The crisis of Darkseid's invasion was thus lifted, but the superheroes who fought the earth could only feel stunned, the appearance of Dr. Manhattan completely surprised everyone, no one ever thought that there was such a terrible strong man guarding the earth.

After Dr. Manhattan wiped out the billions of Apocalypse troops with a single move, and easily killed Darkseid, the superheroes couldn't help but wonder what the meaning of their previous efforts was, if this man was willing to take action, there was almost nothing that could be called a crisis, what Darkest Night, the lightning paradox, the infinite earth crisis, there was nothing that Dr. Manhattan could not solve alone.

As long as he personally wants to.

As a world-destroyer hidden in this world, Chen Lu has certainly begun to brew a plan to get rid of Dr. Manhattan. The overall idea is naturally the same as before, making this god-level figure realize that there is nothing for humans to protect, just as the Pharaoh in the original Guardian book designed to frame him as the biggest threat to mankind.

So the first thing to do is to prevent Dr. Manhattan from becoming the biggest hero of saving the world this time, and if people know what Dr. Manhattan has done in this crisis, and not regard him as the savior who came to the world.

In fact, several civilians who witnessed the appearance of Dr. Manhattan have begun to believe in what they believe to be the true God of the incarnation, after all, witnessing such a miraculous power can only show their worship through faith.

Therefore, the first thing Chen Lu did was to completely extinguish the mouths of these witnesses.

This is not too difficult, in the course of this catastrophe, there were not many civilians who were able to survive so close to the fiercest battlefields, and a few people were quickly found and quietly disappeared from the world with the financial resources of Stark Industries. The hundreds of millions of casualties brought by the Apocalypse invasion to the Earth don't care about a few more.

Civilians are quite easy to solve, but the superheroes who are fighting on the front line with Darkseid again are not so easy to deal with, and being able to come back alive in this war is a proof of strength in itself, even Chen Lu can't solve it all so quietly.

However, Darkseid's invasion not only revealed Dr. Manhattan as a dangerous enemy to Chen Lu, but also dealt a heavy blow to the two remaining giants of the Justice League, Wonder Woman and Aquaman, each of whom was rescued by their own people, one on Paradise Island and the other in Atlantis.

For a while, the Justice League was in a dilemma of being leaderless, and Chen Lu's excellent performance against Steppenwolf in the battle naturally made him the most powerful figure in the entire Justice League at present.

So in the simple conference room after the war, Chen Lu's first request was to let the superheroes keep the appearance of Dr. Manhattan secret, and in the face of the confused crowd, he said this:

"We still can't be sure whether Dr. Manhattan's return is a savior or a threat, he is incredibly powerful and has not helped us in any of the previous crises. Not to mention the fact that he has caused 1.5 million casualties in history, and even today many people still see his return as the end of the world. In order to avoid unnecessary panic, we would be better off not telling the nation about the appearance of Dr. Manhattan. ”

For Chen Lu, who knows the ending of "Watchmen", he naturally knows that the deaths of 1.5 million people in the past were planted by the supervillain Pharaoh on Dr. Manhattan, in order to make mankind hate the same enemy and end the nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. It's just that Dr. Manhattan himself accepted this plan, and the only hero Rorschach who was willing to tell the masses the truth was also killed by his own hands.

So in this world of world, even the Justice League thinks that Dr. Manhattan is a dangerous person who has caused the deaths of millions of people, and no one realizes that he is essentially a superhero who defends the earth.

Taking advantage of this, Chen Lu can ask others not to tell the truth about Dr. Manhattan's salvation of the world.

But this naturally raises another question, if the existence of Dr. Manhattan cannot be revealed, who should be credited with defeating Darkseid? The Justice League is vulnerable to Darkseid's offensive, this is already a fact that many people have seen, and without Chen Lu's help to wipe his ass, the news of the Justice League's defeat in the battle would have spread all over the world.

At this time, Chen Lu gave an answer that was very in line with the principles of the Justice League: "Then we will not say anything, neither tell the truth to the public, nor deceive them with lies." I guess it's easier for you to be silent than to lie. ”

The superheroes also approved of such a scheme, none of them were good liars, but they were definitely experts in keeping secrets, otherwise they would not have been able to hide their true identities for so long. It's just that none of them expected that under such a simple request, Chen Lu would hide another purpose.

The media had been hyping up the story of Cyborg leading a group of new superhumans to fight against the Apocalypse Army and eventually closing the portal when the Apocalypse Star invasion began, and this time, under the manipulation of Chen Lu, the Justice League's disadvantage against Darkseid was also portrayed.

Then this opportunity, the image of the savior heroes of the Justice League was completely lost, and the people began to rely more on the new superhumans who had brought them countless troubles, and of course, they began to wonder if the Batman who led this group of new superhumans was really as evil as the Justice League described.

In such an atmosphere, the credit for foiling Darkseid's conspiracy in the end unwittingly goes to the head of the person who is always able to perform miracles on Batman. Although there is no definite evidence yet, countless people have tacitly agreed that only Batman can do such an unthinkable thing.

The Justice League did not come forward to make any defenses according to the plan specified by Chen Lu, so the rumors of Batman's salvation intensified, and the public did not recognize the return of Dr. Manhattan, but began to question the Justice League's decision to expel Batman.

As for Batman's side, of course they also know the big news of Dr. Manhattan's return, but with Batman's precautionary character, he has long been committed to finding a way to solve this hidden threat that is even bigger than Superman's loss of control countless times, and he doesn't care what the ordinary people think of this incident.

Just as he didn't care about the Gotham people's hatred of him at the beginning.

And Chen Lu's next step is to find a way to make humans gradually treat Dr. Manhattan as an enemy, after all, not every superhero has a broad mind like Batman, Dr. Manhattan's thinking has surpassed that of humans, but he is not completely insensitive to hostility and falsehood.

This is the biggest weakness that Chen Lu can exploit.