Chapter 3586

Through Brainiac, Shiler finished watching everything that happened at the abandoned factory. The entire process was laughable.

The most reliable person in this whole affair turned out to be Jack the Joker.

He executed Harley's plan perfectly. Although some of the results achieved during the process were a bit too good, it didn't deviate much from the main plot. Moreover, he was very cautious and stayed behind, even nearly rescuing Harley.

When the Joker becomes as reliable as Batman, Batman naturally becomes inevitably as comical as the Joker.

These two Batmen followed along, but apart from causing trouble with their suspicious nature, they accomplished nothing. Although Pamela and Victor were leading the pace, they still acted a bit too much like comic relief.

Shiler didn't know if this was due to the "Batman-Joker Law," if these two Batmen were just not strong to begin with, or if Amanda was dragging them down. In any case, the plot was sprinting in a direction that was not very serious.

Shiler felt that upon learning Congress intended to transfer Amanda, Batman would surely be very grateful for Congress's wisdom. But unfortunately, Amanda was a very stubborn person; she would not let it go at that.

Sure enough, after receiving this news, Amanda was burning with rage, slammed the table, and then swept everything on it to the floor.

"No, I won't go to some shitty Washington!" Amanda said, "They can forget about making me let go of New Jersey!!!"

Injustice Batman frowned. He saw the unwisdom of Amanda's move, but Amanda, consumed by anger, would not listen to his advice.

After Amanda left, Injustice Batman said to Batman, "I think we chose the wrong person. Although the Amanda of this universe is not that evil, she is clearly more stubborn."

"This might be because she has achieved victory before," Batman analyzed. "Regardless, she at least formed the Federal Shield and has the autonomy to lead an organization. This made her miscalculate her own strength, so she became more stubborn. Not anticipating this was indeed our mistake."

"Have you realized that Congress's actions are a bit too fast?" Injustice Batman rested one arm on the table and said thoughtfully, "Amanda just woke up, and Congress's call came. This means that what happened at the factory did not escape their eyes."

"Are you saying there might be a mole in the squad?"

"Working for Congress doesn't count as being a mole," Injustice Batman shook his head and said, "It can only be considered a product of political struggle. But this is also very troublesome for us."

"This squad is not as useful as we imagined and cannot be compared to the Justice League. If Amanda is determined not to leave, I think we can choose to leave and go it alone."

Just as the two Batmen were discussing, Amanda had also thought of a way. She was not completely unaware of her situation, but she was just very stubborn and felt she could force her way through.

"Notify all members of Task Force X!" Amanda said, "We must hold a meeting!"

The members walked into the conference room in twos and threes. Deadshot and Enchantress, who were less injured, also came, but Katana and TDK, who were recently injured, were still resting, so the number of personnel had not changed.

"Congress wants me to go back, and I won't do as they wish," Amanda said. "And I hope you understand one thing: if I don't get the support of the congressmen, then the funding will also go down the drain."

Pamela and Victor immediately widened their eyes. She slammed the table and said, "How can they do this!"

"It's precisely because I can't let them be so unscrupulous that I called you over," Amanda sighed and said, "We must let them see our capabilities."

"They are dissatisfied with you controlling the state police," Pamela had long seen through everything, and she said, "They treat you as a predator with nothing, not understanding what kind of power you control. This is because this squad's performance in the previous few times was poor."

"Yes." Amanda nodded to confirm this statement; her line of thinking was also like this.

It was similar to Congress feeling that Amanda only held a small knife, yet dared to boast about wanting power. And the reason they felt the thing in Amanda's hand was a small knife was because the Federal Shield had never achieved any results from start to finish.

Task Force X's performance was not very good; even the trouble they caused was not big enough, completely insufficient to make Congress take them seriously.

The Justice League was a pearl before them. When dealing with aliens before, they made quite a stir, evacuating the entire Metropolis and fighting people near the sun.

Compared to them, the people in Amanda's hands inevitably seemed a bit amateurish. If the Justice League was a submachine gun, then what Amanda held would naturally look very much like a small knife.

But assuming Amanda held a rocket launcher, Congress would definitely not dare to deal with her in this way.

Or rather, the congressmen would not need to deal with her in this way anymore, because with such military force, Amanda would become valuable. They could completely eliminate someone internally and invite Amanda in.

Lex Luthor did exactly this back then. When he mastered Metropolis, he became very valuable. So even if everyone knew he was colluding with the enemy, they would still kick another unlucky guy out to let him come up.

Amanda just wanted to take this path. As long as she showed sufficiently high military force, Congress would not be able to boss her around.

Although Congress let her go back, it was not impossible to delay. After all, she had just been injured, so she could just say she was not fit to move, and the other party could not possibly send someone to drag her back.

