Waller frowned deeply; it wasn't that she hadn't anticipated this condition, but she was surprised at how quickly things were progressing.
Moreover, letting the President meet the other party's leader in person was too risky; she couldn't make that decision.
"I know what you're thinking, Waller." Vixen could roughly guess what she was thinking from the constantly changing expression on her face.
"But I just heard the news that your President even met Ultraman, so to show sincerity, meeting our people in person shouldn't be too excessive a condition, right?"
News she just heard?
Waller quickly grasped the keyword; she thought of Vixen's distracted state just now, wondering if she was communicating with someone else at that time.
Is this a superpower?
Waller felt a bit powerless; facing these metahumans, you never know what they can do.
At this moment, Kida Miyo, who had been guarding outside the warehouse, suddenly flew in and landed beside Vixen.
"Those gangsters, I found them bringing a large number of people to quietly surround this place."
Saying this, Kida Miyo glanced at Waller; she didn't know Waller, but she had once been approached by Harcourt, so she wasn't completely ignorant of this ARGUS executive.
She now suspected that the people outside were arranged by her in advance.
But Vixen didn't think so, because she could feel how angry Waller was at this moment.
So she smiled and said to Waller: "It seems someone doesn't welcome us, so we'll leave first; the suggestion I made earlier is still valid; if you and the people behind you ever decide, you can contact me."
Saying this, Vixen placed a slip of paper with a number on the table in front of Waller; this was the number of a mobile phone Vixen and Kida Miyo had casually picked up while cleaning up gangsters in the local area.
After dropping the paper, she and Kida Miyo elegantly flew out of the warehouse and soared into the distance.
And the gunmen brought by the gangsters couldn't see the two people in the sky in the dark night and were still fumbling forward in the dark.
Inside the warehouse, Waller, with a grim face, sent a message to her subordinates; soon after, gunshots erupted outside the warehouse, echoing all around.
Waller didn't care about the situation outside; she just stared at the slip of paper in her hand, lost in thought; after a long while, she finally made up her mind and dialed Washington.
Far away in the White House in Washington, President Wilson's daughter, Rose Wilson, was about to send a document to her father, but before entering, she heard him on the phone with someone inside.
She inadvertently heard a bit of the content, stopped what she was doing, looked left and right, confirmed no one was there, and then quietly pressed her ear against the wooden door.
"So, in your judgment, can this newly emerged metahuman team be used by us?"
"What? They want me to meet them in person?"
Wilson, of course, was unwilling; the last time he met Ultraman and other Syndicate members, he suffered great humiliation; Ultraman even slapped his face in front of everyone, making his mouth bleed, and he could only endure it... Rose Wilson would never know all the efforts he made to keep this country functioning at its most basic level, not to be completely taken over by the Crime Syndicate.
Resisting the Syndicate was not like Rose, solving problems by holding a few speaking tours or demonstrations.
The people of the United States were weak when it came to the Syndicate problem; this was a recognized fact.
Even when holding demonstrations and shouting slogans, no one dared to do so in areas where Syndicate members were stationed; they only dared to protest in other controlled areas where the government's power was stronger, and they didn't dare to make them too large, fearing attracting the Syndicate's attention.
With such awareness and such consciousness, how could the Syndicate be overthrown?
So President Wilson never counted on these people; if one wanted to make a change, it was impossible without preparing for bloody sacrifices.
Based on his hatred for the Syndicate, Wilson was full of distrust towards this new metahuman team Waller spoke of, because their very existence was like an idealized lie.
Therefore, when faced with Waller's suggestion, he said he needed to consider it.
But Rose knew her father very well; usually, when he said that, it was equivalent to rejecting Waller's suggestion.
This made her indignant; she could guess that the team Waller mentioned was very likely referring to some people recently rumored, people saying they were very different from the Syndicate.
For example, the new Flash in Central City, the Green Lantern who subdued the Power Ring in Coast City, and the two female metahumans who recently appeared in New York City.
Also, Rose had heard that some new changes seemed to have occurred in Gotham City recently.
However, Gotham was the city Owlman had operated in the longest, and their official forces found it difficult to penetrate, so it was temporarily impossible to discern.
But from President Wilson and Waller's phone call, it could vaguely be heard that Waller seemed to have successfully connected with those people; if they could unite with them, there might be a chance to completely eradicate the Syndicate, this cancerous tumor.
So when she heard President Wilson's intention to refuse, she angrily burst into the office.
"Why won't you agree to meet them?"
Wilson had just put down the receiver when he heard his daughter's accusation; he realized that the content of his conversation with Waller might have been overheard by her.
He said earnestly: "There are no absolutely selfless people in this World, Rose; no matter what those people's ultimate goal is, I cannot give them any opportunity!
If we eliminate one Syndicate only to welcome another, stronger Syndicate, then what was the point of everything we did before?"
That being said, before these people appeared, did the government ever play any active role in this?
Rose was very skeptical.
President Wilson understood her skepticism; he thought for a moment and decided to tell her something; she was his daughter and his closest assistant by the President's side, so she should know this "good news."
So he said: "Even without the people Waller mentioned, we still have our own way to deal with the Syndicate; if you wish, I can show you."
Rose was confused and interested by her father's words; if there was a more secure method, of course, she would agree with her father's opinion.
So she asked to know what method he was referring to, and Wilson took out a classified document and placed it in front of Rose.
The title of the secret document was a research report on the Quantum Ontology Bomb.
"This is a groundbreaking weapon, Rose." Rose looked up and saw an unusual glint in President Wilson's eyes.
"Its destructive power far exceeds all existing nuclear weapons! You should know that existing human nuclear weapons cannot destroy a Planet itself; they even struggle to move continental plates.
"The only thing our nuclear weapons can destroy is human civilization and Earth's ecosystem. But Earth's ecology will one day regenerate itself through self-regulation. So, in the end, nuclear weapons can only destroy humans. They can't even destroy freaks like Ultraman or Superwoman."
Furthermore, President Wilson also knew that Owlman had the ability to build a large space station. If all else failed, the Crime Syndicate could escape to the space station and return to pick up the pieces after the ground had been bombed by nuclear weapons.
"But it's different now. The Quantum Ontology Bomb, if detonated in the right position, can completely destroy this Planet. It can trigger a fusion reaction in the Planet's core, forcing the core itself to explode!"
"Even the freaks of the Syndicate absolutely cannot withstand an explosion of this power. This is the new nuclear deterrent!"
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