Chapter 3888

"Cat Getan's independence has become a fact, and the 26 agents who previously entered the country will be extradited back to the federation next Friday..."

Fiona was sitting on the sofa in the living room of Wei En Manor reading the newspaper. She frowned and said to Batman, who was pouring tea in the back, "I still think we should use the term 'People's Republic,' this can reflect the power of democracy."

"Yes, but if it shares the same name as a certain country in Asia, it might cause some unnecessary speculation." The Pale Knight walked down from the stairs, straightened his tie and said, "'Democratic Republic' is also not bad, it sounds a bit more distinct."

"Isn't that still sharing the same name with another country." Fiona shook her head, but didn't argue anymore, instead saying, "How many countries have established diplomatic relations with us so far?"

"European countries have basically sent telegrams to congratulate us."

Fiona widened her eyes in shock and said, "What? But how come those countries are so friendly?"

"Because they are afraid we will drift over to them." The Pale Knight rolled his eyes slightly and said, "The Atlantic Ocean isn't that big. Although we are relatively close to the federal land now, who knows when we will drift along the ocean current and go keep Britain company. I guess no one in Europe wants to see us."

Fiona burst out laughing and said with some emotion, "Being notorious has its benefits. However, the British aren't qualified to mock us, I don't want to let fish and chips spread to our island."

"Has the federal government not replied yet?" The Pale Knight looked at Batman and asked.

"No. I heard the President insists on not responding. He wants votes too much; such a big thing happened during his term, I'm afraid re-election will be difficult. I guess he is complaining to his aides."

"I actually think this is a good opportunity for him to boost his approval rating. After all, there are quite a few coastal cities that want independence; if he expresses support or has an ambiguous attitude, he should be able to gain their favor. Anyway, it's just verbal support, those cities won't really run away."

"Alright, let's talk about you." Batman put down the black tea and said, "How did you run out that day? Why did the police station catch fire?"

"My father's former comrade-in-arms saved me, but he said he didn't set the fire. I saw that the direction he came from wasn't the ignition point either, but I'm not too clear about what exactly happened."

"Did you discover anything unusual?"

"Of course." Fiona said, "The time of the fire was exactly six o'clock in the afternoon, and before the fire, someone sent me a string of Morse code through the indicator light of the camera, and the content was 'Six o'clock in the afternoon'."

The Pale Knight and Batman looked at each other.

"It really was said by Seeing Natasha." The Pale Knight said, "Wait a moment, we need to invite a lady over."

Fiona didn't know why, but still lowered her head to drink tea. Not long after, a dashing figure appeared in the living room of Wei En Manor. Fiona looked up and said in surprise, "It's you!"

"Is she one of us?" Fiona asked again.

The Pale Knight nodded, acknowledging it. Seeing Natasha sat on the edge of the sofa, her body taut, looked at Fiona and said, "Did someone contact you through electronic equipment? For example, sending an email or something."

Fiona shook her head slowly. The Pale Knight helped her explain a bit. Seeing Natasha said, "I know this might be absurd, but please listen carefully and try to understand as much as possible. I came from another universe, and many incidents happened in that universe, and finally we discovered that it might have been done by an electronic lifeform..."

Seeing Natasha briefly introduced the situation, then said, "According to my investigation, all the women who were dragged into this have one common characteristic, and that is red hair, which also includes you."

"You were arrested because of those remarks you published, and you published remarks because Congress suddenly brought up the referendum again. But the matter of bringing up the referendum again itself is very suspicious. I came from the Cold War era, and since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, congressmen have never been so unified. The Donkey and Elephant parties would hate to argue for a month over a trivial little bill, why did they collectively pass such a strange bill?"

"You think it is..."

"Their fundamental interests are opposed, so it's impossible for them to be tied together by interests. But they have one point in common, and that is those scandals that can never be dug out."

"You mean they were threatened?!" Fiona frowned deeply and said with some confusion, "But who can dig out so many scandals and dare to threaten them directly, not afraid of being found by them?"

"Humans of course cannot, even those on the other side of the ocean cannot. The only explanation is that it doesn't exist in this world, but is just a ghost on the internet."

"Too absurd." Fiona couldn't help but say, "You mean it collected the scandals of all American congressmen just to let them pass a fault-finding bill, and then drag me into it? What is special about me that makes it worth doing this?"

"This is exactly the problem we need to study." Seeing Natasha waved her hand and said, "Obviously, I am also one of the members dragged into this, but there is no common point between the two of us..."

"Really?" Batman couldn't help but say, "Do you really think the only common point between you two is red hair?"

"Otherwise?" Seeing Natasha looked at him and asked.

Batman shook his head slowly and said, "In my opinion, you two are very similar. You both once had a great goal to strive for, and you are both the kind of people who are willing to pay everything and are very stubborn to achieve your goals."

"That's right." The Pale Knight nodded and said, "'Stubborn' is a good word. To put it nicely, it's persistence; to put it harshly, it's paranoia. But you must admit that there is a background color of paranoia in your personalities. It's just that different life experiences made you choose to hide or express this trait of yours."

Seeing Natasha was silent, and then she was quite suddenly enlightened.

"I, Lena Luthor, Barbara Gordon, Pamela Isley, Mnemosyne, Fiona Travell... we really are all quite paranoid." Seeing Natasha counted the names one by one.

Seeing Natasha herself naturally doesn't need to be said, she looks like she isn't that stubborn, actually it's just because she is old, and the Soviet Union died thoroughly. If she wasn't a very paranoid person, she wouldn't have participated in the genetic modification plan with high enthusiasm.

