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Chapter 591 Now everyone's here.

How could a truly intelligent person in the world, after calmly and methodically managing the situation, suddenly call "gg" amidst laughter and cheers?
If this had happened before today, Superman would never have imagined such a hilarious scene—Metropolis has many villains, but they rarely do anything so absurd.

After a series of swift and decisive moves, Edgar, now sitting in his car with a score of 0-5, calmly surrendered: "I lost. You save my life, take care of these two lunatics, and I'll go to jail and confess."

"you"

Superman hesitated for a long time before finally managing to utter a word. He had been in constant contact with Ma Zhaodi, exchanging intelligence and coordinating operations. He had personally witnessed Edgar regain control of the company after his return. This old fox, who had led Vought International to great success and boundless glory since World War II, had always seemed calm and collected from the very beginning.

Superheroes come and go, and even though Homelander, a superpowered individual, often defied him, Edgar, as an ordinary person, remained an indispensable figure in Vought International.

He calmly cut off Homelander and used him to lock up Superman, calmly arranged for various forces to put pressure on the news media and control the impact of the event, and calmly excluded suspects such as Starlight and Maeve from Vought's core operational plan. He also made the immediate inference that the electronic items around him might be problematic, and his response was decisive and swift enough.

After arranging for Senator Newman to blow the head off the witness Shining Radiance, and after losing Ryan and his mother, losing contact with Storm, and Deepsea's public resignation, he immediately went to the Soviet Union to find Soldier Boy as his trump card. He had a backup plan at every step, and every move he made was effective. His calm and collected operation made Ma Zhaodi and Superman believe that he was not yet at his wit's end.

As a result, he calmly brought himself here, sought Superman's protection, and surrendered directly.

"why?"

"There's no reason why, I'm willing to accept the consequences of my bet."

Edgar replied, "From the moment I discovered the Psychic Storm was missing, I knew it was over. At this point, struggling would only seem ugly and incompetent."

“Aren’t you going to flip the table?” Superman asked. “I’m not necessarily better than Soldier Boy, and if the Compound V formula you have leaks overseas, the US government will have no choice but to cooperate with you.”

"Do you think I would let this formula get out?" Edgar laughed. "I'm a loser in the game of power, but not a crazy, ambitious man who wants to throw the world into chaos. If this formula gets out, it'll kill millions of people and create tens of thousands of superhumans, who will then bring ten times, a hundred times, more deaths to the world."

"To save Walter at this cost? Forget it, let it perish with me."

"you"

"That's enough, are you done yet?"

The soldier boy, left standing to the side, finally lost his temper: "I only refrained from attacking you because you lifted the plane to save people. You guys are chatting like this, completely oblivious to everyone else, and you even said that if we're going to save people, I'll kill him and no one can stop him!"

Superman shook his head: "You can't kill him, that would be vigilante justice, but I assure you, he will be punished for his military betrayal and human experimentation."

Upon hearing the words "human experimentation," Edgar's face remained expressionless. He could, of course, guess that the abnormality in Sagewood Forest was also the work of Superman's side.

"I told you not to stop me, are you deaf?!"

The soldier finally roared and hurled his shield at Edgar inside the car. If the blow landed, Edgar would most likely be heading off to meet Satan with his composure.

However, this strike did not land properly.

clang!
Suddenly, the sound of metal clashing rang out, and the soldier boy felt a terrifying force rebounding from his hand. When he looked up in astonishment, he found a hand firmly blocking Edgar's path.

That's Superman's hand. *Crunch*

The car door was torn off like a piece of paper by Superman's other hand and thrown aside. Edgar, A-Train, and the Invisible Man jumped out of the car at their fastest speed and ran into the nearby sanatorium.

"You son of a bitch—"

The terrified soldier boy used all his strength, but a sickening metallic sound came from beneath his feet—in a moment of struggle, his feet had already kicked through the bottom of the car.

However, the eagle-shaped alloy shield remained completely unmoved.

“It’s over, Soldier Boy,” Superman said. “It’s all over, whether it’s what Edgar did to you or what your former squad members did to you. They’re mostly dead. Your revenge can stop now.”

"I want Edgar dead!"

The soldier boy, who wouldn't listen to reason, had a ferocious expression. The veins on his arms and forehead bulged, his blood rushed to his head, and he used all his strength. A white light gradually appeared on his chest.

“Edgar will be tried and killed.” Superman replied, “Psychic Storm will be too, I assure you.”

"roll!"

Whether out of disbelief or resentment, the soldier boy didn't say much this time, but responded to Superman's advice with the most direct action.

boom!
A surging white beam of light was unleashed with all its might, almost as wide as Soldier Boy himself. It relentlessly swept over Superman's entire body, engulfing him from head to toe. According to Soldier Boy's previous experiments, Superman would lose all his superpowers within minutes of being hit.

Superman didn't look at Soldier Boy at this moment. He turned to look at the sanatorium next to him. Its outer walls were now coated with zinc, but no attempt was made to add lead, because it was nominally used to house arrest Homelander. Edgar didn't want to give Superman any excuse to cause trouble. He maintained the utmost respect for the fragile balance between Superman and Homelander.

At this moment, Superman can see what's happening inside.

"Quick! This is our last chance!"

At Edgar's command from the window, the locomotive immediately rushed toward Homelander, who was lying on the hospital bed, sneering. In his hand was a specially made syringe filled with Compound No. 5.

"Superman is fighting Soldier Boy, who is about to lose his superpowers!"

The injection of Compound Five was completed in an instant. Edgar quickly launched into a verbal attack on Homelander: "I know you may not care whether I live or die, but I'm the one who will give you a psychiatric certificate and clear your name. And now is the best time to team up with Superman to deal with Soldier Boy. If you miss this opportunity, you'll live in his shadow forever—"

Swah——

The man who was originally paralyzed on the hospital bed appeared unharmed in front of Edgar the next second and grabbed him by the neck with one hand.

"Old man, I'd rather kill you first!"

(End of this chapter)