The Mutant God in American Comics.

Chapter 134: Retreat to Advance (4K Large Chapter)

Although Richard loosened his neck, Homelander still felt a strong intuition of death.

Compared with other superhumans, such as Locomotive and Invisible Man, Homelander is indeed very powerful.

But in front of Richard, he was no different from an ordinary person.

If Homelander had not still had some value, Richard would have killed Homelander, whose mentality was like that of a giant baby, long ago.

After taking a few deep breaths and suppressing the shock in his heart, Homelander slowly said, "I'll go out first."

Richard didn't say anything, but turned his head to look at the scenery outside the window.

After seeing that he was not going to embarrass him any further, Homelander left the meeting room without any hesitation and without looking back.

……

Brooklyn.

The apartment building at 937 Church Avenue.

After leaving the Super Seven Tower, the Invisible Man came to this apartment building first.

After being assigned the task of monitoring Butcher by Richard, he returned to his room without saying a word, took off all his clothes, used his super powers, and entered a transparent form that was imperceptible to the naked eye.

After doing all this, he left the Super Seven Tower and came to this apartment building to begin the task of monitoring Butcher.

Although he didn't know why Richard asked him to monitor Butcher, he didn't intend to get to the bottom of it.

curiosity kills the cat!
The Invisible Man doesn't want to die in obscurity like Deep Sea.

In the external publicity of the Water Group, the deep sea is used to deal with the increasingly serious marine pollution.

But the Invisible Man knew that this was just to conceal the truth that Deep Sea was killed by Richard.

He did not see the scene of Richard killing Deep Sea, and he could not produce any evidence to prove it.

But he was very sure that Shen Hai was killed by Richard.

After entering the apartment building, the Invisible Man easily found the room where Butcher and the others were hiding.

Hopefully this surveillance won’t last too long!

After complaining in his heart, the Invisible Man used the balcony of other rooms to come to the apartment where Butcher and the others were hiding. He carefully came to the corner of the room and began a secret 24-hour surveillance that was unknown to others.

While the Invisible Man was monitoring Butcher, Locomotive also obtained the required Compound No. 5 from the Water Group's laboratory.

After packing the No. 5 compounds into a black travel bag, he used his super speed to leave the Super Seven-Man Tower.

……

time flies.

Before I knew it, a week had passed.

Just like the past month or so, Richard didn't do anything particularly noteworthy this week.

If there was anything different from before, it was that he went to Russia and found the imprisoned soldier boy.

Although he confirmed the place where the soldier boy was being held, he did not rescue the soldier boy immediately. Instead, he planned to leave the "task" of rescuing the soldier boy to Butcher and others.

In addition to finding out where the soldier boy was being held, he also found out what the Russian military had done to the soldier boy.

After capturing Soldier Boy, the Russian military immediately began a comprehensive study of Soldier Boy, a literal comprehensive study.

The Russian military did not reverse engineer the formula of Compound No. 5 from the soldier boy, but they did gain something.

Using the soldier boy's blood as a sample, they developed their own "Compound No. 5".

Not only that, they also used the soldier boys as experimental mice and conducted various experiments on them.

I won’t go into the specifics.

In a word, after being captured by the Russian military, the soldier boy experienced undoubtedly inhumane treatment.

Super seven-man tower.

A luxury apartment on the 96th floor.

Richard, who had just finished sparring with Xingguang, came to the bathroom alone and started washing up.

After washing his body, he left the bathroom wrapped in a towel and returned to the bedroom.

"It's time to get up. We have a new movie shoot coming up soon."

Richard said to Xingguang who was lying on the bed.

After hearing his words, Xingguang immediately threw off the quilt on her body, stood up and walked towards the bathroom.

After seeing Xingguang's attractive body, Richard instinctively felt a fire rising in his belly.

However, he quickly suppressed this evil fire.

Practicing with Starlight is indeed a pleasurable experience, but after doing it too many times, it becomes just that.

