Becoming Stronger After Death: I Keep Seeking Death in the World of the Universe.

Chapter 355: Homelander Wants to Go to Gotham

“The audience feedback is very enthusiastic! They are very interested in the new heroes!”

The staff member, also named Peter, swiped the tablet twice to show Homelander and Director Kevin the audience's messages, as well as the ratings of "Gotham" in recent days.

Peter continued to explain: "The ratings of Gotham have been declining over time, and the audience generally reacts to aesthetic fatigue.

The appearance of the new hero this time has brought them a sense of freshness, and they hope to continue to present the story of the new hero."

After listening to Peter's report, Kevin took the tablet and checked the detailed data, and a smile immediately appeared on his face!
This was also the reason I wanted to add Catwoman.

After all, no matter how popular "Gotham" is.

A program has been broadcast for 30 years, which makes people a little tired.

What happened tonight can be considered a blessing in disguise for him.

The main thing is!

As long as the ratings for Gotham are good, he can ask for favors from his homeland.

At least I can save my life today.

Kevin waved his hand and let the young employee go down first.

Peter did not leave, but looked at his fellow countryman hesitantly.

The people of the motherland are very familiar with this.

He raised the corner of his mouth and waved with a smile: "Come on!"

"Great!"

Peter excitedly walked up to his countryman, took out his cell phone and took a photo with him.

After another round of thanks, the young employee left the director's room.

As soon as Peter left, Director Kevin immediately stood up from his chair and bowed respectfully to the Homelander: "Homelander, please watch today's show..."

Homelander knew what the bald guy wanted to say, but he ignored him and just put his hands behind his back and slowly walked to the big screen in front of him.

There is a main screen and many sub-screens, each showing different scenes of Gotham City.

At this moment, the main screen is showing the unconscious Batman in the Batcave.

This is also the scene that audiences around the world can see.

Further away, in the hall downstairs, hundreds of employees were busy working.

There is a huge screen in front of each artificial position, like a guard in a security booth, monitoring every corner of Gotham.

Further away, at the edge of the lobby downstairs, there is a circle of city-wide surveillance that reaches the ceiling, even more exaggerated than that of a giant-screen cinema.

The employees here have a heavy workload every day.

Because the big city of Gotham doesn't always run according to the script.

So they need to monitor various key locations in Gotham at all times.

Once a valuable picture appears, it must be reported to the director team.

After discussion, we will see if it can be broadcast to the audience.

Yes.

Although "Gotham Show" is claimed to be live broadcast.

But there is actually a half-hour time difference.

This time is the working time in the director's room.

With his super vision, Homelander spotted Xu Wang's figure on the giant screen surveillance at a glance.

He stared at Xu Wang riding his motorcycle through the old town, and finally asked, "Do you have any information about him?"

"Yes, my countrymen, yes!"

Kevin raised his hand and tapped twice quickly on the tablet, and Xu Wang's detailed information soon appeared on it.

He handed the tablet to his fellow countryman nervously, then stood aside like a quail, not daring to make a sound.

He was afraid that his countrymen would turn their attention to him again.

Holding the tablet in hand, the motherland took a detailed look.

Seeing Xu Wang's Asian identity, he frowned slightly.

After seeing Xu Wang's Tieniu Fast Food Group transfer money to Water Company, his frown immediately relaxed.

But until he flipped through the entire page, Homelander didn't see the information he wanted to see, and immediately frowned again: "There's no record of him fighting Compound No. 5... Then what's with his skills? Could it be that he really trained himself?"

In this world, most of the superhumans have been injected with Compound No. 5.

As a company that produces compound number five.

The Vought Group possesses data on most of the world's superhumans.

Xu Wang, who applied to enter Gotham because he wanted to advertise, probably acquired such excellent skills through his own training.

Because rich people generally don't inject Compound No. 5.

Even if one really desires super powers, he would definitely choose a formal company like Water Corporation.

Instead of choosing goods circulating in the underground black market.

Otherwise, if something really happens and you find Water Company, the company will not handle it.

After confirming Xu Wang's identity and the source of his abilities, the people of his country lost most of their interest in him.

Since he is just an ordinary person who has received training, he cannot make any waves.

Gotham’s ability to resist risks is not that poor, and it will not be brought to ruin by an ordinary person.

