Starting from scratch, Batman crushed my dream of getting rich

Chapter 562 My life is completely shattered
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

When faced with the photo taken by Ma Zhaodi, the butcher's first reaction was to deny it. Judging from his wide-open eyes, bulging veins on his forehead, and bulging arm muscles, he was clearly in some strange state.

"I know you're in a hurry, but don't worry yet."

Ma Zhaodi hurriedly reached out and pried, "Let go, no, let go, don't fucking crush my phone—"

Strangely, in just a short moment, the butcher seemed to calm down again. He sat back down in his chair, frowning thoughtfully.

How did you calm down so quickly?

“I know Becca is not dead.”

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Franky and Breast Milk both looked over in surprise: "You knew? Why didn't you say so sooner? We could have helped you find her."

“I only found out recently. When you went to the Sage Forest, Ma Zhaodi wasn’t there either. I went back to Bega’s grave at that time.”

The Butcher sighed: "I had my suspicions about her death back then, but at the time, anger almost completely dominated my mind, and I didn't think too much about it. I was just tricked by Mallory into joining the CIA, and since then I've been busy dealing with Walter."

"and after?"

"Then I thought about it again. Becca had been missing for a long time. According to her sister, when she was found out inexplicably, she was already a corpse and was buried like that. I never saw the body in the coffin. All the news about Becca's death was told to me by my sister-in-law."

"You went and dug up Becca's grave just for this?"

“Didn’t you say that Superman couldn’t get anything out of Homelander? That bastard said that Beja had seduced him and that the two of them had no contact afterward—although that’s just dog talk, it might not be entirely untrue. He’s already ruined, and Wot even had someone do a mental evaluation for him, so there seems to be no point in lying anymore.”

Ma Zhaodi commented sharply: "The resistance to toxicity in mental illness is still too high."

The woman next to her shook her head: "According to this, Edgar, or rather Walter, spent a huge amount of money and connections to build a hidden, sealed-off area specifically for your wife and son, and even found hundreds of people to act as NPCs, just to hide your wife and son—what was the point? Do they have any secrets?"

"When Becca was with Vought, she was just an ordinary middle manager. We didn't have children back then. What secrets could she possibly have that would make Vought so interested?"

The butcher's face darkened: "I just didn't expect that her secret was something she was hiding from me—that she was unfaithful to us."

"Or perhaps it was forced upon us by our own people?"

"Don't be silly. I'm not a cowardly green turtle, nor am I a newbie who just started working. I know what she's capable of."

"So, do you still plan to take revenge?"

"why not?"

The butcher retorted, "Does the fact that Beja is still alive mean that my feud with Homelander will disappear?"

"Okay, let me rephrase the question."

Ma Zhaodi then asked, "Are you still going to look for Bei Jia?"

"Why wouldn't I go? She's still my wife, and now she's my son."

Wasn't she unfaithful to you?

“I was unfaithful to her too, so we're even.”

Ma Zhaodi remained silent for several minutes.

"Maybe you two are really a perfect match."

"I knew Susan Rayner was having an affair with him! I knew it!"

Franky couldn't help but mutter, "Damn it, this guy was acting all high and mighty before—"

"Alright, alright, I know you're all birds of a feather flock together."

Ma Zhaodi waved his hand to interrupt Franky's spellcasting: "Tomorrow, I will send a communicator inside so that the butcher and his wife can talk. The normal outcome is that she and the child will be rescued together."

"Is this considered a normal ending? What about a good ending?"

"The good ending was that after she brought the child out with her, a paternity test was done, and it was discovered that the child was the butcher's, not Homelander's."

After Ma Zhaodi finished speaking, Kimiko, Frankie, and Breast Milk all stared blankly at him.

The butcher wore a mocking and disdainful expression.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Homelander has definitely had relations with more than one woman over the years. Everyone in Waterley, including Madeline, believes that he has achieved reproductive isolation from humans."

“You’re right.” Ma Zhaodi nodded. “Then why did Walter want to build a special area there?”

The butcher fell silent.

“I’ve been to that area. It has all the basic living facilities and buildings. Maintaining it would require a lot of manpower and resources. If Becca was hidden when she disappeared, it has been several years now.”

"There are no hidden facilities in that area, and they even hired hundreds of NPCs as actors to create a normal living environment; you can't see any superhero elements, movies, posters, flags, or even TV channels that are just ordinary channels unrelated to superheroes."

Seeing the butcher's panicked expression, Ma Zhaodi continued to ask: "The surrounding walls and houses are all covered with zinc, and there are Vought Corporation cameras everywhere. There is only one teacher inside, and only one child attending school, which is Ryan."

Ma Zhaodi had something else to say: Ryan's senses were sharper than an ordinary person's, but he couldn't see any other superhuman powers in him.

"Adding to the matter between Becca and Homelander, the current question is quite obvious—why did Walter spend so much time and energy there? What is it about that place that old man Edgar would make a special trip to at the first moment when Walter is in crisis?"

Looking at the speechless butcher, Ma Zhaodi concluded, "Compared to 'the son of the butcher,' the reason of 'the son of the homeland' is probably more convincing."

A look of pain flashed in the butcher's eyes.

He wasn't unaware of the possibility Ma Zhaodi had raised, but he was unwilling to acknowledge it.

Thinking about it a little further, Becca didn't have an abortion; she kept the child and, with Walter's help, deceived herself by living in that area for several years without trying to escape or even contact herself. Instead, she planned to secretly raise Ryan.

Could this be the act of a victim coerced by Walter? By any measure, it seems more likely to be voluntary.

If the butcher hadn't felt the weight of his wife's infidelity before, the current situation made him truly feel a sense of unease.

And some of them are lush and green.

She physically betrayed herself by having a relationship with her homelander; mentally, she was equally devastated, not only planning to raise the child but also turning around and cooperating with her enemy, the Vought Corporation.

"I'm going to fucking kill Homelander!"

(End of this chapter)