I admired heroes but became a villain

After hearing the woman's silent embarrassment from the silent phone, Guo Linglong chuckled and said, "Of course you can join now, but it's a little late. The first hero to join my Good Friends Alliance is no longer you."

Hell Blizzard subconsciously raised his voice and asked, "Who is it?"

"ViewT, you may not be familiar with this name, but you must know the handsome masked man, right?"

"First place in A-rank..."

Hell Blizzard muttered the name with gritted teeth, silent regret filling her chest. She was clearly invited first, and she was clearly the first one!

"Then Miss Fubuki, if you agree to join now, you will be the second one. How do you think it's okay?"

The voice from the phone interrupted Hell Blowing Snow's annoyance again, and she couldn't help but hesitate.

If I join now, I will be the second one. Just like few people know what the second highest peak in the world is, the specialness of being the second one will be much less. I...

"You'd better think about it carefully."

Guo Linglong stopped and looked at the high-end apartment in front of her, and said thoughtfully: "I am on my way to poach the seventh S-class Emperor Engine King. If you hesitate any longer, you will not be second but third, or even fourth or fifth."

"Join, please let me join now!"

Hell Blowing Snow didn't care about anything else and immediately announced her employment, while Guo Linglong shrugged and agreed to the eager request of this queen.

"Then I'll hang up first. I'm already downstairs at King's and I'm about to go upstairs now."

"Mr. Guo...there is a decisive difference between S-level and A-level. They are completely different."

After joining the Friends Alliance, Hell Blowing Snow quickly adjusted his attitude and began to give Guo Linglong advice: "Especially King, the strongest man on earth. Even the Hero Association often can't call him. I'm afraid it's inappropriate to visit him suddenly at this time?"

"It doesn't matter. Xia has already told me the most direct and effective way to poach King."

Guo Linglong entered the apartment and took the elevator, quickly approaching the floor where King was... Although he holds such a prominent position as S-rank 7, in fact, the so-called King is just an ordinary person who has benefited from Saitama. Because he is lucky, he always appears at the scene where Saitama executes justice, resulting in Saitama's reputation being inherited by him, which is how he got the position of S-rank 7.

After thinking about it, Guo Linglong hung up the phone and lightly pressed the doorbell next to her.

Even though he and King have never even met each other, some endings have already been determined.

With the first place in B-class, the first place in A-class, the seventh place in S-class, and the second place in S-class who is destined to join, the Friends Alliance has already become powerful and is close to completely replacing the Hero Association...

All that’s missing is a gust of east wind.

Chapter 95: Sanctions from the Iron Fist of Capital

Just as Guo Linglong began his journey of poaching, ViewT also held its own press conference as planned. Its advantage in terms of big stars was fully demonstrated. More than a hundred reporters packed the press conference, and the flashes of cameras never stopped for a moment.

ViewT, who was already used to this kind of scene, recited the lines given by Guo Linglong fluently.

"Finally, I solemnly declare here that from now on, I will resign from the position of the first place in the A-level of the Hero Association and become the image ambassador of the Good Friends League. In the future, I will continue to engage in heroic activities, strive to create a positive image, flourish in both idol and hero career, and promote the culture of the League. I hope everyone will pay more attention to it."

ViewT paused for a moment, staring at the reporters absentmindedly, his expression hesitant...

Guo Linglong had almost finished the lines she had prepared for herself. It had to be said that these words were written with people's minds in mind. There was not a single word of nonsense, and all of them struck directly into the hearts of those hesitant heroes, but...

He didn't know whether he should say the last sentence in the dialogue.

"Hero Mask!"

A reporter who got the chance to ask a question stood up and said to ViewT: "I just received news that the famous chocolate magnate Mr. Tomioka is interested in investing in your Good Friends Alliance after listening to your speech. Could you please introduce the Good Friends Alliance, an organization that seems to have emerged from a sub-anime, to me, what is it like?"

