Chapter 3101 Mercury Notes (Sixty-One)
Chapter 3075 Mercury (Sixty-one)
Greed, accompanied by Pride, led Professor X to the abyss.
When Professor X saw the captured mother, she could not be said to be intact, but only to have taken human form.
But Professor X obviously saw something more than just the surface. When he saw the mass of unknown matter, his eyes lit up instantly, and he quickly took his mother out of Schiller's tower and returned to his spiritual world.
Pride followed Greed to his room, slowly climbed onto the table, straightened his upper body and said, "The inspection is complete, can we talk about the price now?"
"Don't worry." Greed picked up his medical record book and said, "I gave you a lot of ideas, I'll deduct the planning fee first..."
"I'll just deduct you to death." Pride said, "Besides giving me some strategies to deal with Mount Olympus, what else do you have?"
"What do you mean by giving you some strategies? I gave you a complete set of plans, including how to release the eldest son to kill Ares, the son of Hera, so that she can completely turn away from Zeus and turn to us, and then arrange for the children to conduct a series of investigations, connecting many magic forces together..."
"Stop talking nonsense." Arrogant said impatiently: "If you want to calculate, calculate it quickly, I will go back early, maybe that body can be saved."
"I'm afraid it's difficult, after all, every aspect of the three-phase goddess must be used to its full potential."
In the fake Mercury composed of green light energy, Bruce recalled the conversation between Schiller and the two in the ward before Schiller left Mercury for Earth.
At that time, Schiller went to Brand, and Lilith was almost scared by Brand, and then taken away by Clark. It was at this time that Schiller called Bruce and the two finalized the next plan.
It is not difficult to face Hecate head-on, but it is difficult to make her appear. This series of events on Mercury clearly showed that this cunning magic goddess was behind the scenes. The most different thing about her from other villains they met is that she knows how to hide herself and will not act rashly.
Moreover, the Dark Justice League has not been established. Schiller's magic power is relatively weak. It is difficult to find Hecate's hiding place by clues. Even if they find it, they may not be able to enter. It is also possible to alert the enemy and let her hide again.
Then the focus of this plan is how to force Hecate to show up.
Schiller felt that something was wrong with Diana when she came to his house to deliver vegetables.
In fact, if Schiller was in a normal state, he might not be able to feel it, but it happened that Schiller was letting Circe's curse erode his body, and his state became weaker and weaker. His empathy and psychoanalysis abilities became stronger. He almost noticed the problem as soon as he met Diana.
Of course, even without psychoanalysis, Diana's appearance was also very strange. In Schiller's understanding, Wonder Woman is also a person who pays attention to efficiency.
Her diplomatic career, which is much longer than that of ordinary humans, has made her know how to judge the situation and always appear only when others need it most, and will not cause trouble to others for no reason. This visit was a bit abrupt, because she had no reason to visit Schiller. It is not an exaggeration to say that she was just looking for something to talk about.
So even if Schiller didn't find anything unusual at that time, after experiencing a series of chaos on Mercury, he would guess that Diana might have a problem.
Then the urgent question is, does Diana know that she has a problem?
This question is questionable, because although her behavior is abnormal, if she knows and feels guilty, the first thing she has to deal with is the mind reader Lilith, and Lilith should be able to read some of her malicious thoughts and tell Clark.
But no, Diana did not take any action against Lilith, and Lilith did not seem to read her malicious thoughts, and Jenna, who was in front of the Justice League every day, did not feel anything wrong with Diana.
This means that Diana may be controlled, but she doesn't know it herself. In this case, she naturally has no malice, nor will she feel guilty, and there is no way for the mind reader to find out the flaws.
In this case, the success rate of relying on Diana to fish out the side of Hecate's mother is not high.
Because Diana herself didn't know she was being controlled, she would definitely not admit it if the Justice League suspected her, and Bruce didn't have any decisive evidence, so he couldn't convince the rest of the Justice League to take action against Diana, and he couldn't put pressure on the magic goddess behind her.
It was really difficult to convince the rest of the Justice League to take action against Diana, and even photos and videos might not be useful, and they had to be caught in the act, but it was easy to convince the rest of the Justice League to trap Diana along with the others.
Oliver, Clark, and even Hal were all reasonable people. As long as they knew that their mother had the ability to control others without making a sound, and that there was a high probability that there was a traitor in the Justice League, they could convince them to trap everyone together, and no one would want to leave before reaching a real conclusion.
