Chapter 3493: Research on Cats and Dogs (Part 52)

Half an hour later, Victor looked at Billy walking out from behind Schiller's desk, speechless for a while.

"Don't tell me, this is another monster you found from some corner, disguised as a human..."

"Rest assured, 100% human," Schiller said, "I know you've always had the intention to adopt, but couldn't find a suitable one. What do you think of him?"

"This... I have to ask Nora," Victor took out his phone while looking at Billy, "But his background shouldn't be so simple, right? What's the origin?"

"The Shazam who was very popular on the Internet a while ago, you should know him, right?"

"You mean that superhero? Is this his child?"

"This is him."

"Ah?"

Schiller briefly explained what was going on with Shazam. Victor's brows furrowed tighter and tighter, and by the end, he could be called speechless.

"What was old Shazam thinking? How could he throw such powerful strength to a child? Isn't he afraid of something happening?"

Schiller had to explain the grievances between Sivana and old Shazam to Victor again. After listening, Victor's face turned even darker.

"He is a famous archmage, yet he treated an ordinary human child with such a mean and harsh attitude. Sure enough, people without empathy are more harmful to society the stronger they are."

Schiller sighed lightly and said: "When Billy came by plane, he wanted to open the plane window and fly out. Fortunately, he didn't succeed."

"That can't be blamed on him," Victor said, "He hasn't flown before, and it's impossible for him to understand air pressure. After the flight attendant persuaded him, he didn't move again, which shows he's quite sensible."

"You can discuss it with Nora," Schiller said, "You two should meet the conditions for adopters, and you have high education, good economic status, and both know how to educate, so you should be able to guide him to use this strength correctly."

"You know we both have the intention to adopt, but do you know why we haven't successfully adopted any child until now?"

Schiller looked at him, signaling him to speak directly.

"We originally planned to have our own. Nora and I have no problems with our bodies, and it's simple if we want children."

"But the problem is, we are both too busy and don't have time to take care of a baby without leaving them for a moment, which would delay too much experimental progress. Neither of us plans to do that."

"And adopting a child is about the same. Children who are too young need care, and the law doesn't allow us to leave them at home alone. But regular welfare homes can't adopt older children because they were adopted by others when they were young. This matter has been delayed like this."

"Then I think Billy is just right. He can already go to primary school; you only need to send him to school in the morning and pick him up in the evening. And he needs to act with the Young Avengers at night, so his schedule should be about the same as yours."

Victor nodded, patted Billy's head, and said: "Come with me, let's go to my office to talk."

They came to Victor's office, and soon Nora also rushed over from the lab. She was also surprised when she saw Billy, and even more surprised when she learned that he was only 8 years old.

"I think the first thing we need to do is send him to the hospital," Nora's face was very serious, she said, "His bone development may have already been greatly affected. In the case of not fully understanding the nature of a certain energy, letting a child who is still in the developmental stage be exposed to the radiation range is simply a crime!"

"I'm afraid I have to trouble you with this," Schiller said, "The Justice League contacted my friends in Metropolis, and they are busy looking for someone, and I also need to help, so I might not be able to take care of other things recently."

"Then let us take him," Victor said, "There is no teaching work recently, so it's not very busy. We can also accompany him more."

Billy was still a bit dazed. Schiller turned the office chair around, pulled Billy in front of him, and said: "Follow Professor Fries for these few days and have a comprehensive physical examination. This is to ensure your physical health. Also, if you want to transform, it's best to tell Professor Fries, otherwise magical energy might break their house, do you know?"

Billy nodded, then looked up at Schiller and said: "Are their houses as good as yours?"

"Their house is more spacious than mine, but the decoration style is not the same," Schiller said, "You'll know when you go."

Schiller was telling the truth; Victor was never short of money. He had a massive number of patents for cryogenic technology, which could bring him terrifying income every year.

Compared to Schiller, who had to pick and choose when buying a new house, consider the price-performance ratio, and even had to pick up leaks in the end, Victor bought a modern large villa in the most expensive new villa area in the South District directly, with a swimming pool and garden.

If in Billy's view Schiller's house could be called luxurious, then Victor's house was estimated to be another world.

After sending Billy away, Schiller picked up his phone and checked the information on it. He wasn't deliberately finding an excuse to throw Billy to Victor, but he really had things to do.

The Eleventh Bureau contacted him because Luthor hoped that the KGB could help find the Martian Manhunter of this universe. The Eleventh Bureau didn't know whether they should take this task, so they came to ask Schiller.

But in fact, Schiller, the director, was just a hanging name; he basically didn't care about any affairs in the bureau, all arranged by the deputy director.

This time it mainly involved the Justice League, and they felt it was better to seek Schiller's opinion, so they sent him a message.

