American Comics: The Law of Strength
Chapter 160
"Ding~"
"Click..."
"Toot~"
"Click..."
In the quiet conference room, the unique text message ringtone of the fruit mobile phone continued to ring, and Diane's nerves were also stretched one by one, she nodded towards Natasha, who had been transferred to her and S.H.I.E.L.D., and the latter simply snatched the mobile phone that displayed "Peter, I miss you a little" from the smiling Peter, skillfully cut off the power and pulled out the phone card, and then opened the window, allowing the dull room to breathe and let the phone fly to the sky.
"You know you paid for that phone, right?"
Peter reluctantly took his SIM card from Natasha, and Diane's head also had another bruise.
"So I came to raise my blood pressure when I was paying you to use the phone I paid for to pave the way in my study for your plan?"
Diane deliberately accentuated "Your Plan", but Peter could only sigh.
When he first conceived of creating a superhero organization similar to "Walt Corporation", he had a vague understanding that it would be a complex and huge project.
Even his combined experience in his two lifetimes was not enough to run such a plan, so he was very self-aware to draw the Bernano family into the plan so that he did not have to worry about the large number and complicated documents and formalities.
He only needs to provide his own prestige, and then provide the super items and potions exchanged by the system for professional personnel to reverse engineer to "produce" heroes in batches, and the rest is more suitable for professionals to continue to operate.
However, when a dozen thick and dictionary-like documents "bang" fell in front of Peter, and Diane said "memorize" without a trace of emotion, Peter knew that he had not escaped this heavy punch of knowledge after all.
"These... What is it? "
Peter was still holding on to a bit of luck at this time, but when he heard the "legal terms and insurance regulations", he completely messed up and texted Gwen instead.
Diane, on the other hand, had no intention of letting Peter go at all, and her palm slammed the document, suppressing her anger, and said as calmly as possible:
"Give the old lady to memorize it in three days! Otherwise, I'll airlift a few Italian cannons from my hometown to kill you!" "
Peter reluctantly picked up a few papers, but when he saw the dense letters that filled the entire paper, he sighed again.
"The law makes me memorize it, I can accept it, but what is the use of me memorizing these insurances?"
"What's the use?"
Diane sneered twice, then turned around and pulled out a stack of documents from her desk, and then threw it in front of Peter without looking at it, it was a large bill, and the payers on the bills were all written with Gwen Stacy's name.
"Building damage, vehicle damage, injuries, insurance companies don't care if you're doing good or not, as long as you cause a loss, they will immediately survey the site to verify the loss, and after the payment is made, they will immediately "claim on behalf of you" to initiate a claim.
In the past, when Gwen's identity was still a secret, they had to grit their teeth and bear it, but now that her identity is almost revealed, they rush over like sharks that smell blood.
Thankfully, Gwen has always been restrained, so her problems can be solved with money, but it's also a warning that if you don't pay attention to this, you'll fall into the same situation, or worse.
Unlike Gwen, you're not just going to lose money, you're going to lose money and your plans at that point.
After all, what you want to build is an institution with police functions, and you can't do without the support of the people if you want to achieve it, so you better not use those vehicles and buildings as a background for your battle, if the people's property is damaged because of you, and you can't provide security, then there will be more and more people who oppose you.
After all, many people worship heroes just shouting loudly, they just hope that one day when they are hurt, there will be free vigilantes to help, but if they suffer property damage then they will immediately change sides. "
Peter frowned and picked up a document and looked at the bills, most of which were construction and vehicle damage, and Diane took the opportunity to educate Peter about law and insurance, hoping that he would take the opportunity to memorize some important points.
"Look at this bill."
Diane pulled out a bill worth $700,000, and then accompanied the drawings and explained with some helplessness:
"This was an ATM robbery that Gwen was involved in, a group of robbers tried to remove the bank's ATM late at night, and Gwen arrived to stop them, but the problem is..."
Without Diane continuing to explain that Peter could see the mess.
"Although what Gwen is doing is trying to protect the property of the people and the government, in the opinion of the insurance company, without her involvement, the damage may have actually occurred, at least the robbers would not have opened fire and attacked nearby shops."
Diane pointed to the photo and began to calculate the damage, one by one.
