Chapter 2966

Helen was still a bit puzzled. In her impression, Dr. Shiler did not have a state of endurance. He was always calm on the surface, but never stopped causing trouble behind the scenes.

There was never "endure a bit before acting," but rather "the problem hasn't appeared yet, but it has already been solved."

So Helen felt a bit curious. Being the same person, how could the difference be so big?

Jason indicated that the facts were just so.

"Moreover, if Dr. Shiler solves the problem before it happens, even if there might be some thrills in the process, the ending is definitely happy for everyone."

"But when Professor Shiler acts after he can no longer endure it, it's not to solve the problem, just to vent his own dissatisfaction. At this time, whoever bumps into him is unlucky. He doesn't care what the problem ultimately evolves into."

"You can compare it like this: an apple has a worm. Dr. Shiler will dig it out while the worm is still in the egg state, not only saving the apple but also using the hatched worm elsewhere, achieving the effect of killing two birds with one stone."

"But for Professor Shiler, he doesn't care while the worm hasn't poked its head out from under the peel. But once the worm drills out and makes him unable to endure it, he will give the apple a slash."

"After the apple gets a slash, it will accelerate its decay, and the worm inside will also starve to death because there is no food. In a way, it does eliminate the worm, but he won't care about the apple's feelings."

"And this slash Shiler gives the apple is not because he predicted that the apple's decay would starve the worm, but purely because he had the intent to kill."

After listening to Jason's explanation, Helen was silent. She didn't expect that Dr. Shiler, who looked more emotionally expressive, was actually the more rational conservative, while Professor Shiler, who looked very serious and rigid, was the emotional radical.

"The Professor has always been like this," Jason said, "From the time he rushed into the kitchen and shot the broccoli, there have been many such examples."

"Not surprising," Dick sat on the sofa, handed Helen an orange, and said, "Moving to a new house is already very troublesome, and we have to prepare for a party. The clones are also causing trouble at every opportunity, and we have to participate in instances after the Battleworld opens. We aren't idle even when we come back."

"I think the main reason is that the weather is too hot," Jason fanned himself with his hand and said, "This kind of weather makes people irritable by nature, and everything has been going poorly recently. It's estimated that someone will be very unlucky soon."

"Ever since I ate dragon meat, I've been a bit sleepy," Jason yawned and said, "Maybe it's because I need to digest."

"I think it's also because the weather is too hot. Once it's hot, I get sleepy," Dick slumped on the sofa and said, "I'm a bit sleepy too. I'm going upstairs to take a nap."

Helen felt that their judgment regarding Professor Shiler was reasonable, so she hurriedly went to remind the members of the New Warriors team not to be too rowdy recently. If they happened to bump into the muzzle of a gun, they would be in big trouble.

Fortunately, the young heroes of the New Warriors team were still willing to listen to advice. They felt that it wasn't good for them to keep living in Shiler's house, and they had been looking for a house recently.

Night Thrasher came from a wealthy family and had always provided financial support to the New Warriors team. Before coming here, he had prepared some hard currency that was expensive but not bulky, such as cigarettes, alcohol, medicine, and canned goods, just waiting to be sold for money. The total value wasn't very high, but it was definitely enough to rent a house for a few months.

They were borrowing Shiler's place to stay in order to leave time to sell the goods. They hadn't been idle these past few days either, and had basically found a way and exchanged for enough funds.

Originally, they intended to use this money to buy some building materials to build a treehouse. Now that the land had been occupied by Williams, and they didn't want to continue bothering Shiler, they decided to find a house outside.

It can only be said that the young heroes were not the old-school Cat Getan gangsters after all, and were still relatively simple. Even though they were disgusted by Williams, they didn't want to use any low-down tricks that broke the bottom line of morality.

New York's superhero management regulations were very perfect. If you broke something, you had to pay for it; if you hurt an ordinary person, you had to accept punishment. From the Avengers down to street-level heroes, everyone was treated equally, and no one could escape.

Those reckless youths who only knew how to act wildly without regard for consequences had long ago been fined into bankruptcy, and some had even gone to jail. The remaining ones couldn't be said to be righteous, but they were basically law-abiding.

Growing up in this kind of environment, following order had already become an instinct, and basically, they had no bad intentions. Even getting into fights with ordinary people belonged to the category of being extremely angry.

So, in the process of confronting someone like Williams, who had a thick skin, the New Warriors team, who hadn't gained any advantage, didn't intend to argue with an ordinary person anymore. At the time, Speedball Robert took advantage of the chaos to give him a punch, which was considered revenge for Helen.

But as luck would have it, the Guardians of the Galaxy, in order to improve the climate in the East District, came to find Shiler. They first went to Wayne Manor, and later returned to Shiler's house with the New Warriors team.

Williams' construction site was not far from Shiler's house, and the Guardians of the Galaxy were not people who could sit still. Rocket Raccoon was covered in fur and was already hot to begin with. Cat Getan's damn weather was like a fire, which had him half-dead from the heat. Then he saw such a large lake behind, so he suggested going into the lake to swim.

The others also felt it was a good place for camping. It just so happened that there were ready-made camping tools in Shiler's backyard, so they happily took the sunshade and fishing rods to the lakeside.

