Chapter 3585

Before Batman even had time to be angry at Victor's attitude, an even bigger problem was placed before him.

There were more than just the Task Force people present now. The ones who saved the hostages were ordinary police officers, and their capacity to accept things wasn't as high as this group of monsters and freaks.

This shark monster in front of them had just swallowed a living person whole. Which police officer had ever seen such a big scene?!

The police officers who had originally been getting along harmoniously with the Task Force instantly turned their guns. They retreated rapidly, then gathered in groups of three or five into combat formations, riot shields in front, guns in back, all aiming at King Shark.

The rescued hostages were also terrified, screaming as they ran back, only to trip over each other and fall to the ground because their legs had turned to jelly.

King Shark was a bit dazed. His intelligence was indeed not high, but his perception of emotions was very keen. He could feel the hostility from those people holding guns aimed at him, but he didn't know why this was happening.

He hadn't spent time in normal human society like Killer Croc. His state of living was no different from when he was in the ocean. When eating fish in the ocean, did he have to ask for the fish's opinion?

In his view, people were about the same as fish. He ate when he was hungry; was there something wrong with that?

King Shark didn't know why this group of people wanted to radiate malice toward him. He didn't do anything, just stood in place and scratched his head.

This action was an instinctive expression of confusion, but the police didn't know that. Seeing this shark monster raise his arm, they thought he was going to counterattack and opened fire directly.

Suddenly, there was a burst of gunfire, and the other members of the Task Force had to quickly retreat to the side to find cover.

Bullets didn't pose much of a threat to King Shark, but the police's attitude angered him. If you were eating a meal properly and suddenly a fish flipped out of the fish tank and slapped you, wouldn't you be angry?

He roared and charged toward the police. Pamela hurriedly jumped out to stop him—a forceful swing of her vines directly swept a whole row of police officers away.

King Shark charged halfway and found the enemies in front were gone, feeling a bit lost, and turned back to look at Pamela, saying: "Tree tree! Tree! People!"

"Don't worry, I'll help you deal with them!" Pamela waved her hand again, and the police on the other side were also swept away.

"Stop!" Batman shouted.

"Stop what stop," Victor also chimed in from the side, "Don't you see she's saving those police officers?!"

Setting aside whether Pamela's methods were a bit violent, she did indeed save those police officers very well. Wherever King Shark charged, she swept the police on that side away, causing King Shark to be unable to touch anyone, and naturally, he didn't hurt anyone.

Batman observed for a moment and found that the police who were swept away were at most bruised, which was better than being eaten, so he hesitated and didn't interfere.

Just at this moment, a helicopter landed. Amanda walked out of the helicopter. On her way here, she clearly hadn't looked at the monitoring equipment, so she didn't know King Shark had lost control.

When she came over and saw the police lying all over the ground, she thought it was the Joker and Harley Quinn's doing and immediately retreated two steps cautiously.

At this time, King Shark rushed out and let out a roar at Amanda.

"What's wrong? Nanaue?" Amanda asked with some surprise.

"Get out of the way!" Pamela shouted from behind.

After King Shark roared, he charged toward Amanda. Pamela had to use her vines to lift Amanda up. After all, this was one of her bosses, so she couldn't be too rough.

King Shark was like a cat playing with a cat teaser; the more he couldn't hit Amanda, the more he wanted to jump up. Amanda kept screaming in the air.

"Put me down! Put me down!!!!"

King Shark's sharp teeth flashed with a cold light.

"No no no! Don't put me down! Don't put me down!!" Amanda immediately changed her tune.

To calm King Shark down, Victor stepped forward a few steps, raised his gun, and aimed, freezing King Shark first.

At this time, Pamela finally put Amanda down. Amanda appeared shaken, and she was the type of person who would act particularly angry when afraid.

"What are you doing!!!" She charged straight into the factory like a crazed cow.

The surrounding police were all lying on the ground, and the hostages couldn't get up because their legs had turned to jelly. The only ones standing were the Task Force members and Harley.

"Batman, you must give me an explanation!" Amanda roared at Batman, "If it weren't for your blind commanding, how could it have ended up like this?!"

"That's right, it's him! It's him who wouldn't let us be saved!" The hostages chimed in from the side.

It was clear that Amanda didn't think there was any problem with her command at all; she only felt that Batman usurping her command was being unreasonable, and she felt that Batman's command hadn't been very successful either.

Batman didn't care about her accusations. In his view, the hostages were saved, Harley Quinn was caught, and the mission was complete; all other accidents were within an acceptable range.

The more Batman acted this way, the angrier Amanda became. She walked deeper into the factory, trying to find evidence of Batman's mistakes. But Harley, standing beside Batman, gradually widened her eyes.

She had been in too much of a hurry when she tied up that submachine gun earlier, and the rope wasn't tied very tightly; it had already loosened. The gun was swaying in mid-air.

Whoosh—Bang!

The butt of the gun slammed straight onto the top of Amanda's head, making a crisp sound. Amanda fell to the ground in response. The world was finally quiet.

Fortunately, the subordinates Amanda brought were capable enough. Harley was eventually taken away by the A. R. G. U. S. Her plan could be considered half-successful; next, she just needed to play the part of Harley Quinn well and let Batman persuade her.

