Brand Master [Comprehensive Yingmei]

Tony Stark only stayed in the safe house for less than a week before he couldn't bear to leave.

On the surface, he looked awe-inspiring as he cared about the company and couldn't bear to see his uncle continue to make mistakes, but in fact he just ran away with oil on the soles of his feet.

——He really didn't want to play with Vera anymore.

"I take back my previous comment about the general impulsive and irritable personality of Zhenglian members."

Sitting in the car, Tony complained angrily to Pepper who came to pick him up.

"Whoever meets such an arrogant and arrogant colleague will become irritable and violent like that group of superhumans-oh my god! I really don't know how to get along with such a woman!"

Pepper: "..."

Suddenly there was a feeling of revenge.

In any case, her nerves that have been tense since Tony disappeared finally relaxed. Pepper took some information from the Justice League, looked at her boss, and secretly decided to go back and contact Mary, and personally prepare gifts to go Thanks Ms Senna.

——It's a pity that the assistant's relaxation didn't last long, and she was broken by the boss's next all kinds of teasing operations, and her whole body was on the verge of collapse.

In the Zhenglian base, Vera, who had been busy all day, walked out of the studio and just saw the real-time news on TV.

On the big screen at this moment, it coincides with the live broadcast of the Stark Industries press conference.

A certain moustache who had just left the safe house with unhealed wounds sat lazily on the high steps of the press conference, nonchalantly announcing that "the Stark Industries Weapons Department will be closed."

As soon as this explosive news came out, the faces of several Stark Industries executives sitting in the audience turned green, and they almost knelt down to Tony on the spot.

Vera: "..."

so troublesome.

she thinks.

Considering that the whole of the United States will face another earth-shaking change as soon as this explosive news comes out, Vera sighed, gave up the idea of ​​resting, and walked back to the studio to continue to work.

The internal chaos of Stark Industries has to be sorted out by Tony Stark himself, while Zhenglian needs to deal with the anger of the US military.

Due to Trevor's coordination and Tony Stark's own attitude, although the military personnel are angry at the "cross-border" of the Justice League, they will not use methods such as "using public opinion to slander the Justice League"-they will not Don't pay attention to the war of public opinion, but pay attention to more practical things.

...For example, the super squad dedicated to restraining the Justice League.

According to Bruce's internal information, Amanda Waller's X Task Force plan was brought up again, and this time, she received strong support from the military.

And if this secret proposal is passed, Amanda's first target is the group of super villains, aliens and mutants who were arrested and imprisoned.

Both parties were well aware of their respective calculations, but they did not tear their face apart on the bright side. In order to ease the relationship, Trevor, who received the order, had to invite the Justice League again.

——The target of this invitation is of course Diana, who is still the ambassador of Paradise Island.

The Canadian team was safe and sound throughout. Clark, the captain, was surprisingly capable of leading the team. He dealt with all the difficulties and maneuvers by himself, and completed the task perfectly.

Seeing Clark's performance like this, Diana is not a fool, she naturally learned how to deal with the US military from her teammates.

Since it was her boyfriend's task, Diana obliged and agreed to go to the famous West Point Military Academy to visit and give speeches in the name of "Paradise Island Ambassador" and "Justice League Representative".

Vera, who learned that the location of the visit was West Point Military Academy: "..."

Before Diana left, she told the Amazon princess over and over again: "No matter what you see... remember to calm down."

Diana: "Well—huh?"

After talking with Clark a few days ago, Vera will no longer be reminded of everything and be comprehensive as before.

Hearing this, she didn't explain much, but smiled slightly, letting Diana experience it herself.

Re-establish Zhenglian's future partner plan, make a false and false cooperation with Francis, meet privately with Zoe, a female reporter sent by the "Washington Herald" (Vera saw at a glance that this female reporter is Francis' lover), and more Find more representatives of companies who come to seek cooperation to negotiate...

Since the "Wayne Entertainment Company" where the mutants work is still preparing for training, the work that should have been done by the mutant children is still staying with Vera. When they officially start their jobs, Vera will be able to spare a lot of time It's time.

