American Comics: The Law of Strength

Chapter 72: The So-called Trust

"No, he has no right to ask us to do this, we will not ignore Milk's promises and deals, but we will not accept them all, I hope you can convey to the mayor, this matter is absolutely impossible!"

Without waiting for a reply, Diane hung up the phone with a bang, but before she could calm down, her assistant walked into the study with a stack of documents.

"Woooo

Diane looked at the mountains of documents on her desk, and her heart had passed the stage of anger, and only a wail remained.

Originally, as the next head of the family, although she also needed to touch these jobs, it was impossible for her to take over them all for the time being, but because the current head of the family, Eric, needed to meet with important members of the family and former allies to stabilize their confidence, these jobs had to fall on her head.

Since she returned to the manor, she has been working in this study almost every day, but the backlog of work has not decreased, but has increased, and the data she has changed every day.

Fortunately, this torture-like work has ended today.

"What's new for our mayor?"

The thick and cheerful voice made Diane look up a little surprised, but found that Eric was walking into the study with the assistant.

"Father!"

Diane opened her arms like the classic picture of Shawshank's redemption, with a look of relief on her face, and then nimbly jumped up from her chair to give up the "throne of power."

"Your meeting is over, isn't it?"

Diane walked to Eric in three steps and two steps, and after seeing Eric nod, she ignored her father's open hands that wanted to hug, grabbed the other's arm, and then almost dragged her father to the desk and pressed him to the terrible position.

Then she comfortably answered her father's question.

"The mayor wants us to hand over Batman."

Eric first looked around at the mountain of papers, thought for a moment, and then asked softly:

"Batman... Was he still involved in the deal between Milk and the mayor? "

Diane shook her head.

"The mayor wants Batman as a substitute condition for canceling the deal made by Milk, or liquidated damages.

Those politicians took a fancy to the prestige of our big star and wanted to take the opportunity to assemble a new team of heroes to fight specific crimes, although they said to better protect the people, but in fact they just wanted to generate revenue for New York City.

As long as they have Batman's prestige, they don't even need to arrange any tests for Batman to get him any permission they need.

For example, the mayor can rely on public support and easily issue him a new enforcement permit.

As long as the government recognizes Batman's new law enforcement powers, the city can apply to Congress for an average fee of forty-nine dollars per hour.

Because he acted to protect his citizens from criminals or hostile forces.

And that's not all, because the so-called 'heroes' tend to take care of everything, so they can add various items to it.

For example, these 'heroes' will rescue those trapped residents in the fire, and will save the cats trapped in the trees, so they can apply for the fire brigade allowance.

Heroes who fight terrorism, drug trafficking, and anything else you can imagine will be their source of income.

And if you can make Batman work for them, it will undoubtedly get more public support for them, whether it is re-election, or passing some extremely difficult bills, Batman can clear most of the resistance for them.

Batman is a real gold mine for them. "

After listening, Eric stared at the phone for two seconds and pondered, then asked:

"His real name is Peter? Right? "

Eric recalled reading the material before.

"Ling should have also checked all his information, what do you think?"

"What do I think?"

Diane pounded the wall in annoyance when she thought of that information.

"His information is as boring as a dictionary, and I have to thank him for choosing 'died young' to save me, and if he lives to be twenty years old, I am afraid I will be tempted to strangle him with my own hands."

I originally thought that this was his fake identity, but all his experiences can be confirmed, and his relatives, friends, and teachers can prove it.

So unless he has a brother who has been hidden for life, as in deadly magic, or has a hypnotism that can work on hundreds or thousands of people at once, then everything about him is true. "

Eric nodded, indicating that he also agreed with Diane, and then he casually picked up a document scattered on the desk and asked lightly:

"If that's the case, then why don't you promise them?"

Diane's eyes widened for a moment, and she stared at her father in disbelief, as if she couldn't believe that he would say such a thing.

"Promise them? Betraying allies who reached out to our most dangerous moments? And the new senior member of our family? He has now joined our family, he is our family! If we say yes to that request, what's the difference from what Milk did before? "

Eric looked at his angry daughter with interest, and then shook his head and said:

"You know Peter joined our family by accident, and his presence is now a threat to us.

Peter's reputation as Batman and the strange abilities he has displayed have exceeded my expectations and exceeded the limits of our control, and now not only can we not know his true identity, but even the fanatical fans stationed at the door.

As long as he had that idea, then within two years, the Bernano family would really become his vassals.

And handing him over to the government is a win-win option for both of us.

Moreover, this is not a betrayal, we can negotiate with him and pay him a huge amount of money as... Gratitude or compensation, he can understand it himself, so maybe he himself will support our idea. "

Diane didn't mean to compromise in the slightest, she stared at her father, then pulled him out of the chair and sat herself back down.

"He used to trust me, and when I had no money, no power, nothing and fought for hundreds of thousands of dollars of gold, he could have walked away, but he helped me get it all back, so I will return this trust to him."

Of course I understand that his ability is beyond his control, and his information that he doesn't even bother to hide is unlikely to fool anyone, as well as his stupid salvation plan, damn Brother Octopus and Purple Potato Essence, but even if I know that all this is ridiculous, I still have to support him, which is called trust.

If you can't understand this trust, it's okay, I'll understand it for you, and if you can't trust Peter, then I hope you can at least trust me, and I'll control the direction of this giant ship for you. "

Eric took a deep look at Diane, but he did not have the slightest dissatisfaction, but said with a bit of joy:

"Aye aye, my captain."

Then he patted the tallest pile of documents, and then left the study without looking back.

And Diane looked at her father's back, it took a long time to realize that it was wrong, her father's speech and the bottom line he had been adhering to were completely inconsistent, she looked at the table full of documents like a dream, and finally sorted out her father's thoughts, she pointed at her father's back, but couldn't say a word.

After finally getting out of the hell of work, only to be stuffed back by her father again, Diane felt that everything that happened today was like a nightmare, too bad to be worse.

But then there was a "bang" sound from the window behind her, and she turned around, only to find her good friend in a white mask carrying a bag of burgers, waving his arms at herself with a smile on his face...

(End of chapter)