical "good police bad police" persuasion technique, very old-fashioned, but still very useful.
But the key point of this persuasion game is that the person who plays the "bad police" is not the "leader", and the "good police" should be the one who can really make the decision.
The president brought himself into the "bad police" Colonel Steve Trevor, Colonel Steve said what the president wanted to say, and then these words were refuted one by one. During this period, the president also empathized with him and was persuaded with him.
And there is a very important element in this, that is, Amanda Waller, who plays the good police, is actually higher in status than Steve Trevor.
Steve was just an Air Force colonel before, and his power came from Wonder Woman, a superhuman with whom he has a close relationship. Therefore, his status is often comparable to that of Amanda Waller, or even surpasses it, but the source of this power is illusory, frivolous, and variable.
Once Wonder Woman shows signs of not listening to government control, or Steve shows that he cannot completely control Wonder Woman, this power granted by external forces will quickly decline.
Amanda Waller's power comes from her mastery of intelligence agencies, her long-term familiarity with superhuman things, the agents who are personally loyal to her, and the network of relationships with her.
Therefore, only when she plays the role of "good policeman" can the effect presented be "a more experienced and more convincing character, refuting the wrong ideas put forward by an inexperienced character."
But Steve spoke quickly and directly said his true thoughts, snatching the role of "good policeman", and Waller immediately sat down.
Amanda Waller's heart was surging, but her face did not change at all. She secretly observed the president's expression, and her heart immediately skipped a beat.
The worst case scenario she had thought of still happened. The president's expression did not agree with Steve's statement, which meant that he was even inclined to fight Batman in his heart.
This was too bad.
Waller swept his eyes over the three officers sitting opposite. Except for General Swanwick, whose status was somewhat detached and independent, the other two generals showed the same expression as the president.
This means that the two of them are also very likely to fight Batman, idiot, they are not familiar with superhuman things at all!
Waller realized that she could only gamble, and she interrupted Steve directly: "I agree with Colonel Trevor, Supergirl is not an unacceptable situation in Batman's hands."
She had to agree with Steve. As a "professional with more experience", she could not play the role of "bad policeman" because no one could act as a "good policeman" to refute her, so she could only try to make their opinions look more "professional" by directly agreeing with Colonel Trevor's words, so as to influence the president to make a choice that is more inclined to their side when the two generals on the opposite side give opposite opinions.
These little tricks are long, but in reality they only take a split second to think about.
As expected, the other two generals immediately gave the opposite opinion: "The government must not let superhuman things grow wildly like an ignorant idiot, Mr. President."
Amanda Waller's expression suddenly brightened, and she kicked Colonel Steve Trev under the table to make this idiot shut up quickly - should she be grateful that he didn't turn around and ask her "Why did you kick me?"
Waller's thoughts diverged a little, but she quickly sorted them out again. She cheered up and prepared to deal with a new round of verbal battles:
"Superhuman things are not growing wildly at all. This is an unfounded accusation-"
"...That's a Kryptonian, a Kryptonian! As long as the government can control him, it will be more useful than Wonder Woman-you should know that Batman obviously crossed the line..."
"First of all, 'her', and secondly, what do you plan to do to What does she do, make a biological weapon, Batman and Superman..."
"Even if you get Supergirl, you can't use her to fight Batman. I mean, she can't win-"
"...Come on, look at that mother box, do you think I haven't seen that incident? Batman directly took a fake one to fool us, and this must never happen again-"
"What's happening now is different from that time! We can't force him to ask for a Kryptonian, which touches Batman's bottom line!"
"Does the government have no bottom line?"
"...If you trust Batman so much, you might as well ask him to be our king! Law! The law is the basis of everything. Batman broke the law, and we enforced the law and put him in jail. I don't understand what's wrong with this!"
Amanda Waller didn't dare to miss any words. The good police and bad police game has failed. Now it's a competition to see who can impress His Excellency the President more.
If she loses the argument, it will usher in a very bad result: the outbreak of a head-on conflict between Batman and the government.
And this is exactly what Waller has been avoiding. In fact, the fat black lady herself knew very well that she had eliminated such conflicts several times.
For example, when Brainiac invaded the earth, the government just found out that Batman had used a fake mother box to trick them.
These times, she used her own ability and skills to suppress all negative behaviors against Batman.
But the government's dissatisfaction with Batman did not disappear, but continued to accumulate. Waller knew this very well.
