[Comprehensive Movie] Goddess of Dispute

"...Hey, kid, what you said is not right. What is the fame and glory that is so important to me?" Even though his heart has been stirred up, on the surface, Nelson still has a smile on his face. The hearty smile of an American soldier, "You see, people still respect the captain of the metropolis."

"No!" Eris raised her voice a little bit indignantly. Seeing the inexplicable looks from the people around her, she shrank her thin shoulders again, picked up the coffee cup with a face of embarrassment, and took a sip in disguise , then lowered her voice and continued, with a touch of excitement and resentment in her words, as if Nelson had really been treated unfairly, and she felt the same way.

"That's not the case! Mr. Gardner, you who took off your uniform must know that the most talked about by the citizens is not the captain of the metropolis, but Dr. Manhattan who has skin diseases, and the Pharaoh in gay purple. It's the night owl of the bird man, the Rorschach of the stockings, and the silk soul who is dressed like... like that!"

Obviously, the oriental beauty in front of him has received training in moral etiquette in the upper class. Not only does she have the innocence and willfulness unique to a lady from a famous family, but her good self-cultivation made her blush after she said these words , I'm afraid this is the worst thing she has ever said in her life.

"Sorry, I was too aggressive..." Eris looked at the silent Nelson embarrassedly, thinking that he was dissatisfied with what she said, and hurriedly defended, "I... I didn't disrespect you My friend, I don’t respect other heroes, I’m just... I’m just not reconciled, obviously you are the veteran figure, obviously you should be the soul of the younger generation of vigilantes, you are the one who brought New York to the city in dire straits Saved, but...but look now! These ungrateful New Yorkers are forgetting you exist!"

Looking at her little flushed face that was excited and resentful, and her eyes that were watery due to emotions, Nelson couldn't help but burst out laughing after hearing her complaints. There was helplessness in the smile Still bitter: "I'm afraid you are the only person in this world who dares to describe them like that, Eris, especially Dr. Manhattan... skin disease? Hahaha, it's really vivid."

"...Captain, are you still laughing?!" Eris widened his eyes in embarrassment, "I..."

"Hey, the times are different after all." Nelson's helpless tone interrupted Eris's fury. He looked at the coffee in his hand, and his somewhat lonely face was clearly reflected on the dark brown water, "Now It is already the world of young people, the militia has long since ceased to exist, and those of us who die or scatter, time is not forgiving, children..."

With a "bang", Eris slapped the table with her palm. She stood up, looked at Nelson angrily, gritted her teeth, and said, "How can you say that?! Could it be that someone like me waited for me?" , Is it just a fool waiting for the stone to bloom?! It is impossible for the idol in my mind to yield like this, don’t you ever yearn for the past!”

Nelson looked at the excited woman in front of him, gradually frowned, and raised his voice: "Of course I want to, but there is no way."

"So," Eris took a deep breath and sat back on his seat, the remaining anger on his face still lingering, "That's why I said, I'm here to help you, I have a way to make you the center again... "

A man with blond hair and blue eyes, so handsome that even the best sculptors in the world could not carve him perfectly, stood in the chairman's office on the top floor of the Werther Group, with one hand in his pocket and the other holding a wine glass, looking down through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows. Night view of New York.He is Adrian Vetter, also a Pharaoh, known as the smartest man in the world.On the desk behind him was a simple but sincere invitation letter.

The invitation letter didn't contain too many decorative or polite and disgusting words, it just stated a time and place, and the captain of the metropolis sincerely invited the Pharaoh to discuss some important matters.

This was given to him by a young police officer when he threw a group of useless bastards to the police in his capacity as the pharaoh last night.The time for the meeting is tonight. As for the location—that’s a bit of a joke—the city hall, a landmark building in the east of the city.

The key point is that although he hasn't seen the captain of the metropolis for several years, he has always been very concerned about the dynamics of these vigilantes. He knows that with the captain of the metropolis' current influence, he can't get rid of the group of high-minded and low-paying taxpayers. The government bureaucrats who used people's money for fun, borrowed it from the city hall, and used it as a meeting room for the vigilantes who wandered on the edge of the law.

More importantly, the motivation of the captain of the metropolis.

Adrian did not have deep contact with this senior. They only met once at the Madison Square Garden party in June 1960, and that time was enough for him to label him ignorant.Yes, in his eyes, this senior, like most ignorant humans, is hopelessly stupid, and he became a vigilante just for the sake of becoming famous.

The captain at that time asked him a stupid question - he had the opportunity to ask the most intelligent man in the world any difficult problem in the world today, but he chose the most meaningless one - he asked him Where should the accents and paragraphs of the name be placed.

Such a superficial guy suddenly proposed to organize a meeting between superheroes... Adrian keenly grasped the tricks behind it.

On the surface, he may just want to use this opportunity to re-establish an organization similar to the superhero organization militia in the 50s, gather all heroes together, and become the founder of a new great organization, so that he can become famous for thousands of miles , gain more fame.

Yes, "on the face of it" it does.

But actually?The captain of the metropolis has been silent for so long, and recently, on a whim, he suddenly thought of a second method to find a way to become famous?

Adrian chuckled, put down his wine glass, and picked up the invitation again.From behind it, he seemed to smell a fragrance.The content on the invitation letter was printed, and only the final signature was the autograph of the captain of the metropolis, which was enough to explain everything.