For this reason, Bruce also arranged for professionals from other subsidiaries to train the mutants on a regular basis, dubbed the "Talent Training Program", trying to make this group of young people mature as soon as possible and truly become the operating company behind the scenes of Zhenglian.

His thoughts were good, but he never expected that something would happen in this small temporary training class just after the fifth class.

The teacher who was responsible for teaching advertising courses to these young mutants... was beaten up by this group of mutants.

Bruce: "..."

After receiving the news, his eyes were dead. He left the base immediately and drove to the classroom where the small training class was located as Bruce Wayne. He did not forget to call the most famous superman among mutants to suppress the group of children.

A group of mutants want to beat up an ordinary person, they don't even need special abilities, they can do it just by relying on their physical strength and speed far beyond superhuman, therefore, the students who are in charge of teaching Cynthia and Joel The middle-aged man was beaten terribly.

This person's name is Sharlto, and he is the deputy manager of the advertising department of a branch of the Wayne Group. He can participate in this "talent training plan" through multiple selections and become one of the teachers of these mutants.

Don't look at this middle-aged man in his 50s or [-]s, who is short and fat, but he also worked on Madison Avenue for several years. Later, because he was too old, he couldn't bear the high-intensity work of the advertising company. I just jumped ship to Party A.

At this moment, Sharlto was lying in the medical room on the other side, whimpering. He had fist marks all over his body, his right leg and left hand were fractured, and even the bridge of his nose was broken, making him look miserable.

"Those...those little bastards!"

He cried bitterly and trembled all over, "I want to call the police and arrest them! I want them to pay compensation, I want to sue them—"

"Mr. Wayne!"

After seeing Bruce arriving in person, Sharlto, a man who was nearly fifty years old, couldn't help but his eyes were red, and he sobbed sadly and painfully:

"Thank you for coming in time—but I really can't teach this group of young people anymore. The original intention of the 'Talent Cultivation Program' is indeed good, but I hope you can raise the requirements when selecting these children, at least, at least We can't let such a bad boy insult the reputation of this training program!"

The so-called "Talent Cultivation Program" is also affiliated with Wayne Charity, because the identities of mutants cannot be exposed, so when they are announced to the public, these mutant students are called orphans or poor students.

Being able to take the initiative to participate in this "talent training plan" shows Sharlto's kindness and kindness, but this kindness in the face of vulnerable groups has been trampled and crushed—look at the dying appearance of this kind-hearted man lying on the hospital bed , which shows how bad this group of "students" are.

How can you treat your teacher like this?

How can a group of people beat up an unarmed middle-aged man?

Seeing Sharlto's tragic situation and defense, most people would probably have the idea of ​​"how bad these students are".

Unfortunately, standing in front of Sharlto was Bruce.

Listening to Sharlto's explanation, Bruce frowned slightly. He pretended to be filled with righteous indignation, but his eyes did not change.

Telling Sharlto to stay in the infirmary and quietly blocking all the signals in the building, Bruce turned and walked towards the group of mutant children who had just beaten someone, and saw Clark's unusually ugly face.

In front of him, a group of [-]- and [-]-year-old youths, including Joel, were all full of anger. Cynthia and several other girls were gathering together, hugging a sobbing blond girl and constantly comforting her.

The whole room was filled with the cries of girls and the sounds of boys shouting and killing. Bruce, who had a headache from the noise, pressed his forehead and motioned for Clark to come out and speak:

"What happened? What did Sharlto do?"

Bruce didn't believe a single word that Sharlto, a veteran in the workplace, cried and said.

Before Clark could speak, Joel, who had seen Bruce raised his head angrily, took the first step to prevent Superman from explaining the truth, and shouted:

"We just don't like seeing him! We just think this old man is annoying and doesn't teach well!"

Being stopped by Joel, several boys who also beat someone thought of something at the same time, and they all echoed:

"Yes! No reason! We just hate Sharlto!"

