The Mutant God in American Comics.

But unfortunately, Madeleine is not a vegetarian either.

Whether inside the board of directors or outside the group, Madeleine has a large support group.

It is precisely because of this that Madeline, as the vice president, is fully responsible for all matters of the Super Seven within the Water Group.

Richard is not interested in the power struggle within the Vought Group.

He didn't care about either Edgar or Madeline, and had no intention of cooperating with them.

After finding the information he wanted from Victoria Newman's mind, Richard did not cancel the telepathy directly, but sent a telepathic message to Victoria Newman.

"I'm Richard Wesley. I'm on the roof of the office building now. Please come up."

After sending a telepathic message to Victoria Newman, Richard cut off the telepathy without waiting for a reply.

A few minutes later, Victoria Newman, wearing a black women's suit and high heels, came to the roof alone.

After seeing Richard, she immediately said, "Mr. Wesley came here specially, he shouldn't come to show me his superpowers or threaten me, right?"

As expected of a female congresswoman who has worked hard in U.S. politics, Victoria Newman started trying to take the initiative in the conversation as soon as she came up.

"You are wrong. I came here this time just to threaten you."

"You are a smart person, so I won't waste my words on you."

"I know you are Edgar's adopted daughter, and I also know why you are obsessed with the Vought Group."

"Whether you denounce the Vought Group or me, I don't care."

"I don't care how you try to win people's hearts."

"If you don't want your relationship with Edgar to be exposed, I suggest you step up your outcry against me."

"If possible, it would be best to get to the point where both the Senate and the House of Representatives would have to vote to pass a parahuman restriction bill."

Richard looked at Victoria Newman calmly and spoke slowly.

what?

Victoria Newman looked at Richard with a puzzled look.

When Richard said that she was Edgar's adopted daughter, her first reaction was to use her superpowers to blow Richard's head off to prevent him from revealing it.

But she quickly dismissed the idea and wanted to see what Richard was going to threaten her with.

However, after hearing Richard threaten her to intensify his condemnation, her expression became extremely strange.

What on earth is he going to do?

Does he want to be the public enemy?

Or does he enjoy the feeling of being criticized by public opinion?

……

One guess after another flashed through Victoria Newman's mind.

Although she didn't know what Richard was planning, she didn't waste her brain cells guessing and asked directly: "Just tell me, what is your purpose?"

"I don't think anyone would like to be condemned by the whole world!"

After hearing what Victoria Newman said, Richard shook his head and said with a smile: "I don't need to tell you what I'm planning."

"Or rather, you are not qualified to know."

"By the way, I'm giving you a personal suggestion. Don't inject your daughter with Compound No. 5."

"Not everyone is so lucky to awaken a superpower that works well and does not affect normal life."

"If you awaken a superpower that seriously affects your life or causes your body to mutate, you will regret it and have no place to cry."

Although superhumans have appeared in this world, the number of superhumans in this world is not particularly large.

Even the Vought Group now has only more than 200 public superheroes.

Even if we count those superhumans who are imprisoned and used as guinea pigs, as well as the retired superheroes, there are only two to three thousand superhumans in this world at most.

In other words, people in this world have not yet realized that useless superpowers that will seriously affect their lives will become the mainstream.

Just like the Ipsilon and Delta classes account for nearly 80% of the mutants.

Although Richard gave his advice sincerely, it was obvious that Victoria Newman did not accept his advice very much.

Richard didn't say anything else to her, and directly used teleportation to return to the Super Seven-Man Tower.

……

The days passed by.

Before I knew it, a week had passed.

During this week, Richard carried out his superhero activities every night just like before, killing criminals without discrimination.

Since he started his heroic activities, nearly 3000 criminals have died at his hands.

Although more and more criminals died at his hands, there were fewer and fewer condemnations and protests against him.

This was not because the public relations department of the Vought Group started working hard, nor was it because Victoria Newman ignored his threats, but because the residents of New York clearly felt the changes brought about by the significant reduction in the number of criminals.

According to the latest crime rate report released by the New York Police Department, New York's crime rate has dropped by more than 90% in more than a week.

Especially at night, the crime rate is only about 2% of the previous level.

The reason why the crime rate at night drops more than that during the day is simple, because Richard does most of his operations at night.

After discovering that people's attitudes had begun to change significantly, Edgar, Victoria Newman and others finally understood why Richard had been ignoring public opinion.

Just as he guessed, there is no crime that cannot be stopped by killing. If there is, it only means that not enough people have been killed!

In addition to the dramatic drop in crime, something relatively unimportant happened this past week.

Unfortunately, a fire broke out at the residence of Madeline, the vice president of the Water Group, one night, and Madeline died on the spot.

Although fires and other things are common, Madeleine's death still caused some sensation in the outside world.

Anyway, Madeline has been the vice president of Water Group for so many years.

Much of the credit for the Water Group's rising share price in recent years and the growing fame of the Super Seven is due to her.

To outsiders, this was just an unfortunate fire.

But Edgar, the president of the Water Group, knew that this was not an accident, but that the fire was caused by the people of the motherland themselves.

Not only Edgar knew, Victoria Newman knew it too.

However, they did not disclose the truth to the public and kept it completely hidden.

……

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 130: Starlight with Refreshed Perspectives (4K Large Chapter)

Madeline's "accidental" death was an absolute blessing for Edgar.