He put on the costume of the pharaoh, and in the night, he came to the second floor of the city hall lightly and quickly.

A skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and the title of captain of the metropolis still makes all the vigilantes come here.In addition to Luo Xia, Ye Xiao and the second generation of silk souls, it is incredible that the government lackeys and thugs of the laughing craftsman are also here. Adrian thought that people like him would not come to join in the fun.Of course, Dr. Manhattan also prevented Adrian from joining in the fun. After all, he has gradually lost touch with human emotions, and he has been secretly doing various investigations on this potential threat.

With him, there is said to be his partner, Jenny Slater, his "former" lover, and the former is when Dr. Manhattan was Jon Osterman, a human being.Fame, money, and power are the three most likely to make human beings unrecognizable from what they used to be, and this woman who always appears beside Dr. Manhattan at banquets and meetings all the time is probably the same.

Any meeting, as long as there is a comedian involved, will definitely end unhappy. Adrian knew what would happen next the moment he saw him.So when the meeting turned into a pot of porridge and the joker left the meeting rudely, he wasn't too surprised, but what was really surprised was the sudden explosion sound from afar.

The sound of the explosion came from the west of the city, and he could still see the flames that dyed the deep blue sky crimson in the distance after such a long distance, which was enough to show the scale of the explosion.

West of New York City... That location is a hospital!When everyone present realized this, they couldn't help being slightly taken aback.No one ever attempted to create this chaos when they were scattered all over the city, eradicating evil, yet this catastrophic explosion occurred when they only took two hours out of their patrol time to discuss important matters !

"Jenny, I need you to go back first." Dr. Manhattan's gentle voice, as soft as God's, sounded softly the second after the explosion, and when everyone was still in a daze, he sent his partner back , and he disappeared in the next second.

He could go anywhere in the blink of an eye, and now he must have gone to the place where it happened, but Adrian assured him that he knew what would happen when they had a meeting, and he could see his future, but He said nothing and did nothing until the catastrophe struck.

Adrian put his keen eyes on Captain Metropolis from the empty space where Dr. Manhattan disappeared. As the person who reacted almost at the same time as Dr. Manhattan, he immediately stepped forward and slapped the blackboard next to the captain. Waking him up from his daze: "Captain, can you tell us honestly now, who told you to gather us together and create that explosion while none of us were on the street?"

"...I... no, this is impossible, what are you talking about, Pharaoh, the meeting is just my idea..." the captain of the metropolis murmured palely.

"It must be the man of the shadow!" Before Adrian could continue to say anything, Rorschach stepped forward and grabbed the captain by the collar as if awakened, and pushed him against the wall, "Say! What are you talking about?" When did you meet him? What did he tell you? What kind of benefits did he give you, so that you, the original hero, can degenerate into a maggot in the stinky ditch on the street!"

"The man of the shadows?" Adrian's eyes flashed a trace of uncertainty, "You mean, in the past month, the criminals' modus operandi has finally become less childish?"

"That's right, it's him." Ye Xiao replied, holding Rorschach to prevent him from getting too excited, "And... when Rorschach and I were chasing him the day before yesterday, we also received a gift from him... Pharaoh, That person is a smart man, I don't know if he is smarter than you, but he knows our identities, the true identities of Rorschach and I! He knows us well, but we know nothing about him!"

"...No...God... She is... clearly like an angel, how could it be..." Ye Xiao pulled Rorschach away, and the captain leaned against the wall in despair, looking at his hands, pained and unbelievable Struggling, "But I believed in a demon...Oh my god, what did I do, I killed them..."

... a "she", not a "he"?

A woman wearing a clown mask sat in a black car and looked out the window at the burning hospital. The fire made her long wine red hair look even more crimson.

"Thank you for your help, Professor, that guy who is protected by the US government must be dead." Another burly man sitting in the car looked at the purgatory outside the window, and said to her in tongue-rolling English with a strange accent, Taking out a bulging envelope, "This is your reward, as for the other thing...we will keep in touch."

She didn't speak, just nodded lightly, took the envelope, got out of the car, and watched the car drift away...

Then it was suddenly pinched into a ball of scrap iron by a force.

"Nice to meet you, Doctor Manhattan, right?" Eris said suddenly, with his hands in his pockets, looking at the weird and even terrifying scene.There was no panic in her tone, even, as if she knew that the car and the people in the car would be destroyed by a strange force, there was a hint of playfulness and weirdness.

"It was you who led all of this. For one person, you buried people from a hospital."

Behind her, there was a gentle and gentle voice that was calm and gentle at all times.

Eris snorted.

"Yeah, so what, Dr. Manhattan? You could have stopped me before this started, you could have killed me when I traded with them, but you didn't, why? Why didn't you stop me ?why did you just kill the russians?why... you were trying to take advantage of that knowing i planted a bomb near your house when you and jenny slater left the apartment , threatened you to let me go, and still sent your Jenny back to the apartment?"

Facing Eris' barrage of questions, the people behind her fell silent.

She turned around and looked at Dr. Manhattan behind her, the corners of her mouth under the mask gradually curled up, and her eyes suddenly became as dangerous as poppies, but it was unstoppable——

"It seems that the future that belongs to you and me is quite long..."

She said, with a hint of bewitching in her voice.