Lena Luthor seems to have inherited the Luthor family's genes, her brother Alexander Luthor was a very paranoid person. And judging from her methods of doing things, Miss Luthor is obviously the kind of person who will stop at nothing to achieve her goals.

Barbara Gordon, the stubborn one who would rather go against her own biological father than not be Batman's assistant. Even if her lower body is paralyzed, she never gives up her career in the Bat-family, which can also be considered very persistent.

Poison Ivy doesn't need to be said even more, a firm plant protectionist, she hurts whoever hurts plants. When she goes crazy, even Batman can't stop her, the stubborn one among the stubborn ones.

Mnemosyne is an autistic patient, her paranoia is more likely to be pathological. And judging from her interest in detective work, she is the kind of person who is very persistent about knowledge and truth.

And Fiona, she inherited her father's legacy, firmly wanting to be a democratic fighter, and for this, she doesn't panic even when facing death. You have to know she is only 17 years old, being able to face the interrogation of FBI agents without wavering, and not being afraid, is enough to show how persistent she is.

All the red-haired women dragged into this above, besides the characteristic of red hair, can be said to be stubborn ones to a certain extent, who won't turn back once they decide on a goal. In their personalities, there is a same background color.

But even so, Seeing Natasha still couldn't figure it out. She said, "Alright, even if we are similar in some aspects, but why us?"

The Pale Knight and Batman also didn't quite understand. Batman said, "If it wants to get something from you, or use you to do something, then it shouldn't have chosen you. Because people like you are often independent, strong, and achieve goals through your own efforts, which is enough to make your spiritual world rich, and you don't need others to provide emotional support, you are never lacking in love, and are absolutely not good objects for induction and manipulation."

Seeing Natasha thought for a moment and found it was really true. All the women above are basically the antonyms of being love-brained. Although Poison Ivy likes Batman, Batman's status in her heart is obviously not as good as plants. If she had to choose one of the two, Poison Ivy would definitely choose the latter.

The others are about the same, it's not that there is no one they like in their hearts, but in their eyes, the first place must be the goal they persist in, not some person.

This kind of person is the hardest to manipulate. If you are beneficial to their goals, they will like you, but as long as they face a dilemma, they will always choose their career. The basis of manipulation is emotion, if you don't put emotion in the first place, it's useless even if gods come.

Seeing Natasha remembered that Arrogance had made a similar judgment about her. The first place in her heart is always that tombstone, which led her to instinctively want to escape when facing other people's emotions, wanting to interpret them in a superficial way.

Even Seeing Natasha's first love Bucky and the excellent Arkham Batman are no exception. If this electronic lifeform wants to intervene, I'm afraid it's as hard as ascending to heaven.

"Then there is only one possibility left." Batman said, "What it seeks is not a return in interests, but in emotion."

Seeing Natasha was even more confused, she said, "Didn't you say we are not good objects for expressing emotion?"

"Yes, but what if it doesn't seek a return?"

"You really wrapped me around, you just said it wanted an emotional return..."

"I mean, it doesn't want you to love it, but just to explore relationships between the sexes through you. In the process of interacting with you, it itself gains something, which is a profit for it."

"Relationships between the sexes" — again this term, Seeing Natasha thought. In the scandal photos and the Eden Killer case, Schiller had mentioned that the murderer might be exploring relationships between the sexes. At that time, she felt it was a bit absurd, because this conclusion was too jumpy, lacking too much favorable evidence to support it, and was hard to establish.

But as the victims became more numerous, the universes involved became more numerous, and the case context became clearer, Seeing Natasha discovered that it really might be like this.

She couldn't help but complain in her heart, Schiller's ability like this can't even be explained by mind reading. Mind reading can only read current thoughts, but cannot predict the future.

Seeing Natasha remembered that Arkham Batman had once told her that a good detective, besides needing rigorous logic and thinking methods, needs inspiration the most. They need an ability to suddenly skip a key link at a certain moment and reach the truth directly.

At that time, Seeing Natasha felt he was talking in his sleep; if logical deduction can't be linked ring by ring, what's the difference from guessing blindly?

But now Schiller showed her how outrageous this kind of thinking that skips key links and points directly to the truth is. In fact, Seeing Natasha had already learned the whole truth when she entered Schiller's office with the scandal photos.

If she had chosen to believe at that time, instead of having to go around in such a big circle to investigate more people to perfect the evidence chain, then the game between the two sides might have already entered the next stage.

Seeing Natasha sighed in her heart. This can't be blamed on her, blame Schiller, who would choose to believe such a god-like ability at the first time?

Tony Stark's face immediately popped up in Seeing Natasha's mind.

The female agent hurriedly shook her head, pulled back her divergent thinking, and continued, "But it didn't have any interaction with us..."

"Who said no." The Pale Knight looked at Fiona and said, "Didn't it save Fiona? Maybe compared to humans, it is more accustomed to verbal communication, this kind of life is more inclined to direct action. Think about it, if Fiona was just a very ordinary 17-year-old girl, would she feel moved and curious because a mysterious person saved her?"

"But he clearly knew Fiona wasn't like that."

"So he wanted to know what Fiona would do."

The eyes of the few looked at Fiona, but didn't see half a point of gratitude and curiosity on her face. On the contrary, the other party's expression became a bit serious, and she frowned and shook her head, saying:

"I don't believe it. And, in the case where it already knew how much I value Cat Getan's independence, it used scandals and black materials to threaten congressmen to make them bring up the referendum again, and even threw me into prison. Hindering my ideals and hurting my career is hurting me, and it is absolutely not loving me. No reason works—death penalty."

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