amaotonovel Chapter 3559 Edge of Tomorrow (5)
Chapter 3559 Edge of Tomorrow (5)
Chapter 3559: Edge of Tomorrow (V)
"Schiller, you bastard!"
As soon as there was a sound at the office door, Schiller knew who was coming. Sure enough, Jonathan Klein pushed open the office door angrily and sat down on the chair opposite Schiller.
"When the aliens invaded before, you actually wanted me to take the blame for you! Do you know how annoying that damn Malafak is?! You are a psychology professor, but you didn't go to face the mind reader, but asked me to go instead. Is this fair?!"
"I didn't ask you to go." Schiller took a pen from the pen holder slowly, and then said, "It was Malafac who came to you himself. It has nothing to do with me."
"If you hadn't misled him..."
"Why could I mislead him?"
"Because that damn Batman thinks I'm..."
"Then why does Batman think you're a professor?"
Jonathan choked, and for what else? Because of the little prank he'd pulled at the dinner party.
"Okay, you're fine now, right?" Schiller said as he wrote and drew on paper. "I have a part-time job opportunity here. Do you want to come?"
"What do you want me to do now?" Jonathan was on high alert. Could anything good happen to Schiller?
Schiller seemed to see what he was thinking, and said without raising his head, "This is a really good thing. A generous lady has offered a member of an evil organization an annual salary of $50. Aren't you going to apply?"
"Evil organization? The Justice League?" Jonathan raised one eyebrow.
"Do you want to listen to what you are saying?" Schiller looked at him helplessly and said, "It's called the Justice League, can it still be an evil organization?"
"Tsk! Have you been away from the Internet recently? The Justice League has been criticized!" Jonathan said with a bit of gloating, "That super evil robot claimed to rule the earth, but the Justice League disappeared. Now everyone is condemning them."
"But they really sat still. Not a single one stood up to speak. There were so many media and TV stations, but they couldn't catch a single one. It was really interesting."
"That's because they are smart." Schiller continued to write with his head down, and said, "Brainiac is different from the previous aliens. This guy is very smart. From the beginning, he was determined to disrupt humanity from within. If the Justice League stood up against him at this time, they would be roasting themselves on the fire."
How could Jonathan not understand? His eyes flickered and he said, "Are you trying to say that the Justice League had expected Brainiac to do this?"
"Compared to Oliver, Brainiac is just a novice in political struggle." Schiller snorted, "He wants to disintegrate us in human ways, but he still overestimates the bottom line of human beings. He probably didn't expect that superheroes could give up."
Schiller was not just making groundless guesses. Ever since he knew about Brainiac's existence, he had a rough idea of how this guy would invade the Earth.
In the comics, this guy's 12th-level intelligence is useless. The way he causes trouble for humans every time is a bit insulting to the mentally retarded.
He only has three tricks: hacker intrusion, robot army, and driving the tiger to devour the wolf.
Either he would use his powerful hacking skills to make something of the Justice League useless; or he would build an army of robots to invade the Earth; or he would take advantage of some major event to stir up trouble, or he would fool other aliens to cause trouble for the Earth.
Apart from this, there is basically no other means.
However, Schiller knew that the comics were drawn this way because the editors really couldn't think of a better way. And if he was really made too omniscient, wouldn't it make the Justice League seem useless?
In the era when Brainiac was born, "I predicted your prediction" was not so popular. Everyone fought with real swords and guns. In order to keep the plot going, the setting could not be implemented too thoroughly.
However, since Brainiac has appeared beside him, and assuming that he has level 12 intelligence, he certainly cannot rush to the Earth foolishly like in the comics.
Sun Tzu's Art of War puts it well: "The best strategy is to attack the enemy's plans, the next best is to attack their alliances, and the worst is to attack their cities."
This means that the best means of warfare is strategy, followed by diplomacy, and the worst means is to resort to violence.
There are three types of strategic means: the best is used before a war, the second best is used during the war, and the worst is used at the negotiating table.
The so-called strategies used before a war can be summed up in four words: "disrupting the morale of the army."
As long as we can cause chaos within the other side, we can win the war before it starts.
Brainiac is so smart that he would not ignore the best strategy and use the worst strategy. Therefore, he will definitely find a way to provoke internal struggle among humans.
Unfortunately, humankind is truly a mess, and he doesn't even need to stir it up; it will scatter at the touch of a wind.
However, the weak and ordinary people who live on the surface all year round have little impact on the situation. Therefore, Brainiac's move seems to be aimed at dividing the poor and the rich, but in fact it is still aimed at the Justice League.