"The robbers who were hung by Gwen to the sky broke the ceiling, which was a loss of fifty thousand dollars, and the glass vitrine was as high as seventy thousand dollars.
The affected stores are more complicated, and their business owners insurance results in Gwen having to pay them all the losses during the period when they were unable to operate, in addition to the items they lost.
Seven hundred thousand dollars, which is far more than the amount stored in an ATM.
And legally Gwen is responsible for these losses!
This is the consequence of not circumventing the laws and regulations to perform chivalry! That's why I need you and the superheroes on your future team to learn these laws!
And the first law I need you to remember is that if you are not responsible for the damage you cause while saving someone, especially someone's life! The protection of property is not included.
So the next time you or your girlfriend want to save an ATM, find a way to put a little girl no more than eight years old or a pregnant woman less than one meter five in height in a place that the surveillance can't see, and you can do whatever you want. "
Then Diane took a deep breath, glanced meaningfully at Natasha beside her, and then said solemnly:
"Listen to Peter, the plan we are working on now will change the way the whole world works, and as long as we continue to carry forward this plan, it will inevitably affect the interests of many people, so we must be careful not to let anyone catch us.
And this is just the beginning, when this plan continues to promote, there will inevitably be more superheroes, so there will inevitably be laws against superheroes in the future.
So you have to take these laws and regulations more seriously, although you are now extremely sought after by the media, and your relationship with Gwen is also the most talked about topic among the public, it seems that your reputation is very solid, but in fact you are not much different from the real Batman now.
The line between your hero and the criminal is very blurred, legally speaking, you are still a civilian, and your true identity has been made public.
Even if the police and the government acquiesce in your law enforcement actions, it does not mean that you can escape the law, they do not pursue it only because they do not need to pursue it, and once they think that the time is right, they will throw the materials and evidence they have collected before on your head.
So you have to be very cautious.
Just one wrong step will cause your current accumulated prestige to collapse immediately, and the cheers of today will turn into invective, just as Gwen once experienced, she went from a much-sought after superhero to a wanted criminal overnight without any evidence at all. "
Peter nodded equally solemnly.
After all, in the plot of the Marvel movie, the Avengers, which lost public opinion due to repeated "collateral damage", were opposed by a large number of people, and the public opinion eventually directly led to the civil war of the heroes and caused the division of the Avengers.
Half of the Avengers became wanted criminals, while the rest of the members directly became government-regulated "super mercenaries." "
In the TV series of the black-robed pickets, Walt also pays great attention to public opinion and the image of the heroes, and the support rate of the heroes is almost like their lifeline.
Although every "superhero" can be called a heinous crime, they also have to ensure that their public image is not damaged at all times, and even the nearly invincible people of their homeland fear online violence.
So Peter immediately realized Diane's core point after Diane's explanation, that is, to maintain his public image like the "superheroes" in the black-robed pickets, not to lose public opinion, and to gain their support by all means.
It looks like he has to continue this hero show next.
Natasha watched coldly throughout, and although Natasha had revealed her identity as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., Diane did not deliberately drive her away when talking about these plans that should be secret, and even Peter acquiesced to her observer.
She understood Diane's thoughts almost immediately.
Such a huge plan naturally cannot be hidden and carried out slowly, so if you want to promote this behemoth without someone creating obstacles, pulling S.H.I.E.L.D., which has an official background and the intention to cooperate, is a good move.
And Natasha realized that this plan coincided with Nick Fury's "Avengers Project", and maybe they really had some possibility of cooperation.
It's just that she doesn't know that the reason why Diane is so blatant to show Natasha the full picture of the plan is because she has already reached an agreement with the Serpent Shield Bureau who has lowered her posture, and now all they need is to go through the open face with the disguise of the Serpent Shield Bureau.
For Hydra, who has always been committed to the ultimate goal of building a feudal and orderly society, Peter's plan and their insight plan are similar, and may even be more effective, although they cannot intervene forcefully today, but they are also happy to see the birth of such a superhero company.
And Peter has no objection to this, as long as the "Walt Company" defense network can appear in the Marvel Universe as soon as possible, this level of threat is completely acceptable to him.
Or that Hydra, as a villain organization composed almost entirely of ordinary humans, can't even enter the top ten of Peter's threat ranking in his mind today.