Since Xu Wang’s Radiation Man has received good response now, let him keep it.

He casually threw the tablet to Kevin.

As Homelander walked out, he pointed at him and said, “Sign a contract with that kid and tell him the rules. Don’t mess around like you did today.

Otherwise, get rid of him.

Superheroes are expendable.”

"Yes, yes, yes! I promise I can do it well. Now I'll have someone write a character design for him!"

Kevin hugged the tablet tightly and bowed to his fellow countrymen again!
Homelander had already walked to the door, his hand on the door handle, as if he suddenly remembered something.

He stopped, turned his head and looked at the nervous Kevin, and suddenly asked: "Since the audience likes the new hero so much, what do you say about me making a cameo appearance in Gotham?"

After saying this, the motherland still seemed a little expectant.

Kevin couldn't hold it anymore when he heard that.

Although "Gotham" claims to be an absolutely true story of the growth of superheroes.

But it's still a TV show at its core.

The sudden intrusion of Homelander can easily disrupt the rhythm of Gotham.

And most importantly...

Kevin glanced at Homelander secretly again, then quickly lowered his head.

Homelander was once a hero managed by Vought Corporation. In essence, he is no different from Gotham's Batman.

Ten years ago, Homelander led his team to leave Vought and shocked the world with force.

No one in the know can talk about the time when he was marketed by Vought Corporation.

This is a dark history for the Chinese people.

But now, because of their desire for the traffic of "The Gotham Show", the Homelander has come up with the idea of ​​entering Gotham!
The people of our country dare to think, but Kevin dare not say it!
I'm afraid that if I'm not careful, the capricious people of my country will vent their anger on me!

To know.

Gotham is a 30-year-old show.

It was one of the very early programs of Vought Company.

It’s just that 10 years ago, the Gotham show wasn’t that big and was only broadcast in America.

Until 10 years ago, Homelander used force to mediate the global war and became the god of the world and the uncrowned king.

Because he hates his past dark history, he still keeps Batman locked up in Gotham City and continues to operate "The Gotham Show".

Let the influence of "Gotham Show" spread all over the world.

In addition to making money, the main idea is to enjoy the feeling of controlling other people's lives.

This is very important to the people of our motherland.

Even watching "Gotham" every day, watching the unaware Batman under his control, Homelander can feel pleasure. He has used this as his late-night entertainment more than once.

A glass of breast milk and a TV playing "Gotham City", and you'll be as happy as a god!
Director Kevin was unaware of Homelander's quirks.

But as a middle or senior manager of Water Corporation, he knew those points of the Homelanders that should not be provoked.

So after hearing Homelander's thoughtless question again, he was not in a hurry to give an answer, but just said: "The audience will definitely be excited to see you appear in Gotham! But you also know.

You are so powerful, you are a god on earth.

What other villain is worth your effort?
So we have to think about it in the long term.”

Kevin just hoped that his countryman was just in a spur of the moment situation and would forget about it as soon as he turned around.

I don’t know what my fellow countrymen think.

He hesitated for a while, without giving Kevin any response, he pushed the door and left.

This made Kevin feel relieved, but also a little uneasy.

The Homelanders are so scary!

In the working hall on the first floor of the director's studio.

Peter, who was working in the corner, had a blank expression on his face.

He seemed to be working normally, but in fact he was so nervous that his brain was about to suffocate.

He had an earphone in his right ear.

Everyone has this headset, it is needed for work at Water Company.

But Peter's headphones have undergone some modifications.

Not only is there an encrypted channel, but the sounds from the director's office on the second floor are also being monitored through a tablet.

After hearing that Homelander wanted to enter Gotham, his eyes flashed and it was unknown what he was thinking.

soon.

The monitored audio file is sent.

A mature man's voice suddenly sounded in Peter's earphone: "Xiu Yi, good job! Boy! Keep monitoring."

Hughie Campbell.

This is Peter's true identity.

But it is obvious that he is now a spy lurking in Vought Company.

This guy is the protagonist of "The Boys".

But obviously, his presence was completely overshadowed by Homelander and Billy Butcher.

Xiuyi heard Butcher's voice in the headset, which finally revealed a trace of fatigue of a worker.

He stared at the huge screen in front of him without blinking, looking at the surveillance images that were divided into small pieces, and complained: "I'm always monitoring."

In the monitoring screen.

