Chapter 4143: When the Pumpkins Ripen (Part 36)

"The Mother Box is fake."

"Pfft!!!!"

Barry sprayed out a mouthful of coffee. Greed waved his hand, signaling him not to make a fuss, and said: "Pride really spoiled you guys. Everyone is unwilling to use their brains a little bit. Is this really okay?"

"What does this have to do with our brains? Why did you build a fake Mother Box?"

"Don't be anxious, I'm just about to say it." Greed said, "Darkseid needs the Mother Box, so we give it to him. That way, regardless of what he was planning originally, he can only put it aside for now and turn his attention to the more important Mother Box. Just ask you, is the theft case stronger than the child kidnapping case?"

Barry couldn't refute it either. After all, he and Jenna dared to lie flat because the research materials were stolen, which wasn't a big deal. To be precise, it wouldn't cause huge harm in the short term, and Brainiac would be there to hold up the sky if it fell. But the child kidnapping case was different, the harm effect was immediate, the timeliness of the case was very strong, and a breakthrough must be made immediately, otherwise there would be innocent victims.

And looking at the actions of those kidnappers, three child kidnapping cases were not their limit. They didn't intend to give up voluntarily at all. But since the Mother Box was born, there really hadn't been any vicious cases.

"The theft case is also fake."

"Cough cough cough!!"

Greed couldn't help but roll his eyes again, and continued: "Indeed someone came to steal things, but we took them down. The Mother Box is still well placed in the main-universe Batman's hands."

"Why did you do this?"

"First, important items were stolen, so Brainiac had a reason to impose martial law. After all, although they seemed to have their attention diverted, if there were no mandatory measures, it wouldn't be safe enough. What if they planned to do two things at once?"

Barry couldn't help but nod. This was indeed safer.

"Then, Darkseid is always a hidden danger. I don't know why Brainiac just repelled him from the solar system and felt that he could sleep soundly. If invading the solar system has no cost at all, then wouldn't anyone be able to come?"

"I didn't feel that I could sleep soundly." Brainiac interjected. "I'm just making a plan."

"Then your plan-making speed is too slow, as a super artificial intelligence, it's been more than a year, where is your plan?"

"I need to assess various risks, confirm action details, understand various intelligence..."

"I don't need to."

Brainiac was quiet.

"I understand, know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated. You want to understand intelligence, nothing more than wanting to target Darkseid's weaknesses. He may have many weaknesses, but none of them are enough to make you decide to take action, because if you can't give him a fatal blow, the follow-up will become more troublesome."

"But in reality, catching weaknesses is not as good as creating weaknesses. If you can't weigh which is better, then create the best one yourself."

"But how do you know what he will be tempted by?"

"I don't know what he will be tempted by, but I know what will definitely tempt him."

"What?"

"Greed."

Greed smiled and said: "You must be thinking, it's because I have intelligence, I know he wants the Mother Box or the Anti-Life Equation, that I set a trap. But in reality, even without these two things, as long as I fabricate a stronger one, and make everyone believe that this thing exists, Darkseid will definitely come to grab it."

Neither of them made a sound, and no one asked Greed how he was going to fabricate it. After all, the Mother Box was also fabricated by him, and judging from the organization Darkseid ambushed on Earth, he really believed it.

"But this is actually not the most important thing." Greed said, "If the Mother Box had been well placed there, then Darkseid might have sensed that this was a trap. But now the Mother Box is lost, and it didn't fall into his hands, what do you think he will think?"

"I remember this thing seemed to be made by New Genesis." Barry frowned and said, "They seemed to be fighting over this thing before. Now the Mother Box appeared on Earth, but suddenly disappeared, and Brainiac also released news that it was snatched by aliens. Then Darkseid will definitely think it was done by New Genesis."

"That's right. He can choose not to take this thing, because he feels that humans are a very backward civilization, such high-tech things, even if given to us, we can't use them. But New Genesis is different, they were the manufacturers of the Mother Box to begin with, taking it back not only can they use it immediately, but maybe they can continue to mass-produce it. Darkseid will not allow such a thing to happen."

"But he has a grudge against the main-universe Batman, shouldn't he target humans first?"

"This is another question, do you think Darkseid has learned his lesson?"

"What?"

"Why did Darkseid fall for the main-universe Batman's trick? From our perspective, driving his own planet directly to another distant world and participating in a multiverse-level war is simply the stupidest thing a stupid person would do. Darkseid is not stupid, how could he do such a thing?"

"Why?"

"Pride."

Greed continued: "He didn't look down on humans from the bottom of his heart. In his eyes, the multiverse human war is just ants fighting. Is there anything wrong with a human holding a mobile phone to film ants fighting? A person walking on the road with a suitcase won't take a detour just because a few ants are passing by in front of him, right? Even if his entire net worth is in this suitcase, he won't care at all. Who could have thought that he would be thrown into a concussion by an ant with a shoulder throw, and by the way, the suitcase would be burned to nothing?"

