Martin Variety in American Comics.

Chapter 476: No Bottom Line (Please subscribe and read, monthly ticket recommendation!)

Washington, DC, USA!

Lex Luthor lives in a mansion. Since he returned to the United States and made a public appearance, he has hardly left here. He will only leave this well-protected place when he appears in public.

He thought that when he returned to the United States, he would be attacked by the Justice League.

Under Martin's influence, the impression of the Justice League in mainstream American society has become an indescribable existence, and most people don't want to discuss their existence.

Luthor regarded the entire Justice League as his greatest enemy in his life, but he did not expect that the other party would directly leave the United States and run to that remote place in Africa.

As a result, most of the methods he carefully prepared were useless because the target he was dealing with no longer existed.

"The Justice League, the so-called heroes, are even more cruel and ruthless than I imagined!"

Luthor looked at the news coming back from Africa. As soon as the various rebellions around the Justice League's new city began, word reached the powerful people in various countries.

Luthor returned to the United States, collected the capital that had not been eaten up by the military and corporations, and with the support of his allies, he returned to his original position.

Then he would naturally receive such news.

Everyone knows that these so-called rebellions are actually aimed at the Justice League, just to disrupt their plans.

Therefore, everyone is paying attention to how the Justice League will deal with this matter. Most people are gloating and watching coldly. Few are sympathetic, and even fewer are willing to help.

Luthor is one of those people who gloats over other people's misfortunes and watches from the sidelines. According to his assumptions, the people in the Justice League will not be able to control their heroic tendencies and will interfere in the rebellions happening in those places.

Once this happens, Luthor and his men can use it as an excuse to take action against the Justice League.

But so far, the Justice League has been quiet, with no other actions except Clark's statement as the supervisor of the new city calling for peace.

Of course, Luthor has the support of his allies and has more comprehensive information. He knows that the Wayne Group and those charitable organizations controlled by the Justice League are taking action and preparing to enter the war zone.

Their destination was not the rebellious cities, but some villages and tribes, most of which had cooperated with the Justice League.

Luthor, who was used to intrigues, had no idea what the point of the Justice League going to those villages was, but he could see that the other side had no intention of intervening in the rebellion.

That's why he said this.

"Such a simple sarcasm is not something you would say!"

In front of Luther, there stood a virtual image, like a black hole, absorbing the surrounding light and fading into a concrete image.

"Of course!"

Luther put down the wine glass in his hand and said calmly, "There are not many people in the Justice League who can do such a thing. Bruce Wayne is the first person who deserves suspicion, but he has been flying around the world recently. Even if he knows what happened in the desert, it is difficult for him to react quickly. Princess Diana of Paradise Island and Prince Arthur of the seabed did not show up, and the prestige of the Martian Hunter is not enough.

It seems that there is someone hidden in the Justice League who can control the overall situation, but we have not found him yet. "

"You are very smart. It is not easy for a mortal to realize this."

Luther frowned at what the shadow said. He said dissatisfiedly: "You knew about the existence of such a person a long time ago, but you didn't do anything, and you didn't even inform me. Is this reasonable?"

"Mortals, you always like to use your shallow vision to speculate on the actions of those who transcend the mundane."

The black shadow made no secret of his contempt for Luther and did not take the bald man in front of him who possessed the so-called level 10 intelligence seriously.

"You think you are smart and omnipotent. But the person who destroyed your career and drove you out of the United States and turned you into a stray dog is the mysterious man hiding behind the Justice League. Your so-called wisdom can't even recognize the other party's existence, so how can you deal with him?"

Luther is a man who cannot bear criticism.

Anyone who points out Luther's faults to his face will be targeted by him, and losing their life is common. Many people have also been tortured and lost everything because of this.

But when he was scolded by the black shadow, his face just turned pale and his hands clenched into fists, but he did not get angry.

"If that person is really as powerful as you say, why doesn't he just be more direct instead of hiding?"

"Because he wants to change the whole world, even human history. Unlike you, a fool, who thinks you can accomplish everything just because you are a little smart, but in the end you are chased around like a stray dog."

"No, even wild dogs will learn their lesson after being beaten and know to be loyal to their owners. But you acted on your own and made an unforgivable mistake."

Luther sneered and said sarcastically, "I am a wild dog, so what are you, a guy who surrendered to Apokolips? Didn't you also betray humanity? What qualifications do you have to stand here and point fingers at my morality?"

"You are really stubborn and foolishly conceited."

The shadow looked down and snorted, "The person you sent to assassinate an important member of the Justice League has been captured. Under the psychic power of the Martian Manhunter, she couldn't even last a second. While we are talking, someone is already coming towards you."

"I have ordered you not to act on your own and draw the attention of the Justice League to us. But you did not listen. Then you will bear the consequences of doing so. I will end the matter here and prevent the Justice League from knowing more about us."

Luther remained silent. It was indeed he who did it. In order to keep it absolutely secret, he even found the assassin sent by the magician to seal his memory.

"You are so timid, you don't look like you want to rule the earth? The Justice League is so arrogant, do you want me to just watch and do nothing?"

The shadow said coldly: "Human elites, Kryptonians, Amazons, underwater people... the power of so many races in the Justice League is beyond your imagination. Perhaps such power is still weak in front of Apokolips, but it is enough to easily wipe us off the face of the earth."

"Since I can't win, why should I provoke them? Everything was going well. Even though the Justice League tried every means to find us, they didn't gain much. But you ruined it all."

"Okay! You have a point."

Luther found this humiliating. Although his parents were perverts, they had excellent brains and had hardly ever encountered real failure in their lives.

