Chapter 4146: When the Pumpkins Ripen (Part 39)

It wasn't the real Brainiac speaking, but Greed, though Brainiac was also listening on the side. When he saw Tobias's face, he knew that Greed was right.

Since Brainiac descended on Earth, he really hadn't done anything terribly evil. On the contrary, he had made great achievements, had a brilliant record, was even very humble, and was amiable. Under his rule, not a single person had been executed, at most it was life imprisonment without parole.

Then his opponent, Darkseid, was completely a negative example. When invading Earth, he had slaughtered the human ethnic group countless times. Whether it was the soldiers on the front line or the people in the rear, everyone knew how cold and evil he was. The generals under his command were even more cruel. Whether it was Desaad or Granny Goodness, there was no good end for those who fell into their hands.

Under such circumstances, people were naturally more afraid of Darkseid.

If you offend Brainiac, at most you'll have some points deducted, and even if you commit a crime, you'll just go to jail. But if you offend Darkseid, he'll peel your skin and pull your tendons, making you wish you were dead.

So, after Tobias discovered that his conspiracy had been exposed, he didn't feel panic. Anyway, at most, it's just going to jail. And he had another hope, which was Darkseid. He could find a way to get Darkseid to bail him out.

However, when he learned that Brainiac already knew he had intercepted the Mother Box and intended to tell Darkseid about this, he was truly panicked. Because Darkseid would really kill him, and would never let him die easily.

"Don't be like this," Tobias said. "I think we can talk, after all, I didn't hand over such a treasure to aliens, but kept it in my own hands. This is also good for Earth and your rule, isn't it?"

"No, if you had handed it to me the first time you discovered this thing, then I could admit that you made some contributions to Earth. But what you did was just keep it in your hands. What do you want to do with it? Create more terrorist attacks to resist me?"

Tobias's expression looked very surprised, which made the wrinkles on his face smooth out. He opened his mouth and said: "... Did you take the wrong medicine? Brainiac?"

"How? Are you very surprised?"

"I have to admit, I am indeed very shocked." Tobias blinked quickly, then said, "I thought you would tell me things like terrorist attacks are crimes, or question me about where I am dissatisfied, or deduct my points..."

"No, Tobias, my point is, regardless of whether you lead a huge underground organization or hold a powerful alien treasure, you shouldn't use this as a reliance to resist me. Or are you so stupid that you think you can stand on the opposite side of me and contend with me by relying on these?"

"I didn't," Tobias answered so quickly, before Greed finished his last punctuation mark, he had already output a long string, "How could I think so? Mr. Brainiac. You first led all humanity to defeat evil aliens, and then brought the fairest and most harmonious society to human society, everyone is bowing down to your strength and justice, please be sure to believe that I am one of them. The previous accidents were just misunderstandings, I admit I have an underground organization, but that was formed before you appeared. Violating the Association Law, I'm really sorry. If possible, I can fill out the organization registration application form. Please be sure not to worry about this, and continue to complete your great cause of saving humanity from poverty and hunger..."

"Enough, it seems you are really stupid. I really didn't expect Darkseid to pick a fool like you. Even at this time, you still treat me as a three-year-old child who knows nothing. Tobias, I know very well what kind of person you are, but it seems you don't know what kind of person I am."

"I'm all ears, sir." Tobias's tone turned cold.

And at this time, Pride, who was sitting on the sofa, looked at the communicator in his hand. Pride rolled his eyes slightly, took the communicator from his hand, and still used that slow and steady tone:

"Crowds are like flocks of sheep, they are always panicked and restless. After experiencing long wars and drastic social changes, they need someone to tell them that dawn has truly arrived."

"I need to appease the flock, let them calm down as quickly as possible, even if it's just on the surface. But your shallow cognition made you mistake the reasonable appeasement measures I took while in the social stage for my entirety."

"Perhaps you are still thinking that you have seen a different side of me, you think this is my true face. But this is still a stupid view. My life form is not something that primitive carbon-based organisms like you can understand."

"I can handle things fairly and become a gentle helper in the eyes of most people. That is indeed me, but it is just one tentacle extended from a huge machine. And the other thousands upon thousands are all in the dark depths of the universe that you cannot reach. You cannot see, you cannot recognize, it doesn't mean they don't exist, it doesn't mean they won't descend like me."

"And regarding these poor sheep, you and I both know that if the sun could save Earth, Earth wouldn't be like this when I came. People are always afraid of the dark, but the dark spurs them to light up the city. When the time comes, I won't hesitate to use fear to spur them."

"And you, with your shallowness and arrogance, tried to snatch the power to spur them from my hands. But what's ridiculous is that you snatched the whip, but didn't know how to use it at all, played a trick, but couldn't even drive a sheep into the fence. If you were trying to pretend to be a ridiculous clown to amuse me, you succeeded."