"It does make some sense." Barry said, "But maybe it's also because humans are indeed too different from Darkseid, which made him underestimate the enemy."

Greed shook his head and said: "Greed and Pride are the heaviest original sins of intelligent life, no one can be exempt. We are not discussing whether Darkseid underestimated the enemy, but whether he learned enough lessons from this failure."

"It doesn't seem like it." Barry said, "Otherwise he wouldn't be making trouble on Earth as soon as he came back."

"That's right. He won't think this is a failure, he will only think it's a ship capsizing in the gutter, a horse stumbling. He might even think that he underestimated the enemy before, but he still believes that as long as he uses his full strength, beating Batman until he's looking for teeth on the ground is not a problem. Not to mention anything else, if an Omega Beam hits him, wouldn't he immediately turn into ash?"

"That's right." Barry suddenly reacted, "Darkseid's Omega Beam can be transmitted across time and space, then why didn't he use it to hit the main-universe Batman?"

"During the war, he used this move." Brainiac suddenly spoke up. "I have a way to interfere with the Omega Beam. This might be the reason why he didn't use it for a long time. But if it were another universe, Batman might have suffered."

"I don't think you guys have any correct understanding of Batman's strength either." Greed waved his hand and said, "Let's not talk about this, let's just talk about Darkseid. He obviously didn't learn any lessons from this incident, feeling that it wasn't Batman who was too strong, but that he made a mistake. So, he won't take any humans seriously."

"In his view, taking revenge on the main-universe Batman is not a piece of cake? It's just a matter of a beam, it's not too late whenever he fires it. But New Genesis is different, those guys have been fighting him for many years, almost breaking the universe apart, but they are the number one enemy in his mind. Now, New Genesis might have taken back a treasure that is very important to them and also has strategic significance, how could Darkseid choose to deal with Batman with all his strength and ignore New Genesis?"

"So that's how it is." Barry said, "Once he knows that the Mother Box might have been taken by people from New Genesis, he will inevitably pursue it with all his strength. But now this thing is in the main-universe Batman's hands, won't he still pursue it to Batman's place?"

"Who said this thing is in Batman's hands now? Wasn't it stolen by a thief?"

"But obviously there was no theft case..."

"Who said there wasn't? Someone did sneak into the lab and took the thing away. That person was me."

"Oh, I understand. You want to build another fake one, right?"

"You're finally a bit smarter. The previous Mother Box did have some research value, so it was given to Batman. And now, what was stolen was another fake, which is in my hands, the thief."

"I guess you want to make a bomb. That way, after the Mother Box is found by Darkseid, you can blow him over. Right?" Barry looked a bit excited, even could be said to be rubbing his hands, seeming to have already seen the unlucky look of Darkseid being blown over.

"No no no, this method is too low-level." Greed shook his head and said, "And it has no significance for resolving Earth's current predicament. Because Darkseid himself didn't come to attack Earth, even if he was injured, wouldn't he still be hiding in Apokolips?"

"You mean..."

"The most troublesome thing now is the manpower Darkseid has ambushed on Earth. If they can't be caught, they can always secretly make trouble behind the scenes. With the shielding equipment in their hands, they can make Earth have no peace."

"That's right." Brainiac also echoed, "What happens on Apokolips has nothing to do with us. We just hope to maintain Earth's peace. As for taking revenge on him, a careful plan is needed."

"These two things can be done at the same time. Eradicating the forces Darkseid has ambushed on Earth for many years is also a kind of damage to him himself. Especially, when he is eager to take revenge on Batman, it can be said to be cutting off one of his arms."

"What do you plan to do?"

"If Darkseid discovers in the process of tracking the Mother Box's trail that this thing was not taken by people from New Genesis, but was intercepted by the human forces he ambushed on Earth, what do you think he will do?"

Barry suddenly realized, he said: "You want them to have internal strife? If Darkseid knows that the treasure he has been searching for so hard was actually intercepted by the subordinates on Earth he looks down on most, risking the risk of betraying him, he will definitely be furious."

"But, will the human forces ambushed on Earth really betray Darkseid?" Brainiac asked.

"Don't be anxious." Greed stood up slowly, walked over and shook hands with Barry, pointed at himself and said, "Re-introduce, '100' organization 'Thief' department's newly promoted head Schiller Rodriguez, has successfully persuaded the organization's big boss Tobias Whale, with the help of the Mother Box's power, to replace Brainiac and establish a new human dynasty belonging to Whale."

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"However, will the human forces lurking on Earth really betray Darkseid?" Brainiac asked.

"Don't be impatient." Greed stood up slowly, walked over to shake hands with Barry, and pointed to himself. "Let me reintroduce myself. Schiller Rodriguez, the newly promoted head of the 'Thief' department of the '100' organization, has successfully persuaded the organization's big boss, Tobias Whale, to use the power of the Mother Box to replace Brainiac and establish a new human dynasty belonging to Whale."

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