Chapter 457 The Butler Is Always Right (Part 1)

Just as Benjamin summoned agents from the entire manor to search for the entrance on the first floor, the atmosphere in front of the entrance became increasingly anxious.

Just after Schiller said that the treasure in the ground might be a special mineral that can weaken super powers, Bruce and Lex stood on opposite sides.

These two skeptics will never believe that the other party will not use this thing indiscriminately. At the same time, they are also controlists, that is, regardless of whether this matter has anything to do with me or whether I want to use this thing in the future, I You need to have complete control over it to feel safe.

And they are all very typical Americans. Zero-sum thinking has almost been engraved in their genes. Peace and win-win do not exist in their brains. They always feel that as long as the other party takes more, they will lose one. You will be killed by the other party.

This ever-present insecurity has been urging them to move forward, but at the same time, it can easily become a weakness that can be exploited. The moment Schiller said these words, the two extremely smart geniuses even There was no doubt that this was Schiller's plan to divorce.

In other words, they may have thought about this issue, but they dare not bet on whether what Schiller said is true.

After the youth version of the Justice League fell apart, the atmosphere at the scene became subtle.

Because in Bruce's plan, the person he wanted to use kryptonite to weaken was Schiller, so he naturally stood opposite Schiller, and the person who wanted to compete with him for kryptonite was Lex, so he He also stood opposite Lex, so in this way, Schiller and Lex stood aside.

If we compare Lex and Bruce, they are almost the same in intelligence. Bruce wins in terms of physical fitness and fighting skills. If the two of them were to face each other, Bruce would have a huge advantage.

But Schiller sided with Lex, and Bruce's only military advantage was gone, so he had to find a strong ally.

When Clark's name was called by Bruce, he was still confused because he could not understand the situation on the field at all. He stood far away and said loudly: "What's going on? Aren't we partners?!"

"Clark, you can't let this kind of thing fall into Luther's hands. What he did before has shown that he has no bottom line when it comes to destroying mankind."

"Don't listen to him, Clark, if I get the treasure, I will never use it against you."

"You're lying, Lex. You wanted to get that mineral called kryptonite just to protect yourself from Clark, didn't you?"

Lex didn't show any weakness and looked directly into Bruce's eyes and asked, "Then who did you get this mineral to guard against?"

After asking this question, Lex and Bruce instinctively turned their attention to Schiller. Schiller was looking down at his umbrella. After finding that everyone on the field was silent, he raised his head and looked first. He glanced at Lex, then at Bruce, and said, "Why are you staring at me?"

"I said I wanted to go down, but you wouldn't let me. I wanted to leave, but you wouldn't let me either. Do you still want to blame me for all this?"

"Hey, don't argue!" Clark finally came over. Seeing Schiller silently taking a step back, Clark stopped again. He stretched out his two hands, stopped between Lex and Bruce, and said:

"No matter who gets this thing in the end, we must first confirm whether it is harmful to ordinary people. This is the most important goal of our cooperation."

With that said, Clark walked to the entrance of the cellar again and said, "If you can't agree with this, I won't let any of you go down."

"To me, it's the same whether you get this thing, so I won't help any of you deal with the other party. If you want to be in a stalemate here, then I will go down first."

At this time, Clark was about to walk into the cellar. Bruce and Lex looked at each other, and the scope of the fierce conflict suddenly eased.

Obviously, both of them knew that they couldn't let Clark get that magical mineral. And if Clark really went down alone without anyone around to influence him, then even if the mineral could weaken his superpower, it might not be able to stop him. .

Seeing Lex and Bruce walking side by side again, Schiller shook his head. Clark really restrained him, in every sense of the word, but there was nothing that could be done about it. Silly Baitian restrained all players who used their brains, yours The anticipation was good, but I didn't move at all.

The reason for the dispute between Lex and Bruce is very complicated, stemming from their personalities and positions. If you want to choose one of them, you must analyze the logic of their behavior, just like Schiller did. The reason why he sides with Lex is because he knows that Bruce must be using this thing to deal with him. Even if he sides with Bruce, he will be stabbed in the back in the end.

