Brand Master [Comprehensive Yingmei]

Waking up after being in a coma for three days is like being in a coma for three years.

Zhenglian's exclusive medical repair room is indeed effective. At least Vera, who just woke up, recovered her physical strength within a few minutes (it can't be ruled out that it is full of anger blessings). Quickly check the tablet in his hand.

However, after roughly reading the news reports and the comments under the reports of the major newspapers, Vera's brows gradually relaxed again.

At the end, she raised her eyebrows slightly, returned the tablet to Mary, and lay down again.

"I'll sleep a little longer."

She narrowed her eyes with a relaxed expression, yawned lazily, and buried her face in the quilt.

Mary put away the tablet, put down the bed for her, and said angrily, "Aren't you in a hurry?"

"What's the rush?"

The voice in the quilt was unhurried, and the corners of Vera's mouth curled up, and she asked back with a faint smile, "Didn't those guys do a good job?"

This is not really an irony.

Before Vera fell into a coma, she had already guessed that Diana's incident at West Point would cause a sensation in the public opinion. When she woke up, she was ready to face the chaos. During this period of time, Zhenglian did a lot of things.

According to these news reports, Zhenglian should have rushed to West Point as soon as Diana's incident broke out, first to stabilize Diana, and then Superman came forward to negotiate with the military.

——Vera has reason to suspect that what Zhenglian did is not just as simple as coordinating and negotiating with the military, they must have done something else.

Because judging from the results, although the military's attitude is tough, it obviously did not turn the issue of Diana's troubles at West Point into a diplomatic issue between the two countries. Zhenglian publicly apologized.

With such a shocking change at West Point Military Academy, there will naturally be a lot of media reports. It is not surprising that there will be such a gimmick headline, but what is surprising is that although most of the media reports are biased towards the military position , but the comments under the report are quite the opposite.

Except for a small number of stubborn anti-British elements, most of the comments are spraying the media:

"Are you reporters cheap or not? You know how to slander Zhenglian every day???"

"SB media deletes manuscripts, SB media deletes manuscripts... (Repeated speeches are swiping the screen)"

"Ha! You want us to choose between the military and the Zhenglian to believe, who do we need to ask?"

"Take away the big babies of Zhenglian, please let my husband group be beautiful alone, and refuse to touch porcelain!"

In addition to spraying the media, there are also spraying the military:

"Thank you for solving a question that has puzzled me for nearly a year: it was Zhenglian who saved Washington before, and it is Zhenglian who has turned the tide across the country this year. What did the military do? - Now I understand, They are busy framing Zhenglian."

There are also jokes:

"After reading the report, I yelled in the street that these guys were liars, assholes, and bastards, and was immediately arrested by the FBI for insulting the military.

I was eager to defend myself to the FBI and said: 'I didn't say who was a liar, a jerk, a bastard. '

In the end, the FBI scolded me: nonsense, I have been doing this for so many years, how can I not know who is a liar, a bastard, and a bastard? ? "

In the face of such sudden news, the public surprisingly unanimously sided with Zhenglian.

The main reason is that thanks to Vera's previous publicity and public relations, Zhenglian's Superman, Batman, Green Lantern and Flash are also known as Zhenglian F4, which has attracted countless loyal fans with its capabilities and peripherals.

These fans may not care so much about Diana, but the report and the military just scolded the entire Zhenglian, and they were naturally blown up.

In addition, Zhenglian responded very quickly this time. Before the news report was officially released, they had already published a press release in the news column of Zhenglian's official website.

This press release continues its previous brevity and bluntness.

It directly stated that Wonder Woman was invited by the military to visit West Point Military Academy, and between the lines, it expressed its friendliness to the U.S. military and expressed its joy that the military could invite Zhenglian representatives.

Zhenglian's press release: The silly and sweet praise of the military not only pointed out that Diana was invited to West Point, but also "unintentionally" revealed the trust and affirmation of the Justice League in the military.

Press release from the military: The bastards are allied!Zhenglian is no fun!Zhenglian has to apologize!We are a high-ranking army, what are you unorganized wild heroes?You deserve it too?

Compared with the powerful, humble and kind Justice League, the military's extremely arrogant and high-ranking appearance is especially disgusting.

Comparing the two, the neutral people can't see it, and they stand on Zhenglian's side one after another. Even many "conscience media" publicly speak for Zhenglian, and issued fair and just reports:

"It's unclear exactly what caused the conflict between the Justice League and the military.

But we have reason to doubt: Why would a super-English team that saved the entire planet in the Washington War, an alliance that was full of expectations for the invitation and friendly to the military before the incident, suddenly hostile to the military? side to take bad action?What is their rationale for doing this?