Although Peter has dealt with many events now, what is really related to the plot of the movie is actually planning the attack of the Ten Rings Gang and rescuing Tony, and the problems he has to face and deal with next are still innumerable.
Although according to the development of the plot, Loki led Thanos' army to invade Earth for the first time more than three years later, and Thanos personally went to Earth to rob the Infinity Stones nearly ten years later, but now there are no fewer foreseeable crises in front of him.
For example, Aaron is now prying away the white moonlight Christine of the future Doctor Strange.
According to the development in the movie, Christine should have been one of the important people who made Strange Doctor Strange.
Without the birth of this supreme mage, Dormammu, one of the top cosmic demon gods in the entire Marvel Universe, is very likely to descend on Earth, and the disaster brought by this demon god to Earth has far exceeded Thanos.
At least Thanos only wiped out half of the universe's life, but Dormammu can destroy the entire planet.
So he next has to make sure that Doctor Strange can continue to become Doctor Strange as the plot suggests, and if he can't succeed, he may have to try to contact the most powerful combat power on Earth, the current Supreme Mage, Gu Yi.
If it is not necessary, Peter really does not want to contact him, so he only hopes that this Strange can give his hands for world peace according to the plot.
In addition to the threat of Dormammu, he must also be careful about the arrival of Thor, the son of the god-king, although he will not be a threat himself, but Peter clearly remembers that in the Marvel animated series, there is a scene in the Thor dying on Earth, and Loki takes advantage of the situation to lead the army of gods to invade the story line of Earth.
If it is not possible to ensure that this son of the god king can return to the god realm smoothly, then it will also cause a crisis of destruction for the earth, but to a better extent than the arrival of Dormammu.
In addition to the huge threat that will lead to extinction, there are not few problems that need to be dealt with urgently, such as Tony, although there are no signs of palladium poisoning, but it is only a matter of time, how to get S.H.I.E.L.D. to hand over Tony's father's information and inspire Tony to study and synthesize new elements is also a troublesome matter.
Not to mention that the hunter Cleven who hid in the building before and escaped must also be solved as soon as possible.
Peter pinched his eyebrows, threw the thick document aside, and looked out the window, summer had come to an end, and his "summer vacation" was coming to an end.
"Click..."
"Toot~"
"Click..."
In the quiet conference room, the unique text message ringtone of the fruit mobile phone continued to ring, and Diane's nerves were also stretched one by one, she nodded towards Natasha, who had been transferred to her and S.H.I.E.L.D., and the latter simply snatched the mobile phone that displayed "Peter, I miss you a little" from the smiling Peter, skillfully cut off the power and pulled out the phone card, and then opened the window, allowing the dull room to breathe and let the phone fly to the sky.
"You know you paid for that phone, right?"
Peter reluctantly took his SIM card from Natasha, and Diane's head also had another bruise.
"So I came to raise my blood pressure when I was paying you to use the phone I paid for to pave the way in my study for your plan?"
Diane deliberately accentuated "Your Plan", but Peter could only sigh.
When he first conceived of creating a superhero organization similar to "Walt Corporation", he had a vague understanding that it would be a complex and huge project.
Even his combined experience in his two lifetimes was not enough to run such a plan, so he was very self-aware to draw the Bernano family into the plan so that he did not have to worry about the large number and complicated documents and formalities.
He only needs to provide his own prestige, and then provide the super items and potions exchanged by the system for professional personnel to reverse engineer to "produce" heroes in batches, and the rest is more suitable for professionals to continue to operate.
However, when a dozen thick and dictionary-like documents "bang" fell in front of Peter, and Diane said "memorize" without a trace of emotion, Peter knew that he had not escaped this heavy punch of knowledge after all.
"These... What is it? "
Peter was still holding on to a bit of luck at this time, but when he heard the "legal terms and insurance regulations", he completely messed up and texted Gwen instead.
Diane, on the other hand, had no intention of letting Peter go at all, and her palm slammed the document, suppressing her anger, and said as calmly as possible:
"Give the old lady to memorize it in three days! Otherwise, I'll airlift a few Italian cannons from my hometown to kill you!" "
Peter reluctantly picked up a few papers, but when he saw the dense letters that filled the entire paper, he sighed again.
"The law makes me memorize it, I can accept it, but what is the use of me memorizing these insurances?"
