Chapter 453: The Beginning of the Confrontation (Part 2)

In the guest room of the mayor's mansion, Bruce, Lex and Clark were still thinking about the dream.

Their views on some things in the dream could not be said to be exactly the same, but they were completely different. As for the disagreement, they could not be said to seek common ground while reserving differences, but they could be said to fight.

"Even if they are guilty, you can't destroy them in that way. It's neither reasonable nor humane!" Clark said to Bruce in a very loud voice.

"I'm just deciphering the dream." Bruce said very calmly.

"But aren't you afraid that it's not a dream? When you used that black wave to hit the crowd, didn't you think about what you would do if it was real? Can you resurrect those dead people?"

"Clark, is your brain abnormal?" Lex suddenly spoke, his voice was also very cold, he said: "That group of people voted unanimously to kill you on the premise that you saved them, and you actually stopped Bruce from killing them. Are you crazy?"

"I didn't want to kill them. I don't kill people. "Bruce refuted Lex again, saying, "I am very sure that it was indeed a dream. Brute force is the most efficient means, otherwise we will all be trapped there."

"Very sure?" Clark snorted coldly and said, "You dare to do such a thing without complete certainty, and you still have the nerve to say that you are a non-killer?"

"Because his brain works faster than yours." Lex turned to Clark again and said mercilessly, "What started the whole thing? Didn't you knock me unconscious without thinking or investigating?"

Clark suddenly fell silent, then he looked into Lex's eyes and said, "Only this point, you are right, the beginning of all this is indeed from my recklessness."

He turned his head to one side and said in a low voice, "If someone really died because of this, then I have an unshirkable responsibility. "

But his apology made Lex collapse a little. He said, "You are really crazy, Clark, you..."

He stared at Clark with his eyes, as if he couldn't figure out how he developed such a saintly mindset.

Lex took a deep breath and said to Clark, "I take back my previous inference. You are not tolerant enough because you are strong enough. You are simply mentally ill."

"How can you say that to me? Even if I was a little reckless before, you can't attack me personally!" Clark said with his hands on his hips, looking at Lex.

"Your physical fitness is very problematic." Bruce pointed out the most guilty part of Lex. He said, "Even if Clark knocked you out at the beginning, if you stayed awake in the end, you could completely deceive that group of people and manipulate the vote."

"Of course I can." Lex folded his arms and said disdainfully, "Facing such a group of stupid people who can't be more stupid, it is easy to manipulate their thoughts."

"You can't manipulate the people's thoughts casually! Lex, your idea is very dangerous! "Clark spoke again.

Lex was so angry that he had to breathe oxygen.

In short, these three people are completely different in various aspects.

If divided by camp, Bruce and Clark both belong to the hero camp. They want to protect ordinary people, while Lex doesn't care about the life and death of ordinary people at all.

But in terms of means, Bruce and Lex are the same kind of people. They pursue results more and think that proper control and monitoring are necessary, but Clark thinks procedural justice is indispensable.

In terms of geography, Clark and Lex stand together. They are both from Metropolis and they all agree that all those who come from Gotham are crazy.

In this extremely complex triangle relationship, it is normal to fail to reach a consensus.

Just when the three were arguing, the door of the guest room was suddenly knocked. Clark narrowed his eyes and said, "A man with a bandage on his head, but I don't know him. "

Bruce and Lex looked at each other, and Clark had already walked up to open the door.

After the door opened, Benjamin appeared outside with gauze wrapped around his head. He was knocked unconscious by Lex and Schiller before, and then questioned by Bruce. When he woke up, his face was very haggard.

"Hello, do you need any help?" Clark asked with great concern, but Benjamin didn't even look at him, but just looked at the other two people in the room.

Bruce slightly stepped aside, and Benjamin walked in. Benjamin looked at Bruce first and said, "Mr. Wayne, you really didn't expect me..."

Then he turned his head to look at Lex and said, "Mr. Luthor, you too."

"I don't quite understand why you rich second-generations want to play such a trick? Is it interesting to pretend to be a playboy and autistic?"

Neither Bruce nor Lex spoke. The two had very similar postures, both holding their arms, and then looking at Benjamin with an X-ray-like gaze.

Perhaps, smart people always have very similar characteristics. When their eyes fall on others, they always make that person feel that they have been seen through.

Benjamin could not withstand such pressure. He could only speak first: "I need your help. I must find the mysterious Soviet spy."

Bruce was about to refuse, but Benjamin said: "I am very sure that among the participants of the banquet, someone has contact with the Soviet spy who took Philby's list."