The day after Madeleine's death, he convened a board meeting and recommended a new vice president.

Daenerys Ayala!

Richard had no impression of the vice president recommended by Edgar.

He thought that Edgar would be like Homelander in the TV series and make Ashley, who was originally Madeline's assistant, a puppet vice president who only obeyed orders.

But it turns out that Edgar didn't do that.

Although he had no impression of Daenerys Ayala, Richard didn't take it to heart at all.

No matter who takes over the position of vice president, it will not affect his plans.

Not to mention Daenerys who has never appeared in the TV series, even if Edgar appointed Storm, the wife of the founder of the Vought Group, as vice president, it would not have any impact on him.

Compared to Daenerys's role as vice president, Richard is now more concerned about another thing.

That means the Boys' Guard in this universe was established just like in the TV series.

"The Butcher" Butcher found Hughie, whose girlfriend was killed by a locomotive, and successfully persuaded Hughie to join the Black Robe Patrol to fight against the Vought Group and the Super Seven.

Not only that, Frankie and Breastmilk were also persuaded by Butcher to join the Black Robe Patrol.

The only difference from the TV series is that Butcher did not ask Hughie to install a bug in the Super Seven's meeting room.

It's not that he doesn't want to, but he doesn't have the opportunity.

When Richard found out that Butcher had approached Hughie, he had the locomotive hold a press conference and issue an apology statement in public.

Although the engine was reluctant to do so, he finally obeyed Richard's orders.

Richard did not do anything to the locomotive, but told him directly that if he did not obey, he would kick him out of the Super Seven Team as he already had a heart disease, and tell the people outside that he was not on a mission at that time.

In order to keep his position in the Super Seven, Lokomotiv had no choice but to follow Richard's arrangements.

In addition to asking the locomotive to issue a public apology statement, Richard also warned the invisible man to stop wandering around in the Super Seven Tower like a perverted peeping Tom.

Although the Invisible Man did not sneak into the luxury suite where he lived, he habitually stayed in the women's restroom to peek at Starlight or other female employees of the Water Group going to the restroom.

But Richard didn't like his obscene behavior.

He can understand that men are lustful.

But he couldn't stand the invisible man peeping around like a perverted voyeur.

If the Invisible Man did not have some value that could be utilized, he would have kicked him out of the Super Seven without saying a word.

The meeting room of the Super Seven team.

A large group of crew members were busy setting up the scenes and cameras.

Three days ago, the Water Group officially announced that Daenerys would serve as the group's vice president, replacing Madeline and taking full responsibility for all matters related to the Super Seven.

Although Richard didn't mind Daenerys being the vice president and handling all the affairs of the Super Seven in the open.

But at noon on Daenerys' first day in office, he found Daenerys and had a friendly conversation with her.

He didn't talk much with Daenerys, just briefly discussing the control of the Super Seven and the selection of the new captain.

After Homelander killed Madeline, Richard did not continue to arrange other things for Homelander, but only told him that he planned to officially take over the position of captain of the Super Seven.

His countrymen did not say anything about his decision.

In other words, even if he was extremely unhappy, he had no other choice.

With his strength far inferior to Richard's, and the mentality of a giant baby, he could do nothing but get angry and vent secretly.

Although he didn't know whether Homelander had adopted other means to vent his dissatisfaction, Richard was very sure of one thing, and that was that Homelander, whose mentality had collapsed, would run outside alone from time to time to perform the famous scene of Crescent Moon Sky Strike.

After the staff in the conference room set up the scene and camera, Richard and Homelander, wearing black windbreakers, began to shoot a promotional video for the handover between the old and new captains of the Super Seven according to the lines designed by the public relations department.

Richard had not originally intended to shoot a promotional video that had no practical significance, but after listening to the explanation from the head of the public relations department, he finally agreed to shoot the promotional video.

Not for any other reason, just because shooting promotional videos can better increase one's own popularity.

Over the past twenty years or so, the title of captain of the Super Seven has been closely tied to the motherland.

In other words, the title of Super Seven captain is a big part of Homelander’s fame.

By shooting a promotional video for the handover between the old and new captains, the attention and fame that originally focused on the motherland can be transferred to him.

In front of the huge French window of the conference room, Homelander looked out at the Empire State Building, which was only a few hundred meters away from Vought Group. With superb acting skills, he said with emotion, "For the past twenty years, I have been the captain of the Super Seven and have witnessed one superhero after another joining or leaving the Super Seven."

"Every time I bid them farewell, I wonder when a new player will take over the captaincy from me."

"After waiting for so many years, I finally got it."

At this point, a "real" smile of relief appeared on Homelander's face. He turned to look at Richard and continued, "Times have changed, and I am slowly getting older."

"This is a new era for you young people. I belong to the previous era. It is time to hand over the captaincy to younger newcomers."

"Richard, I believe you can do better than me. I also believe that under your leadership, the Super Seven will create a more brilliant future."

"The Super Seven is now in your hands!"

After saying that, Homelander patted Richard's shoulder seriously, with an expression that said, "I'll leave everything to you from now on."

Although I am unwilling in my heart, I have to admit that my Chinese compatriot, who has been trained to be the face of the group since childhood, does have superb acting skills.

Even if he doesn't have any superpowers, he can make a name for himself in Hollywood just with his acting skills and appearance.