Chapter 3899

Justice League Cat Getan Base. Arkham Batman frowned as he looked at the document in his hand. Superman suddenly rushed in and shouted, "The largest power company in West California has a serious failure; a total power outage is expected within two hours!"

Arkham Batman stood up with a "swoosh," narrowed his eyes, and said, "It's finally here."

Three days ago, just after presiding over this week's regular meeting, Arkham Batman had just walked out of the conference room when his assistant walked up, lowered his voice, and said in his ear, "Urgent telegram from Spain; the royal family strongly opposes setting up a temple stronghold in Madrid. Serbia also called to say that this matter needs to be postponed. And Hong Kong..."

Arkham Batman paused his steps. Just as he was about to say something, he felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. He picked it up and looked; the phone system had disappeared, and there was only one line of black text on the white screen—"The good show has begun."

Arkham Batman's face darkened immediately. The assistant saw that his expression was wrong and asked a question. Arkham Batman shook his head and said, "This guy reminds me of someone I hate the most."

"It's bad, Mr. President!" When passing a fork in the road, another assistant suddenly rushed out to stop Arkham Batman and said, "A cruise ship carrying 163 federal citizens has gone missing in the Amazon basin. Family members reported it to the police after learning the news, and this matter was known to the media; it will be in the papers in 30 minutes at the earliest!"

"How did the news get out?"

"Don't know. The missing ship lost all signals. Family members claimed they received text messages from passengers on the ship before it went missing, but the Ohio State Police tracked the text message signal through technical means and found nothing. They thought the family members were reporting a false alarm, but soon other family members contacted the local police station, confirming that this matter was true."

"What does the Amazon side say?" Arkham Batman walked quickly, and the assistant also strode beside him.

"They insist on claiming they didn't receive any ship signals." The assistant paused and said, "Our foreign affairs personnel didn't dare to continue pressing, fearing it would cause a diplomatic accident."

"Let the Minister of Foreign Affairs come to see me."

"Yes, Mr. President."

Justice League Cat Getan Base. Wonder Woman was pacing anxiously in the room, looking at her phone about every three seconds.

"What on earth is going on?! Where did that cruise ship come from?! Foreign ships entered without any notification, and it doesn't show up on radar; did they fly over?!"

She stopped suddenly again, began typing rapidly on her phone, and then continued pacing.

"Calm down, Diana," Superman stood to the side and said. "Someone must be playing tricks behind the scenes, on one hand shielding the ship's signal so the Amazon side wouldn't notice a ship entering; on the other hand, tampering with the ship's navigation system so they don't even know where they are now; and finally hiding the ship and faking a missing ship case."

"In this case, the federal government wants to save people, but the Amazon doesn't know where they are either. The federal government will feel the Amazon is deliberately hiding it and is suspected of kidnapping; the Amazon feels the federal government is making trouble out of nothing and deliberately creating a diplomatic incident. The two sides will inevitably break up."

"I know that, of course!" Wonder Woman could no longer hide the anxiety in her tone. She said, "Especially before, Batman broke into Paradise Island to grab the key; he will definitely think this is my mother's revenge, and not telling him the ship's coordinates is trying to kidnap him through ordinary people; and my mother will feel this is a signal that Batman wants to move against the Amazon, and she might do something irrational under the pressure."

Wonder Woman stopped suddenly, and after being silent for a few seconds, she said, "Especially, the Amazon had a criminal record before..."

"You mean..."

"A ship had an accident there before, and it was the sisters of Paradise Island who saved the people. The female passengers on that ship were rescued quickly, but the male passengers... if you say they all stayed voluntarily, you might not believe it. And they might indeed not have been voluntary. Also, the women of Paradise Island just needed a tool for procreation; that group of men didn't get good care, most didn't survive walking out of there, and some were sent to Vulcan. That's why it led to the tragedy where all the female passengers survived, while all the male passengers disappeared."

It was also the first time Superman knew the truth about this matter. He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but didn't say it in the end, instead saying, "The Amazon's primitive tribes are too closed and backward; it's not strange that they would do such a thing. It's just that this kind of thing should have caused a huge uproar in the international public opinion field, but it seems not many people paid attention."

"Because my mother made a deal with the then-US President. The US was at its peak at that time, and even though there were many passengers from other countries on the ship, the countries they came from also had to listen to the US. Under the President's deliberate operation, this matter was suppressed."

Wonder Woman sat at the edge of the table, almost lying there. It could be seen that anxiety had almost crushed her. She said, "When I learned about this, I had a huge fight with my mother and have rarely gone back since. I tried my best to find the men who ran out back then and gave them some compensation, but it was really hard to make up for it. I really didn't want this."