"What's the use?"
Diane sneered twice, then turned around and pulled out a stack of documents from her desk, and then threw it in front of Peter without looking at it, it was a large bill, and the payers on the bills were all written with Gwen Stacy's name.
"Building damage, vehicle damage, injuries, insurance companies don't care if you're doing good or not, as long as you cause a loss, they will immediately survey the site to verify the loss, and after the payment is made, they will immediately "claim on behalf of you" to initiate a claim.
In the past, when Gwen's identity was still a secret, they had to grit their teeth and bear it, but now that her identity is almost revealed, they rush over like sharks that smell blood.
Thankfully, Gwen has always been restrained, so her problems can be solved with money, but it's also a warning that if you don't pay attention to this, you'll fall into the same situation, or worse.
Unlike Gwen, you're not just going to lose money, you're going to lose money and your plans at that point.
After all, what you want to build is an institution with police functions, and you can't do without the support of the people if you want to achieve it, so you better not use those vehicles and buildings as a background for your battle, if the people's property is damaged because of you, and you can't provide security, then there will be more and more people who oppose you.
After all, many people worship heroes just shouting loudly, they just hope that one day when they are hurt, there will be free vigilantes to help, but if they suffer property damage then they will immediately change sides. "
Peter frowned and picked up a document and looked at the bills, most of which were construction and vehicle damage, and Diane took the opportunity to educate Peter about law and insurance, hoping that he would take the opportunity to memorize some important points.
"Look at this bill."
Diane pulled out a bill worth $700,000, and then accompanied the drawings and explained with some helplessness:
"This was an ATM robbery that Gwen was involved in, a group of robbers tried to remove the bank's ATM late at night, and Gwen arrived to stop them, but the problem is..."
Without Diane continuing to explain that Peter could see the mess.
"Although what Gwen is doing is trying to protect the property of the people and the government, in the opinion of the insurance company, without her involvement, the damage may have actually occurred, at least the robbers would not have opened fire and attacked nearby shops."
Diane pointed to the photo and began to calculate the damage, one by one.
"The robbers who were hung by Gwen to the sky broke the ceiling, which was a loss of fifty thousand dollars, and the glass vitrine was as high as seventy thousand dollars.
The affected stores are more complicated, and their business owners insurance results in Gwen having to pay them all the losses during the period when they were unable to operate, in addition to the items they lost.
Seven hundred thousand dollars, which is far more than the amount stored in an ATM.
And legally Gwen is responsible for these losses!
This is the consequence of not circumventing the laws and regulations to perform chivalry! That's why I need you and the superheroes on your future team to learn these laws!
And the first law I need you to remember is that if you are not responsible for the damage you cause while saving someone, especially someone's life! The protection of property is not included.
So the next time you or your girlfriend want to save an ATM, find a way to put a little girl no more than eight years old or a pregnant woman less than one meter five in height in a place that the surveillance can't see, and you can do whatever you want. "
Then Diane took a deep breath, glanced meaningfully at Natasha beside her, and then said solemnly:
"Listen to Peter, the plan we are working on now will change the way the whole world works, and as long as we continue to carry forward this plan, it will inevitably affect the interests of many people, so we must be careful not to let anyone catch us.
And this is just the beginning, when this plan continues to promote, there will inevitably be more superheroes, so there will inevitably be laws against superheroes in the future.
So you have to take these laws and regulations more seriously, although you are now extremely sought after by the media, and your relationship with Gwen is also the most talked about topic among the public, it seems that your reputation is very solid, but in fact you are not much different from the real Batman now.
The line between your hero and the criminal is very blurred, legally speaking, you are still a civilian, and your true identity has been made public.
Even if the police and the government acquiesce in your law enforcement actions, it does not mean that you can escape the law, they do not pursue it only because they do not need to pursue it, and once they think that the time is right, they will throw the materials and evidence they have collected before on your head.
So you have to be very cautious.
Just one wrong step will cause your current accumulated prestige to collapse immediately, and the cheers of today will turn into invective, just as Gwen once experienced, she went from a much-sought after superhero to a wanted criminal overnight without any evidence at all. "
Peter nodded equally solemnly.
After all, in the plot of the Marvel movie, the Avengers, which lost public opinion due to repeated "collateral damage", were opposed by a large number of people, and the public opinion eventually directly led to the civil war of the heroes and caused the division of the Avengers.