They were on the south side of the lake, and Williams' construction site was on the north side. The lake was still quite large, so the two sides were just looking at each other from afar, and neither interfered with the other.

Rocket Raccoon dove into the water. Because he was afraid of scaring ordinary people, he didn't swim toward the construction site, but just swam two laps by the lakeside on the south side. The others also cast their lines on the east side, chatting while fishing.

But not long after, a group of people suddenly came, insisting that they had affected the lake's ecological environment and destroyed the local fishery resources, and wanted to drive them away.

If this were truly a primitive jungle, that would be one thing, but this lake and the downstream creek were part of the community's water system and belonged to the community's assets, just like the public square and park, which all community residents could use.

Indeed, apart from Star-Lord, they were all aliens, but they had also stayed on Earth for quite a long time and understood this much logic. They were in the middle of having fun, so how could they be driven away by such an absurd reason?

After Star-Lord sent that group of people away, he excitedly wanted to have a barbecue. Rocket Raccoon had swum to his heart's content, came up to dry his fur while stringing the big fish he had caught onto the grill.

Not even ten minutes later, another batch of people came, insisting that they had infringed on the development rights of a certain company and belonged to illegal trespassing, and wanted to drive them away.

At this time, Star-Lord wasn't too angry and still explained to them with good words. Who knew that the leader actually pulled out a gun.

Generally speaking, in the United States, pulling a gun is allowed when dealing with illegal trespassing. Even in states without Castle Doctrine, just pulling a gun for deterrence without firing is considered a reasonable self-defense measure and does not count as a personal threat. Therefore, many farmers pull guns directly when they want to drive people away, and the other party doesn't dare to bet on whether they will fire. This trick has always been very useful.

But the Guardians of the Galaxy were truly tough nuts. They were mercenaries who made a living in the universe. Even if they were eating the emperor's grain of the Nine Realms, they were full of vigilance and aggression if they wanted to gain a foothold in the crisis-ridden universe.

They were not young superheroes bound by rules. They had plenty of strength and means. As soon as the other party's gun muzzle was revealed, everyone on this side was fully armed within a second.

Rocket Raccoon fired a shot, directly blowing the few people on the opposite side away. Two of them even fell into the lake. Star-Lord not only said nothing but also let Groot, who was standing on the side pretending to be a big tree, wait for them to be half-choked before fishing them out.

It didn't matter that the Guardians of the Galaxy caught the troublemakers; they also forced them to make a phone call, telling the mastermind behind the scenes that they had detained them and that if they wanted to get them back, they should show some sincerity.

Williams was no pushover either. He reported it directly to the police and specifically named James Gordon, calculating that Gordon wouldn't dare to engage in favoritism and malpractice in such matters, and those young people were thin-skinned and were no match for him at all.

As a result, unexpectedly, the troublemakers this time were not Helen and her group, but old oil-slickers who were even more shameless than him.

Groot pretended to be a big tree, Gamora and Nebula used fire hoses to hang everyone on the tree, Drax followed Star-Lord like a gangster thug, and Rocket Raccoon lay in his arms, baring his teeth.

Gordon was stunned when he saw this scene. As soon as he and Williams arrived, Star-Lord began to shout at the top of his lungs that someone was abusing animals, insisting that Williams' subordinates had illegally logged and hurt his pet. Rocket Raccoon cooperated with him by howling, and Gamora took out a mobile phone and filmed from the side with a serious look.

Seeing this formation, Gordon didn't dare to speak casually and asked Williams if there were cameras at the construction site now. Williams, in order to stop Star-Lord's arrogance, said yes.

Once the surveillance was pulled up, Williams' subordinates indeed hadn't abused animals, but the problem was that Star-Lord and his group hadn't entered his construction site either.

The surveillance showed clearly that they were camping on the south side of the lake, which was not within the scope of Williams' land at all. This group of people had excitedly gone to find trouble with them, and Gordon handcuffed the group on the spot.

This wasn't over yet. Star-Lord gave Gordon a bad idea. He said, "These people would mistakenly think they had entered the construction site, nothing more than because the boundary between the construction site and the non-construction site is not clear."

"In order to avoid community residents mistakenly entering his construction site, why not just build a wall and enclose the construction site area? That way, no one will disturb anyone."

Although Gordon felt what he said made sense, the Cat Getan Police Department didn't have the funds to do these things. But Star-Lord didn't care at all. He asked Gordon for the scope map of the construction site and directly used high-tech alien weapons to build a circle of iron walls around Williams' construction site—alien metal, indestructible.

Once this wall was built, everyone discovered that the scope of Williams' construction site was actually very small, just that small piece of forest on the north side, plus a tiny bit of the lake surface.

And the construction site he had expanded now occupied almost the entire forest on the east and north sides, and even enclosed half of the lake.

This wall came just in time. After enclosing the standard range, if Williams wanted to build illegally beyond the standard again, unless he had a way to cut the alien alloy Star-Lord had created, the entire resort would be cut in half, divided into inner and outer layers, separated by an ugly metal wall in the middle.

This wall was more than four meters high and had an electric fence on top.

However, Star-Lord wanted to kill and punish the heart. He bared his teeth and smiled at Williams, saying, "Maybe customs are different in different places. People where we come from want to go on vacation, but they don't go to concentration camps."