"The ridiculous movements you made didn't cause any harm to me, but exposed yourself so easily. But unfortunately, after seeing your performance, I'm even too lazy to send someone to catch you. Keep making trouble, what is that human saying? Work and rest combined, right?"

After speaking, the communication was hung up. Brainiac looked at Tobias's face, which was already ugly to the extreme, and suddenly had a very strong urge to laugh.

He knew this must be another program error. He was just an electronic life, he shouldn't have such strong pleasant emotions. But hopefully, Lex Luthor, who was solving the program error, wouldn't call to scold him.

"My god," Barry, who had heard the whole thing on the side, said, "If I were him, I would be driven crazy. You didn't even ask him for the Mother Box!"

"That's the most annoying part," Greed said. "It's clearly looking down on him. The subtext is saying, 'You can't do anything decent even if you hold the Mother Box'."

"Then what if he really wants to make a big move... Oh, right, his Mother Box is fake." Barry slapped his forehead.

And just as he expected, Tobias was indeed a bit broken. He took out the Mother Box Greed gave him from the drawer, but very unfortunately, he was not a scientist or a researcher, he couldn't even judge whether this thing was fake. He only knew he couldn't use it at all.

He was so angry that he threw the thing on the ground, started pacing frantically in front of the window, and then picked up the Mother Box, wanting to go out. An even more collapsing thing happened—the door wasn't locked at all.

During martial law, most buildings where people stayed had to be locked. Even the coffee shop Barry often went to, he used the Speed Force to get in. If he walked in like that normally, he wouldn't be able to get in.

But Brainiac didn't lock his door! He didn't lock the office where he was!!!

Tobias was so angry that his flesh was trembling. Of course, he wasn't angry that Brainiac didn't care about his safety, but angry that Brainiac didn't think he would pose a threat to anyone even if he walked out of this door.

Brainiac already knew he was the leader of an underground organization, and knew he held a powerful Mother Box, but he didn't care at all, didn't care, and was even too lazy to guard against him.

For an evil genius, this could simply be called a huge humiliation. People didn't even plan to guard against your evil talent, and the only difference between that and pointing at your nose and scolding you for being a waste was that the latter was relatively civilized.

Tobias was so angry that he strolled around the factory, and then returned to his office, because he found that he really couldn't do anything.

Now, global martial law. He could call his subordinates in front of Brainiac, but they were also locked up. Even if they weren't locked up, all kinds of public facilities were suspended. If they wanted to go anywhere, they could only walk. And although this organization started very early, there were actually no very powerful super-powered people inside, and they couldn't do anything to make trouble globally under these circumstances.

And the Mother Box in his hand was even more of a waste, it was just a black box that looked unremarkable. He couldn't make it show its true form no matter how he fiddled with it, and it couldn't be used at all.

Although he was still quite good at fighting, he didn't know who to fight, the telephone pole at the door? Not to mention Brainiac didn't care at all, Metropolis as a key construction city, the telephone pole was very hard, he might not be able to beat it.

After being furious for a while, Tobias finally calmed down a bit. And sitting down to think carefully, he suddenly had some enlightenment, and even felt that this might be a good thing.

If Brainiac was really a completely fair and righteous ruler, then he had no room for promotion. Being a manager in a paint factory was not bad, even if he could go to a bigger factory, he would still sit in the office every day reading reports and looking at those production safety reports.

But if Brainiac was like what he showed today, like what he said today, showing such an amiable face, just to appease humans, and had more and tougher ruling plans later, and even planned to fight back against Darkseid, then his usefulness would be great.

Just the fact that he was Darkseid's subordinate was enough for Brainiac to win him over. Darkseid had already set his sights on Earth, and he was a big trouble that Brainiac had to solve. And he was Darkseid's subordinate, which could be considered trusted by him. In order to win him over, Brainiac would definitely offer a high price.

And, if Brainiac really took down Darkseid, wouldn't Apokolips need people to build it? As the person who communicated with Darkseid most frequently and knew the situation on Apokolips best, it wouldn't be too much for him to be the Governor of Apokolips, right?

Tobias narrowed his eyes, he slowly turned the ring on his finger, and expectation began to rise in his heart. He was even a bit excited, standing up and pacing in front of the desk.

And at the same time, the voice of Brainiac, disguised by Schiller, also sounded in many people's ears, sounding incomparably arrogant, and also showing amazing greed.

Since then, for those evil geniuses who didn't work hard, kept making small moves, were indifferent, and disdainful, today was the day Brainiac truly descended. ===== CHAPTER 4147 =====