ViewT was silent for a long time, then took a deep breath and said, "Thank the Chocolate King for me, but please allow me to refuse... My alliance will not obtain funds from any company, any consortium, or any force. We will open a donation channel for ordinary citizens and use the donations from citizens to operate the alliance."

The originally bustling hall suddenly became silent...

After a long while, a reporter finally stood up and asked in astonishment, "Hero Mask, do you know... what you are talking about?"

ViewT did not answer immediately, but subconsciously clenched his fists.

He understood why these reporters reacted so strongly to the "Friends Alliance does not accept any investment", because...

The hero industry is so profitable!

The reason why the financial backers behind the Hero Association pay a large sum of money to cover the losses caused by the heroes is not as simple as "to protect the lives of citizens and their own property", but because there are huge profits to be made.

A plastic figurine that costs no more than 5 cents when wholesaled from the Yiwu market can be sold for hundreds of times the price just by putting on the image of a hero. If it is labeled as a collector's edition, the price will be tens of thousands of times higher than a hundred times, not to mention a hundred times. There are crazy fans who will collect it. Fan addiction and stock speculation are not as profitable as making plastic figurines.

Moreover, although they hold the portrait rights of various heroes and sell the heroes' peripheral products to make unimaginable profits.

However, all the profits from these peripherals are in the hands of the association, and have nothing to do with the heroes. The heroes who are supposed to fight to protect ordinary people are completely unaware that the harder they work on heroic activities, the more magnificent the capitalists' houses will be. The heroes who fight for the citizens...

I have already become a wage earner for capital!

"But this 'strange' relationship ends here today."

ViewT looked around at the reporters and spoke word by word.

"I know that you are all ordered here by your own financial sponsors, so I declare here... Our alliance is an organization that you capitalists will never get! Don't even think about making a penny from us heroes. Our justice will never be tainted by capital, that's it."

After repeating Guo Linglong's words truthfully, ViewT felt an unprecedented sense of comfort filling his chest. Even his body felt as if it had wings and felt a lot more relaxed. If... these reporters could just shut up a little and stop mocking him, it would be even better.

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When ViewT openly distanced itself from the Hero Association and the capitalists at its own press conference, in the Hero Association's office, the directors in charge were looking at the press conference with extremely grim expressions.

"Masked...did that guy forget who promoted him to this level? The association spent so much resources to promote him, and put so much effort into building momentum for him, but in the end, that guy actually! Actually!"

A woman was watching TV with a gloomy face, but she was so angry that she couldn't utter a complete sentence.

"Whatever happens with the mask is fine!"

A man wearing glasses with sharp eyes snorted coldly, "The most important thing at the moment is that the other party has obviously figured out that we are preparing to be reborn through a shell, so they have built the shell in advance, waiting for us to declare disbandment, and then suck our flesh and blood to strengthen themselves!"

"Now how to do?"

A short fat man kept wiping the cold sweat off his face and said in a trembling voice: "After Mask announced his resignation from the Hero Association, the search volume for the term 'Friends Alliance' began to surge. It will soon be a trending search."

As soon as the question was asked, the conference room fell into chaos. The once well-mannered elites blushed and started arguing uglyly until the old man in the center of the conference room spoke up.

"Why do you have to act like you're in big trouble?"

The old man tilted his head and asked in confusion: "Why are you panicking? Can't you see? Our situation is not just slightly good, but very good."

"Eh……"

Everyone in the office looked at the old man in confusion. Now the Hero Association's funding chain was broken, its reputation was terrible, and its plan of rebirth through a backdoor listing was stillborn because of the emergence of the Good Friends Alliance. This situation was terrible no matter how you looked at it!

"Haha, that was indeed the case before that alliance despised capital, but now... the wind has changed."

The old man chuckled.

"On the surface, the Good Friends Alliance only declared that they don't want to play with capital and that everyone should just keep out of each other's way. However, in the eyes of those chaebols and big companies, 'If I can't make money, I'm losing money.' The Good Friends Alliance has undoubtedly become an enemy that blocks their financial path. To deal with the enemy, a handy 'weapon' is indispensable."