Taking advantage of this time, Task Force X could go and make a big splash. As long as they could show a sufficiently high level, no one would be able to speak loudly to Amanda.

Amanda stated her plan, looked around, and then said, "What do you think?"

"I agree," Pamela said, "Of course, it's definitely not for funding or anything; it's mainly to give those old men a taste of our power."

Victor also nodded and said, "That's right, we have to let them see our strength."

The two Batmen sitting at the end of the table actually really wanted to ask, "What strength do you guys even have?" But looking at Amanda's ugly expression, they also chose to shut up.

Actually, Pamela, who worked two jobs, thought very simply: Why are we here? It's for money. Not to mention Amanda's salary, they also wanted Congress's funding.

To get funding, they naturally had to show some value, which was to paint a big picture. Unfortunately, Amanda didn't paint it well before they arrived. But it didn't matter; as long as they could get the funding, they could paint as big a picture as needed.

"If we do well this time, I will negotiate with Congress afterward and ask them to increase the Federal Shield's funding. No matter how much the share is increased, I will give you 80%!"

Pamela's eyes lit up instantly. Although Amanda was not smart, she was not stingy. Perhaps she also knew that under heavy rewards, there must be brave men. The atmosphere in the conference room became lively at once.

At this time, Harley was in the lab injecting a "nano-bomb." Of course, that wasn't any nano-bomb, just saline solution. The needle didn't even fully penetrate, and even half of the saline leaked out.

After the injection, Harley touched her damp neck and muttered a few words of dissatisfaction, but still stood up like a lunatic, shook her head, and twisted her ankles.

Everyone gathered again in the screening room. At this time, a construction site appeared on the screen. Amanda stood in front of the screen, pointing at the building on the screen with her finger and said, "Brainiac Center—I believe you have already heard the news about it."

"This is an insult to humanity. If we want to oppose Brainiac, we must cut down the flag he planted on the ground. So the Brainiac Center is our target."

"It has only just begun construction, but the informant watching it said he should be using technology that doesn't belong to Earth. We found traces of robots in the surroundings. This thing might come from Brainiac's hometown."

Hearing this, the two Batmen became focused. Having participated in the previous series of events, they knew where Brainiac's hometown was. Now the two Supermen were responsible for solving the matters on Krypton.

But that planet's waters were too deep; even the former natives might not be able to fully understand it. So the Supermen had no time to pay attention to the matters on Earth for the time being.

But with Superman there, Brainiac should not have any way to transport anything from Krypton to Earth. What was going on with the robots?

"No," Batman realized immediately, "It might not have been brought directly from Krypton. Brainiac has the technology; he could completely build it on Earth."

It had been many days since Brainiac's invasion. Although large-scale equipment couldn't be built, building some robots for construction wasn't that difficult.

But the trouble was that the robots used Kryptonian technology, which was probably not easy to deal with.

Batman put forward his own view. Amanda nodded and said, "You are right. Alien robots are indeed not easy to deal with. What's more, we found very obvious patrol traces on the periphery of the construction site, which proves that they might have built not only robots for construction but also those specifically for security and combat."

"To boost humanity's reputation, we must destroy this evil building as soon as possible; we absolutely cannot let him have the day it is completed. At the same time, I need you to show Task Force X's powerful strength in this battle!"

Mentioning this, Batman stopped talking again. He really didn't want to go.

"One more thing," Amanda said, "The Joker doesn't know clearly, but if that professor is already working for Brainiac, then he will definitely set up layers of defense at the Brainiac Center, and even create traps specifically targeting you. This will be quite dangerous."

Now not only did Batman stop talking, but Pamela and the others also stopped talking. Even if Shiler being their enemy was to join forces to cheat for funding, going against Shiler still made people's backs feel cold.

Suddenly there was a feeling that "this money isn't necessarily worth earning."

But Amanda clearly didn't give them a chance to go back on their word. She waved her hand and said, "Action tonight, and tomorrow morning I want to see the news that the Brainiac Center has been destroyed by the powerful Task Force X. Get ready to go!"

After leaving the conference room, Pamela deliberately lagged behind, waited beside Victor, walked side by side with him, and said, "What do we do now?"

"Don't worry, Shiler wouldn't kill you, would he?"

"He probably wouldn't kill me," Pamela was clearly unsure, and she said, "Shiler plus Brainiac, I don't even know what they will turn that building's defense into. Are we really going to storm in directly?"

"Do you think he has no defenses against Brainiac? Shiler certainly can't use his full strength; it's mostly all thunder and no rain..."

That night, Pamela squatted behind the fence on the periphery of the building, looking at the layers of robots inside, and said:

"But... isn't this thunder a bit too loud?!"

(End of chapter)