Chapter 4432

"That's right, ma'am. There is no alien invasion at all. That is nothing but a lie fabricated by the government to control the public! They have been plotting this for a long time, which is why they forged such an artifact to pave the way for their upcoming evil plans. Their goal is to make everyone believe that aliens exist, so that they have no choice but to tremble under the government's control..."

"Stop." Diana stopped him and then said, "Who is trembling?"

"The ordinary people, of course. They are now hiding in their homes like frightened birds..."

"What about the people in the tent cities?" Diana looked at him and asked coldly, "When you were in office, did they have homes to hide in?"

"What are you talking about, ma'am." The mayor had a shocked expression, "We are talking about the government's grand conspiracy..."

"Yes, your government is upright and has no conspiracies. It just let hundreds or thousands of homeless people die this winter." Diana lowered her eyes and said.

"That is because they chose to degenerate," the mayor said, "Metropolis still has tens of millions of good citizens; why don't you think about them? Why should they be under the control of a strong government without any freedom?"

For the first time, Diana realized what it meant when people were not on the same wavelength. She now felt that if she listened to even half a sentence more from the person opposite her, she would be disgusted enough to vomit. But a suppressed anger inside her made her force herself not to punch him.

"That's right, there are no homeless people in the city now. But is this a good thing? Without them to distribute food to, how can children participate in community service? Without them to test drugs on, how can new medicines be developed? Without corpses, medical students can't even practice. Do you really hope that the doctor treating you is a greenhorn who has never even performed a dissection?"

"They cannot cope with the competition in society, so they fell into homelessness. But even waste has its meaning. If you optimize away all the extra products on a production line, it might lead to other production lines being unable to start. Society will eventually become increasingly bloated and unhealthy. This is purely short-sighted behavior."

The mayor spoke with spit flying everywhere, "Human society develops through competition. If there were no competition and everyone lived a good life equally, then how would we develop? Only when everyone does not want to be eliminated and everyone is racing forward will society become better."

"This is exactly the biggest drawback of the strong government I mentioned. They insist on providing a safety net for those who have been eliminated. Do you think they will be grateful? These people have always been like this: you do one part, they want three; you do three parts, they want ten; if you don't give it to them, they will curse you and even vote for the opposition!"

"The rest of the people in this society see that such scum can live well, so naturally, they will be indignant and won't work hard. Everyone will imitate them and lie on the street, waiting for someone to take them in. There will be no one in the factories, no one in the offices, and the entire society will simply stop functioning. When that time comes, when you can't buy products or get services, won't everyone be cursing the people who provided the welfare?!"

"Therefore, the security measures for the homeless established by our new president are simply a huge mistake! Taking so much tax money to support these idlers—is that fair to those who work hard and earn money?!"

"Every class and every group should have a channel to voice their opinions. Ma'am, if you speak for those homeless people, then I should also speak for the class I belong to. The fact is that the Kent government is sacrificing the interests of the majority of the country to satisfy a small minority. Doing this is wrong!"

"Furthermore, he used such despicable conspiratorial means to forge artifacts and fabricate lies. Even if he becomes president, it is neither legitimate nor honorable. We should stand up and expose them to give the public the truth. This is what a righteous person should do!"

Diana was almost impressed by him. She had only heard of it before and had never seen it with her own eyes, or rather, had never seen it from such close range: the ability of politicians to turn black into white is truly first-class; they can even talk the dead into living.

This speech sounded very reasonable, but in reality, it was pure bullshit. First, regarding the issue of social development, it is a complete reversal of cause and effect. He meant that if everyone lived a good life, society would stop developing. But he forgot that the purpose of social development is for everyone to live a good life, or rather, a society that allows everyone to live a good life is a good society. If everyone cannot live a good life, then it is a cold, cruel, dark society, and also the most stagnant, lowest-end type of society.

Then, there is the issue of the causes of homelessness. The homeless people eliminated by society are not the problem; society is the problem. Greed, short-sightedness, and stupidity are because they did not receive enough education in society; being insatiable and not knowing right from wrong is because their level of prosperity does not reach the point of knowing etiquette. The resources society can provide them are not enough for them to be moral. If you threw those elegant elite classes into an environment where they might starve to death if they didn't act out and grab more than their share, they would become just as fierce as monkeys.

And the question of whether tax money should enrich the rich or the poor is a typical case of swapping concepts. It is not that tax money enriching the poor will cause harm to the rich, nor is there any talk of harming interests. Because for thousands of years, protecting the poor has been protecting the rich. If you make it impossible for people to live, people will make it impossible for you to live. Even in a place like the United States, which has no environment for revolution, didn't the Boston Tea Party trigger the Revolutionary War? Allowing the poor to obtain a stable life is the root of protecting the rich.

In short, people without basic concepts of sociology are easily incited by this kind of talk. But who is Diana? She has lived through two world wars and has lived for so many years; she has a very profound understanding of human society. This kind of talk cannot fool her at all.