Not long after, Xingguang returned to the bedroom after washing up, took out the platinum uniform that looked like a one-piece swimsuit from Richard's closet, and quickly put it on.

Soon, she was dressed in her uniform and matching high-heeled boots.

If it were other women, after getting dressed, they would start dressing up, which could take as short as ten minutes, or as long as half an hour or an hour.

But Starlight doesn't need it.

For her, who has a professional makeup team, there is no need to do her makeup herself.

Professional matters should be left to professionals!

Otherwise, it would be a shame for the high salaries offered by the Water Group to these makeup artists.

When Xingguang finished getting dressed, Richard, wearing a black windbreaker, came directly to her and put his arms around her slender waist.

Teleportation!

Without any hesitation, Richard decisively performed telepathy.

In just a blink of an eye, they came from the Super Seven Tower to the RV at the shooting site.

Opening the door of the RV, Xingguang walked towards the dressing room alone.

As for Richard, he came to the filming site.

Upon seeing him coming, the director who was reviewing the scenes with the train and Queen Maeve immediately stood up and gave up his seat.

Although Richard has not taken any directing courses, he is quite interested in being a director.

However, although he is interested, he is very clear that he does not currently possess the professional skills to be a director.

"Replay the scenes shot this morning."

After sitting down in the director's chair, Richard said calmly.

"Yes, Mr. Wesley."

The director replied immediately.

Time passes little by little.

After watching the scenes shot this morning, Richard continued, "Notify the screenwriters and ask them to give Homelander more scenes."

"no problem."

Although Richard did not say what kind of role he wanted to add to Homelander, the director responded immediately without any hesitation.

In terms of personality, the people of my motherland are indeed very bad.

But one thing must be admitted, that is, the acting skills of the Chinese are indeed very good.

Apart from anything else, compared to the locomotive and Queen Maeve, the Chinese, who has been an "actor" since childhood, has superb acting skills far beyond them.

Richard and the director didn't speak loudly.

But the fellow countrymen dozens of meters away still heard their conversation clearly, and a satisfied smile immediately appeared on their faces.

In the past week, Homelander did not come to Richard for any additional exposure, and cooperated very well with all of Richard's arrangements.

Although he still didn't like Richard very much, he gradually adapted to his new identity under Richard. After seeing the satisfied smile on Homelander's face, the engine and Queen Maeve immediately looked at Richard.

They didn't have the super hearing like Homelander, and didn't know what Richard had just said to the director.

However, just by looking at the expressions of our fellow countrymen, we can roughly guess something.

After instructing the director and Homelander to add new scenes, Richard did not stay on the set for long, but directly performed teleportation to return to the Super Seven Tower.

To be precise, I returned to the president's office on the 82nd floor of the Super Seven Tower.

After seeing Richard appear in front of him like a ghost, Edgar, the president of Water Group, immediately said:

"Here are a few candidates. Can you take a look and see if there is any suitable one?"

After saying that, he stood up and handed the tablet in his hand to Richard.

Taking the tablet computer from Edgar, Richard quickly browsed through it.

Just as he guessed, he saw Storm's information in the list of candidates provided by Edgar.

I still can't help it!
Although there are many superhumans in this world, not many of them can become Edgar's trump card.

And Storm is one of them.

As the wife of the founder of the Vought Group and the first human in history to be injected with Compound No. 5, Richard was not surprised at all that Edgar and Storm would be in cahoots with each other.

Although Edgar knew Storm's true identity, he still overlooked one very important thing.

That is, Storm didn't really listen to him.

To Storm, a Nazi, Edgar, with his black skin, was undoubtedly a member of an inferior race.

If Edgar was not the president of Water Group now, Storm would not cooperate with him at all.

Forget cooperation, Storm wanted to kill Edgar with his own hands.

Soon, Richard finished reading the list of candidates provided by Edgar.

"These candidates are all good, I have no opinion on them."

"You are the president of the Vought Group. It is up to you to decide on the new members of the Super Seven."

