"I think that's the end of the discussion about the Cyborg Superman."
His Excellency President Clinton once again provided a prerequisite and general outline for the discussion.
Waller likes this new president very much. At least he will clearly express his opinions every time instead of letting others guess.
"So the issue now is whether we should recover the Kryptonian codenamed Supergirl from Batman."
But the president's next words quickly silenced the entire venue. Amanda Waller didn't speak. She knew very well the other meaning hidden in the other person's words:
Confronting Batman's attitude.
Amanda Waller wanted to take back the comment she just made, but the other person was still asking her to guess what she was thinking.
In fact, it's not that Amanda Waller wants to guess, but to deal with the president's different thinking tendencies, she also has to make corresponding adjustments in the language organization to ensure that if the president wants to take action against Batman, she can dissuade him. .
Her political stance has always been to introduce superhuman beings affiliated with the government to maintain order, rather than directly fighting Batman with real swords and guns, causing greater chaos and destruction of order.
So if the president doesn't take a stand, she can't take a stand first.
So she turned her head and blinked twice at Steve next to her.
Therefore, a question mark floated gently on the forehead of Colonel Steve Trevor, a former Air Force colonel and current person in charge of superhuman affairs. He had never received systematic agent training and was accustomed to military style.
Ogle, what does this mean? ? ?
?
Realizing that Colonel Steve was just looking at her in a daze, without understanding his eyes at all, Amanda Waller could only helplessly turn around her waist, cover her mouth with her hands, and whisper to him: "Stand up first. Posting hateful comments about superheroes..."
"I think Batman is great!"
Waller slapped his head.
She had assumed the worst: that the president had ill intentions toward Batman.
Then Colonel Steve Trevor stood up and first issued a "Bat-wanting Declaration", and then he refuted the other party's words as the head of the superhuman control department and an expert in superhuman research, and pointed out each point of the other party's points with reason and evidence. Persuasion, and then "on the spot" to make the other party reverse their views, thereby achieving the purpose of not openly contradicting the president's opinions and persuading the other party at the same time.
This is a very typical "good cop, bad cop" persuasion technique, very old-fashioned, but still very useful.
But the key point of this persuasion game is that the person playing the "bad cop" is not the "leader." The person who can really make the decision should be the "good cop."
The president brought himself into the "bad cop" 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 convinced with him. .
And there is a very important element in this, that is, Amanda Waller, who plays the good police officer, 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 being closely related to him. Therefore, his status is often equal to or even surpassed by Amanda Waller, but the source of this power is illusory, frivolous, and variable.
Once Wonder Woman shows signs of not obeying government control, or Steve shows that he cannot fully control Wonder Woman, this kind of power given by external forces will quickly decay.
Amanda Waller's power comes from her control of the intelligence agency, from her long-term familiarity with superhuman things, from the agents who are personally loyal to her, and from the network of people who have a close personal relationship with her.
Therefore, only if she plays the role of a "good police officer" will the effect she presents will be "a character who speaks more convincingly with more experience, refuting the wrong ideas put forward by an inexperienced character."
But Steve spoke quickly and directly expressed his true thoughts, taking away the role of "good policeman". Waller immediately became upset.
Amanda Waller's heart was surging, but her expression did not change at all. She secretly observed the president's expression, and her heart immediately pounded.
The worst-case scenario she had thought about still happened. The president's expression did not quite agree with Steve's statement, which meant that he was even inclined to fight Batman in his heart.
This is too bad.
Waller glanced at the three officers sitting across from him. Except for General Swanwick's somewhat aloof and independent status, the other two generals also had the same expression on their faces as Mr. President.
This means that the two of them are also very likely to be inclined to fight Batman, idiots, they are not familiar with superhuman things at all!
Waller realized that she had no choice but to gamble, and she interrupted Steve directly: "I agree with Colonel Trevor, Supergirl is not an unacceptable situation in the hands of Batman."
She had to agree with Steve that as a "professional with more experience" she couldn't play "bad cop" because no one could play "good cop" to contradict her, so she could only try to conform by directly Colonel Trevor's words made their side's opinions look more "professional," thereby influencing the president to make a choice more in favor of their side when the two generals opposite gave opposing opinions.
These little ones are very long when broken apart, but in reality they only turn around in an instant.
As expected, the other two generals immediately gave the opposite opinion: "The government can no longer act like an ignorant idiot and allow superhuman things to grow wildly, Mr. President."
Amanda Waller's expression suddenly brightened. She kicked Colonel Steve Treff under the table to shut up this idiot. Should she be grateful that the other party was not stupid enough to turn around and ask her, "You kicked What am I doing?"
Waller dispersed her thoughts for a moment, but soon regained her clarity. She cheered up and was ready to face a new round of verbal sparring:
"Superhuman things do not grow 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 has obviously gone beyond..."
"First of all, it's 'her', and secondly, do you plan to do something with her, make it into a biological weapon, Batman and Superman..."