She saw that the president's image was increasingly inclined to those factions that took action against Batman.
To be honest, these two generals were far from her in eloquence, but the president had a tendency from the beginning. The eloquence and facts did not reach too much, so it was difficult to shake the president's decision.
"Retreat again and again, and the next time Batman wants to pull down the Statue of Liberty and insert it into the trench to fill the trench, are we going to let him go?!"
Waller gritted his teeth.
He had been distracted by the president's expression. It was terrible, idiot president, idiot Steve!
"Come on, isn't it Luthor's tricks that you rely on? The things that Luthor has always wanted."
Amanda Waller turned her head suddenly.
It was General Swanwick who spoke up. This person who spoke for Batman was far beyond Waller's expectations.
"General Swanwick, I wonder what you think." The president sat up straight and leaned forward slightly. This small action surprised Amanda Waller.
General Swanwick's position in the other party's mind seemed to be a little extraordinary, and it seemed that he was on her side at the moment, so the situation was not bad.
"General Reagan, General Charles."
General Swanwick called out their names as soon as he opened his mouth: "How much money did Luthor give you, hoping that you would bring back a living Kryptonian for him?"
"You...how can you say that?"
"July 31, 25.43 million, August 15, 189.41 million." He turned to look at one of them, and then burst out a long string of time and numbers: "Do you need me to continue reading?"
The other's face was already swollen like a pig liver.
General Swanwick turned his head and looked at the president: "Batman has proved to us that the mechanical Superman is unreliable, right? Our purpose of protecting the earth is the same. With the same purpose, we can cooperate."
"We can't control everything, and there is no need to control everything."
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Dr. Sivana drove in the woods.
Damn Black Adam, he was the one who released the other from the grave, but after the other found the trace of the magic guard, he immediately left him alone and flew over, ignoring him, a scientist who was desperately seeking magic.
Fortunately, he left a tracker on the clothes he put on the other person, and his eyes could locate Black Adam's huge magic, so he was able to chase him.
Dr. Sivana touched his right eye. It was shining white and pierced by lightning.
This was the magic that sealed his eyes when he released Black Adam - let's call it the spell that left this lightning scar on his eyes, and he found Black Adam with this.
"You haven't revealed the secret of magic to me, you haven't changed me, how can you just leave like this?"
As he muttered, he drove to a small open space.
There was white fog all around, but the visibility here was quite good.
And it was in this open space that he found Black Adam, whom he had been thinking about before.
"Dr. Sivana, you are here too, just in time."
Black Adam said, "I don't intend to be discovered, you have to drive me there quietly."
He held a square and heavy iron lump in his hand.
"What is this, Black Adam?"
"A locator that can find Batman."
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Chen Tao turned his head and saw the Cyborg landing on the ground not far from him and Wonder Woman.
He didn't see Steppenwolf, and the other party was probably hiding in the dark, probably because Cyborg didn't want to expose his relationship with him in front of the government.
But Chen Tao was very sure that Steppenwolf would appear later.
"Batman, I have only one request, hand over the Kryptonian woman."
He heard the Cyborg say: "You are against the government."
Chen Tao whispered to Wonder Woman: "Beware of Steppenwolf."
"You can't openly confront the government like this, Batman, I'm talking to you nicely..."
"What about the Cyborg?"
"Calculate the time, the government should make a decision."
Chen Tao whispered: "If they don't make the decision I want, actually..."
He paused, hesitating whether to tell Wonder Woman, but finally told the truth: "I will tie..."
Wonder Woman immediately showed a contemptuous expression: "I know it!"
"This is also a helpless move."
Chen Tao explained in a low voice: "The claws have surrounded the mansion where the first lady is, as well as the president's parents, and the parents of several senior military officers on the scene. I won't really hurt them, but I have to make the worst plan. You know, I can't guarantee everything. So I need them to be cautious."
The Cyborg looked at Batman coldly. The other party was still whispering to Wonder Woman at this time, but it was useless.
This is why he wants to join the official team: on this planet, only the government, a violent organization at the state machine level, can and is qualified to compete with Batman.
He wants to use this official identity to stir up...
Cyborg Superman's face changed.
"What?"
Just now, an order from the President himself appeared in his channel.
"Join hands with Batman to arrest Black Adam?"
Not far away, at this time.
Black Adam is on his way.