20demayo Chapter 74 Each One Possesses Unique Skills
Chapter 74 Each One Possesses Unique Skills
Chapter 74 Each One Possesses Unique Skills (6K)
Storm looked at Homelander, whose expression had suddenly changed, but his face still wore that bright smile: "Although we just signed the contract not long ago, I'm here to report for duty."
Ashley, her face filled with terror, stared at Homelander, whose eyes had instantly turned murderous. Her voice trembled as she repeatedly said, "I don't know, I know nothing about it, she—"
Facing the camera on Storm's phone, which was broadcasting live, Homelander quickly took a deep breath and switched back to a broad smile: "Okay, Storm, can you tell me who told you this good news?"
"Of course it's Walter's boss, Mr. Edgar on the 82nd floor," Storm replied readily.
"OK, great, great!" Homelander gave the camera a thumbs up and turned to leave without looking back.
Storm didn't pay much attention to him. After exchanging a few more words with Maeve, he also left the show flat without glancing at Li Yuan once.
The 82nd floor of the Water Tower.
Edgar, dressed in a bespoke suit, sat elegantly at his desk, watching the news playing on the large screen opposite him.
In the news, a female member of parliament named Victoria Newman is expressing her views on super terrorists and the Vought Group.
Suddenly, the office door was flung open, and Homelander barged in despite his secretary's attempts to stop him: "Good morning!"
Edgar ignored his secretary Samantha's apology and gestured for him to handle it himself.
The secretary understood and left the office, closing the door behind her.
"Good morning, Homelander, what brings you here?" Edgar greeted him politely.
Homelander smiled and said, "You never come to the 99th floor, so I thought I'd just come and visit you in person."
"You're so thoughtful." Edgar left the table and stood on the floor.
"Right?" Homelander said, his back to Edgar, looking at the oil painting on the wall. "You run a superhero company, but you never care about your superheroes."
"For example—just let that girl join the Seven."
Edgar cut to the chase: "You want me to consult you when recruiting Storm?"
"Of course, I'm the leader of the Super Seven, and all the other members were approved by me to join." Homelander said with an air of self-righteousness.
Edgar smiled faintly: "I will always respect your position as a leader—"
"But I don't think you respect me," Homelander interrupted him directly. "Even Madeline wouldn't dare play this game with me."
Edgar maintained his polite expression: "How could that be? Homelander, you certainly know how important you are to everyone at Walter."
"No! I am Walter!" Homelander emphasized. "If you show my picture to an illiterate camel rider in the desert, he will say Homelander in the most standard American English."
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"Speaking of which, my contract expires at the end of this year, so perhaps it's time for me to make a change."
He sat down on the sofa in the center of the office, put his feet up on the coffee table, and smiled confidently, "How do you think your shareholders will feel about this?"
Upon hearing these threatening words, which sounded like a coup, Edgar's expression finally vanished.
He stared coldly at the Homelander, his expression hardening like a stone carving.
After a full half-minute pause, he suddenly asked, "How much do you know about Frederick Walter?"
Homelander was stunned for a moment: "What?"
Edgar removed his glasses, stood up, walked to a portrait on the side wall, and gestured: "Frederick Water, the esteemed founder of our corporation."
Homelander seemed a little confused about what Edgar meant, and frowned, saying, "I don't really know much about him; I've only read a rough outline of his autobiography."
Edgar chuckled. "Not the empty rhetoric used to impress shareholders and garner investment, but the real him. How much do you really know?"
Homelander wasn't sure what he meant, so after thinking for a moment he said, "You can tell me."
Edgar began slowly, recounting as if reciting a familiar story about a German who was genetically gifted and ahead of his time, and who ultimately chose to come to America because of the world situation.
"While the atomic bomb was still in the research stage, Dr. Vought had already used clinically tested Compound V to create superheroes like Soldier Boy, who were wreaking havoc on the battlefield."
"At the time, he was a household name, just like Disney and Edison."
Homelander listened for a while, but still didn't quite understand what it meant, so he blurted out, "Wow, that's a great story, Stan, but I still don't understand what your main point is."
Edgar leaned against his desk, looking down at Homelander with a slightly cold smile on his face: "The point is—if you think we're a superhero company, you're sorely mistaken."
"Actually, we are not; we are actually a pharmaceutical company!"