But Clark chose not to choose anyone. In short, he just didn't use his brain at all, determined his goal, and then moved forward all the way. However, he happened to defeat Schiller's divorce plan. Facing the courageous Clark, Bruce still had no choice but to Join forces with Lex.

The situation now became that Clark jumped down from the cellar first, Lex and Bruce walked forward while talking, seemingly making new plans, Schiller followed them, considering whether to go down by himself.

It stands to reason that when things have reached this point, there is no need for him to go down by himself. Anyway, no matter what is there, Lex and Bruce will remove it. It will be easy to get some from Lex. After all, Schiller is not Batman. He wants half a ton of kryptonite for no purpose other than taking up space.

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But at this moment, Schiller, who was walking at the end, noticed that several teams of agents seemed to be walking towards here. The fence in the courtyard was covered with thick white snow, but figures of people could still be seen swaying between the branches.

It can be seen from the formation that this is not a coincidence, they are surrounding this place in an orderly manner.

To go to an unknown place, face possible dangers, and compete for treasures with equally dangerous opponents, or to stay here and face some very easy-to-deal with agents, Schiller chose without hesitation... the former.

He walked into the entrance of the cellar without looking back. He was hiding in a hiding place to observe the agents here. He thought he had not noticed it, so after Schiller entered the entrance of the cellar, the agents rushed out from the hiding place. , and then set up some explosion-proof equipment at the entrance.

While the agents were executing the orders step by step, Benjamin was on the top floor of the manor tower, looking at the situation at the entrance to the cellar with a telescope.

The location of this tower is very good. It is located in the center of the entire manor and is the highest place. It can be used as a watchtower to have an unobstructed view of the entire manor.

Not only the situation in the entire manor, but also the situation around the entire mayor's residence, he could see. Therefore, the moment Benjamin raised the telescope, he keenly captured a black spot in his field of vision, from the Metropolis. across the skyline.

The visibility was not far enough among the snowflakes in the sky, so Benjamin could not see clearly what it was, but soon, he felt the ground shake, and the explosion fire lit up from a distance, and even formed a swirl of stirring snowflakes. The rising cyclone.

Benjamin squinted his eyes, put down the telescope, turned around, and asked Keira behind him: "...did you see it?"

Keira was also holding a telescope, and by chance, she happened to be looking directly in that direction. After she put the telescope down, she said in an incredible tone: "I seem to have seen a crashed fighter jet."

"Fighter aircraft? Who would fly a fighter jet in this weather except those crazy Soviets?"

Kayla frowned, thought about it, and said, "That doesn't seem to be a fighter model I've seen. You know, I also served in the Air Force. There should be no all-black fighter jets in the Air Force."

At this moment, they heard a noise coming from downstairs. It was not downstairs in the tower where they were located, but near the fourth floor of the manor.

It was a crisp sound, and it didn’t sound like the sound of a gun being fired. Instead, it sounded like the sound of breaking glass. Benjamin’s face darkened. He looked at Kayla and asked, “It’s not the guests who are causing trouble again.” Right?"

Kayla picked up the walkie-talkie and wanted to communicate with the agents and let them go over to check, but Benjamin stepped forward and stopped her, saying, "Don't mobilize the manpower at the entrance for the time being. Let's go and take a look in person."

Benjamin thought that this was just a group of impatient guests causing something else. During this period of time, he also discovered that this group of people were just external strongmen. Although they spoke fiercely, once the agents If they took out their guns, they would just retreat with a groan.

Thinking like this, Benjamin walked directly down from the tower without much precaution, then entered the main building of the manor, passed through the banquet hall, walked up the stairs, and came to the place where the sound came from.