We sincerely appeal to everyone to calm down, whether it is the stubborn anti-British fans or fanatical fans of the Super League, stop endless speculation and imagination about this matter, we believe that Zhenglian and the military will give us a reasonable answer. "

—Calm down and turn off the mic, don't guess.

With Zhenglian's super destructive ability, if you really want to harbor malice against the military, can the military still stand here healthy and forceful?

This superficially fair, but extremely crooked report has received numerous praises. Let alone those who support Chaoying and neutral people, even the most stubborn anti-Superying people can't find any reason to refute.

Just imagining how much blood the military vomited after reading this report is a bit funny. Vera in the bed pursed her lips, suppressed the smile on her lips, closed her eyes slowly, and fell into a deep sleep after a while.

After she fell asleep, within a few minutes, a familiar figure in a blue uniform and a red cloak roared from a distance, rushing to the medical repair room.

In New York, Superman, who received a mechanical reminder from the medical room, put aside the work at hand and flew here at the fastest speed, but stopped at the corridor near the ward, and looked tentatively into the ward.

Seeing the man's cautious and hasty face, Mary's expression turned cold, and she walked over to open the door a little.

"You are late."

Through a door, she said ruthlessly, "She fell asleep again."

"……yes?"

Clark, who took time out of his busy schedule to come here just to see Vera, froze for a moment, and pursed his lips.

It is impossible to say no regrets, he secretly sighed in his heart, but he could only leave in a soft voice helplessly:

"Remember to inform me in time if there is any unexpected situation, if Vera wakes up—"

"no need."

Vera's voice suddenly came from behind Mary.

"I woke up."

Unknown when she opened her eyes again, Vera sat up from the bed with some difficulty, and raised her chin at Clark, "Come in and talk."

Mary: "..."

The defense failed, and she could only watch Superman's lost eyes suddenly light up, and he entered the ward in the blink of an eye, walking straight towards Vera.

Seeing Vera struggling to get up, he skillfully helped the girl up, raised the frame of the hospital bed, and placed several pillows on Vera's back one after another. While carefully observing Vera's expression and mental state, he asked softly:

"Why don't you get more sleep?"

"It's not too late to rest later, there's still plenty of time anyway."

The girl on the hospital bed lowered her head and said nonchalantly.

The man who was looking at the data of the restoration instrument froze suddenly.

At first, he stared blankly at Vera, and then slowly realized the true meaning of this sentence. At the moment of understanding, Clark's body moved before his thoughts.

The warm sun and the gorgeous rainbow hang in the sky, but the man's eyes are brighter and clearer than this sky.

It was as if something exploded in his chest, tearing apart all defenses more easily than kryptonite.

That handsome face, which was originally slightly serious and deep, burst into an incomparably bright smile in an instant, like the first snowfall, like a rainstorm suddenly clearing up.

Clark smiled so much that he showed his eight white teeth. He slightly possessed himself, stared deeply at Vera, and said foolishly but with a hint of helplessness:

"...Can't you honestly praise me?"

Vera picked up the tablet and glanced over it coldly, as if an iceberg fell with a bang.

Clark, who was almost carried away with pride: "...QAQ"

He immediately restrained his smirk and sat upright.

Yes, sorry, I was wrong_(:з)∠)_

"It's like this..."

Facing the cold-faced Great Demon King, Clark touched his nose and explained obediently.

Because she was exhausted and passed out before knowing the cause and effect, Vera didn't know the real reason for Diana's sudden outburst until this moment.

Seeing the girl's face sinking in an instant, Clark paused before explaining:

"We didn't find out until we got the news that the female soldier named Elizabeth was actually the daughter of General Campbell."

Of course, this General Campbell is not an unlucky colleague in the Sterling Cooper Company, but a general with real power in the military department. He is the supreme commander of the Mark Kalu Fortress. great force.

Elizabeth is the only daughter of General Campbell. Her biological mother died young, and she has always been loved by her father. Because she worshiped her father, she came to West Point Military Academy to become an officer. However, she suffered such abuse and was dying. She is still receiving treatment in the ICU.

When Zhenglian received the news at first, they all thought that the upcoming General Campbell would avenge his daughter and clean up the entire West Point by the way.

So after they stabilized Diana, Clark came forward to coordinate with the school, while Bruce and others secretly searched for evidence at the crime scene.

Unexpectedly, as soon as General Campbell came, he made it clear that these things could not happen.

"There is no evidence that Elizabeth was violated."

Facing Zhenglian's questioning, General Campbell looked terrified and categorically denied, "This kind of thing will not happen in West Point Military Academy. Please don't use this to slander this school."