"And you are not our most precious asset."
"Our most precious possession is the secret formula for creating Compound V!"
He rose and walked slowly towards Homelander, looking down at him with a cold expression: "But you, you giant baby, have revealed it to the whole world!"
Homelander's eyes flickered for a moment, then he sneered, "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Then let me remind you," Edgar sneered dismissively.
"You secretly supplied Compound V to terrorists around the world so that you and your teammates could infiltrate the defense system."
"But doing so might destroy the entire company!"
Hearing this undisguised accusation, Homelander leaped from the sofa, approached Edgar, and growled through gritted teeth, his expression contorted with rage: "I don't like your tone at all, sir! Not at all!"
Edgar showed no fear, as if the person walking towards him was not the most powerful superhuman in the world, but a kindergarten child who could barely walk.
He looked coldly at Homelander before him and retorted sharply, "And I don't like the FDA knowing about Compound V, nor do I like the public discovering the truth!"
"While you were swaggering around at the awards ceremony, we were scrambling like madmen to clean up your messes and take care of everything!"
Seeing Homelander's changing expressions, Edgar coldly responded to his initial question: "So, whether it's the employment storm or anything else, I don't need to consult you!"
He turned around expressionlessly, sat back down in his office chair, and gave the order to leave: "Now you can leave. Aren't you going to the movie premiere?"
Homelander was speechless after hearing this. His facial muscles twitched several times, and then he left the office without saying another word.
Compared to the rest of the Super Seven, Li Yuan is probably the one with the most serious matters to attend to.
After filming a series of videos, he embarked on his global tour.
Almost every day, I travel by military plane from one military base to another, participating in numerous military operations—
move.
Meanwhile, the rest of the Super Seven were doing their own fancy tricks.
First, there's Homelander, who recently discovered he and Rebecca had a son, Ryan.
This Rebecca was the head of online marketing for Homelander's social media accounts at the Water Group eight years ago.
At the same time, she was also Billy Butcher's beloved wife.
Eight years ago, after having a relationship with Homelander, she became pregnant with his child and was hidden away by the Vought Corporation, living a secluded life.
Now, their existence has been discovered by the Homelanders.
Therefore, Homelander often flew to their home to visit his son, which Rebecca was very unwilling to do, but she could not stop him.
As for Maeve, after it was revealed that she was bisexual and had a girlfriend, the Vought Group launched a series of marketing campaigns.
This includes, but is not limited to, inviting her and her girlfriend to do a show together, marketing her persona in movies, and producing and selling sponsored merchandise, etc.
And then there's Xingguang. She wasn't idle either. She managed to get a bottle of Compound No. 5 and then exposed it to the media.
This immediately caused a nationwide uproar.
The news that superheroes were not chosen by God but created by Vought's drugs has been met with mixed reactions: some believe it, while others do not.
The two sides attacked each other, arguing heatedly.
However, she herself was captured by Homelanders and imprisoned in a specially made cell inside the Vought Building.
And then there's the locomotive. Although he's woken up from his hospital bed, due to his heart condition, it's difficult for him to run at high speed for extended periods like before, and his strength has declined sharply.
Currently, they are in the process of being kicked out by the Super Seven.
He was naturally very unwilling to accept this and was trying to find a way to stay in the Super Seven.
Storm, the newest member, has a highly questionable background and uses bizarre methods.
Her true identity was that of Frederick Wötter, the founder of the Wötter Group. She was a German born in 1919 and was also the first successful experimental subject of Compound V.
She incited people to attack each other online, and in real life, she also got together with Homelander, who had a crush on older women.
Of course, the actions of Butcher, Hughie, Breast Milk, French, and Kimiko also played a significant role in this.
In short, during the time Li Yuan was traveling all over the world, the entire Wotech Group was caught in one vortex after another.
If it weren't for President Edgar still stubbornly holding the helm and struggling to keep it afloat, Walter's dilapidated ship, riddled with holes, would probably have sunk long ago.
When Li Yuan finally finished his recent mission and was granted a considerable vacation, Congresswoman Newman, with the help of Butcher and others, had already gathered enough evidence, invited key witnesses, and begun to hold a live-streamed hearing on the Vought Group and Compound V.
However, an unexpected event occurred!
During the hearing, heads suddenly exploded!