That was the end of the corridor on the fourth floor. At this time, broken glass was scattered on the ground. Kayla walked forward with a pistol, checked, and said, "Someone must have broken the glass, and they played a prank out of dissatisfaction." ”

"If it was a prank, there shouldn't be glass on the ground because if the glass was broken from the inside, the glass shards would be scattered outside, and now, the glass shards are in the corridor, which means someone broke the glass from the outside."

Benjamin looked around the broken glass and found no footprints or other similar traces. Finally, he concluded: "It seems that this is not man-made. Maybe the wind and snow blew some sharp objects onto the glass." , and then broke it from the outside."

Kayla frowned, as if she still had some objections, but she couldn't find any evidence to refute Benjamin.

After all, in this kind of rainy and snowy weather, people can easily leave traces, and the residents here are all well-off celebrities. They have no incentive to run out of the window and then climb in through the window.

And if it is an invasion by a foreign enemy, it is unlikely. The traffic in the entire metropolis is now paralyzed. Who would go to this place with so much effort? The entire operation was completely confidential, and communications were cut off. Outsiders had no idea what was happening here and had no reason to come here.

But at this moment, Benjamin said "Huh" in confusion. Kayla walked up and found that he was staring at the wall next to the window.

Kayla saw nothing on the wall, so she walked closer, leaned her head over, and finally discovered that there was a small, almost invisible scratch at the junction of the wall and the window sill.

It looked like it was left when people climbed over the window. Benjamin stared at the trace and said: "It seems that someone has indeed invaded here."

Kayla was puzzled. She felt that this evidence was not sufficient. She said, "What if it was caused by a foreign object breaking the glass?"

"Kayla, discovering details and inferring the behavioral logic behind them is an essential professional quality for agents. Many agents are called the king of agents because they are good at discovering these details and inferring information that ordinary people cannot discover."

"The scratch is located at the junction of the window sill and the wall, but the direction is upward. If it was caused by flying glass fragments, it should be the lower half of the window glass splashing out, and the scratch should be facing downward."

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"When the lower half of the glass is broken, it is impossible to turn a corner in the air and fly upward. Therefore, this should not be caused by glass. More importantly, look here, there is a deep scratch first, and then a long shallow scratch. What does this mean?"

"What?" Kayla asked.

"The shape of the thing that made this scratch is irregular, and it should have two parts."

"So, what is that?"

"It is very likely the zipper of the jacket, or the zipper on the trouser pocket. The zipper pendant and the zipper itself rubbed against the wall, which would cause such a shape."

As he said, Benjamin picked up the zipper on his jacket and gently scratched the wall. Sure enough, the same shape as the previous scratch appeared.

"The intruder should be an old hand. He cleaned up the traces on the ground in a short time, but ignored the wall part."

"Like I said." Benjamin turned his head to look at the scratch, and said with some disdain: "In the agent business, details determine success or failure."

"You have to know that details determine success or failure." In a room on the fifth floor, Alfred said to Hal holding the double-barreled shotgun.

Hal, standing by the bed, sighed and said, "So, after you cleaned up all the traces, you asked me to leave a shallow scratch on the window with a zipper, just to confuse the chief agent?"

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"Yes, this will give him a feeling that I am careless, confuse his judgment of my strength, and also arouse his interest."

"If I do nothing and leave those traces there, then the chief agent will definitely think that I am a novice and can be solved by sending one or two agents at random, so there is no way to attract his attention."

"But if I clear the traces too cleanly, on the one hand, he may think that no one has invaded here, on the other hand, if he judges that my strength is too high, he may mobilize all the agents to search, which is not good for our actions."

"So, we have to attract his attention and let him chase us, but we can't let him take it too seriously." Hal concluded.

"That's right." Alfred nodded and said, "Now it seems that I have successfully aroused his interest and even aroused his fighting spirit, making him want to come over and compete with me." "So what are you going to do? Duel with him?" Alfred looked at Hal with a look of a fool and said: "Why should I duel with him?" "So what are you going to do..." "The young master and the young lady are not young anymore. I think it's time for them to learn some necessary self-protection methods."