Once Diana was trapped, this chess piece would be useless, so normally, the mastermind behind the scenes couldn't move Mercury, but it was said that conspiracies were defeated by greed. Diana couldn't take this path, so she realized that she actually had another way, which was Schiller.
At that time, Schiller saw that something was wrong with Diana, but he was not strong enough to directly see Hecate behind Diana. He just kept Diana for a while, talked to her about Circe's curse, and let Diana have physical contact with him. Anyway, no matter what method the mastermind used to control Diana, such a long time and so many conditions were enough for her to shift her target to Schiller.
Hecate was really fooled. Taking the opportunity of physical contact, she also left a seed in Schiller. After completing Diana's pregnancy, she immediately started to breed Schiller.
As for why she was so determined to use a breeding opportunity on Schiller, there was nothing special. Hecate's target was Mercury, and Diana could only contact a few targets on Mercury. Schiller looked like an ordinary person, and his willpower might not be very strong. After breeding him, there might be a chance to catch another one. The more the better.
But unexpectedly, Hecate ran into a tough guy. She created so many illusions for Schiller, trying to destroy his spirit and will, but Schiller kept dragging it out until Diana's move was useless, and Hecate could only pin her hopes on him.
Everyone knows what happened next. Diana was restricted and could no longer create various accidents to make the Justice League split up and let Hecate defeat them one by one.
But Hecate was reluctant to give up the progress she had made here, so she could only gamble everything and wanted to complete Schiller's breeding as soon as possible so that she could take over Diana's work and continue to make trouble on Mercury.
The result was that the sunk cost was too high, and she was directly trapped by Schiller. The time she spent on Schiller was enough for her to breed three or four superheroes. Now all the time she spent on Schiller was wasted. She could only go all the way to the end and never look back even if she hit the wall.
Schiller, on the other hand, looked very weak, giving her a feeling that he was about to succeed. With the final verbal stimulation, the mother of one of the three phases seemed to have lost her mind, and her mind was full of pursuit, and she had no defense against Schiller.
Schiller, who had been separated into different bodies, had an insurance mechanism. Once one of the body or spirit fell to the bottom, it would be forcibly teleported back to the tower.
Pride took advantage of this. Under the curse of Circe and the pursuit of Hecate, he successfully reached the critical point of triggering the insurance and dragged the mother of one of the three phases back to the tower.
After formulating a plan with Bruce to trap Diana, Pride contacted Greed through the Doujie system. Anyway, he had to use the tower to deal with Hecate, so he might as well make the best use of it and sell her for a good price.
On the one hand, he could make a fortune from Greed. On the other hand, the Marvel world had Professor X, the strongest mind reader in almost all comic worlds. He should be able to figure out what the mother's mysterious ability to breed was. After all, Diana and Edward and Jonathan, who were suspected of being controlled, also needed to be rescued.
Greed was also interested in the mysterious goddess of magic. He gave Schiller more advice and asked him to take this opportunity to deal with the mess on Mount Olympus. This is how the Young Avengers team had a series of ring-running tasks.
The strategy against Mount Olympus is completely different from that against Asgard, because Odin and Zeus are completely different.
Odin is not a good father, but he is at least a good emperor. The young Thor is not a good monarch, but he must be a good brother. The young Loki is neither a good leader nor a good brother, but at least he has ambition and ability.
As the saying goes, there are so many talents in the world, you must have one, right?
Zeus basically has nothing. If you have to say something, he is good at giving birth to children, and the fighters on Mount Olympus are more or less related to him.
Just looking at the matter of the goddess of magic, you can see how incompetent Zeus is.
Since Hecate's power is needed to resist the invasion of darkness, you must at least be able to live up to it on the surface. Even if you are just making big promises, you must appease others. If you really intend to fight to the death, you must kill her with one blow and never give her any chance to recover.
Zeus, on the other hand, gave up because he thought the cost of saving Hecate was too high, causing her to fall into a deep sleep, but he was reluctant to give up the power Hecate used to resist darkness, so he let her recover. He was a typical fool who didn't know it, was short-sighted, and thought he was smart.
It is said that garbage is a resource placed in the wrong place, but if you put this kind of person, he can turn it into a garbage dump wherever you put him.
Greedy thinks that Zeus has no use value, but Mount Olympus is indeed useful. These ancient gods live longer and are more powerful than each other, which can well make up for the problem of insufficient ability on the magic side of the DC universe.
In this case, it is better to abandon Zeus and replace Mount Olympus with an actual leader. Whether in terms of ability or morality, Hera is the best candidate.