Until Superman appeared and the Justice League was formed, all the ideals he had followed in his life were shattered.

What he couldn't accept the most was that he couldn't do anything about the Justice League.

"I will take care of these problems and make sure the Justice League doesn't track you down."

The shadow obviously had no confidence in his promise, and said in a deep voice: "I hope you can do this, because so far we still don't know who our real opponent is." "It is a very simple thing to get the other party to take the initiative to stand up. No matter how cruel that mysterious friend is, he is still a member of the Justice League after all."

Luther snapped his fingers, as if he had thought of a solution, and gave a confident smile to the shadow.

The other party did not respond and disappeared.

"Arrogant bastard!"

Luther muttered something, then dialed the phone to contact his friends in Washington, ready to start a plan that had been prepared long ago.

Gotham!

Barbara was working. The slightly dark circles under her eyes showed that she had been working for a long time, but she still did not stop processing the documents in her hands.

Martin proposed to immigrate the people of Gotham to the new city. Barbara took on the task without hesitation and started to get busy.

Setting up a company and injecting capital in the early stages. These business activities were not difficult. With the Wayne Group paving the way, this threshold that had stumped countless ordinary people did not even require Barbara to worry about.

Then, the real problem comes, immigration is not a simple matter.

Even though Gotham is rotten to the core, it is still one of the largest cities in the United States. Many people who are struggling at the bottom of society have no expectations for this city, but want to use it as a stepping stone to escape to other cities.

Therefore, after a preliminary survey, Barbara found that those who stole or were in desperate situations did not dare to gamble. Because they were no longer eligible to gamble, they would rather suffer in Gotham than venture into a newly emerging city.

Even if that city was founded by the heroes of the Justice League, it was not worth them gambling their lives on.

After all this trouble, Barbara's preliminary work did not yield any results, so she had to adjust her direction and focus on mobilizing the police and their related social relations.

In Gordon's words, "You can't save everyone in Gotham, or even most people. At this time, you have to learn to make choices."

Barbara had to admit the reality that she couldn't save everyone. Even so, she still had to often work overtime until midnight to keep the company running.

It is not an easy thing for those police officers and people related to the Gotham Police Department to leave the United States. They need to go through a complete process to ensure that their families or other social relations will not be targeted within a certain period of time.

As the U.S. government tightened its control over Gotham, Barbara and her colleagues had a hard time working. Even if they mortgaged all of Gotham's remaining assets, few people were willing to take such a political risk.

The state and federal governments wanted to take advantage of their assets for free, which made things difficult for Barbara and her team.

But Barbara learned a tough lesson from Batman. The more unreasonable the people above her were, the more she would hold on and would have to fight them.

"bad news!"

Barbara hadn't finished the work at hand yet when Gordon rushed in, with an obvious look of sadness on his slightly old face.

"Are those state officials just finding an excuse to provoke us again?"

Barbara looked up with an expression of annoyance and helplessness on her face, as if she had encountered this kind of thing often.

"No, it's worse than that!"

Gordon turned on the TV in his office and found a press conference in progress: "This morning, some members of Congress suddenly united and submitted an application to Congress, requesting the freezing of all Justice League assets in the United States. The reason is that the new city being built by the Justice League has seriously disturbed the local natural environment in Africa and triggered rebellions in surrounding countries."

Gordon briefly said that he had just received news from Alfred, then stopped talking and watched the news with Barbara.

The person who spoke to the reporter this time was a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a well-fitting suit, who looked very much like the white elites in people's impressions: "As the leader of the free world, we will never allow some crazy people in strange clothes to do whatever they want in the human world and disrupt the order that the brave freedom fighters have worked hard to build for decades.

Here, we respectfully advise the relevant people in the Justice League to abandon their absurd ideas as soon as possible and accept the supervision of the free world. This is the only way to usher in peace. "

"Greedy bastards, what they are doing is nothing more than taking the assets in the hands of the Justice League for themselves!"

Barbara has seen too many people like this in recent times and she doesn't even have the interest to satirize them anymore.

She turned off the TV and said to her father, "What's the state's response?"

"State officials regard Gotham as a dangerous place. They are eager to hide from it, so they are unlikely to come and cause trouble for us personally."

Gordon often dealt with state government officials and understood their working style, but he was not sure what methods officials in Washington would use.

Barbara naturally didn't know what Gordon didn't know, but what she learned from Bruce was more than just how to be a street vigilante.

"Washington's public statement means that there may be some kind of consensus within Congress. We must be prepared and ask Alfred to transfer our assets to a safe place to speed up the speed and number of the first batch of immigrants."

Barbara still remembered some of the business techniques Bruce had talked about, and she never thought that she would use them today.

Asset transfer is a necessary tactic for all multinational corporations, but usually, assets from all over the world are transferred to the United States, the bourgeois base, and there has never been an outward transfer like the Justice League.

“You should also warn the Justice League’s remaining institutions in the United States to beware of provocations from the government.”

Barbara nodded and immediately picked up the phone.

In the United States, even if it's just a business struggle, you have to be prepared to lose your life and your family as well.

This is the way free countries behave. They will use all means against those they identify as enemies until you, your family and friends are completely destroyed.

Gotham has long become a gladiatorial arena, and Barbara and the others have already prepared for it.

But the same may not be true for other organizations that remain in the United States. After all, the smart people in the Justice League were either transferred away by Bruce or followed Clark to Africa.

The rest of the people are more or less naive and believe that American politicians still have bottom lines and will not do anything too bad to those well-intentioned people like them.

When Barbara thought about the results of her several communications with those people, she had a bad feeling in her heart and turned to call Bruce and Clark.

(End of this chapter)