The government official presiding over the hearing was furious, the key witness, Dr. Vogelbaum, former chief strategy officer of the Water Group, was furious, and the assistant to Congresswoman Newman was furious!
The identities of these people, whose heads had exploded, seemed completely random; some were government officials, some were from the Vought Group, and some were innocent civilians.
Given the horrific nature of the crime, it was impossible for the hearing to proceed.
It seems that the Water Group can finally extricate itself from this turmoil!
In the conference room, Homelander stood in front of the screen, watching the news being broadcast.
In the news, the anchor is reporting on the government's response to the bloodshed at the hearing.
Just then, a storm came in from outside the door.
Without turning around, Homelander asked as if sensing something, "How is Xuanse?"
Previously, when Xuanse was trying to stop Xingguang from escaping, he was forcibly fed almond chocolate.
Suffering from a severe nut allergy, he failed to take his medication in time and collapsed.
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Storm shrugged and replied, "Still not awake."
"Alright." Homelander nodded. "You didn't conduct the hearing, and neither did I, and there shouldn't be any super terrorists in the country, so—"
"This was made by Edgar." He seemed to have figured something out.
"Perhaps. Among people of his kind, he's considered quite intelligent," Storm said nonchalantly.
The man from the homeland fell silent, seemingly lost in thought.
Meanwhile, in order to retrieve her son who had been taken away by the Homelanders, Rebecca sought help from Butcher.
In order to get rid of Storm, an extreme racist, and rejoin the Seven, Locomotive handed over the confidential information he had found about Storm to Starlight.
Meanwhile, Li Yuan, who had been granted a vacation, did not linger around them at all.
He was completely unwilling to get involved in that vortex involving gender relations, parent-child relationships, and historical factors.
His goal was clear from beginning to end.
And now, he is heading toward a fragment that could form the complete objective.
This also involves a former member of the Super Seven—Deepsea.
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He was quite depressed for a while after being kicked out of the Super Seven.
After that, through an introduction, he came into contact with an organization called the Gathering Church.
In Li Yuan's opinion, this organization should actually be renamed "Orange Soda Marriage Agency".
After all, their main job is helping people find partners, and their side job is selling orange soda.
This organization introduced Deepsea to a university professor as his wife, and then used manpower and resources to help him reverse his previously disgraceful image in the public eye, intending to help him return to the Super Seven.
Now, it seems that their goal is about to be achieved.
At that moment, the organization's leader, Alastair Adana, was whispering orders to Carol Mannheim, a high-ranking member of the organization.
Tap, tap, tap —
Suddenly, the two of them heard footsteps at the same time and turned around in surprise.
At this moment, a third person suddenly and strangely appeared in the room that originally only had two people!
"You are—" Carol, a woman somewhere between middle and old, was about to speak when she suddenly widened her eyes and opened her mouth wide as she looked at the young Asian man who had suddenly appeared in the room.
This young Asian man was none other than Li Yuan.
Upon entering the room, he walked directly toward Alastair Adana, a middle-aged man, as if no one else was there.
Wherever it passed, whatever lay ahead turned to ashes and vanished without a trace.
It could be said that the moment the two men spotted Li Yuan, he was already standing in front of Alastair Adana.
With his left hand moving with incredible smoothness, he drew a "1" shape in the air, and Alastair Adana's left arm and both thighs were severed at the root.
No blood flowed from the wound, and the three severed limbs turned to ashes and vanished.
At this point, Alastair Adana hadn't even realized what was happening.
Li Yuan raised his left hand again and grabbed his neck, preventing him from falling to the ground.
Li Yuan glanced at him, then turned to look at Carol Mannheim, who was completely stunned in place, and said unequivocally, "From now on, this organization belongs to me. Do you understand?"
Carol Mannheim, who looked like a middle-aged or elderly woman, finally came to her senses and realized what was happening before her eyes.
She was about to scream, but then she saw Li Yuan's terrifying eyes and immediately swallowed the scream back, trembling as she said, "I understand."
"Very good." Upon hearing this, Li Yuan turned his gaze back to Alastair Adana, whose body was now reduced to only his head and a right arm.
"Now, we can talk about your question."
In a cabin in the woods, Homelander is watching television with his son, Ryan.
The storm was originally here, but after glancing at the message on her phone, her expression suddenly changed, and she flew away.