"I just saw that old man was unhappy, I was the one who beat him up first, it has nothing to do with other people!"

"Sharlto always taunts us in class, I'm not happy, can't I?"

The boys reached an agreement tacitly, and they were the ones who beat Sharlto to death because they saw that Sharlto was unhappy, and it had nothing to do with the others.

On the other hand, the girl began to hesitate. Cynthia raised her head and glanced at Joel, hesitated to speak.

The blonde girl in her arms wiped away her tears, stood up first, and looked at Bruce sobbingly:

"It has nothing to do with Joel... They, they did it because of me."

As she said that, the pretty-looking and petite mutant girl sniffed, hesitated for a long time, and almost blushed, and then, under a strong psychological struggle, said with difficulty that it was very difficult to say what made her feel Shameful truth:

"Ms. Sharlto...he forced me to undress."

"He, he said to me that in order to be successful at Wayne Corporation, you have to, you have to make him happy - and, then he reached out and unbuttoned me... and then Joel and they came in and beat him up gone."

Bruce's face darkened completely.

Little ones like Cynthia and Goldilocks, who were brought to school by Charles at an early age, grew up in a complete, carefree paradise.

Growing up, the most worrying things for them are probably some bad boy's pranks, failing the final exam and so on.

Therefore, they never thought that there are such bad teachers as Sharlto in this world.

The course that Sharlto is in charge of is the basics of advertising, but since he started teaching the class, he has never seen girls in his eyes.

"You girls, it's useless to learn this."

In the first class, Sharlto asserted with a sigh.

"It's useless for you to learn this course. Women can't stand the hard work of the advertising industry. Being a secretary and an assistant is the best-don't think I'm deliberately deceiving you, go to Madison Avenue to watch Just look at it and understand."

It is obvious that he is deliberately bullying this group of children who don't understand anything and have nowhere to appeal.

After the first class, Sharlto always casually belittled the homework and grades of the girls.

"Hey... I obviously uploaded the same content to you guys."

"Miss Cynthia, your homework has failed to meet the standard for three consecutive weeks!"

"Miss Leila, may I ask if you signed up for this course so that you can go to Wayne's advertising department to find a man to marry?"

After that, Sharlto became more and more emboldened after seeing that these mutant children dared to be angry and dared not speak up.

Consciously or unconsciously, he began to ask the girls' boyfriends questions, complimenting their figures and looks.

Not only that, but girls are often called to the office to "tutor homework" and touch them.

In his spare time, he always tried to find ways to invite girls out alone. If mutants were not really very xenophobic and wary of the outside world, maybe he would have succeeded long ago.

This time, he finally couldn't help it, and after calling the blonde girl to the office, he directly threatened to fire her.

The blonde girl's name is Layla, and she's the tallest of the girls who come to the class. She's not a strong mutant, but she has her own way of connecting with friends.

As soon as her distress signal came out, one could imagine how angry Joel and the others were. They broke into the office almost immediately and beat Sharlto.

The biggest impact of this incident is that it turned the originally cheerful and lively Leila into the frightened look she is now. Even in the face of the Superman she admires the most, she can't tell the complete truth. She doesn't want others to know For this matter, I just want to escape back to Xavier College as soon as possible, and never come out again.

It took Clark a lot of effort to piece together all the truth from the mutant children. He got all the confession recordings, suppressed his anger and threw the evidence in front of Sharlto.

I thought that these were enough to scare Sharlto, but I didn't expect that this old guy who was holding his nose and crying miserably in front of Bruce just now stuck his neck and flew into a rage:

"Those little bastards dare to slander my innocence like this?"

"When did I say those words or do such a thing? I am strict with the staff under my command. This is a fact that everyone knows. Among this group of students, there are only a few girls with poor grades. If I give them extra lessons, will I be molesting them?"

...This is to ensure that this group of pure mutant children can't record and record, and they can't save evidence.

In the beginning, when choosing the teaching venue, considering the ability of mutants, Vera did not install monitoring in the classroom, so as to avoid being noticed by some ordinary people and it would not end well.

