"All right, done. The White House should be sending the money and whatever else over soon. Get ready to receive it."
After ending that call, Zuo Ci switched the channel back to Batman.
Honestly, Zuo Ci felt that every extra word he spent on those old fossils was a waste of his life. Threatening them outright was far more effective. Now that the threats were delivered, why waste any more breath?
As for Batman's side...
"Huh? That's... that's it?"
Barry looked baffled. Wait, that fast? Wasn't that a little too slapdash?
Diana, standing beside him, felt the same way. She had assumed Zuo Ci would use some grand magic or something else to restore Gotham, only to discover that his master plan was extortion. Wasn't there something wrong with this picture?
"All right. I'll make the preparations as soon as possible."
Batman, however, was different from those two. He immediately understood just how powerful Zuo Ci's extortion had been.
Barry didn't believe in God or practice any religion, while Diana herself was a demigod. Neither of them could possibly understand what it meant to those believers when a saint who had manifested divine power demanded something from them outright.
In fact, even if Zuo Ci had ordered them all to slit their own throats and ascend to heaven, they probably wouldn't have hesitated.
"All right, is there anything else you want? I'm not sure how much longer I can stay in this state."
At Zuo Ci's renewed question, they exchanged glances. They really didn't have anything particular in mind.
Or rather, that particular idea hadn't occurred to them yet.
"No, nothing else. Let's focus on your problem for now. Is there really no way for you to come down?"
Batman spoke first, drawing everyone's attention back to Zuo Ci to