Of course, Martian Manhunter had to be found. As a psychic ability user who benchmarks against Professor X, if he could join the Justice League, it would also be a great improvement in the combat power of the Justice League.

And with such a psychic ability user, communication would be very convenient in the future, and there would be no need to call the Charles from another world over.

Schiller agreed to Luthor's proposal, but there was a trick to the method. Searching for a needle in a haystack all over the world was definitely not going to work. Since Martian Manhunter's psychic ability was very strong, it would be better to let him hear that someone was looking for him, and then he would find them himself.

To achieve this, naturally, a method that Martian Manhunter could receive was needed. And mind-reading was actually reading brain waves; as long as brain waves containing this thought were sent over a wide area, Martian Manhunter would naturally know.

Currently, the Eleventh Bureau didn't have such technology, but after all, Charles was there. He had just helped Magneto test the brain wave amplifier before, and the principle was actually similar; as long as he went to help, the transmitter could be set up soon.

It sounded like it had nothing to do with Schiller, but in fact, what Schiller had to be busy with was another matter.

He had already discovered that Marafak and Zod seemed to have some understanding of their universe beyond the facts.

For example, Marafak interfered with Injustice Superman's brain waves, making him go crazy in Metropolis, thus causing destruction. But in fact, it was very strange that there was an extra Superman in this universe.

Marafak was neither shocked nor investigated, and just attacked him so directly; wasn't it a bit too crisp and neat?

Even if he was just a reckless man, thinking about striking first, regardless of which Superman, control him first. What about Batman?

If Marafak had investigated the situation in Cat Getan, he shouldn't have thought about kidnapping Bruce. Because everyone in Cat Getan knew that Batman hadn't appeared for a long time, and the tight-clad monster standing on the roof of the building every day was a thing of the past.

And with the Cat Getan renovation project nearing completion, Wei En Group no longer had such a big reputation. And ever since Thomas Wei En returned, most of the reputation regarding Wei En Group was concentrated on him, not Bruce Wei En.

Except for a very few insiders, most people didn't fully understand Bruce's contribution to Cat Getan. As for his contribution to the Justice League, it was even less than Luthor's.

In summary, the Bruce of this universe didn't look like the Batman of other universes, who was the soul of the Justice League. He didn't even rank in the top three; the Trinity didn't even rank in the top three.

In this situation, what would a normal villain do?

Of course, it was to capture the real soul figure, such as Oliver.

Oliver's fame was much greater than Bruce's; just casually taking out a few of his deeds could shock people. Everyone felt that he was the core of the Justice League's formation and the real soul figure.

More importantly, he was just an ordinary human; even if he had received some professional training, he couldn't compare to a superpower user.

The status was important, and the ability wasn't that strong; wasn't this a ready-made soft persimmon?

As long as Oliver was captured, the Justice League wouldn't say it would collapse instantly, but it would definitely be significantly affected, causing a huge blow to morale. There was no reason not to capture him.

Besides Oliver, Lex was barely a soft persimmon. And his status was equally important. Now the two main office locations of the Justice League, Luthor Corp and Luthor Manor, were his properties. As long as he was captured, why worry about not capturing others?

And he was just an ordinary person, at least the image presented to the outside was like this, and because he had to manage the company, there were many trips, and he was full of flaws. The difficulty of capturing him wasn't high.

Even if the security level of these two people was too high to be captured, capturing Arthur was also a good choice. After all, he was the nominal ruler of Atlantis; if he was captured, it might provoke a war between Atlantis and humans, letting Atlantis flood the city and achieve the goal of destroying Metropolis without any effort.

Taking a step back, even if it caused some movement in the defense area of the Green Lantern Corps, and played a trick of luring the tiger away from the mountain on Hal, it could well weaken the defense power of the Justice League.

What benefit could dealing with Bruce have? He was neither a spiritual pillar nor provided financial support, nor did he play a substantial defensive role. Staying in Luthor Manor for a few days produced a steel-toothed puppy that almost wiped out the Justice League.

You don't catch the fragile shooter who crosses the line, you don't catch the mid-laner who gets lost in the jungle, you don't catch the late-game daddy in the top lane, but you insist on catching that useless support.

Bruce didn't even count as a support, he didn't even count as a red or blue buff, his ecological niche was about the same as the small monsters in the jungle.

Marafak and Zod were like that human-machine jungler, rushing straight into the jungle at the start, brushing the stones after brushing the birds, brushing the wolves after brushing the birds, brushing the toad after brushing the wolves, the stones refreshed after brushing the toad, why do I always have wild monsters to brush?

Such a weak-minded action plan was definitely not formulated based on the facts that could be investigated in this universe now, there must be some external factors.

And what Schiller could think of was probably that one of them had suffered a loss from the orthodox Batman, so they regarded Bruce, who was suspected to be Batman, as the number one enemy.

It's just, where did they meet other Batmen?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 3494 =====