"Luthor was a fine man in every way, except he was a little naughty." After cutting off the communication, Su Ming smiled at the team. "The moment I got slightly serious, he told the truth. You've all learned how to deal with him from now on, right?"
Damian fell into thought, apparently spinning up an entire pile of theories in his head.
Barbara, on the other hand, shook her head repeatedly and said with little confidence, "We probably couldn't do that, could we? Maybe he's a little afraid of you because you killed Perpetua."
Mother of the Multiverse had been defeated by Thought Robot, and Su Ming had merely delivered the finishing blow. But very few people knew the details.
Now, people generally believed Perpetua had been killed by Deathstroke. Anyone especially muddleheaded might not even know which Deathstroke had done it.
"Don't think like that. Strength isn't everything." Su Ming patted the girl on the shoulder, signaling that she could get to work. "First, look into this 'Acolytes Industries' Luthor mentioned. How come I've never heard that name before?"
"I know a little about them. Their boss is Doctor Simon Sant. Supposedly, they used to be a high-tech company over in Silicon Valley. About two months ago, they moved their headquarters to Gotham and bought another high-rise next to Wayne Tower."
The boy beside them snapped out of his thoughts and immediately provided the intelligence. It was not much, but at least he had heard of Acolytes Industries.
"Right, that company. I even snooped through some of their information when they moved." Barbara took out a tiny Bat-Tablet and began fiddling with it, remotely controlling the supercomputer in the Bell Tower to investigate. "They looked pretty clean at the time. They didn't even evade taxes, which was practically unbelievable.