"I know you definitely didn't want this kind of thing to happen; after all, you were previously with... forget it." Superman sighed and said, "Although the matter was suppressed, it involved many countries after all, so there was no way to completely erase such a major accident, and it still left traces on the internet. And this time, I'm afraid it will be dug up and made a big deal of; it can be considered retribution."

Just as he said this, Wonder Woman subconsciously looked at her phone again. And when she saw the front-page headline pushed to her by the news software, she gasped:

"Tourists' ship goes missing again? Amazon primitive tribe kidnaps and extorts federal citizens on a large scale; victims' families claim they have received text messages demanding ransom!"

Wonder Woman couldn't catch her breath and almost fainted. Superman hurriedly stepped forward to support her. Superman also opened his phone to take a look and found that this was not clickbait; the opening was four or five text message pictures, and victims' families were shown on camera.

"It must be that guy playing tricks." Superman's face also became a bit gloomy. He clicked into the comment section again, and sure enough, the comments below dug up the former ship accident, with pictures, analysis, and truth. Just the sub-comments of this thread had more than ten thousand comments.

Clicking into other software, the topic entries had long been hanging at the top of the list, and even if the region and language were switched, the entries were ranked at the forefront. This could completely be called a major international accident.

But actually, many cruise ships go missing in the US every year; although there were indeed more people this time, and they were all federal citizens, most of them came from Ohio and were basically civilians. Logically speaking, it shouldn't have caused such a big stir; it was definitely someone pushing the waves behind the scenes.

Then immediately, another somewhat inexplicable entry was brushed to the front—"Amazon Queen and Princess: Is the secret of immortality from sacrificing men?"

Superman's palms tightened when he saw this entry. He knew the mastermind had grabbed the key point. Diana's background actually couldn't stand scrutiny; she was a warrior who had participated in World War I, and being immortal for so many years while frequently appearing in the public eye, it was too normal for her abnormality to be discovered.

Even though all countries actually knew that without superpowers, it was impossible to build a country in the Amazon river basin—that place was simply not a place where humans could stay. But most civilians still didn't know.

It's like everyone knows there's a flying superhero called Superman, but they don't know he's actually an alien. Many ordinary people know there are superpowered people in this world, but they don't understand how superpowers are specifically divided.

And human society widely circulates sayings like "witches." The witch-hunting standards in the Middle Ages were strange and varied, but one thing in common was: witches would seduce and eat men to exchange for their own youth, beauty, and charm.

The Amazon has had two cruise ships go missing in succession, and the Amazon Queen and her daughter are immortal; isn't this the easiest thing to remind people of witches?

Even if the truth could be announced—Diana is a demigod of Mount Olympus, and her biological father is Zeus—it wouldn't be any better. Although Zeus took the initiative to provoke it back then, the Amazon Queen could also be considered a third party, and Diana would be an illegitimate daughter. This identity is even less welcomed in ordinary society.

Then from now on, the Amazon's good international image and the socialite image that Wonder Woman spent so much effort to build will collapse in an instant. Except for those who want to meet Zeus by chance, the Amazon's tourism industry can be considered finished.

Anyway, this is a dilemma: not clarifying and letting the rumors ferment, or clarifying and announcing the truth, are both hard to escape from the predicament. Moreover, this also involves the federal government; Arkham Batman will not save that ship of people no matter what, but the Amazon Queen cannot hand over the people, and there will be another battle between the two.

Arkham Batman, sitting in the office, was deep in thought. He thought one layer deeper than Wonder Woman: this small country of Amazon, even if everyone has superpowers, their location and international status can never compare to the United States. The Amazon Queen does not have the qualifications to challenge him.

Provoking the conflict between the two of them will not have any other result. Arkham Batman doesn't even need to use military means; he has ways to make the Amazon never be able to make waves again.

But this electronic lifeform is coming aggressively, changing its previous probing posture, and it's definitely not just to kill a small country through his hands; there must be a bigger plot behind this.

Arkham Batman believes that the electronic lifeform is "Xiang Zhuang dancing with the sword, aiming at Pei Gong"; it seems to be instigating the relationship between the US and the Amazon, but in reality, it is still aiming at the federal homeland.

Think about it, when this kind of thing happens, whether from the perspective of the US President or Batman, this ship of people must be saved. But if the Amazon Queen doesn't cooperate, Arkham Batman cannot save people from his office in Washington. Others pressing for it might not be useful and might easily be detained instead. With Arkham Batman's personality, he might run there himself.

Once Arkham Batman leaves, this electronic lifeform can take the opportunity to make trouble in the federal homeland. By then, fires will start in fifty states, plus manipulating internet public opinion, Arkham Batman's position as President will definitely be shaken. This is the electronic lifeform's true purpose.

Then what cards does he have in his hand?

Arkham Batman only hesitated for a few seconds before saying to his assistant, "Prepare the plane; I'm going back to Cat Getan."