As soon as he finished speaking, the phone rings started to creak. They were calls from the sponsors who had previously avoided the Hero Association. After watching ViewT's press conference, they once again realized the importance of the Hero Association.

The old man looked at the young and energetic 'little guys' on TV and couldn't help but let out a kind and gentle laugh.

Young people, use your bodies... to personally feel the power of capital!

Chapter 96 Visitors from the Deep Sea

The process of convincing King was extremely simple...

Relying on Saitama's help, he muddled his way to S-level 7, and he had too many handles. When Guo Linglong casually said that if he didn't join, she would have a sparring match with him, King, the ferocious-looking man, immediately expressed his willingness to join the Good Friends Alliance.

Although King is a hero who truly has nothing but fame, what Guo Linglong needs most at the moment is fame. After King joins, the prototype of the Good Friends Alliance is finally completed, and it only lacks an east wind that can start a prairie fire.

But Guo didn't have to wait long before the wind... came.

"But this wind doesn't seem to be the wind I'm waiting for. Instead, it's a chilly wind that's roaring and trying to put out the flame of the Good Friends Alliance, which hasn't even taken root yet?"

On a beach, Xia, Eva, and Guo Linglong gathered again and began to summarize the strange "trend" that appeared after ViewT held its press conference.

Xia looked at Guo Linglong, who was wearing beach pants and lying on a sun lounger, sipping the water, and looking so carefree. She couldn't help but shook her head and said, "Master, Miss Eva and I are walking around the streets right now, helping you to recruit people and do the dirty work. Even if you don't understand our hard work, at least don't look so happy. Aren't you afraid that we will be unbalanced?"

"I wouldn't."

Eva shrugged her shoulders, and found a sun lounger to lie down on. She said with a relaxed look on her face, "For me, fighting is like enjoying delicious food. The flowing sweat, the rusty blood, the aching wounds, whether they are from others or myself, will make me addicted to it..."

"besides……"

Guo Linglong turned over, looked at the dissatisfied Xia and chuckled, "We have already won, don't be so nervous, let's celebrate in advance, do you need me to apply sunscreen for you?"

"I'm not in the mood for that."

Xia rolled her eyes and said, "Right now, public opinion is overwhelmingly against us. There is an invisible force suppressing speech. ViewT's resignation statement and the announcement of his appointment as the alliance ambassador, which should have been on the hot searches, are impossible to find online. Even if you finally find a few words, it will be 404 when you click on them. There are so many reporters interviewing ViewT, but no news about this has been reported."

“This was expected.”

Guo Linglong turned over and exposed most of her body to the ultraviolet rays. She whispered with a relaxed look on her face, "The expression of hateful behavior is not hatred but disregard, so they bribed various media to make the 'world' ignore the existence of the Alliance... After all, the Good Friends Alliance has just been established and is too mysterious. There is no black material to dig up. Otherwise, they would not ignore it at all, but launch a dark storm of public opinion to crush the Alliance with a devastating posture. Everyone has become a Zaun and speaks well of the Alliance."

"Then why do you look so relaxed?"

Xia looked at Guo Linglong in confusion and said, "Maybe you don't know, Master, that Hero Association that you trampled under your feet..."

"It's revived, right?"

Although she had been lying in the sun and had never conducted any investigation, Guo Linglong said bluntly: "This is what was bound to happen after I asked ViewT to hold a press conference. The Hero Association is a hindrance to capital. If the Hero Association does not cross, they cannot steal business from the Hero Association. But now the wind has changed. If the Hero Association collapses here, then the heroes will be taken over by the alliance that rejects all capital. So now the Hero Association cannot fall no matter what."

"Eh?"

Eva was stunned for a moment, then asked in confusion: "What about my recent dirty tricks..."

"It was cleaned thoroughly."