After being taken to the A. R. G. U. S. base, Harley was locked in a room in the basement. At night, Pamela snuck out to see her.

"My god. I dare say joining this squad was absolutely a stupid idea." Pamela couldn't help but say, "Nothing that happened during the day was according to plan. Amanda still hasn't woken up yet."

Thinking of Amanda being knocked out, Harley couldn't help but laugh. But she still coughed twice and said, "It's fine, the result is good anyway."

"If it weren't for the fact that she pays well, I wouldn't stay in such an unreliable organization for another second! Alright, I estimate Batman is coming to find you tonight. You stay put."

After Pamela left, Batman arrived soon after. Harley really used all her skills to play Harley Quinn, and finally didn't let Batman see any flaws.

The two had a secret talk and managed to reach a consensus, barely. At least that's what Batman thought.

The next day, after Amanda woke up, Batman went to find her again. Under his persuasion from both sides, Amanda finally agreed to let Harley join Task Force X. She didn't expect her to help much, as long as she didn't cause trouble outside.

Just as Amanda wanted to regroup and go explore the Brainiac center that Brainiac was building, she heard bad news—Congress immediately demanded she go to Washington to report on her work.

Calling it reporting on her work was actually just a way to recall her halfway and not let her participate in this matter anymore.

Amanda couldn't figure it out. Brainiac was also an enemy of Congress; what was wrong with her causing trouble for him here? Had those congressmen's brains rusted?

Batman, who was sitting on the side and heard the content of Amanda's phone conversation, said, "I'm afraid that professor made a move. He should be very good at this kind of tactic, right?"

Amanda was also a bit suspicious of Schiller, but she wasn't very clear about what Schiller relied on to influence Congress. Could it be the Justice League? But what reason would the Justice League have to convince Congress?

This time she guessed correctly; it was indeed Schiller who made a move.

In order to let the mercenaries earn more money, Schiller had truly taken great pains. If it were too simple, he wouldn't get the budget; if it were too difficult, it would be easy to be wiped out. How to design a mission with moderate difficulty was truly a science.

Causing explosions wasn't Schiller's specialty; his specialty was psychological and sociological strikes.

Actually, he didn't do anything very special; he just had Brainiac film the scene of the state police being dispatched and sent it to Congress, which prompted them to make this decision.

Brainiac was indeed a big problem, but as long as Amanda was turned into a bigger problem, then even if it meant risking their lives, Congress would stand on Brainiac's side. To be precise, they would stand on the opposite side of Amanda.

Amanda's A. R. G. U. S. had never been valued; it wasn't because her ambition wasn't enough or her ability wasn't strong, but because the President and Congress did it on purpose.

When you are only dealing with or restricting this group of lunatics, then of course we support you. But if you want to use this group of lunatics, it means you have become one of them, and then what we have to deal with or restrict is you.

A. R. G. U. S. was created under such circumstances. What is the difference between the person who rules the superpowered lunatics and the superpowered lunatics themselves?

The answer is there is no difference; both are uncontrolled.

So, in order to reduce the danger of this group of people, they must be controlled and their speed of development suppressed. That's why Amanda had always been suppressed and couldn't advance even half a step.

Any move she made to progress was seen by the upper levels as her wanting to use this group of superpowered lunatics to cause trouble. Achieving real results was even more unacceptable. If Amanda were allowed to hold a high position, then with the group of lunatics in her hands, who else would be her opponent?

Manipulating the local police was a quite sensitive move. The state police had great law enforcement power; sometimes even a strong dragon like the FBI couldn't suppress the local snake.

New Jersey was the Democratic Party's base. Amanda's move of manipulating the state police made it hard not to suspect that she had already turned blue.

The Republican Party wouldn't allow such powerful force to fall into the hands of the opposite side. The Democratic Party wasn't happy either, because they knew Amanda wasn't one of theirs, but Amanda manipulated the state police to do things, wasn't that snatching their guns?

It can only be said that Amanda was a typical isolationist in politics. When she solved political problems, she basically only considered herself.

She felt that if she could gain the support of the rich on Diamond Street, her organization would have the ability to move up. But if she looked up, she would understand that the positions above were already full of people. If you didn't pull someone down and just wanted to squeeze up, everyone wouldn't agree.

The amount of power is fixed. One person stepping down and handing it over to another person wouldn't cause any problems, because what was distributed to others remained the same. But if someone squeezed up, there would always be someone whose power was diluted, and no one wanted to see that situation.

It would be fine if Amanda stayed at the bottom honestly, but if she wanted to squeeze up and wanted to take law enforcement power as soon as she came up, she would definitely be jointly resisted by the people above. Because if she snatched law enforcement power today, she could snatch other power tomorrow. No one was willing to hand over the power in their hands.

Schiller saw this point, which was why he tricked Amanda in this way. Of course, this was only the first move; there was a series of chain traps behind it.

Theoretically, Batman could see where the problem lay. But again, if Amanda listened to advice, she wouldn't be who she was now.

?? I'm really so hungry during the fat-loss period

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