Xu Wang has already ridden his bike back home.

He even had a ticket gate on his shoulders.

By placing the ticket gate at the entrance of the store, it finally forms a pair with the ticket machine next to it.

After the circuit was connected, Xu Wang bought a ticket at the ticket machine and swiped the ticket through the gate to enter the store. He immediately nodded with satisfaction: "Not bad, it has that flavor!"

"You're back? I thought you were dead outside."

In the restaurant, old man Steve, who had disappeared during the day, was sitting there watching TV.

After seeing Xu Wang, he immediately started saying "nice things".

"Thank you for your concern. I will watch you die with my own eyes in the future."

Xu Wang walked towards Steve and asked again, "You've been absent from work for a day. Are you going to pay back all the money?"

When it comes to paying back the money, the old man's face looks obviously unhappy.

But he still nodded: "It's all done. Now they won't bother me anymore."

After hearing what Steve said, and thinking about what he had seen and heard tonight, Xu Wang asked curiously, "You said this is a studio, and those gangsters and villains are all actors. But I think they are more realistic than real gangsters.

Even if they are outside, gangsters wouldn't dare to kill people casually, right?"

Steve curled his lips: “I don’t know if you have ever seen a human experiment.

The experimental group gathered 24 people and divided them into groups according to prisoners and prison guards. At the beginning, everyone was happy and there were no conflicts.

But soon, the environment for the experimenters began to deteriorate rapidly.

The experimenters who were given the identity of prison guards gradually began to abuse their power because of the rules set by the experimental group.

Eventually, humiliation and corporal punishment occurred.

As time went on, the relationship between the two sides was no longer as relaxed as it was at the beginning, but became more and more like real prison guards and prisoners."

Having said that, Steve stopped talking.

But the smart Xu Wang quickly understood what Steve wanted to say: "I see, the Stanford Prison Experiment, right? I've heard of it too.

The experimental group hopes to use the simulated prison environment to observe how power structures and environments affect people.

Gotham is this prison. Those of us who live in Gotham have unknowingly become the subjects of the experiment.”

Steve looked at the TV with a cold face, but his eyes were not focused on the screen.

He sneered and added: "30 years!

The Gotham show has been going on for 30 years. Even if the people living in it have the mentality of actors at the beginning, after such a long time, they have long become indistinguishable from their characters.

What's more, there is no law in Gotham City, or rather, Walter is the law here.

They only need to complete the occasional work of the director team, and the rest of the time, this city is their playground.

Over time, the villains became real villains, and the gangsters became real gangsters.

Also because of the lawless environment here, many high-ranking figures outside will transfer some shady things to Gotham.

Some people also saw the opportunity to make a fortune here and voluntarily injected Compound No. 5 to enter Gotham.

This is not just a studio, this is a real sin city with all kinds of people.”

After that, the old man looked at Xu Wang again and said in a very deep voice: "Boy! I don't know why you came to Gotham, and you don't know anything about Gotham. But I will give you a suggestion.

You'd better not treat this place as a game of house. If you're not careful, someone could really die."

"Wow!"

Xu Wang's eyes sparkled: "That's great!"

Seeing Xu Wang like this, the old man rolled his eyes and said, "You are also a psychopath. Gotham is full of psychopaths. If you really want to die, die early."

If you die, I won't have to guard this crappy shop anymore."

"Boom boom boom!"

At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door outside the store.

Xu Wang turned his head and found that there were two familiar faces.

They were the two policemen who wanted to kill him when he just crossed over.

The two policemen had strange expressions on their faces when they saw Xu Wang, as if they had seen a ghost.

But since the director team has spoken, they can only come and do the work.

The black policeman spoke first: "Mr. Xu Wang, right? We were sent by Walter to discuss the contract with you."

After saying that, he skillfully walked through the ticket gate and entered the store.

"Bah!"

Xu Wang immediately glared at him and stopped him: "Didn't you see you have to swipe your ticket? Buy a ticket to enter!"

After Xu Wang said this, the black policeman realized that there was a ticket gate in front of him.

This thing is so familiar.

He walked straight past it on his daily commute.

So much so that we subconsciously ignore its existence.

Looking at the familiar graffiti on the gate, the black policeman couldn't help but exclaimed: "Fuck! Why did the Gotham Metro come here!"

(End of this chapter)