"Why are you sure?"

"This is confidential."

As soon as Benjamin finished this sentence, he saw Bruce and Lex's face change, so he hurriedly explained: "The details are indeed confidential, but in general, this agent should have a relatively high social status."

"Perhaps, you should have heard about Philby's story on the radio. During the period when he was under investigation, all his activities were closely monitored. At this time, the level of people he could contact could not be too low."

"Don't you have a list of people he has contacted?"

"If the UK could really produce this list, it would not have let Philby escape back to Moscow."

Benjamin's explanation was very reasonable, and Bruce and Lex had no room to refute it, because it was a very simple and easy-to-understand truth. If the British intelligence agency had any ability, it would not have let Philby escape unscathed.

In fact, the impact of Philby's escape on the reputation of the UK was far greater than the damage caused by the leakage of intelligence. Anyway, the UK did not have any important intelligence to leak.

"Let me make it clearer. It's not that Britain didn't know that the people Philby contacted during that time might be suspicious, but the problem is that he only contacted high-level people during that time, and no one dared to investigate the high-level people."

"There is another question." Lex continued to ask: "Since this person dared to pass intelligence for Philby during that time, why didn't he successfully pass the intelligence back to Moscow in the end? Instead, he came to the east coast of the United States?"

Benjamin shook his head and said, "We don't have any relevant clues, which is exactly what I want to investigate."

"What are you doing here?" Bruce asked.

"I hope to get your help." Benjamin sighed and continued, "Before, you fought with the agents in the corridor, the gunshots were loud, and the panic caused was great. Many people would rather clash with the agents than stay here."

"If we focus on calming the panic, there will be no more time to investigate clues about spies."

"So, you want us to be the villains and persuade those people to stay here obediently so that you can investigate them?" Lex said bluntly.

"This can only be called cooperation. After all, neither the Luther Group in Metropolis nor the Wayne Group in Gotham would want a dangerous Soviet spy to operate in your hometown, right?"

"If you let him operate, there may be more serious consequences. If you have an intersection with him without knowing it, you may also be suspected."

"You don't have to threaten us." Lex said in a cold voice: "The Luther Group provides hundreds of thousands of jobs in the Metropolitan area alone."

"If the controller of the Luther Group is suspected of colluding with the Communist Party, the stock will fall sharply. The consequence of industrial contraction will be a wave of unemployment, followed by a financial crisis."

"Once Wayne and I are purged by you, all entrepreneurs will be in danger, and the economic crisis will come early. Congress will not allow you to do this."

Benjamin felt that he had difficulty breathing. Originally, he should not have consumed his brain power so much after being injured, but the problem now is that he consumed his brain power and could not fight the two people in front of him at all.

"Without the CIA, we can still investigate spies. In other words, it will be easier for us to exert our strength after you let us go. The Luthor Group's industries are all over Metropolis, so it is easy to investigate their whereabouts. The Wayne Group is the same for Gotham."

Lex continued to analyze the matter, but Benjamin put forward another condition. He said, "You should know about the underground treasure in Metropolis. Now that the CIA has learned of this information, you can't take all the treasure. The military is crying for food."

"If you are willing to help me, I can stand on your side when deciding the share in the future. If this work goes well, the power of the two agencies in charge of internal and external affairs, the CIA and the FBI, will return to their peak, enough to decide some things."

When they heard the word treasure, Lex, Bruce and Clark looked at each other, and they thought of the things they saw in the dream.

They had no evidence to prove that the dream built by Schiller must be based on reality, so they could not be sure whether there was really a huge piece of kryptonite buried under Metropolis.

But they have reason to believe that Schiller must have investigated something and that's why he came up with such a dream, that is, the treasure buried under Metropolis is most likely kryptonite.

After knowing this, to some extent, the three of them reached a consensus on their interests.

Lex and Bruce are both skeptics. They cannot fully accept Clark and his powerful superpowers. They hope to have something to counter him, so they both hope to get kryptonite.

Clark, on the other hand, doesn't care if someone wants to use this thing to counter him. He cares more about whether this stone will really make ordinary people get cancer as in the dream. He hopes to move these things and not bury them here again.

But they also know that it is not easy to find and move this thing. If its size is really as big as in the dream, it will take manpower to dig it out, and it will definitely alarm all parties.

Lex and Bruce gave the answer almost at the same time. Bruce said, "We can help you, but we have a request."

Lex continued, "We don't trust the efficiency of you and your group of agents, so we have to change our division of labor."

"Change? What do you mean?"

"You go to appease those people, and we will investigate the Soviet spies."

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