Chapter 2899

After everyone was full and satisfied, they continued to speak in the order arranged before. When it got to Jana, it was even more of a disaster.

Jana and Zan, this pair of siblings, were actually aliens. The planet they were born on experienced a great plague, leading to the death of all their parents and relatives. Because of a chance opportunity, they took a spaceship to Earth. Also, because they were unfamiliar with the language and habits of Earthlings, they caused quite a few messes and were eventually recruited by the Justice League.

This meant one thing: for Earthlings, the two of them were equivalent to semi-illiterates.

Zan was a bit better. On his original planet, he liked to tinker with machinery. After coming to the Justice League, he could help members repair equipment. However, Jana studied geography. After coming to Earth, she basically had no place to put her skills to use.

With the help of Justice League members, they learned English, but they learned it in a topsy-turvy way. Currently, they were at the stage of being able to communicate fluently, but it was still a bit difficult for them to fully understand the underlying logic of how Earth humans spoke.

Jana narrated her life over these past few months, and it sounded even more confusing to people.

At the beginning, when her brain could still turn, her English sounded decent. But after eating and her blood sugar rose, coupled with the fact that her oral diary was lackluster, she became more and more sleepy. She started to turn into English words plus alien grammar, and in the end, it simply turned into alien language.

Their alien language sounded a bit like a combination of Russian and French. Expressing it was relatively long-winded, and the tone was flat without any fluctuations, completely like chanting scriptures.

Jana mumbled there for two or three hours, and everyone except Batman was chanted into submission by her.

When she announced that she had finished speaking, everyone woke up as if from a dream. Wonder Woman gave a thumbs up to Batman, who had remained awake throughout. Martian Manhunter wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth; this time he hadn't held on either, because he couldn't understand the alien language either.

Superman's narrative was detailed, but listening to his experience of sweeping away all monsters and ghosts still had its thrills. Jana's kind, which they couldn't even understand, was still a bit too difficult to require them to maintain focus at all times.

The Flash was so sleepy he was dazed; it was only after Superman pushed him that he woke up. After waking up, he also had a look of "Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?"

"Barry, you speak first." Batman tapped the table and said, "You are injured. After you finish speaking, you can go lie down on the side for a while."

The Flash cast a grateful look at him, because he was indeed a bit uncomfortable sitting here now. Going to the recliner on the side to sleep for a while would be beneficial for his recovery.

The Flash began to recount his experiences over these past few months.

His educational level wasn't low, and he was a bit of a chatterbox. In the past, his speaking speed was very fast, but now he was injured and felt very uncomfortable, so his speaking speed naturally slowed down.

Precisely because he was injured, others didn't feel good about urging him to speak faster. Coupled with his chatterbox phrasing habits, talking about this thing for a while, then that thing for a while, and after a while, reversing to say that what he said before was wrong, or adding details to something he talked about a long time ago—anyway, it was also topsy-turvy.

Fortunately, he also failed to break Superman's record, only speaking for three hours or so, and by this time it was already the early morning.

Everyone proposed to go to sleep first and continue speaking tomorrow. Batman had no objection.

There were three recliners in the conference room, which were originally for members to rest, but obviously not enough to go around. Others slept on the floor. God knows where Batman got the quilts, but everyone wasn't a pretentious person, so they just picked a place and lay down.

However, considering there was a mole, everyone didn't turn off the lights. In pairs, they took turns keeping watch. The first group was Batman and Martian Manhunter.

They came to another corner of the room and lowered their voices as much as possible. Martian Manhunter said, "This plan isn't that simple, right? At least during the day, I didn't see anyone lying. Are you sure the mole will reveal a flaw?"

"Of course. In fact, the information summarized during the day is already enough." Batman said, "I believe you can also hear that the trend of vampire expansion is very strange."

"You mean..."

"Theoretically speaking, for an organization to want to develop on Earth, it cannot be separated from three factors: people, territory, and resources."

Martian Manhunter nodded, feeling it made a lot of sense. In this regard, listening to Batman was not wrong.

After all, although it was said that the Seven Giants established the Justice League, in fact, many basic things were created by Batman. The land where the Justice League was located was bought by him, the building was built by him using the resources in his hands, the security defense system was designed by him, and many fan activities were also organized by him. He was absolutely an authority in this regard.

"But vampires seem to only care about the first aspect." Batman sharply pointed out the problem within, "They do have an advantage in member conversion; they only need a simple ritual to convert an absolutely loyal organization member. But an organization with only members is useless."

"First, you need a scientific management system to maximize the use of converted members. Loyalty cannot be eaten as food."

"Leaders must know people and assign them well, figure out what everyone is good at, and then arrange them into corresponding positions. Those who can fight go to the field, those who can manage go to administration, those with good eloquence go to diplomacy, and those who can do nothing are uniformly assigned to logistics to do miscellaneous work."

