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Butcher took Homelander's severed hand, frowned, and said, "You mean, it was Ryan who just rescued Homelander?"

"Otherwise what? Who else do you think, besides that kid, would possess abilities so similar to Homelander's?"

Depp sat down in his chair, picked up some chips from the coffee table, put his feet up on it, and said, "I don't mean to be mean, but that kid doesn't see you as his father, and you're not his father either. Homelander is."

“Rebecca entrusted him to me before she died!” Butcher said emotionally.

Depp cautioned, "But he is ultimately a Homelander, he has the same genes as Homelander, and perhaps he is just as crazy and bloodthirsty as Homelander."

“But…Rebecca entrusted him to me.”

Butcher's voice trailed off, as if he were caught in a dilemma.

"Wake up, Butcher!"

Depp shouted, "That child never considered you his father, and Rebecca abandoned you! Why are you so attached to a woman who cheated on you with Homelander, left you without a word, and had a child with him?"

Are you a cuckold?

Hearing Depp's seemingly heartfelt words, Butcher broke down and yelled, "Shut up, you bastard! You have no idea what Rebecca means to me!"

As he spoke, Butcher excitedly threw a punch at Depp's face, but Depp blocked it with his little finger.

“Perhaps you’re right, I don’t know what Rebecca means to you.” Depp brushed Butcher’s hand away, then changed the subject: “But I think you should know that in Rebecca’s eyes… you are nothing!”

After saying that, Depp ignored the impotently furious Butcher and turned to MM, saying, "I think you can now expose all the dirty secrets of Vought International."

MM instinctively glanced at Butcher, but the latter was clearly unable to communicate normally in his current state.

He shrugged helplessly and, following Depp's instructions, began preparing to expose the dirty secrets of Vought International.

Depp's thinking was simple: Homelander had been rescued by Lane and had now become his and Vought's sworn enemies.

With the vitality and self-healing speed of the people of the motherland, this guy will definitely recover to his original state in the future.

But by then, he had long since gone off on vacation somewhere, and had even left the world of The Boys.

When Homelander and his son Ryan return, unable to find themselves, their focus naturally shifts to Vought International.

As a result, Vought International was preoccupied with dealing with Homelander and his son, and had little energy left to launch a superpowered world war.

After saying all that, Depp gave Starlight another individual coaching session.

The usage of the Ark Reactor and the power converter was explained in detail, and the maximum output power that Starlight could withstand was tested... five percent.

The morning after Depp left, Edgar gradually regained consciousness under the care of his personal medical team.

After regaining consciousness, he immediately summoned his trusted confidant at Water Company and asked him to report on the situation of the past two days.

When Edgar heard that negative information about Vought was being exposed online and couldn't be removed,

He immediately realized that other military industrial companies had joined forces to add fuel to the fire and amplify the negative news about Vought Corporation.

These guys who only know how to manufacture airplanes and missiles are trying to use the exposure of the two sides of Homelander and Vought to defeat this behemoth that has been pressing down on them.

Most importantly, the U.S. government has also begun to prosecute and conduct a full-scale search of Vought.

This time, the order came from the president himself, and Vought Corporation simply couldn't get it done.

The official efficiency was astonishing, as if they had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time.

At this point, Edgar immediately made a phone call to a mysterious man.

"I think it's time for you to appear in public, so make your debut as Xuan Se."

"Okay, boss."

After hanging up the phone, Edgar pulled out the IV needle and rushed to the mental hospital that housed and confined a group of superpowered individuals.

This so-called mental hospital was actually a place where the Vought Corporation conducted human experiments using Compound V, with adults being the subjects.

There, he first found Storm, lying in a hospital bed with tubes inserted all over her body.

The woman was nearly killed after being hit by Ryan's laser eye.

But the Water Company secretly sent them here and rescued them.

At this point, Storm was missing both legs and had completely gone blind in one eye.

Half of her face was severely burned, and she had no hair left; her appearance was extremely tragic.

Edgar looked at Storm, who was surviving on an IV drip, and said, "Storm, do you want to regain your powers and work for Vought Corporation?"

Storm, who had already given up all hope for life, had her eyes rekindled with hope after hearing Edgar's words.

She dreams of returning to her original state so that she can reunite with her countrymen and give birth to an even more perfect next generation!

Instead of lying in bed like a cripple, only able to serve the people of my country as a craftsman.

Lying in bed, she nodded repeatedly through her tears: "Yes! Yes! As long as I can be restored to my former self, I am willing to serve the Water Company forever."

"Are you prepared to give up everything for this?"

"I am willing to give up everything for this, even my own life."