Richard put down the tablet in his hand and spoke slowly.

Although the outside world doesn't know it yet, under his special arrangement, the Invisible Man still died at the hands of Butcher and his group.

However, the Invisible Man was not killed by a bomb stuffed into his body, but was killed by Butcher using a heat ray after being injected with "Temporary Compound No. 24" V.

As for where Butcher got the "Temporary Compound No. 24" V, it's simple. He got it from the laboratory of the Water Group.

Although Butcher and his team took a different path from that in the TV series, they still found out a lot of things.

For example, the existence of compound number five.

After discovering the existence of compound number five, the next thing was easy.

Continuing to investigate compound number five, they discovered a series of illegal activities of the Water Group and the temporary compound number five that was still under development.

To this end, they specifically found an employee of the R&D department of the Water Group and threatened the employee with the lives of his family, forcing the employee to take out several doses of Compound No. 5 and temporary Compound No. 5 from the laboratory.

After hearing Richard's words, Edgar said slowly: "I prefer the Supersonics. He is Latin American and can expand the influence of the Super Seven among Latin Americans."

The Supersonic that Edgar was referring to was none other than Starlight’s first boyfriend.

Are you playing the game of retreat to advance with me?

In that case, then let me play with you!
"Okay, then let's go supersonic."

Richard said with a smile.

As soon as he finished speaking, a flash of surprise appeared on Edgar's face.

But soon, he continued: "Supersonics is indeed good, but if Supersonics joins, there will be a small problem."

"what is the problem?"

Although he knew what the small problem Edgar was talking about, Richard still "cooperated" with Edgar.

"Supersonic and Starlight were lovers before."

"Although they are now separated, if Sonics joins the Super Seven, it will inevitably lead people to reconnect the two of them."

"This will have some unnecessary impact on the couple identity that you and Starlight are marketing."

Edgar said seriously.

"If that's the case, then the Sonics are indeed not suitable to join the Super Seven."

"The current Super Seven team consists of four men and two women."

"In terms of gender ratio, the proportion of women is too small."

"How about this, let Storm join, and change it to a configuration of four men and three women. This should increase the support of the Super Seven Team among the female community."

Richard said slowly.

"What you said makes sense, so let Storm join in."

Edgar breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and replied quickly.

Richard didn't say anything, stood up, performed teleportation and left the president's office.

As soon as he left the president's office, Edgar picked up the phone on the table and dialed the number of the head of the public relations department.

Although the outside world does not know that the Invisible Man is dead yet, Edgar had the public relations department prepare a plan on how to make the matter public.

As soon as the new members are decided, a series of public relations plans for the Invisible Man’s heroic death can be implemented immediately.

After calling the head of the public relations department, Edgar picked up his personal network and dialed a number.

Soon, the call was connected.

"He has agreed to let you join the Super Seven. Now it's up to you to perform."

After saying that, Edgar hung up the phone without waiting for Storm on the other end to answer.

If he had a choice, he didn't want to work with Storm, who was a Nazi.

But unfortunately, he has no other choice now.

……

early morning.

A pier in Queens.

A truck carrying containers slowly left the dock and headed towards a community.

However, as soon as the truck drove to the dock, the truck driver saw a blond man standing in the middle of the road.

People of the motherland!
The man standing in the center of the road was none other than the Homelander who received Richard's order and came to stop the truck from leaving.

In addition to his countryman, there was also a photography team that came with him on the side of the road.

At the beginning, Homelander didn't know why Richard had inexplicably assigned him this task.

But he found out soon after arriving at the dock.

After observing the dock with his super vision, he found that there were twenty or thirty people in a container unloaded from the cargo ship.

Illegal smuggling organization!

After seeing the people in the container, this thought immediately flashed through the motherland's mind.

However, he didn't know at that time that the container contained not just ordinary stowaways.

In other words, hidden among this group of stowaways are three superhumans who were born not long ago.

……

(End of this chapter)