General Ross's side naturally couldn't allow opponents to smear her. Her team also actively launched public relations, but she initially hadn't intended to genuinely run for President, so her team's influence was very weak and was repeatedly defeated in the public opinion battle by the combined punches of the other two competitors.
Before long, the online sentiment began to shift.
More and more voters began to question the truth of the matter. There were two fatal "loopholes" that General Ross's team found difficult to explain.
First, Ultraman killed Wilson and other witnesses, so why did he only leave General Ross alive?
Not eradicating the roots doesn't fit Ultraman's ruthless character.
Second, Wilson stabbed Ultraman, which was also the most questioned thing by the public.
The whole World knew that Ultraman's body was impervious to weapons, and even missiles couldn't penetrate his skin. How could Wilson have counterattacked him with just a small knife?
General Ross's team also offered explanations for these two questions, but it was clear that the explanations did not gain public acceptance.
As for why the knife in Wilson's hand was able to harm Ultraman, this actually stemmed from a casual experiment by Dane.
In the positive matter Universe, Dane had once obtained a great deal of Kryptonite from Kryptonian. He subsequently conducted a series of experiments on these special minerals, producing many different colored stones, including blue Kryptonite.
In the animated film "Crisis on Two Earths," Ultraman was not afraid of the Sun. The screenwriter designed a new weakness for him: blue Kryptonite.
This type of Kryptonite, like green Kryptonite's effect on Superman, had a similar and immediate weakening effect on Ultraman's superpowers.
As long as the radiation from blue Kryptonite approached Ultraman, he would immediately become weak-kneed and lose his superpowers.
Dane was not sure which version of Ultraman existed in this World at the time. If the opponent was not afraid of the Sun, then he could try blue Kryptonite.
However, after arriving in this World, he found that Ultraman already had the major weakness of fearing sunlight, and Ultraman was not his opponent at all, so there was no reason to verify the effectiveness of blue Kryptonite.
But after taking over Ultraman's treasured Kryptonite inventory, he still casually used these green Kryptonite to experiment, creating some blue Kryptonite, just in case.
And during the honeymoon period of cooperation between the Justice League and the Government, he gave a dagger made of blue Kryptonite to Wilson as a token of their friendship.
At the same time, he also harbored the thought of trying it out, to see if Wilson would ever have a day to use it.
Originally, he thought that Wilson frequently went to the super-prison to "visit" Ultraman, so he should have at least tried to use blue Kryptonite against Ultraman, right?
But unexpectedly, Wilson had never used it, only carrying the small knife as an exquisite piece of craftsmanship, until the moment of life and Death, seeing that Rose might lose her life, he decided to go all out.
Rose did not know about this; Wilson died before he could tell her.
He was fortunate to have won the gamble, but unfortunately, the public could not possibly know about these things, so General Ross could only continue to endure her opponents' smear campaigns.
Forced into a corner, she could only seek out Waller, because Waller was probably the only one in official circles who genuinely wished for her to become President.
To General Ross's plea for help, Waller could only think of one idea.
"If you can get the Justice League's help, then you will quickly be able to turn around the current unfavorable situation…"
Waller's words made General Ross's expression change, and then she fell silent.
Waller also knew the reason for her silence, which gave her a headache.
Last time, the Federal Government's unauthorized release of Syndicate information caused severe dissatisfaction from the Justice League, and General Ross had no choice but to hand over the task of contacting the Justice League to Waller. Waller was clear about the ins and outs of the situation.
On this point, Waller actually supported the Justice League more. In her opinion, completely eradicating the Syndicate first was a very necessary thing.
But at the same time, as a politician, she could also understand Wilson and General Ross's choices, but she didn't think doing so was worth it.
In this World where superpowers are rampant, the Wilson government should maintain a good cooperative relationship with the Justice League no matter what, instead of making the relationship strained as it is now.
"What do you think I should do?" General Ross quickly adjusted her mood.
There was no point in regretting what had passed. General Ross now had to focus her attention on the present.
This was also what Waller appreciated about her; she could always adjust her mindset at the fastest speed.
So she was not stingy in offering her advice: "First, you must apologize to the Justice League and admit your mistake."
This was actually the truth. If they hadn't prematurely exposed this matter through the media without considering the consequences, it wouldn't have led to alerting the enemy.
They had reviewed the entire incident afterward, and the surveillance cameras had captured the jailbreak footage from that day. It was a group of Syndicate's second team members who broke Ultraman out of jail.
If they hadn't tried to be clever and had instead honestly let the Justice League complete the capture of the Syndicate before making the matter public, Ultraman wouldn't have escaped, and Wilson wouldn't have died.
General Ross suddenly remembered what Diana had said not long ago, hoping she wouldn't regret her decision. Well, General Ross admitted she did regret it a little.
Therefore, she nodded to Waller and said calmly, "I understand. Then please help me contact the Justice League. I think my father's Death should have caused them some trouble as well."
Kansas, Smallville.
Ultraman once again descended from the sky, returning to the farm that held his childhood memories.
Ultraman's childhood was not pleasant. On Kryptonian, his biological parents practiced a cold, elite education.
Kryptonian's elite education was about losing emotions and advocating the supremacy of power. Only power could dominate everything.
Ultraman fully accepted the inheritance of the House of El and had always lived by such ideological concepts.
The Kent couple were a pair of local thugs. When Ultraman landed on Earth, his spaceship happened to crash into their farm.
Before Ultraman decided to let them adopt him, the couple was arguing, and the man had already pulled out a knife. If Ultraman hadn't arrived in time, there might have been another tragedy caused by a verbal dispute.
But even though Ultraman was only four or five years old at the time, he already had the thinking ability close to an adult. He forced the couple to adopt him so that he could grow up safely.
Even if he was a Kryptonian, his body was very fragile in infancy. At least he couldn't defend against missile attacks.
Originally, Ultraman hoped to at least grow to adolescence, but the Kent couple, out of fear and... greed, reported his secret to the local police station.
That night, a group of heavily armed U.S. police officers broke into his room, attempting to forcibly take him away.
But Ultraman killed everyone, including his adoptive parents, the Kent couple.
And that was the first time Kal-El killed someone on Earth. He first discovered that Earthlings were as fragile as paper dolls, tearing apart with a single rip.
That massacre directly led to the birth of "Ultraman."
Ultraman looked at the desolate farm, recalled for a moment, then withdrew his thoughts.
No one knew that Ultraman had always hidden his spaceship here; he had never revealed this to anyone.
His Kryptonite energy was running low and couldn't be wasted further. He had to get new Kryptonite immediately!
Ultraman dug up the farm's soil, and about a kilometer below, there was a huge space where a small spaceship was parked...
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