But right now, because there is no monitoring, they have no way of confirming that Sharlto really said these things in class.

Even though some of Joel and the others could indeed restore the original scene through mutant abilities, such evidence cannot be exposed. Once this is exposed, their mutant identities cannot be concealed.

Sharlto is obviously a habitual offender. He knows how to deal with this group of "poor orphans". He chose Layla obviously through careful planning and observation.

He'd done it on purpose.

If it wasn't for Leila's own ability, if it wasn't for the mutant people's solidarity, any ordinary, real orphan would be brutally murdered.

Moreover, even if it is exposed now, Sharlto can completely deny everything.

There is no evidence that he behaved inappropriately towards the female students, no recordings that can prove that he discriminated against women, and there is no way to accuse Sharlto of assault.

On the contrary, the fists that this group of impulsive children landed on Sharlto became the ironclad evidence that "Sharlto was beaten". If Sharlto went to sue them after the injury examination, one accusation would be accurate.

Clark's blue eyes showed a cold warning, but Sharlto was not afraid at all.

This thick-skinned, recidivist at first glance, pretended to be righteous and solemnly said:

"Isn't the Justice League the place that values ​​justice and the truth the most? Superman, you can't just read one side of the story and attack me. I'm innocent!"

"——what innocent!"

Outside the medical room, Joel and the others who gathered around to eavesdrop were so angry that they couldn't believe that there were such shameless and confounding people in this world.

"That old guy is a jerk, we're not lying!"

"It's not fair! Joel and the others have done a good thing, why are they still facing charges?"

"Why? Leila and Cynthia are the victims...Why, this person can lie and deceive people like this?"

For a moment, all the mutants looked extremely ugly, as if they had suffered a huge mental blow, especially Leila, who was pointed out by Sharlto as a liar, her face was as pale as paper, and she trembled involuntarily.

Outside the door, the mutants were discussing, both aggrieved and angry.

Indoors, both Bruce and Clark were unusually calm.

Seeing Sharlto's unrepentant and eloquent appearance, Bruce seemed to be so angry that he was speechless on the surface, but in fact he lowered his eyes slightly, and a cold light flashed across his eyes quickly.

And Clark is more obvious, he looked at Sharlto expressionlessly, just staring at him without saying a word, the terrifying aura exuding around him is enough to make Sharlto tremble, who has never seen Chaoying .

"Mr. Sharlto, I advise you to think twice."

Looking down at the mass of rotten flesh lying limp on the hospital bed, Clark said every word.

"This is an ultimatum—trust me, you won't want to see what we do next."

"I said I didn't do anything! Damn it! You Justice League can't convict me just by paying lip service! This is slander!"

Even in the face of the terrifying Superman, Sharlto still gritted his teeth, apparently intending to bite to death and not let go.

—What about the Justice League?What about superheroes?

As long as they have no evidence, as long as they are "just superheroes", they can't do anything to ordinary people, so he is not afraid of these threats!

"is it?"

Clark lowered his eyes and glanced at Sharlto faintly, as if looking at a dying guy, with a faint tone.

"I've given you a chance, Sharlto."

On the other side, Bruce, who seemed to have been watching from the sidelines, twitched his ears slightly, suddenly stepped forward, walked towards the other through door beside him, and opened the door first.

The sun rushed in, followed by the familiar sound of high-heeled footsteps.

Along with the sound of footsteps, a cold and soft voice came along the wind:

"Sorry, I'm late."

Like a gust of bitter and fresh wind, Vera's figure appeared in the sunlight that went straight through the door.

Holding a stack of documents in her hand, she seemed to have just rushed in from the studio, with a gentle and calm smile on her face.

His eyes flicked across Bruce and Clark, and finally fell on Sharlto who was lying on the hospital bed.

"I'm bothering you all."

After staring at Sharlto for a second, Vera tilted her head and asked slowly:

"I just finished the work at hand-excuse me, what's the matter?"