A Marine Admiral in the Marvel Universe

"Regarding this..." Madeline shrugged, "The attempt to take over the Ministry of Defense has failed, there's no way to force it, we can only look for another opportunity."

"The stock price has fallen, and the drop has been significant, but there's nothing we can do about it. That's a fact. We've lost, and there's nothing more to say."

It was too late; Walter had lost, lost badly, undeniably. They had even lost their only lead, and were completely helpless against this hidden enemy.

Aside from the information Maeve recalled during last night's battle and the woman's voice provided by Trevor, Walter had no other leads.

However, these things will not affect the fundamentals of Vought International. Vought International is actually a pharmaceutical company, not an agency. The defeat of the superheroes will only cause them to lose some profits, but will not affect their core business.

This is also why Madeleine remained calm; as long as Compound V existed, she was invincible.

“In that case, I’ll do it myself. I’ll use my own methods to get into the Department of Defense,” Homelander said, staring at the child in Madeline’s arms, clearly annoyed.

“Although I don’t know what you’re planning to do, don’t go out during this time. That enemy could injure Maeve, and he might be able to injure you too,” Madeline said.

Homelander's lips twitched, a flash of anger crossing his face. He then tossed his cloak aside, turned, and left.

……

A basement in Queens, New York.

Butcher watched the overwhelming Walter news on television, a slight smile spreading across his bearded face.

“Hey Hughie, we’re pretty safe these days.” Butcher shook his hairy head. “Your father can stop living in the basement.”

“Okay, I’ll arrange it,” Hughie said, pulling his father out of the basement. He was tired of living in the basement for the past few days and it was time to breathe some fresh air.

Butcher did not stay in the basement any longer and left with Hughie as well.

"Where are you going?" Hughie asked curiously.

"Find clues and keep killing those damn superhumans." Butcher grinned, revealing a few white teeth in his dark beard.

In front of the Water Tower is a small park with lush greenery and fresh air. Employees who have been in Water Tower for a long time will go downstairs from time to time to breathe in the fresh air... Of course, this kind of enjoyment is a privilege reserved for junior department leaders.

Under the shade of the tree, Starlight ate her sandwich in small bites. She was tired too. She had been running around all night and hadn't slept. Although her superhuman body didn't feel anything, she felt inexplicably irritable inside.

Click~

At that moment, a shutter clicked and a flash went off.

Xingguang looked up and saw that it was the Asian man she had met before, holding a digital camera. What was his name again... Cao, Cao Gui?

"Hey, taking photos without permission is a very bad thing to do," Xingguang said, her eyebrows slightly furrowed.

"Would you like to see the photos I took?" Cao Gui asked with a smile.

"Let me see!" Xingguang reached out and snatched the camera from Cao Gui's hand, only to find that in the photo she was eating a sandwich with her mouth crooked, looking very unladylike. Xingguang's face immediately darkened.

"How about it, Annie? My work is pretty good, isn't it?" Cao Gui chuckled, seemingly quite pleased with himself.

Starlight: "..."

This person has such a thick skin.

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Chapter 338 The Locomotive Race (Third Update)

"Cao Gui, born in 1990... a New Yorker... a photographer... seems unremarkable. Am I being paranoid?"

In the Wot Crime Analysis Department, Starlight held the printed documents and was completely baffled. This person was an ordinary person with an ordinary life and an ordinary educational background. Even now, he was just an ordinary photographer.

“If you still have doubts, you can attack him directly. If anything goes wrong, Walter can take responsibility for you,” the criminal analysis department suggested.

“No need, it’s not that bad yet…” Starlight shrugged, put away the documents, shredded them into powder, clapped his hands, and left the Crime Analysis Department.

Two kilometers away, in a car, Cao Gui, wearing headphones, twitched his lips slightly as he listened to Xingguang's conversation with the people from the Criminal Analysis Department. However, he was surprised that the girl was so wary of him.

“You can’t judge a book by its cover…” Cao Gui scratched his chin. Just now, during their meeting, Cao Gui had installed a listening device on the Starlight phone.

That's a method of eavesdropping devised by S.H.I.E.L.D. As long as you bring the prepared device close to the other person's phone, you can forcibly install the eavesdropping program. Moreover, the eavesdropping device is hidden in various programs, making it very difficult to detect. Even if you do find it, you can't find the source of the installation or lock onto the target.

Xingguang's words and actions are now completely under Cao Gui's control.

To Cao Gui's surprise, Xingguang would investigate him during their second meeting, and she even used Walter's criminal analysis department to do so. This was quite unexpected, as Cao Gui had always thought she was a naive and innocent girl.

Fortunately, Cao Gui was prepared. After meeting Xingguang for the first time, Cao Gui realized that it would be very difficult to have an identity here.

So Cao Gui chatted with a junior clerk in charge of this matter, invited him for drinks, and soon the matter was settled. The other party was very happy, drank until he cried, and said a lot of nonsense, such as "This is a crime, you illegal immigrant" and so on. So Cao Gui sent him to see the master he loved.

This is a happy and joyful story.

Closer to home.

The Invisible Man's death had a huge impact on Walter. To erase the effects of the Invisible Man's death, Walter held a grand funeral for him, which drew many fans to mourn.

Originally, Walter planned to add a new hero to replace the Invisible Man, but... there were too many fans, so they chickened out. The seven-man team will remain at six for a short period of time to avoid protests from the Invisible Man's fans.

After this event, the Super Six often stayed in the Water Tower, either training or having meetings. Even when they came out, they were always in pairs, not giving Cao Gui any chance.

However, after a week of silence, they couldn't stand it anymore, and neither could Walter. If things continued like this, they would lose too many dollars.

