Chapter 3548: Edge of Tomorrow (5)

"Schiller, you bastard!"

As soon as a voice came from the office door, Schiller knew who was coming. Sure enough, Jonathan Crane pushed open the office door angrily and sat 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, a psychology professor, didn't face the mind reader, but instead let me go. Is there any justice left?!"

"I didn't let you go," Schiller said unhurriedly, taking a fountain pen from the pen holder, and then said, "It was Malafak who found you himself, it has nothing to do with me."

"If you hadn't misled him..."

"Why was I able to mislead him?"

"Because that damn Batman thought I was..."

"Then why would Batman think you were the Professor?"

Jonathan was choked, what else could it be because of? Because of the little prank he played at the banquet.

"Alright, didn't you turn out fine?" Schiller wrote and drew on the paper and said, "I have a part-time job opportunity here, do you want to come?"

"What do you want me to do again?" Jonathan was on high alert, could there be anything good at Schiller's place?

Schiller seemed to see what he was thinking, and without raising his head, said: "This time it's really a good thing. A generous lady has offered a high price of 500,000 US dollars annual salary for a member of an evil organization. Don't you plan to apply?"

"Evil organization? Justice League?" Jonathan raised one eyebrow high.

"Do you want to hear what you are saying?" Schiller looked at him helplessly and said, "It's already called the Justice League, can it still be an evil organization?"

"Cut! Haven't you been online recently? The Justice League has been scolded!" Jonathan said with some gloating, "That super evil robot claims to rule Earth, but the Justice League is gone. Now everyone is condemning them."

"But they are really sitting still. Not a single one stood up to speak. So many media and TV stations, they couldn't catch one. It's really interesting."

"That's because they are smart," Schiller continued to write with his head down, and said, "Brainiac and the previous aliens are different. This guy is very smart, and from the beginning, he was determined to stir up humans from the inside. If the Justice League stood up to oppose him at this time, it would be them being roasted on the fire."

How could Jonathan not understand? His eyes flashed and he said: "You mean the Justice League expected Brainiac to come up with this move?"

"In terms of political struggle, compared to Oliver, Brainiac is just a novice who talks on paper," Schiller snorted and said, "He wants to disintegrate us in the human way, but he still overestimated the bottom line of humans. I guess he didn't expect that superheroes could just quit."

Schiller was not speculating groundlessly. From the moment he knew of Brainiac's existence, he roughly knew what kind of method this guy would use to invade Earth.

In the comics, this guy's 12th-level intelligence is just for show. Every time he finds trouble for humans, that method is a bit insulting to the weak-minded.

He also has three tricks: hacking, robot army, and driving tigers to swallow wolves.

Either through his powerful hacking ability, making something of the Justice League not work well; or building a robot army to invade Earth; or taking advantage of a major event to stir up trouble inside, or tricking other aliens to find trouble for Earth.

Apart from this, there are basically no other means.

However, Schiller knew that the comics were drawn like this because the editors really couldn't think of a better way. And if he were really made too omniscient and omnipotent, wouldn't it make the Justice League look useless?

The era when Brainiac was born, "I predicted your prediction" was not so popular. Everyone was doing it for real. In order for the plot to proceed, naturally, the settings could not be implemented too thoroughly.

However, since Brainiac has appeared beside him, and let's assume he has 12th-level intelligence, he certainly couldn't be like in the comics, stupidly rushing toward Earth.

"The Art of War" says well: "The best warfare is strategy, the second is diplomacy, the worst is attacking cities."

It means that the best means of war is strategy, the second is diplomacy, and the worst is dancing with knives and guns.

And the means of strategy are also divided into three types: the best is used before the war, the second is used during the war, and the worst is used at the negotiating table.

And the strategic means used before the war can be summarized in four words: "disturbing the morale of the army."

As long as you can make the other side mess up internally first, you can win the war before it starts.

Brainiac is so smart, he naturally won't leave the best strategy unused and use the worst strategy. So, he must think of a way to provoke internal strife among humans.

Very unfortunately, the interior of humans is indeed a plate of loose sand, and it doesn't even need him to provoke it, it scatters when blown by the wind.

However, the weak ordinary people who live on the surface all year round have little influence on the situation. Therefore, Brainiac's move seems to be to divide the poor and the rich, but in fact, it is still targeting the Justice League.