Diana, who had been wronged, couldn't believe it. She confronted General Campbell angrily, and unbearably narrated how the group of murderers cruelly abused his own daughter Elizabeth.

However, the general, who knew his daughter was still being rescued in the ICU, didn't even change the expression on his face. He said every word:

"It's slander."

"None of what you're talking about ever happened."

——It never happened.

From that moment on, Clarke and the others knew that General Campbell would not stand by Zhenglian and his own daughter for the truth.

Between his own daughter and protecting the honor of the army, he chose the latter.

In response to such a situation, Zhenglian immediately did two things.

First, imitating Vera's previous press release, wrote the short article "Wonder Woman Invited to Visit West Point Military Academy", and published it on Zhenglian's official website first.

Vera raised her eyebrows when she heard this: "You wrote that manuscript."

"Whoever puts the question mark first loses—that's what you taught me."

Clark smiled, acquiescing to Vera's guess.

In the same way, it can be proved that whoever expresses his poor attitude first wins.

Second, according to Vera's previous method of borrowing Francis to deal with Walker, Zhenglian quickly contacted Vasque at the White House and moved out Diana's identity as "Paradise Island Ambassador".

Convince Walker first, and then move out of Walker to put pressure on the military, asking them to give time, temporarily not telling the media about Diana's trouble at West Point, and letting the media's own imagination, leaving a certain amount of time for Batman to investigate the case. Buffer time.

"The military keeps claiming that Zhenglian is bullying others, and we can't do anything about it."

Clark said helplessly.

Although they really don't like to bring up any identity issues, Diana's status as an ambassador does give this issue a new layer of color-the Walker government does not want to have any diplomatic issues with Paradise Island during its term of office, and the government does not want to I want to resolve this peacefully.

In view of this, they easily picked Wonder Woman out, turning the military's target of hatred into the entire Zhenglian.

"Compared to Diana herself, the popularity and charisma of the four of you are enough to resist this crisis of public opinion."

Vera commented sharply.

Thinking of the various character designs that Vera tossed out for the four of them before, Clark rubbed his nose a little embarrassedly, but didn't speak.

"not to mention……"

Vera looked at the press release that received good reviews and was in a "neutral position", as well as some media whose attitudes were obviously too radical, and glanced at Clark with a half-smile.

"The military probably didn't expect you to collapse, did you?"

For a long time, due to Vera's intentional guidance, the Justice League has always been a straightforward, silly, sweet, and always bullied image in everyone's minds.

Superman is a perfect personality who will never make mistakes, The Flash is a warm guy (central air-conditioning), Green Lantern is a bad boy who is soft-spoken and always causes trouble. Batman... if he could use his tricks in this regard, he wouldn't have messed up his image.

That's the case, and the military never expected that Clark would contact several media outlets of the Worthington Group so decisively to speak out at the same time.

Part of it is for the "neutral report" of the Zhenglian platform.

And the other part...is intentionally discrediting Zhenglian.

In some news that Vera saw before, although the author clearly pointed towards the military, in the report, they "unintentionally" described the extremely arrogant attitude of the military, relegating Chaoying to the dust, making the Readers are disgusted with the military at first glance, but feel that Zhenglian is pitiful and innocent.

Anyone with a discerning eye will know that these reports are criticizing and criticizing, deliberately creating black spots for the military.

There was a hint of cunning in Clark's smile, his eyes drooped, his thick eyelashes trembled slightly, and he chuckled:

"Well, you taught me."

It was obviously a silly face, but because of the slyness in the eyes, it somehow looked like a smirk.

Seeing that the girl's voice was hoarse after talking for so long, he brought warm water and handed it to the girl's mouth.

Vera took a sip of her wet lips with his hand, and gave him a meaningful look.

"Correct."

She nodded seriously, "I taught."

I have to say that Clark Kent has really... grown up.

Negotiating calmly with the military and the government, leveraging strength, speaking out first, confusing the public, and guiding public opinion... In the face of this crisis, he really undertook all the deployment of public opinion by himself.

His tossing like this is equivalent to leaving enough time for others to return to the case itself.

It is true that in the current public opinion field, Zhenglian occupies a dominant position, defeating the military steadily.

But the problem is that Elizabeth's case cannot be resolved through public opinion.

Elizabeth was a soldier, and the place where she was killed was West Point, and the case was submitted to a military court.

The military judicial system and the civilian judicial system in the United States are two completely different systems. The civil judicial system cannot control the military, but military courts can hear civil cases. Military courts belong to the military rather than the Ministry of Justice in terms of administrative relationship.

Compared with the openness and fairness of the whole process of the civil justice system, the military justice system is more confidential.