Brainiac gave such an arrogant speech in order to let more people know him and to make those with lower living standards and poor education level regard him as a savior.
In this case, once the Justice League stands up to deal with him, the Justice League will naturally stand against this group of people.
The mass line can indeed stir up a storm, but that is only for ordinary people. There are superhumans in the American comic universe. To be honest, the impact that ordinary people can have on superhumans is indeed very limited.
Even if there are many poor people who oppose the Justice League, they really can't do anything to the Justice League.
But the key is that the members of the Justice League are all heroes. Their original intention in establishing this organization is to bring a stable life to more ordinary people and reduce the suffering they encounter as much as possible.
If they were opposed by the majority of ordinary people, would they doubt themselves, feel guilty, or hesitate?
Brainiac's move was actually a psychological attack.
Setting the general public against the Justice League is only the first step. The next step is to buy off the wealthy and leaders and set them against the Justice League.
In this case, the Justice League would be on the opposite side of all mankind. At that time, no power could be used smoothly.
This plan was indeed vicious. However, as Schiller said, Brainiac's strategies were all learned on paper and were ultimately superficial. He overestimated the moral bottom line of the Justice League, which resulted in this move being aborted before it could be used.
Because Justice League it's off duty.
The Justice League's official website directly issued a notice, saying that it would no longer be involved in the matter. There was indeed a lot of criticism below, but most of them were complaints: "You have only been working for a few days and you are already on vacation?"
Ordinary people are speechless about the Justice League taking a vacation, but they can do nothing about it. Some people even think that it's fine if the Justice League doesn't care. What if Brainiac can really give them a fairer life?
On the contrary, the ones who are most crazy about looking for the Justice League are the wealthy class and leaders.
They knew very well that with Brainiac's way of doing things, they would all be hung from streetlights on the first day this robot ruled the earth. If the Justice League did nothing, wouldn't they be dead?
How could ordinary people mobilize so many media and TV stations? How could they all condemn the Justice League for being irresponsible in such a consistent manner? It is impossible that there is no shadow of the rich class and governments in it.
So now, the public opinion situation on Earth is very strange: ordinary people are indifferent to the whereabouts of the Justice League and don't care much; the government and rich people, on the other hand, are frantically looking for people.
This was completely the opposite of what Brainiac had envisioned, and it made it impossible for him to carry out his subsequent plans. He had to readjust his plans.
He was really cunning. Only one night later, he released another message, claiming that if he wanted to rule the earth, the Justice League had to come forward to negotiate with him.
At this point, ordinary people also began to panic. Most people took the attitude of giving it a try and asked the Justice League to contact Brainiac on the official website.
The official website did not respond. Ordinary people's public opinion also began to lean towards the other side. Now the Justice League can be said to be criticized from both sides.
But no matter how much they scolded, these superhumans were determined not to show up. No one could do anything about it.
The few ordinary people all stayed in Metropolis. Metropolis was Luther's territory, and no department could easily touch him. And they were hiding in Luther Manor. You couldn't just send troops to attack Luther Manor, right?
The situation remained at a stalemate. Neither side was willing to back down. By the time Jonathan came over, the internet was overwhelmingly criticizing the Justice League.
Schiller finally finished writing. He folded the paper and put it aside, looking at Jonathan and said, "What happens to the Justice League has nothing to do with us. Now we should consider whether to take that part-time job."
"Half a million dollars?" Jonathan stroked the back of his hand with his fingertips and said with a click of his tongue, "But no one would give out so much money for no reason. Don't you think about what she wants us to do?"
"That's a good question." Schiller opened his computer and read his emails. "I don't think she would ask us to do anything beyond our capabilities. Even if she asks, we can refuse. You are paid by the school, so can't you refuse to work overtime?"
Jonathan rolled his eyes and said, "It's not good to take so much money and not do any work, right?"
"So you still have such a conscience?" Schiller said half-jokingly and half-sarcastically. But after thinking for a moment, he said, "It's not good to not work at all. But when you don't want to work overtime, do you directly refuse with righteous words?"
"Of course not. I finally got a stable job." Jonathan snorted coldly, "It's okay to work overtime once or twice. If you really don't have time, just refuse. If you can't refuse, just postpone it. It's not like you're going to save Jesus, why are you in such a hurry?"
"That's it."
"Give me her phone number and I'll talk to her."
"Why rush? Let's talk about it tomorrow."