Brainiac gave such an arrogant speech just to let more people know him, to let those with lower living standards and lower education levels see him as a savior.

In this way, once the Justice League stands up to oppose him, the Justice League will naturally stand on the opposite side of this part of people.

The mass line can indeed set off huge waves, but that is only aimed at ordinary human society. In the DC universe, there are superhumans. To be honest, the influence that ordinary people can have on superhumans is indeed very limited.

Even if many poor people 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 heroes. Their original intention for forming this organization was to bring a stable life to more ordinary people and reduce the suffering they encounter as much as possible.

If they encounter opposition from most ordinary people, will they also doubt themselves? Will they also feel guilty? Will they also feel hesitant?

Brainiac's move is actually a psychological attack.

Setting the general public and the Justice League against each other is just the first step. The next step is naturally to buy off the wealthy class and leaders, and set this group of people against the Justice League as well.

In this way, the Justice League is almost standing on the opposite side of all humanity. By then, no power can be exerted smoothly.

This plan is quite poisonous. It's just that, as Schiller said, Brainiac's strategy is all shallow. He overestimated the moral bottom line of the Justice League, causing this move to die in the womb before it could be used.

Because the Justice League went off work.

The official website of the Justice League issued a notice directly, saying that they don't care about this matter anymore. The scolding below is indeed like a tide, but most of them are complaining: "You have only been at work for a few days and you are on vacation?"

Ordinary people are speechless about the Justice League going on vacation, but they have no choice. Some even feel that it is good for the Justice League not to care. What if Brainiac can really give them a fairer life?

On the contrary, the ones who are looking for the Justice League most crazily are the wealthy class and leaders.

They know very well that with Brainiac's way of doing things, on the first day of this robot ruling Earth, they will all have to be hung on street lamps. If the Justice League doesn't care, won't they lose their lives?

Where can ordinary people mobilize so many media and TV stations? And how could they make them condemn the Justice League for being irresponsible with such a consistent tone? It is absolutely impossible for there to be no shadow of the wealthy class and governments of various countries inside.

So now, the public opinion situation on Earth is very strange: ordinary people are noncommittal about the whereabouts of the Justice League and don't care much; governments and rich people are crazy looking for people everywhere.

This is completely opposite to the situation Brainiac imagined, causing his subsequent plans to be unable to proceed. He must readjust the plan.

He is also cunning enough. Only one night passed, and he released another message, claiming that if they want him to rule Earth, they must let the Justice League come forward to negotiate with him.

This time, ordinary people also started to mess up. Most people hold the attitude that it doesn't matter if they try, and started to demand the Justice League to come forward to contact Brainiac on the official website.

The official website did not reply. The public opinion of ordinary people also started to lean to the other side. The current Justice League can also be called scolded on both ends.

However, no matter how they scold, this group of superhumans is determined not to show up. No one can do anything.

A few ordinary people are all in Metropolis. Metropolis is Luthor's turf, and no department can easily move him. And they are still shrinking in Luthor Manor, you can't just send troops to attack Luthor Manor, right?

Things are stuck like this. Neither side is willing to step back. By the time Jonathan came over, the internet was already scolding the Justice League one-sidedly.

Schiller finally finished writing what was on his hand. He folded the paper and put it aside, looked at Jonathan and said: "How the Justice League is doing has nothing to do with us. Now we should consider whether to take that part-time job."

"500,000 US dollars?" Jonathan touched the back of his hand with his fingertips and smacked his lips and said, "But no one will 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 the computer and said while looking at emails, "I don't think she will let us do anything outside our ability. Even if there is, we can refuse. Don't you also refuse to work overtime with the school's salary?"

Jonathan's eyeballs turned and said: "It's not very good to take so much money from others but not work, right?"

"So you still have this kind of conscience?" Schiller said half-jokingly and half-sarcastically. But he thought about it and said: "It's not very good to not work at all. But when you don't want to work overtime, do you refuse righteously?"

"Of course not. I finally got a stable job," Jonathan snorted coldly, "Working overtime once or twice is nothing. If you really don't have time, push it off, and if you can't push it off, drag it back. It's not like going to rescue Jesus, what's the rush?"

"That's it."

"Give me her phone number, I'll talk to her."

"What's the rush, talk about it tomorrow."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 3549 =====