Xia said helplessly: "A large number of Internet users have begun to enter the scene. They disguise themselves as passers-by and start by saying 'I am not a fan of the Hero Association, but I have something to say.' If it were just Internet users, it would be fine. The problem is that there are even more troublesome people than Internet users. Internet celebrities with a large number of fans and intellectuals have begun to enter the scene to whitewash the scene."

Originally, the master used a trick to tie his actions to the Hero Association, so that no matter what bad things he did, the Hero Association would be forced to take the blame. But now the capital that came in with a mop has broken this trick with absolute power. Now the situation of the Hero Association is indeed not a small good thing, but a great good thing...

“It’s all within expectations.”

Guo Linglong stood up from the chair, stretched her waist, and said lazily: "In the eyes of capital, there are no enemies, only interests. Even if I kill a lot of people in their families, as long as there is a stick of incense left, they don't mind doing business with me. After all, these ladies who think they control the capital... don't know that they have already become high-level slaves of capital."

While talking about seemingly unrelated things, the man walked towards the beach and laughed optimistically, which confused Xia.

"We are now penniless, powerless and powerless. We have actually been defeated by this invisible force. The Hero Association, which was originally in a state of collapse, has a glimmer of hope because of the emergence of the Alliance. Everything can be said to have returned to the starting point, but...

boom!

A loud bang interrupted Guo Linglong's voice. It was as if a bomb exploded in the deep water at the beach. A large amount of sea water fell like a rainstorm, bringing a hint of coolness to Guo's body which had been warmed by the sun.

But what fell down was not just seawater, but also seafood, terrifyingly large seafood.

Looking at the crab as big as a tank that fell heavily beside her, Guo Linglong suddenly felt a little regretful... She should have brought the fish with her earlier. It must taste great when braised.

"Human? You're not going to run?"

The giant crab looked at the tiny but motionless human in front of it in confusion. It was obvious that the other humans on vacation on the beach were already scared to death.

"Are you scared silly? Well, let us declare here, humans, we are messengers from the deep sea. If you don't want to be killed, then hand over the land! Otherwise... it will be like this!"

The giant claws that had long been mutated came down brutally with a whistling gale, and screams followed. The crab hugged its arm with a big hole in it, and looked at the human in front of it with great horror, who had put on heavy black armor at some point.

"The Hero Association has S, A, B, C and other categories. The Good Friends League I conceived also has them. They are ordinary members who can deal with weirdos like you, and...super good friends who can easily kill you at will - the Black Knight."

The man in heavy armor asked sincerely, "Can we make a deal and not complain about the name I gave you? After all, it's better than stewing and steaming your deep-sea tribe and trampling on their capital..."

It's so difficult to come up with a cool name.

Chapter 97: A Cheap Stepping Stone

The sacred altar engraved with various ocean currents is now piled with a group of unknown creatures. Some of these creatures look like crabs, some like octopuses, and some like sea cucumbers, but now they all have a common name - broken corpses.

"I told you to hold back a little."

Walking on the altar filled with a strong smell of blood, Guo Linglong helplessly looked at Eva who was killing people, and couldn't help rolling her eyes: "I need my men now."

"Hey, but they look like they want to eat us."

Eva pulled her hand out of a sea snake's brain and asked in a daze, "When you want to kill someone, you must be prepared to be killed. Isn't that common sense?"

"Come on, go away first."

Guo Linglong waved her hand to signal Eva to stand further away, then looked seriously at the furious weirdo with the crown in front of her.

"Are you the Deep Sea King that was killed by Saitama with one punch as Kasumi said?"

Guo Linglong rubbed her wrist, walked forward slowly, and said lightly: "It's just right, I want to discuss something with you, let's make a deal."

"trade?"

The Deep Sea King looked at the altar littered with corpses with a gloomy expression, gritted his teeth and said coldly: "I have no interest in your tricks. I am only interested in killing you! You die... er... drink!"

The Deep Sea King, who was about to start a battle after making a harsh remark, suddenly felt a powerful pressure descending from the sky, and he fell to his knees on the ground.