Hearing Storm's words, Edgar smiled with relief.

He opened his briefcase and took out a syringe containing a dark green liquid.

"The process may be a little painful, but it's worth looking forward to."

After saying that, Edgar plunged the syringe into a vein in Storm's wrist, and the dark green liquid slowly flowed in.

As the dark green liquid was injected, Storm Girl began to convulse involuntarily and howl in pain.

But at the same time, her limbs and wounds were healing at an extremely fast pace.

The power of lightning surged around her, turning her hospital gown into ashes.

Finally, Storm, fully recovered, rose naked and, with tears in her eyes, embraced Edgar, who was lying by the bedside.

She then knelt on one knee and said devoutly, "I will always be loyal to you, my master."

Edgar nodded in agreement and continued his rounds in the mental hospital, while Storm followed obediently behind him, seemingly unconcerned about her current state of being barely clothed.

During the inspection, Edgar called out one by one the more obedient guys and then qualified them to become employees of the Vought Corporation.

Finally, Storm tentatively asked, "Master, how is Homelander...?"

Edgar glanced back and said, "Homelander has been defeated, and his fate is unknown."

"What? This is impossible!"

Storm Girl said in surprise, then, as if remembering something, she asked, "Who defeated him? Was that person... from our company?"

Actually, she had another question she wanted to ask, but she didn't dare to say it aloud.

She wanted to ask Edgar if the guy who defeated Homelander was single.

Storm's concern for Homelander stems from a single reason: she wants to have offspring with the world's most powerful superhuman and create a next generation with superior genes.

Although the news of Homelander's defeat saddened and disbelieved her, it also showed that there were superpowered individuals in the world with even greater abilities than Homelander.

For Storm, who is determined to have a child with the "strongest" one, Homelander is now far less attractive than the guy who defeated Homelander.

Edgar said, "The one who defeated Homelander was a new man in the Seven, but we haven't been able to contact him since he defeated Homelander."

"I can help you find him!"

Storm Girl volunteered.

Edgar saw through her little scheme and said, "That's not our focus right now. You and the others have more important things to do."

After selecting more than half of the superpowered individuals in the mental hospital whose mental state was relatively stable, and planting remote-controlled bombs in their anuses.

Then we went to the second experimental base for compound No. 5.

Ultimately, Edgar gathered these superhumans in a conference room at the Vought Tower headquarters and said only one sentence to them.

"Whoever takes the president's head will receive a billion dollars in prize money and freedom."

Those who took the lead were the superpowered individuals who were being tortured to the point of madness in mental hospitals.

The prolonged experiments and torture gradually warped their minds.

And it fueled their unparalleled yearning for freedom; they never wanted to be locked in that coffin-like dark room again.

As long as it brings freedom and money, even assassinating the president is worth a try.

These crazy guys checked the president's location on the watches provided by Vought and couldn't wait to leave the venue.

This group of people, driven to near madness by torture in the mental hospital, are insane and bloodthirsty, and have long forgotten morality and law.

On their way to the White House, they drove recklessly, causing countless civilian deaths and injuries.

Many people even felt an unparalleled pleasure during the killing, gradually forgetting their purpose and becoming addicted to the harvesting of lives.

What these people don't know is that they are a group of people who were injected with Compound V after they reached adulthood and became superpowered.

Under the influence of compound five, it was already doomed.

Edgar was merely using them as cannon fodder to draw away US military and White House forces.

Edgar's real trump card is actually Storm and the new generation of Darkness standing behind him.

As for the Seven Superheroes, Edgar didn't trust these obviously uncontrollable individuals.

However, all his plans have been exposed to Depp's surveillance.

Depp, who had already installed countless listening and monitoring devices in the Waterhouse, immediately sent these videos and audios to Butcher.

As the leader of the Black Robe Squad, Butcher has recovered from his breakdown.

When he received Depp's materials and videos, he immediately contacted his former CIA boss, who was also his mentor, Ms. Mallory.

At the same time, Starlight immediately stepped in as a superhero to stop the madmen from wantonly killing civilians.

Accompanying Starlight are Maeve and the wolf girl Kimiko.

Subsequently, many of the Vought Corporation's intern superhumans wanted to participate in the battle to rescue civilians, but were stopped by the Vought Corporation.

Starlight and Maeve also received a notice from Vought International prohibiting them from taking action.

But they completely scoffed at these claims, because they knew that only the Vought Corporation had the capability to create these superhumans, and that these individuals must be acting under the Vought Corporation's orders.

To be honest, Depp didn't expect Edgar to act so quickly, or rather... Azu's recovery speed was too slow!

It's been two and a half days already, how come you still haven't recovered?