Where does this secrecy lie?

Reporters cannot follow up and investigate, military family members cannot intervene too much, and even the lawyer in charge of the case needs to be cautious when defending the case, and cannot disclose the case to the outside world.

In other words, the entire process, from investigation to trial to final judgment, will not make public the process in between.

This creates a common situation:

Many people in the U.S. military die inexplicably in the barracks every year. Their families can only receive the news of their deaths. As for why they died, whether they committed suicide or were killed, the family members have no idea at all, and there is no way to appeal. .

What's more troublesome is that there is no special criminal investigation department in the army. Elizabeth's case has to be reported to her commander first, and then the commander will initiate a lawsuit. Like General Campbell, he insists that his daughter has not been violated If you don't sue, there is basically nothing you can do.

If you don’t report the lawsuit, there will be no way to try it. If you don’t try it, Elizabeth’s case will be regarded as “never happened.” Even if she dies, it will be judged as a “non-combat death.”

Even if Bruce really investigates the truth, if Zhenglian speaks out, of course it can expose everything, but this kind of behavior is not to mention that the real culprit still needs to go to a court-martial.

This is just like how Batman managed to arrest many criminals in Gotham, and sent these people to prison, but something went wrong in the trial process, allowing these people to escape legal sanctions. It is impossible for the Justice League to directly kill these murderers one by one. kill.

According to Diana's testimonies, these murderers all came from military families with backgrounds. Considering the opacity of military courts, the trial process can be dragged on for years, and finally let it go.

This is not a problem that can be solved simply by means of public opinion or superpowers. It is a problem of the entire national mechanism.

What's more, Zhenglian's current identity has not been officially stamped as a "legal institution".

"The military is bitten to death and refuses to admit it. General Campbell once approached me in private."

Clark whispered.

Just one day before, General Campbell approached Clark privately, saying that if Zhenglian stopped investigating Elizabeth's case, he would cover up Diana's open attack on West Point Military Academy for Zhenglian.

And if Zhenglian dares to meddle in the internal affairs of the military, the military will adopt more stringent suppression methods against Zhenglian—such as speeding up the promotion of Task Force X and making fuss about the legality of Zhenglian.

Just thinking of General Campbell's warning at that time and his disregard for what happened to his own daughter, Clark felt infinite anger in his heart.

However, in front of Vera, he didn't show it at all.

He lightly omitted many of the processes in which he was made things difficult and ridiculed by the military and the government, and did not mention at all how they suppressed Diana in the military academy, how they endured the grievances and coordinated with the military, and the current situation is very important to the regular Seeing how unfavorable it is for Lian, he only said gently to Vera:

"Don't worry, I have a solution for this."

"You take a good rest, when you wake up, we will bring Diana back."

In the face of Vera, Clark has always been good-natured, gentle, patient, and even a little silly.

He is obviously the most powerful superhero in the world, but the way he sits by the hospital bed with a cup in one hand and a cotton swab in the other is really stupid.

Willa leaned on the pillow and looked at Clark quietly.

"Is it okay to insult other people's reputation casually just for the sake of profit?"

A year ago, a young and vigorous rural boy stood in her office, protesting stubbornly.

"...I didn't mean to fight Captain America while you were hurt."

Half a year ago, the superhero who was on the verge of losing control was in the ward, apologizing softly with guilt all over his face.

"Vera, firing me because I have a superman status... It's too, sorry, it's my fault."

Three months ago, the stupid assistant who didn't know how to expose his identity stood on the rooftop and shut up with aggrieved expression.

… Countless Clark Kent, countless different scenes of getting along with each other, his figure and expression slowly changed in the passage of time, ignorant, angry, wronged, lost, determined, dangerous... In the end, Became him a month ago.

"I can lead the team, I can handle it all."

He said seriously.

He said, learn to trust me, Vera.

"..."

Vera closed her eyes.

After a long silence, she turned over slightly and lay down with her back to Clark.

"Since you want to learn, learn it completely."

The girl with her back to the man spoke slowly, as if she was about to fall into a deep sleep.

"Think about it—what I did to Sharlto, you do to Campbell."

……

……

Against Campbell...?

The smile on Clark Kent's face slowly disappeared when he walked out of the ward lightly and came back to the corridor.

Almost in an instant, the silly and cautious little Clark Kent in front of Vera completely disappeared.

In its place, there is the son of the sun who has no emotion, serious expression, and looks like a god from outside the world.

Walking slowly along the corridor, Superman looked expressionlessly in the direction of New York, frowning.

Hit a snake to hit seven inches, and kill a person with a heart.

So, what is Campbell's weakness?