So, on the last day of that week, Wot announced with great fanfare that the race between Shockwave and Locomotive would be restarted, and that everyone in the world would witness a race of the century, a peak showdown of speed.

"Locomotive, you can only win this game, understand?" Madeline said sternly.

"But don't try to be clever. If we win, that's great. If we lose... it will have an impact, but we don't want to be number two in the world."

The locomotive's face paled slightly, and he nodded solemnly: "Ms. Steelville, I understand."

……

The following morning, a stadium belonging to the Water Corporation was bustling with activity, colorful flags were flying, and a large number of people crowded into the stands, making it a grand event.

Fans of the two speedsters cheered and shouted encouragement for their idols, just as the Vought International's slogan said: this is a race of the century, a showdown of peak speed.

Not only will the A-Team appear, but Homelander, Queen Maeve, and Starlight will also appear to cheer for the A-Team.

As for the remaining two, Deep Sea and Dark Color, they are responsible for guarding the base; the Water Corporation cannot be attacked again.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the chances of the Locomotive winning are very high. We have prepared a sneaker advertising contract for the Locomotive. We at Walter believe that he will defeat all challengers."

On the television, the host spoke eloquently, while the woman with the "claws" looked at her lover on the screen and couldn't help but feel sad, tears welling up in her eyes.

In her mind, she should have been cheering for the locomotive on site, and she should have been inseparable from it as its lover, but now she could only sit at home in front of the TV.

Thinking of this, the woman with the claws picked up her wine glass in a huff and, as if in a fit of pique, downed most of it.

"Cough cough cough..."

She choked from drinking too quickly, and tears streamed uncontrollably from her eyes, but there was nothing she could do. This was the person she loved, someone she was willing to give up everything for.

Even though he treats himself this way, even though he is unwilling to announce his romantic relationship to his fans and audience.

blah blah~

Just then, a knock sounded on the door. The woman frowned. Who would be knocking at this hour? The landlord?

After calming down her emotions, the woman with the claws walked to the peephole behind the door and looked out, but saw nothing.

The woman with the claws looked puzzled. Was she hallucinating? But after thinking for a moment, she opened the door anyway, wanting to see if something was wrong.

The woman with the claws peeked out from behind the door and looked around, but strangely, there was no one there and nothing at all.

"Strange... Am I hallucinating?" The woman scratched her short hair, turned around and went back into the room, but a dark shadow suddenly flashed in the corner of her eye.

"Who..." The demonic woman's expression changed drastically, and sharp spikes grew from her two wrists, which she then thrust towards her back.

However, in a flash, a huge fist slammed into the woman's face with a loud thud. Her eyes rolled back, and she collapsed to the ground unconscious.

"Done. Now it's time to truly destroy their spirit." A soft laugh came from behind the mask from Cao Gui. How many people could pass the test of humanity?

……

On the track, Locomotive looked solemnly at the approaching shockwave, feeling immense pressure. Although he was unwilling to admit it, he simply couldn't outrun this person; his speed was indeed inferior.

With that thought, the locomotive steeled itself, its figure blurred, and it vanished with a whoosh. But the next instant, it reappeared. No one present noticed, except for the locomotive itself, which sensed the shockwave that had been stirred up around it.

Turning around, I saw that my younger brother, who had just been looking serious, was now beaming with excitement... no, he was in a frenzy!

"Are you alright?" the older brother from the locomotive asked.

"Huh? Wow! Of course, I'm fine, very fine, as good as I can be, hahaha!" The locomotive bounced around excitedly.

Ring ring~

Just then, the older brother's cell phone rang in his pocket. He took it out and saw that it wasn't his own, but his younger brother's, with the caller ID saved as "Dear".

"Hey, little brother, here's your phone."

"Huh?" Locomotive was puzzled, but still answered the phone: "Honey, the competition is about to start, don't..."

"Hehehe... Locomotive? The Claw Woman is in my hands, interested in coming over for a chat?" A deep, resonant baritone voice slowly drifted out:

“I have some videos that I think you might be interested in, such as you injecting this little blue vial of some unknown liquid.”

Upon hearing the words from the other side, the train engine's excited body suddenly went cold, and his dark face turned several shades pale.

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Chapter 339 Haha, what a scumbag! (Fourth update)

The locomotive's breathing quickened instantly; his depressed and painful mood combined with his excited physical state made him feel extremely uncomfortable at that moment.

What's worse, he can't explain this to the other members of the Seven, because if it gets out that he injected Compound V, he won't be able to stay at Vought International.

But then, the voice on the phone continued: "You only have half a minute. You have half a minute to go to Queens xxx. Otherwise, you can go collect your girlfriend's corpse."

After saying that, the phone was immediately hung up. The train driver's face turned even paler. He knew that place; it was the spot where the invisible man disappeared. In other words, the person on the other end of the phone was actually the murderer who killed the invisible man!

How to do?

Should we continue the match, or follow that person's advice and rescue the Claw Woman?

The locomotive glanced at Homelander and Queen Maeve standing on the high ground, his Adam's apple bobbing slightly. He desperately wanted to ask them for help...

……

In Brooklyn, inside the apartment, the "Claw Woman" was bound hand and foot to a chair by Cao Gui, with a large piece of cloth stuffed in her mouth, making it impossible for her to make a sound. Cao Gui and the "Claw Woman" were still in the Brooklyn apartment and had not gone to Queens.

Dressed in black robes and wearing a silver-gray mask, Cao Gui put down his phone. During the live television broadcast, Train Head also put down his phone at the same time, but he did not go to rescue his girlfriend as Cao Gui had requested.

“Tsk tsk tsk... Poor thing, you devilish woman…” Cao Gui clicked his tongue, his expression mocking: “You’re so devoted to the train, but in his eyes, your life isn’t even as important as his game.”