A brief commotion rippled through the audience. Camera shutters rattled like popping beans. A few reporters laughed on reflex, then hurriedly straightened their faces.
"Listen to that bullshit. Someone wrecks your home and kills your neighbors, and you tell me to be gentle? To go easy on them? More than two hundred dead and six billion in damages. How are you planning to make that right, Superman?"
"That's a whole new level of ridiculous!"
Comments raced across the livestream, churning like boiling water.
"Hahaha, he's right! Superman needs to shut the fuck up!"
"More than two hundred people died, and he still had the nerve to say 'go easy on them'?"
"I used to think Superman was perfect. The more I think about it now, the angrier I get."
"You Aliens start a war on Earth, people die by the dozens, and now you're acting like a saint?"
"Glad someone said it. I'm pissed off just watching!"
"..."
Yongye folded the paper again and slipped it back into his pocket. Resting both hands on the podium, he swept his gaze across the room. That teasing mockery that made people's ears burn returned to his voice.
"Second, let's talk about another Superhero: Wonder Woman."
"The Kryptonians wanted to remake the entire Earth. Yesterday's battle wasn't some minor clash. It was a fight for the survival of two civilizations."
"At a time like that, do you know where Wonder Woman was?"
"Yesterday, Superman fought three of them alone, while I took on two Kryptonians outside the farm. And Wonder Woman? She didn't join the fight."
"If she were a weakling like Batman or Iron Woman, that would be one thing."
"But she's powerful, and she still wasn't willing to help save Earth!"
"Some say she actually reached the scene yesterday, but when