"Even if you got Supergirl you couldn't use her against Batman, I mean, there's no way she could win-"
"...Come on, take a look, that Mother Box, do you think I haven't seen that incident? Batman just used a fake one to fool us. This kind of thing must never happen again-"
"Things now are different from that time! We can't force him to get a Kryptonian, this 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! The law! The law is the basis of everything. Batman violated the law, and we enforced the law and put him in jail. I don't understand this What is the problem!"
Amanda Waller dared not let go of a word. The good-cop-bad-cop game has expired. Now it’s about who can impress the President better.
If she loses the argument, it could lead to a very bad outcome: a direct conflict between Batman and the government.
And that's exactly what Waller has been avoiding.
In fact, the fat black aunt herself knew very well that she had resolved such conflicts several times.
For example, when Brainiac invaded Earth, the government had just discovered that Batman had tricked them with fake Mother Boxes.
These few times, she has relied on her abilities and skills to suppress all negative behaviors towards Batman.
But the government's dissatisfaction with Batman has not disappeared, but continues to accumulate. Waller knows this.
She saw the president's imagery increasingly tilted toward the factions that had taken action against Batman.
In fact, to be honest, the two generals are far from each other in terms of eloquence, but the president had a tendency from the beginning. The eloquence and facts did not reach too much, and it was difficult to shake the president's decision.
"Back off again and again, next time Batman wants to pull out the Statue of Liberty and insert it into the trench to fill it up, are we going to let him do it too?!"
Waller gritted his teeth.
He'd been distracted by the terrible look on the president's face, idiot president, idiot Steve!
"Come on, aren't you relying on Luther's tricks? The ones that Luther has always been thinking about."
Amanda Waller turned her head sharply.
The person who spoke was General Swanwick, the person who spoke for Batman far beyond Waller's expectations.
"General Swanwick, I wonder if you have any advice." The president suddenly sat up straight and leaned forward slightly. This small movement surprised Amanda Waller.
General Swanwick's status in the opponent's mind seems to be a bit extraordinary, but currently it seems that he is on his side, so the situation is not bad.
"General Reagan, General Charles."
General Swanwick called the two of them by name as soon as he opened his mouth: "How much did Luther give you, hoping that you would bring back a living Kryptonian for him?"
"You...how can you say that?"
"July 31st, 25.43 million, August 15th, 189.41 million." He turned to look at one of the people, and then burst out a series of times and numbers: "I still need to continue reading. ?"
The other one's face turned into a pig's liver.
General Swanwick turned his head and looked at the president: "Batman has proven to us that the mechanical superman is untrustworthy, hasn't he? Our purpose of protecting the earth is the same. If we have the same purpose, we can cooperate."
“We can’t control everything, and we don’t have to control everything.”
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Dr. Sivana was driving in the woods.
Damn Black Adam, he obviously released the other party from the grave, but after the other party discovered the traces of the magic guards, he immediately left him and flew over alone, ignoring his request for magic. A bad scientist.
Fortunately, he left a tracker on the clothes he wore, and his eyes were able to locate Black Adam's huge magic power, so he was able to chase after him.
Dr. Sivana touched his right eye. The thing shone with white light and was struck by a bolt of lightning.
This was when he released Black Adam, his eyes were sealed with magic - let's call it the spell that left this lightning scar on his eyes. He relied on this to find Black Adam.
"You haven't revealed the secrets of magic to me, you haven't changed me yet, how could you just leave?"
As he muttered this, he drove to a small open space.
There is white fog all around, but the visibility here is actually pretty good.
And it was in this clearing that he found Black Adam, whom he had been thinking about before.
"Dr. Sivana, you are here, just in time."
Black Adam said: "I don't want to be discovered by anyone, so you have to drive me there quietly."
In his hand he held a square and heavy lump of iron.
"What is this, Black Adam?"
"A locator that can find Batman."
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Chen Tao turned his head and saw the mechanical superman landing on the ground not far from himself and Wonder Woman.
He didn't see Steppenwolf, who was probably hiding in the dark. I'm afraid there was also a reason why Robot Superman didn't want to expose his relationship with him in front of the government.
But Chen Tao is very sure that Steppenwolf will definitely appear later.
"Batman, I have only one request, hand over the Kryptonian woman."
He heard Cyborg say: "You are against the government."
Chen Tao whispered to Wonder Woman: "Be careful of Steppenwolf."
"You can't openly confront the government Batman like this. I'm talking to you properly..."
"What about the mechanical superman?"
"Calculating the time, people from the government should make a decision."
Chen Tao said in a low voice: "If they don't make the decision I want, actually..."
He paused, hesitating whether to tell Wonder Woman, but finally told the truth: "I can tie..."
Wonder Woman suddenly showed a look of contempt: "I knew 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 do the worst plan, you know, I can't guarantee everything. So I need them to be careful."
Robot Superman looked at Batman coldly. The other party was still whispering to Wonder Woman at this time, but it had no effect.
This is his purpose of joining the officialdom: on this planet, only the government, a violent organization at the level of a state machine, can and is qualified to compete with Batman.
He wants to use this official status to provoke...
Mechanical Superman's expression changed.
"What?"
Just now, an instruction from the President himself appeared on his channel.
"Join forces with Batman to capture Black Adam and bring him to justice?"
Not far away, right now.
Black Adam is on his way.
(End of chapter)