The mayor kept emphasizing the strong government. But Diana knew very well that a strong government is a pseudo-concept. Because for an individual, the government is always strong.

Did the mayor mean that their administration was not a strong government? Then why were those homeless people willing to be homeless instead of rising up, rushing directly into the Capitol, and making the congressmen listen to their democratic opinions?

If they did that, what would they get? Wouldn't it also be violent suppression? Then isn't that also a strong government?

If he meant that there were many control projects and strict management, the problem is that their administration didn't manage any less. If you wanted to spend your own money to build a shelter, you needed community consent and qualification certificates; you would have more than a dozen inspectors a day, and the drafts and legal details restricting shelters could fill a book. Isn't that over-regulation?

However, Diana was too lazy to refute him. It is impossible to change the thinking of such people; their thinking only turns in one direction. Whatever you say to them, they can circle back to the same topic and then start repeating themselves; they often have amnesia and are extremely aggressive when slightly stimulated. If scientists studying Alzheimer's disease had come to study them earlier, they might have already found a cure by now.

"Let's not talk about this anymore." Diana interrupted them and said, "What do you want me to do?"

The mayor cleared his throat and said, "Ma'am, I presume you have also discovered that there is no way to prove that you did not steal the artifact using any method. So the only way now, for your own innocence and to let the public know the truth, is for you to expose their conspiracy!"

Diana sneered again; so this is where they were waiting for her. But it wasn't surprising; since things had reached this point, what else could it be?

"How do I expose it?" Diana asked, pointing her finger out the window, "Do you mean that those three nails are something humans could create, something humans could drive into the Earth's crust so that even Superman couldn't pull them out?"

"That thing might indeed be an alien creation, but it was launched by humans!" the mayor shouted, "They found it and then deliberately launched it onto Earth to scare humans!"

Congratulations, you guessed it, Diana said to herself. That is indeed exactly what happened. But the problem is that because this plan is too crazy and the truth seems too absurd, no one will believe it.

"Then let me ask you, where did they find it?" Diana even showed a slight smile, "Something this big isn't just something you can pick up; I'm afraid even Mount Ximalaya couldn't hide it."

"They... they found it in outer space! They might have started up an alien spaceship left on Earth and went to another planet to pick these things up." The mayor wiped his sweat and said, "This is also possible, isn't it?"

"Then which planet did they go to to pick it up?" Diana asked again.

"Who knows? Maybe they got lucky and happened upon a planet that had this thing, but no one was there, so they just picked it up. Or maybe some alien had an accident and it fell off their spaceship. These are all possibilities."

Diana sighed deeply and said, "Is this exposing them, or helping them?"

"What?"

"You mean that not only are there crashed alien spaceships on Earth, but people are driving alien spaceships out, there's an alien city every three steps, an alien traffic accident scene every five steps, and you can just casually pick up such powerful things? According to your theory, this government would have to be three levels stronger, otherwise how could it deal with the enemies surrounding it?"

"Uh..." the mayor started wiping his sweat again.

He looked in one direction with a look of distress. Diana looked in that direction; she knew there was someone in that room. But at a time like this, shouldn't they reveal their true colors?

The door opened slowly, and the figure that walked out startled Diana. It was a child, looking to be in his early teens. More importantly, his face looked somewhat like Bruce's.

Diana immediately realized that this was likely Bruce Wei En's son, Damian Wei En. So he had been resurrected too.

"Wonder Woman." Damian called out her name, "You know what this is all about, right?"

"I don't know what you're referring to."

"This is all a conspiracy concocted by Batman. To control the whole world. He fabricated the Martian invasion and used those three nails that current technology cannot remove to push the world into a new Cold War..."

Cold sweat broke out on Diana immediately. Little Wei En was not like that stupid mayor; if he inherited even three-tenths of his father's ability, I'm afraid today won't end well.

Moreover, listening to his tone, he really knew something—he accurately stated the mastermind and the ultimate goal. More importantly, he didn't talk about ideology, he just exposed the truth.

"You need evidence to speak." Diana had lived for so many years, after all, so she wasn't going to be afraid of a child. She said with feigned calmness, "What good does this do for Batman? After all, the president is taxing him at 96%."

"He doesn't care about money. He is an idiot whose head is full of wanting to save the world; for this, he can give up everything, even his own biological son." Damian looked at Diana and said, "You are working so hard for him, but you don't know if he would save you if something really happened."

Diana frowned and said, "Why would I need him to save me? I am an adult with the ability to act independently; deciding where to go and what to do is my own freedom. I also have the ability to pay for my own choices. If I relied on others for everything, I would have died long ago."

"Then you dared to come here today—do you think I won't do anything to you?"

Diana laughed in anger and said, "What could you possibly do to me?"

Damian didn't speak, he just clapped his hands. In the room he had just walked out of, several security guards escorted a man out. Diana looked up and happened to meet those blue eyes she had been longing for.

?? Sorry, guests came to the house today and it's a bit late.