Half of the Avengers became wanted criminals, while the rest of the members directly became government-regulated "super mercenaries." "
In the TV series of the black-robed pickets, Walt also pays great attention to public opinion and the image of the heroes, and the support rate of the heroes is almost like their lifeline.
Although every "superhero" can be called a heinous crime, they also have to ensure that their public image is not damaged at all times, and even the nearly invincible people of their homeland fear online violence.
So Peter immediately realized Diane's core point after Diane's explanation, that is, to maintain his public image like the "superheroes" in the black-robed pickets, not to lose public opinion, and to gain their support by all means.
It looks like he has to continue this hero show next.
Natasha watched coldly throughout, and although Natasha had revealed her identity as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., Diane did not deliberately drive her away when talking about these plans that should be secret, and even Peter acquiesced to her observer.
She understood Diane's thoughts almost immediately.
Such a huge plan naturally cannot be hidden and carried out slowly, so if you want to promote this behemoth without someone creating obstacles, pulling S.H.I.E.L.D., which has an official background and the intention to cooperate, is a good move.
And Natasha realized that this plan coincided with Nick Fury's "Avengers Project", and maybe they really had some possibility of cooperation.
It's just that she doesn't know that the reason why Diane is so blatant to show Natasha the full picture of the plan is because she has already reached an agreement with the Serpent Shield Bureau who has lowered her posture, and now all they need is to go through the open face with the disguise of the Serpent Shield Bureau.
For Hydra, who has always been committed to the ultimate goal of building a feudal and orderly society, Peter's plan and their insight plan are similar, and may even be more effective, although they cannot intervene forcefully today, but they are also happy to see the birth of such a superhero company.
And Peter has no objection to this, as long as the "Walt Company" defense network can appear in the Marvel Universe as soon as possible, this level of threat is completely acceptable to him.
Or that Hydra, as a villain organization composed almost entirely of ordinary humans, can't even enter the top ten of Peter's threat ranking in his mind today.
Although Peter has dealt with many events now, what is really related to the plot of the movie is actually planning the attack of the Ten Rings Gang and rescuing Tony, and the problems he has to face and deal with next are still innumerable.
Although according to the development of the plot, Loki led Thanos' army to invade Earth for the first time more than three years later, and Thanos personally went to Earth to rob the Infinity Stones nearly ten years later, but now there are no fewer foreseeable crises in front of him.
For example, Aaron is now prying away the white moonlight Christine of the future Doctor Strange.
According to the development in the movie, Christine should have been one of the important people who made Strange Doctor Strange.
Without the birth of this supreme mage, Dormammu, one of the top cosmic demon gods in the entire Marvel Universe, is very likely to descend on Earth, and the disaster brought by this demon god to Earth has far exceeded Thanos.
At least Thanos only wiped out half of the universe's life, but Dormammu can destroy the entire planet.
So he next has to make sure that Doctor Strange can continue to become Doctor Strange as the plot suggests, and if he can't succeed, he may have to try to contact the most powerful combat power on Earth, the current Supreme Mage, Gu Yi.
If it is not necessary, Peter really does not want to contact him, so he only hopes that this Strange can give his hands for world peace according to the plot.
In addition to the threat of Dormammu, he must also be careful about the arrival of Thor, the son of the god-king, although he will not be a threat himself, but Peter clearly remembers that in the Marvel animated series, there is a scene in the Thor dying on Earth, and Loki takes advantage of the situation to lead the army of gods to invade the story line of Earth.
If it is not possible to ensure that this son of the god king can return to the god realm smoothly, then it will also cause a crisis of destruction for the earth, but to a better extent than the arrival of Dormammu.
In addition to the huge threat that will lead to extinction, there are not few problems that need to be dealt with urgently, such as Tony, although there are no signs of palladium poisoning, but it is only a matter of time, how to get S.H.I.E.L.D. to hand over Tony's father's information and inspire Tony to study and synthesize new elements is also a troublesome matter.
Not to mention that the hunter Cleven who hid in the building before and escaped must also be solved as soon as possible.
Peter pinched his eyebrows, threw the thick document aside, and looked out the window, summer had come to an end, and his "summer vacation" was coming to an end.
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