Chapter 71: First Bad News.
In fact, Li Jie is playing a trap on McMiller. When he caught Clark Kent before, everyone in the Illuminati was a little surprised by the memories in his mind.
A person can lie, but there is no way to modify the memory unless he can deceive himself into believing that it is true. What kind of person would believe that Hyperion is their father?
After testing with various instruments, as well as repeated analysis by the professor, he came to the conclusion that Clark's brain was normal, and he was not a psychopath.
So now all the suspicions are focused on McMiller. The comics were drawn by him, and he is also the boss of DC Comics. If Hyperion is real, then what is his relationship with Hyperion?
It's all a mystery to be solved. But the Illuminati have a bit of trouble dealing with it. Because McMiller is, after all, a more prominent figure. They can't just tie him up like they did with Clark Kent.
Clark is just an ordinary press officer at the Astronomical Bureau, and even if he goes missing, the county police department will report the case at most. But Mike Miller is different, and McMiller is a real New York mogul. DG Comics is also one of the largest entertainment groups in the United States.
Among other things, Mike Miller has a net worth of at least more than $2 billion. If such a rich man suddenly disappears for a day, then the police in the entire New York City are afraid to turn the sky upside down.
So the Illuminati unanimously decided that it was best to deal with the matter in the simplest way possible. Without alarming all forces, take Mike Miller's words.
It would be possible to read Mike Miller's brain directly. But the process of reading the brain is always dangerous, and McMiller is already an old man, he is not as young and strong as Clark Kent, who can withstand the professor's toss.
So in order to deal with him, the bigwigs of the Illuminati felt that it still took some effort, such as asking Li Jie to pretend directly, a philistine businessman. Then provoke him, and then Professor Charles uses the influence of brain hypnosis to make him confide in everything he knows little by little.
This method is the safest and provides enough information.
And now Lee Jay has managed to provoke Mike Miller. If Hyperion is just a virtual character, then as Li Jie said, there is no need to deal with the world's richest man for the sake of a virtual character.
Even if many people say that a creator has feelings for his characters. But who would use such feelings against the richest man in the world?
In particular, McMiller was not just a simple artist creator, he was also a successful businessman, just look at the scale of the comic company he founded. A businessman is always able to handle these things tactfully. Unless McMiller, whose feelings for Hyperion are particularly sincere. It's like an old friend, and I firmly believe that he really exists in this world.
Under the influence of Professor Charles's brain waves, McMiller seemed ready to say something.
"You don't understand the greatness of Hyperion at all. You haven't even seen what he's done to save the world!" McMiller said, his tone angry.
Li Jie sat in his seat, drank champagne without any scruples, shrugged his shoulders, and said with a villainous face: "I guess he saved the world, probably 15 pieces of coated paper?"
What Li Jie was ridiculing was the recent major events of Hyperion Publications, which seemed to be called a cosmic explosion or something? Li Jie didn't pay attention to it.
However, it is said that the plot is particularly nonsense. It is very low in the audience evaluation. The comic book was sold at a very high price, and all the people who bought the comic said that only the 15 coated sheets printed in it were worth the ticket price.
In the face of Li Jie's unscrupulous disparagement of Hyperion, McMiller was very angry.
"No, he saved the world!" Mike stared into Li Jie's eyes, serious. Although McMiller is old, his eyes are still clear.
"Then why don't you tell me about his glorious achievements?" Li Jie drank champagne, as if waiting to hear the story.
When he heard Li Jie say this, McMiller couldn't help but have a look of memory on his face: "That was when I was very young. ”
"Our world is chaotic. War, poverty, hunger, all the time devastate us. The whole world is divided into two groups, which have been attacking each other for nearly 100 years. The two major blocs of the East and the West were pitted against each other. Countless people die in the fighting every year. Tank plane bombing, that's all the memories I remember when I was a kid. ”
McMiller's memories also made Li Jie frown slightly. These stories told by Mike Miller clearly did not take place on Earth. At least not on this Earth. Because, after the thermal weapons war, there has not been a war of opposites on the earth for 100 years. In particular, although the Cold War lasted for a long time, the confrontation between the two major blocs in the East and the West never developed into a hot war.
Li Jie thought of a possibility: Could McMiller and Clark be from other planes and universes? Li Jie has a Guardian Medal that allows him to travel through the half-plane of the earth and then use the gap between the half-planes to enter other planes.
Even now, Li Jie often patrols the half-plane, hunting down things that shouldn't be in this world. For example, there are some things that look like aliens, and some eight-legged tentacle monsters that look like Cthulhu monsters.
There are also some monsters mentioned by the SCP Foundation, which are all from other planes that have accidentally escaped to Earth. It is Li Jie's job to destroy them, and then block the dimensional passages that should not appear.
"Every grain of grain is precious, and every bullet is deadly. People have been struggling like this for 100 years. Until one day, Hyperion appeared, and he was like a savior. He took his friends with him to the high school team. They came to our world. At this, McMiller's eyes radiated an unbelievable brilliance.
"He mediated the war and destroyed the nuclear weapons of our world. Saved us from the brink of the end of the world, and made more perfect and fair laws and rules for us. Hyperion asked all the countries of the world to sit down and talk. ”
"He has this ability because he is so powerful that he can easily destroy all the war machines on our entire planet. No army can stop it. But thankfully, he was a nice guy and he helped us, so I spent almost 20 years of peace in the days that followed. McMiller laughed.
"It was the best time, the best time in our world, at least in my memory. There was no war, production began to resume, everyone could have enough to eat, and there was no longer any need to worry about bombs falling from the sky. It was also at this time that art began to revive, painting, music, things that we had not dared to disappoint during the war years reappeared. I became an art student. I thought it was going to go on like this. ”
McMiller, who was originally high-spirited and reminiscing about the good old days, suddenly stiffened.
Li Jie hurriedly asked, "What happened to him? Hyperion rebelled and became the most terrible ruler in the world?"
"Hyperion is great, and you are not allowed to slander him like this. He shed the last drop of blood for our world. "McMiller seems to be an avid Hyperion fan.
"So what the hell happened?" Li Jie suddenly wondered, how did McMiller and Clark come to this earth from another plane and live?
"A terrible monster appeared. He led an endless army to suddenly appear. He appeared with only one purpose, to destroy our world!" said McMiller, with a hint of horror on his face.