Martian Manhunter nodded again. Although this was the simplest truth, it was still quite difficult to actually achieve. Throughout history, those who could achieve the phrase "know people and assign them well" were all enlightened monarchs.

"After the personnel are arranged, of course, it is to find a piece of territory." Batman continued, "This is where I feel strange. Vampires have expanded for so long, and the number of members is not small, but they have never had a main base."

"Maybe they hid the base?" Martian Manhunter proposed a possibility.

Batman shook his head and said, "Their members are not tens or hundreds, but hundreds of thousands. Even if a base that can accommodate so many members can deceive the Flash and Wonder Woman, it cannot deceive me and Superman."

"You also heard the experience Superman talked about before. He has always been dealing with scattered incidents and has never had a decisive battle. He flew all over the world and didn't find a large base with more than a thousand people. If vampires had the ability to hide from him, they wouldn't need to hide and dodge."

Martian Manhunter felt that what Batman said also made sense. Even if Batman's investigation had omissions, Superman's ability to obtain information was unreasonable. He flew in space and could hear the voice of every person on Earth. Hundreds of thousands of vampires gathered together, it was impossible to hide from Superman's ears.

"Even if they hid the base, what about resources?" Batman said again, "For ordinary people, how many resource production lines are needed to support hundreds of thousands of people?"

Martian Manhunter thought about it for a while, then said, "Humanity has long since passed this stage. Now it is an era of globalization. The daily necessities of a city of hundreds of thousands of people may come from all over the world."

"Exactly. Even if vampires don't need any weapons or equipment, just to solve the problem of eating, they need to build a brand-new industrial chain from beginning to end."

Martian Manhunter shivered and said, "You mean they want to run human farms?"

"The problem is they should be running them, but they aren't." Batman shook his head and said, "As far as I know, vampires can drain a person's blood at once and need to eat at least once a day. That is to say, they eat one human per meal."

"Assuming the Vampire King now has 100,000 vampires, of which 50,000 are scattered all over the world and can hunt on their own, and the remaining 50,000 are engaged in training and production tasks in the main base, to supply these 50,000 vampires with food, 50,000 humans must be consumed every day."

"You can't catch that many just from the outside, so you can only farm. Humans are omnivores. Even if they only maintain the minimum survival needs, they still need to consume about 50 tons of food a day."

Martian Manhunter gasped. For modern agriculture, 50 tons is not a particularly large number. Basically, 70 or 80 acres of farmland can solve the problem. Using agricultural machinery for large-scale farming, one person can finish it in a while.

But you let vampires go farming? It can only be said that the sun probably doesn't quite agree. Although it's not impossible to farm at night, Martian Manhunter really can't imagine what it looks like for vampires to drive agricultural machinery to plow fields.

"The key is the reproduction problem." Batman shook his head and said, "The age of sexual maturity for humans is simply too late. It takes more than ten years to start reproducing, and you can only give birth to one at a time, and the probability of dystocia is also very high. Then it takes another ten years from infancy to adulthood when they can contribute blood."

"If there are 100,000 vampires globally, 100,000 living people are consumed every day. 10 days is 1 million. A year is close to 40 million people. The two countries with the highest fertility rates combined only add these many people every year."

Martian Manhunter suddenly realized what Batman was saying—the current strategy of vampires converting members crazily is actually self-destruction.

Even if they can go to heaven and earth and are omnipotent, and all countries on Earth can do nothing about them, but if they go on like this, the biggest enemy they face is not humanity, but famine.

The reproduction speed of humanity cannot support vampires.

If they could eat every five days, even every three days, there would still be room for recovery.

But they eat one person a day. 100,000 vampires eat 100,000 people a day. If they expand to 200,000, they eat 200,000 people a day. All humans on Earth can only give birth to 300,000 to 400,000 a day now. If they keep multiplying like this, no one can support them.

"I'm afraid that so-called Vampire King has never thought about this problem." Batman said, "His order made all vampires start converting members unscrupulously."

"But their conversion ritual is very simple. It takes less than ten minutes to convert a person. A vampire can convert twenty or thirty people a day, which is completely exponential growth."

"Even if their base is only a few thousand, after a few months of conversion, no one knows how many they have. I'm afraid some villages and towns with small populations have already started to have famines."

Martian Manhunter finally figured everything out. He said, "I think this Vampire King might not even know how many people they have now. If he knew, he would definitely be shocked."

"And because the converted must completely obey the converter, this will further urge vampires to constantly convert humans. Who doesn't want to be surrounded by crowds and have countless slaves? Converting dozens of people a day is a conservative estimate." Batman said worriedly.

"It can't go on like this." Martian Manhunter said, "If they keep converting at this speed, humanity will perish sooner or later."

"Now the extinction of humanity is no longer the biggest problem." Batman sighed and said, "You said if all humans were converted into vampires, what should we do next?"

Martian Manhunter was stunned. He really hadn't considered this problem.