At this moment, the Water Tower was in an uproar.
The internet was flooded with negative information about Storm's time in Germany, and Wot's network department simply couldn't keep up with it.
Suddenly, a loud noise rang out. Homelander merely frowned, while Ryan, who had never experienced anything like it before, screamed in pain.
"You stay here, I'll go see what's going on!" Homelander said, leaving the cabin and flying towards the source of the noise.
Ryan covered his ears and curled up in the corner of the cabinet in pain.
Just then, Rebecca suddenly rushed in and put earmuffs on him.
"Mom? I'm sorry, Mom, I shouldn't have—" Ryan cried as he hugged his mother.
"It's okay, it's okay, let's go." Rebecca said, picking up her son and rushing out of the cabin, driving away with Butcher who had come with her.
However, they hadn't gone far when the storm, which had supposed to have left, suddenly came crashing down from the sky!
She raised her hand and unleashed a dense barrage of purple plasma lightning, blasting the entire car away, where it rolled dozens of meters on the ground before coming to a stop.
Just as she was about to make another move, Starlight, Kimiko, and Maeve, who had come with Butcher and Rebecca, suddenly appeared and blocked her way, letting Butcher and the others go first.
Bang! Comment! Bang!
Maeve, Starlight, and Kimiko formed a circle and punched and kicked Storm fiercely.
You punch me, I pull your hair, and she kicks me.
A series of attacks overwhelmed the storm.
There was nothing he could do. Suddenly, the storm unleashed a powerful and dense stream of purple plasma, sending him soaring into the sky and disappearing from sight!
Maeve, Starlight, and Kimiko were unwilling to accept this, but there was nothing they could do.
Although the storm was no match for the three of them, they couldn't stop it from leaving if it wanted to, since none of them had the ability to fly.
After flying in the sky for a while, the storm quickly found Butcher, Rebecca, and Ryan again.
She fell from the sky and grabbed Rebecca by the neck.
Butcher attacked her frantically from behind, but neither the bullets fired from his pistol nor the crowbar he swung could do anything to stop the storm.
Just as Rebecca was about to be strangled by the storm, Ryan finally erupted.
A blinding red laser shot from his eyes, so intense that everyone present involuntarily closed their eyes, temporarily losing their sight.
After the laser treatment, Storm collapsed, severely injured. His two thighs and one arm had disappeared, and he could no longer move an inch.
Just as Butcher was about to grin and laugh at her, she suddenly heard Ryan's tearful voice: "I'm sorry, Mom, I didn't mean to, I'm so sorry!"
He was startled and abruptly stood up, turning around to see Rebecca leaning against a tree, blood streaming down her neck.
Just moments ago, her carotid artery was accidentally slashed by Ryan, who was using his laser eyes for the first time and had difficulty controlling their power.
"No, no, no! No! Hold on!" Butcher frantically lunged at Rebecca, grabbed her neck, and cried out for help in despair.
"Is anyone there?! Help her! Help her!"
His voice was filled with anxiety and pain, unable to extricate himself.
It's fair to say that since Rebecca disappeared eight years ago, not a day has gone by that he hasn't stopped thinking about her.
His unwavering determination to kill Homelander stemmed from his belief that Homelander had wronged his wife, and he wanted to avenge her.
Although it was later discovered that Rebecca was not only alive, but had also given birth to a son for the National Father and had been secretly taking care of the child for eight years, Butcher still loved Rebecca.
For Rebecca's sake, he was even willing to help her save the son she had with her country, but now, Rebecca was losing her life little by little before his eyes, and he could do nothing about it.
Just then, Homelander descended from the sky covered in blood, looking at the critically wounded and dying Storm with a face full of grief.
Earlier, after destroying the source of the noise and returning to the cabin, he discovered that his son was missing.
Inside the house was only a team of fully armed Walter security personnel, who were also searching for his son.
After killing all of them, he flew in the sky for a while before finally finding traces of his son Ryan again.
But unexpectedly, the storm was also here, and it was injured in this way.
"Ryan, did you do this?" Homelander's voice was icy cold.
At this moment, Ryan was terrified because he had hurt his mother, and he kept repeating, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry—"
Taking a deep breath, Homelander stared blankly for a moment before standing up, about to say something, when he saw several figures rushing towards him from not far away.