Stark Tower, New York, where Tony has been staying lately.
"Sir, the news you said needs attention has appeared." Jarvis reminded.
Tony, who was inquiring about the information, stopped and rubbed his forehead: "Let it out and have a look."
A virtual light screen appeared, above which was a studio, three hosts and one guest were arguing about something.
"Batman and his companions protected us, they fought those monsters." A host said excitedly, as if he wanted to stand up.
But the female guest in her forties burst into tears: "Protection? My son died and my daughter was lying in the hospital. They didn't die at the hands of the monster you mentioned, but were crushed by the collapsed wall. Then the man in the armor left without looking at my children again."
The male host was stunned for a moment, but still shook his head: "This is just an unavoidable collateral damage during the rescue process, and it was not intentional. Can superheroes predict the future?"
Female guest: "But he just walked away, didn't even try to help my children, let them lie under the wall and scream."
Another hostess also showed sympathy: "This is really unfortunate, maybe it was just carelessness."
Female guest: "Why? Is their help a gift? I can't refuse, and I want to say thank you to them for my dead son?"
Male host: "The situation was urgent, so the superhero might not have noticed your child's situation?"
Female guest: "Nonsense, I begged for help, and begged him to save my child, but he didn't seem to hear, and just left. I swear, I begged for help, but he didn't listen."
At this point, she broke down emotionally and was in pain.
In the studio, the two hostesses hurriedly comforted her with sad expressions on their faces.
The male host looked embarrassed and seemed speechless.
Tony squinted his eyes, watching the farce on the screen, and suddenly said: "Jarvis, find out about this woman."
In less than thirty seconds, Jarvis replied: "Her situation is basically true. Her six-year-old son died, and her three-year-old daughter suffered a head injury. The injuries recorded in the medical records are basically consistent with what she said."
Tony pondered for a moment: "What about her account? Is there any sudden increase in money?"
Jarvis: "No. But the day before yesterday, a charitable foundation began to pay for her daughter's additional treatment costs. She also made an appointment with the best brain doctor in New York to perform surgery on her daughter."
Tony: "What about the foundation?"
Jarvis: "It's a foundation that has been in operation for many years. There are also 37 families of victims funded this time. There is no abnormality."
Tony shook his head in his heart: It's too easy to manipulate this kind of thing.
Just offer the leading words at the right time, and the angry and grieving mother will do the rest.
This mother is not a professional actress, she is just an ordinary white-collar worker.
And she's on TV... impeccable.
No matter how many reasons there are, no one can deny that she just lost her son, and her daughter is still seriously injured in the hospital.
Tony let out a sigh of relief: "This preparation work is done very meticulously, and the people selected are really suitable."
What hurts the most? fact.
As long as what the female guest said was the truth, she would stand as a natural victim and weak person.
No matter what Batman's supporters say, there will be a large portion of them who will sympathize with her.
Just like the attitude of the three hosts, some will express sympathy and then keep silent about Batman.
Some will argue, but then feel that they have gone too far.
Tony thought for a moment, and sent Batman a message: There is news, are you sure you should keep silent as planned
After a while, Batman came back with a "OK", and there was no other response.
Tony curled his lips: "You're pretending to be cool, maybe you're hiding at home and scratching your head right now."
Having said that, he no longer cared about public opinion issues, but started to act according to his own plan.
Apart from helping with the foundation, Luke didn't ask Tony to participate in other specific actions, but just told him not to do it too early to avoid alarming the enemy.
This is what it means to act separately.
Luke was too lazy to fabricate his motives to Tony, and Tony also had his own thoughts, so there was no need to force them together.
It is by no means a wonderful feeling to act with the young and old who habitually want to be the leader.
When Tony vilified Batman, Luke was actually not that troubled.
Batman's plight is always aimed at the vest of Batman.
Luke will take it seriously, but he will certainly not accept any "moral trial".
The superhero that the female guest mentioned was Angel.
After the news came out, he also asked Angel about the situation at that time.
Generally speaking, the female guest is right.
But I don't know if she really didn't know it, or deliberately concealed it. Many key small details were missing in the plot she described.
For example, she didn't mention a word that Angel broke through the wall during the fight with the experimental subject. When she entered the house, she was still entangled with two experimental subjects until she broke out of the room.
Therefore, her request for help could not be taken into account by Angel who was fighting.
This cannot be blamed on Angel.
Luke's order was to kill the experimental subjects as much as possible, not to help the citizens with all their strength.
Angel is not in a normal state, she does not have such a high emotional intelligence in a state of being controlled by Luke.
Luke couldn't order her to rescue the citizens at any time, which would have a great conflict with the order to kill the test subject, resulting in neither of the two things being able to be done well.
Secondly, the experimental subject was already next door to the female guest.
If Angel doesn't show up to kill the test subject, it's unclear whether their family will be the next victims.
This kind of thing happened not because Angel was sloppy.
Among the various safety rules that Luke instilled in her, there is one that pays attention to the safety of civilians.
But the battlefield that night was chosen by the experimental subject, and it did not depend on Luke's will.
Unless Luke and the others sit back and watch these experimental subjects kill all the people in the building before they come out, as long as they enter the building to save people, this result will inevitably occur.
As the saying goes, doing more and making more mistakes is not good.
If Luke and the others choose not to show up, then it's none of Luke's business if the whole family dies, and no one alive will come out to do this.
Luke was mentally prepared for this kind of thing, Tony thought he would be depressed, that was thinking too much.
This is human nature.
Some people are noble, some people are despicable.
Some people know how to repay their kindness, while others are ungrateful.
Some people are reasonable and some are self-centered.
As long as you have experienced a lot, you will meet a certain kind of person sooner or later, regardless of whether the society is good or bad.
All kinds of people make up society, and it doesn't matter who you are disappointed with or satisfied with.
Luke never took those Batman fans seriously, because he knew too well how unreliable things like fans are.