Chapter 66: Event Reversal, the Dejected Homelander

Chapter 66: Event Reversal, the Dejected Homelander

The shocking truth hidden behind the plane crash incident! Shocking! Homelander was actually on the airplane at the time! Who is lying? Is the girl's statement credible? Vought will face its strongest crisis in history! ...

The day after the girl woke up, the entire US media exploded. All sorts of extremely eye-catching news frequently topped trending searches. The area under Vought Tower was already surrounded by an extremely angry crowd, just like last time, but their banners read, "Homelander, murderer of 122 passengers." "Vought, hand over Homelander, give us the truth." "Queen Maeve, please stand up!"

Inside Vought Tower.

Madelyn temporarily convened an emergency meeting. All members of The Seven were present, except for The Deep.

"Regarding this incident, I require all of you to remain silent, especially Homelander and Queen Maeve. It is not suitable for you to appear in public now. As for subsequent public relations, I will hand it over to Ashley to be fully responsible. As long as the black box hasn't been found, no one can guarantee that what the girl said is true and credible."

"Sorry, I'm feeling a bit unwell."

Queen Maeve stood up, preparing to leave.

"Queen Maeve." Homelander looked at her with cold eyes. "Sit down."

Queen Maeve struggled and hesitated for a moment, but ultimately returned to her original seat.

"In a week, Vought will hold a charity gathering, 'Samaritan's Embrace'. This is an excellent opportunity for you superheroes to regain popularity." Madelyn handed the speech transcripts to Black Noir and the others.

When she came before Homelander, Homelander did not take it. He was looking down at his Blue Bird account. His latest post was filled with countless netizens' curses. Every time he refreshed, he lost over a hundred thousand followers. Seeing this, Homelander remained silent, his eyes filled with extreme loss.

"Meeting adjourned." Seeing this, Madelyn had no choice but to announce the meeting adjourned.

After everyone left, Madelyn gently held Homelander's head, embracing him, and reached out to stroke his hair, smiling slightly. "Don't worry, this matter will pass quickly. This morning, Mr. Jervis proposed a good suggestion. We at Vought can spend a lot of money to buy some celebrity scandals. As long as those scandals spread,

No one will care about the plane crash incident anymore. As long as the black box doesn't appear, everything will soon be forgotten. By then, you will still be the superhero in people's hearts, the incomparable Homelander."

"But what if the black box appears?" Homelander, who had originally closed his eyes, suddenly opened them and looked at Madelyn, saying:

Madelyn stroked him gently, like holding a child. "It won't. I won't let it appear in the world."

Hearing Madelyn's words, Homelander seemed to understand something and closed his eyes again, enjoying this moment.

...

In the following days, the entire entertainment industry frequently exposed various scandals, instantly attracting the attention of a large number of netizens.

Coupled with the fact that the black box never appeared, and under Ashley's deliberate public relations guidance, another strange narrative inexplicably appeared online. When the girl was hijacked by criminals, she hoped Homelander would come to save her, so at the moment the plane crashed, she seemed to have really seen Homelander. However, this was just an illusion the girl saw before death.

After all, reporters found a large number of photos and discs of Homelander from her former residence.

This can fully prove that Homelander was once the idol in the girl's heart.

As soon as this statement came out, it was instantly strongly supported by Homelander's and Queen Maeve's die-hard fans.

Seeing the netizens online arguing fiercely over this matter.

Xia Shang understood that this plane crash incident would basically be unable to cause any more waves, unless Vought International chose to expose the contents inside the black box. But would Madelyn, Stan Edgar, and the others do this? They just wanted to control Homelander, not turn against Homelander. After all, Homelander's annual advertising endorsement fees alone accounted for a significant portion of Vought's financial report.

After getting off work, he returned to the villa.

Xia Shang took out the last few tubes of Compound V, placed them on the coffee table, and then summoned the panel.

[Enhanced Self-Healing Talent is Fusing, Current Progress 45%]

"Unfortunately, Compound V is Vought's top secret. Only the vice president and president are qualified to dispense it." Xia Shang vaguely remembered that even Homelander did not have the qualification to dispense Compound V; he relied on super speed to obtain Compound V from the Vought Vault.

That is to say, besides Vought and the hospital, only one person might be able to provide him with Compound V.

That is the host and organizer of the charity organization "Samaritan's Embrace", the Rubber Man Ezekiel, who claims to believe in God.

Threatening him is very simple. If Xia Shang remembers correctly, Billy has a video about Ezekiel's bisexuality. As long as he gets that video, unless Ezekiel is willing to abandon his current large number of followers, and give up everything he currently possesses, including reputation, adoration, money...

However, obtaining Compound V through Ezekiel is ultimately just a minor path. After all, Vought isn't stupid. They will definitely track the usage of every tube of Compound V. If a few dozen tubes are missing, it's probably fine, but if hundreds of tubes of Compound V disappear at once, anyone would probably notice something is wrong.

Before he returned to the villa, he had gone to Mercy Hospital.

The head nurse named Hitch Gili told him that the hospital can report loss of no more than twenty tubes of Compound V per month.

So Xia Shang can only find ways to obtain it from other places.

After he sorted out his next steps, the Compound V on the coffee table had been completely absorbed by Xia Shang's tentacles.

At this moment, the value on the panel is [Enhanced Self-Healing Talent is Fusing, Current Progress 83%]

Looking at the fusion progress above, Xia Shang does not plan to enter the next dungeon after the fusion is complete, because he cannot be sure if the difficulty of his next dungeon is the same as Parasyte.

Therefore, he plans to wait until the next talent is fused before using Walking Through The Heavens again.

As for what the next talent will be, Xia Shang already has a candidate in mind. He picked up the book Ophthalmology on the coffee table and started flipping through it.

He combined the condition of his eyeball with the content in the book, slowly exploring how to create an eyeball.

And he also tried multiple times.

Unfortunately, none were successful.

However, Xia Shang is not in a hurry. Although he can control his whole body, the eyes are, after all, the most precise and sensitive sensory organs in the human body. To create them out of thin air, the difficulty is very high, requiring a large number of attempts to possibly succeed.

But he is very much looking forward to the day he can possess full vision. It is estimated that it will be a very novel experience.

At least he won't have to worry about being sneak attacked from behind.

(End of chapter)