In fact, the huge number of casualties revealed in the morning couldn’t be considered explosive news.
“Big brother” New York was well ahead. Not only did the test subjects and the Chitauri come one after another, the American government had even almost dropped a nuke on the city.
While what happened in Grand Rapids was a tragedy, it really wasn’t as sudden and shocking as the attacks by the test subjects.
Thanks to the widespread use of cell phones and the Internet, everyone could find out what was happening in other cities.
On Earth, no one was far from danger.
After the initial shock, many people quickly started digging
Life wasn’t easy. Most people didn’t want to think about sad things.
It was also the reason why many people didn’t like watching highbrow films and only liked to watch football games and soap operas — they were simple, cheerful, and didn’t require brainpower to follow along.
Now, a lot of people had another way to amuse themselves: going online on their phones and going crazy over the superheroes they liked.
Whether it was nicknames, armor or equipment, or combat ability and performance, people argued about everything with fans of other heroes.
Naturally, the Bat Squad had the most supporters.
Not only did it have the invincible and righteous Batman, it also had several superheroes with unique abilities and styles, and it had a wide range of fans.
It was also impossible to talk about the Bat Squad without mentioning Iron Man, who was a one-man army and had an equally huge reputation.
Even the staunchest Bat Squad fan had to admit that Iron Man wasn’t an “outsider” to the Bat Squad.
After the Battle of New York, the Bat Squad had gone completely silent and practically dormant for months.
In the past, Batman and Black Cat would beat up plenty of people on a daily basis, but this also stopped in the wake of Batman’s sacrifice.
This made the people, who had been constantly bombarded with news of Batman before, start to miss the team again. It wasn’t until a while ago, when a superhero called the Dark Knight appeared, that Batman “indirectly’ returned to everyone.
Even so, most people didn’t think much of the Dark Knight
He was like some celebrity who was “so-and-so’s successor,” or “the second so-and-so.” People at most only saw him as dressing.
Who knew if he would disappear again in a couple of days or so. Nobody was expecting him to be strong. It wasn’t until last night that someone saw the Dark Knight transform and rush to Grand Rapids.
At this point, cosplay fans could only say that he had a good character and that his armor was a top-quality fake. But when members of the Bat Squad’s main attack force worked together with the Dark Knight, the entire Internet exploded with activity.
So, “Batman’s successor” actually wasn’t a self-proclaimed title, but he had been acknowledged as the “rightful heir” by the Bat Squad?
What fans said wasn’t important. The fact that the Bat Squad had chosen to take the Dark Knight with them was the truth.
Among them, Black Cat was undoubtedly the most important.
Although nobody had any concrete proof, almost all the fans tacitly agreed that she was Batman’s “partner.”
But there was also a small group of “heretical” fans who insisted that only Iron Man was qualified to take that position.
But the fact of the matter was that Tony, who had probably received a request for help from the Bat Squad, had hurriedly taken off from New York for Grand Rapids to fight alongside the team.
Thus, it was hard for the “heretical” fans to deny the “legitimacy” of the Dark Knight being the successor.
This was similar to how emperors succeeded the throne in ancient times.
The old emperor had unexpectedly collapsed. When the new emperor took the throne, the old officials with prestige had to come out and confirm the new emperor, so that the new emperor could legitimately ascend the throne and not be considered an usurper by the people. In the Bat Squad, Black Cat was an “old official,” while Iron Man was powerful “foreign
aid.”
Their attitude was naturally more important than that of the “citizens of the Bat Empire.”
Ordinary passers-by didn’t have any objections.
Loyal Batman fans were a little upset.
For example, Skye, who was living in isolation, wanted to go online and argue with someone, but after thinking about it, she felt it would be useless.
The Dark Knight didn’t say that he was Batman. He had just saved hundreds of thousands of people in Grand Rapids; how could anyone deride him for cosplaying while rescuing people?
Damon was calm when he wasn’t summoned last night. Master Splinter didn’t say anything either.
It was the minors in the team who exploded.
Mindy’s message said one thing: Why didn’t you take me with you to play? On behalf of the four brothers, Donnie sent a congratulatory message: “May Mr. Wayne and Miss Bastet have good fortune. By the way, can you take us with you next time?”
Donnie actually didn’t want to send this message.
But ultimately, his bros used a killing blow. “We don’t have many credit points left. It’s because you exchanged them for spare parts. If you want to tinker with stuff again in the future, send the message.”
After hesitating for two seconds, Donnie did as he was told.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to send the message; he just didn’t want to use his own name to do so.
But the other three brothers had amply demonstrated that they didn’t know how to use computers, so this mission could only be left to him as the one with the best skills.
Luke scratched his head.
Damon and Mindy, and the little turtles and their master, hadn’t participated, mainly because their current locations weren’t too safe, so they couldn’t safeguard the mental control equipment if Luke gave it to them.
The mental control equipment was a big help to the team, and would be an even bigger help to the government. Who could compare with how many people that the government had? With this mental control equipment, they could easily use their resources to overwhelm any superhero or even other countries.
Even if they failed, nobody would be able to use the robots to point a finger at America.
The mental control equipment and the arc reactor could cause a terrible shift in power for the American government. It absolutely couldn’t be allowed to obtain these things.
It was best not to dwell on how they could be used to increase the government’s combat ability.
Organizations like ARGUS, Sentinel Services and SHIELD had a lot of advanced technology.
Did they share them? Many products could already be mass-produced and promoted, but the capitalists who controlled the industry were unwilling to upgrade too quickly.
It was common for capital groups to squeeze out as much of the remaining value of a technology as possible.
Anyone who made the same amount of money every year would prefer to earn for 50 years straight than to spend five years on upgrades.
Secondly, Tony was also a national defense supplier.
Even this tycoon who relied on national defense to make a fortune didn’t say anything about handing things over to the country, so why should a minor NYPD detective like Luke worry about it?
Regardless of what the public thought, Luke started to visit his teammates one by one to appease them. He didn’t find it troublesome.
Teammates were better than regular friends.
It could even be said that this relationship was stronger and even closer than that of ordinary people.
Spending some time chatting, eating and drinking with them wasn’t useless. In comparison, there wasn’t even a fart from that cheap person Wade, as if he had no idea of the Dark Knight’s appearance at all.
Luke could only say that lunatics weren’t easy to dupe, and that lunatics who loved money were even harder to dupe.
